skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah, big grant money. Now the grad students programming the open source clones will only make approximately $0.56, or 4.2 Ramen packs, for their effort. ;)
When are people going to realize that software is largely a fashion industry? Slack was in style, now it’s not. Right now Zoom is the hot new thing, give it half a year and it’ll be out. None of these products do anything functionally different than their predecessors, it’s just aesthetic.
You are talking specifically about consumer price inflation, which is as you state a well-specified concept based on a (hilariously disconnected from reality) weighted basket of goods and how the basket's price changes over time.

Inflation as a concept itself is much broader than this.

The comment you're replying to is referring to asset price inflation, which has been happening hardcore.

You seem to be saying since the Fed's stupid basket hasn't shot up in price (based on what they're saying), that inflation hasn't happened?
They seem to have a completely new tension algorithm that's doing the heavy lifting now, so it's likely we will learn much about how folding practically works from these results as well.
You haven't shown that it's physically impossible though. Scaling doesn't work that way, not even in the physical world does it work that way. As the side length of a cube increases the surface area increases with the square of the side length, and volume increases with the cube of the side length. When considering the effects of scaling a system it makes no sense to just multiply all numbers by some constant. The question of how much energy Bitcoin would consume if you scaled it up cannot be solved, even in approximation, by blindly multipling it's current energy usage by a constant.
Another quality Palantir product, alongside their immigrant management product for ICE, their gang activity product for the LAPD, and their journalist-tracking product for the KSA.
https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin or https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/guggenhei... it's everywhere :(
Apple will remove software from the App Store if they get a whiff of it including GPL code.
They would know Monkey Island used VGA and 256 colors - not possible to do the artwork on Amiga.

Deluxe Paint was awesome. Brushes, stencils, spare, grids, multibrush / symmetry. It was really fast to whip up something, yet possible to pixel tweak as well.

Wolfenstein and Doom art was also done with Deluxe Paint as well IIRC.
or cryptominers
@lasagnaphil ..

Some very interesting points there. I wonder the reason for down-voting the text into a faded shade of grey?
> this isn't the typical HN pedantry.

Then launches into what can only be recognized as an exercise in pedantry.
Because, as I said in my original post, "[shoddiness, etc] represents the best objections to the welfare state".

In other words, blithe dismissals like "I accept some inefficienies and waste" provide the other side with the best possible ammunition against the idea of a welfare state.

It's laughable to see the number of people here who, straight-faced, say nonsense like "Nitpicking efficiency is for the capitalists".
>Facebook's ARM chips (for what though?)

Datacenters?
I haven’t had a packaging problem in ten years. Maybe because no C extensions, or maybe because I found a pattern that works, not sure.
Yeah, it was kind of nuts. It was a bit more than some others because it had a gasp connected garage and two small 'outside' areas attached.
"what they failed to capture is the dissonant tone of our modern dystopia"

I just reread Neuromancer and Count Zero, and the main thing I was struck by that Gibson didn't predict was today's omnipresent surveillance.

The people in his novels don't voluntarily carry around tracking devices and recoring devices. What they read and watch isn't tracked, and neither are their preferences or the opinions they express. They tend to have much more privacy than most people do today.

In this respect, I find today's society closer to 1984 than to Brave New World. It's 1984, complete with Newspeak, doublethink and Two Minutes of Hate for the boogeyman of the day, telescreens that combine televisions with security cameras and microphones what monitor what you do.

It's interesting that Gibson chose not to incorporate such dystopian themes in his books, and opted for what is in many ways a more optimistic dystopia.
Anyone.
An oversimplified explanation. SymPy is a non-interactive toolkit for balancing the numerical coefficients of a system of nonlinear equations. FYI a "system" in this sense is a math term. I also found that SymPy is too niche because it's not interactive.
>And the benefit of that is a discussion worth having, but the point of the $1200 was to inject it into the economy during the height of the shutdown.

That could have been a point. However the important and highly cited purpose was to provide assistance by 'getting cash into the hands of Americans that need it' (following job loss, etc). The point of assistance is to assist the recipient.
I know - which is why this is all so interesting.

But my point stands - 3 years ago Microsoft was talking about deploying arm64 to Azure, and those plans were cancelled with Zen 2. Given that GCP will be gone by 2023, that leaves half of the cloud titans with arm64, and the other half without. Will AMZN sell Annapurna chips to other services? My guess is they won't.

Someone has to make arm64 chips for other data centers and cloud providers, and Cavium/Marvell and Ampere have failed trying. It's a huge investment for an uncertain payoff. Annapurna had buy-in from the rest of Amazon.
low effort readme's is bad content.
Geothermal is neither renewable nor zero-carbon.
You misunderstand. I’m not saying it’s physically impossible for Bitcoin to scale (which I do believe, separately), but that it’s physically impossible for Bitcoin to be more efficient on a per transaction basis as specced today even if you take into account all externalities.
Can you elaborate? Otherwise the comment is not helpful.
So is the gist is that federal numbers are encouraged to be over-reported for financial concerns and state numbers maybe underreported, the true number exist in the middle?

Standard hospital beds tend to be fairly expensive and featureful, so why can't they integrate patient/occupancy detection?
The GNU Emacs website is similarly well done [0].

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
I also don't know the field and the opposite concern is that 170,000 sounds like a lot, but, apparently, it's a relatively small amount compared to the number of proteins there are. It makes sense to me to refer to it as a small number - e.g. "That hard drive is tiny." "No, it stores several million bytes..."
Don't forget organ transplants.
Bitwarden_rs: Open-source Bitwarden-compatible server in Rust
I'd be more okay with metered billing if:

- The fees weren't disproportionate with respect to any infrastructure investments. Why should my internet bill triple over the span of a few years while speeds decrease unless I call, wait on hold for a day, and ask to cancel service?

- There weren't an aspect of double dipping -- why are we being charged for peak bandwidth (with absolutely no guarantee of reaching those speeds) and _also_ being charged for exceeding bandwidth caps equivalent to a few dozen minutes of full use? Why is that "extra" bandwidth more expensive than buying several extra full internet plans?

- It didn't open the door to metering different content sources differently based on the ISP's monopolistic whims.

There are physical bandwidth limits, and those need to be allocated somehow, but the status quo isn't great.
It was actually much larger. 5 trillion was made to only look like 500 billion, using a technical trick.

Of the 2.2 trillion, 500 billion was set aside for whatever. This was often reported as the part for big business. Actually it's 500b to seed new special purpose banks that can operate with 10 to 1 leverage. So the 500b is actually 5.5t, making the whole bill several times larger than widely discussed.

I'm reminded of the "chain CPI" fiasco where Congress tried to reduce Social Security, but hid it in a technical detail. Except this time Democrats were on board. Neither party challenged the main narrative, and so the media didn't bother to either.
Agreed. It's not a "foreign" function if everything is in WASM. All the VM sees is WASM code; it doesn't make a difference if it was originally written in C or Rust.
Fun! But I think I found a bug: If you hit enter without any input then it crashes and pegs a CPU core at 100% (in firefox on Linux).
This is exactly right. It's like saying you solved chess because for each configuration of pieces on the board you can use machine learning to predict whether that position can be achieved with valid chess moves. With 90% accuracy.
Synced Tradition and Machine Learning Series – Part 1: Entropy
Apple should have a vested interest in developers on their platform and thus ports of popular F/OSS…

Lets not forget that pretty much everything that's part of the Darwin layer (a.k.a. Unix) is already running natively on M1 Macs, including Ruby, Python, Perl, Vim, Emacs, etc. Straight from Apple.

I wonder how the decline of the Mac platform for professional work hits Apple's baseline assuming…

Apple's Mac revenue hit an all-time high just last quarter and that was before M1 Macs shipped. Yes, a product line that's about to be 37 years old in January 2021 hit $9 billion in revenue during a global pandemic [1] and jumped 39% [2]. I doubt there's a decline in professional usage of the Mac; even if there were, entry level M1 Macs that outperform professional Intel-based machines from Apple and others will address that.

but I guess Apple knows better and simply makes so much more money with iDevices.

The iPhone is brings in the most money but the Mac ($9 billion) made more than the iPad ($6.7 billion) and the Apple Watch + HomePod ($7.8 billion).

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-...

[2]: https://fortune.com/2010/05/17/u-s-mac-sales-up-39-in-april/
Well whether or not you think the quote is true, the only point I was trying to make is that the truth of the quote doesn't depend on who said it.
US population: ~330 million people

Confirmed cases: 13.4 million people

Confirmed deaths: 267 thousand people

deaths / confirmed: ~2%

2% of the US dead (assumes homogeneous 2% death rate, which is incorrect but an upper bound): 6.6 million people

Distribution of deaths by age bracket, including population distribution: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

About half the population is over ~45 years old.

Anything we do now to reduce the R0 of this disease will disproportionally enable people to live long enough for herd immunity to be attained, courtesy of the exponential growth curve. The amount of people that has to get sick to overwhelm hospitals is smaller than you might think. When hospitals get overwhelmed people die of other preventable cases due to reduced resources, tired physicians, lack of time to see patients at all and people being scared of even going to the hospital in the first place. Old people are not "disposable" and for younger people that happen to have the genetic (or other) predisposition to bad or fatal cases it will be hard to tell them "sucks to be you" when the preventive steps are well understood by now: interact with people as little as possible and when you do, do so outside while wearing masks.

Also, the death rate among poorer people is a multiple of that of the general population, among other reasons because they are working essential jobs to not starve. Those of us that can isolate and don't are saying that these people's lives (essential workers, including health care workers) have no value, they are just meat for the meat grinder.
> (for what though?)

Facebook does a lot of custom datacenter stuff, that could be a place
It's not a terrible advice. I'm still trying to but my first apartment at 38. It's essential to have a some financial ability (or willingness to plan ahead at least) to succeed in life.
> MuleSoft

Ooh my, that brings me back terrible nightmares. I remember having to use Mule Eclipse based platform to create "service buses". That was crazy.
I agree that competition will come, but I am skeptical it will be from Linux. Linux has less than 2% of the desktop market share (that includes laptops). Where's the payoff for the huge investment required to make a dent? The numbers just don't add up. Apple has made this happen using their massive iOS product revenue to fuel their custom CPU development teams.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

As you say, Qualcomm is probably the closest to being competitive, but there is a lot of work to do to catch up. Nvidia is trying to acquire ARM, so they seem to be interested in moving into the space. Samsung and AMD are now working together in ARM processors, so they are another player. Intel used to have an ARM presence via their DEC acquisition, but that was sold to Marvell about 10 years ago. Marvell might move into the space. There are also some ARM startups, some of which were founded by Apple engineers. Lots of activity. Intel is probably the biggest loser in all of this. Sad to see that. They will respond, but it will take time.

At any rate, in terms of desktop market size, Windows is the biggest (76%) and getting a chunk of that processor revenue is a big enough payoff to warrant the required investment. Doubling or even tripling Linux desktop share is comparatively small potatoes. Microsoft is mostly agnostic so they will encourage cannibalizing X86 Windows in favor or ARM Windows rather than lose market share. I think we are going to see a big uptick in ARM Windows investment and product announcements.
A lot of software will ignore cpuid and assume features like MMX.
PlanGrid's migration from home-grown feature flags to LaunchDarkly
There is, and it's because there is a segment of the population that has been indoctrinated to believe that the government provides no useful function other than criminal prosecution and military services. Any waste or small errors (in the larger scheme) are an alarming cause for concern in their minds and proof that government is dysfunctional by default.
Even sacrificed the stack pointer in their very highly optimised assembly routines :-)
>moving part is the fan and the slowly degrading SSD

Even when it's called Solid State Disk they should not move, maybe you have to fix your setup.
I'm a former MSFT employee with direct knowledge of the situation. There was an offer (not saying the amount), and Slack countered with a price that we deemed far too high.

Personally I thought we should have moved forward, but it wasn't anything I had a say in.

No proof, you'll just have to take my word for it.
It was easy to learn from the failures and successes predicted in dystopian scifi. Take the Brave New World dystopian marketing and mix it with a touch of societal enforced wrong speak and lack of education from 1984, with the genetic manipulation and corporate domination and rampant manipulation from cyberpunk noir, voila! You have the perfect cocktail of a zombified workforce in a neo gentrification with an underclass that thinks they're educated, when they are really craftsmen to maintain software, power grids, electronics, consumerism and surveilance. (sorry... I didn't mean to get so dark)
Yes, at least as of 4 months ago (when I got mine) Atlas was still offering a Delaware LLC with an operating agreement structured to make it easier to convert to a C Corp later.
The most famous book on prose is "the elements of style" but is anachronistic IMO. I propose to read "The Sense of Style" by Pinker instead: https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/...
Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades
Wikipedia may or may not be at the level you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine#Theory
People who need housing are not gentrifiers just because they can afford it. The real gentrifiers are the people who 1) own land and 2) use the powers of government to prevent competition in the housing market. People like self-labelled socialist millionaire and tenants' rights activist Dean Preston. Let's count the ways the man fits my model:

* Inherited fortune: check; also married into separate fortune.

* Little Ivy education: check, Bowdoin

* Is an elected official: check, Supervisor of District 5

* Blocks housing: check; has voted or acted against every project in SF for entire elected career.

* Is actual gentrifier: check; used family fortune to buy existing Alamo Square mansion and the local working-class bar/venue Cafe Du Nord, Swedish American Hall.

* Has never had a job: check

* Is obscenely rich by socialist standards: check; aside from SF holdings owns many rural properties including 1 and 2.

1: https://www.landsofamerica.com/property/9241-Lone-Tree-Ridge...

2: https://www.landsofamerica.com/property/567-acres-in-Mendoci...
A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014)
What? I'm not conflating anything. I'm talking about "the average person in SF", exactly as you described in your OP. You can talk about the average person in the country all you want, but this person does not live in SF.

I'll stop replying since it seems like we are talking past each other, and I'm attempting to read your posts charitably but I just don't get it.
> Excluding certain immigrants from taxpayer-funded public benefits isn't "hostility."

Maybe, but the vocal hostility toward immigrants in the Republican Party is, well, vocal hostility, and not limited to a policy preference for excluding certain immigrants from taxpayer-funded benefits.
Would be interesting to see how the comments change colour over time. A while back, when I used to read and reply to a few comments on the topic, I reckoned there was a bit of a pattern to voting - non-believer comments would turn light gray almost instantly, but then get well into the black over time, like there was a small but very quick and fanatical group on the believer side trying to eliminate any dissent, but a much larger and slower group of non-believers who reign out in the long term. That was a while ago, so I don't know if it is the same now. These days I treat blockchain and cryptocurrencies like politics and religion - best not talk about them in polite company.
Then you're just woefully disconnected from real estate markets in big cities. The cheapest, crappiest, smallest house in a neighborhood like Santa Monica (which is nice, but not Bel Air or Malibu nice) is $1 million dollars. Maybe I shouldn't complain, because I have friends in San Francisco that have it even worse. The "making six figures and living with 4 roommates" is basically a meme at this point if you live and work in SF.

The solution here is to move to Austin (which a ton of people have been doing recently) or just travel the world because, thankfully, I can do my job remotely (but many people cannot). This was actually my plan, but the pandemic kind of killed that -- maybe next year.
This is interesting and it makes me really want to see the 5 4000+ puzzles...
This is a bit out of left field, and perhaps more to motivate others to try, but...

Have you considered making this a port driver for BEAM? Then you could call some function from Elixir to launch a wasm actor (that happens to be written in rust)?

Your BEAM would still be imperiled if the Lunatic? layer violates conventions, of course; but it may (or may not) be simpler than reinventing the rest of OTP?
Radicale: Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server
I’m saying CPI inflation (which is what people mean when they say inflation) has not gone up. I suggest that to prevent confusion among the readers that folks using a nonstandard (or at least non-colloquial) definition of inflation should make that clear.
What do you mean?

Genetics is amenable because the genome is a sequence that can be language modeled/auto-regressed for depth of understanding by the network.

There are plenty of inferences that you would want to do on genetic sequences that we can't model exactly and there is some past work on doing stuff like this, although biology is usually a few years behind.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0138-4

e: for clarity
MITM - https termination at a gateway or proxy.
Did AlphaFold2 also have the biggest budget? :)

Edit: from the other HN article on this topic:

> We trained this system on publicly available data consisting of ~170,000 protein structures from the protein data bank together with large databases containing protein sequences of unknown structure. It uses approximately 128 TPUv3 cores (roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs) run over a few weeks

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-...
I think both of you are misunderstanding what centimeter is trying to say. They didn't suggest that Bitcoin will replace traditional finance, or that traditional finance is a waste.
The number of developers with access to an A12Z running macOS was also pretty small, so I don't see how calling out the model number of the chip changes OP's point.
Oh yeah, I have been checking that page once a week for a month now. No dice.

I hate to call and bother them, because that just means extra work for them when they're already backed up, but at the same time, I do not want to find out that my filing has been lost in the mail.
Posted elsewhere, but https://applesearch.org/ is a super cool site of a mans journey to discover lost apple varieties.
Energy use in equilibrium is proportional to the value of the block rewards plus transaction rewards. In a world where Bitcoin replaces gold or visa, it would be significantly worse for the environment than it is today, since the value of each unit would have to increase to satisfy the demand.
https://www.coindesk.com/investment-giant-alliancebernstein-...

American institutions are definitely going in. It's a solid ponzi, why would they shun that one when they went in all the others?
Was very common in the spinning rust days to speed up io bound ops, and mentioned in yesterday’s Amiga thread as built in. Could still be useful if tests use a ton of disk.
Question: Any details on the AI memory manager mentioned in the video ?
What about the other A-series processors? Excluding the A14, they all used the same process as other ARM based processors, but also have a big performance advantage.
In their CASP abstract[1] they mention alternatives to typical co-evolution features which improve performance in shallow MSA depths.

[1]: https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/doc/CASP14_Abstracts.pdf...
Yes, this is how async/await typically works in Rust, and in C# when using a server-side framework like ASP.NET Core.
This is probabyl not going to age well. It's very likely that BTC will break 30k in Q1 2021.
That's the definition of the CPI. The definition of inflation that an individual cares about is "the rise in prices of the goods that I want to buy". Asset purchases, housing, and food are my biggest expenses. YMMV.

I gave some examples of consumer goods inflating in my post - restaurant meals are up about 40%, housing up about 18%, groceries have also been up about 20% since the pandemic started. Also have friends that own or work in non-tech businesses (one owns a packaging factory, another sells hot tubs) that say that supply chains are in shambles and all of their producer prices are going up, significantly. You'll see that in consumer prices eventually, but it takes time to work its way through the economy.
Odin Programming Language: An Introduction
Not in my opinion haha but it’s not really a currency.
Not that I know of.

The real use-case is transferring to and from places that you cannot normally do. Smartphones are prevalent in Venezuela for example, but it's basically impossible to send money in or out unless you use cryptocurrencies.

The charity eatBCH uses this to give food to Venezuelans for example: https://eatbch.org/. I think that's a pretty unique use case.