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by thamer 4y ago
The 300GB is for "all public sequences", as explained. But to answer your question about "one virus", the initial isolate of SARS-CoV-2 from Wuhan, China has a genome containing 29,903 nucleotides. You can see the full r
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by thamer 4y ago
Not quite a hello world, but the Tutorials section in the left-side menu is actually a set of examples, each one an annotated program. See for example the first one, a client/server application implementing bank withdrawals with safety
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by thamer 4y ago
The current link points to the website of a radio station that only posted a brief summary of a much longer article from The Atlantic. Maybe the URL in this post should be changed to the original? https://www.theatlantic.com&#x2F
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by thamer 4y ago
> Conditional control flow is possible thanks to this gem of an instruction: ff242500004000 jmp qword [0x400000] How is this "conditional"? The article explains that it simply "jumps to whatever address
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by thamer 4y ago
> ping from Earth to Mercury is 230,000ms at best. Not really your point I know, but I was curious about this so I looked it up. The closest Earth and Mercury get is 77.3 million km[1], which is 515.7 seconds round-trip (ping) at the spe
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by thamer 4y ago
A sibling comment to your mentioned Andrew Ng's class, and I actually had the same experience as them with the same class. You can find it by searching for Stanford CS229; the lectures are available on YouTube.
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by thamer 4y ago
I didn't write the job listing, but I understand it as being interested in OSS contributions, maybe already being a contributor to some projects. > hiring someone to contribute to open source, makes that person likely represent inte
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by thamer 4y ago
> Their engineers are prohibited from contributing back to the ecosystem Things have changed and this is no longer true. A significant number of projects receive frequent contributions from Apple engineers. The majority of active committ
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by thamer 4y ago
Yes the physical size can be important, and so can the power draw. Just like you wouldn't use a full-fledged Raspberry Pi for use cases where a Raspberry Pi Nano or other low-power microcontroller is enough.
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by thamer 4y ago
I didn't see any reference to an external security audit on your website, so have you done one and if not are you planning to? All serious products in this space publish these third-party audits and sometimes certifications. See the pa
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by thamer 4y ago
I don't know if this was a serious question, but Twitter's support for video is less advanced. Really, it's clear that it's never been a priority. The maximum duration is 140s, max file size is 512MB, max resolution is 1
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by thamer 4y ago
To build your own menu bar app, I would recommend trying out xbar[1]. You can write "apps" in any language. The output of your program is used to construct the menu bar app, so if your program outputs this: Hello ---
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by thamer 4y ago
Elephants often have interesting shapes in medieval art. In some (most?) cases it seems like the artist was likely drawing from someone else's description of the animal since they had never seen one themselves (e.g. #14, #22, #34 and
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by thamer 4y ago
This is the critical flaw in betting mostly on trees to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. To get to the now-unlikely target of +1.5°C by 2100, the need is on the order of 6 billion tons of CO2 to remove each year by 2050[1]. A mature tree
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by thamer 4y ago
It doesn't, because that's not how it works. Copilot doesn't recognize what you're trying to do and then paste a code sample from a repo it has in its index. Just like DALL·E 2 doesn't produce images that say "
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by thamer 4y ago
France also has rules regarding who can call themselves an engineer, although software engineering is recognized. A "diplôme d'ingénieur" can only be delivered by accredited institutions regulated by the "Commission de
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by thamer 4y ago
The vast majority of researchers don't need anywhere close to the amount of resources that CERN needs. The fact that CERN doesn't use EC2 and lambdas shouldn't be taken as a lesson by anyone who's not operating at their
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by thamer 4y ago
Some good advice here. I would also suggest adding a build ID to the log message along with the other optional fields, this being the version of the software that logged the message. It can help track down incompatibility issues, especially
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by thamer 4y ago
How to format text on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc For code blocks, prefix each line with two or more spaces.
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by thamer 4y ago
Yes. I've had both installed while 2.0 was in beta, and can confirm that the portable installation mode that a sibling comment mentioned does keep the two separate.
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by thamer 4y ago
This is not a new development with the 40 series. The RTX 3090 Ti already had a 450W TDP: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3... What you describe is accurate, the 3090 Ti produces a tremendous
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by thamer 4y ago
The report mentions the ship making a C.Q.D. call, which I wasn't familiar with. The name comes from the earlier telegraph "CQ" call for alerts, named after the French word "sécurité", abbreviated as "sécu&quot
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by thamer 4y ago
Gitui's README mentions that Lazygit freezes and sometimes crashes parsing large repos, taking the example of the linux repo, and reports that Gitui is more than twice as fast: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui#3
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by thamer 4y ago
All four authors are listed as being part of the "Institute of Noetic Sciences", which researches topic such as paranormal phenomena, psychic abilities, telekinesis, and other pseudoscientific topics in the realm of alternative me
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by thamer 4y ago
Decompilation is very much part of reverse engineering. The two are not the same, but disassembling and decompiling code are extremely common techniques used to reverse engineer a program, algorithm, or protocol.
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by thamer 4y ago
A few years ago I worked on a service that had to stream data out using protobuf messages, in a single request that could potentially transfer several gigabytes of data. At the HTTP level it was chunked, but above that I used a protobuf mes
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by thamer 4y ago
They mention the Power Profiler Kit 2 (PPK2) to measure power usage. I've been using it for a few months with microcontrollers and have found it very useful. The amount of precision it's capable of with high-frequency measurements
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by thamer 4y ago
There's a major difference though: `value if predicate else alternative` is itself a value, something you can assign to a variable or pass to a function as a parameter.
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by thamer 4y ago
Aren't the names <article> and <section> pretty descriptive already? In plain English it seems reasonable to say "I read the first section of this article", while "I read the first article of this section&quo
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by thamer 4y ago
Yes, and they confirmed it was the same galaxy using spectroscopy: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/035/01G...

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