skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what percentage of immigrants - of any origin - are criminals and rapists?

the quote:

> “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said in the same speech. “They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

you can assume he meant something other than what he said, but his words were in reference to "When Mexico send its people", so it is not "delusion" to say he referred to "people from Mexico".

he so generously acknowledges that only "some" of them might be good people.

what do you think he meant when he said "they're not sending you"?

what do you think he meant by saying Mexico "sends" people to the US?

the media was right to treat that comment as indefensible.
Those noncitizens mentioned in the article all happen to receive social security payments from the US, due to having worked there in the past.

> Asked about this by NPR, the IRS acknowledged it mistakenly sent checks to some noncitizens who receive Social Security and other federal benefits — such as Wigforss, who receives a small Social Security payment from having worked in California for several years
Parent's comment seems to hint that Nintendo (vs other publishers) is harsher towards IA in particular, so this is what I meant to ask about. I am aware that Nintendo are litigious in general.
> Why?

Cars are expensive, inefficient, and use a huge amount of resources relative to their transportation capability.

> Need to make enough parking available for a building.

Disagree. And we can agree to disagree on this one, but I am a big fan of urban areas not having mandatory minimum parking. Space spent on cars means space not spent on housing, which most urban areas need much more.

> This is a solved problem in private residential apartments and office buildings.

It's not a solved problem - offices do not have enough parking for everyone to drive in, and most residential towers spend a huge amount of space housing cars rather than people.

> pollution is always produced. Do you think trains and busses do not produce large amount of pollution?

Per person/cargo transported? Much, much less pollution. Like an order of magnitude less.

> We have flexibility of time, space, luggage, comfort, temperature, health, music, speed, privacy, basically everything.

You've never lived in a place with good public transport? Speed, time, and comfort are pretty normal for well funded transport. Yes, you lose some privacy.

But also, I'm not advocating for you to get rid of all your cars. There are plenty of models where a family does well with zero or one cars, relying on transit for most trips, and borrowing/renting a car or taxi when they can't make transit work.
Hottake: regardless of chance of detection, the incentive to bother cheating for most online play, e.g. at chess.com, is close enough to zero to not worry about it.

Probable that there are sociopaths who will do it, but, the 99% case is good faith players interested in a match for compatible reasons.

TQG reminded me I used to play every day, recreationally; I'm finding chess.com quite nice.
Slack has no moat. It won the market by dint of excellent marketing and a good enough product with a little design panache. Admittedly, this has been really hard for it's competitors to match 100% but really no chat platform has had any major innovation in like 20 years. They have mostly all failed due to a combination of network effects and poorly-conceived monetization strategies. Slack is hot, but it's not going to last 10 years.
Development, mantainance, support and servers cost money and time.

The least I would expect from a tax evading megacorp like Apple was to support the development of a tool that's so widespread and important to developers on macs. That would be the smart thing to do.

The fact that homebrew is specific to macs only adds insult to injury because that's even more reason to support such a tool and strengthen their ecosystem.

Throwing a bone so late in the game with no extra support other than a few beta machines worth a single week of one developer's income is laughable.

I shouldn't be surprided by Apple's stinginess. Last time they got hacked by a one-of-a-kind security research team which found dozens of vulnerabilities, the team was paid within 6 digits what could easily sell for 7 ou perhaps 8 digits to state actors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24718078
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> A large chunk (33%) of the money was saved

Another term for 'saved' is 'spent slowly'.
My thoughts exactly. It's about the same outcome you can expect as betting in Vegas.
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It does appear other experts in the field are claiming this: https://twitter.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1333383769861054464
You know what I mean by "processed foods" and it is not frozen vegetables, salted meat, or smoked fish. The "meat stick" you get at the store is not just "salted meat". It is not a preserve, it is a processed food. Look at the ingredient label, they use a lot more than just "salt and meat" to make that stick and it is pretty sketchy to put that stuff in a person's body.
I was curious about the gcc blocker. It mostly seems to be due to formulae that depend on GNU Fortran. However, there's a Fortran front-end for LLVM:

https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang/wiki

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/master/flang/

I wonder if it's an alternative to waiting on gcc gaining arm64 support. Frankly, I don't see why any of homebrew should have to depend on gcc.
For the malus-curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonovka.

So how's it taste?
But basically no one gets severe Covid-19. I don't know anyone who has even tested positive.
Glad it helps! If we didn’t put so much focus on UX (i.e: if we were building a “boring” typical B2B education tool), we would most likely have gone with React Native (we also have a lot of expertise with React in the team).
But we talked with people, and realized that they use our app at the same time that they go on IG, Snapchat or TikTok. What that means for us is that our UX needs to be just as good or even better than those big players if we want to compete on “screen time”.

That’s already quite hard to do with a 2 people tech-team, so adding on top of that limitations from cross-platform frameworks would have been shooting ourselves in the foot.
It's the universities.
Then you should definitely look into the "Demoscene". It's basically a subculture built around writing impressive little graphics demos.

What exactly makes them impressive depends on the category, e.g. a limited hardware platform like some 80s computer, or limited space. A popular category is "4k", meaning that the program has to fit into 4096 bytes. 4k demos can actually get quite visually complex and even feature music.

Many modern games that let you explore gigantic, seemingly infinite spaces (e.g. Minecraft, No Man's Sky) owe a lot to the ideas that originated in the Demoscene.
LineageOS does not support MicroG officially, you will not receive support from them so I don't know what your benchmark for sustainability is.

The officially stated reason (I'm paraphrasing) was because it allows for fudging the signatures of apps and services on the OS, and this breaks the security model.
Bitcoin and other compute-intensive cryptocurrencies should be banned or taxed so heavily that it's financially infeasible to use them.

The amount of energy being wasted (reportedly more than seven nuclear power plants worth) on what is essentially an unproductive project is quite absurd.

In a world where we should all be increasingly concerned about the looming climate catastrophe, it's wholly irresponsible for Bitcoin to exist other than as an academic curiosity.

Also I reckon if recreational drugs were legalised, there would be no real reason to use Bitcoin at all. I mean what would be left except for just buying into the pyramid scheme, and ransomware payments?
I think it's that a score of >90 means the result is within the error bars of whatever particular experiment was chosen to be the "reference".
I don't disagree with your claim, but like all moral claims, I don't see how it's actually useful or actionable. Children should not get cancer. People should not drive without seatbelts. Our optic nerve exit the back of our eye instead of having to go through blind spot on our retina. And yet here we are.

The Python ecosystem is older than our modern conception of how a package manager should behave. Any new package manager must build on top of that chaotic history. Absent a time machine, your comment just seems like a vague lament about the state of the world.
My question exactly; or Rosetta @ home, or any of the other protein folding "@home"s. I participate in a few, but would gladly donate my compute resources elsewhere if this is no longer necessary.
Interesting, thanks for the detailed info. I've done a fair number of benchmarking of different CPU architectures and never seen a latency lower than 60ns or so. My jaw dropped when I saw the M1 chasing pointers on large random array (much bigger than cache) at 30ns or so. That's a pretty amazing latency for l1 cache miss, l2 cache miss, and retrieving a cache line from main memory.
I haven't lived in SF but I work in tech and have been visiting for 10 years.

My hot take is that NYC (where I have lived) is better in every way except for the weather. Every time I arrived at SFO and walked outside I was like "why don't I live here?". Then I get to the tent cities, the grime, the open drug use and the hordes of homeless and I'm like "oh yeah, that's why". And that's before you get to the sky-high cost of living.

Given the zoning and building constraints in the Bay Area, IMHO the big tech companies were over-capacity for how many workers that whole area can support. Fixing the zoning and required infrastructure to support more people is not something that will change overnight either (or ever, potentially).

So the pandemic has shepherded in what might be the turning point for this unsustainable growth: and that is permanent remote work.

Let me put it this way: I used to say that everyone (who worked at Google) lives in the Bay Area to work at Google whereas people work at Google everywhere else to live in those places. This isn't strictly true of course but generally I think it is.

I see this move as being a boon for a lot of cities in the US: Atlanta, Dallas, Austin and Denver spring to mind. And this likely has long-term political consequences. Georgia flipped blue (just) in the election just gone largely due to Atlanta's growth. I think Texas will flip blue within 10-15 years.

SF could be a nice place to live but it isn't. That was largely due to there being too many people who had to live there. This won't change overnight either but I see alleviating that "need" to live in the Bay Area as being a net positive.
It probably won’t take a large current, but I expect you need more than just enough to close a relay. Most likely, you’ll need enough to power some CPUs and data buses as well. That’s still tiny compared to the current required to run a starter motor, though.
That is one thing I love about the finance industry vs other industries.

Someone who thinks they can predict the future or at least have a strong opinion can go ahead and put their money on the line rather than just comment on a thread! It’s actually beautiful.
FYI, you can buy a brand new iPhone SE from Apple.com for $400.
What determines retreat/threat is the rate of exponential change. The exponential appears to have gone negative, and that looks like retreat to me.

(1000 per 100k is not as significant as it sounds, as 1 per 100k is a similar level of threat if the exponential is positive. That's just a time lag difference of a few weeks.)

For responsibility, you could think of it another way. Saying the "virus is in retreat" implies "lockdown is working - yay!" and might encourage the people currently voting on near-future regional restrictions to carry on because it appears to be working.

Right now, some MPs are threatening to block the government from implementing targeted, regional restrictions for the next couple of months, so the government is having to negotiate for lesser restrictions. Perhaps the Reuters headline will encourage them to keep up the restrictions for a while longer.
correlation between all stocks in the S&P 500 is so high that removing big tech makes little difference.

Also, a major part of the problem in my view is the blind indexing of equities that most investors use for the bulk of their portfolio. Market cap weighting essentially results in what essentially a momentum overlay: new money is allocated disproportionately to the stocks with the highest market cap, resulting in those stocks going up even more.
Work with a co-author.
Building blocks to develop a SaaS product
Tether is a cornerstone of the crypto industry. You can post some random blog posts here but Tether is actually used by trading firms, and can be minted and redeemed through their portal here https://app.tether.to/app/login

The Tether FUD is so dumb, but it's the last straw being grasped by perma-bears.
I don’t think you can say DeepMind could ever be more accurate to the true physical structure since it was built on the same experimental structures that it is being compared to. The limit of accuracy is the experimental data. However, I think we can say that a DeepMind prediction could at least be as good as a new experimental structure.
I don't think your proposed metric takes into account the opportunity cost of founders not doing something else (hence "surplus labor")
Have to agree, and if it is truly internal why are you doing SSL?
You've probably already seen it, but this [0] has served me well. We're all here to learn!

[0] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Despite this breakthrough by DeepMind, at this point we still do not understand protein folding. That makes it very hard to say precisely which features would be required to do the simulation correctly.

DeepMind/AlphaFold might have something to contribute there too, depending on how interpretable their network model(s?) are.
> Objecting to social programs because they have minuscule errors drives me up the wall.

It makes sense if you consider weak people to be exploitable material for powerful interests. Social programs interfere with that dynamic - ergo the endless propaganda and demonetization of compassion.
No, they didn't. They approximated a solution to protein folding.

The two are different concepts -- this isn't the typical HN pedantry.

"Solving" the problem would entail developing an interpretable algorithm for taking a string of amino acids and determining the 3D structure once folded.

Approximating a solution would entail simulating that algorithm, which is what their neural network is doing. It is of course usually accurate, but you would expect this with any suitable universal function approximator.

Props to DeepMind and congrats to CASP but is it not obvious that this is more hype-rhetoric for public consumption?
There is plenty of reason to question the safety of mRNA vaccines because none have ever been approved for use in humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine
Crypto is great- but BTC is a terrible crypto. Modern cryptos trade faster, with more anonymity, and more efficiently. BTC will never see mainstream transactional use- it's purely a store of value.

It still has some transactional use in online black markets for ease of purchase and name recognition- but it's considered 'legacy' and moving into unreccomended and unsupported territory on most markets.

I do believe that crypto does and will continue to gain use cases- but BTC is already on the tail end of it's useful life in any of those.
> The price of training the final architecture is meaningless.

Meaningless in historical terms, but meaningful in future terms. It's meaningless how long the training took because there were countless resources spent to get to that point. It's meaningful in the future, because we know that training times are fairly short, and iteration can be done fairly quickly.
It's a moment that actually requires paying attention to. Occasionally I find myself unable to find a winning move. To the point where I just try all possible legal moves. And they all fail! That's when I realize the last opponent move was actually a pawn move that can be captured en passant:-(
Most of the time "culture" refers to the set of excuses that you use to reject candidates for being "not a good fit", after they've demonstrated they can do the job. Culture should be an emergent property of the people you hire.
> if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, not less.

Why? I support social programs, I accept some inefficiencies and waste.

In general I think small waste is not worth the energy to be concerned about if the benefit is huge.

That said, I think means testing is a waste of everyone's time. Just provide the benefits to everyone -- it simplifies the process of providing the benefit.
Is the app available anywhere? I'd love to see if it works on my aquarium.
I've seen people at bio conferences actively calling linear regression machine learning.
The US government regularly do much worse things with tax money then send it to random foreigners. I would much rather the money be sent to random foreigners then used to bomb random foreigners for example.
lol go on redeem some. If you actually read their terms of service it specifically says tethers do not grant you any claim on their reserves. I’ve no doubt they’re used by exchanges that don’t want to comply with the law and follow AML/KYC. That’s the point.

Don’t carry water for these scammers they literally don’t have a bank account and admitted in court [1] much of their reserves are IOUs and crypto. Audit or gtfo (to tether inc not you).

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/dail...
I'm not a biologist but I'm not sure that follows. It could be that the experimentally-derived structure is 100% accurate to the actual physical structure but getting 90% of your predicted residues to match that is enough to get an accurate prediction of protein behavior and hence "competitive."
If your point is that Congress should allocate additional funds to the IRS to improve their infrastructure, I couldn't agree more.
Marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs (Patreon fundraising campaign)
There is still at least one NP-hard problem on the way, that is creating a protein with a desired format.
Equivalent to: "I've personally never seen it, therefore it does not exist, despite documented proof to the contrary."
In my experience (dependency-heavy data engineering & ML), Poetry is unbearably slow[^1]. Great interface/workflow, though.

[1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2094
Hikaru's videos are very entertaining. This[0] was pretty fun to see. Not the best example of his instructional videos.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/k34chd/exactly_just_...

GM Daniel Naroditsky's channel[1] is the best instructional I have seen. His speedrun series is very good. He takes the time to stop and explain his thought process while playing the game. And then after few games he does a deeper analysis and answer any questions. The moment that sold me was when he showed how they use chess engine to do preparations at their rating level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielNaroditskyGM

On a side note, I have been working on a bughouse[2] chess web app in my spare time[3]. It's not ready for HN traffic yet though. Bughouse is not getting a Queen's Gambit anytime soon. But I would love to see more steam behind online bughouse as well. It is my favorite variation. The need for team work and communication makes it very lively.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
[3] https://utopia.buddychess.com/
A lot of labs have access to the various strategic supercomputers of the USA.

Ex: Summit has 27,648 V100 GPUs (and those V100s have Tensor units). If you're saying that only 200 GPUs are needed to replicate the experiment, that doesn't even use up 1% of Summit's available utilization.
We can already determine how a few proteins fold by experimental work.

Where "a few" is around 0.1% of the known 180 million proteins. So a relative few and a whole lot.

But the catch is which proteins could we figure out by experiment, and which not. In particular membrane proteins are hard to experimentally determine. But knowing how they fold is very important for figuring out how to get things to react with or get through membranes such as cell walls. Which is an important problem for everything from understanding how viruses work to targeted delivery of drugs. We now have a way to find those structures.
Yeah how would they find anyone careless enough aged more than 65 who would accept to

1/ take the vaccine

2/ expose himself to the virus to chekc his immunity.

We will never know before trial
Bitrate only tells a little bit of the story. There are high pass and low pass filters, audio compression, data compression, latency, error correction and a number of other things at play with these codecs to hit a desired bitrate with the goal of maximizing for highest legibility over unreliable connections. This leads to a number of compromises; in the case of Skype this means you can have huge variance in quality, and landlines are consistent but incredibly limited in reproducible bandwidth and dynamic range.
Low-cost backpacking in 3rd world (obviously not during covid), hiking, alpinism, climbing, via ferratas, ski touring/alipinism, skiing, paragliding, diving... plus some more usual sports/activities like biking, running, swimming.

It doesn't have to be that many (which is hard to manage with 100% employment), even 1 would suffice if done properly. I have a kid now, second possibly on the way, so even without covid some of this is/will be massively scaled down. But I still want to pick up new ones - right now its precision target shooting and archery.

Its more about mindset - if you feel you have a great life, money is just a tool to keep it. For that you don't need terribly much, heck some full time climbers live in camper vans for the whole time. On the other hand if you don't enjoy your life, money won't make it magically better, sometimes the opposite.

And no I don't sell some stupid coaching :) Those are just my own experiences
This is awesome, congratulations! I've never seen a form builder quite like this, super excited to play around with the built in tools and capabilities. Thanks for sharing!
The permissionless nature does enable some use cases where the overhead associated with the classical solutions makes them impractical.

With Bitcoin, anyone can start a cash-to-bitcoin/bitcoin-to-cash office. All you need is a phone with Internet.

Could Western Union solve the same problem? In theory, yes, in practice, the overhead cost of joining the network means the guy with a phone in some remote village isn't going to do it.

This is obviously mostly relevant where the classic solutions aren't already ubiquitous. Want to wire money from Germany to France? Just use SEPA. Want to wire money from Germany to the US? You're probably better off with some traditional money transfer service like TransferWise or (for bigger amounts) a Forex/brokerage account.

Want to "wire" money from a remote village in Africa to a remote village in Asia? That's where you might benefit from your neighbor having set up a physical crypto exchange.
So must the `crashing_c_function()` in your example be compiled to WASM before it can be used in Lunatic? Another comment elsewhere asked:

> Well then that is not comparable to NIFs at all. In fact it is an extremely misleading example...A lot of the time you can not compile the C code to wasm and what do you do then? How do you interface with OS libraries?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25255955