skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's undercounted too, as they would only report the fraud they already uncovered. People outside the US are taking advantage and that money is gone: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massi...

There's also fraud from the money that's supposed to go to small businesses. My family lives in Chicago and it feels like their entire neighborhood all got $10,000 by pretending to be small businesses, and they teach each other how to do it. Everyone they know has gotten money from that and its become a meme ("did you buy that coat with your 10K check?"). My family is trying their best to resist also throwing in some applications to just get a piece of that.
Tony Hsieh Changed Our Lives
For reference, I'm a web developer, UI/UX designer and RPA developer.

A few years ago, I tried really hard to leave MS and Apple and go full Linux with all my stuff. It lasted about six months and I finally gave up since there's so much I do with Adobe products and they haven't ported any of their stuff to Linux, I just run into too many problems with trying to replace those.

I literally loved everything about Linux with that one exception. If Linux had comparable Adobe products I'd be there 100% no problem, which is really frustrating. Everything else you can find an open source alternative for most Apple and MS products.

The one thing I do love about Linux is the amount of distros you can choose from. From the absolute minimalistic to brand new distros being built almost daily. If you don't have an Adobe requirement, I'd check out the distro site and take a look around. You should be able to find something to fit what you're doing.

https://distrowatch.com/
I keep coming back to the implications for the rest of the industry:

1. What does this mean for x86?

2. What does the answer to question #1 mean for Windows and Microsoft? Are they going to sit by and let Apple lap them?

3. What does the answer to question #2 mean for cloud computing? AWS is already making ARM chips... does the M1 change anything fundamentally about where the cloud goes with ARM?
“Semicon industry prospects promising” (2003)
The anthropic principle doesn't need it to be typically stable though, right? It could be exceptionally stable, in a particularly evil universe, and we'd most likely crop up in a nice little stable oasis.
My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128
I mean, one major character there is a World War 3 veteran who had been turned into a computer drone.
I don't think AlQuraishi really hits the mark in his critique. The mere fact that hundreds or thousands of people working on a problem for decades doesn't account for the fact that the field of machine learning has been growing extremely rapidly over the last decade, the compute power available has grown exponentially, and the people working on the problem simply weren't looking at the problem in the way that the deepmind people were looking at it.

If you were trying to get across the Atlantic, this would be like getting upset at a group of bridgebuilders for trying to solve the problem by building a bridge across instead of by inventing the airplane. The approaches are that different.
> do MSA-based approaches also help understand "first-principles" folding physics any better?

Not really. MSA-based approaches, as most structure prediction methods, have as a goal to find the lowest energy conformation of the protein chain, disregarding folding kinetics and basically all dynamic aspects of protein structure.

> If I write a random genetic sequence (think drug discovery) that has many aligned sequences, without the strong assumption of co-evolution at my disposal, there does not seem any good reason for the aligned sequences to also be proximal.

I don't think I fully understood this, but I'll give it a shot anyway. If your artificial sequence aligns with others, there's a chance that it will fold like them, depending on the quality and accuracy of the multiple sequence alignment. Since multiple sequence alignments are built under the assumption of homology (all sequences have a common ancestor), it's a matter of how far from the "sequence sampling space" your sequence is located compared to the others.
Maybe it's worth mentioning Grosjean's history here.

As a rookie he was widely faulted for being faulty judgment, causing frequent crashes with other drivers when a more experienced driver wouldn't have stuck their nose in. It was clear how hard he was trying to do the right thing, yet the harder he tried, the worse the problem seemed to get, and there was talk about dropping him from the team.

Much to his credit, he recognized that he was unable to solve the problem on his own. Drivers tend to have big egos, beating their chests and blaming other people and their equipment. But Grosjean took responsibility, and in interviews you could see how it was breaking his heart to realize how this problem was likely to cost him his career. So he swallowed his pride and started to work with a sports psychologist, who helped him gain better control of his actions. The turn-around in his on-track behavior was quickly evident, and his willingness to take responsibility and look outside for help made him a much better driver.
For a study to be valid and useful, the control group has to go through exactly the same criteria as the test group. Everyone is "blind" to whether they get the placebo or the real thing. So they all get the same interviews/tests and rejection criteria. Putting all the diabetics in the control/placebo group would make it pretty obvious who was and wasn't getting the real thing.
Ask HN: I found malware on GitHub. How do I analyze the malware further?
I have discovered some malicious behavior (corrected from title) in [Mark Text](https://github.com/marktext/marktext)....

I ran Fiddler to profile Mark Text, and the program phones home... and more....

It exports a few basic things [such as your public IP address](https://i.imgur.com/UxyHkbA.png), and then a bunch of encrypted data (cannot decipher). ...then it downloads a packaged Chrome extension app (CR24 format). ...when unzipping that file, you can see [a base64 encoded payload](https://i.imgur.com/5rKwjW0.png) - which expands [to this](https://i.imgur.com/jMbd8st.png), and then an [unencrypted list of websites](https://i.imgur.com/H0twSDk.png), which is very clearly malicious.

To be clear, I downloaded this [directly from Github](https://github.com/marktext/marktext).

Unfortunately, my skills are limited and I cannot find references to the initial malicious URL in the code - though I did discover that you can [search Github code like this...](https://github.com/search?q=in%3Afile+gvt1+repo%3Amarktext%2Fmarktext)

Credit to /u/Phily83 for first [seeing the network activity](https://ibb.co/zbHxbBv).
Science was the first victim of covid-1984.
Why would she take a job as a glorified typist after completing a Phd? Why is the company hiring a Phd to be a glorified typist?

Academia was never meant to be a jobs training program. The fact that many students treat it as such is not really the fault of the institutions.
That's overly simplified. Larger order buffer, larger caches, lower latency caches, more outstanding loads, etc.

They also managed in a cheap platform (mac mini = $700) get 4266 Mhz memory working with about half the latency of any x86-64 I've seen. The mac mini can manage a random cacheline (assuming a relatively TLB friendly pattern) of around 30-33ns.

Maybe the usual intel core i7/i9 or ryzen 5000 look rather quaint with their 60ns or higher memory latencies.
Agreed, living at work during a pandemic. In my country I can't even go 5km from my home still. I am not loving WFH right now but with freedoms and the ability to see friends, family and get out at the weekend, I think I could.
Happy Birthday to the Boolean Operators
MicroG has been around for years at this point
Achievement Unlocked: Secrets in public notebooks
In my personal case: I'd much rather be able to buy special-purpose cellular plans with limited/restricted capabilities. I'd really like to see more $5-10/mo. device plans that offer connectivity that isn't artificially speed-throttled to dialup speeds. For instance, for the computer in my car.

If every single mobile network plan is legally required to support Netflix 4K and YouTube streaming, that's not workable from a business standpoint. And that's exactly Google and Netflix's goal: Require everything support their modern reincarnation of the boob tube.
Yeah, that’s pretty worrying that the OS just punts. I always thought limiting the potential damage a user space process could do was one of the main jobs of an OS.

If you have any more OSes laying around to run the test on, I’d be interested to hear how well windows and Linux handle the same thing.

Because on the face of it this seems like a serious bug in the OS. I’m only used to seeing this sort of thing with bad drivers
If anything was realised, it was probably that companies who decided it wasn’t worth complying weren’t really missed. The only encounters I’ve had with this myself are dodgy American news sites, and the “you’re blocked” page is essentially just a message that says “we can’t really be bothered following pretty basic practices” so… no real loss!
What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?

I was really concerned about it at the time, I admit, but now seems overblown in retrospect. Internet speeds, for example, have only improved since then. And haven't seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.
There's a (blinded) control group so purely based on how deeply unethical it would be to purposefully expose them to the virus I'd wager they were 'natural' occurrences.
Conway’s Game of Life Using Kotlin and Arrow
Physics is the language that never ceases to blow my mind.
Posted at 4:20 PM :)
> If you max out your 401(k) you are saving about $20k/yr while only reducing your taxable income by ~$15k/yr depending on your marginal tax rate. A Roth adds another $6k to that if you're under the cap (something like $140k for 2020)

Even if you are above the Roth cap, you can contribute post-tax $6k to a tradtional IRA, then immediately roll into a Roth IRA. This is known as a "backdoor Roth".

Additionally, some employer 401(k) plans allow you to contribute post-tax money to your 401(k). The IRS specifies an upper limit of the total of [employee pre-tax + employer match + employee post-tax], which was $57k in 2020. The post-tax portion of the above can also be rolled into a Roth IRA. This is commonly referred to as the "mega-backdoor Roth"

Also, don't forget catch-up contributions to each if you are over 50.

Point is if you have the income to support it, you can save much more in a tax advantaged way than just that $19.5k pre-tax 401(k). Please look up the tax consequences of any of these options before doing them. They are straightforward but contain a few pitfalls, such as the pro-rata rule affecting rolling over traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs.
There is also "32 bit realmode", which is not mentioned in the official documentation but simply a combination of existing states. Ditto for real mode paging and the like --- which finds more applications as emulator acid-tests than anything else.
It sure could be, but I'll be shocked if they have their current M1 in the $999 MacBookAir and something still called "M1(x)" in the Mac Pro that has 128+ cores and >128GB RAM, etc. etc.

IMO, that's a totally different product, and it needs a different naming convention. But I'm just guessing.
Most likely, it's two DRAM dies per package. Those DRAM packages look ridiculously wide, so the DRAM dies might not even be stacked.
Everything old is new again.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-2-hacked-to-run-linux-5351...
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so it's particularly important not to damage a fresh thread by dumping comments like this into its ecosystem.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Funny comment, but the first part is what I'm driving at.

Does damaging a world heritage site constitute hurting someone else or does it constitute only self harm because it's within sovereign borders?
How does it compare with Vitamin-D?
APL was amazing for the time, but array-oriented programming is mainstream now, while the notation never really caught on. A lot of the mystique of APL is because it's illegible, but at the end of the day it's nothing more than a DSL for 'numpy-like' code. You can code the same demo, in the same amount of time, using Julia, and the result is (in my opinion) much more legible:

The opaque one-liner:

using IterTools,ImageInTerminal,Colors;for g in iterated(a->let n=sum(map(t->circshift(a,t),product(-1:1,-1:1)));(a.&(n.==4)).|(n.==3);end,rand(Bool,(99,99)));imshow(map(Gray,g));print("\n\n");end

The legible version where we give everything descriptive names so it's not cryptic and mysterious:

using ImageInTerminal,Colors #the APL demo also uses a library for pretty display
using IterTools #okay *technically* this is a minor cheat

function nextgen(grid)
neighborcount = sum(map((t)->circshift(grid,t), product(-1:1,-1:1)))
return (grid .& (neighborcount .== 4)) .| (neighborcount .== 3)
end

function animate(grid)
for gen in iterated(nextgen, grid)
imshow(map(Gray, gen))
print("\n\n")
sleep(0.05)
end
end

animate(rand(Bool,(100,100)))
Unless I'm missing something it wasn't the QubesOS team that got funding: https://prototypefund.de/en/project/portable-firewall-for-qu...

Though I'm also unsure why that page links a github repo that hasn't been updated since 2017, and is a fork of one that is active as of last month.
Companies that promote from within will look within (first) for the senior engineers. To get to the really high pay you need experience in something in depth. Knowing a little about a lot of the same things everyone else knows gets you the mid grade positions, but if you really want to move up you need to grok the details that matter to your company. Very few get to (or want!) these high level positions where you know the complex details of something useful nly to your company, but they go to those who have been around long enough to have experience.

Of course you risk tying yourself to a dead horse that will never go anywhere and now you need to start over from the below the rest: you have experience that nobody needs and none of the general experience everyone else wants for an okay position. Good luck recognizing when/where you need to be to get the good position in 10 years vs a dead end that they don't care about...
I'm not upset. Just correcting false facts propagated by ignorant folks. Such as yourself.

India has been a democracy in spite of the monarchies the UK used to support in Indian territory, in spite of the regional and sectarian conflicts the British tried to impose on (and succeeded) India.

Have you ever considered the reason why India has been forced to languish in the background in world affairs, in spite of being on track to be the most populous country, to be because of American and British (and for a while European) interference? The nations stopping the likes of Japan, Germany and India from joining the UN security council are those within. Britain has gained a lot more from the relationship with India, just as India has gained a lot from the same. The Indian power bloc in the UK parliament and the power it has wielded for a few decades now is solid evidence of this.

To correct your preconceived BS, the CoN is a meaningless patchwork of nations of the British empire for Britain. The only benefit it provides to the UK is monarchial rights to a few island nations (and an increasingly lower number by the year, Barbados just voted to become a republic within the CoN), while giving citizens of CoN nations voting rights within the UK, which is a pretty huge trade off on the UK's part.

India is not a pathetic colony of Britain. If you'd been involved with the economic landscape of Britain recently, it was more or less the other way round. India has already overtaken Britain by the GDP numbers.

Yet you also willfully ignore places such as Puerto Rico or American Samoa or France's former African colonies, all of which have become worse shitholes than India.

You have clearly no understanding of the situation in either India or the UK currently. Wish I could extend a time machine to bring you here in the present, but unfortunately it doesn't admit for close-mindedness.
Yes true but as the respondent said above I’m just waiting for the software to catch up and maybe a redesign on the laptop side. In the mean time I’m saving for one.
...but that's only ETH related. I wish there was a forum for tech related to other coins.
You’d expect it to kill the offending user space process rather than the OS though, right?
Rescue underway in Vendee Globe as skipper abandons sinking boat
Apple Hires Prominent Venture Capitalist for App Store Role
His stance towards email reminds me of the book “Deep Work” that many HN threads talk about. I liked the idea of triaging your emails into 3 categories

Emails that will have a positive outcome regardless of when they are processed.

Emails that will have a negative outcome regardless of when they are processed.

Emails for which a timely response will make a difference.
Ya, they are all similar performance/luxury sedans. Compart the Honda Civic, a pretty standard car, with a curb weight of 2770lbs. A thousand pounds less.
Just curious why this would be a legal decision? I can't think of any reason that keeping messages would be a bad thing.
Sometimes the landscapers ask you to move.
There are some technical things I feel are somewhat misrepresented:

1. Why don't AMD/Intel use a unified GPU/CPU memory setup like Apple? Because the big discrete gpus would be too big and hot to be part of the same chip as a cpu, and need faster memory than DDR4.

2. Zen3 is clocked at 5ghz: the best of them can turbo to 4.9 for a little bit, base clocks are ~3.4 to 3.8 depending on core count / model
If that were the case, though, we would expect to see performance gains only in areas the M1 is specialized for -- but that's not what we see. The M1's GeekBench scores are impressively high, and general-computing workloads like compiling code are very fast as well, indicating that the M1 is fast in general, not just for specific tasks.

There's been a lot of hype about things like "specialized hardware for NSObjects," but AFAIK that's more of a flawed/outdated design on Intel' side than a specialization on Apple's: the "magic" is really just ARM's weaker & more modern memory consistency model, which makes things like reference counting substantially faster.
Most of your proposals can be detected by statistics:

- [...] just to alert you to when your position is strong. Oh, so you are a player that never misses a win? Hmm...

- [...] avoid traps in early games. Now you are a very strange player that never blunders during openings but blunders normally later on. Suspicious.

- [...] just for the occasional move. How do you know what move is that? Are you implying you never make _big_ blunders (but make plenty of non-huge ones)? Also suspicious.

In general, there are many signals you can collect. If other users are complaining about a player then you analyze them, and if your signals say "suspicious" then... you caught a cheater. If nobody complains about a particular user you don't do anything because it just doesn't matter.
They will have to reckon with the fifty thousand-long chain at https://twitter.com/every_peano
We should definitely not continue Apple's approach of soldering every damn component, even if it comes at the cost of performance
We sometimes do that. I'm resetting that puzzle down to 1480.
Entirely in browser: https://radiopaedia.org/standalone_dicom_anonymizer

Source at https://github.com/radiopaedia/dicomanon
Regarding accurate labels, a lack of appropriate or sufficient labeling will knock over your model regardless of how powerful your model is (interpretable or not). This is where other benefits of model interpretation come in—you can spot potential errors in your model's training, and that gives you an indication that you need to re-evaluate your base assumptions about the data.

SHAP is cool technology! It looks like it builds off LIME and similar to fit a hyperplane against the model surface. I'm not surprised the article didn't mention it though, as it's a bit in the weeds for an overview piece.
Why don't we talk more about how this company employs third world country workers in a "gig economy" model to even further compress wages and squeeze margins? How can one be proud and give a shit about a product like this?
You can't get 100% accuracy on something for which you don't or can't know the ground truth.
Let's imagine that as a researcher I make a breaktrhough NN model, but that I need a lot of TPUs/GPUs in order to test it, is there a service for temporarily lending such hardware to me for free/not much ? (e.g google colab ?)
Otherwise researchers will plateau with their hardware budget.
Depending on your definition of serious (I'd say it's serious when people pay money for it), I'm doing that and am quite happy with it. I haven't tried building any Java code though, only Go and Swift.

I'm seeing about 2x performance (eyeballing build times) of a recent Intel MBP for compiling a medium size Go codebase, running natively on arm64. The machine is noticeably faster than previous iterations for most tasks.

I've made an effort to avoid emulated code though so am running a patched version of Go 1.16 and tools. Not all tools have officially supported native versions yet, but the performance is definitely there.
> There's no proof that uninterpretable models perform better

It’s a vastly larger solution space. So it’s really the reverse that would be surprising.

> In some sense, it's possible to interpret any model, the effort requires just varies.

Models can be of arbitrarily large sizes to the point where people really can’t understand them. How do you go about dissecting a 2 layer NN with 10^40th nodes?
I think I'm missing a tweet of context. I get that they quoted their own url, like in the top article, but then the account replies "Ugh, busted :(" to someone who has their tweets protected.
Perhaps, but compilers mostly assume its existence with the default flags. So there’s plenty of software that has no fallback.
These are predictions. Presumably the proteins will be inspected and the model refined and updated before we start using DNA without first checking the output.
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Oh, for sure, I wasn't trying to say vaccines shouldn't be used! They are extremely important to a healthy population overall, and it is all the more important for people with healthy immune systems to get them to help protect those that can't benefit directly.
What a nightmare, but it makes me wonder: rather than decoding into micro-ops at runtime, could Intel or AMD "JIT" code up-front, in hardware, into a better bytecode?

I'm sure it wouldn't work for everything, but why wouldn't it be feasible to keep a cache of decoding results by page or something?
Requires an account. Is there a less restricted URL for the story?
Isn't that (part of) what hyperthreads do?
>50-70%

That’s incredible. I presume this is because no one has been looking for large reserves of lithium until recently.
> HBM2 is the stuff of supercomputers: the Fujitsu A64FX. Ampere A100 GPUs. Etc. etc. That's not the stuff you'd see in a phone or laptop.

It also made an appearance on some consumer discreet GPUs, notably the Vega 56, Vega 64, and Radeon VII.
What's to prevent me from buying this phone for its modularity and repairability, and installing lineageOS for their (presumably better) software support?
> The PS5 also has unified memory and uses faster RAM, the RAM chips are soldered on the board around the SoC.

Perhaps this won't be as limiting as I suspected.
Rundown schools forced more students to go remote