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How do people use bitcoin effectively when it has $9 transaction fees from having its block size limited? Do you mean cryptocurrency in general?
Could 2 lookaheads starting at the same position not be used for this purpose?
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Could I ask the source for these numbers? I've been trying to find some production numbers for popular synths (including submodels, e.g. all Minimoog or Prophet 5 versions combined etc), but haven't really found anything properly sourced/cited.
Don’t worry, I’m not worried.

I hear a lot about people struggling with sleep and so I recognize that it is probably a widespread problem, but I sleep like a rock most nights and have little to no stress about it.
Was impersonation legal in California before this law?
Every program is fundamentally states and state transitions. You can be explicit about it or not, but the states and transitions are there regardless.
So in the second scenario, you get to keep on selling food for full price and the delivery companies generate business for you for free, but it's a bad deal because .. a few people might leave bad reviews on yelp when something is clearly DoorDash's fault? It sounds like a good deal to me. You get bad reviews from idiots no matter what anyway.
Just like those EU CERN bureaucrats funding Tim Berners-Lee, what were they thinking
The only thing to keep track of is to not push yourself such that you then stop resting well and break the positive feedback loop.
> Government funding is how a lot of innovations happen, but it's not as visible as a private company bringing that innovation to market.

A recent example of 'basic' research coming to fruition in a practical fashion (eventually):

> "S glycoprotein signal peptide (extended leader sequence), which guides translocation of the nascent polypeptide chain into the endoplasmic reticulum" - part of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. I don't ever want to hear anyone question fundamental science again. 1/2

> The level of control and understanding we now have over our biology came from literally millions of person-years spent working on things that at the time were obscure and "useless". And now? We can leverage all this into a 95% efficient vaccine _at the first try_. 2/2

* https://twitter.com/PowerDNS_Bert/status/1342159339767934978

We have no way of knowing ahead of time what knowledge will be needed or "useful" in the future, so in some ways it is prudent to try to acquire as much knowledge of the natural world as possible and sort it out later.
The problem I see personally is less parts where the media gets easily verifiable things wrong (Generally for any field where experts occur, there are better sources you can personally find.)

The issue is where they report on things that I can’t easily verify. A company I haven’t worked at, how things are going internally in the white house, what X or Y nation-state was caught doing. These are areas where I have no choice but to trust the media, because none of these entities are open enough for me to personally look at them and fact check what is happening. If some entity wants to say the media is treating them unfairly, that’s unfortunate, but unless they’re willing to open up their inner workings to the public I have to default to believing what the media digs up.

That the media otherwise does have a spotty record is troublesome to me. Generally, I think the right course is to find news sources that at least are right more often than not on the things you can verify. But on many things, the media is the only source we have on what they’re doing besides themselves. And while the media is troublesome, trusting that an entity is doing nothing wrong off their own word is even worse.
GOOD GOD, Sting! This is even worse than Kula Shaker. Hmm, OK, that's quite a decent song.
I would not imagine silicon valley wanting into the landline business. Mobile perhaps, Google dipped its toes in that one I believe through acquisitions. Landline operators today are the opposite of agile, move-fast-break-things. Change control in telco is draconian compared to anything SV tech have seen. New ideas almost never see the light of day. And all of this is codified in regulations. It's comparable to the banking industry, though each have their own quirks.
No, part of the problem here is that the big delivery company will always win in SEO.
> except maybe for the construction of the matrix

Yep, that’s precisely why I used that thing.

> Most of my time is spent in algebraic operations with immutable matrices.

CSR is probably the way to go then.

Also, if you do that math on CPU and your matrix is not randomly sparse but made of small dense areas of non-zeroes, consider less compressed SIMD-friendly variant of CSR, where instead of individual elements you keep dense SIMD vectors.

For example, if you have AVX and need fp64 precision, keep 4 elements long slices of rows there. This way you can use 256-bit loads and FMA instructions to do that math.

Or if you spending most of time multiplying matrices as opposed to matrix*vector, might be reasonable to keep 2x2 dense blocks as opposed to 4x1.
> The country won't be destroyed – but it will be permanently weakened

Oh, I don't know. Keep it up with the overheated rhetoric and I suspect you all will succeed. Just ask your neighbors in SE Europe, where I spent part of the 90s, what that looks like.

And don't get me wrong, we're heading in the exact same direction here in the US.

By the way, this got a fair number of upvotes, so I'm glad to see that at least a portion of HN agrees.
this law is designed to protect those companies who already made billions on abusing existing laws by making it seem like what they did was legal, a "loophole" in the law that is now "closed" for new competitors

They are not "new entrants" in the market, they have a network effect now so it will be preferable to them to sign exclusive deals with restaurants to further ensure there can not be any competition
>Most comments on anything that isn't about pure technology topics have a strong political leaning (leftist for the most part, therefore authoritarian) and generally angry about the idea of people and businesses taking care of themselves without government intervention.

This is a good example of something else very common on HN - the attempt at a sly anti-leftist non-sequitur.
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Plenty of games have shut down after selling virtual goods. FarmVille did not invent the concept of selling virtual things for real money. I doubt a lawsuit will go anywhere.
Does that change with the China eu trade deal?
you should try amna, which basically automates that process. You make a task, it gives you a chrome window for the task and syncs your work. You can then close the browser, and the data is saved.

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> Isn’t the MSRP for those vaccine doses something north of $10k each?

... No. Where on earth did you get that? It depends what your government has negotiated with the drug company, but generally somewhere between 10 and 20 euro a dose, or under 5 euro a dose for Oxford.

EU prices, for instance: https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-pfizer-astrazeneca-mode...
You can't trust the government (or the central banks) to not dilute your savings by increasing the money supply - something they have already been doing in 2020 at an unprecedented rate which will continue in 2021.

While Bitcoin might not be the payment system some have been hoping for, it surely provides a hedge against the incoming increase in inflation rates which is why institutional investors are increasingly replacing cash reserves with bitcoin.
Part of this is that it’s really expensive to litigate that nuance in court because even if you believe you’re correct, a company like GrubHub can continue to do business for years and years while dragging this out through the courts. Especially because of covid, many cases like this are already backed up and GrubHub could probably be happily continuing to fleece small businesses for over half a decade.

Also, if a judge for whatever reason doesn’t agree with it, say, “if the government wanted trademarks to be enforced in this manner they’d pass a law about it, no deal” (this happens Eg. An argument that made it all the way up to the Supreme Court, taking years and years to do so, is that discriminating against trans people isn’t discriminating on the basis of sex because if legislature intended it that way they’d say it more explicitly in law. Imagine how many trans people were fired for being trans while this thing was going through the courts.) then now you have to pass legislature again.
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> The EU has ASML, NXP, Infineon, maybe STM (not sure) and a ton of little shops, but all of them are far away from the major players.

They don't need to become major players for this program to be a major success. Both India's and China's push for a native self-sufficient industrial capabilities have been a huge success in spite of not delivering a cutting edge processor.

Moreover, AMD showed that right now the key factor to develop a product line that dominates all competitors in all categories, from performance to power efficiency and also price, is access to a capable manufacturing hub.
If they don’t have the time/skill/capital to handle online business on their own, then they can set up a partnership with these companies. That is a minimal effort, no?

The key thing is this deals with a predatory practice.
Replying to myself here. Someone pointed out that there are plenty of streets in English pop: Penny Lane, Abbey Road, Baker Street...
Maybe you could use your experience to propose a system (whether funding vehicle restrictions or proper incentives) for that not to happen in this case? I think we’d all be excited by that.

How can we avoid spending money on lobbyists? Maybe the structure should be more VC-like?
Morally, shouldn't it clearly be Zynga's fault, since the game was designed so that it only runs on top of a technology stack that can not be replicated by third parties and only they are technically capable of changing this design?
Just use Bazel with remote execution. It can distribute your unit tests, too.
Big Tech optimizing dopamine addiction makes your drugs analogy quite accurate.
> TWINSCAN NXE:3400C is probably the most expensive machine in the world.

Unfortunately no. A number of pieces of military hardware produced in bigger numbers will leave even that pricetag in the dust.
They're kinda similar, indeed.

But Vista has some differences in color and details that make it more beautiful IMHO.
Well, Boeing is doing the same things. Transporting 737 fuselages through the US and illegal subsidies. And I'm not even mentioning the 737 debacle.
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Safari maintains a list of tabs in a plist. You can’t delete while Safari is running, but at least you can extract the list to back it up.
Try amna - https://getamna.com.

It can make this a little better by storing the tabs as part of a task. Soo you can get back to them as part of a context rather than just a link.
I'm reminded of a thing I wrote about seeing a state machine implemented in real life:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/StateMachineInRealLife.html?U...
But then this overrides a central theme to capitalism . If a business cannot turn a profit including all of its costs then it should not exist. Forcing its continued existence must be accompanied by some collective good in order to be fair to all tax payers, otherwise it just ends up being an unfair cost. For example, why should tax payers not using a hobby store subsidize hobby store employees? It removes efficiency.
We used to use distcc (2007 time period) for the daily builds of one of our large, in-house C++ products - order of 10M LOC.

In principle, it was a good use-case with a highly modular structure and a clearly defined but chunky build graph.

In practice, it did work, but throwing more hardware at the problem on a single host turned out to be faster than the existing distcc setup and had much reduced operational complexity.

We could probably have tuned it further with distcc plus the new hardware, but we achieved the performance target we were looking for.
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Does this cache build artifacts in any way? So if several developers are working on the same code-base, they can share build artifacts based on, like, the hash of the inputs? That would require reproducible builds, but that's probably not too tricky to achieve.
Meh switch jobs
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How many will they shoot down? SpaceX is launching them by hundreds every month. The end goal is 45000 satellites. And by shooting just a few, the enemy will maybe only slow down the internet, not turn it off completely.

Let that sink in. They'll need 45000 missiles up shoot down every starlink satellite. Also, SpaceX will definitely be launching new ones as they are being shot down. So it's a very impractical approach.
>Note that while this applies to the US

It doesn't. His books are still covered under whatever law set up 95 years since publication, so it's a decade until his earliest releases enter public domain and ~25 for 1984.
Really? So borders are evil now? Can you explain why you believe that? Do you think the global (not just European) nation-state paradigm is evil?
> And has a clear disclaimer that they're not affiliated with the businesses.

This isn’t actually clear. GrubHub’s about page:

“ Grubhub is a leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace with the largest and most comprehensive network of restaurant partners. ”

This tells me as a customer that the restaurant is a consenting partner. This is a lie.

EDIT: a commentor below had issue with my use of the word lie here. To clarify, I meant that this is not a clear disclaimer.
"Intelligence" is a complex and multidimensional thing.

Writing, math, human interactions, art, etc. These each require different sorts of intelligence. The dominant view on "intelligence" these days is something along these lines.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/multiple-intelligences.html

Those eight categories are perhaps a bit insufficient and arbitrary, but surely the overall notion rings true -- we have all known "smart" people who excelled in some of those areas while failing at others.

Sifting through the available information (and disinformation) and reaching a rational conclusion on something like COVID involves multiple axes of intelligence.

It requires a (somewhat rare? apparently?) combination of a base level of scientific literacy, and perhaps some interpersonal skills because sifting through the misinformation requires an understanding of various parties' motivations. As well as perhaps a few others.
I agree with you on cab-hailing given that cabs were such a miserable experience in so many cases. (Though I expect usage will certainly go down as prices rise and coverage may get thinner as a result.)

I don't know about prepared food delivery. Dominos makes it work well. A lot of Chinese restaurants do, usually for a pretty small delivery radius. But there are a lot of things that just don't have a critical mass of people willing to pay for what 30 minute delivery costs. (On the other hand, the consensus seems to be that grocery delivery, or just pickup, is going to stay fairly common going forward.)
Why should a restaurant be allowed to ban me from hiring someone to deliver for me?
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I'm not denying it exists (it's obviously a thing) but when I went through basic, they had us bring a voided check to set up direct deposit. We never had anything like this. Also I used my USAA debit card with zero issues while deployed in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kyrgyzstan. Very strange!
I think the Erasmus initiative is an outstanding EU programme, which helped collaboration between EU universities and to build a EU identity for young educated students. It's not an economic initiative per se, and it's hard to measure its effective results objectively, but I believe it's been an absolute net positive for the EU.
> But on the flip side, I've observed a lot of restaurant owners not having the time, energy, or know-how to set up even basic online things that could really boost their business.

Isn't part of being a successful business knowing where to put your energy as a business owner? You're saying that restaurants don't necessarily have the ability to make the best decisions for their business, therefore they should be able to opt-out and not opt-in. The flip side of this argument is that these apps can cause undeserved damage to a restaurant's reputation. How do you know what's best for restaurants?

You're arguing that the onus should be on the restaurant to opt out whenever a delivery platform causes problems, but the onus should be on the delivery platforms to create a product that restaurants, not just consumers, want to use.
If they read the user agreement they would see that the cash value of those items was zero. It is very similar to frequent flyer miles. Their value is zero. Delta can make 1 billion miles worth a diet soda tomorrow if they want.
I think a Disney version of Animal Farm is more likely. Animated talking animals are Disney's wheelhouse. I can see Napoleon and Snowball singing a duet as the opening song.
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How would is that ever going to work long term? Most pizza places I frequent offer free delivery, or very cheap delivery once you get pizza for two people. The “growth hack” will never work when you compete with your supplier.

Even if this was somehow going to work, once Doordash has pushed others out of the market, then they would need to raise the price significantly, pushing many to just do pickup themselfs.

More suprising, to me, is that it was ever legal to list resturants without and opt in.
I find it especially true early in the US day, perhaps because the audience then is probably bitter Europeans?
Saying this while waiting for the new savior vaccine with a brand new mRNA technology pushed by two startups: Moderna & BioNTech is just... funny.
Interesting idea that could be applied to a lot of other things... You could imagine a unified /proc-like file system for a big hairy backend for instance.
The grep-oriented tools have it a bit easier. They can (and do) extract inner literals as well. The trick is that the search is line oriented and lines tend to be small. So when you find a match for an inner literal, all you need to do is find the bounds of the line that contains the literal and run the full regex engine on just that line. It works extremely well when matches are somewhat rare.

As for RE2, backward matching is used to find the starting location of a match.
> I think much of the relevant general-purpose chip design knowledge we had (ARM) left the EU this morning.

Does that even marginally matter?

Even after Brexit, both EU, and UK will remain open economies, unless you believe a conspiracy theory that Boris is a closet communist.
People tend to forget how critical resources are in our country to rights. You often need time, money, expertise, etc. to enter legal battles and if the costs of those resources outweigh the benefits, you often allow your legal rights to be infringed. Pursuit of some rights are cost prohibitive because everything in the US is so tightly tied to finances.

Many of your rights in the US are directly tied to your financial resources, not only in the sense that you have the resources to litigate or absorb failed litigation but even in the sense that those with massive financial resources essentially buy their own rights through legislation.

Let's not pretend the justice system doesn't have underlying flaws that allow justice to skew one way or another from money alone because it does. If you're on trial for a serious offense, you're probably not going to use a public appointed attorney if you can avoid it because we know how the legal system works and how financial incentives will attract better legal representation in the private sector than those for public appointment.

This idealized and fictionalized system where I can walk into a court of law and defend myself or use a public appointed counsel and 'win' as long as I've done nothing illegal or unjust is a laughable joke for many legal battles, especially those of more significance.
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You're right, thanks. I've edited it.
Are ARM still Japanese? I think there’s a pretty solid trade agreement between the EU and Japan ...
The question is whether it should be required.

If a restaurant welcomes takeaway orders then whether you order and collect in person or hire someone to do it on your behalf is irrelevant.

That's why I think this bill is ill-thought-out.

If there are shady practices taking place then they should be dealt with with existing legislation and, if needed, with new legislation specifically targeting these practices.
Instead, I suspect this will only restrict services and competition, which ultimately won't be beneficial for consumers and restaurants alike.
That is so MF DOOM, though
Airbus is the obvious one; successfully broke a foreign near-monopoly. TSMC would be playing the role of Boeing, here.

I'm not sure if this will work, but I do think that something needs to be done by _someone_, even if not Europe. TSMC having a global near-monopoly on high-end fab is obviously not long-term viable. That's a bad situation for _everyone_.
I've done a lot of web development and iOS development (not so much Android so can't comment too much). I don't really agree with most of this statement at all.

The web is a powerful platform for a lot of reasons but I don't agree that it's easy to develop for, iOS is a much less hostile and predicatble environment to run client side code in. I also don't believe that CSS/HTML are particularly well suited to rich mobile applications in comparison to UIKit or SwiftUI. I still write PWAs and native apps and don't see why they can't coexist. Proponents of the PWA approach seem to really want PWAs to replace native development.

There is a lot of functionality and APIs that native apps have access to on both platforms, I'm not sure I see the point in browser developers implementing every single one of them when a subset can cover 70% of JSON-viewer type app needs, the remaining niche can be written as native apps.
At the very least mention the countries these companies are based on.
It doesn't in my experience. Google Five Guys near you, the actual first result ignoring ads will almost certainly be their website or even its order form. Same for every local restaurant with an order form I've tried it on.
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Try Amna. https://getamna.com.

You can do this per chrome window and bubble the tasks up to a task.
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So, first thing when it comes to big dollar (or in this case Euro) numbers: some of these funds will be loans, not grants. In this case the split will be about 50-50.

Second, this is not new money, this is part of recovery funds already allocated in July 2020 for combating the economic recession created by the Coronavirus [1]. These funds were already earmarked for environmental and digital initiatives. This declaration is probably a clarification of how much is given specifically to the digital initiatives.

This looks quite smart to me. In the US neither the original CARES act ($1.4 TN) passed in March, nor the new stimulus bill ($0.9 TN) has any funds dedicated to cutting edge industries. There were instead funds for airline companies and cruise lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_EU#Recovery_fu...
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