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> an economy where no tracking is possible might not perform as well as an economy that tracks everything, for knowledge means better resource allocation.

Such an economy is still very possible: just pay people for their data. Giving it away isn't economically efficient and imposes significant negative externalities, as we've seen.
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PCI-e's IB heritage is present in every aspect of the standard, it's electrically the same, signalling and encoding are the same etc.

In the early days of all this there was a few competing standards that all had the same underlying architecture, serial, 8b/10b encoding, etc. The 2 big ones were NGIO and FutureIO. These two were eventually merged and was called ServerIO before being renamed to Infiniband.

Infiniband was going to be the next big thing and a few companies set out to make the silicon, Mellanox, QLogic/Silverstorm, Topspin/Cisco among the main ones.

Sun and Microsoft both committed to building the drivers to make this work. However pretty soon MS ran into issues with their drivers and eventually pulled the plug on shipping IB drivers in NT. This caused Cisco to drop IB and eventually doomed IB in the enterprise datacenter space and settled for Ethernet.

Sun pretty much followed suit for standard enterprise data centers but kept working on IB drivers and IB switches for their HPC and storage units. You can still see it kicking around in stuff like Exadata.

Intel is mainly responsible for making PCI-e happen. They had proposed one of the initial standards that became IB, NGIO. When NGIO was fused with FutureIO to create IB the same group renamed it to Arapahoe which was later renamed 3GIO before being renamed to PCI-e when standardized by the PCI SIG. Design wise little changed it just eschewed some of the switching complexity and focused on being an internal system interconnect.

So in many ways it's not quite PCI-e is descendant from IB but rather PCI-e -is- IB lol.
While I agree with the part about the brain not being multithreaded, I cannot agree with the rest. Leading, building and succeeding doesn't seem like something that is predicated on the ability to focus.
Ethereum's 27-year-old creator Vitalik Buterin is now a billionaire
Yeah, I'd dabble with this if not for me being forced to sign up with a credit card and them not offering any guarantees on how much they'd bill.
It's interesting that the line between cargoculting a product and outright being bribed is so thin apparently. Maybe this conviction will make people think twice in the future before cargoculting, but that's probably just wishful thinking.
> Setting aside OSI's definition of OSS, has this been explored as a OSS funding model?

Bruce Perens recently published some thoughts on that:

https://perens.com/2020/08/24/what-comes-after-open-source/

https://perens.com/2020/10/06/post-open-source-license-early...
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I used to use Privacy Badger as well, but they've recently removed the learning feature (because it could be used to track you, IIRC), so it became similar to uBlock Origin, to the point where it feels redundant to run both.
The first news about COVID were at the very end of december 2019 at least on mainstream media.
Do you not find the WCML a bit of a rollercoaster ride in places? There’s definitely a few points where you’re being buffeted and tilted all over the place unpleasantly.

I can’t believe they’re going to make parts faster? Tea will be flying everywhere.
As for a “solution”: I think social media should focus on instead of creating echo bubbles to connect distinct groups. Even in in-person, it is unhealthy to surround ourselves with same-minded people, and one should strive diverse circles in terms of opinion/background.
This is cool, but at their scale I wonder if they wouldn't be better off rewriting most of their codebase, or at least a performance-critical subset, in something like Rust or Go.

It may seem like a lot of work, but making Python faster isn't exactly trivial either.

Also, I love Python, but using it for huge projects like this sounds dubious at best. I think the benefits of static typing really show when projects grow large.
> flow state

This terminology means you are completely focused on the task you're doing, forgetting other distractions. I don't think it applies here.
This is a nit, but why "cannon" and not "canon"? Presumably it's not firing projectiles at things.
The Kotlin compiler has multiple backends and can target JS and native code (the latter via LLVM) in addition to JVM bytecode.
Let me please disagree with you! We are against any type of charity and at the same time we do voluntary activity (like helping elderly, disabled, families in financial trouble, students, etc.) but we do it as a voluntary activity and receive nothing (all of us donates as much as possible) and we work for some company and receive salary, but we do the activity after the job hours, weekends or some of our friends are students or jobless at the time being. So I agree that charities exploit people and for the exact reason we are against it, and we do our independent (from all governments and companies) activity and invites others to do so.
I think FabHK is referring to not the strategic advantage of "owning" that island but rather how that border-conflict is managed. Instead of stationing soldiers who shoot on sight, they manage the conflict by exchanging liquor.
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The skin tones were based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized standard for determining skin color.

ARGB Skin tones are technically difficult to implement in unicode and would explode the amount of work needed by emoji font designers. It's always a trade-off between enabling expression and keeping it practical.
> Would love to see why they did not choose lit-element

Most likely explanation: It simply didn't exist yet when they chose.

Also, lit-element requires elements use its own base class while Catalyst doesn't.
My thought is that enforced monogamy came with the invention of agriculture, and wasn’t really a thing in Hunter-gatherer societies, but I could be completely wrong about that.

If true though, the fact that most of us don’t work in agriculture any more could mean that we are in the midst of a sea change in relationships. I’m too old to say I’ll be around to see how it ends up, but some of the youngest here might be around to see it.
I'm among those with mixed feelings.

- list of funny names that is kept in some persistent form and circulates the company with full acknowledgment of the head people: Childish and extremely unprofessional, but still a typical mistake rather than a colossal disaster;

- politics and racism issue: looks like typical misunderstanding but on a very fragile subjects. Very easy to get into drama scenarios with this mix. Very easy to mishandle it. But it still seems that this topic is not normal workplace topic. If there is a serious issue in that matter, you go to some authorities. If you did not address it officially and decided to attack the head people - sorry, it's not the way. That might suggest that there was no real issue as there were no serious actions;

- policy change public announcement first then to your team: Yeah that's a big mistake, something that probably their books wouldn't even advise. Head people did not recognise that this is not the way to manage fragile topics.

Is DHH and Jason all evil?

- These are the same guys that give equal pay regardless of remote worker location.

- They were always believing in remote work, which is bigger problem for company and it's more of a benefit for the
employees

- Many times were vocal about issues with big companies, where many others did not have enough courage to do the same

- Creators of a breakthrough tech stack and tremendous contributions to open-source

- Always happily sharing their knowledge

They made a mistake. But they don't seem to be bad guys here overall.

In this context, the article seems to be written by someone who had some personal issues with the guys and he found a way to "show'em all". Even if it tells his version of the story, to me it's at least unfair and biased.
> agreed especially when compared to say Heroku or Digital ocean.

Funnily enough, I've never ever been able to understand what Heroku is, or how to deploy anything useful on it :) But I'm old, and I've always found it easier to tinker with nginx configs.
Interesting how we wouldn't really mind the parameters if sites took the time to clean up after themselves instead of leaving them in the URL.
I think when they released Catalyst Lit was still in beta
As a scientist who had to use MATLAB up until about 2013 because that's what everyone else used, it was such a relief to move to Python. It's true that you can implement a linear algebra routine in a couple fewer characters in MATLAB, but unless that's literally all you're doing, Python is much nicer to work with. The data structures in MATLAB are just a nightmare for general purpose programming, which makes things like loading and parsing data -- things that scientists often need to do -- just terrible. The fact that the notion of the "matrix" (i.e. a 2D array rather than a general ND array) is so deeply baked into everything is a huge headache (a scalar is a 1x1 matrix in MATLAB!). I'm also surprised anyone is particularly bothered by the @ operator. The asterisk for matrix multiplication seems roughly equally unheard of in nicely typeset / handwritten math (you would just write e.g. Ab for a matrix-vector multiplication with no inset operator).
> The most obvious upper bound for K(X) is obviously the length N of X itself.

This seems false as you'd have to account for the header of the program. Otherwise how can you tell programs and texts apart?
I disagree. Multitasking is starting to be seen as what it actually is. If you're managing well, you'll at the very least be familiar with the doubt around humans being capable of multitasking effectively.
Surveillance. This has always been an undercurrent of the internet revolution. I think during this decade the technological might will really be brought to bear in controlling various aspects of people's lives.
Except that it doesn’t spread that way? And that it had always been around. We have just started paying attention to it.
The current system is backed by the largest polluter on the planet, the US military. Bitcoin in comparison uses less energy but its too early for some to recognize this fact.

Bitcoin is the settlement layer, tools built on top of it (like 2nd/3rd layer tech that can achieve 100K-1M+ transactions per second) require very little additional energy.
I think "forced" is a strong word here for making a purchasing decision.
I have glanced over Shrodinger's "What Is Life?" previously. Life is thermodynamics, information/entropy/computational like you said. Clearly the lines are blurred and the definition of life in biology textbooks is quite poor.

Still, this all begs the question of whether the particles that dominate our universe are species or are inherent from the physical laws. Then when you consider that the laws themselves may be species ..well..shoot me already. My head has begun to hurt.
Dog-themed crypto coin hits $0.69 lolol roflmao
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Little bit OT, but I always wondered what archive.is does better than archive.org....
Thank you for putting this into words. It's crazy how normalised it is to have long feedback loops, when we're working on interactive computers rather than punch cards.
Yeah I don't think there's a crime here, not in a legal sense. I work at a large software company where doing this is prohibited by contract and you can be dismissed due to it, but I'm not aware of any legal problems outside of this.
Note that the skin tones are based on the six tones of the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized standard for dermatology.
Just the first pun I came up with :)
Because this is common practice. The business owner my dad worked for "leased" the building and warehouse from his son.
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I agree. It’s frustrating when I want to send a thumbs up but when I type :thumbs it shows me thumbs down in 5 colours. I’m not sure what the point was when the yellow ones already covered everyone.

Although I have to say, the gender neutral emoji are the most puzzling and seem to enforce weird stereotypes. According to the Unicode spec. Men are people with short hair and blue shirts, woman are people with long hair and red shirts. And gender neutral people are people who have medium hair and grey shirts.
It's sad that nowadays we need at least a dozen of add-ons just to have a decent browsing experience on the web
I agree that attraction is not a choice, but being attractive to anyone can have facets of choice. If the husband in this case isn't attracted to his wife anymore because she's gained a lot of weight, the choice by either party to remedy that could influence increased attraction, for example.
I read it as “one-dollar” and assume most people would read it the same.
Although I’d prefer if writing rules put the $ after the number; eg 1$.
A bit annoying they called it cinder when there is already libcinder.
In addition, I'd like to add this quote from the original draft introducing skin tones in unicode:

> The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images, they are often shown with a light skin tone instead of a more generic (nonhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a silhouette.
You made me really angry with this comment.. really do hope you are “joking”, but I’m not sure at all based on this thread.

> > I don’t think we would ever want to go back to those repressive systems that controlled women.
> Why not?

Because they are human?
20 companies signed up in 4 days of soft launch. /show HN
Hey YC community, yesterday we completed our 8 weeks streak at Startup School and we were awarded the certificate. The YC SuS journey has been very exciting for us as first-time founders.

I would love to share some of our key learnings from the program(so far):

1. Setting your goals and KPI's: weekly updates have been our favorite thing from SuS, it helped us to set and track our goals, we were also sharing weekly updates with our users to keep us motivated.

2. SuS library: learning from the resources and the curated content for the track was very helpful for what we needed to know at that exact moment.

3. SuS community: learning horizontally from fellow founders has been a great experience, we also joined weekly meetings to talk to fellow founders and share learnings, and get feedback.

After a couple of weeks of SuS updates, we were facing issues with submitting our weekly updates timely, without wasting time, so we built an internal Slack bot to solve it, it helped us curate all our weekly items to update on SuS. We only later figured out it's a common problem with remote teams.

We built the app in a day or two and made it available to our initial users and continued to build with user's feedback for the other use cases on Slack.

We used SuS to pivot from what we were originally building, we started with a new slack app last week, In the last 4 days, we have 20 companies signed up, with more in the pipeline.

We are onboarding all of our users personally. We are in the process of getting approved by the Slack directory, once that is done, the Poppins app will be listed on Slack.

I'm thankful to all the mentors here at YC, especially Michael Seibel, Dalton Caldwell, Kevin Hale, and Adora Cheung.

We're building Poppins, a Slack app to get rid of information overload and make Slack digestible.

more info: https://www.poppins.me
University felt like a limbo where the government expected me to be an adult and pay my own way but the school wanted me to be a child and trust that they knew what was best for me.

In our (UK) system, there's no profit incentive because there's no bad customer service that will be enough for you to give up the economic signalling. So, despite being the most expensive thing I've ever paid for, I had less input into how it was done than I do for my coffee subscription.

I didn't have a bad experience with school before that but I still remember distinct occassions of cruelty or unfairness. At that age you're just less well equipped to deal with it, nobody trusts you and you have no freedom, so your world is smaller. So a minor thing has a major impact. Adults used to tell me that it's all downhill after 18 - did they forget what it's like to be a kid?
Before suggesting somebody read an introduction to economics to learn about inflation, please try to take a deeper look into what inflation really is:

> Inflation, as this term was always used everywhere and especially in this country, means increasing the quantity of money and bank notes in circulation and the quantity of bank deposits subject to check. But people today use the term `inflation' to refer to the phenomenon that is an inevitable consequence of inflation, that is the tendency of all prices and wage rates to rise. [1]

[1]: http://mises.org/efandi/ch20.asp
> The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images, they are often shown with a light skin tone instead of a more generic (nonhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a silhouette.

From the original draft introducing skin tones: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2-archive.html#Div...
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A lot of that information will be lost it costs a lot of money to store data on the internet nowadays when nobody's paying the bill it just gets lost.

We bought an old tobacco farm in South Indiana almost every building it has these weird metal rings. historians said they were for tying up cattle and horses. But we found out recently that they were actually for farming equipment they would tether steam engines to ropes and then use these steel rings attached to buildings and trees to pull plows around with the steam engines.
It would be less arbitrary than the visual differences between the male, female, and gender neutral emoji which are pretty much differentiated by hair length.

I’d say there are more men with long hair than nail varnish.
It seems a lot faster than pipenv.
From the little I've tried, it seems a lot more sane - but I'm biased - I hated pipenv and never saw the point of it.
Stating reality I'm afraid to tell you isn't twisting to fit a narrative, but again, subscribers to an ideology who find "men are on average taller and stronger than women" to be a controversial statement will no doubt struggle with this as well.
Does it work on on iPad? Both using finger and pen it scrolls rather then drawing.
AWS is a third party and if you use their services, they are handling your data. I suppose it's up to you to consider how much of a risk that is to your business.
E.g. arXiv:gr-qc/9504004, arXiv:1512.01236, arXiv:2102.06824
It's a Lisp-flavored Python, Python with Lisp syntax.

Just doing a syntax translation into an AST might not be enough to implement an actual Lisp on another language.
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As cliche as it is - AI. Not strong AI but much better weak AI. Simply projecting existing trends (think Tesla autopilot) forward basically guarantees massive societal change along UBI lines.

There will be massive opportunities in that change. And for those facilitating it massive gain.

I also think we’re due an abundant energy breakthrough at some point but hard to predict the exact nature of it
Why curl and not simply use /dev/tcp?
Also, what are the odds of Lou Gehrig contracting Lou Gehrig's Disease? So unlucky.
You kinda derailed your own post by writing cryptocurrency. HN hates it so we never have good discussions on it.

Obvious answers:

- Biotech, our ability to handle large amounts of data and compute should enable biotech to make huge strides forward in all sorts of ways. Personalized medicine (pill made for you etc) and so on.

- AR/VR, we've been talking about this for a long time but it seems like Apple will be launching something fairly soon for AR. It could very well kickstart a new boom.
VR has been steadily building for about 10 years and will continue to do so. Better headsets means more widespread adoption. Nearing a tipping point now I think.

- Getting 2 billion more people on the internet. Should allow for more niche products.

Outside the box:

- Online reality TV with avatars. An online world where people play different roles and you can choose which viewpoint you want to watch from. Online 24/7 with professionally built narratives happening in real time.

See GTA RP NoPixel streams on Twitch for an early example.
Nah, the industry started a war on consumers. That’s what they are getting.
I have a theory that the best forth programs for a domain approach a optimal Huffman encoding for the problem. This explains why Chuck Moore (who probably had the IQ to spare) could do amazing things such as design a chip design language in forth. Unfortunately Forth programs are about as hard to grok as manually decoding a Huffman encoding. ;)
Maybe, but you'd need to be able to identify first that you were filling a need and that you're no longer. To have a conversation about that, the person in question needs to know that their partner is filling their need rather than some degree of it being optional.
Most chromebooks can now run Android apps, too
Is that going to be a serious problem though? (Not that I endorse it at all.)
Best reasoning I've read so far. Can't agree more with you.
Actually, they were colonised by a relatively tiny group of individuals. And the profits were kept by a relatively tiny group of individuals.
Some restaurants serve "boneless wings" which are typically fingies with buffalo sauce.
LocalCDN and Universal Bypass are two other privacy extensions you should add.
I lived through it. I mean, it was scary, but the risks were low.

I remember my landlord and his girlfriend at the time saying they were going to give up beef due to the risks. They said this whilst smoking cigarettes.
Back in the mid-1980s I recall playing a sailing game -- Wooden Ships And Iron Men" -- on the BSD-4.2 based Stride "supermicro" (68000 CPU, 80MB hard drive, can't remember memory). It was a multiplayer battle game simulating 18th century sailing ships and their arms and armour. Weather was constantly changing, and you certainly had to take into account wind, sea-state, time of day, different sorts of ammunition you might prime your guns with, etc. And all that on a (well, a few) 40x80 ascii terminal(s)!

Very challenging and entertaining game. Always wondered why the theme/code was never expanded upon using modern hardware and software.
I wouldn't call the default yellow color non-inclusive because it's equally wrong for everyone
In most countries there are laws for dealing with breach of trust, which covers all kinds of damage that a person can do when hired to manage someone else's company.

So my guess is that while bribes in private sector are not illegal per se, you can still go to jail for the decisions made as the result of taking the bribe.
“ Although rare diseases may be individually rare, they are collectively common, with 1 in 17 people being affected by a rare disease at some point in their lives. ”

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-rare-diseases-...
The process is know as "dogfooding". When I was working at a Mobile OS company, the company use to give us new handset every year so that we understand the product we were building. It also doubled as perk :)