skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimate goal is to create molecules with desired properties. For example, you might say that I want material that is as hard as turtle shell. Or molecules that makes up transparent eye material. So first question is how do you go from property -> protein shape -> amino acid sequence. This is reverse of what we have now, i.e., amino acid sequence -> protein shape. However, it’s step in right direction.
I don't think so -- most DeviantArt works don't look like 1930s Works Progress/Socialist Realism.

If what you mean is that the historical context of the art makes it particularly interesting, then sure. That's always been true!
Apple’s cords are almost hilariously bad, and perhaps the best example of a product that’s designed to fail.

Ironically, that could at least partially be attributed to their use of "environmentally friendly" plastic with little to no plasticisers.
HolyC++ ?
Because it’s not true?
> As this article pointed out, there's a vast asymmetry of information, which prevents an efficient market, even in theory.

What kind of theory are you using here?

There might be some theoretical reasons to expect that symmetric information (and a few other conditions) will lead to an efficient market.

But that doesn't mean that a pre-existing information symmetry is necessary for an efficient market.

The classic example is the 'market for lemons', a paper about the information asymmetry in the market for used cars: layman buyers typically can't judge a used car well via a short inspection.

That was supposed to prevent an efficient market where you can buy quality goods.

Of course, the business solution to this problem is fairly straightforward and profitable: reputation.

You run your company with strict standards, so over time you build up a reputation and charge a premium for that. In addition you can sell warranties, too.

A really simple example is white goods: it's really hard to judge a dishwasher when you just see them in the store. There's reviews I can look at, but I can also just go and buy a Miele dishwasher. They are pricey, but I also know that they are extremely high quality and will last.

For a while, Miele could ride that reputation and sell shoddy products until the market catches up. But it's more profitable for them in the long run to defend their reputation. (Also employees would probably rebel against a change in policy. Many people like to take pride in their work.)

This is all without regulation having a binding impact: shoddy dishwashers are just as legal as premium dishwashers.
A slightly tangential question for those in the know: how do consumers destroy their data?

If I've got a busted HDD or a dead tablet — anything which is holding data that I can't electronically destroy — who do I give it to?

The office supply shops have paper shredding. The municipal recycling centers will take stuff, and so will the electronics stores, but they all carry disclaimers about data privacy.

I've considered visiting my local police station where they store confiscated property and just tip it into a public trash can.

I suppose that the City's service would be safe enough. Would ethics or liability prevent salvage operations from harvesting personal data?
Buyers and sellers with their wallets?
> Big empty void

See my comment upthread about Turtle Geometry.
Deloitte: The End of the Semiconductor Shortage Is Near
I was thinking this was about devs writing overly clever code and leaving it uncommented for the next guy to work out wth it’s doing. Asshole indeed.
Strange to take the effort regarding paleo-Hebrew, but not use it with Yahweh's (𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄) name in the title. Guess a Cohen will fork it.
that assumes grid scale batteries exist that can back up power for 10-16 hours a day at a time and those don't exist.
Honestly, every third Christian I know is a linguist/computer geek.
Even physical media is largely a license check at this point. The last XBOX game I installed came on a disc but then required downloading hundreds of GB before I could play it. The next time I wanted to play, the game wouldn't launch without the disc being inserted, even though all of the files needed were already on the hard drive.
> Doing the same with LED lighting is pure corporate greed.

How does it help the corporation make more money?
Actual scientists in the field are usually the ones providing the hate and counterbalance to the massive marketing machine that is Google.

The scientists are not the ones who need the counter-marketing, that's for the people who are not experts and only hear this one achievement (which is significant!) being trumpeted repeatedly as Google maximizes the PR benefits of conducting research.

It's like IBM's Watson play, except that there is at least a some serious meat behind AlphaFold.
A Guile Steel smelting pot
I was wondering what #3, this "OTLC" patent settlement was. I found this PDF, describing the development of a "write once run anywhere" OO C++ system, called Taligent, by an IBM/Apple joint-venture trying to compete with Microsoft: https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc15...

The project failed and all that came out of it was some valuable text and internationalization patents, and OTLC is the name of the holding company for the patents.
How do you come to this conclusion from the quoted paragraph?

The literal entire point is to help enable people who are writing outside their race, gender, and lived experience to write convincingly.
"Dustbuster" type vacuums, internal unreplaceable batteries that will maybe last two years before they won't hold a charge. Just buy a mini shopvac with an extension cord.
By listening to other people's experiences?
by forcing customers to buy new ones more often?
> You can complain and moan about it or you can roll up your sleeves and do some work

He's done the work, so he has more right to complain than most:

* https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/978...

* https://www.json.org/

* https://www.jslint.com/

* https://www.crockford.com/jsmin.html
We used to just call this "evolution." In today's climate of labels-over-substance, however, it's not fashionable to do that.
12 gauge...#4 buckshot. Seriously.
> Instead, use GraphQL with something like Hasura that generates the GraphQL service for you based on database schema.

I generally disagree. While Hasura and the like can get you moving quickly, they let you cheat on designing your data model.

Ideally it’s a collaboration between all involved to develop a shared understanding of the domain, and the queries and mutations (how to read and write).

Where possible avoiding implementation details leaking into the schema will let you change those implementation details when needed.

If you auto-generate from a database, your database itself becomes your schema. This is rarely the best way to represent your data model in an API.
Maybe git wasn't designed for experimenting noobs or solo developers, but it can certainly work for them. I'm not a coder, I'm a writer. I taught myself git, for myself. I collaborate with no one, and use only a few more features than the OP talks about (I push to and pull from remotes and branch occasionally). I love git.
these won't be use in the 1s or 2s, there will be farms of a couple dozen or more
I agree that good games give you things to play with, but this is literally the toggle to slide out a UI element, and only exists because a phone screen was too small for the original design to fit. If it had been a little triangle that you tapped, no one would have said anything. Instead it’s got realistic chain physics and jingles around as you move the card.

I’m trying to think of another instance of “sliding out a control” being given this level of attention, and I’m drawing a blank. It feels like an unusually high level of effort to put into a UI concession for a port that was going to sell well anyway.

Granted, this game is mostly about sliding UI elements around, so maybe it is more integral to the experience than in other games.
this has been solved by several packages, runtypes https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes being my favorite
they are when you price in the cost of the destruction of human civilization by climate change if we don't do something soon.
How can you love yourself if you've never been loved to begin with? I mean it feels like a different language that you have to teach yourself from scratch.

This isn't even getting into people with chronic, treatment resistant depression. Some people will never be able to love themselves. Are they not allowed to seek relationships then?
> But the market reacted positively.

What does this mean? That people didn't swear off using smartphones entirely after every manufacturer decided that sealed-in batteries would sell more phones?
Extremely relevant article from Hackaday - https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...
This was discussed in the article.

> Within the writing community, the practice was more complicated. In theory, sensitivity readers were a way to write outside your identity without causing offense by "getting it wrong." But the emerging consensus, especially in Y.A., was that it was even more wrong to stray outside your lane in the first place. In a particularly revealing 2018 feature on the culture website Vulture, a sought-after sensitivity reader expressed profound contempt for the authors whose manuscripts she was paid to vet.
Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are F.. (2016)
Only now that nuclear reactors do not make economic sense inside Saturn's orbit.
Formula E’s most successful racer shares his ideas on racing technolog
But the packaging gives you both the brightness in the slightly weird unit of 'equivalent wattage' and the actual wattage. So you can make those choices.
i've been a bit enamored with revolution since i was young.

History shows revolution almost always ends in civil war and destroyed infrastructure. You can't just create a power vacuum with nothing to fill it.

Even if you do manage revolution on a unified front, it always seems to splinter within a generation unless something radically new from some outside source forces you to alter or die.

The best revolutions start with an abdication and reform, reform, reform.

The only way i see that happeniing in the US is if everyone started voting third party and stopped being a two party system. That would create some competiton among the ruling elite.
Are you suggesting that it might be just coincidental that companies stopped putting chalk dust in milk at about the same time that doing so became illegal?
Solar canopies on parking lots
It seems to want to walk about SeriusXM a lot
You make it sound like nuclear is the only solution to this problem. It's not. It's merely a very expensive solution to this problem. There are all sorts of storage options being considered currently that each have their own cost profiles. Some of them are very cheap and simple too. And when solar is basically orders of magnitude cheaper in terms of GW/$, you can afford to have quite a lot more of it than you need to compensate for cheap but relatively inefficient storage options and still be cheaper overall.

As I said in my original post, cost is the key driver here and nuclear has a lot to prove.
bhyve (a lightweight virtualization tech) vs kvm (really kvm/qemu) isn't really a like for like fight. If your looking for something lightweight on the linux side you would go with Firecracker (AWS developed for Lambda and Fargate).
It's bizarre to me that P&G (Oral-B) seemed to have figured this out where Philips couldn't. Granted the batteries still aren't user-replaceable, but their manual at least doesn't tell you that you have to be a "qualified professional" to safely dispose of a toothbrush, and battery removal is a lot more straightforward than requiring a hammer.

If you have to be a qualified professional to ensure that a brush is disposed of the right way, well, that's a good way to ensure that they won't be disposed of the right way.
Funny. I know 'checkout' pretty well but I've never seen 'switch'/'restore' before today.

Switch seems straightforward but I don't understand restore. Is it possible to describe restore in terms of checkout?
I think once you allow eating at the tables and have everyone hammering their keyboards (as opposed to mostly reading) there won't be much of a difference to an open office anymore
> the business solution to this problem is fairly straightforward and profitable: reputation.

"Reputation" is yet more information that is both well known to and distorted by businesses. It's no kind of counterbalance to information asymmetry, it's just another example of it.
Single-Core CPU Cracked Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in an Hour
I remember at the time that Mac IE had a standards-compliant layout engine Tasmin that was better than the one on Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(browser_engine)

Too bad the whole thing was a casualty after Microsoft decided it had won the browser wars.
What's with the fascist art jab? The parent was asking about socialist/communist art without making any comment on the politics of it. Why are you implying they would like fascist art in particular?
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here. More explanation can be found in past moderation comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
My father pointed out how it's Communist art when I saw it as a kid. It always struck me as odd that it was displayed so prominently, as if to say, "Were Detroit. You know we're about cars. But we're also about ultimately giving the proletariat control over the means of production! Detroit shall rise again!"

At least it made more of an impression on me than impressionist paintings of hay stacks I guess...
Again, revisionist nonsense. Karna, one the greatest warriors of his time is not treated as a Kshatriya because of his birth. Shambuka, a Shudra is executed for daring to perform tapas. So much for the Varna is not hereditary theory. The Arthashastra makes it clear that privileges of being a Brahmin were accrued by birth. The Manusmriti describes the caste of the offspring based on the permutations of the parents castes in copious detail.

Varna has always been hereditary. Anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken or making stuff up.
That only works if there's something like brand loyalty or similar mechanism to make customers come back to the same manufacturer.

If my gadget just failed long before I was promised, I am quite likely to shop around.
It's spoken words + visual stuff
Oh, okay.

I personally wouldn't have called those things "intelligences" - more like clashes of unintended perverse incentives and ignored negative externalities.

That said, I didn't think you were talking about a hypothetical deity - it's just what your metaphor made me think of.
> Apple will agree to pay Microsoft any sums it receives from OTLC derived from a patent settlement with Microsoft.

what is OTLC in this context?
I don’t have much understanding of the internals of the immediate mode renderers, but I think there are optimisations to only redraw regions where component inputs have changed.
Url changed from https://web.archive.org/web/20220803004243/https://www.washi..., which points to this.

Please post the original URL. You can add a link to an archiving site in the comments if you feel that would be helpful.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please submit the original source."
WA tells you: it's converting 20in = 10^-5 marathon lengths.
> the natural lay of the land would have 95+ percent of the people guillotining their dusty asses

I like to think about how much time/effort/energy has been put into designing and indoctrinating people into systems so that that the 95% or so will actually do the work to defend its existence and the elite class can operate effectively as managers rather than ever get their hands dirty. How easy and self-reinforcing it is for people to operate against their own interests is the product of millenia of heavy research into information control, psychology, and power, not an emergent property of social people
www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/
People have asked me why visit Detroit? Detroit was a very rich city once known as the Paris of the Midwest.

My answer almost always involves the arts. The DIA and the Henry Ford are the two huge ones but there are lots of other less known museums. One example is the Charles H. Wright museum of African American history, I've never known another one to equal it.

A couple more would be the Motown museum which is under construction now and will quadruple in size. The Detroit Historical Museum which is not only useful for the city's history but it's number one business which is automobiles.

One of my favorites is the Ford Piquette Avenue plant which is where the Model T was first built. Not only do you get a history of the company and a chance to see Henry's office and that of his chief engineer C. Harold Wills but a complete collection of all the models Ford built before the Model T.
Some are in that 18650 form factor but a lot are not.
I've long thought Red Storm Rising could have made a really good miniseries. You're right the scope is too big for a singular movie but maybe just right for a 6-10 hour series. It won't happen now though given Russia's recent displays of competence. The premise will be considered too outlandish. It would end up as believable as the Red Dawn remake or the one where the North Koreans shoot up the White House.
Considering transhumanism is one of the most, if not the most, egocentric philosophies out there, I'd say it's a near certainty to lead to authoritarian existence.
The author is correct about centralized NFTs not being what you expect them to be. They are wrong that NFTs are debunked. A true web3 game will never have the servers shut down. Everyone collectively pays for the server costs. Every time you do something in the game, you pay for your little slice of server time.
Drove by this house many a time, but never knew the history behind it. From the road, it doesn't look particularly remarkable.

Oh, the joys of the depression.
The Secret Diary of a 'Sustainable Investor' – Part 2 – ‘Good Sportsmanship’?
Can you expand on that? I don’t understand on what basis that could be true, unless it’s a purely aesthetic one.
This is why anonymity is the future for good writing. You need to have disposable avatars that you build up a email list with, then be nimble to move on.
> Nix got to a part of its lifetime where marketing and onboarding have to be heavily prioritized and its community doesn't seem very keen on it.

As far as I can tell, Nix is growing pretty well. The results from the last community survey indicated that most of the users started using it within the last few years.

> And I really want to make it super clear if you're still with me: I want Nix to succeed. For now though I view it as a nascent tool that still has long ways to go.

Perhaps by analogy: if apt-get is like notepad, and nix is like emacs/vim, it'd be neat for something like VSCode.

I think rough edges like "nix isn't nice to use for <some common programming language>", etc. would be good to sort out. -- But, yeah, that the documentation is rough, and the onboarding is harsh, were some of the big pain points identified in the community survey.

> Telling any of them "it's not made for you" is not doing their cause any favors.

Not every tool is well suited to all users.

I wouldn't recommend Arch or Gentoo linux distributions to someone who doesn't want to spend time tinkering, or spending time figuring out why something broke. I'd recommend Debian instead.

I wouldn't recommend Rust to a team which can't afford the time to train developers. Whereas, Go is a much simpler language that's easier to pick up.

In its current state, Nix isn't well suited to "I just want things to work, I'm not interested in a package manager more involved than apt-get".
I guess we learnt all we needed to know about the native central north american experience by watching the Hollywood depiction of Tonto?

No need to to better, in your mind at least?
It’s an inconvenient fact for all of us that buy things in the marketplace. There’s a lot of products that are not worth buying or I think are a bad value that people will purchase anyway, and a lot of companies with mixed reputations doing dodgy things or “strategic” plays that aren’t always great for their customers. EA is an example of a company I buy zero products from precisely because their reputation is completely garbage in my household, whereas Ubisoft is an example of a company that has a borderline but still passable reputation and Nintendo is an example of a company that has a fantastic reputation in my household.

How you spend your money is up to you, but unconsidered legislating has much broader implications for society. If you think companies are not upfront enough now, or that it is not completely bleeding obvious that services with a cost component to them can be shut down at will after some length of time, then maybe that’s something to be arbitrated in court before we start flippantly talking about Acts of Congress for every paper cut we experience in life and it’s a meme at this point that like clockwork, somebody can go into some level of detail in what is involved for what people are asking for and you’ll almost immediately find someone saying “we need legislation” in nearly those exact words to the point that I don’t even think it is said in good faith; it just a reflex some people seem to have.

I mentioned this elsewhere, but the multiplayer and live services components of games are more like an experience that you buy a ticket to than an ongoing game you can always return to. When the music stops, the band goes home and the stage gets torn down.
Anyone else experiencing a weird visual illusion with the second code screenshot, or am I just going crazy? It looks almost as if the text is slightly tilted, but measuring it with a grid shows that they're perfectly aligned.
It's not the batteries that have changed, it's the circuitry. In older devices, batteries were required to power SRAM, which uses very little power (just leakage currents).

This has largely been replaced by flash memory, so if you see a battery in a modern device there's a good chance it's powering a real-time clock, which use a fair bit more power in comparison.

I'm sure there's a big difference between different implementations of this -- low power design is an art that's quite easy to get wrong.
Their website is `dion.systems`.
Who will be the library nazi that kicks you out when you talk too loudly?
If we’re to move humanity forward, intellectually and emotionally, caring about what is true and what is not is important. Regardless of how appealing and placating the lies and delusions are, the truth is superior.
I'll inform my employer that from now on I will disregard their priorities and work on the easiest tasks first.