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> By that definition the abacus is the first computer.

It isn't. The abacus does not compute anything at all unless used as a tool by a human that executes the algorithm. The Antikythera has its algorithm built in, it will compute the same numbers no matter who turns the crank. It's a stored program computer where the program is stored in the proportions of the gears in its gearbox.

Think of an abacus as an aid to manual computation, and a Antikythera as something that actually computes.
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yes, and no, if private entities (non banks) are allowed to hold accounts for customers - than yes. As governments will have no real handle on how actually liquid those businesses are. What promises are their on your deposits? That could get out of hand very quickly. However, if only registered entities can hold accounts, than the opposite is true. Cashless society gives huge control to the government.
Bitcoin is really ugly. The utterly ugly algorithm requires storing of enormous amounts of waste data and requires extremely unefficient computational work of "mining". It's just a showcase of human greediness and stupidity.
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Yes. What you need for happiness is very different from what you need to be able to collect sportscars as a hobby.
I have a completely evidence-free theory that, over time, the average sentiment score of comments on HN has gone down.

Maybe I'm succumbing to bias with this theory (hello Eternal September), but it seems like all I read on "Show HN" anymore is negativity and dismissiveness.

I really ought to try and do the analysis. I think it wouldn't be hard (HN is very good about keeping historical data, and sentiment analysis looks as easy as importing a library and passing it a dataset), just time consuming.
I think, It depends. As far as I know YouTube Premium is only for removing ads and music streaming. If there are movies and quality professional content on YouTube Premium, then Youtube will have a bigger advantage since both amateur and professional content creators will be on the same platform. But right now, Netflix is the place to watch most of the desired pro content when it comes to both films and tv series.
Every single News out of the Site about Intel/ Nvidia are either inaccurate, technically false, fake news or hyperbole. And all of its headline are nothing but drive you to buy thousands dollar subscription for their "professional" detail report.

Where is the $20B 10nm customer going bankrupt? Why is the 8160 Modem fake, just because it is reusing a photo? I could still have given them points if any of its statement or rumours had any technical or business merit. But it doesn't. As much as I support AMD and likes to bash Intel, this is not how Journalism should work.
Besides speed, another interesting property of cryptocurrency based transfers is that they can be programmable. For example simple escrow or multi-sign off transfers or time-delays, all easy to do without lawyers or additional fees.
I don't understand why you are being down-voted. All over the world, governments are indeed slowly becoming nanny states for the 'good of the people'. In India, for example, they just blocked all pornographic sites. Stuff like this doesn't make world news. The US is better by a far margin that most nations since your rights are explicitly stated in your constitution.
This file is from 2016, apparently, so Apple has likely been using this for quite some time. It's possible that Apple found it convenient to run certain things (guesses: some IoT thing or prototyping a small embedded processor like the one inside the Lightning Digital AV Adapter) on a Raspberry Pi rather than a full-blown A-series core or other chip that is inconvenient due to {price, availability, etc.}.
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Except it's not like threaded code, because there aren't necessarily multiple threads. And with a single thread event loop, you don't need locking and other synchronization mechanisms at all, further reinforcing the point.

Async/await is literally all about explicit continuations. It's not about concurrency or parallelism per se, although it can be used in that context.
You must have much better end users than I have. My users seem completely incapable of looking at a half finished, sort of working proof of concept and not get bogged down focusing on everything that obviously doesn't work. I definitely agree that you should talk to your end users all the time, and ideally observe them working and using your product (or your competitors product) to the extent it's possible, but I've never had much luck discussing rickety proof of concepts with them.
Why are they allowing enough distance for the train to stop without hitting the vehicle in front of it? We don't normally do that on interstate highways. If we did do that, capacity would be greatly reduced.

I think I found the problem. :-)
Why would he give up on his job because he lost a match? He made tons of money from that match and he's still making money out of it today.

Also, he is retired from professional chess for a long time now.
At least they didn't decide to create their own programming language in order to build their website, unlike another company founded by early Facebook employees (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2191800)
I agree with you but keep in mind that we're also getting older which makes it harder for us to re-live the magic of our youth.
Interestingly there's no mention of HBO here (nor in sibling comments), a very high production value content which imo is running circles around Netflix and Prime.
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The utility has actually decreased.

Before this huge speculative boom, shady characters could use cryptocurrencies to buy drugs and launder money.

Now, with KYC/AML implemented by exchanges worldwide, plus the outright banning of the coins in some countries, those activities are much more difficult.

If you want simply transfer money internationally, services like TransferWise do it better than any coins.
This is what epics are for and they are right there in Jira.

1. Create epic with full context.
2. Create sub stories or tasks that describe the smaller deliverables.
3. Boom. Small tasks with a direct link to larger context.

Works 100% fine in Jira and has since the early days.
The Chinese government is exactly the type of government that i would expect getting rid of cash soon, so this seems a bit weird, but maybe has to do with not excluding the poor from a lot of commerce. Meanwhile in Berlin, arguably one of Europes startup hotspots, you will be lucky to be able to pay with anything other than cash in a vast number of hipster cafes or bars.
Thought you were referring to Australia's Internet censorship regime. They even (briefly) censored a Queensland dentist's website.
>I never found the quality to be anywhere near as good as Stack Exchange, even when Quora first launched. Why anyone would knowingly use Quora over Stack Exchange is a mystery to me; I suspect that most Quora users simply aren't aware that Stack Exchange exists, since SE traditionally catered primarily to a technical audience.

SE has nowhere near the breadth of Quora, and almost no social, personal life, and politics related topics. At least any SE site I've chanced on, and I'm a member of several.
I know, but very few of them do so by choice.
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My focus constantly shifts back to the blinking, missing that bike that has no lights on or less-obvious lights on.
I hope we never go cashless.
Do you drink pure ethanol or something? Even that is produced by fermentation, I’m sure different brands will end up being different as a result of impurities. Impurities may mean different taste or just worse hangover.
I have translated the pretty long Swift code belabored with manual laziness handling into Haskell where lists are inherently lazy:

type BitSequence = [Bool]

allSatisfy :: (BitSequence -> Bool) -> Bool
allSatisfy p = not (anySatisfy (not . p))

anySatisfy :: (BitSequence -> Bool) -> Bool
anySatisfy p = p (find p)

find :: (BitSequence -> Bool) -> BitSequence
find p =
if anySatisfy (\s -> p (False : s))
then False : find (\s -> p (False : s))
else True : find (\s -> p (True : s))

The code still works the same. But now, it is clearer what actually happens. The lexical call chain goes like this:

anySatisfy p
===>
find p
===>
anySatisfy (\s -> p (False : s))
===>
find (\s -> p (False : s))
===>
anySatisfy (\s -> (\s -> p (False : s)) (False : s))
===>
find (\s -> (\s -> p (False : s)) (False : s))
=== (by alpha conversion)
find (\s -> (\s1 -> p (False : s1)) (False : s))
=== (by beta reduction)
find (\s -> p (False : False : s))

where I used the long arrow to mean a deeper lexical call chain, and triple-equal to mean a single step of reduction and/or .

In other words, as long as the given predicate p consumes a finite prefix of the infinite bit sequence to produce a result, this will successfully return a result. Which is quite intuitive because the function is essentially doing an exhaustive search. It has nothing to do with topology or continuous functions or compactness, IMO. It also has nothing to do with Curry–Howard correspondence.

Here's an example when the function fails to terminate:

anySatisfy and

Here's another example:

let parity (False : s) = parity s; parity (True : s) = not (parity s) in anySatisfy parity
Not if that early feature is broken and doesn't work. Then the conventional wisdom will quickly become "Don't use feature X, it's broken" and you're going to have to spend a lot of time re-educating your user once you've actually gotten around to fixing it (assuming you actually get around to fixing it and aren't pulled away to do something more 'important')
It's not uncountable because they have to be computable, which makes them countable again.
> It's another to say that a company officer would intentionally lie (to a group of professional investors no less)

You will have to look back at every single statement in their pubic and investor meeting to judge wether they were intentionally lying about 10nm. To me, they were.
I've tried to understand Jump Point Search+ multiple times but not succeeded. Is there a good tutorial?
I do this when I get my car serviced. Take 5 lbs out of the left front tire, maybe intentionally not fill the washer fluid, etc. So far, it's about 50% that the item was not found or fixed.
This, plus the obnoxious, childish writing style. It's a tech tabloid.
blank as in "no bootblock on it written as a binary blob from a non-free tool" then?
There's even a subreddit now: https://www.reddit.com/r/FashionReps

The term they use is "Fashion Replica"
I was impressed by how fast and uncluttered this site is. In case someone else is wondering: It seems to be running https://flarum.org/, a PHP forum with a Mithril JS front-end
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You will just have to look at ASML stock price and revenue. They are the only one doing EUV. And it is nothing like Fusion.

TSMC will have multilayers 7nm EUV in 2019, Full 5nm EUV in 2020. Samsung has 7nm EUV sampling and are toying with the idea of EUV NAND and DRAM.
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I think it’s more that people don’t exercise their survival instinct much these days as everything mostly just works. The biggest risk is not having toilet paper for the average person.

Thus some people construct scenarios to fill the hole.

For me, watching world war Z was stressful enough.
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Not that this makes their messaging strategy any more coherent, but 200k is on the very low end of Google compensation; new grads have offers with total compensation north of that.

But they're just new grads, so obviously they can't know much, right?
>Are those scans of old film photographs? If yes, then I'm surprised how rich the colors are compared to digital photography today. Is it that film has a different character from digital?

No, it's mostly the type of film and post-processing, and the fashion of the day (now people like moodier, bluer/oranger pics in Instagram and the like). One can saturate a digital photo just as well, if not better.
I'm having trouble finding any addition information on this WAPY / WABY chip and was wondering if anyone has any insight. The full video can be found here for those interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhFOhsY-p0
I don't like Quora. But I'm still looking for a good alternative.
I have to agree with you that chronically reminding yourself about a bad thing that happend to you can spike your pressure and other potentially dangerous stuff and if you can talk yourself out of this habit it might improve your health.

With myself I observe that I tend to revisit my past minor traumas only when my body is in bad shape. Not enough sleep, flu, not eating enough. Then I obsess about past suffering. But after I get enough rest or flu passes, puff, my obsession with trauma is gone. So I'm not quite sure if traumas are often the cause not just symptom.
A blockchain, by definition, is a chain of blocks cryptographically proven to be in a certain order, and only appended to or over-written by a majority vote.

A ledger is all it is, not an "app".
Looks pretty and feels good :-)

Reminds me of the 'Ultimate Geography' decks for Anki [1].

Would love to see some kind of a multiplayer version.

[1]: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812
I use pfSense VMs as VPN gateways, so VPN chains are virtual networks. But you could do the same thing with physical routers. Given that most providers allow multiple connections, you just need a few accounts.

Let's say that you have accounts with two providers, VPNA and VPNB. So you always connect first to a VPNA server, and then through that to a VPNB server. Given that each provider likely has many servers, there are likely hundreds of possible chains. Not all of them will work well, for whatever reasons, but enough to be useful.
>It takes tens of kHz before I won't notice a stop-motion effect

kHz? Really? That seems very high to me.
Show HN: A search/rating site for TLS cipher suites
It's a very basic bare bones editor, whereas IntelliJ was basically built for Java projects initially, so it has a well established logic, behavior, is quite fast, lots of automation and tools. With vscode you'll have to download plugins, write your own build and perhaps even run scripts. Depends on what level of control you need.
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Not sure I’d risk this myself. However when I did chemistry at A level at school, with the intention of going into pharma for a bit, I did extract aspirin from willow bark. This is something you can do relatively easily and safely yourself. Disclaimer: if you kill yourself it wasn’t my fault.

Thanks to my wonderful chemistry teacher I got a couple of hours at Glaxo and run NMR on it to validate it. Was an amazing experience even if it was a bit worrying getting the train there with vials of white crystalline substance on me.
If it is on track then one would expect at least a description of that track, but all I see is dates related to 10 nm and that was years late. They cleverly skip that by not offering a hard date but stating 'four years after 10 m', but that's not yet a done deal.

Intel is still in the planning stages of manufacturing capacity and there is zero proof that there is an actual POC or workable process yet to mass produce 7 nm devices at all, which is going to be much harder than 10 nm to get to acceptable yield.

I'll park this one right next to 'home fusion' and '5cts / KWh installed Solar Power' until there is more proof, I would be quite surprised if there really are mass produced devices for consumer use anywhere in the next 5 years, if the 10 nm experience is any guide somewhere in the next decade is more realistic so this isn't really news.
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We're discussing cryptocurrencies, not cryptography. Prediction markets (called options or futures) have existed for a very long time and many other things you list are not related.

We're also discussing whether it is actually useful or not, not whether it is widely understood to be (which depends on it being useful first). So the question remains, what utility do cryptocurrencies provide so far?
Here in Finland, the government is playing around with the idea of demanding that the banks' financial systems should be able to operate independently from the international systems in the event of a global crisis. The banks obviously refused as their entire business model is built on international cooperation re. transfers. As long as banks can't crack that nut, I don't think cash is going anywhere...
My father is a structural engineer and master carpenter who designed several houses, and I worked with him as a kid. Then twenty something (cough mumble) years of software for me, with digressions along the way.
Its used a replacement for planning and management.
There's plenty of content on YouTube that's at the highest level of professional production. It's 0.01% of what's on YouTube, compared to 100% of what's on Netflix, so you will not find it by just going to YouTube.com and clicking random links... but there's still many human lifetimes of high-end content on YouTube.
Yep, studied Nuclear Engineering at NC State, didn't stick around for the grad program. My friend did, for plasma physics, and is now working at ITER. Plasma confinement is still improving.
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I don’t see how the advocacy for self-destructively putting everyone else on a pedestal and serving them first and yourself last follows from the rest of the quote.
Yeah I’ve done that. No luck. I’ve used switch cleaner on swabs as well. Think it needs a new port. However I can’t be bothered to take it to Apple store yet.
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Could someone explain to me what's up with the "monitoring services"? I recently read a book on infosec risk, and they keep mentioning that the usual response for data breach involves sponsoring a "credit monitoring service" for customers. Marriott is now referring people to some non-credit "monitoring service", that (from skimming their site) ultimately tries to fill in some holes left by "credit monitoring".

Here's what I don't understand:

- Why?

- Why is that not a service provided by a bank, as a part of having a credit card?

- Why do individuals have to pay some random third parties to protect themselves from some fraudster defrauding some bank via data obtained from some company (even if, in publicized breach cases, this gets covered by breached company)?

- (Somewhat related) how is it that your "credit score" isn't just a number on your bank dashboard, but you have to pay third parties to discover it?

It can't be that all of this is just a legalized racket, can it? Because if feels like it is.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially when mixed with rage. None of us, including you I'm sure, wants HN to be the kind of place where people just secrete unfiltered bile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a trivial detail. Whatever you use for trust (the escrow or signature service) can already handle the scheduling. No need to bake that into the money itself.

The reason we have lawyers is because the law is not just black and white. As many examples have shown, pure robotic management is not conducive to how people actually do business and the messy nature of human behavior.
> Assuming UInt is infinite precision and Strings can be infinitely long, there is an easy injection from BitSequence to String, therefore String is at least as equinumerous as BitSequence.

You’re right that a particular series of bits can be mapped to a string, but here the article is talking about the function that produces the bit sequence not the bit sequence itself. There are an infinite number of functions that can create a particular bit sequence, and each bit sequence can be mapped to a single string, so there must be more functions than strings.
See also “Seemingly impossible functional programs” by Martin Escardo, from 2007 ([1], also at [2]).

It covers similar ground and is referenced at the bottom of the article (along with three other references also by Martín Escardó), but I thought it worth mentioning explicitly because I remember reading it many years ago and finding it really fun.

[1]: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...

[2]: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/papers/seemingly-impossible.ht...
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This famous quote by Socrates was likely make up by William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson in Personality and Adjustment on page 277 in the fifties (1953). If Plato actually did mention this as a saying of Socrates was later (1966) researched and evidence of the quote existing was found lacking.[1]

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Please don't break the site guidelines, even if another comment did. That only makes this place worse yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fair point. I think Captain Disillusion is a good example of this, his production value is extremely high with regards to visual effects for what is a fairly niche subject matter.
> every time someone uses Facebook, that person is implicitly showing that they like Facebook more than not and find it valuable more than not.

I know quite a few people who will say they are addicted to facebook, and many more who will at least admit that they use it more than they want to. I was the former until about a year ago when I finally pulled the plug. So I do not think that's a fair statement at all.
7nm? TSMC: Hold my beer
That wasn't intended as an analogy just ilustration that causes of strong outcomes might be completely pseudo-random.

When you have pseudo random generator then everything is consequences of prior conditions yet some buckets will end up 'ill' and some 'healthy' without any singular cause.

Besides, body not being closed system strengthens my point that its state is result of so many factors that pinning something as vague as being healthy on a single cause (especially internal and psychological) is usually not a good idea. Especially if you don't know the mechanism.
> The BitSequence type holds infinitely many values. In fact, it holds an unconscionable number of values. It has more values than String does.

In the last sentence, the word "it" seems to refer to "the BitSequence type" and not a function that produces it.
Looks like it drew a lot of inspiration from Pieter Levels' stuff. Nice work :)
> You’re criticizing the author for not making the ebook freely available?

Not at all.

> You only buy books for which you can obtain the ebook for free?

Yes, I do.
The funniest ones for me are the ones who focus obsessively on some things while missing glaringly obvious others: The guy with 2 AR15's, a water reclamation system and 7 years of macaroni in his basement but is so out of shape he can't run up a flight of stairs.

Want to really prepare for TEOTWAWKI? Try jogging.
Is it possible to be this wealthy these days? The competition is so high it is very very difficult.