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Can you be more specific? TSMC has manufactured millions of chips every year for decades (including almost every Nvidia, Apple, and ATI chip ever made). It will do more this year than any other company in the world.
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This is really, really neat. Thank you for making this.
> Could you give an overview of how people can leverage this (or how you might?).

Short answer: nobody knows. Traditionally, protein folding is a solution in search of a problem, but that's largely because the predictions were...unusably bad. This was always more of a super-difficult validation problem for the force fields and simulation methods, which could then be used for other problems of greater value (such as rational protein design, or simulation of the motion of proteins with known structures).

These predictions are better, but still pretty far from the level of precision that you'd want for any kind of rational drug design, where the exact locations of protein side-chains (for example) matter a lot. You'll note that AlphaFold returns structures that are "relaxed" using one of the oldest simulation systems for proteins: AMBER. So it's not exactly a clean-room solution to the problem, and you can't assume that the details (which matter to drug design) are going to be any better than for the older methods.

But that said, if you have a method that can reliably give you a blurry view of the overall shape of a protein, even that could be useful for things like target discovery or inference of biological networks. But this is still a lot closer to pure research than "revolutionizing drug discovery", as is frequently batted around on reddit, HN and the press.
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I am still trying to understand what this is (and install) but here is a link to Hypermerge document that would help you

https://github.com/automerge/hypermerge/blob/master/ARCHITEC...
Why is military dependent on private corporate manufacturers? Do we want private corporations controlling the military?
I am not sure I can tell the difference between games that load from my SSD versus my NVMe. Is there real benefit?
> I'd argue the Steam controller was kinda bad. But more in concept than execution. The touch pads were just not a good replacement for a thumbstick or a D-pad

There are plenty of people with great things to say about it, but they largely seem to be people who wanted to play FPS games without a mouse and keyboard, and were willing to put in some effort to get it configured right. I can imagine it being more successful if it had gotten first-class out-of-the-box support for more games, but it seems like it never reached the level of adoption where that was worth it for developers.

I've never tried it myself, though. If the Steam Deck is a success, maybe we'll see the Steam Controller model finally take off (since the Deck has similar touchpads built in). Or maybe it will be like the Kinect, a pet feature deleted in later hardware revisions.
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Mathematicians using sets to argue about the size of uncountably infinite Reals feels like the old joke of philosophers arguing over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. I often wonder if we've used set theory (and formalisms of math based on logic) to substitute one metaphysical theory for another equivalent one.

I can understand the frustration of mathematicians of the past being told they have to ensure their theories align with some spiritual mythology. But it sort of feels like I'm being forced to accept some kind of metaphysical truth in the name of ensuring the calculus of infinitesimals is grounded in logic.
Did the US fight in World War II only for war profiteering?
Yea I think this is a more accurate view. It's definitely a more thought-provoking angle, namely that people often complain about systemic bias - ignoring that pretty much all important culture, media, arts, and academia are controlled by left-leaning people.

The obvious response is the Colbert line: "reality has a liberal bias."

But that's ultimately unsatisfying, condescending and far too simplistic - I'm not sure how to effectively advocate epistemic humility to people who're convinced they're arbiters of reality.
This is news to me. What is an example of a portable gaming PC that has flopped? I'm honestly just not aware of any major company trying to make one.

As for Valve hardware, the only clear flop was Steam Machines -- which weren't Valve hardware at all.

I think it's odd to focus purely on the mass market success of Valve's actual hardware (Link, Controller, Index) since these can all be considered experiments by a company that can afford to fail, and since these have all been widely praised as the best-in-category. Clearly they know how to make great hardware; they just haven't done anything mass market yet. Who knows, maybe the disappointment with Nintendo will fuel sales for the Steam Deck.
> "Steam Deck starts shipping December 2021 to the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. More regions coming in 2022—stay tuned for more info."

Does anyone know why hardware product launches tend to be region-constrained initially? Is is for shipping/logistics reasons, or legal/tax/etc stuff?

Software/SaaS launches never have these constraints, so I figure it must be shipping related, but that would amaze me. Is there still no company that makes international shipping painless/simple? What would be the difficult part for Value here?
Police I will readily believe, justice department would require some pretty hard evidence though, did I miss something important?
For an appliance where they control the system, they could just ship a stable Debian/Ubuntu/whatever LTS release with just the kernel replaced. (Hetzner does this, actually; their rescue system is a netbooted Debian system with a bleeding-edge kernel.) The kernel has a stable userspace ABI, so you can generally take the latest release, build with the same config, and drop it in and have it work.
the database schema is an API like everything else, and you can solve API evolution problems the same way as you would with a web API, using eg. views, stored procedures and versioning.

There's no reason not to expose parts of your database schema directly to users as long as you treat it like you would any other API you provide.
I'm not sure that always is really voluntary. Perhaps they don't have much choice. I don't know how can Facebook force them but e.g. with Google you have to use Google Analytics to score good in the search results AFAIK.
> Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook “may even be in a stronger position” following the iOS changes if it means more businesses start to make sales directly within Facebook’s apps instead of sending users to a web address.

Does anyone know what he's referring to in this quote? There isn't a way for advertisers to move their purchase flow onto Facebook's app is there?
why would it put you out of job? Wouldn't it just become one of the tools you use?
Thread: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/14156752957644226...
This is partially the answer. Sometimes people are running ad blockers that block sending events to Facebook, so the "Item Purchased" event never gets sent, but the account was created with an email that can be used in custom audiences, so the email is retargeted as if they never purchased the thing.

Or someone goofed and forgot to include the exclude "item purchased" event in the criteria
You can't claim mickey mouse as your own, but you can exploit all the labor that went into creating all the work you're training on. Point a generative model at someone else's labor and now it'll do that for you. It seems like the person whose labor is being used should be somehow compensated, or at least have some say in its use.
Thanks for the thoughtful response! And sure, feel free to continue the conversation over email if you like.

Currently, when you create a debt item or financed asset "X", there should be an "Extra X Payments" financial goal automatically generated, which you can click and drag higher up the list if you care more about allocating extra available yearly income towards that than certain other priorities. Is this feature working for you currently? And how close does it come to addressing / approximating your use cases above?
Create a Landing page in less than 100 lines (incl. CSS)
An 'A.I. model' of Anthony Bourdain's voice says lines he never uttered
Here in Australia I think most people would agree that our capabilities are are, ahh... y'know... not too shabby.

But then we like to walk softly and carry big sticks :)
Now if only there was a way to force the IOS Facebook app to use an external browser for links clicked within the app.

Yeah sure, they can still track the click, but would lose visibility beyond that.
You can't do intelligent drug design if you don't know what the target protein looks like. We've gotten great at solving protein structures with things like crystallography and cryo-EM microscopy. Unfortunately, many interesting drug targets reside in the membrane of a cell, which means you can't easily work with them in a lab because they aren't soluble in anything but a plasma membrane. For instance, this is an issue with the 5HT2A protein, a g coupled protein receptor that is implicated in many serotonin related pathways.

Being able to predict what it would look like would be a huge deal because then you can go about intelligently designing drugs for it.
Awesome, much appreciated, I'll dig into it. I was actually just using the dalek crate myself quite heavily this week, so this is great timing.
But in this specific case, Valve doesn't need to worry about driver support, since they control the hardware? Unless they mean it to be a general purpose distro that people use on other hardware as well, maybe.
Things I wish I knew when I started to Code
Facebook Shops (https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2343035149322466?id=1...)
Ref: The original article is here but it isn’t focused on the AI aspects https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-h...
I wonder how much cheaper it would be to mount conventional solar panels as a roof over the bike path with a conventional slab of asphalt. Then it would stay clean, as well as providing shade.

I don't get the point of trying to turn roads into solar panels.
You're just lucky that things in your life aligned in the right way and you ended up adapted to adult life. What would happen if you couldn't have this job, lower salary, bad management, bad work conditions?
Energy is not Watts per hour (Watts/hour), it's Watts times hours (Watt-hours). Sorry for pedantry, but the units are the topic of discussion here.
> Would it make sense / be possible to reuse the Linux code?

Linux is GPL-2.0 while RedoxOS is MIT licensed. You can't use Linux driver code without relicensing Redox as GPL-2.0.

What you can do, however, is implement a Linux driver compatibility layer. Linux has NDISwrapper, which enables Linux to take advantage of Windows drivers for networking hardware. FreeBSD has Linux compatibility with linuxkpi and FreeBSD can use some Linux graphics drivers that way.

You can also port the drivers and keep them out of Redox's MIT source tree, too.

If you want to add drivers to Redox, you can do a clean room implementation by documenting how Linux interacts with the hardware it supports, and then writing drivers from those documents.
Could somebody please share a link to the PDF? Sci-Hub is currently not processing new papers. It's a shame.
A backdoor giving root access has lurked for years in popular KiwiSDR
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You need to define a confidence interval for 'know'. We as a society judge and condemn people without 100% certainty as a matter of course. Both at a personal level and systematically, e.g. the judicial system.

To your example of BMI, it would be a perfectly reasonable public health policy[0] to use machine learning to probabilistically identify persons of an excess BMI to send them pamplets and resources for weight loss / exercise. Will the odd fit person get a letter from the surgeon general telling them "being a fatass is bad for their health"[1]? Of course. I don't see why that is a terminal problem.

[0]If a bit creepy for the privacy aspects - which are out of scope here.

[1]In far more words than is necessary, of course
It's a non-commital, actionable, non-specific, diplomatic answer, that is a nicer way of saying: "Practice more."

If an interviewee reached out to me for feedback, and I weren't comfortable giving honest feedback[1], that's probably what I would tell them.

[1] There is no reason I should ever be comfortable giving honest feedback, every bit of interviewer training anyone has ever taken will tell you as much.
Apologies. I'll take another look at that on various mobile resolutions and make it less obtrusive and easier to close.
That's what I first thought of when I read it, someone has not writen a good contract.

The contract could even be constructed to penalise the suplier, eg if the army doesn't have the capacity to fix the issue, the supplier has to pay for the technician to go out immediatly and with in a time frame - this isn't very hard to do
This has been a problem for what? Nearly a decade now? I thought NAS vendor would one day figure it out. Nope. No one seems to give a damn.

Not to mention some tools to help with all the duplication we had on different HDD or USB Sticks.
> Harmful content is disinformation about what something is.

This is the crux of the issue. Legacy institutions are used to determining what is true and therefore what is inside the bounds of allowable opinion.

This was their domain for decades but it can now be seriously challenged by relatively few people due to the amplification in sharing of human thought through the internet.

Their degradation was the only outcome likely from networking so many individuals together.

'Disinformation', even if you are inclined to trust legacy institutions, should be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism. Even if we grant that legacy institutions always had the closest approximation reality over the past several decades (and this is generous).

Everyone should now be able to recognize these players for what they are: self interested actors bending public perception of reality to convenient conclusions for their own benefit. Given this, it is not surprising that people are more motivated than ever before to uncover past warpings of past narratives. They are searching for their historical moment.

Now we can grant that it may be best to have these legacy institutions looking out for our interests rather than some unknowable future state of governance. But checking their past conduct is a textbook littered with dark chapters that is now being viewed with the understanding that these are the rosier sections. Not a good look. As we move forward in time the failings of existing governments will only become more apparent not less; and it will continue to make less and less sense to believe in them.

The alternative to this would be to either restrict information flow to some pre-digital age or to perpetuate totalitarian regimes in charge of protecting their own existence by manipulating the masses into passivity.

And here is the second crux, it is only the legacy institutions from the 20th century who are perpetuating the conflict. Were the doubters given license to control their own territory, we have every indication that they would leave the past well enough alone and forge ahead. But the 20th century just cannot let go its dreams of total domination of thought and reality.
What's the EU plan to achieve carbon neutrality
This is a very bad article even if it’s from someone reputable because they don’t explain why not at each step.

It reads as someone smug just saying, “No, you idiot.” And they literally use “WTF,” as if it’s some statement of authority.

Further, that’s not even the right application of “don’t roll your own crypto,” reducing the credibility of the article.

“Don’t roll your own crypto” comes from people suggesting that you don’t implement your own copy of, say Diffie–Hellman key exchange, not making some calls to a RNG, which is ridiculously far more trivial.

Why always use X? Why never use Y? If you can’t articulate it, you’re not teaching anything.

And this guy supposedly teaches, too. What a shame.

Tell me: if you read this article and took away not to ever use floats in cryptography, can you tell me why? No? Interesting.
I'd have no problem telling advertisers that I am between 30-40 years old, male and live in a certain region. And that's information that would help advertisers (if they did not have it yet) very much. So just ask your users to give some information and tell them how they will use it and maybe they will give it, but don't spy on your users every secret.

But not Facebook. That ship has sailed. I can't and won't trust them.
there is a big "Download PDF" button on the page.
Everyone knew Korea and Vietnam would be a waste of money at the time but we did it anyway because we thought the alternative would be worse. It was more or less a purely ideological thing.

Afghanistan was basically all spite.

Latin America intervention, Gulf Wars you'd have a better argument.
About the Government of the United Arab Emirates
Game developers end up using the distro tooling when they port the game to SteamOS. One of the tensions with Ubuntu was that developers felt familiar with it (good) but the system libraries lagged what was needed by new games (bad) so developers would need to run their game in a SteamOS Ubuntu-esque chroot instead of their Ubuntu host system despite them being very similar. Arch does provide the promise of easier native porting because testing the game during active development (on an Arch host system) will be closer to the SteamOS Arch-esque system. It's small but meaningful for those who try to support SteamOS to the maximum extent, which is important when you're trying to seed a new ecosystem.
Take my Disney example. All what you said applies to that example too. Where does their revenue come if not from you? They could make entrance free and make money on what you buy inside. In fact, you can go further with this. You should not pay for any government services other than taxes. Where does the government revenue come if not from you? Why should they charge for things like drivers license renewals. Everything should be free and come from your taxes...

What's convoluted about your argument is you are asking the service provider to change their business model by pointing our somewhere along the chain they are making money from you so they should be happy. Changing business models might also mean completely changing the way they provide the service. The whole service might have evolved differently if this model was enforced from the beginning rather than suddenly springing it on them now and then saying "make money in a way that's more convenient for me, I don't like how you make money now".

Their business model, leaving aside the ethics/merits, is pretty simple. They offer targeted users on a platter to advertisers. It's easy to package up and sell. Suddenly that's being taken away. Of course they will kick and scream because they've depended on this predictable money making model. Saying "I buy things so you make money" doesn't even make sense. They become no different to a billboard provider.
The PDF is linked in the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2_reference...
Probably Facebook Marketplace
billionaires are unproductive because they don't need the returns to capital their wealth generates, which means we get a gross misallocation at a macroeconomic level. we simply don't need billionaires at all, and would be better served as a society to have 1000 millionaires in place of each billionaire, who could allocate essentially the same capital much more efficiently.
Most people will be more annoyed than anything else at seeing a "random" ad, in the same way it's just more painful, for example, for a guy to sit through a 30 second women's shampoo TV commercial than a car commercial.

I'd say most people don't even realize they may or may not be triggered, they simply don't want to suffer through a completely irrelevant ad.
Because the turn-around time from upstream-to-packager is smaller, which in turn helps get problems fixed faster. That in turn means devs have more space to fix issues. It is an effective velocity improvement for them and they think it will work for their targeted market.

First, it's worth keeping in mind that this Steam Deck is for all purposes and intents a fixed-spec system. Valve will control all of the most major components that make various end-user support problems appear (fixed CPU, GPU, RAM, motherboard, controllers, storage, etc.)

Now, with that in mind, if you use a system that has a release cadence like Ubuntu, if you want to fix issues, you must report them upstream and backport them into your current system. This is workable, but it is implicitly predicated on the assumption that the backport is the only way to deliver the fix to users in a reasonable timeframe. Otherwise you would have to wait 6 months for Ubuntu to release anything.

If you use a rolling system like Arch that is much closer to the very latest versions, the same process above occurs. But the window for those changes to appear downstream (from reporting the issue to the person receiving the fix) is much smaller. If this window becomes small enough, say "I report an issue and a patch is issued and released in 48 hours", it often means you don't have to backport or maintain the backport for long. If you're maintaining less backports concurrently, or even none at all, that means you have less workload and can focus on diagnosing real issues with up to date code.

Finally, and this is the important part: it doesn't matter for who they want to buy this. I don't think Valve intends this to be seen as a console, but as a portable PC, and I don't think PC gamers who use Steam (and thus are the target market) are unexperienced with the fact games might not work and bugs need to be reported. It's part of PC gaming culture at this point to complain about bugs in PC games. They actually will probably want one anyway because it will make their massive investment in their Steam library all the more available. And if you're some die-hard guy who likes this thing because it's Linux, well, Proton is basically as good as it's ever going to get at this rate, and it's objectively made Linux gaming massively more available, so, you just gotta deal. (Proton's very existence gives developers less of a reason to deal with native Linux ports when they can just target Windows and let the magical translation layer fix it instead. So actually the focus will be going into making Proton better instead to fix these issues, and that is actually probably the best way forward to ensure older games can be available, too.)

There are a thousand confounding variables in this equation and I'm sure you can line up to list them or whatnot. But the important thing here is that in all cases there are social expectations about how the maintainers of each upstream project and distro fix issues, and on what timescale, and how users respond to them. That's why they think this will work.
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> Spot is the first collaborative platform to support walking meetings. It’s mobile-first, and we’ve engineered the entire experience for meetings on the go. We’ve spent the last few months listening to what people need and designed features and capabilities to enhance the meeting experience. Agenda sharing, hands-free note taking, and note storage and accessibility are all possible with Spot.
I am not entirely sure what you wrote or are asking, but if you're interested in this stuff, come take the course (or read the book) I mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27846666