skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patio11's take: (2019)

"Credit bubble? Yes, there can no longer be serious doubt about this: people bought Bitcoin with money that didn’t exist, pushing up the price of Bitcoin. A lot of people currently think they are richer than they are."

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

I'd be interested in reading a counter-take, most bitcoiners I know just look away.
The FDA needs to make a fast-track vaccine approval process for mRNA vaccines where the pathway to deliver the mRNA has been pre-approved and the only change is in the mRNA payload. However, I don't have much faith in the FDA.
FYI as an immigrant on a visa(so im attuned to this stuff) availability of visas and greencards lowered drastically in 2020. Some of it was purportedly "due to the pandemic" but it was mostly barriers miller/trump wanted to introduce anyway. I would expect the 2020 numbers to be much lower, and if this administration had stayed in power, continued to be much lower into 2021+.
It's a plutocrat wealth store during uncertainty, like gold, but it has no intrinsic value. That's it, that's its only purpose.
Well, after all, in the first two cases SymPy returns the correct result almost everywhere.
I use it in jupyter notebooks for structural engineering calcs. In a sense, it's definitely overkill, but it allows the following functionality:

When you create an expression, you have the ability to print it out in a nice readable format to verify it is correct and then without really ever altering that expression object, you can simultaneously perform simplifications and calculate final results.

IMO there's less opportunity for errors like omitting an asterisk on a term meant to be an exponent, or incorrectly simplifying.

Critically though, it allows me to hand my work over to someone who doesn't know python to check my work.

I definitely can replicate a lot of that same functionality without sympy, but I have to perform the substitutions and simplifications by hand, and the printing of the expression by rendering in LaTex is always different from the calculation, so I have to hand verify that I calculated what I said I was going to.
For example because these require vast swaths of land close to the place of consumption. That means destroying the nature near human settlements, which is often also the most unique (both humans and the nature thrive in similar environments).

Manufacturing and later decommissioning the storage and solars is not nice to the nature too. I wonder if the oceans of the 22nd century will be full of plastics, or... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/solar-panel...
Unlikely at the top levels. The top chess masters are taking home a better income than the average college graduate. Sure CEOs take home more, but typically not until later in life. If you can get great chess is a good career.

Of course few get great. Even if you don't get to great, many people make a satisfactory amount of money from chess (mostly teaching), so there are options.

Also, you can switch at any time when you realize how hard the competition is. Your study habits to get good will do you well in other positions so there is no loss failing so long as you get out soon enough. There is a reason many pretty good players quit after high school: they had fun now it is time to settle down. Some play once in a while, but it is no loss. Unlike boxing where a few knockouts and you may be mentally unfit to do anything with your life.
Project Denver lives on in NVIDIA's Carmel cores shipping in Tegra 194 (Xavier) chips today. Though they seem to be giving up on it, as they'll be using Cortex "Hercules" A78 cores in the successor named Orin.
Yeah, I meant to mention that but I over-edited myself.

Shepard was planning to plant on the order of 500 trees and see if he gets anything. Any tree that struggles just gets culled, to keep the efforts cheap.

There are some uses for apple wood or roots and unpalatable apples that should at least let him break even.
It sounds like to me that you're saying that the city and surrounding governments couldn't handle the new, unruly kid on the block that is "tech", so the kid gets blamed for having bad parents? "Tech" drove up real estate prices? That's a second order effect at best.

address the systemic issues, which might impact your net worth

That's a hell of an unsupported stretch. But it is typical of the mindset: "rich people just want to stay rich, that's all want, net worth, blah, blah, blah." Look, there have to plenty of tech people like me that wonder why I'm not being taxed more to address these issues. I've got money to burn, take some of it, Local Government. (Uh, oh, here comes the jackass to suggest I voluntarily write a check to the government coffers; thanks, that was helpful.) Park some of those assumptions about people that fell into money, and maybe some solutions can be implemented together. Otherwise the alternative is to listen to the sound of our own voices.
>Went to NY for a conference last year and immediately thought 'holy shit this city is CLEAN'

Heh, and here I am in Chicago thinking "holy shit this city is filthy!" when I go to New York. I haven't been to San Francisco in awhile, it must have deteriorated.
You can't design a desktop-class CPU for a market niche. Even board-level design doesn't scale that way - every good linux laptop on the market is actually a Windows laptop that's had linux installed on it and benefits from the economies of scale in the Windows market (as much as it saddens me to say this, typing this on a thinkpad running fedora 33).
> while Slack bought for scrap

Slack’s today’s valuation is ~25B so my guess is Salesforce would buy them for around 30B. If that’s scrap to you then dip me in it 24*7 and never take me out
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All you have to do is look at the success of the A-series chips for the iPhone/iPad and how they've progressed over the past 10 years. While year-over-year they don't necessarily add something big and shiny (a bump in specs, occasional co-processor), if you compare an A14 to an A9 from 5 years ago the differences are huge.

It doesn't take a "shiny new thing" every year to keep the M series chips looking better than Intel. Perhaps you're right and in another 10-15 years it'll come back to commodity parts, but it would take something Very Shiny to push that at this point. And afaict Intel is in no position to deliver anything shiny enough to do that.
The PayPal integration of cryptocurrencies had a huge positive impact. Also more large institutions are diversifying their portfolio into Bitcoin.
Sales Tactics for Real Selling
A couple of hundred GPU's is well within the reach of many even moderately well heeled research institutes. It'd seem that about 3 weeks of compute time with 128 TPU v3's would be about $170,311.68.
I have owned no less than three Kia Soul EVs. The first two would succumb to a flat 12V battery, but the latest (a 2020 model) will connect the HV battery to charge the 12V battery if needed, even when the car is parked and switched off. You can see it in action, as a blue light on the dash will flash while this goes on.
You would love Eth 2.0 then! The idea of proof of stake is to remove waste from the equation
The problem of exchanging value between parties without intermediary or third-parties.
I have worked remotely for more than 10 years and I hate big cities.

I lived in Palo Alto once; never again. There are so many great places and small towns in the US that could use an influx of money and energy. These places are beautiful and housing is cheap.

Tech needs to spread the wealth by moving to small towns.

Small towns have been suffering from reduced wages (and therefore reduced tax revenue) and a brain drain to cities for decades.

Join the local city council and help improve the small town you moved to.
Seems like everything is hitting all-time highs. Housing prices, stock market, bitcoin.

If you have a lot of assets, it's honestly the best time. Especially if you owned a lot of tech stocks the past decade.

If covid and the worldwide economic disruption can't put a dent in asset prices, then what will happen when the pandemic passes and the economy recovers in the next few years? I used to laugh when people said bezos or elon might be the first trillionaire in a few years, but now I think it's possible. Just have to cross your fingers and hope the good times continue.
> if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, not less.

This doesn't follow at all.

As long as the policies are progressive (in the economic sense) and enough money gets to those who need it, why should small inefficiencies bother me? Nitpicking efficiency is for the capitalists.
Almost everyone just scales up their spendings though, there is no scenario where they can retire early.
Minor nit, but the return is what you file, the refund is what you're waiting for.

And they're super far behind in processing mail-in returns. Apparently they still had millions of unprocessed returns remaining as late as October, so it's likely they still haven't processed your return, but you can check the status of it here. https://www.irs.gov/refunds
Facebook Buys Customer-Service Software Maker Kustomer
I don't know Rust well enough to comment, but doing a lot of development in both JS and Python, JS is no cakewalk either. I'd say I deal with at least as many packaging/versioning issues on JS as I do on Python.
RIP folding at home?

EDIT: Just throwing this out there: Are there national security issues to think about with this? Can it be used to weaponize computational biology?
Actionable: use backward-compatible behavior by default. Use opt-in for new features. Question: is the new resolver opt-in or is it enabled by default in the new pip version?
>The amount of energy being wasted (reportedly more than seven nuclear power plants worth) on what is essentially an unproductive project is quite absurd.

As opposed to the energy and pollution generated by digging up yellow rocks or shiny crystals? What about billionares flying around the world in private jets or cruising in their yachts?

Moreover, if carbon emissions are the issue, why not tax it directly (aka carbon tax), rather than indirectly via a "sin" tax? That would have the effect of incentivizing the reduction of carbon emissions economy wide, rather than in a tiny sector.
This reminds me of the concept of hauntology [1] [2] - the return of elements of the past as symbolic ghosts, haunting our current world. It's strange since this concept was introduced in philosophy by Derrida in the 90s, and further studied by cultural theorists such as Simon Reynolds and Mark Fisher - but Gibson seems to nail this phenomenon in his short story a decade earlier.

And this phenomenon is perhaps most exacerbated today, as we are experiencing a gradual but terminal decline of former capitalist empires, but nobody can imagine a new revolutionary path out (as Mark Fisher would say, "the slow cancellation of the future") Ghostly ideologies from the past (communism, fascism) are quickly recycled on the Internet for their nostalgic sign value, but as it is quickly consumed and commoditized it fails to offer a solution for the problems of our current world. And more people are listening to music [3] that admittedly makes them feel "nostalgic for a past that does not exist".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave
Would be great to short-sell right now, but that's almost impossible to do the last I checked.
Sure, but being an industry town is largely a consequence of city policy. Specifically, policy which makes it too expensive to live in the city unless you're part of that dominant industry.

It's "Dutch Disease"[1] from a different angle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Nonsense. Tether has never been redeemed, and even if it could be redeemed, there is no possible way that they could cover the balance of issued tethers.

It’s the mother of all Ponzi schemes, clearly, and is definitely going to implode in the next big pullback.
>SF had a city budget of approx. 12B in 2019-20

That is fucking bananas. Chicago has a city budget of $12 billion this year with a population almost exactly three times higher. What in the hell are they spending money on?
Reading some old Kerouac or hardboiled novels, it’s hard to believe that it’s even the same city. Even Manhattan hasn’t changed as much in comparison.
What Are Infrastructure as Code Workflows?
Absolutely. The capability to "create" the breakthrough is extremely rare. Perhaps only DeepMind, OpenAI, and GoogleBrain can assemble these types of teams. Luckily, the capability to replicate and exploit the breakthrough is far more 'common'; though still very rare.

Excited to see how follow on use of these models, by many more teams, researchers, and companies plays out over the next two decades.

This is a foundational advance!
Are there any candidates running on a platform of 'full socialism' or even 'radical policies'? Candidates in America, even those considered to the left of their party (e.g. Sanders) aren't really radical socialists.

Sanders wasn't getting on the stage demanding we nationalize all our businesses. I never heard him mention a 'vanguard party'. I don't think I heard him say, "Businesses need to be run by worker councils, exclusively".

It's one thing to say, "I don't like the idea of democratic socialism/social democracies", but those ideas are hardly 'radical socialism' or 'full socialism'.
This was also one of the main selling points of quantum computers.

Makes you wonder what Deep Learning will tackle next. Factorization of large integers?
It's because for many researchers ML is just to take a standard keras or scikitlearn model shove their data in and get some table or number out, and see if that solves their problem. If that's your only ML experience then I suppose this is how sceptical you'd be of ML in general.

It looks like DeepMind invented a completely new method for this round that's not just an extension of their previous work, showing how much you can gain if you don't shoebox yourself into just trying to improve existing methods.

That all the scientists were highly skeptical about the scope of ML (and these are computer scientists to begin with mind you) just shows how little they knew of what they did know of what a computer or a program can possibly do, which is a bit appalling to be honest.
Interactive C++ with Cling
How to build a high-performance application on Tarantool from scratch
It's probably more reflective of inflation and the dollar losing value, which is the natural consequence of dropping interest rates to zero and pumping $6T more into the economy. TSLA has gone from $191 to $576 since June, GOOG from $1394->$1761, AMZN $2478->$3143, ZM $262->$466. Where I'm at restaurant meals have gone from about $13/plate to $20/plate, and houses have gone from ~$1.6M -> $2.1M.

BTC's rise isn't all that out of line with any of those. I think you're seeing investors rush out of dollars and into anything that'll have hard value in the digital economy going forward. Inflation doesn't hit all markets evenly, so you may not see it in your paycheck yet (if you still have a paycheck) and areas without a lot of people seeing money come in won't have prices rise as much. But I think you should read this as a currency crisis for the dollar, not a bubble for Bitcoin.
The cynical side of me says this is an expectable result of a large open system so likely a submarine story placed by Republican operatives who are trying to prevent additional stimulus spending. Or maybe the service that handles trillions of dollars is in fact completely incompetent and shouldn't be trusted with revenue routing.
Yeah that’s not a problem though, it’s a feature.
I agree with you, but I am also a person that just wants someone to do it. Anyone at all, really. City governments are failing fantastically in major tech hubs, I kind of just think fuck it. Let some chowderhead tech goon take a shot at solving housing/homelessness/whatever. Nobody else is going to.
Nobody is questioning that there are good neighborhoods. Every city has good neighborhoods. What has people scratching their heads is that the worst parts of lot of cities are still a lot better than the bad parts of SF. When the comparison is between Bangalore or Sao Paulo and Zurich it's easy to write off the difference as simply wealth. But when the American "shithole cities" like Detroit, Buffalo, Gary, Reno, etc that the people of SF like to sneer at are in fact better in their worst parts than the crown jewel of "muh fifth largest economy" it really makes people wonder what the heck went so wrong.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25255157
'80s cyberpunk is still grim, but I think what they failed to capture is the dissonant tone of our modern dystopia. Classic cyberpunk was all dark sprawling streets and neon-lit seedy underbellies, led by shadowy faceless corporate execs of austere zaibatsu.

Whereas the malefactors of great wealth in our present did not forget the average consumer and instead manipulates our emotions with cutting-edge marketing, algorithmic analysis of our deepest desires, and use of primary colors and comfy fonts. The copy is nonthreatening or hip language. The reality is grim, but the appearance isn't. More Brave New World and less 1984. More Disney, filtered through Banksy.

I think most Gibson cyberpunk failed to capture the banality of the future, because they were fixated on the romantic cowboy-gangster hackers outlaws who lived on the fringes. Among the big names, Neal Stephenson did a great job of it with Snow Crash and The Diamond Age because he remembered that the megacorps had to sell to someone at the end of the day, and had to have shiny customer-facing dross.
If I build a geothermal plant in a place where no one needs power, and use it only to mine bitcoin, then only renewable energy is used, nothing is added to the climate. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/13/how-iceland-be...

Using excess hydro power (china) or renewables like geothermal doesn't hurt the planet. Most bitcoin is mined using marginal energy that would be wasted otherwise. It has to be, as mining is an extremely cutthroat industry where burning actual fossil fuels is generally not cost effective.
Folding@home tackles a related but different problem. They simulate folding dynamics, i.e. how does a protein reach its folded structure.

If AlphaFold gives you a picture of a protein structure, Folding@home shoots a video of that protein undergoing folding.
> The amount of energy being wasted (reportedly more than seven nuclear power plants worth) on what is essentially an unproductive project is quite absurd.

Orders of magnitude less than the amount of energy being "wasted" sustaining the millions of employees of the banking industry. I use scare quotes because the energy is being spent, not wasted.

> I mean what would be left except for just buying into the pyramid scheme, and ransomware payments

It's hard to give you the benefit of the doubt when you clearly haven't bothered to understand the argument for Bitcoin's value proposition.

Hard money (i.e. money which cannot be inflated) has valuable economic properties, and many people think that a hard money is concomitantly a valuable long-term investment/store of value.
Contribute patches for all the blockers mentioned towards native homebrew in this post?

This is classic of the all or nothing attitude that anti-Apple and anti-Mac people have. Unless Apple does some Herculean task that shows they're worthy, they're shit.
Applesoft BASIC programs that fit in a tweet (first place Demosplash demo)
> I think increasing regulation and the use of blacklists and 'coin tainting' erode whatever use bitcoin has though, as there will be no fungibility.

This has already happened. Bitcoin is a permissioned blockchain, now. It may be used by permission of the chainalysis industry and the regulators.

That's not to say bitcoin won't become a widely-used currency.

Maybe governments will allow bitcoin but ban all cryptocurrencies they can't track.
Duval will cash in on this using every trick and loophole he can. The "3rd party" app store is shady as h/e/ll, and they know no limits to deceit. If you trust th/e/m, you probably trust Wikipedia too, which is just one place they tried and failed to take advantage by breaking rules and using sock puppets.

If you don't have a 'droid device supported by GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, have a look at DivestOS for something more original, and privacy and security focused, without cloud "services."
The action is simple, stop making breaking changes. There is frustration with breaking changes being in the history, but that is much less troubling than the reoccuring answer to the question “What is wrong with my code?” being “A new version of the package manager was released.”

It is also very possible to write code to completely work around old issues so the newest version of your package manager just works or at least outputs clear error messages with mitigation steps, but instead what you get is obscure stack traces when you run pip install.
Ask HN: Why does my newsletter get so many spam sign ups?
On my website I have a simple self coded (double opt-in) newsletter sign up form.

I receive lots of spam sign ups (gmail, yahoo, aol accounts) that never get activated. I automatically clean those up after a few days.

I have no captcha because I don't like them from a UX perspective. My assumption was that because of the double opt-in process I don't need one.

But now as I get so many spam sign ups I'm wondering if I'm missing something. What's the motivation from a spammers point of view? Do they check for security vulnerabilities this way? What kind of goal do they try to achieve?

The newsletter form is on the bottom of this page: https://asylumsquare.com
I have always been a bitcoin skeptic, but after reading the recent papers by Ark Invest (see ARKK etf) and listening to their CEO Cathie Wood I started adding it to my portfolio.
The high cost of the city comes from people having money; which recently has been primarily because of the influx of us in tech.

The high cost exacerbates all those other problems! People are pushed out and have fewer opportunities.

So why not blame the money and the people who brought it?

How do you suggest the city "fix it"? What are your policy suggestions? How will you get the residents of the city on board with all of them?
Contribute to academic os software, find academic who needs tech support, do the grunt work in preparing a dataset.
Been waiting a couple years for crypto to be a topic on HN again. People still don't get it.

I learned a new term used on HN yesterday, 'bikeshedding'. It perfectly applies to bitcoin/blockchain.
And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink. This symbol, whose absence was till now sorely felt, particularly in lyric poetry, should soon become as indispensable as the colon, dash, exclamation mark, etc."

Given the words of the poem, the similarity of the emoji to a female sexual organ is not accidental IMHO.

[0] https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:PL_Tadeusz_Boy-%C5%BBe...
There's always Mattermost. It'd be funny to see Pega or some other Salesforce competitor fund Mattermost development to try to make Saleforce's acquisition of Slack less valuable.
There is certainly a difference between needing to give someone your time and needing to maintain your body/health.
"The deal, which could be completed as soon as Monday afternoon assuming talks don’t fall apart, would value New York-based Kustomer at a little over $1 billion" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-nears-purchase-of-star...