skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'll never get a chance to vote on it, because the GOP leader McConnell has final say on what bills come to a vote.

The Senate is a deeply broken political institution. Every single Republican, by supporting Mitch McConnell as majority leader, is complicit in its destruction.
> Our aim is to rival peer-reviewed journals in terms of the rigor and thoughtfulness in how we review research before publication.

I can see how this might be frustrating for academics working within Google. The field already has systems in place for peer-review. While I admire the idea of Google holding their research to a certain standard, it also provides a mechanism for dismissing research that paints Google (the corporation) in a bad light. If a paper is good enough to pass an (external) review process, why should it not be published?
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Given the UN has officially recognized it as medicine, I don't think it would be too much of an issue.
Interesting idea. I've never thought of separating the markup and the text into two different files. To me, it suggests a more machine friendly way of keeping track of markup. Directly writing sounds very painful.
Elm: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/jwzjnl/whats_with_all_...
They have a terrible track record of being able to tell who is faking and who isn't.
The ex-Googlers I’ve worked with were managers.

It was clear they were hired on title and magical beliefs than capabilities as project after project fell apart.

Rather like Google product portfolios
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How is that different from your current state, when you are checking your email, even on vacation?
I have a strong feeling that at some point Reddit is going to have internal struggles with this ala Tumblr. Their consistent amendments to what you can or can post, as well as culture policing in various subreddits is bound to create additional controversies.
I agree with every item in principle, and disagree with every one in practice. Here's to a better world!
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This job will involve you working with many different systems across the full stack. The ability to learn on your own and then produce working software is the most important skill.

UPDATE: This position has been filled
Thank you so much for bringing up WeWork. I get PG's point, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking that all billionaires are good because they simply must have made something that people actually want. Soooooo many people got hurt in the WeWork debacle, and continue to do so. This is an amazing read (and maybe something that PG is trying to counter): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/how-venture-ca...
The purpose of a markup language is what it renders.
Thing is, you're leaving out the fact that mRNA vaccines are very different from vaccines we've used in the past. From wikipedia:

> Given the novel nature of the mechanism of action of RNA vaccines, and their drug delivery vehicles, little is known about the medium and longer-term side effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccines
React is slow, what now?
Maybe not "voters as a whole", but legislators know which side their bread is buttered on. This fell along party lines, and it won't come up in the Senate because it's controlled by the party that opposes it.

That party has the overwhelming favor of its constituency. They lost the top spot, but largely held their own in legislative elections. They may have a large contingent of people who would be in favor of decriminalization, but they don't seem to mind that their party obstructs it. Meantime, they have a constituency who is bitterly opposed to legalization, so they get to rule the day.

It's a discussion that needs to be held within that party. They won't listen to anybody from outside. They've made their bargain about a slate of issues they care about and issues they're willing to sacrifice.
As dnautics implies, this is like you make a model of a mousetrap - along comes a mouse - snap, what is the shape of the closed mousetrap? By this I mean proteins fold into a shape, and DM gives us some idea what that looks like, then it enters into a reaction - what is the shape now? Many are enzymes and snap and release, snap and release. Some poisons have the same initial shape - snap - then no release - reaction site has been poisoned - the body thinks it has lots, but the body dies of the poison. Some toxins that kill by ribosomal inactivation are like this, mushroom poisons, ricin are like this. Mankind would love to be able to reverse ricin and mushroom poisonings, which usually happen days after the toxic event.
Not being an expert, this is just an analogy.
Really glad this passed, but we can't get COVID19 support and / or get some election reform.

They even have video evidence of illegally adding and counting votes... but oh no! Can't discuss how to improve that process...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKkheU5cy2E

Frankly, while I agree with the legislation, the entire country is angry (one way or another). We should probably try to address the real issues.
What does it feel like to take a mRNA coronavirus vaccine?
There are far more dangerous vaccines than this one. The classic smallpox vaccine (the first vaccine ever) kills 1-2 people per million vaccinated for the first time. 14 to 52 people per million experience lift-threatening reactions. About 1000 people per million experience a serious but not life-threatening reaction.[1]

Until 1972, smallpox vaccination was routine in the US. Killing 1-2 people per million was considered better than having a smallpox epidemic.

The classic smallpox vaccine is a live-virus vaccine. It gives you a disease similar to smallpox but far less dangerous, and triggers the immune system into a reaction that eliminates the disease it induces, and thereafter blocks both it and smallpox. There's a newer vaccine, a killed-virus vaccine, against smallpox. It has fewer side effects, but it's never been widely used, since there hasn't been a smallpox epidemic in a while. The U.S. Army has a stockpile, just in case.[2]

The first Western coronavirus vaccines are RNA vaccines. They have a molecule similar to part of the virus, just enough to trick the immune system into creating antibodies. They don't have a complete virus, so they can't reproduce and cause an infectious disease on their own. This is supposed to be safer than the older live-virus and killed-virus vaccines. But the RNA molecule is fragile, hence the need for freezing in storage and transit.

First get it working, then go for ease of use. Merck has a pill version in development.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basics/vaccine-safety.h...

[2] https://www.usamriid.army.mil/press_releases/FINAL_News_rele...
Especially if you use the alternate semantic html output: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Albert_Einste...
Really glad this passed, but we can't get COVID19 support and / or get some election reform.

There is even have video evidence of illegally adding and counting votes... but oh no! Can't discuss how to improve that process...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKkheU5cy2E

Frankly, while I agree with the legislation, but the entire country is angry (one way or another). We should probably try to address the real issues.
TVs now come with smart apps that can report what you're watching for advertising. There are very few brands (Sceptre being one) that don't do this.

So now TV manufacturers are supposed to sell the razor at or near cost and make it up on the blades of user surveillance.

Would people pay another $50 or $100 to turn it off? It's not clear that they'll ever get the chance.
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Indeed. If there's no button to type it directly on my keyboard, I'm not interested in having it in my code.
> The secret of democracy is that, even when there are no good options to choose from, people agreed on the solution.

No, a plurality of people agreed on the solution, and everyone else disagreed with it but was stuck with it.

> Therefore you are not a the whim of a single person or entity and this legitimates the way you live.

Now you're at the whim of a popularity contest.
My machine learning professor would always remind us that 50% is analogous to random chance in a binary decision, but in a model where the prediction is not so black and white, 66% doesn't sound half bad!
so the answer is essentially YMMV depending on what project you're working on. This will accelerate certain aspects of structural biology and drug discovery, for others not so much. I don't see cryo-em, x-ray crystallographers, and NMR spectroscopists all losing their jobs anytime soon. At the end of the day you're going to have to validate and verify the claims of your simulation.
You can get your message out in many different ways. Fox News is just one (although a fairly important one). I’m specifically referring to campaign ads, people knocking on doors etc. A sizable chunk of the American electorate is neither Democrat nor Republican so swinging these voters + energizing the Democrat base can form a powerful coalition capable of winning elections, especially in purple states.
Do you want to know whats interesting? I read alot of computer science research, particularly what comes out of Google. Its clear to me that details are left out of specific papers, especially how things are done in sub systems. But, like a jig saw puzzle, I discovered that many papers are actually descriptions of computing systems and algorithms that interact. If you read between the lines and squint your eyes, you can get a much bigger picture of internal google AI systems than you guys think you can.
Keynote actually has pretty great real-time collaboration [1], though it does have more friction than GSlides, not least of which because it requires a Mac.

I agree GSlides has its uses. Web apps are good for ephemeral tasks, but I use desktop apps for stuff I care about.

1: https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...
Republicans literally did not run a platform in the year 2020. They did not have one.

Democrats did.

It's easy to say "both sides" but the facts don't match that platitude.
While I’m a spectator to this unfolding story and am reacting to a pretty cursory overview of what happened, this has the distinct feeling that Google thought they were moving in for a checkmate by, in their words, “accepting a resignation”, only to have it — very predictably? - blow up in their faces completely.

Even if Google is acting presenting the chain of events faithfully, their final move to jump on an opportunity to remove the researcher and call it resignation seems so aggressive and incongruous that from the outside it makes it seem like this conflict is rooted in a larger and more difficult relationship that they calculated was no longer in their interest.

I’m wondering if the cost benefit analysis is still looking that way on the inside, because this move and the attention it’s causing is so contrary to their stated goals that I have to wonder if Google is committed to those goals at all. Others must be wondering exactly the same thing.
Where does this 2-3x factor come from? I just haven’t seen any proof of that.

From a macro perspective, masks did not stop the 2nd wave in Italy and France and their mask compliance was the highest in Europe. I don’t think you can claim Italy just didn’t mask hard enough.

Flu cases, by comparison, are down something like 99% year over year. So it’s not like I’m saying masks and hand washing don’t work. They appear to work extremely well for flu, they just obviously have failed to stop COVID.

If you look at how fearful some people are to even approach someone who isn’t wearing a mask, but then immediately feel safer when the mask goes on, it’s not clear to me a better approach wouldn’t have been “masks do not work, if you don’t want COVID then do not gather inside”.
I have this situation with my daughters. My son, the youngest, isn't much interested in baseball yet.

I played baseball, not at a high level or anything special, but I played and loved it. Then I had kids, the first two girls, and I got them started with fastpitch softball. It took me awhile to get up to speed with what I'll call "modern training methods" - and did a lot of trial and, unfortunately, error with my oldest daughter.

I've coached both of them and I can say that when I started training my younger daughter how to hit, at age 6, I had about 4 years worth of modern training/coaching knowledge fresh in my head. My older kid, who started at 9, had a dad who kind of knew how it worked, but it was rusty.

So what I ended up with is an older daughter who became great, eventually, around 14u, but spent a lot of time on the bench and a lot of time spent re-learning how to correctly do things.

Then I have a 10 year old (at the moment) who was taught the correct way to do everything, from step 1.

Currently, the only objective results I can give you is that I had one kid who didn't make any teams for two entire seasons before making one because we attended 90% of their practices (open practices). Then I had another kid who has only not made one team in the last 2 years. This fall she made 4 out of 4 teams that she tried out for. She finally failed to make a team when we went over a large organization in Oklahoma that plays at an extremely high level, and they were only looking for 2 more players to complete their roster.
Show me a better platform then
I'll demonstrate using periods due to the forum eating spaces. The parts after the dots line up in a monospaced font.

Fixed width:.good

Flexible:....not good

.............so not good
It's unfair to say that. Everyone knows the Republican party is just really interested in checking people's birth certificates.
This is why my Wikipedia article about the history of AdWords/AdSense/DoubleClick is important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
> You can't generalize 1 error out of 3 to 66%

Right but we also can't generalize from 2 out 3, and without knowing this figure it's really hard to say how useful this is, no?

> Knowing how ML works, I'm surprised it didn't give any indication of low confidence.

This is actually a hard problem in ML, for example in NLP, many people assume a high log prob score means a high confidence but it is not true at all.
I'm obviously biased but I think the same general principles should be disseminated widely to software engineering/programmers.
> If your startup makes your investors billions, you are probably becoming a billionaire in the process or pretty close.

Most startups fail, though.
Programmers can. Most people cannot.
There are so many stories like that that I'm convinced that this is Reddit's actual business model: game the site in the interests of people who are paying them, but make it look like it's organic.
PDBs are not huge files, they are human-readable text format. Here is a rather large protein clocking in at kilobytes: https://files.rcsb.org/download/2RIK.pdb

Also I am not in ML research, but IIRC the spooky/counterintuitive nature of high-dimensional gradient-based search is that you can get better results from less data by increasing the number of parameters, as long as you have a sane set of regularization techniques (or have we even ditched those too?).
"Tip for interviewers: Speak to your interviewers as if they were your future peers or managers. "

That exposes a real problem. WIth people gaming the interview process that is good advice.

But it surely it is part of the process that leads to mono cultures? Workplaces with 25-35 year old white men? (Or what ever)

How can you get a diverse good group? Does diversity matter? I think it does, am I right?
We already understand the physics and chemistry underlying protein folding (the why), but proteins are composed of so many building blocks that applying this understanding by brute force is woefully impractical.

By analogy, billiards is nothing but highschool physics but understanding highschool physics does not on its own make you a master billiards player able to sink any shot.
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So unlike previous hiring posts I am trying my luck into something different, a code/system janitor and optimizer.

Background:- Lately, I got a chance to work on PHP-based systems that were on old code and not optimized(front/back/DB). A project I am about to finish was porting old php5 code to php7 and XSS vulnerabilities. It also includes a bit of optimizing queries and making the system efficient.

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Remember, poor quality systems code trillions in US only[1]

[1] - https://bitbar.com/blog/how-much-did-poor-quality-software-c...
Why haven't people tried to fix those articles? They have, but they came up against the bureaucratic overhead and gave up.
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Futures of Work – The Full Automation Fallacy
I think there's an important point here. Bill Gates wouldn't be a billionaire if he didn't build amazing things, but he also exploited at scale the unjust IP ("ImaginaryProperty") system, which was a critical part of achieving the scale Microsoft achieved.

Startups like Airbnb and Lyft likewise have built amazing things, and would easily make their founders 100' millionaires, but there is a point where to reach a certain level you need to leverage some flawed, unjust legal system at scale (stupid regulations around housing/hospitality/and taxis, in these examples).

None of these founders created these legal systems, but their rapid success and scale I can't see happening without those dumb legal environments they found when they started.

Now, maybe the best method to fix unjust laws is exactly this: when you see a stupid legal system, found a company to exploit it, become a billionaire and then finally society will take notice that the legal system is stupid and will fix it.

So I could see an argument that maybe not only should we not penalize billionaires who built their wealth from scratch, but we should thank them, like we thank white-hats, for identifying inequitable laws that they were able to leverage at scale.
> There really isn't a solid line you can draw between a "script" and a "programming language"

I think it's easier to draw the line if you have the requirements right. That's not the line that was being drawn. it was scripting vs compiled languages. It was very clear then which sides Java and Javascript fell on. There are some weird cases now like compiling scripts into different scripts, but in general it's pretty clear, and Python is definitely a scripting language.
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I would love to see a different metric be introduced: Code elusion. All it is is the inverse of code coverage.

It would do a better job with the mental game. You may not be able to conclude that code is adequately tested just by knowing that the tests exercise it. But you can be pretty confident that code is not being tested if it eludes all of the tests.
It is actually true that in 2020 the RNC didn't even bother to adopt a new platform [1] but instead pledged fealty to Donald Trump and explicitly, in their own words, "reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration,as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today".

In their own words they define themselves by their opposition to democrats.

[1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_202...
Amazon's not going to cancel the TV show over internet nerd rants about historicity, and GRRM's financial concerns would have been much more productively supported if he'd spoken up against D&D's massacre of his IP, not trying to massacre Tolkien's
You already got thoughts and experiences in response to your previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277139
Legalizing marijuana (67-32) is slightly more popular than gay marriage (61-31), and the crossover was at roughly the same time as gay marriage.

https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-ga...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-s...
To a certain extent, that's how representative government is intended to work.
>By this logic, the inverse is also true.

Except, it isn't.

in Obama's memoir, he recalls he and Biden trying to explain the policy merits of a bill to Mitch McConnell, who responds "You must be under the mistaken impression that I care”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonmladd/status/13276522875195965...
My researcher acquaintances at industry labs at IBM, Microsoft, HP, Xerox, ATT, Bell, DEC, Compaq, etc. never have had to have their papers reviewed internally before submitting them to conferences or journals. What's up with Google?
To bad they'll keep so much secret.

Everyone who flies drones knows they're annoyingly loud.

They have been getting somewhat better though, and you get what you pay for.
The key point is "Surgical masks of this type stop the wearer from infecting the surrounding environment"

Your mask protects me, my mask protects you.
I think this thread should be an important lesson for HN devs:

You are not normal. Even the fact that you are likely consuming this website on a computer with its own keyboard, is not as common as it might seem if you surround yourself with other software developers. What you want, and what the majority wants are not the same thing.
kudos to your friend, but signalling your intent to leave is red flag for management

often times companies will opt to pay more as a stop-gap until they find a cheaper replacement
ctlachance is supposing that this was a question that the creator(s) of the library asked themselves.
To be fair, centrist dems seem to have eagerly embraced it in the 90s. Maybe that's what it took to win elections, but the democrats have bought into this false narrative almost as much as the Republicans, to the point the distinction is just not meaningful.

I mean, in the year 2020, sure, democrats want legal weed but I am talking about the history of the drug war in America. Democrats have never been leaders.
Just because people want it doesn't mean it is a commodity or can be commoditized. We can argue that a social network is borderline commoditized, and yet the value of each network is defined by its user base and their commitment - not something that is a commodity in any imaginable sense.
What, like most everyone's junk posted to Hacker News? I fail to see how this is really any more pretentious than 90% of the crap posted here these days. At least he's having fun with it and getting out and doing things.