skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely not a charitable view of systems biology, i admit. I furiously agree that understanding living things requires including many molecules, feedback loops, multiple scales, all that stuff (and people always forget to include physical forces!).

What i'm so far unconvinced of is that formal modelling of that is more useful than just thinking about it in the usual way. The acid test of a formal model, for me, is the ability to make insights or reliable predictions that are useful, and that couldn't be done without the formal model. Do models actually do that?

That fly wing paper is nice - i remember reading that von Dassow et al paper from 2000 when i was an undergraduate! It's a really satisfying read (for me, a skim read right now, i confess). But what does it tell us about the fly's wing that we didn't know already? Don't mistake knowledge of the model for knowledge of the thing. The bit about steady states doesn't really seem physiologically relevant to anything.

At some point i should add a disclaimer that i got out of cell biology over a decade ago, and was only ever a bench scientist. These are strictly the opinions of an ill-informed amateur,

What this reminds me of more than anything is category theory. Category theory is a set of formal tools for modelling all sorts of things that are interesting to programmers and computer scientists (and beyond!), and when you make those models, they have an enormous intuitive appeal - you look at the model and think yes, that is the essence of what this thing is! The models kick you right in the brain in the same way that those boolean network models do. You can push arrows around and make the models recapitulate the behaviour of the real thing. But that's as far as it goes - the models describe, but in practice, they don't explain or predict in any useful way.

But perhaps your point about productivity depending on perspective is the key. We haven't traditionally had models like these in biology. So perhaps it's just that we don't recognize them as knowledge, because they don't look like the kind of knowledge we had before? I don't know. I'm even more out of practice at metaphysics than cell biology.
> article said possible downloaded "booby-trapped files"

They gave that as a general example, not for this attack specifically. The article doesn't rule out an attack originating from outside the network (ie: phishing).
If your after specific tools in a workflow...

- the :normal command in Vim and Evil.
- learning to use tags to navigate code.

But more generally learning how to take something seemingly complex like Linux or Git and then delve in and read the code and understand how it actually works. Learning to read good technical books and manuals and understand how something was designed and how it was designed to be used.

Colleagues think I work magic; in reality I'm just as thick as they are, I just RTFM.
Seems unlikely they were mentioned in the paper in this depth without being made even casually aware that this paper would be published.

Which means they just went ahead with it anyway.
Making a performance-focused blog from Notion and GitHub Pages
Lua is indeed difficult to beat in this respect. If you need performance you can even embedd LuaJIT with a footprint still far under one megabyte. And if you don't like the Lua syntax, there are already good alternatives,e.g. the statically/strongly typed https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon which directly generates LuaJIT bytecode (based on https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools). Here is a fairly complete list of languages compiling to Lua: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages. Gravity could be one of these if need be.
Funny timing. Just got off my first Google Meet call an hour ago and was thinking they need to add noise cancellation. It was awful.
Wow, really cool to see that it’s possible to get developer beta builds of Snow Leopard working on PPC; thanks for linking the thread!
Capacity factor for wind is about 20%, for solar about 12.5%, for nuclear 90%. So let me restate it for you:

The UK's combined annual wind (40TWh) and solar (14TWh) generation capacity is still less than 3/4 of nuclear (72TWh).

Capacity factor aside, unreliability aside, seasonal variation aside, real word aside... you can argue literally anything.
The great unification continues between iOS and Mac!
Seconding Jetbrains products. They’re not the lightest weight text editors and have something of a learning curve. However, they have done a lot to improve my productivity
> I wonder if it comes from having a windows mindset and the way windows screams at you about unauthorized software and forces you to use an administrator password for random arbitrary things while saying it's for your protection.

As a novice Linux user, that was exactly my mindset and reasoning.
Even can run vim locally and edit a remote file via scp.

vim scp://user@example.org//path/to/file

(Basically edits a local copy and pushes saves as scp uploads)

I've found this very useful in combination with a decent ssh config file.
With μMatrix set to block everything but original HTML and Firefox's Reader mode it appears that I get the entire text.
I reread, can see that now. I think the commentor was speaking to a conversation that had shifted. I’ll leave my comment but also vote them up - theirs was a fair point.
Caprover doesn't do zero-downtime deployment currently fyi
I used to work on MBPs and then switched last year to a Thinkpad X1E running Mint and I couldn’t be happier. Do make sure though to search for potential problems for the specific Thinkpad model that you pick. (And spare a few dollars to support Mint development if you choose it and can afford it!)
An app for coronavirus to get directions to its next host?
But such a closure block is a function (it might be sugared like a ruby block or something like that, but it remains a function that captures its environment, thus implementing lexical scoping).

Well, okay, if a language does not normally have lexical scoping, but has a special "closure" feature to implement it (dunno, maybe C++ lambdas may be regarded as such a special closure construct?) That could be a justification for the term closure on its own. But if the language has lexical scoping by default (e.g. Gravity says that it has lexical scoping in its overview), then, I think, there is no need in a separate notion of "closure" in the language semantics.
YouTube-dl Android wrapper library
> The thing that nobody talks about is that lifting provides evidence of change and improvement in the form of muscle development. Once you realize you can change your body, you start seeking out other areas of your life.

Related, you can't really "cheat" per se. Either you can lift more, or you can't. You can either run further or faster or you can't. I'm a solid proponent of self-esteem being driven by personal views of yourself and things you have accomplished (distinct from someone telling you you are good, you know you are good because you did something). When you hit the new personal best on an amount lifted, there is real achievement.
sudo does what it is supposed to do - run commands as a specific user. Without entering password every time you run a command (because of caching). Depending on parameters it will also evaluate some parameters for that user.

If you don't have particular use for it, just don't use it.
Docker. Being able to develop/ deploy code across a team and business is invaluable.
The Externalized Costs of Crewed Space Exploration
What’s a car-kit? Just googled but didn’t find anything relevant
A good functioning Desktop experience for Linux is impossible.

- It requires a massive centralized investment. Microsoft/Apple/Google can do that. But Linux is run by amateurs (not talking about skills but rather guys who are not on a payroll).

- Linux is for people who have rather weird setups. Apple uses limited hardware (ie: You have few Macbook Pros, etc...). Windows is supported by manufactures because it is the standard of Desktop computing for most of the world (and still can be a mess). Linux, on the other hand, has to do all that work alone.

- Linux professional and profitable market is still in servers/deployment where you don't need a desktop space.
Doesn't the overhead view look like it's all in a 3d model basically?
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Zodiac by Neal Stephenson on audiobook about a dozen times.
hahaha...that's my 'secret'

recently I've been paralyzed by the amount of development in ML/DL/RL. Often I have to step back and remind myself to focus on the fundamentals.
What kind of vehicles do you use to move the lumber from the farm to market, how are the pellet factories powered, and what kind of vehicles are used to move the bulk pellets from US to UK ports?
Everything in this article is wrong. The moment you question any of it, it becomes obvious it’s nonsense. In America at least, elite university’s are private so they don’t cost society. And even in state institutions, the amount that state(s) contribute has been falling rapidly. The USA has a private system run according to the whims of donors. You might think it “should” be a meritocracy as part of a wider fair society. I might even agree. But that’s not what it is. Complaining it’s bad at that when that isn’t what it’s for is... not even wrong.

And that’s before we get to the thrust of the article...

Pfft.
Grubhub
> There is a lot of debate over the definition of intelligence but one thing most definitions have in common is that it is general. A human being can play the piano, solve an integral, write a novel, compose a photograph, and many many more things.

There is a nice paper on this topic.

On the Measure of Intelligence - François Chollet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

I believe generality in human intelligence is overrated. We can't do large multiplication in our heads, we can't solve the Salesman problem in our heads, and many other things we can't do because our intelligence is not in fact general. It has a set of skills and can combine them in many ways.
I don’t really understand what that gives the attacker.

Login to the developer’s machine as in? What if they disabled SSH password auth?

I mean, if you already made them run a random script why would you even care about their password?
I love the quoted UI! Can't wait for the Firefox extension, if you need help, I'm happy to pitch in!
Don't forget Echelon revelations about the US spying on European companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON. Of course European companies, esp France have done the same.
Thanks, I’ll give that a whirl too...
How to Protect Your Vote
Have you noticed any problems with cpu throttling or hibernation? This is what I'm most afraid about switching to openbsd on my laptop (Dell precision).
If you like this kind of phrasing, try some German. German is English that is not molested by the French of the Normans, and one of the results of this is that the language is more consistent. (This is not exactly correct, but it’s a more humane way of saying German and English share some roots in Proto Indo-European.) That allows for a wide variety of phrasings or ‘turns of the word’ that are all dead in English since Norman words do not carry inflections German words do about their location in a sentence, which gives German its flexibility to jumble almost any combination of words into a valid sentence. As a mitigation, English instead calcified a few ways to structure a sentence and called it a day - one of the things that make it easier to learn, but also much more boring.

Here is a free course that only focuses on reading German, I found it quite fun to play with. https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/
What do you mean by car-kits?
I wish Tinder came with the ability to beam me up.
So, you send someone a script... And they just run it?

If they do, then it doesn't matter if it uses/fakes sudo, or not. They have some bigger problems.
Thanks for this - its been many years since I've done anything touching assembly, and never outside of an academic context, so when I read conversations like this I'm always curious for concrete examples of how people are actually _using_ this stuff beyond something vague like interacting with VT-x or working on an experimental OS.
First thought I had is, it is so beautiful, the lighting was perfect. I didn't expect the details of texture, glyphs and color from few thousand year old tomb. Pharaoh himself would be surprised to see his tomb like this.
> Political discussions have always, and particularly so today, essentially consisted of ripping off bits of dogma and throwing at each other.

Despite that I have actually learned stuff here from people that I originally disagreed deeply with.

(Oh, and I am also fairly sure certain people have/could learned/learn something from me, but thats up to them to seize the opportunity. d:-)

> I am often inclined to flag political threads here if they get egregiously bad.

I wish they were better but often I wish people could stick to flagging bad behavior instead of the entire thread.

That said, I am not here to challenge moderator decisions. Even with showdead on this place is fantastic compared to certain places I find it easy to compare with.
Illustrations of black people for your next digital project
Have heard praises about OCaml, but never tried myself.

Good luck!
"I think the best approach to this problem is a single-SQL-flavor query builder that attempts to match SQL as closely as possibly while adding in the niceties of being able to pass in JavaScript objects instead of raw SQL strings. Lets be honest: raw SQL-in-JS is no fun."

You essentially describe Elixir's Ecto, which has been lovely to work with. You may want to check it out.
Not only that, but even when running RTX Voice on a GTX, the amount of GPU horsepower used is miniscule; it hardly even registers. The fans on my GTX 9-series GPU don't turn on when running RTX Voice.
>binary-only drivers

If by this you're referring to their promises of a stable driver ABI, I can't understand what problem this is supposed to solve compared to Linux. There are plenty of binary drivers already shipped on Linux. IOT device vendors don't care about a stable ABI because they just pin to their kernel version. Android device vendors don't care because either way they will stop updating their kernels after a number of years. Enterprise users don't care because they also pin to a kernel version and backport what fixes they want.

It also does not seem to solve any problem for Google because they still have to make the same stability/support promises and deal with the same accumulation of legacy code either way. Yes, this is necessary to stop fragmentation but the problem is nothing really changes here compared to what they would do if they were going to take on the cost of backporting Linux kernel fixes. The only realistic cost saving for them I could see is if the greater stability came from reducing the total amount of hardware that is supported compared to Linux. Which makes sense for them but at the same time completely eliminates the possibility of them ever seriously touting this as a Linux replacement.
I think randomness matters. If it was not random, but heavily skewed towards more symptomatic cases it might have been showing more people having antibodies because heavier symptoms could correlate with strength of immune response and more antibodies.
Great path, a few hundred lines of code, less if you can use the ia python library.
> This is to be expected, but we're talking about an 8 gigabyte GPU, and the framebuffer sizes should be a tiny drop in the bucket.

It depends on how many high dpi bitmaps at full depth are kept. Uncompressed HDR 4K gets large pretty quickly.

And then it's not one bitmap, but multiple layers - backgrounds, rendered text...
A Collection of all Keyboard Shortcuts I use
I can't get fuchsia to work anymore on my Acer device. It used to work just 10 days ago, hopefully gonna fixed soon :) - https://ci.chromium.org/p/fuchsia/builders/global.ci/worksta...?

(e.g. I'm compiling for --release workstation.x64 --with-base ... the kitchen-sink)
Yeah, good shout about Endless! Had the pleasure of playing with a pre-release of their desktop version and it’s very cool.

Must dive more into NanoStudio! Used it a bit when I got it then forgot all about it, lol
Indeed. Japan is actually thinning its forests because its forests are largely monocultures that are so thickly grown that no sunlight reaches the forest floor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4gRGPbTqE

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/17/science/japan-s-cedar-for...
Can you spot the type of this obfuscated file?
To each their own, but I suspect that some of those leaving may discover that the cultural and culinary options of, say, Lake Tahoe don't really measure up to San Francisco.

As for Reno, I've never hear there, but I hear that the primary source of entertainment there is to shoot a man just to watch them die…
100%.. for all the crap Docker gets these days, it has been a great tool for my software dev processes.
What color scheme helps with looking at my spouse? Ba dum tss!
That so many OS developers are working on Fuchsia and other kernels suggests that the Linux community hasn't been very successful with inclusion and handling disagreement and infighting.
> Disclaimer: I have never studied Middle English. This is just stuff I've picked up on my own. Any factual claims in this article might be 100% wrong. Nevertheless I have pretty good success reading Middle English, and this is how I do it.

lmao programmers are so arrogant holy shit
The NYC zoning law you're referencing was replaced in the 60s with a different zoning law which emphasized plazas. Current NYC skyscrapers are more affected by laws around air rights and void spaces.
That looks really neat, thanks for sharing!
Wow this looks really impressive.
Seems like it's the author of another mysql to rest api [1].
The name is a bit clunky though, but that's the best worst problem to have.

[1] https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql
ARM has already saved Apple – twice
Endlesss – Lightning-fast collaborative music-making app
Your point certainly stands, a lot of privilege escalation occurs because of sudo configurations like that. The idea that fine-grained access control necessarily implies that you're using something like Ansible or Jenkins for everything isn't necessarily true though, there are plenty of reasons why you wouldn't want to use those packages specifically, or if it's just an old-school timeshared computer. Sudo regulates those other utilities, and not the other way around. Even if using something like Ansible sudo is great because of the logging that it provides. Sudo works as a standard way to regulate admin (or other group) access, whether automated or not. That's why Ansible uses sudo as the become_method by default.
Apple won’t allow iPhones to downgrade from iOS 13.5.1 to iOS 13.5
you can use the syntax `a[[i, j, k]]` too, just for another example.
Might also be interesting targeting ARM SERVERS. E.g run ARM containers natively.
I'm using Ubuntu on a ThinkPad x230. Works flawlessly for years.
What a great project! I think it's wonderfully simple, and still very useful.

One bug: pasting into the list doesn't seem to trigger the auto suggest menu until after a 2nd keystroke. So to add a director, I have to paste, and then hit the delete key, and then finally click their name.
Interesting! I built something really similar last month, though less polished: https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/

In my case, I let people create groups ("tables") on the fly and hop between them at will, rather than forced mixing. There's a list along the side that shows which people are at each group. Groups with fewer people sort to the top, to encourage people to join those.

I built on top of Jitsi and the meet.jit.si public servers for video chat. The quality hasn't been as good as something like Zoom, but I love how easy it is to embed and customize!
As a young teen in the early 80s I read about a project that used an FM radio, a printer, and a bit of code to detect meteoroids. When the meteoroid became a meteor it gave off a frequency in the FM range.

I liked programming but wasn't good at it and didn't understand what I needed. I wasn't sure if my Atari 600XL was suitable for the project but I do believe the code was BASIC which the 600XL could run. And I didn't have a printer which at the time was like owning a unicorn.
> No one ever says how big [DuckDuckBot] is

One complicating matter is that it specializes in DDG's "Instant Answers"; apparently¹ the "source from other search engines" approach really only applies to the traditional results list, while DuckDuckBot is focused specifically on the Instant Answers, effectively optimizing for the absolute most relevant first result possible. So in its current state DuckDuckBot ain't exactly comparable in purpose.

Still, I don't see much that'd be stopping DDG from ramping this up and having it generate the traditional list of results, too. Yeah, obviously the results for quite a few queries will be far from ideal, but if the query already hits one of DDG's curated data sources, I suspect the results might already be better if anything.

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¹: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
There was TLS-N[0][1], which did something like this and emerged for blockchain use cases and worked with only minor tweaks for the website provider IIRC. Sadly that looks pretty much defunct now.

[0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/578.pdf

[1]: https://github.com/tls-n
Thank you :) I mostly need help for improving the design.
You're fighting against a strong current. Mass video surveillance is inevitable and people are welcoming it with open arms. I highly doubt that lawmakers will legislate that people cannot record video of another persons property as a side effect of trying to record their own. At best they may start offering features that blurs out video beyond your property lines (technically possible, but difficult and would require some setup beforehand), however part of the selling point of the doorbell cameras for example is they're catching crimes on other people's property as well as your own.
https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/public-n...
No, not even close. The problem space is still mostly unsolved.
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Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again
Strings can be parsed. The rust compiler parses format strings, for example.
Took me a while to figure out what it is:

"While the first release(s) of Haiku will be very much like the BeOS R5, the operating system it is reimplementing ..."
"English started out as German."

Can we not do better than this? This is factually incorrect. I'm sure the author knows better, and just thought readers weren't "smart" enough to be able to understand "English is part of the Germanic language family" or "German and English are related", but instead this is just ... no... I don't think I'm being pedantic by complaining about this... But this is like saying that "Spanish started out as French" or "Romanian started out as Italian"

German refers to the language descended from Old High Franconian. English is descendended from the Anglo-Saxon dialects, the languages of peoples who invaded Britain from the western coast of what is now Denmark and the northeast coast of what is now the Netherlands. And then modified with a whole bunch of old Norse influence from Danish and Norwegian invaders. And then with a whole bunch of Old Norman French influence... etc.

If you look for a _modern_ Germanic language that English is most closely related to it would be the low Germanic languages, low Saxon, Frisian, even Dutch more so than German proper. Low and high refers to altitude -- not class or prestige or anything -- the "high" German languages are those that underwent a softening/changing sound shift which came out of the highlands in southern Germany. English, like Dutch, never underwent that sound shift. Hence we say "School" with a "k" for the sch instead of a soft "sch" like in German.