skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the months to years it would take depending on the payload and size of the change though would be pretty costly for the businesses. I think a more likely solution would be having a handful of launch loops on common inclinations and anyone requiring a very specific inclination launching with a booster attached to take care of it. Depending on how high these loops could launch using the Moon to change inclinations might work. I think more likely though is that basically everyone would find ways to make do with the handful of standard inclinations that there were launch loops for.
I’d like to reiterate your last point.

Many libraries loan out ebooks!!! It’s very convenient and free.
The problem is that the public transit in NYC area has gone to crap. They haven't made the infrastructure investments considering the potential ridership, and we're paying the price for it.

I say this as someone who hates hiring a car (because they make me motion sick), but if you have to be somewhere on time, even with the congestion, hiring a car is more likely to get you there on time.
We live in a fundamentally broken society today where rent-seekers want to break it further. No libraries would never be invented today. People like Carnegie who thrived in the industrial revolution recognized that and understood that education and social evolution was the path to prosperity and peace. When he studied recent history in his day, he probably pondered the decades of chaos and suffering kicked off by the French Revolution.

The modern plutocrat is mostly a strictly transactional affair, who has dumbed business down to resource extraction.

I became involved in my city's library system a few years ago when they did a branch expansion that I was initially opposed to for money reasons. I flipped and am now a library fan.

I discovered that it's an environment for learning, social interaction and collaboration. You have programs for little kids where they interact with books for the first time. The elementary kids start collaborating on computers and doing other programs. Older kids are building robots, reading manga, having fun in a meaningful, beneficial way.

The failed promise of the internet that I bought into in the 90s is that access to information will set you free. Yet we find ourselves dominated by propaganda via things like Facebook -- Internet is the new TV. The reality is that information in the context of a meaningful environment is the magic. The library adds value and context to information. It's a situation where the value is greater than the sum of the parts.
Education system != Education

Libraries allow for all types of education, not just institutionalized education. This helps facilitate learning. I shouldn't have to provide you any stats that show that gleaning wisdom from the past attempts of others can result in learning. And to cut through the web of semantic bullshit you are building here, learning is absolutely invaluable.
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With those setting start capturing packets, you probably will reconsider using Android phone.
I have a python script that will convert chinese character .srt files to pinyin. It's not perfect (sometimes doesn't recognize word boundaries correctly and puts spaces in the wrong spots). But it's good enough for me to tolerate watching a movie with the output. Send me an email (in my profile) if you want it.
The interesting thing on this thread is that while there is a general agreement libraries are high ROI government institutions and worth preserving, I don’t think anyone has defended the libraries role as a repository of books.

I personally I am glad that these neighborhood book warehouses exist, we personally take our kids to checkout books about monthly. But as an adult? Almost all my check outs are via inter library loan, and even then my county’s selection of books as limited. Need a recent copy of a “home construction costs” estimator? Good luck. Looking for an obscure 70s novel your dad told you about? They threw it away in the 80s.

A “national library” inter library loan system would be AMAZING. I know my college had something like that, but a single loan could cost $35-50. If a Seattle company (because, come on, Amazon isn’t Silicon Valley) could create a system that lowers that price to pennies per loan that disruption it would be a positive thing.

And then we’d be even further along path we are on now-that we need libraries, but do libraries need books?
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> They also often serve as local community centers of sorts.

The public libraries in Seattle are an amazing thing. My wife goes to "kids play time" with our ten month old son at a couple of different libraries every week. And we can also bring him in to the kids play area any time and take the kids area books on the honor system. It's a really great way to interact with other kids until we start using day care or he gets to preschool age. And it gives my wife a chance to meet other parents and get a break.
Note that Trustico isn't a CA, just a reseller. Also it is much easier to avoid having your reseller (or your CA, or the guy who cleans your pool) email out your private key if you pick your own key and you know, keep it private, rather than letting them choose it and just hoping they deleted their copy.

I actually think we've been doing a fairly good job of cleaning up the Web PKI in recent years and I note that other trusted institutions like major banks and newspapers haven't got spotless records either.
Can't it? I have no idea but if you can train to speak in a different voice, how is that not changing your voice? Maybe I won't be able to speak like someone of the opposite gender because I don't have vocal chords like that, but learning to speak like someone with a similar body should be doable, no? Or can speech recognition systems really pick this out somehow and is there really the concept of a unique voice to a person?
A touchscreen is a different device than a desktop computer. Would windowing make sense on an iPad? Probably not. So why make people use them? Same goes with a desktop - they are designed for the mouse, so design it to use a mouse and do t treat it like a touchscreen.

This often means UI preferences. And I’m afraid you cannot satisfy everyone’s preference. Havoc Pennington was right to a degree, but they have tended to take it too far.
A: Libraries buy lots of books.

Children's books would not exist with libraries. You'd probably find that without the library most of the deeper catalog for publishers would not be viable.
I'm very aware of what it means. Most political discourse in the US is currently propaganda being exchanged by both sides with no intent of actually giving consideration of what the other side is saying.

Go look at a comment thread on reddit on a news article about Trump if you'd like an example.
Because you've spent some time on the site and think that the people on it are likely to come up with good recommendations. And if you haven't, maybe you shouldn't.
Or we could take the intelligent route and use taxes to pay for both.
> See irony, dude.

More likely a misunderstanding on my part, and now on yours if you believe this is irony.

> That isn't to say that I agree with you.....< immigrants as a percentage of overall population have increased since the 1960s, that increase is slowing>

I'm not saying anything about immigration levels, I am talking about this increasingly popular idea that a lack of support for open borders is inherently racist. It is lazy, stupid thinking, and the prevalence of this sort of thinking seems to be growing, even on relatively highly objective and intellectual sites like HN. This sort of thinking has consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/26/contaminated...
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Sure, it was a second wave attitude. It's obviously not at all prevalent in the contemporary mainstream, certainly not among people young enough to be active on Twitter. In that sense it's imaginary: it's his imagined view of what feminists on Twitter are arguing for, not an accurate representation of what their views are.
That's cool ... except of course the point of lending to these students is that they'll pay back installments.

Now let's take the banks side, for a second. What happens in banks ? Well they lend money from the Fed (only the big ones) or from other banks (more likely) and lend it out. In return they get an income stream. They lend out X, every month X/100 comes back in, for, say, 110 months.

Now what is bankruptcy ? Bankruptcy of your customer means the income stream stops, and you get a "lump sum" repayment. So that means, for example, that in month 20 of the above loan, you get 60% X, and no more income stream. That's bad, of course. (63% is a nice "global average" rule of thumb figure of what you'll get back, obviously in practice it varies and the "quality of the debt", to a large extent, is how much you can expect to get back in bankruptcy)

In the case of a student loan, you get nothing. No lump sum is coming forth, and obviously the income stream stops. But you've still got the loan. So that means that you fantasize that every month you make an extra loan which covers the monthly payment for that month. Now let's assume it takes 2 years for your customer to get out of bankruptcy, to the point they can start to repay ("global average" is 1.6 years).

In practice student loans are extremely bad quality debt, which is why we have this arrangement in the first place. When the customer goes bankrupt, as discussed, they pay back nothing, and it takes students, in practice, more than 1.6 years to start paying anything back. This is why we have this indentured servitude rule in the first place.

So ... how does this affect banks ? Well of course, given the above, that's easy to see, at minimum for the first 1.6 years after increased student loan bankruptcies, they're screwed. In practice, more, and this will cascade: more student loan bankruptcies will force economy-wide tightening, which will cause people to get fired, which will result in student loan bankruptcies. And then we loaned out 1.5 trillion dollars like that.

So, assuming the Fed can just mass-stimulate the economy whenever it wants, it's actually kind of OK, for a while. But ... wait ... at what point can they stop stimulating ? Well ... oh ... never.

(you might argue at that last point : "not true", if the economic performance exceeds student loan interest rates for long enough (way longer than that 1.6 years from above), then it stops. How much is that ? 7.81 percent. How long is that ? Essentially it often boils down to double how much they're behind. When was the last time the economy did that well ? The 1950s, and ... even then, only for 3 years ... not for long enough given how far behind the average "indentured servant" is)

So we can at least now understand that we ought to get mad at the people who allowed this deal in the first place. The banks ... cannot reasonably behave any different from what they're doing.
Gnome 3 isn't "written with JS." I am aware that a large amount of gnome shell is written in JS and I have my opinions about that, but they have their reasons. Either way, the bulk of important code (Gtk, Mutter, etc.) is written in C.

Also, I don't think it's unlikely you found different desktops that perform better. I still find KDE on proprietary NVIDIA to be lackluster. Does it show it's possible to do better compositing on some setups? Yes. I am guessing GNOME relies on the existence of certain GL extensions to composite efficiently. Still: if it can perform well on super low end systems and poorly on high end ones, I doubt it has to do with JS.
This is false.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/07/25/uber-and-lyft-are-ove...
I agree with you 100%. However, I also think that libraries are one way that you can compensate for a lack of a formal education, and as pointed out here, they often serve as a physical refuge from the world that is important for learning. For example, I think that libraries should stock more textbooks in addition to regular books. Textbooks are, typically, a) very expensive, and b) very hard to track down, especially if they are older.
Eavescrob[1] does a great job for me... as long as the tracks you want scrobbled are in your library...

[1] http://wil.dog/eavescrob/
If libraries didn't exist yet and someone came up with the idea in 2018, they would get laughed out of the room.

This is why we must fight for their survival - if we lose them we won't be getting them back any time soon.
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Paleolithic Era pun maybe? No idea hahah
You are answering different, irrelevant problem. "Why is an individual obese and how to fix it?" is different from "why is the population obese and how to fix it?".
I think they lost the initiative the moment they let Twitter devolve into the cesspit that it is today. As an outsider looking in, Twitter seems tailor-made as a pressure-cooker for extremism and harassment.
I would probably stick to Anki, I'm a little suss about the app. The website is https://fluent-forever.com and the book outlines a method for using Anki to learn languages. The approach is to start with pronunciation first, then work on phonics, then vocabulary, then grammar rather than learning a bunch of canned sentences.

The book mentions moving on to movies and tv shows when you have a decent grasp of grammar and know the ~800 most common words in your target language. I have a trip to Spain coming up and my plan is to spend the last two weeks before I go watching movies and reading/listening to audiobooks in Spanish. (Listening so I can follow along while reading.)

I'm very happy with my progress so far after having little luck with Rosetta Stone and Duolingo.
Now information can be available almost literally for free and instantly

Brilliant. I foolishly bought some books recently. Where can I read them for free instead, apart from the library? Is this going to involve piracy? I'm not sure I'm really into that.
I would argue that the latter is far more difficult to achieve. The trickiest part about the former is coming up with the $1 million to invest.
You're generalizing in the same way you accuse. Meeting people is not limited to either social media or alcoholism.
Carl Sagan's Message to Mars
Thorium is the unleaded gas to Uranium (if it was leaded gas) for nuclear reactors. Maybe there's some opportunity there :)
Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion
That was my thought too... why not just watch a foreign film? Those even take place in the country you want to learn about.
Titan looks great! But it seems far from being usable.
I like Practical Common Lisp if you’re dead set on Common Lisp as your lisp.

However, I’m a fan of How To Design Programs as a gentle introduction, followed by the Racket Guide (EDIT: if you're open to other lisps). Racket is a Scheme-descended lisp, and I feel has better pedagogy, community, and a more modern feel than Common Lisp.

I also like Clojure. There have been several decent books, some free, in addition to Clojure Koans and the 4clojure exercises.

EDIT: While I like Emacs, if you don’t already grok Emacs, DrRacket is a very compelling reason to start your lisp journey with Racket.
another case of hungry capitalists
A remarkable person, and I was privileged to have made her acquaintance...RIP Evi
When a corrupt system is gasping for breath, they will do anything to hang on.
You must not live in a particularly populous place, if you are not seeing people making personal video calls as they walk down the street/take the bus/sit on a park bench every time you leave the house - on the way, incidentally, to my morning video conference, that people frequently join by phone from wherever they are.
It's possible to study another product and learn things from it while still deciding to do it your own way. Deciding to do things differently is not an insult. It's one way innovation happens.
I visited Vancouver's public library last year. The library offers wifi, internet computers, professional computers exclusively for stuff like Photoshop, recording booths, musical instruments, organizes weekly events and, of course, books.

If all you have is this library and time, you could pick up an instrument, learn how to play it, record a weekly podcast/vlog with your progress, edit the video, upload it to Youtube, and design your own artwork. Don't know how to do one of these things? Go pick up a book on it. You can launch an entire career for almost nothing. I'd like to see Amazon do that.

I bring this specific case because, to me, it's an example of all a public library can be when we consider them a public service rather than a burden.
So if Uber were to set up parking where their cars could wait, would that address this congestion argument? Or would there then be an argument that they were driving up real estate prices?
Russia isn't Europe and that map is pointless because it's just showing some railways without ridership details. The US also has a massive rail network, it's just almost exclusively used for freight.
Because there's this thing called the Nash Equilibrium, and in a complex system like streets the equilibria are not optimal.

Individually, humans are really bad at judging these things and you cannot have optimal traffic and congestion control without some measure of centralized management of incentives.

Nobody wins when all car traffic is slower than optimal and driving just becomes an objectively worse experience for everyone on the road.
It sounds like your solution to "Didn't remember to bring X {the book you're reading}" is "Remember to always bring Y {your smartphone}".

This isn't an argument for X or Y. This is why you shouldn't go somewhere you know you'll need to sit in a waiting room, without anything to do. From as early as I can remember, my mom would tell me "Bring a book!"

It worked. I'm more likely to remember to bring a book than my phone.

Besides, what would you do on your smartphone? If I have some specific work that needs doing, I'll bring my laptop, because that's more effective.
The thing that I always thing about is that there are other uses for rare-earths. Vanadium, for example is used in structural steel as a alloying element that make steel MUCH stronger. Neodymium is used in magnets and lasers. Thorium is used in TIG welding.

We can't just siphon off all the Rare Earths for batteries without impacting other industries.
They serve as community centers 100%. Storytelling nights, after-school clubs, classes, dances, voter registration and voting booths... I am sure I am only grazing the surface of how libraries operate as community centers.
I want to learn how to write an emulator that is not an interpreter and still keep it timing accurate (even if not completely cycle accurate). I haven't dug, but some of the ones for modern machines seem to compile instead of interpret yet I don't know how they handle timing.
>Amazon only makes as much money as it does because it manages to avoid paying tax while utilizing the infrastructure built and maintained by collecting taxes.

It would still make a lot of money without all of that, though.

Amazon is top of mind when it comes to simplicity when shopping on the internet, period. You can't take that away from them with the torrent of anti-amazon memes you are clearly quoting from.

Our shitty governments have not successfully taxed them, and have been literally giving themselves up to Amazon for the "jobs they create" for the last decade. If you wanted Amazon to turn all of that down so they could make less money you are fucking kidding yourself.
An economic argument for space works too. The profits of space mining outweigh the costs by several orders of magnitude and the abundance of resources far outstrips what's economically accessible on Earth, and as a bonus doesn't ruin the only place in the universe we know can support life.

Also, having a bore hole at a certain depth doesn't mean we can extract material from that depth in useful quantities.
Considering the astronomically high costs of setting up parking, it's an unrealistic solution. It also doesn't consider that drivers still have to drive to pick up passengers.
Getting "Amazon to pay its fair share in taxes" is a pipe dream. The United States is, by design, a race-to-the-bottom internal free market. Any given county has to balance tax rates with attracting/keeping businesses in the county. So the tax money coming in is what it is. Especially if you're one of the 99.9% of counties outside the Silicon Valley halo. The policy question is how to spend that tax money, and what modes of analysis you use to justify your spending. Romantic notions are not a valid mode of analysis justifying expenditures of tax money.
Cab driving is a low skill job, which is why it's so important that proper competition can exist. My first ever Uber driver had water bottles and gum and even throw pillows and a blanket in the back. He was in a suit. He was really polite and all that. Because he's looking for 5 star rankings.

Dump all taxi drivers into the same market as this guy and they'll have to improve or be pushed out of business when they get too many "1 star: tried to defraud me" reviews.

Maybe we need an app that lets us photograph the legally mandated ID card so we can collectively leave reviews. But even then it's too late. You're already in the cab.
You're thesis seems to be predicated on the notion that everyone in rich states is rich. I suggest you find some retail workers in a rich area and ask if doubling the cost of their food and energy would have an impact on them.
Fellows, grey bias, impostor syndrome, burnout, toxicity, anxiety and the others are all symptoms of the rigid mindstate that permeates our industry.

It has to do with the curse of comfort and a lack of emotional agility which is exceptionally pronounced in this industry for many reasons which I shall not accentuate here except to state that `casual` is another word for `toxic` in my view.

I would care to suggest to everyone in this thread the following work: http://a.co/3Wlz2bw

Having read this book my views on how we ought to be engaging in our day-to-day have been completely transformed. Going from a rigid mindstate to a growth mindstate changes the whole game and I bet you anything it would go a long way to alleviating the burden of grey bias and all the other evils we face.
Mainly because gay men and IV drug users were disease vectors.
I have, though not so much recently. I confess I don't recall a lot of useful content warnings. I might just be out of date.
There are very few foreigners in mainland China who are eligible for and have received a Chinese ID card. I've never met one in person, so don't know what name is shown on there. But that card is especially for foreigners so I'd expect it to use the regular name.
> single medallion owners

Most medallions are owned by corporate owners [1]. The drivers work for the medallion owner. The medallion owner collects rent.

[1] http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/features/taxi/n_10292/