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> Unlike most other research fields which primarily focus on publishing in journals, conferences ended up being the primary publication and presentation venue in CS.

The irony of this seems lost on the author. While I am glad that CS has truly split into a scientific discipline separate both from mathematics and engineering (this was not yet the case when I was in school), CS of all disciplines should be able to progress remotely.

Physics has been the innovator in this regard, with preprint journals (Physics review letters grew from letters into a journal) to HTTP & HTML, and open preprint servers. It's a pity that CS has gone the other way, which limits its openness to scientists around the world!
They are providing a managed Vitess service, which allows you to use almost any software that is compatible with MySQL.
Coronavirus: UK confirms plan for its own contact tracing app
No, their actual argument is:

> Now, if you doubt your arms are on the front of your body, stand in front of a mirror and raise your arms -in their most comfortable position over your head-…where are your armpits? If you’re like every other human on the planet, your armpits are facing you, dead center. If your arms really were on the sides of your body (the way sleeves and armholes are cut) you’d have to turn sideways to see your armpits.

Which is a load of bollocks. It doesn't take more than a minute or two of studying anatomy diagrams to see that. Are they centered horizontally like a lego figure when viewed from the side so they bisect the volume? No, in fact the shoulder joint is BEHIND most of the volume in the torso when viewed from the side; so the humerus hangs roughly in line with the spine. Most of the rib cage(and pecs), abdominal cavity, and etc are forward the head of the humerus.

The real reason the you can see your arm pits when you lift your arms over your head? The insertion point for the pecs in the humerus draws closer to the mid-line as the arm is externally rotated and raised while at the same time the scapula is rotated up and out pushing the lateral border and all the meat away from the mid-line. Effectively the front wall of the "pit" collapses exposing the built up back wall.

> and if you look at the resulting bro bodies, they are strong and athletic

I mean.. That's a primary ingredient in the spread of broscience isn't it? The credibility "results" lends to bullshit? cough supplement industry cough.
I second your recommendation of Crafting Interpreters. Not only is it free, but it's an excellent way to learn tokenization, parsing, and tree walking, it's a lot of fun to read.
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I don't care to admit how much time I spent on fzf, autocompletions, and zstyles today.
Interesting that a “hotspot” with multiple large events during the initial outbreak is still only at ~14% percent infected. This would seem to indicate that there’s a ways to go before a real peak.
Not to mention the repeal or overruling of the Posse Comaitus Act would itself cause waves of mutiny within the armed forces.
Cult expert says 'mind control cult' now faces an existential crisis
Such a wrong take. Decision trees are nothing more than if statements. Fancier versions of those (random forests) are consistently near SOTA algorithms like neural networks (and beat them on tabular datasets frequently). AI can be just a shit ton of if/else statements.
It is significantly easier to feel normalcy watching movie at home where I have done it many times. Rather then in drive through cinema you was never in before, sit in car and where you can't go to restroom.
I believe this is "flow fields" or "potential fields" -- as mentioned by other commenters, scaling it with graph size and destination-count are two of the main issues with it.

In SimAirport we use flow fields, they're great for crowds & they scale incredibly well with agent count. We use them for "long distance" traversals, and then we use "local" A-star like grid search for the "last-mile" of an agent's journey.

For flow-fields, we start by dividing everything up into "sectors" based on game logic -- and then further, into "sub-sectors", essentially just basic abstractions of the graph with smaller node counts. It does have an impact on path quality but for the scale we operate at in SimAirport the trade-off is a no brainer. The abstractions then limit the flow-field's graph size & the destination-count that any given subsector (abstracted-node) can have -- essentially it's a hierarchical (pseudo HPA-star) approach to flowfield pathfinding / navigation, and the abstraction also has major benefits for reachability queries & game-logic driven "rules" (ie load-balancing of capacity-constrained paths [stairs/escalators], one-way paths [ie directed graph algos], etc).
But hey, Saasify looks neat!

I'm interested for sure
I personally adore Elixir and am always quick to recommend it, if not that I would say check out a LISP like Clojure or Racket, they offer a very different experience than Elixir, but I attribute how quickly I picked up on Elixir and FP in general to my previous (yet very very short) experience with Clojure.
I once wrote a paper related to genetics. It's known that cells contain various parts (organelles), some of which used to be independent cells. Those are rather well researched but finding scientific references for some points were surprisingly difficult and I had to quote some 1940s papers to actually have a solid citation for a well-known but not trivially verifiable fact.

I can imagine much common knowledge is difficult to proof and the various alternate Nobel prizes are great at rewarding some of this important but hardly recognised work of "proving the obvious".
Why you piss off few people & create haters while you grow[how to deal with it]
By the way, there is also a dat sdk (called "dat-sdk") that works in conventional web browsers!
Very interesting conversation, the only thing that I wasn't expecting is the Egyptian pyramid analogy. Maybe I misunderstood something, but I think that Egyptian pyramid has a great structural integrity ?
"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."
I read this when it came out and found it lame. It has the pretense of being an investigative hit piece, with all the length and gloss, but there's almost nothing to it. They come across as a bunch of painfully awkward geeks who are true believers and have been swimming in money. The reporter makes them look bad, you can make anybody look bad. I'm an AGI skeptic, but I thought she came out looking worse. A better or more experienced journalist would have dropped the story and moved on to something with some there there.
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I set up a account and was considering it for an intended email consolidation. But Roundcube is hopeless - keyboard shortcuts are a 'planned' feature. That makes Roundcube a pre-alpha product in my view.
sure, but Golang seems well accepted and widely used in a multitude of different tasks, so it seems to have found the right balance I would say.
Facebook shadow profiles would suggest otherwise
Folder structure (whether email or filesystem) give context. In the same folder may be related emails from other people or with different subjects. Search works for finding a specific email, and folders help finding related emails once you have the first one.

In addition, folders have better discoverability, whereas I find search to be finicky (looking for exact words when I only remember a synonym)

I have a similar problem with google drive. Oftentimes I will find a file that I was looking for, but I know there are related files in the same folder (maybe a spreadsheet used to generate the other document). But I can't get to the folder from the file (as far as I know). If I don't remember some keywords from the other file, I may be SOL.
Grocery store trip is shorter even as we limited it to once a week, have a lot more to buy and more to wait.

Also, we grocery store cause we have no choice. Not be a use we would be seeking comfort and pleasure as in cinema.
DavidB is generally awesome, that said I just watched this its kinda of meh, maybe 5-9m of good stuff, if haven't seen his other talks, I'd recommend them first, unless you have particular interest in patent legal suits, and indexing code for basic patterns via a library of functions (grep/glob/etc), ie its basically using stdlib collections w/ files to build a vfs grep/stats lib, w/ py 2.3 while coding on a desert island so to speak. his other talks cover a wide range of subjects, their probably all better imo.
I mean, to take one example of a company in the space: Xilinx has operating income of about 750mn per year. Jetbrains has operating income of about 80mn per year on revenues of 250mn.

Given that I’d suggest that the reason that Xilinx’s development products have such a poor user experience vs IntelliJ is NOT that Xilinx is impoverished, but rather that the market has extremely low expectations so they don’t feel the need to spend on fixing them.

This isn’t a problem unique to hardware-land; lots of verticals have incumbents who produce low quality products on large profits because, frankly, the competition is just as bad and there’s a high barrier to entry. I’m not sure what would fix this for hardware-land, though. Possibly more pressure from open source; that’s largely what did it for software development (though even before that, companies like Borland put more than the minimum effort in).
https://projecteve.com/organizing-tech-tools-for-work/#comme...
Think about why people haven't already done what you suggest. What do you think the reasons might be?
What do you mean with GLSL live coding? Because you need to recompile after all.

I've been wondering where are the non-destructive painting programs, which does not rasterize organic brushes or strokes.

Your attempt could work as a base to build one if it can work realtime sufficiently fast.
Many sites had operations plan that involved weekly or biweekly "IPLs" done on weekends.
SSH treats the key as password, you can have the same authorized key associated with multiple accounts.

Not sure why you choose to look at the key as identity.
Ask HN: What job is better than Google?
I'm currently a SWE at Google. Most of my coworkers act like there no better job (my manager has frequently said as much), and it is certainly a common story that Google is the best place to work. I am very grateful to work at such a company. Yet, I'm 24, and it's not inspiring to believe I will never have a better job or work at a better place.

I'm sure there are better places, somewhere in the world. What are they? What roles are better? What should I hunger for? What is a worthwhile goal?
This is the solution. Have the firms issue stock and the government purchase the stock. Obviously make it ultra-preferred with no one else getting preference before the government gets paid.

If firms don't like that deal, they can either get their own funding from the private markets or go out of business.
The markets dropped because other countries already had similar issues.

The stock has it mostly priced in, but the rise of the stock is attributed to the fact that European countries are flattening, vaccines and ramped up testing in the US.
When looking at a paper, how would you decide if it was of use to you?
I recently read "Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang and a lot of it giving an overview of how the Korean economy developed in the 20th century.
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Rochester economist: Without stronger leadership, ‘disaster’ lies ahead
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Presumably a pun on `flex`, the Gnu implementation of `lex`.
Thank you, very valuable comment.
Whoops. Thanks. Although I can't seem to edit now!
I am part of half a dozen hallway tracks which are basically email threads (two are is a digests) each of which stretches back decades. Like the hallways you can dip in or drop out for a little while (just delete threads that don't call out to you) and fortunately all seem to have attracted new entrants over time. There's a small but significant inter-thread overlap as well.

In any conference the hallway track is the most important to me and it has happened more than once that I have failed to attend a single formal presentation yet found the conference a great success. But I have noticed that these threads are just as vital.

Of late all of them have switched to 80% covid-19 of course. Fortunately not exclusively.
I understand your point but it feels like it's not addressing the actual issue: Why did the elderly put their life savings into the S&P 500? And why does everybody encourage pumping all your life savings into stocks?

A possible answer is that people still believe risk-free 5%+ YoY returns is perfectly normal because of purely historical reasons and disregarding the current economic realities (growth rates) of the world. Considering the current demographics in many developed economies it's just not going to happen! How about bailing out their pensions instead of the companies?
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Oh, I didn't know about rsync.net. They seem pretty nice.
GitHub is not what it used to be when this "restriction" was made. These days, where a lot of companies decide to go with github, it's not uncommon for people to have one personal account and one work account.

This becomes messy to manage, as it's not easy(as far as I know) to use the same account on your personal PC to do both personal and work work.
Ilya Prigogine won a Nobel prize working on that very issue!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system
I'm Canadian but I remember her because I was around in 1984 when she competed in the Olympics.

People who are not from the US but are younger than age 35 now probably don't have a clue who she is. My assumption being a 10 year-old in 1984 would be old enough to remember her name now in 2020.

But saying she was an exceptional Olympic athlete, often getting "all 10s" (10 is good so she must be good) would give context.
There are a number of subjects like this. I feel it has something to do with not making predictions about the future -- leaves no clear indication of good/bad decisions that are tied to skill.

The really interesting areas like this is something like fringe/doomsday religions, that do make predictions about the future. When these predictions inevitably fail to pass, the believers double down.
This seems to be an older or non-standard FET depiction

The modern symbol has an arrow and doesn't have a closed rectangle
Agreed, and this goes even smoother when one realizes the isomorphism between (naive) parser combinators and parsing expression grammars.
To be fair, there might not be anyone who can opine on economics and be correct. It's all either survivor/hindsight bias, or making indistinct, unverifiable predictions.

Economics happens to have high stakes, so people flock to it. Nobody really knows what's going on.
Coronavirus shutdown leads to ‘alpine’ air in world’s most polluted cities
Fun, it would be nice to have less people per room as right now it's very crowded (on mobile)
You've put into words what I was thinking about the other day.

I always hear folks say "Weird there was no inflation after the 2008 stimulus" or even experts try to claim that there is none.

But it's not about inflation of everyday consumer goods, it's about the massive inflation in things that consumers don't purchase regularly (things like houses). And at this point, I think we've done a lot to essentially price regular consumers out of that market.

Think about that. We've priced regular folk out of things that build wealth. It's going to lead to something terrible down the road. Even more terrible than what we're already living in.
Author here.

CS does progress remotely—the publishing model in CS allows authors to easily and openly distribute our papers by putting them up on arvix and our webpages which doesn’t seem to be true of physics journals.

The post is directed to solving the problems of networking. It doesn’t say anything about the orthogonal problem of open access of research.
How easier are they? I did the lex and yacc for javascript and it was easy (except parsing js's // regex format in lex needed a little hack)
>but you pay with your privacy

And I think that's a perfectly okay choice to make. I don't know why I shouldn't pay with my information, given that I'm aware of it. I'm fine with having an android phone and using the few hundred bucks I save on something else.

My information has some value, and by trading that information to a company that provides me with a service I get something out of it. If I keep data private that I don't mind sharing and instead would say, pay with cash, I'd lose out on getting some value out of my data.

Now I think there is an interesting discussion to be had if users could organise to leverage the value they get out of their data, people have talked about a sort of 'data union' to collectively bargain for a higher return, but in principle I don't mind using my data as a currency.
Yeah! He's been on my list for a while. He's a prolific author.
Just set it up so it only activates extensions when entering a specific workspace. You can add the extensions names to settings.json in the .vscode (I believe) folder in the root of your project and they will enable/disable on load.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-gallery
>A lot of people (me included) won't make it through a round-trip drive plus an entire movie. The bathrooms are non-negotiable.

Well, if you can't nobody should be allowed to.
Fortunately, humans need to defecate far less often than they urinate.
> So I create a local repo with dolt, and now I want someone else to collaborate on this dataset with me, without using dolthub. How I do this?

The best I could find is utils/remotesrv in the repository [0], which seems to enable collaboration.. but also seems bit basic and it's not clear if https is supported.

[0] https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/tree/master/go/utils/r...
The amount of just unsourced vitriol of your comment is unapproachable. Like, jsut, do some basic math. If you assume roughly even distributions of talent across gender and compound the fact that people tend to not like working in environments where they feel tokenized, hiring women (or any unrepresented minority talent) is just good business sense, no moralizing required.

Maybe try talking to actual women in the field before making such wildly false claims. I do find it hilarious that there's this overarching "feminist propaganda" and despite all that tech companies still routinely have essentially no women in the engineering staff.
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It's actually a 'single shard' universe. (Sorry bad EVE joke) But yes, its a bit stuffy in there right now!
It'd be very interesting to see an actual "starter kit" :I

The original idea could even be adapted to more than one degree of difficulty... I love the idea, it's, at least, a fascinating concept
The US is pretty much in the middle of the pack when it comes to how typical western democracies have responded to the crisis.
> However I want to protect my email that may contain personal information from being leaked. Both SMIME and PGP do a reasonably good job. Until something usable and widespread appears.

PGP provides essentially no additional protection beyond SMIME, and provides a false sense of security. PGP is a bad standard that should die.

Age doesn't have much to be formally verified. It uses well understood crypto primitives from the go standard library. What formal verification do you want? That the arguments are passed to the underlying libraries correctly?
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If the low quality of the software impedes productivity generally (and, being honest, it MUST) then that’s not well-functioning. It’s more a common depressing failure of a capitalist market (and a lot of software verticals suffer from it).

It’s a space with a high barrier to entry, which is probably the biggest problem. Software engineering tools got good, and affordable, due to a combination of lowish barrier to entry and open source.
The reputable estimates for IFR aren't suggesting 1%, thankfully.
JLang: An LLVM back end for the Polyglot compiler
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Isn't taking this as an absolutist view kind of myopic? Sure, people don't pay anything to watch and each person's eyeballs aren't worth that much. But pretty much the entire value of the service is locked up in the crowd of these people, led by the minority who actually create things. Annoy enough of the creators (or lose the trust of those who see what happens to their peers) and they'll start to leave, taking your advert-viewing crowd with them. The network effect makes this really difficult and slow to begin with, but we're already seeing attempts by people like Wendover Productions with things like Nebula and CuriosityStream. I'm curious to see how this plays out over the next few years (and if it's similar to anything that's happened historically?).
The preprint is on arxiv too: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07813.pdf
You're one step away from committing the cardinal sin of HN wrongthink by mentioning that hydroxychloroquine is a zinc ionophore. At which point you will be downvoted to hell (just like this post) because orange man bad.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/
Financial independence? Living off your own project?
Maybe the users will remember that in the next election.
I bought John Conway's Game of Life book that came with a 5 1/4 floppy before I even had a computer.
Not surprising. A great episode about this issue is on Reply All, worth listening to even now:

#132 Negative Mount Pleasant
DECEMBER 6, 2018
A small town in Wisconsin becomes the site of a completely unprecedented experiment.
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
I think git-annex is pretty much the right answer if you are already a linux saavy person that expects a mature battle tested tool that integrates well with your existing linux workflow systems. It sits on top of git in a sensible discernible way.

https://www.datalad.org/for/git-users

Peoples non text data is going to be some form of indiscernible binary blob to whatever system is managing it. Think about what a diff looks like for a jpeg, excel file, or an audio file.

http://docs.datalad.org/en/latest/metadata.html

What about git-annex vs git-lfs?

1. """LFS Test Server is an example server that implements the Git LFS API. It is intended to be used for testing the Git LFS client and is not in a production ready state."""

2. git-lfs seems to want to store your files in the github/microsoft cloud, its not really ready to be deployed inside an existing systems workflow? If you need to check a tickbox and just assume Atlassian/Microsoft has you covered it might be a good choice.

3. git annex has a ton of integrations with multiple backends -

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/git-annex/html/special...

4. Poke around the git-annex website. I think you'll see a tool that's being used in a variety of workflows successfully for a decade plus. That's not true of really any of the other tools others have noted in this thread.
Yes, this was IBM's symbol for a FET. They had their own nonstandard symbol for bipolar transistors too, three stacked boxes labeled N, P, N, with a triangle on the emitter. (See page 1-4 of the document above.) IBM also had their own logic gate symbols: an OR gate looked like an AND gate, and an AND gate looked like an op amp.

I came across the FET joke while looking up IBM transistor symbols in response to TubeTime's thread on the history of transistor symbols (which is an interesting thread you should read): https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1249023089528078337