skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all land is a good pasture. In many parts of the world, good pasture are also efficient carbon sinks. In my part of the world those carbon sinks are rare (only about 10% of pastures are carbon sinks), and the few that are good are even better as farmland.

That overlap is not 100%. Some good pasture is bad farmland, but the claim that good pasture is good farmland is a good rule of thumb
The vector approach is just as flexible in my understanding.
I was surprised to learn that this isn't how linkers work. Apparently one of the reasons c++ template code is so slow to link is long symbol names.
Since when is 2% of global human CO2 emissions "only"? What single concentrated source has anywhere near such an impact?
Book by Aaron W. Hughes about the use of the term "Abrahamic religions" Oxford University Press, 2012:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/abrahamic-religions-...

From the description:

"Directly proportionate to the rise of religious exclusivism, perhaps best epitomized by the attacks of 9/11 and the problems now plaguing the Middle East and Afghanistan, there has been a real desire both to find and map a set of commonalities between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is often done, however, for the sake of interfaith dialogue, rather than scholarship."

"Like our understanding of Abraham, the category "Abrahamic religions" is vague and nebulous. Usually lost in contemporary discussions is a set of crucial questions: Whence does the term "Abrahamic religions" derive? Who created it and for what purposes? What sort of intellectual work is it perceived to perform? In order to answer these and related questions, Aaron Hughes examines the creation and dissemination of this category in Abrahamic Religions."

Quotes from the book:

"There is no historical precedent
for reading the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim myths that deal with the
figure of Abraham or Ibrahim together in the ways that many want to
align them today."

"Those interested
in reclaiming this Abraham for interfaith dialogue are not motivated by
historical study, even though they may try to make certain appeals to it.
Rather they imagine variously constructed romanticized and pristine
periods of interfaith interaction. They subsequently create a set of words
and categories based on their own contemporary concerns and desires,
and then read these into various historical and textual sources."
> 99% of London housing is used for living in.

Are they all owners or the owners actually "invested" in a piece of property calculating the rent passive income and the possible increase in market value as part of the overall rentability of their investment?
> I therefore [mostly] stop trying to get it from other sources

That makes the assumption that these people were looking for news sources anyway. Sure, there's going to be some people that fall into that camp.

I can't provide evidence either way, but I would be entirely unsurprised if there were a large percentage of people who don't look for news with any regularity at all. They wern't interested in hitting up a news site.

And to be clear, when I say news, I don't mean the latest celebrity gossip mag, or some specialist/niche publication on their particular interests that might have some news content.
This gives me a great inspiration for a programming puzzle and learning method:

Replace all variable/function names with generics. Your only job is to give names to every variable (trying to figure out what each does). After you're done you can compare to de-obfuscated names to see if they do what you expected (if they're named sensibly).
China has an MAU just behind Germany? Is this a glitch in the Wall?
How Scott Galloway Learned How to Invest at 13 – From a Stranger
A little more meat in the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_de_Brune
Is there an app or device that can reliably determine if you are in REM and signal you so you can become lucid? Does lucid dreaming affect the recovery you get from sleep?
I am not sure that multi-threaded is the way to optimize file writes; I would have thought that leaving as much as possible up to the kernel, by using writev(2), splice(2), etc. would be best.
> Nominal wages are sticky, for a complex mix of sociological reasons, and so employers do not always respond to lower demand with lower wages for workers. Instead they lay some people off, and that can lead to a recession.

And the main reason is that reducing wages creates unhappy, unmotivated people. If you own a business you want unhappy unmotivated out. By laying off people you keep people who (supposedly) are happy that they have not been and kept their salary.

If you are business owner, it is better to keep 90% of your crew but motivated vs keeping 100% but unmotivated.

> That may sound pretty simple. But it is one of the most important discoveries in history.

I wonder why is that. If you are a business owner this is common sense.

> The second thing to know is that well-functioning central banks can offset such demand shocks to a considerable degree.

It is unfortunate that they are called "banks". We need to have better differentiation in naming, as central banks and regular banks don't share same goals.

Except they do, and that is next point.

> The third thing to know is that if central banks go crazy increasing the money supply, the result will be high price inflation.

Because the reality is that increasing money supply is theft/taxation (is there really a difference?) By printing money central bank taxes each unit of currency decreasing its value.

While central banks print money directly, the "regular" banks "print" money indirectly. By having ability to lend more than the cash they actual have the "regular" banks are also creating supply of money out of thin air. This can't be called taxation anymore so the only way to call it is theft.
i think the way forward is electric scooters. Some like the xiaomi are cheap, have really decent figures and are actually very useful for getting you places in town. But they are not road legal. For some inane reason the answer to pollution in cities has been banned and those who dare ignore the ban endanger their licence. So we are left with bloated, overpriced, electric cars which benefit the fewest possible number of people.
Jokes on you, my sperm count fell 100% three years ago, and I like it that way.
>Except for the fact that they missed out on untold fortunes and profits being bearish that entire time.

That's how bubbles form. The rationally irrational know there are gains to be had by being irrational. It's pretty sad that this is something to brag about.
Any land reclaimed from livestock feeding could be returned to nature, be it rainforests in Brazil or woodlands in Europe. Livestock uses a massive amount of agricultural land in comparison to plant production meant for direct human consumption.

It's just a very very simple math based on the amount of crops it takes to grow animals for meat -- and soy is much more efficient than grass in that sense, so your suggestion would make things decidedly worse for environment.
Yes, but that's my point too. The framework is never challenged.

He says "The first and most important thing [..] is that a strong negative shock to demand [..] leads to a loss of output and employment"

Fair enough. Not even a comment of what causes the demand shock, but it's OK.

And then he jumps to:

" Nominal wages are sticky, for a complex mix of sociological reasons, and so employers do not always respond to lower demand with lower wages for workers. Instead they lay some people off, and that can lead to a recession."

The are a lot of assumptions there than are not for discussion, are just part of the framework.

He says: "The third thing to know is that if central banks go crazy increasing the money supply, the result will be high price inflation."

This is just not true, the central bank can increase the money supply all that they want, if the money is not spend in the economy there is not going to be inflation. This has been tested empirically by Japan in the last decades and the Fed and ECB more recently, but it seems that the theory is not going to change, not matter what the reality says.

The fourth truth is truth, I think :-)
DAIC: A Suggested System for Preventing BEC Fraud
Thoughts and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
> Good link, Adrian Zenz is not big on the 'gays' and stuff, off topic but -

Off topic, indeed. And a logical fallacy to boot.

> I personally are critical of someone who looks at Christian documents to pin down technical data on the Rapture.

Irrelevant, as that isn't what we're talking about.

Your -- now flagged -- original comment referred to the forced sterilizations too. What you think of Adrian Zenz or the UN definition of genocide is absolutely irrelevant. There are no two ways about it: forced abortions and sterilizations _do_ fullfil the UN definition of genocide.
> No they're not, at least they're not pasture.

Thanks for telling me what the fields around me are!
Libui: A cross-platform wrapper over native GUI libraries (in C)
You mean the soyboys have been out evolved and outbred by the tofu eating Chadhuris?
And less dairy. Or less animal-sourced dairy but instead dairy made from grass in a fermentor.

https://thosevegancowboys.com/onze-missie/
It is worth mentioning that according to early Christian reports of Islam (St. John of Damascus), Muhammad’s encounter with Christianity – and therefore the kind of Christianity that he was suppposedly preaching the same message of – was with Nestorianism.

Nestorianism had already been denounced as a heresy by the core of the Christian world and consigned to the margins like Central Asia. The Byzantine Christian world especially was very insistent on christological formulations as a way of distinguishing the God that one worshiped. Groups like the Nestorians which held a different christological formulation were seen as worshipping a different god. No surprise this attitude also extended to Islam with its history of contact with Nestorianism and then a drastically different view of Christ.
The business model for news is "pay a journalist to write a story, serve that story to readers accompanied by ads, make enough money on the ads to pay the journalist".

Neither FB nor Google pay journalists. But they have the audience. So the newspaper posts their news story to FB and lets Google index it in the hope that enough people click through the link to read their story and see their ads.

But FB and Google both also serve ads along with the story listing, and they often post enough of the story so that the reader doesn't have to click through to the actual news site. So FB and Google get all the revenue that the story generates, and the news site gets none, despite having to pay the journalist to write it.
Yeah, you are right. OP has stock photo testimonials but at least got rid of any stock videos :)
Did the last paragraph change? It calls CN, the Canadian Nation Railway, a "national rail provider" NOT "Canadian Amtrak". A rail provider can provide either freight or passenger. The words "Canadian Amtrak" don't even appear in the article.
In Europe the Smart for 2 managed to fill a nice niche despite being as expensive as a regular, 5 people car.

The AMI is much cheaper and can be driven by teenagers at 14, so I suspect it can really find its place between the regular car and the electric bike for city. Typically this can be the 2nd car for a family, instead of having the family car + Twingo, you can get this one which is cheaper, easier to park and can be used by your teenager.

But yeah, Americans tend to associate their personality with their cars and drive a car as big as their garage can accomodate so it's probably not for them.
I wonder if the tax could be reduced with huge pages. Much of the cost of COW is the large number of page faults, but with huge pages you could reduce the number of faults to 1.
Nutrition, being a basic of human survival, has been sovled for millenias.

Humans were mostly subsistence cultures for millennia (which means a period of a thousand years, so you are saying we solved this thousands of years ago). We routinely starved to death and only recently figured out something called "nutrients" exist in food. It isn't that long ago we discovered Vitamin C as the cure for scurvy and it's the reason we have nicknames like "limeys."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey

That's from the 1850s. Not from two thousand years ago.
I wished they added couch co-op, like in Diablo 3. This was D3's best feature. Too few games nowadays have that.
One solution would be to create persistent buffers for the data on the GPU, and then map it and write directly to those buffers from the CPU. Big possible downsides here though, since the mapped memory doesn't behave like CPU memory.

Your variables would have to be accessed via pointers, but C# has robust pointer support and the compiler could probably rewrite them (JSIL did this)
very minor concern vs. benefits you get.

This is mostly about dissolved minerals, carbonates etc, and you should be able to control trivially.

I know I would prefer to know exactly what's in my water.
Where in the article did they call CN the "Canadian Amtrak"?
It may taste good, but your addiction to casein causes vast amounts of harm to the environment and to the animals who are exploited for the pleasure it brings yourself.
Facebook blinked.

The amendments are nothing concrete, but it gives Facebook something to spin in a press release, allowing them to save face.
From the headline, I was certain this article was going to be about Jon Muir.

TIL about Aidan de Brune.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_Across_Australia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Muir
There are some pretty decent filters out there that are not crazy expensive, guess it depends on how bad the water is though.
> "Yet, we know that throughout history, no fiat currency has ever survived. My thinking is that fi"

> It could be a coincidence right, that a day before Bitcoin whitepaper’s publish date, someone was thinking about disrupting fiat as we know it.

This Tweet was from copied from here, posted three days earlier to the tweet, sorry, coincidence. It's bot activity. Good round up though.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/russell/russell102808.html
But what would be a possible mother for it? Mammoths may be easier because (based on my very limited knowledge on the topic) elephants are not too distant from them, and with an incremental approach as other’s mentioned, it may be possible in the future.

Thylacine is pretty special as far as I know, with it being marsupial (though perhaps it is easier that way because a significant part of the development is outside the mother?)
Oh? How did Facebook get involved?
I would actually speculate that apart from the above iconoclastic view of Jesus from the orthodox belief, perhaps Judaism had a greater influence on Islam, and Islam's general view on the non-godliness of man. Islam and Judaism share almost similar prayer times, similar prayer styles, extremely parallel belief systems, etc due to the proximity of Jews in Arabia (Medina [Yathrib]
was a largely Jewish city pre-Islam). But while Judaism chose to reject Jesus as even a prophet outright, Islam sought to reconcile the view by keeping him a prophet, perhaps because the Roman Empire under Heraclius was still very dominant.

It is important to note that Islam was created as a very administrative religion rather than a philosophical one, partly because Muhammad wanted to see it being adopted in 3 key regions. He sent emissaries to Heraclius the Elder (at Constantinople), who briefly considered the proposal, to the Patriarch of the Copts (at Alexandria), who amicably received it, preserved it (till today) and sent back his own friendly missive of rejection [1], and to Khusrau of the Sassanid Empire, who tore up the letter. So I doubt that Muhammad actually gave much effort to philosophical aspects such as Jesus or Ahura Mazda, and simply chose to borrow the history from nearby religions while reconciling them with the core that is Islamic monotheism. In fact, Muslims actually have four books they consider holy - the Torah, the Zabur (Psalms), the Injeel (Gospel of Christ) and the Quran (Revelations to Muhammad).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muqawqis
Title needs something like "between 1921 and 1924".
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What's been a bit amusing is seeing a string of startups go through the same lesson about Google Cloud.

I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the mistake Google made was failing to recognize and focus on its core competencies. In ads and search, everything is scalable, statistical, and returns are decoupled from investment. You hire a few really smart people, and have them blow everyone else away.

It worked.

They should have looked for more businesses like that. Maps, gmail, etc. all did pretty well too. Even Youtube, despite playing whack-a-mole with demonetizing or removing channels with millions of subscribers, does well enough. There were plenty more businesses like that to diversify to.

Then Google brought that same mindset to things which required customer service (which doesn't scale), reliability (which isn't statistical in the same way as ads and search), and other domains, hired a ton of mediocre people to do it, and it seems like a bit of a dumpster fire right now.
If you limit exchanges to only those with reciprocal supply & demand then it becomes much less less likely to identify deals where people can use the service to provide value for each other.

Assuming there are n different kinds of expert services, and each participant supplies one service and demands one service at random, then there is only a 1/n^2 probability that an arbitrary participant is able to enter into a reciprocal trade with you.

If you instead use some kind of credit system where providing service to participant X gives you credit that can be traded in later to obtain service from Y then suddenly each participant in market has 1/n of being able to reach deal with you. So by reinventing something that sounds suspiciously like money by allowing trading of debt/obligations for services we have made our expert network much more efficient at being able to identify and unlock productive economic exchanges between people.
One can wear underwear, just not tight-fitting. There is a reason balls are free-hanging. They should not get too warm.
It's labeled now, and what good is that? I am sure you've seen "sodium benzoate" if you ever read these.

Not until someone actually finds free benzene in the drinks, giving rise to serious liability on the part of the companies, absolutely nothing gets done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene_in_soft_drinks
I rag on body styling but in terms of engine power, efficiency, safety, durability, features, and interior quality, cars have gotten much, much better. The launch of new innovative disruption first from Japan, then Korea, and now homegrown competitors like Tesla has really improved competition and driven more innovation in the industry. The new tech is also getting insane, with hand gestures recognition, cameras everywhere, blind spot sensors. It's a great time to drive a car.
Just doesn’t have the same sensation, I’ve tried all the latest modern vegan stuff and it just replaces things that actually would be the lighter more flavorful parts of the meal with stodge.

There is no vegan food alternative to say a rare steak or raw tuna which is extremely flavorful, nutritious and light.
car magazines always exaggerate the positive qualities of their test cars. If they were objective, they wouldn't get free press cars.
They were one of the bands that opened me up to electronic music. I was into metal and grunge, but electronic music just didn’t seem like music to me. If there weren’t music instruments I didn’t want to listen to it.

I saw them at a festival, I guess it must have been around ‘97. I got to the stage a bit late and made my way to the front. It was loud. Like really loud.

The speaker stacks each side of the stage were ridiculously big. I got to the front just as they started playing ‘Around the World’, they had a bunch of dancers on stage dressed up, maybe as robots, and when the beat dropped there was an invisible wall of sound that passed through my body from head to toe to the beat of the music. It’s one of the first beat drops I remember experiencing and thinking wow.

It’s difficult to describe in words. The air around me literally was shifting more than the depth of my body, so it felt like an invisible wall of air/sound passing through you. And of course the whole crowd started dancing like it was going out of fashion. I’d never experienced energy like that at a gig.

I was pretty much into electronic music after that.
Why would you need underwear when you could just freeball every day?
I'd suggest Adam Smith and Marx were terrible starting points tbh, since both were writing long before anything resembling the theories and methods of modern economics - or actual modern economies - actually existed and the one thing they had in common (a labour theory of value, though Marx's is more sophisticated and fundamental to his theories) is something essentially no modern economist believes. Not that they're not interesting reads and influential on what came after, but it's like trying to get a grounding in computer science from reading Ada Lovelace.

Arguably even the bad theories are better understood in the context of modern economics (Marx's "Iron Law of Wages" which proposes that wages inevitably fall to subsistence levels makes much more sense as a special case of there being more supply than demand for that type of labour; one prevalent in the middle of an Industrial Revolution which made many craftsmen obsolete but less evidently a universal truth after a century of most people in the West earning well above the minimum necessary to keep them alive)_
Should Hacker News have to pay money to link to SMH? Answering "Yes" is an attack on the fundamentals of the internet.

> And Facebook benefits freely from something it did not produce.

Arguably the news publications get at least as much value out of news links being shared on Facebook as Facebook gets, if not more.

Look I get it - we all hate Facebook. Facebook and Google and Amazon should face more regulation, but this is not it. Lets actually aknowledge that the government is forcing websites to pay for linking to a site. Links that, in Facebook's case, the publishers voluntarily submit and post!
Norway was the first country where more than half of all new registered vehicles were electric in 2020. And if you look at the data, Norwegians pick EVs that look and drive like normal cars.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/696530/ranking-of-electr...

It's not like you can't buy the weird ones too. It's just that people don't seem to want to buy them. Maybe culture plays some role there, but I believe that there are actual valid reasons why cars are in the form factor that they're in. And being electric doesn't change much in that equation. I mean, if there really is a hidden niche of small, slow, weird-looking four-wheelers, there's no reason why ICE-driven vehicles couldn't have filled that niche before.
There's a strong argument that it's simply the lack of advertising of EVs, educating and manipulating the public to buy them, that's a major cause for their slower adoption; Tesla doesn't spend money on advertising - that may have to change once all the major ones are pushing ads on people, that of course increases sale price to cover the cost - so maybe Tesla won't.
But why is ILGPU a problem then? ILGPU is CUDA + OpenCL. OpenCL should be fine, right?
Switching from C# to Go for back end development
The point of that paragraph is that this option doesn't seem to be available in Texas.

Texas has lost power due a snow storm, like Boucherville, but has no CN to ask for help.

The link is set up in paragraph six. I think you can google for details about what is happening in Texas, it might have made the news.
Server side rendering with VanilaJS for a some dynamic stuff.