skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Re-read my comment.

Stopped reading at that point, cheers.
What is new in .NET 5.0?
Humans Are Crowdsourcing a Cure to Covid-19
Whichever your favorite language is, try researching its dependencies used in the cryptographic primitives, especially in the use cases where performance matters. More often than not, what at the end “does the job” is some library written in C (even with the asm parts) or marked with “unsafe” tags. The practice is still different to what the idealists believe.
> If it's not possible to have a middle class existence in SF, then surely it's even less possible to have a working class or poor existence in SF

That's a fallacious conclusion. It is very much possible to have a poor existence if there's no reasonable path to middle class. For example, you don't pay rent if you live in a tent city, and tent cities are very much a reality in SF.
How is it different from something like node localstorage ?
Finally the “Pinched Fingers” Emoji
This is, unfortunately, the conclusion I've come to, as well. Thanks for the write up.
Q: My form builder already does "conditional logic" why should I use keenforms?

A: Because unlike other form builders out there Keenforms does "CONDITIONAL CALCULATIONS" and "CONDITIONAL VALIDATIONS". That is what makes keenforms unique.
Part 2: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/27/how-debuggers-work-...

Part 3: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/02/07/how-debuggers-work-...
The insurmountable problem is that a user cannot tell which is the 'real' fork of a PoS chain without some kind of sidechannel information.
As these payments were tied to ongoing SS payouts, I'd expect those payouts to be garnished.
While not an app that itself provides supplemental data, I can recommend the app StreetComplete (not affiliated - just a happy user) if you like OSM. It "game-ifies" the process of correcting and adding to OSM data by presenting little challenges and questions about nearby objects - e.g. "What is this building called?" or "Is there an ACME Corp. in this shopping center?"
Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS Names Google a Leader
I mean, it seems no less interesting to me when you put it like that. Sure, the process might have been a bit ad hoc at times and they might not necessarily have known about the particulars of what they'd end up with, but the history of farming and agriculture seems pretty interesting!
The budget was $6B in 2008. About 40% of the windfall was captured by the bureaucracy in pay and benefits. And the city also has a huge welfare-industrial complex that bristled at the audacity of former Supervisor Sean Elsbernd when he asked for accountability for the money spent. Most of the activists interviewed for the article are in fact part of that parasitic group.
The Tech industry is not really a single industry, though. There is medical tech and media tech and manufacturing tech and more. Many of these fields hardly touch each other and have jargon that is unintelligible to the others. Major changes in the economy could flush entire sectors and leave the rest humming away. In a way the current pandemic has underscored the resilience of tech's economic sprawl.
What in the hell are they spending money on?

Salaries and Pension obligations. If SF was going to make one great budgetary fix it would be to move away from pensions for public employees and move to a more traditional 401k retirement funds. The amount of money the city has to continue to pay to fund pension obligations is obscene. My Mom married an ex SF firefighter. He had done his 25 years, retired around 50 and lived to 92. Full Pension for 40 years and now my Mom gets a chunk. She was his second wife and married him 25 years after he left the department. Great for her...

https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-why-san-francisco-is-in-...
Doesn't /e/ just take Lineage OS, install microg on top of it add their crappy launcher, and then take $$$ as donations. If anyone deserves donations its Lineage or MicroG. Donate upstream instead of this.
At the same time it doesn't mean we should not try to solve them to say 90%.
To be specific, the checks went to legal aliens who are authorized to work in the US, but did not have wages that were withheld in 2018-2019.
The most important use-case for Bitcoin is the separation of money and state. As in, taking the place of USD as the worlds reserve currency. It does not need to be used to settle every little transaction for this, but rather used as a base layer for institutions. I know you are unlikely to see this use-case as plausible, but that is why so many people are buying Bitcoin right now.

For this use case, the amount of energy used to secure Bitcoin should be compared to the amount of energy used to secure the USD. Not just the energy to print cash, maintain digital system, etc, but the energy and human lives spent on war to maintain dominance.
Ajit Pai announces departure from FCC after four-year regulatory blitz
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25247338.
This was months ago. It was a miniscule amount of the govermment budget. I can't believe people are still talking about it like it matters.
You can do non-blocking IO (and, of course, that's what's happening behind the scenes here, and in Erlang). The thing is, a program written with non-blocking IO has a lot different structure than with blocking IO.

It can feel clearer and easier to reason about what happens on a single connection if the code is like:

accept, read, process, write and somewhere else handles the concurrency

Especially if the one system does a lot of different things, but they're all related enough to be in one OS process, mashing together a lot of isolated non-blocking IO can be pretty tricky, and hard to keep track of.
But of course that cost would only be for the final model. Anyway, I think I am just living in a different world... :-) We could never compete with that
> Seriously though, what do you mean by "adventurous life"?

If the post you were replying to wasn’t composed while skydiving above shark-infested waters with a supermodel by their side, I’m going to be terribly disappointed.
Yes, but that’s going to be six-twelve months later than it should have been. And for some people, the penalty for filing separately will outweigh $1200 - such as single income households.
It's all bullshit speculation. And rich people / institutions doing whatever they can to "make money" no matter what.

Am I saying crypto has no value at all and never will? No- but it's stupid that the "drive" for people to create new cryptos and hold current crypto is to uh.. make money off of it vs a currency like USD? That's stupid as hell.

Crypto that is not pegged to something like USD is made for gambling and to make the rich richer. If I were to "gamble" $1000 in crypto the last few years sure, maybe I make 50-100k. Whoopdydoo. Yeah that's great but it's not like mega life altering. Rich people can be like "Oh I'm going to throw $1 million into this.. oh look, I just made $50-100 million, now I can take this and buy a bunch of new businesses or buy my new mega mansion somewhere!". It's just sickening, honestly.
Giving startup equity to a non profit as a partnership deal?
We're an angel stage start up in the healthcare space. We have been offered a partnership opportunity with a large nonprofit who would like equity in exchange for referrals. Does anyone have experience with this type of arrangement? What pitfalls should we be aware of?
I get what both of the comments are saying here, but this is really nothing like how a real economy works.

None of these people are solving any of the core needs of any of these other people (food, clothes, transportation, housing, any physical goods at all) and very little new money is entering this system at all, maybe some on the drop shipping side but that can also be a net loss in some cases. So yes this represents an economy but the denizens of that economy would be impoverished and miserable, constantly waiting for some outsider to come solve their problems. This is seen in the fact that most people do this as long as their pre existing savings can sustain it because they are doing it at a loss and then they give up when they have eaten through their existing wealth.

So yeah, i don't think it's much of a profound insight to point out the similarities to other economies just because of the existence of people engaging in trade with each other. The quality of the trade is the issue, not its existence.
The speaker of the house lives in SF. If there is a federal bailout of state and local governments, San Francisco will likely be first in line.
Fun with VP/ix under INTERACTIVE Unix
The article did not mention it was easy, in fact quite the opposite on their perspective.

Yes, there is more competition now, but taken into account all the advantages of education, resources, information, and technology, this levels out the playing field somehow.

Every generation has its difficulties- we should not belittle other's challenges since we have never walked in their shoes. We can only learn empathy.
Don't know if these count, but I'm a big fan of the BOFH series.

I believe most of them are available online on The Register now.
Yeah, calling the IRS about this is beyond useless. Eventually they give you the way to contact someone who they claim will be able to verify your perceived eligibility in their eyes, but every time I've done that (after hours on hold) the call disconnects for some reason or their system goes down or ...

At this rate, it will be faster to file my return ASAP than to try to get my stimulus check.
Almost. The right answer is to throw new JsonParseException(e) instead. That says that yes, this exception can happen, it's a JSON parse error. But the "outer" exception stack trace will lead to this catch block, which doesn't give all the information. But the exception wraps the "inner" exception, which has the stack trace to where the actual problem was detected. But the inner exception had the wrong type (IOException), so you wrap it with the outer exception to correctly convey what went wrong.
Of course it's serious, and you just confirmed it: SF is not "inhabited" by the working poor at all, who are forced to live elsewhere. Unless you're talking about the tent cities, I guess. If you can actually afford to live in SF proper, I bet your quality of life is excellent.
Because why? What would the motivation be? They are a company that goal is to make money for their shareholders. They purchased NeXT which was built on MACH+FreeBSD which was released in Sept. 1989 (work started in 1985), 3 years before Linux 1.0 was released. MACH+FreeBSD was a stable working platform for Apple when they acquired NeXT in 1997. There was zero reason for them to move working code to Linux 2.x (2.0 shipped in 1996). Heck I had a NeXt setup and a Slackware setup at that time and NeXT was better hands down. Today the kernel they used is tightly coupled to their HW and they have control over it for HW features like the T2. Why would a $2T company put themself at the mercy of a kernel maintainer to take their patches? The vast Linux ecosystem is of no use to Apple in most cases.
Good read and I didn't know about the rumors of Facebook's ARM chips (for what though?), Microsoft's Project Catapult, nor the imminent custom chips for Waymo.

I think the next frontier will likely be on network bandwidth, in particular user-facing production ones beyond the internal backbones. Currently it's a finite resource that all network providers have to negotiate for and involves more than just the big tech companies. But as workloads continue shifting to the cloud (leveraging the cost efficiencies such as AWS Graviton chips), I'm expecting companies to vying for greater ownership of this external network bandwidth.

I'd be curious of any behind the scenes negotiations being made with Starlink, to leverage its growing satellite constellations to address this.
Rosetta is an emulator.
Eventually they will come

Perhaps - if it makes sense, cost/performance/power-wise to put a core like that in an Android mobile phone. I guess it would? But in the next 5 years?

Remember that anything Qualcomm makes will be optimized for mobile phones and only mobile phones. They won't waste any die-area at all on anything that isn't required by the Android phone market. The Android phone market is the only market for these chips that sells enough units to pay for their design, and it's fiercely competitive.

Especially with ARM's own designs improving so much and Samsung abandoning their own under-performing designs in favour of ARM's, Qualcomm is going to get a lot more competition in the next few years.

Anything they put on those chips that makes them more expensive or use more power than competitive chips is going to cost them design wins. No way will they sacrifice 10% of their mobile market for some pie-in-the-sky, maybe-maybe-not ARM laptop market that doesn't exist and will depend on lots of theoretical buy-in from Microsoft/Redhat/Canonical/Adobe/Lenovo/Dell/etc.

The legacy support of closed source software windows has is working against them atm.

That's pretty outlandish. Try saying that to someone who uses Excel or After Effects or Photoshop for their work. A performance linux-based arm64 laptop has everything working against it that a windows arm64 laptop does, and arguably even more.
The high cost comes from a city that basically makes it impossible to build housing. The bureaucracy drives out developers, leaving only those who are willing to deal with nightmarish levels of legal hurdles. The legal headaches make the housing insanely expensive to build.
> How would you explain it then?

I am not expert enough to know, but just off hand declaring that something is "the only way" with literally no justification or reasoning puts a really bad taste in my mouhth
Quip and Heroku are solid
The method relies on multiple-sequence-alignment (MSA) of homologous proteins. This cannot fold arbitrary proteins, only biologically relevant ones that have high quality MSAs available. It's also worth pointing out that the gold-standard for validating MSAs relies on PDBs of folded proteins. This is exciting work that will assist NMR and XRay crystallographers, but it's not a panacea of protein folding.

https://github.com/deepmind/deepmind-research/issues/18
History: OCR of documents; image recognition for symbols; automatic translation;

Anthropology: language research; voice recognition of interviews; face recognition;

Highly depends on the topic and the project.
I don't think its a secret, but I do think it was before a lot geeks time...hell, it was actually published almost a decade before my time :-P

P.S.
It also appears 'grok' has fallen out of favor over the years. It's too bad, I always liked how subtle it was - the distinction between knowing WHAT something does and WHY it does it(eg fully understanding it)
I did Chess 5334 problems, still working my way through that. As a total rookie, doing some puzzles and playing games really helped me. The main issue that I had was that at some point, I didn't know what to do, other than grind out a game. The book helped me learn mating patterns which makes for more interesting and less attrition based games.

The core of the book is just chess problems of the mate in 1, mate in 2, etc variety. You just drill on that. I put the puzzles into Anki, and review a couple a day.
It’s a good question, and I’m not a domain expert here.

The article did claim:

> According to Professor Moult, a score of around 90 GDT is informally considered to be competitive with results obtained from experimental methods.

So perhaps their score of 87 GDT is pretty significant. But “competitive with” is not the same as “always in agreement with”, as you point out. Could be the failure modes are problematic.
Looks like a transformer model. Anyone have any insights?
The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
OK but are there any secure BTC or alt coin wallets (even light wallets) that will work on feature phones or SMS? Very few people in in remote villages can afford even the most basic Android smartphone. What incentive would they have to switch from M-PESA (or Alipay/wechatpay in Asia) that is already secure, cheap and widely accepted.

Cryptocurrency is a fascinating technology and social experiment but so far has no unique use case other than speculation.
>An inflationary currency incentivises you to invest it

Still not convinced that is a good thing. It perpetuates a cycle that rewards people who already have excess income to "invest" and keep making more money. Meanwhile those without any significant income to invest are left even further in the dust.

I'm not arguing for crypto at all here- just commenting specifically on that inflationary point.
There’s plenty of ways. Consider TransferWise. They generally charge 0.8% for USD-CAD and 0% for USD-INR. Pretty cheap. InteractiveBrokers allows you to exchange at market rates on the multi trillion dollar forex market for 2/10ths of a basis point ($20 per million).

You’re also leaving out two steps in your calculus that really tilt the scales. You’re not paid in Bitcoin and your recipient cannot spent Bitcoin, therefore you need to pay a 1-2% fee at origin, $6 for a BTC TX, $90 in electricity socialized across the block reward and a 1-2% fee at destination.

Moving $10,000 USD to CAD on the blockchain is roughly $399 not $6.
I came to make the same point. Speed was more important than accuracy. These types of articles are just cheap shots that make the program look bad, when in fact it was an unmitigated success.
Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty'
It was turned into a pretty good short film as well if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5QHtGmXn4
Big fan of short fiction here. I tend towards silver age sci-fi and fantasy, but I also dig a good whodunit. I think the main reason why we see less of them these days is because of the lack of popular serial format magazines.

Some favorites that come to mind at the moment:

"Goodnight Mr. James" in 'All the traps of Earth' by Clifford Simak

"Neutron Star" and "What good is a glass dagger?" by Larry Niven

"Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn" by various authors

The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber (successive short stories)

"If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?" and "The world well lost" by Ted Sturgeon

"The Tactful Saboteur" by Frank Herbert

"The Gold at the end of the Starbow" and "The Engineer" by Frederick Pohl

It seems to me that the best aspect of a short story is that the story can present an idea or twist without long characterization and world building, so that you get the idea in a purer form.
> So many dead startups that are brought back because they were just too soon.

I recently had a recruiter from color.com reach out to me...
I never know what I'm supposed to do when I gain this kind of information.

Nothing is really going to change in my life time regarding the government of the United States and its inefficient spending, is it? No matter who we vote for or what we believe is right... it's pretty much always going to be the same story with the same problems and overall no change, right? Is it worth reading about/getting worked up over?
As someone who is mostly happy with Apple's operating system, I love this idea. I can buy a Mac mini and use it as a primary desktop/ dev system until Apple drops support for it. By that time, we should have working Linux drivers and support for keeping it running until it rusts out. Since it's sitting on my desk and the only moving part is the fan and the slowly degrading SSD, I could see getting 10-15 years out of it.

Obviously it would be better/ ideal if Apple financed this or better, made a full OSS Darwin install. I see dropping $3/ month for a couple years is cheap insurance.
16 GB ones are BTO, you cannot pick them in the store.
Is fine in person, but not digitally.
> If covid and the worldwide economic disruption can't put a dent in asset prices, then what will happen when the pandemic passes and the economy recovers in the next few years?

Pure speculation, and I am not an economist, but I'd imagine that those with wealth will acquire more wealth. And those without wealth will encounter more difficult means to acquiring wealth.

The last time the housing market crashed, investors bought a lot of the single family homes to use as wealth storage and rent them out. If housing prices go down or stabilize (we'll see what happens after forbearance periods), this will most certainly happen again, consolidating more wealth to the top while market rates for rent steadily climb. Housing shortages are high, and growing in the US. Other assets like stocks will likely increase as they have done, but entering into this market will be more difficult as consumers are spending more of their income on necessities (shelter, cars in the US, etc). All of which are becoming more expensive, and funnily enough, these assets aren't included in the Consumer Price Index, which is meant to measure inflation.

Basically, I just see this as expediting wealth consolidation. Times will be more difficult for a lot of people for a long time. Strong cultural shifts and policy changes will likely be needed to avoid furthering the divide of the wealth gap. Neither of which is easy.
Try to stick a function that may fail into a higher order function. The best example would be .map on streams/collections.

You can only do it with unchecked exceptions in Java. In Rust, you can transparently do it with iterators and the result type.

So given xs: [A] and f: A -> Result<A, E>, it is trivial to typesafely get Result<[A], E> by xs.map(f) where map: forall T. [T] -> (T -> S) -> [S]. This is outright impossible with Java. You have to circumvent the type system, or emulate Rust's approach.
Excluding certain immigrants from taxpayer-funded public benefits isn't "hostility." Deciding to take care of citizens and permanent residents and not others, or denying government benefits to create disincentives for illegal immigration, is a legitimate exercise of a people's right to self-determination.

This is not something limited to U.S. Republicans. Most EU countries exclude illegal immigrants from their universal healthcare systems, for example:https://rmx.news/article/article/germany-should-pay-illegal-...

Giving government benefits to illegal immigrants is a tough issue. On one hand, its rightfully an unpopular policy and risks creating incentives to immigrate illegally. On the other hand, denying benefits risks creating a permanent underclass of people who are prevented from integrating. I tend to believe the best approach is to rigorously enforce immigration restrictions, while including those who the country isn't willing to exclude or deport within the welfare system. But these should be viewed as policy choices, not in terms of "hostility" or some such silliness.
DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
So the DB app works with MicroG?

Because, when I tried running without Google Services, this was one of the few apps, which I really needed and which did not work. Annoyingly only because they used it for loading the map, which I didn't need anyway.
Thank you!
Never saw it, interesting read for sure. Have learned something from it!
You are conflating “average person in the country”, aka middle class, with “average person that lives in a specific area.”

This is not particularly complicated.
> "Solving" the problem would entail developing an interpretable algorithm

It looks like you'd like a grokable solution, but the problem might be just too complex to grasp for the human brain. "Solved" means they solved the protein puzzles on the official benchmark.

> but you would expect this with any suitable universal function approximator

Yeah, it's just that easy. Function approximator, engage! It took a team of Deep Mind researchers, two years and God knows how much compute. The universal function approximation theorem doesn't also say how to find that network.