skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The run on the banks was an effect, not the cause.

So in the 1990s, after the country came out of a 2-decade civil war, the government adopted a policy of fixing the currency against the U.S. dollar. So regardless of the economic happenings, the conversion rate from LBP to USD was fixed.

But the economy was not really producing enough. It was mainly focused on tourism, which kept taking hits due to political instability. Too much imports, very little exports, but the currency was kept fixed.

This imbalance was sustained by the government borrowing from the central bank and the banks. They kept lending the government, even though it was clear that the money wasn't coming back.

Some of the money was being spent to support imports and big projects. But most of it was being siphoned away by corrupt politicians; which was pretty much all politicians.

After about 25 years, most of the money ran out. The depositors' money.

So what did the banks do? They started offering higher interest rates to attract foreign deposits. We're talking 10% or 15% interest rates. And they used those new deposits to support the continuing needs to lend the government. Incurring more debt to pay the previous debt.

That was essentially a Ponzi scheme, and the final tailspin began. Crash.
I highly recommend these pans for that reason: https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet
In the very early 2000s I remember reading A Plan for Spam (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) and ultimately identifying some Bayesian filtering plugin (I think made by pg et al?) and application I could install on the mail server of the small company (30 people?) I worked for to reliably identify the vast majority of the spam everyone received and keep it out of their inboxes.

Even in the very early 2000s, it very easily was dozens of spam messages per legitimate email, and most commercial tools at the time were simple filters, regular expressions and blacklists.

Bayesian filtering took us from 5-10% effective to >99% effective overnight.
It's not that it's harder, exactly. It's that your priorities shift quite a lot as you move along. Technical mastery in the sense of "look at this extremely complicated, high effort piece" tends to be the provenance of young people. Young people need to prove themselves and work the chip off their shoulder. They want to keep up with the new, and so they'll try to master whatever looks like the new thing.

But then you get to a place where you've done some of that keeping up, and most of the time, it's not going to consume you for the rest of your life. A new thing eventually becomes old, and while learning another new thing can set up a career, you hesitate a little more to bother when you already have things you want to go deeper on. Which means the kind of learning you do is different, less focused on the grind of established courses and more in the space of independent study, integrating a bunch of disparate things into a whole. It shows up in people's brains, too: the current thought is that "crystallized" intelligence peaks much later in life. Young people are fast, old people are wise.

I realize now that something I really didn't understand, even as I started my 30's, was how to study things really well. I could be a fan about them, and learn interesting facts, and follow steps, but the really essential thing was to not gloss over it, and to turn the learning into a workout, a thing that engages you while simultaneously being relatively simple and monotonous, just copying things, memorizing things, repeating processes to master them. And part of your repulsion may well be the same kind of feeling that many get at the idea of "working out" - your brain knows that's what needs to be done, your emotions say, why do that, it's so much effort. As a baby it's no issue, you'll do anything if pointed the right direction, and just expend all the energy you have on hand and then sleep it off. But somewhere along the way you both gain desire to save energy, and also to protect an identity of being "the kind of person who...", and other various beliefs. You can't just turn on baby mode and follow along with the nursery rhymes or practice tracing the alphabet. No, you have to say to yourself, "I'm going to turn this into reps and do 30 reps today." It takes some creativity even to start down that path because often the material you want to study is all packaged up in a form that doesn't aid your mastery.

But it's hardly as simple as old people suddenly becoming unable to operate a computer. The old can still discuss technical matters, but they aren't self-evidently interesting to know or discuss. Most of them are things to eliminate from life in order to make room for something else.
why didnt the roads collapse into a state of disrepair which no one was willing to pay for?

Have you ever been to Michigan? We have the 48th or 49th worst roads in America. They weren't like that when I was growing up or first got a drivers license in the sixties. Our auto insurance rates are higher and we have higher repairs than average.

We have the fifth or sixth highest gas taxes in the nation. Our Governor ran on a campaign slogan that she would "fix the damn roads". Her secret plan was to raise the gas taxes by forty cents which was rejected by the legislature. It's election year so a little bit of the COVID money is going to a small increase in road repair. How are Ohio and Indiana with lower state taxes able to keep their roads so good?
> Can you really say with a strait face that you think BTC's volatility is worse than literally losing your bank account with all it's content?!

No. But BTC is worse— it comes with all of the volatility and the risk of losing your account with all it’s content.
>There's nothing wrong with income inequality. People are just envious.

It isn't envy some feel when they can't afford medical care for themselves and those they care about. This applies to a lot of things in additional to medical care.

If they ultra wealthy lived under the same system as everyone else then perhaps, but they don't. They have oversized influence of most every aspect of our lives which isn't conducive for a stable democracy.
Do article like these get peered review before publishing or is it a publish first, deny later type of approach?
If they were eco-friendly it certainly would be inconvenient for their marketing strategy.
> I'll add an option to self-host the tool itself too if it's something people want

Having the source available under a license allowing me to locally inspect, build, and run it locally is a prerequisite for this to be interesting at all. Which would actually make it very interesting. For me, moreso than it actually working flawlessly.

> uploading all your messages to a random website might not be for everyone!

It should not be for anyone who either cares about their message content secrecy or who's uploading company chats where this is prohibited.
Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
A comment from that Youtube video:

> It's really important to say that East Jesus Art Commune and Leonard's Mountain are not and never have been considered part of Slab City .... so it would help for you creators to actually find out about that before calling it part of The Slabs...it misleads people into believing the Slabs must be a very artistic place , which it is most certainly not...
Because of a Bad Mechanic screwing us ...we had the misfortune of living there for 2 straight years ...
The Real Slab City story is there is Garbage strewn everywhere , many people get attacked and bitten by very vicious Slab Dogs ...there are numerous serious fights leading to hospitalization and sometimes death ...women travelers get raped at least 3 times a year there ...Slabbers deliberately burn down peoples camps and RV's at least 11 times per year ....so if you like staying in a dangerous ghetto and can pretend that everywhere is just as trashed out as Slab City is ...you'll love that dump..
There's at least one church in Ethiopia where people are hoisted up.
It used to be a big thing; a major attraction for international depositors.

But it's beginning to be removed under the current situation, because they want to disallow (criminalize) people from transferring their money out of the country (to protect it)
Why would you be constrained to using Common Lisp? If you can't integrate with (effectively) non-reimplementable libraries (or would propose to rewrite crypto-code in CL?), than that to me says you shouldn't be using that language for that task?

Quelle surprise at the Windows issues, I'd probably look at using conda as a distribution tool to solve that (there are probably other options, but conda has the mindshare).
> And yes, the vote for the president is not a raw popular vote. There is a level of indirection through another body that often does, but may not, yield the same result as a popular vote would. But it does not logically follow that Americans do not vote for their president.

I think this is an interesting way the criticism was phrased about the electoral college. I mean, across world governments, it's pretty dang common for the executive of a government to not just be chosen by the populace.
If I build and give away bird houses, that could still be a hobby. I don’t follow how lack of ownership means it can’t be a hobby.
Oedipus’s flaw was devinely inflicted (his curse/prophecy); attempts to thwart it (exposing him on the mountainside rather than, say, simply running him through with a sword at birth)* guaranteed it would result in the most terrible fashion.

The point was that Oedipus’ fate was sealed despite his “golden boy” greatness, not because of it.

* prophecy being prophecy, had he been killed at birth, that would have brought the kingdom to ruin: the gods’ will is stronger than that or any human.
Counterpoint: Star Wars Special Editions.
Why not just use PKI?
I think it’s people who, in good faith, still deeply believe in the theory behind Bitcoin but ignore or dismiss the decade of experiments showing it just isn’t working.
In my field of expertise, the books are already written. I don't know what else I could add.

As for a fiction novel, I don't have any storyline in mind. I have images in my mind, short videos/films I find enjoyable, but not a grand story that could fill 400 pages.

I'm also not a famous person, so my autobiography wouldn't be of much interest.
I use this for my Creality Ender V3 and it’s honestly amazing. Have it running on a raspberry pi.
I have grammar issues and they say I write like a child on Amazon.
I'm still gaining the requisite wisdom that is necessary to avoid embarrassing myself.
Pivot - the combo of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway really works

Marketplace - public radio daily about the economy that’s a great education on the economy and everything really

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Sam is a powerful thinker and he has a wide range of topics and amazing guests

Corecursive - every episode is a story about a piece of software: excellent

Hardcore History, of course

The Joy of Why - different science topic each episode and goes pretty deep
Great read, and as usual EY is more pithy and eloquent than I can be.
Rust: Remove Ternary Operator (2012)
The child's phone can be set up one way or another.

In this hypothetical scheme (described above), a child complaining about anonymous abusive messages is ignored by the school. School's not responsible, because the child's phone is set up improperly. If phone were in order, phone would not receive anonymous messages.

A child receiving a traceable abusive message is quickly resolved, and presumably this kind of abuse is rare, for obvious reasons.

Everyone is happy. The school's happy because, under this scheme, they have virtually no work to do in connection with online harassment. The police are happy because fewer harassment cases are being opened (this is true only if most kids set their phone as instructed by the school). Kids are slightly less miserable because online bullying has been made more difficult to pull off.

Finally, sticklers like the parent are happy because they can continue to set up their phone "wrong" and receive anonymous abuse. Which the school won't look into and will presumably pass off to the police.
> Can you really say with a strait face that you think BTC's volatility is worse than literally losing your bank account with all it's content?!

Ask Luna holders for their opinion on this matter, it seems they experienced pretty much the same thing (or holders of any other crashed cryptocoin). Bitcoin itself might not be down 100%, but it also lost a serious amount of value in the last half year. Plus, there are a lot of ways to completely loose your bitcoin, be it hardware failure or scams.

So yes, I can say with a pretty straight face that Bitcoin is not a great protection against volatility, which is what the original comment claimed.
> Imagine where electronic ink displays could be today if E Ink wasn't such a terrible steward of the initial technology.

What do you mean? Any data or evidence for that?
Oh yeah i forgot to mention uneven heat distribution too. I don't really mind using a small dishtowel to move the pan so that lodge is probably fine. i'm sure there are some designs that don't get the handle hot either though i haven't researched that much at all since i'm happy with my stainless pan for 99% of my pan cooking.
The Great Simplification, Lex Fridman, The Business of Machining, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Hello Internet (Currently on HIatus)

Mostly, though 500+ youtube channels.
20k miles is nothing, though.
Both articles should simply state the lifetime carbon footprint of ICE cars and EVs. That is all that matters in this context - break even mileage and energy efficiency are secondary concerns.
> after present patents expire.

Which specific patents are you referring to? If you can't answer that question without googling "eink patents", then like many others who've made this claim on HN you're not in the industry and don't actually know anything about electrophoretic chemistry and don't realize what the real obstacles are. See my comment history for details.
The CHERI project have some bug trackers on designing real CPU caches.

Or implementing, perhaps. The design is almost simple but getting everything right is very hard.
Beautiful sentence structure.
> This indicates DID, the schizotypal stuff is orthogonal to DID, you can be both.

You know what, you might be right... got curious because of your post and went searching, then found out about OSDD-1b which is a sub-type of DID: https://did-research.org/comorbid/dd/osdd_udd/did_osdd

> In some cases, OSDD-1 parts can be highly distinct and have strong independent senses of self. What separates these individuals from those with DID is that they do not black out or lose time. They may or may not have dissociative amnesia for aspects of their trauma history, and they may occasionally experience episodes of amnesia due to extreme stress or reminders of trauma. However, they do not experience memory disruptions between parts during their normal daily life. An individual with OSDD-1b has a subjectively continuous memory; different alters do not have different versions of their history for daily life because all relevant information is accessible to all alters.

Thank you!
In some way, that kind of happened with the "Snyder cut", although the story is more complex, in that the original version of the movie never happened, a different movie was made, and the original one ended up being done, but it was also influenced by what was done for the first release and the subsequent reviews.
It’s interesting to me that I just know that consciousness exists before matter and energy. Or that matter and energy occur within consciousness.

Either you know or you don’t. No amount of thinking will take you there, and no philosophy can show you what’s just plainly true once you know it.

There was a time when I was trapped in my mind, trying to reason about these things, but now I see the world differently. I don’t know when it happened. I sure hope more people can come to this knowing too.
More energy efficient and also much slower to charge with a shorter range. Nothing we haven't known for 150 years. The reason we have had ICE vehicles for so long comes down to those two things.
Links to the publications:

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.075001

Design of an inertial fusion experiment exceeding the Lawson criterion for ignition
A. L. Kritcher et al.
Phys. Rev. E 106, 025201 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.025201

Experimental achievement and signatures of ignition at the National Ignition Facility
A. B. Zylstra et al.
Phys. Rev. E 106, 025202 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.025202
In other places this person walks in front of a moving car or jumps off a bridge.

Just because someone was given a dignified end to life for reasons that you may not approve of doesn’t mean that person would be alive if only they were not given a dignified end to life.

Also, basing one’s comment off publicly available information in a situation where by law most information is not public is beyond stupid.
This is not a story I would tell online. When your aunt threatened to go to the police and then failed to follow through, it may have become extortion.
You can threaten to sue; you can actually go to the police; you can even tell someone you're going to the police; but what you cannot do is merely threaten to go to the police.
They only built 700 A-10's. They haven't been produced since the 80's, and the company that made them went out of business 20 years ago.

Even if the A-10 was the right tool for the job, they should have come up with a replacement years ago just to have something they could build more of.
What can a man rob if you give him a world?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Q53k5K1cN5HKCwhCsUV...
-48C is like, nighttime in Siberia in winter. Where did you regularly do this bicycle commute?
Erg looks fun for small programs. Though Erg's syntax choices seem less Pythonic than I'd expected. Interesting though, some of the idioms seem handy.

Though Nim definitely can be described as a statically typed Python-compatible language! I haven't used them but https://github.com/Pebaz/nimporter https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy both seem great. Nimporter in particular looks fantastic for writing fast python libraries.

Actually come to think of it that might be the easiest way to write fast KiCad 6 plugins.. I really want to try making a native KiCad autorouter. But I don't want to figure out the C++ plugin setup and since KiCad 6 the Python APIs seem better documented and supported anyways. Problem is that Python would likely be too slow. Nimporter could be perfect. It looks really simple to setup.
> Cars last 100k+ miles now

Yes many do. Some are written off in their first year.

The main point is if we all miraculously switched to EVs, there are savings in emissions to be had, but it wont fix the problem.
I believe OpenAI sanitizes training data to keep personal information out.
Those were fucked up 1.1 versions though, not 2.0. And nobody was asking for them.
Wish there was something similar for SLA printers
> Because those were simply phenomenal. I have two and I've never had a display quite their equal in direct sunlight.

That's odd. I've had and evaluated the XO-1 using Jepsen's displays and found them to be of low quality for even that timeframe. Even basic things like the resolution were terrible for that time. There's good reasons why they (both OLPC and PixelQi) were unsuccessful. OLPC was a disaster and in my opinion just a way to transfer money from the education budgets of developing countries and UN funding into the pockets of people who enjoyed hanging out in swanky incredibly costly offices at 1 Cambridge Way with guys like Nicholas Negroponte, Joi Ito and Jeffrey Epstein instead of actually achieving real progress. [1]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/133159/mit-media...
I feel like “could” is carrying a lot here.
The ethos is similar, but the demographic is different.
Antikythera shipwreck yields statues, human teeth and the head of Hercules
Not a podcast, but Adam Tooze also has a good and quite unique book on the subject of the economic history of the third reich. Well worth a read.
I think the article under estimates how many people live there in winter, and over estimates how many people are there during the summer.

During the winter some camp will host a gathering usually an open mic most days of the week. Hanging out around a camp fire listening to songs one time I commented to my neighbor how I've never heard so many songs about a place before. He said, 'no song writer comes to slab city and doesn't write a song about slab city.
I think we pamper people too much, and it makes them easier and easier to upset. Our cultural overcaution about what may upset someone is lowering our average threshold of offense. It's sad when a fictional person or a fictional dog dies, yes — that's the whole point! — but life has a lot more to throw at us than fictional death.
I used to get annoyed at this, but as I learned more I realized: Food is not optional - if we need to waste money to make sure we have food during the bad years, then it's worth it.
Depending on how the battery tech shakes out (such as the million mile battery) EVs may last much longer. Way less parts, regen braking rather than brakes, etc.

There is so much FUD out there from the professional astroturfers and the cranky old amateurs. But EVs will follow the path that solar and wind are: the sheer economics will sweep away ICEs in inexorable fashion.
The extensibility of OctoPrint is amazing - the community that builds plugins (and keeps them up to date!) is nothing short of astounding.
Spokane police drone attacked in mid-air by another drone
> It solves the initial problem of "how do I get my money out of the bank" because you ARE the bank (sort of).

Unless you use an exchange, which a lot of people do. You don't have to, of course, but you could also keep your savings in cash - which would not only avoid the above problem, but also rid you of the need to exchange it.
I assure you, I will never stock shelves, deal with abuse at a register, drive a hilo, work in a factory, touch Windows, etc. if I don't get paid to.
The Tim Ferriss podcast. He interviews top performers in basically any field, in a conversational style.

Not everyone likes Tim. He's kind of seen as a self help guy.

But that isn't important, because the show is not about Tim. The conversation is often streered towards his interests, but you may share those.

I think Ferriss is widely curious about the world and a good interviewer, so the show has great variety.

Just cherry pick guests you want to hear, and I also recommend trying some you're not sure about. The couple episodes I liked best were completely unknown names to me.
If we can judge banks by the worst of them, then we can judge crypto by the worst of them.

As for me, if my US FDIC insured bank fails, I’ve got bigger problems than money.
The difference in lifetime emissions between ICE and EV gets progressively larger as time goes on.
>Fourth is air pollution which continues to be quite deadly

That's part of why the Salton Sea drying up would be so disastrous. For the last 100 years, as water as evaporated it's been refilled with runoff from agricultural waste, a nearby superfund site, and other locations that probably should become superfund sites. All that runoff brings fertilizer, pesticides, etc that just sit at the bottom forever... Until the shoreline recedes, the dusty playa blows off and all that nasty stuff goes back into the air. Even with the current state of the Salton Sea, childhood asthma rates are way higher than elsewhere in the state.
well that's unfortunate. I wish you the best with the present circumstances.
Eh, just wait until the giant pesticide laden sand storms start kicking up and blowing into LA.
Begun, the drone wars have.