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That's really disappointing, but entirely unsurprising. It seems that the "market" doesn't ever want anything new, unless someone hits them on the head it. Like what Apple just did.

The neural engine and DSP on-chip are actually what I find most interesting about the Apple chip. It would be nice to see that start to happen with other manufacturers.
>"Today's Thursday. Our office is closed on Fridays, so we'll have to schedule that call for Tuesday, because one of our suppliers is closed on Mondays."

Sounds like your company's bus factor is too low. This is such an obtuse and presumptuous observation. How do companies open 7 days a week exist when the work week is 5 days?! Just because your employees only work 4 days doesn't mean the company is only open for business 4 days. You can shift your employees in such a way as to avoid these pitfalls. Use your imagination a bit.
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It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing, with non-Keynsian history of money. Keynes didn't even write about history of money. Keynes in is book even assumed the gold standard for the most part anyway.

As somebody who studies history of economics and history of economic of thought the Bitcoin community has taken up very strange ideas about money and some views that are simply wrong.

Bitcoin is a basically a quasi-commodity and behaves much in the same way.
I only mentioned Numpy as an example of a ubiquitous array paradigm, that most HNers are likely to know. It's a bolt-on to Python, yes, and it's ugly, and it's clearly inspired by APL which came first. All this is true.

But the power of abstraction of APL is available to any other language, with the right functions. Most scientific languages come with those functions out of the box, as demonstrated by my 1<->1 translation of 'Life in APL' into Julia above. And APL doesn't give you a bunch of other really useful general-purpose stuff; that's why I term it a 'DSL'. It's a one-trick pony. It's a great trick, but it's ultimately not quite enough. That's why NumPy hasn't replaced pure Python - you still need to get your hands dirty outside the array paradigm from time to time, and APL is very primitive at that. In fact there's nothing to stop anyone from aliasing array-functions to their APL equivalents in any Unicode-aware language, like Julia (oddly, nobody does). What you're left with is a rather basic parser, some odd syntax quirks like arrow assignment, and some ugly imperative flow control.

Are the fancy symbols really worth it?
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Why would it make more sense to price it in USD?

Bitcoin is the de facto base currency for all cryptocurrency exchanges.
They are not the same, and the asm! version is already implemented; the RFC came with an implementation.

That first PR moved the old asm to llvm_asm, and then the new asm was built after a period of time so folks could migrate their code to llvm_asm, as a temporary measure. This commit happened after that transition so this has to be from the new asm back to the transition version.
> 1. There is no way that a department could get through the same amount of material if they had to accommodate the less motivated and less capable in all of the courses.

This is the high-school-ification of university, and it's part of the problem. This is not mandatory learning / babysitting. Just stop accommodating them. Every class just moves at the pace it needs to move at, and if they can't keep up, so be it.
"Just cut off internet" indeed would work... but it would work for a lot of things.

But saying that is same saying that a normal bank is useless because the government can just "just cut off the power" and thus the bank servers would be down.

And indeed in some siege situations, that would be possible, but Ethereum never promised to be siege-proof.

As for what it means to the average citizen in America or Europe? Well, one of the popular uses of Ethereum is gambling, that in some places is legal, in some others is not. Another use is create business that can't operate in some jurisdictions for whatever reason (for example because sanctions, or just plain old outdated laws that were forgotten).
Ethereum is a platform for decentralized computing. It's like a web server that is always on, never goes down, and you only pay for exactly what services you use (and no more). It is also uncensorable and perfectly immutable - which as a consequence is very useful for money. So one of the high-value services Ethereum supports is moving money and applications around money. This "money" is sometimes referred to as "tokens", which are like digital equity, bonds, currency, but are very hard to put in a single bucket and kind of operate like all of them at once. One interesting aspect is they are bearer instruments, meaning no one can seize them from you.

It's an alternative financial system that anyone can hack on and no one can prevent you from using. Many, especially on HN, quickly lose their Hacker ethos and revert to being state worshippers when it comes to the monetary system, for reasons I don't fully understand. But there is a sizable community of programmers around the world that value a completely open, transparent, hackable, and protocol-oriented financial system. Its network effects have allowed it to be greater than the sum of its parts, and novel financial applications continue to be constructed on it.
Do the Intel MBPs actually thermal throttle any faster than similar Windows laptops? As I recall the thermal performance on something like the XPS 13 isn’t much better.
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I am not arguing either way about the need for crypto currencies, but don't you think its an unfair thing to ask for a new technology [1]? Not everything can be explain in simple terms, not if you really want to explain those things. Sometimes it takes time to figure out the language to explain stuff.

[1] I know this thing is more than a decade old, but new and old are very distorted terms in technology and honestly only become apparent post facto.
Today’s (normal)money system is complex and still many of it is not transparent to the public. Ethereum is trying to build something with more transparency but also tries to create a space in which people can experiment with funding. ( see quadratic voting experiments)
thx - this is actually v helpful to me. yay for HN!
I also worked at an institute which badgered us to go after 'low hanging fruits' and build a whole bunch of pedestals and ended up with a tv screen and a CGI monkey reciting Shakespeare on a shoestring budget.

I'd would have worked on training the monkey to press buttons the same way they domesticated the fox in siberia, but it would take too long and they didn't want to deal with the hard regulatory stuff.
Programmer. I feel like, at least in my country, that "Engineer" is a term used by people that want to feel they have a shinier title. Most of those people don't even have a degree on any form of engineering. I call myself a programmer because this way I feel like I'm not trying to show off a title and it also transmits the message of what I do: work on computer programs.
You might want to start here, focusing on the transformation of ethereum's ecosystem [0]

>ETH 2.0 is finally here and will transform Ethereum as we know it. But what is the philosophy underpinning ETH 2.0? And what is Ethereum building towards? It all starts with the idea that Ethereum is the foundation of a social contract for the global economy.

>Ethereum is a global public good that is open, borderless, neutral, transparent, and censorship-resistant.Ethereum provides a system of property rights, rules, and economic opportunity for anyone in the world with an internet connection. With Ethereum users and builders are sovereign and able to determine their own economic destinies.

>This is important in an age of declining trust in institutions where many people don’t have access to stable systems of property rights or economic opportunity. With this in mind ETH 2.0 was designed with five key principles:

- Simplicity
- Long-term stability
- Sufficiency
- Defense in depth
- Full light-client verifiability

>Simplicity - Allows ETH 2.0 to minimize development costs, reduce its attack surface, and clearly convince users that protocol parameter choices are legitimate because they’re easier to understand (key for credible neutrality).

>Long-Term Stability - Although Ethereum so far has favored evolution over stability, ETH 2.0 is designed with the idea that once built, there should be little need to change it for long periods of time - a necessity for Ethereum to serve as public infrastructure.

>Sufficiency - Blockchains must be powerful enough for it to be possible to build trust minimized layer2 protocols on top of it. In order to achieve this blockchains must include an expressive programming language, scalable data availability and computation, and fast block times.

>Defense in Depth - Blockchains must work well under a variety of possible security assumptions. A key way to achieve this is to design the system so that it is as decentralized as possible to prevent faults, collusions, and attacks. And in the case where harmful collusion does take place, it’s important to make it extremely expensive for those colluding and easy for non-colluding participants to recover the system.

>These are the core reasons underlying Ethereum’s shift to Proof of Stake.

>Full Light-Client Verifiability - Many users will only interact with Ethereum through light clients. Thus it’s important for those users to be able to verify that the data in the full system is available and valid, even under a 51% attack (under certain assumptions).

[1] Ethereum is on course to settle $1 trillion in one year more than double the transaction volume of Bitcoin.

[0] https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1333588739277414401
[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-set-to-become-first-...
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> The software and hardware efforts are uninspiring because the talent has moved elsewhere. The creativity, R&D budget have gone the same way.

Then what have Intel, AMD and Nvidia ben doing the last few years? We've got increased core counts, more IPC, massive graphics cards chips with specialised cores for AI, raytracing and fast memory. It started with gaming and birthed the deep learning revolution. Those may not be entirely new paradigms, but the advances, especially recently, have been large.

There are now so many new chips launching at the same time (XBox, PS5, Zen3, Big Navi, Ampere, M1) that you can't really buy them at reasonable prices because the production capacity has become a bottle-neck, and demand far exceeds supply. This is not what decline looks like.
when danny ryan said "we finalized!", i almost burst into tears
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I can't say enough good things about QEMU. I run it together with KVM and pass through a dedicated GPU card and USB controllers to a Windows 10 virtual machine for basically bare metal performance. This is barely different from magic to me.

It looks like the advent calendar from 2018 had a new QEMU release on one day, so hope to see that again this year :-)
so instead of sovereign powers, we should hand our monetary policy to the neo-nobility that is large stakeholders (PoS) or the sovereign granted patents in ASIC mining in PoW coins? I feel like we're just shifting who to trust and not the fact that we all have trust; haven't even touched the whole idea of having to on-ramp/off-ramp fiat on central exchanges with sovereign backed currencies.
It seems like the benefit of not having to trust world governments or their currencies isn't that compelling for most people, who I presume almost universally already participate in said social contracts.
sure, I can agree, but surely a form of money that fluctuates like crazy and needs people to read books about it to understand it is not going to convince the people that need this kind of system the most.
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NYC is the kind of place you can go for a weekend from the UK - especially if you knock-off at Friday lunch.

With timezones as well, NZ takes 36 hours.

But both of those are intercontinental trips

2 hours from London will put you in a dozen different countries

4 hours will get you anywhere in Europe, as well as Cairo, Morocco, Turkey, Jerusalem

8 hours will get you to East Coast US, middle east, India, and even the north parts of sub-saharan africa (Kenya, Nigeria, The Gambia)

12 hours will get you to the Carribean, the West Coast US, and much of the Far East

2 hours from Aukland will get you to other parts of NZ

4 hours will get you to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and the Great Barrier reef

8 hours will give you a choice of a few pacific islands

12 hours will get you to Singapore, maybe Hong Kong

There's a lot more choice to see the world out of Europe.
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Click through to the references which are even better articles.

Including this one about avoiding junk food tax by inventing a new kind of junk food http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490346.stm
What with app development? Can I use Dart/Flutter there? What tools are used for app development? Is there a compatibility layer or something similar to adb?
Sure, but this gives little visibility and it will be skewed versus a particular audience. ArXiv is a better alternative then, but again it restricts the audience.

Btw, I thought the article was not behind a paywall ... I chose not to profit from it by not activating the option. I need to check again how it works.
Grist contributor here -

I got onboard 3 years ago right after Dmitry made a demo to me. What truly impressed me right from the beginning was the UI and how easy it was to build advanced views by simply using linking between records. To me, this plus the python formulas and the sqlite storage put together shows great potential to achieve distributed data management properly.

Note that it was even possible at that time to run Grist standalone using electron and to bring your data offline with you. It had been deprioritize and the feature had to be put on the side for a while. But it does not seem to hard to bring it back.
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Office life was so much better back then. Now it is basically a fortress only a few chosen can flee from. I would like to give that back to the less fortunate, but there are other dynamics that make this very difficult.

One think is certain though: It certainly didn't increase productivity.
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This is super smart.

It would be cool to see a content site with this mechanism.
Isn't that what HN is for?
I poked around a bit and was unable to find any academic papers coming from this, just the documentary. That smells off, too.

The academics involved are genuine. I don't really know anything about archaeology at that level, so maybe I'm just missing the papers. But I want to know more about the site, and documentaries are a terrible way to learn stuff.
Of all the world ills I can think of, none are caused by money as means of exchange or by trust systems more broadly. Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming or for rampant inequality caused by the unstoppable compounding growth of big capital (in fact it may do the opposite).

The premise that trust systems have failed humanity is flawed. I am willing to be persuaded otherwise but I doubt this will come from reading “a couple books” because as it stands I firmly believe that the idea is complete nonsense.
This appears to be a battle of philosophies.

May "the best business" win.

Our Dearest Zucky vs Freedom Fighter Stallman.

The enteral struggle continues.
Exactly. Add to that that good sales people will build up a lot of "soft" knowledge about the orgs they will be selling to, like: When does their fiscal year start, what's their budgeting timeline, who has purchasing authority, am I talking to someone whose job it is to negotiate a discount, how long will the sales process take to close, should I try to go through a reseller for this deal, is the customer gonna nickel-and-dime every item on the quote, how anal is their legal department, etc. If you do it right it is indeed a full-time job for B2B enterprise sales.
Is EWASM basically just webassembly running on Ethereum?
No, the UK quarantine is not the same as quarantine in Aus, NZ, Singapore, etc.

Nobody's moving to NZ now, but covid will be over in a few months and it will be back to normal.
> In simple terms. The currencies, and related technologies al deal with the problem of transferring of money/services between parties where no centralized trust/power exists.

When does that really occur in every day life?

I understand that a seller can scam me (send a brick) or I could revoke my payment and scam the seller.

But that problem is never solved?

> Credit card companies blocking transfers to legitimate companies on the basis of pressure from the US gov.

Technology is never going to fix societial problems. Paying with dollars or crypto -> if the USA says no, and you still pay you can get fined or worse.

> Banks printing money and devaluing currency of currency holders, etc.

To keep currencies afloat and thus society operational / functioning, you mean?

> Bailouts/handouts to undeserving private companies with public money.

Technology is never going to solve human problems like that. This is not a technology problem.
This one in Germany: https://webopac.stadtbibliothek-aachen.de/libero/WebOpac.cls...

And probably all that use such a webopac system
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My problem with this line of reasoning is that people without the relevant expertise will think it means "Vitamin D supplementation protects me from COVID-19," start taking the vitamin, and stop engaging in other behaviors that reduce their risk of exposure, like social distancing and mask wearing.

I see this in infosec all the time. People think, for example, "I'm running antivirus software; I'm safe," which they'll use to justify all sorts of risky behavior that could (and sometimes does) lead to a security breach. They don't understand that antivirus software only reduces the risk of a security breach, never eliminating it, and it only works on certain kinds of attack vectors.

The same goes for vitamin D. Sure, lots of people are deficient, and the current evidence-based medical consensus is that people who are deficient should supplement. And maybe there's a weak correlation with COVID-19 infection/mortality risk, but people who aren't experts might misinterpret that and think they should hang out with their buddies in the sunshine or something equally risky while we're in the middle of a pandemic, instead of following the other bits of the current evidence-based medical consensus, which tells us to stay away from one another and to wear masks over our mouths and noses, which we know will greatly reduce virus transmission rates.
if I've mac with accepted EULAs and share it via network to wife, kids or neighbor (might be even wife/neighbor used it to do some business activities) - how it does works from legal perspective? is it will viewed as EULA violation?
The main thing that's being enabled by "blockchain" is a way for mutually distrustful parties to agree on a timeline of events. That's it. But it has huge implications.

The trust factor requirement is removed from the physical infrastructure and operators.

For bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies, this is used for a ledger of value transactions.

Now we have an way to transfer ownership and value. What the internet did for information transfer, we now have for value transfer.

Ethereum generalizes this with a virtual machine that can run arbitrary computation and store arbitrary state.

A trustless global value transfer machine that requires no PII (which could be regulated, and added as a requirement in compliant applications, of course), central point of trust, or custodian of data. Where the security layer between the service/application/protocol and the end-user is abstracted away and taken care of by the Ethereum ecosystem.

In the phase we're in right now, a lot of applications are related to finance. There is both transformation of traditional finance[0], and the new sector of "defi" that IMO is here to stay and grow but is in the early half of a huge bubble that will burst hard).

That aside, this is enabling a new way to structure ownership, applications and anything between. If blockchain-based currencies and smart contract platforms end up as Orweillan tools of control, or liberating and improving our society, is mostly lot up to developers, teams, and users.

I hope more people get it.

But not not too many too soon, because the infrastructure wouldn't handle it. Eth2 improves on that by magnitudes, so this news is a crucial step.

[0]: Source: Working at a digital asset service provider with some bigger and more well-known financial institutions as clients, and friends in the industry.
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One could argue that Ethereum like any other cryptocurrency is under the strict control of the development team, though.

Such team undergoes way less scrutiny than any trading firm or sovereign nation, probably.
Having sat in some meetings where these structures get discussed/decided, I've got to admit it's not easy. Even territory assignments alone can have huge differences in how all the theory falls flat pretty quickly.
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Because it would be yet another baked in browser feature which needs to be standardized, with every browser vendor having their own interpretation of the standard, or deciding not to implement it all. Adding new features via Javascript (or WASM) modules instead of bloating browsers with new high-level features is the better long-term strategy IMHO.

Markdeep can also be converted offline to HTML (e.g. with https://github.com/romainguy/markdeep-rasterizer).
Here’s a question: can a Mac be sold more than once in a 24 hour period?
so basically, we're inefficiently reinventing payment processing with the added tax burden of buying/selling securities?
I bet you're scared of your own shadow too LMFAO
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Cheers! You can do it by rotating it forward first, then sideways, and THEN back up, but certainly not ideal
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Don't worry, between people who want freedom on one side, and incoming government regulation on the other, walled gardens are about to get squeezed. The people who care just need to be ready with something decentralized to leverage the cracks when they appear.
> Tech and science used to be safe spaces free from abusive ideologies

I don't think this is historically accurate. Such a time never existed.
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