skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what they say, armies go to battle equipped for the last war that they fought. We all take our lessons learned, and recent ones seem to dominate.

So yeah, a lot of people seem convinced that since the pre-election polling showed Trump at a disadvantage last time, we'll see an identical surprise victory this time. I personally think that makes as much sense as leaving your umbrella at home on a day with a 75% chance of rain because the last time there was a similar forecast, no rain fell.
Can you expand on the issues you have with TweetDeck?
The problem is that the Federal Govt. takes too many taxes and can enforce federal laws or states don't get funding.

In order for states to take back power they need the income.
For me device-limited E2E is actually a feature as I'm sure that no kind of weird sync stuff will leak my data from the device.
Those bullet points mostly focus on scaling existing products, and seem more Ballmer-like than Nadella-like IMO.
>People considered me to be quasi-unemployed, despite working 80 hours a week.

This hits hard.

Whenever I think I want to do something, I try to seriously think about whether it’s something I want to do, or something I want to have done. Working on side projects and companies is something I enjoy actually doing, while for a lot of the status-seeking types it’s usually something they want to have done and finished successfully. Similarly I sometimes think I want to write a book, but I really just want to have written a book, which is a very different thing.
I use "n", not "nvm". No futzing around with .bashrc, just put stuff in /usr/local as God intended.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/n
> and your choice of protest is effectively taking what power you do have and throwing it away.

Voting for people you don't like and whose platform you don't agree with seems to be the very definition of throwing your vote away.

It's also funny how people tend to assume that if they hadn't voted for Stein/Johnson then those people would have voted for Democrats/Republicans. Kind of like saying "Well, if beef isn't on the menu, you'll go for milk."

But politics aside, given Firefox's market share (under 5%), using your analogy, going for Firefox is kind of futile.
Using radio trackers, scientists finally locate ‘murder hornet’ nest in WA State
> they will come down in price

I hoped they might come down in price already, as I'm looking for an office.

But no. I've been keeping an eye on prices and availability in my area for years. When I looked recently I was surprised to find prices up and availability significantly down.

That is, except for shared office spaces (co-working). There's a lot of those, and I'm not interested.
You're conveniently leaving out half the worlds population that doesn't have access to this legacy system.
Perhaps people read 538's odds numbers as poll numbers.
This is so terrifying. If you start giving Trump states which are tossups, like FL, the others which were tossups begin to lean red. Choose red for those and you're done. At that point you're in 2016 territory.

We have an extremely broken election system.
Who knows? This guy has 11K subscribers for a webcomic: https://www.patreon.com/jephjacques
> It wouldn't surprise me if the effective opposition eventually comes from some sort of grass roots movement towards open hardware and open software

Would be nice to see, however I see it coming more from one of the major players screwing up - whether a large scale hack, huge amounts of downtime or a verrrry public issue migrating a high value customer, regulatory break up, or pushing prices just too high.

For a large amount of users of Microsoft's products in enterprises, local government, even SMBs, the experience will likely be better though. "Dumbed down" software is a feature, not a bug. Usage based renting is a preference, compared to large scale IT capex.

I'm just waiting for the O365 + Surface subscriptions to start (unless I've missed it and they have already?). Hardware, software and services for one monthly payment. They're already doing something similar for Xbox and the Game Pass in some markets I believe.

> rather than from any of the established tech giants voluntarily changing strategy within that time frame

They'll go where the money takes them. If the market starts moving, they'll undoubtedly stick their toes in the water. If the current picks up, they'll look to turn the ship to go along with it.

All of the above being said, it still I think reinforces the point that Microsoft's shift from boxed software to services is superbly well done. Whether or not we want that as our future, they've handled the shift toward the current vision of the future well.
> Or maybe it’s the law of diminishing returns, utility approaching some kind of asymptote.

It's exactly this. Many things have sublinear utility (Money is often assumed to have a log or square-root utility).

speed often has this effect magnified because what people actually care about is time and time is the inverse of speed. Lets say that doing task Z takes X + Y time. At some point increasing the performance of Y has no measurable gain in utility because X dominates.
The question is not when I will install my updates, but if. Generally the answer is that I won't apply any patches at all.

If you refuse to acknowledge that updates a) also introduce bugs, and b) consistently have negative impacts on the software, then I don't see how we can possibly have an honest conversation about this.

I certainly do not consider the security of my browsing experience to be such an important factor that I am willing to sacrifice all of my autonomy to obtain marginally more of it. This is the same argument that has been applied countless times to all sorts of monetization and surveillance disguised as security. I simply accept the risks.
Intel Core I7-8750 H, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080.

It's a beast when it comes to mathematical computations on a laptop, that's why it's so frustrating that simple things are so laggy.
I get paid in dai in the ethereum system and that keeps a roof on my head and the lights going, along with a few other hundred?thousand? people.

I still dont get why hackernews always has a bad reaction to cryptocurrencies. Disruption and innovation is praised, unless it challenges money. Experiments with computing and code is praised, but only if its a toy language.

We're all on the same side :) just playing with different ways to do things.
I do not know what it's like in practice now, but on a purely theoretical basis, if you are trying to solve a completely novel structure with no known homologs, especially if it's something on the scale of a ribosome, direct imaging is always going to be easier than trying to solve the phase problem, both experimentally and computationally.
I don't do much experimentation, but I am pretty sure that you can very easily distinguish individual atoms with electron beam microscopy, and get pretty close using atomic force microscopy. And I am not sure what exactly is the resolving power of synchrotron radiation, but I expect if to be pretty high.

However, the breakthrough here seems being able to do so using a low-energy electron beam. All the methods I quoted above are probably impractical or damaging with biological samples.
You can also achieve it with something like sslh and use ssh, https, OpenVPN on the same port. Pretty cool thing. But probably vulnerable to DPI.
Bitcoin was very useful to me - it taught me the services the bank and the justice system offer are worth their cost.
Google has all the data. Why would they need to use back-links?
Most annoying election ever. Trump will win with a HUGE margin. You people never learn.

Let's move on an finish the things prepared in the last 4 years.

And BTW, 17 is sometimes a beautiful number.
> You are making this out to be a political argument which it is not.

No, I'm not. I'm making it out to be a factual argument about the causes of the present political situation, which it very much is.

You seem to be unable to separate evaluation of the factual causes and effects of political situation with moral evaluation of the involved actors.

> The point is when all levels of government align under one party, which has leaders, it becomes more like a dictatorship.

Not really, especially with the jungle primary system which limits the ability of party leaders to control candidate selection in districts where the other major party fails to maintain competitiveness, and especially not where the people retain the powers of initiative, referendum, and recall, and entities outside the dominant party (including, but not limited to, the second place party) are able to bring issues directly to the people through those avenues against the desires of the dominant party.

> I don’t care how bad you personally consider the Republican party, there are those who consider Democrats the same way

I have said a word (in this thread) about how bad I consider the Republican Party, only how poorly chosen their recent electoral strategy has been for the realities of the State. There's other states (and, though to a far lesser extent, other times in not-too-distant California history) where I would say the same broad kind of things (with different details about the problem) about the Democrats.

> but when one side becomes to strong you are forced to essentially agree with all positions of that dominant side.

Maybe, in some abstract sense, but not on any concrete sense that actually has any bearing on the actual situation in California.
First line in the README specifies that this project is a response to Tweetdeck.
https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
What was the deal with the Soviet obsession over contra-rotating coaxial propellers? Was there just one senior designer in the USSR with this obsession and a lot of influence?
No, but then I didn’t make this.
If you bailed out after WP8, you missed the really tragic one. Windows Mobile 10 changed everything again (and had the gall to call the new one 'Universal' apps), and they missed their target of all the wp8 phones being upgradable to wm10, and for those that were upgradable, the OS was awful for the first year, and Edge was a worse experience than Mobile IE (which says a lot).

Oh, and they decided to only target the high end of the market, instead of a full range, so they lost the low end market that was selling a lot of phones in poorer nations.

/rant of a dedicated windows phone enthusiast.

At least firefox lets me put the urlbar at the bottom now! And Android picked up dark mode from WP as well.
Well sure, call them out on that stuff.

But don't then finish that callout by saying that nothing matters and that trying to fight against browser monoculture is pointless.

The "final thoughts" section of this article is depressing to read. There is absolutely still a difference between Mozilla and Google, and it is absolutely still worth fighting to avoid a browser monoculture, even if there's only a small chance of success.

I definitely agree that Mozilla has problems, but that's not the thrust of this article. The thrust of the article is that Mozilla has problems, and therefore everyone's efforts to improve the web are meaningless.
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They absolutely could. But, given the popularity of FB properties, I'm sure there are several groups who decompile their releases on a regular basis and I'm sure there'd be a lot of screaming if the E2EE wasn't implemented properly (see: the Zoom E2EE debacle).
AFAICT the polls had a systemic error AND the 538 models included the possibility of a systemic error. It's really the only way that they could have given Trump a 28% chance in the first place.

Of course, the polls themselves also acknowledge the chance of a systemic error. They're reported similar to +/- 2% 19 times out of 20. They make no claim that the 19/20 of multiple polls are not correlated.
Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
With only $30/mo from mining, don't you pay more in electricity and hardware?
Ok, changed. Thanks!
CraigMu was a big pusher behind cloud, too.
Would you expect everything to move onto Ethereum/Blockchain immediately? Obviously not - small incremental steps are taken to improve legacy systems. 1T transacted is a fairly impressive milestone in that journey.
The power of HTTPS headers and 4 examples you did not know before
> Sales people tend to be more sticky to their preferred SaaS products than engineers.

Maybe sales get to choose their (SaaS) tools while engineers are forced into it by the sales department to a greater extent?

At my last gig Perforce was changed to Gitlab to "save money". Gitlab didn't work too well the legacy mess of 100s of scripts and 1000s of release branches so we got stuck with both. A really industry specific tool was deprecated by IT to save money with a cheaper replacement that did something else, that ofcourse didn't work out so we got stuck with both.

Etc.
Row scrolling for parallax effects in Street Fighters 2
> My goal is to persuade people that the alternative is compelling and get them to join up of their own volition.

Yeah, I agree that saying “Thing X is bad; don't use it” is usually less persuasive than saying “Thing Y is good; try it!”... and then Thing Y gradually displaces Thing X.
I would recommend reading a good book on Magellan's journey around the world. It's pretty terrifying how people would go on such a trip given not just Scurvy but just about every other danger you could imagine...

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavi...
They did also say in AFUtD that the Zone boundary isn't smooth and continuous, it's like a foam with ripples and bubbles near the boundary and moves around some normally -- which is why ships that ply the Low Beyond near the Zone boundary always carry coldsleep units and ramscoops as a backup.

Did we every get an in universe or author-commentary explanation confirming the theories about the On/Off? I always figured it was some high-tech artifact based on Beyond or Transcend tech that was going to remain mostly unexplained?
Exactly. What's the point in giving up on Firefox? It's putting up a hell of a fight (except for some performance and a very occasional broken site I don't miss Chrome at all) and it's our only realistic hope. Why don't we try to fix Mozilla instead?
538's map re-simulates with the assumption that if x's goes in y direction, it implies a certain correlation to other states behavior and remodels things.
> Lol, I highly doubt people are giving you weird looks because they think you're a Q acolyte.

If you go into a thread on Reddit where the topic of conversation is related to anti-maskers/lockdowners, not only is there plentiful evidence of people enthusiastically confessing what it is they believe about people who do not wear masks (stated as what these people actually(!) believe, as opposed to an estimate of* what they believe), if one was to compile stats, one would often find that the majority of participants think this way (if you take their words literally - if one asks for confirmation or reasoning, post-hoc rationalization will typically ride to the rescue).

The memeplex/matrix that is The Internet seems to be having extremely interesting cognitive effects on broad swaths of the public. And while most people have no problem seeing this behavior in their outgroup (say, conspiracy theorists), awareness of this (mainstream, well studied) cognitive phenomenon* in oneself is extremely rare. As is people who are willing to discuss it from an abstract perspective, using sound logic and epistemology (aka: actual critical thinking).
Where the Case Against Google Could Fall Apart
> It now requires a phd in computer science to figure out how to a website to the speed dial page.

https://imgur.com/a/7pZ6tbn

I'm gonna say that no, this does not exactly require a PhD to pull off. It's right there in the main menu. 2 clicks.
It's PMEL
Back of the envelope: 250 TH/s of ETH Mining. The most recent Inno miners run at 1.5 watts per MH/s. So, we have 375MW sustained energy consumption globally.

From here, you need to figure out if most of the mining is done on, say, coal or, say hydro. My experience with large-scale mining is that it is often paired with hydro. This (probably biased) report at https://www.hydropower.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions claims 18g/kwh of CO2 from hydro.

So, the best-case lower bound would be 375MW1000 (to get to kwh) 24 (hours) * 365 * 18g = 59130000000 grams per year of CO2, or 59,130 tons of CO2 per year. Big emitters measure in kilotons, so 59kt. Note this does not cover other datacenter energy costs, but they are minimal compared to the mining.

For a rough comparison, Cruise ships (notoriously bad): Carnival in 2017 reported 10,539kt of CO2 emitted across their ships only.

The average US household produces 7.5tons of CO2 per year, so another way to look at it is that it is roughly 8,200 households of emissions.

Wikipedia estimates 90mm global users of Ethereum, so on average each user of Ethereum is emitting 0.00065555555 tons or 655 grams of CO2 per year for their Ethereum use.

Note that older miners won't be as power efficient. A reasonable rule of thumb is that 80% of mining power is with the most recent hardware. Also, there may well be 'dirty' miners out there, but most of the projects I'm aware of are looking for cheap energy, and in most places scalable cheap energy is hydro or possibly nuclear.
Firefox 82 and uBlock...soo
You are giving a little bit too much weight on Florida in your analysis and perhaps confusing the casuality a little bit. It's not just directly that the Floridians have that much influence, it's that knowing the outcome in Florida tells one quite a bit about, the direction/magnitude of polling errors across the nation.

The 538 model factors in the outcome of Flordida's election with its own belief about the other states results. This is why if you select Biden wins Texas, the model believes the national result likely in landslide territory, the Biden expected electoral college outcome goes up +70, even though Texas only has 38 electors. If Biden wins Texas, he also probably wins in Georgia or maybe even Arizona.
You have the right username to know Paris ;-) I can't remember from my own visits to Barcelona and Belgium how common it is. But photos of 1950s Paris are not evidence that it's common in other cities now.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems obviously dumb that the electoral college has an even number of members? Wouldn't making it an odd number prevent this possibility?

Technically, no, because it's possible for electoral votes to be split among more than two candidates, or for electoral votes to be invalid and not counted, etc.
Thanks for the feedback!

You're right that, at least in LLVM, SSA form is tied inextricably to basic blocks (since phis encode their source blocks). However, the theory of operation for SSA itself isn't tied to any particular control flow representation: it only stipulates the two rules mentioned in the post.

My goal with this post was to introduce SSA at a high level and show why it makes a few optimizations simpler, without requiring readers to understand the other parts of an optimizing compiler (like why we reduce the CFG's representation to a graph of basic blocks). It's why I chose to use pseudo-C for some of the SSA reduction examples, rather than LLVM IR. But I certainly understand that this approach doesn't work for everybody :-)
> I've come to see SB as a visualization tool that helps form hypotheses, but not an actual method by which most protein structural/function problems can be directly solved.

This seems to understate the challenge and power of generating good hypotheses.
You're not thinking like a pollster. Florida is currently projected to be Biden's win. So what happens if Trump wins Florida?

It means the polls were wrong. Which means, you'd have to reconsider the state-polls in all the other states with that new information: that the country is slightly redder than polls today suggest.

If Trump wins Florida, then there's a "hidden vote", so to speak, that's pushing Trump's victory. Once you add that hypothetical hidden vote to the rest of the states, it becomes a closer race.

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The question is whether or not you think there's a hidden vote for Trump. For all we know, there's a hidden vote for Biden this year: but we won't know that until the polls close and the votes are tallied up.

In the absence of knowledge, the best we can do is find indications of cross-correlations and model those.
Absolutely nothing happens when I hover over an element after clicking "Try it yourself on this page".
read the emails this person sent to spotify.
What Herd Immunity is (hint: it’s not what you think)
Unicorn Market Cap and Industry Towns, 2020
Tsugite: Interactive Design and Fabrication of Wood Joints
I found the 538 tool to be a fantastic way to get the intuition for Bayesian probabilities. Wish I had this intuition in college.
> They have been corrected.

Based on what are you saying this?
FB is big ad. To say that MSFT is not big tech is absurd.

They have a widely used desktop operating system, a top-3 public cloud, they make their own laptops and other hardware, they make multiple widely used programming languages, they have one of the most widely used databases, they have a well regarded research division ... the list goes on

The scope of tech that MSFT works on is as big as anyone, and is what they primarily make their money from ... so why wouldn't anyone think it's "big tech"?
I really hope Flutter for web does come together and doesn't get abandoned or become nerfed or neglected via Google's ever shifting product teams, I like it so much better than any javascript framework out there.
What I miss about PHP is that it was possible to put a file in a folder and use it instantly.

If you want to quickly do something without diving into frameworks the tooling was easy to setup and rarely fell apart, if ever. There are not many moving parts, you usually have a web server that is very solid and comes with an installer that you hit next next next. Then you have a database server, usually MySQL. Sometimes you would need an extension to work with images, you put it in place by editing an .ini file.

Almost like an Excel for backend.
The paper Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by cryo-EM [1]:

> Single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful method for solving the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.

> At resolutions better than 4 Å, atomic model building starts to become possible, but the direct visualization of true atomic positions in protein structure determination requires much higher (better than 1.5 Å) resolution, which so far has not been attained by cryo-EM.

> Here we report a 1.25 Å-resolution structure of apoferritin obtained by cryo-EM with a newly developed electron microscope that provides, to our knowledge, unprecedented structural detail.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2833-4
Thanks for the correction about 538's methodology. In that case, the "batting average" analogy isn't really a good one, because that implies random odds. When it comes to systemic errors, it's something that is unknown, but is theoretically knowable in advance. This election is so weird that I think there may be lots of systemic errors like that.
The source of the central server is useless since if they release it there is no way to prove they are running the same software on their servers.
Users flagged it. That's the usual reason.
And yet Adobe's stock is trading near all-time highs. They must be doing something right on the business side.
No: the root of the matter is that it has to be "technically feasible", which with proprietary software you can't ever prove. This was a special case because they already showed it was possible (it was working), then they took it away.