skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see OP has answered already but I also want to chime in and say that moving from (mostly flagship) Samsung and Sony phones (paid for by my employers) to a midrange iPhone XR has been a massive upgrade:

For the first time since Samsung SII I don't have to wait for the camera (or anything) to open.

Unlike on Android suggestions makes sense:

- Logged in with my 15 year old gmail account Android would suggest, at 4 in the morning: "send Telegram message to <random friend>" or "call CTO at customer".

- My 1 year old iPhone mostly suggest harmless things like "take the usual route home", "it is time to leave", "send Telegram message to <my beautiful wife>". On Saturday however it surprised me by being slightly more advanced: I had plotted an appointment to pick up something I had agreed to buy somewhere 40 minutes from home. Afterwards my iPhone suggested I should send my wife a message that I was on my way home. The message was even almost correct: it used "my" abbreviations but was a little bit to posh otherwise.
> Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...

I don't think it's as rare or controversial as you think, many people just haven't formed a full opinion on judicial interpretation. Textualism in particular appeals to STEM folks. We've needlessly politicized them as Red Team vs Blue Team, when they don't see themselves as anything close to that. They're all first and foremost legal nerds.

Now if you're making pro-life arguments wrapped with original intent, I can see you getting some aggressive pushback.
I made new years prediction about exactly this. I predicted folding@home would die despite huge interest again because of covid.
Got it. I wasn't actually sure how it was structured, but that makes sense.

I guess that really seals it, for those of us who care about push notifications.
I dunno, it was grim then and it still is. We did end up in substantially better future, all things considered.
Ok, I can get behind that thought process.

I will note that the cited 0.0045% infection fatality rate number is quite old/outdated (June 1st). It's not easy to match different areas under the age curve (which seems to be exponential) and that it can vary a lot by region, but here is a review paper which has your number for ages 0-34 (Table 3) and (substantially) higher ones for ages above that:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
Dumb opinion. Running a few miles per week (like most people) isn't going to "cannibalize" muscle. Any muscle loss at that point is due to malnutrition, not running. You'd really need to be running marathon distances or greater to "cannibalize" muscle.
Yep, a friend of mine who had been once in the States, as a seasonal worker, got the check.
320 pages would not be short fiction. Short fiction is going to be a novella or a short story. Novellas tend to cap out around 150 pages depending on the definition, and many definitions are much shorter (50-100 pages).
Just the first story, Fiat Homo! If anyone wants to stop there I won’t judge
This is quite well put.

Althought most of the times using a generic SSG feels more like learning the autotools than CMake.
The problem isn't how it was handled ex-post. The problem is how there was essentially zero infrastructure or preparation in place for this type of fast-disbursement of stimulus.

Surely it couldn't haven been inconceivable to imagine that Congress may want to send widespread stimulus to most everyone with a week or two or turnaround. The 2008 financial crisis was barely more than a decade ago. How hard could it possibly be, in 2020, to setup a secure, cross-verified, system for taxpayers to update their information online?

Defending the incompetence of the Treasury Department, is like defending a cook who burns down the kitchen because he never inspected his fire extinguishers. "What did you expect the guy to do? He had to move fast!"
The most amazing part:

> The organizers even worried DeepMind may have been cheating somehow. So Lupas set a special challenge: a membrane protein from a species of archaea, an ancient group of microbes. For 10 years, his research team tried every trick in the book to get an x-ray crystal structure of the protein. “We couldn’t solve it.”

> But AlphaFold had no trouble. It returned a detailed image of a three-part protein with two long helical arms in the middle. The model enabled Lupas and his colleagues to make sense of their x-ray data; within half an hour, they had fit their experimental results to AlphaFold’s predicted structure. “It’s almost perfect,” Lupas says. “They could not possibly have cheated on this. I don’t know how they do it.”
This post is highly misleading, and is essentially a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229194.

These claims are not from "Johns Hopkins" as an institution. The instructor making the claims is associated with a rolling-admission adult extension school, and the article discussing them appeared only in the general-purpose undergraduate campus student newspaper, which does not validate the scientific or academic accuracy of instructors' claims.

Disclaimer: I'm a JHU alum and former staff member of said student newspaper
> I'm just disappointed to see "techies" still being blamed and called money hungry just because people are looking the other way at other problems.

If anything the problem is renters and their zoning laws...
Something like this comes up in assessing the accuracy of automated segmentation results of brain regions e.g. the hippocampus. Human-machine reliability is approaching the human to human reliability, so it becomes harder to improve the automated methods.
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut will always have a place in my heart. I also quite liked a Ray Bradbury short story that I believe was called "The Homecoming". However I had to look it up. I think that was it.

I used to love short stories, but I don't see as much of them anymore. I think that some of that has been swallowed by the more serial novellas that I see on platforms like kindle unlimited. I've long felt that this is incentivized by the ways that the platform pays writers (percentage of the book read). It encourages writers to write shorter gripping stories. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I've been going through quite a bit of great pulp fiction recently, but it is a bit of a departure from the more traditional novel or short story.
Does that mean you would count AL, AH, but not AX (as it can be split into AL/AH and doesn't "bring new bits"), and then again would count EAX and RAX?
Why aren't you fond of transhumanism? At some point medicine and technology will advance so much that we can save and improve many lives by replacing bits of ourselves with superior artificial variants. Is that so bad?
> What I see rarely discussed here is forms of non-blocking IO and why those haven't become the norm. Why are we all trying to work around models that involve blocking on IO? I feel I almost never hear about using non-blocking IO as an alternative?

Maybe I don't understand what you mean by non-blocking I/O, because it seems to me that it is the norm in many environments, for better or worse. Async/await syntax is now available in C#, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and possibly others. And before that we had callbacks in JavaScript and in Python frameworks like Twisted and Tornado. So it seems to me that non-blocking I/O has been widely used and discussed for quite a while now.
It missed breaking the all time high on most exchanges, such as Coinbase Pro. There the all time high from 2017 was $19,892 and the highest price so far today was $19,873.

If it breaks over $20k I expect a new wave of publicity that will drive the price higher, as has happened in the past. Now it is far more accessible as an impulse buy with PayPal, Robinhood, Cash app, etc offering instant purchases.
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Training AI algorithms on mostly smiling faces reduces accuracy, introduces bias
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His main point was about not owing his time to someone. Not something. I can totally relate to that perspective. I value my time over anything else and it is apparent that money, if you have enough of it and use it wisely, gives you power over how that time is being used. Especially if you’re looking to the future.

It’s a matter of perspective though, as always, and to me, happiness lies in being able to set my agenda and share power over it with whom I choose, not with whom I’m forced to share it with.
Interesting to read comments back during the bear. Here is a post from December 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640755
>as Teams eats Slack's lunch

Is this true? I thought Slack was dominating corp chat+?
But. Don't you wanna learn? I love implementing interpretability papers on my CNNs. It's very revealing. I also like also just toying with monte-carlo methods or nearest-neighbors to see the origin of a decision or 'how close' it was to decide otherwise in each dimension. If only to detect some unknowns in your training set.
Unit test coverage ...
There is not a single use case better solved by cryptocurrencies or blockchain than by a classical solution. Name one, I’ll wait. When there is I’ll eat my, err, hat.
Ask HN: How to contribute to an academic field without Masters/PhD?
How does one make meaningful contributions to an academic field without being part of the academy (eg a graduate program, etc)? I'm a professional software engineer, but I have interests in history, anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, etc. How can I make meaningful contributions in any of these? Are there examples of this?
Interestingly, you're right in that the "most of your cells are bacteria" point is a myth. I'm not a specialist, and fell for the pop-sci BS. Apparently the real ratio is closer to 1:1 ( https://www.nature.com/news/scientists-bust-myth-that-our-bo... ), if we can trust Nature's summary of several recent articles.

With regard to functionality, that's a very open question. We're constantly finding that features that didn't seem useful are not just functional but important. This trend can be seen at multiple levels, from gut flora to "junk DNA."

As for what fraction of our genome is either shared with other non-human organisms or originated with them, it's tough to find a straight answer on that, but rest assured it's far from zero. See https://www.cshl.edu/the-non-human-living-inside-of-you/ . That's been well-understood by everyone other than religious fundamentalists for some time now, and there are countless legitimate sources that can be cited.
Another issue I suggest is also that systemic issues are harder to solve- I don't live in SF but I understand there is corruption, NIMBYism, and waste that takes the considerable budget SF has and doesn't actually improve lives for the neediest who live there. Tech people haven't in general been highly politically involved, but political involvement- real political involvement, the kind that go to town halls as well as protests, the kind that build communities, etc. has been dying nationwide. The whole infrastructure of holding politicians accountable is rotting out from the country.
Building your own website is cool again
My family moved from Mountain View (where we were paying $4800/month rent for a 2 bedroom apartment) to rural Olympia Washington state, where we're paying about $1500 a month less for a mortgage on a house with five times the square footage and five acres of woods. We moved to the SF Bay Area in 2009.

The 11 minute drive from our house into town (capital of Washington state) is ironically shorter than a drive to the nearest Safeway in Mountain View at certain times of the day.

My wife and I daily appreciate the fortune of having the luxury of working full time remote. Most people don't have that.

We very much enjoyed our time in the SF Bay Area. It's a beautiful place full of excellent people. "things" just got too out of balance over the past decade plus.
They can easily migrate to Discord or Matrix.
It's your claim that it's "tech"'s job to solve these issues, rather than the city government, the people whose actual job it is to solve these issues?

Flush with extra cash from the taxes paid by "tech", to boot.

Like, what do you want here? Should "tech" appropriate a significant part of the government's job in addressing these issues? I'm sure you don't actually want that.
In the same vein, the possibilities of the Sonora Aero Club:

"One hundred years later, a house in Houston, Texas, caught on fire. In the aftermath, a fire inspector instructed the family to get rid of some of the old, miraculously unscathed junk in the attic. The family complied, and everything was soon landfill-bound.

Among that debris: the 12 illustrated scrapbooks of one Charles August Albert Dellschau, German immigrant, supposed former Sonora Aero Club member. Created between 1908 and 1921, during Dellschau's retirement, the pages document his recollections of the machines, meetings, and men of the erstwhile Club."[1]

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/charl...
Some organizations have basically regressed to "we don't have an intranet/wiki, we have slack" and there you are, HR have uploaded every important policy somewhere and it's now your job to get down in the basement and locate the store room with a door saying beware of tiger. Every day. Is there something important being said that you should probably know about? Sure. Somewhere! No need for organization, distribution lists, or any such quaint concepts, it's all there in slack, somewhere.
Volatility is its principal feature in the financial world.
Ginkgo CADx evolved quickly for a while some years ago (while it was partly funded by the Spanish government and developed by a private company), but that project and company closed. The code was released as open source and it gets some commits every once in a while by volunteers.

It has a weird UX/UI, but it might be enough for you.

Also, it's packaged on most distributions.

https://github.com/gerddie/ginkgocadx
Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill
Forgive me, but it's not clear what this actually does.

Is it a map that commits to disk? Does it operate on the filesystem level, or talk to the raw partition directly (as sort of suggested by the example)? What's it for?
If only fiberglass were plastic. It’s a composite of glass and plastic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiberglass). Separating the two for recycling is difficult.
Same, I spend a lot of time trying to get it right. It’s incredibly frustrating that it is so politically unpopular to fund the IRS at an appropriate level even though each dollar spent would generate more than a dollar in tax revenue.
How many could have been killed if we rushed and it turned out to have serious side effects?
Ur maths...
To add to this, country with capital controls (eg. china) or with foreign currency controls (venezuela).
I came here wondering the same. Is this based on work done by folding@home for instance? (As in, it used their precomputed stuff as training data)
we don't use Slack at my job. we do use MuleSoft which got bought by Salesforce. not sure about every touched by Salesforce die but Salesforce is giving out the Oracle vibe. they just keep buying other companies...
Falcon: Binary Analysis Framework in Rust
Was happy to hunt Sidekick on behalf of Dmitry Pushkarev. Love seeing browser innovation (built on Chromium), and the aspects Sidekick emphasizes make sense:

* Smarter approach to working with web-apps
* Built-in tab/memory management
* Cross-app unified search
* Support for multi-auth
* Privacy enhancements
* Workspace organizer tools
Finding the energy of each configuration should be much easier than finding the lowest-energy configuration. Can that be calculated ab-initio or it is still too expensive?
She is the best pet I've ever had. Very low-maintenance, doesn't musk, doesn't make noise in the middle of the night, and still shows/craves affection. Did you know snakes yawn? I sure didn't until I got her! Owning a snake has opened my eyes to a lot of amazing things about them :).
This has been going on for a couple of years, and banks and governments alike have turned it into a waiting game of sorts. It's a horrid, yet fascinating bit of injustice and systematic failure that really shouldn't occur between developed countries with friendly relations, but yet it does, and nobody seems capable of stopping it.

Here's what happens. If you are born in the US, then you are American. End of story. One Dutch account that made the news tells of a retired pilot whose father served as a liaisons officer in the US. His mother, pregnant with him, followed her husband there, and delivered the baby in Patterson Army Hospital in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. After a year the family returned to the Netherlands. He simply grew up never realizing his dual-nationality.

So this man holds the Dutch nationality, and has paid taxes in the Netherlands all of his adult life. He built up a pension, and was ready to enjoy retirement when in 2018 the American FATCA law meant that his Dutch bank told him he could no longer be a customer there, unless he paid his taxes in the US as well. Along with the surprise that he was apparently American as well as Dutch, this would mean requesting a Tax Identification Number (TIN), and filing taxes over the years he didn't pay taxes in the US (despite never earning a dollar there and paying his Dutch taxes). He has no US social security number, nor a US passport.

Of course, because of his age — being born a long time before 1986 — requesting the TIN means supplying the birth certificate he hasn't got. And getting a US birth certificate requires a US address (which he can't acquire), and… a TIN.

Refusal to do so means no bank account, with any Dutch (or European) bank, because all of them do business in the US and must adhere to FATCA or face huge fines and exclusion from global payment networks. Denouncing his US nationality (which he never knew he had until 2018), means supplying a bunch of papers, paying €2,350, and filing taxes for the past five years (which he already paid as a Dutch citizen). Without a bank account, which incidentally is a basic right in the Netherlands, which the banks choose to ignore because of the fines, it is very hard to exist here. His pension isn't gone of course: his pension fund was preparing a bulk cash pay out instead for him to stick under his mattress.

This has been going on for years (in all of Europe), but the end of November was a strict deadline for the banks, which under political pressure turned a bit less strict, so now the banks have granted a stay of execution for the customers who have now begun to sort out their affairs (i.e., file taxes in the US). The option to refuse to pay taxes in a country you've never been to and keep a Dutch bank account does not seem to exist, and the IRS is probably the only actor in this whole sordid affair who can solve this, but seemingly refuses to do so because, hey, who cares about a few foreigners caught in a bureaucratic nightmare?

I wonder how (or if) this will be resolved in the end. It's a shameful display of political ineptness in any case though.
I like how the Witcher 3 references Guybrush. There is a character named Mancomb there who also looks like Guybrush.
I spent nearly every other week in SF from 2011 until COVID hit in February. Went to NY for a conference last year and immediately thought 'holy shit this city is CLEAN'.
Might as well tell my story.

The way it's gone for me is last year converted my company from S-corp to sole proprietorship. This was done because my state (NJ) was paying out unemployment claims to people I have never met (in NY) and providing me with no way to contest this other than to retain an attorney and file in superior court. The conversion had some minor tax implications but otherwise would allow me to draw instead of pay myself a salary subject to unemployment taxes. For 3 months this year I was out of operation due to COVID, during which time CARES Act was supposed to pay unemployment + $600/wk to sole proprietors. Stuck pending since April, expect to never see it. I have sent letters, faxes, spoken to court clerks, assemblymen, reported to unemployment's investigators regarding the false claims I had for a few years before COVID hit, and I was never able to get a resolution.

Regarding the IRS end, no check here. The CARES act wasn't written for people who didn't file in 2018 but were required to file in 2019. It explicitly said to not use the non-filer option if a 2019 return was required. I'm still trying to get my ID verified with the IRS (I haven't moved, they accepted 2 corporate returns last year with my name on them, and I've never hit this requirement before). I do not expect to see a check from them either. Nobody there to answer the phone for weeks now.

I did, however, receive one soft notice from the IRS notifying me that I should review and re-submit a return from (I think?) 2012 or 2013 for unreported bitcoin transactions. Yeah... I'll get right on that.
Can someone explain why BTC going from 13k to 20k in a month isn't the yearly pump and dump?
> Rather than addressing transportation issues, tech just built their own exclusive network. Rather than addressing cost-of-living inequity, tech just drove up real-estate prices.

This feels like misplaced blame? Is one expected to believe that "tech" should be doing the government's job? If anything, one could argue that tech did do its part by paying higher taxes on average </two-cents>
Right, but you made the example with the virus docking at a known organism. If you do synthetic biology and modify bacteria to produce any proteins then the situation is different of course.
Which I think says more about their competitors search offerings than something revolutionary about Slack. “Functional enough to be useful” is a bar that a lot of products can’t seem to meet.
I had to play translator for my ex when we traveled. She was just a little bit hard of hearing but the main thing is that I can start to get the hang of a local accent in a few sentences so I mostly avoid making a fool of myself. She struggles for quite a while.

When you're translating English to English, it takes a bit of diplomacy to do it without insulting or embarrassing either speaker. So when the hotelier asked us if we wanted 2 beds or one, I'd have to turn it into me asking her a question based on their question, and often while I'm myself exhausted and just want to lay down.

"What do you think honey, one queen size or two double beds?"

"We want a private bathroom, right?"
If it's large, edible, tasts good and lasts well (which IIRC apples usually do) why not?
Welcome to the big leagues.
IMO, this is huge. One of the biggest applications of ML to science that I know of for sure. People used to manually crystallize proteins at great effort to solve for structures.

Of course, there is a caveat. The static, crystallized structure is only one aspect of a protein. The dynamic behavior dissolved in H2O, at different pH, different ionic strength, with different ligands/cofactors are all also important, and not (afaik) directly addressed by this research.
This benchmark maybe solved, but simultaneously, there remain other open problems relating to protein folding which are unsolved and which may not even have benchmarks yet :)

Said differently, there's vast space between having a great result on a specific benchmark (this) and solving all interesting problems in a scientific field.
How to make a 3D population density render for any country in the world