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> Unfair would be if everyone paid the same absolute amount.
>> That's certainly an opinion, but you state it like an objective fact.

Yes indeed one could argue that also that is a possible way to do it. I know of 3 types of taxation:

1) fixed amount (ex everyone pays 1000$ every year)
2) percentage amount (ex everyone pays 10% of salary)
3) progressive steps (ex 10% up to 10000%...20$ up to 20000$...)

The video argues that in the US all people in the end pay the same percentage amount even though the laws has progressive steps.
I'm arguing that percentage taxation is already a type of taxation where richer people contribute more.
Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?
I was just shopping around for a low-end Windows laptop and discovered a new trend: machines that have 64gb or 128gb internal storage on "eMMC", which research suggests is similar to what's used in phones, and then they have a micro SD card slot for expansion (also like phones).

I take it the OS lives on the eMMC and not something even weirder like a ROM chip? Do user programs and files go there too or can they only go on the SD? How does it all affect things like partitioning?

Presumably this is a response to the Chromebook-pocalypse but it still feels very strange and mysterious to me for now
Why would you use satellites for this?
or legal ones for that matter. I don't think they care about the legality of those they are robbing all that much.
“I never thought the government would take work away from me arbitrarily” (AB5)
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you.

I was mostly reacting because I remember reading that blog post when it came out and thinking it was a neat idea, and now I'm recoiling in horror at how terrible it sounds.
Maybe it's an extension you've got installed? I wasn't able to reproduce it (on macOS Safari). What reader are you using?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban such accounts. The site guidelines explain the intended use of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
All the AI technology in the article is promissory technology, i.e. it doesn't exist except by analogy to human intelligence, and specious claims it'll be better than what has come before.

What if all AI tech that has come before sucks because there is a fundamental limit to what algorithms can do, and that limit is much less (infinitely less) than what human intelligence can do?

There is a fundamental assumption behind all AI research that the human mind can be simulated by a Turing machine, and no one has verified that assumption. AI research is just floating on the materialistic bias that the mind is reducible to the matter in the brain. We could very well have a supernatural soul, and thus the materialistic bias is completely wrong.

Thus, I don't see any reason the technology can be implemented by any date.
I’m so glad I read this. I have fond memories playing Wolfenstein 3D on my dad’s computer and then downloading the shareware to my own computer later.

Silas Warner sounds like he was an awesome dude.
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5000 sq "feet" is about 450 sq meters (for those that use real measurement units)
If you find a old tutorial that you like, how about updating the tutorial for yourself and writing a new one as you figure it out? I learned React in 2018 from a tutorial made in 2016. The first thing I had to do was learn how to update Webpack from version 2 to 4. And while bits of the tutorial were outdated, a lot of it still applies.

Also, you aren't in control of what tech stack you use. I once moved 4000km from San Francisco to Washington DC to take a Ruby job for doing Selenium style automated testing on Android . Within a week I learned that Ruby approach wasn't going to work, and then I had to learn Java from scratch. Focus on learning how to complete tasks in the something, and worry less about living in a comfortable box labeled Full Stack Python Developer.
How do you know you can't? It certainly seems possible to test, at any rate.

Additionally, can you prove the contrary, that every behavior is the result of an equation? If you cannot, why make a hard assumption either way? What does that gain us?
It's similar.
> Firefox is slow (especially on Linux) when compared with Chromium.

No. Just, no.

I want to share something that I experienced very recently.

I use Firefox and Chrome (just for using Taskboard) at work. I also use Firefox at home. Both systems are Debian. The perceived browser speed was Chrome (Work) > Firefox (Work) > Firefox (Home). I always thought it was about DNS resolution, so I started running DNSMasq at home on an OrangePi Zero but, it didn't make much difference.

Two days ago, my home ADSL modem suddenly died. I replaced it with a more modern version and everything about speed has changed. Now The speed of Firefox at home is equal with the speed of Chrome at Work, Firefox at work is slightly behind.

It can be said that Firefox is much more sensitive to network parameters like DNS response times, but its rendering engine and other capabilities are not behind Chrome.
How do you know the mind is computed by the brain? Maybe the brain is just an antenna for the mind.
Plus I don’t think spreading a crazy sect in places that had mostly gotten rid of religion was really to be put on the credit of the person.
Recall that Highlander 2 and Highlander 2: Director’s Cut are practically different movies thanks to significant editing (H2 being so bad that H3 actually apologized and reset the plot line to the end of H1).
How does this explain entropy? How is it increasing in this system?

Are the complex/organized/cell-like structures supposed to be a higher entropy configuration?

edit:

I played with the parameters with "chaos" as the template. There's a parameter called "friction." I believe anything with a non-zero value here will cause energy to dissipate away from the system.

If you set that friction value to zero, the system is closed and entropy goes up and stays up. In this state no complex structures form. However when you let energy dissipate out of the system via friction you start to see the cells, which is in line to the theory on how life can form despite rising entropy.
> I don't think they care about the legality of those they are robbing all that much.

People robbed of illegal property usually do not report such losses to the authorities.
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Got the same issue in iOS Safari
I thought the same, but then figured the ratio is probably around the same.
Yes, all government programs that exclusively benefit women would become illegal. And, all government programs that exclusively benefit men would also become illegal. These are not unintended consequences; equality for all sexes is the explicit purpose of the amendment.

I also just want to note that most of the programs you mention actually wouldn't be affected. WIC provides food money to single fathers in an equal fashion to the food money given to single mothers. Similarly, FMLA provides equal leave for both mothers and fathers. Family courts have already moved past special treatment of women; they now operate in a best interests of the child doctrine.
Seems to be an anti ad-block measure. I don’t care enough to disable it on my phone.
The machines are intelligent just like a doll is a baby. AI is merely grown up make believe.

I would define intelligence as the ability to increase net information in a closed system. Something no algorithm can do, per the conservation of information.
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What's going on with parallelized Vulkan renderer in UE? The Trello item was "archived": https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux

Surprising that Google didn't back that effort with the whole Stadia push.

And there is still no Linux support in Epic store.
Can you start a company around this? I would love to have one. You may use KickStarter
I rarely give out access to my contact list anymore but I do wonder is there any safe way to actually do what the original feature intended.

I'm new to a game. I'd like to play with my friends without having to individually contact every single one of them and ask them if they also play the game.
Ask HN: Indie business vs. VC funded startup
Hey guys,
I've been working with a friend over the past year to get an indie business up and running. I've enjoyed every bit of it. We've pivoted about 4 times and the current idea seems like it has legs.

I also worked with a VC last year, and he's looking to set up a studio. He wants me to come on board and help build one of the companies. All the ideas are extremely exciting and I'm sure I can do something that interests me and has a large impact.

Here's the dilemma: I will run out of savings by the end of next year, I'd love to have a self-sustained indie business, but I'm not sure if we'll get there.
The second issue I have with the indie business is that I end up spending a lot of time on things I could delegate to others. I've realized I'm working with very little leverage. I could find a lot of leverage as a VC funded company. I enjoy the strategic parts / growth-related activities more than admin stuff.

The other downside of the indie business is that it's not as exciting, but I do think the excitement waivers off after some point so I don't think I'd take it too seriously. I still enjoy learning different things every day.

The upside though is that I have a lot of freedom, and I enjoy that. I work out of a beach town and it has been amazing.

If I pick the VC funded business, I'll have to move to a dense metropolitan city, where I spend a lot of time in polluted air and traffic.

But the upside of being in a dense urban area is the opportunity for serendipity. I get to meet a lot of smart researchers, entrepreneurs, and people in general.

I'm having a very hard time to decide between the two because both seem like great opportunities, and I know I wouldn't regret either option. I'd like to know from other indie hackers / VC funded entrepreneurs, what they think is a better option?
but they also would seem to be less likely to have insurance and more likely, as a result, to guard their property with some level of force?
I wonder if Game Center has (had?) something that would work here.
I love the way in which this lady broke down the complexity of graph theory into something that anybody can understand. I mean, I understood it.
There is also evidence that broken bones become stronger and it's especially visible in martial arts practicioners who regularly break and restore bones at microscopic level.

Even though this is true, I wouldn't advice anyone to break bones: the US hospitals are really good at emptying pockets.
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I genuinely thought "Bra theory" was some quantum physics theory with the bra operation somehow being central to it, and this was going to be about how that was disproved recently or something.
Another reason might be that they were paid a lot of money.
Reader mode for Firefox mobile looks good on android.
iOS has a similar thing for photos, but apps don’t use it. (The reason that the “give us your entire photo album API” exists is ostensibly so you can show it using your own UI. The number of apps that abuse this reason is very high, including some that absolutely should know better–as in, they’re market towards privacy-conscious users.)
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I think it's high time the host os takes responsibility for the privacy of sensitive things, such as contact lists and personal data.

One way could be to not return any identifiable information about others at all, but just a hash of each contact. (Kudos points if the host os returns a different hash for the same contact in different apps.) If that contact is known to the app, (because they've also installed it) then the app has all the information it needs to set up contact between two parties. The host os will probably need to provide a way to render a contact list for the app.

I'd be much happier with this arrangement. This way my personal data isn't uploaded to third parties simply because an acquaintance of mine wants to install some rubbish app. It's only if I install the same (rubbish) app will that third party finally get my personal info.

Host OS should also give me the power to determine what personal info it's given to any app. For instance, why did WhatsApp ever need my personal phone number while creating an account? It doesn't, and as such, should be regarded as an antitrust requirement.
I would advise you to try to build something simple and small. It may become bigger afterwards. Ideally, this (initially) small project would scratch an itch.

That way, you have something immediately motivating, small and simple working soon so you don't get lost (lack of motivation, too much complexity) and overwhelmed, and you can still improve it later.
Embargoes stop early publication. They don't stop critics talking to each other.
I don't think it's the first case, movie studios have used focus groups for a long time.
Does anyone have an alternate source? This site is horrendous on mobile.
> This technique utilizes category theory.

No, it doesn't. Category theory is not intrinsic to the development, use or explanation of this technique. Category theory is merely one possible framework for explaining why the technique works the way it does. That's an important distinction, and likewise it's not the most practical framework for understanding this technique by a long shot.

In particular, understanding why certain programming techniques are more performant than others virtually never requires the language and abstractions of category theory. Everything you're saying here is a further demonstration of the complaints others have voiced in this thread. Not because you're wrong - you're not wrong. Rather because it's just not the most practical way of understanding or leveraging most programming techniques, and it injects a significant amount of unnecessary abstraction and foreign mathematical terminology into discussion.

For what it's worth I have taken graduate math courses wholly and partly focused on category theory, so I have the background to follow what you're saying. It's essentially correct. But it's also obtuse and mostly inscrutable to other people. It reduces, rather than increases, the shared context software engineers leverage to understand each other. You can project a vast and magnificent theory of categories onto programming because it adheres to a variety of algebras, but at the end of the day it's just not clarifying anything further. Instead it's miring it in overcomplicated verbiage.

There's basically no reason for you to be explaining why a regular expression is faster than a for loop for this use case with the formalism of category theory, unless it's as an academic exercise just to show you can. Explaining this example with the language of functors and type spaces is like proving that Excel is Turing complete in order to explain how summing arbitrary rows in a column works.
He publicly posted that he was stepping down from maintaining luajit and did not subsequently post anything saying that he had changed his mind.
My read on this has always been that most of the negative commentary around 'art' falls into one of two categories. Neither of which is utterly dismissive of the value of art and/or culture. However, I'm not sure they are made all that explicitly.

1) Criticism of the art industry and it's role in the commoditization and market making you mention around art. That isn't criticism of art or it's value...it's criticism that such value is often interfered with for, among other things, money laundering.

2) Criticism of specific pieces of art that an individual doesn't 'get' (and by golly I fall into this trap). By get, it really is about they don't see the artistic or cultural value of that piece but typically is done in reference, which implies that they do see some art as having value.
The acceptance rate at ycombinator is very low - 1.5% Only who get accepted.
The three things on the list are conveniences not necessities. They are features of individual modules that provide a UI over several pixel pipeline operations that can be done in other ways. White balance can be done without using the presets (that's mostly how I do it). Denoising can be done with tools besides "profiled denoise." I do use it. I often shoot slow lenses at high ISO's (1600-12800) and it was the easiest tool to learn without understanding what I was doing. I've never used custom matrix because my camera isn't supported. I don't miss it. You might I guess.

But none of these are core features. And none are the only way to accomplish the things they do.
Fortnite is similar to the multiverse in Ready Player One. There have been multiple cross-over events in game, such as:

1) Live DJ show https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47118989

2) Avengers Endgame promo https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516452/fortnite-avenger...

3) Star Wars exclusive trailer https://www.wired.com/story/fortnite-star-wars/

It's proving it is more than just a battle royale shooter..
I completely agree with all your points, but would add that we also didn't have the CAD tools to make big stuff, the 6502 was built by cutting litho to make transistors (actually physically cutting different coloured transparent tape and sticking it to a transparent sheet), nowadays I could knock out all fully timed 6502 in a few days with the right tools. Building something the size of a Cray on paper was an amazing achievement
You make some very interesting points. The Adam Smith quote points out the various axes to consider when looking at the "viability" of something in the market which is quite correct. But there is another wrinkle added by the "Modern" world. I presume you are aware of the works of Nassim Taleb. He makes a distinction between "Extremistan" and "Mediocristan" (and lambasts Economics and Economists :-) which i feel is very applicable to understanding "The Market". With the current "Information/Data" revolutions the frequency and impact of "Extremistan" events have increased dramatically and existing economic models are no longer sufficient to explain them. For example, what exactly is the "marginal cost" of software? How do we explain the rise of "The Internet" as a major economic driver? I lean towards the viewpoint that this dichotomy is applicable to the whole Software/IT industry. Thus "Embedded Systems Industry" has moved from "Extremistan" to "Mediocristan" (commoditization, cost reduction, large supply pool etc.) while "Web Development" is still in "Extremistan" and this gets reflected in their respective salaries.
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Pull advertising isn't really the same kind of advertising as the predominant push kind, and it's the latter that's considered a problem. Let people decide where and when they want to be advertised to on their own. Let them visit exhibitions, trade shows, buy or browse product catalogs and shopper's magazines.
True. And yet some are really good and I wouldn't miss them.

But I've been and spoken to many conferences this year and I have to admit it was hard to sit and listen to presentations.

I wanted to meet people and exchange ideas instead.

There's a couple of interesting formats:

- network centric conference with few and great speeches in non sterile locations. See WRWS in a theater in Como for instance.

- smaller ones with workshops. We co-organized one in Milan this year and we were given a 30 people room. It was packed with interested people all day for the simple reason that they chose to be there.

Now we are playing with the idea to spend a weekend in some Tuscany villa where everyone sleeps and eats there during the conference in an effort to maximize networking and workshops over speeches.

In short: it's diverse and evolving.
Interesting observations. For some reason I’m reminded of this (admittedly pretty bizarre) concept car from about a decade ago by BMW.

https://youtu.be/0pwabDeqVi8
>> idioms and homophobes

Did you mean idiots?
Why do you assume it's illegal though? They have legal cannabis in Colorado.
I would hesitate to call it a feature. Realistically, nobody that I know would consider "analyzing my contacts to automatically suggest potential connections" an important or even productive feature. Certainly, nobody is switching to ToTok because of it. It is only a feature from the perspective of the platform holders; for a company like Facebook it is used to increase engagement (and thus ad revenue), and for ToTok it (allegedly) is used for surveillance.
The parent didn’t defend Jesus or the robber; they only argued that the robber was less harmful than Jesus.
Legal ones have a business license, with address on file with the state. No need for drones to find them
My god this has to be one of the worst news sites I've ever seen. Do these publishers have no shame? I got two full screen video ads with audio on mobile and it dragged my brand new Pixel phone to a crawl.
That's really nothing new - Azur Lane has cross-over events all the time, for example.
Merry Christmas folks. I appreciate ability to participate in this community and do enjoy it a lot. Have a great year
All cannabis farms I've seen (n>500) have insurance, expensive policy but they still have it. And they are obligated by state law to report any theft
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I just used trader on iOS safari and had no issues. Weird that it only seem to be affecting some people.
I like the advise to not shoot down the drones, as this can cause a battery fire.
Seems very US-American to me.
Just FYI: That’s a single 1-second scene of a lesbian kiss (during celebrations at the end of the movie) with two nameless characters that don’t matter in the movie.
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Wait, the crankiest group in Cyberspace isn't Star Wars fans?
Lol, sometimes speakers do need handlers :P

SeaGL in Seattle does offer free childcare to all attendees, in addition to being free to attend.
No doubt an electric truck is better than a diesel truck, but the diesel truck already exists. Consequently any comparison needs to include the impact of scrapping all the existing trucks and replacing them with electric ones.

Ideally you'd do that slowly to maximize the utility of the emissions from building the diesel truck in the first place, so add-on technology to make them more environmentally friendly is a very good thing.
Nice to see a post mortem made public. Also fairly well written for laymen while still retaining detail. Most rail infrastructure operators from other countries don’t make this sort of info public (apart from PR type messages which typically don’t explain the issue at at all and are more focused on deflecting blame etc). Kudos to Network Rail.