skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very true for the south. Yet, the north still got on and did even better than the south.

Never the less, you can go to any other place which didn't have slaves and they still got on without income taxes.

And, if you go to parts of the middle east where slavery exists today, income taxes have not prevented it, so it's beside the point.
And it also won't work between member declarations of a class. Basically it only works where statements are legal.
That’s a really nice image. It looks like Earth’s heart.
If there was such a tool, and it was accurate, do you think insurance companies would have insured the parts of Germany that recently flooded?

I think you may be underestimating the complexity of both weather and climate modelling.
This is why I let so many cool eye tracking ideas left on the shelf. I can't imagine many people will be ok with using it - even though there's so many cool use cases - simply because they'll be paranoid. Not sure how to start to build all the cool futuristic apps for iris tracking now that it's a solved problem.
Why did you stop after 40 years? That's a long time, and most people wouldn't.
Children are a bit different because they are actually created by the parents (and the personal relationship is of course super-important for the child's development).

But generic economic resources: yes. Ownership of pretty much anything including houses relies on social acceptance of the rules of private property ownership and market value. And that social acceptance can be conditional on things like taxes to fund social goods. If you don't want to play by the democratically determined rules, then you shouldn't expect the state to defend your property.
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Exoplanet building its own moons
PowerShell Obfuscation: Stealth Through Confusion
A good book to read on the subject is Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities. It's 60 years old now, and is concentrating on cities rather than towns, but you can see the points she is making play out in scenes like the article mentions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
What region are you based in? From my limited experience in Europe I’ve seen plenty of croissant sandwiches.
I think we may be using a different definition of monetarism.

I mean the circa 1980-present understanding of money, public debt, and their relationship to inflation, gdp & employment growth. Also, critically, the rules of thumb governing monetary policy. Inflation targets. Interest rates. By "ended" I mean "no longer a consensus opinion, among those that matter."

Public debt, empirically, is not longer thought to be all that inflationary. Low unemployment will no longer be used as a trigger for interest rate increases. Interest rates will no longer be the primary inflation targeting tool. Instead, it will probably be set to zero most of the time. What will be used to impact inflation is still TBD. We might have to wait for actual inflation to occur before we find out. Etc. Monetary policy is built out of such details, and the cascade into a lot more than it may seem at first glance.

A more dramatic change might be issuing currency (eg USD) without issuing an equal and opposite (kinda) number of debt instruments (eg US treasury notes). It's hard to imagine how this would work in a eurozone context. In the US, it would be hugely psychological, but not really that impactful in reality. Likely though, the number of treasury notes held by the fed will just stop being considered important.

>> Eurozone was pioneering in decoupling monetary policy from fiscal authority

Exactly. Monetarism (the monetarism I'm referring to) allows and encourages this.

I'm not predicting or rooting for any kind of institutional "revolution," except perhaps the eurozone/ECB. Institutions (eg ECB, FED, etc) will remain in place. They'll just make their decisions based on a different understanding of macroeconomics. Similar to how the post war Keynsian-Goldbuggish system gave way to monetarism circa 1980.
Because ethereum is hopelessly broken, inefficient, unscalable tech. You do not want your entire currency running on it. If it moves to PoS, it will be even worse, with frequent chain reorgs causing tx reversing and contract balance non-determinism. If you want to see a vision of broken eth, just look at polygon.
Thanks for the info! I'll be placing an order soon. This seems amazing!
I have a soft spot for Accelerando because it was my first encounter with the exo-cortex (or perhaps more accurately called cybernetics) concept, aka computers as an external brain. Also it was my first encounter with the concept of smart contracts, laws & corporations run purely as code.
That's very true, I'm usually careful not to fall into the assumption of the 'mad man' since it's usually just an illusion to appear dangerous.
Central bank controls rates, not gas.
In 2019, we began a home addition. Every contractor who looked at our plan told us to make a tradeoff to allow for a fourth bedroom. We persisted, as we were doing this for ourselves rather than future buyers.

In 2020 and 2021, we're absolutely loving that we went for our home office plan instead of that bedroom. We knew we wanted it but had no idea how much we would need it!
I recently listened to KSR on Exponential View, Ministry of the Future has an intriguing premise and hope to read that soon.

Recently began a fiction kick after starting my full-time job for the first time, nice way to break screen-time instead of gaming. There's something nice about visualizing worlds instead of seeing worlds built by someone else.

Currently reading the first Dune book and love it. Reminds me of GOT on Mars.
For Architecture 7 which is similar they call out the reversal of the DAO hack as an example of giving over control to other groups being potentially undesirable. I'm not sure how likely something like that negatively affecting a fedcoin would be, but I can see them wanting as much control of the ecosystem as possible.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
As a long-time big city resident that recently tried a rural house during the pandemic, my thought is that no, the "city" value proposition just doesn't hold in the same way it used to. This isn't due to the virus, they were stuffed before but we only realized when the virus hit.

People have been whining about empty shopfronts, Amazon killing retail, every block being a Chase / Starbucks / Walgreens for some time now. Retail is just such a different beast now. In the not too distant past... cities had a major advantage for getting your hands on lots of stuff with both more variety / cheaper prices, for stuff like books, records/CDs, HiFi equipment, camera gear, musical instruments, these kinds of specialty items for people's profession/hobby. Now those things are all either dead (replaced by iPhones) or online, and in the meantime the bulky big-box stuff that is e-commerce isn't so good for is better outside the city at a Walmart/Home Depot/Best Buy/Staples. I think those places weren't really so pervasive 20-30 years back.

So now the best retail is actually big box in the burbs + amazon, and NYC and big cities like it are just full of expensive 5th ave premium / flagship stuff, with few actual practical advantages.
The Sunbeam F1 Orchid: https://sunbeamwireless.com/

It's WAY more basic than most people are willing to live with, but it's been working surprisingly well for me. Like I said in my original comment, there are definitely some inconveniences, no way around that, but it's been worth it.

Honestly, the biggest downside to using a flip phone is that you start noticing exactly how much people are on their phones and it becomes both creepy and annoying. You start to feel like you're the last man standing in a zombie movie.

One thing I particularly like about the Sunbeam phone is that it's sold my a small American company with amazing customer service. I asked a question about the phone via the contact form on the website and got a prompt and very thoughtful answer from one of the owner's of the company.
This Artwork is worth watching again n again
But we can predict average temperatures decades into the future!
I tested it with some Swiss birds [1]. It works extremely well.

[1] https://www.vogelwarte.ch/de/voegel/voegel-der-schweiz/
People like having yards for their kids to play in and not sharing walls with neighbors. And people visit campsites with no running water, but obviously it would be bad to live somewhere with no running water.
No time like the present.
Communism is even better at doing that: Khrushchyovkas. At any rate, extrapolating a trend from a single society to be an indelible part of an economic system is specious.

Transitioning from a property tax model to a Land Value Tax model would encourage rather than discourage development, and ensure society is compensated for granting someone a monopoly on an area of land.
The AI we should fear is already here
Checkli looks cool
Don't think HTTP is a great example either. The most used HTTP stack in Rust was integrated into curl :)

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...
> Would you build a bridge like that? Or a building?

That's exactly what's being done. I work in mechanical engineering and Excel is the primary calculation tool all over the industry.
yes true. property, especially real estate, is a legal construct created by the state. In older eras this was more explicit, property existed “at the pleasure of the Queen” or whatever. Now we rely on a nebulous social consensus reinforced by the courts and legislature.

Money is only a token within this game - it has no reality other than the rules. The rules are whatever society decides they are. There is not a “real” ownership that the rules are interfering with.
Floating wind is on path to be cheaper than onshore wind, with higher value
The comment that upset you made a joke about their code and the tools from the late 90s. It seems you took it as a personal insult as if they were directly talking to you or about your code. It is a really odd thing over which you to get defensive. I have no horse in this race and I would never judge anyone’s expertise solely on the tools they use (given that it might not even be their choice). But between the two of you one made a very dry joke and the other got defensive for no reason when the conversation wasn’t about them.

The tools we use don’t define us. If you feel they do, please reevaluate. Perl (C, k8s, PHP, Python 2.x) are just tools. It’s like defining your identity by the brand of hammer you use.
I think that property-children is on a continuum. When you have raiding parties and tribal warfare, children were taken as slaves. From that PoV then children are in the same basket where they are protected by the norms of society, same as property.

Saying you only own your money or house because we allow you to is like saying the only reason you don't get raped or killed is because we have a structure of laws against it. Yes?
The attitude to homes there makes an interesting contrast with Western perceptions of a home as an appreciating asset. As I understand it they treat houses more like cars - a valuable but depreciating purchase that will be replaced within 2-3 decades.

(Also I find the conversation-framing interesting here - when discussing a U.S. neighbourhood a "diverse profile" is presented as self-evidently ideal, whereas when discussing a Japanese neighbourhood it's never mentioned.)
Came to comment on that. Responsive government presumes it is not merely a necessary evil and a blunt instrument of last resort for which ancients developed democracy to mitigate the effects from more "responsive" governments like tyrannies and monarchies. It's stupid by design, and there is a one-to-one relationship between undemocratic powers and the powers to manage and rule.

There will always be a cadre of technocrats vying for control because they think what it standing in their way is the freedom of others, which is circular reasoning in that the reason they are not in power is because people are not their subjects and slaves, and free people will not choose them or their policies. The only way they succeed is with deception and threats, and history is the story of what we have always had to do to dislodge them after tolerating the games that let the vampires in.
It’s important to diversify.
You mean suburbia? Yes, I know.
I've seen aussie birds seek out and reposition thrown out empty energy drinks to finish off the last few drops. Apparently they act just young teenagers in many ways.
Yes, they have some towers. Acording to wikipedia, the standard is not finalized.
This would be useful on https://bikeshed.com , instead of having to manually refresh the page!
> If you corrupt a line of code you don’t get a different program you just get something that won’t compile.

You might be interested to know how common (naturally) aborted pregnancies and eggs that don't hatch are.
Promote how?

I'm in the Dallas "metroplex," and it understood here that you get more value for your money the farther out you go. There's the inner loop (Loop 12) and outer loop (I-635) inside Dallas city limits, and then there are suburbs which again can be described (at least in the north) as "inside TX-121" and "inside US-380." As you cross each "boundary," your choices provde more value--defined as less money for more space, or newer construction, or both.

I grew up in San Diego, which is naturally constrained by mountains, ocean, an international border, and a military base, even before you add state and local laws. The Dallas area has no such constraints anywhere, nothing to keep it from sprawling until it reaches the state border to the north--and really, nothing to keep it from sprawling beyond that, either.
I'm not anti-vac in any shade, but I do find it interesting. Things like this should give us pause for thought, it is the first time in world history we are trying to control a new virus with vaccines. Could we end up in the same place?

Sounds like no, but I'd find comfort in knowing someone actually thought about it, as opposed to waved their hands over it and said "nah, anti-vaxxer nonsense".
The key is to eat starches with loads of saturated fat.
That's the thing, who is everyone? Such technology would only be relevant to premium-level ultraportable notebooks. Desktops, gaming laptops as well as budget laptops would stick with the cheaper and more ubiquitous DDR. Smartphones and tables will continue to solder RAM on due to space constraints. Apple (who is the driving force in this market segment) won't be interested since they are going fully custom and I doubt that an LGA socket will work with their on-package custom-build wide RAM interfaces. So in the end we are left with things like Dell XPS 13, MS Surface and few others. These are all popular and impactful brands, but they are just a drop in the bucket compared to the total PC sales. And I doubt that technology reserved to only selected premium laptops is going to be cheap.
We have tested that also. During 1945 we burned down 69 cites and killed 800 000 in Japan. The two small nukes was only 5% of the smoke.

The result was at most an cooling of the global temperature of 0.1-0.2 Celsius. But the "multiple uncertainties mean we cannot say for sure".

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-did-bombing-during-se...

So we need about 5-10 times larger bombings when ww2 to cool the global temperature with one degree. But we have increased the global temperature with one degree thanks to global warming. So you need at least 10-20 times larger bombings then ww2 to get a tiny atomic winter. And probably a lot larger to get any catastrophic cooling.
Damn I knew it. A brilliant one at that.
It's great. Big thanks to those that run relays.

It's not a backup solution though... you really want to use actual backup software.
https://twitter.com/ramez/status/1418261837255118849

"1. No need for ocean bed fixation hardware.
2. Ultimately lower tons of steel & cement per MW (not true now, but coming).
3. Much lower EPC costs. Build in port, tow to destination. (No jack-up ships.)
3. Lower O&M (tow back to port)
4. Better wind resource, meaning higher AEP per year (amortizing capex over more MWH).
5. Better wind resource also means higher capacity factor -> increased value, slower value deflation.
"In other words, ingress (data sent to AWS) doesn’t cost them any more or less than egress (data sent from AWS). And yet, they charge customers more to take data out than put it in. It’s a head scratcher.

We’ve tried to be charitable in trying to understand why AWS would charge this way. Disappointingly, there just doesn't seem to be an innocent explanation. "

One consideration could be that you can't directly control data ingress. Charging for ingress opens an avenue for attackers to attempt to bankrupt you by sending unrequested packets to your network. At the very least, this could cause a customer service headache. Perhaps AWS decided they'd rather not deal with that?
A German variant is "Naturblick", https://naturblick.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/?lang=en

It also allows sharing "sightings" (or "hearings") with a central service.
And everyone clapped
I agree that running it on top of another ledger like ETH or BTC makes no sense.

That said, the idea of trusting a central bank that is completely unaccountable to the public or even to the Government is crazy to me.
> Blockchains are for trustless systems

Not necessarily. Permissionless access, composability and public data are still useful which is not possible in regulated environments.
This is what is considered edgy nowadays?
This is about wind turbines floating in the ocean[0]

There are also ideas for wind turbines floating in the air[1]

[0] no paywall : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/shell-joi...

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_wind_turbine
It's completely self evident that as the person responsible for untold suffering through the UK's increasingly punitive immigration policies they'd like her to see her face a taste of her own medicine.

It's equally predictable that the British right and far right would try to deflect this criticism by playing the race card.

I think whatever your politics we should stop and challenge when an angry white man tries to use cynical, performative, pearl clutching trumped up false accusations of racism to deflect criticism away from vicious and entirely real kind of racism they enthusiastically endorse.
The YouTube channel Not Just Bikes [1] explores this in a short series [2]. I'm not very knowledgeable in this area, but what he discusses rings true for my city at least.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...
My rule of thumb is that anything in gitignore should be in syncthing’s list to ignore. There is some work on both sides when doing simultaneous development, but it keeps local files local.
Google Sheets has more useful formulas than Excel. For example query(), but also all the array formulas that they include.
> Google maps gave everyone a free [view] on the earth in a time where you had to pay for maps on your expensive navigation system. It took OpenStreetMap a while to do the same.

Comparing the [history of OSM](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_of_OpenStreetMap) with the [history of Google Maps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#History) I'm not entirely sure about that statement.
OSM started in 2004, Google Maps was announced in 2005.
No information on quality at that time, though :)
> replication options like multi-source

MySQL 5.7 supports multi-source replication:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication-channels...

> spider for sharding and galera are all built in and actively maintained.

Galera is available in MySQL-compatible binaries from Percona (Percona-XtraDB-Cluster): https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-xtra...

MySQL also has their own Paxos-compliant clustering solution (called "Innodb cluster"), first available in 5.7, but much better in 8.0:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-innodb-cluster...

I played with Spider in MariaDB 10.3, and it didn't satisfy the requirements we had, and it doesn't seem to have progressed significantly since then.

Yes, it's neat that MariaDB merged it and is keeping it working, but there don't seem to be many use cases where it ends up being significantly better than e.g. multi-source replication (the use cases where you're going to run out of disk, in most cases spider's un-implemented push-down join etc. make it too slow to be practical either).

> Online schema changes,

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-online-ddl-op...

(including "instant column add")

> easy horizontal scale (huge numbers that make db2 and oracle sweat), s3 backed tables, non blocking backups,

MySQL has had "MySQL Enterprise Backup" for a long time. Percona wrote a similar implementation (XtraBackup), which works for MySQL, Percona, and MariaDB. AFAIK MariaDB copied XtraBackup as mariabackup (not criticising them for doing this, just pointing out that Percona did the original heavy lifting on this).

> flashback, versioned tables

Yep, versioned tables are a nice feature that I don't think are available in any other MySQL-like DB.

> If you go enterprise, there isn’t much out there as accessible as maxscale for transaction failover!

Not even ProxySQL ( https://proxysql.com/ )?

To be clear, I like MariaDB, but Oracle isn't doing a bad job on MySQL. MySQL 5.7 is pretty solid, and they have been improving defaults (while leaving the option to enable compat settings which are necessary when migrating a large deployment between versions), and MySQL 8.0 has some really nice improvements. For some of the best features from each, Percona (either standard Percona 8.0, which gives features like MariaDB's thread-pool, more comprehensive encryption including redo-logs etc., or XtraDB-Cluster to go with Galera instead of Innodb Cluster) offers quite a few benefits/improvements (and is contributing a lot of bugfixes/improvements upstream).

(My team runs quite a big installation, currently running Percona 5.7, and migrating to MariaDB probably won't be practical or justifiable considering replication compatibility which is a requirement to do no-downtime migrations)
It’s called your government’s weather forecasting center or equivalent. They have all the data, tools and compute needed to calculate that with any accuracy, and they do.
Same principle as Cookie Banners. Wanting basic browsing privacy is being associated with an annoying, artificially difficult process.
Senator Rand Paul pressing US chief medical advisor Fauci on the origin of Covid
Just because they don't have a 5G network doesn't mean they wont see improvements in the modem. I jumped on the iPhone 12 because it's finally a qualcomm modem and not the trash Intel ones. I have coverage in places I could only dream from my XS.
You missed the point, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18255896
the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the defendant's request "give me a lawyer dog" was too ambiguous to be considered a Miranda request for a lawyer.

I thought that was fascinating. "give me a lawyer dog" is clearly a request for a lawyer. It's not ambiguous at all.
Why does it feel like HN has become so incredibly sensitive? I have been reading comments here a while (13 years I think), and noticed that in the past couple of years is when critical of any piece of software, no matter how warranted or how tongue in cheek, results in comments like this. How would you have phrased the original sentiment that you wouldn’t think was nasty?
SEPA here in Scotland produce detailed flood risk maps - I'd have thought most countries would have something similar:

https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmap/map.htm
A government that provides nothing to support feelings of security in exchange for the taxes they collect is... not a good government.
Cities usually don't have patches of green without concrete/paving of some kind to allow for proper drainage.
You're certainly not an iOS developer.