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Ask HN: What if we combined compiler and cloud computing?
Although I am not an expert on compilers, I do know that a compiler can pinpoint exactly the code path that is taking too long or stuck. So what if we made compiler into kubernettes. Basically allow compiler to spin up new serverless functions/microservices/etc to run code that is becoming bottleneck.

Video demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vEjGKhSx8o

The advantage is that as a developer it can hide all the nasty part of microservices/serverless... I.e. compiler can make sure error stack trace is maintained even if some functions are ran in a separate service.
Chrome is a security risk. Blocking extensions because "security" is just taking away control from the user. Why should Google be the arbiter of whether something I install is secure or not?
"The most common mistake people make when evaluating new technologies is to focus too much on the “doing old things better” category."

While I get what they're driving at, I think there are good reasons to focus on this; you have some plausible chance of getting it right. The track record of people, even really smart people who work in technology, being able to predict the 'brand new things' that technology will be used for, is awful. Plus, if you want to get the technology up and running, it needs to get used for something old (better) first. If the early moviemakers hadn't made play-like movies first, they might never have learned enough about film to make movies that weren't like that.

Just because the early uses of a technology are doing old things better, but the later brand new things turn out to be a bigger deal, doesn't mean the 'old things better' phase was a mistake. It is probably necessary.
> In my experience letters A-Z doesn't capture the whole gamut of utterances used in the language. Most languages use more sounds than 26 letters can capture.

It's more than just sounds. Turkish and Romanian alphabets capture the sounds of Turkish and Romanian alphabets quite well.

But then...

In Turkish "I will do something" is written like this: "Bir şey yapıcaǧım". And if you're going for proper enunciation, that's what you will say. In most situations most people will say "Bi şey yapıcam" (note the omission of "r" in "Bir" and "ǧı" in "yapıcaǧım").

Do the letters correspond to the sounds? Yes. Does it help? Nope, people will not speak the way it's written, because written rules describe a very specific rigid set of rules. And, for example, elisions and contractions [1] are very common in nearly every language and are often frowned upon in written texts (except for a small number of unavoidable ones).

And that's before we go into the plethora of sounds between dialects and regional variations. For example, in Swedish, there's a combination of letters, `sj`[3] that has at least four different pronunciations across Sweden. So, the word "seven", "sju" will be pronounced with [ɕ] in one part of Sweden, with [ɧ], in a different part of Sweden and so on. It's the same word, should it be spelled differently for each group of people?

And note, we're just touching just 1% of 1% of the complexities of pronunciation :) And they rarely if ever can be captured in written text and rules for the written text.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Fricatives Wikipedia has a full paragraph dedicated to this alone
Could someone explain me this. The authors say (in the preprint [1]):

"The trained network was able to differentiate positive and negative IBV samples with high accuracy (91.4%), sensitivity (91.9%) and specificity (90.9%) (Fig.2G). Of note, these probabilities refer to single virus particles in the sample and not the whole sample; the probability of correctly identifying a sample with hundreds or thousands of IBV virus particles will therefore approach 100%. "

But then when the actual lab tests are performed:

"The trained network was able to distinguish between virus-positive and virus-negative samples with excellent accuracy, distinguishing between SARS-CoV-2-positive and negative BBXs with an accuracy of ~70% (Fig.3A)".

An accuracy of 70% is totally useless for such tests if widely applied, right? What am I missing here?

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.13.20212035v...
Some people are anti-intellectual or are fearful and defensive at appearing less competent, perhaps out of fear that they will lose status or their job
What brand? I recently got a road bike but honestly don't love it. I think I would prefer a mountain bike.
It's definitely addicting. I've found that once I know I can crack a knuckle I keep cracking it. I didn't used to crack the last (distal) knuckle on my fingers and I remember one time in high school a friend of mine grabbed my hand in class and cracked it. The first time it really hurt but ever since then I crack all those knuckles as part of my "routine".
As the courts only interpret the existing law, couldn't the bill simply restrict the copyright on APIs enough to avoid those kind of contradictions?
Ironically, that's not what Dunning-Kruger means.
It's a response to a pretty unfair characterization of people who recognize themselves as victims. The reason some are irritated with people who claim to be victims is because of their activity and action, not because of their wallowing and passivity. When people are wallowing in victimhood rather than speaking up about it, the people who have a problem with that are the compassionate, not the comfortable and resentful. Wallowing in victimhood is depression.
Interesting, thanks for your comment. Genuinely curious, why do you think that DBNT is better for bootstrapping? Intuitively I would've guessed that bootstrappers don't have the resources to create entirely new markets. In existing markets, the value proposition should also be more clear and battle tested, no?
Sure, Apple will split into iPhoneApple and ChargerApple... after signing an exclusive 100 year contract for ChargerApple to be the sole supplier of chargers to Apple, for a fixed price, blah blah blah trivial workaround.
The article posted was published in October 8th while the nypost piece about Hunter was published on October 14th, so clearly not the case.
Do you really want to allow a myriad of extensions access to your web browser data? I can understand if you have a couple you like but personally I find extensions only make Chrome slower and I don’t trust most of them because of the deep access you need to grant. I’d just as rather turn my proxy on for a minute at the OS level and not have a permanent extension running in every single Chrome tab.
Seiuemon Inaba, who led Fanuc from its 1972 inception, has died at 95
Did you get a stand alone bidet installed in your house or is it something installed in your toilet?
I agree it should be substantially cheaper. It's just not that hypertrophic difference. Also on Peninsula one can still find houses under 1.5M, judging by San Jose median of less than 1.1M.
As an example of why remote visits are a policy problem, ask yourself why video visits weren’t common before the pandemic even though we’ve had the technology in various forms for literally decades (Skype was founded in 2003 as just one example). Turns out, it’s an incentive and policy problem! Video visits weren’t reimbursed the same way (I’ve personally had to haggle with my insurer when a video primary care visit wasn’t tagged with a COVID exception and cost me multiples of the usual $25 copay). See also this article:

https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/as-the-covid...

Relevant section:

“ prior rules and regulations pertaining to telehealth, such as those regarding HIPAA regulations and payer coverage standards, were relaxed to encourage telehealth use”

Also ask yourself why the Obama administration literally had to pay doctors to adopt computerized medicine records. Did the government have to pay Walmart to computerize it’s supply chain in the 1970s? No! It had the right incentives. Does square need to pay small merchants to adopt their cash registers and digitize their menus? Not really, they make the clear case that the digital menu drives more sales. Why do you think doctors needed the extra push? Because the market doesn’t pay them to be efficient record keepers, or penalize them for not doing so.

That’s just 2 examples, there are dozens more.

Virtually nothing in healthcare is a technology problem except for new treatment development. 4 years of working in the sector taught me this. There are places tech can help, (one example is maybe somewhat improved patient management in a managed care context, though that’s a super competitive market) but the big systemic problems are there for regulatory and incentive reasons. I hope I’m wrong, but pretty sure I’m not.
Great Veritasium video.

So some flat earth arguments are actually correct if general relativity is correct, namely that gravity is an illusion and that the real reason we are stuck to the earth is that the earth is accelerating toward us at 9.8 m/s^2
> Even if the rule count were unlimited, having a static list of rules handicaps more complex algorithms like those used in uBlock Origin, that aren't limited to "if URL in URL_LIST then block".

Google is deeply afraid of machine learning based ad blocking. You can only camouflage ads so much before they don't serve their purpose. Forcing ad blockers to use a primitive blocking method prevents smarter ad blockers from being built.
So happy to read this. Keeping our activity data private is essential. Next update will have couple of cool new features , get ready!
Coming up with the idea of a portable personal computing device is easy. It's even possible to manufacture it (e.g. the Apple Newton). However it won't affect people's lives until it is quite polished. Similarly figuring out that people want to stream all their music is easy. The innovation in getting it to work, overcoming complex technological and social barriers is hard to explain to outsiders and less obvious. But it opens up these 'old things' to new people who couldn't access them before.

For another unicorn, clearly opening up new things to people: Oculus, though it wasn't the first virtual reality headset.
I really like when it continues thus:

George: I am not trying to do Y. I'm trying to do V, and the path to V requires W which necessitates X.

Jasminda: *crickets*

In other words, Jasminda doesn't have an answer to the problem. I can only guess at Jasminda's motivations.
https://archive.vn/6YEvf

Fanuc: Fuji Automatic Numerical Control
Your water needs might drop significantly once the forest is established. Depending on the trees, the established canopy might drop the evaporative losses dramatically.
I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor
Reminds me of the library modernization drive in 'Rainbows End'. The book digitizer is basically a wood chipper with lights and high speed cameras in the debris chute.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/27/no-feigning-surprise/
Tout ce que vous devez savoir sur l'Ultra Wideband
Can you describe to me a practical use case where use of Amnesiac is warranted, but encryption of data is not?

If you're uploading whistleblower documents to Wikileaks, sure you could use Amnesiac to do the upload, but where are the documents? Are they on an unencrypted USB stick? You clearly need encryption for this use case.

Are you buying/selling drugs on the Tor network? You probably need some cryptocurrency keys, where are they? On a USB stick in plain text? You clearly need encryption for this use case.

Or maybe you're a security researcher who's trying to anonymously report a vulnerability to a corporation that's known to go after researchers. Where is your poc code? On an unencrypted USB stick? You clearly need encryption for this use case.
Stegbrute – Fastest Steganography bruteforce tool written in Rust
Am I correct that they don't use a test-train split for generating these distilled images? Until you test on new images outside of what is inputted to the distiller, it seems to be a way to just overfit specific images, probably by combining unique elements of each into a single composite image. There are plenty of classical signal processing ways to do this (including just building a composite patchwork quilt).
The kinds of noises that often keep people awake at home aren't really the strong suit for active noise cancellation technology, but it works well enough that there's a whole market for noise cancelling sleep aids. You're probably better off looking there than the Bose QC; ordinary headphones and pillows often don't agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-cancelling_headphones#As...
This is cool! I've been using something similar called Backyard (https://backyard.co/) for game nights with friends - they've got video, voice and text chat with a whole host of games all in one place. I think your site would benefit from some of the same design decisions they've made like showing a snapshot of a game and available titles on the homepage. Also, my squad loves the backyard whiteboard since we can use it for student group projects and stuff when we're not trying to play
It happens occasionally but “a ton” is probably overstating it. Any major website that doesn’t work on Safari for Mac and iOS is going to get bug reports pretty quickly unless it’s a Google product and they just don’t care
2 out of 3
I don't understand why your post is downvoted. We need to SHOUT about switching to single other alternative left (Firefox) until it is too late.
A pair of walking shoes.

Been walking between an hour and three hours every day. Feel and sleep much better.
Yeah that's some pretty terrible naming. Why would you name something that is not based on TeX TeXmacs. Next you're going to tell me it isn't a Mac app.
Have you tried Truecaller? It will show you if it's a spammer or not and if you setup the app as the default phone application, it can automatically block the calls, you will just get a notification that xxx [spammer: XYZ] phone number was blocked.

In Greece there is a law '13th article' that every telephone company must have a list with the numbers that doens't want to be called by spammers. If you are listed in this list and a spammer calls you then you can press charges.
Isn't such law in your country?
In general, the issue of "Big tech companies have very large influence and are unchecked"
LyX saved me so much time over LaTeX in college. I recommend it completely for students who need to typeset math homework quickly.
I don't understand it. How can it accelerate towards anyone on its surface? Where does it get energy to accelerate? We generally need to burn fuel to accelerate something in the space.
Personally this sounds like an intensely editorial decision on Twitter side then.

Anyway what I was referring to was how Twitter's moderators decided to restrict this news based on it being obtained through hacking, but few days ago had nothing against Trump tax story that was based on illegally obtained documents.
Right it's just creating a 2D basis space and placing the various labels inside that space.

(And the previous paper was about compositing elements of multiple dataset images into a single training example - likely overfitting).
Yes I appreciate your concern. I'm aware of potential causes, and I believe these issues are quite normal really, if they are not frequent.
I personally use shorewall on an Espressobin ( though any multi-port computer works ). The guide I followed is here:
https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/

( BTW, I would not recommend the espressobin if you want gigabit speeds )

I can't find the one I got originally, but any wifi AP works, like amzn.com/B010S6SG3S
Just get one for the approximate bandwidth you want to support.
How would periodic “free-fall” motion look in this setup? E.g. a point mass orbiting around a body, or a point mass oscillating back and forth in a 1D gravity well.
Would love to time travel to the town halls of Boston during this time period.
There are the 'European programs' that you can apply and if you are selected you will be funded to implement something, that may be software, documentation, management with or without other groups of europeans.
I've read this book and found it worthwhile.

A couple of the "algorithms" that I find were worth keeping in mind are:

1. Marriage problem (aka Secretary, suitor, best choice): if you're given options that you can compare but do not have an objective value of worth and you have a bound # of candidates, only look for the first 37% of options. Then pick the next that beats the best-so-far.

I like this one because it shows that for some problems there is no wins-all solution. Sometimes the suitors just get worst over time (real-life dating amirite?). Sometimes the options only get better (computer hardware? Cloud solutions?) but you have to pick at some point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

2. Deadlines make prioritization and scheduling nigh impossible. You can have your priorities all in line and think you can just work from most to least important, but if something is due, like Taxes or putting the trash bins out, those get jammed in.

This is partly why I loathe how deadlines are chosen in the corporate office. Management found that setting deadlines gets things done by a date, so they use it for everything, which throws prioritization of work completely out of wack. Missed deadlines are easy to track and punish and put what's trackable over (potentially) what's important.

3. If you want to know how much longer something will go on or last, and you have no way to estimate, you can assume you're in the middle. Kind of like the law of averages. No one wants to think they're average, but we most likely are (or at least within a std-dev or two.

I find this helps when deciding on, say, what language or framework to learn or which car to buy. It helps to fight against hype. Will X be around for 10 more years? Well, it's only been around for 3, so probably not, but A has been around for 50 years, so...

It also helps to know that whatever latest trend or fad will likely be gone as quickly as it came.

4. I can't recall the formula now, but I know that there's a formula for how long you can expect to wait in a line. It also works for anything with a queue, a process time, and a capacity. It helps when people say "Look how long the line is!" Instead, take a minute and see if the line ever moves, not how long it is.

None of these algorithms completely fit real-life examples, but they just give small tools and tricks to think about things. They're not meant to be used blindly, but just as a starting point to help when there seems to be no starting point or too many options. And hey, sometimes there's just not a "best" and it sometimes helps knowing that too!
Sub headline of #2 (no body reading required)

> “Is there isolation? There is none. Are there (enough) tests? No there aren’t,” one pediatrician in Buenos Aires said.
Almost any browser extension is a security risk, because it can inject JS code into web pages.
True gravitational force is something that can’t be transformed away by an arbitrary choice of frame (even an accelerating one).

As a brief example, consider two objects in downwards free fall toward the centre of some massive object. Since they head towards the centre, in a free falling frame the two objects actually get closer to each other until they collide as they reach the centre.

This is known as the tidal effect of gravity and is the actual physical content of general relativity. This effect can be shown to be obtained by an appropriate curvature of spacetime which itself can be shown to be related to the stress-energy of matter inhabiting spacetime.
That's great news, isn't it? (-:

As you can see, people didn't get your reference to Top Gear's running joke about the press release announcements ahead of availability of the Sandero, in a comment to a press release announcement of a Dacia car that is "available now" but cannot be ordered until 2021.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-7Ps8EWnk
I mean, the current President of CNN was previously in charge of NBC's primetime programming when he lined up Trump for The Apprentice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/media/jeff-zucke...
Things that freed up time.

Not any one thing in particular, but if I could save money by, say, picking up my food from a restaurant vs having it delivered, I would. Now I gladly pay the fee for saving me 20 min.
The way it works now is as follows:

* Monopolies by themselves are OK

* Abusing monopoly power in one market to leverage an unfair advantage in another market is NOT OK.

In the case of the latter there ain't a tax (the irony is that large behemoths are already avoiding paying their fair tax). A tax lcould also morally legalize the behaviour (moral is important in antitrust behaviour look at the claws/lobby of tobacco firms).

On the contrary, it is a fine by a government subjected by a court of law. Every government has to start this lawsuit themselves though. It takes a lot of effort, time, money. On top of the fine, action as a result of being found guilty can be demanded as well (see history of US phone companies).
Ok. I think hygiene depends on municipal water pressure then, unless one uses a bidet with built-in compressor.
It goes back and forth. As of a couple years ago, Safari sandboxed the network process which Chrome did not do. Chrome also sends a significant amount of personal data and usage data to Google and potentially other parties which significantly harms the supposed security. Having an always on data feed of the users actions (to enhance your advertising business) is not good security practice.
Remember forums? Remember how you had to have a separate account on every single one? Remember how you stuck around some forums, but not others? Treat it like that.
I was in the middle of treatments when lock downs started. Then I lost Access to all my doctors. Thankfully things worked out eventually, but had some bad scares.

So yea, Lockdowns put me personally at risk. And since I have young daughters that puts them at risk for being homeless.
> Services are free to rate-limit or ban you if they catch you... but if you can get around that then the information/interaction is yours.

So what you're saying is, you'd like to encourage a technological arms race between intrusion detection systems and hackers, without any legal repercussions for either side - and this should somehow be in the interests of users.

I don't know why we'd need a "free market" approach, but this is just lawlessness.

The result will be that legitimate users get the worst of both worlds: If I want to download my own Spotify playlist myself, I'll be out of luck - because my dead-simple Wget call will be no match for Spotify's bot detection.
There is nothing I could legally do to make Spotify give me a copy of my own playlist - I'll have to pay some third-party service that has the necessary know-how to evade the detection and scrape the data for me.

Meanwhile, some hacker could use the same service to impersonate me or steal my data - and I'd again have no legal recourse because, hey, no protection, what the hacker did was perfectly legal.

Why would I want any of this?
The Earth-Shaping Animal Migration No One Ever Sees
Not really. A child can see a single static picture of an unfamiliar animal and learn to recognize the animal from that picture alone.
I remember pre-Internet Radio 4 being incredibly frustrating, as they'd have excellent programmes, but the chances of actually catching them was far more fleeting than a TV show, as there was no readily available technology analogous to a video recorder. The very best (eg the Lord of the Rings dramatisation) would (eventually) be released commercially but vast amounts of quality output would never reach the people who'd appreciate it.
"in curved spacetime, an object needs to accelerate just to stay still"

I don't really understand why, that was just the explanation Derek gave.