skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a country, where historically there were very little data points on salaries. It was very common to go through 4-6 interview stages and then get told that the salary they offer is 1/3 of what the candidate is willing to join for. Eventually there was enough political will to change the laws and now it's mandatory to publish salaries under the job ads. It goes even further- for each company with more than 3 employees salary information is publicly available ( e.g. average salary paid, more details stats for bigger companies). Suddenly everyone could see the barrel scrapers and top payers. Granted, some still post things like €2000-8000/month, which just shows that a company is trying to hire everyone from a junior to an architect on the same job ad. The serious companies don't do it. The whole thing became 100 times better.

Here's how it looks:

https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/m/en/company/uber_lithuania_softwar...
Monero is one of the few chains that offers a truly new feature on top of other alternatives and... look at the price chart of its tokens. Now compare that to Shibe or whatever. Makes it pretty clear that price is driven by memes rather than features.
But... we're literally discussing a book written on the subject. It wasn't censored. Neither were discussions here on this site, where lab leak arguments were very popular.

Are you really sure you aren't confusing controversy (the fact that an opinion can be a minority one with which most experts disagree) with suppression?
For anyone not natively English-speaking, there is a kind of choice to make - which English to use? Especially when spelling. Curious what others have settled on.
Cool story, but it is a lie. Biogas manufactured from biowaste, even if done perfectly, is insufficient by a factor of 4.

You need some way of manufacturing stored energy in accessible form. These plants should be already in development and being built to hit that target...
You need to have enough karma to do so. I'm not able to downvote as well. By engaging and adding value to the discussions posted you will hopefully be able to have this and other features unlocked.
The Corporate Erosion of Capitalism
A switch with user preference cookie might be a good idea.
TIL that "engineering" is "cult thinking".
Mate this is the third gold rush. Whether the price is up or down there are legitimate people working hard all the time; the ones who don't put all their energy into marketing.
Many of the technologies we now take for granted (books, newspapers, film) were once considered “profitable distractions” by somebody. But each one drove the development of some essential aspects of our modern world, without which we’d be much poorer.
Forget the planet, the US only survives the next 30 years if we focus our brightest minds back on manufacturing instead of finance and selling ads on social media.
> It might, for a short period of time, keep certain effects at bay, but it’s not sustainable

And yet we have worn masks for months at least. If the price of a free internet is the equivalent of wearing a gasmask then I would rather do that, at least until we we have the equivalent of the nano-robot immunesystem from the Diamond Age.

If we let the government make the rules here we will lose the last place where we can play freely, and will almost certainly not solve the problem we wanted to be solved.
Nothing is indefinitely renewable. In the end, the second law of thermodynamics is an immovable barrier. When we talk about renewable, it's never endless, it's renewable within reason.

When it comes to nuclear though, the people claiming it's renewable usually refer to the presence of uranium in seewater, which is leeched from the ocean floor. That fits within the "renewable within reason" frame I talked about before. The issue with making that case is that collecting uraium from seawater is experimental reearch at this point ; it's definitely not an industrial process. Other examples of people conflating research with established industrial standards include people claiming we can get rid of nuclear waste with new reactors, or people claiming that we can recycle wind turbine blades.

A reasonable case to be made is that, while nuclear is not renewable, the reserves we have is enough to let us buy another century of research and a reasonable chance to find more long-lasting solutions, whether it would be a great storage technology, fusion, new fission technology, a smart grid or whatever.
Construction therapy to rejuvenate the soul.
I dabble in woodworking, have built some picture frames, coat hook thingies, a cheese slicer but mostly have built shop furniture. I came to the realization that if I want to build a workbench, for like the 4th time, it’s because I enjoy just building stuff. Watching professionals on YouTube and just society in general fills my head with thoughts about needing to have goals and maybe build stuff to sell as a side hustle or whatever.

I enjoy building stuff and I’m just going to build stuff for myself and if the end result is I enjoyed shop time then that is a success and time well spent.
There is a veritable war going on for your attention, and the battlefields are your eyeballs, your ears and ultimately your brain. Psychologists have been enlisted, as they are in every war to try to win it for 'their side', be it one of the big silos or some dying TV or newspaper era behemoth, there is no reasonable way in which you can withstand that kind of frontal onslaught. The only way to really deal with this is to not participate.

Beware or you too will be collateral damage on the balance sheets of these media conglomerates. Unmediated reality is still there for you to peruse, but 'augmented reality' will be the next big wave for tech and I'm pretty sure that it will end up being used mostly for advertising purposes.
> "Web3" is about decentralization but it doesn't necessarily mean storing data on a blockchain. The most important aspect is that users no longer have to sign up or log in. They submit responses which are signed by a key pair, which is their identity instead of a record in a "users" table.

It is a record in a "users" table. It is just that this table is the publicly readable blockchain.
You're right. It's highly suspicious, but it's just that and the problem is that the lab leak theory has many ramifications that are net negative for everyone: was it intentional, was it preventable, was it modified to test bioweapons, was it financed by France (yes, in France, we're not so hot about discussing our own little responsibility in building that lab).

I think if it was a clear-cut case of manipulation screwup, and that some people in China know today for sure that it was, we'll know eventually when we care less. If nobody, even close to the lab in China, knows for sure, then we probably won't investigate more just in case we'd discover with horror we killed all these people.
Yeah this is another view I see commonly expressed and have found no evidence ever coming from an authority. The Lancet letter (effectively an op-ed), for example, mentions race exactly zero times. It does somewhat recklessly affiliate these theories with conspiracy theories, but it’s worth remembering that they were responding to actual conspiracy theories like the virus being a bioweapon purposely released. This is an actual theory of conspiracy for which there continues to be no evidence. Scientists were getting death threats on this basis.

And again, the Lancet letter itself points to the then-current body of evidence, which people can contribute to or refute via their own publications (this is how science works).
Very nice analogies, thanks!

=> Write down stuff in todos and delete them if they stay for too long without any progress
Canadian healthcare is great if you have a life threatening acute problem or you have no ability to or willingness to pay for healthcare. If you have anything in the middle its a giant slog against a large bureaucracy to actually get it treated. And you have ti have some conviction in what it is otherwise diagnose and adios as they say.
If you time it just right, you'll run out of space for more sheds in your yard/garden right around the time you burn out at work. Then you can start a business building sheds.

This is obviously your subconscious planning for your next career :-)
The five aspects of HELPFUL software… we as developers need to build it into all our software:

https://qbix.com/people
And they could be going down even faster by switching on the nuclear plants! But at least now Germany is prepared in case of a Fukushima style tsunami. Nobody claims that carbon emissions are increasing by an absolute number.

Germany is investing heavily in green energy, but green energy won't be able to provide the necessary energy for years to come. Switching to their objectively worse power sources, both in terms of carbon emissions and release of radioactive compounds to the surrounding environment, was a stupid move based on nothing more than FUD.
Arrogance, cynicism, and pessimism are defenses
Thanks for the tip. Sometimes being days behind in reading HN posts is an advantage
Start with "financial advice on an index card" [1]. Then improve each of those 9 advice suitable to your particular financial needs.

For those who are in deep debt, with low income, follow the "Baby Steps" [2] by Ramsey.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/01/08/46...

[2]: https://www.ramseysolutions.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps
Why Perl? It’s a bit of a stagnant language now.
It takes a while (think like 10min+) to reboot these planes. Checkout "cold start 777" on YouTube [1].

There are a ton of computers (FADECs for engines, fuel management computers, FMS (flight management), PFC (flight computers), weight and balance computers... and much more). All of these have state. Which way is up for the gyros. Proper direction for the compasses. Proper location on Earth for the navigation system... etc. Basically, a 777 has the mother of all POST sequences, so frames in line operation are rarely restarted, for operational efficiency.

Reminds me of the navigation systems for some rockets (Atlas, IIRC), that require 24 hrs sitting level on the pad to fully initialize their starting ground state (super precise gyros). This ain't like restarting your internet connected juicer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UCD0o0NCU
Even if I assume you're completely correct and that is a problem, they're still totally correct that cryptocurrencies are solving problems that almost nobody cares about.
I wonder how Dwarf Fortress would look like if it were programmed in Haskell.
> Yes, that's the current pension system.

If benefits-defined pensions are any indicator then both are unsustainable, and certainly not the future.
You need karma > 500 (IIRC) for downvotes.
The problem isn't as much that social media is addictive. The issue is that people aren't happy with their other options of what to do. If you have a draining job and don't have energy to put into a hobby, or you don't have lots of friends to hang out with, you're much more likely to waste time on something addictive.
Amy Sedaris on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/amysedaris/
Standardized APIs solve centralization. The use of Merkle trees to store way too much data and make a distributed computer slower than any individual node has nothing to do with that.
> But, who cares? If this worked for the developer, what's wrong?

Chances are it didn't work for the developer. I've been in places where people were versioning by folder, and pretending it was fine, because they didn't want to learn how to do it properly. They'd come up will all manner of excuses that git/svn/hg/etc had already dealt with. "It's easier to just copy paste", "It's a waste of my time to spend time on a VCS", "What if we both change the same file". I've heard them all, and when I look back at the colleagues who said this, they produced a lot less than they ought to have. Not just because of version control, it's one among several software red flags (never commenting anything, not having tests, not making an effort to make things work on other people's machines, etc).

I'm not going to say anything bad about the DF guy, this seems like a strange foible, but in general not using version control is a major red flag that someone is actually a bit of a novice who is low on productivity.

Version control is the big one, because if you're productive you tend to write a lot of code, and you'll tend to have hit the same issues that everyone has when they're writing a lot of stuff.
My Notebook System
Ask HN: Is Web3 real or marketing hype?
Will it be a huge evolutionary step in the internet, end up being a disarray of technologies that creates further complications, or some other outcome?
When the rich and powerful start feeling the bad effects of corporate greed and lack of safety oversight, they'll start doing something about it.
"The only winning move is not to play."

War Games (1983)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
Have you tried sitting in a classroom? That can be very boring, too, and there is no way to rewind.

Personally I also prefer books and written articles for learning, but for some reason, many people seem to prefer videos.
"Choice" really needs to be well-defined here. We know you can influence people to change their behavior because we invented the term "attention hacking". Sheer willpower will not overcome this on anything but an individual level. And just like obesity has other dependents like the cost of food, there is also cost/disincentives to "disconnecting". Social interaction is almost exclusively happening online now, especially during a pandemic. There is a very limited set of circumstances in which individual action will not have other severe consequences to your life - so while it might work for you, there's no way it'll work for everyone. Systemic issues require systemic solutions.
I was on my way to my flat when I got flat,so he gave me a lift all the way to the lift.
Potentially, depends when it happened, which point you restore to, and if the vulnerability that got them in in the first place is still present. If one of my servers got hacked I personally wouldn't risk it, and would just nuke it and rebuild. If everything's in Docker containers then the services can be torn down and spun up easily, and databases can be exported from a backup VM and imported into the new server.
I wouldn't say "in most cases", but I would also point out that AI has probably not been at the center of quite so many scams.
Stripping British citizenship: the government’s new bill explained
To add, he made a lot of other predictions as well that don't seem to have panned out.
That's an interesting point. I would make the refutation that a system where large 'voters' in a DAO are forced to lock up their tokens after votes proportional to their power would prevent them from sabotaging the project, but if they had even more money at stake in a competitor its easy to imagine scenarios where such foul play may happen.

The interesting thing about governance is that it existed before the term: In Bitcoin the community governs the direction of the protocol by directing their hash power, perceived value, and simple use of the network towards their desired fork. You can't do this with contract tokens unless you want to fork the entire Ethereum Blockchain for the sake of one DAO.

Despite this limitation, if DAO pay to vote schemes could be combined with 'vote with your feet' you could have the clean, efficient governance of a DAO with the fully actionable emergency escape (a fork) in case foul play is sniffed out.
This. I'm afraid too, being in NY, with a potential looming threat that wood burning might be banned some day down the line[1]. My entire house relies on wood pellet heating for a majority of the living area, and as I rent, this isn't a tenable option to just "give up". Sure, my landlord would have to adapt, but this is a ridiculous thing.

The NYC natural gas ban is equally silly when you realize that most of the power is coming from natural gas powerplants - so we're just shifting the point of use of gas back to the power grid itself while sticking consumers with ineffective electric equipment (since natural gas appliances are cheap -- fancy electric heat pumps etc are not.)

[1] https://www.localsyr.com/news/your-stories/your-stories-is-n...
In my experience, Europeans and South Asians tend to use British spellings. East Asians and Latin Americans tend to use American spellings. Not sure about people from other parts of the world.
How does DMCA handle steganography? For example, you could post hex-encoded bytes of a copyrighted image in a Facebook post - obviously a trivial example, but with a minor amount of effort and some more obtuse encoding it would be nigh-on impossible to tell otherwise. This is exactly what it looks like when putting copyrighted content on blockchains like on Ethereum. It's also _prohibitively_ expensive to store data on even alternative L1 chains.
What do you think religions are?
Well that's a nitpicking argument which depends on your definitions. From what i understand, what you call "communism" i call "State capitalism" and what you call "democratic socialism" i call "liberal capitalism". Under all these systems, there's privileges: people who have more and people who have less, while communism is usually defined as a stateless/classless society (including by marxists).

> Wouldn't it be more accurate to just say: where industrial humans are or have been?

Indeed! Yet this formula ignores the ties between the two concepts. Industrialization and capitalism grew hand in hand with extractivism and colonization starting in the 16th century. Without the industry to build boats to exploit the overseas, capitalism could not exist: yet without massive accumulation of wealth, industry as we know it could not be created.

This is not to say pollution is impossible without capitalism. But capitalism as a social structure incentivizes not to care because there's no (immediate) profit involved in respecting your environment, and because there will always be more areas to exploit and pollute: our overlords are now openly talking of colonizing Mars once they're done fucking things up over here!

If you have intellectual curiosity for critiques of industrial capitalism, i strongly recommend the "End: Civ" documentary.
You have a political axle to grind, fine, but that's not relevant to the discussion here.

Maybe the current US pension is set up like this, maybe not, that's debatable perhaps. But it's not an inherent feature of the systems everywhere unlike the problem with crypto"currencies".
I tend to use snapdrop.net when everyone is on the same network otherwise https://www.sharedrop.io/ works well too
Yeah, like OpenOffice, or Blender, or Java, or UQM.
Thanks thinking back I can see situations where I was half paying attention to the other.

May I ask how you keep track of your context? Strategies, tools (digital or not) ?
Yes, if the field is below sea level. They do exist!
I think it is fair that a forum maintained by an startup incubator would not like to encourage things that go against the monetization strategies of internet companies.
I think it is even very gentle of them not to censor comments with links to archive.is
I don't even get the idea of these web versions. They just seem like buzzwords to me.

Sure there are differences in the general trends with how people interact with the web and internet, but it's more complicated than that.

I understand the difference between Web1 an Web2 since web pages have become a lot more interactive over the years, but that doesn't justify making special terms for old and modern sites. Nobody goes around saying "this website is Web1 and this one is Web2." If a website looks old you just say it looks old.

There's no specific cutoff point that makes sense for web versions. Websites have slowly become more and more interactive over the years. Since pages started to become interactive, there have been so many changes to the web that are arguably just as worthy to get their own version numbers. CSS has gained so much more functionality, JavaScript has become a compilation target, and with the advent of WebAssembly, virtually any programming language to be used on the web.

All of the things that make Web3 different from Web2 seem like niche use cases for the web, not something that will replace everything like more interactive web pages have. There won't be any decentralized websites, there will just be a bunch of regular websites where you create an account to interact with technology that has been around for over a decade.

The other changes I mentioned actually pertain to the web, while the trendy stuff like the "metaverse" and "blockchain" actually have nothing to do with the web. Maybe they can interact with the web, but a lot of things can interact with the web. With the click of a button I can have virtually anything delivered to my doorstep, but for some reason owning a picture of a monkey is more impressive to some people.
> So while "I just ate" can only refer back maybe an hour or two, "I just lost my keys" could easily refer back a week, if e.g. it's an excuse for why I'm having logistical difficulties.

OP has correctly identified a difference, but not the exact nature of it.

In contrast to ‘just’ which can be used to mark recency in both simple past and present perfect (“I just lost my keys” vs “I’ve just lost my keys”), the present perfect does not refer to “the recent past”.

In fact, the difference between present perfect and simple past is not really a tense difference at all, but an aspectual one that marks how the speaker perceives the event. In the simple past, the event is complete, whereas in the present perfect, the event is not, either because the event is ongoing, or because it maintains a specific relevance that means we are not looking from ‘outside’ the event as a completed whole.

The difference that OP has identified is the “default understanding” of British English speakers is normally that an action is complete unless otherwise marked. “I lost my keys” in British English implies that you already have your keys back, or you’ve had new ones made, or that you no longer live in that same flat or whatever. American English does not tend to make the same assumption as strongly, and does not normally require you to use the present perfect except for emphasis.
Some might say that the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Why would you not buy equipment from Apple?
Doesn't matter. It doesn't change the fundamental scam nature of the game. You are describing game rules, it's typical of people in the game -- but it's participating in the game which makes people lose money. It utterly does not matter what happens inside the walled garden of crypto"currencies".
For reference, the max allowed GA airspeed by the FAA under 10,000 ft (3km) altitude is 250 knots. Doing so at 175 feet is wild.