skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
caltech is seeing a similar sort of thing. admin has progressively killed social life and house events (with covid as an excuse) and has implemented draconian key card systems and the like. bref little to no freedom. the fear of risk has increasingly killed the undergraduate experience. Seems a bit counterintuitive to promote since the greatest scientists, entrepreneurs have been risk takers.
Car batteries (E.g., in Nissan Leaf) are, in fact, an option to power homes. A controller/converter box is under $900.
For more information on this and the post-civil-war era in general, I highly recommend reading Black Reconstruction in America by W. E. B. Du Bois.
And that's why insurance should be illegal! If someone gets sick, then let them pay for it. They should have gotten exercise and lived right. If someone's house burns down, they should have fixed the wiring and known better than to have old appliances. Get in a car accident, you should since more carefully.

For that matter we should get rid of public police and fire departments. If someone wants that service they can pay for it themselves.

/s
See this comment for more expansion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785350
Does anyone happen to have a full break down of what goes into producing that number ($106,000 / year) per inmate? "Security" is too big and vague.

I don't doubt the number but it's kind of mind boggling to me. I would have trouble spending 100k a year if living alone, even with a house that has a 2.5k mortgage plus property taxes, utilities, car, yada yada yada that leaves you with a lot of money to burn on pure entertainment. Long story short if you're single and spent an actual 100k / year you could live a life of luxury within reason.

Is "security" really that much for 1 inmate who is in a facility where there's maybe a 10-20 ratio of inmates to guards?
I know a few certified "architects", and let's just say they are people whose career was built on talking, not building.

It's a cottage industry.
Nah, that's "most efficient" checkbox.
No - crypto does nothing for cross-border flows. It could only make it worse. Purchasing shares in foreign countries say France often (not always) requires one to go through an approved French broker (middleman). Why?

- so there's somebody in France that can *make money* being the middle man

- so the French broker can be held to some standards reporting and what not. For example, the French broker at risk of criminal prosecution cannot sell shares to NK or Iran.

- so the rules around transfer of shares for payment and settlement are set so people can't be screwing each over or not completing settlement in a timely fashion

- because of scale: there are zillions of trades done every day. that's why netting-out is a real thing. settlement has to be fast, tight, nailed down. And regulation helps with that through known pre-approved brokers with set roles and responsibilities

Also consider that unlike crypto you gotta settle. Settlement is serious. And settle in a bonafide currency that everybody agrees is a currency: EUR, for example. And you have fixed time to do it in.

You can't be waving your hands with some stupid story about how your broker/holder of crypto,

- stopped you from withdrawing your stuff

- is down

- is in chapter 7 or 11

- that you forgot your crypto keys

- and the entity getting the cash for selling shares isn't gonna wait around for some miner to "approve" your transfer maybe in 10 mins ... or maybe tomorrow
It's about being periodic in a lowest-energy configuration.

A spatial crystal freezes into a spatially-periodic configuration at its lowest energy: you don't need to add energy to keep a crystalline solid's microscopic components arranged in lattice-like form.

A time crystal freezes into a periodic configuration at its lowest energy: you don't need to add energy to keep a time crystal arranged in its temporally periodic arrangement. If at t_0 we have one spatial configuration, at t_1 another spatial configuration, ... at t_n-1 we have yet another spatial configuration, and at t_n we have the same spatial configuration as at t_0, and we have no net flow of energy into the spatial configuration at any t_x, we have a time crystal. The spatial configurations at any t_x need not be crystalline, they just have to differ at different points in their cycle.

An analogue clock is not a time crystal because even though the configuration of the hands at 12:00->12:01->...->11:59->12:00 is temporally periodic, you have to wind a clock (or power it in some other way) or it gets stuck at some arbitrary configuration -- it stops cycling unless "disturbed" with added energy. The clock's lowest-energy configuration has its hands always pointing to one hh:mm time, and no different time is shown over the course of a day.

A time crystal, being in its lowest-energy state, cycles through all its configurations endlessly until energy is added.
but not without ice. without that camouflage, harder to catch enough food to survive.
Economy as a twitch game gives me heartburn...
If you can own the bank in the freest/richest society, you can inflate away enough wealth to bribe it into enabling government schools, criminal legal tender "laws", becoming the world reserve fiat global enslavement system, and then inflate away 99.9999% of all the wealth of humanity in perpetuity... that is if you're willing to play as anti-human.
> just as easily imprison the global south

What do you mean by this? How does the US have the jurisdiction to imprison anyone outside of the US?
So your theory is that poor people in poor countries just keep having babies when they have less and less to feed them. And that’s it. What a genius you are.
We live in a very strange world where everybody has brain tattooed the idea that economy must grow a 5% each year, at any cost, but nobody claims that science should grow a 5% each year also.

Show me a single politic saying that science must grow, so we allocated more resources for it.
The Fed hikes rates by 75 points and predicts 3 years of rising unemployment
Alex Blake : No. Nothing's bothering me.

Dr. Spencer Reid : Something's bothering you. I can always tell when you're bothered because you whisper lyrics to yourself. Hip-hop specifically. I thought it was odd at first, but then I remembered your dissertation was on the fluidity of metaphor. You seem to have a particular fondness for Nas.

Alex Blake : Wow. How did you know?

Dr. Spencer Reid : Morgan made me listen to him when we started working together. He said anybody that can't quote Illmatic is ignorant. So, do you want to talk about it?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2757560/characters/nm1131557
As a disillusioned phd I appreciate your response here. For years I’ve beaten myself up for not doing noteworthy science. For some reason your words have washed away a lot of guilt.
It's not the fact there will be zero. It's the fact the media will find one and amplify it.
Good question. I do not believe so. However, that is notnthe majority of the prison population.
Also, back to you: what interventions were missed that allowed someone to be so damaged that they became a mass murderer?
Microsoft bundling a browser is not the same as the Holocaust. Not the same magnitude, not the same offense, not the same violation of any moral code, at any magnitude.

No one died because Microsoft included IE with Windows. no one was enslaved because Microsoft included IE with their OS.

that you think these are all events of the same magnitude has completely invalidated your opinion, and placed you firmly in crackpot territory.
*** GAME END ***
Your economy produced: 439918 apples.

Deflation is easily combated by raising interest above the next expected deflation level so that saving money becomes more lucrative than spending it. Inflation is combated by lowering interest as soon as it rises above the interest level. I never went below 0.50% interest, never above 5.50%. This is easy, maybe I should apply for the job of central banker.
At peak ~7 months ago crypto's market cap was ~$2.8 trillion. Now down nearly $2 trillion.

Tether's $70B market cap is currently over 50% of ETH's and nearly 20% of BTC's. The whole thing looks like an incredible shitshow.

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
There are numerous options for super-cheap energy storage. They just aren't built out yet, because the money is better spent, still, on adding generating capacity. What is being built is factories to produce them.

Excess renewable generation is not a problem; if there is too much sloshing on the grid, you turn them off.
Opening front pages of Bloomberg, FT and WSJ will give you pretty good picture of what’s going on for free
I skimmed through the article too fast and accidentally landed on some rotating animation. Took me a couple of seconds to figure out it was a check mark. Not that obvious without a prior narrative huh, but at least falls in line with modern designs.
"Your solution doesn't work" != "I have a solution that works". I don't have to have a solution that works to be able to point out that your solution doesn't work.

Also, "I don't know of a solution that works" != fatalism.

If the problem is important enough to solve, it's important enough to not waste time trying a solution that won't work.
Not if this is more about fair labor rights than fair business competition within the US. Domestically we can enforce minimum wage, foreignly we cannot. Import duties won't necessarily impact the wages of foreign laborers...
> I find their discomfort endlessly amusing

No doubt it is amusing, but it doesn't compare to the detractors having a meltdown after his every move.
I had tried over the years and even went back to the school, when I visited the city a number of years after. It was a large school and turn over was common. Not to date myself, but this was decades ago - they would be near or in their 90's and a very common name.

Maybe it worked out better this way, it keeps me honest - like the lack of closure keeps me from storing it away and forgetting the lesson in it.
Very nice. This reminds me of the game Chair the Fed, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:

https://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/chair-fede...

Unfortunately, they took it down about a year ago.
Link to that?

Sounds as if that's somewhat related to J.K. Galbraith's variant of Gresham's Law, in which "bad assets drive out good", during a crash, as the need to cover obligations as bad assets tank leads to sale of quality assets / securities.

From The Great Crash: 1929. One of my favourite books.
I was an early adopter of bitcoin (2012) and I'm pretty over it at this point.

It hasn't managed to do much more than be fancy digital gold. I don't find gold very interesting. It isn't a productive asset. It's just a shiny rock that people lock up in a vault. It doesn't benefit society.

And as financial instruments, both bitcoin and gold are deflationary, which seems quite bad.

I still have a bit of hope for some actually useful stuff to come out of the defi / smart-contract space. But I'm still fairly skeptical. There is a lot of noise and little signal.
> A lot of this stuff was "decided" back

But the time where the overhead mattered in any way is over since well over a decade.

Even when e.g. GTK3/QT5 was released the overhead of a out-of-process file chooser was more then irrelevant.

> makes sense if you're trying to appease app developers,

I have yet to see a single application which uses that for any reassemble thing which couldn't also work with a native file chooser (e.g. custom preview images) or can be handled well outside of the file chooser (but then I'm on Linux since quite a while, but this is about Linux in the end).

I have been hearing complains about non-native file chooser pretty much since I started using Linux 12? years ago. In difference to very few Linux programs customizing anything but filters in a file chooser.

So I don't buy that it's inconvenient for developers to any relevant degree (wrt. Linux) the very few application which insist on it still can roll their own file picker by using on of the "guaranteed to pop up" custom file picker libraries.

One the other hand having file picking as a system service would have lead to more consistent appearance, more convenience (consistent system interactions) and more accessibility (e.g. alternative system file picker specialized for blind people).

So you will have a hard time convincing me that it wasn't dump to not switch to native file picker around a decade ago when GTK3/QT5 came out, sure there where reasons, but there had been much more reasons in favor of it then against. It's just not a decision anyone ever did actively I guess, because not making a decision is easier then people across distros/GUI frameworks agreeing to making a decision.
Why do you think there is only one shoe ("the Enron") to drop?

Despite very little knowledge about crypto or conventional finance, what I've read about USDT suggests it has to collapse sooner or later.

I get this sense that people assume if there is some questionable stuff reported, and nothing happens, it must have been FUD. Like fast decaying radioactive waste, it has a half-life.

But when an organization has always made excuses for why they can't be audited, and tried to confuse people about whether they have been, it never becomes ok.
Yeah, humans shouldn't lock other humans in cages. It is a tragic failure mode.
Ask HN: Just graduated – ideas for what to do
Hello HN community! I just graduated in CS with my bachelors. I don't have a job lined up, which is fine - I'm taking a little break before starting my job search later this summer. I'm looking for new hobbies to look into to spark new interests or expand upon existing ones. Or if you have advice on what you would do in this time in your life (I'm 22 years old), I'm open to hearing that as well.
While there were panics and issues before the era of active central banks, most fo the time, things were calm. The idea that the world would burst into flames if central banks weren't there to micro tinker is not historically supported.

It is far from a fringe viewpoint in the finance world that central banks have contributed more to volatility than to stability over the last 20 years.
Mainly because the USA didn’t do a genocide like Russia is doing right now, nor did they claim those countries are illegitimate like Russia is doing, nor did they try to integrate conquered land into their state like Russia is doing, nor did they threaten nuclear strikes like Russia is doing.
Uvalde Hires Law Firm, Argues It Doesn't Have to Release Shooting Public Records
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_value_transfer_system

"The sender gives money to an...agent and his/her counterpart in the receiver region/country acts as deliverer of this money. The sender calls or faxes instructions to his counterpart and the money gets delivered in a matter of few hours. In the past, the message could be delivered using couriers, with men or even animals (such as pigeons). Settlements are made either with a private delivery service or wire transfer in the opposite direction. Another method of balancing the books is to under-invoice goods shipped abroad, so that the receiver can resell the products at a higher market price"
Maybe the nuevo crypto gang, but OG Bitcoiners have seen enough bubbles they view them as inevitable and don’t particularly care about the reason for them.
However, the level of these health-promoting gut bacteria decreased again over the following four weeks. “It may be that four weeks of treatment is not long enough and that it takes longer for the new composition of the intestinal flora to stabilize,” explains Anna-Chiara Schaub, one of the lead authors of the study.

Or maybe it's a moving target and people eat every day and their eating habits are part of why their gut is a mess to begin with.
EC2, Lambda, S3, EKS, and their prepackaged DBs and queues. That's about it.
I think it's because you need a stable "meta" of functions to be able to build a graphical user interface and with general software, there's just so many unique problems you're sometimes solving for the first time or solving in a novel way, it would be hard to build something that stays useful.
I never mentioned any political parties, but ideology. The social order was slavery and racism, and people that wanted to conserve it were conservatives.
I found it impossible to lower unemployment from 10%?

e: I see

> One of the 10 orchards is always in its preparation phase which means it doesn't employ anyone so the natural unemployment rate is one out of ten or 10%
And then the Java etc programs are re-written to do the same and the test value is increased (to compensate for the reduced memory allocation) and we're back where we started?

Seems like moving the furniture around.

No doubt I've misunderstood.
I believe that even before emancipation was finally achieved, slave holders were already looking for the next slavery analogue: share cropping, jobs which were paid in tips, and prison labor.
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Desert solar arrays will come to be seen as a dumb idea. But not before we build even more of them. They have to be dusted, and because of the heat, efficiency suffers and they don't last very long.

The place for solar, at maturity, will be sharing farm and pasture land.
> So it's not that they are running out of people to hire, it's that they are running out of people who have not yet figured out that working for Amazon is a bad deal.

My wife is a Physiotherapist; when we lived closer to a fulfillment center it was deeply concerning just how many of her patients were seeing her for WCB (Worker's Compensation Board) claims resulting from injuries at the Amazon warehouse.
The alternative is for one to revert that fucked up attitude toward convicts and consider them as people who need help to go back to being normal productive members of society rather than slaves.

Yes some of the convicts are a monsters so they would keep being in prisons but the rest will not have to turn into hardened career criminals with fucked up mind and looking for a revenge.
The Radicalism of Tradition – Teaching the Liberal Arts in a Managerial Age
> One of the 10 orchards is always in its preparation phase which means it doesn't employ anyone so the natural unemployment rate is one out of ten or 10%
I managed to get close to launching it, but someone with more time might be able to find a good timestamp that's playable (or host it on archive.org on its own)...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180710122012/http://sffed-educ...
I don't bother.

Not worth the effort. I assume everything I do is (potentially) seen by someone, and the typical approaches are only going to make me look more suspicious.
Efficient Gitlab SaaS free tier – Gitlab
“SpaceX must swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand,” sounds a bit like cancel Elon.
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I was down this rabbit hole the other day. For more reading:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
UI designers design to impress other designers.
Obviously the private jet industry optimizes more for comfort and other things before efficiency today.

The commercial aviation industry does optimize for efficiency but only with larger planes since human costs (and airport costs) are mostly fixed per plane.

I’m simply saying that perhaps the future could have smaller, more efficient planes and more automation that removes fixed costs. (The design in the article is such a plane, in theory.) You seem to be conflating big/small with commercial/private and taking a firm anti-private position.
SPACs are sputtering; desperate new terms could send them into a death spiral
May be this one where Bezos speaks about Animoto at Startup School 2008: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uIc-VB-ke9o

Here's the full talk (which was titled, AWS: We make electricity, so you don't have to): https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6nKfFHuouzA
> This file picker does not have a thumbnail view. It is broken software. Thumbnails are not a cute little extra, they are essential. This is as bad as a file picker that doesn’t list the name of the files, only their creation date, or inode serial number. It is broken software. No, individual file previews aren’t "thumbnails."

As is unfortunately typical of articles like this, it overstates its case to the point of making it difficult to engage with. No, it isn't as bad as a file picker that doesn't list the names of the files. No, for most things one uses a file picker for, it isn't essential.

For that matter, I was actually completely unaware that my file picker (I use KDE) supports showing a thumbnail view. I did not know this because I have not ever needed to use such a feature. I use the file picker in "details" mode exclusively. On the rare occasional where I need to disambiguate two files because I don't know the name of what I'm looking for, the image preview has been more than sufficient.

I'll certainly grant that this is a feature that it makes a lot of sense for a file picker to have, and for a handful of use cases (trying to find a single image in a large directory of badly named image files) it might even be essential. But this tendency to overstate one's case is at the very least irritating, and IMO it leads to unwarranted attacks on developers that makes people shut down and resist spending their time on solving your problem.
Theory is closer to practice in theory than in practice.

PT100 is 0,4 Ohm/K. Or 0.0000000004Ohm/nK. This means, at 100Ohm, you are measuring 4 parts per (american) trillion for that nK.

Good Luck and please, report how many of those digits were pure noise!
Desert solar will be abandoned in the near future.

Orbiting solar, for terrestrial power, will not happen at all.

There is never any value in "erasing whole forests" for solar. Solar coexists synergetically with existing pasture and farmland, and warehouse roofs and parking lots, and reservoirs and canals.
I am claiming that putting someone in a box is abduction.
Whether or not the safety of society requires e.g. a violent criminal to be sequestered from that society is immaterial. Taking someone from the world and sticking them in a box is abduction.
How is this this worse? A few people will go under immediately because they took undue risk but prices will settle to where they need to and the world will move on.

As opposed to embedding that failure into the core of the system to protect a few interests so that the same issues are surfacing 20 years later.

That doesn't seem all that bad.
Paywall / Annoyances: https://scribe.rip/swlh/apple-just-wrecked-15-startups-in-le...
Economists call this border adjustment. The idea is that when goods are imported from a country with lower taxes (or lower wages or lax environmental protections), they are taxed at whatever rate is necessary to bring their price in line with domestic equivalents. Likewise when goods are exported, whatever tax has been paid is refunded to bring their price down. Every nation in the EU plus China, Canada, and Mexico all do this. The US is actually quite unusual for not doing this.
Thank you for sharing about the importance of fiber. What seemed to work for my wife: a regimen of three times daily for two weeks of herbs for dysbiosis (dill, tarragon, thyme, olive leaf and wormwood) then repopulation with fermented foods (mostly sauerkraut) and large intake of various fibre from beans, seeds, greens, and fruits.
Part of their argument is about lower labor value due to increased supply. Making that foreign supply less attractive by making it cost the same could increase labor demand domestically.
You can still somewhat control evaluation with quote and/or list.
With a mortgage, the side-lined young people who couldn't afford a house at 3.5% interest rate still can't afford the same house after a 10% price drop at 5.5% interest rate.
Strangely the language "below" assembly, Verilog, is a lot more abstract and tries to pretend to look like C while generating hardware, so writing it is more like imagining how to trick it into doing what you want.