skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Implying that there have been any modern periods without meaningful enforcement of immigration laws perpetuates a false scenario.
I bet they do, when they realised just how many companies decided it wasn't worth complying with EU data laws and just block EU IPs instead.
Additionally the training test of all of the models during development.
Same with the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine "No hospitalizations or severe cases of COVID-19 were reported in those receiving the vaccine." https://apnews.com/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-third-cheaper...

They all seem quite promising.
>Tether has never been redeemed

Why is this relevant when you can withdraw tethers for USD at any participating exchange? Or are you saying that None of the exchanges that support tether (eg. bitfinex) has never fulfilled a withdraw?

>It’s the mother of all Ponzi schemes, clearly, and is definitely going to implode in the next big pullback.

Sounds like a great way to make a lot of money. Tether is currently trading 1:1 with USD (yes, even at exchanges that offer real USD). It should be easy to short-sell a bunch of tether, and buy it back when in collapses. And unlike short-selling stocks, your downside should be relatively low as tethers can't realistically go above their current price.
Needs a 2017 tag on it it looks like.
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> as a local Wolfram Alpha

It’s called Mathematica, son.
https://archive.vn/F25mh
Which is what led to big rates of domestic abuse and violence.
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FWIW, transformers is to sequences what convnets is to grids, modulo important considerations like kernel size and normalization. Think of transformers as really wide (N) and really short (1) convolutions. Both are instances of graphnets with a suitable neighbor function. Once normalization was cracked by transformers, all sort of interesting graphnets became possible, though it's possible that stacked k-dimensional convolutions are sufficient in practice.
I've spun off the track going about 50mph before and my dad's spun at about 120mph. We both agree that there's a split second where you realize something's gone wrong but after that your training kicks in and you take your hands off the wheel/push in the brake/clutch. The spin itself doesn't exactly happen instantaneously, but it feels like it's over pretty quick. Once the car stops it can take a second or two to get your bearings, figure out which way the car is facing, etc.
Ask HN: Continue using Mac or switch to Linux?
I'm at the point where most of my Macs are starting to get old. With the exception of my main workstation at home, all of them are either iMacs or MacBook Pros from 2015 or before. For the simple reason that the newer Macbooks my colleagues at work are using have all had hardware quality issues.

So I had a look at the current Apple product range. And I have to say that I'm a bit conflicted. After the last 5 years of Apple (in my opinion) struggling to produce a laptop relevant for professionals, with the new M1 machines coming, and with every release of OSX having some new element of unpleasant surprise to it, I'm not sure I want to continue buying Macs. Not for software development at least. I'm considering going back to Linux for my main software development workstation - and possibly for a powerful laptop.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Both on whether Macs are a viable option for software development in the future and from people who have made the transition back to Linux for software development. What was your experience like?
Wages for equivalent experience have held steady or declined for many Americans over the past 40 years. Women are making more (but more are part of the workforce, plus efforts to ensure equal pay). Top earners are doing better. But the average has seen stagnant wages while major costs (such as homes) have been going up faster.

So a 25 year old, today, doing the same job as their 25 year old parent/grand parent in 1980 is worse off at the same point in their career. This doesn't bode well when people like my parents and grandparents were relatively easily and affordably able to acquire homes and actually start building wealth, while the current generation of young workers are unable to build wealth.

It's not about a comparison between the youth and the now older workforce (which would be a moronic comparison). It's about comparing the youth to what the older workforce had 40 years ago. Or even 30.
So a few things the government does is favor oneside in divorce and family courts. They will give housing and money through programs to keep people single via section 8 and foodstamps programs. They incentivize single motherhood by allow fathers to be replaced by government checks.

All these things whether good or bad makes it less likely people settle for pairing together like they typically would have.
To expand on that, the Go runtime is nowhere near the BEAM. To see why, check out this rant by a developer who has done a lot of work with Erlang [1], particularly starting at "Where it got really ugly for me".

[1]: https://vagabond.github.io/rants/2014/05/30/a-week-with-go
playing dead avoids drawing attention to it
What’s holding back VR (for 30 years, now) isn’t tech, it’s a lack of real use cases. Maybe AR for more of an office environment thing. But VR gaming is a niche, just conceptually.
If anyone has interest in practicing these, there is some nice software: CT-Art that was just a tremendous help to me. It focuses on "motifs", where instead of most puzzles that ask you to "find the next move" you see the position a few moves out from the desired pattern so you learn to recognize what it looks like and learn to steer it into that pattern when it's not staring you in the face.
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I’ve been pretty happy with PS Now, Shadow and GeForce Now. I show maybe an extra 50ms of latency max, more like 30ms avg.

I wouldn’t play really competitive shooters that way but it’s low enough to not bother me even in mouse/keyboard FPS (for the PC services). For controllers it’s completely negligible, like playing with a Bluetooth device or on a 2015 TV.

That said, I’m in Santa Clara County near one of the major Shadow datacenters, probably the others too, and I have gigabit. I am in the ideal situation you describe.

So is a lot of the world though. US is super rural for its economic weight but that’s not the norm. Most developed countries have much higher density and better networks. I think we’ll probably just end up dragging behind the curve until we mesh the flyover states better.
It would still be a significant amount of money for a lot of companies.

Remember, we are looking in hindsight that it seemingly paid off. A few years ago, this was just an educated bet; only the richest companies with money to burn (from selling ads) would be willing to take on that kind of a risk.
Hacker news tech bros pissing on Bitcoin with smart sounding but really just dumb ass e=mc2 arguments. Then they wonder why they have to answer to that PM or idiot CEO.
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Watching him get out of the car after the fireball was a huge relief! Great to see all the safety tech in use at F1 working and delivering such a great result (the Halo and firesuit in particular here). The driver will likely be discharged from the hospital in the next 1-2 days. Very amazing! Best wishes of recovery to Romain!
Is that why Dow hit 30,000? Because investors are bearish on a Biden economy?
Founder here :)

While working at Google years ago, I co-founded a nonprofit for math enrichment classes. I ran it in my spare time, using Google Sheets, until the spreadsheet setup grew too unwieldy, time-consuming, and frustrating. Back then, I bit the bullet, and rebuilt it using Django. It took months of my evenings and weekends — just to recreate a database version of what I almost had with a spreadsheet.

That got me thinking what made spreadsheets my tool of choice to start with, and what made me switch to a database, and if we can have the best of both worlds. So we built Grist to be a “relational spreadsheet” — most of what a spreadsheet has, but with more structure, linking between records, and a flexible UI on top.

I’ve been using Grist daily, it’s now my tool of choice. I’d love to know what uses you put it to as well!
For those who works with data
Good question. The Variety article suggests not long:

With Democrats taking control of the FCC, the agency’s net neutrality order is expected to be swiftly reinstated.

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/fcc-ajit-pai-leave-jan...

FCC's rulemaking process: https://www.fcc.gov/general/rulemaking-fcc

There are multiple steps, though much "may" language (optional processes). I'm going to venture a few months, possibly faster. A new appointment will be required.
I'm late for an appointment, but...

I'm reminded of the example of the closing years of the Kuomintang in China, where they were suffering from massive hyperinflation. Small businesses and co-ops would bet temporary loans from the central government in its banknotes but immediately change it to silver if possible to do business with, so they wouldn't have to deal with the debasement of the real currency over the course of the year.
If I lived 10K years ago I imagine I would have been frequently sleep deprived. Obtaining food, building shelters, and guarding against attacks were all higher priorities. We don't have any hard data on neolithic sleep patterns.
I found the discussion of how the new halo device in F1 saved his life to be very interesting.

https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/30416593/romain-grosjean-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/k3sflu/i_did_a_re...
In this case because all other effects have been minimized across culture its causation across socio-economic classes
> Marriage does not mean both couples will be working.

That's true. But a full-time homemaker usually generates economic value that saves money in a long litany of ways. Staying home with kids saves on childcare. Being able to cook meals saves on eating out. Laundry and cleaning saves money on housekeeping costs. Not to mention all of this labor is accumulated tax-free (i.e. if you work to pay for some expense, you have to pay tax on the income first.)

> Conversely, you don't need to be married to be in a relationship with two incomes.

You absolutely don't. But the statistics are unambigious. Unmarried couples are substantially more likely to split than married ones. The dissolution of a household tends to be an expensive affair that permanently impedes wealth accumulation.

Not to mention that because of this, unmarried couples are substantially less likely to join their finances. Therefore they tend to get significantly worse deals than couples with joined finances. For example two-incomes who jointly sign a mortgage can get a much better APR, than when the mortgage is in one person's name.
Wait I thought it was the tech bros shilling btc, I can't keep up anymore.
Grosjean has a bit of a reputation for binning it on Sunday, but glad to see that he is ok. Scary crash.
Decibels. 35 at home, 55-60 at the (open) office.
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I think he missed wifi/cell phones, mostly.
Had he thought of that, he would probably have explored these themes a bit more.

In Neuromancer there is an episode (second half, when they have already moved away from Earth surface) where a character is targeted by a sort of drone/service droid.

But I also sorta remember that in a subsequent story (I think it was Count Zero? Not sure anymore) one of the characters... cuts a videocall or something similar by actually yanking the cord out of the wall.
Thanks, I will sign up and give it a try. This way opponents will probably be more often my level (which I guess it means I will lose a lot more).
That's a good point; this system certainly didn't come from nowhere! The protein datasets they used also mostly came out of various NIH-funded projects.

What I meant to focus on was that I think DeepMind has less of a pure money/scale advantage in this area than in some others. In something like Go or Atari game-playing, there are many academic groups researching similar things, but their resources are laughably small compared to what DeepMind threw at it. So you might argue that they got good results there in part because they directed 1000x the personnel and compute at the problem compared to what any academic group could afford. In biomed though, their peers in academia and industry are also pretty well-funded.
Unless I suck at reading comprehension, 27 some percent is still less than 100 percent. It gained some share but this just seems like a cheap, no substance article riding on the Apple choo choo going around HN recently.
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I'm a pretty pessimistic individual, at least my wife tells me so, but I am actually very optimistic about California and the Bay Area. I think COVID will end up being the kick in the pants it needs to start dealing with many of the problems in the state and region. A scare or two about companies fleeing the state is necessary to get the state/counties/cities to cut back on suffocating red tape for small businesses. And if there is one place in the world setup to fight a big climate problem like fires, it is the academic and technological hive mind of California.

Back to the bad takes: from what I've read the takes are all from people who moved out of the Bay. Some people come here, start their careers, then have the luxury of leaving and working from wherever. That's great, but there will always be a batch of new grads looking for work and honestly the concentration there is so high they could lose 20% of the companies by market cap and this would still be the place to start out, along with a few other large metros. Just because you leave doesn't mean the city stops.
> I didn't follow this though, what do you mean?

I should have worded it better, I just mean that if Bitcoin were to replace gold as the primary store of value, the price of Bitcoin would have to rise significantly to absorb the demand, since supply is inelastic. This in turn would increase the environmental externalities.
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I think long term there's a chance global warming is just what the Earth needs. We have a pattern of ice ages, and if you think global warming is bad imagine an ice age. We grow most of our food at latitudes in the northern hemisphere that would no longer have a long enough growing season. We might one day find ourselves in a position of having to burn coal or release methane on purpose to ward off an ice age.

However, there's no question it's going to be horrific to adapt to meanwhile. There's also a question of how much warming do we need to prevent an ice age, because ideally we'd want to stop there. Nobody asks these questions seriously though, and it could likely end ones career as a scientist to talk about it.
I both agree and disagree with your position...

I agree in that married couple are normally muti-income households which makes them wealthy

I disagree that it should be the role of government to incentivize or decentivize marriage

We can resolve this by allowing people to form their own "households" for tax purposes and it should not matter if they are related, married, sleeping with each other, etc.

If they live in the same house, they should be treated as a household and be taxes according to that (or individually if they desire)

I would like to see an end to all government regulations on interpersonal relationships.
Also with keeping in mind that once a good open source model is available, researchers with less resources can still use it to fine tune and get new results for far cheaper than training a new model from scratch.
I would agree with that - I find a lot of Cert books are condensed, ordered, organized, and give me great information to become familiar with a topic. This is why I'm addicted to them :)

You still need experience, practice and hands-on / real-world experience though, to be actually good at it I feel.
My goodness. This is professional writing? The organization is terrible. The intro paragraph is about the blog, not the headline. The second paragraph is ponderous and useless: Chappelle = extraordinary. Seriously: that's a four line paragraph that's basically an emoji with a higher word count. The third paragraph is more of the same. Get to the point!

I basically checked out when I got to the topic sentence for point 3: "What is noteworthy about Chappelle’s argument is that he is quite ready to admit that everyone involved is acting legally." You can just hear the annoying Grammarly ad woman saying "this is sentence IS grammatically correct . . . " (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8CWdy-_2A)
I feel like there's always been a vocal anti apple crowd, sometimes justified, sometimes not. Nothing specific to hacker news.
This is correct. I've played many thousands of games online and have run into obvious cheaters fewer than 5 times, and in those cases it is obviously obvious.

If somebody is cheating so stealthily, why do I care? Their rating will reflect whatever cheating they stealthily do. Remember: If the cheater won every single game, they would be caught immediately, so if their rating is around mine, then whatever cheating they are doing roughly makes them a player of my skill level. It really makes no difference to me if the person I'm playing is actually weaker and cheating to simulate my skill level or actually my skill level.

And from their perspective, what is the point? If you are a 1500 player and can cheat to be an 1800 player, what are you gaining from that? Wouldn't you rather play other people that are your skill level? And if you are a beginner (<1000) that is trying to pretend to be a higher rated player, you just won't have enough understanding of chess to pull it off stealthily.

The cheating thing is just not a major issue for casual online chess.
The first thing I plan to do after buying a new car is to rip out the cellular and gps antennas.
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that guide teaches to become too aggressive which is unnecessary for many case. But in turn you are damaging user ergonomics. If google start showing captcha on every search yes they protected it from bot but is that what normal real user want? No.

If you data is that much valuable offer them at price so bot shouldn't be issue in many case?

But these days random eCommerce website asking for captcha is totally ridiculous. Some alibaba website are so frustrating that i don't even browse them anymore.
The millennial generation has made terrible decision egged on by the previous. No one needed all those degrees to begin with. Most are useless to the larger economy. That along with the choice to stay single longer has doomed this generation.
Good question. I don't know. I do remember the public comment period that happened before his regime implemented changed. Can anyone explain that process? Would such a period be required for reversals of current FCC policies?
My Dad is a big F1 fan and we were discussing yesterday. While the halo[0] was once a controversial requirement (affected visibility), it's almost certainly what saved Romain's life[1].

[0] - https://youtu.be/3-3gIAkYEX8
[1] - https://youtu.be/zM-ixqBQNcQ
wish it could have been called: BBE Basic Editor. Of course its BBC Basic, not BBE Basic, so there's that.
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I've also been wondering - are the trial participants purposefully exposed to the virus?
https://archive.is/aIBV0
It has the lead...
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> So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.

This whole thing is dripping with condescension and ego. It reads like a nasty letter written to an ex-girlfriend about how you're super successful now and gee I'm glad you're doing well too. Yuck.
Maybe they meant 100% increase in market share
Right, I'm not disputing that. I just think that pointing to the raw numbers might paint a misleading picture in the sense that the disparities aren't necessarily an ageist injustice, but rather that the gap increase might be better explained by factors like increasing amounts of student debt, bad minimum wage raise policies, etc - many of which are factors that are actionable at a government level.
That doesn’t make the article any less useless.
"Literal invaders"...... wow.

So where do you live exactly? Were you born there? If not, how old were you when you "invaded" it? Because somebody lived there before you, right? How cruel of you to take their house from them.

I wasn't aware of the fact that if I own a piece of land adjacent to my house, and then choose to legally sell it to another party, who then pays taxes to the local government to fund the externalities of their presence (traffic, water, electricity, schools), that it's an "invasion".

Cities either grow or die. There is nobody in Detroit complaining about gentrifiers "invading" their neighborhood. Instead, they are desperately trying to maintain the infrastructure and find money for schools as their city has lost population over the years. I grew up in a rural county with a declining population. The elementary and middle schools I attended have been shuttered. The only hospital in the county has closed, forcing the locals to drive an hour to get to one in a neighboring county. The young all leave and never return, because there's no jobs, leaving their parents to never see grandkids except on holidays. That's the alternative to growth. If you can find a city in the US with absolutely no growth or decline in the population, and a strong economy, please let me know.

A city that fights development and growth will just push the poor out quicker, as older houses that they could have afforded are snapped up and remodeled by rich folks who otherwise would have built a brand new home.
I thought that was the result of a company naming contest, but the original link is making me doubt everything I thought I knew.
Pretty sure the point is that Apple is now the #1 desktop manufacturer in Japan, and they weren't before.

I think that's a fair use of the word "overtake", I'd use something else for grabbing the entire market. "obliterate" maybe?

I agree that it's kind of low in content and interest for HN, don't expect it to stay on the front page for long. I found it mildly interesting.
FDI fell in almost every other destination country. I saw a chart but cannot find it now.