skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll definitely do something like this the next time. This one just caught me by surprise; I should have done the research, or listened to him when he asked if I'd backed up my data (they always ask that, even if there's little chance of an SSD wipe), but apparently the SSD encryption module (touchid) and keyboard are all the same unit, so replacing the known defective 2016-2018 keyboards wipes everything. True world class engineering from Apple, but what can you do, there's plenty of blame on my side as well.
Are these paid internships?
All the first world countries already despoiled and continue to despoil the resources of the world at an alarming rate. They owe a debt, and this is asking them to pay that debt to those who haven't done so.
More like "sticking to your guns when you are being perceived as wrong and waiting to be proven right when you are sure the objective evidence is on your side, never mind what other people are currently saying."
After doing some K8s stuff in the past months, I'd rather prefer the direct ZIP upload to indirections with a registry.
We are in a period of historically low interest rates. If and when interest rates rise, these moonshot research startups will get dropped like a hot potato.
This is not for sharing data connectons. It if for finding lots iphones, etc...
I wonder how many kids asked for an Xbox One or PS4 for Christmas in 2013 and got an Ouya.
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Python itself is rather slow indeed, but more often than not, it doesn't matter: for many data science projects, python is only used as a glue to control the processing and/or pass data between low-level C++ implementation that can chew through data at great speed, (e.g using parallelism).

Examples that immediately come to mind include : numpy, tensorflow, etc ...

Even heavy-duty I/O can be made to crank with python if you do it properly.
Isn't SQL/PSM the standard? And PL/SQL older than them all? (Hence Postgres providing PL/pgSQL)
That was an awesome explanation of this concept. I wish more complex concepts were explained with so much clarity and concision.
Totally agree. Especially if you write a ray-tracer from scratch. To go from fiddling with some lines of code to suddenly moving around in a room with some objects in 3D is insane.
Yeah, I got seconds but people were saying there were minutes of data... max I ever saw was 3 seconds on a 2gb file...
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Oracle (and DB2) have had multiple nodes for decades, with support for referential integrity and transactions across nodes. I guess perhaps you are talking about geographically distributed nodes that have slow pipes between them?

But in any case, yeah, there's a bizarre tendency for humans to want to latch on to hard and fast rules. I've heard things like "don't join more than 3 tables together", and you encountered at your workplace a rule that sql updates should only affect a single row at a time. Many workplaces have such farcical restrictions, resulting in behaviours like the allegorical monkeys in the room (https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...).

My theory - small children go through a phase where they love to know what the rules are and they love to set down rules for others. Some people never grow out of that, and they hold a worldview where everything would be OK as long as everyone followed the rules. And if for some reason that didn't work, then all you have to do is to add some more rules. Such people may not be the most creative but they cling fiercely to their rule-based approach to life. Since it's always easier to add rules rather than remove them, a poorly managed organisation can find itself trussed up tightly in these rules and an all around rubbish place to work where everything takes forever.

While that covers the prevalence of rules such as "no SQL statement may update >1 row", you also ask why people may tend not to use features such as referential integrity in avant garde databases such as Spanner et al. Personally, I would avoid using such features if only because they are so challenging to engineer and are likely to contain bugs for a few months or years as they are bedded in. That's especially true once a system is under heavy usage and the impacts of any issues are enormous. It's easier to just keep on doing whatever you are already doing.
I can't answer this directly, but I thought I'd chime in with a possible alternative, or at least something else to test.

I'm using rclone with S3[1] (and others). There are commands[2] where you can use to just sync/copy/ files but it also has a mount option[3]. It also has caching[4] and other things that might help.

[1] https://rclone.org/s3/

[2] https://rclone.org/commands/

[3] https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/

[4] https://rclone.org/cache/
Startups are all about nudges
You raise very good points about the role of protein folding and quality control in disease. But folding by itself is essentially a physicochemical process. A protein will fold (or its mutant will misfold) within a cell just like it would do it in a test tube.

Don't underestimate the role of structure prediction in human disease. There are proteins known to be involved in disorders where a structure has been impossible to determine by experimental methods (membrane proteins are a known example). And there are still plenty of barely characterized proteins where a structural model might shed light on their function.

> Your body produces this string of protein sequences

A small nitpick: you meant "string of amino acids". In other words, a protein sequence.

> Sometimes -- like with egg whites -- it's not.

Under the right conditions even proteins in coagulated egg white can be renatured.
The people forced another election, and elected his party MAS (movement towards socialism) more overwhelmingly then they elected Evo Morales in the election last year where he was couped.

On the other hand, MAS intends to exploit its lithium. It just plans to do that in a way that grows a high tech domestic industry instead of just exporting raw product. They also plan to keep the profits local to fund social programs and such, which rubs the neoliberal free market imperialists like American foreign policy goons the wrong way.
Yeah, its different to see a friendly face I like it!
You can hire all of the smart people willing to work for you, but there will always be someone smarter not able to join you. That's either because they don't like you, or something else preventing them. Either way, you cannot guarantee that you will catch 100% of the vulns 100% of the time.
I bought one of these during the early-access program, as my old Charge 3 had recently died. I really wanted to like it.

Sad to say, it's terrible. Mostly what it did was remind me how much I appreciate stuff that actually works well (e.g., wrist position sensing, so that it turns on when it's supposed to, a reliable touch interface, etc). I ended up buying a Fitbit Sense when they came out a month or so later. I don't regret it, even at >10x the price. I have my gripes with the sense but most of the time it is vastly more usable.
Could someone describe a few real-life scenarios where this is useful and noticeable?
Does anyone know of entire degrees/programs with the kind of rigour in these courses, especially with regards to assessments, and direct access to lecturers and tutors etc?

I'm going back to physical university and the driving factor was the inability to get help when I needed it. I tried a few coursera courses and many of my questions sat unanswered on forums for days and even weeks. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable premium for timely access to experts on the subject like you get at a real university.
I had 3 Pebbles, and a Kickstarter pledge in for a fourth that they cancelled and refunded me when they sold out.

I spend the refund money on a small but fun collection of old soviet mechanical watches. The kinda ubiquitous Vostok Amfibia, a "Big Zero", and a pretty poor fake of the Sturmanski Yuri Gagarin wore.

I get much "more joy" from these - even the fake Yuri watch - than I ever got from a "smart watch".

My usual story about smart watches was that I jumped on the very first Pebble Kickstarter, because I thought it'd be useful while riding a motorcycle to be able to see who's calling/texting my phone when it was vibrating in my pocket, so I could decide whether I wanted to stop and answer it. Turns out, the answer was _always_ "No!". Even if it _was_ someone I'd normally pick up for, I was either gonna arrive at my destination in 10 or 20 mins and would deal with it then, or I was on a trip and wasn't gonna be stopping until the tank was empty - possibly at a place with no reception - and I'd deal with it late that evening or in a few days when I got back to town.
Ive never used anything but slack at work and that's with 4 different organizations. Microsoft teams was tried and ppl just kept using slack regardless.
> Microsoft has such a gigantic advantage when it comes to enterprise productivity software

Is that really true? I'm biased since I'm on the dev side, but everyone I know is using macbook pros, with very rare stragglers using windows or linux, and they use web clients for most stuff (e.g. gsuite, etc) rather than thick clients. I suspect with the push to working from home this will only accelerate.

This is a shame, since I like Microsoft Office products and am one of the few people I know who thinks VB is a great productivity tool, .Net is superior (in terms of language design) to Java, and Excel, Visio are better than anything else out there. But it's been almost a decade since anyone I know has needed to use that stuff in the office.
A-shell: A terminal for iOS, with multiple windows
This article does not go deep enough, but it is in the right way. What matters is doing the right thing. Even the history books don't matter, even your long term 'status' doesn't matter, nor what people think, in principle. If you really did the right thing overall, and are seen as a monster... well, so be it.

In practice, however, things are more complicated. You have to be really certain of what you're doing to go so much out there. If you're misunderstood, things will become more difficult -- less funding chances perhaps, less people to talk with and exchange ideas, less people who understand and check your decisions -- it has to be sufficiently important and certain to overcome those problems.

The central issue however is learning. We want future (and current) generations to learn from our mistakes and non-mistakes. We want to share our insight with others. If we are misrepresented, this learning gets sacrificed, as well as your communication of ideas to peers, by definition. That's a small tragedy.

You still have to do what you have to do, so to speak, if you must. The ultimate judge is not history, not the newspapers or peers, but your impact on the world, on the people (including yourself) -- not only now of course, but into the future as well.
I have always wondered if any company uses IRC?
I question if scientists ever should have to tackle the ins and outs of software architecture and performance optimization. Never mind the daunting task of running software.

I don’t really see Rust being altogether different to someone outside the software industry. It’s yet another complex knowledge domain that can be abused and intractable like any other.
No such tool. You're asking about the discipline of editing. People spend their whole careers honing their skills at editing. It's not easy. There's no program or software that can help. It's a people question.
I don't think multi-generational households necessarily need to put a heavier burden on women. In fact, my argument is exactly that households like that do a better job of allocating labor to those who are less able to earn.

I don't think there's a real argument to be made that the nuclear household developed because of feminism. The New Deal and post-WWII policies that gave returning vets and their families cheap mortgages in sprawly suburbs appears to have had more to do with it (an era that was notably accompanied by an expansion of household technologies whose goals were to enable a single person to care for an entire household).
But they go through the effort of stripping all mentions of these things from the source code they release?
Mink farming might bring us covid20.
What would that response be, other than refusing to use anything with mainstream adoption?
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This is great and I feel weirdly relieved (considering I don't actually really gain anything from that).

That, on the other hand, makes me feel sad and almost depressed every time:

> It uses approximately 16 TPUv3s (which is 128 TPUv3 cores or roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs) run over a few weeks, a relatively modest amount of compute in the context of most large state-of-the-art models used in machine learning today
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Thank you all for your comments.
Yeah I love my Instinct...great as a basic everyday watch (always on, easy to read, never have to think about charging it), full-featured as a GPS running watch, nice addition in the backcountry as it integrates with my inReach satellite device. Sending and receiving text messages from my wrist while on the side of a mountain 50 miles from the last trace of cell service is kind of fun.

I resisted the idea of a smartwatch for years and bought this mostly for outdoor stuff, but I've found myself wearing it all the time.
The new “contrarian” religious belief that many thought leaders are now writing about.

Is this a trend with high value that some people are getting huge gains for themselves from? I think so.

Alternatively is it an echo chamber of high status people signalling just how contrarian they are? I suspect that some trend victims do this. However I think Sam Altman is just reflecting his thoughts in an essay to help him explore his own understanding, by getting feedback from others.

I believe there is something of real value within the trend: I have seen too many extremely successful people (in business, science and the arts) that have said they relied upon contrarian thinking to help them achieve success. I recognised the belief first in a 1998 book by George Soros, where he vividly wrote of his struggles (internal and external) with his own contrarian thinking.

My favourite example however is Jim Keller, in an interview by Lex Friedman, where Jim casually states “Imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self conceptions and 98% of that's wrong. Now you've got the math right. How do you think you're feeling when you into that one bit that's useful and now you're open and you have the ability to do something that's different?”.

When some of the undeniably smartest people in the world start saying the same thing, it is worthwhile listening and learning from them. While avoiding the famous wrong-thinking like Linus Pauling.
TIL: Under the right conditions even proteins in coagulated egg white can be renatured.

A small nitpick: you meant "string of amino acids". In other words, a protein sequence

Thank you. You are correct.

Don't underestimate the role of structure prediction in human disease.

I'm not. I just don't really find the tech behind it fascinating. When they start coming out with articles saying "This project has successfully predicted X and this is clinically useful in this way," I'm sure I will read it on the edge of my seat like a gripping thriller.
Computers aren't setting us free.
This is a photograph made by photosynthesis:

https://www.curtiswmoore.com/image_detail.php?title=16068701...

Not made by hands? Koons and Pollack, eat your hearts out.
Yep, this is the best idea I've also ever had (not sure where I learned it from many years ago - likely a friend) when it comes to gifts. It takes years of practice, but even if you miss half the "hints" given to you, you're still doing really well once you get a couple years worth of notes together.

Even those "iffy" gifts the first time you hear them turn into huge winners years later because you remembered and happened across it somewhere.

Also one other rule I learned from a friend I've lived by now for around 5 years is that whenever I see something I think someone would like - I simply buy it and gift it right then for no reason in particular.

Gift-giving holidays used to be a severe anxiety ridden period for me because I never "got" why we had to exchange these silly things and would panic at the last minute, but now that I've started the above practices my loved ones know even if I miss a birthday or Christmas here and there I'm still thinking of them. When I reframed it into "I saw this thing I thought you'd really enjoy" vs. "I went to Target on xmas eve and panic bought something after 2hrs of looking" it got a lot more fun.
It’s a game-theoretic problem that has a name:

Concentrated benefits and diffused costs.
> If I'm spending all of my time in a SSH session installing kernel updates...

Who does that? Just use a stable kernel, enable unattended upgrades and forget about it.
Oh yes in that sense worse. In fact both are terrible and there is a lot of room to improve.
What you're really asking is "How can I write better essays?"

Look up answers to that question and you'll get further. You'll even find free online courses to help you.

Look up creative writing. Look up Journalism. Writing is a deep topic. Sure some people can make it look easy. But it's not. It's dang blam difficult.

Also, it sounds like you're having trouble quickly learning a topic. That's another problem entirely.
But "they provide the outputs" is the gray area – does providing the outputs count as renting out the software itself?
> But she does advise employees to talk to their colleagues and collectively approach their boss, with evidence, if they want to ask for change.

Yeah, because that isn't what the labor unions are for, am I right?

I guess people enjoy living in today's neloiberal utopian nightmare rather than supporting labor rights and labor unions.
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One thing I noticed when I went digging through the s3fs source trying to answer that myself is that it's uploader is single threaded. Part of what makes AWS's cli reasonably fast is that it uses several threads to make sure to use as much bandwidth as possible. If I limit AWS's tool to one thread on a box with plenty of bandwidth, it turns my upload down from around 135 MiB/s to around 20 MiB/s

Not sure if that's all of it, or even the majority of the slowness.
'..' indeed mean that I'm on my way to write it - but the subject is not quite simple.

Thank you, for not letting me miss it, finally.
Author indulged me on twitter :) https://twitter.com/jlfwong/status/1333935738996535299
Reading through the article, it sounds similar to what most lisp compilers do: read source files into a data-structure, transform that structure in various ways to some kind of IR and then generate machine code from that IR. They generally do this the first time a file is loaded and generate a “fast load” file to speed up later attempts to load the file.

This sounds pretty similar, except there’s no fast load file.
So the loan and the return is a single "transaction" (in db terms)?

What sort of situation could this be used in? I'm having a hard time truly imagining use without any risk of transaction rollback.
The supreme levels of wealth is largely specific to liberal-run cities as well. Home cities of the top 10 billionaires in the U.S. are Seattle, Bay Area, Seattle, Bay Area, Omaha, Bay Area, Seattle, Bay Area, Bay Area, Bentonville. The list of metro areas by per capita income is DC, San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston.

I think you may have causality backwards: liberal policies are enacted as a way to paper over the huge income disparities that are generated by having a dominant global industry. Regional wealth and inequality cause liberal policies, liberal policies don't cause wealth & inequality.
I'm actively working to increase housing supply in the Bay Area. What are you doing? Making stupid comments on HN?
Of course the real issue there is those tool treating S3 as something it's not (a filesystem) and building things on it with the expectation of certain guarantees that it explicitly didn't provide before now.

I dig the feature (strong consistency) but in some ways it just enables tools that were abusing it to just do so more easily.
The jump from Power Platform to Azure Functions and a VM is likely not to be the same people

Power Platform is for "power users" to be able to "no code" things, this is targeted (MS Claims) as non-IT Users, as is the Rest of the office/Microsoft 365 stack

Azure (including Azure AD) however is targeted at IT Staff, dev's,sysadmins, etc. There is a clear line in how the tools are marketed, deployed, licensed and utilized