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> we need to teach students about project management, planning etc.

This is a problem with education in general. Those things should be taught in middle/high school as essential tools for modern life. Same as personal finances, effective strategies for team/group work, overcoming social anxiety, managing stress and building/maintaining relationships (personal and professional).
Wouldn't the legacy codebase be a turn off for this individual?

Plus, no shade intended as I do scientific / academic code professionally, but for historical reasons a lot of scientific code has one goal in mind; be as effing fast as possible, no matter the cost. Often times projects like WRF or BLAST achieve this end to an impressive extent, but there is a reason the most readable code is not always the fastest.

The latency / throughput budget of a project can be divvied up in a lot of different ways. In your mobile app it's likely best to avoid optimization for clarity; so you might overspend in the name of maintenance or easy of extension. That said, if this was the 80s and you were attempting to sequence genes, you are probably thinking "clarity be damned we'll just rewrite it later when computers get fast."

That is what a lot of scientific code looks like. It is written just as the idea is possible, probably a little before it is possible. As a result there are esoteric optimizations everywhere and questionable architectural choices as far as the eye can see, all in the name of "making it actually happen."
To the best of my knowledge, the companies I have worked for has never utilized any spyware as such. Only AV software.
The only one of these that I can find that were before Bliss was the Burroughs effort, which a computer scientist acquaintance said was a universal counter example to how languages were built.

So if this cronology is correct, my statement should have clarified that it was the first (save for the Burroughs example) to have those features.
Best I can recall, it was formed by Nationalists, partly Nazy government that had to flee after like a third Communist uprising when they relised there were more revolting peasants than they had bullets.

Obvious a lot of time has passed, but it's not quite flat earth. It just requires a sence of 'historical justice', however unhelpfull
If you have any examples of what you're talking about, can you send them to me? That sounds like something I'd love to poke at. My email is my username at gmail.
Anecdotal, but my quoted Amazon delivery times here in norcal are now significantly worse than they were in March-June. This was true before everything caught on fire, too.
That's the ticket laddie.
Excellent project. Very well written and executed. Love it.

I've found that I can get excellent consistency in coverage by slicing the banana vertically to get long rectangular slices and then laying the slices side-by-side - generally about 4-5 across.
..and a lot of places absolutely don't.

Let us celebrate the successful ones who do eh.
Part of the problem that Scots faces is that there are actually 3 Scottish languages: Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and Scottish English. Scottish Gaelic is similar to Irish, Scots is a descendant of Old English, and Scottish English is a dialect of standard British English. People often conflate Scots with Scottish English.
Slower than ever? I don’t use a browser on my phone all that much, but I’ve used Nightly on my phone for ages, and tried out Fenix as soon as it supported uBlock Origin. I found it very substantially faster on JS-heavy pages, e.g. the Reddit mobile site was almost twice as fast, across the board, and faster still in places. (I use Firefox for Android for ideological reasons and because it supports extensions, not because it’s fast, because it hasn’t been in the past. I have no idea how it compares to other browsers now, because I never run any other browsers on Android.)
That strikes me how enthusiasts can manage Linux software for free, but multibillion corporation cuts it for “business sense”.
I'm not sure I like the font but this sure is a lovely article
It's like he created the latin wikipedia by converting English wiki pages into pig-latin. It massively misrepresents the language, and when you're talking about a language like Scots that's very little used, and possibly in danger of going extinct, this is massively polluting to it.

What he created isn't a Scots wikipedia, it's a bad parody of one that gets words wrong and is completely ignorant of Scots grammar, while sitting in a position of relative authority.

If you can speak Scots, can you read these as Scots? Does it genuinely seem like it's actually written in Scots?
I mentioned this is another thread the other day, but every "scientific programmer" job ive seen basically asks for a scientist who just happens to be able to program.
Bookmark sync is end to end encrypted. Pocket isn't. It replaced a feature that was. Mozilla misrepresents it as more private than it is.[1]

Why isn't closed source a valid complaint from a user's perspective?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pocket/
Have you tried doing a hard restart? Sometimes my kindle gets stuck and needs a reboot, especially if it has been left alone for a while.
That is so cool. I speak indian languages such as Tamil and Hindi. I am not aware of such a usage that you are referring to. Can you give me an example? I am not able understand how word order makes clear the word that the speaker wants to emphasize. Is it peculiar to Hungarian?
have you actually used a kindle? it certainly doens't take seconds for the definitions to pop up. a full-page refresh might take a second, but most page turns or UI interactions are partial draws and are much faster.
My relationship with my (PhD) advisor was beyond dysfunctional. I complained at the time that it was just wrong for one human to have so much power over another, not that anyone was listening.

However, the three and a half years I spent in his group were some of the best years of my life, I got to do so much "cool stuff" with some pretty unique/expensive kit, was privileged to teach dozens of talented - and some not quite so talented - undergraduates. Every single one of them passed "my" course, and with the benefit of hindsight, I cared more about that than about the research in our lab...
I disagree with your premise entirely. I'm not sure a single 'check and balance' exists that can keep surveillance under control. It has an inherent propensity for abuse. There is no amount of bureaucracy or red tape that will make mass surveillance a benevolent force.
If there were B and C that would mitigate the bad things in more powerful A, then fine

But otherwise delaying progress what if in the end a more powerful A will eventually make any B and C irrelevant? All you’re doing is kicking the can down the road maybe?
At some point, it seems like they need to account for the possibility that a given item will need to sit outside in the weather or in a partially secure location at a customer location for an unpredictable amount of time.

Outer packs protect the goods not just against long-distance parcel shipment.
Magit actually solves this problem, to a certain extent. It makes Git more discoverable and easier to use, IMO.

Prior to trying it I was a hardcore git terminal user. I still drop to the terminal sometimes, but magit has won me over for the day-to-day normal workflows.

You have to use Emacs for Magit, as it's an Emacs Lisp package, but it really is worth trying in its own right.

https://magit.vc/
Alas for the lack of breakout rooms when hosting from an iPad.
Cardboard, per a story that was on HN a few weeks ago, is both almost entirely recyclable and has economic value. So the problem with cardboard isn’t even that it’s wasted, but that it’s being stolen from trash bins for recycling.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53724620

It’s one of the reminders that the invisible hand of economics, incentivised properly, can solve not all, but a surprising lot.
> In the 2017 eclipse, changes in light intensity were attributed to bees going temporarily still.

This sentence is backwards...
I was surprised too, but the WHO backs up the existence of "vaccine-associated paralytic polio", though I'm finding some conflicting numbers it's on the order of 1 in a million paralysis cases per vaccine. That presumably outpaces wild polio paralysis cases due to the non-existence of wild polio, in certain regions. WHO evens says it's possible for others to catch the paralysis from close contact with a recently-vaccinated individual, though it's never spread beyond that.

https://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/poliomyelitis/endg...
Prisoner's Dilemma is in action here. Pulling your app actually costs you money.
The best outcome would be for Apple to allow alternate stores into iOS, like Cydia.
This tool keeps getting mentioned so extensively on so many link aggregators that the level of attention it is receiving looks more like the result of a marketing campaign than organic behavior.

I have no idea why anyone would want to market an open source USB boot tool, but something about how often this tool keeps popping up seems off.
From past experience with desktop/client apps, the number of Linux users was under 1%.

They were a minority, but a very vocal one.
local businesses are not going to accept chinese wages, and customers aren't going to pay for US or EU labor.
I agree that a co-ordinated effort could work, however, to cause Apple the maximum amount of brand/financial damage, it should be timed to the release of the new iPhones.

If Spotify, Youtube and Netflix all pulled their apps a day after the release of the next phone, Apple would be in serious trouble that year. It would effectively permanently devalue their phones and by proxy Apple, because consumers wouldn't be able to trust that that it wouldn't happen again. It would certainly spook investors.
Cool. Now we just need LOGO on the JVM and I can fully relive my childhood coding days.
You wrote in another comment that it is an "information rich" site. Has the absence of a search feature ever been a problem for you? Or did run into any issues that could have been easily solved with something like a WordPress plugin (if the site wasn't static, of course).

I'm asking because these are the things that bug me when it comes to this "static all day, every day" trend.
On some yes, but many offer other payment methods.
Unity top down movement: 2d player script
Fwiw I like Calibre's UI. It harkens back to an older era of software design in which every imaginable use case is supported and menus are gigantic lists of features.
As the comment above got downvoted for pointing out the 75 year pension pre-funding requirement, the other framing is to even ASK the USPS to be profitable.

It's a common attack on public goods: Amtrak & USPS, but would never be asked of the Military or FEMA.
Ok so you don't know, you're just speculating without evidence.
Yes, and this so-called Chilling Effect can have a potentially very negative impact on the ability of a democratic society to thrive and possibly to even survive. Democracies require (open, honest) debate. If we self-censor then we hold back on fully-expressing views or positions during debate.

This is one of the fundamental issues that I have with this proliferation of population-scale mass-surveillance (domestically in the US and abroad). It will not lead us into any sort of light, despite the promises about safety or less kiddie pr0n or whatever.
Nice calculator and portfolio tracker. Added to this cryptocurrency list https://bitcoinbookmarks.com/
I know some people in tech don't like his Microsoft past but considering the role of Melinda and Bill Gates foundation in this and his continued funding for other such initiatives including Covid-19 vaccines, I think if someone deserves a symbolic award like Nobel Peace Prize(or whatever the equivalent would be in this case) it would be both of them.
I'm interested to know this as well. However I'm more interested to know the overall environmental impact of buying some from Amazon in their current state.

At what distance is it overall more environmentally friendly for me to purchase from Amazon vs. taking my car and grabbing that item myself. I think I'd be surprised at how little that number is.
I'm not sure you're comparing like-for-like. A large number of the people living outside cities are subsistence farmers in developing countries and have unsurprisingly low carbon footprints. There is significant lifestyle inflation as the rural populace move to cities.
The fact that some CLIs have terrible UX does not invalidate the idea of CLIs.
Wonder if hockey will either go the way of Tennis (where technology has rapidly changed how the game has been played) or baseballe - where the bats are always wood.
Google lawsuit docs show its own engineers were confused by privacy settings
I've used it successfully. "Good" is probably more enthusiasm than I would use to describe it, but it was adequate.
I really like it: snappy with modern design and the extensions I use. It loads faster then the previous version as well.
1. How many bailouts have they received?

2. Do you think it's a bailout in a year when the US is supposed to have mass voting by mail?

3. (whataboutism) How many (especially big) US companies haven't received help in 2020?
And neither of you are focusing on the "extra" stuff you don't "need" - high speed phones, large TVs, cars with air bags, etc.

Want to compare to 1970? Then live with those restrictions and you'll probably have enough money to pay for insurance, college, etc.
When will you go bald?
I don't think that's quite fair. I greatly doubt that successful preventions would be willingly associated with questionably legal surveillance. In the US, "parallel construction" is used specifically to hide how information was obtained and I'm sure similar motivations exist here.
ViDeNN – Deep Blind Video Denoising
> The last guy who touched upon it

On the other hand, people like Chomsky aren't being persecuted. Though all in all, I would also say they get ignored very efficiently, Chomsky still isn't exactly unknown either. Is there a Chinese author and speaker with decades of real harsh criticism of their government under their belt, who is living in China with their works being translated in all sorts of languages and also available in China?
My understanding is that the vaccination candidates are all taking some other virus and splicing it to add the coronavirus’s spike protien to it.

The idea is that the body will (hopefully) learn to identify the spike and mount an immune response to that spike protien.

Then, when a real coronavirus comes along, the body responds to the spike protien on that virus.

PS: I’m not in the field, I might have missed some vaccination effort that’s using the real virus itself.
> Having two competing kings fighting over the throne isn't "dynamic" democracy.

a) it is more dynamic than a situation with one king just sitting on his laurels

b) this is not about democracy, this is about competition on markets
Finally, some really good news in 2020. This has brightened up my exceedingly crappy week :).

I've read about polio a few times, and every time I do I feel grateful to be born after they started vaccinating every child in the United States. It's a terrible disease and it would be amazing if it went the way of smallpox and (hopefully soon) Dracunculiasis.
In the US it's been the case since the 70s, with the last wild type polio case in 1984 and vaccine derived polio cases up until 1999. [0] [1].

Then in 2000, OPV was banned in the US. [2]

But the statement, while true, is misleading because of its intention to discredit the use of vaccines at all. Just check the graphs linked before the introduction of the vaccine. Night and day, as horrible as the vaccine caused cases are.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00045949.htm#00001...

[1]: https://www.virology.ws/2015/09/10/why-do-we-still-use-sabin...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html
>>It gets old.

...Until it hits you like a ton of bricks.
This is not the big, massive victory that the article makes it sound like. The caveat "wild" is doing a lot of work that isn't properly explained. What this means is that for the last several years, all the cases of polio in Africa have been from circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus - basically, a version of the weakened virus used in the vaccine which has circulated for long enough to reverse the mutations that weaken it. It spreads like wild virus and paralyzes like wild virus, but technically it's not wild-type virus. (As I understand it, the only practical difference is that we can tell from genetic sequencing that it came from the vaccine rather than being wild-type.) And this can't be fixed by stopping the vaccination program - in fact, that actually makes things worse, since it gives the deadly vaccine-derived poliovirus more people who don't have immunity to infect.

Some of the other news coverage like the Reuters article is a little better at correctly pointing this caveat out: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-polio-africa/wild-p...

It's not even clear that it's poasible to actually eliminate polio in developing countries with this vaccine or any existing vaccines. The developed countries managed it but they had far better infrastructure to roll out first the oral vaccine and then the inactivated vaccine to everyone, and also far better sanitation, and it's likely both of these things mattered - under-vaccination makes this problem a lot worse, and whilst the inactivsted vaccine protects people from polio there's some doubt as to whether it can stop them spreading it via the oral-fecal route due to poor immunity in the gut. The current hope seems to be developing and deploying a new, better live vaccine which cannot easily regain its original virulence.
> At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...?

That's what epubs are, plain old zip files with some xhtml, CSS, etc. You can unzip them using standard utilities. Mobi files aren't zips, but the premise is roughly the same and conversion between the two is usually seamless.
Books that shaped my Journey into Hardware Development
Well, UPS/etc can also cherry pick or negotiate terms if it doesn't make sense. They don't have to take those (or any) deliveries from Amazon.
Odd. I've never had this issue -- plug it in and the mass storage shows up. My platform is Linux, but this shouldn't make a difference.

What I have seen, however, are plenty of micro USB cables which do not have the data lines connected. They are intended to be used for charging only and have +5V and Ground wires only.
WebBundles would be great for distributing applications to users as a single, well, bundle.
That crawler is only used for Instant Answers for specific queries, not the standard 10 search result links. Yahoo has also been powered by Bing for a long time now as well.
>My last search frustration was: 'bitmitigate'. I had to make a benchmark of CDN services and their company site isn't on the first page like other products i'm searching for.

Seems to be working for me? SERP for me (not private browsing, but I'm not signed in and regularly clear cookies)

1. BitMitigate - CDN, WAF, DDoS Protection, Load Balancing, VPN <--- this is the main site, as expected.

2. BitMitigate: What we know about 8chan's new web protection ...

3. BitMitigate (@bitmitigate) | Twitter

4. Epik reverses course, says BitMitigate will not support 8chan ...

5. BitMitigate becomes new security provider for 8chan ...
Yeah, I just don’t see this happening across the whole population. Maybe with an expensive campaign to encourage yearly physicals you will get a certain sector of society; but there are going to be millions who haven’t got insurance, worry they would be wasting a doctor’s time, are scared of the authorities, can’t afford the travel time, and so on.

I believe there is a safe level. In Sweden the government recommends everybody to take 10 micrograms daily, with some groups at 20 micrograms, and this advice is very commonly followed. As far as I understand it that advice does an awful lot more good than it does harm.
I can already give everyone a unique URL to the same resource at the cost of it not being cached (which is a cost this mechanism doesn't avoid).

The article admits this, but then simultaneously tries to claim that the loss of caching would prevent that from being common... but this loses caching.

I can already give everyone unique resources for the same URL by keying the response on the Referer (which I would also add to the Vary header).

The article also admits this, but then tries to claim problems that are out of scope... the "first visit" will never be to a subresource of a page.

The article further tries to claim that this is difficult or defeats caching, but adding Referer to Vary is trivial and works with all CDNs and caches.

Meanwhile, if we believe this kind of argument about "people won't bother to do it because it is slightly hard" (I don't), then we need to be consistent.

It will take work to generate the multiple obfuscated copies of this bundle and be maximally disadvantageous to caching to do so for each visitor.

Ad blockers that work using URLs are fundamentally only possible because they aren't common: if you make them common, they will break.

I mean, ad blockers are so uncommon right now that you can often get away with blocking hosts at the DNS level... that is so trivially defeated!

If you want to do something useful, work on post-download ad "view" blocking by having an AI classify regions of the page as ads and then erase them.

This is also an arms war, but it is one that will more than likely at least result in subtle ads that you don't mind (as the AI "lets them slide") ;P.
I've got it on my phone, and can't say too much bad about it. It feels fery fluid.
>the location data doesn't need to be sent with every page turn, for example

why not? if i open a book on my phone that i stopped reading on my kindle, i want it to open to the last location i read to on my kindle. not ten pages back because it doesn't sync data every page turn for some imaginary privacy benefit.
How much would you pay for that?
That sucks. Literally everyone I know uses Venmo.
Yes so the idea would be to use something like "Kong" or "weave net" whatever as the "orchestrator" and then bundle ir up in an easy fashion. I'm always more inclined into lower performance requirements scenarios so for example not always we need a Kubernetes.. I have setup for PM2 on redundancy in which I can run on low-end VPS for example. The "Overload" of Kubernetes is just too much and the costs are way up in the roof it's becoming to bloated so focusing on minimalist with K3S is a must and people looking for mesh are certainly the ones not wanting to rely on any cloud provider's orchestrator, they want to have their machines spinned up anywhere by themselves. That's the beauty of the Mesh.
I was able to setup weave net on low-end machines but it takes up a lot of resources so it's not trivial, K3S also is possible within low-end but lacks a lot of stuff so for now I'm just sticking with PM2 only on low-end and K3S on bigger machines.
Uber is using their weight to get what they want, because they know we want them to continue offering service. This is actually quite a bit like having a raise negotiation at work. I don't see their goals as evil, either, simply at odds with the state.

Their shareholders likely suspect California will capitulate. Though it is hard to do research over whether their drivers actually want this, generally the information I see indicates they'd prefer to remain contractors. Yes, some of this is paid for by Uber. I imagine some of the content I read was also paid for by the opposition. But it seems like no matter how you cut it, the drivers generally want to remain contractors, and definitely do not want ~their livelihood~ an income source threatened either way in the midst of a pandemic.
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