skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if DNA itself can't, it seems possible that with advanced enough technology there might be hope of recovery of something other than DNA that could be used to figure out what the DNA was.

Imagine for example a machine that takes off 1 layer of atoms at a time, painstakingly charting them, and then another layer of software that figures out probabilistically whether the arrangement of atoms means that a decayed strand of DNA was here... and then probabilistically adds together the the billions of decayed shreds of DNA.

Maybe the relative positions of the base pairs are still probabilistically informative despite decaying and many of them breaking apart. I don't know. But it seems like there's a plausible way to try to extract data from fossilized DNA.
IBM is notorious for both offshoring jobs to places like India and also heavily abusing the H1B visa, both themselves and through body-shops like Wipro and Infosys. They have more employees in India than in the US.

IBM once told its laid off US employees that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they should move to India and take the prevailing wage there:

"It's more of a vehicle for people who want to expand their life experience by working somewhere else..."

This is when their CEO made $20M last year.

I think any company that is currently laying off US employees should immediately have all their H1B, L1, etc. visas revoked and use banned for the next decade. This would be trivial to implement, especially in states like California where the company is required to notify the state before layoffs.

I also have absolutely no faith that Redhat won't turn into a shell of itself eventually - all the US and EU R&D moved to India, replaced by sales and lawyers using Oracle's business model.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html

* https://www.businessinsider.com/2009/2/ibm-to-north-american...
From what I heard, feature films regularly spend $1 mio+ on renting CPU power alone.

And yes, while caches won't help for jumping around in memory, rendering is heavily optimized to not jump around. It's the same for AI convolution.

While the inner loop might not fit into a 128 MB cache, it would fit into 512 MB cache. That would cause the memory bandwidth to raise from ~20 GB/s to ~500 GB/s. So if memory bandwidth is the limiting factor - and it is for many convolution and rendering workloads - then a 10x speed-up is possible.

Oh and the development tools I'm referring to is V-Tune & Amplify, i.e. the Intel tools to make sure your loop is using all the tricks to avoid pipeline stalls so that RAM bandwidth becomes the limiting factor.
Do I read that they just found that zinc + hydroxychloroquine was better than just hydroxychloroquine?

That's great but that doesn't exactly tell us that hydroxychloroquine + zinc is better than other therapies or even better than nothing.

The clinical trial is regarding the efficacy as a prophylaxis for a small portion of the population that is most directly exposed. It would be great if it works but it will likely not be as useful as a treatment as we can't necessarily give our whole population a years worth without seeing other health consequences.
0 content article, but at least the actual publishing is listed as https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16265-x

'Internet' in the verge's title is misleading, the actual transmission happened through 75km of fiber optics.
Mu.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goya-Goya-Nectar-9-6-oz/142388990
What? No. A reef knot will never pull apart under tension and allows you to have a flat knot with a loop. Its also way easier to tie and you could make multiple passes if you want.
Well yes, but surely Google showing the wrong information is not helping. I can understand if the argument is that Google is trying to show what the user intended, and they had correctly surmised that the user is wrong. They do a good job of this with misspellings. Perhaps they ought to do something similar in this case too?

[user Googles ‘London bridge’]

Google: Showing results for Tower Bridge (click here to instead only show results for London Bridge).
Not sure anyone will see this since the post is rather old now and off the front page, but just to add my two cents:

I was made an offer for L5 at Amazon earlier this year. For compensation, it's like you suggested: the offer is structured such that the first two years weigh more heavily toward cash (a separate signing bonus for each of the first two years, which IMO was pretty good and _does not_ need to be paid back, it's just combined with your normal bi-weekly paychecks) and then the latter two years are where you get the majority of your RSU rewards, which wind up being worth the same or more than the cash bonuses of the first two years (assuming I suppose that the stock price continues to be stable and/or increase from what it was at time of signing).

A note about the signing bonuses, the offer letter details basically do not say anything about needing to pay them back for leaving early. If your employment is terminated (by yourself or Amazon itself), then you just end with the prorated portion for the current pay cycle and that's it, you don't get any more of it (fairly obvious anyway if you leave a place).
Right but will the States actually let this happen? If there are food riots, it’s the locals who suffer.

Will Florida really wait for the federal government when Jacksonville is full of rioters, or will they setup food banks far in advance of that situation?

I predict the later. Especially since States can do debt financing for their operations.
The thing that is really missing in gitlab CI is the impossibility to define a matrix for builds.

We have to do the same actions on different environments and it is very troublesome.
No, even "cp -c" creates a new inode.
I'd take what Roubini says with a grain of salt. Economists have predicted 10 of the last 7 recessions, and a broken clock is right twice daily.

In recent history, he was a bit late to the coronavirus party, not really being on-board until late February. Preppers were all over it in January.
Hey, thanks for posting this. :)
> iOS + macOS is still much better than anything on the market (no alternatives really).

The Windows + Linux combo is way better for all productivity, gaming and development than the mess macOS has become since Jobs passed away.
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As a conservative, I have to say I was impressed by this article -- it didn't seem left-wing wacky as I expected Mother Jones to be.

Nevertheless, the key consideration should be: What do parents want? There are various reasons for wanting to place one's child in a single sex school, and those reasons should be respected.
Well, Debian does use systemd by default now unless you want to go through some hoops to remove it (which I believe is still possible but not sure).

I personally have really no issues with systemd and now even go as far as completely removing the ifupdown, isc-dhcp-client, resolvconf and ntpd packages in favor of having my entire network stack configured by systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved and systemd-timesyncd instead.

It's pretty much a standard now across the board and I can't really find any arguments against it besides old habits so I've embraced it. Although it's obviously a bit opinionated, there is a good deal of functionality and flexibility on that thing.
HCQ is given to millions in USA alone, since 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
Yes, and they will come out, this sounds more like an inside info leak
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Not necessarily. Some discussions[1] of potential mechanism focuses on hydroxychloroquine working as an ionophore to drive zinc into cells - so this potentially only works when given in conjunction with zinc. There are a few studies that suggest it is effective used that way. Whether those results hold up over time is an open question.

[1] (video) https://fast.wistia.net/embed/medias/td0v8taipc
Let me clarify: Unity gives you high-level APIs for things like graphics, audio, input, networking, that work across all supported platforms automatically. There may be some platform-specific quirks, but roughly speaking, you can just click "build for X" and get a working X build. There's a huge gap between compilation and that.
Not sure, but if you post that question to the TimescaleDB Slack [0] you might get an answer there.

[0] https://slack.timescale.com/
Big difference between a clearly very drunk person who's likely to cause issues and someone who simply isn't wearing a suit trying to buy a car.
I agree: use Jetbrains Toolbox.

A few months ago I installed Rider (an IntelliJ-based IDE) on my Mac without toolbox, and upgrading it was a pain. I don't remember the details, but using JetBrains toolbox makes upgrading as simple as clicking a button and waiting until the download / install is complete.
Nimble Commmader (https://github.com/mikekazakov/nimble-commander) is the real deal for dual panel managers fanboys with macs.
Mice don't have boundaries, trackpads do. The most awkward thing on a trackpad is initiating a drag and hitting an edge.

I think mousepads are mostly an artifact of pre optical & laser mice, if someone uses one today it's either because they have a glass desktop or they want wrist support.
This seems to be, once again, a case of user experience being degraded due to lack of attention, testing and measurement of impact by security engineers.
Oh, I absolutely agree. But I can see how that might have come in as a first-assumption that was never revised. Which, if you think about it, is probably a huge class of bugs industry-wide.
One frustrating experience on the Mac is keyboard shortcuts.

Yes, they have polished the GUI, which makes it easy to navigate by mouse. But, when you need to work in speed mode, then you reach for the keyboard shortcuts.

The problem, is that there are plenty, too much sometimes, and they are often inconsistent between applications.

And yes, the Mac has a keyboard shortcut assignment tool, but it often doesn’t work correctly.

I must give credit to Microsoft here. They at least seemed to have perfected most of the common keyboard shortcuts.

Some good features about Windows shortcuts.

1. Alt-Spacebar to open the windows control menu, to move, minimize, maximize, or close the window.

2. Alt combinations are used to control the active Window application itself.

3. Alt-F4 to close the window. But, I would have preferred Alt-Escape instead, to close the window.

4. Control key for shortcuts inside the application. Like, Ctrl-C for copy. O for open. P for print. Etc.

5. Then the Windows key, to control Operating System level shortcuts. Like Win-M to minimize all windows. Win-L to lock the computer. Win-R to launch a command.

Some feature I would like are to use, Win-Spacebar to open a command search, similar to Win-R, but with the ability to list all possible commands. Similar to activating the command palette on VSCode.

And Ctrl-Spacebar, to activate keyboard commands for the active window. Kinda like Emacs, where I can run macros on it, like highlighting the words that I want, and execute something on it, like changing to uppercase, or converting to comma separated, or whatever else is needed.
But if they're fossilized, those broken bonds would still be roughly in the same locations, right? So not useful for sequencing, but maybe the information can still be recovered by some future not-yet-possible means.
I admire the `except the cloud providers`. What GCP, Azure and AWS have done with paid Redis offerings make me curious what @antirez (Salvator) thinks about it. They're making billions off Redis while the core contributors get nothing. I guess they agreed to it by having their work as BSD licence.

I do think there is a place for royalty based software. Free for personal and development use. For production use, you pay a small royalty to have it on the cloud. It's a win win on both sides. User gets managed offering + support + ability to look at source code, db/service authors get sustainable revenue, cloud providers get their usual PaaS cut.
This is very helpful and would take away so much of pain.
Not a terrible idea, but keep in mind that those pools are probably small for a reason. For starters, there may also be very little demand for the skills.

Certainly don't neglect your general skills while you're focusing. And if at all possible, get someone to pay you to acquire specialized skills.
> My one remaining serious annoyance is that my external monitor color settings are screwed up

Could it have something to do with Night Shift? Have you tried enabling and disabling it and see if it fixes that?
It’s probably too early to draw conclusions. Many doctors seem to think it is the best treatment available:
http://nypost.com/2020/04/02/hydroxychloroquine-most-effecti...

I think people should resist politicizing this because they are for our against Trump. It is normal for both medicine and the scientific process in general to have a multitude of voices with diverse opinions.
As we would with any drug, we'd start with a small group and scale it to more as it was determined to be safe.
Wow, that's wild, almost like Black Swan wild. I was so predisposed to assume fossils are solid stone that I missed that. Still, living things are mostly water, and I doubt the mummified 2500 pounds is mostly water. Another response to my question suggests that just the outer shell is stone in the inside is empty. In that case, the mass is coming from the stone shell, and is not very analogous to the living animal's mass, which still makes the phrasing in the article a bit dubious.

Perhaps though it contains some original carbon that can be used to do some very old radiocarbon dating, which could improve geological strata based dating of other fossil finds.
wow, ok. I never said that zinc and HCQ works or should be taken by anyone. I wouldn’t risk it myself. I also never said anything about the technical soundness of the journal. I was simply saying the HCQ+zinc was the treatment that first gained anecdotal notoriety. It doesn’t take a medical professional tp understand that in order for an experiment to be useful it should test the exact actual treatment that had anecdotal success.
I've gone full circle. Went from desktop linux (mostly Arch) to OSX ~7 or so years ago, and now due to a combination of frustration with the butterfly keyboards and then a slew of issues with macOS itself, I'm back to linux desktop for my dev machine.

From my perspective as a quote-unquote power user, it feels like Apple just constantly insists on shooting themselves in the foot with unnecessary and ill conceived innovations. Either way, I'm happy with my new setup and probably won't go back to macbooks anytime soon.
Well of course not but if you're an enthusiast you'll probably spend more for one that grinds, too. Or not use a machine, so the whole issue of brew-by-wire is moot. Point is this is a pretty common feature even on cheap machines, with no Internet connectivity required, and the effort required to use it is about the same.
Sorry, when I said "changing the filename to test2.sh", I meant in the commands run, not `mv test.sh test2.sh`. i.e. I have both `test.sh` and `test2.sh` in `/tmp` now.
Because there is excellent tooling for C++, while they had to reinvent all the tools from scratch for UnrealScript.

I believe that ReSharper C++ alone makes me 10-20% more productive. Their refactorings and inferred constants are amazing and produce real-world performance benefits. Plus having const wherever it is warranted makes code easier to read and easier to debug.
> Search relevance is incredible difficult, especially when there is not enough information provided in the query and there are multiple "correct" answers. Someone is always going to be disappointed.

Sure, but in that case you go with the answer that will be the correct answer for the most users. Which in the example in TFA would almost certainly be London in the United Kingdom, not some other London in Kentucky or Canada or what have you. You'll end up disappointing those users who actually want to know the time in those Londons, but there are going to be a lot fewer of those.
The dual GPU is a pain in the butt since Nvidia still doesn't support Optimus on Linux (and probably never will).
I've never lost a weekend to a Debian dist-upgrade. Just read the release notes carefully beforehand, take a full backup of your data (which you should be doing anyway), make a note of any non-Debian applications you're using on that machine (that's the stuff that will need the most extensive testing post-upgrade) and it should simply work.
> absolute brink

I would agree, but in an election year maybe they won't play it that way. The party in power has more incentive to keep voters mollified than they do in preserving their ideological purity.

> we're also going to be dancing from one stimulus to another without addressing the long term

100% agree. This is the classical American response, we have mastered the art of kicking the can down the road.
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Great advice. For better or worse, being able to talk a good game and schmooze often matters more than technical skill. (Or is a technical skill, if you like.)
I learned how to type on an old PC/AT (old even in 1991) and used a typing tutor program. frf ded sws aqa

But learning to type on the model F keyboard was very useful as I developed great speed. I made extra money in high school typing people's papers. The most important lessons from touch typing courses are: look at what you're typing and don't correct as you go, sit up straight with your shoulders back, don't rest your wrists on the table. When you're dilly-dallying around in powerpoint this stuff doesn't matter, but when you're typing 4000-6000 words per hour, it makes a huge difference.

I eventually moved to using an Apple Extended Keyboard II, which had a lot of great features, and then back to an IBM model M. Now I use a Unicomp model M derivative. How I wish I could have a similar keyboard on a laptop these days.
I suspect this was people thinking “chloroquine is a malaria drug and India has malaria, therefore it’s used in India”. Which sounds vaguely convincing at first glance, but malaria in India has been immune for decades.
Podcast link of article - https://anchor.fm/talking-money-stuff/episodes/A-Vaccine-Wit...
The fan on my laptop is quiet unless I'm doing something very power-intensive like an 8-way parallel compile. It will probably depend on the CPU model you get though.

The speakers and keyboard feel fine to me, but that's very subjective. Speaking of subjective, this feels like the most solidly constructed laptop I've ever used.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk claimed that Tesla self-driving technology will be worth more than $100,000.
One job I got into some fights with marketing and our "design experts" over this because they decided the marketing image of the company was "light and airy" and so they wanted an ultra light font weight everywhere. It was their branding font they wanted for both headers and body text. (The were so focused on ultra-light fonts, to the point where they were even trying to get rid of the option to use strong text in the middle of paragraphs. If Outlook/Word allowed a group policy to disable the Bold button, they'd probably have taken it away. Haha.)

It took a lot of convincing that a software developer would know basic typography enough to know it was a bad idea, much less was I able to convey that it was an accessibility nightmare. I had to use some CSS tricks to get that work done and psychologically "show" that things were still "light and airy" while using reasonable font-weights for body text, and in the end they still didn't entirely believe me about the accessibility issues.
why should i create an account if i have mural ? ( no trolling, just observing the space)
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But wildcats already know they need to suffix that one with a state qualifier.
Toaster art https://art-sheep.com/a-toaster-that-can-print-your-selfie/

specifically toaster porn needs to be networked.

ugh, the future is awful.
> Tamiflu.

Another drug that doesn't work nearly as well as some people think. https://www.bmj.com/tamiflu

> The reviewers concluded that there was no convincing trial evidence that Tamiflu affected influenza complications (in treatment) or influenza infections (in prophylaxis), and raised new questions about the drug’s harms profile.
amznymous here

Don't do it :) Please don't be envious

It didn't produce good code, but to be fair, the project didn't need to have great code, just working code.

It absolutely increased the bug count. Again, in hindsight and with a calmed mind, it's obvious.
not sure if I'm lucky or somehow I disabled something but the trivial script problem isn't affecting me on any of my machines. I am using Homebrew for a large % of command line/scripting so maybe that's why?
It goes both ways. There are studies showing it is a statistically and clinically significant treatment [1]. Whether those results are reproducible or not remains to be seen. Most of these studies you never hear about because many people on the left want Trump to be wrong or have a knee jerk reaction to anything he says. It even has a name: Trump derangement syndrome.

Irrational behavior in both directions is indefensible.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32335560/
x = x + (x < 5)

:D

No If needed.

Atari Basic would allow crazy things like:

10 Goto ((x < 5)*100) + 50

Goes to either line 50 or 150, depending on the comparison result being 1, or 0)

Or...

Goto (100*x)

Faster On goto with no checking, lol.

Bill Gates was not involved with the original Atari Basic. That could be purchased on a cartridge for running MS Basic programs.
Mirror is amazing :) But it's a big shame for Unity that you need to use it in the first place, because they don't ship a working networking stack out of the box.
I'm still on 10.14, but I guess it will show up on Little Snitch. Unless they bundle it with some other more essential traffic.
'Should' isn't a useful thing in this discussion. When thinking about policy there is only behaviour pre-intervention and behaviour post-intervention.

In this case, you'd note that there are certain businesses that don't consider themselves viable at the current value of unemployment benefits if unemployment behaves as it does right now. Then you see if you're okay with losing those businesses and if you are, then so be it, you think it's worth the trade-off. If you're not okay, then you need to tune the intervention, e.g. unemployment is guaranteed for some time even if you become re-employed, or 'unemployment' is guaranteed to all, or you lower the payment, etc.
I agree but it isn’t a general solution. “Allowing conversation” is what Facebook did in 2016, letting people attend fake rallies created by fake Facebook groups disseminating fake facts.
Yeah the cross-platform ease and great VR support is what keeps me there. I've done my own game engines in the past and really enjoyed it, but that was when I was purely focused on PC gaming.
You know what, that is a completely fair assessment and a fantastic take. Edit period has passed, so I'd revise my prior stance to be clearer that my point wasn't advice, but more general motivation/driver assessment. In terms of what benefits society as a whole, I agree with you completely.
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