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Ask HN: Best STEM education you can get through 10 video games only?
Imagine you must give yourself the best STEM education possible using only 10 video games (and their associated manuals, FAQs, online tutorials and forums, etc)

What games would you choose?
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If you can only build dense housing in the places where there are no few jobs and few people it doesn't help much. The fact that the locals are by definition negatively impacted by new development is a great reason to take virtually all say away from the locals.

Anyone who is already a home owner will find that increasing supply of homes a necessary function of the society decreases the value of the asset in which they have parked most of their wealth. Even when it increases the value you can't get them on board. Look at your own logic.

> my taxes will spike 200%+ to cover your luxury development

You aren't covering the cost of their development they are actually increasing the value of your property. For your taxes to spike 200% they would literally have to triple the value of your property. It's like they are throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bags full of hundred dollar bills over your fence and you are complaining about income tax.

Presumably if someone did something like build a crack house and halved the value of your property you wouldn't thank them for halving your tax bill!

Basically for any given project locals have interests that are almost always out of alignment with the rest of society. The some people in aggregate elect your state wide officials but at least those folks are apt to think and plan based on a broader perspective than the locals whose attitude is universally "I've got mine"

This is both the worst timeline and the worst most selfish nation.
> You’re saying that old people should be driven out of their houses because younger, richer people deserve to live in their houses. I’m sure your feelings will change as you get older.

Or maybe, make it so that property tax increases are limited but only if the owner:

1. Is past retirement age
2. The owner lives in the property.
3. The owner does not have the means to pay the normal property tax rates.

This is how most other States' solve this problem. Instead of freezing property tax rates across the board, they narrowly limit property taxes of old residents that don't have the means to pay the normal property tax rate.
How to build duration tables from event logs with SQL
RWD is doable, but they'd have to completely redesign the transmission/hybrid system to accommodate AWD/RWD. And that would add a lot of costs. Ford uses a GKN differential in C2 AWD applications and it's not a cheap unit.

FWD works just fine on the Transit Connect, which is what this is intended to compliment/replace. I've driven minivans loaded to the gills with crap and never found FWD to be a problem there.
Building a Reverse Image Search Engine
It's pretty easy for the taxman to detect such shenanigans. There are a bunch of corporate laws that only apply when certain limits are met, like minimum revenue or 50 employees, etc. It's illegal to form extra corporations to get around those rules, and the regulators usually catch on.

I'd be especially easy in California because every foreign (out of state) corporation has to register with the state and tell them who the beneficial owners are. It would be fairly easy to trace it back to actual people.
If your family farm isn't an LLC, then wtf are you doing?
These poor millionaires!
The Apple didn't even have pallets. Each bit represented an absolute color based on its relationship to other bits and the color face signal inherent in the ntsc signal.

Lots of color Fidelity most likely meant being limited to only a couple of the four actual color Shades available at the time, due to the use of the pallet bit.
Yes it could definitely go wrong. Flash, Perl, 80% of js frameworks etc etc are all kinda dying/dead.
But some techs are holding up quite well through time: Java, Unix, SQL, Python, PHP, .NET, Ruby/Rails. I'm betting all of these will still get you jobs 20 years from now. I don't need it to be hot, I just want to be able to make a living.
Sorry to hear that :-(
Where do you expect poor people to live exactly?
> but not an Apple II, which was an educational/hobbyist machine

Which makes it doubly interesting that the AppleⅡ eventually shared the same fate to allow Macintosh LC systems to run old edusoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card
While I get that this is a public facing post-mortem and won't be as detailed as whatever is provided internally, it doesn't sound like there's any investigation into how such failures in the future can be better contained. There should be an assumption that some bug will get through eventually, and being able to say that a small percentage of customers are impacted in the worst case rather than a global outage is a much better outcome. It also means you can export your isolation to customers to provide them the tools to manage their redundancy.
Super annoying, especially when (prior to the pandemic) I traveled a lot and had a new SIM every month or two. Insanity.
Well, I browse without Javascript, so maybe that's why it works.

And I've got a keyboard shortcut to open the current site in Vivaldi as a fallback.
More like "I got screwed and I'd rather other people get screwed than get screwed further." Obviously not selfless, but I don't think the housing market is their fault.
Affordable, widely accessible:

- TVs, video game systems, smartphones
- Fast food, snacks
- Clothing, fashion accessories

Unaffordable, hard to find:

- Houses
- Healthy food
- Cars
- Ammo

Bread and circuses.
I really hope that I am not the only one requesting businesses to not do this when I encounter it. It may be the only way to get it to stop.

Open a case with customer service and represent it for what it is; a security hole that prevents you from using the service.
The standard answer has a convenient acronym: NIMBY.
Can we please stop lumping together refugees and immigrants? This is borderline vulgar, students in uk paid 60K for a degree, noone pays that kind of money to become an illegal without rights to work or healthcare. Becoming illegal immigrant is certanly not a ticket to "first world lifestyle"
Unless they're incredibly bulky, I'd leave them where they were (maybe even keep using the monitors) until they took reasonable steps to reclaim them

Collection is their problem, as is them not being insured. If something insurable happens to your home, frankly someone else's monitors are the least of your concerns and you'll likely have the paperwork from insurance claims on your own stuff to prove it. If it doesn't and the items just don't work next time they plug them in, that's their problem and not one they're likely to waste time and money following up with you over.
Honest answer: In the past. A lot of snark is because the people being snarky already had long discussions in the past. Looking up old topics is probably a good place to read the comments/discussion.

That doesn't help you participate however.
> Inferior to what?

Not the GP but probably to crypto that followed it.
I do not understand on-chip wireless. Why build an antenna for each channel? You could just multiplex high-impedance RF into any common wire with and it’s the same thing.
It can be done with a normal PC but I loved meeting people in a VR environment where you could walk around and form groups and you only heard audio from nearby people. They also had a movie theater with a movie everyone could watch at the same time.

But any interface where you can move a character in a world would be enough to make this work. It’s lovely because you can drop in and listen to a convo and walk away to another if you’d like.
Why should they be forced to sell a house that they earned and paid for?
Oh, are we? Seems like we're kind of all over the map in here. Whatever particular teased angle apparently wins the argument or something.

All while Apple keeps executing superbly. Eh.
I'll do you one better maybe people that don't intend to live in them at least half the time shouldn't be able to buy a second home.
This. I struggle to see how higher savings by the wealthy can cause me to take on any more debt. Is the argument the wealthy use cash to invest in assets (houses), thus driving up the price and causing middle and lower class people to be forced to borrow more to buy a house?
> No, it simplifies to "everybody can retire, period".

Sure, I'd love that too. It's a great goal but not one that I remotely believe is actually achievable. Feel free to come back within the next 50 years and say you told me so if I end up being wrong.

> When someone refers to "wealth inequality", they're not talking about disparities of 1 or two orders of magnitude, they're talking about 5 or 6 orders of magnitude.

This is an unfounded claim. I'd love to see what data you're basing this on.

> Show me a disparity in beauty or health of 6 orders of magnitude.

I can also easily show you disparities of that magnitude: just look at any of the many chronically ill patients that rack up medical expenses throughout their life, versus people who smoke and drink into their 80s and 90s without a problem and never see a doctor. You can easily use total lifetime medical cost as a metric if you want to meet your arbitrary disparity threshold. If you're in the "everyone's beautiful/healthy/smart in their own way" crowd then we have fundamentally different stances and there's little use talking further.
What key metrics do you observe when it boils down to determining whether or not you feel it is a good or bad time to buy?
Oh.... Cool!

So I'll give you $200k as a gift and you gift me your house "as a gift" ;)
Yep, it's like lightning is moving closer and closer to credit cards, which was what blockchain was supposed to substitute.
Well, that's true but then the emergency personal could at least just be spread around in the city. I don't think the response time should be that critical, if the train is burning nobody is needed to drive it to the next station, assuming staff is on the train that knows the emergency procedures. They should only need it for technical problems.
An empty bitcoin block and a full bitcoin block use the same amount of energy

Use and El Salvador’s use has no influence on that

The hyperbole only marginalizes yourself
I once wrote in a comment in an Emacs Lisp todo list program that "Of all forms of time-wasting, writing time-management software is most sublime."

I would say that of all forms of procrastinating writing that novel, writing novel-writing software is most sublime. That, or maybe taking a "research trip" to Tibet or something.
Assuming that the sites allow you to change the token manually?
I can't say enough good things about Fastmail, been a customer for many years now.
> I'm from Switzerland

> Oh amazing, Sweden is beautiful

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Thanks Angus!

Btw, I noticed you used to work at Opera. As you might have seen on the sheet, I recently invested in them. I'd welcome the opportunity to hear your perspectives on the company. Would you be open to a brief chat about the company?

Take care.
In fact, your post makes it clear that a certificate expiring at 09:59:59 presents a problem too; there's a whole second where checks may be invalid before 10:00:00. This would depend on the browser implementation which is not specified in the RFC (I checked). Hopefully they all do truncation of fractional seconds.

The easiest fix though, is for LetsEncrypt to say their certs are valid for 90 days and a second.
The only thing I wish is that more sites support multiple tokens, since tokens can get lost.

If you only support one token but have an easy recovery procedure, that opens up loopholes. If you support multiple tokens, allow the user to de-activate one token from another token, and make recovery difficult, that's much more secure.
Almost everyone spends more than their present net worth on their house. It’s great for you that you didn’t have to but I’m not in the minority.
> Typically banks try to sell foreclosures ASAP to the extent that most go the 'short sale' route where they just force a sale.

Short sale (which is generally not forced, but is usually win-win for the borrower and bank, so often ultimately approved after the bank convinces themselves that denying it won't let them extract more from the borrower) is typically favored for many reasons including the fact that (while there may technically be liability) borrowers who are foreclosed upon have very little incentive not to damage thr property to the extent that it enables them to extract even miniscule additional value, so things like stripping resellable (even at small fractions of the value they provide in the house) materials like pipes, wiring, and notionally-permanently-installed fixtures is extremely common.
IRS investigating illegal leak of billionaires Bezos Musk and Buffett tax info
Depends on where you live. In CA property taxes are assessed on the appraised value of the home when you bought it. If you give the deed to your kids they can pay taxes at this rate as well. Plenty of homeowners and landlords in CA are enjoying their locked in 1976 tax rate today. It used to be you'd help your kid get a job at you or your friends company, now you just hand them the deed of the dingbat apartment your father built on the lot of your former single family home in the 1970s before that was illegal, and they are set for life without ever having to work a job again. Getting 5 units of people paying market rate for a 1 bedroom means you are making over 6 figures.
If "protect its value" means maintain and strengthen it, retrofit it against likely disasters, plant gardens and craft way to preserve the products, add off-grid energey infrastructure, etc., then that's great.

If it means try to use the heavy hand of the state to prevent others from living their best life, then you aren't protecting anything; you're violently stealing the future net worth of others and making it your own.
New study finds laughing gas (nitrous oxide) quickly treats severe depression
It wouldn't surprise me if they have a really expensive epic chip with 8 cores and 1gb of cache. A chip like that would be incredible for applications with per core licensing
> This does not imply causality as the author mistakenly assumes. Maybe the bottom 10% have more debt simply because costs are rising faster than wages and ability to save. Maybe the rich can save more because thy earn more.

You can't choose one sentence and refute the whole article based on it. It's a part of a whole. The point of the article is to make that causal link.
Seven EU countries just got a digital vaccine passport
No. It’s housing prices pumped by federal loan guarantees.
Or get a domain with catch-all, and a different email for every service. Ideally not trivially guessable.
Global criminal elites hit by 'unprecedented' AN0M sting with Canadian roots
If what you want is a more technical answer of how the balances in a LN channel is trustlessly updated, then you should probably read a more in-depth resource, it's a complicated topic. But I'll try to give you some idea.

Every transaction in a LN channel is not a simple transaction, it's a smart contract transaction that, if broadcasted, closes the channel automatically but have multiple ways of spending it further, and one of those ways allows a party to get all the funds if he has proof that the counter party cheated (closed the channel using and old-state transaction).

So those transactions that are created are never published if both party cooperate, instead, they serve as a forced-closing mechanism if the other party is uncooperative

That was just a high level view of updating channels, but opening a channel and routing a payment is another story
> Their is no other law/regulation that I know of where the longer you violate the law, the more rights your have.

I suggest you research “adverse possession”, and “easement by prescription”; if you view nation-states and their territory as analogous to persons and their real property, they are quite similar concepts to what you seem to view as unique.
yeah, i know that's what it refers to, but it is a straw man. Nobody actually thinks the world is going to literally end in that short of a time frame, and the existence of claims vaguely like this still don't mean its a widely held belief.
The wealthy will just create a bunch of LLCs that own one house each.
It’s all violent stealing back to the white people who took this land from its settlers at the wrong end of a gun. I got ripped off and I’m not going to be the bigger man and be the first person in this chain to say “it’s ok, I don’t mind losing a million dollars on this.”
To add color to the source you shared, no where in the article (or in my research) does anyone claim that what the majority elected Salvadoran government did here was illegal, only that their opposition didn’t like it and so called it a ‘coup’.

Based on my understanding the elected government was well within it’s rights to replace these judges under the constitution of the country. Also to echo the sister comment here, many of these judges were highly politically active oponents of the newly elected government.

Here is another good read if you want to understand the historical context in which El Salvador is operating [1]

In short, one of the primary reasons that El Salvador is in a difficult position financially and politically at all is the history of war crimes committed against them by foreign governments such as the United States.

In the 1980’s the US Government spent $1-2 million US dollars per day to fund a 12 year long proxy civil war to defend US imperial interests. This resulted in the US Government directly funding the training and recruitment of an army of child soldiers. The country is still dealing with the ramifications of this war today.

I see your claims that new El Salvador government is evil and raise you 1 US Government with a history of war crimes against the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
An NGO comprised of the world's wealthiest corporations telling the rest of us that we will "own nothing and be happy" is a bit cheeky, to say the least.
I'm planning on living in my house for a very long time, it's my home, not an investment. I don't want my home value going up 10x unless I'm planning on selling it. In this market, I couldn't replace my house if I sold it anyway.
Colonial CEO admits workers who knew how to operate the pipeline are retired
This is Pavan one of the managing partners with Excel Technologies Solutions. I have noticed that you are looking for React Native at your company.

We have experienced React Native in the selection of full-time, contract and contract-to-hire talent capable of handling projects that range from simple to complex.

I’d like to schedule a quick call with you to discuss more on this requirement and see if we can share a few relevant profiles

I was wondering if we can have a quick call this Friday at 11am or 1pm?

Looking forward for your response.
Nice company. Basically two guys who worked on Tesla Nevada and were like 'we could do this in Europe'. I saw some of their earliest talk and I was like this is a brilliant move for them, the European were really slow on the uptake with EV and supply chain localization.

This gave them a really nice head start to be able to get all the funding.

They seem to be doing some interesting stuff with vertically integrating cathode, but I haven't found to much information about that.
If that's the case, the previous implementation was correct and they'll start issuing certificates with 90 days - 1 second now.
I'm glad it's not a site about me

(scnr)
uh, are they also committing to raise the energy density, but then only will build bigger batteries? :)
I am struggling to think of any time it would be appropriate to clone a production database and use it for staging. That almost inevitably translates into any developer who ever deploys database-related changes having access to the contents of the production database, or at least every part of it that might ever be affected by code changes they are making. There are numerous legal, regulatory and ethical issues with granting such broad access, unless you're small enough that the few people you obviously do need to have the ability to grant full DB access happen to include anyone who is likely to change code that talks to the database. And even then it still seems like bad practice to actually grant anyone that access when it's not strictly necessary!
TOTP is far, far better for travellers who need to swap their SIM cards frequently, or need to work out of places with internet access but no cell reception.
I always get tripped up with ld failing unless the object files are listed in the right order on the command line. I was curious if this simple linker would overcome this historic limitation, and was happy to see it does.

> Another downside is that you do have to arrange the object files in the command line in an order that makes sense for this linear approach. The first object file must be the entry point of the program. Different arrangements of object files may work for linking your executable but will produce an organizationally different executable. You may or may not care about this.
I (and, reading their comment, the poster you are responding to) doesn't see that as a "solution for us schmucks". Instead, a solution for us is a government with more spending, higher taxes on the rich, and halting the privatization of government services (and in some cases reversing it, like healthcare).
But people do want to own homes, but the problems is debt and the fact that homes are seen as a way to accumulate wealth. Affordable housing clashes with that.

Also, the article seem to treats building a new road as an unalloyed good.
Kerbal Space Program is the single best thing there is for teaching someone to understand the concepts of orbital mechanics. There are some steep learning curves. However, once you figure out how to do something it becomes a piece of cake.

I don't know of any other games/simulators that do such a good job of conveying understanding.
I guess I'm confused; how is this not a description of the current system? How are LVTs supposed to make this kind of thing worse?
This argument is deeply flawed for an obvious reason. E.g. why do you vote if your vote is only one of a hundred million?
> If a "basic protective measure" is not foolproof, then maybe the downsides of such a measure outweighs the benefits

Pray tell, what are those collosal downsides that render such an effortless thing like wearing a mask in public such a prohibitively costly endeavor?
well would be good to clarify, because there's no project that followed that is better on fundamental level. lots of solutions that trade decentralization and independence for performance, lots of hype and marketing, lots of bells and whistles of questionable value, lots of money being made in scams and rug-pulls.
It's a vicious cycle – OP and others are forced to commit most of their wealth to own a home because of all the NIMBYs that came before them, and on and on.
Fun fact: Listings in California used to contain a unilateral offer of subagency by default. So _all_ realtors were legally bound to work in the seller's interest, even if a buyer had reached out to them in the first place. So you can imagine how often you would disclose your buying criteria to "your" agent only to have them utilize that against you.
In this case, I am saying that political disenfranchisement is the dominant reason for poverty, and how well meaning policies can wind putting in barriers poor people from owning property in the first place. I'm sure you can imagine how this closes the cycle.
It's been awhile, but wasn't that all broken with kaon decay?