skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something related: more than a decade again, I was working as a sales engineer selling an enterprise search engine. A common pricing model we publish is charging $X per gigabyte of search index [1]. This sounds like similar rationale, because it feels like an honest pay as you use scheme. But it's hard for customers to understand how much they would be using. And of course since it's an enterprise solution, there is heavy switching costs playing into the equation — both into our product and if they adopt it, away from it.

[1] The size of search index depended on the amount of content indexed as well as heavily on the features that were turned on. E.g. pre-index search-term expansion would increase the size by a factor, and so on.
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Also super useful for technical founders.
Agreed on the appeal of sticking to SQL. I’ve written an alternative non-ORM for Node and TypeScript (which doesn’t separate out your queries): https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
They're sort of hybrid networks at that point, but Chainlink oracles are decentralized: each function is run by several nodes (31 for the BTC/USD or ETH/USD price feed, for example). The nodes have to come to consensus and individual nodes are slashed if they produce bad or late data. You can see an example of a LINK feed here: https://data.chain.link/ethereum/mainnet/crypto-usd/eth-usd

Decentralization is a spectrum. But I would argue this approach is far more secure than naive oracle implementations.

Not all applications need oracles. It depends on whether your smart contract needs information about the world outside of the blockchain.
Thank you ! I've just ordered it. I hope I'll receive it :)
> Have you tried applying your hobby towards reducing the cost of healthcare in America?

This isn't so much a technological problem, but more a politics/incentives issue, as evidenced by the comparably lower cost of healthcare in Europe. Startups might be able to make small reductions in the cost, but truly solving the issue requires re-organising the entire healthcare system.

> Could you somehow make monoclonal antibodies in your petri dishes?

This wouldn't be particularly useful. In order to use it in humans, you need a ton of quality control and regulatory approvals, and this is where a lot of the manufacturing cost crops up.
True but some people just don't chase sharing moments with kids that much. Whilst most people seem to want kids, not all of them want to spend all their time with them at the expense of their own personal dreams.

We're perhaps still under the influence of some older generations' way of living...
Yes: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
This is the medical version of 'A Short Story for Engineers': https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEng...
I agree about the part of not accessing information from production.

But I am wondering how could we debug or test something which happens only on production? I ask this because there are some bugs that can appear at the intersection of code and data.

So far my strategy is to do the following:

1. Only one person can access production DB. This person will do a backup copy and encrypt it to an internal storage.

2. Another one will get the backup and run an anonomizer script on data. The anonimzer is still up to debate what it should do after the obvious cleaning of personal data from user accounts. One important (and hard step) is regenerating the uuids but keeping foreign keys integrity.

At the end this person will create a new DB internally with the anonimizer data.

3. Someome reviews the new DB and marks it as ready to be used

Then a dev can ask access to this fresh copy.

In some teams I played with making this process full automated until review. But then if there are bugs suddenly we have a live internal DB with customer data which is not wanted.

As an alternative but only for small projects I wrote once a script which analysis the DB data and tries to create fro, scratch a similar data structure but with fake data.
> the angle I was focusing on is the demonstrated interest and willingness to spend time and credibility on it

Ah, fair enough. My point was that it's at least not demonstated, if not not true, that you need a lot of adversarial research to prevent something like Dual_EC_DRBG (specifically) being submitted in bad faith - you just need to actually bother to read the crypto specification you're considering adopting, and have the bare minimum competence to notice that there's no benefit to a number-theoretic design besides the ability to prove security relative to some presumed-hard task, and that there is no such proof.
That's why I don't drink beer either.
I am not sure if I completely understand your use-case but it seems that the config can be distributed across multiple files.

https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/specifications/v2.0.0#referenc...
> SQL is universal

No it's not. A small subset of it will work consistently across databases.

But if you want to get the most of your database then in almost cases you will be working with proprietary SQL. And ORMs have the advantage of abstracting this SQL away for you allowing that you to work across databases if you need to.
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> what should be done with people who interact poorly with others but are talented and driven?

Just do not take their behavior personally. So what if he insults you. It takes two to make an offense - one to give offense, the other to take offense. Don't take offense, and there is no offense.

> makes students cry

There's no crying in baseball.

If you live to be my age, you'll experience the death of people you love. Save the crying for that.
I don't agree

I used EF Core and Dapper for like 3 years and ORMs boost productivity significantly.

I tend to check what SQL is generated and if something is complicated and generated SQL sucks, then I use micro ORM like Dapper and use raw sql.

I agree that ORMs aren't easy because you have to learn them, but I think it's worth, unless you have to learn many different ORMs.
I worked on a use case which was clearly in graph in nature. So graph database seemed a natural choice, of course Neo4j was one of the most heard product even back then.

We did evaluate Neo4j, but put down due to its complex query language (cypher) and slowness. It was really an awkward language, super awkward.

We also evaluated arangodb and we found it much better than Neo4j. Performance was good and its query language was better too.

What we realised in the process is, using graph databases is more of a cultural transformation as well. SQL is much well understood, well adopted and well supported by community.

Ultimately we implemented the use case in Postgres, and thank God we did it that way. IMO, we can still get all the benefits of graphs we SQL databases with little efforts.
The broader political context is that Biden campaigned on adding AR-15s to the NFA, a law designed to keep firearms out of the hands of the plebs [0], nominated an ATF director who wants to ban AR-15s entirely [1], and has pushed controversial red-flag laws that allow for the seizure of firearms without the accused having any right to challenge the order prior to the property seizure being executed [2]. AR-15s are owned by millions of Americans, mostly Republicans, for lawful purposes such as hunting and target shooting. Rifles of all types are used in only around 2% of all homicides [3], so this would have a very minimal impact on Biden's stated goal of reducing gun violence, but would significantly affect legal gun owners. It's entirely unsurprising that this has prompted a backlash by red states, which are gearing up for a political and legal fight over firearms for the next few years.

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/16/biden-gun-...

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/26/davi...

[2] - https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/06/biden-doj-proposes-...

[3] - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
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This actually surprising and doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If the oracle is just an AMM, then presumably one could get the oracle to register a nonzero value by just putting a small amount of money in the contract. As long as there aren't an infinite amount of TITAN tokens (are there?), even if all of the TITAN in existence were put into this AMM, there would still be a little money left to give TITAN a positive price and fix the issue.
but there is tea in team, which is why you should make like Uncle Iroh and drink it.

plus spill it from time to time with those you trust.
> We're not short of brilliant people who are also nice or at least not generally toxic.

We absolutely are, especially with the all-encompassing definitions of toxicity that are popular lately.
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> There are people for whom racism is an unavoidable, daily issue.

This seems question-begging, because there are structurally equivalent scenarios where I expect that almost everyone would reject raising the issue as inappropriate.

For example, I am a Gentile, a goy if you will, working in financial machine learning. One cannot help but notice that Ashkenazi Jews are over-represented in my company by a factor of 5-10x. If we adopt the principle that differences in outcomes between groups can only be attributable to oppression of the disadvantaged group by the advantaged one, then we would be forced to arrive at some rather 1930's-Germany-tier conclusions.

I don't think there's anything particularly nefarious about Jewish over-representation in tech, or that I haven't been given a fair shake by fundamentally decent people. But if I were primed to look for it, I could scrape together enough incidents over the years where my Jewish colleagues had acted in some kind of socially ambiguous way towards me (as could anyone about any of their colleagues they've known for long enough). When two of my colleagues lapse into Hebrew in the middle of a conversation I'm a part of, I don't think it reflects anything worse than very mild gracelessness. But if I began from the assumption that history was, say, fundamentally a struggle between secretive, scheming Jews and their oppressed goyische marks, I would probably come to a different conclusion.

Yet if I paused in the middle of my software newsletter to reflect upon the question of Jewish advantage in tech and highlighted the under-representation of Gentiles, musing about what is to be done, I expect that pretty much everyone would find that off-putting at the least.

Is there a relevant difference between these two cases?
Same here. The grammar of my main language is very flexible compare to English. There is no grammatical for tenses and plurals.
Formal verification doesn’t help with bad assumptions that went into the design of the program.
So what with them? I don't see how they solve the problem.

What you seem to suggest is refactor the original code (which presumably was a single function to set everything up) so that variables used and the substeps are in one module (your new object), and the code that uses all of this is in another module. I am not convinced this really follows "high cohesion, low coupling" dogma, since you put together things that might be less related (different style variables) into the same module, and created a function, which almost all it does is calling into another module, and is highly dependent on it.

The problem ultimately is data relationships in the code can be a general graph, and trying to put a general graph into a hierarchical structure (much less one that actually has to follow the structure of operations on the data) always has to break cycles in some way. And how much you can really do it depends on cyclomatic number of the graph, and if it's high, no strategy is going to be good. AFAICT most of the OOP strategies of "dealing" with this problem are just creating more nodes in the graph, making the structure bigger, but not really reducing the cyclomatic number.
What resources are you using to self-learn synthetic biology? I'm also interested in the topic.

I'm looking for something more practical and hands on at this point. I was planning to start my home late in the next month or so, and start with some basics bacteria projects. So far I found the following to be useful:

1. EDX principals of synthetic biology: https://www.edx.org/course/principles-of-synthetic-biology

2. Coursera systems biology: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/systems-biology

3. Coursera Industrial biotechnology https://www.coursera.org/learn/industrial-biotech

4. SBOL https://sbolstandard.org

5. This GitHub: https://github.com/websemantics/awesome-synthetic-biology

6. https://barricklab.org/twiki/bin/view/Lab

7. Synthetic biology primer (book)
This is just utter nonsense, and I say this as someone who grew up in northern Ireland. So you think HK will be better when it's more equal?
Not failing myself, although running a simple one-man show, but loneliness is indeed the hardest part. And I'm rather distanced myself naturally.

Tried meetups... Too much posturing and no vulnerability.

Tried online groups... Too digital.

Very curious to see how people handle that loneliness. It's terribly hard at times.
> GB already offers specific routes for HK residents to come over.

Canada too.
I think the bar of usefulness for comments should be pretty low. Most modern IDEs will dim them for you anyway, so it's minimal how visually annoying it is.

The problem is more that you might not have a comment when you need one. There's a lot of times when the author has thought a lot about something and thus understands it, but someone glancing over the code might not.

Example:

def caterpillarMethod(A, s):
n = len(A)
front, total = 0, 0
for back in xrange(n):
while (front < n and total + A[front] <= s):
total += A[front]
front += 1
if total == s:
return True
total -= A[back]

Someone reading this might think it's O(n*2), because there's a loop in a loop and that often makes it so. But if you look closely it isn't. So maybe comment that.
Anyone interested in codified risk should read about rai stones.
During this period there was a much lower population of humans.
Inflation Threatens the Global Economy After Major Support and Stimulus Plans
Why not both?

Approach where you use pure SQL for reads and ORM for saves is not that uncommon
> freest laissez faire city state in the world

It's just so easy to idolize Hong Kong and ignore the severe failures in its socioeconomic system for the sake of critiquing China. Please do better.

cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/FD941A3D3003D8EA05ACE2C5A9C00110/S0305741000046828a.pdf/legacy_of_the_british_administration_of_hong_kong_a_view_from_hong_kong.pdf
Seriously, if you're that brilliant you can develop some basic social skills. And from what I'm getting from this thread, we are talking fundamental thinking before you engage in a social interaction skills.

It's ok not to be great at everything, but it's not acceptable to be toxic on the basis of your other skills. At the very least, sometimes that means the genius team member needs to just shut up and choose their battles.

And the first step for many of these type of asshole genius types can be to talk less. Once they master choosing their battles, they can work on how they approach the battles they choose to take.
The problem is that most founder think that they need to be miserable to be successful.
hey mate. can you recommend some reading?
My hope is, just as it's commonplace for Chinese people to learn English, it becomes commonplace for Westerners to learn Mandarin. Only once we can communicate can we start to break through cultural and ideological barriers. It would be impossible to stop the flood of readily consumable Western Mandarin media and culture.

Unfortunately I think too many would see learning Mandarin as China winning a culture war, instead of seeing it as building a foundation for expropriating the CCP's control over Chinese ideology.
Relevant user name, I like foxes. Fennec and grey foxes in particular, but nothing wrong with the standard red fox. They have interesting personalities it seems. Unfortunate they have a bad reputation in farming, I do not think they are nasty or cruel, merely wild. Chicken coops and herd animals closed in a tight area is not natural.
The mere fact that the post reeks of desperation might be their death knell :(

I would think big tech companies wouldn't touch companies who might fold in the next 6 months with a 6 foot pole.
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Britain failed to enact democratic reforms well before the handover [0]. Chris Patton and successive British governments are partly to blame [1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Plan_(Hong_Kong)

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/i-should-have-...
I see that von Neumann is actually mentioned 3 times in the text and in the references.
For TypeScript, there’s a very helpful list here: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2020/sql-libs-for-typescript...
Would it be possible for federal government to outlaw bullets? There is nothing in constitution on the right to posses bullets so that would pretty much serve the same purpose as banning guns without going against the constitution.
Alternatively, there could be a large levy on purchase and annual ownership tax for ammunition which would effectively do the same.
Lol, I can't believe it took people so long to realize this neoliberal lie.

If you have two people working just as hard as each other, but one is a janitor and the other is a lawyer, do you really think the janitor is going to live like the lawyer just because he "worked just as hard"?
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Aside: I'm a big fan of HBO's content but their app is really poor quality. Playback frequently is unable to start or halts midstream. I've noticed this on distinct devices (android, AppleTV). DRM run amok? I don't know but you would think making playback work consistently would be near the top of their list.

It's gotten slightly better over the last year or so. But it still happens way more often than it should.
You just know some poor developer got assigned a ticket titled "Encrypt articles" and just did the quickest possible thing to get rid of it.

Rot25 isn't exactly secure, but it's a pretty good solution in a worse-is-better way. Very few people are gonna bother unrot-25-ing articles by hand.
Pretty sure the question is, where you would get detailed data on traffic conditions. This is a case where surveillance capitalism of Google/Yandex/etc. wins, as they just have millions of data points from the same people that are using the maps, in addition to whatever data they may buy from cities.
It's right there in the second paragraph. It would have taken you less time if you had read that instead of commenting here!
Not true in my opinion. It's mostly that what is perceived as success may be birthed out of sacrifices, compromises, and loneliness. Many bootstrappers I know have managed to be successful but lost loved ones whilst getting there.

It does. It have to be this way, but it often takes obsessive behaviour for many to get results. And that's just unhealthy, whether you succeed or fail.
I never heard of these voices before and I certainly don't hear them, but you have piqued my interest. Is there an exact name for these kind of inner voices?
> The author comes off as an utter dolt, while Moglen's position is well-reasoned.

It's interesting that I read the same reporting as you, and to me Moglen comes off as a zealot who is unable to see anyone else's point of view.

I think this is best shown by this exchange:

"Me: Well just for me personally right now, the utility seems to—

Mr. Moglen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no! You see that’s not true....."
Then these two lines of code move away from the context of the surrounding function. There may also be something specific about how the scrollbar is added in this instance, requiring a very complicated name if you want to convey that.

As long as the surrounding function is not overly complex, I don't see the advantage of having to jump back and forth from mini function to mini function to understand what the code is doing.
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"crow" would have been a more obvious reference
> if after 6 years that lot haven't "cracked the code," that's reason enough to abandon hope for there ever being a sane recruiting process, anywhere.

That capable people failed to make one solution work, doesn't mean no solution can work. Now they're going to try another.
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Doesn't Google serve half of all ads on the rest of the internet?
It depends on the language. Could require it or could not. Not sure about here.
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I heard how a company in the long past got a phone call from an elder customer: I've got such a strange letter from you. Reception asks what it says. Says the customer: I don't know yet, they're still busy putting it in the hallway. Huh?

It turns out an error was made in a mass mailing, and every letter was sent with the first address on the list. The list was roughly sorted by birth date, so the eldest customer got all of them. Postal office workers drove with a van to the customer, and duly delivered bags and bags of mail to the same address.
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I have the same take a you do. Those implicit signals make sense in a Chinese cultural context but are much harder for the non initiated to pick on. This being said, State actors in the West have their analysts and certainly know what's afoot, cue the official response from the EU and Britain. But the general public can't parse it, which is important in democracies.
Can someone please explain why to use Kafka over Redis streams? Is it basically use Kafka if you need your data long term and/or if it's way too big for an in-memory store? Redis seems much, much simpler to setup.

Even if you do need to keep your events long term, why not use something like Eventstore?
> I've heard from people close to him that that's just the way he is and you have to get used to it.

It's an issue of power. If they didn't have power, nobody would say that. If a student behaved that way toward Felleisen, certainly nobody would say that to Felleisen.

Power corrupts.
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> ...it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it.

What are they helping the intern through? Hopefully creating a better testing process.
That seems like a poor idea when the collapse of this project was preceded by their failing token doubling in price before falling to zero. You’d need an unknown amount of collateral for an unknown period of time.
I guess they're going for technically correct since 100% is indeed "a portion"
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There's some context in a GH issue: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/issues/32
The incentives come as a package. If you motivate them to compete, it incentivizes them to not help the other team regarding "good SFP+ tranceivers and could pool orders or diagnostics or lists of parts to avoid" and perhaps even sabotage them as long as it doesn't look like sabotage.
Opposite experience for me.

The amazon marketplace is filled with scams and counterfeits.

I would rather pay a little more and get the product from a trusted source, or just go to a local store and buy it.
Meaning it’s vastly more universal than your ORM du jour.