skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the fun of tech forecasting if you don't over-promise?

A fusion reactor the size of a shipping container? Plop one down between my neighbor's house and my house. Right where our backup generators now sit. It's about the same footprint.

No more distribution costs. Well, except for Amazon's fees to drop off the uranium now and then. :)
i would not mind at all returning to gopher
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Just checked your website, amazing product. Good luck!
I can imagine this incentivizing semi-rural living. Cheap house, low COL, steady income.
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PDB is not a massive repository. It's a very biased, tiny dataset (~20K structures) and an enormous amount of data cleaning has to be done to do anything related to big-data machine learning on it.

What's far more important is evolutionary data- for example, making alignments of many similar proteins, and computing correlated variations across them. Those variations are often the best structural clues-- better and cheaper to obtain than protein structures.

I wouldn't really call DM's work a "breakthrough", other groups were exploring similar ideas. DM executed well (they're a games company and understand the rules of the competition) and had a huge amount of compute resources which handles a lot of the challenges of optimizing a process like this.
Exactly. Popularity means nothing.

Options:

- Signal, Wire (maybe) - e2e cloud

- XMPP-based

server - Aenigma[0] - e2e self-hosted XMPP based on ejabberd, preferably in Iceland, Greenland or someplace out-of-reach of regimes unfriendly to human rights

client - Jitsi - multiplatform SIP and XMPP app includes OTR for e2e

- riot.im - e2e Discord-like replacement (of unknown-to-me construction)

- i2p - decentralized garlic routing with multiple services

additionally: VPN - self-hosted WireGuard on an anonymous cryptoc-paid VPS

[0] https://github.com/openspace42/aenigma
This article has a clear value-prop.

We can table this discussion for now. Lets take it offline.
Who made you the spokesman for every non-white in America? You're no more qualified to speak on their behalf than amylene. You certainly have no justification for writing off his arguments with "You are white, right?" That's called racism.
> This makes it seem like you're banning him for supporting his company with a valid argument,

With an account that exclusively posts in support of said company? While not disclosing that he is getting paid by said company (even if not directly for the posts) ? Isn't that outright illegal in some places?
I get your desire to be conservative here, but this is not good practice with modern CPUs. For example AMD desktop CPUs are designed with DDR4 speeds well north of 3000MHz in mind[1]. Problem is that JDEC profiles simply don't go that hight for some reason, so you you have to run with XMP profiles if you want the chip to perform as the manufacturer intended.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14525/amd-zen-2-microarchitec...
Rather than adding another 10% tax on goods, you mean?

Perhaps something to gradually adjust property taxes such that people with multi-million dollar houses aren’t paying taxes as though it’s a multi- thousand dollar house?
You're missing the forest for the trees. Libraries are more than just books, they're free spaces for all types of learning, collaboration and production.

I work remotely, sometimes from a library. I can request a space to work with others, and even hold large seminars if I wanted. There are dozens of free programs for kids to meet and learn, and there are opportunities for for working adults and the elderly, as well. My local library will even do interview prep for those who want it, which includes mock interviews from people in industry who donate their time. There's also 3D printers there, too.

Librarians are more than just people who can find books on shelves. They can help you research, and have access to a multitude of databases that you might not know about. As an example, I wanted to contact the owners of a business and had trouble finding that information. That info existed in a database I didn't know about, and a librarian helped me retrieve it.
>> we're still left with the fact that people unintentionally accelerate their vehicles all the goddamn time.

Again, do they do this by 50+mph ALL THE GODDAMN TIME?

>> If a machine does it once in a while, that's not a regression, that's the baseline.

If all the machines do it at once though? The impact of self-driving failing is a lot more than 1 person, typically.

Also, we dont know the rate of error. There are 1.2 Billion drivers in the world. 3.5 Billions smartphone users. Its safe to say 50% of drivers use GPS. So 600 Millions Drivers using GPS? There arent even 1 million Tesla's on the road yet and they are already having incidents.
Interesting... I remember reading about fusion on the high school, and I thought that must be a way to collect the energy directly.
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I agree that people need to do more research than just reading a blog post.

But we are not on the same page about Macaroons and what makes them interesting. I do not care about interoperability and standardization (I do sometimes, but not here). Apart from things like OIDC, most of the JWT usage I see is internal to projects; they're used as a utility library to do utility crypto in HTTP APIs. In those scenarios, it doesn't matter whether "your" Macaroons are the same as mine.

What's interesting about Macaroons are the underlying design.

I'm honestly surprised to hear that anyone would go into a project with something like Macaroons and expect to fit into a pre-existing ecosystem of compatible Macaroon implementations, because, as the post says, they're not widely used.
Maybe so. And it might make it easier to offer as a perk when I can't offer a salary that competes with Google and Facebook.
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Change the word "processor" for "car" and the absurdity of your argument should be fairly obvious. Most ordinary cars will provide reliable transport for many years, but will literally catch fire after a few hot laps on a racetrack. It makes no sense to design a passenger car with brakes, suspension, cooling and tyres that are massively over-engineered for normal use just in case the owner wants to go endurance racing.
To some extent it likely depends on which subway you're on. Some lines are rough, especially at the outskirts.

But I agree. For all that New Yorkers complain about the subway, it's my favorite thing about New York.
Facebook is not acting like Barnes and Nobles displaying a book.

The closer analogy would be if, by becoming a B&N member, you were allowed to submit manuscripts to B&N. B&N then curated a small selection of those manuscripts to display in a format identical to the other books they sell, prominently in the front of their store. They then began advertising for those specific titles to bring traffic specifically to that store display.

That's what facebook is doing. That's publishing.
I noticed that Wish gives refunds on counterfeits without question, provided you upload a photo of the item. It got me wondering if that's to avoid any legal liability. The law states that "trafficking" in illegal goods is a crime, and clearly these platforms don't want to be charged.

So, assuming they're actually legally required to refund purchases of counterfeits, I think a reasonable recourse would be to have as many people as possible order as many counterfeits as possible and then demand refunds. The platforms' cost per transaction goes up, and the manufacturers/resellers are out their items plus shipping.

I feel this would work best if the actual manufacturers that are being copied did the buying, that way they have legal recourse at their disposal and a literal pile of evidence if the refund is denied. And they can destroy the counterfeits.
It sounds like if someone invents or mass-deploys a controlled denitrification machine that turns nitrogen in the water into nitrogen gas, he could be made rich through government and state grants. The grants could be fully or partially funded through a fertilizer tax, sewage leak fines, and/or taken from current farming subsidies.
This is absolutely true, but you can seldom go wrong assuming that proper nouns (like Anki) should be accompanied by links.
>> The city I live in has gold-coloured plaques on the ground outside random homes memorialising all those who died because the people elected a dictator.

Many people won't know about these. They're called "stolperstein" - "stumble stones". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein

> A Stolperstein (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪn]; plural Stolpersteine; literally "stumbling stone", metaphorically a "stumbling block") is a sett-size, 10 by 10 centimetres (3.9 in × 3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.

> The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate individuals at exactly the last place of residency—or, sometimes, work—which was freely chosen by the person before he or she fell victim to Nazi terror, euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. As of 23 October 2018, 70,000[1] Stolpersteine have been laid making the Stolpersteine project the world's largest decentralized memorial.[2][3]

> The majority of Stolpersteine commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust.[4] Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), homosexuals, the physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the anti-Nazi Resistance, the Christian opposition (both Protestants and Catholics), and Freemasons, along with International Brigade soldiers in the Spanish Civil War, military deserters, conscientious objectors, escape helpers, capitulators, "habitual criminals", looters, and others charged with treason, military disobedience, or undermining the Nazi military, as well as Allied soldiers.
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Well there is a language spec [1], it's just designed by the same people who develop the compiler. While there's only 1 de facto implementation (same as Rust, Go, etc.) there's multiple backends and lots of research work happens in different forks of the language. There's usually quite a bit of discussion and work that occurs between proposing a feature and integrating it into the language. There's also various competing forces here such as INRIA, Jane Street, OCamllabs, Reason developers, & other typical OCaml developers each with their own agenda. It's not so simple as the devs just adding something without any input.

>For their React-like goal though, Ocaml's lack of anonymous record types is the absolute worst.

The object system actually allows this to be fair & it does get a little bit of use in some Reason libraries targeting React developers

I get that SML has advantages over OCaml but I don't really get what you're trying to argue for. Clearly if you like SML you'd prefer OCaml to JavaScript...

[1] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/language.html
It's actually interesting to talk about AI "taking over this job", because porn's legal solely because it's "artistic expression" protected by the first amendment. There's not a fit quota of work to be done, it's a matter of people deciding what art they want to pay for (or not pay for, as the case usually is). Some people may prefer AI-generated art over human-generated art someday.

But I would have to imagine AI would change this more than you'd expect. One might think AI would give you deepfake-like "performers" that could film 24/7 and have potentially superhuman traits. Celebrity and personality probably plays into areas an AI performer may not excel though, there's still probably room for a narrower field of celebrities in the space, even if there was a large mix of AI-generated content. (I also wonder if people would sell rights to their 3D scans for this, which could provide revenue long after the industry considered them "too old" or they moved on to other careers.)

But one wonders why, in an AI-generated world, you'd have video performers at all, when you could have a completely personalized one? Think about stuff you may have seen about people having "virtual girlfriends" and the like. Add in AR/VR technologies and the world for lonely people has a bright future.
Re: tree named streets were converted to numbered streets

https://www.statesman.com/news/20171101/austin-answered-why-...
My gut tells me a 10% VAT won't be enough. It's excluding medicine and housing and food. What else do people spend a lot of money on? Cars? Will that really bring in enough for tens of billions per month?
which is why i always follow the "assume nothing" rule. when writing something, assume you have to explain everything. again though, it doesn't have to be verbose, just a one liner is more than enough.
They've tried that. It turns out there's a lot of money to be made by restricting housing growth, as lowered supply drives up property values.
Isn’t that the case for everyone working a standard 5 day week, single, kids, or not?
Because the "third party" doesn't have any other choice, they have been forced into that situation by the walled garden platform vendor. The demand does not come from them, it comes from Discord Inc, who refuse to let anyone access the service on any other terms. They are the ones who are telling everyone to take a hike, and when you relay that message I really doubt you're speaking for yourself. All you're doing is reinforcing their decisions. This isn't just some chat room you spun up, it's an active business with a plainly evident market strategy. To put it another way, if we got down to it you (or any of these other projects) don't seem like you'd be personally against an open source Discord client. But when you tell people to take a hike, that's effectively the stance you're taking, and it's only because that is the company's stance.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have made an open source discord client years ago when discord was new and I was being asked to use it regularly, and if that panned out then this blog post wouldn't have even existed. But the company has always been hostile to the idea.
This article was excellent. Best quote:

"John Gilmore, one of the founders of the EFF, once famously wrote, “The ‘net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”"

HN should take that to heart.
I am sometimes glad that Californians are around as a polity. They try the things the rest of us think are loony, but are motivated by strong ethical underpinnings.

Sometimes they fail badly and serve as a warning to the rest of us that 'here be dragons' and other times they unexpectedly succeed and the rest of us can learn that, in certain circumstances, living up to your beliefs with the collective wallet can work out positively, net-net.
According to the article, the energy is generated by alpha particles, which are in principle a very dangerous form of radiation. It's not clear to me, though, whether the radiation stops as soon as the fusion does or not.
My fear is that once this gets rolled into production, every other politicians campaign is going to be “increase the basic income” until we are all basically living off the top .01%
You don’t need Feature Branches anymore
Citizens of California are also going to be subsidized by the large number of H1B workers, primarily those from India and China. Pay it forward I guess?
That may be one factor, but it certainly isn't the only one. There are plenty of remote desktop apps on the App Store. But Steam Link was held up in review because Apple did not want people being able to buy games without getting a cut.

Microsoft "allows" people to install emulators in the same sense that Apple "allows" it on macOS, but a quick search confirms that Microsoft does not allow emulators on their app store, nor does Google. (These policies may specifically be for video game emulation, which is mostly what the legal grey area covers.)
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No, I'm just using that as an officially documented example of Prime95 being problematic.

AMD is subject to electromigration as well. I've seen a couple guys on Reddit already degrade their Zen2 chips from pushing 1.4V through them just during normal usage, not even Prime95. Literally weeks of usage.

Anti intel circlejerk ahoy.
Has anyone used this? What is the performance like?
I work for a start-up that is non-VC funded, I work 5 days a week, but I’m only in the office 5-6 hours a day (there are some weeks where things are very busy and it’s not the case) and I occasionally work a few hours on the weekend.

They’re only concerned with results and it’s a slow growing business, I am however extremely underpaid.

Getting ready to take the jump to a new job with a 70% pay increase, but the last few years my life has been sweet (besides living in a very shitty apartment).
Ooh, neat. How is image support?
I don't have the reference now - I think it was mentioned in The Economist - but I remember reading that the inability to sell is pretty strongly correlated with honesty. Unfortunately, selling your product is still an unavoidable part of any side hustle, if one wants to make a go of it and is also highly honest, I think the amount of effort spent on sales simply has to go up. Some people whose honesty I admire have been successful in that field, but it seems like a tough road.
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Won't the money from this ultimately go towards landowners in the form of increased land rents?

We could get around that by pairing UBI with a land value tax but the nightmare that is Prop 13 makes that impossible.
A different kind of "circuit." ;)
As another thing to try, how about making the “standard” workday 9-4 instead of 9-5? This way, it ends up being 3 hours of work, 1 hour of lunch, then another 3 hours of work.

It’s more balanced, people get an extra hour in their day to spend on themselves, and it seems that for many people, the extra hour from 4-5 is relatively low productivity compared to the rest of the day anyway.
There are other choices besides Slack and IRC.

Setting up Mattermost on a VPS isn't hard.

https://mattermost.org/licensing/
I think economically there would have to be. The incentive for others to move to California to take advantage of this, might set off ..well.. a population migration. Surely they've considered this and have an idea of how to limit the scope so as not to bankrupt the state.
Thanks for the reply. I'm all for cracking down on abuse, especially when it's state-sponsored. And I understand moderator has more context than users.

I just wanted to point out how from an outsider perspective it looks like a bias, especially given that HN always seems to have an overwhelming amount of anti-Google content compared to other media sources (not that Google shouldn't be scrutinized - it should be).
Freshpaint is separate from Kissmetrics. Freshpaint and Segment are both data collection tools. Out of the box Segment collects nothing, while Freshpaint collects everything.

Let's say you want to send a purchase event to Kissmetrics to do analytics on. With Segment that would look something like:

1) File a JIRA ticket for an engineer to instrument the purchase event.
2) Wait a few weeks for the engineer to write and deploy the Segment tracking code.
3) Wait a few weeks to collect enough data to do your analysis.
4) Run your analysis in Kissmetrics.

With Freshpaint:

1) Use our UI to create the purchase event.
2) Send every purchase event that happened since you installed Freshpaint to Kissmetrics. This is possible because Freshpaint tracks every event out of the box.
3) Run your analysis in Kissmetrics.

Does the difference make sense?
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> The managed (and for Mattermost even self-hosted) servers all hide features (such as message history, rich moderation tools, or support tickets) behind a paywall.

I know nothing about the other systems but this isn't true for Mattermost. We run Mattermost ourselves and it does indeed offer message history and moderation tools, they're part of the open source Mattermost version. I can't think of any feature that I miss from it, to be honest.
> Apple does not permit any apps that has interpreted or generated code

An interesting exception to this is Expo, an app that lets you load React Native apps built by other developers over the internet. Expo gets around this on Apple by forcing you to sign into that developer's account before downloading their app, so that it's plausibly "yours". I've used to distribute early builds of a React Native app really easily.

All of this to say, I wonder to what degree Apple's policy applies when it's "your" app, or you are the developer, or whatever. I suspect Expo, as a venture backed startup, has some kind of a working relationship with Apple that affords them a tiny amount more leeway than the average Github user.

This could actually be an incredibly useful application that many people pay lots of money for if were ever allowed on the market -- think of the combination of iPad + keyboard + Windows Remote Desktop. Really sad that Apple makes their platform so restrictive. (Yes, security issues, but still, seems like a good enough sandbox could overcome the danger of remote execution.)
Interpreted code is fine for most cases, but compiling is a big no no. Which is unfortunate and limiting
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From the article:

> I do not mean the disheveled unconventionality often ascribed to him—I mean “Bohemian” with a capital B.
4x10s are tough for me, but the 5-4-9 plan (5 9 hour days one week, 3 nine hour days the next week followed by one 8 hour day - basically alternating 3 day weekends) are pretty nice in my book
Greece loaned too much, collected too little taxes (or rather, scamming the tax man was and is an integral part of daily life there) and had extremely generous pension plans and ages.
They hired Goldman Sachs to hide all this by cooking the books so they could join the EU.
I have zero sympathy for the Greek and 'destroying a country for the decisions made by the elite doesn't count when you vote for those castle-in-the-sky promising elite year after year.
Greece it's bill was simply due, and the myth of 'poor little Greece bullied by stringent North Europe' needs to die.
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