skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the field, I don't need the difference explained to me.

> Think of transformers as really wide (N) and really short (1) convolutions

Modern transformer networks are not "really short" and you're also conflating the difference between intra- and inter- attention.

There is still a pitched battle being waged between convnets and transformers for sequences, although it looks like transformers have the upper hand accuracy wise right now, convnets are competitive speed-wise.
No but it will hopefully contain some. Which for many if not most problems is all that matters
I agree, hard to find. I found this, which I think should be in the readme:
https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/intro.html

Symbolic computation deals with the computation of mathematical objects symbolically. This means that the mathematical objects are represented exactly, not approximately, and mathematical expressions with unevaluated variables are left in symbolic form.

Let’s take an example...
And weekly sales reports will reflect that pent-up demand. It's not surprising that the Mac Mini outsold Lenovo's desktops for a couple of weeks right after it was introduced. It will be news if it keeps outselling them going forward.
As with anything with government and helpful programs, a large part of the US thinks, 'It doesn't matter that millions are helped, that a handful was able to take advantage means we should get rid of it'
Unrelated to napping <xyz>-shaming is a tired US culture issue. Someone will always have an issue with something you do or have, the sooner you find strength and shrug it off the better off you will be.
It hasn't become enough of a pain yet. People haven't been sufficiently burned.
It's a bit of this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q...
I would hesitate to call it "money" as well, as apart from its use in place of money, it has no value. Even paper currency is, at bottom, worth the paper it's printed on.
In shorter time controls the cheater is giving you an advantage. Even if they can get a good position, they'll spend too much time looking back and forth and inputting moves
So ignoring the broader issues with the root arms race for a minute (SafetyNet is getting hardware-based verification in future devices, among other things), you and the parent appear to be talking about two different issues.

MagiskHide covers up the fact that your system is modified. When they talk about "somehow retain[ing]... privacy" it's more about telemetry built into the apps themselves.

It's a statement on Chrome, Maps, etc. tracking you when you use them, which is distinct from whether or not specific ones have SafetyNet-induced breakage.
To put some real numbers to this notion:

> But as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today said, "99.9943 percent of the 274 million registered vehicles on the road in the United States still don't have DSRC on-board units." Only 15,506 vehicles have been equipped with the technology, he said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/fcc-adds-45mhz-t...

Considering the American car market sells 17M+ cars annually this is bad progress after two decades.
Dependency management in C or C++ is always an absolute shit-show.
My point was not that nobody ever does unnecessary work. That does happen, obviously, and we can certainly object to it.

In the case of rewriting an application feature for feature in another language, that may or may not be a good idea. Maybe we're switching from an interpreted language to a compiled language because we need better performance. Maybe we're replacing a huge pile of impenetrable bash with a well organized Python app. Maybe we're taking advantage of a library that's only available in another language. Maybe there's a good reason for the rewrite but it's so much work that it's still not worth it. Maybe it's just a engineers wanting to use the latest toys because it'll look good on their resumes.

It's totally legit to question the need for a given project. But the phrase "reinvent the wheel" is just scornful insult. It adds nothing to the discussion, and in fact makes it harder to discuss trade-offs.
I agree. The main inhibitor of speed that products of this advancement will be deployed at will likely be determined by local policies. Though, given just how profound some of the impacts on medicine might be, the speed at which they can be deployed might become a matter of national security (a healthier population bodes well for a healthier economy which in turn strengthens national security). Hopefully this competition shortens the time-to-market for all these new medicines.
> The problematic part of a fiat system is not that is fiat, but that is in the hands of the government who knows not how to exercise constraint and inflates it at will to "pay" for things, more realistically, to promise to pay for things that if it had to actually pay for it will never be able to afford.

If economic growth outpaces debt growth then it does not ever have to be paid back.

> ...what do you think money is?

Money is an intentionally lossy temporary store or value and a medium of exchange. Interact, yes. Store long term, no.

If you have problems with monetary policy vote in a new government, just taking your ball to the BVI isn’t a solution.

> ...you don’t understand what Bitcoin is.

I understand full well, and I believe those are bad things. Deflation is bad, for the reason I stated, and an inability to print means an inability to respond to geopolitical shocks (like COVID, for instance Canada has been paying everyone $2000/month this whole time). Not to mention an inability to grow supply with the entry of new market participants.

Bitcoin cannot and will not change the wealth gap when it’s overwhelmingly spoken for already. The best you can do is sentence your children to fight for scraps while the new moneyed class of criminals and lowlifes continues to grow in relative wealth as a fraction of economic activity by doing literally nothing with their money - backed on an inflation schedule created and managed not by economists or experts but a narcotics smuggler and a bunch of random GitHub contributors.

If you really want to change society for the better, run for office, don’t shill magic beans.
Chiming in to say: This is me to a T!
I cannot afford children (or, more accurately: I cannot give children the life I want to give them). Houses are far too expensive to even dream about, and uncertainty in continued employment incentivizes me to just save all the money I can while living as cheaply as humanly possible.

It's not the best life, but at least I have some cash to fall back on when my at-will employment is terminated for no cause and I can't find a job for a couple years. Or maybe my carpal tunnel syndrome will drive me out of the (extremely competitive) job market.

Either way, I'm not going to spend more money than I need to so I can have at least some semblance of "stability". And I sure as hell am not raising another generation of wage slaves. This terrible way of life ends with me.
And speaking of modifications, it would be nice to have a version where the puzzles are one-click away from the section at hand. I keep feeling like I'm missing something. I don't understand why the puzzles are on their own page, let alone their own domain, so if I'm in a section and I want to do a puzzle I need to click back to the main site, click on the puzzle site, then find the equivalent chapter heading, and then dive into a puzzle.
Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure it would increase the environmental externalities.

Since transaction inclusion is a marketplace and since most products we care about will continue to be denominated in local currencies I don't think transaction fees will change much as the price of bitcoin changes.

As the dollar-denominated value of a 0.01btc fee increases people will become less willing to spend that 0.01btc. There might be some stickiness but I expect the kwh-denominated fees will grow much more slowly than the price of bitcoin.
I have thought about this in relation to chess. Most of us play chess by looking at an 8x8 black-and-white grid with pieces on it. That is a two-dimensional notation capable of expressing any chess position (castling, en passant, repeat-moves etc, excepted).

What if you could invent a more efficient "notation" for chess? For example, FEN is a chess notation that is very efficient for computers. So maybe something similar exists for humans? Perhaps a three-dimensional notation, or perhaps a rearrangement of the board using knight moves and octagons instead of squares. Knights can jump in eight directions at most so a board using octagons would make it easy to see where they land.
There's no proof that uninterpretable models perform better, it's just a recent observation.

In some sense, it's possible to interpret any model, the effort requires just varies.

On your self driving car example, one which you can explain it's decisions to regulators is much more likely to be approved than one which you can't.

Given the amount of models I've built, I'm not sure there is a scarier thing than an uninterpretable model moving a ton of metal around at high speed.
You may not deal with tropical cyclones, but please understand that where you live the weather can become quite violent.

https://www.climate.washington.edu/stormking/mainindex.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1962

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_windstorm
It has room physically, but there's no place to connect it.
gave to mutual aid groups, went to local artists for gifts, shifted as many purchases as possible to local businesses
That's if you can get the government out of the way. The problem isn't just that the government is doing nothing; it's that they actually block progress.
The Mini in Mac Mini is no longer Mini. But it could be More Mini. Make it Mini.

Storage has been external for years now. None of the upgradable internals need a large footprint.
> Quantity doesn't always beat quality.

I even implied as much.
What I'm trying to say is that being wealthy has nothing to do with the technological level of your country at some given point in history. It may have some correlation to how good access you have to whatever the highest technology available at your point in history is.
Might need a larger footprint for an upcoming version with more ports ect
I just watched the clips. Dave is awesome.

Article is saying that he lays out the reason for owning the streaming rights.
This seems like Apple's answer to the recently Microsoft-acquired lobe.ai
> and it broke the vendored versions of pip

Wait, Debian updated their pip, breaking it in the process without noticing?
I am not too familiar with CreateML but take a look at Lobe. It allows you to export models and it also comes with the option of using MobileNet (which is more suitable for running on edge devices).

You can also find examples on how to use the exported model on Lobe's Github.
> I realized I just wanted a phone that would work. And for the most part, that's what I got: a phone that does phone stuff, and does it well (and still does it, 2 years later, just as well as the day I bought it).

I certainly don't intend to wax lyrical about Android devices but it does do phone stuff and does it pretty well. Android versions usually make sweeping changes to the UI so mine is a bit dated but it does what I paid for.

I do agree that tracking by private corporations is big no and collectively we should push back hard but whether it be google or apple or samsung or microsoft, all of them give nigh 2cents worth a damn about our privacy. We are their products as the now popular maxim goes.

The only phone with some privacy is a Nokia 3310.
A broken clock is right twice a day. It's rare that someone is cartoonish levels of incompetent.
That's possible and perhaps likely, alas.

So yeah, if we're in the universe where there's zero expandability, and their silicon is super powerful with low heat requirements, I guess they may as well make it smaller.
People, it's time to get back and switch to Firefox again
I am an old chrome(ium) user. I had switched to it because it was surprisingly better than firefox for both performance and features. Firefox extensions, the old strength of firefox, became completely unuseful as Mozilla changed their framework. It was so much better that I accepted to give Google all my life and habits knowledge for... free!

Now, the times are changing: firefox engine has been rewritten from scratch for both android and pc, it is fast, lighter than chrome and more stable. The extensions now work again and the lockwise feature works like a sharm.

Firefox for android is finally fast as chrome and incredibly lighter than it. Firefox doesn't steal your data and doesn't make money by stealing your data. Instead, Mozilla advice you with tips for enhancing privacy.

So, i am just wondering, what chrome gives you that you can't have with firefox?
Additionally, only a small percentage of grads major in the humanities and social sciences despite all the hype and blame such subjects get . https://greyenlightenment.com/how-popular-are-gender-studies...

most people major in more 'actionable' subjects such as business, nursing, phycology, etc.
Rather than extra storage, how about just more room for a larger cooling solution, whether there's a fan or not. With Apple Silicon, it seems like performance is going to be dictated by the ability to dissipate heat, so I'd rather have a larger Mac mini that can dissipate more heat and boost for longer than a smaller one.
Ask HN: False advertising on stock vector websites?
I've noticed that a lot of services that sell royalty-free non-exclusive licenses to stock vectors and other images have a lot of images like this: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/letter-m-c-logo-icon-design-template-elements-vector-21949358 even though on almost all of these services there is a huge clause saying that the use of the image in a logo is explicitly not allowed. When the image itself is suggesting the customer use it as a logo, is this not highly misleading? What am I missing here?
It being indefensible is a different point than characterizing the statement as "trump called mexicans rapists".

You're doing the exact thing I was saying that everyone does with regards to this comment.
Those things got cheaper because of advances in supply chains and technology.

I mean you can just do the simple mathematics. Suppose there are 100 utility units of wealth in the world - machinery, homes, anything tangible to improve lives - and 100 units of currency to match. Through human labour we produce another 100 utility units. Now each unit of currency can provide me 2 utility units. This is just a system that rewards wealth more than work, even more so than our current system.

Let's look at capital flows. Why in the world would I ever loan to a small business if I could see gains just by holding the money? Why would I ever give companies money in IPOs? There is much less of an incentive to direct capital to those who can be the most productive with it.
I don't need that much more space for storage (modern SSDs are teeny, and I don't need physical hard drives anymore for home computing).

Cooling though. Give me a bigass heatsink and a fan.
/e/ uses all of Bromite's patches as well; I asked them to mention this in the About section, since it is basically a rebranded Bromite that they are shipping.
If you like these kinds of exercises, try out my checkmate trainer at https://www.checkmatechamp.net/ .
But... even if the artwork was being done on an Amiga, the game was being built on a PC. How are you getting your Amiga dPaint files over to the PC? Certainly not on an amiga formatted floppy. It’s got to go into a FAT file system before Ron Gilbert gets hold of it, so it’s not going to have a .brush extension.
According to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... these drivers are only used in some embedded systems. I looked at the kernel configuration for the distribution I'm using (/boot/config-`uname -r`), and CONFIG_MEMORY is not set, so none of these drivers are even available. That is: at least for desktop Linux, the firmware (not the bootloader) is the only one which sets up the physical memory controller (and actually, the only one which knows how to set up the physical memory controller; according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot#Initializing_DRAM there's no public information on how to do so for modern desktop platforms).
How long should someone wait before deprecating the old behavior?
It’s not exactly the same, but Bitcoin is essentially fiat money as its only value is what people say it is (somewhat similar to the stock market). So I think it’s an apt comparison.

Absolutely not. There's nothing "fiat" about Bitcoin. Fiat means by decree—there's no Bitcoin nation or organization that decreed that Bitcoin is valuable.

There's no authority that says what a Bitcoin is worth; the market decides.

Bitcoin, like gold, is hard money.

https://tradesmithdaily.com/educational/bitcoin-is-the-pures...

https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-interview-crypto/videos...

This is perhaps the best podcast for Bitcoin skeptics: "Bitcoin Common Misconceptions w/ Robert Breedlove"—https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/btc001-bitcoin-common-...
No, I meant something that actually tells if there is a user behind the address or not.
I think some people are also very ego-driven. For example, very young Steve Jobs said that he wants to be a very important person one day. That's not about getting FU money, that's about fueling an ego.
How much would the labor cost, though?
One difference to AlphaZero though, if my understanding is correct, is that AlphaFold is trained on a predetermined data set and hence didn’t learn how “arbitrary” proteins fold in general, but just how the kinds of proteins fold for which we already know how they fold. To work more like AlphaZero, AlphaFold would have to be able to synthesize arbitrary proteins and run the experiments on them to verify and correct its predictions. Therefore it’s conceivable that AlphaFold is biased by the existing training data and doesn’t fully generalize to all proteins we would want to apply it to. Maybe that won’t be a problem in practice, but nevertheless it makes for a significant difference from what AlphaZero was about, being solely self-trained.
Having recently experienced both, 1000x this.
Tactical Generosity
Ya, I have heard virologists talking about how many can already do mrna work in their own lab. It's scaling it up that is the expensive part. But I suspect it will just be a matter of new machinery focused on individual production rather than bulk production.
The headline is a bit over the top. Apple outsold every other desktop in Japan for 2 weeks running. That is news enough and true. Saying they overtook the market suggests more than that to me.
Right, but at least before iOS those software offerings were specifically to make the hardware more attractive. Being able to install Linux or Windows or what have you doesn't really impact that much, since the option to reinstall macOS and return to that "integratedness" always exists, and since there's nobody holding a gun to "normal" users' heads saying "you must install an entirely different operating system" (and indeed, Apple taking a stance of "we don't officially support this, and strongly suggest you stick with macOS, but if you really know what you're doing we won't get in your way" would be perfectly reasonable).

Nowadays, especially on iOS, it seems like the software is the focus. I'd argue that's a mistake that will sooner rather than later bite Apple in the ass. Hopefully the switch to M1 is a sign that Apple realizes this and wants to move back toward making top-notch hardware instead of coasting on App Store rent-seeking and planned obsolescence.
300 million for zoom is actually kind of believable. Here in Mexico private schools were using Zoom for virtual classes. I know of many other countries who took the same route.

Obviously public education couldn't use it because of a lack of hardware or internet connection on both sides so it was broadcast over TV.
Because I don't wish to participate in a superfluous, rent-seeking, middle-man economy.

I want to support creators as directly as possible while giving a fair amount to those who provide the tooling and infrastructure so that they can keep the lights on.

To not care about this is to be complicit with unethical business practices in the creative industry, ignorance or not.
Rethinking Climate Change Awareness, WebAssembly Music, and Exploring Growth
I bet it is far more than just M1. For the first time I launched an m6g (Gravition 2) instance of AWS Linux2. Ruby and node are working without a hitch. Bye bye x86.

sudo yum update

sudo yum install git

gpg2 --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

sudo yum install zstd

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install... | bash

source ~/.bashrc

nvm install v12.16.1 #From project I am working on

rvm install 2.5.1 #From project I am working on
(pure speculation)

or, maybe they've got a 'Mac Mini Pro' coming using whatever chip they're cooking up for the high-end Mac Book Pro and iMac Pro.. or maybe even more than one of those chips. So in that eventuality they want to maintain the bigger case footprint and much-bigger-than-needed power supply.
I would say that you got unlucky so far, everybody struggles with something at some point in time, the kind of people worth keeping near know and respect that.
Not being in the field, I would term what I see in this story as a ‘bottom up’ approach to understanding genetics/molecular biology. More akin to applied sciences than medicine or health. This, for example, seems to be very important but it still leaves us with a jello jigsaw puzzle with 200 million pieces and probably far removed from immediate utility in health outcomes.

Then there’s the more clinically oriented approaches of looking at effects, trying to find associated genes/mutations whatever mechanisms exist in between to cause a desirable or undesirable outcome. I’d call that ‘top down’.

I’m sure the lines get blurred more every day, but is there a meaningful distinction into these and/or more categories that are working the problem from both ends? If so, are there associated terms of art for them?
If you like such exercises but for backgammon, check my site at https://www.bgtrain.com/
VCs have learned not to give the gains of early employees' hard work back to them. It leaves money on the table that could have gone to the VCs.

The idea is that it's bad because the employees might leave if you reward them with a lot of money. But if you screw them out of a lot of money (when the startup gets acquired, aka the traditional exit event that generated employee rewards), they're even more likely to leave.

The argument that the IP remaining in the startup is useless if the employees leave is ridiculous, because if that is the case, then the valuable asset is not the IP, but the employees themselves.

The undesirability of vesting acceleration is thus generally limited to the VC-funded tech community, as it is otherwise considered a desirable benefit everywhere else.
Large numbers are hard to reason about, in both directions.

It could be that people are reacting less in defense of Apple and more to your obvious passionate hatred of the company.
as so many time recently the hn crowd proves to be completely clueless and uneducated when it comes to ai.. this is a miracle.. it is THE achievement we'll remember from the past decade when it comes to ai.. if you don't understand why I recommend learning and reading.the level of ignorance and often proud ignorance here is frightening to me.. ppl who downplay this are either stupid in biochemistry or ai or both .. please don't listen to them. this right here is the single biggest news of 2020..