skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the Radio Shack you knew and loved. It's the bottom feeders who bought the name to trade on the goodwill in the brand. Just like "Bell & Howell" has been transformed from a world-class maker of high-end optical products to a shill org peddling low end crap.
If you want to improve your writing, even technical writing, I'd recommend reading more books. Classics, sci-fi, whatever floats your boat. Blog posts and news are meant for consuming a point or two in a few paragraphs. Reading a book means really letting a writers style sink into your mind. It'll eventually bleed into your own writing.
Coincidentally, I came across a video today which describe in laymen terms what time crystals are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDIpgso4no

tl;dw: Crystals are materials which atoms or molecules are aranged in a repeating manner. Time crystals are a material which isn't just repeating in the three dimensions of space but also in the "time dimension". Basically, the quantum spin of the material switches regularly, even though no energy is being applied.
Pumped hydro doesn't require a stream, since it isn't harvesting energy from a preexisting flow of water.
BBB wasn’t enacted, though? Are you thinking of the infrastructure package?
Thanks for the context. I totally thought SQLite4 is a new thing.
> The CCSO fought tooth and nail against pot legalization in CA.

Police Benevolent Associations in my state spend millions of dollars every year lobbying the government to repeal marijuana legalization that voters enacted via popular public referendum.

It's been several years since legalization, and PBAs are still throwing millions of dollars at making marijuana illegal again, because according to PBAs, marijuana legalization is preventing police from "doing their jobs". The irony, of course, is that it's the job of police to enforce the laws as they are written, and yet law enforcement is spending millions of dollars each year to complain about the fact that they themselves have to actually follow the law. Police are really angry that they can no longer use the made up excuse of "I smell marijuana" as pretext for probable cause to illegally search and detain the people they interact with.

What makes it even more perverse is the fact that the current legislation prevents police from arresting and charging kids with drug crimes for petty possession or use of marijuana. A single drug-related arrest, charge or conviction will make students ineligible for federal student loans and education assistance, and can ruin a kid's chances of being able to go to college. Cops have been screaming from the rooftops about how unfair it is that they can't "do their jobs" and ruin kids' lives, and their ability to better their lives, for smoking a joint anymore. It's really gross.

At one point, a local PBA leader and chief of police tried to start a moral panic by claiming that unscrupulous drug dealers were hiding behind bleechers at little league games trying to sell elementary school students marijuana, all because police found a pot grinder that someone lost that had a Rick & Morty sticker on it. The police claimed that drug dealers were trying to get elementary school kids hooked on marijuana by selling it in containers with adult cartoon characters on it. Thankfully, even the most staunch supporters of the police called them out on their nonsense. A lot of Rick & Morty fans came out of the woodwork to remind them that it's not a show for kids, too, which was kind of funny.

Cops and their organizations are desperate to spook voters and their representatives into making marijuana illegal again.
They were a major investor in USDT also. They had something like 500 million in it that is now worth about 500 bucks. That's what started this whole thing with 3AC and Celcius.
John Mills about 150 years ago put it very well:

As a rule. Panics do not destroy Capital ; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

His full comments can be found at https://archive.org/stream/oncreditcyclesor00manc/oncreditcy....

I cannot think of anything as hopelessly unproductive as what has been spent on cryptocurrency. To name just one example, as https://www.nrdc.org/stories/crypto-has-climate-problem points out, the electricity used for mining bitcoin is on par with that used by Sweden. And all of this energy goes to produce...what?
I agree with that, and apologize for taking such an antagonistic view towards your original comment. There are certain lines or prases that make my mind jump directly to cliche. It's easy to go all "to arms" after you've wasted too much time on the internet.
> he kinda built it with his blood sweat and tears.

Irrelevant to being hired or kept on as the president of the company by the owners, of which Musk is only 17% (AFAICT). If more owners of the company do not want him as an employee (president, whatever), then they can fire him.

Whether that would be a good idea or not is something else. (Apple 'fired' Jobs in the 1980s.)
Except, desert is a dumb place to put solar.
I think I wasn't clear. It seems like there are two things that you are suggesting are bad:

1. Slaves

2. People losing jobs because goods can be produced more cheaply than they should be paid for producing them.

I'm saying that #2 isn't bad on its own. Air is free. It is available for less than it would cost people to produce it. That's not a problem.

The cost of what you're proposing is that some jobs won't be done at all. Maybe that is acceptable to you.
Hmmh? Some confusion of terms perhaps. You can expose a RTD or even NTC (to bring the point home) to the temperature in question, then measure the resistance in a bridge with nearly arbitrarily high resolution. Tadah! Temperature measurement with nK resolution. Of course it doesn't say anything about precision, much less about accuracy nor as you pointed out "The Temperature".
Thanks, good to have a known solution. Mine at the moment is to have a dedicated gaming Windows PC for casual gaming, even though I also have the game for Mac.
Forced sex, or torture, or other horrible things are inhumane and unacceptable. Being required to sit in a cell without leaving after you have been convicted of a crime is something that society has decided is acceptable. It seems like being required to help out with serving lunch or mopping the floors is more like the latter than the former.
What other comparable company is growing 50% annually?
I’m not in favor of compelled labor, or private prisons. In general I think the ideal would be for the taking of one’s freedom by the state to be rare. I’m merely pointing out that private prisons are a tiny fraction of the whole pie, and almost certainly not “The Problem”.
I didnt like how some trees were barren so I tried first lowering interest rates to zero and that didnt work so then I raised to 10 causing all business to close. It took them like a decade to even start recovering.
I mean that every line in the file picker has a small image beside it.
It's just that since it's a list view, they are a bit smaller than I'd like (set to line height). I guess increasing line height or font size would help. Nonetheless it's good enough for roughly figuring out what image is what.

I tested both in Pluma and Firefox - this seems normal for MATE file pickers, but I don't know if it was normal in Gnome2 as well and I never noticed.
Not an answer to OP, but I just wanted to say thank you for this thread (and everyone for answering).

I've been insanely burnt out by random bullshit at work, wondering why I'm even in this business to begin with, and after watching a few of these it really motivated me, brought back the old memories of wanting to build cool stuff and ideas to solve real problems (a lot of the ideas that I still hold onto), and made me realize that I'm unhappy with work because all I was doing was just people bullshit and bureaucracy bullshit every day, and not actually out there, building stuff; that I just became "yet another white collar worker" and not a hacker and an engineer.

And that has allowed to see what went wrong, and plan for how to get out of this "ditch of boring, stressful politics and human pit".

Seriously, thank you. Without this thread, I would've likely continued to slog on at work without remembering my buried ambitions.
I feel that vendors have really muddied the playing field by claiming ML features and then not delivering value. That’s why we tend not to talk about ML. But, I think saying that ML is unhelpful for the problem is a bit like saying programming is unhelpful for the problem - the solution space is vast, and has hardly been explored.
How about DARPA? NASA?
Secundinus can sec un di nuts
This is a pretty decent critique of the Matrix protocol ecosystem, and comports with my experiences. Many of the complaints are addressed in various MSCs but the sheer volume of those is absurd and I can't tell which are being prioritized since it seems almost like there are only two or three people active on their various GitHub projects. Arathorn chimes in here on HN to try to explain and/or provide PR spin, and turt2live seems to be the only one on GitHub assigning issues to themselves.

I really want to like Matrix and I have been running decently sized non-federated servers for close to 6 years now, but it still feels like a mess. I wish I knew how to help them fix the biggest issues, but I'm not the guy. All I can do is complain (though I try to do so constructively).

For me the biggest issues as of today are the onboarding experience, convincing users that it's better than Discord, and trying to navigate the mess of "bridging" and "appservices" both for myself and for the less technically inclined users.
Two former Soviet States. By all measures this is a civil war...
Being a Nazi isn't criminal, and I don't have a dog in this fight. I was just pointing out why the comic was controversial.

I don't think it should be illegal to print, but can see how Kickstarter employees could see it as advocating violence in the context of it's name and origin.

I think employees would be similarly outraged if someone was crowd funding a comic called "how to mow down leftists" after the Charlottesville car attack.

Again, not illegal, but you could see it as advocating vigilantism and not want it on their platform.

In general, I oppose vigilantism and violence, and think both sentiments are detestable.
> Now I understand why I've been seeing so many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon.

Is there a law like betteridge's law of headlines for commercials?

I.e. Anything a commercial tries to assert is probably untrue.
Nix has some serious ergonomics issues that need to be addressed. This is dead simple by comparison. Wheels are just zip archives with some specific semantics. Like, I wanted to get into Nix but it's super daunting and there's no real way to gradually migrate a project into it - it's very all-or-nothing.
>"If you hear words like "Nazi", "White Nationalist" "hateful", and "vile" only to immediately think "they are talking about me" that is a problem on your end."

And there's the issue, front and center. If someone like me is worried that labels are getting thrown around in a wanton and haphazard manner, and such labels are used as justification for violence, why is it seen as a character flaw for me to worry that such labels might be foisted upon myself in the future?

>"only to immediately think "they are talking about me" that is a problem on your end."

Honestly, part of why I'm so concerned is that I can't read this as anything other than an insinuation.
It's an optional little rollover animation. So what if it doesn't play on a touch screen?
> Even paying prosecutors money is an incentive to prosecute people.

>>> Unless you are paying per prosecution, it's not.

You are correct.

To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

A prosecutor is paid a salary. They want to keep (or improve) that salary. Until recently, it was presumed that prosecutors would prosecute, to justify their job and perhaps aspire to higher office. It seems that relationship is far more tenuous than expected because the tone is set at the top (Boudin in SF, Bragg in NYC). But the relationship still exists, as you pointed out.

The threat of layoffs is far less significant than the threat of
When people talk about "writing" on here, they typically referring to the kind of prose that benefits from stuff like this: technical, aiming to be informative, and adhere to industry standards or conventions. Not to mention the fact that this is industry with a lot of ESL writers.

They aren't, typically, talking about the kind of stuff that you work on in a creative writing elective you take one semester. The very same class, in fact, that gave you this presumptuousness.
So true, but I don't think it's impossible to maintain classification, that's just Amazon. I think they just gave up trying to, probably after they opened up up other sellers.

I suspect their search, classification, filters etc are all so broken because it's all based on a Google-style textual search, with no backend database driving those site features.
The killer is "historical progress" - around Montaigne's time they still debated if the (golden age) ancients or the moderns had it.

Afterwards they lost all doubt. What people will do for a little aspirin ...

(Marx went to town on it, paradise on earth was at hand. Scientifically, of course.)
This got me hoping for an sqlite where adding foreign keys didn’t require making a whole new table.
Should I use an editor for all emails I send, or just the important ones?
I dunno man, I barely understand the financial world, but it's my understanding that the federal government bailed out a bunch of wall street speculators in 2008, despite nobody thinking it could happen. I'm not sure how close the two situations are, but the prospect is enough to make me nervous at the very least.
I mean, that's definitely a huge factor, but there IS a limit to how much Amazon can pay their hundreds of thousands of workers and still remain competitive - and I have NO idea where that threshold is, which is why I'm fascinated to see how this shakes out. Either Amazon workers start getting treated better which is great, or the company collapses and turns into an unprecedented case study of what not to do. Either way, I'm grabbing some popcorn!
Only complaint about the abstract is "...without occupying scarce available land".

Land for solar in the county is not scarce. Look up "agrivoltaics". There are good reasons to float solar on reservoirs, that just isn't one.
> The innocent public is already paying for it.

So because they are footing part of the bill they might as well just foot the whole thing? non sequitur much?

If anything we should be charging prisoners the full cost of their incarceration but in that case even if we paid them minimum wage it wouldn't cover their debt, not by a long shot. At least then people wouldn't falsely equate modern prison systems with slavery, but the imprisoned would be much worse off.
Better custody technology https://odysee.com/@Chia:d/off-the-chain-Bram-Cohen-2022:5
It should be illegal for fiduciaries to invest client funds in crypto schemes without client consent, not illegal for individuals to speculate.
Frankly, this sounds like a feature rather than a bug. Speculation of this type is high risk/reward. If this guts the lenders, that’s a good thing - they’re not treating this with the appropriate amount of respect for speculating and protecting their balance sheets.

TL;DR - like Usher said, “let it buuuuurrn”
People have been using the Tulip bulb analogy for 12 years. What's stopping most people at this point is they understand the analogy doesn't fit.
Their local competitors in my country are so much better, and amazon shipping is so slow, I don't know anybody that actually uses amazon except for AWS.
>But I must beg the question, if society normalizes and encourages violence against Nazis, doesn't that mean that calling someone a Nazi is a potentially serious act? And, what if they aren't really a Nazi?

Context is important and it seems like you are trying to blur that context for the sake of an argument. "Mitt Romeny is a Nazi" is not a serious opinion. "Punch a Nazi" is only a slightly more serious notion, but there is firmly a tongue in cheek aspect to it. There is a reason why the only "punching of a Nazi" to reach any type of penetration into pop culture was from the year before this Kickstarter was launched. This comic is not a serious threat anymore than your average issue of The Punisher.
I'm using Nim to build an experimental kernel, so lots of low-level systems programming [0]. Right now it can boot under UEFI, switch to graphics mode, query some hardware information, create and schedule kernel threads, and a very simple shell (no userspace yet).

In this regard I'd compare it to Zig (which I also tried for kernel programming) and Rust (which I find too complex). The thing that stood out for me about Nim is its elegance. I know it's subjective, but I like how the code "looks and feels."

[0] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom
I don't see it usually mentioned when people cite the South Sea Company, but their principal actual business was the slave trade.

There is something about a useless or immoral business that often excites greed beyond what anything beneficial to society can.
I strongly doubt that, most people would look at it and say it was a concatenative language (it’s not, but that is a semantics issue) and immediate disregard. The language, while being a modal dependently typed language, there is no mandatory ‘safety’ features and memory is largely manually managed. And after the blowback, complaints, and negativity posts about Hare on HN, I just don’t care to argue the fact that my language exists.
> Imprisoning people should be expensive so that it is used judiciously as a punishment.

It shouldn't be used as a punishment at all. It makes sense only in cases where a convicted criminal represents a serious threat to other members of society which can only be mitigated through isolation—in which case the isolation should continue until there is no longer a threat. In all other situations we should be able to come up with more immediate and effective forms of punishment; ideally ones with an element of restitution for the victims.

(Also: If there are no victims seeking restitution then there shouldn't be a conviction in the first place, much less punishment.)
I guess this will push up the prices of labor-intensive things, and might reduce the prices of commodities that are capital- but not labor- intensive to extract. So robotically-mined open-pit coal will be cheap, and so will Midwestern wheat, and probably even vacation properties in scarce mountain or beach locations (making allowances for global warming). But if you want a barista to make your latte, that'll set you back $40, and if you want somebody to put a new roof on your house, God help you.
Wait it out or become an active investor in value creation. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Better chances at a casino.
Micro reactors are an obvious dead end.

"Super small" energy storage is called synthetic fuel, something that has already been demonstrated practical for military deployment.
For the purposes of my answers, I am taking your cost-of-living values as they are. I am not convinced they are correct, but willing to assume that they are.

> Should the minimum wage there be $48/hour after taxes?

Yes.

> A living wage there is about $44/hour for a family of four. Should that be the minimum wage in Portland?

Yes.

What's your alternative? "Oh sorry, your job is requires so little skill that even though you could just spend 40 hours a week doing it, you will need to find at least another 20 hours a week doing something else to be able to afford a basic life"

I find that morally unsupportable.
It's likely worth quite a bit. I was intrigued recently by the seemingly hot collectors market for corporate swag from famous failures like theranos, enron, etc. on ebay.
$11 billion is tiny. it's like how much google makes in a month. I think pundits, activists overestimate both the cost of incarceration (it's not that expensive relative to other things like healthcare or education) and how big the prison labor industry is. That's not to say it isn't wrong, but it's hard to get people worked up about $11 billion.
Except for the part where all of those people are Linux users who complain about Windows as a hobby, and have no effect on the relative market shares of Linux/Windows because they would never switch back to Windows under any circumstances.
It's dirt. You'll be fine.
Um we came out of the 2000s with incredible tech progress. Smartphones, social media, etc… the 2010s have given us what? Fake internet money that will soon be worthless, incremental improvements? Nothing new happened.
> That’s not how VCs make money. They make money based on “exits” either via acquisition or IPO.

It doesn't matter. The only question for YC is whether they make money or not. They make money on some of their investments, and lose it on others. It's fairly clear that on average, that is, summed across all winners and losers, they make money overall.
Exactly, the crypto bubble is tied to US monetary policy, even though they don’t want you to think that.

Every time I make a comment about this I get downvoted by the crypto gang.
At least you picked up some life wisdom along the way.
Thanks, but I couldn't watch more than 30 seconds of that video. The cuts every 3 seconds or when the speaker took a slight pause is maddening.
For Ukraine any ordinary international transfer works.
"Hackers and Painters" is an anagram for both:

"Rihanna's Track's Deep"

AND

"Rihanna's reptd. "cakes"

That in turn can be adjusted to ==>

"Rihanna's reptd. "cake cake" ==>

"Rihanna's repeatd. cake "C+K/3+11/14/N/14/a,d"

"Da Rihanna's repeatd. cake" ==>

"Da Rihanna rep(Es)atd. cake" ==>

"Da Rihanna repeated cake" ==>

"A Rihanna repeated cake "d/4/four/for u"

"A Rihanna repeated "cake" for U/.edU/.edU/.edU/.edU" etc. ... pretty much like the song's chorus.

"Cake" in turn turns into "E+C"-A-K" or "Hak" ...

"Cake" is repeated 15 times in the song in a

4/
4/
4/
3 grid format

The last "3" could be viewed as a "c" which added to the "Hak" would make it "Hack" ... the remaining three "4s" multiplied together = 64.

"Cake" in the song lyrics thus becomes "Hack 64"

Furthermore ... a,c = 1,3/"13"/"m" ...

... and "H" = "8" ... "K 64 M8" aka early IBM Big Blue chess experiments?
Too many features: code bloat from noob engineers
Too few features: too many new apps from noob engineers

Can't win.

I know you didn't say #1, but both of these contradictory points are floated quite often.