skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had to debug a crash in a very popular program used in genomics (for those in the know, it was an early version of "samtools" IIRC) and I found it really hard to read.

(In the end the crash was due to corrupted input data, so I fixed the data and stopped debugging)
No, Imperial's royal charter (what's needed to be 'a university' and award degrees in your own right) dates to 1907. I believe that's true of most of UoL's constituents, just not the smaller ones perhaps like SOAS or other field-focused colleges.
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I had to remove the SDK a few months ago due to it causing crashes. If I remember correctly they injected some code into didSelectRowAtIndexPath for table / collection views...Looks like its fixed now but I definitely won't be adding it back, https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1318
Although there is a sort of dual "… until they can make their errors beautiful" or something. If you're good enough, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, because you can turn those mistakes into good things just as quickly as you could have constructed the original correctly.
This was hardly the only element that UK policymakers had to take into account. By the time this study was published, numbers were already accelerating and most of Europe was already in lockdown.
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To me the economics of scale is the whole point of cloud. If vendors don't deliver on that promise and makes it more expensive than hosting it yourself they have fundamentally failed and there's no reason, market wise or utility wise, for them to continue in the long run.
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An iron rule of these discussions is that when someone objects to non-cloud solutions on the grounds of staff costs, they have not actually calculated the staff costs.
My best advice about writer's block is: the reason you're having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly.

By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it's the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from "writing well" to "writing badly," you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material, because guess what, man, we don't like to admit it, because we're raised to think lack of confidence is synonymous with paralysis, but, let's just be honest with ourselves and each other: we can only hope to be good writers. We can only ever hope and wish that will ever happen, that's a bird in the bush. The one in the hand is: we suck.

We are terrified we suck, and that terror is oppressive and pervasive because we can VERY WELL see the possibility that we suck. We are well acquainted with it. We know how we suck like the backs of our shitty, untalented hands.

We could write a fucking book on how bad a book would be if we just wrote one instead of sitting at a desk scratching our dumb heads trying to figure out how, by some miracle, the next thing we type is going to be brilliant. It isn't going to be brilliant. You stink. Prove it. It will go faster.

And then, after you write something incredibly shitty in about six hours, it's no problem making it better in passes, because in addition to being absolutely untalented, you are also a mean, petty CRITIC.

You know how you suck and you know how everything sucks and when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it, because you're an asshole.

So that is my advice about getting unblocked. Switch from team "I will one day write something good" to team "I have no choice but to write a piece of shit" and then take off your "bad writer" hat and replace it with a "petty critic" hat and go to town on that poor hack's draft and that's your second draft.

— Dan Harmon
OMG this is soo my topic right now - I'm also thinking hard about Key2 - especially Silver color which is really difficult to find (brand new). I'm a huge fan of QWERTY keyboards in mobile phones, I really miss out the times when there was a broad choice.. But now, you're basically have BB Key2, BB Key2 LE or F(x) - all of them are pricey as hell for what they offer, unfortunately.

I started consider do buy some older phone for daily driver, and keep the current one for photos/social media/GPS without the sim card even, so as a toy, but I'm still not sure - will happily listen what other HNers have to say here.

The other option might be to wait for Surface Duo till the end of the year, but I think it will be way more pricy than Blackberries..
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Wow, a radical one! But I'm sure it works! :)
In physics labs everything is wrapped in foil because they use heat tape to bake the shit of it.
You're trying to apply software development techniques to a discipline where testing is usually done in a much different way. Yes, we should all try to be perfect and write the most magnificent code with the most bulletproof testing methods, but reality is different.

How about you write tests that clearly prove that the results from this simulation are absolutely wrong? The code is right there! And you're a "software engineer"! Then start talking about retracting papers.
And how many privilage escalation 0days before you have write access to such system variables?
HN is one of the increasing fewer places online where covid19 deniers can congregate.
Hard to know really. I think it's likely the big question at the time was how bad will this get. And they did run and use this simulation. Frankly people who are willing to use this for anything should have no say in anything more important than their own papers.

There is the great (Carl Sagan?) quote "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". If other parts of the puzzle are of the same quality, I want to see heads rolling. The PCR test for example.
I use my very own static site generator (which I'm constantly working/upgrading to make it usable for public audience): https://lukaszkups.net
I couldn't find any way to change schema in Postgres, and it seems like it only lists tables in the public schema by default. That does unfortunately break it entirely if you use schemas at all.
Thanks for that, I have hit this bug once with WSL1 in the past and didn't think much of it at the time. Good to know what caused the issue.
The FT claim it was: https://www.ft.com/content/16764a22-69ca-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc...
Thanks; too late for me, I cannot delete it.
OVH. They have a limited number of data centers around the world. Bandwidth is extremely cheap compared with AWS however there's a setup fee with their dedicated range. I haven't looked at their cloud offering.

I'd like to consider them for a project soon using k8s, needing auto node scaling and I'm not too sure what's best to use from their offerings. Maybe k8s on bare metal?

The biggest benefit is pricing, location (close to me), and reliability has been excellent. Scaling would be an issue.
Thanks for this. I'd never heard of "Firefox Lite".

It appears to be an "Emerging Market Experiment" run by Mozilla Taiwan[0]

It also appears to be heavily based on or be a fork of Firefox Focus/Klar[1]

[0] https://github.com/mozilla-tw/FirefoxLite

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-tw/FirefoxLite/pull/2/files
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If you mean in the context of Swedish deaths, those are 2,900 or so deaths, not 0.1 million.

Edit: I interpreted the number to be in the context of Sweden, as it was mentioned just in the sentence prior. Reply updated to make that clear.
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
I empathise with what you say, but it's also true that maybe things could be better.

We don't expect universities to build their own laboratories and halls of residence from first principles - they will call on property developers, architects, and contractors. It would be good if there were more IT services, built by specialists, that academics could tap when required - so they would spend more time advancing their fields of expertise and less time writing mediocre code. Things like PythonAnywhere / Notebooks, Lambda etc are a step forward, but there is still ample space for advancement.
Having seen a discussion about this on a different forum, someone who used to work in academia mentioned that repeatability and consistency are key to academic code, which means often readability and convention may get sacrificed - it works for the author and if someone wants to repeat the experiment it should get the same results without wangling around with many external packages or modules that may change or become obsolete.

Still hurts to read though :P
These economies could only put cloud ahead if they were larger than the provider's profit margin. If cloud saves 10% in costs but charges you 30% in markup, it costs you 20% more.

AWS's margin is 20-25% (eg [1]). Is AWS's cost of goods sold really 25% lower?

Admittedly this calculation is tricky, because it's not clear what to include. Does that figure for AWS's margin include R&D? Should it?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/10/17/ho...
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I'm at a center for computational biology - our genomics guys have been known to use 90% of our university's HPC capacity ;-) My own work (ecological modelling) is not as heavy, but when I run a full experiment, that takes a 32 core machine about two weeks to complete.
It's the same on Android and Windows 10. Some of my favorite settings on both systems are hidden away in the Accessibility (Android) or Ease of Access (Windows) panels.

In particular, each system has a setting to turn off animations for a calmer experience.

On Windows you can make the text cursor thicker so it's easier to see on a high-DPI display, and select a black mouse pointer instead of the default white.

There are a bunch more - worth a look around even if you don't think you have any accessibility needs.
Looks nice! Running on Ubuntu 18.04.

I see a lot of promise, but I've found 2 big issues right away:

1. I can't see how to manually edit data in the tables

2. The pagination (bottom right) doesn't work at all
But intellij has had remote dev support for longer than vscode has even existed, what am I missing?
If you have ten thousand EC2 instances, you also have serious engineering payroll overhead.
I have a couple of feature requests that nothing else seems to be able to do:

1. Parameterised queries (ideally with an ability to customise the syntax for the placeholders - we use :param for named parameters). All of our production queries are parameterised, and it would be awesome to be able to copy and paste them into this kind of tool, and run them unmodified. Especially as they sometimes use the same parameter in multiple places, so updating them.

2. A full editor control (e.g. Code Mirror, Monaco, or Ace) for editing SQL queries. Specifically I really want multiple cursors for editing queries quickly and efficiently.
> I feel like I read somewhere that telling the user to adjust their cookie settings in the browser was speficically discussed, and not allowed, but I could be wrong.

Consent must be informed and specific, so simply asking users to set their browser to accept or reject all cookies (regardless of purpose) is not compliant.

On the other hand, if browsers get their act together and standardize a consent API with the necessary features, then browser-based consent management would surely be compliant. GDPR and ePrivacy don't address this explicitly, though GDPR Recital 32 considers consent by “choosing technical settings for information society services”.

Centralising consent in browsers is a key consideration in the proposal for an updated ePrivacy Regulation, but the EU is not going to mandate specific technologies. Everyone is well aware of the mess that is the Do-Not-Track header.
It's definitely something we're keeping our eye on. The challenge with that is that because Threadripper is so new, it's only just now beginning to be supported on server motherboards. In a few years we're hoping that there'll be enough competition in the AMD Ryzen motherboard market that we can get comparable pricing to what we're getting now for cheap Intel boards.
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"The UK and the US". It's in the title.

As I said, "around the world" they were already taking countermeasures.
I agree, but I think it's overrated as wisdom as it's circular reasoning. Of course doing anything too early is bad, because it is by definition.
Traditional Hubspot marketing trap. Spam you later, guaranteed.
I work for a German company. They run their own DC (unfortunately, I'm not privy to precise numbers I could share, but we must be in the 1000s of hardware servers).

Why? Because our (German) clients don't thrust US cloud providers.
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The book "How to Read a Book" comes up here occasionally, and this is (I think) the second level of their 4-level system, after examining the table of contents and end matter.
I did not know that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has a special, "contributed" publications track which allows authors to choose who will review their papers, available only to members. The linked Nature article has an interesting overview of the 13 "power users" of this track: https://www.nature.com/news/scientific-publishing-the-inside...
From my understanding it is reproducible, although the hashes might be different they'll still be linked in the same way. Give someone your nix.conf and they will be able to build your machine. You reference things by variable name anyway.
Can you recommend dedicated hosting provider that:
1. Has US, EU and Asia regions.
2. Let you rent servers per month.
3. Has decent pricing. Not premium, doesn't have to be low cost. I expect excellent egress pricing and 1/2-1/4 cost for CPU compared to the cloud.
4. Reliable network. GCP premium network is very good. How does dedicated providers and VPS providers (Linode and DO) compare?
5. Easy to use management and dashboard. Experienced really bad dashboards and hard to use Java tools to install and manage dedicated servers.
> IMHO if you ow your software stack, you can use the cloud to rationalize your spending (for instance, Netflix changed their default codec some weeks ago which made them save a lot of monet in egress bandwith)... but nobody can do this.

Netflix's content serving is done from physical hardware they own and place in datacentres. I don't understand your point.
I had/have a key one. Real pity they just didn't pull it off.

I'd could have come close to being perfect. Some minor tweaks to the android UI made it very usable. Unfortunately it was pretty slow (on the upside had incredible battery life)
the crash was due to corrupted input data

Bad data shouldn't cause a crash. That's just sloppy.
Not just you. Also annoyed at their pricing model; I bought the original book, 3 months later it was out of date and "buy our updated copy" was their answer. I got no use out of it.
Is anyone still using bower?

Also webpacker for rails is somehow both insanely complex and alright to use.
I normally do not comment here, but I feel like I have to say this. My mom also was beating the crap out of me for most of my childhood and when my sister killed herself, I blamed my mom for it. But after living with all this hate and anger in my life for years, I started to realize that I can only truly be in peace if I learn to let go of these feelings. It definitely wasn't easy and I still find it very hard to trust her from time to time, but recently I hugged her for the first time in many years and to my surprise that actually felt good.

I helped me a lot to imagine how she grew up and how she must have felt to be pushed to such extreme measures. I don't say it's easy and I don't say you have to forgive your mother or anything like that. I just wanted to share that trying to forgive my mother actually made me feel better in the long run.

I hope you will be able to sort this out some day. I wish you all the best.
Implementations I’ve seen use a gray I-frame to bootstrap the stream, then the p-frames will completely replace it after a complete N frame cycle (typically N is 5)

The frames are divided into slices where one strip of the frame contains complete blocks, but the rest is motion predicted.
Well yes, using symmetry to reduce the amount of computation is a common trick.

For instance, programmers of reciprocal space density-functional codes are certainly familiar with symmetry groups and (ir)reducible k-point grids etc.
I successfully use Staticman for around three years now. It works really well.

I wrote a short post how to set it up on heroku to avoid GitHub quotas problem: https://muffinman.io/running-staticman-on-heroku/
I don’t know Visual Studio Codespaces.

Something I don’t yet understand about GitHub Codespaces is: can you execute a Dockerfile from it? Can you execute multiple ones? Can you execute docker-compose configurations?

Is it just an editor, or can it also spin an AWS (or Azure?) instance of the code you are writing?

I have seen people mention they can code from an iPad; but that’s not a complete workstation replacement unless it is easy to run your code.
Doctor Yueh put an object on the table between them - black, oblong, no larger than the end of Paul's thumb.

"It is a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers. Not a filmbook, but actually printed on filament paper. It has its own magnifier and electrostatic charge system." He picked it up, demonstrated. "The book is held closed by the charge, which forces against spring-locked covers. You press the edge - thus, and the pages you've selected repel each other and the book opens."
You realize the linked article IS a cookie consent wall, right?
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I wrote a paper with co-authors asking for open source code in science (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10836) but this GitHub issue is stupid. Calling for retraction because you don't like the code smell is dumb. Work on the code and see what its flaws are before asking for retraction.

Yes, I wish the original, apparently C code, had been released but let's fix the bugs in the code.
Absolutely, and as I said, I support the mindset.

I just object to this line in your comment: To briefly sum up the findings
Uhhb

It's contrived because there's still nothing formal to indicate that there exists classes of problems for which a quantum computer is efficient and a deterministic computer is not... kind of a central result.

However it is suspected.
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The more successful CEOs and founders I work with, the less I envy them
I tried selling my shares of Unbabel. Here's why
Possibly "grandstanding".
>> And at some point, companies are allowed to make their own decisions about how they want to instrument and monetize their products.

No, they are only allowed to monetize according to laws and regulations. There is nothing magic about software making it right to disregard laws or not having respect for customers. It feels like some think software should be where to world was at the start of the industrial revolution, where companies could do what they wanted and there was no laws stopping them from dumping acid in the river.

Edit: fixed spelling
Snyk is focused on dependency scanning and license management. This is static code analysis, more akin to sonarsource.
This is totally possible on CentOS. Up to CentOS 7, yum-cron lets you do this. With CentOS 8, this has been replaced with dnf-automatic, which offers a lot more flexibility on how to configure automatic updates.
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I find myself googling to solve a problem, finding a piece of code and months later when I need to do it again when I have long forgotten it, I repeat the same thing.

Is this common?
I thought process-to-process, Ethernet has still several times larger latency than IB?
13+ years ago the same academic modeler predicted 200 million deaths from a bird flu outbreak that killed 282 people in total.[1]. That's a pretty enormous error-- alarmist publicity-seeking behavior then and now, but the damage was felt more acutely now. If this modeler really wanted a competent simulation it would have been better constructed. That it was not well-constructed is another datapoint indicating how egregious the error was on the part of the goverment in failing to properly vet it.

[1].https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/frederick-forsy...
A deadline is my #1 productivity hack.

Ever start something literally the night before, and you finish at the last minute and realize how MUCH better it would be with another day to work on it?
Heh, I remember learning some German just to understand their lyrics, some years ago.

Funniest one I remember is, in Computerwelt, Flensburg und das BKA / Haben unsere Daten da... where BKA is the federal German police and Flensburg is the city where they held some data about people (or still do, I don't know).
It was never an epidemic in Taiwan, and they never did a shelter in place order nor closed businesses. They simply did contact tracing before it became a problem.
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The timelime doesn't match tho. The article is dated 19/03 and mentions a study released the previous week (so 12/03 or late). The italian lockdown started on the 22/02 [0] for a few towns, and a couple of weeks later was extended to the entire peninsula.

[0] https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/25/towns-italy-lockdown-coronavi...
If a simple link to another page requires component orchestration and reactive state management I'd say it is a bit over-engineered.
Hey there, I struggled with the exact same thing as you when it comes to art. I started teaching myself to draw around a year ago. I made my way through the well known books, 'Drawing on the right side of the brain' and the Andrew Loomis books on faces and figures.

The main thing that pushed me through, and still motivates me, is that now I know the language and the reasons for the 'wrong' parts in my drawing. Now when I draw a figure I catch myself thinking 'These legs look weird because I didn't pay attention to the calf muscles and now my figure looks completely out of proportion' or 'My initial gesture drawing was rigid and as a result my figure looks static, with none of the weight being balanced'. For me I can see myself get better, but a lot of the 'Ah-ha!' moments actually come from realising where I've gone wrong and what I need to look at next to make sure I can do better next time.

As an aside, a huge bonus with this sort of thinking is an renewed interest and appreciation for artists you like, I catch myself looking at the work of guys like Charles Dana Gibson and marvelling at their control over light and shadow, or the expressions they're able to conjure with a few lines. It's an intensely rewarding experience. I'd really recommend grabbing a pencil and just going for it.
You should avoid using Imgur. Their links don't work on mobile correctly. It crashes my browser.
"Say yes more" - from reading the book "Yes man" by Danny Wallace. It's a light and not-too-serious read, but I was much influenced by that central message.

It got me outside of my comfort zone and the resulting experiences changed my life in lots of positive ways.
There's a better fit than "intuitive"

Vim is extremely intuitive in its compositional behavior; I have never used "67w", but I know exactly what it would do because of composition.

I think "discoverability" is closer.