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Yeah, the sub-1K would be a resonable price point. A lot of place (including where I live) does not have peak metering. Essentially it will take over 20 years for me to breakeven for the power bank which really does not make sense at a financial point of view. I think a lot of people would want a 2 kWh battery hooked up to their existing solar setup just for emergency purposes. I live on the east coast and it would be perfect for the essentials. Just enough to keep the boiler going for hot water and a couple lights until the power comes back up. We get these short term blackouts (especially during snow storms) which is just long enough to be annoying (like 2-3 hrs) but not long enough to make bringing out the generator worthwhile.
Agreed. I think there will be some genuine interest in a PHP-like language that drops some of the cruft and adds a few modern tweaks. Plus, having a large company that uses it everyday will help.
Thanks for the link! I couldn’t remember the attribution.
Should Bezos pay part-time workers full-time wages so they don't have to use government programs?
"$140k worth of BTC for 10% of equity" -- what makes you think the company is worth $1.4M?

Trading strategies are a dime a dozen, that kind of backtesting does not mean much because there is very limited data, there were historic runs, and there are lots of whales trying to squeeze alpha out of BTC charts.

Then mentioning AGI in the same breath does not give confidence.
If Amazon had paid their federal income taxes this philanthropy wouldn't be necessary.

Amazon paid no federal income tax in 2017:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may...
Is there any reason to use .iter() over .par_iter()? Does the latter have higher constant costs that only amortize on lists larger than some value? Or could you just replace .iter() with .par_iter() under the hood and reap the benefits for free?

I guess if you are iterating over something declared unsafe? But the compiler should be able to recognize that and fall back to the linear version automatically.
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Or amazon gift cards!
Yes, that's the one I was thinking about / been looking at tonyedgecombe, thanks!
1.4 kWh sounds perfect for me. I just need enough to keep the essentials up without setting up the generator. Any recommendations where I can get some of the parts you are talking about?
Maybe I am prejudiced but I have the feeling that mainframes get sold to shops with a lot of money based on the salesman's skills and, well, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a kickback here and there, to oil the old engine. Not because they are the best tech.

That may be a bigger obstacle to people getting in that area. You can make money in non-corrupt companies where your career won't get stuck.
Here's an article that explains the methodology and model of the paper. The system was developed by MIT researchers and is called "Transparency by Design network (TbD-Net)":

https://towardsdatascience.com/transparent-reasoning-how-mit...
Isn't this the general AI that plays Atari games by watching? It would have to guess the rules of Adventure.

If it doesn't evolve into a corner, it probably could master those games given enough time, but how much is enough time?
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They seem to start diversifying the distribution channels with residential and utility-scale battery installs.
They already have a history of cross platform "emulation" from the PowerPC to X86 move.

You know they've already figured it out and it's down to a business decision not a technical one.

I could even imagine they've gotten Parallels involved - an ARM prototype perhaps?
But isn't he paying market wages for them? Similar to what the other companies are paying them.
Mainframe skills shortage is a complete fabrication, it simply doesn’t exist. In June of this year a local company laid off 850 people, a company with a large mainframe installation (SS&C formerly DST Systems). Hundreds were mainframe programmers. This is after a decade offshoring. There are thousands of former mainframers here. And this is just in Kansas City, Mo.

Anecdotal but representative I believe. Mainframes are costs centers, always will be. And the target of cost cutting. Millenials aren’t dumb!
Flip it around.

These people needed government support, and Bezos is giving them a job, so now they need less government support than they did before. Bezos is helping to give money to people who would have otherwise been totally on welfare.
>powered by a 7nm SoC enabling up to 512 GBytes of memory.

What is the relation between 7nm and storage capacity? Is the nand 7nm?
My kid was always 90+ percentile for height when she was younger. Then when she got an expander (ortho stuff) she stopped growing almost completely for about a year. Then she seemed to resume growing. I have wondered if putting stresses in the jaw forcing it to expand may have triggered something that slowed her growth. Or perhaps it was a coincidence that she plateaued at that time. Now I see this:

>> They found that the cells surrounding the suppressed tissue communicated with the placenta, which then signaled the rest of the organism’s tissues—including the other hind leg—to slow their growth until the hindered limb caught up.

This makes me want someone to study kids growth before, during, and after things like orthodontic treatments. Maybe it really wasn't a coincidence. Putting pressure on the bones to force them apart may have signaled the rest of the body that one part needed to catch up and so the rest slowed down.
Alternate heading: “Bezos donates 1.2% of his net-worth to help homeless”
If only it were so simple. What you are proposing seems to require universal acceptance of an authoritarian regime that sets the social rules which are, as you say, "not negotiable". Otherwise in a free society almost everything is negotiable and a precise definition of common decency is not so common, particularly across cultures. Similarly, trying to produce a complete and widely-accepted definition of intolerance is almost certain to elicit plenty of actual intolerance, but not enough to actually compile a complete and widely-accepted definition of intolerance.
At some point you have to blame the homeless people themselves. I've been walking up to them searching for a hot-spot and found that nearly none of them are choosing to make money by being walking routers anymore.

Also interesting to find out that there aren't any vacant homes anymore.
From A History of Richard the Third by Jacob Abbott (1901):

"This ceremony being concluded, a company of heralds came forward before the king, and proclaimed 'a largesse,' as it was called. The ceremony of a largesse consisted in throwing money among the crowd to be scrambled for. Three times the money was thrown out, on this occasion, among the guests in the hall. The amount that is charged on the royal account-book for the expense of this largesse is one hundred pounds."
That makes sense. I can appreciate the pragmatism, especially if you're a Vue fan.
"Philanthropy" is just another way that oligarchs take tax-free control of our society and shape it to their whims. A fine example of this is Bill Gates - with no educational training or experience, he used his fortune to push failing methods on millions on American kids.[1]

Bezos is a great creator of poverty. He is the wrong person to try and fix it. We need to just make these oligarchs pay taxes and living wages, full-stop.

[1] https://www.philanthropydaily.com/gates-philanthropy-failure...
you might want to check up on the actual breakdown of that specific head tax bill, there is a bunch of fairly neutral and level-headed discussions of it on Seattle subreddits. Tldr, it was really bad, as it hurt a bunch of small to medium sized local businesses that everyone uses, but somehow no one thought of when crafting the bill, and they were among the ones spearheading the repeal.

The only thing that bill illustrated to me personally is how ineffective and ridiculously bad Seattle government officials are. Passed with a 9-0 vote, repealed extremely shortly after with 7-2.
There's two core differences.

The first is what happens when you get something wrong. Let's say you write a templated function. This is Rust syntax, mapping it to C++ is left as an exercise for the reader:

fn foo<T>(x: T) {
x.bar();
}

Rust checks the types before expansion, not after. So you get this error:

error[E0599]: no method named `bar` found for type `T` in the current scope
--> src/lib.rs:2:9
|
2 | x.bar();
| ^^^

In C++, this stuff is checked after expansion, so if you only pass things that have bar to foo, you're all good! It will compile. But when you pass something that doesn't, you'll get an error then.

This is a restriction, but one that leads to better error messages, and stronger checks. You'd need to write

fn foo<T: Bar>(x: T)

where Bar is a trait that provides a bar method.

The second difference is what is allowed in generics: Rust only lets you use type parameters. We have accepted an RFC to allow constant expressions (the most straightforward of which is 'integers'), but it hasn't been implemented yet. C++ lets you do this today https://stackoverflow.com/questions/499106/what-does-templat... and https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/template_paramete... (they also have "template template parameters" aka higher kinded types https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/template_paramete...)
I’m not opposed to new taxes, but that was a really poorly designed tax.
The Tax Foundation article uses Bureau of Economic Analysis data as well. The difference is that the Tax Foundation article also accounts for taxes. (Hence my digression on why Californians' lower purchasing power is not, unlike in Europe, offset by robust public services.)

Note that your reference has California at #25 for personal income, and #21 adjusted for cost of living. That seems odd...
The "pyrolytic" (incineration + electrolysis) process just leaves elemental carbon. Shredding obviously varies. I believe the plastics are usually burnt, but I'm not sure what happens to the other carbon compounds- they're fairly simple things (eg ethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate), both of which break down in nature relatively quickly. I'm not sure what the timeline on biodegradeability is, but for comparison ethylene glycol (which is a bit simpler, but similar) breaks down in ten days according to wikipedia.

It seems to me like it'd be easier to burn them off rather than skimming them after electrolysis, but I don't want to assume.
I think the point is that if his business is making so much money to make him the worlds richest person and his company one of the top two in the world, you would HOPE that would trickle down into good jobs throughout his business such that people who work for him had no need of public assistance.

Alas.
One is a decree, the other is a choice.
Your link doesn't support your claim, as it indicates rent control exists in D.C., several cities in Maryland, over 100 jurisdictions in N.J., as well as a smaller (but still large) number of jurisdictions in NY and almost a dozen in CA (there's also some more in CA listed in a heading of “other than rent control”, which seems likely to be intended to indicate something that is not rent control but raises some similar issues for landlords, but the links all appear to be dead links, so the actual specific meaning is less than clear.)

So, if it's “almost exclusive” to any pair of states, it's New Jersey and New York, not NY and CA.

(The source is also inaccurate in at least one respect, in that NY by the description given on the page and CA due to Costa-Hawkins both meet the criteria for a “Yes” in State Prohibits or Preempts Rent Control column, but both have blanks in that column.)
If you amass a huge fortune through paying your workers low wages, it would probably be best to avoid amassing that huge fortune, give your workers a larger share of your profits, and allow them to donate themselves. It helps you to avoid the temptation to cynically set up a tax-offsetting fund to avoid potential legislation that forces you to contribute to the communities where you are located.

Either way, it's good to figure out how to contribute back to a country who created your wealth, by allowing you to operate a business for two decades without being subject to the sales taxes that the long-shuttered businesses who previously employed your desperate applicants were required to pay.

So donate to politicians early so you don't have to pay taxes, donate to charity to avoid taxes later, buy a newspaper somewhere in between.
As a Seattle resident, what do you think of the argument that Amazon greatly contributed to homelessness in Seattle?

I read somewhere that Amazon's explosive growth raised the property values in Seattle, which in turn caused a surge in homelessness. Is that true?
Why don't they quit and find other better paying job?
Wow, I thought I was alone and did something unconventional. Good(?) to hear that this isnt me.
There is no such paradox.

Popper is talking about not permitting of force as a mechanism for dispute resolution. The "paradox of tolerance" isn't a paradox at all. It's just a bludgeon people use to suppress free speech. It's ridiculous to claim that a discussion of the proper level of immigration is a threat to discourse generally.
> I think the definition of "literally" as its opposite is already included in the OED. Literally now literally means figuratively.

No, it doesn't.

Some words change meaning over time, as language naturally changes.

That is not the case with this word. This word is fundamental, like a gatekeeper to discussion of reality. It can no more mean its opposite than can "light" mean "dark", or "good" mean "evil."

> Thanks English.

English is not a person. English didn't do anything. By saying this, you deflect blame from those who are actively working to disrupt our use of language and corrupt our discourse.

The OED is not in charge of the English language. Just because someone who works there decided to rubber-stamp a definition into being doesn't mean that a word literally has the opposite meaning. If it means that people are already commonly misusing it, then it's all the more reason to stand up for the correct meaning. If we lose the ability to refer to reality, to distinguish from fantasy, then how will we even discern them in our own minds?

This is not centuries ago, before electronic communication, when trends took decades or centuries to travel. Today, you can post on Twitter one minute, and be world-famous (or infamous) the next. Use that power to make language better, stronger, and more meaningful. There are already enough people throwing in the towel, and others actively working to destroy.
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There must be a market for less sweet sodas. I don't like excessively sweet food nor excessively sweet drinks, I like sweet stuff but not on the level must products are. It's really difficult (at least in my city) to find balanced stuff, most of the time I only have two options: regular soda or zero-sugar soda (even sweeter).
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Latin arguably still ia the lingua franca of science when you look at specialized vocabulary (species taxonomies are the most obvious manifestation of this). Otherwise we'd be calling the outside of the brain "brain bark" instead of "cerebral cortex".
This is something I have legitimately wondered for a while now, and maybe someone on here with an economics background has some links to share:

Which is more economically efficient:

1. Pay workers above-market wages

2. Pay workers market wages, but use taxes and some sort of welfare to bring the workers effective income up to where it would be had you paid them above-market wages.

Presumably the taxes used to fund Option 2 would be something like a wealth tax (including corporate wealth).

My non-economist intuition is that Option 1 could have weird effects on the economy due to paying non-market-based wages.
Money given today pays dividends in the lives of those who benefit and the lives of people who are around them, it just doesn't show up on any balance sheet. The after school program that provides the missing support network for a child, keeping them out of a street gang and later prison, and helping them develop the skills to find gainful employment pays hidden dividends of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for society. Also there are second and third order effects that amplify those gains further. If that money was instead earning 5% in an endowment fund, it may keep the name of a robber baron alive for perpetuity, but it does far less for society today. And if you could trace the knock-on effects of the money given today, you would likely find that the benefits distributed throughout society accumulate quicker than the 5% rate of growth achieved by that endowment fund.
Those benefits are public resources that could be used for other things, like helping the homeless. You could say that taxpayers are subsidizing Bezos' PR stunt
I don't necessarily agree with you, but another interesting take on this is by Slavoj Zizek, who argues that charitable giving perpetuates the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
Yeah, all it would take for me to take on a mainframe is "we need someone for a permanent position that you can live on". I'm in this profession because I loved computers as a kid and it's never stopped. You wanna show me something novel? I'll be happy to learn it (assuming there's a livable job in there at the same time). They just have to be willing to teach it.
There is an immense corpus of software that is optimized for x86. It's not easy stuff a compiler can optimize - it's stuff that checks and uses SSE and AVX when available that need to have NEON (I forgot the new name) support added in order to be on par with the x86 stuff. Backblaze did a fine post on porting Xeon/SSE code to NEON a couple months back.

Apple now benefits from being on the x86 bandwagon - by the time it launches a new computer with a new Intel processor, there are already people checking what the new parts can do and optimizing software for them. If Apple is the only company that uses their own processors, they need to bring all that optimization work in-house and manage it in a way it stays competitive with the world outside.

The final point is that I'm not sure how much cheaper for them it'd be. Of course they could get the chips at cost, but they'd need to bankroll their development and all the fine tuning that goes with it.
> I'm curious as to how they might solve x86 compatibility.

Didn't Microsoft already demo how to do this, where they emulate x86 on ARM? Then again, Intel apparently isn't too happy about that.[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523587
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It's wrong but how is it the company's fault? It is the government's responsibility to set a minimum wage. How come the blame doesn't fall on the policy makers and lobbyists?
The right way to respond to inflammatory political comments is to flag them, not to feed them oxygen.
Hey peteski22,

Exactly what you suggested would work! Having an AppRole that never expires would allow the trusted orchestrator to authenticate on each run, and then generate and inject ephemeral credentials.
They are.. which is why they have dozens of entries in the FEC's disbursement database since June 2015:

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction...
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Any chance you could braindump a tl;dl?
If you're making $50k/year, that's a one time 6 percent bonus. Color me unimpressed.
Will this be more or less than the tax breaks given to the new Amazon HQ...
Isnt this the point of OOP?

Does any other language have a solution to this?
Reminds me of the writing coming from Anand Giridharadas. In the New York Times last month he wrote:

"...even as they give back, American elites generally seek to maintain the system that causes many of the problems they try to fix — and their helpfulness is part of how they pull it off. Thus their do-gooding is an accomplice to greater, if more invisible, harm."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/sunday/wealth-phi...
Since the Atari era, video games changed significantly in as much as they no longer tend to be built around trying to "kill" the human player and end their game. This structure made sense in a video game arcade (you die, you put in another quarter, the more often this happens without you losing interest the more money the game makes) and it got inherited into most early video games _because_ of the arcades, but it's not actually fun.

In most modern games the human will invariably "win" eventually, so the "try to get most points before dying" approach makes less sense in general. But, _Speed running_ has become a very popular activity even in games you may not think of as being about "speed". I will be interested to see multi-purpose AIs take on speed running for two reasons:

1. The evaluation function is easier for the machine AND the human assessing it to understand, especially for "Any%" runs in most games, where the rule is basically you don't care how the game is supposed to be played, you just want to go from the start to the end in the least time using the controls (e.g. Mario Kart speed runs are often mostly about convincing the game that your shorter route counts as a "lap" of the track).

2. TAS (Tool Assisted Speed-running) is already a thing, TAS players don't compete with live human players, they choose and play back a precise sequence of inputs to cause the game to play out in a particular way, so they can do hundreds of frame-precise movements, or even influence hidden internal variables (with the effect that seemingly "random" behaviour from a game often proves to be deterministic). An AI can do everything the TAS player can, moment by moment, but it reacts to changes, which a TAS run cannot, on the other hand the TAS players often have deep insight into the implementation details of the game which would not be available to a general purpose AI player.
iter is in the standard library, and par_iter isn't, for one.

I'm not quite sure about the constant cost thing, but I would imagine that it's true, as it's inherently doing more work.
Not a public event? Well, how come we are watching the video? It's public. So careful? Why are you using a throwaway account?