skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do classical molecular dynamics simulations for a living, and I feel the model using in this paper is pretty dramatically different than what would typically be described as classical dynamics. 2B atoms would be absolutely insane for any sort of simulation that resolves forces between atoms of even groups of atoms, especially in organic systems.

As far as I can tell from their model, molecules don't interact with each other ~at all~ through classical dynamics. Rather, they define concentrations of various molecules on a voxel grid, assign diffusion coffecients for molecules and define reaction rates between each pair of molecules. Within each voxel, concentrations are assumed constant and evolve through a stochastic Monte-Carlo type simulation. Diffusion is solved as a system of ODEs.

This is a cool large scale simulation using this method, but this is a far cry from an actual atomic-level simulation of a cell, even using the crude approximations of classical molecular dynamics. IMO it is kind of disingenuous for them to say 2B atoms simulation when atoms don't really exist in their model, but it's a press release so it should be expected.
> Having platforms like F-Droid self-govern and establish rules to try and maximize freedoms in the world is a pretty interesting experiment and a great showcase of small government, and thus should be widely supported by conservatives :)

Most modern day "conservatives" are not in fact conservatives. They dont seek a return to or a preservation of any traditional value at this point and instead seek radical change into a new and uncertain future. They have largely abandoned conservatism and replaced it with something entirely more terrifying.
Honest question: do people actually connect their ipmi / bmc to the public internet? Or is it something different that’s being exposed here?
Does anyone have anything that resembles Celery or Huey for python that uses the nice Postgres semantics for queueing? I know ruby has something like this in the form of Que. My application has very modest needs for its task queue, probably like a few thousand events per year, and celery seems like massive overkill.
I might be saying something wrong or outright stupid, but it seems you're not looking at all the areas this new tech is being used. I mean, I have looked at what The Coupon Bureau is doing with DLT tech, and I know it is /not/ proof of work, and it is very energy efficient, and it seems to be legitimately useful tech, regarding transparency, speed and security. Again, this is far from my area of expertise, so I may sound really ignorant and dumb, and I would really like to know more about why they're wrong. I only chose Coupon Bureau and the DLT company they partner with as an example because it's one of the more interesting use cases that I've seen from the research I did in this area. I don't mind if it is really a bad or irrelevant use of DLT/crypto, but I wish I could know why is that so, and how is it not a legitimate use case (from someone smarter and more knowledgeable in the area than myself).
Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions
The supposition that demonstration doesn’t include obstructing or destroying property is relatively new. When I say demonstration I mean it to include everything from drum circles in zucotti park to the 60s civil rights demonstrations which locked down cities and towns to the events which triggered the Bolshevik and Cultural revolutions and the de-colonization of India.

To think that change happens without damage to property or obstruction of daily life is historically inaccurate and myopic.
I still do not understand how anyone can become a software engineer and not stop to learn how an operating system or network works. I would have gone crazy if I'd never learned how network protocols work, or how web servers work, or virtual memory, or schedulers, security models, etc.

It's like manufacturing tires without knowing how an engine works. Don't you want to know how torque and horsepower affect acceleration and velocity? How else will you know what forces will be applied to the tires and thus how to design for said forces?
Do thieves even resort to lockpicking for padlocks? Bike thieves (at least) just seem to cut or saw the bolt or chain, or if it's a u-bar lock they often just wedge it open (assuming it's a bic pen-resistant lock.)
It says "a Tender in Payment of Debts", which is ... the same thing.

I get that you want to argue that the words are open to interpretation. To the extent that they are, these particular words have been interpreted, they now have definitions which are accepted and considering binding as a matter of legal precedent; legal precedent being the underlying basis of the common law.

It seems pretty clear that you either don't understand that, or that you don't agree with it. Either way, it means that there's very little point in trying to have a discussion about the law with you, because your basis of argumentation is non-legal.
Religious people would say brain cancer was just part of gods plan. Determinism basically is the same plan just no god involved. Why is that rubbish? Because you don’t like it?
Well... Here we are then... I completely agree. I've never been subtle about how stupid and useless I find blockchain technologies. Let's not fool ourselves, they are a quick way to make a buck off the back of someone naive. I've been saying this from the start, and so was a guy I used to work with in the past who had taken part in building one of the largest crypto mining operations. He also holds crypto but for the exact same reason - piggyback on someone naive when the time is right. To be clear, the fact that it takes effort to compute a hash does not add any value to the said hash. It's equally hard to compute pi, count the atoms in the universe or something like that. If anything, atoms and pi have a lot more value than 0x3df421daf43c if you ask me. Everything around crypto is purely mythical and Utopian - it's not anonymous, and it's not really a currency. It can be regulated extremely easily should governments desire to do so. Fact of the matter is that you can't buy your groceries with bitcoin in 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of shops. And that is not going to change either. So whether you have 1 or a billion bitcoins, you need to exchange that for actual money. All a government needs to do is block the exchanges from operating and issuing transactions and you are done. Not to mention the inevitable and unquestionable existence of hash collisions which have the potential to take down any blockchain by rendering it useless. It's unlikely to find such but "Unlikely" != "Impossible" and in that sense it's a question of "when", not "if". Several years ago I had built a system, thinking that uuid4's would be a sufficient mechanism to prevent collisions. 2 years down the line with 5000 requests/second later, there I had it: 2 people on the opposite ends of the planet ended up with the exact same identifier, and me and 5 other people spent a week trying to work out how.

The other problem is the actual value and what the concept around blockchain implies: people buy crypto with the idea that it's value will exponentially grow so they can sell it, for, you guessed it, actual money. They sell it to their neighbors, who are also waiting for it's price to grow exponentially and make a profit. All while the world operates with a somewhat finite amount of cash. For example: someone buys a bitcoin for 1 dollar, sells 10 shares to 10 people for 10 dollars, he makes a 9 dollar profit. 9 people each wait for the price to rise, they sell each of their shares to another set of 100 people for a dollar, giving them each a 9 dollar profit. I'm scaling down the numbers for the sake of simplicity but that's not the point. Take a step back and tell me how this doesn't have every characteristic of a pyramid? Something which is outlawed in most countries and for a very good reason. I've been saying this from the very beginning: there are billions of ways to utilize this computational power for something meaningful and constructive but no, "{some}chain to the moon". /End of rant.
Agreed, I would put this on the landing page. Was a big sell to me.
The M&Ms are not hot anymore: a serious video about the evils of colonialism
I don't think Spotify has ever been on f-droid. Can you post a link?
It's impossible for things to exist in the manner in which your question implies that they might.
my browser, FF, just said nope to that link. maybe a good thing as I didn't actually mean to click it.
The UNIX family of operating system (Unices) historically stored passwords in /etc/passwd, which was readable (but passwords were soon hashed, i.e. passed through a one-way function to obfuscate them).

Eventually, shadow passwords were introduced to have the passwords themselves stored in another place with stricter access rights (readable only by the sysadmin or their group), so even the hashed versions were inaccessible to normal souls, whereas other information traditionally kept in /etc/passwd - e.g. the user's full name - could and can still be retrieved from that file by making it widely readable - just without the passwords, which were moved to the "shadows".

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passwd, section "Shadow file" for more details.
As others have pointed out, Virtualbox doesn't work on ARM (M1).

A few months ago I switched to a new setup on my M1 Max: running a Ubuntu VM in UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/), and installing Docker there.

I use Mutagen (https://mutagen.io/) for syncing files between macOS and the VM, which works really well.

There is a 10x-20x speed improvement running a large PHP (Drupal) project through the VM than Docker for Mac.
>So, trust is an important element of that arrangement.

you don't say...
To be precise it was the other way around. OpenMetrics is a standardization effort for the format Prometheus made up.

However Prometheus was designed before JSON was standardized itself, so I'm just glad they didn't choose XML!
Yup, Brown. I'm sure they know one another!
They're spending the kids inheritance. Intergenerational wealth issues around this. Most pension and superannuation systems were designed to drain to zero near death. Now, people traded them up to be income streams, are living longer and will vest middle aged kids with a lump sum inheritance. It's not "wrong" in law but it's not what was intended by pensions
Not getting into this. Get the vaccine or stock up on food before your doors welded shut.

Cheers
It's not correct, I pasted the code from the article directly into ipython.

It filters out cases where the corresponding character in the answer is correct (a 'Y'), but not cases where it's used in another maybe (a 'M'). The latter requires keeping track of state in a way that this doesn't.

For example:

evaluate_guess(answer="crest", guess="erase")
'MYNYM'

Which is wrong, as stated above.

evaluate_guess(answer="crest", guess="erese")
'NYYYN'

Which is right, even though we only changed the middle letter of the guess, not either of the broken letters. In this case the filtering works correctly.
I was thinking it wouldn't be stable at all in turbulence. But then they talk about what happened when the engine cut out, and that's even worse. Without wings to "surf" the air, you just go straight down.

Still, it was a great project, and really fun to watch.
This is surely peak NFT nonsense.
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you should absolutely avoid overriding the default python installation if you're on a distribution that ships python2 by default in particular, because that is a good way to kill a good chunk of your system.
I'm sure the way you phrased it ended up being true at some point as well, historically.
Thank you so much for this treasure trove of links! This is exactly the kind of stuff I love learning about. Looking forward to going over this in my free time.
https://archive.is/RdEvk
Oh, another philosopher discovers VR. I asked the people who moderate r/metaverse to create a tag, "MYFIRSTMETAVERSEARTICLE", for this sort of thing, and they did. I've read about a hundred such articles in the last three months. They're rather similar.

For a view from the other direction, "How to be a God", by Battle. This is a game dev who became an academic and spent too much time thinking about philosophy.

If you want some good metaverse questions to think about, here are a few, based on experience with mature systems such as Second Life.

* Games, like most forms of entertainment, must be interesting. So they have a much higher frequency of interesting events than people usually experience in real life. Much effort is expended in game design to make that happen. User-built virtual worlds, where the world itself is mostly passive, are more like real life. The frequency and density of interesting events is comparable to real life. That indicates the virtual world is doing a good job of simulating the real one. But it can be boring. It results in the standard Second Life new user question, "What do I do now?". The answer is "What do you want to do", which may lead to them being directed to an area where something that fits their interest is happening. But the world itself is indifferent to the players and does not try to engage them.

* How do we govern this thing? Almost everybody seems to assume the existence of some unchallengable authority. That is not only obnoxious, but has scaling problems. Second Life uses property rights to allow property owners to control much of what visitors can do on an owned parcel. This reduces the need for "moderators", who, in practice, are minimum wage workers in some outsourced call center. It's disappointing that democracy is out of fashion. The crypto people's idea of democracy is "one dollar, one vote". That lacks something.

* How "safe" does the virtual world have to be? Roblox takes a very hard line on this. Facebook claims to but has trouble delivering. Decentraland is too empty for it to matter. Second Life takes the position that they don't get involved with disputes between residents, and "safety", if desired, is the problem of the property owner.

* Are you your avatar, or are you puppeteering your avatar? This is a big issue in game design. If someone annoys your avatar, are they annoying you?

* What are we going to do about identity in virtual worlds? "Real Names"? Cross-system identities? Face recognition? Crypto wallets?

* How much of the user do we want to project into the virtual world? Typing only? Voice? Facial feature tracking? Full body tracking? All of those are available.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766
All good!

Oh, and just in case some pedantic HN reader notices that the manual you linked comes up for the 8566B, which did not hit the market until 1985, and that was less than 40 years ago, I had actually read the manual for the 8566A which was released in 1978. I think the HP event was in '83 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach.
These are mostly regurgitated talking points from his Fox News piece: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-time-for-cdc-to-pivot-on...
Presence Prison
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data
Personally I wouldn't want to become an auto mechanic just to drive my own car for my business, but you do you. (Makes sense if you have a fleet of vehicles, but for one car?)
Hetzner Cloud can start instances from ISOs - here is an example for ipfire : https://wiki.ipfire.org/installation/hetzner-cloud
Thanks! And that is so cool! It looks like the intended use case of this is to generate documents or short snippets of LaTeX, but not have to hard code the answers?

I wish I had something like this back when I actually wrote reports and stuff in LaTeX. Now I barely have any use case for my own calculator, except occasional unit conversions.

The use case that I had in mind for mine was electrical engineering students, where I had to often use complex numbers in polar form, in degrees, for circuit questions. My calculator at the time had no obvious way of entering polar complex numbers in degrees, I ended up typing things like `e^(i*angle/1r)`, where the r was "radian", and when the calculator was in degrees mode, "1 r" would evaluate to "180/pi".

It was also cumbersome to write long expressions for. It showed something like 24 characters per line, enough that I'd often get multi line expressions. These expressions would be full of brackets, and sometimes I'd hit enter and not be sure if I missed a bracket. (Hence my goal of having a LaTeX display to show you what you're entering).
> and household incomes are high

I've got no data, but I wonder if rising inequality might be warping the statistics here.

At least, if incomes were really high across all population segments affected by the housing crisis, we shouldn't see so much talk about unaffordable cost of living, student debt, healthcare costs, etc. Something doesn't add up here.

Household incomes might be extremely high for certain groups (e.g. tech workers) while too low to afford decent housing in other groups.

> If housing affordability affected happiness, unhappiness should have been off the charts in the early 1980's. But it wasn't, according to the linked article. People were as happy as ever while taking out mortgages at 18% interest

This might as well indicate that this way to calculate housing availability is wrong, not that housing availability doesn't affect happiness.
May I suggest, a brief reading of the Wikipedia article on Crypto Wars[0]:

The Crypto Wars is an unofficial name for the attempts of the United States (US) and allied governments to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography strong enough to thwart decryption by national intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
When they changed the docker desktop terms, I switched to Podman. Now with Rancher Desktop and kubernetes swallowing the world...what really is the point of docker at all?
I don't know whether it was an oversight on their part, but Vice fails to mention that "Michael Patryn" also isn't his original name: it's Omar Dhanani[1]. His federal criminal record runs back to 2004.

[1]: https://amycastor.com/tag/michael-patryn/
I almost didn't reply because an argument where being vaccinated makes it more likely to catch covid isn't really worth engaging in, but by the time you posted there was already a number of sources backing up my claim. For example: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597 or for less scientific evidence. https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths where the second set of graphs breaks case rates out by vaccination status. I think you've been taken in by a conspiracy theory. It's an easy thing to do especially when people on the other side overplay their hands sometimes, but while one can reasonable argue about the usefulness of vaccinations for reducing spread. I think it's probably more marginal, but there. The idea that vaccination increased the risks of catching covid is pretty crazy. The Great Barrington Declaration appears to have been an alternative argument for managing the pandemic released well before vaccines existed. I can't find any reference to "you're more likely to catch COVID if vaccinated." and again every element of research and common sense I have points to the opposite being true.
I'm glad it probably will mean there are some short term dollars to propel the fundamental tech along. Whatever happens, it will be fun to play with that.

Agreed. I think the Metaverse will be a niche, but it will soon become a much higher quality niche.
I spent 6 months helping to prototype and build the Seed Eco Home at Open Source Ecology ('a modular incremental 1000sqft home that two people can build in a week for $50,000') to help solve housing. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home
Unfortunately, the apprenticeship program was underfunded due to the lack of participation caused by COVID, and maybe more broadly, despite what people say, they are not actually interested in collaborating to reduce human suffering/advance humanity by solving problems like housing when there are personal sacrifices/opportunity costs involved. Look at something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_the_Great_Plai... and it's pretty clear that the problem with housing is mainly social inequality rather than any underlying technical bottleneck...
Strategic Goals of Developer Relations: Interview with Max Katz
If It's an EXE, It Looks Good to Me
You should also speak out against the internet. So much crime, scams and heinous acts happen there. I don't get your point, is the technology a scam or are the people using it to perpetuate scams? In the latter case you have a people and legal problem not a tech problem.

I don't see a problem with NFTs being used in in-game credits and ownership tracking. I also see nothing wrong with blockchain being used to replace certificate authorities. Every technology gets abused. You have laws to regulate technology for this reason.

Instead of speaking out against the tech, maybe call your lawmakers and tell them about how the tech is being abused and how it can be regulated.
I would not describe AMBER, or anything using a newtonian force field, as ab initio.

In inorganic materials ab initio means you actually solve Schrodinger's equation (though obviously with aggressive simplifications e.g. Hartree-Fock).
What I see when I open a terminal is this:
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

I believe I switched from the default zsh to the bash that also came with the operating system. I don't think I installed a new bash.
I was just trying to add on to/respond to the question "Will they completely remove bash, rsync, eventually?" . My answer was too short and I didn't actually make it clear what I was saying. I think the answer to the question "Will they completely remove bash, rsync, eventually?" is yes, at least for bash, I think they will remove it. My evidence for thinking they'll remove it is if you switch from the default zsh to the bash that comes with the operating system, they'll kindly ask you to switch back to zsh every time you open the terminal. Yes, you can change the default from nagging you with BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING, which is great to know.
It’s not allowed to preallocate memory in certain benchmarks, so it has to do allocations in a tight loop. Go’s allocations are more expensive by design because idiomatic Go doesn’t create as much garbage as other GC languages.

If you’re here for a language slap fight, you’ll have to find someone else to talk to.

EDIT: good grief, the overwhelming majority of your recent comments are “debates” about the benchmark game. Do you have an alert for references to this phrase or something?
I wonder how much of that was just regular Stasi bureaucrats trying to keep their job. If everyone on their watchlist was a potential spy, then maybe their bosses stay scared enough to keep them employed? Or maybe that was the metric they used for promotions, and it inevitably became a target, resulting in a massive inflation of potential "spies" within the bureaucracy.
> but I do think the technology already has applications that are useful to many

For example?
I think the idea is that it makes for more compliant, or less empowered, workers that will put up with more abuse.
Can confirm: got Symantec End-Point Protection rolled out on macs here and it has turned them in slow crashy pieces of ... garbage; I've had to restore my machine from backup a couple of times already when a macos update with this thing running would result in an unbootable machine.

It would have been more cost-efficient and secure to smash our machines with sledgehammers than force us to run this ... junk.
Makes a lot of sense to me. In a smaller start-up that already serves real customers team size is more like 2-4 and there are at least 3 streams per engineer.

No, it doesn't work well.

Who has seen something completely different in real life?