skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yakhchal (it’s kh of خ) actually means fridge. It’s the word still in use to describe an ordinary modern fridge (or maybe just freezer, I forget).

Regardless, enlightenment in Europe really distorted the west’s underdretending of east’s contribution to Europe’s ability to emerge from the Middle Ages, not just how to make ice cream.

Anyone who ever read Voltaire can get the idea. What’s more sad is Muslims with western education are further removed from their heritage.

But without the work of Muslim, Jewish and Zarathustra scholars, much of the ancient world’s knowledge would have been lost, and renesance in Europe would not have been possible.

There’s a great science show on the BBC, develope by a British-Iraqi scientist, that mentions innovations we no longer associate with Islam (many developed by Muslim scientists and scholars). For example: navigation tools like astrolabe, that made it possible for European “explores” to navigate their boats, and many others still in practice even today, like treatment for cataract with injection syringe etc (in some parts of the world, though longer in the west).
Counterpoint[0] from a libertarian perspective, excerpt below.

As Matt Bruenig at Jacobin explains, if you compare the projected price tag of Medicare for All against projected total healthcare spending in the United States, you see a net decrease of around $2 trillion over the decade.

Of course, in promoting this conclusion, Sanders and his allies out the true aims of their proposal: the outright nationalization of the US healthcare system.

While Sanders and others usually try to avoid being honest with this aim, others on the left[1] are more transparent. This is why the description of “Medicare for All” is fundamentally dishonest. With Medicare, not only do you have an increasing number of Americans opting for the privately managed Medicare Advantage programs, but you always have the option of seeking treatment outside of the Medicare program. This would not be true in the future envisioned by Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

… So at the end of the day, while there is value in discussing some of the potential fiscal costs of socialized medicine in America, it is important to not overlook that we are not even talking about the same services. …

[0]: https://mises.org/wire/real-cost-medicare-all-lives-not-doll...

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/medicar...
The big benefit lead acid batteries have is that it's easy to find surplus SLA batteries from businesses, and even new cells aren't that expensive.

That said, I've started seeing lithium batteries slowly catch on in amateur radio as the price on the LiFePo4 cells go down. Especially for portable setups.
Mining is somewhat unique in that it doesnt really matter where it is done and it is very easy to tie profitability to electricity cost (since that is the main cost).

So I disagree, at least if it gets big enough to matter. I'd expect power plants, towns, etc to find it more worthwhile to invest in more efficient tech to attract the miners.
But better knowledge will always be important for social mobility, at the very least via earning more money.

OTOH the traditional college may be not the best way to acquire certain kinds of knowledge. In many cases learning outside campus using recorded lectures, books, and computers may be as efficient, and visiting labs for necessary work could be vastly less expensive than doing full-time college.

I suspect the value of certain independent examinations / certifications, that is, the comparative advantage they give, will grow with time. The effort of passing them will be (or already is) university-level high, and the prices will also grow, but definitely not to the level of college prices.

This will democratize learning because of the lower prices, easier choice of time / pace, and easier choice of what you really want to learn. It's already happening, of course, but it's low-key by now. I posit that it will be a major force.

Certain things, like medicine, are not amenable to this approach, or course. But a lot of STEM, financial, media, even liberal arts curricula can benefit from such an approach.
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I think they meant more about running your own snap repo that people could point snap to and get things. Say like an internal company snap repo.
And literally billions of people don't have the money to spend on products like that but are able to use them because they can pay with their data, which has no cash value to them.
It was a subjective assessment to be sure, but one shared by many. You can tell because of how few users it has, though I'm sure someone will pop up and blame the fact that it doesn't come pre-installed on PCs as the reason, without consideration for the concept that if people actually wanted to use it, it might.
This may help people who are under attack by governments of unimportant countries. But attacks by the governments of the world's great powers come in the form of national security letters, sealed court orders, secret warrants, and those are usually illegal to disclose to the target of the attack.
> Not allowing kids to use smartphones during class is a huge difference than not allowing them at all in school

Learning how to put down their phones while socializing and working will probably be more valuable to these students, in the long run, than scoring a few extra minutes of Instagram. It isn't like they can't use their phones once off campus.
Man-made boundaries can be objective, factual, reasonable.
Ahhhh thanks for RTFA for me
Is this supposed to be good news? I see lots of excitement in this thread, but isn't having a single company worth so much money a sign that we are, as a society, failing to create an economy that is truly competitive and fair?
We've already got banks that are too big to fail, soon we might have private companies that are humongous to the point of having the same status.
Samsung is making much more Operating Income than AAPL. Why their market cap is so low?
The developers don't want to maintain old clients...backward compatibility proved too expensive. Apple proved autoupdate is the way. Browser vendors did the same.
I'm starting to see a lot of people charging Facebook/Apple/Google/Amazon with anti-competitive behavior, and yet most of the charges (including a lot of the ones the EU charges Google and Apple for) are just normal business behavior. Nobody cares about whether your smaller firm can compete against larger companies or not.

As a consumer, I don't give a damn if Apple is "mean" to your business. Learn to compete better.

If these companies are stopping a better product from coming to the market then by all means lets throw antitrust at them; but if your product is just a clone and/or lower quality product that cannot get users, nobody cares.

Sorry, but learn to compete.
I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean. Can you describe how you use git for excel?
A valid point, but missing the point of the question, which I take to mean "Warren Buffet's current level of wealth". I don't think the desire is to catch up to Mr. Buffet.
https://rozgo.github.io/

I try. Dynamical systems engineer is difficult to describe with text.
Alright fair I'll admit I barely touch any editing tools and I only have a laptop to run Linux on right now so I personally enjoy it tremendously. Apologies for letting emotions boil over.
> This isn't a subsidy, it's hydro power; which is limited, but cheap to produce.

The government is buying electricity from the region next door to make up for shortfalls, so I am confident they could sell their cheap electricity the other direction as well when they have an excess. Not selling that electricity at market prices and instead selling it at below market rates to companies because you think they benefit your community is a subsidy.

Heck, even if you couldn't sell the electricity to neighboring regions, you should still sell it at market rates and then distribute the resulting money in a more targeted way.

> If the companies got a cash subsidy instead, they would probably pocket the cash without doing as much as they promised to do to get it.

You don't have to hand them cash for nothing. You could give it as payroll tax breaks or a million other methods that are a lot more targeted than per-KW-hr. It's lunacy to think that power usage is even roughly proportional to the number of people employed pre-bitcoin. Businesses very tremendously in their power-usage-to-employee ratio.
I'm about 90% through a rework of my personal site, https://www.brentbaum.com/

Would love feedback on what works / doesn't work design-wise.
I built a forge a few years ago with a bucket, plaster of paris, some quartz sand, some iron pipe and a blow dryer. Then I started hammering on steel when it turned red.

Metal reclamation is just chemistry so youtube and grainger are all you really need.
> You need not to change arch

See the pics: http://const.me/tmp/vc/codegen.png http://const.me/tmp/vc/optimize.png

> You need to find docs on compiler optimization techniques

Indeed, #pragma loop(no_vector) in the source code before the inner loop did the trick. The results are very close to GCC.
Apple is worth $1 trillion in the same way an asteroid hurtling toward Earth contains $1 trillion in precious metals.

Tim Cook has yet to prove he can do more than maximize profits while someone somewhere is working on the thing that'll undermine the source of Apple's value while they're not looking.

edit: generalized away from a specific example because it distracted from the point.
Pentax tried power zoom years ago and gave up on it rather quickly. The mount contacts that they created for it were repurposed when they introduced in-lens focus motors.
The moment I read 1-14 units a week that must be wine I thought: “well, that’s every intellectual that I know”.

I haven’t done any research, and all my knowledgeable is anecdotal. But I did work in a dementia ward as a caretaker for 5 years as a student job, and keeping your mind busy throughout life seems like a good idea.
One could be cheap and use something like "The Sims" for evaluation and then optimize building that are possible to build there.

You would probably get more realistic buildings due to the different constraints on them.

I don't think the results should be taken to serious, but I imagine it serious fun to see them. xD
Sinespace Enables Real-Time 3D Modeling and Customization While in VR
It's not a secret that Jobs was an extraordinary business man but a pretty lousy human being. I think this is a quality needed for many tycoons of industry. Most biography's paint these people poorly, Musk, Ellison, Gates, Bezos even Page and Brin are all painted in this light, yet still praised.
Not really. I dont see why anyone would complain about bitcoin wasting energy but not crappy web design when the latter wastes more (reddit is just one example of this).

Afaict, you should complain about both or prioritize the larger waste if your true goal is to reduce the amount of wasted energy.
Marketing probably correct if you asked that question about the current set of incumbents that were out. Blackberry, Palm, and the rest of the phones with keyboards were not worth $600. I think Marketing's failure was not factoring in the new product category that was being defined. Honest mistake, honest miscalculation, and great quotable from Ballmer.
I love the idea! Where do you store the videos? What's your tech stack?

Maybe read/watch receipts for who has watched the videos right beneath the videos themselves would be an improvement.
That's some serious FUD you've got going on, and a total misrepresentation of what the rules actually say.

You only need to apply to be an owner-builder if you are doing your own work instead of hiring someone who is already permitted to do the work. This is no different from the US practice of having licensed contractors/electricians carrying out (or signing off on) large projects.
> AMD video card support.

Please pick stuff that is actually not available on Linux if you do those kind of lists. AMD is providing FLOSS drivers to the Linux kernel and mesa for years now.
> This is why Mozilla can add spyware to Firefox.

Mozilla has some interesting technical solutions to this problem: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
This is how it was here in the US when I was a kid in the 90's with pagers and cellphones. I don't see what the big deal is. I'm surprised it's taken this long. I don't know how schools are today, but I would assume they would not have changed the rules and such things would still be banned in all of high school and below. If not, maybe parents should ask their schools why they changed the rules? Assuming of course that they don't want their kids to be on their cellphone 100% of the time in school, something that's inevitable if they are allowed to have them.
I've had one running as a nightly scheduled task on my Windows 7 laptop for about ten years. Its primary purpose was to securely erase all the stuff in my Recycle Bin as well as wipe search history, application history, etc.

More of a privacy thing than a space-saving thing, really.
>> Without LIDAR you can use stereoscopic vision (like human with two eyes) but that is very demanding, not that accurate, and very error prone.

Because that isn't how people judge distances, at least not distances beyond a few feet in front of their faces. Plenty of people with only one eye do very well. It is a difficult problem because we use a variety of techniques and 'hardware' when estimating distances and speeds. Car companies are trying to do with one tool (ie lidar) something we do with many.
No, 5 to 1 has been the ratio in recent decades. I know this was true in 1990s when I studied this issue, and it could not have changed that much in 20 years. So 100 trillion would be my assumption.
But you cannot really opt out from Windows telemetry.
You didn't complain on AN/I. You complained on the 3-revert-rule violation (now Edit Warring) noticeboard, and failed to even mention the edit warring that the noticeboard is about. Again, it's errors like this, and mis-labelling people as Wikipedia administrators when they are not and never have been, that undermine the credibility of this account of events.
It is implicitly, but this is often obscured because currency is both a medium of exchange and a store of value. Accounting makes the distinction between your income statement (which has a time period attached, usually either quarterly or annually, and is focused on dollars exchanged with other entities) and your balance sheet (which is a snapshot quantity at a particular point in time, and is focused on dollars stored). GDP is part of a country's income statement - it reflects how many goods & services were produced & sold within the country.
Hi Beni! Thank you for your feedback! I'll put it into consideration for the next iteration! I'm gonna be making a few UI tweaks based of the use in the next days now that it is out for people to try it.

The app is not yet there, that's why I didn't show it, also, I didn't want to post a mockup of it to not make it misleading, as right now it only the web app. :-)
In contrast, see a proposal[0] by Austrian economist Bob Murphy for reforming a different entitlement program in such a way that would reduce costs for the same service. Summary excerpt:

The Social Security program is in the hole by $11 trillion. The government could ameliorate this gap by letting Americans opt out of the system, so long as they make a payment to cover the present value (if positive) of their net obligations. Because the pay-as-you-go system has an implicit rate of return that is lower than private investments but higher than what the government would pay in the bond market, there are “win-win” moves that allow workers to build up a larger retirement fund while reducing the government’s financial hole.

[0]: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2017/Murphysocialsec...
A pretty large portion of the population doesn't get it through employment or does but sees the price because they're paying part of it.
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> I also support a ban on smartphones by extension

I support a ban during class. Between classes, however, it seems fine to let students co-ordinate extra-curricular activities on their phones.
The version of CCleaner currently on my Windows 7 PC is easily five years old at this point. I keep thinking I need to update it, but then another scandal like this happens and I just leave it alone once more.
Everybody including every other space CEO, people from all levels of NASA and pretty much everybody that is innvolved in Space is giving SpaceX top marks on innovation on almost every single level, production, operation, technology and so on.

But of course you know much better how simple all these things are. For you to disagree with that is just emberecing yourself.

The same applies in a lesser degree to your other comments. Do you seriously belive that the origonal EV in 1900 was the end of development and all Tesla did was 'throw money at it'? That is the hight of stupidity and you again wont find a single expert on the subject agreeing with you.

Also the battery chemstry is co-licenced by Tesla and Panasonic with the design of the cells and even part of the chemistry being inhouse at Tesla. Panasonic can not sell this technology.

So when you are spreading baseless FUD, at least get your information correct.

You seem to have lost all rationality in context to of this question.
I find the "humans can do it with eyes" argument pretty weak. Humans also have brains, which are doing most of the heavy lifting. With something like LIDAR, you're shifting more of that heavy lifting into the sensors, so that you don't have to go as deep into trying emulate the human brain in processing. It's such an obvious point.
Food for thought... Japan also has private insurance/providers, mostly through employers, just like the US. But they have half our cost, universal coverage, and better outcomes. Why? The big difference is that Japan has strict price controls. Insurers and providers don't negotiate with each other (in network vs out of network in the US). Prices are set to make sure providers and insurers are both profitable but not profiteering.

Of course, such an idea here would be seen as straight-up Marxism.
That isn't what is meant by security. Security means adequate housing (where "adequate" is clean with sufficient space for each person in the household to provide some privacy for hygiene, sleep, etc. and perhaps communal areas for cooking and laundry), adequate food (providing sufficient quantity and variety for thriving: neither excess nor deficiency, and not bare minimum), and adequate health care regardless of time frame.

What you describe as your requirement for happiness is possibly well above or below what is meant here (depending on your lifestyle).
If I trained a child to drive, I'd be comfortable letting them drive at 6. I believe I was around that age the first time I drove (handling steering, with assistance on gas / brake). My memory is that the only difficult part was a lack of power steering on hilly terrain.

Same age for walking around town unsupervised: the Japanese do and don't seem to lose many.

My original point was focused on the technical feasibility of driving with limited sensor input, which is physically possible.

Whether or not it takes a week, a month, or a million experience-years is a computational and algorithm problem.

All of which (based on previous technological progression) appear to be tractable.
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I just checked my games libraries. 16/27 (59%) itch.io games and 75/146 (51%) on Steam support Linux. It's not exactly a niche platform anymore.

Edit: Humble Bundle, 84 Linux games. I don't know how to filter to only "games" to get a total though.
We've used HackerOne at a startup I work at (10-20 employees).
We had to turn it off because we were getting bombarded every couple days with the same issues, that were just run by crackers/hackers running basic pen test scripts. They all seemed to have the same toolkit, and would just run the same tests and report the same bugs. Most of which were either invalid, or just not a priority and, so, a waste of our time to read. The write-up of the bug was also poor, with poor English, and this causes wasted time..

Before signing up for another bug bounty program I'd want to know that:

1) The testers were not mostly just amateur crackers running the same toolkit on 100 sites per day, and the same toolkit that 10 testers ran yesterday.

2) The amount of dupe reports was basically 0.. If we get a bug reported and we ignore it, and make zero response, we still do not want to get the same report 10 times over the next 2 months.

3) The write-ups should have proper English, good grammar, and be very clear.

4) If a user reports 10 bugs, and we only want to pay for 1, that should be totally fine. The other 9 are either dupes that we have ignored before, or new reports that are just not a priority or worth looking at.

5) We basically never want to get into a negotiation with the hackers over if a payout should be $2000 because 10 bugs were reported when we know of all the bugs and, basically, don't value them.
Yes, but configuring that for hundreds of remotes is infeasible.
I'm thinking about moving my site off GitHub pages to allow for some more interesting kinds of features (with a DB), though in general I strongly believe that sites like a personal blog or portfolio should be as lightweight as possible.
Users flagged it, presumably because they didn't think it followed the site guidelines. Hard to say if they were reacting to the article or the thread. Divisive topics like this pretty much always turn into flamewars unless they include significant new information for the mind to chew on.
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Grass-feed cattle farmers tell me it takes almost exactly the same amount of land to graze cows as it does to grow the grain to feed them in a feedlot, so that would be a direction to look: replacing grain farming with ecological grazing.
>we all pay for it in our taxes - which I'm personally quite happy about

The problem is that there seem to be entirely too few people in the US willing to pay for some benefit that other people receive, even if it would help them too. There are just so many people hung up on how "unfair" it is to have to pay for someone else's food stamps or health insurance or whatever.
Yeah, lets make our analysis on a bunch of early mistakes and draw conclusions from there.
Large companies spend millions lobbying to keep it that way. It's not a accident that it's legal. They're not just innocently taking advantage of loopholes that just happen to be there. They help create them and keep then that way at the normal tax payers expense.
I'm not sure if I agree or not, but I think the argument is this: Legal prostitution would increase the supply enough to make the economics behind illegal trafficking far less lucrative.
You are are using your moderator powers for "political battle". Sleep tight is all I can say.
In case of FFI, if C & Rust are using the same allocator (say the system allocator), does it mean that memory allocated by C can be freed by Rust and vice-versa?
A private plan will be cheaper per person than most any corporate plan, regardless of their negotiating power. Many people think their corporate plan is a great deal, because they are only contributing a small portion to the total cost. The company is picking up the rest of the tab.

And if you are going to go solo and plan to live off savings for a while, Marketplace subsidies are based only on income. So even if you have $1m in the bank, you will still get the subsidies. The sweet spot is to make just enough to "not" qualify for your state's medicare program. For a family of 3, depending on where you live, you could make $50k and still get excellent coverage for a few hundred dollars a month.