skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I’m coming to my real boss, I’m coming to you”
It's a quality litmus test for partner material. I steered clear of anyone who took issue with me having to provide a material amount of care for a parent (and that parent living with me) before they passed. Someone who belittles you for being a compassionate human being has no place in your present, nor your future (imho).

As @stronglikedan says in a comment in this thread, "most people suck." It's a bit broad, but it ain't wrong.
Validate parameters first thing on all public APIs and fail early. Write code in the functional style.
I live near the Southwest Corridor bike trail in Boston. I've never seen used needles on the bike path. Homeless people camping out near the bike path? Totally. The occasional broken glass on the pavement? Unfortunately. But nothing like what is, supposedly, so typical in San Francisco.
I agree with part (1) but there's no reason (1) implies (2).

After all, Chuck-E-Cheese tokens fit a large part of the definition in part (1). After all they're non-sovereign, limited issuance, global, immutable and decentralized.
But you'd be hard pressed to find someone who believes that implies Chuck-E-Cheese tokens are an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally.
Nope, I'm assuming that's someone on Twitter noticing what he did and hiding it.
I believe Moderna has a patent on their methods; it is not a property of mRNA in general.

Not all mRNA follows the path that the Moderna vaccine uses.

Someone else please chime in if I am wrong here, but their method is basically use little lipid micelles (fat micro-blobs) that cover the mRNA. Because of some biochem, these micelles can then enter a healthy cell and disgorge the mRNA. This is kinda how a virus works as well. However, these micelles seem to be very fragile, hence the very cold temperatures needed for transport.

Once in the cell the mRNA then diffuses and is translated by ribosomes into protiens
> and in the bay area all of our schools were 3's and 5's.

That sounds more like the South Bay. Try East.
If you're interested in Montana, you should read [1].

[1] https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/23/billionaire-wilderness
> The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS! Both Linux and FreeBSD are now supported from the same repository making all of the OpenZFS features available on both platforms.

Previously it was called ZFS on Linux, but now ZFS development is unified on the "OpenZFS" codebase shared both between Linux and FreeBSD as much of the development effort for ZFS in general ended up there.
One achieved world dominance, the other still can't get out of being darknet money.

This is kinda silly. Bitcoin went from $0 to over $300 billion in market cap with no company or organization to market it. It's been the best performing asset for the past 5, 10 and 12 years.

Now that it's large enough for institutional investors, family offices, ETFs and hedge funds to get involved, that's happening. Yes, 401ks, IRAs, company treasuries now have bitcoin in them.

Meanwhile, every fiat currency (except two—the dollar and the pound) has failed at one time or another. Now that it's been 50 years since going off the gold standard, the dollar isn't looking so good for the long haul. Trillions of dollars have been printed this year; that erodes the buying power of the dollars we already had.
Hello! Thanks for the sharing, would have been nice not doing that on Medium, it's not free anymore. But thanks again!
It's not some abstract "bureaucracy". It's the fact that "build nothing and make the undesirables leave SF" is the popular position on housing in San Fran. The only thing different political factions disagree about is whom to deport.
This is huge! And very exciting :D

One thing I am wondering about is this:

> Redacted zfs send/receive - Redacted streams allow users to send subsets of their data to a target system. This allows users to save space by not replicating unimportant data within a given dataset or to selectively exclude sensitive information. #7958

Let’s say I have a dataset tank/music-video-project-2020-12 or something and it is like 40 GB and I want to send a snapshot of it to a remote machine on an unreliable connection. Can I use the redacted send/recv functionality to send the dataset in chunks at a time and then at the end have perfect copy of it that I can then send incremental snapshots to?
Thanks a lot for the feeback! There’s a couple other people who mentionned it today, so we’ll get to adding username/password (and definitely won’t handle the credentials ourselves ^^)
The problems is competing with the size of Apple (and Intel and AMD). The reason there are so few competing high performance chips on the market is, that it is extremely expensive to design one. And you need a fab with a current process.
For many years Intel beat all other companies, because they had the best fabs ans could affort the most R&D. Now Apple has the best fab - TSMCs 5nm - and certainly gigantic developer resources they can afford to spend as the chip design is pretty similar between the iPhones iPads and the Macs.

And of course, as mentioned in the article, any feature in the Apple Silicon will be supported by MacOS. Getting OS support for your new SOC features in other OSes is not a given.
Thoughts: A Monster's Expedition
one thing i have done recently that definitely didn't work is syncing history from phone->desktop. i haven't gone phone->phone in at least a couple years though--good to hear that that's working better.
It’s funny because Eberling is a rich developer living mostly in Marin who makes his money renting out expensive apartments built with city subsidies.
I ask myself this every time I deploy to prod. Then I see all the regressions reported. Then I realize it doesn't work...

On a more serious note, since no one is reviewing my code, I resorted to automated testing. It doesn't catch all the bugs, but at least it's something.
I tried it out (see https://twitter.com/try_except_/status/1333499056769937408) and got great support in the Matrix/Riot chat (https://matrix.radicle.community). Definitely looking forward to distributed git changing the developer landscape :-)
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Normally cells use DNA to make mRNA, which are recipes for building proteins. In this case, the proteins are antigens used to fight COVID.

mRNA vaccines give the bits needed to skip to the last step in the process. Notably, there is nothing about "genetics" involved here.
I don't even care about the risks. It's about changing the rules so much that we don't know what game we're even playing. If you stop caring what's technically a human anymore, you have to reconsider the imperative to propagate the human race. Who are you propagating and why? What's the point of any of it anyway?

Granted I'm disinclined to propagate the human race anyway, so I guess I may actually be ahead of you.
I moved to a small-medium city in a more rural part of the US, from SF, about 6 months ago. It truly is beautiful from a nature perspective but the car-forward culture and lack of diversity makes it difficult to imagine living here long-term. My non-white partner has no community here and we as a mixed-race couple have gotten a few "looks". It's hard to help improve an area where you feel unwanted and out of place.
I think X86 is the only modern ISA family that still have a separate address space for I/O. It is not used today anymore, but it exists somewhere deep in the chip, and its legacy kind of messed up how the entire wider memory, and cache systems on X86 were designed.

X86 has got memory mapped I/O for modern hardware, but on the way there, X86 memory access got tangled with bus access. X86 still treats the wider memory system as a kind of "peripheral" with mind of its own.

The intricacies how X86 memory access evolved to keep accommodating decades old drivers, and hardware apparently made a grand mess of what you can, and what you cannot memory map, or cache, and many things deeper in the chip.

One of may casualties of that design decision is the X86 cache miss penalty, and an overall expensive memory operations.
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So what stops x86 from adding the micro-ops as a dedicated alternate instruction set, Thumb style? Maybe with the implication that Intel will not hold the instruction set stable between chips, pushing vendors to compile to it on the fly?
I feel like keeping a classic, great track like Spa (and a classic, mediocre track like Monaco) in spite of the danger is a valid decision for the sport. I wish there was another F1 race on the calendar for North America, and as long as it wasn’t dangerous for the spectators, there’d be something to be said for using one of the old tracks.
I still cannot get over the fact that Chappelle workshopped some bits on his most recent SNL opening monologue.
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It’s a lot easier to just have a depth limit on such non-cyclic graphs than keep an in-memory list of previously seen nodes. its interesting for sure! but a much rarer edge-case imo
It’s a great design for certain use cases and fundamentally incompatible with/needs adaptation for others.

It’ll work well for:

- Aggregate workflows (i.e. composing heterogeneous collections)

- Library curation (i.e. individual or mass categorization)

- Content discovery/rediscovery (i.e. find things based on metadata rather than location)

It’ll either poorly serve or need additional consideration for:

- Contained dependencies (i.e. any kind of encapsulated package that has internal references)

- Structural authorization (i.e. a given user may or may not be permitted access to some or all functions based on the branch/leaf they’re trying to access)

- Structural layout (i.e. the user has a hierarchy in mind which they wish to reify)
> "But I'm also willing to bet you're reading this on a phone."

Chuckled a little as well as I read this on my PC.
I don't have specific statistics to back this up, but Austin TX and surrounding communities are seeing huge growth with, anecdotally, a disproportionate number of Californians.

The perception of this, at least, is so widespread that you'll see quite a lot on community social media spaces, telling the "immigrants" that they're welcome, but please stop voting for the kinds of policies that you're trying to escape.
On 1) I think that you're right about the impact of the ISA being overdone but lets not forget that Intel has had a process advantage for a long time and that it was partly the volume of consumer sales that supported their R&D and helped them win on servers. That situation has changed now - the process advantage has gone and there is lots of money pouring into TSMC and the mobile SoC designers.

For me the key point on the ISA is that Arm is not limited to two companies: what we've seen in other markets will happen in desktops and servers - the really big customers can take the ISA and build highly competitive SoCs that suit them on the leading process technology and for lower cost.
Will OpenZFS on Linux ever be integrated with the Linux page cache?
Hermes handbags also have high resale value. That tells us nothing. Apple's anti-repair approach absolutely harms the environment. Certainly they are not alone in this, many/most electronics these days are irreparable. But Apple is actively hostile to the repair industry, which makes them more deserving of criticism.
They recently improved it on iOS
https://signal.org/blog/ios-device-transfer/

on Android you have to do it manually and its by no means easy or intuitive if you are an everyday user. Whatsapp nails this experience on Android with the back up and transfer capability
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Did you edit your comment since I replied? I can't say for sure anymore... I thought you were actually making the opposing claim.

However, it seems like we are emphatically agreeing!
Its free in Europe between the countries, might be expensive in America where you tend to use credit cards to send money.
There's also such a thing as ocular transmission to consider, maybe that was a factor in your case:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537833/

Did you have any conjunctivitis-like symptoms?
The iOS transfer process uses the same technology as AirDrop, what Apple calls Multipeer Connectivity: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/multipeerconnectiv...

The phones create their own ad-hoc Wi-Fi network, similar to Wi-Fi Direct.
If I were in a stronger position with regards to dating, I could certainly see that. However, I have descended past "beggars can't be choosers" into the benthic depths of "even if I didn't have this working against me ..."

Right now it is merely a sad observation from the permanently sidelined.
Maybe not every day but the list is periodically updated and if you reset your Chrome profile or delete the apps data directory it probably will.
It interesting though, but here in Central Asia (granted, the data quality is very low, and it is heavily doctored by the government) these days, the number of cases are actually trending down since the arrival of the cold weather. Most probably there is zero seasonality in Covid. I thinks do decrease the spread of infection, and without the situation would have been worse. But compliance level must go above 70-80% IMHO.
Do you think we should wear masks on Zoom calls? Consider your answer very carefully, as it determines your "they" status with a whole bunch of people.
Italy had to do a quite hard lockdown in the Spring and then it had very low number of cases and deaths in the Summer.

In the US, New York had also to respond hard to the first wave.

Italy and US compared in deaths per million due to Covid-19:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

China, having the hardest and the most restrictive lockdowns, managed something even better than both: binging the numbers to effectively zero, very early. They also managed to maintain the minimum of new cases by mass testing actions when there was a suspicion of the outbreak:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54504785

"Covid-19: China's Qingdao to test nine million in five days"

And they have still kept wearing the masks this year, whenever they aren't alone, if I understand it correctly.

We also know that such kind of mass testing can be done in Europe too, if mandated, as in Slovakia:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/slovakia-offers-proof-tha...

So, no, it wasn't about the vaccines up to now. The measures simply work, proved in Europe, and even in the US, when they are consistently introduced. As simple as that.
What about Fennec from f-droid? Does it have telemetry enabled as well?
> Cycling is inherently more dangerous than either walking or driving, no matter what.

Not necessarily more dangerous than driving. More than walking, sure, you are usually faster. But the problem tends to be more about infrastructure.

However, if you adjust for "lifestyle" diseases, cycling becomes more attractive.
Or the software just doesn't handle it.
Verizon was selling cheap HP laptops with cellular years ago. We bought 120 of them for one grant.
Or you could just set the speed limit appropriately, at a level that most drivers will naturally conform to.

This optimizes for both expediency and safety, but, sadly, not for revenue, or for readily-available probable cause to pull over essentially anyone the police want to pull over.
But a diamond cannot occur in a Twitter-reply graph, right? It would require a Tweet to be able to reply to more than one tweet.
A few signs:

- taking a while to make an obvious move, especially in the endgame, where there might actually be only one move that makes any sense to make

- taking a very consistent amount of time between moves

- shuffling pieces around in a way that doesn't really accomplish anything but also doesn't cause anything bad

- playing normally, then a big pause and they go offline for a bit, then come back and start playing much better (connecting the client to an engine)
> The number of people who need 16GB of RAM? Very large. The number who need 32GB is at least an order of magnitude smaller. The number who need 64GB another order of magnitude smaller. The number who need 256GB of RAM or more is likely in the low thousands or even hundreds.

"need" can be a combination of objective and subjective takes, but I would posit that the amount who would at least purport to need 256GB+ is radically, radically higher than the low thousands.
Hi, I appreciate the comment and discussion.

I disagree with the statement that the number is meaningless. Media outlets are free to singularly report the number of positive cases. I see it all over mainstream media (CNN being the worst offender), Twitter, etc.

What's the issue with simply reversing that metric to show many people are COVID negative?

Final note, I'm happy to make updates based on additional data but public datasets are slim pickings. And I'm not in to tapping individual state/county datasets.

NYT publishes daily case counts and death counts across the United States by county.

edit: COVID negative is unequivocally the incorrect term to use. That was a mental mistake on my part. The specific term I use is “did not get a positive COVID test”.
Because it’s just virtue signalling, not actual environmentalism. What matters environmentally is aggregate device lifetime, so you get the most use out of the materials. Apple devices use a minimum of materials and have industry leading usable lifetimes. They are also designed to be highly recyclable.

Greenpeace rated Apple the number 1 most environmentally friendly of the big technology companies.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-5-greenest-tech-com...
I think this is a really good point about people moving to San Francisco to get rich for a long time now. And not just SF; my grandparents immigrated to New York with nothing, worked hard to establish themselves, and eventually moved out to raise a family. They had a "transactional" relationship with the city, but I like to think that New York was also enriched by their presence. And I think when we look back at all the people who have come through San Francisco on their journey to a better life, we'll realize that the city has been serving a very important function.

That's not to say that San Francisco doesn't have problems - it most certainly does. But I think that this "us vs. them" mentality is counter productive when it comes to actually solving the city's problems.
The Kindle also comes with an "Experimental Browser". [1] I've used it on an old Kindle to read the news, craigslist. I'm not sure if it supports JS.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7eHUI6rSo
Memory usage has definitely stalled over the last decade as more applications move to the web or mobile devices.

There's just nothing driving most people to have more than 8/16GB of RAM and even photo/video editing has been shown to be a breeze on the 8GB MacBook Air.

I wouldn't be surprised to see laptops move to soldered RAM and SSDs.
"A sufficiently advanced Artificial Intelligence would be indistinguishable from God." (Way Of The Future - AI Church)
Well, no. The bailout was unprecedented in size, it was completely insane (in that it clinches the imminent and extremely messy doom of either the American middle or investor class, depending on whether populist fear or populist rage prevails), and there is zero percent chance that the coming maelstrom is "priced in."

Most Americans have been so fully shut out of capital that they're practically begging for asset values to get rocked. They'll encourage it, even. (What do you think this lockdown backlash is, unconsciously?)

All of Disney's revenue streams shut down for 3 months and its stock went up. The market needs to be reflective of conditions and not simply the desperation to never see a bubble corrected, or people are going to start calling the bluff.
Canada unveils its new privacy legislation, with even bigger fines than the GDPR
Interestingly enough in the past 3 years, I have purchased 4 phones, 1 tablet, 1 watch and one iMac. However I have upgraded 6 PCs with new graphics cards, SSD drives, motherboards, and processors. My children have gone from phones to PCs are their main method of consuming content. It just richer on a PC than anywhere else.
FWIW the antipode of Krakatoa is near Medellin, Columbia.
And I can't imagine this applying to smaller (but possibly scalable) one-person businesses. Many of those are started and even become remarkably profitable by people working on them with relatively part-time effort. Right here on HN, across several occasional posts asking readers to name their small business success stories, there are many examples. Not the same as startups like this one, sure but not so different as to justify the absurd gut wrenching she describes in this post.
Well, to put it simply, no.

Nyquist's theories (and Shannon's sampling theorem based on it) only concerned themselves with the time-based discretization of analog signals. As Shannon showed, to accurately reconstruct a signal of bandwidth x, you need to take samples at a constant frequency of 2x.

But when speaking of digital signals, discretization is only half the story. The other part of the story is quantization, i.e. how many bits to use to represent each sample. And that amplitude quantization is a lossy operation, regardless of Shannon's theorem about discretization in the time domain. You can't simply say that an analog signal of 40kHz therefore has a bitrate of 80kbps -- using just one bit to represent each sample will not accurately reproduce the original analog waveform, unless the original waveform was a square wave (and you would still need that bit of information to accurately reconstruct it).

So what, then, is the bitrate of a discretized, analog signal? It is still infinite, because the amplitude of every sample can be any element of R! Only once you decide on a quantization resolution, i.e. once you determine your acceptable level of signal loss, can you speak of "the bitrate of an analog signal".

But that bitrate is only an approximation of the original signal, Shannon notwithstanding.
Your first sentence is quite tricky to parse due to the triple negative. I parsed it as:

Most people that email you will care if you ignore them.
I figured that it would make no sense to count it as such, but I also thought it made no sense to require every field on each immigration form to be filled out.

With PDF form validation being what it is, I wouldn't be surprised to see people listed as having 5 kids named NA NA NA in USCIS records in the future.
The article in Science implies that we have independent confirmation of predictions yielding useful results, beyond the challenge itself:

> The organizers even worried DeepMind may have been cheating somehow. So Lupas set a special challenge: a membrane protein from a species of archaea, an ancient group of microbes. For 10 years, his research team tried every trick in the book to get an x-ray crystal structure of the protein. “We couldn’t solve it.”

> But AlphaFold had no trouble. It returned a detailed image of a three-part protein with two long helical arms in the middle. The model enabled Lupas and his colleagues to make sense of their x-ray data; within half an hour, they had fit their experimental results to AlphaFold’s predicted structure. “It’s almost perfect,” Lupas says. “They could not possibly have cheated on this. I don’t know how they do it.”
It isn't; a society can be dominated by emphasizing values of consumer-driven hedonism or social jockeying within castes (as in Brave New World) over totalitarian war and hatred (as in 1984), and still fall short of its aspirations.