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Thanks! Ironically, I was hired for my first job in bioinformatics by one of the QIIME authors. Unfortunately, that didn't make it any easier.

I don't think anyone has really figured out commercialization in the space yet – us included. The community is still rooted strongly in academia, so commercializing requires a delicate balance between profitability and openness.

I imagine it's what building dev tools was like a couple decades ago. It's fun to see the field grow and evolve.
there are so many holes in even THAT story it's not even funny.
College degrees is a bad example to use. Even today, a bachelors degree is highly correlated with a massive earnings boost compared to a high school only education.

Sources:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1jqzJ
They're not really comparable - if you're wondering if you should do one or the other, you should do both.
I've got no problem with continuous delivery. I do have a problem with sprints (instead of wrecking your project with a fake deadline every year, wreck your project with a fake deadline very month.)

Granted to do sprints you have to have a better build process than a lot of shops had in the 1990s but taking a week or two to deliver just because the process says so... means a 1-day delay can snowball into a delay of weeks or months.

Also there are all the meaningless meetings that people dread. The standup that inexplicably happens first thing in the morning when you struggle to remember what you did the day before. The retrospective that I only want to answer with "I am so tired at the end of this sprint that I just want to go ride my bike in the hills or drink some beer or smoke some pot or play a videogame, not sit around uncomfortably in a group of people that are either disengaged and hiding it or doing a good job of pretending to be engaged"

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To me it is fighting works to bring up the PMBOK because the PMBOK doesn't specify a particular process but it does enumerate the things that have to be managed to manage a project, in "agile the good parts" you are just addressing all of these on a weekly cycle instead of a yearly or longer cycle. I also see the rejection of PERT charts and other dependency managements as a fatal flaw for A.I. and data science projects where model training might take 1/2 of the sprint so if you don't start building your model in the first half you blow. your. sprint. every. time. I first saw people make this mistake 12 years ago and they are still making it. By making people pay attention to a bunch of fake management metrics (story points) you distract them from paying attention to the metrics that matter for a particular app. I've even seen a lack of attention to dependencies be quite harmful to teamwork in more normal software projects because if a team really understood that getting Task A done means you can be efficient at Task B and Task C they might get as much real work done in one sprint than they wind up getting done in three.
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> If you want to tell me that the population just can create a new party, look how well that works in the US

Most European countries have new popular parties come into existence regularly. Regularly.

Your voting system in the US is broken.
I put this article squarely in the "no way to know what's real" category. It would be naive in 2024 to assume that foreign powers do not attempt to influence outcomes and particularly that they would not attempt to do so through various online outlets. On the other hand, labeling one's political enemies as foreign disinformation seems like a cheap way to delegitimize the other side.
Mindcontrol programs, Tuskegee experiments, dropping biological agents on us civilians, distributing metric tons of crack cocaine, arent really rumors at this point. In this day and age if anyone thinks they are doing better things than the now public mistakes of the past I would advise to hold their beer.
From the article: "This bill merely would require any food that contains a vaccine..."

If someone uses "merely" in a sentence, I automatically think it is at the same level as "I'm just asking questions".
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> so it asks RAND to publish something that will drum up support for it.

Please share your evidence for this conjecture, and also share your evidence for how it relates to the OP. Because you are just creating fake conspiracy theories with no evidence, just like the poster above
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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Unraveled
I agree. However I think there is a gap of meta learning that someone may figure out how to fill. Imagine you could take the state of the art driving AI, deploy it, and then wait until it makes a mistake. And then... suppose you could just explain to it in english what it did wrong like you would interacting with a multi-modal LLM. The missing component (for now) is that AI taking your feedback and adjusting the weights in the driving model to fix that mistake. Not just adding additional training data, but correcting based on more fundamental understanding and abstraction of what just occurred and the key take-aways, etc. and then making sure not to repeat that mistake. Just like a new human driver would learn.

It's possible someone might figure out a way to create a training loop using a multi-modal LLM to generate synthetic training data based on the situation you just explained and then updating the driving model by training on this new data until its performance improves on the task.
this is such a wild and perversely wrong take. living in a humid climate means you have to drench your backyard in pesticides? what?
> Not in all conditions. The devil really is in the details.

I imagine we will reach a place where fully autonomous vehicles will pull off to the side of the road in certain weather. Which I wish we could force for humans, but seems infeasible to implement.
I think the best argument for consciousness having an effect on the physical world is that the physical world contains a formulation of the hard problem of consciousness. If consciousness doesn't affect what words get written, then no discussion of consciousness is actually about consciousness.
He said it was unfiltered. If I was giving out some of my unfiltered thoughts, I don't think I'd want them floating around the Internet for anyone to read at any moment.
It's crackable by those that have the secret key i.e. AT&T and whoever they leak their key to. But presumably it's harder to steal a secret key and a database entry than it is to steal just a database entry.

The salt just obscures whether two users have the same code
This guy was pretty trusted after a couple of years of working on the project so I think it’s a category error to say process improvements could have fixed it. The use of autoconf detritus was a canny move since I’d bet long odds that even if your process said three other people had to review every commit they would have skimmed right over that to the ”important” changes.
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Volcanoes and us (2015) [video]
Displacing mined methane is an overwhelmingly better use of excess power.
Perhaps Svelte, Solid, React, et al should form a working group and hammer out an interopt standard
> Is this a malicious practice?

No, certainly not yet anyway, and I'd agree that wasn't a great phrasing on my part. I'm still not sure what the right phrase would be for whatever nonsense people/companies/governments get up to before anyone gets around to making it illegal.

I realize the specifics here are mostly insane (as I acknowledged in my original comment), I just don't think we should try to punish it too hard, since it's (very) abstractly a step toward something we'd like to see more of. And the resulting legislation even sounds like (what would be) a level-headed response to the threat (if it was real), which is pretty rare even on a good day.
Ah. So this is what Apple did to force you to buy their super expensive storage before custom drives and serialization.
haven't seen much tourists in my village so far...
Right, it's not about the conditions, it's about the ability to perceive those conditions. However this asserts that we won't change how we construct, manage and maintain the routes of travel. Is it unlikely roads will become retrofitted in an effort to enhance the needs of autonomous vehicles?

Seems likely to me; we built EV's before we built the infrastructure to support them and conversely we created in infrastructure for petroleum vehicles before they entered mass production at the largest of scale in the period (1950's) after the fact.

I don't see how autonomous vehicles are not going to become a reality. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but, absolutely likely and possible.
Ask HN: What can we do as a community to prevent XZ-like attacks in future?
Hosting a p2p marketplace isn't just a software problem. You'll find it challenging even with a service like Stripe. And not cheap.
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I'll add that for Haskell, the library everyone uses for JSON parses numbers into Scientific types with almost unlimited size and precision. I say almost unlimited because they use a decimal coefficient-and-exponent representation where the exponent is a 64-bit integer.

The documentation is quite paranoid that if you are dealing with untrusted inputs, you could parse two JSON numbers from the untrusted source fine and then performing an addition on them could cause your memory to fill up. Exciting new DoS vector.

Of course in practice people end up parsing them into custom types with 64-bit integers, so this is only a problem if you are manipulating JSON directly which is very rare in Haskell.
The social benefit of such production, considered strictly, probably far exceeds methane. But methane costs more to ship, and displaces demand for Russian gas. Economics is hard.
> So, you were told to self isolate because you were in a household with a sick individual. Wouldn't that be the prudent thing to do anyway?

That'd very much depend on what the reason to leave the house was, wouldn't it? I never got sick anyway so must have been immune to that variant.

> Also, what does 'forbidden' means? What would have happened if you went out anyway?

I think there were fines. I forget exactly, it was a few years ago now. I'm not sure how it was policed.

> Citation needed. Also, the viral load at 'long distances' is unlikely to be problematic.

Go look at any regression analysis of lockdown/masking severity vs outcomes, there are plenty out there. Or study what happened on the Diamond Princess way back in Feb/March 2020. The data from that semi-controlled experiment is only compatible with long distance transmission on air currents. Or look at how SARS-1 was able to spread between buildings, and apartments within the buildings. They were able to show it was spreading through ducts within the buildings and then on wind currents between buildings.

Or if you want a more direct approach, look at the old graphs of case numbers for a country you aren't familiar with and try to work out when mask mandates or lockdowns were implemented or relaxed. I've tried, it can't be done. If these policies worked you'd see clear impact because clear impact is the definition of worked. No impact can be seen, as you'd expect from gas-cloud type spread.
Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
> guest mode

Or a completely separate browser. Or at least a separate profile.
Large ad firms don't tend to sell, or 'sell' that data, for five reasons.

1. The data is your competitive advantage, and costs billions of dollars to gather. You would be insane to sell it to someone else.

2. Regulatory. GDPR will absolutely destroy you for doing this.

3. Technical. Most targeted advertising relies on low-latency pipelines, with a lag time from minutes, to, at most, days between events being recorded, and ad targeting engines reacting to the event. You aren't going to sit around waiting for some third-party integration to 'launder' the data for you (Because it won't actually help you against regulatory scrutiny).

4. Practical. Ask people who have actually worked on these systems. Building it that way would be a fucking nightmare, both technically, and for the compliance pain.

Or, if you don't believe anyone, get a job at a large ad firm, and see for yourself... That there isn't any such Rube Goldberg contraption.

5. Even if, against all judgement, all of this happened, a large firm can't keep this a secret for very long, there's way too many moving parts, way too many people involved, and someone on the periphery will whistleblow, and the firm will be in a mountain of legal shit.
People are allowed to have preferences.
My Wifi doesn't work properly when it's raining, can be combine forces?
1. The store version has a limit on the number of computers - not that I am currently close to the limit, but I don't like it.
2. Not updated fast enough.
3. I want to keep my Microsoft Account separate from my Work account on my work laptop, and I don't want to create a Microsoft Account for work.
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Likely won't be enough if you're behind CGNAT and you get a different public IP on different connections.
Just about every project is looking at things from a material perspective.

The "spiritual" perspective has legs with respect to life-extension, as well, though there are at least two distinct scientific definitions of spirituality, one based on mindfulness and one based on its exact opposite, mind-wandering resting.

Both strategies (based on distinctly different meditation practices) have research suggesting that lifespan can be extended by their approach.

e.g.

For mindfulness:

Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

vs

For the "other white meat":

Transcriptomics of Long-Term Meditation Practice: Evidence for Prevention or Reversal of Stress Effects Harmful to Health
https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/3/218

See also:

On the Neurobiology of Meditation: Comparison of Three Organizing Strategies to Investigate Brain Patterns during Meditation Practice
https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/56/12/712

For how distinctly different types of meditation have different effects on nervous system and body.

A hint: the words used to teach meditation can lead to radically different measurable physiological outcomes depending on the context in which those words are spoken and the persistence of those effects is also very dependent on the context in which instructions are given, often leading to exactly the opposite effect on certain physiological measures:

Compare Reduced functional connectivity between cortical sources in five meditation traditions detected with lagged coherence using EEG tomography
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...

with figure 3 of Enhanced EEG alpha time-domain phase synchrony during Transcendental Meditation: Implications for cortical integration theory

https://www.brainresearchinstitute.org/research/totalbrain/T...

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01651684050021...

You can't get more distinct than "reduced" vs 100% coherence across all leads simultaneously.

And thereby hangs the tale for explaining how and why different mental practices have different long-term, persistent changes in brain activity in favor of longevity: reduced EEG coherence => reduced resting; 100% implies that the brain is only resting; the longer you practice some forms of meditation, the less restful the brain becomes.

Always mindful vs always resting or moving back into resting mode asap given the chance.
I doubt that's the intrinsic value of the degree (a la supply and demand), but rather the mindset, social-economic status, and background of someone that goes to college. (At least in the US)
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In my opinion this is an understandable mistake that they've handled as well as can be expected.
I find this hard to believe. Rose-Hulman has an acceptance rate of over 70%. I know of 2 people who were accepted with credentials no where near the OP. So, if its true, there is a lot more to the story .
yeah, maybe that's it :-/
You missed it. The latter half of the article is about the difference between captive honeybees and wild ones, and also how the population has only increased due to aggressive expansion to counter colonies dying from disease and yellowjackets.

> Grames said the consensus holds that pollinators, like all insects, are in decline — losing probably 1 to 2 percent a year.
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> we have hexadecimal floating point literals that represent all floats and doubles exactly

How do you do that?

A couple of resources I found but which I’m not sure if are about exactly what you speak of

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65480947/is-ieee-754-rep...

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Hex-Floats.html

Furthermore, what exactly do you mean by “all floats and doubles exactly”?
Disagree. People are paid based on value-extraction, not value-generation. They are correlated, but are vastly different metrics.
how so ?

Does IranContra ring a bell ? the CIA pushing drugs in the minority community in the 80s ? Now the CIA is supposed to be handling foreign issues - but they're doing this in their homeground. Now imagine what they're doing in other foreign countries.

Then take the DOD which has failed multiple audits - you know how dysfunctional you've to be as an org to fail audits ? and the amounts are in the trillions. Even though the CIA is not part of DOD - just to throw that there.
that's precisely what sock puppetry does ... talk/write in a different writing style to make others believe it's different people.
Here in Alberta it's still killing at nearly 5x the rate as the flu, so it's still very much present. Unfortunately, it's impossible to argue further because of the lack of population testing (Alberta only tests those hospitalized), but more people here were found to have COVID this season than influenza[1].

If we're now largely immune to COVID why isn't influenza now pushing it out?

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/dashboard/respiratory-virus-das...
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Even if you ignored the turbines themselves, there would still be a "shadow" behind the turbines though I think? Which means you'd have a blind spot every now and then (when the wind is blowing and the turbines are active) which could be exploited by an enemy
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"I like that you're pretending in two places in the comments that sick hives don't get robbed out during their collapse."

Nice strawman. I make no such claim. Most hives that get robbed out are predominately done so by the hives in the same apiary.

"Give it a once over, it looks like you might learn something."

Based on my interaction with you, I highly doubt it has anything to offer.
Why is he even relevant? What makes you believe that he would be good at solving AI related problems? He is a developer right?
> So you mean an informed opt-out, right?
I worded it wrong - I meant I'd prefer if it was opt-in, or at least informed opt-out, like you said. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

> It sounds like a great platform for JS scripting as well - I also think that could be a good and easy way to test the waters.

It is. Some other features you might enjoy are the built-in TypeScript support and test runner. It works well for one-off scripts too, if you'd prefer not using Bash.
For me, it was refreshing coming from Node.js. Hope it is an enjoyable experience for you as well.
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I didn't think to check the line of sight because I was primed by the fact the bridge had been running fine for 10 years. With networking gear that old, it seemed more likely that a device/cable/power brick had just gone bad with age.

Also, the antenna is on some metal scaffolding propped out 6ft past the edge of our balcony, because it needs to "look around the corner" of the building. It's 30ft in the air, and checking the line of sight involved climbing up there. It certainly wasn't the easiest nor the likeliest thing to check, so I didn't check it first.

Multiple people in the comments just here on HN have mentioned having weird situations caused by routers that had gone bad. I imagine most of their routers weren't 10 years old when they started acting up. How old is your router?
Hell, the same things were said about Shkreli, and he served 6 years 5 months of his 7 year sentence.

The biggest inequalities in the system exist before anyone ever gets charged. And when you go and blab about your crimes to anyone who'll listen, you end up negating much of the benefit that more expensive lawyers can bring you.
If every single high school graduate then got a bachelors degree, would their median earnings match the median earnings of the of the bachelors degree group now? It doesn't seem likely. Otherwise we can just mail every single person a bachelors degree certificate in the mail and watch the salaries increase, productivity sore, the economy on permanent boom!