skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads like a PR press release. You can't talk about biocomputers in 2018 without mentioning Tom Knight[1] and iGEM[2]. Knight not only pioneered this "next great computing platform," he also pioneered the current one: Knight was involved in early ARPANET work, Lisp Machines (MIT was the second organization after PARC to build networked personal workstations), and massively parallel SIMD (ie GPU) work on the Connection Machine.

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/tk/
[2] http://igem.org/Main_Page
TSA is no joke when it comes to weapons in checked bagged. Some travellers exploit that to protect their valuables.

https://lifehacker.com/5448014/pack-a-gun-to-protect-valuabl...
Sure but compare America's Cup boats with that atrocity pictured at the top of the article!
A new operating system that allows peripherals like network cards, monitors, sata disks, bluetooth, speakers, fmri scanners, etc. to be used interchangeably between machines, locally and over the net.

Edit: I'm in the computing industry. Have you heard of it?
I had a situation recently where someone accidentally took my bag thinking that it was theirs, and they eventually came back to baggage claim about 15 minutes later after they realized it.

If you think about it, there's a pretty serious security issue there. Someone could walk into an airport with a bomb in a bag, toss it on the baggage carousel while nobody is paying attention, and then walk out. It wouldn't get noticed by security looking for unattended baggage because it's expected for there to be unattended baggage there.
Engineer/trainer/experienced athlete here

I thought using the potential energy equation gave me a little credentials.

I also wrote a book about this topic. But I didnt include it in the comment.
Is it frustrating answering these types of questions? If I was a plumber, I'd get tired of people complaining about their WiFi not working.

That must be a nice benefit of being part of a large corporation is being somewhat more delineated from the hype cycle of innovations like this.

"Yes ma'am I understand your router keeps rebooting, but I made it so that you can flush your toilet now."
just wrote a blog post on this exact topic for the biopharma industry: https://newbio.tech/blog/bio_charts.html

its a $600B industry that is in decline because its traditional R&D engine is sputtering out, and big pharma has been amazingly acquisitive the last five years to replace off-patent blockbuster drugs (more IPOs and big M&A than software the last 5 years despite getting 1/5 of venture funding)

tons of really interesting new tech for startups to explore: synthetic biology, cell and gene therapy, bioelectronic medicine, many many others
A fun trick is to ask a colleague at work how many SQL databases they think are in the room. They almost never bear in mind SQLite is heavily used on phones, not even just smartphones.
On a Monday I quit my job and gave my two week notice.

The next day my wife was fired.

The day after that, my old boss offered me a raise if I would stick around.

I did both jobs simultaneously for six months.

In my entire life nothing has been more lucrative than this. I've tried investing in stocks, bonds, and real estate. Nothing has been more lucrative than double-dipping.

The thing that's so bizarre, is that it also seemed to make me a better employee. I wasn't trying to be a scofflaw, I just kinda fell into it (due to my wife being fired). I found that things I learned from Job One made me better at Job Two, and vice versa.

I think a big part of the reason that this is, is because a lot of tech jobs are basically "human insurance policies." For instance, my employer paid me because I'm an expert in an obscure software program. So there weeks when I was busy as hell, but there were also weeks when I was basically there in case something broke.

I founded a forum on Reddit dedicated to this, it's called WWPGD. (A tip of the hat to Peter Gibbons from 'Office Space')
Looking at the PC plateau. Dell would sell a $700 PC, and then next year when it should have cost $350, they didn't sell it for $350, they sold a different PC for $700.

So "mainstream" handset prices wont go to zero, or $50 bucks. The market will probably establish a set of price points, and vendors will supply models to compete at those price points.

Think "entry-level", "prosumer" "flagship"
It's not about as blocking on Google. It's about the ads on third party sites (including Google ads) that make the web so obnoxious.
I’m Changi Terminal 2 and I’m not seeing any tokens being exchanged. Are you sure that this was not airline-specific?

Side note for the unaware: Singapore’s airport has screening at each and every gate instead of a joint one right after passport control.
Observational studies can be post- interventional and in this case can prove or not a hypothesis that a certain widespread intervention was successful.

This is very rare and hard to run, so more direct interventional short term studies are used more often.

Suppose a certain country believed an observational study pointing that eating more than certain amount of sugar is harmful (suppose backed by other evidence). They instated hard tax and limit on sugar in foods as an intervention.
After some time a big observational study is ran and it is assessed if the intervention brought results.

This is precisely what observational studies (follow up) should do.
Not really try to find hypotheses - these need more direct evidence.
I've traveled with rifles in checked luggage occasionally. The case is required to be locked, but the locks on these cases will only stop a casual check. 30 seconds with a hammer and screwdriver are enough to get most of them open. Usually you have to pick these up from a specific point and show your ticket stub to claim them.

At SFO they claimed they never received my rifle case. 15 minutes later I found it circling on a luggage carousel.
And after you've learned that (basics of pointers in C), a nice quick test of your knowledge (but not a comprehensive one) can be to read this standard declaration of main() in C (based on ANSI C, BTW, as described in 2nd edition of K&R C book, not sure if changed in later versions of standard):

int main(int ac, char **av)

and then try to figure what the following mean (what type they are, and whether each of them is a pointer or a pointed-to thing, or both:

av

*av

**av

av[0]

etc.

I was once teaching a class on C to a group of experienced programmers (10+ years each, but new to C), and after I explained the char

**av

stuff, one of them said "Now it is overhead transmission" :)
Seconding this.

1 heavy deadlift set usually means 15 minutes of warmups.
> Why aren't we replacing CSV with it, especially in big data applications?

I'm inclined to say we are. R, for instance, includes an embedded sqlite, and it seems to be used a lot.

Related link: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
> Why?

To allow others to impl the data store they want and to avoid having to write blog posts like these.

It's not that much real work to quickly pull out an iface on a stable system. Assuming it would be just mostly pass-through to your main impl anyways and this is a common approach in refactorization. You don't need some huge system, just drop it back a layer and abstract it.

Often, what you end up learning about your system when you do this minimal work (again, nothing big) is that you screwed up and buried SQL and string concatenation and a bunch of other hard-to-review pieces all throughout your app because you keep a stranglehold on terms like YAGNI when separation of concerns has real value. Sometimes you also end up learning that your tests don't cover what you thought they did. Nobody wants bloat, but this adds very little and helps devs clamoring for alternative stores.
I've had several jobs which have had "cycles of inactivity". Basically periods where we are just doing busy work until a project gets signed off on or until client(s) commit to a new release, etc.
I would use it to learn something new, take care of technical debt, automate something, or......relax
Yeah it's not surprising that slow speed jogging wouldn't improve quickness. Fast twitch vs. slow twitch and all.
Whats the opposite? He said progress beget bullshit jobs, you just stated the same thing.
Experts get things wrong constantly.
We've updated the title to a representative phrase from the article, but we're happy to update it again if someone can suggest something better!
A messaging/texting device with a long battery life and decent keyboard.
> Users are anonymous and posts go away. This is the one that always gets brought up, but the fact is that by having ephemeral accounts and posts, people are free to speak their mind and to change their position later without ill effect.

This. I'd also add the lack of "upvoting."
Found a security loophole.Polltime stores your location data and emails visible publicly.
https://ibb.co/eh7vG7
I think 10m is far too low to be the total number of albums. But it would be impossible to actually calculate that figure given the number of producers that have released content outside the scope of any particular authority (eg NIN has released stuff to download only from their site. Aphex Twin uploaded a load of stuff to SoundCloud. Etc). But we digress.

My music collection is massive. It's got 30 years of singles and albums in there. And several years of DJing too. Plus a massive amount of DJ sets (like several hundred gig of DJ sets alone). Yet XBMC / Kodi handles it fine "despite" being sqlite backed. So does Subsonic and that just uses some Java equivalent. And as I've said already, I can throw several million records of Apache logs into sqlite without any issue.

The performance of sqlite is actually really good. It's super fast. Which is why the author can make those boasts on its website. Plus the compactness of the db (ie one file produced) and the ease to create a db makes it a perfect choice for desktop and mobile applications.

I think some people read that WordPress runs on MySQL or spend 10 minutes building their first CMS in PostgreSQL and then think the world and their mother should be using this miraculous new RDBMS they've just discovered themselves. (I'm probably being too harsh there)
Focus on the Process, Results Will Come
Universality is key. Everything reads it, everything writes it, everyone can read or edit it by virtually any piece of software. Compare that with SQLite.
Goooooo, Spacemacs!
> despite being completely off the wall

embedded systems software in one phrase. :-D
I've got a mitigation strategy that won't be far worse than the current system. Stop requiring expensive gadgets like laptops and tablets to be removed and scanned separately. It's all security theater anyways, but that policy just separates valuable, easily-to-fence items from luggage and facilitates theft. While we're at it, stop requiring us to take off our shoes, since that policy stemmed from a comically failed attempt at terrorism that's just a dumb idea to begin with. There is less opportunity to steal from people when they're not forced to waste time and attention reapplying footwear.
This article seems to be targeted toward embedded programming, so global state isnt that big of a deal because you have complete control of the chip. It's quite common to not even have threads or an operating system at all.
Yeah 450lb deadlift isnt even respectable among lifters.

450 is almost the expectation for anyone casually lifting for a few years.
I wonder if, as a control, they gave some people a placebo immunization (I couldn't tell from the abstract). I'm wondering if it is the exposure to the pathogen that is actually driving the behavior, or if it is the sense of security conveyed by having an immunization shot that really drives the sociability.

I believe there's already some evidence in psychological research that the rates of infection disease in a society affects the degree of openness and trust towards outsiders/strangers. Low disease rates, perhaps combined with "purification rituals" reduce people's uneasiness around large groups.
Cleaning trash from streets and parks, filling potholes, fixing sidewalks, pulling weeds, painting over graffiti. These things would would make everyone's days a little nicer.

Or even stuff that has real meaning

Why do you think that maintaining safe and beautiful cities has no real meaning? Someone needs to do it. Is this just elitism?
My experience is similar. I look at it a lot like insurance policies. For instance, my company once had a service contract with a software company that cost about a million a year. One time I audited that service contract, and found that they'd used it exactly ONCE the entire. A million dollar phone call.

But they're not going to cancel the contract, because they want the support in case they need it.
Show HN: A color-accurate Instagram-like filters reconstruction for apps
>the folk receiving mincome will grow dissatisfied with their lot and militate for raises. negative feedback is unpleasant but necessary.

Close. What it does is reduces supply (fewer people working) while raising demand (people with more money in their pockets). This winds up causing inflation that erodes away the value of the minimum income. It's not even a hedonic treadmill, just an inflationary one.

A basic income guarantee can only ever work as temporary assistance or as a residualist stopgap for people on the fringes of society. If it's too widespread it ends up working against itself. A job guarantee increases supply (assuming you use the labor power productively) while keeping demand high, so that works against the inflation problem.

It's a tough balancing act though. You have to make sure the make-work is actually producing useful stuff or you'll have all the same problems as the basic income plus a bunch of random ditches dug. During Cultural Revolution in China cadres kind of engendered ecological catastrophes by creating bureaucratic agencies that would pointlessly clearcut forests for no reason. It's basically the paper-clip maximizing AI problem, only the intelligence isn't artificial.
I have an Xiaomi robovac. It's just amazing, smartest little thing. It's like the feeling I got when I bought my first iPhone.
It's still pretty language independent. Qemu for instance is a c codebase that depends on static initialization functions that run before main to register the different components.
Would you mind talking about what field or area you work in?

I came from a bioengineering background and ended up doing a lot of computational work (signals and communication systems, ML, FEA), so I feel like we are arriving at the same conclusion from opposite sides.
This technical glitch is in their CPE boxes not the backbone network.
> relying on static initialization is something one should think about potentially solving differently

This is such a notorious problem, it even has a name: Static Initialisation Order Fiasco (see: https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order)

The symmetrical Static Destruction Order Fiasco is also a very fun problem to deal with. The solution proposed for SIOF in the C++ FAQ does nothing to help you deal with this one, though.
Try a Blackberry or Nokia device.
Serious but probably crazy too. I use engineering everywhere in my life, food, water bottle size, decision making, caffeine usage...

I didnt mention that I have to warm up, but the point of the workout is to complete a heavy set.
Can others take you up on this?
What were the reasons you decided to go with a child_process model instead of wrapping you Rust in a Node native module?
Wouldn't tracking the binary with Git make a new copy on every commit?
> Do you have a write-heavy workload? How do you handle contention?

I'd also be interested in that. Last time I wanted to use Sqlite opening twice the same file for writing either would not succeed or could time out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woK2FcqJVuE
That's really interesting. I've drawn another more superficial Japan comparison: Japanese economic stagnation since the 1980s. I've been predicting for a while that we are headed for "planet Japan": perpetually low interest rates and not much actual growth.

What ended the era you describe? Contact with the outside world? I've also thought for a long time that space migration is the only real hope for the human race to avoid permanent stagnation and eventual decline.
You might want to adjust the figure to account for clothing/minimal construction work for shelter - both are definitely fundamental in most parts of the US. One might also wish to add in a minimally functional healthcare system to ensure a reasonably high average life expectancy.

Nevertheless, the point is still extremely valid; I would estimate around 95%.

Update: As in general it is easy to draw overly pessimistic conclusions from this (I have been affected by this myself),
it may be of use to point out that positive answers do exist for this issue. One of my personal favorites is the powerful, short book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
Technology adoption. I'm not necessarily talking about change management (although that could be a feature), but technology adoption in the broader sense. For example: if I'm a Health IT executive, how can I ensure the adoption of say, Kubernetes is the right path for my organization? I may have 20+ stakeholders, from actual practitioners, to finance pushing me in various directions. It's almost like there's space for adoption assurance, or some type of 3rd party integrator that sits in front of the bleeding edge of technology and helps dinosaur industries move faster through adoption. A layer that could understand my IT footprint, and recommend tools/improvements/etc. Like CreditKarma, but for IT.
What I am really objecting to is those hard "rules". "Never optimize early". "Never roll your own database", etc.

All those rules work for most but not all projects. It's the same as saying "You shall allways obey traffic rules". Maybe I should, but sometimes I may not want to brake on yellow light when I have clearly impatient driver tailgating me.

As we gain experience we learn the world is not black and white. Akin's law #8 says:

"In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point."
I can't be the only person here who read this comment and thought of Gintama.
The Mexican cartels were recently known to be kidnapping network engineers and field technicians to compel them into building private communications infrastructure.

You don't have to know how to build it yourself, you just need to stick a gun in the ribcage of someone who does.
All demand is "real demand." Someone wants something and is willing to pay you. That's real.
I’ve used it several times and while the UI was nice the audio quality was poor every time. It doesn’t seem to handle audio feedback loops as well as other videoconferencing tools.
This is not only clever, but actually a good metaphor of the activity of numerous entities.
What was Blum was referring to when he mentioned trying an 'echo'?
Neural Networks and Primes
You're right that the terminology has been tricky to contend with, although it's hard to say what a 'least-confusing' name would be. Other names for the phenomenon include "Pi spin glass" and "Floquet time crystal," neither of which seem to definitely avoid any confusion. The accounts of these phenomena are becoming more clear over time, which will help, but given the name and the images often used in the press, I understand why it can come across as fantastical.
MySQL Embedded[1] is a thing; used by some KDE apps. IIRC, it insists on using multiple files rather than a single file like SQLite does, but otherwise is a pretty much a turn-key component. No such luck with PostgreSQL so far.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/mysql/embedded.html
In truth they broke themselves into smaller companies due to the concurrence of an even bigger monopoly: Google.

This was a bit of an accident really.

Maybe one day big companies with monopolistic tendencies will be broken-up. But it will be a long and hard process.

Look at the Standard Oil monopoly of the late XIXe/early XXe century, it took decades to break it up, even with laws against it.

When the break-up will happen, I see two ways this could happen:

* either break by activity (separate AWS and Amazon, Gmail, Youtube and Search in Google, etc)

* break each service in a way to form a distributed system shared by several companies

For example, split Google Search with part of the search index and engine distributed across several companies, and each companies having their own offer in term of UI design, data privacy, additional functionalities, plugged on this shared index.
Pretty simple, return to a 90% top tax rate and give the proceeds out as Basic Income. This shit situation we are in is not sustainable, we have levels of inequality in the US not seen since the roaring 20s and we all know how that ended.
I used it. SQLite can even import directly from CSV (as long as you're only have ASCII characters). Joining several CSVs and the first data cleaning steps took a second instead of 30 minutes with pandas.
It depends heavily on the SoC in question. On an unlocked STM32F4, you can attach JTAG pretty much immediately even if it's way off in the weeds executing garbage, but BCM283x (RPi) has to setup the pinmux for the JTAG first from the ARM core, so you have to already be running some of your own code.
I was expecting this to be a Harvard Business Review case study but it turned out it's about biology.
>> it will kill you

> Every sailor dies? I don't understand what you're getting at.

He means that life at sea is one of managed risk. For starters the ocean itself is hostile to human life. The machine is is also filled with hazards that will kill you if they aren't properly managed: steam, ionizing radiation, CO and CO2 build-up, combustion exhaust gasses, high pressure hydraulics, seawater flooding, electric shock and electrolysis hazards, rotating machinery hazards, the list goes on.
And the variety of available food choices. Or the fact that the is a nice gym with a shower.

It is one of the best airports I have ever seen.
Good to know! Add to the set of people who's AT&T network engineering opinions are interesting "anyone who has managed a very large scale distribution layer network". :)
Likewise. My wife has commented that she knows I’m not looking at other women when my head turns when I’m driving :)
Learning from Source Code
I tried Oni, but it fundamentally doesn't understand buffers.
It’s an iPad 2. There is a 2cm scratch on top right of the screen from where I went skating on it getting out of bed and there is a big dent on bottom from a child dropping it. The back is scuffed as all hell from a life of pain and the Smart Cover has worn the aluminium on the side so far through that it’s almost black.
The speaker does odd things regularly from the time it got watered.
Don't underestimate the ability to see right away CSV contents using Excel/Numbers/Google Spreadsheets.

Non-coders technical users
This depends on the lifter's weight (which is why there are weight classes in power and oly lifting competitions).
These types of jobs are extremely common in Luxembourg (a small country in EU). The workers stay because they are highly paid.
Strong, stable polymer can be recycled again and again
Sorry for being off topic but I want to get one of these. Which one should I get?