skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"there is no compelling evidence that those expenditures are justified over the service quality of a 50/10 or 100/20Mbps"

How is that for imagination and vision. Thank God it's not their call.

It's forever youtube unless users can be empowered with the ability to stream. Right now, the barrier to entry for streaming is huge. Starting off small to prove a concept or boostrap a streaming venture takes a lot of capital and knowledge. Simply increasing upload bandwidth at the home will open up the possibility of starting a business for many. These people have no vision.

I'm sure someone else can think of another beneficial knock-on effect or two beside users gaining the freedom to stream--uncensored.
I ended up majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology in my undergrad because I was browsing on Wikipedia one day and came across an article written on an E. Coli variant that had sentences like:

01J3 e. Coli has a DNA Polymerase that contains 3k’-5’ proofreading capability and 5’-3’ error correcting with a polymerisation rate of 50bps

I’ve made the above up because I have never been able to find a Wikipedia page winxe that as succinctly pointed out to me that biology was a machine and I was hooked
Because parts of similar make/capabilities by the exact same manufacturer are sold at that price. What Apple is doing is working with the supplier to roll a specific IC that is for use exclusively by them. The issue is that many of these components don't have any secret sauce (or if they do, its minimal) and are black boxes which can't be bought.

I'm even giving them a huge price hike, since on many of the things, for example a common DC-DC converter with multiple rails in a WLCSP or BGA package is more like $.20-$.35 at the volumes they buy.

They are definitely not doing this as a competitive thing against Samsung/Huawei, since Samsung/Huawei aren't competitors on laptops. This is specifically around their laptops/desktops.

These practices are definitely targeted at removing the capabilities to do component level repair. If they were not, you could allow your suppliers to sell those ICs to component level repair shops.

The problem is that Apple has a pattern and well established history of this type of anti-repair behavior. They have also been actively engaged in lobbying against these types of rights. They definitely don't get to have the benefit of the doubt on this topic.
The problem with generalities is that they tend to pick the examples that don't generalize well.

In the case of github's example the author is fixated on DNS where in reality the DNS entry is entry point into fastly's anycast CDN endpoints where the DNS is used to point into the general direction of the correct anycast entrypoint. Fastly's CTO did a great talk a few years ago about load balancing which addressed the DNS issues based on the actual data they have from the edges that service billions of requests.

TL;DR of the DNS portion of that talk is "use as low TTL as you can humanly get away with"
Compiling Common Lisp took 10 seconds or more as well back when it was last used. ;-)
I was also looking into this pretty recently.

Good info here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G2g7Txgzgw
1. We're not talking about what's reasonable, but what's expected.

2. This isn't like a monopoly on water supply, because the ships don't have to go this way. To make the analogy work you'd have to add something like "everybody already has a well, but supplying tap water is cheaper than using a well". In such a situation, a water company that's maximizing profits would charge just a little bit less than using a well, and while it would annoy people it wouldn't harm them.

3. The government stops water companies from gouging for the good of the citizens, which isn't a factor here.
I come across some companies from the financial industry when I’m sending in online applications. Places like DRW, which by the way never replied back and I sent in my application two months ago. Same story with state jobs, I never hear back from them.

How does one usually get knowledge in niche and very old areas? I don’t know anyone personally that works in mainframes or systems. My professional knowledge is focused on vanilla JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Ruby. Not too current, but also not old enough to be associated with retirement age devs.

It would be awesome if a firm would let me work on a MS on the side and have it paid for but that sounds like a unicorn scenario. In my experience most companies neglect training on the job.

(EDIT) I also applied to WITCH firms as I hear second hand they hire any warm bodies and train you to fill the gaps. It's also been quiet on that front, with the exception of Infosys who told me they won't be moving forward with my application for a full-stack developer.
I would imagine because the hardware itself is borderline useless. There's likely significant integration work and they want to understand how much help you're going to need to integrate it.

Tesla buying the hardware probably just wants a schematic and a part. GM probably wants a crew of 100 engineers to help put it into a car and support it for the duration.
Much like running a large storage array and dealing with cosmic ray bit-flips and dead drives I wonder how many truck crashes, forklift incidents and train derailments UPS deals with on a given day. I bet their ticket queue is interesting.

Can you imagine triaging a train derailment and not setting it to the highest priority?
Also runs mongodb
Umm, isn't that kind of scary? Like could you create a virus with this Ψ that our immune system can't fight at all?
Grumio est in Metella.
"Corporate Propaganda: Its Implications For Accounting And Accountability" by
David J Collison, University of Dundee, Scotland. [11 pages + 5-page bibliography]

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/csear/discussion-papers/C...

From the abstract:
"This paper examines the nature of propaganda and its use by corporations, particularly in the US, over a period of nearly 100 years. It
emphasises the invisibility of much of this activity and propaganda's importance for shaping acquiescence in corporate hegemony. The
role played by corporate propaganda in the development of different forms of capitalism is addressed. The inculcation of accounting and
finance students with values that serve corporate interests is considered: in this context propaganda is inferred in both the longstanding
misrepresentation of Adam Smith, and the sustained illusion of competitive 'free markets'."
OpenAI Clip: Connecting Text and Images Gradio Web Demo
guess it depends on where you land. i'm in academia now and it's absolutely horrifying. understaffed, constantly dropped into new projects while other ones are on fire, tons of overtime, professors don't respect your standard 8-5 schedule, frequently working weekends, under endless stress, unappreciated, etc. i write software in a research facility, not university IT, so YMMV.
I am fond of September 2, myself.

For those not in the know:

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...
I think there's a simpler, better solution than Gemini, that is Markdown over HTTP.

Accept: text/markdown,text/plain;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.1

I would love to see support for this in blogging engines.

(Inspired by https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext)
Kiiind of annoying as a french person though.

Seriously, Paris is never that clean.
Do you know of any APIs hosting ship AIS data for free? I did a bunch of digging on this a few years ago and essentially came up empty-handed.
Hyperbole. Of course atheism exists, but its used as an engaging opener.

Contrary to some other comments in this thread, the people complaining about the literal truth value are the ones falling for the author’s writing technique, not the other way around.

Don’t interpret it literally. Its used to assemble an idea that anything can be worshipped/venerated, not to make the argument that atheism doesn’t exist.
I won’t and it sounds just as unstable as my last jobs. Even if I wanted to I certainly don’t have that kind of money to throw (monetary net worth < last stimulus check)
You are right, instead of "every possible measure", it should be "every reasonable measure", where reasonable is defined by the cost-benefit analysis you mentioned.

It is hard to think of an instance where not open sourcing your server code has a high cost. It is easy to think of instances where open sourcing it has high cost - e.g. leaked deployment keys, mistakenly committed data - both of which I have seen happen in the wild working with healthcare data.
From reading these (esp. the last), you would think the US is allied with Palestine against Israel!
ripgrep does that already. But I just came up with my own format from whole cloth because there is no standard: https://docs.rs/grep-printer/0.1.5/grep_printer/struct.JSON....

Adding a --json flag is just the start. Ideally, other grep-like programs would need would want to emit the same format. But what happens when some grep-like programs have additional features?

Suggesting a structured representation as an output format isn't a panacea. It's just the start and it's not clear at all to me that it would be better than what we have now.
Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
I don’t know about your country but here in the U.S. vocal religion is used to justify racism, sexism, refusal of medical care, and employers dictating their religious views on marriage, reproduction, etc. on their employees. Richard Dawkins is annoying, to be clear, and I am deeply skeptical of some of the factors in how he singles out Islam but as far as I’m aware he’s never tried to prevent someone from seeing a doctor or said that a stranger shouldn’t be allowed to get married without his approval.
Oddly, in countries with strong sectoral bargaining, there is less government intervention, because the unions work things out directly with the employers. IMO that solution is better in the end, as the unions and employers are better positioned to understand the issues than the government is.

Of course for any of this to work, you need strong institutions, and ours in the US are very weak IMO. But that just means we need to keep building, not give up.
If you’re going to put me on the spot, I come down on Amazon’s private property rights, employer’s prerogative and First Amendment interest in their own warehouse; I also come down on the side of the private sector employees to unionize, and exercise their own rights if that is what they want to do, but not by spending their employer’s resources and time on the effort.

I am a proponent of work/personal separation, and union efforts are a personal effort up until the point they succeed, if they succeed. That isn’t fair to the union but life is tough in the aluminum siding business.

Edit in response to your edit: we can go back and forth, I’m watching the other subthread too. Feel free to consolidate if you like.
What this does, as a non-biotech person, I believe I understand at a high level: plonk this code into a ribosome and out comes the desired protein.

What I don't understand is:

a) how the m-RNA code relates to the produced protein (i.e I can read C-code and get an idea of what is does fairly quickly, but can the same be said of m-RNA and the resulting protein)?

b) how did they get their hands on that code in the first place? Do the coronaviruses use m-RNA as well? Was then a coronavirus somehow "dissected" to get at the spike protein "source code"?
This would be fine for some uses. It's not great for client facing names where you want to be able to react to an incident and have traffic move over quickly.

If it's going to take more than 3 hours to setup the new traffic target anyway, sure. You have time to fiddle with TTLs. If you have servers ready to go elsewhere, 1-5 minute TTLs are nice so you can quickly move things when you notice a problem.
Had this problem on my raspberry Pis with external SSDs
I disagree. I think statements like that can capture people's interest and spur them on to look into it further on their own. It's kind of a reminder that X exists.
>The former always massively outweighs the latter.

This is not enough of an argument. You can't predict what code will be read so we try to make it all readable. I consider this to still be beneficial even if most of the code is never refactored.
Double throughput means it will still take about 4-5 days to clear the backlog (new ships are arriving and queuing up even as the backlog is being cleared).
Except that Tesla hasn’t solved computer vision and may never.

Want to wager? Have you seen the FSD beta videos? Looks like they've pretty much solved it for autonomous driving. Also my experience when using Tesla FSD with Navigate on Autopilot. It pretty much looks inevitable at this point.

Also Dojo isn’t some magical technology.

The magic, is how they won't have to label manually. It will automate the labelling.

LiDAR however has changed the game. It works well and costs are rapidly coming down.

Just like Scotty Kilmer when he says, "changed the game." Using cameras + AI will leapfrog it for applications like autonomous driving. What will be left, are applications where you can't afford too much processing. I agree with you that LIDAR will get cheap enough for that.

Also, you don't even address my main point about military applications and active sensors. I'm kinda proud of that bit of reasoning.
This certainly doesn't seem impossible since they've yet to ID what caused the ship to run aground. If it's pilot error, good luck Netherlands.
> That doesn't mean they should write prose in their reports.

I, too, would prefer bug reports written in verse.
Regardless, thank you for all of your work and contributions. Keeping those old PPC devices alive did more for the environment than I think you'll ever be able to quantify. Not to mention, I had a lot of fun with old PowerBooks and iMacs surfing the web.
I personally use Vercel mostly. Didn't do much with Netfliy yet, both options should be fine.
We are stuck in a certain paradigm we can't even see our way out of because upload speeds and access are so restrictive. We need massive bandwidth more than ever to stem tide of unchecked centralization and monopolistic platforms.

Imagine being able to serve 10000 streaming customers from your home, free of the restrictions of youtube.
> enable multiple interpreters in a single process.

CPython (the default interpreter) has had support for multiple interpreters in the same process since 1997, but it has only been exposed to the C API, and not in the language itself. Python 3.10, coming out later this year, will expose multiple interpreters in one process (subinterpreters, see PEP 554 [1]).

I'm excited about what could eventually come out of this. If there is one GIL per interpreter, we could have something like the `multiprocessing` library for parallel execution, but all within one process.

1 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/
You've also never been to a bar where the owner is too cheap to buy one of those dollies. Or rather you have, but you've just never been to the back of the bar where a porter is lifting those full gets up and down a rickety set of stairs.
I can't answer below, so I will leave this here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090627220408/http://www.busine...

If a person dies the identity arguably belongs to their estate, if they don't declare death and use it to make money illegally it's not stolen.
I watched My Octopus Teacher and it really opened my eyes to how smart they are. Watching the Octopus play with the fish conducting a symphony was so beautiful to watch. Was on the edge of my seat when it was evading the predator as well.
From that link:

> The injection contains volatile genetic material that describes the famous SARS-CoV-2 ‘Spike’ protein. Through clever chemical means, the vaccine manages to get this genetic material into some of our cells.

> These then dutifully start producing SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins in large enough quantities that our immune system springs into action. Confronted with Spike proteins, and (importantly) tell-tale signs that cells have been taken over, our immune system develops a powerful response against multiple aspects of the Spike protein AND the production process.

What happens to the "volatile genetic material" at the end of this? Does it just linger in the body indefinitely? Or does it somehow get destroyed (and what does that mean)? From my reading of the above excerpt, it's the produced spike proteins that get destroyed but not the original genetic material that's injected. The reason I'm asking is to understand how the vaccine designers determine if there are any long-term effects of having this artificial material inside your body. They couldn't have tested it over a long time frame given how quickly all this moved.
My Self-Taught Tech Career
That's a good point. A perfect example here is that Denmark has no minimum wage.
It's a mix really: all of them care about the cost savings, but the UI and the opportunity to digitize and connect different parts of the business have also been strong drivers.

First-generation software has been around just long enough in maritime that a lot of organisations are feeling the pain from having multiple solutions that don't connect and are starting to show their age.
Plain HTML is fairly accessible, I’m not sure what you mean?
> So how different is the mRNA in the Moderna, BioNTech/Pfizer & CureVac vaccines? There are 1274 codon positions. 808 are identical across all 3 vaccines. 103 are unique to Moderna, 249 unique to BioNTech, 230 to CureVac

https://twitter.com/PowerDNS_Bert/status/1375091898797453326
No problem. Took me 2 min to find it. I actually searched for the term "overlap" to see if you're doing it correctly ;)

At least you're using one if statement. Many do interval overlap comparisons with two if statements.
Usually that's in the datasheet they send during initial negotiations.
It’s like looking at the binary file and saying “that’s pretty simple” while ignoring the massive amount of machinery that allows us to run that file and use it (CPUs, Motherboards, computers, etc).

I presume a whole bunch goes into making vaccine and this is just the top of the iceberg.
In case others don't know this, the reason this is abbreviated Ψ (psi) is that Ψ is the first letter of Greek ψευδής 'false, lying', the origin of the prefix pseudo-.
My theory is that any kind of strong mental effect can, but not necessarily will, help with depression. Be that very strong emotions, drugs, ECT, exercise etc. The trouble is that depression itself makes a person less likely to want to try these.
Maybe just make it scroll horizontally and disable wrap?

header > pre {
overflow-x: scroll;
scrollbar-width: none;
white-space: pre;
}

header > pre::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none
}

(Some extra stuff is needed to hide the scrollbar. Apparently there's no way to make it appear only when needed, duh. Oh and the last line should probably have wrap enabled to show the links.)
The mRNA is stable for a few hours or so, it is both chemically unstable in solution under the conditions in a cell and also actively degraded by various mechanisms.
Are there individual churches that are doing really well and bucking the trend?

Maybe an individual church can't tell us much about the broader trends, but it would be interesting to see if people are moving to more extreme churches, or more liberal, etc.
I can't believe I can actually enter my credit card number and pay for a $1M+ rocket launch payload right now.
Mechanized agriculture already uses GPS; maybe there is other satellite-based agritech on the horizon.
Not missing or overlooking it; disagreeing with your proposed change to the law.

I’m against prescribed fairness written into statute.
Amazon is adding ~2,000 jobs. That's <10% of the number that NYC would have gotten out of HQ2.

I understand the aversion to granting tax breaks to big companies, but IMO the whole debacle just looks like NYC politicians are more interested in maintaining their political bona fides, more interested in vague notions about Amazon's 'fair share' than they are in the long term well being of the local economy.
Definitely not, but the way they probably calculate this is:

Total Bill of Materials = display + motherboard + laptop case + keyboard + trackpad + charger + cable

Then they figure out what percentage each subassembly costs in the BOM and then divide by the retail price of the product, maybe rounding up a hundred or two.

So if for example the motherboard is 40% of the total BOM of a $2500 laptop, you have a $1,000 motherboard right there.
I don't think you can just take the current design and "make it round." You can't just put pins on a cylinder. They wouldn't align as you rotated the connector. The other way to do it would be co-axially like a headphone jack...but those are deep.
Which press specifically are you referring to? I've seen many articles from both sides of the political spectrum calling out Obama for his whistleblower crackdown. IMO the real issue isn't press coverage, it's the lack of credible solutions from the right to address the problems (or even just good-faith discussion).
CDC extends eviction moratorium until June 30
I'm testing and absolutely loving Plasmic right now. Sent you a dm
> I have Reader Mode set to enabled by default on Safari mobile

I didn't know you can do that, thank you!
I suspect that this is actually a submarine ad for the Microlink service referenced (page 8).
That's still an apply-to-be-accepted beta program, not something the public can actually use/purchase.
ADS-B you can pick up from just about anywhere since planes are flying. AIS requires you be near enough a decent sized body of water/waterway.
I love this model. Open source the library/SDK, then build your own paid application on top of it.
Yep but the forward facing on Waymo vehicles is not the Laser Bear Honeycomb.
I remember sending off a particular weird DIMM that fit one of the floodgap machines, suprised that TFF has lasted as long as it has.

It still mostly works with Archive.org and I was listening to some old radio shows using it and reading pdfs on the 12" MacBook G4.
Dechristianization does not equal the french revolution any more than the rise of national catholicism equals Franco's fascist dictatorship. Plenty of western nations have dropped the church as it failed to adapt to modern liberal society, and plenty of atrocious regimes have been aided and abetted by the blessings of churches.
Don't give them any bright ideas...they'll turn into the Reform Club next
Ask HN: Is it valuable to have a patent as R&D/SDE Engineer?
Hello,

I work as a research engineer in R&D, I have heard polarized opinions about "having/working on patents" in my small circle, and I would like to hear opinions of other people in the industry. Is it valuable to have "patents" in someone's resume?. How is it comparable to having a paper in ML/AI conference?.

The general public's perception of patents is different than reality. In many cases, it is harder to write a paper and make it to top-tier conferences than to write a patent. However, it can show that the author is able to think out of the box, enhance existing products, and design systems/solutions.

Another argument I have heard is about "gate-keeping science", it can be seen as a blocker for others as well.

What is the opinion of HN?
Maybe I'm thinking too simplified here, but wouldn't this only work on the first iteration? After all the virus would replicate with Us in your cells and then the replicas wouldn't have the advantage anymore.
> Edit in response to your edit: we can go back and forth, I’m watching the other subthread too. Feel free to consolidate if you like.

Good enough. I think I'll hop over there and ditch this one if it's all the same. No need to spew things all over the place.