skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. My position is that is a company is big enough people will have an opinion, and if there's an opinion to be had there's probably an opposition in there somewhere. I like the "reverse PR" theory, kinda the "no press is bad press" argument. Mac vs. PC ads are a great point! Definitely a polarisation at the time, I think Linux can be found in a lot of the most outspoken commentary around here.
Ricky Gervais gave a mocking lesson-giving turn on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dxMGzt5mU , and I think there's comedy in their twitter/social-media reach that we don't get to experience. They are on the other side of the firehose, and their experience doesn't relate to ours.

It really must be demoralising to see how frail our ears have become. Or have always been? I mean listening to some Carlin's stand-up can be a bit hard for younger generations (I sometimes wince) and some of his jokes might not be tell-able today... Especially not at work. Or on the bus. Or on the street. Or in front of your mum. Or that friend that doesn't want to hear /some/ words (and you know the words)... Well OK you might still want to tell the joke without believing any of its content. Except, someone might be recording. Filming. OK so no more racist/sexist/transphobe/fatshaming/flatearthmocking jokes.

I deeply regret the validation we give to 'just transgression without humor' humor when we rage about it. The best solution to bad jokes is just no one laughing. Silence is a powerful motivator for a comedian to improve... And the people you want to reach are the ones laughing, not the ones making the joke. And making them feel horrible about a laugh they had might not be the way to reach social justice.
Not every country is a small island nation with the population of single large city.
X86 isn't fixed width instructions. Depending on the mix you may be able to decode more instructions. And if you target common instructions, you can get a lot of benefit in real world programs.

Arm is different but probably easier to decode. So you can widen the decoder.
> It's a little disingenuous to say "your phone can tell" - it's some big government information service that is telling.

It's just the Apple-Google BLE token scheme.

> Can one opt out of being tracked on this stuff?

It's opt-in.
^P and ^R both work
But you wouldn’t do that if your assumption is that the graph doesn’t cycle.

Edit: child comments are correct and I regret my oversight
News was never meant for social platforms
Probably because the entire internet bullied him for the decisions he made. Being a well-known person must be awful. Everyone magnifies your faults and conveniently forgets your strengths.
Thanks for the paper, I’ll check it out; this isn’t my speciality so I’m definitely learning something. Just one minor clarification:

> Maybe read the paper … before assuming that it doesn't work

I don’t assume that. In fact, I know that using ML works on many problems in genetics. What I’m less convinced by is that we can expect a breakthrough due to ML any time soon, partly because conventional techniques (including ML) already have a handle on some current problems in genetics, and because there isn’t really a specific (or flashy) hard, algorithmic problem like there is in structural biology. Rather, there’s lots of stuff where I expect to see steady incremental improvement. In fact, in Wikipedia’s list of unsolved biological problems [1] there isn’t a single one that I’d characterise specifically as a question from the field of genetics (as a geneticist, that’s slightly depressing).

But my question was even more innocent than that: I’m not even that sceptical, I’m just not aware of anything and genuinely wanted an answer. And the paper you’ve posted might provide just that, so go and do my research now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_b...
Misleading statistic. You need to look at the density of occupied land.
you just need mixed residential/commercial cities. most cities in europe are like that
It's easy to look at the case (and death) numbers from countries like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea where mask use is very high.

For all intents and purposes, they don't have COVID.
It seems like most of these would just detect when a player was unusually strong, which of course unusual things are suspicious but they can also be the case that some people are unusually strong.
FWIW Google already did this back in 2019, without any announcement - at that point, I added a workaround, which I hope will continue to work: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5182
You can get in apples current laptop GPUs as well, navi 10 + HBM.
I would not fund this, because I would be suckered out of money by someone who not only fails to deliver, but who is surpassed by others who follow a conventional bazaar model.

Successful Linux on Apple Silicon start as something almost completely useless that only hackers want to use (gets you a Bash prompt with GCC kind of thing), not that anyone wants to use. This is perfectly fine.

Imagine if, in 1990-ish, Torvalds had announced, "I'm taking donations for making a Unix clone for 80386 PC's that everyone will want to use in production".
Beginner’s Guide to Redis and Caching with Node.js
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Lots of comments about how Dave Chapelle presents his position and the context in which he presents his position. The emotion quality of it all.

The is very little commentary about the core message of his rant - and Ben's comments.

Truth told, it should not be surprising.

The issues at hand are emotional ones about morals, justice and doing the right thing.

They are difficult issue to tackle and require taking subjective positions.

They do not lend themselves to a logical, intellectual and quantitative data-driven dissection.

He does however makes an excellent point from moral, social and justice-based perspective. He is holding media distribution companies at-large to account, and he is doing it from a qualitative perspective.

I suspect we will see more and more of this happening in the corporate world.

Whether companies have, or will acquire, the capacity and fortitude to tackle these issues is now up to them. The idea that profit cannot be the primary and only motive. Those that do will likely find it a rewarding approach in the long run.

What Dave is doing here is linking 'qualitative' issues to 'quantitative' results (money) in a very specific and effective way by, in his words "getting between a man and his paper".
Not just 128 bits wide (standard on high end laptops and most desktops), but 8 channels. The latency is halved and over the last decades I've only been seeing very modest improvements in latency to main memory on the order of 3-5% a year.
> What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?

ATT appears to have a transparent proxy [1] on LTE that selectively disables protocols based on usage. As a rural LTE user, we completely lost our ability to work/school from home for 2 weeks as a result until I could find a suitable alternative. Note, there was no violation of TOS or anything like that.

[1] - https://forums.att.com/conversations/other-phones-devices/at...
That would be 8 years prior to Ajit Pai. If it makes him incompetent, it also makes his predecessor incompetent.

The fact that STIR/SHAKEN required a new law should be a big hint that the FCC Chairman didn't have the power to fix the issue.
What else do you call it when a bunch of people who don't live somewhere think they know better than the people who do?

I grew up in a semi-rural area with an exploding population. When one farmer retires and builds a neighborhood that's not that different from the existing houses, it's not a big deal. When a property developer wants to steamroll the city's zoning and put 200 apartments sharing a fence with people who've maintained the community and lived for decades with 1 or 2 neighbors, that is a big deal. When a bunch of people from out of state decide they know what a random city should look like (ahem, strongtowns), that's colonialism.
It's very hard to dissent against the current narrative because any dissent can easily be framed as "killing people".

You know what, I call bullshit on this.

It’s pretty easy to argue in favour of or against specific measures when done in good faith and with evidence. What it’s hard to do is engage in this sort of shallow middlebrow meta-argument.
I fail to see how that's evidence of the internet causes people to lock down. Seems more like its evidence that the internet has nothing to do with the lockdown, and other factors control whether societies choose to lock down or not.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but lack of correlation is pretty strong evidence for lack of causation.
The M1's memory is ported in such a way that there isn't contention for the memory. At least according to the article.
What were some of Ajit Pai's strengths?
A warning sign of what?
Startup Panic Management Simulation Game
> I actually addressed all this.

No, you repeated propaganda that told you to think you did, but as with the rest of your “points”, too many lols very little substance.

> that’s what happens when technology increases productivity.

Not when, technology ALWAYS increases productivity, that is the point of technology. Deflation is inevitable because productivity increases are inevitable.

And the poor have benefitted immensely from deflation, despite central banks doing everything they can to rob you of its benefits. More people than ever can now afford to eat meat, or drink single malt scotch, or whatever. More people eat lobster now than in any other time in history, that is the power and benefit of deflation.
Regarding voice clarity on smartphones, it’s quite terrifying to see the difference in audio quality (recorded or during calls) from one instant message app to another, on the same phone.

For example, from worse to best:

- wechat
- WhatsApp
- Threema
- Voice memo.

How are other apps scoring at this? (Telegram / Skype / Naver / etc.)
It should be said that the race was red-flagged (i.e. stopped) for nearly an hour while they rebuilt the barriers, so there was a lot of downtime there.

Also: on the first lap of the restart, another driver (Lance Stroll for Racing Point) flipped his car after a collision. He was fine (F1 cars are designed to be able to handle being flipped upside down), but man, this race seriously frayed your nerves.
> You can't just release a CPU for which there is no operating system

sure you can. That's what compilers are for.
Which of Pai's strengths did we conveniently forget?
One of my favourite Usenet posts is Linus' tirade at Tanenbaum over MINIX.
Congrats to Snopes for tracking down an earlier use, but it was the :-) smilie that caught on, and people didn't get it from Readers' Digest. So although the 1982 message wasn't the first-ever emoticon it was the one that got the Internet (or more specifically Usenet) using emoticons.

It's similar to pointing out that Christopher Columbus didn't "discover America" even from a Eurocentric perspective because others were first. Those other early settlements died out; Columbus changed everything.
If anyone is infected at that wedding (highly would be likely in the US and much of Europe right now), and if it's at all like normal weddings, it's highly likely that many people will become infected. The virus has an infection fatality rate of around 0.5%, so you're running perhaps a few percent chance of someone who goes to the wedding dying of CoVID-19. The secondary effects of accelerating the spread of the virus are much harder to measure, but potentially far worse.
While I understand the hesitation, it seems like you just pulled scary sounding diseases out of thin air.

Is there any evidence pointing in that direction?

I am not a biologist, but I have a basic understanding of how the mRNA vaccines work. As far as I know the protein the vaccine codes for is well understood.

The only kind of sketch part to me is whatever complicated bio-chem is used to enable the uptake of the mRNA, but from what I've read it seems like that process is a one time thing, not some lasting DNA based change.

Which is to say, at an intuitive level, I would expect to see any harsh side-effects immediately (hours to days). Again, just a layman's interpretation, like most of the anti-vax comments on here.
> but experimental methods have not solved protein folding either.

I might be missing something here, but isn't "experimental methods" just shorthand for "our best knowledge of a protein's structure, obtained via NMR or X-ray crystallography"? In that case, I'm not sure what "solving" protein folding even means - literally zero mean error? We can't know/solve anything beyond our best knowledge, that's tautological.

> What would be informatively useful would be to know how much accuracy is needed on average for drug engineers.

Yeah that would be interesting, but:

> I'd say that 99% is more likely to be the minimum to make solid inferences

...what are you basing this on?
> Bitcoin can change depending on the need of the users, assuming it's something accepted by them, which sounds fair to me.

No? In what way.

> As for the inflation/fiat it just seems to me that you keep ignoring the possibility of a failure of such system. A failure of such system would for sure have terrible consequences and the poor unlike the wealthier will have harder times.

A collapse in finance would affect the people who have money and value, that'd be the rich who'd be affected. It would not affect those who don't have money. Like inflation.
one solution omitted: provide an API so scraping is unnecessary
OpenZFS 2.0
>we still do not learn much about long-term consequences of COVID infection among less vulnerable population

Then we need to first learn about it before implementing measure that is harmful such as lockdown.

Somehow lockdown doesn't have long-term consequences?

>Secondly, evidence for mask significantly outnumber contrary paper

What matter is the content of the paper not the number of paper.

>Thirdly, risk of you going to the wedding includes the risk of the spread of infection to people you contact with, among them your elder relatives

I didn't denied that but there is also risk of banning indoor weeding. The question is which has less risk?

>well, I do not know who would buy that.

I can only speak for myself
What government wants to do but cannot, it can require corporations to do for it
I think he means that those who are in their teens / even younger now will get to experience immensely cool tech in their lifetime.
Transplant recipients (which must be on suppressants for life) can and do take vaccines and they work. They generally can't take live virus vaccines, but that's about it AFAIK.
How does I/O works differently in a M1 chip compared to x86?
Any that isn't in the crypto press.

If you want Tether explained, this is the best article I've seen (I wish I'd written it).

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

This is a year old; it's only gotten more blatant since then.

The NYAG's inquiry has been slowed by COVID, but is grinding on.
The rumors I've read so far is that the next chip will be the M1-X, and will be a 12-core CPU, with 8 "high performance" cores and 4 "efficiency" cores, and will be released in a 16" MBP. The current M1, by contrast, has an 8-core CPU (4 HP cores and 4 efficiency cores).
This comment didn't make me laugh so I have dismissed it from further consideration.
I've seen you mention this [More] comment a few times now. I like it, though what if you change the design of the More functionality?
Means nothing without saying what the clock goes at.
Portable hotspots are nice, sure - I do have one. Still feel like it'd be more convenient to have cellular connectivity built right in though; you always have some connectivity then provided you're not too remote.

I've considered switching to Google Fi solely because they provide data-only SIMs associated with your normal plan that I could then pop into a laptop. (Rather than making you pay twice as most providers do.)

Haven't been able to justify it yet though, I'm on a pretty good grandfathered plan at the moment.
I think this is not a therapy session - rather, this is Chapelle turning into a preacher (and I don't say that as a negative thing).

If you saw the previous special he released on social media and his opening act for SNL, it's clear that he wants to talk about serious issues without having to sneak them between jokes.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen_2

The actual instruction decoder is 4-wide. However, the micro-op cache has 8-wide issue, and the dispatch unit can issue 6 instructions per cycle (and can retire 8 per cycle to avoid ever being retire-bound). In practice, Zen 2 generally acts like a 6-wide machine.

Oh, on this terminology: x86 instructions are 1-15 bytes wide (averaging around 3-4 bytes in most code). n-wide decode refers to decoding n instructions at a time.
This is exactly how the hardware works and what micro-ops are, on any system with a u-op cache or trace cache those decoded instructions are cached and used instead of decoding again. Unfortunately you still have to decode the instructions at least once first and that bottleneck is the one being discussed here. This is all transparent to the OS and not visible outside a low level instruction cache though, which means you don’t need a major OS change, but arguably if you were willing to take that hit you could go further here.
[citation needed]

> Not when, technology ALWAYS increases productivity, that is the point of technology.

Well, not bitcoin lol, it's anti-efficient.
Thanks, I updated my comment above.
That money will go towards destroying the rest of the world no matter what. That's what Americans do, we kill muslims in the name of Jesus. That's all we know how to do anymore. I can't stop that.

However, I paid $60k in taxes last year, and I basically will not be able to find work this year thanks to covid. I'm struggling, and NONE of that money I've given is coming back to me. I've been paying taxes on income since I was 15, 26 years, and my government basically told me to go fuck myself.

I've also generated many millions of dollars for YC startups, helped them get funding, helped them get employees. Now that I can't find work, everyone who used to call me up constantly asking me for help has fucked off.

BTW, Alex from Pagerduty, I hope you get covid and die you greedy piece of trash! You should have been kicked off the internet for ignoring someone trying to rape one of your employees.
It's not misleading, it's just not as complete as it could be, because population density is a trivial statistic to determine and density of occupied land is much more difficult (for starters you need to define "occupied").

If you have stats on density of occupied land, I'm happy to work with that.
Cycling is more dangerous in America because of bad cycling infrastructure.

Put another way, cycling is only more dangerous than driving if you consider an SUV running over a bike to be an example of cycling being the more dangerous form of transport.
...and all I wanted was to change the default screensavers, damn you Amazon :-(
I wish they would have collected more demographic information.

It would help both to determine how representative the survey was of the greater OCaml community, and also to ascertain the diversity of the community itself. Being rather niche, there is certainly going to be underrepresentation of certain groups.

It would be helpful to be able to compare the results to similar data covering the demographics of other language communities like Haskell and Rust, and the wider software/tech field.

I also feel like the distribution methods and sample size of the survey likely skewed the results significantly. The survey window was relatively short and the choice to distribute the survey through discuss.ocaml.org and some mailing lists definitely missed a lot of other segments of the community.

I find it funny that one of the questions asks where people interact with the community, and a large number of respondents answered discuss.ocaml.org. Well of course they do! That was one of the few noted places the survey was advertised!

In the end I agree with one of their conclusions:

> It would be ideal to delegate the formatting of the survey and the summarization of results to professionals.

But I would add that ‘distribution and administration’ to that list .
Sure, but that definitely helps, but a big part of it was their leadership and organized action to fight it.
Almost 40,000 people got an organ transplant in the US in 2019
>In my experience the spread is usually under 1% of the 24 avg.

And how does that work? For example, the last 24hr bitcoin is up like 10%.. Let's call 5% below the current price the 24hr average.. are you suggesting that the exchange rate is 1% above the 24avg, or 4% below the current price, meaning the seller is eating 4% of the current price? That certainly does not make any sense.

>But how are you going to get scammed accepting bitcoin? It's not like it's easy to forge a bitcoin.

I agree the seller can't really get scammed, but the buyer has --zero-- recourse. So sure the seller loves it because there is no recourse and they can add a nice spread (my first point). But the buyer does not.

Whereas credit cards- both parties get benefits (even if it skews toward the buyer, however that is a good thing, it shouldn't be equal.. the seller has more information about the transaction thus the buyer should have more recourse).
If you have an experimental error that is somewhat normally distributed around the mean, the the AI should, with enough examples, learn what the rules are that are closest to the mean. Because it will minimize the sum of errors.

So i do think the results could be more accurate than measurement.
Is there an app that tells you whether or not you have the emotional constitution for management, so you can avoid wasting years of your life reading management books and thinking your smart enough to do it only to find out when push comes to shove you just can't really tolerate the emotional rollercoaster well enough to actually do it?
> Most people have been txing with a trusted source (e.g. coinbase).

That's not blockchain, and it's not crypto. You can do that right now with literally any asset in an InteractiveBrokers account.
OP here: this is meant as a follow up to the comments in this thread from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249414
For the sceptics: if you read the referenced article, you will see that it is about protein structure determination by means of deep neural networks. It's not about gene expression, which is a different topic. What benefit does it have to respond to the question "What are the immediate real-world applications of this" (see above) by reciting some molecular biology dogmas from text books mixed with misconceptions, instead of responding to the real question?
> You can use languages like Ruby ... in a way that matches this [Alan Kay] definition [of OOP], but they're not typically used this way

Oh, but it is. Writing in a message-passing style is how I was taught Ruby, with specific reference to the ideas of Alan Kay and the influence of Smalltalk. This describes a tremendous amount of my code and of those I work with. It’s a very natural fit for Ruby and far from uncommon.

Maybe that doesn’t apply to how folks are (initially) taught to write Rails apps, but that’s another can of worms.
It means that the problem was highly evident by the time Pai arrived. Taking four years to build political concensis on a decade-old problem sufficient to result in STIR/SHAKEN, dependent or not on Congress, isn't a laudable achievement.
It's a good question. I don't really have the data science chops to come up with the methodology. I was always a weak statistician...

I'm not looking to prove that there is no bias, I'm devilishly interested in whether actual bias is stronger around Apple, don't mind if it's favourable or not.