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> I assume that Einstein originally set the constant to exactly balance the expansion, but later set it to zero.

Einstein didn't include the constant at all in his original equation, published in 1915.

In (IIRC) 1917, he realized that his original equation did not allow a static solution for the universe as a whole. He also realized that including the cosmological constant term in his equation would be mathematically valid, and that if he picked just the right value for the constant, he could obtain a static solution for the universe. At that time, it was generally believed that the universe was static on large scales.

Then, later, when it was discovered that the universe is expanding, Einstein dropped the cosmological constant term. He later called including that term in 1917 "the greatest blunder of my life", because if he had just gone with his original field equation, without the constant, he could have predicted the expansion of the universe more than a decade before it was discovered.

> In bot cases you are picking arbitrar values

When the expansion of the universe was discovered, yes, it was already recognized that it is valid to include the constant in the Einstein Field Equation, so it couldn't just be un-included. Its value was just assumed to be zero since that was consistent with all observations that were known then.

In Einstein's original 1915 field equation, however, the constant wasn't "set to zero". It wasn't included at all; nobody even realized at that time that it was valid to include it.
Thanks!

Yes, it has been blocked by the memory management work and the 0.2 release, both of which took a while, especially since most of the compiler had to be re-written from scratch (using an AST). The UI library was also re-written several times as we tried different approaches (native vs custom rendering).

The good news is that Volt was always being updated and made compilable, and a public beta is also coming this month.

I'm already using Volt as my primary Discord client (and my 8 GB RAM laptop thanks me for that, since I've freed 2 GB of RAM).

Here's a sneak peek:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731265552395534357/...

Some layout issues, and Chinese/Japanese/emoji not being rendered correctly, but the latter has been fixed on a branch.

The moral of the story is: if you want to deliver a software application quickly, don't write a new language/stdlib/ui lib for it from scratch.

At least I got to create a cool language and share it with the world :)
Got to agree, this advice sucks.
You can't get kickbacks from the middleman if there is no middleman.
How long until devices start using TPM-type chips to store secrets?

I get that this is a silly threat model, but the sooner we rely on non-mass storage for secrets, the better.
Yes, so much this. Fundamentals never mattered in crypto.

The true winners of crypto will be the ones who can come up with better models of human nature and hype, and all the factors at play, and leverage that to their success, just like the true winners at casinos are those who can learn to count cards, except with crypto they won't be able to kick you out.

It's also a market where market manipulation and insider trading is fair game, and that needs to be modelled in as well.

It's an interesting time we live in, and it's an interesting anarchic economy with its own interesting set of problems to solve.
Since you talked about ARM Chromebooks, I wonder why so many current Chromebooks, including Google's flagships, are still Intel-based.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25510945
Is there a record of the address he gave? I would love to read it.
If what you're after is simplicity, then no, C++ is not better than C. If that's what you're after, look at Go instead.

But I question the premise. C++ is a more complicated language, which lets you do certain things much more simply than you could in C. (It also lets you make bigger messes.) If you care about doing those kinds of things, then C++ lets your code be simpler, even if the language is more complex.

As always, use only the parts you need, and learn enough about them to use them well.
It depends. For me it would be incredibly interesting.

If we take that life plausibly "started" as as one single-celled individual who then "reproduced" through cell division (let's call him Luca), then he's effectively never died - in the same way that we consider ourselves to have not died despite regularly cycling tissues and cells.

All life as we know it, if viewed like that, is one organism whose chain of cell division has never been broken as he's grown over billions of years. Variation between those cells (kingdoms, species, plant / animal etc) become like skin, hair and brain / liver cells within the human body.

It would be like taking a runner grass or banana tree and trying to draw a line around true individuals.

If we created life outside of that unbroken chain of cell division, we would have created something which is definitely "other than Luca" and that feels philosophically significant.
wix.com
AWS
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100% true. The non-technical cofounder is doing this because he thinks he can get away with it easily. The investor will go along because he's in it for the money. Involving a good lawyer makes it clear that you won't go down without a fight. A fight that could destroy the business. It's amazing how reasonable people can be when they realize that it's in their best interest to be reasonable.
In case you want to see these discussions, this search shows multiple discussions of exactly this type over the last month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=sports&restri...
From the guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
This guy is doing a lot to pollute the environment just to get views on YouTube. Filling a swimming pool with plastic balls is one example. Has he heard of plastic pollution?
Not clear who actually owns the equity outright. If its the OP, based on what's written and nothing more it sounds like a racket the non-technical founders are running. I personally would identify the laziest path for you to exercise your rights to extinguish the entire venture, ideally with counsel, and then tell the other people what you've decided to do, let them name their price.

If things roll your way, maybe you resurrect the business later buying its assets out of bankruptcy. Either way, think lazy; this looks like a scam for your time; the more you put into it at any price, the worse off you are.
There are many differentiators, but I think the most important one is that there are no fees on the Apple Card, of any kind. Including annual fees, and even including late fees. The app also actively tries to help you not pay interest, as opposed to the usual approach, which is to confuse the consumer so much that they end up paying as much interest as possible.

The customer service is also over the top.
> I immediately chalked it up to 65+ above white wise men snobbery.

Perhaps this can be the opportunity for you to look through your past and consider and reevaluate other ideas you discarded because of your own bigotry.
Were starting to see the results of outsourcing everything but your core business and it's not looking like a great strategy.
The guy who pollutes the environment on YouTube
So absent a banker, how are they gonna price their offerings? A bank does have Avery large book of institutions who are covered by active reps. A startup does not have a mechanism in place to run a road show, gauge investor interest and ultimately price the deal. While leaving a ton of money on the table is a legitimate complaint, pricing and selling a deal isn’t a simple problem.
A transaction is good if both parties benefit, but in this transaction I end up with a product worth less to me than I paid.
Independent financial audits of public companies seem to create the most value.
Brick layers. Developers develop, designers design was more my point, though of course this line is blurred in many organisations.
Ask HN: How would I build something similar to Google Duplex?
Google Duplex makes calls for you, but with a natural-sounding human voice instead of a robotic one. It seems the target was originally restaurant reservations (i.e. controlled environment).

I want to make something similar but for my own use case (daily accountability calls for my clients). What APIs would you recommend I check out to do this (from controlled NLP to voice synthesis)?
Does Jed McCaleb (original Ripple founder and current Stellar CTO) get off scot-free? He's sold XRP worth $175m and owns $billions more. But it looks like he may be saved by the statute of limitations! He left in 2013 and a quick search indicates that the statute of limitations may be 5 years. It would be pretty crazy if this was all ruled illegal and he got to keep it all because the SEC took longer than 5 years to get in gear.

Will they go after Stellar next?
What contract?

I don't remember signing anything.

Do you?
> Many of the 4GB models sold were actually 8GB models with firmware locking them down.

Definitely not that; the concept was that you had a large amount of RAM you could advertise on the box, but the card was unable to use the RAM. You're describing the opposite, the card has a large amount of RAM that is advertised as a smaller amount.
It's complicated! I'll do my best to explain it simply, but there's a lot of nuance.

There's a few different valuations. There's how investors value it, which can be different between investors. There's also a 409a valuation, which is what the government deems it to be "actually worth".

But since the OP hasn't vested, the number that matters here is the strike price at the time the OP got their shares, which is likely ~$100. At some point the OP wrote the company a check for $49 (or so) to "legally buy" their shares (49%). But they haven't vested, so these shares are in a sort of "limbo".

So, the company can't just take them back, since it would be stealing $49. The OP also hasn't earned the shares, per the vesting contract.

This means the company has to pay back the $49 if they're going to take the shares back. It might seem silly to be talking about so little money, but that's all the OP means (even if they don't realize it) when they say the company has the right to buy back the shares.
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No, it doesn't. This car is being presented for many years now, but no validation of any claim was ever made. At minimum the claim of "salt water" is wrong. Flow cell batteries do exist, but they are based on exchanging charged electrolyte. A great concept, except that the storage density is less than lithium batteries. Also, the CEO of the company has a very colorful background. More here (in German) https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/wirtschaft-und-umwelt/2019...
You need to talk to a lawyer, not a bunch of internet randos. Ignore literally everything else you read here. The lawyer is going to need to see your contract with the company and look at applicable case law to advise you here.
It might be (coincidentally) accurate for cloud as well, if you could disentangle figures for things like O365 and Gsuite.
Brave new world is a utopia - that it’s dystopian is something that is left to the reader to infer. Which is ultimately the point - if a modern human found themselves in such a world, could they be happy?
Can I get a ELI5 version of this theory?
My understanding: Ripple is a company that aims to build a faster bank transfer protocol (faster than SWIFT, for example).

To achieve that speed, banks transfer a digital currency (XRP) issued by Ripple instead of traditional currencies. It takes a few seconds for XRP transactions to settle, instead of days for traditional currencies via SWIFT.

The value of this currency is decentralized, in the sense that people trade it with other currencies (which is also how Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. are valued).

In the eyes of the SEC, the fact that XRP is directly issued by Ripple makes it similar to issuing shares. Even if Ripple doesn't control the value of the shares (XRP), they still manage the supply.
I didn't follow the game as it was getting developed, but I have heard the launch was not great. I picked it up on Google Stadia since my PC definitely isn't up to the task, and it has been an OK game. It is no Red Dead Redemption 2, or Fallout, and the story feels pretty weak so far, but the game play is enjoyable.

I likely wont finish the story, but will continue to futz around in game for a while when I'm bored.
How nice of the SEC to no longer stop companies from doing what was obviously something they should have been allowed to do all along.
Because a majority of the population is represented by Democratic senators?
Because I've learned some about the way academia works -- where pressure comes from, and how it operates.

If the administration tried to hatch some conspiracy to inflate the grades of athletes or legacy students or whoever, ... then a quarter of the faculty would rebel, and the other three-quarters wouldn't even notice. Senior administrators send out lots of emails concerning this or that, and when they say to jump, nobody is scrambling to ask how high.
They certainly should, Stellar is pretty much structured like Ripple.

Another interesting fact about McCaleb: he started MtGox (and sold it to magical tux)
> However, it's unlikely that humans will ever overcome their greatest enemy, themselves.

I believe in nurture > nature, and I see it in the differences between different human settlements (cultures, nations) and in attitudes over time.

In some places you're more likely to get robbed, in others you're more likely to get help. In some cities you're more likely to see casual litter, in other places more people cleaning up after themselves.

For every decade you go back in time there will be more and more classes of people who had a much harder time of fitting into society, along with the lack of many other freedoms that we take for granted now.

Once nobody has to constantly struggle for basic comforts, I think humanity will be able to chill the fuck out.
The controversy around V is not without reason.

For some context here’s the last of a series of posts examining some of Vs claims https://christine.website/blog/vlang-update-2020-06-17
I keep reading an often repeated defense of the game: That there is a diamond hidden under all the bugs and rough edges.

I played through the whole game and got probably lucky when it came to bugs because I did not experience that many game breaking ones (though DID encounter them which taught me to save very very frequently) and I am lucky to have a high end PC so while performance was really terrible I still managed to get ~60fps on highest settings, most of the time.

It is not, it is not amazing even without the bugs. I have a strong suspicion that the people who praise or defend it so tenaciously played only the longer prologue, which lasts a few hours depending on your speed, maybe a few hours further. The quality of that part is way better than the rest and from that point on the quality will continue to drop the closer one gets to the finale.

The game has massive problems that are just not related to bugs, it just tries so many things and does all of them mediocre. Many redundant and useless game mechanics. UI navigation is terrible, there are game design problems. The open world is hollow and lifeless and the behaviour of random NPCs does not even reach GTA 3 level in some ways, to put that into perspective. There is nothing to discover or explore in the open world part (except pretty screenshots sometimes) and every interaction in it (that is: outside of story missions) with characters works through audio calls and text messages.

I am not saying that it is absolutely terrible without the bugs, there is some fun to be had when everything works, but removing the bugs would lift it up to "pretty ok" at best, and I do regret the time investment and purchase. Seeing the opinions split into these two extreme opinions "amazing" and "absolutely terrible" just feels weird.
In return for telling them how much your interested and at what price.
I was linked and ended up watching his last video where he advertises this course at the beginning and end. I agree that he is a great showman, but I felt like he was a bit misleading in regards to how much he would be participating in the class. I guess he's not lying when he says he would be "seeing [them] there" but I think that implies a little bit more of an active role.

Considering the size of his platform, limited engagement probably the most feasible thing to do...but I suspect that there will be a number of people signing up that will expect Mark to be present and open for engaging.
The temptation might be to treat the story like a rags-to-riches fairy tale, but it is instead a parable if you read it from the point of view of a leader (which admitedly would be resisting the author's narrative).
XRP holders: So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.

You: I’m not sure that I would put it that way, but let me clarify using your analogy. What this model shows is the music, so to speak, just slowing. If the music were to stop, as you put it, then this model wouldn't even be close to that scenario. It would be considerably worse.
You're equivocating environments and hosts.

Hosts do the replication for the viruses.

Environments do NOT do the replication for the fish.
Most will know that Claude Shannon was also a pioneer in artificial intelligence. He did more than theorize, he implemented his ideas in hardware. Games were the proving ground for theorems in AI and Shannon built several games that included AI.

I compiled a list of them here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon-man...
I think he's brilliant, and don't get the hate being directed at him here. He deserves his success.

Seriously surprising, actually.

I'd love to understand the source of it. Why people want to reduce his success to "showman", "milking it", "not actually done by him", etc? Why diminish something that makes the world a better place and is not taking anything away from others?
Dystopian Sci-Fi being anti-capitalist? Wow, what a crazy idea.
And those boards usually select the superintendent and that superintendent certainly didn't start in the system as a janitor, nor did any of the principals under him.
Partially

First a securities designation and being forced to report financials doesn't completely destroy the transactional use case, so thats a big misconception in the crypto world. It would be incredibly inconvenient though and I doubt counterparties for the few Ripple products that are powered by XRP will ever want to hold and use XRP.
if you can emotionally check out but legally remain, thats ideal. you are mostly likely getting pushed out, so recognize that you are in a 100% adversarial relationship and separate yourself from any kind of personal emotional investment. a completely detached self interested approach is totally warranted given the circumstances, and would significantly increase the probability that you will be compensated more fairly.
A cool concept, but considering the only people talking about it are the company themselves and a few pop-sci sites like this, I'm going to go with Jalopnik on this.

https://jalopnik.com/the-supercar-that-runs-using-saltwater-...
An Economist Hacked the Wine Business by Predicting Prices with 90% Accuracy
> adding it doesn't violate any of the heuristics used to come up with the field equations or action. So to avoid bias, one should keep it around

Yes, that's what I was trying to say. I didn't mean that including it mathematically in the equations necessarily requires one to adopt a non-zero value for it; you are quite correct that one shouldn't do that unless one has observational evidence to back it up (and cosmologists in fact didn't adopt a non-zero value until observational evidence required it).
They are, look at the context of what they're saying. JS is simply a programming language in a VM like plenty of others, there's nothing inherently bad about it. But every thread here's the uneducated hate for it, completely misunderstanding that html/css static pages don't solve the problems a programming language does.

I'd like to see these people make applications in pure XML. No programming.
Or XRP can just evaporate since the infrastructure required to actually distribute it will no longer be available once the company goes bankrupt (having to pay the various fines and lawsuits that follow).
> The game has the intellectual depth of a Che-shirt

It’s a GAME ...
Handoff is handled by the client, not the AP. Mesh is useful when you can’t hardwire multiple APs. Otherwise, you’re much better off with wiring up multiple APs on the same SSID/auth with non-overlapping channels.
Struggling to see why the people would decide on deranged prices rather than sensible prices. Do they not like the restaurant?

Regardless, seems like a wildly inaccurate and unhelpful metaphor.
Relatedly, he did some classes in March/April this year, live on Youtube. The first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn-Bay_ANU
Aye, the parent mentioned both. I don't think discourse looks much like IRC but to confirm I did mean to type discord, the voice chatty one.

Forums (Discourse) are probably next up when we remember forums have great SEO benefits and discord none
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Oldest known python fossils found in Germany
I just heard about and starting looking into V last night. This is perfect timing!
My impression is their fees are closer to 50%: Somehow, only close friends of the investment banks are allowed to buy shares at the listing price, the rest of us have to wait until after the 2x price pop in the markets... at least that's what has been happening in most recent IPOs.
I know you mean well, but this could not possibly be good advice because there isn’t enough information in that post for even a lawyer to give good advice. You don’t know what’s In his contract. Maybe his cofounder can’t fire him. Maybe He could but that would trigger the vesting. Maybe he could put it to the board and fire his cofounder.

Maybe his cofounders threat that it’s 3% or nothing is bluffing. It doesn’t really make sense for his cofounder, because that guy maybe is in the same situation if OPs contract is favorable. Maybe It’s 40% or nothing for him.

The only acceptable advice here is to go talk to a lawyer. That’s it. Internet advice about things like this is always bad even when it is meant well
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This is the most hacker-newsy title I've ever seen.
The government (and/or Fed) creates money. Stocks go up; bread doesn't. If I have to buy bread, I'm not instantly worse off. But if I own stocks, I'm instantly better off.

Why do stocks go up? Because the money gets pumped into financial institutions, and from there into financial instruments.

Why doesn't bread go up? Because the number of people who own large amounts of financial instruments, and who don't already buy as much bread as they want, is zero.

But this situation - they're suddenly magically richer, and I'm not - magnifies existing wealth inequality.
There already is one: referrals