skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This type of error could be easily determined. If it's an contamination or an error, it will have very low read coverage (typical sequencing project be 50-200x meaning if you realign and pile up the reads back to the main assembly, you get a normal distribution centered around 50-200 reads supporting a particular base or region. If you have a very low coverage region or a sharp drop off in coverage, then it's most likely an error.

Metagenomics assembly also do additional binning prior to assembly based on the abundance and GC content of the cluster reads to separate out the different taxas of the sample. How well the read clusters are distanced by this huerisirc is another measure of quality of assembly.
> create something people want to buy and serve it to them.

When your customer is going to come back angry when you cheat them it is important to make something that people appreciates. And when people appreciates your work it is easy to become proud and want to improve even more.

One of the problems nowadays is that the people making products and services and the consumers are completely separated. The guy that adds a dark-pattern in a website may never meet any of its customers. It is a way more detached business and less human as a consequence.
Ask HN: Underrated Turing Award Recipients?
I stumbled on this old book today called "Transaction Processing"[0] that never made it past a first edition in the early 90s. It is a leviathan treatise on the unification of conventional and distributed database systems, operating systems, computer networking and software engineering. How could a book like this end up in the digital dust bin?

I looked up the first author, Jim Gray. Apparently, the guy won the Turing Award in 1998 for "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."[1] I studied computer science at university and have never heard of such a thing. Frankly, I am shaken there are still astonishing ideas, like "transaction processing," that hover unnoticed over the ivory towers. What's the point of lofty ideas if everyone doesn't know about them?

Jim Gray seems to have disappeared mysteriously at sea around 10 years after receiving his Turing Award. Now he doesn't appear a widely recognizable name, even among HN. I searched for "Transaction Processing" in the HN archive, but didn't find anything on Jim Gray.

It makes me wonder who else didn't get all their roses when they were due? Who are the underrated Turing Award recipients?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Transaction-Processing-Concepts-Techniques-Management/dp/1558601902

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)
I'm still single founder for most of my businesses - although it has drawbacks.

I've never looked for nor accepted funding. Freedom is my main motivation, and it is limited somehow when you accept money. And for complete freedom you must go it alone.

In my latest project however (poidata.xyz) I'm a co-founder.
It might be a waste. Think RAID 1 vs RAID 5. There might be plenty of ways were leaving performance on the table.
Yes. Do you want the person to quit his job over it? Unless he's the C+ i'm sure he doesnt have a say in the ethics of the company.
I suppose. I have a pretty good spam filter however.
FWIW: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health...
For what it’s worth, I agree with this take. But I think RL isn’t completely orthogonal to the ideas here.

The missing component is memory. Once models have memory at runtime — once we get rid of the training/inference separation - they’ll be much more useful.
My learning is deeper when I synthesize it. My synthesis is clearer when I anticipate sharing it. Therefore, I blog.
>17. Solarpunk is the idea of humanity achieving a social evolution that embraces not just mere tolerance, but a more expansive compassion and acceptance.

What kind of interpersonal conflict remains after that, besides play fighting (aka sport)?
A little note for the fans here, David Wessman, one of the original developers for the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter games, has been working on a new title over the past few years called "In The Black". There's some Mechwarrior 2 talent over there as well. (I could have sworn Larry Holland was involved at some point as well, but it looks like I was mistaken.) Maybe worth a look if you're interesting in "what they're doing now".

https://intheblack.gg/
Was thinking the same and wondering how did they obtain the million-base long sequences. Turned out they used short read sequencing with 150 or 250 bp reads and computationally assembled the long reads [1]. While this is a traditionally valid method, the newer long read sequencing technologies such as Oxford Nanopore or PacBio would be an more appropriate and direct method.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.10.451761v1....
> YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways

I just want to weigh in a counterpoint to make sure that this isn't the only voice people ever hear.

I think that Google using data to personalize ads and recommend videos is ethically ok. I think this is a case of straw-manning potentially legitimate complaints about Google's service by using the word "ethics" to skip the work of making an actual argument.

Further I think products like this are actually unethical. They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn.

And btw, you can opt out of ads personalization on https://adssettings.google.com/

EDIT: I work at Google (not on ads or Youtube) and have worked at other large ads companies in the past. I work at these companies _because_ I think ads are ok, not the other way around. My views are my own.
I don't want to make a google account so they still track me ;(
The message is PGP-signed, but I'm having a hard time finding the signer's public key, with fingerprint 58B66D48736BE93B. Does anyone know where to get a copy?

Undoubtedly, the technologically-astute reader will know that it is not possible to verify a PGP signature without also having a copy of the public key.
> During the age of a global pandemic, political chaos, and rampant anti-intellectualism

Not related to the rest of the article, but it seems hard to claim rampant anti-intellectualism as a feature of the time. Things like critical race theory, but also imagined cultural change through things like crypto seem highly intellectual to me.
It's more hand-wavy than it's admitted. When you think about it, the idea of emergent phenomena amounts to:

- There's no underlying consciousness or conscious originator (no god, no panpsychism, no underlying conscious layer at the basis of reality, no nothing)
- At some point, two or more elements (rocks, atoms, etc, that weren't conscious), aligned precisely in a given configuration and zap!, they became conscious and interactive
- All consciousness then sprang from that.

So the question would be, if systems favour inertia, stasis and conservation of energy, why would there be consciousness at all and just not an endless void, or a perfectly stable (as in homeostasis) system without conscious agents, or just rocks floating in the space.

I'm not saying the idea of emergent phenomena is wrong, just that you better answer the complex questions other "supernatural" theories try to address, before declaring it some sort of obvious and correct answer.
> Without AirBnB, or some other similar service, this isn't as big of an issue.

Emphasis mine — this is my point. The barn door is open; the horses are gone. Get rid of Airbnb and others will follow. Music piracy didn’t magically stop with the end of Napster.
You provided the list, I can’t help that you now do not like it anymore.
Exhausted employees have less time and energy to apply for better jobs, learn new skills, or organize. This reduces turnover. It also helps that some employees will develop health problems from overwork, and then they really won't be able to afford being without insurance.
Not sure how low-cost orbital rocketry, power-grid stabilisation on a nation scale, and tunnel engineering, can be so wilfully dismissed as “same crap with gloss”, even if you don’t like the cars. In particular it seems to skip right past the work of the very many talented and brilliant people involved in those projects, in a hurry to be maximally glib.
What I said, scope.
By number that cannot be written, I don't mean cannot be written due to lack of paper; I mean a value that there is no notation for.

You cannot run a machine for "that many" steps because such a value is unreachable by steps. Non-standard models have a set of values that begin with a copy of the actual natural numbers, followed by some ordered set of copies of the integers in the sense that any values "beyond" the initial natural numbers have an infinite number of successors and an infinite number of predecessors, like integers do. By counting in steps it is not possible to move from a value in the initial natural number fragment to one of these non-standard values, because there are an infinite number of values in between them that you would be required to step through.
> Thereafter, they are just paying and consuming to avoid headaches and reach the baseline.

No, it is also for a great deal of enjoyment.
Jim Gray's New York Times obituary https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/a-tribute-to-jim-g...
New Jersey house cleaner accidentally breaks into wrong home, cleans up
> And btw, you can opt out of ads personalization on https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

This leads to a sign in page. Is it possible to opt out of ads personalisation without a Google account?
Given the direction Google is heading, it is quite unlikely but not unthinkable that they'll start locking the accounts / blocking the emails of people who spread "misinformation".

It is a good time to have a commercial relationship with an email service. Less likely for politics to get involved.
We're not at feature parity with Anki yet. Our focus isn't copying or competing with Anki. iI you just want everything in Anki but better and free, then Zorbi probably isn't the right fit for you (yet!)

For now, we're focusing on helping students learn more effectively through spaced-repetition. Hence our Chrome Extension + Notion Integration. Hope that gives you an idea on where we fit into the "Spaced-Repetition" space.

Also, here is our changelog: https://zorbiapp.notion.site/zorbiapp/What-s-New-a7c0b5d9241...
It's a surprising manifesto that doubles as a detailed policy proposal.
But truth isn’t always black and white or falsifiable, so that’s why reasonable doubt comes into play.
remember that's it's matching against what is basically an SVG image of a specific font's version of pi, not "how people write pi": draw pi, instead of writing pi, and it'll pick it up pretty high up in the list of matches. https://i.imgur.com/k4AnUme.png
I can get it to recognize pi fairly consistently if I include a serif on the right leg; although I still haven't been able to get it to rank pi as the first choice.
You can still opt out even without an account. The opt-out will be remembered until you clear your browser history.

https://adssettings.google.com/
Easy one for me: Stephen A. Cook. Proved that SAT was NP-complete and formulated the P vs. NP problem.

IMO, even among Turing Award winners there are tiers, and he's in the top one in my book.
Some people say that COBOL is the highest-paid language. Maybe that's what they had in mind.
The dotted arc could easily be interpreted as “this isn’t the exact path but there is a navigable walking path in the general direction of this line” which is just as unhelpful and potentially dangerous.
Thanks for the feedback.

Will let you know when we have reversable cards.
That doesn’t seem unreasonable in terms of the police department not being liable. What are they supposed to do? Maintain a parallel system so they can check everything the the computer produces?

It seems like the vendor of the faulty system should be liable.
It is difficult to give an answer to such a question that is ultimately about opinion and personal taste.
yeah sorry, delete the "authenticated" part
Last year, a good friend of my friend passed away. His death affected my friend deeply to the point that my friend was determined to find evidence of the continuance of consciousness after death and becoming extremely depressed. My friend believes that life is utterly meaningless if there is no consciousness after death, to the point where he's considering suicide because once he's dead he wouldn't know he committed suicide, and those around him will eventually die and not know that he committed suicide.

Due to this, he doesn't want to accept that consciousness may just boil down to natural processes and is hoping that there is something more.
Thanks! Export to CSV is coming soon.
Tangentially, had anyone tried the HiFive Unmatched for numpy/matplotlib/browser type workloads on Linux?
Why? All OS have IMEs built in, all of which are vastly better at recognizing which character you drew than this can ever be.
The first reply was nice, in my opinion. The reply to that reply was what may have rubbed Linus the wrong way. First, he brought up an argument that didn't apply to the code in example (where the goto jumps forward but not backwards). Then, his

> It's
just "common sense" as I've always been taught. Unless you're
intentionally trying to write code that's harder for others to read.

comes off as condescending.
A valid blameless answer then is "remove the privilege" and yes, despite whatever objections you'll raise, this is possible. Difficult, but possible.

Like, even in the case of the extreme example of someone deciding to intentionally harm the company. You fire them, but then what, how do you prevent the next person to go rogue from causing equivalent harm?
Experiences with EU's Digital Covid Certificate in Spain
I think I better title would be “reality reveals that ideas were actually bad”.

The issues described in this blog are about the challenges of persisting a consistent set of data, when you need to support a lot of read and write access. That is just a fundamentally difficult problem. Databases are the most sophisticated tools we have for doing that, but really they just tend to be a set of (hopefully) well implemented trade offs that attempt to nicely balance all of those conflicting requirements.

If a person can’t find a way to adequately persist their data, then their idea is probably bad, or they just don’t have the competence to implement it. An equally suitable title for this post could have been “why doesn’t magic exist”.
SQL is just a language. Any techniques which can be used scalably (client-side joins for instance) could also be used by an implementation supporting the SQL language. Perhaps your argument holds for some of the more well-known RDBMSes out there, but I don't think SQL necessarily has to be unscalable in the general case.
What's missing in the article is explanation of how attackers get into those ESXi machines to begin with -- 0-day? old unpatched bugs? Stolen credentials?

IMHO, this is the really interesting part, and something one would really like to know as it directly affects how one should protect their servers.
Sorry! Firefox is in the books but we're a small team and don't have the resources to maintain it on Firefox right now.
I disagree. If Google doesn’t know enough about the walking path to even be able to plot it on the map, then they shouldn’t represent to users that there is a navigable path at all.
Their commitment to open source, reproducible builds, hardware transparency, and hardware killswitches for radio modules... thats a start.
It's a succinct paper. http://4mhz.de/download.php?file=Cook1971_Letter.pdf
> If you have to build stuff, and you're not in a place that builds stuff on a regular basis, it takes way too long to get stuff built.

I wonder why they don't invest in establishing the competency for robotics. The potential return might seem enormous, though their choices might signify that they don't agree.

Or maybe they just aren't willing to leave their comfort zone. 'Software will eat the world' is a convenient idea for people who want to stay in that comfort zone.
Weird. Naturally it works beautifully on mine with two different browsers, though I'm not in the habit of using the page-down key. I'll have to investigate that one further, I guess.
Unfortunately even on desktop, this is far from a nice experience... https://i.imgur.com/9oPlfkU.png

Just put the content on the page, with each section left to size itself based on however-much content is in it, instead of giving each section its own scrollbar at least?
I agree with your first paragraph but this:

> All our legal protections ultimately depend on a democratic foundation

is the wrong way round. I suspect you're speaking from a US perspective. The US constitution limits the rights of goverment for the benefit of the people, it does not limit the rights of the people for the benefit of government.
Does the PREEMPT_RT patchset matter wrt. audio latencies in Linux? That seems to be the biggest effort wrt. "low latency" workloads at least on the kernel side.
Love it! Are there works based on this idea?
> It’s just navigating to the rough vicinity, instead of an exact location.

Even that is problematic if they don’t know enough about the route to gauge whether it is viably navigable or hazardous.
Thanks for the feedback. Going open-source is something we'd consider but right now we're focused on building a tool that people love (which becomes difficult with a bunch of hobbyist developers contributing).

Also closed source isn't always bad. It's no secret that Duolingo has the world's best spaced-repetition algorithm - they will IPO for 2.4 billion soon.
Toxoplasmosis: An important risk factor for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection
Geek Bonding (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Trek) (2007)
I need a refresher on this.

What other forms of debt, if any, are paid out before these notes?

What kinds of things would dilute the value of the note?
OpenBSD acts as router for my home, and I run Unbound on the router to provide DNS-over-TLS capability to both OpenBSD and to the computers in my LAN. My ISP connection uses DHCP, and my ISP obviously provide DNS servers for me, but by superseding these with "127.0.0.1" through dhclient.conf I can make sure OpenBSD never inserts the ISP DNSes into resolv.conf and consequently always resolve through Unbound instead, and by letting computers in my LAN use the router (i.e. Unbound) as DNS I can make sure they too get DNS-over-TLS instead of resolving hostnames with my ISP's DNSes.

Since I don't involve Unwind here, which according to the manpages of the new daemons is what makes them prepend "127.0.0.1" to resolv.conf, and since I cannot see any apparent way of configuring the new daemons to ignore DNS information in the DHCP response the way I can with dhclient, how can I achieve what I have now? How can I prevent my ISP's DNSes from entering resolv.conf when running the new daemons?

I get the impression that my use case (which really is neither uncommon nor obscure) hasn't been thought of at all.
The feature I miss the most is Collections where I could group my subscriptions into folders. I have too many now to easily browse them (although adding them to an RSS reader helps somewhat).
Good find. Yes, the SLAM boosters - Sublight Acceleration Motor - were what I was thinking of.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/SubLight_Acceleration_Motor...

The trick was to allocate all power generation into laser/ion cannon recharging since that’s what recharged the fastest, then continuously transfer the accumulated power reserves from laser/ion into engines or shields as necessary. To engines when a SLAM boost was needed, or to shields when defense is needed.

And once you were a good enough pilot, you could use SLAM boosts to avoid all incoming attacks, both lasers and missiles, and thus not have to waste power on shields and lasers. Fly around with no shields, using SLAM plus missiles/torpedos/bombs to destroy your targets lightning fast, then bug out.

You could even use the SLAMs to get in behind some missiles or torpedos that were targeting you and shoot them down, basically dogfighting against missiles and torpedos.

That was so fun.
> Can you provide a precedent for Google's position being wrong

You don’t need a legal precedent to determine what is wrong. You are making the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent here.

> Oh, if your primary concern is that Google reserves the right to get into private collaborations and modify access to those documents, that's something other than what I'm arguing.

They do, and ok.

> I'm personally ambivalent (their house and their rules... If you don't like the rules don't live in the house)

This is a sentiment that I generally agree with as life advice, but is a non-contribution to these kinds of discussion.

> but I can see why people would have more concern with that situation than the situation where they block wide-cast sharing via a view-only link.

There is no difference between a small scale collaboration and what you have chosen to label a ‘wide-cast’ link, other than how many people read the document.
"And YouTube is expensive."

Serving you with the small number of videos you watch is not expensive.

Doing this for billions of other people so it can hoover up large aomunts of personal data and serve ads, thats expensive.

When data, e.g., video, is shared peer-to-peer (the original design of the internet) without ad-supported middlemen, the expense is borne by the peers. They each pay for their internet connection and the bandwidth they use. Much more efficient and less costly.

Thats why people do video calls over peer-to-peer links.
> So, it is a derivative of a derivative name.

Most words in English (and a whole bunch of other languages) that aren't unchanged or one-step removed from Proto-Indo-European (and possibly those that are, since that's just as far back as we are kind of able to reconstruct) are either derivatives of derivatives or newer out-of-the-blue inventions (often derivatives of derivatives of inventions).

> For all the downvotes, I recommend to read "How new words are born"

But...the word you are complaining about is an example of #7 (followed by #4 for the use in question), from “cyborg”, so...your complaint about it beign abnormal is undermined by your own citation.
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Looking at your source code, any reason you're doing hand-rolled css, layouts, scrollable divs with main content, inline css?

I remember doing this 15 years ago.

Today this is a problem that was solved dozens of times, from Bootstrap, to Zurb and Tailwind - with productivity, accessibility and variety of devices and screen-sizes in mind.

Your website is unpleasant to use and scroll. It feels you're reinventing the wheel just for the sake of it?
No, that's not my premise. You can't write a non trivial rust program that doesn't use unsafe in it's dependencies, often the standard library.

But this is true of every other programming language I'm aware of.

So if you want to define memory safety to be something never achieved in practice, fine, but that's not a useful definition in my books.
I see this mistake all the time in HN, just because you haven’t been exposed to it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
We invite researchers to perform a more qualitative measure of Brax’s physics fidelity by training their own policies in the Brax Training Colab. The learned trajectories are recognizably similar to those seen in OpenAI Gym.

Why would the comparison be qualitative? We have known equations of motion. Seems like it would be more productive to produce a quantitative metric where we compare the output to the theoretical solution predicted by the equations of motion.

2nd question: if we have equations of motion, why is this needed or better than a monte-Carlo solution to those equations of motion?