skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great to hear, that currently is me in various forms - start doing squats in the gym and my knees hurt, play a lot of tennis and something else hurts, etc. I really enjoy the few 10 minute yoga videos I've tried so it's great to hear that something I actually enjoy could be the trick to getting me exercise-ready.

Can I ask you two questions from the other side of this?

- I've spent quite a while searching through yoga videos on YouTube without being able to figure out what a good progression from easy to difficult might look like. Mind sharing some of the ones you found worked the best for you on a regular basis?

- I noticed a lot of yoga videos involve rounding your back eg in toe touching movements. This really put me off because from everything I've read (a lot of Stuart McGill), movements that take your spine out of neutral position and put load on it are bad for the long term health of your back. Did the yoga you practiced involve these movements? Did you notice any ill effects on your back health?
The NYTimes [1] did an excellent expose on this a year ago.
They purchased location data on 12 million phones across the country.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...
How does the use fee get set? I think you're simplifying things too much. Creating a land market where people can be forced to sell their land that they don't want to sell doesn't seem like it'd work.
Thank you for the explanation, I really appreciate it. I've updated the article to more accurately reflect what goes on under the hood.

Is there a way to edit submission titles? Or is that a moderator only thing?
Wow neat. This has to be one of the most promising new language I've seen in a while.
What's wrong with:

du -h | sort -h
> You are complaining about public transportation in the Île-de-France region. Think about that for a second. Few regions have such an extensive network of public transport options.

Yes, and it still sucks. Now imagine how much it sucks in other regions.
Presumably you are taking about a hierarchical pie chart (wikipedia refers to it as a "ring chart" which may be the common terminology?). Perhaps not immediately intuitive but once you understand it, it's a great visualization tool. I first encountered them as visualizations for IP address management.
So you're a structural biologist. Good for you? I'm not sure how it affects that substance of the argument you're making. I'm not trying to argue from authority here -- I'm pointing out that I have direct experience in this specific area, just so that you know I'm not some random commenter.

"It is my judgement that if you presented these results in 2003 anyone would have said "the protein folding problem has been solved"."

Your judgment is your own. At the very least, your use of the word "anyone" should give you pause.

"Nobody then expected "the solution to protein folding" to solve every single protein, and it's silly to now."

Not the argument I'm making.

"If you're complaining about the 33% error rate, you don't know enough about ML to realize that that gap is going to get closed, and rapidly."

Not the argument I'm making.

"My argument is that it is "good enough for the uses that are in the domain of protein folding"."

I have no idea what that means. Uses "in the domain of protein folding" are equivalent to uses "in the domain of structural biology". So obviously, it depends on the quality of the structure being generated.

"There are a lot of things that are adjacent to protein folding (enzyme pocket analysis .e.g), but they never have been considered to protein folding per se."

You seem to have some internal dialogue where there is a field called "protein folding", where there is an unambiguous threshold for success that has now been crossed. There is no such field, and there is no such threshold.

Are these structures good enough to do some kinds of things, like structural genomics or docking? I dunno...maybe? Are they good enough to do structure-based drug design? Not from what I've seen. TFA seems to be saying the same thing, and your comment was that TFA is just wildly wrong, which seemed...unfair, at best.
WDDM's ability to do that has been progressively enhanced since Vista. Today's OSX is about where Windows was during Vista, and it really shows on Macs that are older, but still supported, usually shown via latency in normal situations, eg, just moving a window around on the screen (something every OS gets correct except OSX).

Today's WDDM, however, is snappy as hell, even on my MBP from 2012, but OSX is, and always will be, a sluggish nightmare. Intel GPU alone, no Nvidia or AMD DGPU, old enough that it has no hardware scheduling features, isn't DX12 compliant, but with Win10, its still is just as fast as my brand new workstation build when it comes to just being a plain ordinary desktop.

Apple needs to fix their development culture internally, and it strongly shows in their software product quality. Sad, because the M1 seems like a cool chunk of hardware, could be a real winner if it wasn't held down by OSX.
Typically land is bundled with the improvements to said land though.
Oh, thanks.

Maybe. (I certainly do experience that in general!) In the UK though I very rarely hear people describe themselves or others as 'a person/people of colour' though, even in full I mean; it's American to my ear.
This breakthrough happened already. This is called bidirectional or invertible parsing. See it discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392654

And this paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1863523.1863525 "Invertible syntax descriptions: unifying parsing and pretty printing"

And this Haskell library https://hackage.haskell.org/package/roundtrip among others
> […] but for the past several years they default to a scaled display mode. For anyone not familiar, the frame buffer is a higher resolution, and scaled down for the display, trading sharpness for screen space.

My understanding of how scaled resolutions in macOS work is that graphics are always rendered at the display's native resolution. The scaling factor only decides the sizing of the rendered elements. Can you point to some documentation that supports your view? I'd like to learn if I'm wrong and understand all the details.
Earmarks and pork funding is not even corruption. It is a representative's duty to advocate on behalf of their constituents. And constituents want spending programs in their communities.
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DNS over HTTPS has been a thing since before IETF standardized it, the technique was just in the form of a non-standardized API running on some benign domain.
After reading the article, I didn't feel like any of these were particularly nefarious intrusions as they largely involved the student knowingly using Brown's services (buildings, wifi, access management system IPs, physical presence on campus). The article was pretty well-written and informative in general on how a number of services we take for granted can be used to locate you.

I do take issue with Brown's extremely harsh language in one of the linked articles where they threatened students with suspension...all for being in the local Providence area?!
Why would they be sued? It's all right there in the contract in black and white.

And, naturally, all the customers carefully read through the contract. /s

I don't even know what could be done to stop this stuff at this point? I think it's too far gone.
If CL had only two namespaces, it would be odd and random, but not unique. It's like writing `./foo` vs `foo` in shell. Common Lisp is naturally more like operating system than programming language anyway.

But once you realize that CL has more than two namespaces (I think it has at least nine in the language itself, unlimited in user programs) it's easier to understand how it can be more than historical accident. People are used to thinking words in context.

I do mostly numerical programming today. Common Lisp would have been my preference and IMHO much better than Python I have no time to rewrite numpy or R libraries in CL.
You can add Lua to this list!

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I kind of doubt it. You, as a 18-22 year old college student, would leave your friends, girlfriend/boyfriend, and everything else because of this? More likely, you and your friends would instead just bitch about it and call the admins nazis while getting drunk.
Twitter. Just Twitter.

All of my jobs have come from a direct recommendation from the head of the department. Everything else gets passed through HR and takes forever.

People find me, or I find them. We chat. Interview. Test. Offer.

Sometimes whoishiring is good for more niche jobs but don't post your email in plaintext. Use an alias, I've noticed certain variants of my email getting sold off to recruiter farms from here.

You want a LinkedIn just to show that you are a real person.
Levels.fyi is a good resource for negotiating salaries and managing expectations.
A few years ago you could look up any cellphone number’s location on a public website:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...
Shouldn't there be like laws to protect against those, and a few huge class-action lawsuits, forcing the telcos to pay millions and millions of dollars because of that?
nitpicking, but this is not a lambda. it's an anonymous function.
Unfortunately, this is standard practice across schools (and most big employers). This is definitely not a problem unique to Brown, or even elite schools.

There was a scandal back in 2010 where a high school in Philadelphia was accused of spying on kids through school-issued laptop webcams [1], which is arguably more egregious.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-s...
There is a sense in which pork wastes money: distributed production is less efficient than centralized production. And you could call a congressman wasting the public's money to get something for this district a kind of corruption. But like I said, I think this inefficiency is a small price to pay for peace.
Thanks, I’m checking it out, it seems pretty interesting to keep an eye on. Lots of properties that would be useful in our shared computing environment like not requiring root or Docker.
Reading back the NYT full page add Slack bought when Teams launched is really interesting[0]:

"We realized a few years ago that the value of switching to Slack was so obvious and the advantages so overwhelming that every business would be using Slack, or “something just like it,” within the decade."

It seems they were right about the "something just like it" part!

[0] https://slack.com/blog/news/dear-microsoft#.os9n0emzt
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Also:

Bhaskaracharya and the man who found zero:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2010/06/bhaskaracharya-and-man-w...
> Brown University has a longstanding policy governing the appropriate uses of its surveillance cameras. Unfortunately, this policy is secret.

That's concerning.
It might be poorly worded but OP's comment sounds very absolute about this to me.

> Second, what does Christianity have to do with anything?

The way Kant tries to base his theories on axioms is similar to what some theologians did.
Edit: I just realized that not everyone does jumping burpees. If I cut out the jump and am careful to not flare my elbows, it might work. I'll give it a try after my wife wakes up.

I like burpees, but the ceiling is barely taller than a standard door frame. Also, I think it would be very careful to come down and not flare my elbows wider than 2 feet. The bathroom is so small that they use a mini square sink, maybe 10 inch diagonal. Maybe I could kick my feet out of the shower and next to the toilet, but that still wouldn't solve the ceiling height issue, and I'd probably eventually injure myself by accidentally kicking the toilet.

On a side note, I have a buddy who was using burpees for Tabata training in his kitchen. His wife complained about the sweat on the floor, so he did them on a towel. He stopped doing Tabata when his towel slipped and he hit his chin hard on the tile.
Last time I looked at it, it generated sub-objects as pointers allocated with new, which was a bit meh.
This is the correct answer. They technically capable students might try to somehow undermine this as well. That's the extent.
I wish enterprise software users/orgs liberated themselves from formal look and feel of GUI. Usual game softwares serve massive of users, and they are working great.
I guess the submission title is incorrect then:

>Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it
Yup, very impressive how well Apple has synced everything up. Definitely an advantage of controlling the whole stack.
It's not as customizable under the hood as Home Assistant, but it's much easier to setup than HA.

Mozilla was attempting to market it to telcos and home router manufacturers as a IoT addon for a while (in competition with stacks such as Samsung's SmartThings) so they did do quite a bit of working making it usable for the average person.
I felt this post took on a semi-conspiratorial tone, when all the things I felt were just "duh". It's not that Brown "knows where you are" at all times, they just know when you use on-campus resources.

I'd be willing to bet a bundle Brown is just looking at building card access, or also possibly connection to an on-campus wifi network. In both cases I think any reasonable person would expect that Brown knew they were using these resources.
I think linear regressions are perfectly explainable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_involving_ordinary_leas...
This is an interesting thought. It's like how we want developers to build affordable housing, but through the market they are forced to only create "luxury" developments in order to make up for the large fixed cost of the land.
"don't you worry, it's secret for your safety."

they probably do really think like that. or at least claim to while their real reasoning is a private affair.
Which is also being worked on via esni (now ECH for encrypted client hello) - https://crbug.com/boringssl/275
Bitcoin still makes no sense
This is not an article in an academic journal and we don't know how scientifically valid the CARE survey was - which btw wasn't specifically about Japan. It would almost certainly cover countries that were unable to effectively subsidise their shutdowns. Having said that, it does intuitively make sense that the economic down turn would place additional stress on those most affected by it.

The lockdown, however, was not the source of the economic down turn, but rather the virus roaming about killing people was the cause. An effective lockdown, supported by government subsidies and contact tracing, has been proven to be beneficial to the economy. After the shutdown, consumers can roam about in the comfort of knowing that they have almost zero chance of contracting the virus. Australia and New Zealand are now so confident in their success that they can fill entire stadiums with people as though a vaccine had already arrived.
The more I consider it, the more I think that bundling is anticompetitive. I guess there are some synergies to having Teams and Word integrated, but they don't seem very large. It seems if you want to do chat, you must also do all productivity software to compete, which is a real shame.

The ideal world (to me) is that Microsoft is forced to charge some price for Teams being turned on in a 365 subscription, which means that some companies can justify paying for 365 + Slack, not that Slack is acquired and bundled in with Quip. Honestly I think Salesforce will lose that battle; Microsoft's Word/Excel monopoly is unbreakable. I wish that didn't mean that they could weaponize that into destroying Slack, instead of competing with them in a regular way.

That's an idealist's take, though, it seems impossible to write reasonable rules that produce that kind of outcome without harming innovation.
Fossil seems very interesting, especially because it uses sqlite as the storage format and is created by sqlite authors.

Do you know if it is possible to use fossil locally pushing/pulling to/from git remote repositories? Thinking of some kind of bridge like git-svn.
I think I read somewhere that it will soon be more cost effective to build in cellular chips into "smart" devices like this to circumvent people who don't connect them to the internet.
Pi-hole is only effective when paired with NAT rules on your router to capture all DNS lookups.

Maybe there are routers with Pi-hole installed? I haven’t looked. I’ll bet there are guides for installing Pi-hole on edge routers, for example. You could then give the router to someone, ready to go.
Is it an intrusion when Google/Android does the same thing when you access their servers?
I'm not from the US, but from the excerpted letter, it appears to be related to COVID-19.

In Australia, we did the same thing - a lot of universities went remote-only, so that we could eradicate the virus.

It seems to have succeeded - COVID-19 seems to be under control in Australia (along with many other countries like NZ, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan etc) - however, the US/Europe seems to have really struggled to get it under control. I hope they succeed soon.

I get the sense that a lot of people here (I assume from the US) are worried about their rights being infringed, as part of trying to protect people from getting sick. I'm not saying there doesn't need to be a discussion, or there isn't a balance - but it does come across as a bit churlish and petty, to try to openly defy public health measures in the name of defending human rights in the midst of a global pandemic.
I actually mean solution architect in the sense of technical architect (e.g. cloud architect).
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>Well, the word 'algebra' would suggest credit is being given to the Arab world.

Also 'algorithm', 'alchemy' and 'alcohol', IIRC, and maybe other words too.
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sounds like a private version of the FISA courts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
1080, 1200, and 1440 are all of course smaller than the 1880 vertical resolution on the 15” MBP.

But it’s not just the resolution, it’s that Apple made such a high resolution usable via 2x rendering, and did so immediately for the entire system and all applications.
They bring together information from different sources, which should raise eyebrows.
Yes I understand it has to do with Covid. But more than asking people to leave - why do they actually worry if some don’t? E.g are they legally responsible somehow for making sure students leave?
It's interesting to me to explore this type of application that is interactive web page, but not web applications

Usually, the more interaction, the more likely it's application. The more it's just a page, the more it should be just HTML.
I believe you can self-host Firefox's sync server.
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I'm pretty sure (well certain) it's possible to do. We built a demo VR project to explore insect anatomy. It didn't get very far, was ultra crude, and we had no clue what to consider in the UI/UX of VR.

It melted our fellow scientist's minds, without exception they were floored by the potential, and this a complete hack. https://github.com/bioip/vronto
"I like burpees"

Three words you rarely see together.
The difference is you usually don't directly access their servers. You just walk in to a store and your phone grabs your location, sends it to google and then asks if you want to leave a review of the store.
Yeah, sounds like if you don't physically access the buildings, don't log onto the campus wifi (which requires authentication to use), and use a VPN (on computer and phone, for 2 factor auth) to access all your online course materials they can't really know where you are... Not too surprising, still good to know!
A company selling a product to a few isn’t an issue, yet one who controls the market is. It’s all about the scale
Maybe in small low-budget indy film making would the director be using the same equipment on set as they would in post. One where the director is also the editor is also the writer is also the producer. You know the ones. Typically, everything on set is a rental. The post studio would have their own equipment fitted for their rooms. I could see maybe a DIT taking their monitor to a cart and then back to a desktop in between gigs, but probably not then.
When I was a student at Brown, Facebook would report which dorm you were logged in from, right there on your profile (for all to see!). If Facebook knew where you were on campus, campus IT certainly has a view into your physical location. Nothing about this surprises me.
I guess you could delay the actual writing and use a journal to make sure everything is consistent even when the system crashes without a proper unmount.
I believe that catching that at compile-time in Rust would have to wait for RFC 2000 to be implemented: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2000-const-generics.html

This would allow generics that depend on const values (i.e. matrix dimensions in this context). At present generics can only depend on types.
Relevant to the “just keep adding new props” line of thinking
https://kentcdodds.com/blog/inversion-of-control
They're both IPS panels with locla area dimming, the same amount of halo effect, the same color accuracy, and relatively similar brightness and dpi, especially considering there's a price difference of 4× inbetween.

What's so "mediocre POS" about them in your opinion?