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Thank you for this suggestion! I have started reading it on oreilly and really loving it.

If you have any other suggestions on Books and Courses, please do share...
> TV didn't have the damage on our society that he expected.

Postman examined television in the context of 200 years of American typographically delivered news. What was different about newspapers, pamphlets, magazines and journals is that the written form encouraged the presentation of evidence and the construction of arguments with a logical foundation, often prefaced or buttressed with historical context.

Television news is different in three major ways:

1. Articles are 30 - 45 seconds long, then the topic changes to something unrelated, or a word from our sponsor.

2. Each article requires no previous knowledge of a topic. An elephant tipping over a tourist bus is featured as its own spectacle, without any consideration of how the land was used for the previous millennium.

3. The actors are personalities with images. Contrast this with print and radio where the main information that was transmitted about a news actor was his or her argument, actions, and the consequences thereof.
Related to this, where would this stand legally if your device automatically connected to your neighbour's network?

In the UK, you can be arrested for unauthorised use of a Wi-Fi network, under our Computer Misuse Act law. [0] I think this would be unlikely if the network was wide open, but I believe it could still happen in principle.

edit I missed this from the linked article. Looks like you can't be arrested for accidentally using an unsecured Wi-Fi network.

> If the network was hacked then a crime has been committed, but our friends over at Out-Law.com confirm that connecting to the wrong network by mistake is not a crime

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2008/10/30/wi_fi_arrest/
It'd surprise me!
Opera Mail did that too, and before GMail, I think. A single email database with tag-based filtered views on the UI end.
Holy crap I didn't know manufacturers were looking at this. Quick search shows, of course, Huawei to release a 5G TV.

How expected...
Is there some context as to why I'm seeing this on HN?
Yes, this is why these mRNA vaccines are here so fast; a lot of prework was done for SARS vaccine, which is also a Corona disease.

But I think SARS died out before the vaccine was ready/needed.
looks promising in helping the ML community advance significantly. will take a deeper look soon
Julia, Common Lisp, and maybe Haskell or something like that for me. I use Julia to get the correct solutions in a naive way, then I optimise the approach and compare the efficiency of the languages. It's pretty fun. Yesterdays puzzle was 0.0002 in Julia and 0.002 in CL for the exact same approach.
>I can't help but think people who complain about this, are just bad at creating functions at the correct level of abstraction.

They are complaining due to difficulty of reading other peoples' code, not their own.
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thank you for the correction, I'm still pretty new to the backend world so I play too fast n loose with this terminology.
What's the harm? Just don't use them.
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This is important background material into why I started publishing my ideas into Explainable AI. Very open to feedback, as always.
But you have to take into account the cost of switching/migrating. And possibly lock-in.

So if your customer makes the effort to leave your SaaS, then you know that they were really very much not satisfied.
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My point is that the Australian perspective on the matter invites no controversy.

The indigenous population of Australia is dark-skinned and has access to all the sun it needs in order to stay Vitamin-D sufficient.

Coincidentally, the COVID-19 mortality rates in Australia are low as well, though some might prefer to chalk that up to the strict lockdowns.
This is insincere. Rust can unwind too, but as in Go, this not the usual error handling mechanism.
> MacStadium's prices are "rather less than 20%" of AWS's prices. To make sense, AWS would have to be comparable to MacStadium's pricing.

Not at all. MacStadium is not inside the AWS network, so there’s nothing comparable about it.

I’m not sure why they went for a 24h minimum though. That defeats the entire point of cloud computing for me.
If a protein is a self assembling nano machine, why do we have to fold them manually in simulations?
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Just finished their podcast on Gimlet, kind of cool stuff. Curious to know if anyone used their service and what was your experience like?
GS was the intermediary. AllianceBernstein and Putnam Investments were the counterparty. GS makes money by facilitating the transaction whereas the counterparty holds the risk
Neil Postman wrote 20 books using pen and paper. He did not own or use a typewriter or a computer.

Postman's use of language is precise, economical, informative, and moving. His vocabulary is a deft deck.

In 1987, Postman was given the George Orwell Award for Clarity in Language by the National Council of Teachers of English. He was for ten years editor of Et Cetera, the journal of general semantics.
I am pretty sceptical of this specific rumour and I suspect it's an urban legend.

But regardless of that… it's totally plausible that a manufacturer could end up doing this, and as such it presents a risk vector. I can even see how it might be done semi-accidentally by a bad engineering team.

An even bigger risk is corporate-owned mesh networks, like Amazon Sidewalk. It's quite possible that TVs with Alexa support will end up also having access to this network, and will use your neighbour's Echo to ship data back even without you knowing. Or even a built-in LTE/5G transceiver.

Without strong regulation of privacy and consent, this will be a persistent and dangerous issue.
The Moon is indeed the best place to "learn the ropes" before setting out further out.

But it does not attract the same level of excitement as Mars does for some reason. We're already been there so it seems it's been ticked off the list...
That is a good point. How much is enough should ideally be asked for someone in late 30's, 40's or early 50's. The assumption is being able to live off net worth without compromising on lifestyle.
Can someone tell, what is considered a decent net worth these days? ( Keeping the above point in mind)
It's an interesting question. I'm sure you could probably do a study and find that on average British people are no more self-deprecating than the average; and yet it does appear as one of those commonly accepted parts of the British psyche.
Advanced users that want a secure device require devices that can be reinitialized to a known state without external input.

This is no longer possible on any phone, tablet, or computer Apple sells: all require online activation with device-specific info. There is no way to put the device back into a known state offline or without Apple having an opportunity to tamper with it (or be forced to tamper with it).
Mankind undertakes numerous endeavours where the benefits might be non-existent or very indirect. I would argue that when it comes to colonising Mars, we're looking at the latter case.

First rather obvious thing is that building the colony requires a great deal of technological advancement, which in turn creates employment throughout society from research positions to supply chain vacancies. These advancements might also lead to commercial successes which in turn create even more employment and likely an increase in the quality of life.

Second it is a huge inspiration for a lot of people. The very idea that we can conquer space is something that makes me feel shivers. At the same time it is art, testament of the good parts of our species. That romantic notion might end up inspiring many young folk to take careers in fields that contribute to the betterment of mankind.
Apple has an aversion to GPL 3 and not to GPL 2.x because of what 3 forces people to do. It's the same with FreeBSD: once libgcc_s went to 3 they could no longer use it.

It's the same reason why bash and rsync have not been upgraded on macOS to newer versions: they also started using GPL3.
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Exactly because then we would have peer-to-peer connections between Android and iOS phones, reducing the lock-in Apple has on its consumers.
so what are we afraid of here? That a MiM attack would give us the wrong weather data?
Hell, the company will spend more money on agonizing over the question of whether we should buy a $1500 Mac in the first place.

Besides, if your cloud spend is already a fuckton, $24 per day extra is not going to make you blink.
Launch HN: Insightfactory: personalized SEO guide for small business owners
I thought many people have to start their business online, covid-19 boost this change and most guides on the internet targeted to digital marketers not a non-technical local business owner.
I wrote the first part, what do you think?
The only important advices you need to know before your flight
Have you ever thought about how you are going to react when your plane is crashing?
What are the necessary steps you need to take?
Following the cabin crew advices? - no no no!

In this video you have everything you need to know
A very interesting read, and yet... I'm always getting depressed from reading such stories of folks working in finance.

So many smart people, so many working hours, for what? Making tons of money without improving society one single bit. Yes, it's how the system works, no, I don't blame people for taking advantage of it, but I find it still depressing.
It's one of the books that I retained absolutely nothing from. Before reading it I had a general pop-culture idea of cognitive biases and behavioral science. After reaing the book - the exact same general feeling with no additional knowledge or insight acquired.
I believe the courts have ruled that it is still considered unauthorized access even if the target doesn't make any attempt to defend themselves (see the AT&T hack). However I wouldn't hold my breath that it would be prosecuted that way.
Dunno.

Some conspiracy theories are easily categorized, but not all. Some are partly true, or based on fact, some have people actively working to develop them, and some evolve over the years.

To take the most popular current example: Trump's claim that the election was stolen.

There are two conspiracy theories going on in tandem: The Left claims that the Republicans are creating a false narrative that their friends in the supreme court will accept against the people, and the Right claims that Democrat controlled voting accepted illegal and duplicate votes to create a false narrative that he lost the popular vote.

There are elements of truth to each claim. I personally (anecdotally) know of at least one duplicate vote for Biden that would not have been accepted had they voted in person.
But I don't pretend that all mail-in votes were false or that the courts are unbiased.

Another example is FreeMasonry, which has changed so much and is so widespread that no matter what you say it may have been true in at least one lodge somewhere, and is kooky when appplied to the group as a whole.

And what Snowden proved would probably have been treated as a conspiracy theory based on what was known before he leaked his data. That doesn't mean it was less of a conspiracy, and such a tool would have "proven" those investigating the NSA to be wrong or insane, and would repel further queries.

Extra terrestrial life is treated very differently by government bodies than by spook hunters and the delusional. Is it a conspiracy? Or does it contain some conspiracies, some theories, some nonsense and some fact?

So where does conspiracy begin?
I haven't learned Rust yet, but no it's not insincere. Go has a textbook definition of exceptions.

The mere fact that they are less used doesn't make them "not exceptions".

And importantly it doesn't matter that they are less common. Merely having exceptions means that everyone has to write exception-safe code.

HTTP handlers silently swallow exceptions, so you can't rely on your program dying if there's a panic.

fmt.Printf can panic as far as you know, too.

Essentially you need RAII, except that because Go doesn't have RAII every single resource needs:

r, err := getResource()
if err != nil {
…
}
defer r.Close()

But because "Go doesn't have exceptions" people often don't bother with the defer, and then they get bugs. I see it happening frequently.

You need to write exception-safe code. But also you're not allowed to use exceptions. So it's the worst of both worlds.

I write and review a lot of Go code, and I like the language. But I don't like the dishonesty.
> Obviously there is the argument "I own the apartment so I can do whatever I want"

I mean, zoning is a thing, right?
> The regulations created an artificial scarcity

Is the classification as an employee, with attached benefits, artificial scarcity in a negative sense? If so, we got quite a few industries that would also love to remove this "artificial scarcity" and allow the use of day labourers.
Very well written overview of the problem and the solution approach for a non-biologist. Thank you!
What's the purpose of this ? Where it would be useful for ?
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As an addition, I've been trying their qemu image, and similar to an older, similarly radical distro "rsld" (the old release which was graphical), it's usable in qemu, with kvm disabled, to get a snappy graphical environment that can even browse the web (with all the limitation those simple webbrowser have). Browsing HN (using netsurf), while checking memory usage in a st window uses 56MBs of memory. IIRC rsld, which used dillo on tinyxserver, used ~25MB on something like wikipedia.

Other notable "radical" linux systems are EasyOS, RancherOS, Bedrock linux, Gobolinux, NixOS and Guix.
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I was naive to think that these type of consistencies were already in place.
At first I clicked and thought, so what? Then I got it and had a good chuckle.

Edit: looks like most readers don't get it either...
I think you might have misunderstood my post. I'm not advocating having large functions over smaller functions. What I'm advocating is instead of breaking functions based purely on a visual criteria or by grouping functionality, it's better to use proper abstractions when breaking the function.

> You can just skip over it

The point is that if I blindly break a larger functions by functionality, I still have to understand the deeper functionality. So, I can't just skip when I'm debugging or deeply reviewing/inspecting the code, or doing a rewrite or trying to understand it.

> I can't help but think people who complain about this, are just bad at creating functions at the correct level of abstraction.

My point was exactly that you should create functions at the correct level of abstraction, rather than just splitting large functions purely by functionality, like you would with a cooking recipe.

> If your function does an unexpected side effect, thats a problem with the code

But this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. If you need side effects, keep them visible, by keeping them in the main function, instead of just blindly putting them into smaller functions.
Can recommend the digital signage route (there's not a lot of opionions on that written down. At least I found no reviews/forum posts at all...). Got mine (Samsung QM49N) from an Amazon-clearance sale (marked down 50% - apparently they couldn't successfully break existing supply chains this iteration).

Initially I was a little bit worried that it might have really bad black levels/image quality, given that it's rated for 24/7 and 500cm/m² of backlight brightness and the fact they offer a "plain" TV-like model for a little bit less. I was pleasantly suprised that these fears were unfounded and you can even adjust the actual backlight (most TVs will do this dynamically and so have fun in your sunny living room...) and it has really great viewing angles (for VA. I own a 32" VA-display as well ...). I'd say picture quality is on par, if not better than most of what I could have gotten at a similar price point (remember price was reduced from €800 to €400) and compares okish to the €900€ TV of relatives (the latter has less banding (and yes, every TV in the 3-digit range has groce banding))

So: if you see a digital-signage display marked down and are shopping for a TV (without nuisances and inbuilt-tuner). Try it. It might be a really nice experience!
It's not always that easy I think. My LG TV has a Bluetooth remote and I know for a fact that it has a single WiFi / Bluetooth connectivity module (because it crapped out on me recently). Removing the module would render the remote and the TV unusable.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorology...

"Bureau of Meteorology hacked by foreign spies in massive malware attack, report shows"

Clearly someone has an interest in targeting it - who knows if HTTPS would actually mitigate the risks though. Doubt it would hurt and would not be that difficult. It shows the lack of maintaince in BOM that leads to events like this.
I think while funding has been increased overall due to more people in academia, the processes to acquire said funding got more complex so that a significant part of work is actually making sure the next grant can be secured. Similar situation in publishing. The research might only get a backseat.

That said, this is primarily a computational problem, so the advances here might not be applicable to basic research.
That's a solid question.

We know the sequence of amino acids, we know what order they are in. but remember they are assembled 1 at a time inside the cell. Andso the way they fold 1 at a time is different from simulating how the whole thing end-to-end will fold.

another thing to be aware of is the environment in which it folds, the local pH can affect which -OH groups exist as OH or as O(minus), which affects the way it folds. Then there is local salt concentrations, various proteins incorperate calcium, magnesium or other metals into the structure.

There are Post-translational modifications that are made, where other enzymes come in and snip bits off, add sugars to proteins, catalyse S-S bonds etc.

Finally, we want to know how they are folded because we want to be able to modify their behavior. If you know that an enzyme is key in a disease you might want to design a drug molecule that can fit into its active site, for that we need to know how the protein is folded.
Well, io_uring is cheaper (significantly!) precisely because its for async operations, which can be pipelined. Application logic almost never uses malloc() in asynchronous, pipelineable fashion.
they'll end up preying on the people in 3rd world countries that don't have strong privacy legislation. Same way as Phillip Morris did with cigarettes...
I don't think it takes a PhD in psychology to recognize that people like to live their own lives and not just commute to/from office, eat, shower, repeat, fast forward 40 years, and die.
I didn't get it what am I missing?
> “The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has been undertaking what it has called a comprehensive rebuild of its IT systems and related business processes and applications, focused on addressing security and resilience risks. ... The component operations contract is expected to start December this year and run through June 2022.” [1]

Now that it’s December, time to get moving BoM!

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/bom-seeks-robust-cloud-and-wan...
Why is there /akamai/ in the first redirection target URL? Isn't Akamai, the company, already infamous for blocking deployment of TLS?
More realistically: inject shady/spammy ads, or malware.
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>Bullshit. After trying all kinds of "digital alternatives" for note-taking, I went back to pen-and-paper.

Sure. How does what YOU did invalidate a general observation, and even more so, make it "bullshit"?

The observation about what "the bulk of us" do might be factually correct or not (I'm pretty use it is).

But it's in no way invalidated just because you do something else...

Only absolute statements are invalidated by a single counter-example (or a handful of them).
You've come to the right person. I must have tried them all in my time. Here's a few that have stuck around:

Ibis Paint [0] -- [Free and paid versions]. Ignore the puke-making cutesy Manga gallery that greets you when you fire it up. It's actually a really full featured drawing app with layers / filters / masking / PSD export, etc. This is the one I use most

Autodesk Sketchbook [1] --[Free] Similarly full featured to Ibis Paint, but slightly less so. Text handling tools not as good. I used to use this a lot before I discovered Ibis Paint

Infinite Design [2] --[Free and paid] The most full featured Vector Drawing app I've found. There's a lot in there but it can be a bit clunky to use and theres a bit of lag when drawing, which puts me off using it much.

Concepts [3] --[Free and paid]. A real mixed bag this one. I find the pen tool one of the nicest and most expressive to draw with of any app I've tried. And the infinite canvas is good for just doodling and 'seeing where it takes you'.

Unfortunately, it's one of those apps where the designers have thrown usability guidelines out the window, to come up with an 'innovative' interface, which I personally find really annoying to use. It also gets a lot of flak for the slow pace of development on Android. The developers have been promising feature parity with the iOS version [which is apparently much better] for years now, but it never seems to arrive.

Photo Editor [4] -- [Free and paid] This is as close to a mini Photoshop as you can get on Android] as in an app for manipulating existing images, rather than drawing per se. The interface is a bit menu heavy and unintuitive at times. But there's a lot in there, if you do a bit of digging.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ne.ibis.ibi...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adsk.sketc...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tophatch.c...

[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.and...

I've got a load of other graphic and drawing apps installed. But those tend to be the ones which get the most usage. Your best bet is probably to do what I did; install a load of them and see how you get on, as everyone has a different style of working and a different idea of what constitutes a usable interface.

I found that, as with a lot of so-called "reviews" these days, most of the articles I searched for on topics like "XX Great Drawing Apps for Android", when I first got my tablet, were little more than rehashed press releases, outlining the features of various apps but giving no insight into their 'real world' usability.
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Nice app, i played for some time and found it immersive - especially the nsfw filter and categories selection is very good. Keep up the good work
And also malware for taking distributed encrypted backups with excellent key hiding features.
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