skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are receiving a grant, you're not being paid to write software

In my (albeit limited) experience, software is a pretty common deliverable from a grant, at least in computational biology. This has also been my experience with more alternative funding sources like CZI and DARPA.

Taken more broadly, I think there is a huge disconnect between what academics are paid to do, and what takes most of their time. Review is unpaid. Grants are not dependent on which journal the results go into, but time could be saved by aiming lower. A salary can be payed from a research grant, while the investigator still has to teach.
That’s the thing puberty blockers aren’t exactly reversible when used for any substantial duration and quite often cause developmental issues in general, these aren’t cases of premature puberty you can’t just pause it for a few years and expect things to go back.
'Not good enough'?

Do you now think progress is bad?

Ansible and co did and still do a great job.

kubernetes is not just a thing, its also a paradigma shift.

It sounds like something new is just bad because its new?
Are we going to pretend that all our systems, software and service are 100% up to date and there are no known issues? 8 months isn't uncommon for a lot of companies I've consulted for.

In fact i've patched things with year with CVEs published in 2012/2013.
oh first time I've heard of pihole. Interesting
These things are literally things which define you as a person, though. Of course there's more, but what makes you think that these things don't define a person?

I also don't get the "You have to fit in a bucket" theory. What's an example you've experienced?
Time will tell how well the new guy, Knauth, does. [0]

The easy bit will be to not repeat Stallman's faults. Stallman would often come across as pedantic and combative in the Q&A session at the end of a talk, for instance, and would say absurd things such as that people who make proprietary software should be imprisoned.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/statement-from-fsfs-new-...
Pret and Itsu (same founders) have been my default shops for many years because you simply don't have to think, walking in and out in under 2 minutes is absolutely to be expected, and if you're a bit autistic and enjoy routine, can have precisely the same choc bar + coffee + salad + sandwich with identical consistency on every single visit

Their food is hardly amazing, but it is wonderfully consistent. Truly hope they survive and flourish once more, London simply would not be the same without them
If you look at primary energy you might end up getting the wrong picture because with renewables their primary energy consumption is equal to their output because excess sunlight and excess wind was going to be there regardless of whether you install renewables or not. When you look at transportation many vehicles burn gas but their engines are not 100% efficient. Most of the energy just disappears into waste heat. That waste heat can be useful in winter for heating but during summer it's purely a waste. If you get rid of that waste heat by switching to EVs you need much less energy for an equivalent transportation industry.
Thanks! That site looks interesting
I wholeheartedly agree.

I think journal editors have a responsibility here too in promoting references to software libraries used in the articles they publish. I almost never see these in my field (astrophysics), even though they are readily available and very easy to include.
The GTA games actually also have a story in them, at least since the PS2 days. I guess now GTA is mostly about the multiplayer, but the single-player stories are unusually well crafted, for video games anyway.
I think a lot of reading difficulties could have been alleviated if teachers just abandoned prejudice against phonics.
Ah, right, I was under the impression that scripting was an integral part of the workflow, but with more graphical options for manipulating shapes after basic generation. But I might very much be mistaken, I haven’t had the chance to try it yet :)

I will definitely soon though, I am working on making a parametric trumpet mouthpiece model for 3D printing, which what I have gathered so far FreeCAD seems great for. The most difficult part is really finding accurate measurements for sizes and curves, most tables and info only uses relative sizes like “large” or “thin”. But I can just trace some splines from cross-sectional sketches.

I have made a model in Fusion which is pretty nice once you get the concept of constraints. But then there is the massive price tag, the free tier does as mentioned not allow commercial use. Nobody has to know though...
Do you know if it's possible to export a house plan in FreeCAD to use on AutoCAD? I need to draw the 2D floors of my house and send to an architect who is using AutoCAD..
I think the important word here is "white"
I should have made it more clear: this may be my inexperience with the software showing. I guess in SW it flows a bit more smoothly, probably due to making some (apparently relatively safe) assumptions. For exmaple, when I click on the surface of an extruded cube to sketch on it, SW will just assume I'm extruding normally to that surface. I haven't (yet) been able to reproduce that.

It occurs to me that I might be really wanting some sort of hybrid Part and Part Design workflow, and that might be my issue.

For example, in PD I go sketch > select plane > sketch a shape > pad it to 3D. Then I want to extrude a 2nd section out of one of those faces, so I'd in SW click sketch, and click the face. However, I seem to only be able to click planes.

I'm sure there's a way to achieve it, however in SW it is trivial - if I click a surface with any of the sketching tools chosen, it (correctly) guesses that I want to sketch on that surface, using that surface as the X-Y plane (and thus extrude using a normal from that surface) and will automagically fill all that in. I guess that's the main thing I'm getting at, which is why I said it wasn't a criticism of FreeCAD per se.
Being patronising is hardly humorous.
Perhaps we are getting a sugared pill? Perhaps CF are genuinely being useful here, but in order to gain trust to act nefariously in future?

I don't feel comfortable with their ability to switch off parts of the internet, nor in this case, that they have their hands near what is preserved for posterity.

As they say: "Cloudflare has become core infrastructure for the Web, and we are glad we can be helpful in making a more reliable web for everyone." They are indeed powerful.

I'm concerned that they are becoming gatekeepers to information, under the guise of providing a better internet service. They are able to operate at a level deeper than the odious restrictions youtube, facebook et al enforce on free speech.
Bikes are safe?

Let's see if it's true

> driver survived with only minor injuries

https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article...

> this guy was happily riding his bike, fell of it and died from the crash. Paramedics could do nothing to save him, upon arrival he was already dead.

https://caserta.occhionotizie.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

Which one of the two looks safer to you?
No no no you don't understand, the end users NEED drag and drop (and loading indicators, and slooow and heavy pages to admire those indicators).
> They could of course just limit the run time

It seems as though this would be more robust than limiting the number of bytecode instructions. I wonder if that’s true and if so, why it’s not more commonly recommended.
The sequenced genome is freely available to all to look at, and compare to other genomes. While gene editing is not my field, if SARS-Cov-2 looked obviously man-made, I don't think any single institution / country could stop an international community of scientists from talking about this. If the evidence of gene editing is more subtle, I suspect it will simply come out in time.

Also, there is already a paper looking at whether sars-cov-2 is man-made, published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world (not American):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Reverse Engineering Apple’s BLE Continuity Protocol – Sam Teplov (Shmoocon 2020)
Disabling JS is a conscious decision. Using wheelchair is not — you cannot just flip a switch and walk once your spine is fucked.
I think of onigiri as a Japanese variant of the Cornish Pasty. I imagine it does have similar roots: making an edible wrapper for food that preserves it until lunch.
Given the enormous amount of advertizing bought by the pharmaceutical companies, I would not think that the "news" can be considered objective.
https://discuss.ocaml.org/tag/multicore-monthly
Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo- never mind
The "Community" that harassed the developer is probably not the same community that now works on the code.

These mofos from Reddit who storm a GitLab ticket after it was posted there usually do not actually contribute to Open Source projects. They are pseudos who run their mouth but don't do the work. They are the ones who set up the wiki, but never write a single line of code.
I also think that it makes zero sense to think you have the moral high ground here. If you said be more nice in a nice way it would make sense. but you throw around things like "dumping junk" and "posting junky comments". read the guidelines, retard! Or do they only apply to me?
So why use AR? Sequel is a thing.
"Simple software" does not mean "golfed". Quite the opposite, actually.

What the grandparent is suggesting is using simpler architectures, not necessarily smaller (in the code-golf sense) code.
Developer can stop using webpack to bundle 3rd party libraries. Let browser cache it.
It really isn't. Small sandwich + crisps + sugary soda or coffee >= 700 calories, which is around twice what someone sedentary needs for lunch unless they start their day with a decent run. Add a chocolate bar and you're over 800. Start with a bigger roll or a wrap instead of a small sandwich and you're over 900.

Basically what you're saying is "eating too much food is bad" which… well, obviously. If you are eating a large sandwich, crisps, a sugary drink, and a chocolate bar for lunch… isn't it obvious that's too much? Eat a regular-sized sandwich, some popcorn, and a banana – like all the people who went to the Pret next to my office did pretty frequently.

literally lethal for someone in their fifties.

This is quite funny. "Sandwich culture is lethal to the over-50s".
A lot of "compostable" plastic isn't compostable, at least not under the circumstances that most people consider to be composting... e.g. you can't put it in your backyard scrap pile and expect it to be gone in a few months. It'll still be there years later. One industry rep told me that they estimate their products take 30 years to completely breakdown and that's under perfectly ideal conditions -- bury it in a landfill with no oxygen, who knows how long it'll take. I guess that's better than 1,000 years... but still, it's basically another industry lie.
Impressive teardown/pentest! Love the writeup - clear and concise and a writing style that makes you keep on reading.

Also, nice example of how advanced attacks can be from a dedicated person. While the tools are advanced to the layman, they aren't really that expensive. It's kind of similar to what you'd pay for a gaming PC or console with some games. The skills and knowledge require time and dedication of course. Not trivializing the effort, just putting it into context for anyone not into this kind of stuff.
It depends on scale. I’m working on a site with multiple billion visits a year, so optimising a global asset will absolutely have an effect.
No.

Keep historical revisionism out of archive.org.
PDF should really be called UPDF (Un-Portable Document Format). Everybody who is using PDF for data exchange makes it clear that he/she is either incompetent or actively trying to make data exchange impossible. It is no accident, that many governments publish statistics as PDF files (instead of CSV for example), which makes it very hard to parse and search through the data.
I would like to recommend Kutty as a component framework that is using Tailwind + AlpineJS. (https://kutty.netlify.app/)

Any other similar recommendation?
I think his absurdities and hardlines were a necessity. Had he been more amenable to compromise I doubt FSF would have been able to push the agenda into that tiny sliver of mainstream that it managed to.

Keeping fingers crossed about Knauth.
Sorry I’m going to disagree with you here.

I was diagnosed with Dyslexia as child but was also always very good with maths.

I remember actually really wanting to be able to read but just not being able to get it.

After being moved to a class which catered for this and with extra help I managed to eventually be able to start reading.

I generally read quiet a bit averaging at least a book a week. From your statement that should mean that the symptoms of dyslexia should be fixed but they aren’t.

I still struggle with writing and spelling. Yes, I have put effort in, but I still struggle.

The best way I can describe it that I'm blind to the errors. With the sentence structures once it's pointed out I can see them sometimes but not before.

My intelligence is on the higher end and I got through an engineer degree, which you don't do if you don't put the effort in.

Thankfully tools like Grammarly are helping. If not for my sake then at least for people who have to read what I write
not at all the same.

I can mate you by having your king in check in a board in the current timeline, while checking your king 6 moves in the past as well.

I can abandon a board where I'm losing, by moving the king to another dimension where it is less threatened.
Mea culpa; usually I add more references to these comments - it's become a little tedious to look them up and include them each time so I skipped them for that comment, but since you're engaging in good faith, here are a couple:

* https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.... (US Energy Information Administration; see Table 1b & Table 2 on page 7 & 8)

* https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... (UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy; see Table 6 on page 29)

I hear you regarding regional and national concerns, but if anything I think that reinforces another argument for renewables: they are relatively easy to construct and decommission over shorter timescales if political and local pressure demands it, compared to nuclear power plants which could become long-term causes of disgruntlement if misplaced.

My hope would be that groups of countries see energy provision as a shared problem that they can co-operate on (in the true sense of a shared grid), so that potential reliance on energy import if needed in the Netherlands wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. I'd imagine (and would be interested to know if) the Netherlands is relatively advanced in terms of home and business energy efficiency and would have plenty to offer there in return.
From 4 to 6.1 in an evening, colour me impressed.
https://archive.is/uCMN9
And yes, a sandwich shop (in every bloody corner) selling cheap junkfood 'packaged' (offered) with fried salty junk (crisps) and sugar (soft drinks) DOES contribute to obesity. Thinking that it doesn't is illogical. It's not a discussion on causality/coincidence.

I'll leave the fight-club fantasy to one side, but point out that a sandwich from Pret is basically some bread, some salad, and some protein. It's fine. If this is where you're starting as a contributor to obesity, then literally all food is obesogenic.
Wait, how does the receiver find the sender, just via the passphrase? How does that work?

Is there a relay server and if so how do sender and reciever know who the relay is?
Was it in your opinion the "actix community" that piled onto the developer?

Because from my perception it was more of the "unsafe Rust code is the devil community", which wasn't really using actix much beforehand. With that as a background you would be "punishing" the project for actions outside their core community (and control).
But is ‘city mobility’ a lead indicator of ‘rising new COVID cases’, or a lag indicator of ‘declining active COVID cases’? I could make the hypothesis for either (or both), so are you using it to track improvements in a city or prepare for worsening conditions?
Yeah, I think if you are going to use Photoshop, you might as well use other softwares like Illustrator, After Effect so you can use Adoble Creative Cloud Subscription.
FreeCAD is awesome, and here is why:

1) Open CASCDE geometry kernel, this is the heart of the cad system, for example Solidworks uses the Parasolid geometry kernel; which is owned by Siemens.

2. A powerful data structure; the feature tree that FreeCAD has is object oriented, and capable of adapting to complex tasks.

3. GUI written in QT, with a Python interface to instantiate the GUI. This allows you to load FreeCAD while in Blender and vice versa load Blender from within FreeCAD; this facilitate the sharing of geometry data, meshes, the OpenGL geometry pipeline, etc.

4. Support for Jupyter notebooks, this is important when you are doing analysis or something complicated and you wish to share and publish that data. Using SciPy , NumPy, and Octave its like running Matlab + CAD, its so powerful that you can drive simulations this way directly effecting the FreeCAD GUI.

5. BREP Internal data structure, in fact when you save a .fcad file extension, that is essentially a BREP file format, which is essentially a STEP file(a type of BREP). This is essentially what the professional CAD packages do, they are BREP with custom data structures.

6. BREP + STEP allows for extremely precise importing of model geometry. This allows you to download parts from McMaster, Berg, Pic Design, SDP, etc and use them in your design and generate a BOM from the precise part bing inserted.

7. Support for different mesh tessellation methods, this is important since working with manifold topology that is held internally by Open CASCADE or STEP can be non trivial mathematically to interpret.

8. Runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows natively.

9. Open source, so you are in control of your own destiny.

While FreeCAD has some rough spots around its edges currently, where it will he in the future if we invest our collective brainpower and knowhow into will far surpass any offering from Autodesk, Solidworks, as the rate of evolution of OpenSource compared to closed for profit systems is much more limited. We can as a community experiment with edgy things and push into new frontiers with our creativity and imagination and disrupt an entire paradigm the CAD industry uses today.

Blender already has advanced support of GPU real time ray tracing supported on the most recent GPU offerings, and is able to harness massively parallel compute for rendering and ray tracing. We can harness those same capabilities for an open source CAD platform, and use the GPU compute for the FEA capabilities.
Yes we need clean emission free energy more (at the moment), but not everyone has the skillet to investigate on clean emission free energy.
We are with seven billion apes on this planet. More then enough brainpower to focus on stuff simultaneously I guess.

Also software is really very inefficient and a lot of it runs on batteries.
This is rather unlikely result of message that will morph into "dyslexia is fake" when spread.
this one ? https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/09/astrazeneca-covid19-vacc...

I persist about what I said, waiting for someone to demonstrate this is not the case ? Furthermore, there are a lot of controversies regarding HepB and HPV vaccines.
That's right. There is a goal to separate the employer and employee to absolve the proletariat of the moral connection between their actions day-to-day and the bourgeois who all share in the protections of the corporate veil.

But this cannot be done, despite all attempts to quiet the cognitive dissonance. Every employee of an evil company is evil.

Every political message lobbied for by the employer is the employee's political statement. Any claims to the contrary reek of hypocrisy.
Uncle Bob is insufferable and thinks that anything less than 100% testing and your code doesn't work.

> The more tests you have, the more evidence you build up that the theory that the software is incorrect in some way may be wrong.

Or you could actually use the software. You can have 100% unit tests passing and a completely broken integration.

He's not exactly wrong in that analogy but I think that in practice such utopia does not exist.
For my defense it was probably more than 20 years ago. Lazyness is always a good excuse.
Do lives depend on those companies' infrastructure?
There were questions [0] to phase 1/2 results published data, which AFAIK has not been answered yet.

0. https://cattiviscienziati.com/2020/09/07/note-of-concern/
Potentially Diesel has less CO2 emissions than Petrol if that is the point you want to insist on.

The major issue with Diesel is NO2 emissions, on top of respiratory issues directly attributed to NO2 in city centres, NO2 is also a reducer of human longevity. [0]

I would say anything that is slowly killing us and reducing our lifespan should be pretty high on our priorities list.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6801524/?report...
Alex Jones was on JRE on Feb 27, 2019, which appears to have been at the height of the litigation against him (1).

I'll take your word that's what he said (so in that sense, you're right, it's a "fact"), but if you're giving him the benefit of the doubt...well, what could anyone say?

He's been held in contempt of court, de-platformed, has a DWI and, more damning, has made similar inflammatory claims since.

(1) - I just googled, apologies if I got the dates wrong.
We’re talking low speed data lines and run of the mill digital circuits, not 10GHz range RF amplifier design. A month is probably enough.
> The inefficiencies are in the chair, the users chair.

PEBCAK[0]

Personally, I still like to optimize my pages. I learned Web design, at a time when pages were supposed to be about 50KB, or less. That seems quaint, these days.

I use a lot of GIF and PNG8 images, and use CSS gradients and effects. I’ll do things like make a rollover image as a GIF in two parts, and use CSS to move the background image. Makes for a zippy rollover.

But I’m still beholden to my site framework or theme, loading 1MB of useless JS and CSS for every page. Some of the new site builders, using things like Jekyll, are nice, but take more time for me (I am not actually a Web designer, although I have written many, many Web sites).

As noted, the real hogs are on the big iron. We can write software and APIs to reduce CPU usage, but it’s a drop in the bucket, compared to the server. I think that server engineers are already doing everything they can to be efficient; simply because that confers a competitive advantage.

But, also as noted, as long as there’s a vast demand for cat videos, there will exist, a vast cat video delivery infrastructure.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK
No worries, people who decide who is worth reading based on skin color also introduced the oreo concept so their world view doesnt have to be challenged.

Pesonally I belive anybody should read Sowell
+1. If you're only targeting evergreen browsers you can already use syntax like `import Library from './library.js'`, plus lots of modern ES6 features.

For IE11 just load polyfills and let the 2-10% of IE11 users pay the tax, instead of making all your users in modern browsers download giant bundles.
What if that piece of software increases research output across the entire field? Often, a good piece of scientific software advances research more than what you're calling "research."
Matrix bridges do that for me today! Currently using IRC and Telegram bridges, thinking about adding Slack.

Sadly, Electron-based Element is still the best Matrix client by far.
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