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Recently started my journey with Rust having worked with Elixir in production for about two years, but I keep an ear out on Rust and Elixir/Erlang development

My question: are you familiar with the Lumen project? https://github.com/lumen/lumen#about. Both projects appear to have some overlap. Secondly, what, if any, will be the primary differentiators here? (I've not looked at either projects in too much detail)

One of its creators, Paul Schoenfelder (Bitwalker), you're probably familiar with as he's authored a few popular libraries in Elixir and the other core developer, Luke Imhoff, is ensuring that WASM is taking players like Elixir/Erlang into account being a part of one of the organizations or committees if I recall correctly
87 GDT sounds pretty much solved to me if 90 is the benchmark
Given that BTC isnt based on any NPV or earnings multiple or industrial use value but is rather based on scarcity value, I dont see why gaining 10-50x returns are any more or less likely than, say, losing 90% of the value.

Could anyone provide a more methodical way of thinking about this?
they're similar, but the developer ergonomics around processes are way better. It's difficult to mess up, coding in the BEAM feels like bowling with those rubber bumpers in the gutter lanes, especially around very difficult concepts like concurrency and failure domains.

Go makes it easy to mess up because the abstractions are superficially simple, but it's a pretty thin layer that you punch through.
It's a shame that the userland doesn't keep up pace as well. I'm told that even old CLI utils start to get bloated now.
> Why else? Point me at someone who believes the Constitution is deeply, deeply flawed and in serious need of major revisions yet takes an originalist approach in their jurisprudence.

All of the people who supported amendments?
So did IRC and mailinglists for many years, people will move on to the next platform du jour.
I don't think I ever saw a headline saying natural language is solved; who's claiming that?
Mark Shepard is, last I heard, attempting the "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" approach with apples. I think he, like many of us, has a problem with statistics. Based on the number of apples he's planting, he has maybe a 20% chance of getting an edible apple. Though he might develop a decent cider or root-stock apple.
Money aside, far more people care about Photoshop than care about Homebrew. Optics-wise, it makes more sense.

I hope this next year shows Apple helping out pivotal projects like Homebrew. If they expect their own developers to be using their own hardware, then they will certainly have to make it work.

I was only a student when they switched to Intel, so I wasn't aware of any issues facing developers back then. I'm guessing they'll follow the same playbook, though.
This is the cost of training the final architecture with all the refinements enabled by years of research.

These years of research involved trying many different architectures, many of which received as much or more compute time than the final system.

The price of training the final architecture is meaningless. Researching and training AlphaGo was expensive but it enabled the ideas and development of AlphaZero which is more computationally tractable.

To have any chance, an academic team would need the same compute resources as what the DeepMind protein folding team used during the whole development of the architecture during the last few years, not only the resources used to train the final system. And I bet this funding is not available to most if not all academic teams.
Write a book? It seems to me a lot of the "experts" out there are really just people who were somewhat curious about an idea, started collecting information, and then formulated the information into a book. Likewise, if you really are interested in the idea of "what's the best ay to organize a liberal democracy..." maybe go get a political science degree or start hanging around in places where there are think tanks discussing issues like that?
I really hope that sympy would improve to a point where I could use it. But as long as Fourier transforms are as badly broken as they are (see e.g. issues [1], [2] and [3]) I can't use it. And the fact that it doesn't fail or crash but gives wrong answers doesn't inspire much trust.

1: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/2803
2: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/7178
3: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/18136
gPodder is already pretty great at this and doesn't require per-podcast config files. Some time ago I even made a simple WebUI for it: https://github.com/nmaggioni/dashpodder
"Lean" on the client's compute. Some websites should be ashamed, because what they are doing is basically "stealing" client compute with overbearing JS. A lot of news sites, for one.
What apps do you use for drawing the labeling/bounding boxes?
Or at least we'll get another piece of usable business software ;)
I'm not sure I understand your second example qualm. That's logical described-on-the-box behavior.
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How so? Bitcoin is the best performance asset class.
How did it get there?
How do you define enormous? "It uses approximately 128 TPUv3 cores (roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs) run over a few weeks". Also last time it took about a year for good replications to pop up.
What Lenovo/Dell models were those? And how are you exactly calculating these percentages?

It looks like you speak from your own experience, and so do I.

Enterprise grade laptops from either Lenovo and Dell are known to be very sturdy and well made. Not sure if the materials will be as nice for your fingers as the macbook materials, but for sure they won't fall apart.

I have had thinkpads that would have survived falling from a third floor. I just don't see how a macbook is more reliable than a thinkpad or a precision.

Try throwing a macbook out your window.
Consider this: you only cited US stocks, that's not exactly open to the whole world.
Bitcoin is much more accessible, (arguably) converts to local fiat faster than US$ -> local, and having gains of 100% or close to it in a span of a few months is nothing to laugh at.
I know it's gonna hit 20k at some point since I haven't seen media talking about it yet. Not enough FOMO
yeah good question, we actually debated quite a bit on this. In the end, we want to build the best UX possible (we realized it's one of the value prop of our product), and we felt that going native would be better mid & long term because at some point, you hit a threshold with those react native/hybrid and it makes more time to polish things out.

Also right when we started (in Feb), we had to implement Apple Sign-in, and the UX around it for React native or Hybrid framework was absolutely terrible.

In the end, I still think it was a good choice: while we compromise and make people wait a bit more for Android, it gave our (small) team a lot more focus. We learn and make mistakes on one platform, iterate faster on it, and once we feel comfortable with what we've done on iOS, we'll roll it out to Android (which we plan to do in Jan/Feb next year).
That's a damn good question, it looks like we don't know how much above 90 AlphaFold is.
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I don't agree that the effort was shoddy and I don't think any errors made in standing up a new government program in a matter of weeks, with a mandate to move as quickly as possible, and in the middle of a pandemic say anything useful about the concept of welfare in general
The one time $1,200 payments were more of a campaign thing than practical policy - remember the physical checks signed by Donald Trump? The real relief package was in the unemployment insurance (the federal government added $600 a week to unemployment payments - huge in poor states where unemployment might be only $250 a week maximum) and in the payroll "loans" that will mostly be forgiven because they went to, well, payroll.

Edit: Maybe my editorializing wasn't well received, but the facts are correct regardless:

The spending primarily includes $300 billion in one-time cash payments to individual Americans (with most single adults receiving $1,200 and families with children receiving more[5]), $260 billion in increased unemployment benefits, the creation of the Paycheck Protection Program that provides forgivable loans to small businesses with an initial $350 billion in funding (later increased to $669 billion by subsequent legislation), $500 billion in aid for large corporations, and $339.8 billion to state and local governments.[6]
While all my friends used pc paintbrush, I had DP2e on the PC. It felt very limiting when I was on one of their computers. I have nearly zero artistic talent, but could still turn out some passable stuff thanks to things like the perspective tools. I hadn't heard the .brush version before and just assumed it was guybrush.bbm
A reference for Rosetta being a translation, rather then emulation.

"Rosetta is a translation process"

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
You can make anything slow if you make it complex enough. I have a slow mobile and in-browser Reddit loads in about 10 seconds or so. Twitter is not much better.
Working longer hours, like hiring more engineers to a team, has diminishing returns. You can maybe sprint for a few months (I’ve certainly done it) but it takes years to see a startup through.
My assumption is not empirically correct, I agree, but neither is the belief that IRS audits of mass populations is politically motivated.

It is simply ease, right? Easier to audit where it is easy returns, or where one will get a high return (eg: high return of audit hours vs audit returns). Similar to how people often suggest police can 'issue more fines' for speeding (easy, high volume) than for difficult crimes requiring risk and time.
You can short it and still make money. Go ahead.
This article is a rehash of existing information and an insult to tech workers that were forced out (such as myself).

If the day to day living conditions were actually acceptable, many people would have stayed during the pandemic. The real problem is the sky high cost of housing with a low quality of life.

I put up with increasing crime, dangerous grime (such as needles in bike lanes) and tent cities on sidewalks all over the place for a decade until my brain couldn't take it anymore.

I have no problem paying Zurich level prices to live in SF due to its surrounding beauty, great opportunities and people but the mismanagement of the city has proven the high costs do not come with high quality of life.

I would share more but I'm typing on my phone, I'm just disappointed to see "techies" still being blamed and called money hungry just because people are looking the other way at other problems.
past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671919
> shoddiness of the welfare state

It works out to $10 erroneous dollars for every $1,000,000. That's 99.999% accuracy and that doesn't sound shoddy to me at all.
Eh this one doesn’t seem that strange to me. People die every day, a lot of them. Sending a check to an American that died and hasn’t been reported upwards to the federal government is not surprising. Sending money to non Americans who are not in America is a bit of a head scratcher. How did that even happen? I don’t care enough about 34 million dollars to look any further into it but I am curious about who these people are and how they got sent checks by the US government. Did they live here once upon a time and left? That would make sense to me, not dissimilar from the dead not dead people, just stale data and speed was the stated goal so stale data is to be expected.
You might be right, like *nix utilities that have been around forever? Perhaps https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ is such a page? Staid, having a sense of permanence, what in Britain we describe as "part of the woodwork" (something that's been around so long, and is dependable, like the very structure of a building).
If folding and docking, alongwith dynamics simulations, start getting commodified, that might change things significantly though. I can already start imagining project workflows that are significantly streamlined without much thought, god knows what other scientists would dream up when we reach those steps
He was going to get fired anyway so whatever.

Good riddance I say.
this might be a vc-case!
Well it depends why it costs a few million per person. If the production of the vaccine takes thousands of tons of coal and hundreds of pounds of bark of a slow-growing tree then yes, we don't have that per person. But if the current million dollar price is to enrich some pharma investors then there's nothing to say that society needs to find $100 trillion to enrich someone.
No, the genome of the host is much smaller than the theoretical number of combinations. There are about 20 to 30k different proteins in a human cell (about 20k directly encoded on the DNA).
That was the original dream of the internet, except replace these concerns with period-specific equivalents.
Please correct my math if I got this wrong, but a less click-baity headline would be:

> IRS Says Its Own Error Sent 0.0016 Percent of a $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Package to Non-Americans Overseas

34 million / 2.2 trillion = 0.00005454...
> It is rapidly becoming _the_ package manager to use.

As a fan of pip's simplicity, I hope this won't become the case.
As scalability was one of the design goals. are there any comparisons of performance with huge repos?
None of this is scientifically cause and effect. You are picking correlations which agree with your preferred narrative and extrapolating from there.

There is very strong evidence that the virus is less contagious to/from children and that schools and daycares are not a significant point of transmission.

1 - https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/risk-co...

2 - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/925794511/were-the-risks-of-r...

3 - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/coronavirus-school...

4 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/20/covid-19-...
Besides structure prediction, Foldit is used for the inverse problem: protein design.
I bet it's still a lot less than they spent training AlphaStar.
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> I mean, they sent what, $34m overseas erroneously of $2T?

Far less. That $34m included disbursement to non-resident US citizens. Considerably more than 28,333 US citizens live overseas. I have had to file tax returns for 10 years despite not living in the US and having no US income, you bet your ass I cashed that check.
What about this middle ground? These are my thoughts, very curious whether there are languages doing this & if so, what the real world problems are.

1. Statically typed.

2. Unchecked exceptions by default. IE, implicit bottom on every type.

3. Optional checked exceptions. Implementation could be `checked` keyword (e.g. `checked fun foo() throws XyzError {}`), or a generic type, or something else depending on the language. In order to mark something as checked, it must catch all exceptions from unchecked values it touches.

4. The compiler infers exceptions types when possible. So, if a regular unchecked function (`fun bar() {}`) only calls checked functions (foo from above), the compiler will carry the information about what can be thrown (XyzError) up the chain, even if there is no explicit signature. This way if another function (`checked fun baz() {}`) calls bar(), then it only has to catch or declare the XyzException, rather than all exceptions generically.

Finally, and to tie this all together: as a matter of style, reserve exceptions for actual unexpected errors. To use an example from downthread, a JSON parsing library should not be throwing parsing errors, it should be returning a Maybe<Parsed, Error>. Why? Because the library cannot determine whether the error is unexpected. If you're using it to parse user input, then yes, you're going to frequently encounter invalid data, and this should be part of your normal control flow, not something that can crash your application at runtime (you may want to log the event, maybe with a stack trace, but without interrupting normal operations). On the other hand, say you're parsing JSON from your database, (also, why are storing json in your db? But bear with me..). And invalid json means data corruption, which means your db is fubar. Then, it's fine to throw, because in that case you're operating on state that you assumed to be impossible, and your program behavior is now undefined.

The key point here is that exceptions are useful as a safety valve for early termination in the case of invalid assumptions. That's a subset of all error handling. If you try to force all error handling into the same paradigm and the same level of reliability, you're going to have awkward edge cases.
Arnavion was actually right. No scripts at all were executed.
SF had a city budget of approx. 12B in 2019-20[1]. If there is a tech flight, who is going to pick up the tab? Some of the options I see range from unlikely to very unlikely to impossible - cut government services, increase city income tax, add a wealth tax for SF residents, incentivize the tech industry to return.

[1] https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FY2019-20_and_FY2020-2...
This please. I want something similar so badly. I would sign up in less than a heartbeat.
Care to summarize what you've learned?
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Jews in Ottoman Turkey? Sharia law in Indonesia? What do they have to do with India? I wish you would google these things before posting such bizarre notions.

The word secular was only inserted into the Indian constitution in 1977. How did it inspire Indonesian "secularism"? As for the vaunted Indonesian secularism you tout - is it letting the other religions live and practice or actually allowing them to prosper? How many non-muslims reach higher office in Indonesia. How many non-muslims in Indonesia have a shot at becoming president?

Once a country's population reaches more than 40-50% Islamic, Sharia law and eventual annihilation of the non-muslim population is just a matter of time. The data shows this again and again - Copts in Egypt, Northern Nigeria, Hindus in Kashmir, Bangladesh, Turkey (Armenians/Assyrians/Greeks), Iraq (Assyrians)......

The Jews of Europe developed into a professional class because of forced urbanization in Europe. They were very desirable immigrants in the 16th century like the highly educated technology class that is courted by every country. What about the pogroms against Jews that were prevelant in most of Arabia from Morocco to the Arabian peninsula? The Arabic pogroms against Jews were less severe than European pogroms against Jews but hardly a virtue.

Islam explicitly sanctions capture, trading and sexual slavery of non-muslim women and trading and ownership of slaves in general. Did you know historians have compiled price indices of the price of non-muslim women sold in the markets of the Ottoman Empire over hundreds of years? Sexual slavery for women and non-muslim men being castrated was the norm till Ataturk (20th century!) and about 50% of the boys died during castration. If you want to talk of the Ottoman Empire as a beacon of tolerance you can watch this truly disturbing video of slavery in Islam and the Ottoman empire [1]. On second thought, don't watch the video as it is truly disturbing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIjPPRf0YZk&t
I think the “they” you’re referring to is only whatever PR person wrote the headline. Nowhere in the substance of this (PR!) post does it refer to it as anything but a great leap. When an expert in the field outside of deepmind says protein folding has been solved, I’ll believe it.
Completely agree. The real scandal has been egregious unemployment claims fraud. Hundreds of millions from California alone, and multiple states have been targeted[0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/us/california-unemploymen...
This. I believe technically just linear regression could be considered "machine learning".
Yeah, Original statement was logic only. Followup was on how specific areas might be 'cash only' hotspots that diverge from the mean tax paid for occupations, revenue, or other criteria.
you only have knowledge about CIA because they willingly declassify information after some time. KGB doesn't. people that talk suddenly get polonium in their tea or novichok on their door handles, and that's how they operate on UK's soil in freaking London, people in other places just disappear without a trace and investigation.

as for what have they organized.. well, let's check the last couple year: USA presidency - check, UK exit from EU - check, Catalania almost leaving Spain, Marine le Pen almost becoming president of France, huge rise of AfD popularity in Germany, hacking of various high profile corporations, olympic games and governments. destabilization of global alliances and international relations is what they do for decades.
I could say "I have a job!" and that statement would be true, but only with the information I currently have available (what if my boss has already decided to fire me but I've just not received the information yet?). So the statement being true is based on my information about the world, just like probability.

Are particles on the quantum level real or just mathematical constructs that describe what we can observe, just like probability is?
Has hydrogen storage been solved? How big would a hydrogen tank have to be to power a plane for more than an hour? And what is the conversion rate of hydrogen to electricity?
> Uranium supplies are also finite

So is the sun, and they will both last for roughly the same time, i.e. 5 billion years.[1]

[1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html
Why should they do that? How is it in their responsibility?

They haven’t impacted homebrew users negatively at all.
heh. the down votes are so pefect.
If you desire the latest and greatest no matter how proprietary, that's your prerogative. But to then pretend you want open hardware but have your hands tied is silly.
I come across this article every year around the time of the fundraising campaign, and I always check if there is an updated source as to the health of Wikipedia, but I can never find one. I'm sure Wikipedia is now more funded than ever, but no one writes about it. My guess is that because doing so would be considered controversial since Wikipedia is (rightly IMO) universally loved. But I wish someone would dig into it because honest reporting shouldn't be subject to popular opinion
One question that I have is at what point do you call something a VM?

Also, I haven’t looked at your code, so maybe this is not understanding things correctly, but wrt targeting wasm, could your work ever make it into the actual rust runtime?
Zoom missed a good opportunity to buy slack. They could have used their inflated stock price to purchase it snd consolidate into a WFH platform. The only weakness is probably the Zoom CEO who probably wouldn’t know how to run both businesses. But I think that would have been a better match than salesforce
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