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I don't really understand corporate taxation, but maybe someone here can educate me.

Why do we expect cutting corporate taxes to increase investment? Aren't costs associated with infrastructure, hiring, wages, etc. considered deductible business expenses? I suppose there are some edge cases there like payroll taxes, but it seems like most of what a corporation spends money on is effectively coming from pre-tax dollars.
Depends on what you mean by control. It sounds like you're worried about different downside risks than I am.
Sure. I don't want to fly with a noob pilot, but I like playing chess with noob players at my table or next one over.
None. They are all lawyers.
What an omission - the paper‘s first author was Dzmitry Bahdanau. How can the author name only his supervisors?
I drive a plugin hybrid so get what you mean. But there's regenerative braking, which mitigates the perceived startup effect you refer to.

Also, if a bunch of cars make rolling stops, then the vehicles behind them keep crawling along the whole time (instead of coming to a complete stop and having the engine cut). I wonder what the cumulative effect is?
It didn't need it. That was just the solution the devs created. They could have done it with 32-bit floats, or hell, 32-bit integers, if they wanted, given the right representation. But they chose 64-bit floats to solve the problem, the problem did not choose 64-bit floats.
And that email server has to be in a datacenter you own, because AWS doesn't exist. (What is AWS if not hosting user-generated content?)

And if you run a tor node, then you're liable for anything someone does with tor.

And if you host a blockchain mirror.

And...
They mostly ban content for Apple users because of Appstore restrictions. And they ban Isis group chats which is a good thing in my book.
to someone who doesn’t know anything about the relevant science (me) the use of the word “insertions” seems to imply this was engineered. Can someone who actually understands this explain what this document is saying?
That sounds interesting. Can you provide some links to more in-depth information about the use of Alexandria, Virginia and the skewed jury composition? I tried to Google a bit but so far was unable to find much more than just news snippets mentioning a few high profile intelligence related trials that reference said court. Am I just unlucky?
A thread by an epidemiologist on the new results:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223305946723704832
Alternatively: culture. If people just feel that proving how evil arbitrary strangers are is just not done, they just won't decide to have such arguments in the first place, and if they disagree they'll tend to do so civilly, and so will be more inclined to listen to their opponents.

So long as a community doesn't grow too quickly, culture is mostly conserved. Ideals of tolerance and productive discussion would probably help, too, but ask a sociologist.
That looks neat. I'll put it on my list of things to play with eventually.
I wonder if this is a good or bad position to be in to start a life style business.

I’m fortunate enough to be in this situation, where if I go somewhere cheap and keep my expenses down I can sustain myself financially for a long time, maybe indefinitely. And I’ve though about leaving my salaried job to do my own thing many times. I do worry though that the lack of financial pressure will just leave me lazy and “playing around” instead of focusing on building a financially viable business.

Anyone else have experience with this?
I got busy, so I wanna say thanks to everyone who tagged in for me. So many great answers. I'll link a few that speak the most to my own feelings.

Why do I like it? I am, as klodolph notes [1], a dyed-in-the-wool algebraist. It's where I find the most beauty and joy in mathematics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202606

This invention/discovery is a fundamental development in abstract algebra, not a terminal one. Quaternions are just a jumping-off point, and I've always found the Caley-Dickenson construction that pauldraper explains[2] absolutely beautiful.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202513

Why would I want it specifically as a tattoo? jfengel points out the special history of that specific equation[3]: it was (allegedly) carved into a bridge in Dublin when Hamilton stumbled onto it, but the carving is gone. Kinda fitting to give it new permanence.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202513

So, putting it all together: it's a fundamental development in abstract algebra, which is my jam. It's could have been permanently inscribed in a bridge, but that's been lost to time, so giving it new permanency seems fitting.

Also, it's practical. My first thought was actually the Cayley table for the Klein four-group[4], but that would be a lot harder to get tattooed in a nice visible way. How I went from there to Hamilton's quaternion equation is left as an exercise to the reader. (If you're new to Cayley tables, they're just fancy times tables. Replace "e" with 1.)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_four-group#Presentations
> Honestly, as a noob, this is one of the biggest reasons I have such a hard time deciding to learn regex.

Clear your afternoon, and just learn it. Seriously, it takes a couple of hours at best and then - BOOM - you're done for the rest of your life.
Ok, we've changed from http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf.
You mean you miss the good old innovative days when every phone model had its own charger?

The days where you needed special proprietary software to access any part of your phone if you connected it with to a computer using its special cable?

I remember losing plenty of sms history and contacts when changing phones because the dedicated phone software was too old to run on my windows, and the dodgy program I found on the internet wouldn't work with my specific model.

I also remember how in these heady days of unbridled innovation my girlfriend saved her sms's by writing them down on paper. And this was a fairly sensible solution to the innovation rich state of the market, where every manufacturer and close to every individual model, was its own silo.
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The nim team is currently working on removing the garbage collector by means of a new reference counting based “garbage collector mode” called “arc” (for automatic reference counting). You can get more info in the following link, where it is described as “plain old reference counting with optimizations thanks to move semantics”:

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5734

The objective is to make nim suitable for embedded programming and other use cases for which garbage collection is a non starter.
This new —gc:arc mode is already available in the nightly builds and the benchmarks are already impressive. I believe that the plan is to make arc the default “garbage collector mode” in nim 1.2.
California Attorney General delays .org sale
I think the fear is, the companies will be hindered from making those innovations if they have to go through a centralized approval process, particularly if that process is slow, bureaucratic, technologically illiterate, resistant to change, etc (to say nothing of regulatory capture).

I'm not deadset against this sort of thing, and I think we could do a lot worse than USB-C as the new universal connector (at least for the next decade or so), but given past attempts at regulating tech (cookie banners), I think it's a legitimate concern.
Highly recommend to read this book:

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The author went on lots of Podcast shows, you can start from there before you spend any $.
I hadn't seen Beef before. Is it 'as fast as C'? The docs look nice.
Yes, still valued, but isn't the shift what the linked article is about? "Botanical illustrators like Tangerini are rare and becoming as endangered as some of the plants they draw."
I’m a longtime Mac user. The current MacBook range is probably using the most standard plugs of any MacBook range ever. I miss the old way as a range of plugs is a range of options. Currently things can be plugged in that then don’t work and most things seem to require a dongle.
Not all concerns are purely economic. If you live in a city multiple years, you might want to participate in an election, for instance.
Some family members that once said "don't believe what you read on the internet" and resistent to the early internet are now some of the biggest sharers of hyperpartisan alarmism online.
It is about culture. Just because it's about the Mafia and those types of people are criminals doesn't mean they don't have their own culture. It being culture, it is interesting to people here on HN.
Yes, vaccines proven effective against the spread of disease are good. The current body that judges this is the FDA, which is part of the government. The corruption of the people administering the vaccine have no bearing on the effectiveness of the vaccine. For HPV in particular, it looks like we're going to eliminate new infections next generation thanks to this, which is unquestionably good. I'd have preferred it to be administered to everyone, not simply who the government deems worthy. (EDIT: Sorry, forgot how medical costs were allocated in the states.)

I don't really think it's inaccurate to label anybody against vaccines as "anti-vaccine", since... that's their position. If I wanted to be vitrolic and hyperbolic, I'd call them "pro-disease", "baby-killers", or "complicit in the largest outbreaks of preventable death of children". "Anti-vaccine" is merely a summary of the position.
I tried it without, initially.

How'd you get the censored UNIX to work without italicizing half of the comment incorrectly? I tried escaping it in a few different ways, and no dice.
We were doomed as soon as we made the mistake of trusting an AI to prove the four color theorem
It's unclear that you really need to convert to matrices before sending off to the GPU. [1] finds that quaternions are faster; I find that questionable (does it scale?), but it shows that the two are comparable.

1: https://tech.metail.com/performance-quaternions-gpu/
Thanks for writing this. It was indeed a large part of why I like it. I added more detail in a reply to the parent post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204995
I was going to take food dye to the bar tonight
This would be a really scary outcome. As has been commented elsewhere, there's confirmed events of at least four virus leaks from labs in Beijing.

Evidence/article on it here:

https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-lab...

Not only that, but just last year there was a case of a Chinese scientist who was banished from a Canadian bio lab level 4 for stealing virus samples, as well as a Harvard Academic found to be taking money from the Chinese gov to help develop the lab in Wuhan.

None of this proves the lab theory, but I do believe that with enough genetic analysis the truth will come out.
It would be more defendable if you didn't use that quote. In my experience the people most likely to throw it into the discussion are also the people most likely to be horrified by the SCOTUS opinion.
>> civillian collaborators with the US

Maybe those were helping (unknowingly) US troops to kill other people...
Thanks for writing this! I referenced it in a reply upthread for why I like the equation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204995
>>stone quarries

I deal with stone factories/quarries everyday (but mostly in Brazil and India)!

Let me know if you're still interested in this space.
This pattern happens so often that you’d think people would start to catch on. A story about one person supposedly being “outraged” about something leads to a huge vigorous CJ of folks eager to express their anti-outrage-outrage at the straw man in front of them.
price shaming is just communicating information about a product you have used to other market participants. Even if you very aggressively price-shame that's just a signal that you were an unsatisfied customer, which is valuable input for everyone else. Feedback of whatever kind is how markets function so I don't think it makes sense to criticize it as long as it is their genuine opinion.
"The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be
fortuitous in nature."

Does this lend support to the theory that the coronavirus was engineered in Wuhan's bioweapons laboratory?
So can we sue advertising companies now?
The primitives codesigned/codiscovered by Dan Bernstein have become popular not because of hacker street cred but rather because they are peer reviewed and have good design rationale
Yes, the comparison is unfair so the difference is inflated, but Hadoop would still be significantly slower for this use case.
'Star Wars' is also not mentioned in Star Wars—which seems like a HUGE oversight in retrospect.
Not the same but along these lines, from Greek, to be enthusiastic is literally to be filled with god, if you squint you can recognize the theos in there.
That 30 pin thing was barbaric and probably the least Apple-like thing they ever made.
We definitely had different experiences, then! I would say most forums, even a lot of the mainstream ones, tolerated some level of 4channess. Facepunch forums ~2009 was the first time I thought "wait, are these guys actually Nazis or just think it's hilarious to act like they are?" Stickpage.com forums ~2005 taught me an important lesson in not clicking URLs from domains I don't trust -- ESPECIALLY if they end in 'hello.jpg'.

Like I said in my original post, that's the lens through which I viewed the internet. It could be different from yours.

I'm not trying to 'normalize' 4chan but, honestly, I've bounced from plenty of Discord servers that are indistinguishable from 4chan. I think it's OK to recognize that at least some part of the non-4chan web is still very 4channy.
I sent the link to my girlfriend, and she didn't find it very interesting until I told her that I don't have this internal monologue, and it turns out she does. Neither of us knew about the other scenario. I visualize and feel things and only use my internal voice if I'm picturing talking to someone else. Even when I'm reading, I don't hear an internal voice. We've watched the Dexter series together and I thought that all of his internal voice was for added drama!
While you're accomplishing that I would like water to be less wet, and the value of Pi to be set to three as well, please.

All proposals that I've ever seen to "simplify" government amount to abdicating large functions, usually justified by some ideology around "rugged individualism" or anarchism which are completely fatuous.
Oh yes, I'm totally going to grow out of this climate crisis... my, how hard are your pearls being clutched right now?
I don't know if I know the solution, but I know one thing that isn't the solution: silencing everyone who disagrees with you.

A lot of the people complaining about "toxicity" on the internet seem to be under the impression that if we "deplatform" the so-called toxic people, that will fix things. But on the contrary, that makes things worse.

If someone says something awful on the internet, and everyone either ignores them or politely presents a counterargument, they either move on because they feel they've been heard, or they engage in a polite discussion. Maybe they change their mind, maybe they don't. If they really can't engage in polite discussion, then they come across as making their ideas look worse, so they aren't really doing much harm.

If someone says something awful on the internet, and everyone rails about how awful it is and gets them banned, then that person is angry, and that anger motivates them to keep posting about it everywhere and spreading their idea. Meanwhile, they will integrate that idea into their identity, which makes it far harder to change their mind. And if you actually manage to get them to go away, they will go to cesspools like Voat, where they are even less likely to be exposed to ideas that change their mind, and where in fact they are likely to be exposed to even worse ideas.

Let's get some perspective: what you're complaining about is people saying things you don't like on the internet. Yes, what they are saying spreads ignorance, but the solution to ignorance isn't silencing the ignorant, it's education.

MLK and Harvey Milk both recognized that the source of the bigotry they fought against was fear borne of ignorance. But the average left-leaning person today doesn't see bigots even as people any more. All it takes nowadays is for someone to say one of a list of banned phrases and they're completely written off as even human. If we're going to bridge the gap here, we on the left have got to consider that we might be the toxic ones.

I've found that when I actually talk to so-called "toxic" people politely, they are willing to listen. It's not them that are causing the polarization.
Given the extent to which real-time fluid simulation consists of GPU computation, is there anything that makes Odin particularly suited to that domain apart from the basic requirement of control over memory allocation and alignment?

I'm more on the scientific side of CFD (so CUDA more so than shaders), but always interested in improving upon the kind of orthodox C++ I usually write.
It’s definitely not like extending it to the keyboard manufacturer, that’s the reddest of red herrings. They intentionally signed off on a feature that encourages a physician (in a position of trust) to prescribe opioids. The keyboard or tools to build the software had absolutely nothing to do with this unethical decision. It was a ux design decision which they all certainly knew what its intention was (or they were incompetent af).
It used to take some knowledge and effort to fill the Audience portion of that equation. The further back in time you go, the more was required of you to find and maintain it. Now the audience is delivered to you and everyone else via a handy little device we all carry around and reflexively stare at whenever there's a pause in our lives.

EDIT: clarity
Your intuition is correct, you really should try to make sure your employer is aware of your intent to work on your own IP and you have some written document acknowledging that fact. Many companies have a form you fill out on your first day listing such projects. You owe your employer a duty of loyalty and so your projects cannot compete with them, and it helps to have them review the scope of the project and sign off on that fact. If you don't get this agreement from your employer, you might still technically be fine to work on your own business but you risk a court battle about it.

> I’ve also read that these kinds of clauses can even apply several months after you terminate at your day job, which suggests that you can’t even start on the product until months after you’ve left.

These would be non-compete clauses, illegal in California but legal in many other states. Your employer doesn't own any IP you create once they stop paying you, but if you are bound by a non-compete you'll need to be more careful.
The mafia is just government by other means, and "The government" hates the competition.
I mean it obviously exists. He livestreams coding on the language and in the language. Sure very few people can actually use it right now, but existence is not in question.
In German you give (as a present) your attention to somebody: jemandem Beachtung/Aufmerksamkeit schenken.
I wasn't commenting on Odin, but replying to OP's question about language development.

It's good to see you took FFI seriously and made it low friction, it's absolutely critical for younger languages.
> taking your argument to the extreme, we all probably should've stuck with PHP, since everyone understood it and, well, was it really worth the switching cost?

There are multiple paths for honing a new technology, without dumping it on a large group of developers while it's in its experimental stages:

- Use it for a series of side-projects

- Use it in a startup or startup-like team in which all the developers are bought into it, and happy to work through the obstacles

- Use it at an organization that's both able and willing to devote a large amount of resources to making it work (e.g. devoting a full-time team to its development & support & related training)

Once the kinks have been sufficiently worked out in one of those contexts, and a solid ecosystem with good documentation exists, then there's a much better chance that the benefits will be worth the switching costs for the average project.
UK has chance to relook at Huawei 5G decision, says Pompeo
I thought detecting intelligent design in the genetic code was impossible and bad science.
> I guess the question is, why does it then stop. Why not a 4D alternative.

It doesn't stop. That's what motivated geometric algebra, which works in any dimension. Quaternions are a sub-algebra of geometric algebra. They represent 3D rotations, which makes them interesting in their own right.

Asterisk: I believe there's a sign convention issue in mapping between quaternions and the even subalgebra of the 3D geometric algebra, so they aren't identical, just isomorphic.

> Also, is there as easy of a problem to understand introducing the 3D technique (be it quarternions or be it Gemoetric Algebra) that works as well as using sqrt(-1) for imaginary numbers?

That's an extraordinarily high bar. I don't believe anything reaches it. Part of the problem is that complex numbers are one of the most successful concepts in all of mathematics. The other part of the problem is that most of the useful facets of geometric algebra escaped the field of abstract mathematics under their own name before the unifying structure was discovered. The dot and cross product, quaternions, differential forms and the general Stokes' theorem are all examples. The remaining value proposition of geometric algebra lies mostly in getting rid of minor annoyances that come from this half-baked nature of traditional vector calculus tools:

* Cross products break in more than 3 dimensions and they break if you reflect them (see: pseudovectors). Bivectors have no such issues. They represent rotations in any dimension, reflected or not.

* Vector algebra with dot and cross products involves memorizing lots of new identities and applying creativity to work around the absence of division, while geometric algebra just has division and the same bunch of algebra tricks you already know. The geometric product isn't commutative, so it isn't perfect in this sense, but learning to deal with non-commutative algebra is a much more fundamentally useful thing than learning a bunch of 3D-specific identities.

* Dot and Cross with one argument fixed "destroy information" mapping from their input to their output. If you put them into an equation, the equation does not fully constrain the free vector, so you are often going to need more than one equation to represent any single geometric concept. Not so with geometric algebra. Many concepts map to a single equation. Including Maxwell's Equation (I use the singular intentionally)!
You can initiate a message to anyone using https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=<phone_number>
"It should be obvious that these leaks endangered these people. All you have to do is look at them to see that."

Which, specifically? I have heard that claim before. Would you mind linking to the specific leaks that endangered civilians? WikiLeaks is online and searchable, but I have not seen them.
this is my sentiment too

I find it quite sad that internet "promise" became a shallow stream of ads disguised as content
Insertions can occur naturally.

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

> Because many viruses integrate their own genomes into the genomes of their host cells in order to replicate, mutagenesis caused by viral infections is a fairly common occurrence. Not all integrating viruses cause insertional mutagenesis, however.

This paper does seem to allege that these particular sets of insertions aren't via natural causes, though.