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I keep saying this and repeating over and over again... Yet keep getting downvoted. The monopolization of everything is caused by monetary policy. All these megacorps are not a natural phenomena. They are not competing on an even playing field.

Even die-hard capitalists who read Ayn Rand and watched her interviews will understand that monopolization should not happen without government intervention. The current monetary policy (of printing money and then giving control of it to existing capital holders based on how much capital they have) is bound to lead to this highly inefficient economic situation... One which takes the entire economy on a downward spiral while essentially bribing rich people with free money to keep playing along... Thus we get increasing inequality.

Then when the big corporations keep beating and buying up the competition (thanks to the disproportional amount of free credit that they have access to), they will claim that it's because they're more efficient (aka economies of scale) but in reality, the big players are just getting subsidized by free money from the government. Simple as that.

Give me access to 1 billion dollars of credit over 50 years and even with no industry experience, I can bankrupt all competing small businesses in any industry and in any city I want... Possibly in the entire country depending on the country.
"Use" is always in relation to an someone's or something's end. Without knowing what the relevant ones are, the comparison fails.
Giant gravitational wave detectors could hear murmurs from across universe
In the case of the Antikythera mechanism, it turns out the knowledge and technology weren't entirely lost. There's a fairly well-established throughline now from Babylonian observation-based astronomical tables to Greek philosophical views and mathematics (and craftmanship) to Arabic astrolabes (retaining some of the gear-train tech) and then back to Europe, to the monastic astronomical clocks. Then the escapement was invented and added in, and boom you got modern industrial technology.

There are a lot of loss and bottlenecks along that journey, though. And many notable locations, installations and individuals. The history of instrument-making and how it is intertwined with philosophical and religious views on the skies and the topology of the universe is quite fascinating (e.g. the motivations for observing the sky, being able to produce predictions at all, crafting models, etc).
>Every society exerts social pressure in the form of norms and shaming.

HN crowd has a definite knack for packing heaps of erroneous thinking (or perhaps deliberate gaslighting) into compact sentences like these.

Deplatforming is a tactic. One specifically designed to exert pressure in a direction not supported by the societal consensus. And yet in nearly every thread about it here, there are highly upvoted comments that pretend deplatforming is a mechanism for enforcing societal consensus.
Interesting approach to nas. Can this package do optimization with the hyperband algorithm?
I know. I use vim-anywhere because I never bothered to set up Emacs Daemon.
What would you be cooperating to do?
Octave has been putting out daily messages on twitter to customers explaining the situation.
API rate limits for popular CRMs
what if... the soviets had had an internet and computers? what would have come from central planning? would it have been a failure?

Maybe the chinese will answer this questions...
Snide Response: In Soviet Russia, media watches you!

Substantive Response: Mass Produced Journalism, be it's consumption or production, is purely a therapeutic exercise for the vain and the neurotic. Actual Investigative Journalism is dangerous for the investigators.

The only thing keeping journalist outfits going is the monumental amount of blackmail they've accumulated since the dawn of the camera. We all get to suffer with the journalist's delusions of grandeur because they have footage of a Rothschild grandchild slumming it once.
I used to teach intro programming at a summer camp for high school students and now teach full-time at an undergraduate college.

Two tips:

1. Don't worry about "impressive" projects. Even the simplest interactive programs will be impressive to new programmers. I have jaded college students that go crazy showing off their third-week rock-paper-scissors programs to their roommates and parents.

2. Think about the environment. If you want to do programming (as opposed to Lego kits or Arduino) you should look into a cloud-based IDE like repl.it so that everyone has the same interface and no one needs to install software. Choose a simple editor that allows them to run programs in one step.

Scratch is good for doing animations, stories, and simple games. The block-based interface becomes clunky and confusing when you try to write larger programs, but it's a good place to start with younger kids who enjoy the creative aspects.

Python is a good choice for writing text-based games. Don't underestimate the power of this approach for teaching new students: They can clearly see the link between what they write and what the program does and then make the leap to coding up their own ideas. It's harder to do that with a self-contained project that relies on external packages and pre-written code.

Twine is an interesting option. It isn't "programming" in the same way that Python is, but it's easy to use and writing interactive stories gets students thinking about sequential logic, conditions, and using variables to manage state.

You'll know you're doing it right when the kids are running with your examples, making up their own projects, and bouncing ideas off of each other.

I have a huge soft spot for Karel the Robot, which was very successful when I used it with my high school students. Look into it if you want a simple, creative predecessor to Python that isn't Scratch. I don't know if there is a high-quality free web-based version currently available.
Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!

- Julius Nyerere
Yeah, they built things that were useful. This is a calendar widget.
To me it's like leaving cancer unchecked, and praying it'll go away. Just because you dislike it. There needs to be a point at which we collectively go, nope that's too far. You're done. And we prune back the cancer.
What about the functioning of the populace and business? The purpose of government is to have a stable society, letting those things go seems to completely fly in the face of all of that.
This game was back in 2007. This was near the end of the "ruthless NHL era", when the NHL was trying to brand itself as the hard-hitting, brutal sport of hockey. So this type of stuff was accepted, and even quietly encouraged.

Now in the past couple years the NHL has cracked down significantly on player safety. This type of thing would probably lead to a suspension if it had happened during the current season. Players are getting suspended for a lot less right now.

One thing that the league looks at is whether the headshot was avoidable and predictable. This is a weird shot, because the forward was looking at the goalie, which means that its both avoidable and predictable (meaning the player could expect to be hit and should prepare for it). But because it was a goalie coming at him, the player probably never expected that the goalie would actually make contact with him. This makes it far less predictable, and therefore less avoidable.

Usually the goalies come up really far during these types of breakaways to create more favorable angles to protect the net. The player was most likely expecting the goalie to stop at some point and start backing up, and he was probably waiting for that to happen so he could deke (move around the goalie while he's immobilized from stopping) and get an easy open net score. So they essentially played a game of chicken, but the goalie never disengaged. This is very unexpected. To me the goalie should be suspended for this. Virtually no forward in the league would have expected the goalie to do that and the way the goalie hit him, it was clear that it could have been dangerous.
When did the rioters in Portland breach the building ?
Oh sure, the left definitely just falls in line and makes excuses to protect their own regardless of issue or logic.

Except not. The left DESTROYS their own. I think you have parties confused.

Reaching for "soviet" comparisons is like going to a Nazi reference, the conversation is essentially over.
And Decatur isn't in Decatur County. It's in DeKalb county (and the L is silent).
Kind of a double standard since thumbs.db exists yet no one ever talks about it. People love hating on apple
Name an economic choice you make that doesn't affect anyone else in at least some way.
Pixd–Colourful visualization tool for binary files
Being mac-only does not really affect the pricing. Most mac users only use mac, and so for them it wouldn't be worth more if it was also available for PC. HAving said that, the price is ridiculous.
Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City [video]
Maybe the Y Combinator board invested in the team, and not the idea/product? I'd be on that.
It is, because misinformation is the biggest factor in stopping humanity from addressing these big issues.
$10/month is not a cheap tool. I'm paying $90/year for Intellij Idea which is my main development tool. IMO that cost is extremely prohibitive for most users and it's definitely not a way to get plenty of people on board to monetize it later.
Best tool is the one you already know, isn't it? Rails for me as well. Is there something that you feel is missing from Rails for rapid prototyping?

As an aside (and no offence intended) I feel like proliferation of frameworks for all languages and all platforms is just folks reinventing the wheel. If I was a pythonista or a javascript guy, I'd certainly do something like Django or Node. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The reason you don't purchase games or movie or music is that you are poor. Your behaviour is mostly determined by your financial status. I am a Chinese, and I haven't used pirated software since I started my first job. Of course, some people cheat, I hope they are not proud about it.
Or perhaps the dutch/french/belgium cops are smarter than the average one ?

or maybe the reason is because there is a large platform of drug traffic in those areas compared to others..
This is an MVP, v1 of the product and v0.1 of the company. Judge it as such, with the understanding that things will evolve and grow, or not.

2 thoughts on YC, 1 on the company.

ON YC:

YC's model is: place lots of small bets. They have presumably grown considerably in the last 10+ years, and are likely now managing a lot more capital than they were initially, which means they need to place many more tiny bets than they initially were. YC accepts many teams who just apply as a team.

In other words, YC is not really in the business of evaluating ideas; they evaluate founders and give them money depending probably 80% on the founding team and 20% on the idea.

ON THE COMPANY:

On the company/product, calendar-ing is a relatively high leverage problem. Everyone on the (digital) planet uses a calendar every single day. Scheduling stuff is a nightmare. Being on time for stuff is a nightmare. Apple Calendar sucks. Google Calendar sucks. I assume Microsoft Office calendar also sucks. If you solve this problem in a better way to the extent people are willing to pay for it (not to be underestimated, see Superhuman), there is a large direct and indirect market for such software. Now, if you have a successful calendar app, you could do something like calendly, which is already a billion dollar company.

Try to remember, a lot of companies that come out of YC are in MONTH 3 of their lifecycle. The initial footprint can look small, but dig a little deeper and a lot there. Small footprint, big ideas.
the biggest digital divide in my mind is the divide between those who can program and those who cannot. Those who can't program do not have access to the huge power curve that is the ability to automate or simplify white-collar work. There's certain to be a large gap out there of automatable problems in industries that programmers don't tend to care about (PlanGrid being a good example of this) that could do with being able to solve their own problems.
A future civilization would need to reconstruct a compatible operating system, software and hardware first, then build something with a USB port to put the stick into.

It's not impossible but consider how many ancient human languages we still can't translate, or can only translate due to coincidence (as in the case of the Rosetta Stone with Egyptian hieroglyphics.) Translating digital information in a similar cultural vacuum would be exponentially more difficult. If that stick is encrypted, how does one even know there is information to begin with?
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Wow! A few sentences later I link to a leftist accusing a Maoist leftist for being reactionary and discriminatory. I even mention the fact that Maoists and National Bolsheviks (which are very much racists while leftists) exist in the very first sentence of the paragraph.

However, these are not the norm. They are a very small minority and most leftist groups will not tolerate them.
It’s too early in the morning to yell. If you disagree with the OP, then calmly explain your disagreements with the post and cite sources if needed.

Edit: From the HN guidelines [0]

> In Comments: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the fact that it's so effective says more about society than the trolls though. if you squint hard enough, it's almost like the reactions provoked when you say "anti-white racism doesn't exist" without further explanation. it's true under the modern definition, but sometimes hard to take in good faith.
If you want a crazy win, then you have to invest in some crazy things. Crazy simple also makes sense.

YC is doing what they were created to do. To invest in extremely early stage startups no one is willing to bet on. But maybe their product is questioning a fundamental assumption that is outdated that has not been thrown out yet, given current technological advances. Who knows.

You could be right on founders. Founders are hungry people. If there is one thing I've learned in my short time on Earth is do not underestimate hungry people.
pg is a known fan of the cancel culture complaint think tank industrial complex
I'm not a fan of cancel culture but this isn't a great argument against it. The question isn't whether cancellation can achieve complete eliminationist objectives, but whether it can prove useful at the margins in terms of achieving your political goals. I think the answer is likely "yes to some extent", although people are predictably biased to over or underestimate the overall effectiveness depending on whether they see censorship working for or against their causes or net.

My main pushback to cancel culture stuff is something of a "paradox of the paradox of tolerance" critique - that people are trying to use it as a cudgel to pretextually silence views that are well within the Overton window and that rather than this leading to the Overton window shifting (the desired effect) it will lead to pillarization, wherein multiple non-overlapping Overton windows will vie for cultural/political supremacy in ways that will not only lead (and have already lead) to very ugly conflicts, but involve massive amounts of time/energy being wasted on hot-button issues that in the grand scheme of things are just not very important.
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You clearly know they are dogwhistles. Just like saying sieg heil doesnt inherently mean anything racist, but everyone knows what you mean when you say it.
The thing that scares me about this is the relationship between the US dollar and the US military.

I have a feeling a lot of people will say they are not related. Unfortunately, I believe that we are going to find out how related those things are in the next few decades.
Unless you're going back to all these firms, to confirm your first guess, you have no idea if you are actually making good judgements, or not.
I just finished reading “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles, and it gives good (though likely biased) context after the Bolshevik Revolution, that made reading this article more thought provoking than I think it would be.

Though even if you hate Biden, he isn’t Stalin, just as Trump wasn’t Hitler.
The media is absurd to me though. Seriously they lack any sort of principle it seems. Whatever “The Party” is doing is right. (For Fox News the party being Republican, and democrat for all else)
At one point they were thinking of renaming the big station in Philadelphia, 30th Street Station, after Ben Franklin, but they didn't do it. One reason I heard because they were afraid people would call it "Ben Station" and get it confused with the New York and Newark stations.

(Also, Newark, Delaware is on the same line! But not many trains stop there.)
To your latter point, the Jeffrey Epstein case was the first time I'd really considered kompromat on American politicians and other elite as a prime motivation for many of the decisions we see out of DC. Was that also an eye opener for others? Maybe it just reflects naivety or lack of imagination on my part.
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As someone within GCP, do you know / can you find out what the story is with Application Delivery (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/add...) ? It looks like a promising idea, but it’s half-baked† and showing no signs of progressing to becoming fully-baked. Is it still being actively worked on? I’d love to use it — compared to Flux/Argo, App Delivery has semantics closest to what I want — but only if there’s some promise of it reaching GA and receiving some more polishing.

† I could list off the reasons it’s half-baked, but you’re not the target of that ire, so I’ll leave off with it :)

There was one blog post about App Delivery (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...) in early 2020, then nothing. There’s no official site, or reference, for it, or the components within it.

The Application Delivery client appctl(1), despite being a standalone static Go binary, isn’t available separately — the only place to get it is from the “pkg” component of gcloud(1). Nor is there any way to deploy the cluster-side components other than through the GKE dashboard/gcloud(1) CLI. So there’s no good way to deploy+test Application Delivery in your own (e.g. minikube) cluster, to test ‘doing GitOps with Application Delivery’ in a sandbox.

Nor is there any promise of App Delivery becoming tooling that’s portable to other Kubernetes hosts. Nothing about any of this is open-source or even source-available — despite App Delivery advertising itself as a “best practices” approach to GitOps, something intended to show other vendors how this kind of thing should done. (How are they going to learn GitOps from a black box?)

—————

Application Delivery seems to be based on some (Google-internal? Unpublished, at least) software called KALM (which, I assume, translates to “Kubernetes Application Lifecycle Management” or some such.)

Installing Application Delivery into a cluster installs “kalm-controller”; and appctl(1) seems to be at-least-in-part a fork or wrapper for a “kalmcli” client. (I learned this by digging through the debugging-symbol table of appctl; it’s not documented anywhere.)

It seems that, because of this separation-of-concerns, KALM itself isn’t supposed to be GKE-specific, whereas Application Delivery is.

Well, if an open Application Delivery isn’t in the pipeline, is an open KALM? Or was it ever (and did it stall—perhaps because the lead on it left the project?)

(I notice that KALM also has something to do with how Google Cloud Marketplace “Click to Deploy” k8s applications are packaged, which at least leads me to believe that unlike Application Delivery itself, KALM is probably still a living project.)
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Oh it does seem a lot.
I don't even have any stakes in this argument, but:

> All that poll says is that people tend to answer "proud" (whatever that's interpreted to mean) when asked about institutions which they frequently interact with and are rarely exposed to any criticism of.

You just wrote above:

> One day you'll talk to a Brit outside of that bubble and get a real shock to discover they aren't enamoured with the NHS at all.

> plenty of people would love to move to a more standard social insurance model

Probably should choose one: either people have an bad opinion of NHS, or they don't.
GAA & SV% is actually much higher than in the 80s.
Grant Fuhr had only 2 seasons with an above .900 sv% and those were in the last half of the 90s.
Mostly had a GAA of over 3.5.
You wouldn't be an NHL goalie with those numbers these days.
I see, thanks for digging. This would be like a court saying "violent conquest, and religious discrimination in the tax system, are inherent parts of Islam enshrined in the Quran", or "theocratic Zionism and the killing of gentiles are core parts of Judaism that are sanctioned in the Torah". In both cases, with a fundamentalist reading, you'd be right, but it's really up to Muslims and to Jews to interpret their own religions (and to interpret their way away from bad parts of their texts), not for the legal system to do. And it's kind of anti-Hindu to choose the most unsympathetic (to an American) reading of Hinduism to be the "official" one. It would be like saying that right-wing "Christian nationalism" is the "true" Christianity. The only people who would agree would be people outside Christianity who hate it, and the right wingers themselves.

And in the case of "Hinduism" this is extra complicated, because there is no central authority, and barely even a core "religion" in the manner of monotheisms. "Hinduism" barely exists (some people say it's just a word invented by the Britishers); it's a loose confederation of Shaivism, Vaishnavism, etc; it's amorphous. It's hard to say what is and isn't a "core belief". Whenever you try to grasp it, it will slip out of your hand.
They have a big CPU and RAM usage.

...which is not an issue on M1 macs, so far, but that's for now.
What environment are you working in where this is a problem in practice?

In tiny embedded devices with very limited memory, you do all your allocation at startup and avoid malloc during runtime, so you’d never run into this.

On server, desktop, or even smartphone applications, I’ve never run into cases where “the allocator was unable to get a chunk of memory to complete a vector resize()” is a significant problem. If my vector is going to be a significant fraction of the memory available on the system, I generally know that up-front, and would just call reserve() with a conservative estimate of the upper-found size. That’s pretty rare though - not many problems call for vectors that are 1+ GB in size. For anything that’s not a significant fraction of the system’s available memory, the allocator can generally find you a chunk.
The reason we just had the largest civil rights protests in American history this summer has as much or more to do with the everyday experience with the police as it does the extraordinary events such as deaths. Deaths were the spark, not the fuel.

The grinding oppression of every day life in terms of policing has been shown in study after study. It is disproportionately felt by black people, mostly men, but it has been steadily expanding to all demographics for decades now.

| Plenty of poor and middle class whites

Yeah and a lot of poor and middle class white people were out supporting the protests because of their own experiences too.

Daniel Shaver's death is not argument against BLM's goals, it's an argument in favor of them.
>Maybe the chinese will answer this questions...

I think they did that already:

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