skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest problem with databases is always versioning. IE renaming a column will break old clients. If there was a way you could have multiple schema versions so you could upgrade database then clients later it would be the best.

EDIT: yes thanks for the comments, views and creating and API layers and adding instead of subtracting do all work, but I believe they're all workarounds for the underlying problem. Fixing versioning would make everyone's lives easier.
Yes, of course there is underreporting; nothing in my comment says otherwise.

I'm not following your point. Since some people cheat on their taxes, they shouldn't be paid wages instead, because then they wouldn't be able to underreport as easily?
> Now it's crept up to 15-20% and spread to a lot of jobs that you didn't think of for tips

...And, importantly, there's no way to actually know this because it's all informal.

I keep hearing that some places are now expecting 25% tips, while others are still repeating the older 15-20% figure. Some transportation workers (cab drivers, hotel courtesy van drivers) expect tips—others, in exactly the same job but a different company, don't expect them or even refuse them.

The informality of it all is one of the biggest reasons why tipping culture needs to die, and be replaced with actually paying workers a fair amount to start with.
It would be nice to have this for all parties in power, and in machine-readable format.

To make use of it for further analysis, some meta-data and normalisation would be helpful, e.g. whether someone received media allegations about corruption versus someone was actually fined.

The result could be used by journalists to generate infographics, and to select and slice-and-dice data for better reporting.
At the moment, reporting is mostly on single incidents; only occasionally, at the end of articles, related incidents are mentioned. Systemic issues (e.g. regular political corruption in a party) require more long-term data gathering, which journalists rarely take the time for, and such a data-set could be very useful background material for it.
I’m not sure about NYC in particular, but most companies hire developers without a relevant degree, or any degree at all.

To get an interview you should, in no particular order, network, try to find job openings before they are posted, request informational interviews at companies that interest you, improve your resume, improve your skills/experience via study and/or contributing to open source, improve your cover letter.
Supporting Bitcoin == Supporting a decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant network.

Supporting coal subsidies + lack of carbon tax == Supporting global warming.

If Bitcoin ran on solar panels nobody would give a shit. But because miners are able to arbitrage energy prices thanks to government subsidies and lack of carbon tax, Bitcoin can run on fossil fuels as well.

If you want to fix global warming, the appropriate policy action is very simple, and very clear.

"Globally, subsidies remained large at $4.7 trillion (6.3 percent of global GDP) in 2015 and are projected at $5.2 trillion (6.5 percent of GDP) in 2017. The largest subsidizers in 2015 were China ($1.4 trillion), United States ($649 billion), Russia ($551 billion), European Union ($289 billion), and India ($209 billion)."

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo...

"As of 2019, G20 governments, representing the world’s major economies, supported coal, oil, and gas production and consumption by, on average, $548 billion per year."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/06/07/qa-fossil-fuel-subsidies
You can say it as many times as you'd like, but the fact remains that Bitcoin takes an inordinate amount of energy out of the grid that needs to be replaced.

Homes, business, etc need to be powered. If miners start buying out old generation stations, then the carbon footprint is only going to grow further
Then use the word nonfiguratively instead of literally.
I imagine so. A function signature is rust encodes more information than a lot of other languages. From my (very) limited experience, without lifetimes they look fairly similar to C++, and then adding lifetimes just makes them busier and more complex, but that's because you're encoding additional information.
s/make it impossible/make it prohibitively expensive/
Problem is, a lot of papers won't be very good. Do you have some recommendation?
In short - don't use the government's QR code contact tracing apps - the privacy bargain is broken.
There were two backdoors that were discovered at the time btw, the other one was a hardcoded password that could get you in any router (or something like that?) Odds are that there are more that weren't caught.
I've used microcontrollers extensively so I'm not just randomly rambling ;)

Here's examples of differences:

- Power consumption (some applications care less, some care more).

- Number of pins. Sometimes you just need one input and one output, shoving a high pin count device in there doesn't make sense.

- Pin functions. Higher current capability or other specialized functions like A/Ds D/As etc.

- On-board peripherals. Some microcontrollers have on-board motor controllers, networking, specialized counter hardware, real time clocks, DSP blocks etc.

- Integrated memory and types of memory.

- Oscillator options/frequencies.

Add to that all the different CPU architectures and vendors.

It's more like the microcontroller replaces a bunch of chips or custom chips in certain applications. It's less like you can build one microcontroller to rule them all. Those are still generally mass produced devices so there's really not a lot of economy of scale, i.e. the one micro to do everything (if that was even possible, which it is not) would just be more expensive and less optimized.
Anyone who ever says "we don't log" is definitely logging, and that statement alone should tell you that they are untrustworthy. No one is stupid enough to take on that kind of liability. The same applies for VPNs.

If you need trust, theres no way around rolling your own service.
Heating in the winter prevents people from freezing to death.

Agriculture feeds the world.

Travel, fair argument.

The power demand for a website is a drop in the ocean compared to the power consumption from a rack of GPUs or dedicated mining cards
Textdistance: Compute distance between sequences with 30 algorithms
This is what I thought of first as well.
Making it less convenient (e.g. by requiring customers to have a container on hand) is a great way to have fewer customers.

Why not instead mandate compostable containers?
Or you could even switch to something that has working PoS now.
Go for it: https://analogrepublic.com/about
Well, let me tell you from experience that everything is difficult in Germany due to insane bureaucracy. I applied for student funding twice and twice I had to pay everything back due to technicalities. I would not consider founding a startup in Germany.
This isn't privileged information - you can find the same in Device Manager without admin authorization, on Windows - but why does Chrome need it?
I don't think this represents most studies, but the far lower end. If we're going to cherry-pick, here's one which shows more than half of kids show at least one symptom 120 days out:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.23.21250375v...

My best guess is that it's around 10%-20% -- that's sort of in the middle where studies land.

I suspect a big part of the problem is which child and which COVID. I would speculate alpha, delta, mu, etc. all have different rates.

I think the second question is the distribution of symptoms. None of the studies are sensitive enough to pick up a 5% loss in IQ, lung capacity, or similar. Do some kids get it and others don't? Or is there a bell curve of symptoms, and we're picking up kids with the more extreme versions?

If it's a bell curve, it's pretty scary. All kids could be harmed to the level of e.g. lead exposure, and we wouldn't notice.
Doesn't it all depend a lot of details that are not published ?

If the 2000 jobs are Fraunhofer/Max Planck Institute battery chemistry researchers and engineers, than this is great news and will help developing a solid industrial battery base in Germany. Well done!

If the 2000 jobs are Gabelstaplerfahrer, and all the tech / research is done in the US, then yeah, the investment is mostly in the construction/services sector, which doesn't seem great.

This is oversimplified, but my guess is that Tesla doesn't want to outsource the core tech/research, so we're going to see more Gabelstaplerfahrer and less Fraunhofer/MPI.
It all depends on how many times you do it! 20 seconds for an edit-compile loop is huge. 20 seconds for a CI build is not as bad, but still bad (if you have dozens more).

20 seconds once per machine per dependency version (i.e. there is no rebuild of the dependency until you change compiler flags or update the library) is OK.
And how do you feel about it now?
The European Commission invests in R&D of a range of topics, including but not limited to battery technology.

The Tesla factory is controversial not just because of the funding it gets but also because of the environmental damage to the environment (and starting construction work without receiving a permit): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-gigafactory-germany...
That’s a lovely poem. Any idea where it’s from? Googling brings up only this comment, and a scan of a dog training club newsletter from 1995 with no attribution.
I've seen the Wong palette before, but does it actually solve the problem? In particular, aren't #009E73 and #D55E00 quite difficult to distinguish if you have protanopia or deuteranopia?
The article talks about financial literacy as it pertains to ordinary folks.

But - perhaps more relevant to the HN audience - I have noticed a surprising amount of financial illiteracy among the tech-savvy middle-to-wealthy class as well. A lunchtime conversation with my coworkers showed that most put more faith in their own instincts with picking stocks than in index or mirror funds (something that evidence shows is very unlikely, but people like to believe). Another time, I found that a majority of my coworkers were filing their stock-option taxes incorrectly.

Though no doubt wealthy folks are more literate (including financial literacy) than the poor, my suspicion is that most of the difference in financial outcomes comes to the fact that poor people simply have less capacity to save than middle/wealthy, and more severely feel the impacts of poor decision making.
Ok, so the first half of your comment is something we could have a discussion about, but then...

> In a way you can say evolution is both true and it's not

Why?

> for all we know following the things that are tried and proven is the more practical thing to do, right?

What?

> Like, when it comes to Pokemon for example, I just looked up that Pikachu evolve to Raichu. But wait does he really? Or isn't that just bunch of fabrication too? Well for all intends and purposes that's how it works right?

?????
Yes, that's the rule used to generate the game in the paper.
I think what we're seeing is the large proportion of the workforce that can get by on one income rather than two doing so.

Many, many workers are working for non-economic reasons. Retired people work for exercise and social interactions. Married couples who can get by on one income no longer need to have both spouses working. And forcing students into attending classes from home has further forced more and more working couples to take a break to supervise their kids who are learning at home since most children (particularly young children) cannot be trusted to attend their classes without direct supervision. Many teenagers, also, who would have been in the workforce to have some spending money have decided the risks of the pandemic aren't worth it. And then there's the unemployment benefits. In short: Many people who can get by without working suddenly are.

It only takes a few percent of the population choosing to no longer work to create a massive labor shortage.
It's not groundbreaking: it happened again and again.
That's how Schwitzgebel would see it: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/ActBel.htm

Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, or The Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief
WebUSB and Web Bluetooth APIs
Or the endless arguments about await, or that time I cried because the discussion over what we call integers was so contentious. We all cared quite a bit about syntax. Heck that’s partially why almost none of it is novel!
I make this slime with my kids. I also bought some slime meant for detailing cars. I didn't even realize it was basically identical to the slime we had been making until I opened it.
If you're one car company or building one car design you try to minimize the number of different components in your design. However, different cars companies might (and do) choose different MCUs based on their architecture requirements. Some car vendors use CAN bus, so they'd pick a microcontroller with CAN. Some use Ethernet. They have tools and software the generally is build for certain families. An ECU is not going to have the same CPU as the radio or the entertainment system, it just doesn't make sense.

The diversity should mean that when Audi picked some specific microcontroller for their ECU there's not too many others that are using the same part at volume. So this should isolate them to some degree from fluctuation in demand. If there's only one vendor/part, like we're seeing with GPUs, then nobody can get any, period. Even if Audi can't get their CPU for some reason then GM who uses a different CPU might be able to get it. Well, unless it's the same factor and the fabrication is the bottleneck...
Some big threats:

- Something with the spread rate of COVID-delta, and a high lethality rate after a long incubation period.

- Enriching uranium in a rather small facility. This may already have happened and been kept quiet. Laser enrichment was talked about a lot in the early 1990s, and then suddenly, after some announcements from Lawrence Livermore, things got much quieter.[1][2] As high-powered lasers get better, this gets easier. There's now a startup in Australia working on this process again.

- Long term, a birth rate that's below replacement rate. That's the current normal in the developed world.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1204/ML12045A051.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_lase...
Rent-seeking and regular rent in a landlord-tenant relationship are not the same thing.

Rents did go up as a result of general inflation and the eviction moratorium, but that is not the same as rent-seeking.
Right. Everyone would complain if the message "squirt gun fight" where rendered "pistols at dawn" or vice versa. There's going to be ambiguity in any language, and to make it worse, most adults are not native speakers of emoji.
Not 100% sure what you mean by flipping over (fail?) but at least in CRDB you can of course do cross shard transactions. They wont be as fast as a transaction that can be completely handled by a single leader but it works fine and is transparent to the client.
Ampere, Volta, Galvani, Ohm - so much of the modern world unfolding in just a few decades of discovery, when people still worked by the light of candles and oil lamps and it could take years for information to travel.
> My guess would be that any observational claim would be confounded badly by the kinds of factors that select people into financial literacy

That’a what I think, also. It’s easy to boast of “financial literacy” when one is living a quiet and comfortable middle-class life with almost no financially-related existential dread, it’s a totally different conversation when you’re living day by day. I’m on mobile and too lazy to search but there was an article linked on this forum a few years ago written by a young lady (in her early 20s, I think) describing how after working 10-hour shitty shifts and coming back home to a very poor household one doesn’t think of ETFs and carried interest, but more about “let me have a few cigarettes, some fast food and a coke so that I could forget for some moments about my condition as a poor person”.

More on that, I think this insistence on “financial literacy” is a very dirty play by today’s middle class (of which I’m a part, I confess) so that it won’t accept responsibility for the condition of the poor classes, it’s a sort of “it’s their fault for being poor because they are financially illiterate, there’s nothing much that we can do, the system works, the main proof being that we’re not poor”.
…and Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology, providing a censorship-resistant money-exchange system.

We can discuss if this is worth more or less than <insert some other activity that contributes to global warming> and also discuss the merit of the new technology, but simple dismissing it as “contributing to global warming” is an inane argument.
I know enough non-tech educated people who don't invest in anything. They have no inclination to. They have no one to guide them. Even when someone tells them to invest, it is a concept too hard for them to grasp.

Not everyone is looking to make money. Sometimes circumstances won't allow them to understand it. By the time they do, it's already too late.
> So germaney often does take it's time. Project costs went from $2.xB to something like $10B plus.

Using this airport as an example of “it takes time in Germany” is a mistake. This airport is an example of how the German system may fail and is a laughing case for everyone in Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport, History section has all the details.
Nothing turns HN comments more bitter and unthinking faster than the topic of Bitcoin, especially its insane energy use.

Pitching Bitcoin: "Imagine a currency... that doesn't materially change the status quo (and taken to the end game more-greatly enriches fewer people), is somewhere between 100,000x and 1,000,000x less energy efficient, slower to transact, more volatile, 100% traceable, easier to scam, harder to teach to laymen, causes supply shortages to other markets, whose production is owned in majority by our greatest geopolitical adversary, is treated as an asset and incentivizes saving over spending, and will continue to waste more and more energy for at least the next 100 years."

Absolutely insane invention, and the fact that people think this is worth money only tells you that they've bought in.

Bitcoin proponents like to pretend it circumvents government interference, as if Bitcoin exists in a vacuum. In reality, the moment the government does a double take of Bitcoin, the market blinks. Everybody knows the pitch of decentralization is just a gimmick, even if they aren't willing to admit it.
Not all of them do but as far as I can tell some of them definitely do. I don’t ride motorbikes so I’m not an expert in this but my friend who does showed me her gloves which do include wrist protectors. I’m in Europe if it makes a difference…
never roll your own crypto, except maybe sometimes ...
> I mean I want to log income, spendings, exchanges in multiple currencies (or commodities), and then be able to see reports in a single currency -

All the major PTA tools support this - perhaps the chat could help ?

> my net worth, my income over period of time, capital gains / losses.

The first two are easy, the third is more complicated but also possible - unrealized gains at least, I forget how easy realized gains are in the various tools, it might not be fully automatic.
For me the interesting parts of the (kinda hate this term) "maker revolution" are share-ability and remixability. The community and sharing sites are an integral part of this.

So you can have lots of people who've never met quickly iterate on a design. Then yet other people customise or use it in unexpected ways.

The end result would be not a clock, but a species of mutant clocks spreading across the world.
As with many things the hard part isn't understanding how they work - most people, deep down, already know what actually works. It's hard because it requires working against the part of your brain that wants to conserve energy, eat energy-dense foods, and surf the web late at night. Everybody who hasn't already built good habits wants there to be an easy, secret way to get the results without the effort (and it is effort. Once you've been doing it for a while it's very easy. But I remember how hard it was to build up to that point).

The same applies for finances, dating/socialization, and business. Everybody knows to save/invest money (maybe not exactly how to invest), to not be afraid of failure, to ask questions and take initiative, to talk to users and make customers happy. Our simple animalistic brains don't like to do those things if we don't have to. It's uncomfortable for many people.
There will be a software update.

Read page 9 of the exec summary linked in the article.
It's never clear to me what to do with a flash flood warning.

Do I stay indoors? Do I move to higher ground?

It can be a little vague as far as what should I do given my exact location.

I guess it's up to each individual to research those things beforehand...
It's not pirated if the tax payer paid for it... the copyright is invalid. I know it's just semantics, but let's not give evil corp words to make their parasitic scheme seem legitimate.
Nielsen’s National Ratings Accreditation Suspended by Media Rating Council
As a former poor person from an environment somewhere between working class and middle class (dad worked in auto parts stores, mom as a government bureaucrat) – I credit Hacker News and the internet at large with my relative financial freedom these days. Yes it took 10 years to get here, but ho boy would I never have even known to begin to start without what folks like patio11, tptacek, et al talked about and shared on here. Ramit’s newsletter helped too but he’s not on HN afaik.

The extent of my financial literacy education growing up was there is always more month at the end of the money … oh and you should save. The saving part never made sense to me, why would you put money in a savings account that just gets wiped out by taxes at the end of the year? So dumb.

And then I learned there’s more out there than savings accounts with 0.01% interest and that you yourself can be a good investment and just thinking about assets vs liabilities and how you prioritize each … oof. Whole new world!

To be fair to my parentals, my dad did make me read Rich Dad Poor Dad in high school or college after he started discovering this world himself. I think that formed a good fertile ground for much of what HN had to share.

Point is: The environment that influences you has a huge impact on life outcomes. Probably more than any other factor.
Legally nothing wrong - but they've maybe been a bit disingenuous to their users.

However, better than most (both by jurisdiction and their own rules) than other email providers - and I'd have thought any of their users who were serious about anonymity would have used Tor/Tails etc to connect anyway and used pgp for their messages.

Details of connections to the account (IP and connection fingerprint) shouldn't matter if you were taking your privacy seriously.

Basically just signing up for protonmail doesn't make you secure and there's nothing they could do to help if you just rely on that.
Consider using Postgres views! You can create a view into your data and use that for reading and writing. Then, when you need to change the underlying data model, you create a new view with the renamed column. Old clients will target the old view, new clients will target the new view. Then, when all old clients are removed, you can remove the old view safely.
Yes. I know that. They were one of the early ones to discover the limitations of their original ideas but that did not make its way to the rest of the industry.
Binance (spellcorrekt turned it into “finance”).
Wow. Although there are elements I disagree with, that said is a very well argued and explained point.

I suspect there are few here that will read through it though. Might be better as a blog.