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> What happens to these people when full equality is achieved?

What happens to a software engineer when full feature completeness and bug-free-ness is achieved? What happens to a police employee when zero crime is achieved? What happens to a builder when all the buildings that ever need to be built are built?

Even if you get to the point where you can say "there are no problems at all!" (doubtful, except maybe in tiny startups or similar), adding "and there will never be any more and we never have to do anything ever again" is hopelessly naive.
And I've been wondering what happens to all the HN posters once every sensible comment has been written. Will they become repetitive? Will they start posting absolutely inane comments? Will they all congregate, post one last comment and celebrate a job well done?
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I seriously doubt that there is meaningful overlap between anti-maskers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

The issue is that misinformation and conspiracy theories are thriving on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and they're received the illusion of legitimacy from one of our minority political party that controls 2 out of 3 branches of government.

Americans were able to make huge, selfless sacrifices during WWII. The only reason they can't do it now is that several very large companies profit from outrage, conspiracy, and polarization, and they have optimized our media to generate as much of those as possible.
It really depends on vaccination rates and the transmission rates of vaccinated people. Vaccines aren't going to reach mass distribution until February or March at the earliest. It's an open question just how much vaccination reduces low-level infection and retransmission. The published vaccine trials have been focused on incidence of symptoms and reduction in mortality in the vaccinated group.

It remains possible that the death rate may climb among the unvaccinated if others' vaccinations is used as an excuse for risky behavior.
Yeah, it's a bit vexing that humanity doesn't learn long-term lessons very well. I'm curious we'll ever solve that problem.
If Bezos actually paid taxes, your argument would be more convincing.
"A society which has for 300 years done something special against the Negro must now do something special for the Negro." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
The one thing I've been hoping Stripe eventually rolls out is escrow; hopefully this is a step towards that?
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Occam's razor makes us think in this case it's the data, the simplest explanation.
Nvidia's RTX 3000 line is manufactured by Samsung, not TSMC.
I found mosh to be a huge improvement over standard SSH when connecting over roaming/unreliable/high latency networks.
"Financial services" are verbatim not allowed by Stripe's Acceptable Use Policy. What kind of businesses are permitted to use Stripe Treasury?

Which functionality is specifically provided (or anticipated to be provided) by Goldman Sachs Bank? The answer is probably a credit card.

Who performs KYC? Is it Stripe FTEs, Stripe contractors, or a vendor? Is it Evolve's vendor? The answer is probably a vendor.

When submitting payments or transfers, does your interface provide a way to show purpose of payment when the transfer is initiated? The answer is probably no.

Not sure why this keeps getting downvoted, these are not very opinionated or critical questions. It's also pretty reasonable to just guess answers, especially benign answers, based on their competitors, if they choose not to answer. They're all good faith questions.
“Live free or die.”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

These are not platitudes.
Presumably, they'll find something else to work on.
Sounds fun yeah.. Really should start to learn to program. Got a background in pure math but for some illogical reason I feel kind of intimidated by programming.
Depending on how far out on the curve a kid is, there are options in many places. Gifted and talented programs exist in many if not most places. In multiple areas I’ve lived, the “local” (it might be over an hour away) university has offered some form of extremely talented youth program, although perhaps not at 12.

For kids who are so smart that those programs aren’t enough, it often stops becoming a question of money and more just numbers- kids that are 1/100,000 level smart and live in an area where there are a million people, then the school system sees less than one of you per year/grade. There aren’t enough “peers” to get a full class together.

I’m with you that GATE programs are beneficial and worth funding, but there will always be exceptions that a general program can’t cover and I can believe this kid is one of them.
Yeah there is a lot missing here.

I personally have ever seen the 'do x or I quit' move work exactly once. The second time they tried it they took them up on the offer. They were even very nice to work with and were part of the 'do not fire this person or it is chaos' team. When he did it the first time he said 'I can only do this once if I try again they will fire me on the spot'. He did it a second time just to see if they would match his external offer (they let him ride the 2 weeks at least). You usually only get one shot at that sort of move. If you do it all the time, managers start looking for ways to offload you. You will be seen as a threat to org stability as you come off as unreliable. No matter how key you are.
No Home/End keys and no webcam. Otherwise I would've been recommending that in this reply from one.
These days, it's common for the tail to wag the dog, and to have an index that only exists to be tracked by some fund. (The Index of Stocks that Fund Manager X likes).

It's not clear to me from the press release whether S&P Dow Jones are doing that here, or if they're planning to have a flagship index that lots of fund managers will be trying to track or beat.
Perhaps it is a feature, not a bug.

The EU is a tradeblock, the rest is facade. Case in point : the COVID response.
I'd get a lawyer to advise on the text and the change, make sure it really means what you think it does. And talk to them about your concerns, explain why you want the change. Make it clear you are open to other reasonable solutions.
If you actually want to optimize calories per unit land, you should be considering neither organic nor non-organic tomatoes, as both produce significantly fewer calories per unit land than crops like wheat, corn, and soybeans.
I'm working on a COVID data website using public data from the New York Times. It's on my list to make the code open source but I'm just not there yet.

FWIW, based on county test results and my anecdotal poking around the US - most counties in the US have 1% or less of their population getting a positive COVID test in the past two weeks. In the grand scheme of things, I contend we have only a handful of people infectious in any two week period.

Find your state and county at https://thecovidcomplex.com/states

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I have some really specific biases about the COVID response in the US that I shall not dwelve in to here. You can read about them on the About and Resources page. The other day I posted my site as a comment to something else COVID and you can read that discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25255589 just search for my username in the comments.
Bitcoin arrives on Wall Street: S&P Dow Jones launching crypto indexes in 2021
In the latest big move by traditional finance to incorporate crypto, 550 coins will appear in the new indexes starting next year.
I suspect this move will provide new motivation to approve an ETF that tracks the index.

The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF, years in the making, appears to be stalled as do the other Bitcoin ETFs.
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So Medium wants my email to read the article, and when I give it email it says I have to upgrade to read the article.

Shady.
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good point, think the article failed to consider such use cases, most software is not written as brand new.
There is nothing stopping manufactures from including Thunderbolt.
AnTuTu Benchmark smartphones ranking:

Vivo Iqoo 5 Pro 671,218

OnePlus 8 Pro 590,112

iPhone 12 Pro 579,778

As ever, it depends what you're measuring
As a PM I sometimes get asked a question, typically by Engineering, and I think the ability to answer this question well is an embodiment of the role. It can take different forms but it's basically: "Why?" Why build X over Y? Why this feature, this way, instead of another way? Why now, instead of later? Why should I build it, and not her?

Answering this well requires a) ability to communicate convincingly, b) evidence, typically through user data, research, competitor analysis, etc., c) authority in your space, d) ability to translate business requirements into technical speak, and vice versa, and e) respect from the team you're working with.
If our leaders actually followed their own rules and stopped flipflopping on what works, people would be more likely to listen to them.
Fair enough, but then you're just substituting gigantic batteries, such as the Tesla Megapack, for the vast transmission networks necessary to make oil, coal, and nuclear practical. These are also not trivial problems to solve for a poor country, without assistance from more developed nations.

So, the question is: is there the political will in the developed world to help the developing world bootstrap renewable energy? History suggests not, unfortunately, but I would love to be wrong on this.

Edit: I forgot to mention, as well: lithium batteries eventually lose capacity and need to be replaced. So, storage is essentially an ongoing maintenance cost in this scenario. Google tells me that the Megapack costs ~$300/kW, all in, so, add that to the cost of your renewable energy. [0] Once you do that, if you're thinking short term, fossil fuels start looking really, really good.

Not to mention that lithium is a limited resource, and the mining of lithium is absolutely terrible for the local environment.

Google also tells me that the Tesla Megapack comes with a 15 year "energy retention" warranty. [1] So, you need to make this investment every 15 years. And, unless the prices of batteries go way down per kWh, that can add up real quick.

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[0]: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/05/tesla-megapack-powerpac...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack
As I mentioned in a comment upthread, I was trained in navigation as a Merchant Marine officer and we were not allowed to use electronic calculators during exams. The reason given was "what if you're in the middle of the ocean and your batteries die?" or something stupid like that. But the real reason was that our instructor wanted us to think about what we were doing. Celestial navigation involves a lot of steps and errors compound. Forcing you to think clearly about the intermediate results means that you're more likely to realize you pulled the wrong number out of a table, or your star sight was just plain wrong and you're not off the coast of Madagascar, but somewhere near the Azores instead.
It's interesting.. all these different languages. Wonder if at some point in the future, you'd just have 1 language. (not an engineer so idk if that's possible/practical)
Well, unit-circles over a finite field are a periodic "square". So you gotta redefine the norm from norm = sqrt(x^2 + y^2) into norm = max(x, y).

From there, you get extension fields from real vs imaginary already. (Ex: you can form a new extension field from x + y*j, where x and y are complex numbers), which forms a new periodic cycle.

I mean, deriving it all is hard because group theory is hard. I'm not sure if its because the tools "aren't there". Some super-AI or super-human probably can derive it all from those given facts.
Your remedy requires institutionalizing the sorting of individuals into groups. Receiving benefits because of your assigned groups rather than your individual merits must become a positive thing. We are all incentivized to add importance to further categorizations of people, so we might gain some favour. The more of your remedy we get, the worse off we will be.

How do you imagine this unequal treatment for good will come to an end "after a while"? When all organizations are geared up to divvy up resources among these groups? When even more people in power got there as champions for specific categories? It will be very hard to get out of that situation.

I'd much rather make up for past violations of "equal treatment for all" by implementing more "equal treatment". The more of this we can manage to get, the better of we will be. And there will be nothing to wind down "after a while".
I look forward to the terraform bank account module to follow. :)
Your numbers seem wrong. I’m sure corruption is rampant but an “ordinary mid level bribe making government employee” being worth $60 to $70 million (more than CEOs of large US public companies) is impossible.
I'm not sure this is the best argument against these types of jobs. Food used to be completely unregulated and potentially unsafe, but there are still jobs regulating food safety. It's basically a solved problem, but it still requires lots of people in the public and private sectors who's jobs focus on food safety. Same story with cars, same with medicine. You could imagine a world where bias becomes a mostly solved problem but still requires a lot of people to work on it.
I agree, there might even be a correlation between "incorrect confidence" and creativity. It's important to note though that other countries have been dealing with the fallout of their bad mistakes for centuries, while the US is still relatively young.
Honest question: How unique is the U.S. vs. other countries, in terms of the fraction of population unwilling to take effective measures to avoid spreading to others?

I've seen occasional headlines about super-spreading events in Europe, but I have no idea how much their attendants are representative of their fellow countrymen.
I have a dock with two 4k 60hz DisplayPort monitors that runs off TB3. Afaik that's not possible over USB.
... unless that's what we're burning when we burn fossil fuels....
How about hate speech against Romani? Most would see them as White (at least inasmuch as they're not Black) therefore discrimination against them isn't as bad, as per Facebook, and yet anti-Romani discrimination is much more prevalent (and vicious!) in Europe. Is this Facebook saying it's an American-only company?

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

https://www.hhrjournal.org/2020/04/anti-roma-racism-is-spira...

> From Slovakia to Romania and Bulgaria, states have enacted disproportionate or militarized measures targeting Romani neighborhoods or towns. Some of these measures are driven by a racist narrative that casts Roma as a collective health and safety threat. The Bulgarian government has imposed particular measures, including road blocks and police checkpoints, on several Romani neighborhoods despite no evidence of COVID-19 positive test results there.[2] A Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament, Angel Dzhambazki, speculated that Romani “ghettos [could] turn out to be the real nests of contagion.”

https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-and-travellers/anti-gypsyism...
> What happens to these people when full equality is achieved?

The bubonic plague still kills a few people every year in the United States. Worldwide, cases number in the thousands. Granted, biases and discrimination aren't proper diseases, but they come close given they spread with misinformation.

Isn't an expectation that we can 100% eliminate all that ills us irrational? Doesn't that make this question you ask a leading one?

A panacea for the human condition is not a thing. Suffering exists because of impermanence and will continue to do so through at least next week. That's not to say it's not worth fighting for, but I think any expectation that it can be "eliminated" puts us on the wrong footing for improving things over time.

At the least, it blind us to other truths which may be more evident, such as corporate greed and misuse of the technology we all carry around in our pockets now.
My "blog" (HR bait really) is exactly such a thing(using Sapper), but I had to integrate the markdown->html library by myself, I don't resize images and hit reload doesn't work.

So basically it's possible, put you have to put the thing together by yourself.
>It seems like as a nation we are a group of psychological outliers that are a bit messed up. It makes me think how much "DNA" is shared between behaviour like this and entrepreneurship/art/creation?

This isn't an emergent phenomenon caused by some unique quirk of American psychology, nor is being an anti-masker a sign of greater creative, artistic or entrepreneurial spirit. I feel like we're drifting dangerously close to historical revisionism here.

Had it not been for the current Presidental administration's actions and the efforts of his party and supporters, there would be no significant anti-mask/anti-quarantine movement in the US, nor would the country's response to COVID have been as disastrously hamfisted as it was. We had a plan and infrastructure ready. But it came from Obama so, of course, it was tossed into a trash bin and burned, and then turned into a partisan football.

I realize Hacker News hates any mention of politics, much less partisan politics, but it's important to remember how much of this is explicitly the fault of a single Administration's efforts to maintain its power base in light of an upcoming election. Not everything, mind you, because there has been a lot of incompetence and malfeasance to go around, but a lot.
> One theory I heard is Intel requires them to sell a certain number of their chips on premium machines if they want to stay on their nice partners list

I think this has happened in the past already (https://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5803442/intel-nearly-1-an...).

If they're really doing it again... good luck.
For a long time browsers, both Firefox and Chrome had a bug that if you HTTP2-pushed resources, it re-fetched them anyway. But since that got fixed in both browsers I've used HTTP2 push extensively when optimizing web applications. For example instead of first requesting the main html-file, parsing it, requesting the css file and parsing it, requesting a background image, etc, both the css and the background image is pushed when the index.htm is requested. This can shave off seconds and drastically improve user experience.

I've also implemented commonJS module system where all dependencies are HTTP2 pushed on the first module request.

The main advantage with HTTP2 push is that is simplifies development as you do not get penalized for not using resource bundling (which complicates caching).
Thanks for the hint. I will take a look about it.
I wish people would have the smallest amount of empathy and civic virtue to stay the course for just a little while longer-to let up your guard this late with the vaccines right around the corner seems criminal.
That's surprising to me since Postgres does less efficient writes compared to MySQL in order to optimize for read queries[1] - a sensible tradeoff since most of the time reads are more common than writes in OLTP workloads. TimescaleDB essentially solves this problem for the specific case of time-series inserts.

[In Postgres] if we have a table with a dozen indexes defined on it, an update to a field that is only covered by a single index must be propagated into all 12 indexes to reflect the ctid for the new row.[1]

[1] https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
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I do agree and its one of the reasons my current research focuses on type-based languages instead. However, I think the issue is specific to your "when they actually want to build something" line - what does this mean? I agree and think this is where some of my reservations come from, but what exactly are we wanting kids to do with code outside of the structured lesson? Maybe they are doing them, but because its not this magical "everyone converts to coding" switch, we aren't seeing it.
FYI, Rebol ideas took their root in a historical continuation:

https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
I wonder if there's a way for motherboard manufacturers to add an integrated GPU to the boards today.
I think I remember seeing some nvidia chip on a really old motherboard once, but maybe that was before a lot of the PCIE stuff was moved directly into the CPU die?
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Hi Forrest, hopefully constructive feedback - your choice of font color (rgb(74, 93, 133) I think) for text overtop #fff background is extremely washed out for me, not quite unreadable but heading in that direction. I might suggest a darker choice of font color for better readability, I just gave up trying to finish reading the article due to eye strain.

Edit, screenshot: https://postimg.cc/kRmGmSJh
1) We don't know what her demands were. Perhaps they were unreasonable.

2) She sent them right after an email blast that apparently rubbed execs the wrong way.

3) Then she threatened to leave and they called her bluff.

If I was a manager and an otherwise well-respected BUT irate employee who made unreasonable demands threatened to leave right after sending out a controversial email blast, I think I'd let them leave, as well. Negativity doesn't produce positive solutions.
> Is it inevitable that these positions will end up continuing to try to justify greater and greater outrage over small and small incidents?

No it's not inevitable. To think it is implies everyone doing these jobs is acting in bad faith or will be corrupted by something unspecified and act in bad faith.
Shallow thought indeed.
Dynamic modeling of proteins is an incredibly resource intensive process, and finding a ligand that binds to a model can also be difficult if the model is wrong.

What the folding model essentially does, is confirm that the modeled folded protein has the correctly modeled binding energies for each individual atom. Making modeling induced fit, and conformationally dynamic and difficult to drug proteins, more easy to model and find the correct ligands that bind to them.
Wouldn't that just make the pair unique? That would still allow you to insert rows with the same row_id, but different time.
No, it's not related to the actual /dev tree. Bash handles redirects to /dev/tcp/* and /dev/udp/* specially if there are no files at those locations.
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Maybe your monitor isn't good enough. If you've got a 32" inch monitor, FullHD is pixelated. I've got a 43" monitor, it's 4K and it couldn't work at FullHD resolution.
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I don't think she ever resigned. My guess is that her manager Megan was being nice to her by saying that this is not firing but "accepting resignation". Unfortunately, her manager was obviously not trained in firing. Never "accept resignation" if employee didn't actually resigned, even if you want to nice to them.
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For me, as a business owner, I am inundated with letters from companies offering capital. I understand that this is a platform play and could well succeed but for me feels like a very crowded market. Maybe worth it as a convenience thing?

I can imagine most Fintechs are working on similar at the moment. Curve, Monzo, Revolut, Starling are all going too need lending to profit in the future.

Maybe the success of this will be driven by the economic engine. Lets hope it doesn't stall.