skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but unfortunately for that one person there are usually 10 others who don't actually know more than the author, but are convinced they do.
> which means that's de facto what it says.

ITYM that it's de jure what it says. de facto is the opposite.
Crostini is a good thing but it is not the way most people will use a Chromebook which is still pretty much centered around Chrome.

Like WSL is not something most people will use on Windows.

My concern here is a bit about non-free software, but mostly not: I'd not be very happy with a purely free software version of ChromeOS (which maybe ChromiumOS is by the way).
We recently got to hear that some Canadian pensions had invested in Celsius, but not very much.
Not surprised to see this pop up. I interviewed for a position with Amazon a few months back to lead up a new research program to determine how they can better recruit and retain hourly workers. I had no intention of taking the job, but was curious so I took the interview. What stood out was just the sheer scale at which they're operating - they're literally up against the constraints of domestic labor supply. I have plenty of strong opinions about how they treat their workers and have no desire to work for such a company, but I was surprised to find that I did sympathize with them to an extent - it's not just about offering better pay and bathroom breaks, they're also on the verge of exhausting the viable labor market. I wish whoever took the job the best of luck - I hope that they're taking the research effort seriously and it's not just performance art.
There's also FTX Arena, which is where the Miami Heat of the NBA play.
The Design of SQLite4
Some call it "debate team bullshit", others would call it "applying basic logic".

Why let a pesky little thing like intellectual honesty stand in the way of jumping on a good hate bandwagon?
> "the low-drag laminar flow model relies on a width-to-length ratio that'd be impractical in a bigger bird" so it won't work for airline use.

We can always reimagine airports as well.
Panels that normally get 20% conversion efficiency are typically 12% in the desert summer. So, a huge loss.

You want your solar panels mixed into farm and pasture land, instead. Which there is quite a lot of.
It's only bringing politics into work if you disagree with them.
>but it comes off as hideously insensitive to other cultures.

more ignorant than insensitive. it's not that they aren't showing concern because they don't like and feel it is inferior, it is just unknown in totatlity to them. is being unaware of something's existence being insensitive to it, or have others become hypersensitive?
if anyone could find this graph/talk, i would very much appreciate it!
But thanks to Reaganomics, prison turned to profits

Cause free labor's the cornerstone of US economics

Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison

You think I am bullshittin? Then read the 13th Amendment

Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits

That's why they givin' drug offenders time in double digits

- Killer Mike, Reagan
Meta programming is still “trivial” (for the lack of a better word) in a lisp without using macros.
Crypto is speed running it because it is trying to get to the terminal state of finance, but regulated through software and cryptography instead of centralized governments that have a monopoly on violence. Time will tell if this is possible. Too many people seem certain it is, or isn’t. I think DeFi is insanely cool, if it manages to work.
Coinbase also had their name/logo all over the NBA Finals - both in TV ads as well as branding and logos physically on the courts. Millions of dollars in ad spend while they are laying off swaths of their staff..
Yes, and the only reason we should have import duties is because of labor conditions and pay for foreign workers. If we don't we're not competing on PPP or efficiency, we're competing based on the willingness to abuse.
yes,, death it is part of the evolution

whats ur point?
Interestingly enough, that's a GDP of $5500 per capita for each inmate (estimated 2 million prisoners)
I appreciate the feeling, but the problem is that Bitcoin just isn't very useful for the original vision, "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash". [1] It's fine for a little light crime, where people are willing to put up with slow transactions, high costs, inconvenience, and significant risks to e.g., buy some mail-order LSD. But when you compare it with things like debit cards, Venmo, and M-Pesa, it's just not competitive.

I think Bitcoin was a really interesting idea in the pre-iPhone era, but for a variety of reasons it just didn't pan out. Which is why the space was so readily colonized by scammers, grifters, criminals, fraudsters, speculators, and loons.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
No major politician is ever going to run on the platform of "I will intentionally make us poorer".

Is the issue here that the premise is false (that a 1950s standard of living will be necessary), or that the tools for getting there from here are insufficient to the task (liberal democratic polity).

In the more general case, if you've got a problem, a necessary destination, and standard set of tools used to solve problems, if the tools don't suit the destination is the problem the tools or the destination?

I ask as it seems that often the problem seems to be the tools, but discussion hinges on the destination. This strikes me as odd.

I'll note that the article isn't even premised on how we get to a 1950s standard of living, but if that's a viable goal or target. Departing immediately from that question to the viability of getting to it, before considering the target's sufficiency or suitability, seems ... premature.
I think you're dramatically overstating just how integral "beating up and killing Nazis" is to American culture. I'd go a step further and say that the principles of liberty and the First Amendment are more ingrained than the notion that it is permissible and encouraged to commit violence against Nazis. Especially if the alleged Nazis are fellow Americans.

>"Is Inglorious Basterds anti-conservative? Is Captain America? "

Obviously not, and the fact that this is even being asked illustrates the concern because the association between Nazism and Conservatism has already taken root in some way. If you had just left those last two sentences out of your post, the first assertion would have stood on its own.
Without loginwall:

https://nitter.net/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/1536902115540742144
If you're forced to work against your will, yeah, that's slave labor. Blame, culpability, guilt, etc is besides the point. Prison labor in practice is the enslavement of criminals.

edit: people deemed criminals by the state (includes false positives)
Yes consumer focused regulation to ensure net neutrality, ISPs not spying on you to sell data, and good value for money would be the solution IMO. You pay for broadband, the watchdog ensures that the monopolies are doing a good job.
> This civil war between Ukraine and Russia

Which civil War? Do you still live in the Soviet Union?
A lot, both directly and indirectly. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far, including developing countries. Having slave labor makes it worse, arguably much worse, because there's now private interests who are incentivized to maintain that incarceration rate.
The South Sea companies are a much better, and more documented example.
It already happened https://2miners.com/eth-network-difficulty the adjustment happens continuously with new blocks every ~14s, so the response is pretty quick.
I'm surprised silicon valley hasn't cashed in on this yet. Just think, there could be a thriving startup ecosystem behind bars and VC's wouldn't have to pay nearly the costs for SWE's!
Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
Herbalife, Amway, Avon, etc. all became pretty big, it just doesn't seem like that to most people in tech bc it's a different target market.
Solar energy used to produce aluminum has zero marginal cost. So, unless you assume use of fossil fuels to produce the power used to refine the aluminum, this is nonsense.
This looks great. But I can’t shake the feeling that without editing this would just be the story of them destroying the camera and then sitting around for a bit.
Was it a thing anywhere except recently? Going through some different native Windows apps, I see a host of different file choosers (many of which were once "the one" for their version of Windows), and they all belong to the same process as their respective applications. Definitely not to a privileged service. (Unless Windows is doing something exceptionally fancy here?).

A lot of this stuff was "decided" back when we had serious memory constraints, and less technology to manage them. Switching processes was costly. Running the file chooser in the same application was an excellent compromise. A solution. (I remember an article about this problem in the context of early MacOS, along with drag & drop and the like. Will share if I find it).

In addition, having the file chooser in-process makes sense if you're trying to appease app developers, who think they want the ability to change everything. In particular, they'd really like to add a custom preview widget and some other gizmos to the file chooser. Photoshop puts all sorts of buttons in its Export dialog, for instance. And because Photoshop does it, a bunch of other applications think they should, too. And they still want to, even if they're using Gtk.

Saying "this is dumb, we need this dialog to be a simpler interface for [reasons] and if your app has a weird file dialog you'll have to deal with it" is a very decisive action, and it is not without friction. So I think the reason this took so long is partly an accident of history (the bad solution stuck because it was too late by the time we could afford the good solution), and partly just luck: things reached an inflection point where app developers actually get something (sandboxing and clever app containers) in exchange for the inconvenience.
Though the filtering features are pretty much useless for almost every product. Too many products to maintain any decent classification. That makes it pretty much useless for looking for computer hardware (that and counterfeit products).
Washington Nationals Park is plastered in Terra/Luna collateral. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-05-19/terra-...
Homomorphic encryption without financialization will be the final form of cryptocurrency, and only for things like escrow and transfers between banks (probably replacing commercial paper). It'll take a decade and people will probably never see anything but their native currency in their banks. Part of the slow adoption will probably be due to it making Olde-Timey forms of corruption no longer possible. (But I'm sure new kinds will arise.) It was never meant to be an investment, just like you said.
The article suggests they are on the verge of exhausting the labor supply because they can't get anyone to stay for more than a couple years though, because so many people have already been there and left -- and that this has in the past been intentional on the employer's part, to only keep workers for a couple years.

If true, that puts a different light on things -- how the combination of having such a large labor force and a strategy to intentionally have high turnover combine to exhaust the labor supply, sure.
I'd wager it came from positive associations with the notion of "scientific progress". Google NGrams:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=scientific+pro...

It correlates pretty cleanly with "social progress" as well

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=scientific+pro...
Anti-hero, more like. Or, in the instant case, over-funded buffoon.
Direct video link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JCwIwCK8jpI&t=3m3s

And context, if you're like me:

"Erik Brynjolfsson [...] is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR,the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [...] He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.

[...] He was among the first researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles. Brynjolfsson has done research on digital commerce, the Long Tail, bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Brynjolfsson
Yes. Funny thing is, in the real world, the trading and analysis has some purpose (steering share prices towards their "true" value, thus solving the capital allocation problem; aggregating time preferences & determining rates, thus solving the investment decision problem; allowing people with certain exposures to hedge themselves; etc.)

But in crypto land, it's a pure cargo cult - a facade of finance and analysis, with nothing behind it.
...and what r u projecting here? ...a concerned mother?
Did anyone ever "mint" any Beanie Baby NFTs?

That would have been funny.
Not that I'm sympathetic to the decision to fire here based on what I know (which is really just this article and what I've read in this thread), but the two issues seem to be somewhat orthogonal, in that I could imagine a consistent moral framework falling either way with different opinions on them. Someone might believe in the importance of minimising consequences for speech on a public forum such as Twitter (whose end purpose is supposedly such speech, and which is one of the main venues in which public political discourse in fact happens), while simultaneously not believing that employees of a company have the right to speak up against the interests of that company (whose purpose is making widgets and money) and be protected from the company terminating the working relationship in return. Conversely, someone might think of unfettered political debate as harmful, and believe in the importance of suppressing certain opinions they find dangerous and harmful from the public sphere, while also believing that letting employees criticise and organise against their employer is important to guarantee the welfare of employees and keep the power of employers in check. In fact, the two combinations seem respectively pretty close to the proclaimed ethos of the US and the Soviet Union respectively a century ago.

Criticism of Musk's action here may come both from those who in fact are in the "free speech absolutist" camp and want both the Twitter deplorables and the corporate gadflies to be protected from retaliation, and from those who are just in the latter position and want the opposite pattern, but I think only the first group can bring a charge of hypocrisy (still incorrect, as it ignores the orthogonality) without it making themselves guilty of higher-order hypocrisy.
Is there any data on how much these prisons are making from such labor?

Also, this term "for profit" is thrown around a lot, suggesting there are perverse incentives. That seems true, but I imagine government-run prisons are prone to corruption as well.

If we want such private prisons to improve is it possible to pass legislation for what the minimum standards should be and regulations for ensuring they are met?
There is no actual proof that long covid exists as something distinct from normal virus recovery. There is no test for it, and people manage to contract it without having covid at all, shockingly. All we have are anecdotal reports that conflict wildly about the symptoms aside from loss of taste. There's not even any reason to think it would exist from a biological perspective, any more than 'long cold' exists.

Anecdotally, on top of this, the only people I've heard of who claim to have long covid are of the neurotic type that is typically hypochondriac.

RT infections take a while to go away. You can have lung issues, mucus, loss of taste for months sometimes. I had an illness six years ago and it took two years to stop having overly thick mucus. This has nothing to do with covid and is nothing new. The other symptoms are likely psychosomatic or just something else.
This comment is silly. It's not an observation, it's an assertion. If it was an observation it would contain evidence. He/she is here to have a discussion, presumably.
Well at least they aren't disproportionately ethnic minorities. /s
Right. No one is saying that putting people in a box is kidnapping/abduction because it is baldly ridiculous . However, it is the same exact logic as calling prison labor slavery.

If someone can tell me how prison labor is slavery, but putting them in a box is not kidnapping/abducting, I would be most edified.
Anything on IOS?
The housing market is somewhat different than the crypto market in that people need a place to live.
Are you unaware that Twitter is a private entity?
bulish !!!
So let me make sure we are clear on your position on this — you think 150k per prisoner sounds like a reasonable number? To me that number seems to be about a magnitude of order wrong. I bet you could do some back of the napkin math, multiply that number by 5, and it would still be way under that number.

To me, when I see 150k, I don’t see a cost — I see a facade.
The answer is probably yes for both questions. These crypto and loan contracts are typically very complex and involve many classes of crypto and physical assets involving many 3rd parties. Therefore it's going to take awhile to untangle things to the point where each party knows their precise risk exposure and ability to take loans out against this exposure/loss.
That's nothing. I just read about an angel who never did anything wrong and volunteered every Sunday reading for blind children, but was put in prison because he didn't have an alibi for a crime that was later shown to have been committed by someone else. Do you really think that he should have been enslaved in order to pay for the cage that imprisoned him?

edit: and about that guy who you mention. Do you really think that there's anything wrong with carving the names of his victims in his back, rubbing the wounds with salt and having him sexually abused by dogs? Wouldn't feel bad about that, right? Why draw a line anywhere if you're not going to draw a line at slavery?
What services aren't currently integrated with IAM / didn't launch with IAM integration?
Plus, there is no such as thing as "hiring strictly on merits". It's not a thing you can do.
Lithium tech at this exact instant is not the end state of battery development.

So, not a big problem, a speed bump. Check back next year.
The sound is unreasonably irritating. Basic actions like clicking should not play sounds out of my speakers.
There's a non zero amount of people who put their life saving into crypto because it was going to go "to the moon." Everything was coming up Milhouse... until it wasn't.

So those people are probably going to rely upon taxpayers for help. And so when homeless hodlers appear on the streets looking for the government handout, that's gonna piss off liberals and conservatives alike.
I think the problem here is in letting prisons have a say in laws that send people to prison.
The loss of voting rights is another outreageous detail, breaking fundamental human rights.

Just for comparison: In my home country (Germany) you can only use the right to vote for crimes against democracy (incitement to insurrecton, attempted insurrection, high treason, voting fraud, ...). This additional punishment has to be added by the judge, and it for at most 5 years.

This affects, in a country with 80Mio inhabitants, about 1.4 individuals per year.

For comparison, in the USA, the flagship of western democracy, the democratic human right to vote is taken from Millions (!) of citizens. Most of them black, who'd thunk...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#Germany

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/deutsches-strafrecht-wah...
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

The uncomfortable truth is that a portion of the union dues for those employed within the criminal justice system will go towards lobbying for harsher sentencing. Eliminating corporate profiteering will not eliminate lobbying for the status quo.
You could’ve said almost the same exact thing in 2001, after the dot com bubble well and truly burst. Pets.com was a laughing stock. So was that stupid Super Bowl commercial where they shot a hamster out of a cannon.

Turns out those companies weren’t wrong. They were just 20 years too early. And one or two of them even survived and thrived. (Amazon.) Also we got a lot of fiber laid that turned out to be useful.

I think it’s a similar situation here. If we knew a priori which uses cases and companies would work out we’d only fund those. But we don’t. So boom, bust, repeat. Humanity moves forward. Of course, as you said there is collateral damage. And externalities.
Well, viewing that was a waste of time. Where is the example of this wonderful life changing object?
He has stated that he thinks they should only ban if the law requires them to do so. For example he thinks the Trump ban was clearly problematic.
Mt. Gox happened when crypto was a small fraction of what it is today, in terms of capital, transactions, even # of players.
I wonder if any early rock climbers used the sort of wood blocks to install pitons as Fred uses (most visible in Part 1). It seems like the wood blocks make the pitons a bit less destructive.
> There are individuals who get some utility out of bitcoin (international money transfers etc.)

What do you mean with money transfers?
It does, but there are still many different purposes. In JS:

( can mean: function call, part of an expression to be evaluated first, regex capture group

{ can mean: scope [of ... loop, if, lambda, function etc.], object definition, string interpolation code i.e. ${..}, class definition

There are probably other things I am not thinking of.

The one that trips me in JS is code like x.map(v => {...v, v2}) breaks because the compiler sees the { as the beginning of a scope, not the object definition I intended.

The working solution is x.map(v => ({...v, v2}))

But x.map(v => v+1) is allowed.

I don't think the compiler could figure out what you meant because an object definition might be a lambda function body. For example { myvar } can be both an object definition, and a function that returns myvar.
The KKK were entirely democrats: https://www.somdnews.com/independent/opinion/letters_to_the_....

And they were not "conservative" in any sense except trying to "conserve" slavery. The elite intellectual "progressive" democrats of the time were also the most racist. They were the ones, for instance, that pushed eugenics for blacks (Planned Parenthood), and racial superiority based on scientific data:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-liberals-who-lov...

On the other hand, more Republicans voted for the civil rights act as a percentage than Democrats: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1041302509432817073

You're not doing so hot with your example.