skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the energy space. A relatively common format for information exchange is the Common Information Model ("CIM")[1] which is usually serialized as RDF XML documents.

In Europe, this format is used as the standard data model for transmission system operators (TSOs) to share network information needed to run the Europe wide electrical grid. ENTSO-E [2] publishes a set of RDFS profiles that more tightly scope the data model to their use cases. [3]

With that use case in mind, why would an RDF database be useful in this case: data size. It's quite easy to get into millions of objects in the data graph for a single distribution feeder. A large utility might have thousands of such feeders, plus associated sub-transmission & transmission infrastructure (the hierarchy is nicely shown in [4]).

This can be represented in a relational database, but a lot of the queries start to become recursive. If object A connects to object B which connects to object C, and you want to query everything connected to A, you don't know that C exists until you've found object B.

Refs:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_(elec...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Network_of_Transmissi...

3. https://cgmes.github.io/

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_distribution#/m...
So many unsubstantiated claims...
Politicians tend to promise to spend more taxes on projects that will benefit some segment of the population. In the UK "more money for the NHS" is a definite vote-winner.
Yes & yes but your mileage may vary depending on your customers/donors. For example, we turned off transactions from several countries.

Honestly a basic version of this should be free. I shouldn't have to pay extra to say I only accept cards with a CVC number & expiration filled out.
> I know it goes against best practices, but I code almost exclusively 'in production' since it's easiest for me to do so.

You should not put that on your cv
I do, but I much prefer nano.
I'm not a lawyer (e.g. I don't know how far "In such cases" clause applies in the statement), and simply want to provide a justification for the clause I'm personally familiar with (a chargeback)
You cannot fix wealth inequality by giving the paltry amount of monthly stipend UBI is discussing. To address wealth inequality you need to educate the public better and you need to regulate capitalism better. Simply giving people UBI is a gift to the educated capitalist who will simply raise prices while simultaneously paying lobbyists to insure raising their prices is legal.
I believe in you guys! I know of this project through @Aquamine, she's a great artist!
We live in a dyslexic era. On one end, you have people trying to argue that there is an incarceration crisis in the country and call for reforms to reduce prison sentences for non-violent offenders ... on the other end, if you read a story about a white-collar criminal, people want to increase prison sentences. Which is it?
True. But you can never please all the people all the time ;)
neat! I particularly love the visual appeal of night mode - reminds me of "Night" scenes in old movies where you still could see shadows and sunlit surfaces because of daylight filming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_night
Maybe there should be a word for, the most important "crux", flaw, or impediment to an issue that isn't discussed in proportion to it's importance.

Discussing the benefit of UBI is wasted time before you fix the market-adjustment problem.
Yes, I hate people that can't read, too. Vim fucking tells you how to quit as soon as you hit ctrl^c. What the fuck m8. It's not even a funny joke anymore. It's just pure cringe.

On topic: It's weird that nano is so beloved, but good that GNU just keeps pushing out things as long as they are used.
Can you link to an article or something about how YouTube Red's payment model works? I've always been curious.
About 20% of N.J. Prisoners Could Be Freed to Avoid Virus
Ask HN: Web Form monitoring tool. What do you think?
> Does not solve the issue of 'meaning' and 'purpose'

For an engineer, it absolutely does.

How? By giving a broader range humans the ability to shout "This problem matters to me. Please build something to solve it" into the economy.

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Suppose it is 2013. I build a tool that helps a luxury hotel in New York do bespoke guest relations slightly better. They have customers who have money, so they have revenue, so I get revenue.

Suppose it is 2013. I build a tool that helps a food truck in Flint, Michigan run their operations. Their customers don't have money, so they don't have revenue, so I don't get revenue.

Helping people get fed and create community, or polishing a luxury experience for a very few -- Which job has more meaning and purpose?
I love working from home. I work for a big tech company, and my specific department has had the option to WFH for about 10 years. They have all the correct measuring tools to make sure we do good work, without being intrusive (no bossware!).

I don't feel isolated, to the contrary; i have more time for loved ones. I can wake up later. No fighting traffic, or cycling through rainy cold weather to be on time at the train station.

I never wanna visit an office again.
Sigma Software Won EGR B2B Awards 2020 as the Best IT Supplier
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That approach doesn't work, because reactor power density becomes limited by wall loading (neutron and/or thermal), regardless of how good the plasma physics is.

It's the square cube law. At a given wall loading limit the volumetric power density is inversely proportional to the linear dimensions. And a DT fusion reactor must be meters across, due to the fixed cross section of the neutrons with wall materials. In contrast, fission fuel rods are 1 cm in diameter and are closely spaced, so the available surface area for heat transfer is much higher (neutrons in fission are also much less of a problem, since they carry a much smaller fraction of the energy output and are of much lower energy, on average.)

(I think the only hope for DT fusion is something like LINUS, where the entire first wall is thick flowing liquid lithium.)

> I think there's been an element of that in the way the federal program has been run, but claiming it's the only reason to pursue fusion is not defensible.

What is the other reason? I cannot find any other plausible justification. This is particularly true now that fission is out of the running. Fusion used to be justified by "it won't be too much more expensive than fission, but it's safer and won't run out of uranium." That argument is now pointless.
Solar farm in the Sahara desert could power Europe with a hydrogen pipeline.
Zach Weinersmith's ability to tell compelling non-fiction via comics is something I truly love. He manages to take what the person is saying, convert it into a comic form of them saying it, while adding humour. And throughout the process, what is being said does not seem to be degraded at all. There's also a level of openness we all seem to have to something that comes at us as a comic rather than hard text.

I don't even think we have a good word for what this practice is, but I'll go with "Art" because it takes a lot of that.

His book on Immigration[0] is a large-scale version of this skill in practice and I suspect a lot of HN readers might enjoy it, regardless of if you agree with his points or not.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigrati...
There's similar concepts like a negative income tax of a Universal Garrenteed Income that would be more affordable than just cutting everyone a check.
I think what're you're saying is built on top of many faulty, and frankly, pretty classist assumptions.

You want "smart" people to have more wealth and income than "less smart" people, making an argument for a intellectual based meritocracy or something - I think ignoring all the other factors that determine success in a our economy like luck, family wealth, and business smarts. There are plenty of smart people that aren't rewarded for their skills by markets (researchers anyone?) and plenty of "less smart" people who are successful simply because of the prior success of their family.

Meritocracy may be ideal, but having it as the foundations of your economy thinking seems pretty ignorant.

And then I think a silly correlation between higher wealth & income, and spending habits are made. More successful people don't invest their money to improve their future financial prospects. There are plenty of rich people who piss away all of their fortune or still manage to live paycheck to paycheck, and there are plenty of lower income people who vigorously penny pitch for a retirement account they won't see until they are 70.

Furthermore, frivolous items of consumption like alcohol, gambling, and fast food is present across all classes. Wanting to have a good time doesn't depend on your income. Higher rates of consumption may be seen in lower classes, but I would chalk that up to lack of opportunities and lack of information than inherent stupidity or something.
I am confident your colleague works 5x harder because he/she does not want to get the spelling of century wrong. This is not a simple typo.

For me, these mistakes are equivalent to Van Halen’s “Brown M&Ms” (see trending HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985817), and I stand by my original assertion. If you cannot get this right, I do not trust any analysis or conclusions in your paper. Someone who hasn’t taken the time to proofread their work likely rushed the analysis and conclusions as well.
Sweden-based http://www.sinch.com as well.
Just before I even start,I want to mention that I'm a fan of MS Office and don't really like Google Sheets ( it's like a toy to me). Having written this,I still do believe that there are millions of people out there for whom browser based spreadsheet application is all they really need. Those aren't people doing tens of thousands of rows manipulations from database extracts.Those are the people who'd have a simple file and do simple things with it. I see a lot of consultants working with it: they create UAT stories,share with multiple users on the client side and everybody knows what's going on.
Housing is rarely the issue on its own, because it is what it is due to related factor. Why live in one particular location? That's the motivator towards housing, and it relates many different things.

e.g in my city, I am positive the rent is high because of issues with transport i.e. poor transport means you need to live closer to work for a reasonable commute.
There is no deeper claim being made. We are saying the same thing. You can call it income if you'd like. A person's wages are some portion of their productivity. The distinction is irrelevant for this point.
Another good idea would be for projects to list other projects they depend on, and set aside a certain amount of their GitHub sponsor income to go to those projects. Thus Users -> Projects -> Dependencies flows naturally with the same model.
> I am 36, quite old really but I won't be dead before most of the shit has hit the fan. Yet everyone both individually and nationally are basically ignoring the oncoming train to pickup pennies from the tracks...

This is my general feeling as well (at age 35). I agree on things like climate change as well, but I think even more concrete examples abound. Most of the diplomatic world has simply chosen to ignore the fact that China and Taiwan are two separate countries. The fact that we ignore the decades of threats of invasions coming from China concurrently with China's build up of the capabilities to actually attempt that invasion is totally unacceptable. And we do it so we can exploit cheap Chinese labor and resources. I find it morally despicable and extremely short-sited. If China ever puts its money where its mouth is, all I can hope is that the rest of the world doesn't pretend to be shocked and surprised.
The main problem I had on physical office was disruptions to answer questions and many meetings.

I was advocate for async comms (PROPERLY using Slack, Teams, etc), but not everyone was on the same page.

Stopping my concentration on code architecture, code writing, managing AWS infrastructure to give random consultancy, or meetings with little purpose was a real point of pain for my productivity
I fully agree and try to do that in my research, but it's very hard to do 100%. I just wrapped up a 1.5-year computational research project, and we have all the raw and processed data, the main code, the processing scripts, the notebook that generates the figures, etc. But it's still not a fully automated pipeline. The missing pieces:

• Some older calculations were run with somewhat older versions of the code. Of course we believe that the results wouldn't change, and we recalculated some, but not all. We didn't keep track of exactly which version was used for which calculations, because that's simply very demanding in the middle of a complex research project.

• Some data in the text and tables of the paper are still extracted manually from the code. We don't have a full templating system where the data could be automatically inserted into the paper. You could use something like Jinja to do it, but then every coauthor needs to have high technical skills and it's just time-consuming to maintain in general.
I used to work in payment industry (I kinda still do, but no longer involved in the talking with Visa/Mastercard part), and I can see why they could be doing this if they do. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I _personally_ do not think 30% is outrageous as many people believe so although I also do hold an opinion that App Store should allows the app to use their own payment infrastructure if they have one (currently only possible for physical goods).

Stripe and other modern payment gateway makes pricing simple, but it's far from simple behind the scene. Most people on HN are probably using credit card for App Store, so it's easy to overlook that App Store offers different kinds of APMs: carrier payment[1], local wallet, stored value card, and local payment services[2]. I don't think Stripe supports half or even third of what App Store supports.

I've worked on local integration for few countries for different kind of payment methods. In some payment method they simply don't refund your fee. In some cases where currency conversion happens it's not possible to refund using the exact rate the charge was made. In some cases the fee is prohibitively high (e.g. 12% for carrier payment). In many cases there are contract fees, connection fee, infrastructure ("nah you have to have your own server cage and a direct fiber line from us") fee and many more. This, plus CDN, maintenance and everything, is one of the reasons why I don't think 30% is outrageous and will probably found it acceptable if they don't refund this fee, taking operational costs involved into account.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205102

[2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202631
Here are some of my counter points:

1. People in the comments below have addressed this. Not really sure how this creates a greater power divide than the current system. Having money allows individuals choices.
2. Again, providing people with money will allow them to have more choices. If housing becomes too expensive in my county, I now have a greater degree of freedom to move and this creates more competition for rental rates.
3. This is one that I feel like most people miss the forest for the tree. You're right, it's going to happen. I just don't think that a portion of bad actors in the system should prevent that massive benefits it can create for the people in society that will spend it in more productive ways. I've heard arguments of how it will create disincentives in society. That people will choose to no longer work. But when I ask the exact same people that pose that question if they would stop working if they had $14,400 provided to them every year, the answer is unequivocally, no. If you're looking for policies that solve all problems, you're not going to find any.
Have you tried giving it a problem and having it come up with questions that you you answer? Given it’s clearly making assumptions and conclusions, it would be so interesting to play 20 questions with it. Something like... I’m thinking of an animal. Will GPT-3 start general and get to an answer?
The only place a non-programmer user would encounter a backslash is in Windows (nee DOS) file paths, right? Yet another thing Microsoft has made worse in the world ;)
I doubt rent and food can go up much because of UBI as the basic versions of both seems more controlled by supply than demand. For areas where demand is higher than supply I do suspect that thing will get magically get more expensive in order to class distinguish between poor people under UBI and rich people.

Utilized farm land and output per farmer has steadily gone up each year with basic food prices falling as an result. I guess I could imagine that if more people would want to become farmers because of UBI it could lead to farm land becoming more expensive which in turn would lead towards higher food prices. UBI will likely also increase prices for status food where there is a low supply and high demand, so I would expect a rise in cost for food that get associated with wealth and status.

For rent it is more complicated. Low income jobs tend to force people to live in cities that are near industries. UBI would allow said people to live outside cities which tend to have significant lower rent as there is significant more supply of cheap houses and cheap land to build cheap houses. Being poor however tend to have a behavior impact where people want to live close to relatives, which in turn often has the result of people staying in cities even if they have cheaper living elsewhere. It is a possible risk with UBI that in cities the rent will go up a bit in low income areas, and significant in high income areas in order to keep people with UBI from living there.
>"This problem matters to me. Please build something to solve it" into the economy.

That is a property of the free market. We're living in that world. UBI does nothing to improve that.

I'm not saying nobody will find meaning and purpose in a world where you don't need to work for a living. I'm saying huge swaths of the population will not and it will lead to major societal problems and unrest. Some of those problems will be drug addiction and crime. We don't have good examples of large populations succeeding (by any measure you choose) where nobody needs to work for a living.

>Helping people get fed and create community, or polishing a luxury experience for a very few -- Which job has more meaning and purpose?

Your examples are contrived and just plain odd. For one thing, UBI does not mean unlimited resources. People will still need to discriminate between option A or option B - so your food truck business in Flint isn't guaranteed to succeed in an UBI world because people may opt to spend their money elsewhere. Similarly, your luxury New York business is also not guaranteed to succeed (just because a profitable New York hotel has money, doesn't mean they will buy from you). Second, business needs a stable climate in order to operate. If you have crime, and riots and social unrest, that's not a good climate for businesses to operate in. UBI does not solve it, and in fact, probably aggravates it. There is more incentive to riot when you have nothing else to fill your day with.

Again, UBI does not improve the free market.
In MCF machines plasmas are made by heating gas through RF (gyrotrons) or momentum (NBI). Both gyrotrons and NBI are very expensive, complicated, high power machines with big subsystems that go into them. Bringing on all of the heaters and diagnostics take time. Wall conditioning takes time. The first plasma is before most of the necessary systems are up. It’s a demonstration that the machine is built.
"Software startup". I don't know where this label came from. They've been the largest leading SMS services provider in all of Europe for about 5 years now.
Yeah, I meant something like tenure but less restricted for anyone doing research.

> On the other hand, if you really think UBI is a good solution, then I'm afraid you don't know how an economy really works.

Could you elaborate more?
Hm... that's not at all what I intended to convey. And I think you're putting things in quite extreme terms.

The field of software / digital engineering has grown an exploitative side. This is absolutely true. To be crystal clear, without diving into detail and derailing the thread: I find this evolution reprehensible and not how humans ought to be treated.

Is that dynamic then the result of Open Source as a princple of intellectual rights? Is it really, truly an inevitability that taking on Open Source projects and pushing code on Github now singularly serves as a resume of sorts for applying for a paid job? Is giving up your intellectual rights by default really the only way to ensure that you can make a living from writing code?

Because of it is, well, that should rather lead to bleak conclusions about the state of the value that developers are willing to attribute to the time and effort they pour into their craft, the labour market, labour protection, and societal values as a whole. Instead of concluding that Open Source itself is the problem (it is not) and people ought to donate a buck-and-a-half to anyone who has a repo with an arbitrary number of stars on Github.

You could draw parallels with other fields such as academics, film, music, games, books, fashion and so on. So, exploitation is not an entirely new dynamic either. Plenty of aspiring graduates, actors, writers, musicians, models, graphic designers,... are scrounging by, and get exploited in the process, while relatively few end up in a good place. Usually, their complaints are met with a short, unsympathetic "should have chosen a real career/job instead!" quip. If I'm allowed to play the devil's advocate: Should we add software developers to that list as well?

Of course not! In fact, nobody deserves to be outright reviled for the professional career they pursue.

The problems you describe are societal. They are the net result of larger economic dynamics in a rapidly globalized, free and unregulated marketplace. A markpetlace in which a few smart people understood how to leverage open source software in order to accumulate enough leverage to enter the financial market, moving on to accrue even far greater wealth. And what you describe is just another take on the Tragedy of the Commons.

Like I said, if the world is reconfiguring around software, it should be held to pay the true price of maintaining that infrastructure. Much as is pointed out exactly by Eghbal's study. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Or as Mike Monteiro puts it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa6PdOG2ts
I agree although in some circumstances, contracting for your former employer may be violating your employment agreement with your current one.