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> Biotechnology sounds to me much like computing in the 60’s.

One thing I've always wondered about biotech... I imagine there are many non-obvious correlations and interactions in medicine, which would be easily detected using nothing more advanced than Excel-spreadsheet level data analysis.

Making up an example: people with a certain DNA trait/allele who also have a diet with a high amount of XYZ tend to not develop disease ABC as frequently as most people. Even if we don't know the pharmacological reason why that is, it would still massively benefit lots of people, right?

So it always seems to me like tech from 2007 was ready to tackle this problem. Dump in a bunch of anonymized data, find correlations, repeat.

But I feel like I never hear anything about this type of work. Is it happening, but not publicized much? Is it actually not as simple as it sounds? Does nature simply not work in this way?

Even if 95% of diseases are just "bad luck", I assume that other 5% is made up of environmental factors we don't yet understand, but could easily learn using well-known data processing techniques?
You clearly don't understand how the system works, there is no data related to location involved.
i agree, it seems like a pretty insecure thing to say. he is currently an undergrad so he probably doesn't really realize masters programs can actually help someone's career.
good point, I am not a native English speaker and let things like these slip time to time.
Yep MapKit JS for "find your nearest location" type functionality on a corporate website (with zip/post code lookup, location details overlaid etc.)

Rereading OP I realise the question was about APIs rather than necessarily web-based mapping (which is how I initially had read it)
Of course, and that's the value of the abstraction to me. Docker itself is obviously nothing to do with the Linux container technologies themselves that make up the equivalent functionality of FreeBSD jails, but I'm not aware of any equivalent abstraction that works around jails or zones even though it might be possible. So the way I see containers on Linux is not literally a composition of kernel features like cgroups or seccomp, but as an abstract thing that can be composed out of various primitives. And in practice, there's a number of different runtimes around it, including Docker clones like Podman, or tools that manage effectively chroots much closer to what you would do with jails.

That said, I could just be completely wrong, and there could be similar things that can be done using jails and zones. But when I looked around for similar art with FreeBSD jails, either with regards to Docker's style of packaging and distribution, or with regards to additional layers like gVisor, it didn't seem like a thing well-suited to that kind of composition. In comparison, jails, at least, seem kind of like more powerful chroots. To me this is a pretty big difference versus Linux "containers".
Unnecessary MRI exams may be symptoms of a larger healthcare problem
I hate to be this person, but is there a non-Instagram link? They’ve recently cut down/eliminated access by non-account holders.
Why is there a need for a starlink-specific tracker when there are plenty of general satellite trackers that also include all the starlink satellites?
I worked as a post-doc at a pharma company in Europe, our research-based department was in need of a software engineer as our collection of crappy R/python scripts couldn't actually be linked up to any equipment or processes.

HR asked what sort of salary range we were looking at, we suggested that we won't get any decent candidates for less than 70k EUR and were laughed out of the room and they decided on a 50k limit. I've since left, but I'm pretty sure they've still not manage to hire a software engineer.
These are basically a community book exchange for rich people (when they have any selection at all), agreed. But there's a good reason they only exist in places where the book cost is immaterial -- if you put these in many poor neighborhoods people would just take all the books and sell them.
Reminds me of the nightmare that descended on Steam when they opened up Greenlight to nearly everyone. Great in theory, but in short order the service was drowning in low effort garbage, asset flips and downright scams. Eventually they had to up the barrier of entry a little again just to get some sanity back. Or just look at the wasteland that is the Play Store on Android. Any marketplace that's globally accessible needs to have curation and a high barrier of entry, or it will be spammed to death by these people. Of course, Amazon has no motivation to fix this, being a monopoly. They get paid either way.
No, it's not the same thing. Musk has been very vocal about thinking the world will end because of AI robots running amok. This is not some stock-boosting ploy, it is who he is. Unlike Zuckerberg, Musk is quite transparent about his aims and his values, and most people are able to recognize this.
Does SDK for rust provide any advantages or this is more for people who develop in RUST and can use single language across their environment ?
I meant the Nix hash which is based on the content, not the Git hash which is used for fetching.
Sounds pretty imperialistic for an ideology based on anti-imperialism.
I opted in, because if I'm going to see ads, I would prefer they be somewhat relevant to me. And I want to support the sites/apps I use for free.
I'm a big fan of lobste.rs. This looks cool, but it's not really active. I'm more looking for a Slack/Discord/Keybase where communication is a bit more personal and less formal. Thanks for sharing, regardless.
I'm trying that with my son (who is not yet 5). He has no trouble reading anything in his math book[0], but 'suggesting' that he work through the book isn't enough. He'd rather play with lego, read a story book, or do pretty much anything else.

My solution: short sessions of a few pages at a time, with me sitting by his side, ready to intervene when he gets sidetracked.

[0] https://shop.singaporemath.com/index.php/product/dimensions-...
So, the study is funded by groups that admit to existing to sell new vaccines? And you don't see a conflict of interest?
Sure, it sounds promising. But it's all vapor until I can buy one, or at least use it in the cloud.
It’s an easy way to modify the binary to load extra code, which can alter how it behaves.
> But my life would be much less fun then. Reverse engineering scratches a certain itch like nothing else does!

Totally, yet at the same time I'm worried that knowledge workers aren't aware enough of just how privileged they are to have been able to 'climb the ladder' to be able to do work like that, and how, unless you're 1) well off and 2) living in the global north, gaining such skills has been made nearly impossible because the ladders needed to climb up are often not available, despite humans having been gifted digital technology (and therefore a zero-marginal cost of information reproduction).

As an example: I'm not technically skilled enough to reverse engineer the things I'd like to, and because of the way knowledge is controlled by big companies as trade secrets and patent claims [1], it's near impossible to gain these skills in an affordable way. I also cannot take apart the technology I already own since it is not modular, it voids the warranty or is it is damaged (since I'm not skilled because I didn't realize early enough how important technology is).

So yes, it sounds super fun for you to reverse engineer this stuff, yet when are we going to seriously admit that this IP system has become a massive problem, and that the people who came before are literally 'kicking away the ladder' they used to climb up themselves? That when people say that the only thing people need to do to succeed is to 'work hard', that that is a lie, since information is made artificially scarce by human systems/institutions, and thus only available to a select few [2].

Edit: I just saw on your twitter that you are a console hacker, thanks for the awesome work!

[1] https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/02/19/dont-fooled-patent-pur...

[2] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
Anecdotally, I've heard talk that some librarians are critical of the word "library" in these projects. They point out that librarians are trained specialists with expertise in several areas.

I've no idea how widespread this feeling is, having only heard of it casual conversation, but I thought it was an interesting counterpoint.
What do you mean by this? I'm a little confused as to what an example of a productive "crucible situation" may be.
While I trust the journalists at Wapo and trust that little free library is too litigious, Bezos owns Wapo and probably hates people giving away stuff just for… free???
How often do the domains of systems programming and cloud administration intersect?

I'm assuming that rust programs are primarily used in systems programming and that this SDK would be used for cloud administration but I could be wrong.

I see an obvious match with python and boto3 but not this.
Giving money yourself is one thing, or asking about a company match even. Asking that your company or anybody give their money towards any cause you care about is unreasonable.

In the absence of any specific connection to your business, there are plenty of worthy causes (race inequalities, but also gender inequalities, world hunger, ...) and you can't demand that your company (or any company) actively contribute to all of them lest they be called out for being anti-X.
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In every way I think about it, this difference in salary seems justified. I can't imagine inspecting slaughterhouses is very fun or rewarding, but it's super important for society.
research is a sporadic discipline. A top tier researcher working on a choice problem with relatively predictable returns ( or at least the perception of predictability ) will make substantially more than someone working on a problem of debatable business value or with lower odds of success.

In the case of research positions, the funding situation has oversaturated the market in most entry level positions - turning negotiation and career advancement into a trial by fire.
I wonder how much is just a matter of semantics. If there's a junker willing to pay you for something, then clearly it doesn't fall into the category of "stuff you can't sell"
Global warming is going to hit everyone, developed or developing. The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country. But for developed countries what probably sucks more is that this is a problem they cannot solve without the help and sacrifice of the poor majority of the world, and the carbon poor would love nothing more than watch the carbon rich suffer the same pain as them.

For once, the developed world is at the mercy of decisions made in the developing world, and suddenly they have to try and appease instead of ignore or bully. That cannot be a comfortable realization.
I do want to know whether I am exposed to COVId and get to be quarantined to not spread out the covid to others who I really take care of. Dont want to be a person that possibly make my family or friends sick.
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The reality that Stack Overflow doesn't seem to want to admit is a huge number of questions are coming from people in school, MOOCs, going through tutorials, books, whatever the case may be, trying to learn and doing things in an intentionally suboptimal way for pedagogical purpose, even though you would never deploy such code to production. Or they're working through LeetCode or something. If an assignment says they have to do something a particular way, they don't have a choice and it's patronizing and annoying to see all the responses questioning why they're doing exactly what the assignment requires them to do.

Might also point out that a lot of people finding the question later on Google because they the same question are just trying to do the same assignment, so Stack Overflow is undermining its own stated purpose here.
They are only bright for an initial period after launch.
My home theater system has a $20 thrift store stereo coupled with $20 thrift store speakers. It's equipment that would have cost maybe $500 new. I also pickup up monitors, keyboards, mice, cables, and power strips there. Mostly what I get there are books. I like books, and it's a cheap hobby when you get 'em from the thrift store.

From the pawn shop I get laptops and webcams. Also lots of tools. I put together a toolkit for my car this way - cheap tools aren't a theft target.
There have been attempts to phase out English and promote Hindi, but this has been met with opposition from non-Hindi southern states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitations_of_Tamil...
I remember Kagi, especially from NetNewsWire and other shareware!

At the time I was only 13 and didn't have a credit card, so couldn't make online purchases. The first thing I did on my 18th birthday, before leaving my room, was to open a PayPal account so I could finally buy things without asking parents.

The Kagi model was fine from what I saw, though my experience was always just using trial software and waiting 15 seconds to dismiss the message about Kagi. It's certainly better than the current model, where I can't even download older versions of apps, never mind pay for them.
If you don't like it, stop buying manufactured goods there. Supply stops when demand drys up.
I found pass with the otp extension to be pretty good, I can sync it with git and get the codes from any of my devices.

pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/

otp extension: https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp
My mental model of Zones and Jails is that they are a cleaner, more convenient, less error-prone way of expressing a modern, minimally-privileged, locked down Docker runtime. You won't catch me arguing that Zones aren't better than Docker, but the u->k attack surface is untenable for multitenant workloads.
The Java SDK is not especially ergonomic and the docs are exactly what you’d expect from auto generation.
This is the death by a thousand papercuts you get when you open the door to an area of regulation. Likely more things will be illegal to film in Germany soon, such as police activity ("it's for national security, you know?")
Rusoto was an amazing effort. I was pretty sad when it was semi-sunset, but then I realized how all of this was entirely voluntary work.

There's been a massive amount of new AWS features recently and this made the inofficial SDKs lag behind. Looking forward to having an officially maintained SDK. Hope the documentation will be better than the generated ones in Rusoto.
I did that for a year or so in finance. Realised I was wasting my one life. I want to be useful.
For sure, everybody has different goals in life, but the thing is they are creating wealth, just not for themselves is all.
I've found myself thinking the same. Maybe researchers don't have the data and/or the platform? Not sure who records what they eat, and if they do they don't share it?
I didn't expect much but they sound great to me. I have tried XM4's and other higher end headphones but not for a long period of time (just a few hours). But I know I'm not that bad at determining quality so they are at least pretty decent.A
i feel like you could avoid some of the kind of annoying syntax like array iteration and conditional syntax. would it be better to know that stuff 100%, and write it in pure bash? yeah. is it one of those todos that people like me never seem to get around to, and this is kind of a stop gap? maybe. it doesnt seem entirely useless
For what it's worth, one of my French teachers was an Indian francophone and explained that in their region (whose name I cannot remember) French is the dominant language and she grew up speaking French at home.
Sure, not being clonable is a security feature, but it's a huge pain to keep multiple keys registered on all of your services.

For real backup resiliency, you should have at least 3 keys, one of which you keep off-site. Presumably you keep one at home and one with you. Want to sign up for a new service? I hope you're at home where you can access two of your keys to register them. Then sometime later you need to go to your off-site location to swap that key, bring it home, and get it registered also. Do that periodically so all of your services are on all 3 keys.

Unclonable hardware keys work well enough when it's for a corporate service. Lose the key? Just visit IT and have them give you a new one or overnight it. But unclonable hardware keys are a huge pain when used personally with multiple services.

TOTP secrets, while less secure, are much easier to manage. You can write them down, store them on a USB stick, or store them in an online account. You can send them in a message or even read them over the phone. Ultimately the average user is more concerned about losing access to their account than being attacked by a nation state.
I concur, this is my experience too and the reason I am a big supporter of Goodwill.

I did not think the lowest hourly wage at my local organization anywhere were as low as cited in these comments but I don't know the specifics.
You have green gum then? E141 is green. E171 is white.
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It's always good to ask the person about the context surrounding their question, but I also don't see much harm in seeking how to do Y, for the sake of Y. What is a 'strange problem to want to solve' anyways? To me, they are all just problems.

Yes, it is often the case that the person has the wrong idea of how to solve X, but this does not always say something about the validity of problem Y. Often times knowing how to do Y is valuable for other contexts besides X. We should try to be friendly and make it clear that Y is not a good way to achieve X without downplaying Y, necessarily.
I think he's got it exactly wrong — the reason we have seen a lot of "non-tech tech" companies is that software still fundamentally kinda sucks. We have become so used to it we don't always notice, but software is a fragile nightmare to work with. It's like trying to build skyscrapers with tinkertoys, and it's a miracle we can do as much as we do. Software needs a leap; AI/ML might be the start of it, not sure yet.
Even with the higher cost of living in SF/NYC/Seattle, tech pay at FAANG is pretty high. Senior software positions are pretty much start at $300k/yr across all of those companies. Plus these companies generally have excellent healthcare plans and good vacation policies.

At those income levels pretty much the only thing you’re really priced out of are nice single family homes, but I suspect that’s the same in Zurich.
Certainly getting out of the scope of the orignal discussion here, but you would think people should be able to have their code layout and style to their own preference suited for their device. There are problems with that to overcome certainly, for e.g. referring to line numbers, but they seem fairly solveable.

But commenters here suggesting the 80 char limit, inherited from IBM punchcards and typewriters before that, for diplaying code on smart phones half a century later is a little hilarious to me.
Oh that simultaneous site is neat! Doesn’t work for me on iOS but what a great idea. I’ve been using two separate devices for that kind of thing (mostly confirming mashups that I will likely never follow through with, but it’s still fun to do).

Looks like you know more than me about how our brains process audio. I was running on the assumption that some kind of frequency analysis made it to our higher processing centers, is that not the case? Given that what we hear all the time is incredibly chaotic (multiple pitches that we hear as chords, lyrics vs the rest of the music, focusing on one person speaking, etc) I thought we must at least be running some kind of internal spectrum analyzer and continuously comparing new input to previous averages or something.

There almost has to be a clock-like reference construct somewhere, right? The ability of some people to perceive perfect pitch points to it IMO.
I think many people don't know that there is a national level Goodwill organization, and I don't know a lot of detail, but they essentially seem to franchise out the name Goodwill to a bunch of local Goodwill organizations that are all independent of one-another. So, what you've heard about "Goodwill" might not be universal, but something local to one of them.

I worked not that long ago in a Goodwill program that did electronics processing and was finally shut down because it never came close to breaking even. We were refurbishing the best tiny percent of the laptops and such we got and selling them on Ebay; but most of what we got was junk and we had people on an assembly line pulling things apart (chips, RAM, raw metal, etc. etc.) to be sold to recycling operations. We were R2 certified, which is great for the environment, but added enormous bureaucratic and labor overhead. We couldn't just throw out all the batteries and toxic stuff, we had to pay to get it disposed of properly. Finally they shut it down and went to sending everything to Dell Reconnect, which, as far as I can tell, is Dell's way of keeping people from buying used computers.

In any case, it is a shame you can't buy computers there any longer. Back in the late 90s I bought an AT&T 16 bit Unix workstation that I understand was intended to be AT&T's answer to the IBM PC. It was a really cool thing, but way too big an heavy to move across states with, so I eventually gave it -- to Goodwill, I think.
One of the coolest starlink specific trackers is starlink.sx.
that is my point - the 5th gen Su-57 doesn't exist. The prototypes flown are with old engines. And in general - India, who really wanted to buy the 5th gen Su-57, basically having huge pile of cash ready on the table, has basically dropped out of it as declared capabilities of Su-57 just weren't there when it was tested (for example, beside the engine, while the radar is still great compare to previous generation, it is just half the declared range) and by the time it realistically may reach the true 5th gen capabilities India is already planning to be pretty close to having their own advanced development.
This is a good point and I don't know why you're being downvoted. When an individual with a cellphone no longer counts as "press" you're just edging closer to governments getting to select who gets to be called "press" and gets the corresponding privileges.
>It's always going to be first and foremost about selling internet to people in wealthy countries in areas without good local internet options.

[citation needed]
No, even after any attempt to account for healthcare, pension and education the US will still look vastly better off. Unfortunately we don’t have figures on average individual consumption but by household Hong Kong consumes about $1,000 more a year than the US and the next closest is Switzerland, consuming about $10,000 a year less[1].

Generally the US pays better and at the top of any field you care to mention except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
Yes but have you heard of the original free library, i think it's called the library????
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