skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand how crystals break spatial symmetry.

Imagine doing some experiment in a vacuum. It will work the same no matter which direction you orient the experiment or where in space you put it.

Now imagine doing the same experiment inside a crystal. Now it won't work the same no matter which direction you orient the experiment (because some directions will cause something in the experiment to hit one of the atoms of the crystal, and other directions won't) or where in space you put it (because there are crystal atoms in some places but not in others).

That's how the crystal breaks spatial symmetry.
> well-functioning laptops (Apple that is)

And even they had a ~4 year period (2016-2019) of putting out sub-par, handicapped laptops.

Nowadays, framework's making some pretty great laptops. Repairable, linux-friendly, and nicely proportioned. Don't like them sticking a giant logo in the middle of the lid though, ruins the look a little.
> Your own link makes a compelling case that herbicide resistance is ~by far~ the largest application of GMOs.

I make absolutely no claim to the contrary.

> They are demonized by proxy because they are inextricably linked.

That's like demonizing computer manufacturers because computers are inextricably linked to cybercrime. (cue someone bringing up a real-world example of exactly that, I'm sure)

Is it really so hard to fight the herbicide and pesticide usage itself that's doing the harm that attacking the entire concept of GMOs is necessary in some way? If the use of such chemicals was disallowed in the first place, there'd be no incentive to use roundup-ready crops.

The only things that I can think of that fighting against the GMOs in general instead of against herbicides and pesticide usage directly gets you is a target that's easier to scaremonger against from what I've seen.

It bothers me because it's dishonest. The problem isn't the GMO crops. The problem is companies dismissing customer harm in the face of increased profit. Fight the usage of the chemicals. Fight the companies harming their customers for a buck. Heck, fight the specific usage of roundup-ready crops. Leave GMOs as a concept and a field out of it.
Nevada receives more money for prisons than they do gambling revenue.
Air Nostrum has ordered some airships:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airlander-10-air-nost...
Those tulips though. On some level it's understandable that those old Dutch NFTs were selling like that:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Semper_Augustus_Tuli...
The scientific world rewards people in glory and honor much more than money. If you want more money go corporate. If you want to reward people more with money then they’ll pay less attention to the glory but that’s really expensive.
I'm a little uncomfortable with the author's insistence that hue, saturation, and value are objective physical measurements:

> Outlined are the controls for three parameters which define the physical parameters of any colour uniquely. ‘Hue’ for the part of the spectrum the colour falls on; ‘saturation’ for the range from grey to vivid; and ‘value’ for lightness-darkness.

> Hue, saturation, and value represent only the physical characteristics of coloured light.

I don't think this is right. Hue, saturation, and value are statements about human perception, not about the physical characteristics of light. A description of the physical characteristics of some light would look like a histogram plotting the wavelength of the light against the amount of light present at each wavelength. How do you interpret HSV from that?

Well, value is pretty straightforward: the greater the area plotted in your histogram, the higher the value, I guess. More light -> more value. This falls apart if we're considering light of a single wavelength, where increasing the amount of light doesn't cause the color to get more washed out.

Saturation is less straightforward, but the idea is there: a color with low saturation (greyish) should have a histogram that looks more or less flat, and a color with high saturation should have a histogram characterized by a lot of zeroes and spikes. The number of spikes in the histogram is... completely arbitrary.

Then we come to hue and our model completely falls apart. Hue is purely subjective and there's no way to systematically relate it to light wavelengths.

The article comes close to suggesting that hue is objectively significant:

> In the colour circle at the left, the direction from the centre represents hue

> Most English speakers would be comfortable using ‘blue’ to refer to all of the top left quarter of the circle. But we wouldn’t feel nearly as comfortable grouping all of the bottom right quarter under a single term.

This is true, but it's an artifact of an arbitrary definition of hue. You could change how much angular space is assigned to each color without causing any problems in the HSV model.

There's another interesting claim in the piece:

> Gladstone does make a starkly racist declaration that ancient colour systems are ‘less mature’ than contemporary English.

It seems pretty likely that Gladstone would have been happy to claim that he and the ancient Greeks belonged to the same race. Why is this a starkly racist declaration?
I agree, but there's another way to think about this: every prison is for profit.

Private companies are everywhere. There are jails where it's $25 to make a 15-minute phone call (extreme case but widespread problem). Commissary spending being mandatory because people aren't fed enough. Libraries are being replaced with tablets where you pay for e-books (and, until there was controversy around it, even public domain books). In-person visits being scaled-back or in some instances entirely replaced by video calls -- for a price. Just adding money to the account of an incarcerated person costs money.

I don't think this is why we do it. But it does financially ruin the families of these incarcerated people.
Ad hominem. You are not refuting the contents of this video or even the recent Twitter leaks.

A very simple question I'll ask you; Is the all hands video recording and the Q&A chat messages that have been leaked by PV and referenced by even many of the mainstream news sources 'disinformation', 'faked', and 'all false'?

Yes or No?
Virtual cards are great for this. My brother keeps recommending privacy.com, I need to look into it.
> An HR manager told Pagan that there was nothing he could do about the termination but that Pagan should reapply for a job at the company in three months, per Amazon policy. “We would love you back in 90 days,” Pagan says the HR staff member told him.

This is _madness_.
No, because of comparative advantage. How does that work in the context of prisoners doing the same work anyways, though?
Embedding Nautilus doesn't mean enabling all its features.

That said, I don't know if that's a problem, either. Windows does exactly that for its file picker - it's basically embedded Explorer, complete with context menu integration etc. And it works.
> less than 40 hours a week, never working weekends, never doing crunch time, never being forced to work overtime, taking 6 weeks of vacation every year, sometimes more

This sounds like 90% of the people I knew at Google.

> US salaries are extreme because the US work-ethic doesn't support that lifestyle.

This isn’t even remotely true.
wow, you got me. The fact that I can't personally purchase and own one of these humans means they're not slaves. As you know, the definition of slavery definitely includes something about slaves being bought and sold in a public marketplace.
After Crypto
Simplifies and modernizes cross-border flows. Try buying shares in a firm listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange—you’ll spend days to weeks dealing with middlemen. Should be a couple clicks to submit to a public ledger.

I don’t see where lack of regulation is a selling point—it greatly limits invested capital.
MacOS is good because I have to open the terminal to do complex tasks.
Linux is crap because I have to open the terminal to do complex tasks.

I know the devil is in the details, I'm just poking fun at the thing, but you gotta admit it's kind of funny.
What they cite is not an example of misogyny. The pedo guy thing is beyond the pale, but he acknowledged that it was wrong and a mistake. What more do you want? The rest of their examples, who cares. It's tame for Twitter standards. The article's author sounds like a wokescold who has too much time on their hands.
About 25 years ago I recall a conversation with someone recounting his own - ongoing - hitchhiking around the UK, to get to and from university as well as travel. Some unsolicited bluntness too, saying I might have trouble, not being white.

I never did try hitchhiking.
Newly identified population of polar bears survives on glacier slush–not sea ice
And plenty of people today call Joe Biden a communist. Yet if someone has a "Punch a Communist" bumper sticker, I'm not going to call up the Secret Service saying someone is threatening the president because I know that name-calling is inherently unserious.

Meanwhile Richard Spencer's Wikipedia page starts with "Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 1978) is an American neo-Nazi..." It is entirely fair to call that guy a Nazi and it is the reason the modern "punch a Nazi" meme centers on him.
> In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”

I don't think that was the letter, I think that was the firing.
The way I read the passage, merely holding any position perceived by them as "racist, anti-immigrant, anti-POC, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-anything-but-white-Christian-views ideologies" constitutes Nazism - regardless of whatever term you may choose. Therefore, holding such views rightfully subjects you to well-deserved violence.

Given that most conservatives hold positions that are perceived by the nazi punching crowd as one or more of those evil stances above, I feel like the concern is genuine. Emphasis on perceived, because there is a tendency to exaggerate just how "anti" such stances are.
> I read only TSLAQ propaganda

Inspiration 4, Axiom 1, Polaris Dawn, ...
Extraordinary Popular Conclusions is also available for free from Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
Simply mind blogging that you have managed to find a connection between both situations, when in one case an autocratic state has decided homogeneity is the end state; and mass detentions, forced sterilizations, and genocide is the way.
I'm pretty close to this myself. I still want to stay up on current events, without opinion pieces, entertainment, and other junk I don't care about.

Closest I found was turning on Bloomberg for an hour or two in the morning randomly, but wish there was a print/site like that.
So it costs a family of four about $7000 a month to live in San Francisco

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/San-Francisco

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

That’s $60/hour before taxes according to this gross up calculator

https://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/grossup/california/r...

Portland Oregon is #25 on the list of the 50 largest metro areas in the US. A living wage there is about $44/hour for a family of four. Should that be the minimum wage in Portland?

https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/41051
Are they counting the people who have paid off their auto loan? Our car payment is zero at the moment.

Though I am trying to keep a slot in our budget for the eventuality of the next car purchase. Hopefully 10 years out.
I recently read the The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen that covered this (and all the other types) of labor in great, if also sleep-inducing depth.

If you like something a bit longer than this article about "unfree labour", want to know what "corvee labor" is, learn the difference between serfdom and slavery, and be depressed about how much slavery there still is in the world, this is a great book for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Work-New-History-Humankind/dp/0... for the book, https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/07/22/a-long-v... for the in-depth review.
Blizzard came to mind from your description, and to my eyes their current workplace is toxic, and getting rid of their CEO is the first step to let them focus on their mission and improve the bottom line of the company.

At its core we are discussing are situations that are dire enough that a decent fraction of the company feels their leadership is fucking around and hurting the company. Whatever angle we look at it, the company will already be segmented and toxic: it couldn’t stop its leadership from fucking up for whatever length of time, leadership doesn’t give a shit about employees reaction, and managers can’t properly gauge nor progressively address the internal repercussions.

“Focusing on the mission” is already compromised at that point, and you’ll need to chose between the leader that doesn’t give enough shit, or the employees that stepped up too prominently.
Call it corporatism, techno-/neo-feudalism.... Call it a mess.

Make no mistake: these dominating and coercive structures and the natures of their functions are built with intention. In each example you will find expressions of capitalist ideology, namely, control and exploitation at the behest of the profit motive, as fundaments of their construction.

This is not how government ought to be, and I really hesitated before using that word because I don't like to assert it lightly. Government is for governance -- in democracies and even democratic republics, it is by definition a service for the people. The cost of those services, inasmuch as you can quantify a cost borne by a sovereignty that manages its own fiat currency, cannot use the same language nor apparatuses as are applied "at the kitchen table" so to speak. That is ridiculous in the most spiritedly literal interpretation.

Additionally, we know by now that optimizing for wealth re: quarterly profits does not mean optimizing for cultural/societal/civilizational longevity and sustainability. I have not yet seen a significant apologia regarding this basic fact. So clearly the incentives are wrong vs the stated justifications for the existence of governmental bodies. The fact that corporatists infiltrate sovereign governments to install or convert allies who manipulate public opinion and policy to produce such a narrative should be considered a political crisis second to none.
Another vote for the eye. It's amazing the number of stories that first appear there before being picked up by larger outlets years later. The post office scandal is a prime example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Anyone can call anyone a Nazi. The question is whether someone can make an individual determination that they think another person is a fascist, and whether this is a legitimate moral defense of extra judicial violence. Do individuals or groups have a moral right to judge others and carryout violence outside of the legal system
To be more precise, some Dutch from above the rivers (i.e. to the north of the "Waal" and "Nederrijn" rivers which divided the liberated south from the still occupied northern half of the country), especially the western part ate boiled tulip bulbs during the "hongerwinter" [1] (hunger-winter) of 1944-1945 when the Germans blocked food imports to that region in retaliation for the Dutch efforts (e.g. the national railway strike) to assist the allies in the liberation efforts.

The effects of the famine are still visible in the generation which grew up during that period and those which came after [2].

Source: I'm Dutch, my parents lived in this region and had their share of tulip bulbs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931...
Obviously it was a whimsical way of saying “slavery is the natural minimum wage” in the absence of all regulations (which is a proxy for government/societal interventions). Some person/company will be willing to enslave people if they can get away with it. Clearly volunteering is not what people mean by “working for $0 per hour”. This is obvious to anyone who reads what I wrote without being disingenuous. Equally obvious is that a laissez-faire system is neither possible, desirable, or scalable. I won’t convince you of this and you won’t convince me otherwise.

You are free to desire to live in a world where a wage of 0 is a reasonable thing for an employer to pay. Fortunately for me people like you have little chance of seeing this desire come to fruition. There is no point in responding further but I will read and contemplate whatever response you decide to make.
Being native Windows and OS/2 (2017)
You could just not use Teflon if you’re worried about it.
I'm not. Bitcoin could still MOON. I'm just saying you shouldn't be so sure either way with so much uncertainty.
That’s a lot of questions. I don’t have time to write a blog post level response, but will try to write something useful a bit later.
It’s not about lobbing, one for profit prison bribed multiple judges with $2.6 million dollars to send more people their way. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html

For profit prisons are simply corrosive to the justice system. Further, even state run prisons are handing out some very lucrative contracts etc.
> Dramatically reads to me like one or more orders of magnitude, but it seems it reduced power consumption by 50%

That's an order of magnitude... in base 2
> using rider right now and C# experience is > VS (IMO), meanwhile while working on this script found one or two "not supported yet" scenarios and code analysis died randomly through using it (probably type providers)

Jetbrains is the new company practicing “embrace, extend, extinguish”. They royally screwed up the implementation of YARD macros in Rubymine. Their F# IDE launch was a technical failure as well.

Never had any of those problems with Visual Studio.
A company that brooks no criticism is no different from a Regime that does the same. It had better be involved in basic extractive activity, because more complicated ventures tend not to work if the become brittle like this.

What does SpaceX do again? Uh Oh.
Totally. Why would I want anyone I pay to know exactly how much I’ve spent on all my other transactions?
If the prisoner is attractive to a guard, they might as well be forced to have sex against their will. That's kind of the whole point....? Sorry, what's the whole point? Incarceration does not imply exploitation. Exploitation is an abuse of power over incarcerated people.

If you want to reduce recidivism, better to pay for their work so they see value in an honest day's work. What we've got now only teaches prisoners that we've got them over a barrel.
There's a lot of components to what's being bundled here together, and not much space afforded emotionally to allow for a philosophical discussion about the individual merits of an approach versus another, given each component taken by itself. If any discussion invariably reduces to "you're pro slavery and this is slavery" alike to how another one would boil down to "by the slippery slope principle: well you're basically Hitler"... well, there's no discussion happening, what we've got is angry people throwing statements past each other.
That's why the parent emphasized "trading stops", as in there is no trading in any direction.
Quit your bullshit. I never said swear words were a problem anywhere. Trough this discussion you keep misrepresenting what me and another poster have said to match your silly fantasy narrative. You've been caught being disrespectful, pedantic, troll-ish and frankly a tad unintelligent. So stop trying to save face by pretending you're legitimately having a discussion. You got a lot to improve before that. Maybe start with reading the guidelines, then proceed to actually read what people reply to you. Four of your posts are flagged/dead, so your opinion isn't exactly popular.

About the last paragraph: I don't care about what you think or if anything I say is solicited by you or not.
I used virtual cards for decades. PayPal had a Firefox extension that did this in the early aughts.

I used getfinal.com for several years too but they went bankrupt. I don't even try anymore
> None of it has ever happened before during a recession

We are not currently in a recession.

If we get into a recession in the next quarter or two, there's no harm done to crypto. The market is headed into bear territory regardless of the macro economic climate.

I swear no one remembers 2017. Thousands of projects that raised billions of dollars died. No one cares. The market rebuilds itself every 3-5 years. This is absolutely no different.
Both directions meaning buying and selling, not active market and dead market like the parent comment is talking about. What's their cut of trades on Terra today?
That’s not how VCs make money. They make money based on “exits” either via acquisition or IPO. Over the last few years, most companies had exits without ever showing profitability.

Joe Bob’s Burgers don’t have the luxury of losing money hoping they can survive long enough to find the “greater fool” either via acquisition or IPO.
More and more outbuildings in rural areas have solar panels. Installing solar is cheaper than getting permits/electrician to run mains power to your buildings. I've seen new barns with the roofs completely covered in solar panels.
Urban dictionary doesn’t even have the correct usage (and surely should not be your first point of reference). So please, try to add something substantive to _your_ response.
Yes. When the generation finishing high school and entering uni right now, are finally graduating and start getting disposable income. That's when crypto will rise up again. They are too young rn to understand the greater fool game going on, and learn from losses. That's why there's a 4-year cycle. People already in undergrad right now wouldn't really fall for it again.
Explain to me how you can take your money out of Russia, Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine or Venezuela without Bitcoin. I'll wait
I think the definition of slavery doesn't change when people do awful things. I don't think it's great for the economy either.

I think people need to think more about their theory of justice, and about psychology and sociology, and I hope nobody is deciding their ideas about what a justice system should be based on an anecdote like that.

The idea of justice as retributive punishment, a penalty you pay, is older than the bible.

Have folks heard of Beccaria, Howard Zehr, and John Rawls? Here's a short blog post about Beccaria, whom Voltaire said everyone should read. https://www.exurbe.com/on-crimes-and-punishments-and-beccari...

And Beccaria was writing centuries ago, Howard Zehr and John Rawls are both influential 20th century thinkers who had important ideas on what a more just society should look like.
A former coworker of mine was in the process of publishing a really nice paper about a framework that allows concurrent resp. simultaneous verification of proofs generated by most state-of-the-art SAT Solvers, which drastically reduced the time needed to construct and then resp. simultaneously verify UNSAT proofs. Unfortunately, he left before publishing the paper.

(Among other reasons he was unhappy with the academic world, which I do understand perfectly.) Unfortunately, I have trouble reaching him. I believe his basically finished paper would be of so much use to some people. It's really sad. I believe his paper really should be published in a journal or at least put online somewhere. It's not totally groundbreaking or something, but like hard work nobody had the determination to, yet. At least not publicly. I feel so bad that I can not share his work without his permission.
Rocked an unlocked LG v20 (us996) w/ lineage for a few years.

The modem lacks the firmware for VoLTE which is now becoming required in the US as the 3G towers are being retired.

It's being retired for a pine phone. So far postmarketos is delightful, VoLTE works, and we're about to see if waydroid is going to play ball.
Freetown Christiania