skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of my understanding of pro-slavery thought comes from Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder. Calhoun was dead by the time of the war but he was the south's most important intellectual and he was at the center of American politics from the War of 1812 that he helped start until he died in 1850 after paving the way for the Civil War.

2 speeches that are really good in terms of understanding the motivations of both sides at the beginning of the Civil War are the Cornerstone Speech by the Confederate VP (Alexander H Stephens) and Lincoln's first inaugural. Neither speech is particularly hard to read especially with Wikipedia available to look up unfamiliar terminology (i.e. "internal improvements" = 19th century name for infrastructure spending and "domestic institutions" = polite euphemism for slavery). Its especially fortunate for the sake of history that Stephens came right out and said what the Confederates believed because it makes it easy to refute the "it was about economics not slavery" line of argument from Confederate apologists. Lincoln's first inaugural is important as well because it refutes the "it was always only about slavery" argument you sometimes hear in response.

One rather interesting angle in the Cornerstone Speech is how Stephens cites Adam Smith's economics. In the north, the economic nationalist "American School" of Friedrich List and Henry Carey (Carey was Lincoln's primary economic advisor) was more influential than Adam Smith. Unless you're really interested in reading economic theory, I'd say the Wikipedia article on the American School of economics is sufficient to get the gist of the economic ideas that influenced Lincoln.

I'm not entirely sure what to recommend regarding the abolitionist movement because that's an area that's already heavily emphasized in the American education system, at least in my experience. I'm also not sure what to recommend regarding the wave of immigration that finally shifted control of the federal government from south to north in 1860 but this would definitely show up in the Census data and you can still see evidence of it today in how white people from the south are more likely to have English last names than white people from other parts of the country (the mid 1800s wave of immigration was heavily Irish and German).

Another great source for learning about what happened is to get a chance to talk to tour guides at the Civil War battlefields. I think most of my history professors from when I was majoring in history also did tours of the Gettysburg battlefield. The best time to visit is when it isn't as crowded. In the case of Gettysburg, that means avoiding the first 2 weeks of July (reenactment week followed by biker week) unless you specifically want to see the reenactment because the traffic is notoriously awful for those 2 weeks and everything is going to be packed.
China also built a 100MW offshore wind farm for $100 mio. Comparing building costs between US and China always makes the US project look bad. China is just insanely good at building big projects cheaply (and the US is pretty bad at it, even among its peers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China#:~:text=Co....
There will always be more to regret than not to regret.
In life we can only be mindful of a tiny subset of possibilities.
The choices you make and have made, leave ample room for regret. Each second focused on regret, the regret can only mount.
'Oh if only I had done so and so instead of this and that.'
There is no reason to believe you would not be steeped in regret, if you had made other choices.

Regret can only exist while looking at the past.

Do you wish to do away with regret...?

Then focus on achieving your future goals instead.
What Youtube videos do folks find valuable? I actually like listening to some of the Mac ones like Max Tech and Luke Miani but they are there for the views which is fine but I think they are entertaining nonetheless.
> Software modeling would be easy. For software it is an additional month with only 1 or 2 days.

You will also have to consider actions that are performed on the first of the month and possibly special case these months. This also means that effectively you have just made the length of months even more variable and confusing.

It's really only "easy" in the sense that it is possible to fit it into existing date data structures, but it's not necessarily that "easy" in terms of updating business logic.

> However because it would be a holiday most humans wouldn't need to talk about it as a month.

It can't be a holiday for everyone and it will still need to be something that people think about. Hospitals, fire departments, police, and websites that are expected to operate 24/7 will still need to operate and handle the special day. It will probably also need to be a new special case in literally every contract (leases, employment contracts, billing terms, etc.).

The human aspects are perhaps even harder than the computer aspects because it won't be possible to simply think of it as a 1 day month, it will HAVE to be special cased.

The original article also said that the extra day would not be assigned a day of the week. This is even more confusing. Currently, every 7 days is one week regardless of years, but if this change is made, for any action that needs to be performed once every seven days, either a decision will have to be made on whether 1) to perform/not perform the action on the special day depending on what day it WOULD have been if it wasn't the special day and then shift the day of the week for the next year, or 2) allow an interval of 8-9 days once a year.

Even though there is currently a slight inconvenience from 1) months having different numbers of days and 2) days of the week not being the same every month, these reflect the realities that months are arbitrary and don't match up to solar years/days.

The proposed change is actually arguably worse because it has to add even more complexity in the form of edge cases to try to pretend these problems don't exist.
For Homo Sapiens, this is our big risk. But from the aspect of the Fermi Paradox, I don't think it can be a great filter. Obviously a civilization must be multi-planetary to make contact, and once it is multi-planetary it is no longer threatened in this way. But statistically, it is still low probability.

As an analogy, you need to have fire insurance, but most houses in your neighborhood don't burn down (unless you live near wildfires which for the purposes of the analogy I think we can exclude.)

I think the pessimistic argument goes something like this. There is at least one great filter, probably more. Through extreme luck, we have gotten past all but one of them and are very close to the last. We may very well be the only advanced technological civilization in our galactic cluster, and if we don't extend into space soon we are at high risk of being extinct or facing societal collapse.

It's an imperfect analogy, but what I'm saying is: If I have a lot of neighbors, I don't really care if they all have fire insurance. If I'm the only house in the neighborhood, I really need fire insurance.
You want them to use jammers near land?
> "What was that called before the universe other than the universe?"

If it was "before the universe" then it wasn't called anything, because there was nobody here to give it the name "universe"?
The electricity never goes out on the British Empire! /s
Thanks for announcing how undisciplined the US Navy is with regard to SIGINT OPS, especially the grunts, apparently. Good to know.
I strongly disagree with the notion that anything profitable and technically legal is fine. The whole premise of this site is that words matter. That communities matter. That applies here too.
It's strange how children in some countries seem to be so much more prone to ingesting unsuitable items than in others. We use these reusable plastic pieces for bread bags all the time in Norway and I can't remember ever hearing that anyone regarded them as a hazard.
So you're right - Research Fellow at Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Science [1]

However her broad ranging commentary which tends to take the tone of "this field should listen to me but doesn't" as is the case with this article (and a few others she's done such as about the LHC[2] or black-hole information loss[3]) leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

[1] https://www.fias.science/en/fellows/detail/hossenfelder-sabi...

[2] http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/particle-physicists...

[3] http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-stopped-working-o...
Intel enters a new era of chiplets
Sure, more or less. But there are real costs and financial costs of getting the power to the other market, and they are probably being forced by regulation to buy the power at all (prices won't always be tipped in the one direction).
Youtube is largely for entertainment purposes for me. I avoid the ads in videos by using M$ Edge with UBlock Origin.
There are too many subjects ahead of Robert's Rules for me to agree with that statement. Plus there are extra curriculars that do teach it. I mean, it should be taught that parliamentary procedure is literally a thing used by assemblies, but the intricacies of specific rules, outside of use as a broad example, is beyond that scope.
Not even close to accurate. I'm not aware of any large C library with a string copy function that guarantees a NULL-terminated result in all possible cases.
Alas, constipation eventually does come to an end.
Can you describe what mechanism would exist for “independent” oversight of government secrecy? It’s hard to imagine, say, the US military being audited by an independent authority that is able to look at classified documents like battle plans, or new weapons technologies.

> these "paperwork" claims.

In other words “I won’t accept anything that contradicts my pre-established belief”. It’s very similar to discussions I have with fervent religious believers. Better to take an engineers approach and change your mind when the facts change.
When I hear Spanish (from Spain) expecting Greek or vice versa, it does sound a bit like gibberish in the other language. Of course I speak both, so I quickly understand what's being spoken (at my current level, which is elementary in Greek).

Μένεις στην Ελλάδα?
> you can actually make something of your life

what are you making of yours?
Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy V15.0:
https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

In the meantime, the prices for natural gas and coal have doubled:
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal
In a galaxy far far away this was taught in my high school on a senior speech and debate class. In those days it was felt those skills went together.
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Is it still under development?

Back in my teens I was really wanting to get into 3D animation and virtualdub was one of the first tools I used to create reels since the free modeling and rigging tool I used at the time didn’t have any editing capabilities.
Sure - add the Apple A chips; Qualcomm chips for communications, etc…
I wonder how much (in the US) sales tax impacts this? Most US states have significant sales taxes on manufactured goods, including prefab housing.

If I pay for someone to build onsite, I pay the labor cost. If that same labor builds offsite and the finished product is delivered, I must also pay sales tax on that labor.
Is this a comment on how "unfair" it is that keeping a human alive is not free? That "God"/Darwin/the universe/gaia/... did not make it so.

This is merely a direct consequence of the laws of physics and does not really have anything to do with the organisation of society (which is what economics, and "free market" describe). Every society, however organised, must on average get a positive net output from every human alive.
> market price is automatically set to the most expensive one

I think you need to read your economics text books again. Yes marginal costs can impact the marginal supply of electricity, but the price is set by basic supply and demand. In a shortage if there isn't any gas, gas powered stations are off, if isn't enough electricity to go around the prices goes up until people stop buying it.
> Understanding how to have groups come to decisions without forcing consensus

This is a lost art, and so is being able to accept these decisions with out becoming the resistance.
Of course. But not coffee intake. Coffee is way more than just black water with caffeine.
… or anything else
Ah, thanks for clarifying 300bps, and I sincerely apologize for misinterpreting and misunderstanding you. It was not intentional.

I agree with you 100%, that is a self-defeating nihilist sentiment.
Neither investment in EVs and repairing transmission issues live in isolation and both can be invested in at the same time. Solving one issue might also help solve the other (e.g. charging EVs can occur at non-peak times which balances energy demands, and in future EVs could be used as batteries to discharge into the grid during peak times).
Bill Gates was quite a fan of this concept, which Microsoft Research investigated in the early-2000’s. The POW scheme involved forcing senders to calculate a CPU-intensive hash such as a cryptographic checksum that could be quickly verified as valid by the recipient. The proven expenditure of CPU would indicate that the sender spent some money sending the message.

It’s a neat idea in theory. But in practice, e-mail filtering works better as an exercise in content and sender categorization. The best systems use a multitude of techniques to generate features and then use machine learning to determine the high-dimensional space that contains spam messages. This space can vary for each recipient.

Google’s lead antispam ops guy told me at a conference a few years ago that moving to this approach dramatically improved their spam filtering accuracy. But some amount of manual feature engineering is necessary, such as looking at the sender’s domain name and assessing things like domain age, registrar reputation, etc.
Yeah, you're right that prices are also affected by regulation.

I should've been more precise - the price the suppliers want to charge is only set by supply and demand. They'll charge whatever the market can bear. If the cap is lower than that, they'll charge the cap. That's an inescapable feature of markets.

If Ofgem caps the prices for producers, the reaction of the producers will obviously be to limit production. They'd prefer to produce when profits are high. The next step would be for the government to mandate production, and this is another stopgap measure on the way to admitting energy markets don't work when one of the largest global energy producers are actively fighting an economic war against us.

My point is just that we shouldn't be at all surprised when markets don't work when one of the largest actors is behaving in an economically irrational way. We shouldn't be surprised when countries will abolish any kind of energy market and set supply and demand centrally by controlling producers and rationing.
I suspect you come across as a bit “Jack of All Trades; Master of None”.

On the systems administration side of things going from one system to a rack isn’t nothing, it’s an achievement, but a lot of employers paying £100k may have applicants coming with more breadth of experience or significant scale - either 1000’s of systems, 10000’s of endpoints, maybe they’re looking for specialist knowledge implementing endpoint protection using Crowdstrike?

In the developer dimension for £100k they’re likely looking for a PHP developer who has ‘full time’ written software in a professional setting for a number of years, worked on teams of developers and contributed to big projects and big codebase (~20k LOC across ~20 repositories is ‘hobby’ scale, plenty of places in industry are >=2 orders of magnitude larger), and perhaps they also seek prior experience with the frameworks they may use?

I’m not sure you should be aggrieved, £60k is nothing to sniff at for a smaller-scale IT role with a “Does It All” blend of duties.

Also beware almost everyone is far more replaceable than they might themselves believe. I doubt a SMB would have much trouble finding applicants for a £60k role involving figuring out your stuff. Maybe they’d just hire two people on £40k to have more arms around the problem domain and more resilience against a repeat? Definitely don’t underestimate that trying for “Checkmate” may/will result in an adverse reaction from your employer. Generally employers dislike being strong armed and even if they pay you today they may well begin working on their Plan B.

If you want to take your career in a different direction and focus on something like PHP development you may have to accept this involves taking one step backwards before you can take two steps forward. Maybe that’s a PHP Developer role which focuses just on that, and not 36 other things, but maybe it’s a bit more entry-level because you don’t have the experience today to join as a “Team Lead” of a 10-person team doing XYZ.

Lastly, by far the easiest way to find your next big thing is within your network, not shotgunning your CV into lots of places who have publicly advertised an opening. Look in your local community for topical microconferences or user groups and get involved. Look for more national user groups or communities around e.g. Kubernetes (if that’s your jam) and get involved. Many of those will have Slacks with #jobs channels where hiring managers will post opportunities. Being a participant in the community, particularly if you’re a respected value-adding member, is a foot in the door.
> I don't understand where this idea has come from that the court ought to be the provider of novel 'fair' legislation (as opposed to the mean legislation proposed by Congress) or the decider of punishments.

Cause the legislative branch in US is in shambles, "can't" get anything done, at least that's the perception, as the country is divided to a point that both camps consider the other "the enemy", so everybody now relies on either the judiciary or the executive branch to makes laws. This is essentially a constitutional and political crisis, that has been going for the last 20 years in USA.
It's an organization in which people (employees, shareholders) voluntary participate that has speech rights (including the right nor to be compelled to speak) of its own.
Before you lay into an entire academic discipline, it would help to understand it a little better. Fine if you’re just bagging on DSGE models, since they really are garbage (although I would argue that it is because of all the equations involved). But the vast majority of economics is concerned with causal analysis where there are no predictions. And everybody reports standard errors and has for decades.
To my knowledge Hacker News does not publish misinformation that labels facts as misinformation. This is what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do repeatedly. They’re publishers full stop.
Well, given a database of leap seconds you can. And you can't convent times in the future between unix time and calendar time.
Why do we care what economists think?
In the UK? Ask Thayer Prime, she will 100% know how to sell you and is in touch with a lot of interesting companies.

It sounds like your unambitious employer treats your work as a cost centre, and achieving a grudging pay bump isn't going to change that.
A cursory look at the table of contents of Volume 1 turns up various topics such as:

- the length and regulation of the working day for factory workers

- the division of labor

- the economic impacts of increasing automation/mechanization

- wages (the factor payments for labor)

These are all topics that I think reasonably fall under the umbrella of economics. Certainly Capital is not a book on positive economics. It is, throughout, quite normative, and expressly interested in the combination of politics and economy.

Reading Capital may not help you understand how modern mainstream economists think, but it will definitely get you thinking about the same kinds of problems that they deal with. For example: how regulations might be used to enforce a 40 hour work week. Of course, capitalism has quite outgrown Marx's mid-19th century conception of it. It's an old book. But I find it difficult to understand how a book critiquing the work of the first economists is not a text about economics.
And now, for the rest of the story:
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/secret-wind-case-document...

It blows my mind how many aggressives and their useful idiots talk crap about greedy corporations, but will defend this textbook case of cronyism... an $8 billion boondoggle with a rate-of-return guaranteed to protect this privileged company's stock price and increase executive salaries.

Dominion lobbied hard to get the regulatory framework they now cite as being violated. Its classic wolf guarding the hen house.

from the above article:

The SCC judges and their staffs have read all those secret documents. Attorney General Jason Miyares’ team in the Office of Consumer Counsel have read all those secret documents. The lawyers for the various environmental groups, otherwise highly supportive of offshore wind, have read all those secret documents. Having read them, they endorsed a significant performance standard with financial penalties
> It might be that you are okay with that being violated, but it does not mean that it stops being a right

But it's not a right. If something is not a right in any jurisdiction on earth, the idea that you have this right is a philosophical exercise, not something based on any sort of reality. You can’t really even claim it’s being violated if this absolute right to financial privacy is not enumerated anywhere and never has been.

> it does not mean that people should accept losing it away.

They've never had such a right to lose.

> If you believe that, feel free to stop using WhatsApp or whatever e2e encrypted system you are using right now.

Speech and money are not equivalent.

> Does that mean that law-abiding citizens should lose their rights over it?

Rights they don't have?

> Honestly, citizens like you that want to normalize State Surveillance concern me more than any "darknet hacker" ever will. Didn't you learn anything with the Patriot Act?

Citizens like me who think that, with appropriate warrants and appropriate circumstances, the state ought to be able to access financial information relating to serious crimes? Citizens like ... basically everyone?

> Using tornado cash (by itself) is not a crime.

Except it pretty much is now, as a sanctioned service. So there's that.

> Making payments online without being worried that people can access your whole transaction history is crucial for it to be a viable alternative.

The fact that your blockchain solution can either give total transparency to everyone, or absolute, mathematical privacy that can't be broken even under warrant, is a problem for your blockchain system not the rest of us and not the legal system.

> Please stop with this absurd FUD and stop associating privacy with "something only for the interest of malicious actors".

How about you please stop this FUD? How about you stop throwing around accusations about normalising state surveillance at people who don't agree that absolute, unbreakable financial privacy under all circumstances is a good plan? How about you engage with arguments about what your needs are and why you consider them reasonable, with a backdrop of acknowledging the harm done, instead of engaging in the usual, boring, facile, black-and-white thinking that if I don't agree that a service that North Korea can use to hide a billion dollars is a good thing, I must be for total state surveillance?

How about some fucking subtelty of thought?
Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows
Old school datacenter build out takes a lot of time and a lot of specialist knowledge, which is largely being lost due to clouds and datacenter consolidation.

It would likely have been cheaper for snap, though.