skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure he meant people who design hardware using Hardware Description Languages which aren't only used to configure FPGAs... you can build ASICs using them too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
You can cross-compile from other OSes using MinGW and test via the free Windows VMs that Microsoft distributes. You can also download the free Windows development VMs and develop from them exclusively.
The US government literally just confiscated a billion dollar wallet just a few days ago.
"benefit of a few" meaning "allow those few that were adversely affected to sue for damages" which would have the follow-on effect of hampering vaccine development
It would be good to show what the form builder UI looks like. The demos page shows the Output, but I can't see how to create these forms without creating an account. I am aware that other form builders have some capability to use conditional logic, so it would be good if you could show what's different / better - I expected to see the UI I would use.
Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet.

These games were such a huge part of my childhood, it's great to learn more about the people behind them and the process of creation.
Can Apple Dominate the PC Market?
It's kind of like a modern day Bell Labs where they have so much excess profit from adtech that they can fund lots of "basic research" or the computer science equivalent of that.
You are right on the money in a way. Neuromancer was the dream of the future everyone had, once. But it's just a "what" a manipulation if you will. Gernsback Continuum shows the depth of his insight it's a "why" and "how" something way more timeless. No surprise it becomes more relevant than his other work as time goes by. It's kind of sad, to me at least it shows he could have written something way more serious but chose fame and glory during his lifetime instead of shot at immortality so to speak. Really really effing sad...
It can not stabilize the block reward pays for the mining the fees are almost irrelevant. block reward halves every 4 year so the price has to double at least every 4 year.
if it does not it will become lucrative to do double spends at some point.
Its designed to crash some day because there is no endless doubling at constant time.
Synthetic carbon based fuels for instance could be made green house gas neutral. It's just not economical so far.
Thanks for the link, that was interesting!
If there was a headline, "Company X with Product Y cured cancer" and it turns out that product Y actually only cured 90% of cancer, I'm pretty sure most people would be happy the headline.

Oh, and to be a true parallel example, in this case the remaining 10% of cancers might not even be cancers, as experimental accuracy of protein structures is only ~90% accurate, the model could very well be more accurate than our current ability to experimentally detect protein structure.
I know it's not moving in any normal sense of the word.

It degrades over time with use. As opposed to most every other non-fan/ non-SSD piece of the system which does not degrade over time.
And this is the argument for the U in UBI. You make government services as universal and as easy to acquire as possible. You get more widescale buy-in from the general population because everyone benefits rather than a select group which seems to be a problem with the current discussions around college loan forgiveness. Plus there are all sorts of cost savings that come from reduced bureaucracy that hopefully outweigh the costs from outright fraud or normal mistakes like this.

All the scrutiny and bureaucracy should be on the tax collection side rather than on the service side.
Feel like you are putting the cart before the horse here. It's not like the government gives you a house and 40 acres for getting married.
Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math library
Vesting is a safety device for the company. Equity isn't really intended to "reward" early employees. It is intended to motivate them to work hard on the company so there will be something of value out of which to get a big reward.

The short video here (not the written stuff on the page) may be helpful:

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5x-how-to-split-equity-a...

A company is like a living organism. Living organisms have inputs and outputs and that's part of being alive.

In this case, one "output" is that people leave sometimes. The fact that it happens is natural and normal. But you don't want them to leave in a way that's like cutting out your heart without anesthesia.
This is another classic misunderstanding.

The problem those folks have isn’t bad currency it’s bad government. You can’t solve that by allowing people to violate sanctions suddenly.

Remember, sanctions are what’s preventing these folks from trading internationally and sanctions are what’s preventing these folks from using USD. That doesn’t go away in a Bitcoin world. Amazon isn’t going to deploy stealth C-130s to airdrop in their prime packages if they pay with Bitcoin.

When the government has failed your currency is the least of your problems, and once you change the government your currency returns to normalcy.

Allowing the transfer of value in violation of sanctions has allowed North Korea to accumulate billions of dollars of crypto to fund their nuclear weapons programs. The livelihood of the average citizen changes not at all, but the largesse of the rogue state increases.
What to Expect When Visualizing Expectations
Microsoft distributes free Windows VMs with developer tools installed for the explicit purpose of developing on Windows, there's no need to use their IE images.
>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.

This is such a huge thing when it comes to quality of life. The traffic in the bay area is completely absurd. There is no rush hour. There's a small window around 10:00am-11:30am where you can just get in the car and run somewhere real quick without sitting in it. Otherwise it turns a quick trip to the grocery store into an hour long affair. I can remember working in Oakland, and living in Pleasant Hill, and if there was an accident at the tunnel, you're literally just sitting at the office until 8-9pm because the entire route is a parking lot. It's the number one thing I am thankful for since moving away.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/geothermal-faqs

> First, it's clean. Energy can be extracted without burning a fossil fuel such as coal, gas, or oil. Geothermal fields produce only about one-sixth of the carbon dioxide that a relatively clean natural-gas-fueled power plant produces, and very little if any, of the nitrous oxide or sulfur-bearing gases. Binary plants, which are closed cycle operations, release essentially no emissions.

> WHY IS GEOTHERMAL ENERGY A RENEWABLE RESOURCE?

> Answer: Because its source is the almost unlimited amount of heat generated by the Earth's core. Even in geothermal areas dependent on a reservoir of hot water, the volume taken out can be reinjected, making it a sustainable energy source.
Well that's a shame. Now I'm stuck with Teams.
I know he got a lot of flack for the Net Neutrality rules, but not everything out of this FCC regime has been bad. Just earlier this month the FCC added additional spectrum to the 5 Ghz unlicensed block used by Wifi[1]. I'm not sure I'll ever complain about additional spectrum for WiFi.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/fcc-adds-45mhz-t...
Very likely, from my perspective I can't live my life saving all my monetary resources to only enjoy my life when I'm on my 50s or 60s. I'm not born in wealth or in a wealthy country, I had to work a lot to get out of the initial hand life dealt me, including getting out of my home country.

I won't sacrifice another 10-15 years of my life while I'm young to have a possibility to have all the time in the world when I'm 60.

It's a matter of perspective as you pointed out.
I'm confused, in what way has the government deincentivized/roadblocked marriage?
I recommend watching the video, the real meat of it starts at about 6:20. The creator works for Vox and is generally considered pretty reputable. Basically they did a study and found Mexican Coke, despite the label, is made with HFCS.

Gizmodo has also reported on it: https://gizmodo.com/mexican-coke-is-ditching-cane-sugar-for-...

Apparently HFCS is cheaper in Mexico too. I'm far from an expert on this, just going with what these articles and videos are saying.
Oh no, shame to see him go!

Not.

What a total wanker.
Having now read both, your link does not seem to address any of the claims in the GP's links.
Can I run Docker on M1 right now?

Soon but not yet: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/29/early-docker-buil...
I've heard that a few times today. Will put some screenshots on the homepage in the next couple of days and deploy as soon as possible. Thanks for the feedback yalooze!
You make a good point about surveillance, but I'd argue it's still more Brave New World, a dystopia built on consumerism, hedonism, and the compliance of the willingly oppressed over 1984's brutal, spartan, war economy. The citizens of Oceania may choose to buy into propaganda and nationalism, but they're also forced to by an all-powerful police state. The inhabitants of Huxley's World State certainly are subject to an oppressive state and brainwashing, but they also do so under far more comfortable circumstances. 1984 is motivated by pain, Brave New World is motivated by pleasure- I'd consider the latter to be closer to modern consumerist society.

I would assume Gibson simply didn't consider the technological ramifications of ubiquitous surveillance, or it's just his setup of a decentralized oppressive world of feuding megacorps and criminal super-gangs would have less thematic use for it than 1984's setup of one (or three) totalitarian governments able to monitor everyone.
Overall a good article for bringing attention to the problem that AWS needs to solve - and no doubt they will.

I am not convinced by the author's argument that the root cause is indeed the two pizza principle.

Instead the root cause is the failure to thoroughly test the new configuration before migration to production. And the failure to have a rapid reversion in case of failure. Which is something all developers experience.
My employer, a fortune 100, has had a 100% work from home since late February or early March, and it has been a diverse experience for the thousands of us reporting in each day, week, and month.

I consider myself very lucky that my wife, also in IT at another large company, had the same work from home requirement and so although we have been a social island, we haven't been isolated because of each other's company. We share a spare bedroom, already equipped with comfortable tanker desks and large monitors, and as such had already superior workstations than those back at our corporate offices.

We do have timing collisions for stand up, retros, et cetera but in general it's less than 5% of the time so we just try to be quiet when the other is doing a demo.

For work-home balance, I would say the balance is largely lost, but that as an overall, the experience is still improved. I find it is much easier to work earlier, and later, hours, but to take larger spans of downtime during what was previously our core hours. So I might find myself writing code at 10pm, but because that tends to happen only when it is a good fit, it's still an improvement.

But 9 or 10 months is not enough time to really know that it's going to last long-term. If I allow the work-home imbalance to solidify, what longer term effects will I come to regret?
And I have the complete opposite experience. Pinning this on the switch from LPDDR3 to DDR4 seems like a very weak conclusion. Especially when it is known that processors and displays are the largest consumers of energy and the 2019 MacBook Pro boosts way higher with more cores than the 2017.
Why is the graph not monotonically increasing? Does the complexity of the problem to be solved increase each time? If so, does that make the relative improvement from the previous result even more impressive?
In Russia there is no such thing as an accent so it is possible to end.
What do you mean you're not sure how useful ">= 90" is as a criteria?

You literally said why it is useful in your comment:

> 90 GDT is informally considered to be competitive with results obtained from experimental methods.

It's informal because we don't have a true "gold-standard" for determining a protein's folded structure – the best we have is experimental methods of trying to determine the structure which still have a great deal of error (compared to other things we can measure).

So all we can do is say "the GDT between two experimental measurements (of the same protein) is often around 90, so if we get there with predictive models that's pretty much just as good".

As soon as we have better experimental methods for determining protein tertiary structure, you can be sure we will require predictive models to deliver better results too. Until then, the point is that the delta between any two experimental determinations of folded structure is approximately the same as the delta between an experimental determination and an AlphaFold guess. So the AlphaFold guess may as well be an experimental measurement. Except the AlphaFold guess happens fairly trivially (once you give it the DNA sequence[1]), where as the experimental method is involved and expensive.

[1] Or the primary structure, I'm unsure what inputs are given to AlphaFold.
> I mean whats the fun in copying what a machine says to win chess games against strangers?

I mean, what's the fun in beating everyone in Overwatch / PUBG / Fortnite / Quake / Doom / etc. etc. with an aimbot?

To win. Because cheaters find winning fun, even if they're not doing it on their own skill. I obviously disagree with the mindset, but cheaters disagree with me (and clearly continue to use aimbots / chessbots / whatever to rack up "their wins").

Generally speaking, their excuses are along the lines of "I don't have the reaction speed of others", or "I don't find games of reaction fun" (etc. etc.). Similarly, a chessbot user would almost certainly say "I don't like having obvious blunders in my games, and a chessbot prevents me from missing obvious blunders".

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I mean, Centaur Chess is a thing. Human + Computer, if you really wanted to fight fair. But these cheaters don't go towards Centaur Chess servers, they stay on human-only servers and just wanna have an advantage on the opponent. Soooooo... yeah. That's their decision.

There's chess tournaments of 24-hours a move, no holds barred. (IE: Chess AIs are allowed to assist you). If you really wanted "blunder free chess", people can play in those communities. Those who continue to use computer-assistance on human-only servers are simply cheaters in my book.
For those who haven't heard of him, this guy is a Pixar veteran and an absolute wizard of computer graphics: https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Issue-4-...

> Quilez describes the method he used to generate the 15 types of foliage, rocks, and even small flies as “painting with code.” The code exists as a Pixar RenderMan plug-in written in C++; that is, a DSO. When Quilez started, he rendered with PRMan 15, then, as time passed, changed to Version 16.

> “It was quite fun using a compiler to produce assets,” Quilez says. “Going from the flat world into a super-dense 3D world was all my work. Moss with small clover leaves around it, bracken, hummocks, hanging moss, all the leaves and pine needles, lichen, grass and flowers, heather, birch trees, gorse, Scotch broom, the distant trees and rocks, the small dots that were flies, all were specific pieces of code; all the shapes, the colors, everything is in the code. We didn’t write a tool that an artist would use; there’s no user interface. Usually we use code to glue things together. In this case, we thought of code as assets.”
At first, Quilez planned to hard-code only moss and grass, but the result was so successful he ended up writing specific code for many more types of vegetation. “I abstracted the code and found the parts they all had in common, but in principle, each is different,” he says. “They share the logic, of course.”

> He treated the vegetation that grew on the rocks, trees, and up from the ground differently from that without supporting geometry. For the former: “We’d start with 3D models and go polygon by polygon in the mesh,” Quilez explains. “For every quad, we would generate random points, and from those points we would grow flowers, leaves, and something else.”

> For the latter: “When we didn’t have a mesh,” Quilez explains, “we’d place cubes where we wanted things to grow. These weren’t polygons; they were mathematical descriptions: This is the center, these are the sides, end of story. The code would use that to generate detail inside. We generated bushes out of nowhere.”
Quilez didn’t use typical plant-growing rules to produce the grass, moss, and other vegetation. “The problem with L-systems and other old-school techniques is that you have to encode the rules,” he says. “If you want to change something, you have to change the rules, which isn’t intuitive. When we wanted to change something, we’d go into the code and make the change.”

His ShaderToy profile is quite something as well: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf
Why not .. all of the above?

If this sort of thing scratches an itch you have, try Lawrence Sander's The Tomorrow File, from 1975. The author rather gleefully throws as many dystopian tropes into the mix as is feasible (and then a few more for good measure), and makes it work, oddly enough.
We indeed stand on the shoulders of a small number of giants! I'm infinitely thankful for the work DeepMind is doing. Lets maybe celebrate this accomplishment for one day and start being worried about big tech again tomorrow. Many of the comments here usually suggest that we should live in worries and fear but to my knowledge there is not too much historical evidence for these kind of companies turning evil.
> It usually directly translates to pronunciation as that's a rather big part of spoken Hochdeutsch.

Not really, since there are lots of small pronunciation differences (e.g. the pronunciation of "ä", the quality of "i" in words like "Kirche", etc.) that are not distinguished in writing. At the same time, some "Bühnenhochdeutsch" pronunciations are not even captured by orthography, e.g. syllable-final -ig being pronounced as -ich or the voicing of the s sound before vowels at the syllable onset. In fact, especially with phenomena such as reduction of "-er" etc. in standard German, Swiss people will usually claim that they speak "German as it is written" even though that is wildly different from how most Germans speak.

Also, I mean, modern German and its orthography was modeled in large parts after Saxon, but nobody would think nowadays that Saxon constitutes "standard German" in terms of pronunciation.

> Yes, a lot. Thick Bavarian accents are often considered intelligible in the rest of Germany. Even inside Bavaria dialects can range from "easily understandable" like a lot of Franconian, to something so thick that even other Bavarian's might struggle with understanding, like some regional Upper Palatine dialects.

> Often even small towns will have their very own accents.

But that wasn't your claim. You claimed that dialects are unintelligible from town to town which is usually very rare, since dialects tend to form a continuum.

> I guess I'm just too utilitarian for that, my ideal version of humanity would speak one common language to improve cooperation and understanding among each other.

That's not a linguistic question anymore, but one of personal values. However, it is worth noting that cases of language death often are accompanied by culture death as well, and deep feelings of shame and guilt within the respective communities.
> must be one of those US problems no one else has.

More like "must be one of those made-up problems which we'll try to launch into actionability", I don't think the USA has a different attitude towards siesta than e.g. north-western Europe.
allowing millions of people to actually own something for the first time ever.
Even if you try to account for the overall R&D cost, DeepMind isn't that large an organization by the standards of biomedical research. It's very big and well funded for a computer science research organization, yes, and most CS departments can't match its resources. But the NIH budget is $40 billion, and private pharmaceutical companies do another $80 billion in annual R&D. It's interesting that this kind of breakthrough didn't come from those sectors.
This seems like an obvious assumption to make, but it isnt always true. It is easier to see why if you are measuring a single value multiple times in order to get a more accurate estimate of the true value. In that case your "model" is simply the mean of all measurements made and can exceed the accuracy of a single measurement.

In this case, the model is predicting values of multiple structures, but patterns could still theoretically be found which allow for predictions beyond the accuracy of a single measurement.
Focus Is the New Differentiator
They either haven't experience the pain or are oblivious to it. Pip old resolver is borked[0]:

> [The new resolver] will reduce inconsistency: it will no longer install a combination of packages that is mutually inconsistent. At the moment, it is possible for pip to install a package which does not satisfy the declared requirements of another installed package. For example, right now, pip install "six<1.12" "virtualenv==20.0.2" does the wrong thing, “successfully” installing six==1.11, even though virtualenv==20.0.2 requires six>=1.12.0,<2 (defined here). The new resolver would, instead, outright reject installing anything if it got that input.

[0]: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-pip-resolver-to-rol...
For certain developers... for a $500 fee. I doubt that many of the developers of packages on homebrew had access to the kit nor the inclination to buy it even if they did. They don't have the userbase nor the financial incentives to be ready for apple silicon day 1.
I worked with a bunch of "millennials" at my previous job (the entire social media team). This is anecdotal, but, yeah, a lot of them were worried about having a stable career first before they could commit to marriage.
Something you may not have considered - in countries where public servants are paid poorly, the result is widespread government corruption. In Nicaragua, for example, the police are so badly underfunded that if you want their help, you may be asked to pay for the gasoline to run their cars. If you can't pay, you don't get help.

This type of behaviour is massively wasteful and a drain on the wealth of a country. It's wise to avoid it.
if you die picking up a mac at the apple store, it was time for you to go anyways
What official evidence can there be of a failed acquisition? News agencies with a good reputation and track record reporting on insider sources is as close as you are going to get.
> the energy and human lives spent on war to maintain dominance

This is a really important point that I want to emphasize. Maintaining the value and scarcity of a fiat currency such as the dollar requires strong law enforcement and ultimately, for a global reserve currency, dominating military power. Bitcoin mining is a rounding error compared to the peacetime US defense budget, let alone all the externalities associated with militaries and war.

This is still a big if, but if the function of establishing a scarce digital global reserve currency can be done by an algorithm without relying on law enforcement or militaries, at a fraction of the cost, that is a huge win for the world.
You can buy it online and have it shipped to a store if you'd like.
cool. I just have installed Sidekick, and started testing. Looks promising