skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From that perspective, there will be a strong need for various rare earth elements. Leading to an insane amount of pollution. Are there any breakthroughs in rare earth extraction & treatment process?
The A500 is my favorite machine ever, it basically merged the best of both worlds from PCs (interface, general purpose OS, programmability) and consoles (dedicated audio and video chipsets, you could use a normal TV as monitor).

It took full adoption of the 256 colors VGA and Sound Blaster cards for the PC to catch-up and eventually surpass it (late games started coming out in 10+ floppy disks and it was clear it had reached its limits).
To the average consumer, free means free of charge rather than free as in liberty. Very few people would think the latter when talking about the word "free" in the context of a product, of which the majority are developers, and even still, developers who are acquainted with the free software movement which is some fraction of that majority.

The copy on the page is clear to most people and is therefore good enough without needing to introduce consumers to the concept of software liberty, which would be more confusing and drive less conversion than just using the word "free."
I'm agree that real blame with real consequences will encourage people to clam up/hide evidence/start framing, but I don't think it can be 100% true/the only outcome because if this was the case then no consequences-based governance system would ever work. Also I admit it's a bit naive to say but maybe we should also be focusing on not hiring people that do egregious things when consequences arrive? A certain amount is normal but if you're working with people that destroy evidence and frame others when shit hits the fan... That's kind of a red flag no? No one hires for integrity anymore?

I also disagree about it wrecking trust -- a well built & fairly applied system should build trust -- it's when people put their trust in systems with no power/hidden manipulation that trust gets wrecked the fastest. You could even make it opt in, and tie bonuses to the risk taken by those who decide to have raises/promotions manipulated in the context of the system.

IMO this is basically just a sub-problem of the general "how do we govern societies" general problem and "don't have consequences" doesn't seem like a good plan either.

[EDIT] I want to add that I really would like to hear other suggestions for how to solve these kinds of issues. I could only imagine a truly no-consequences style working in a xerox parc-ish environment which is only possible when there's more than enough money (both on the corporate and the people side) so desperation isn't producing rash actions, and most people are being motivated by something other than the normal money/prestige.
Amiga innovation still excites us 2018. I can't wait!
I'm a medical doctor as well, working as a software engineer at a medical startup. I switched from medicine to software engineering more than ten years ago. Basically, what I did to make the switch was to follow courses, did a lot of reading, and a lot of programming. Not too long after that, I got my first job as a programmer. From then on I learned mostly on the job. I'm now at my fifth tech job after switching.
Like others have commented, there are companies that will hire doctors for non-medical positions, I know quite a few doctors that ended up in non-medical jobs. If marketing is what you'd like to do, I'd say try to find a position that enables you to grow into that, while learning on the side, and take it from there.
VAT is different than sales tax.

Sales tax is charged on the sales price while VAT is charged on every step of the production process.

VAT is very hard to avoid. All of the inputs to your business have to have VAT charged on them - if your business didn't pay VAT on your business expenses in China, you can't deduct them as expenses, which increases the business tax you pay.

Several years ago, when I still had a business in China, you'd actually have to paste physical tax invoices into a paper book and submit it with your accounts to the relevant taxation authorities.

Chinese consumers pay very high taxes on consumption both because of the VAT system which is essentially invisible and hard to avoid and because of very high import taxes.

It was always interesting that they think they don't pay much tax but are also obsessed with buying things overseas where the prices are usually cheaper.

As other posters have noted, payroll taxes are an income tax. Places like the USA split payroll taxes 50-50 between the employer and the employee. In China, payroll taxes - called "social insurance" - are skewed towards the employer. It's been 5 or 6 years since I've employed people in Mainland China, but if I recall correctly, the company "contribution" to social insurance was on the order of 21% while employees only had around ~6% of their paycheck withheld to cover their portion of the tax.

From the business's perspective, all of these taxes are part of the employee's pay. If an employee asked to be paid 10000, she might only take home 8000 after social insurance and income tax withholding while she'd cost the company 12000. In reality she was being paid 12000 and the government was taking away 4000 of her money each month. (Rough numbers)

It was common earlier in the decade to have potential hires ask for a certain salary after tax and then expect the company to pick up the extra. This was because many businesses at the time would pay cash under the table to avoid these tax expenses.

If you're interested in learning more about tax invoices in China, you can check out a post I wrote about them ~10 years ago: https://www.larrysalibra.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-...
> Our team focused specifically on the hard problem of modelling target shapes from scratch, without using previously solved proteins as templates.

I have a feeling they’re going after the biologics market with this. Predict structure directly from DNA sequences, simulate affinities, then make a batch and test in-vitro. Throw in a loop to feed back data to make a better DNA sequence. Definitely heading down the road to automated protein design.
Why is this dated 1989, it starts in the 70s and through to this century.

Even as Svat says, you need a 1989 paper to make sense of it.
No doubt you can see the irony in your comment?
Is this able to solve all pending Folding@Home tasks?
Why don't we bring trolleybuses back? They rock! You don't need polluting batteries in order to run them, just some copper to put the wires up, and we've been master of this "technology" for almost a century now. Also, we should extend or re-introduce the tram network.
If I'm not mistaken this attack is negated by DDR4 RAM, is that correct?
I think you can expect 1TB/s per machine. With one thousand servers you could search the entire web in 0.05 seconds. Not all data-sets are that big though. You should at least try the most naive method before applying any optimizations. Dividing everything up in words is a smart machine optimization, but it gets silly ... Imagine for example cutting out all words from a bunch of paper articles, then write down the name of the article at the back. Then sort all words and put them in different jars. Now when you want to find an article you pick a piece from a word-jar, then just look at the back-side! But now to the hard problem, what if the jar has thousands of small pieces in it ?
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uBlock exists also for Safari, however you need to download it through the App Store these days. https://www.ublock.org/safari/
I imagine there are hundreds, if not thousands, of scientific problems that DeepMind could help with. It's just a matter of getting people working on the problems.
Dude could still do a monthly patreon and cancel it if he didn't want to work on it anymore
I'm not convinced "Britain" is in the interest of most voters.
That appears to be a study from Australia. Not exactly a country well known for arranged marriages.
> I assume your suggesting that analgesia prevents the detection of wound infection?

You misread what I said. Pain is part of the feedback loop that keeps you from straining your skin, muscle and bones past their tearing/breaking point.

People who don't feel pain are many times more likely to injure themselves, especially when they already have wounds that might re-open through the wrong movement.

Pain is likely to stop wrong movements long before you can make your condition worse.

Mostly pain is a "desirable" sensory input. But it's understandable that people don't like it.

There's obviously cases where you want to prescribe strong painkillers - but if you're taking those you shouldn't be out and about anyways and have people watching over you.

For most post-op pain you shouldn't be on strong painkillers for long though, lest you undo the work your doctors put into you.
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Not sure about the US, but it definitely wasn't just popular in the UK alone. In Germany it was extremely popular, and the "natural upgrade path" from a C64.

For me it was the ultimate dream machine (apart from a Silicon Graphics workstation or NeXT Cube of course). 3 days after the monetary union in 1990 between East and West Germany I drove to the nearest West German town and spent pretty much everything on an Amiga 500, a 1084 monitor, and a printer, all in all around 2.6k Deutsche Mark if I remember right (don't know why I was so keen on a printer).
They required overhead transmission wire planning as well, but I do agree we should overhaul trams that we use it to satisfy the need of short distance and constant location travel.
The problem at the core is a tradeoff triangle. You can pick two of either correctness, size/speed or cost. Almost everyone picks size and cost.

Pretty much all tech is this way. Layer 1 of most copper, fiber and RF networks and long buses require scrambling[1] of the data to prevent issues caused by clumps of 1s and 0s. Modern x64 CPUs scramble[2] data before its written to ram. SSDs scramble[3] data before writing it to the physical flash chips.

[1]: 8b10b and newer techniques

[2]: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~misiker/resources/HPCA17-coldboo...

[3]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2954/3
If I find the VCF insufficient I can always pay another $60 for a disk with the BAM file on which still works out as better value. Am more worried about their less than stellar customer service reputation tbh.
We have electric buses in Greece since the mid 50s. The key difference with modern era buses is that they don't work with batteries but rely on an infrastructure of aerial power lines to which they connect with two antennas protruding from the top of the vehicle. One thing I remember from whenever I was on board them is how damn slow they move. Occasionally the antennas will disconnect which means the driver will has to move to the back of the vehicle and reconnect them. They're still in use as to this day.

Pictures of vehicles from various eras can be seen here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%CF%84%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%...
That's really impressive, i can see a lot of work has gone into it especially since it has been in development since y2k.

The source code looks really well laid-out and modular too.
Revolut allows you to generate "virtual" credit cards which are just disposable credit card numbers linked to your account. You can spun one for every major online service you use (Netflix, Amazon, etc.) in case it gets hacked or for any transaction you're making on a less trusted site.
Yes I was thinking it would be interesting compression problem.
In the case of taxis, the additional taxation of fuel for example would affect the taxi owner more directly than the customer.

Applying the additional charge on-top of the original taxi fare itself, affects the customer more and directly influences the market dynamics better than a tax, which does it indirectly.
I managed to find autotomy, not in the list!
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/autotomy

cryptozoology also.
they need to be cool with getting a call
when they aren't on call

This is all a question of how often it happens.

If I'm getting an emergency call when I'm not on call twice a year, well, these things happen.

If I'm getting such a call 12 times a year, I gotta wonder if there's a problem with our testing practices, our prioritisation/tech debt, our L1 support, our high-level architecture, our infrastructure, the teams that interface with our system, our training practices or our hiring standards.

Some of those will be within my power to fix. Others, maybe I figure it's easier for me to move companies.
That’s not uBlock Origin, that’s the icky one. I use the AdGuard extension for desktop Safari, and the app for mobile Safari, which use the content blocking feature of Safari itself.
Sounds to me like China is doing it right.
This was such a good demo!
It is only an unconditional promise if done in a jurisdiction that does not allow divorce under any conditions. My lease does not explicitly say that it is contingent on the landlord keeping it fit for habitation, but nevertheless it is contingent on that.
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Ok but that kind of proves my point. They are avoiding taxes and using loopholes and tax havens precisely because it is unfair that their tax rate is increasing the more they earn. At least they feel it’s unfair to them. Why not solve the problem by having a simple flat tax? Everybody pays the same amount, let’s say 20%. Then it becomes much easier to come after tax dodgers on moral grounds. They no longer have an excuse of them being unfairly treated as their tax is identical to everybody else.
The blog is light on details but it appears Alpha is being used for branding here. AlphaFold seems to depart in a significant way from the perfect information game playing agent's architecture. A few questions spring to mind:

1) What is the architecture of the generative network and where exactly does it fit in the pipeline?

2) What is the interaction with the database? Is there an encoder being trained with real sequences further augmented with variations using the generative network?

3) What is the structure of the neural network that encodes the sequence? Is it a graph network, LSTM or simple conv-net?

4) The gradient descent step is very vague. Is it a physically based differentiable model (not a neural network) whose parameters are being optimized with gradient descent using automatic differentiation? Or something else? In short, there's some detail on scoring but how are the proposals being generated?

Questions aside, the results speak for themselves and are head and shoulders above all other showings. I wonder what it feels like for someone whose been in the field for years.

Despite the high score, there's still a long way to go before results reach real world utility. It's also worth keeping in mind that from a systems biology perspective, protein folding is only a small part of what makes getting clinically useful results difficult.

I might have missed something but I could not find anywhere indications of an intention to publish further details. That would be disappointing if such were indeed the case.
Those are trolleybuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
Do you mean fiction? Non-fiction? Subject area?

For me, generally:

* Your Money or Your Life - Joe Dominguez (MUST READ)

* Is the American Dream Killing You? - Paul Stiles (MUST READ)

* Working Ourselves to Death - Diane Fassel

* Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (esp. the chapter The Wayfarer)

* The Hobbit - Tolkien

* The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy (amazing level of technical detail)

* 1984 - George Orwell (published in 1949 but never been more relevant)

Have fun!
It's weird that people seem incapable of being optimistic about scientific and technological progress unlike say in the 50's where it seemed many genuinely believed we would explore space and have robots etc.

Now people just try to malign AI, genetic engineering, nuclear power etc.
Some places are bringing them back, e.g. Prague started using them again this year, after 46 years. The modern ones often come with a battery that allows them to run sections of the line without overhead wires.
If you run against the paywall, use one of the links posted on Twitter. Twitter seems to be a referrer that gets through the paywall.

https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fart...
Yup. That line is just north of Montreal, so the area south of it includes Canada's two largest metropolitan areas.

Did you know there's a tiny bit of Canada that is further south than the California-Oregon border?
I seem to recall a version 1.1 as well, but it's not there.
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It's mostly about Qatar, which recently had a very public falling out with Saudi Arabia and is currently being blockaded by most of its neighbours, who also compose the bulk of OPEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Qatar_diplomat...

Also, while Qatar is a huge natural gas producer, their oil production is by Gulf standards small and this is unlikely to sway the global price much. It is, however, yet another step in OPEC's slow slide to irrelevance, since Russia and now, thanks to fracking, the US produce huge quantities of oil outside the cartel.
Yes, this is just how it works for everyone, I believe.
Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)
Pretty popular in Italy too, although not as the C64 (it was more expensive).

I loved my Amiga 500, so many joysticks destroyed by KickOff, Turrican, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge...
A general CO2 tax wouldn’t be hard to implement if we were a dictatorship.

It's ideas like this why Americans are heavily armed. Nobody can explain how a "co2 tax" would actually do good, yet you implicitly advocate killing people to enact it.
It’s not unreasonable to be cautious. Nuclear accidents did happen, which is what lead people to fear nuclear power, even if it is safer than the public realises. Not barging full speed ahead into unknown technologies with large downside potential is only sensible.
Perceptions and Reality (2010) [pdf]
Ejemplos de aplicaciones web progresivas PWA
I work at a company where On Call has become a monster. Week on, week off, no extra pay.

1) you get calls / emails from the clients. Anything from a P1 everything is on fire incident down to "we've seen some random SQL agent job has failed, drop what you are doing and give us an RCA now"

2) you get automated alerts via systems you dont own, like SQL Sentry, where someone somewhere years ago put in an alert that says "if XYZ batch job runs for 8 hours, alert" then has never touched the threshold since

3) you get automated alerts from systems you do own, which is a godsend because for once you can adjust down the noisy alerts

4) your manager or skip level will without warning create "dumb" (nuance free) Splunk alerts and expect you to see them, know when and how to respond to them minus any documentation to support the point of the alert or how to respond

5) your manager or skip level will accept any automated alert from any other dev or infra team and expect you to know when to respond, when to ignore, and don't you dare ask them to change the alerting thresholds to fix noise, that's not being a 'full stack on call'

6) you must respond to all of the business hours client email to the team distro, within 5 minutes of receipt. If someone puts SupportONcall@nolongerastartup.com on a thread, the subject instantly becomes your personal life mission until solved, dismissed by the email originator, or finally kills enough resources to annoy the manager to the point of (gasp) declaring the issue transient or not reproducible. Hope you like that your manager doubled the fields on JIRA tickets and marked them all as required.

7) everything in the company or business partners is in scope for your team until explicitly taken over by a dedicated team like DBAs

8) since we have one client with very strict SLAs, your manager has decided that now all of your alerts should be treated with equal urgency to those SLAs(response to an email within 30 minutes, 2 hr work around, 1 day fix)

In exchange for this, you get one work from home day per week, where you get to be online an extra hour on your designated day to be on call while the on call is in traffic home. That way, you are always responsive to email originators who cannot bear to wait until 6pm to get a response as to whether or not to worry about a missed backup or nolock-laden SQL select query that isn't working.

Somewhat exaggerated... But it's close enough that if you see this is deleted I probably am sitting in the discipline room or pink slipped.
> 3 - it's optional, but you're a bit of a bad mate if you don't participate

This seems to clearly state that you have a negative opinion of you for turning down extra work that is clearly undesirable. I assume that you're not the only one on your team that feels this way either, that's what I meant by social penalty.

Depending on who you ask it may not be a penalty but that would mean everyone on the team has to think this way. I personally don't think people should be considered a bad mate if they don't want to do an optional thing -- what if they value their time more than the pay+extra that's being offered?

I don't know if you've noticed, but time is the one thing you can never get back. Once you make a certain amount of money, you can live very comfortably -- priorities shift to things that you can't just buy, time is basically the most lucrative and rare yet abundant resource there is.
> Land taxes were also practical.

Why aren't they now?
Who cares if it looks like plastic? Or is plastic?
Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 to Release a 5G iPhone
https://infocon.org/cons/DEF%20CON/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%...

Excerpt:
"So, we’re in the clear?

Sadly, no.

Instruction grep through firmware databases
reveals previously unknown passwords:

Hundreds of firmwares, variety of vendors

Windows kernel

Likely: unlocks processor I did not have."
One reason for sloppy tracking and sloppy enforcement is usually that the powers that be use those very same routes to get their own money out of the country. It's pretty rare for a corrupt official to keep their own money in a bank account in their own name in their own country. So it makes good sense that such routes exist.
I'd say JavaScript works well enough for its original goal - simple DOM manipulation in response to UI events. IMHO the trouble comes from folks who want to use it for all kinds of over-reaching frameworks. The moment you have to discuss enumerating properties of classes, prototypes, etc., JavaScript's lack of typing becomes painfully obvious and there are just much better languages to spend your time on.

I also like the original practical vision for node.js/CommonJS as an escape from the metaprogramming excess that has become Java.
Worth mentioning that while that is indeed how that movement started, its difficult to say that it's about just that nowadays. More a general culture war between cosmopolitan and rural/less fortunate france if I understand correctly
That goes a lot further: no receipt: no taxes at all, not just no sales tax.
The left often argue that VAT is a regressive tax, with "poor" (by which they mean low income, not low wealth) people paying more as a percentage of their income than "rich" people.

I'm not entirely sure why, given the number of basic items that don't attract vat (rent, train fares, food).

Buy a new car though and you're paying tons.
Funny you bring up kitchens, because I always bring up the _stage_ concept from my time cooking, where you actually go in to work a real shift to see how, as I call it, the “dance” goes.

My favorite interview process is where I’ve done a screen interview or two and then do real work to see the process as it exists. Everything else is advertisement and I’ve grown to distrust the evangelizing people do about how they work.