skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree about hands-on experience: yes, it is extremely useful to practically do a biology engineering project. What I claim, is that about 2 weeks to 2 months of that is enough.

Regarding your second paragraph: I was fortunate to work in 3 fields in my scientific career: organic chemistry, materials science/organic semiconductors and molecular (synthetic) biology. This gave me ability to compare. What I found out, is that biology has the most interesting problems nowadays, and biology day-to-day work is extremely, outrageously, ridiculously stupid. I can not even start describing how amazingly debilitating molecular biology methods are. Right now, in the middle of the night I am stuck in the lab doing a day-and-half long protocol, all consisting on steps like "put liquid in", "pipette liquid out", "incubate for 5 minutes" and "shake for half hour".

Now here I am, after 15 years of school, 5 years of PhD and 11 years after that, doing work which is less intellectual than flipping burgers in McDonalds.

Fortunately, the fact that biology is so simple, gives me hope that it can be automated fairly easily, which I am planning to concentrate on for the next 5 years.

Please don't mix the plain complexity of life, which appears like "too many things to memorize", and complexity of mathematics and computer science, which is "understanding deep layers of abstractions". While I haven't taken intro bio classes, I read books and tons of papers. They are just plainly simple, you don't need brain to read them, you only need to memorize.
GDPR is only a problem if you take personal data off of your users - if you don't, then it's no issue
Ah okay, yeah I think I'll get citizenship somewhere else
Also add another couple of years to efficiently debug with the new tools and environment :)
I suppose that if you measure a probability-cloud long enough, you can arbitrarily bring down the inaccuracy of the size (?)
We’ve build a few enterprise sized applications in python and has a much better time of it than we ever did with the C#(that still powers most of our software).

Dynamic types aren’t exactly great, but Python is generally really good at getting things done. I probably wouldn’t use it if you had millions of concurrent users instead of the thousands we do, but for most projects it will work just fine even when the projects grow in size.
That’s not at all contradictory. Employees aren’t customers.
Companies don't make decisions based on morality.

This is a question of liability. Gitlab's liability, based on whatever internal metrics being measured, would be significantly higher than the potential economic rewards of having employees in sensitive positions in these two countries--at the moment.

Also, on a side note, morality != legality. They're two different things. What is moral isn't necessarily illegal, and vice versa.

There's no need to beat up the strawman "techbro." It seems to me that this was a difficult decision to make and somebody had to make it.

Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
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I've been doing something like this for a bit in Audition. Center channel extract > invert phase > save as wav > create multi-track project > add original > add modified > up the volume on the vocal extracted modified version until the vocals go away

Or you can do the exact opposite and instead of center channel extracting the vocals you can remove the vocals and use this method to better isolate vocals.

Although if things do fun stuff with stereo it might not be exact.
Common architectural pattern in northern Europe is externally insulated masonry buildings that have significant amount of mass inside the thermal envelope. In such buildings there is enough time-delay in temperature changes that the time of heating does not matter much. And while heat-pumps have a higher coefficient of performance when temperature difference is smaller, this is overwhelmed by pricing difference of peak vs off-peak energy.
>That method, based on the afterglow of the Big Bang, gives a Hubble constant of 67.4, assuming the standard cosmological model of the universe is correct.

I found this line extremely ironic in an article about "cosmic mystery".
Nothing precludes you from upping the TTL after the change. Traditionally DNS admins progressively drop the TTL prior to a change to reduce the time an RRSet is in flux (so if your TTL is N, N + 1 seconds prior you drop it to half N, and again and again until its your preferred window size) and cautious ones slowly ramp back up again to the regular value.
> How do you deal with writing operations in this approach?

The same as read operations, with views, which can be, in Postgres, automatically updatable if they are a simple thin layer over base tables, and otherwise can be made updatable by means of appropriate triggers defining the meaning of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on them just as the view definition defines the meaning of SELECT.
"off-target" effects on other strains too

Source, please? That seems really unlikely given that these are genetic vectors and do not rely on stimulating the immune system (which also means fewer side effects).
> Without calculator how would one calculate things in places like Zimbabwe or any Mom-Pop place where there are no computers.

People can calculate things in their heads, have you never bought something where there wasn't a calculator?
Would you notice if your calculator was lying?

Well no, because thats the point of calculators, right? You trust them to get it right but if its something important you run it through twice just in-case you made a mistake.

Its like saying "Would you notice if your coffee machine was adding a bit of alcohol to your coffee?" . We're obviously not expecting mundane appliances to do weird shit to us, and it would mostly be a waste of time and energy to worry about things like that.
personal site or business site isn't relevant.

if you collect personal data then compliance is required.
I’m fairly certain that it will hold more of screensavers (at 950MB each), and they are honestly my favorite part of the device. If you don’t have broadband the idea of a bigger cache of content seems worth a nominal fee.
You mean the country where the rich get richer and are the only one enjoying education and healthcare? The country where poor is the new "middle class"?

Money makes money in our current (imho diseased) economy, but it is coming from somewhere.
This is a great history of DNS. I didn’t really notice any inaccuracies. I especially like the way that client subnet was discussed, but of course that’s because I agree with the author.

I find it interesting that it avoided DNSSEC, perhaps recognizing it as a skirmish rather than an episode of the greater war. This is probably accurate, DNSSEC has never actively steered DNS in any particular direction, it’s much more passive and therefore doesn’t represent something that needs to be directly fought. Pick your battles, this one is not worth fighting, probably because there’s nothing to gain or lose (from a control perspective) in it succeeding or failing.

Tying everything back together with the discussion of Westfalia is really interesting, because it raises an interesting topic. The ability to control the content that users have access to, and the ease of doing so. DoT and DoH make it much harder to easily intercept DNS packets and manipulate or deny responses to them (edit: to be clear it denies network operators this control, but of course the chosen resolver has even more ability to do so). It denies a method of control that network operators have over the users of that network. This control was never perfect, sophisticated (and not even that sophisticated) actors on the network could always circumvent this control of DNS. It really only prevents the majority of people, non-bad actors in general, from circumventing the network operators controls (when considering only DNS as that control mechanism).

This is probably a good thing for the user, because it will force the network operators and countries, to start treating good actors and bad actors the same, rather than only controlling and monitoring the unsuspecting normal user, while leaving the doors open for the bad actors. In the Westfalia time period, it would be the difference between the citizen relying on traditional imports vs. the smuggler to avoid all tariffs, because the coasts were large and it was somewhat easy to avoid the navy’s of the large states at the time.
Why would you sell your goose that lays golden eggs?

Even if you think that the goose might be getting older and less fertile, it doesn't make sense.

It only makes sense if you know when the goose is gonna run out of eggs. And in this case I'm not sure anyone knows.
They probably got the warning every year every day informally, they got it formally at least once a year.
they will have eliminated cervical cancer in a few decades

False. Not all cervical cancers are caused by HPV.
> Make the report readable by a simple text editor. Let the users have a look at the content inside.

how do you explain the concept of a backtrace to an end-user so they can make an informed decision whether it's fine to submit the data or not? How do you do the same with a a full memory dump (if you need one?). How do you expect users to analyze the memory dump for potentially compromising data?

> If you do need the report, ask them to check it then send it through trusted and encrypted ways like Firefox Send.

this works for you and me. It doesn't work even for my coworker. Also: What is the advantage of going through the extra hoop of Firefox Send compared to over plain SSL when you intend the recipient to be able to read the dump anyways?

> No need to fix crashes for users that never cared for reporting them to you

Judging from metrics available to an app I'm working on I would say that users are much more likely to stop using my app completely rather than even bothering to press the "report this issue" bug.

It really depends on your target audience.

But in case of UniFi (as opposed to their AmpliFi line), asking for individual reports to be reported could possibly be feasible given the product audience.
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You've probably gone over your quota of free articles. I didn't have to register.

It is an interesting hagiography? of the chain
the quarks have it own (rest) mass, but quite tiny compared to when you include binding energy (9 Mev vs 900 Mev)
Things you can't do with wireguard (unless you use workarounds like iptables, etc):

* bind a tunnel to a certain interface/ip

* use same port for different tunnels (with same ip or separate iface/ip)

* specify a fixed peer ip/port (or network, interface to use)

* use tunnel in tunnel (with kernel implementation, unless you get creative)
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Ancient populations were digging holes in the ground before physics was invented.
> Wait, am I to understand that this law says I cannot boycott doing business with businesses located in Israel?

No.

That link the parent commenter shared is a very good overview: it basically means that your company will not receive special corporate tax consideration if your company:

Enters agreements to refuse or actually refuses to do business with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies.

Enters agreements to discriminate or actually discriminates against other persons based on race, religion, sex, national origin or nationality.

Enters agreements to furnish or actually furnishes information about business relationships with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies.

Enters agreements to furnish or actually furnishes of information about the race, religion, sex, or national origin of another person.

(e.g. “hey [anti-Semitic company], this competing businessperson is a Jew, if you were wondering”)

In any of these cases, there are exceptions and matters of interpretation.

Whether or not you think this is appropriate for the government, it's not as simple as “you can't engage in a boycott as a matter of personal conscience”.
Interestingly, Ukraine was also on the list initially, but then was removed. Is it a coincidence, that Gitlab co-founder, Dmitry Zaporozhets, is from Ukraine?
I work in data engineering, and we have multiple systems built by other people talking to our pipeline. Just one of them being off by a little might send the KPIs, the machine learning models and much more into a spiral where they end up completely wrong.

This has unfortunately made me paranoid and uncertain of anything data or calculation related. I cross check all my day to day calculations and, annoyingly, my friends' calculations too. Any known remedies from people with similiar problems would be appreciated.
Honestly, we haven't considered that.
Breakage rarely reaches production, rollbacks are quick, a process orchestrator retries most of the stuff and because of that we do not have a problem worth solving with "canary deployments". Note that we do sometimes carry out "canary releases" via toggles.
Out of a grand total of five subjects, two showed a response. Not much of a study.
I switched to DDG what seems like years ago (at least two, maybe more). I cannot fathom how horrible the UI&UX of Google search results are now. Stuff and things everywhere, ads hidden here and there, images, lists inside search results.

I just want a plain list of websites, thank you. If I want images or videos or news, I'll click that handy tab you provided for me...
Full URLs were made invisible in Safari years ago. Of course, the first thing I did when saw this was make them visible back. Luckily, there still was an option for this. As this trend intensifies, it is probable that this option will be gone one day.
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Cash in now so that it doesn't become a stranded asset in the future.
Yes you are right, one minor point though, when people build things in Salesforce the 'source code' is all there and visible (apart from installed third-party packages) and so 'bus factors' are about as easy to recover from as with Access - and there are plenty of Salesforce contractors around. I've seen some organisations kick big consultancy firms off of their salesforce system and then just continue building it themselves.
I wonder if the decision to float SA now is due to risk from alternative energy sources and, more recently, security risk. Trade the cow in for cash while you still can.
> Are you in USA?

No, Germany, which also faces massive problems with Chinese buy-outs and industrial spionage.

> Should other countries refuse to employ USA citizens because of actions of the government - things like pulling out of Syria to enable the Turkish murder of the Kurds to continue.

I would wish so, but I'm realistic enough to know no government wants to put themselves into the spotlight of Trump's Twitter account and trade war threats.

>> China has been using our money ...

> The best way is to vote with your money then?

We as individuals can't do shit about international trade. No matter if I live vegan or not, pigs will be slaughtered in inhumane conditions. No matter if I drive an SUV or not, climate change will grow. Systemic issues need to be dealt with those who have been elected for this job.
If it makes no sense whatsoever, why do you think it makes sense to some other people?
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Re: Typography. Good to know. We might drop the nabla and stick to ASCII in future references.

Re: Trademark. Might be an issue. I’ve checked with the Kotlin team and they are looking into it.
Preloading fonts: when does it make sense?
I'm stunned that the raw CSS for this is just 43KB, un-minified.
> Are you in USA? Should other countries refuse to employ USA citizens because of actions of the government

This is done in China BTW.
Due to how quantum chromodynamics works, free particles should be white (or colorless). That is, their constituent particles (in this case, quarks and gluons) have a “color” (red, green, blue for quarks, and their inverses for antiquarks) and they must come together in such a way to cancel out in any free particle like a proton.
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How is this not unfair discrimination?

Imagine if the issue was the following:

> In e-group on Monday October 15, 2019 we took the decision to enable a "job family race and sexual orientation block" for team members who have access to customer data. This is at the expressed concern of several enterprise customers, and also what is becoming a common practice in our industry in the current social climate.

> The groups of people involved are:

> - Black people

> - Gay people

> This issue is to track the addition of the process to the support handbook, and whatever recruiting processes need to be update to make certain that:

> We do not make offers to individuals of these races or who practice these sexual deviances. Current team members are prevented from entering a relationship with someone of the same sex or of the specified races and remaining in a role that prohibits it.
> If you really wanted to change something, hiring chinese people and showing them what the western world is like would be the best thing to do.

The Western world has tried this and ended up with Chinese students harrassing and intimidating pro-Hongkong protestors. This path has failed.
This was a really strange article for me. I'd love it if someone would tell me if I understood it correctly. The author seems to be saying outright that universities are inefficient primarily because the education obtained there has little value.

The author breaks down the value in terms of signalling (which I admit not to understand very well), human capital (i.e. a trained populace -- is there a more antagonistic way of putting it???), and fun for students.

Signalling seems to be validation of intelligence??? (I am SMRT)... I don't know. He has a big section labelled "In defence of signalling" where he seems to simply say that the 4 year wait to get your degree seems to be a bit of a waste of time. The university can provide the signalling by just handing out the accreditation...

He says nothing as far as I can tell about "human capital". Like an education... I just get the impression that the author assumes that there is no value in it... at all? I could imagine a followup article saying something like, "Well, why are we doing this education thing anyway -- Just train on the job! Cut out the middle man!" Except that he seems to want to pump Lamda for... no reason in particular?

I'm just going to ignore the fun bit because it seems to be there simply to make people angry. I guess...

Is this sarcasm? Am I intended to take this seriously (real question by the way)? More interestingly, is this a popular opinion around here given the front page placement?
Director of Compliance raised very similar concerns in the discussion over there, it's funny (not really) to see how our good old friend Paul (CFO) stomps over it again
I find this somewhat baffling. 4% just seems like such a huge disparity, especially for such a ubiquitous particle. It seems like any experiments before 2010, that used the size of a proton in the calculations should have noticed something was wrong. Fermilab has spent the last couple years trying spruce up an old experiment to measure the dipole-moment of the muon down to 0.14 ppm[1][2] Apparently that small of a discrepancy in theory and experiment was interesting enough to throw a huge amount of time into. How is it that we are trying to verify the 9th significant digit in the dipole moment of an obscure particle, while something as mundane as the size of the proton was off by 4%? Obviously, I'm missing something.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_g-2

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UckuqHDB08I
Obviously not if they're still running Windows everywhere.
I am Chinese living in China. Nationalism is on the rise lately in China, not just for domestic reasons, but also as an reaction to nationalistic moves from "the West" like this one. It's a recurring theme, not just in governmental propaganda, but also in daily conversations, that "the West" would talk about fairness and justice then commit blatant discrimination and double standards.

As a founder of a tech company based in China, I benefit from US companies blocking Chinese (and Russian) engineers; still I am saddened by this. I hope they could come up with more intelligent policies to protect their OPSEC.
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth

Or were we not posting random sayings?
I'm in the UK. Was listening to the radio recently where they were discussing the cause of a large number of mental health problems here. The cause was pretty clear: they labelled it "rotten life syndrome", which sums it up quite well.
That's specific to flu. The HPV vaccines don't use a similar mechanism.
> "Have it compose a poem—a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!"

> Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.

> She scissored short. Sorely shorn,

> Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,

> Silently scheming,

> Sightlessly seeking

> Some savage, spectacular suicide.

I've found an article that compares the translation the original Polish. The translator had to change the premise of the poem and write a completely new poem:

https://medium.com/@mwichary/seduced-shaggy-samson-snored-72...
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If I was a Chinese or a Russian engineer working for Gitlab, I'd consider quitting right now regardless of how this discussion ends. I am surprised that this initiative is not just considered by them, but basically approved by some of the senior staff:

> In e-group on Monday October 15, 2019 we took the decision to enable a "job family country-of-residence block" for team members who have access to customer data.

I don't think there's a need to explain what's wrong with this idea, there are a lot of sane comments on this thread explaining this just okay.

On a side note, I really like how company transparency saves them from making wrong decisions final. I think that this initiative will be dropped just like the recent third-party tracking issue, and I wish more companies were as transparent as this one.
It's mindblowing how one getting behind even 2 years in the general ecosystem and the technological progress is basically out of the job market, yet people responsible for the functioning of the society can completely ignore all these and remain in their positions of power and authority.
If you're in the US, you can decide to do that. The law restricts your business with foreign entities that might engage in a boycott. The nuances of what might trigger these regulations are not always straightforward (look at https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac/7-enforcem...) but normally you just have to avoid "bad words" in contracts, RFQs, etc.

I would note my understanding is that fines for non-compliance have historically been relatively light and therefore, to my knowledge, these regulations have not been seriously tested in court in recent times. (And the article I read suggested there was a causal link between those two facts.)
Ehm, make sure you don't block parts of ICMP important in given network circumstances.

Many types of ICMP messages can be very nasty. ICMP and ICMPv6 RFCs actually describe which messages are importatnt and should not be blocked in any networks, which are dangerous and should be restricted, and varieties between.
> outside of specialized/embedded systems.

I think you're conflating platforms and dependencies. The OS it runs on is a platform that the the user already trusts, left-pad is a dependency the developers are responsible for. There's some grey area like electron or the JVM but even there electron sticks out as a huge binary blob the user isn't explicitly asked to install.