skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...the question is whether the historical context from which it grew is still in place today.

Today we have at least three "layers" of social security in most European countries:

The first layer is that government makes sure everyone has employment and makes it difficult for employers to get rid of employees, even those ones that cost the company more than they're worth. Family law extends the coverage to everyone else, e.g. for non-bread-winning spouses (even ex-spouses), it's the bread-winner that's on the hook (so, transitively, the bread-winner's employer) and for children the parents (again: ultimately the parents' employers).

The second layer is mandatory social insurance.

The third layer is usually some kind of outright government handout that kicks in for people who, for some reason, fall through both the first AND the second layer of social security. (e.g. [1] in Austria)

My guess would be that each layer was brought in at a time when the layers below were not yet in place, though, maybe, someone can provide the necessary facts to the contrary here.

I just wish they'd do away with all that crap, and instead just implement universal basic income, paid for by the tax payer.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedarfsorientierte_Mindestsich...
It also ignores another big factor if psychology, humans are a lot more afraid of losing what they have than gaining anything.

So even in this stupid simulation, it just doesn’t work, as people get wealthier they actually risk less.

This whole article is Marxist academic bullshit, eaten up by Marxist upper class tech 20 year olds in this thread.
We just have to up the pejoration rate so much that the euphemism cycle is so short that they stop attempting to police it
Show HN: Decentralized Database
DB3 is a community-driven layer2 decentralized database network.

Infinite Storage Space

Scalability is the key to the web3 explosion, db3 will use the following strategies to achieve web3 scale

PC can meet the minimum system requirements so everyone can join the db3 network to provide storage space.
Using dynamic sharding to achieve scale out. when a storage shard chain has not enough space to store mutation, it will split itself into two subchains.
Using cold data archive to recycle storage space. history cold blocks and cold state data will be archived to FileCoin and the storage node will always has storage space to store new data.
Blazed Fast and Provable On-chain Query

Currently, decentralization means bad performance but db3 is trying to make a big improvement in performance

Merkdb is the storage engine of db3 network and it not only has high performance but also the fast-proof generation

Geo distribution, the nodes in every storage shard are geo-distributed and the clients can execute querys against the nearest storage node

Query session, the first decentralized query protocol to resolve performance and incentive perfectly

Crypto Native Data Ownership

In the decentralized network, only the private key owners can update their data and they can keep privacy by encrypting their data with the public key

On-chain Programmable

Dapp developers can develop data processing contracts and deploy them to the db3 network just like developing data backend in web2

Ethereum Guarded Security

DB3 network is a layer2 network on Ethereum and all the assets are guarded by Ethereum
I can't read the article completely, but it's from the summer. What about 2016-2020 plus the covid lockdowns? All that takes time to recover from.
I got a tour when the ship was in Detroit briefly, very cool! Smells strongly of tar. The building techniques were very evident up close. The crew were mostly younger folk who were very stoked to talk about the Atlantic crossing.
Sea anchors are deployed from the bow of the boat and meant to hold it more or less facing into the waves.

Drouges are deployed from the stern and meant to slow the boat down as it travels with the waves.
> TikTok has been seeking to assure U.S. government departments and agencies for the last three years that the personal data of U.S citizens cannot be accessed and its content cannot be manipulated by China's Communist Party or any other entity under the influence of that country's government.

Huh? They already admitted the staff in China have access to all the data. And all companies in China are beholden to the CCP so they have access.
They do. And they have for a very long time! At least with Avis I've been doing this for years. The app tells me where my car is located and I just walk to it and the key is in it.
Who needs most of this crap?

I have a knife. It is a simple piece of metal that peels carrots, apples, and many other things with great reliability. It also performs other functions that a "carrot peeler" could not. It has done so for 20 years and can be expected to remain functional for several more decades.

"Coffee grinder"? how many iterations of the idea of the blender does one kitchen need? (I count a half dozen in my kitchen without trying. 4 more if you add in the lab gear)
The Elements of Scientific Style
And when using C libraries / FFI, there are a lot of tricky things going in, it is much easier to leak in unsafe land.
Safety manuals and instructions are written in blood, regulations come later.

If you don't like your boss you can pack your things and go elsewhere. Your boss doesn't have that luxury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Martin_(hacker)
https://youtu.be/dF2YQ92WKpM
Hector Martin of Asahi Linux. Some talks on reversing M1, I thought it was one of the best I've heard this year.
Metal, vs plastic gears. Bigger vs tiny electric motor. Metal vs plastic moving parts in contact with the fruit. Plug-in vs battery powered. These are the things that I would place money on as the reasons the 70 year old one is still functioning, and none sold today will work in 5 years. (I’ve never looked at one of these items. I’m just guessing. But I’d still place money on it.)
I just think of the scene in Archer where the interrogations begin with each character saying "I want full immunity.", leads into a montage of them ratting out everything everyone else has ever done, and ends with the interrogator saying "I didn't say anything about immunity, you're the one who brought it up."
Hacker News, Reddit, National Weather Service
Today I saw my first wild peacock during lunch break, and since it was a young male there's probably a whole family of them.
A nice addition to the frequent roe deer, pheasants, white and grey herons, crows, magpies, pigeons, nutrias, and occasional rabbits, hares, foxes and seagulls. I predict boars prowling in the parking lot within two years.
TLDR:

The sBTC whitepaper proposes Stacks[1] and sBTC[2] as a layer-two mechanism for unlocking defi on top of the Bitcoin blockchain (DEXs, NFTs, and other dapps, etc.).

I've started deconstructing and analyzing it in relation to what it means for both Bitcoin and Stacks.

[1] https://stacks.co/

[2] https://assets.stacks.co/sbtc.pdf
I agree. It took me 3 years or so to actually land in a project and learn SQL for the first time. Before it was all with ORMs. I didn't know what a join was for the first couple of years of my career.

Understanding SQL and being able to work with data interactively has made me a better software engineer. This tech is important enough that it should be taught in university/coding camps.
This is the point where everyone should probably go watch "American factory" to see why this should make you uncomfortable.
Oddly, it does catch it for the static example posted by someone else, but that is the only place where it catches it.
The other problem with the double join is that it's not an atomic operation so between the two select data could have changed.
Most system APIs are only exposed in the JVM environment without native equivalents. You do need a JVM language to do anything meaningful. Either that, or you'll have to use JNI.
>Yeah, people who share similar values can communicate and work together better, but this isn't discrimination.

This isn't really my experience. Similar people will have a better initial perception of each other as it takes less time to synchronize with each other however in most jobs that's of little importance. What matters is how they work together in the long term and most people don't need clones to work well with. If anything else having too many similar people is a problem for a team since you get overlapping blind spots which tends to cause serious issues over time.
Seems about right. According to https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures

> In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets.
Would you clean hotels for $16/hour right now?
If I had more time and money than I knew what to do with, and there are a lot of people in this class these days, I would be quite interested in obtaining a jetpack.
But as the body attempts to roll going into the turn, the gyroscope will respond longitudinally I believe.
Fair enough.

I still don't like to punish individuals (or organizations) for genuine differences in opinion from my own. I don't like cancel culture, even if I agree with what's being cancelled. If a company is engaging in something evil, like workplace safety violations, pollution, or corruption, I'll be the first to join the boycott.

However, if it's a question of religious views, polarizing issues like abortion / gun rights / etc., or whatnot, I'd like people to have freedom of expression, and to be able to talk about their views. That's part of a healthy society, and that include politicians and CEOs.

The exception there is if there's a clear financial conflict-of-interest (like an insurance company weighing in on abortion rights, a gun company on 2nd amendment, or a lot of issues on taxation). There, I'm cynical and don't think views expressed are honest, so much as self-serving.

Outside of cases like that, though, I think people should be free to express their honest views without consequences (beyond an unpleasant discussion).

Even on harmful issues -- like racism, sexism, or whatnot -- I still much prefer views out-of-the-closet than ones which are closeted. I live in a far-left town which is both hyper-racist, hyper-xenophobic, and hyper-woke. The latter makes it impossible to address the former. You can't hold an honest conversation about race, and so racist views persist, unarticulated.

I used to live in a moderate-right town, where while more racism was expressed (since people spoke openly), there was much less racism in practice. I'm an immigrant, and did much better there.

I think it's healthy to engage RPi about this issue, constructively (as in with a conversation). I don't think it's healthy to stop buying from them.
Not if you could get the same economy out another much cheaper way. Which you can.
A movie "Unrueh" (Unrest) has just been released in the theaters about Kropotkin's Swiss period. Haven't seen it yet but it is on my list
Except for safety issues, all those issues exist with drones, and you're still allowed to fly drones. More likely is that certain areas would be blocked / limited.
The problem with this plan is that modern economies need a lot of capital.

There are three places that capital can come from:

* the state, but we have voted year in and year out for tax cuts and spending rises, so the state is bankrupt. Not only is it not a source of capital, it is a major customer for it

* normal individuals saving and those small amounts being aggregated by banks etc. But rampant (and government supported) consumerism means most people are also consumers of capital not sources of it. Incidentally an example of the opposite of this is Germany where ordinary people save a lot more and don't have OTT mortgages and credit card debt. Mysteriously they have very few billionares...

* Billionaires. Which given the US (and UK where I live need their capital AND cannot get it elsewhere are able to charge a premium for it and cannot really be taxed etc without pain spreading all over the rest of the economy.

But if you try and tell people to spend less, save more, pay their taxes and accept less services in order to have a better, fairer, more equal, ultimately richer life they bulk...
I guess I don't see the disadvantage with Marriott or United with my company booking agency. I do prefer to book directly in general but I'm not traveling a lot now and also prefer to generally adhere to travel policy when there's not a good reason not to.
How to fold and cut a Christmas star with just a single cut
A friend owns a bagless early 1960s Electrolux canister vacuum cleaner. It is still going strong. Really nice design, cast aluminum parts and sucking like a champ. Dyson? Don't make me laugh....
Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network
> we can call them fanboys for the sake of argument

You don’t call someone a pejorative term “for the sake of argument”, you do it for the exact opposite. Insults are the antithesis of productive discussion.

> because a group of people (…) insists that their way of doing things is "the" way.

Which, again, is not what the author did. They didn’t claim Apple’s naming scheme was “the way”, they said they personally liked it. Period.
A nation spending on its own energy infrastructure is an investment.
Any alternatives?

We are "lucky" to have a Target, Walmart, Meijer, Nieman Marcus, Khols and Macy's nearby. (Sears and Hudsons have gone). But, from my experience, on many product lines, they sell the same "crap".
The difficulty is that the abundance of cheap crap often makes finding the good stuff like finding a needle in a haystack. Yes, price is the first indicator, but there are plenty of chancers who are quite happy to sell the cheap crap at the premium price point.
Yeah operating old reactor is a instance policy not an investment
Call up Deepa and Deepak, they need help.
There's a popular programming language for writing Minecraft plugins in called "Skript", it also looks like "natural language" and I find it jarring to use.
I logged in fine, though. And there's enough bandwidth for streaming from a free site with no problems.
I was at a place that used sharding, so the data was scattered across 128 database servers.

SELECT works there but JOIN doesn’t, as your right side may reside at another shard.
> "Japan has adopted a new policy" [...] "The proposed legislation..."

Which is it now? Is it adopted, or just proposed? Ok, a few paragraphs later it becomes clearer:

> The policy was approved on Wednesday by the watchdog Nuclear Regulation Authority, paving the way for the policy to be adopted.

Also, I'm not a nuclear fan, but the hero image above the article looks a bit too ominous even for my taste...
Everything has trade-offs, there is no simply "better" option on the table, every option sucks. Fossil fuels have co2 emissions, price fluctuations and energy security as issues (as seen with Russia today who weaponised their supply), renewables have consistency problems which is problematic until we solve our energy storage issues, nuclear has massive issues around waste and runtime danger and hydro is limited by geography.
I've had some success with polars.

But: I'm not well versed in Python Pandas either, and my rust is better than my python (though Ruby is my daily language, so I'm very used to dynamic languages). The thing I miss most is the rapid REPL workflow in Python, where I work out the pipelines, filters, map-reduce and so forth, on the interactive REPL and then extract that into python scripts.

The polars scripts that I worked with, were small enough and the builds are incremental, therefore fast: milliseconds. But the build-step inbetween is somewhat clumsy when exploring data.

But the end-results are just so extremely cleaner, saner and especially faster that it certainly is worth it. I worked on a dataset where crunching it in python took upwards of 14 hours, and the polars under an hour. That feedback loop alone is worth days of fighting the borrow-checker.
And that immediate feedback by the compiler/checker "this column isn't guaranteed a String, it could be missing, could be unparsable; deal with this now" is priceless. Too often did I have some ETL run for 8 hours, and then choke on some column that I swore should've been UTF8. Fix it, and re-run. Wasting 8 hours. A type-checker in ETL/data flows is priceless.

Edit: to be clear: I am developer. Not datascience. But I do need to understand my users, my business, my market. Developer/devops today do need to crunch large datasets: at least I do.

[1] https://www.pola.rs/
It is concerning indeed, and what’s more concerning is an economy where tech pushes out most jobs. Where will it lead to? What are non tech people supposed to work?
I tried grinding coffee in the blender just after my divorce. Did not work so great...
> Because most electric motors deliver enormous torque more aggressively and instantaneously than most combustion engines, they send a more significant shock to the tire than nearly any ICE car with a similar design brief can

The part I don’t get is that, couldn’t the manufacturer change the motor controller to hold back torque when accelerating? It would seem that life cycle costs could be reduced with a design change in software or firmware.
I mean I use a peeler because my kids like to help cook and I don’t want to give a four year old a sharp kitchen knife.

I don’t drink coffee but a nicely built hand powered coffee grinder is great at home or even on a camping trip for people who are really into coffee.

But you’re probably right, I bet my $400 Vitamix could grind coffee. Actually, I just googled it, and Vitamix helpfully sells a coffee grinder attachment! Haha, the gadgets never end.
Lets be clear here, by credit card I meant an actual credit card, not a debit card backed by a bank account, that is effectively cash.

You can do everything you listed without an actual CC, including rent a vehicle (I know, because I do it).

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/mortgages/how-to-buy-house-n...

And that's kind of the silliness of credit score, you can game it by never actually using credit.
> despite a total collapse of my childhood evangelical Christian beliefs

I should perhaps clarify that while I had the total collapse and found myself staring nihilism in the face, I currently am drifting towards a very heretical, Bible-is-flawed-and-maybe-not-divine-at-all form of faith in Jesus (in part due to the above-mentioned experience).
I think Kropotkin would agree with you rather than GP -- you are making arguments that would in fact be dear to Kropotkin. Check out his books for yourself if interested.

His work on this subject was in large part a response to the influence of "darwinism" at the time, where it became commonplace to think that "evolution" meant that we were evolved to compete with each other viciously, that selfish competition was our evolutionary inheritance, that this was somehow proven by darwin that we were "naturally" inclined to brutal competition between individuals. (I think a lot of this thought is still commonplace, including in "evolutionary psychology.")

Kropotkin argued that this is a misreading of natural history and the effects of evolution, that in fact cooperation is just as much/more a factor in natural selection, in survivability, that all creatures were in fact "evolved" to cooperate -- including humans, and for sure there are many many places where intensive cooperation is visible in human history.

(He specifically wrote about "indigenous" societies being based on cooperation -- which I think is an over-simplification, "indigenous" societies historical and present are very diverse rather than uniform on this axis -- see _Dawn of Everything_ for a contemporary anarchist scholarly take on this diversity -- but that was Kropotkin's scholarly anarchist take at the time). (If humans have in modern times often chosen on a mass scale to mistreat and kill each other even though they are "naturally" cooperative, it is not because of some evolutionary predestination).

Is what I get as a summary of one of Kropotkin's theses. I think he would fully agree that cooperation is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, would fully agree that humans are "built for cooperation". Cooperation as fundamental and foundational to evolution, and to animal as well as human life (humans understood as animals in the post-darwin world) was, like, his whole thing.

Check out the wikipedia section in his entry, for confirmation that my interpretation is common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin#Cooperation_an...

I think GP's comment here is a mischaracterization. I am worried that y'all are going to get the wrong idea about Kropotkin here!

[He was thinking and writing in the Victorian era, and his approach to "science" is characteristic, it wouldn't be accepted as a proper "scientific" approach today. It is still, though, I agree with OP article, interesting and useful philosophy, which provides a challenge to what we can realize are some assumptions not scientifically validated of even contemporary "evolutionary psychological" thinking].
Said who? You?
I have Philips vacuum cleaner, I guess it's 30 years old. Some ducttape on the hose but still going strong. I bought a cordless one 2 years ago (also Philips, 8000 series), really love it, but it's starting to fail. I go back to the shop and the thing just works like normal, come back home... brush and leds fails periodically. So annoying.

I also own a lot of supossed 25.000 hours-of-life Leds, that failed after 1-2 years of incidental use. Also annoyes the sh** out of me.
> very fun jobs like musician and professional athlete pay subsistence wages

Modulo a very small subset of top-tier performers, I think we’re already there!
It's on the employer's tab when he does such a foolish mistake.
Not familiar with the US tax code, but if Musk borrows $1b with a portion of his Tesla stocks as collateral, will he be charged capital gains tax by assuming that these stocks are now worth $1b?
Which itself becomes less convenient in various ways without a smartphone.
You're technically a landlord, yes, but there's an ocean of difference between living with your two best buds who pay you rent and renting an entire house to a complete stranger.
Years numbers like windows?
You mean like
Windows XP
Vista
8
10
11?
> Isn't it pretty well known that every other version of Windows is a badly-done flop?

Kind of, yes, but also kind of no.

> 98/2000 were great, ME wasn't, XP was great, Vista was awful, 7 was great, 8 was really awful, 10 is excellent, 11 is therefore almost certainly one to skip.

Actually, AFAICS under the top-layer gloss of the shell W2K, XP, Vista, and W7 were all pretty much NT4. As long as you set "Use Windows 2000 UI" or whatever the option may have been called in the Control Panel, you were golden...

Except that some UI-tweaking options were beginning to disappear from Vista or W7 onwards. You could still set your Window Border Width to 0 (in stead of the GUI control minimum of 1) in the Registry, for example -- but if you then changed some other UI element setting in the GUI control, the width got reset to 1, so you had to reapply your Registry hack after each change.
I'm speaking definitively from my experience. I'm not sure what you're confused about here. I categorically stated they don't do 10% layoffs every year, I said I did not experience any policy of stack ranking. You're confusing two different things.
There is a geopolitical component to that as well. The geopolitical landscape, including the rise of China and the weakening of the US, as well as the uncertain peace in Ukraine, may lead to an increase in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This is because the situation in Ukraine demonstrates that even if a country is able to win on the battlefield, they may still be forced to make concessions when facing a nuclear-armed adversary.

As a result, it is reasonable for countries like Japan to consider investing in nuclear energy as a potential means of securing their own nuclear weapons in the future, should the need arise. It's much easier to "pivot" into weapons than to start everything from zero.