skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After all, shouldn't those who actually form the workforce of a company and shape the products and services it offers be in control? Why not have those who actually do the work collectively control the fate of the company, instead of having to hand over that power to someone else?

That is viable in some cases.

The underlying issue is that distribution of corporate growth is relegated to a small percentage of all organizations out there. To put it simply, a small percentage of companies above a certain size grow quickly while the rest are slowly dying. As a result, not only are the distribution of outsized monetary rewards highly biased in favor of a small percentage of companies, but the fight to maintain position once that period of growth is over is intense. Modern companies growth fast, survive for a time, and then go away.

This leads to an unfortunate dynamic where any competitive advantage that leads to either growth or survival matters. If a top-down managerial structure where rewards inside of the company are distributed to a small layer of top level managers and owners provides even a slight economic advantage over an employee-owned structure, the former is going to win out.

This may sound unfair, and it likely is, but the question becomes: if I am a worker at 'traditional corp.' with a 100K salary and a funded 401K, will I do better than if I was a worker at 'employee-owned corp.' with the same salary but an ownership share? The deciding point being that traditional corp. has a 20% chance of going away over the next ten years while employee-owned corp. has a 20%+ chance of going away over the same period of time.
With or without, makes no difference.

Mars is wholly unsuitable as a place to colonize, and Starship would anyway be far from adequate to attempt it, by at least two orders of magnitude.

Starship might suffice to maintain a moon base, after the model of McMurdo Station, albeit radically more expensive. But that would be an end in itself, not any sort of staging point. There is noplace to go from there.

O'Neill cans make better sense. After aneutronic p-11B fusion is mastered in some future century, O'Neill cans out in the Kuiper Belt will be a place for humanity to expand. The inner solar system is a dump, Earth excepted.
My girlfriend is Slovak and says she never wants to live in a high rise like those in her hometown. When I finally visited there I was a bit surprised. Sure there were many buildings and apartments that all looked the same pretty devoid of any individual character, but there were also bars, restaurants, stores right in the middle of all of it. I laughed and told here that regardless of what you think of the buildings, I'd say I've _never_ seen amenities placed better anywhere I'd ever lived in California.

Honestly I don't even disagree with your criticisms (broken elevators, bike theft, etc.), but that only makes it seem more pathetic that a place like California with so much more money can't do so much better. The zoning in California (and most of the US for that matter) really is terrible.

Edit: I want to be clear that I'm talking about the _wealthy_ areas of California. I'd say that this regular crappy building complex in a random city in Slovakia does better than almost all the rich parts of California. The poorer and/or more rural parts of California I'm totally ignoring here (though they're even worse).
> creating a container for any minor thing like npm + some js project

I am backend engineer with a non-JS background and to me that's a a very useful thing. I really don't want to install specific node version, yarn version, etc to run some node/JS application. If I can just docker-compose up that's much easier to me and I know it does not affect anything globally. So removing it after playing around is easy and non-risky.
Cheers for that link, it's a really nice little layered GIS globe :-)
Because those documents you glossed over created a legally distinct entity precisely to take the liability away from those who signed. If they didn't want this soulless entity to exist, they shouldn't have created it.
Thank you, but how am I supposed to use these files ? Extracting a tarball leaves a bunch of files, some readable, some not so much. Looks like this is meant to be used as data for an application.
Open-source tools (dbt, Airbyte, etc.) have taken over the "modern data stack", but one piece (the data warehouse) was still commonly occupied by closed-source software (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.). I think Clickhouse has a real shot at becoming the open-source choice for this part of the stack. We've been using it at Luabase and despite some of it's rough edges, it's truly an incredible product.
People keep noticing patterns that others would prefer not to e noticed. If data isn’t collected it can’t be used to argue against your politics. For a non-US example see how the French state does not collect data on ethnicity or religion. It makes it more difficult to see how [social outcome] is uniquely distributed whether it be highest level of education, likelihood of convict of a crime or anything else of interest.
Yes, I fully agree with your conclusion! I think changes in the structure of work have to be accompanied by things like UBI to fully work.
In theory I can see the mental graph search in play but civilization's AI is too dumb to need that.

It's like playing with the most predictable chess player.
But the point of IPFS is to do better than this.

The point of IPFS is that the server can't tamper with the content because it would break the hash, but if you're using an untrusted proxy then it is just as bad as using an untrusted proxy for your normal web browsing.
Decarbonization as a Service
I don't think it's fair to say that it's "tuned" to fit observation. It's not like several different types of DM are introduced to fit the observation. Rather the observations add some constraints to the DM properties. That's how it's supposed to be.
I've grown quite fond of the one-unit-per-tile paradigm. It brings a strategic element of a different nature to besieging a city, I don't mind it.
My issue with Civ 6 was the AI..

It would sort of “rage quit”, declare war and just do nothing (not build any units, not move units) so often that I realized I could play for hours only to discover that one or more of the AI was effectively not playing at all.
Prosecuting a company is way different than trying to find some guy that posted something on the internet. Good luck with the last one, especially when that person is tech savvy and paranoid.
They'd still prefer for you just to know the answer.

This is one of the first pieces of advice I heard in my career and IMO it has become a workplace meme.

People don't become respected because they say 'I don't know' a lot - they become respected because people believe them when they aren't saying it. The result of a junior person not following the advice is panic, floundering for an answer, and giving an unconvincing lie. Being revealed for a BSer is the problem you're trying to avoid. Admitting you don't know is one path around this but, in practice, too many make you look unknowledgable and may mean that future important questions will be aimed at your seniors or superiors. When they're asked, they don't say 'I don't know', they say the answer. They're respected because they know.

This problem is built into incentive systems. If guidelines for promotion for a junior are that they can work independently then it can be better for them to spend 2 hours looking for a solution themselves than to spend 10 minutes asking someone else. This encourages convincing BSing, which is more insidious and damaging than obvious BS. The people who are promoted are the ones who can know and the ones who can lie - the latter being easier.

The prime example of this is the executive team. Unless lying is securities fraud, an answer from a CEO can't be trusted at all.

If you want to encourage people to admit when they don't know the answer, you need to cultivate a culture where it's truly unpunished.
Or you could just use Freenet, thus not re-inventing the wheel.
The way Russia transitioned from Socialist to Capitalist was a bit of a mess. The widely accepted best practice was to sell state-owned companies to raise capital to operate the state. But Russia didn't want to sell to Western countries for obvious reasons, and citizens from the former Soviet Union weren't well equipped to pay fair prizes. So companies more or less went for pennies to those who could call in the most favors, cementing the corruption that already plagued the USSR.

Of course there are also other factors, like Russia spending a bunch on things that it deems strategically necessary, but that don't result in immediate money flows (like subsidizing cites beyond the Ural).
The problem is called Merit-Price-Fixation and is the method used all over Europe to "define" the costs for energy. It is also called Windfall earnings.

I heard that in Austria it is under discussion that this method is not well suited for price fixation. I also heard the first tones here in Germany.
Your online shopping. (Oh behave!)
Your doorbell. (Who’s that?)
Your vacuum. (That’s a nice big living room you have there.)

Your palm print. With your kombucha purchase.

Don’t worry all this data is definitely safe, isolated, anonymized as needed, categorized for sensitivity, and definitely not what Amazon is after.

There’s a smile on the box! (And Amazon can see if there isn’t one on your face.)
I used a Linux desktop from 1996 to 2014. For much of that time, it was so much work, it was essentially a hobby.

Around the time Ubuntu became popular and GPU drivers got better, it became more manageable.

I eventually switched full-time to Windows anyway. Why? Because any daily friction is unnecessary. Windows just works, and every piece of software I need to use works with it.

Linux is better than it was, but my Linux machines still have random crashes, failures to boot, command-line configuration requirements... they required so much Googling that I started to lose my mind.

People are barely able to use Windows at most orgs. There's no ROI for switching to Linux.
A lot, mostly in form of capital gain taxes incurred through stock sales from exercised options. But hey, he technically paid zero taxes on his wage of $1.00.
That's why I bought mine. I don't want to give Amazon any of my money.
As long as you keep it open on GitHub, and keep it installable for people, I don't think there's any issue. In fact, I think it's a great thing! If it makes money, it incentivizes you to put more time and effort into development, which in turn benefits the entire community of contributors. Again, as long as you don't remove it from GitHub or make installation outside of steam a pain in the ass, it's win-win for everyone.
Good Civilization players have better management skills
For me, in college, it was Age of Empires. We'd have late-night LAN sessions with roommates and friends and when I eventually crashed into bed, my brain would continue strategizing for battles, determine necessary resources to mine, etc.
Seems you’ve resigned yourself to “default boring”. That’s your prerogative, but it’s no different from the “existential dread attitude shift” which spurred the conversation.

You have the means to meaningfully improve the lives of others and are focusing on how to entertain yourself. Do something for another, like teaching them your skills or donating your money. Heck, start a non-profit which does both! It’s not as easy to be the best when your success depends on the outcome and performance of others.

Have you ever tried getting an addict in a bad place to straighten their life? Frustration is the opposite of boring. There is no formula for that problem or a myriad of other societal issues. There is no right answer for you to arrive at and be objectively the best. In the off-chance that you do crack it, you would have revolutionised at least one field, solved some of humanity’s problems, and gotten a challenge for a while.
Neuralink Update – August 2022
I think condescendingly explain is what you're looking for.
Data Science Fundamentals
[in Australian cities]
If you think you’ve finished shapezio, install the shapez industries mod and enjoy a bunch of extra mechanics.
I would think that the browser plugin + daemon is the most common implementation.
The line from the CDC page reads almost like a call for help:

"Some studies suggest that the current OSHA PEL and NIOSH REL may be too high to protect against certain health effects"
ARM on desktop => ARM for development => ARM on servers => ARM on cloud.

Apple's multi-billion contracts with AWS are ending this or next year, Apple has their own power efficient systems and will compete with AWS, as they have to maintain/increase growth.
I don’t think this vitriol is warranted or reasonable.

* I would support completely disbanding corporations who bribe officials, and jailing its officers

* I think the biggest problem with our judicial system is the prevalence of plea deals leading to a lifetime of regret for those who ignorantly take them. Fix it.

* I believe wage theft is theft and would like to see jail time for those involved.

I imagine I’ve a harsher view than you on these elements. But, more to the point, even if I wasn’t this opinionated I dont think this hate is warranted.
A Tale of Running Modern Linux on Hardware from 1997
> using most of the third-party modules out there (buying) is more expensive than writing the code yourself (building).

This is probably true for "most of the modules" but not for "most of the modules that people actually use"
> But the major open source licenses all say "here are my wares, no charge, feel free to redistribute to all your friends too"

It seems you've misheard then. Any vendor is saying "here are my services, here are my prices" and customers will pay (the real customers that is).

The open source licenses are part of the deal but not an intrinsic part of the business, hence the distinction makes sense.

It's up to us engineers to say: (1) I demand source code for my own benefit; (2) hey dude, pay for a RHEL subscription, apparently that money/power trickles to the actual engineers that do useful things for my own benefit! The rest of the world simply does not know about these two types of benefit if engineers don't speak. For (2), it's understandable that people think RHEL subscription is just 100% money wasted if they don't go opening any support tickets. Where instead maybe 90% of the money does go to execs but 10% benefits back the FOSS users around the world, figuratively speaking.
On platforms it launches without issue but if you haven't crashed it once I'm impressed.

It crashes on every computer or game system once every 5-6 hours of gameplay for me.
> One may need to add more free parameters to a theory, but those parameters need not be finely tuned.

You're right I've been too loose with how I've been using the term "fine-tuning". Adding a parameter is not fine-tuning so much as just tuning.

The point I was trying to make is that both adding parameters to a theory to fit observations that it didn't predict, and fine-tuning it's parameters to fit should count against its plausibility, since they're both forms of tweaking the theory to match observations after the fact rather than making accurate predictions that follow naturally from the model being proposed.
Ask HN: How large a portion of your team's cloud bill is caused by databases?
I'm consulting with a team where the database costs comprise ~90% of the entire cloud bill. This seems like a ridiculous ratio, but I haven't had access to such billing information before. Is it common for database costs to balloon like this? I wouldn't consider the team's treatment of the database to be good, but this cost is insane. Have you experienced anything similar, and how do you even go about optimizing a database that's been driven into the ground?
It could also be in between: Their actions are interpreted as way more of a rude behaviour than they intend them to be, and they don't know how to come across in a better manner.

From my experience, it's usually not a problem to be pretty forward with people on the spectrum, if you are meaning well. My wife told me there is absolutely no problem with telling me to stop going on about a topic bluntly, and it is something I quite often do with my friends too. Same for pointing out that a certain way of phrasing something didn't come across well, in fact I really appreciate receiving these pieces of advice. What hurts is the "NT" way of communicating these things, hoping that I'd catch up on them. I don't.
Plenty of people minded in the US, including the first lady. And in modern times it's considered a shameful black mark on FDR's presidency.
I would argue that as long as our health insurance is tied to our current job we are basically slaves of that job. I can't choose to quit if I need insurance to cover chronic problems, or to cover kids, etc. Not to mention all the aspects of not everyone can afford to take the time off to search for other employers, or move to wherever a new employer might be even if they wanted to. Quitting is only for the privileged.
I read the title, went to the link, then started to read the "understanding" document and still don't know what this actually is and its application.

It must assume that all of the jargon words are already well known by its readers but it should definitely start with what problem a "schema framework" solves, which might then allow me to understand how this fixes it.

My concern with many high-level constructs is that they quickly become a bureaucratic exercise divorced from how people actually do their work so only corporates will use it even if it is super useful.
Researchers agree: The world can reach a 100% renewable energy system by 2050
> Like a screen big enough to comfortably read PDFs. IMHO that makes the Kindle only really useful for fiction.

There is plenty of non-fiction that doesn't come in PDF form. It is quite readable on a Kindle.
it does the same with phone numbers from other countries but if you hide it any phonenumber woud be fine.

perhaps important: it only changes the first instance on the page for me.

while this might work there is no reason linking phone numbers could not be made to work in embedded browsers.

after all, it is pretty dubious that customers wont be able to call you despite testing the contact page on a real phone
Now if Gitlab.com only supported leveraging Podman in their runners.
Nix and Docker share the same purpose in this context: declaring the dependencies needed for this environment. This can include shell scripts, system-level dependencies etc. If anything I would say Nix would be better here (logical middleground in filesystem separation between having access only to whats in the container vs having to juggle system-level dependency versions for the entire system), while also having better version pinning.
You are equating work with the production of value (in some way shape or form). However, machines can till the earth.
> The fact that electricity costs is the dominating cost of cloud computing

In the article, they say that electricity has gone from .29 to .45 euros, a 55% increase. If electricity was the dominating cost, seems like they would have raised the price way more than 10%.
Often big companies pay for proprietary stuff because you get support.

Lots of smaller studios use Blender, it's pretty well stress tested by now.
You don't want to drink that
The primary reason is: Winter is coming...

But there is more:

- They wanted to be super green so lets go with sun and wind

- But, hey sun and wind are not reliable (not talking about some problems that the grid is not very good prepared to handle the peaks), especially not in winter

- Let's use gas to cover that, Russia is so friendly country, and its all about business, what kind of maniac would stop natural gas, when we pay billions for it

- Hmm, well there is 'a country' that is using natural gas to do politics, but hey, they got Crimea now, what would they want more, when we are still paying that billions to them. Let's build another gas pipe, and pretend nothing can go wrong, while ignoring that negativistic east-european countries preparing for worst case scenario

- And, what about shutting down that completely functional nuclear power plants ? We want to be green, lets do that.

- Oops, our lovely natural gas supplier attacked another country

- Oops, our natural gas power plants are somehow costly to run now, lets burn some coal

- Oops, coal is also getting a bit expensive

- Oops, our not very friendly natural gas supplier, occasionally stops natural gas now

- Ooops, our natural gas reservoirs will be not full before winter

- Oooops, winter is coming...
I'd recommend to follow the links in the article and read Ukrainian reporting through google translate[0] and the dailymail reporting too.[1]

"genetically engineered super soldiers and black magic battalions"

What?

I have no problem with RFERL if it cites its sources and I can judge their credibility. I'd recommend you do the same instead of picking the news source you like and blindly believing any bs it feeds you.

"they are reporting that hundreds of people are being recruited from Russian prisons"

There is no support for these numbers in the article and in the materials it links to. But it's possible that it is happening, the source (gulagu.net) is somewhat famous for exposing torture and rape in Russian prisons and deserves not to be rejected out of hand. It may be unwittingly retranslating disinformation anonymously reported to it, or it may be true.

"Vice is also reporting that Russian conscripts are being forced into contract soldiers"

That is an article from the first weeks of the war describing those isolated episodes.

"a country in a meat grinder"

It is meat grinder there, there is war there in case you haven't heard. Since there is no mobilization in Russia, Putin is conducting the special operation with contract soldiers and shady private military.

[0] https://focus-ua.translate.goog/uk/amp/ukraine/521825-osuzhd...

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10559879/Zelensky-r...
Most big manufacturers currently sell Google approved Android with Google apps. Selling even one not approved Android device voids the license for Google apps on the manufacturers entire existing lineup as far as I understand. It is either all or nothing.

Imagine yourself convincing Samsung to dump entire warehouses filled with Google (TM) Android phones and any chance of future success in that market in the trash over a handful of ebook readers. That is what Amazon had to deal with.
Hydro may be stable, but prices are soaring in Norway as well, despite being mostly hydro. The entire energy market in Europe is having a tough time.
Fully Charged: Faradion’s Sodium ion batteries
Actual title: “This CHEAP New Technology Could Solve Battery Shortages!”

Although the click bait title belies what I thought was an extremely good video. About Faradion and how Sodium ion batteries work, just before they’re starting to scale up production.

No doubt not admissible by HN moderators, but YouTube channels tweak their titles to gain traction.
It's not just limited to free services. Netflix is pulling the same stunt by imposing "added household" fees on top of existing concurrent streaming limits.
The developer of xterm actually maintains a battery of tests which exercise corner cases in the DEC VT protocol and ensure that xterm conforms in the manner that a real terminal would: https://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html

Xterm really is a terminal emulator. Most other "modern" TEs are more like shitty xterm emulators.
> you download a block of data containing what you're looking for and some other data

That IPFS does NOT put data I did not explicitly requested on my storage is exactly why I feel comfortable using it compared to some other distributed storage systems where I might end up with horrific data on my system.
That is known to happen, yes: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/fixing-genesis-proj...