skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I moved the project from Google Code to GitHub, GitHub did not allow binary downloads. So I used Bitbucket, changing the download location again after moving did not seem right. So it has just been maintained since the switch. Now in present day they are also uploaded to GitHub and another mirror I host.
You have billions of identical copies of the DNA molecules probably, so it might matter less if there are some breaks or errors when you sequence, if you sequence very thoroughly.. even when sequencing fresh DNA you have lots of read errors, inserts and deletes.. (haven't read the specifics of this case but I'm sure the fidelity numbers are in the articles somewhere, would be interesting!)
Amazon UK and Visa credit card reach a deal
Email from Amazon UK this morning:

The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk will no longer take place on January 19. We are working closely with Visa on a potential solution that will enable customers to continue using their Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk.

Should we make any changes related to Visa credit cards, we will give you advance notice. Until then, you can continue to use Visa credit cards, debit cards, Mastercard, American Express, and Eurocard as you do today.

Thank you for being an Amazon customer.
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They have - it's called HR-XML. It's mostly B2B but if you use EuroPass CV it's using this under the covers
> and everything will be as expected when you return

Either what I said is completely wrong, or this is completely wrong. I think it is the latter.

You experiencing time dilation doesn’t make it so when you get to your destination, people have aged more. It makes it so you have aged less.
If the round trip takes 2 years from the perspective of an external stationary observer, because it is a round trip of like, 0.9 light years in both directions,
Then by the time you get back, people have aged 2 years.
Removing the time dilation in the ship just makes is so the people on the ship also aged 2 years instead of less than that.

That’s not really helpful.

Unless you can go faster than c, you can’t go 50 light years away and come back to people having aged less than 100 years. If you did, you would have gone faster than c. Basically by definition of speed?
I don't want to go back to FTP!

You can use cyberduck as an interface to Dropbox and its competitors right now. Try it, you might like it more.
Initial release sure, but if you are looking at the website linked that was released in 2018 and the last major release (2.6.0) was released in 2021. So don't think 2010 is accurate.
Naw, only the multi-celled organisms. Most of us will be just fine.
Web 3.0 and the undeliverable promise of decentralization
2 things confuse me about this.

1. This was a normal auction and not an NFT one. How is a DAO enforced in this case? What happens if the nominated bidder decides to go rogue and bid more or less than the decided cap? What happens if the price of Ethereum drops to the point that the DAO is no longer able to find the 2.6M they need?

2. If this is an auction then there has to be another bidder (I doubt even the people in this DAO are dumb enough to make their initial bid 2.6M). Who was bidding 2.5M against them?
At Touchtribe we're searching for medior to senior backend developers to join the team on a permanent or freelance basis.

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it buffles me why one would invest in such projects
The RP2040 is probably overkill for many projects but the pricing makes it very attractive for almost everything except where power and size are a huge factor. Many less capable MCUs are more than twice as expensive.
Well actually Dr. Borody discovered a treatment for Crohn that consists of long term abx. He says there are slow growing bacteria that causes it. https://youtu.be/crm4pKz6X2M

He is the inventor of the triple abx therapy for H.pilory so I would listen to what he says.
Reverse DevOps – are there any tools?
Hi! I wanted to check that we are not re-inventing a wheel.

Typical DevOps handles code deploys in a single direction: from Dev to PROD, from lower environments to higher environments, and for this there are many well known solutions like Jenkins, Terraform, Octopus. But in the opposite direction the situation is not so good.

Yes, in many companies there are home-grown processes to copy databases from higher environments to the lower ones (with hiding/removing sensitive data) to reproduce problems, found on PROD. However, in complex scenarios an access to PROD is needed to find the root cause. Developers need at least logs. And in the Enterprise world it's all depend on the level of paranoya how sensitie the information is.

Thi is what we suggest, the project is to create a safe access method to the higher environments, combining easy friendly interface and interactivity with the full audit of all operations and controlled manner of what users can do and what they can't
In Sam Harris' podcast he mentions an ethical consideration when trying to create an AI that's conscious: an entity that's fully aware of itself yet stuck in a "box" with no way to get out. The perfect torture machine.
Safari 15 bug can leak your recent browsing activity and personal identifiers
well the Lego movies are pretty well received, objectively, so id say more than a "maybe." i was personally really impressed with the movies, and i wasnt in their target demo

i dont know much about the cartoons but anecdotally they seem to be popular with their intended audience. after all their ninjago line has been running for ages. certainly their core business is the bread and butter, but i think Lego actually does a pretty good job with their side ventures (missing a minecraft-type opportunity aside)
Seems to be super common?

https://www.jobscan.co/blog/fortune-500-use-applicant-tracki...
My induction hob does similar on low power settings (at the lowest it's something like 1 second on to 4 seconds off). On higher power settings it's not noticable. I suspect the main reason for this is it's often harder (and more expensive) to design power electronics to operate over a wide PWM duty cycle efficiently, so the low-speed cycling is a way to provide the low settings without a significant cost increase.
can you elaborate a little? i've not heard of the term sum types before and when googling superficailly they dont seem that exciting, particularly for persistent data. When would they not just be a foreign key to table or one column for each allowed datatype (or a mix of the two)?

Sorry, I am assuming here its my ignorance thats teh issue not knowing any real word examples of why they are a big deal.
Yes, we need answers to these !

I'll add one: why does the thread mention "cryptobros" about buyers when the auction was nothing related to crypto in any way?

Is it just becoming a generic insult to dumb people or am I missing something?
We do still seem to get the stalking horse candidate, possibly just for tradition's sake. See Rory Stewart.
Good point about also extending some grace when doing a review. In my experience insensitive and unnecessary, pedantic and overall shitty critique is a much bigger issue and I'd rather see people push back more on it actually.
I don't understand how you can "commandeer" the fakerjs identity. I realize you can fork and maintain said fork, but to take a) the name (which should be protected as a copyright, no?), b) the sponsors (this feels very unethical if not illegal). You can't assign yourselves as the successor to a project. You can be a "spiritual successor", but unless Marak officially hands the mantle over to you, you're thing is just a fork. Surely if all 8 of you are engineers as in the intro, you had to learn some sort of curricula on professional ethics.
Any reason for the downwote? If anything, this underestimates the risk since it assumes no difference in infection rates.

If one normalizes instead by the actual number of unvaccinated cases and vaccinated cases as reported further down on that page, one gets

(739/1456) / (2050/8079) = 2
> dig ignores /etc/hosts

Yes, when debugging host name resolution for a specific host, don’t use dig; use “getent hosts <name>”. This will use the normal configured host name resolution path. (Personally I use "getent ahosts <name>" to get both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.)
Hmm, same here, I've never known any difference. I do use `.cmd` instead of `.bat`, but only through personal preference, nothing more.
It's probably even more than that with the "Buyer's Premium" tacked on - the Christie's cost calculator linked reckons that would be another EUR540,000 on top...
I suppose when I read Hacker News, I think about the kind of companies that would apply to YC or otherwise compete with SV-ish funded companies.
Microsoft rolling out ‘inclusiveness’ checker in Word
Sure ssh didn’t exist, but as best I recall rsh did at the time I used MGR and worked much the same way sans the security.
It's pretty easy to do if you work your way up to it, if you eat normal it would make you sick at first but you would adjust quicker than you'd tbink. It's not really even unusual anymore, a lot of people eat that much for every meal.
Node (community?) does a lot of weird things when it comes to localhost. No idea if this is still true, but a lot of libraries/servers bound to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Watching it explode in an ipv6 environment was cute. Then there was Docker and that didn’t work because the socket wasn’t bound to a public socket. I don’t know what 0.0.0.0 wasn’t the default in these libraries. Maybe it was a hint it wasn’t to be used in production…
Amazon backtracks on plan to decline Visa payments in UK
Amazon had previously stated that it would stop accepting payments by Visa in the UK. See, for example, discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250582 . However, I just received this email:

> The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk will no longer take place on January 19. We are working closely with Visa on a potential solution that will enable customers to continue using their Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk. Should we make any changes related to Visa credit cards, we will give you advance notice. Until then, you can continue to use Visa credit cards, debit cards, Mastercard, American Express, and Eurocard as you do today.
The difference is that JavaScript is the name of an actual language. Where nodejs isn't the actual name of the project. The Node.js project advertises itself as a "JavaScript runtime." Both JavaScript and EMCAScript are acceptable.
s/ssh/rsh/
A list of open source web security scanners
Unprofessional as in done by a person I wouldn't hire in his current mental state.
Go meta, and consider projecting distinct hierarchies on document collections. For example, I may have a hierarchical view of my documents organized by content matter, and another one organized by projects, etc. So there is your JOIN.
You're familiar with every NoSQL database?

Impressive!
They bought a rare Dune storybook, created by an all-star team of artists (Jodorowsky, Moebius, HR Giger, ...). I think that storybook was used to pitch the concept art to Movie Producers and Studios.

To make this easier to understand, substitute "Dune book" with "Gutenberg Bible" or, even better, "historic, ultrarare, pre-medieval parchment of a Bible translation".

The new owners of that Bible probably do not think (and do not intend to promote the idea) that they now own the property rights for "the" Bible, or for all Bibles, or for any Bible - except for that particular instance of the Bible.

Rather they now own that parchment, with all its decorated pages, handwriting, scripts, gemstones, peculiar translations, and compilation of Gospels and Letters.

These content, drawings and illustrations inside that Bible are really unique, unless the monks decided to draw everything ( or even more often.)

This content could indeed be monetized, or shared with the world, for the greater good.
‘We started eating them’: what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish?
I agree. People are not robots, this is just silly. You'd never get a good effective team by taking this extreme stance that nobody ever has any feelings about their work.
As another responded, building a cabinet is a pretty good first woodworking project, not really that hard.

A cabinet can be as simple or complex as you want.

Extreme example: a large cardboard box in fact is how I have often begun many of my past MAME cab builds. I make the cardboard prototype to test ergonomics, fit of the various components — surprisingly you can play on them if you go all the way to install and wire the buttons.

Sheets of plywood or MDF (hate that stuff as a woodworker though) can be purchased at a big box store — maybe they can cut them down to size a bit for you to transport?

A long ruler and an inexpensive circular saw will allow you to cut the sheets of plywood down to the right size. An inexpensive jigsaw as mentioned if you wanted your cabinet to have a few curves (seen plenty of functional if boxy cabs though that are just as fun to play).

A drill to make holes to install the buttons, glue, drywall screws... It can be done with few tools.

Honestly such a project can turn into a gateway drug to more woodworking and tools. As mentioned, you may want to build a 2nd one and add T-molding around the edges to dress it up and look for legit. So a router and slot-cutting bit are added to your growing collection of tools in the garage. Purchase a $400 track saw and after the beautiful and precise cuts you will never touch your circular saw again....
> “We can’t just scan it and put it on the internet,” Fang said. But by raising the money as a DAO, Fang said they hoped to show the various estates and stakeholders that there is a massive online interest in making the bible more accessible to the public.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amansethi/spicedao-dune...

I don't know what they're doing, but it seems that they are at least a bit aware that they don't own the rights.

Who exactly are they trying to convince, and about what? I mean they don't just need the rights to the art in the book itself, but they also need to get the movie/TV rights for Dune itself.

Is this really spending €2.6M just to get a foot in the door, to be able to spend, what, another $200M for the actual rights?

But even then, why do they think this DAO is the best way to execute this vision?

They could just go "oh, people are interested in Dune? Ok, let's make a movie, but without involving these DAO people". Oh wait, there already is a Dune series of movies currently being made/in theaters.

But also: The contents have been on the internet for years, apparently:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNGBuasYa_WETf7sF6Q9W3S...
(from the twitter thread)
> Foreign keys does not correspond to class hierarchies

If a foreign key is primary in two tables (1:1 relation), then it can correspond well to a hierarchical relation. In other cases, foreign keys can also correspond to composition as you say, and it depends on intention.

An example of inheritance could be the table Parties with primary key Party_ID. The table Customers has primary FK Party_ID (Parties.Party_ID). If you must use ORM, you can implement this is as Customer extends Party.

The class Customer then inherits whatever ability the class Party has to access further tables with FK Party_ID, ex something like PartyAddresses.

This might make more sense if you also have a table Providers with primary FK Party_ID (Parties.Party_ID), and the table Orders with FKs provider_Party_ID (Providers.Party_ID) and customer_Party_ID (Customers.Party_ID).

Normalizing like this allows you to have inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation in OOP.
I made the mistake of diving a bit deeper into the group who bought it and found a proposal where they are talking about literally burning the book they just bought after digitizing it for … reasons I guess [0]

At this point I just hope its some sort of practical joke or whatever because this just seems a bit much.

[0] https://forum.spicedao.xyz/t/nft-of-the-book-w-proof-of-jpeg...
The founders of this DAO are paying themselves >$30,000/month [0] out of the pool to look after an old book and to commission an animated TV series [0] from a company that does music videos and commercials [1].

[0] https://snapshot.org/#/dunedao.eth/proposal/0x2038fc240d0e85...
[1] https://robleridgeproductions.com/about/
Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's annoying but I think he has some very worthwhile content.
So this is just an observation and not a judgment.

With only 4 years of professional experience I have never worked on a MongoDB project in which MongoDB somehow wasn't an issue. The proposed solutions merely being "improve the indices" or "scale the cluster", often without clearly defining what's going on.

So granted I have a very limited experience, it's baffling to me mainly in comparison to the PostgreSQL projects I worked on. They definitely also had problems but these problems were clearly defined even if resolution wasn't quick or easy. It was usually an out-of-date or generally messy schema that was causing issues and folks usually were able to clearly define the schema problems.
Fuchsia is open source, though it's Google, so don't know how open. Wikipedia lists licenses BSD, MIT and Apache 2.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)
How is it "nice" when any struct member could map to either an attribute or a child element?

XML is a markup language. It's in the name even. Trying to use it for serialization is weird.
Remembrance Agent (1996)
They'd gradually stop spending because they'd start saving or paying back their variable interest rate loan.
Sounds like you are just running out of carbs. Keep going and your body will start burning fat instead of carbs for energy and your energy levels will return. Eating less sugar and carbs in your normal diet should greatly lesson those symptoms.
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I agree. Matrix isn't quite ready for its prime time, but it's getting there. Synapse is getting more efficient with every update, and the spec is doing so as well.

For example, they recently released the new sync API, which makes joining a room almost instant.

I'm really looking forward to low-bandwidth Matrix as well, which is going to improve performance by a lot.

Client compatibility seems pretty good overall, with Element and Fluffychat available to almost everyone.

In my eyes, the biggest weak point for Matrix as an IM protocol is that there's no business model for server providers.
> Where did the 2.6 million come from?

Crypto gains (scammy or otherwise), NFT sales, etc. The phrase 'cryptobros' is used to refer to people who got rich off of crypto shenanigans.
And got axed.
> why does the thread mention "cryptobros" about buyers when the auction was nothing related to crypto in any way?

Because the group who won it crowdfunded the money via cryptocurrency, wants to turn the book into NFTs and is organized in a DAO, if I looked into this a bit more I am sure I would find something about web3 and metaverse and whatever else fits in the bullshit bingo of current discourse around the whole crypto scene. If this does not count as „cryptobros“ then I imagine nothing does.
The question is if the syntax correspond to the logical order of operations.

In the query "SELECT foo + 2 FROM bar WHERE baz ORDER BY foo", the logical order is actually "FROM foo WHERE baz SELECT foo + 2 ORDER BY wawa" because of how each clause depends on the previous.

The SQL syntax is neither the logical order nor the direct reverse - it is just a random jumble.
There are 2 members in the disposable-email-domains organization on GitHub.[1]

You (martenson) are one of them. The other member (di), who is a "core maintainer" of the project according to the README changelog,[2] is also a member of the Google organization on GitHub.[3] di describes himself as part of the "@google open source security team"[3] and the website linked from his profile says that he is "a Developer Advocate at Google".[4]

[1] https://github.com/orgs/disposable-email-domains/people

[2] https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...

[3] https://github.com/di

[4] https://dustingram.com/
Spending €2.6M on something worth €26,000? Sounds like a crappy return to me.
Dark pattern though
I assumed large CNC machine, ha ha. (I'm not there, yet.)
When I edit an article, it is automatically added to my watchlist, which currently has about 800 articles in it (most of which I don't care about; I should do some weeding). On an average day, maybe 20 of those articles are edited.

Most of those edits are minor. Most vandalism has already been reverted before I see it. A substantial wrong edit needs my attention maybe once a week.

When you speak of "valiantly resisting entropy", it sounds like a battle against the forces of Mordor. For me it's more like weeding the garden; a fairly pleasant activity, that's easiest if you do a little every day. You're still working against entropy, of course, but as you note that is like every other human endeavour.

There are articles I care about that I don't edit. These are mostly articles that some person or group reckons they "own". I don't edit anything to do with the Middle East, for example, nor any article about nationalist politics. Life's too short. I agreee there's no technical fix for that problem. There doesn't seem to be a social fix either; such articles are presumably just going to remain unreliable. Perhaps Wikipedia just isn't suitable as a repository for certain kinds of information.

Incidentally, articles on food seem to get nationalists going. The article on Biryani, for example is the subject of constant drive-bys, constantly flipping back and forth between India, Persia and Pakistan.
According to the buzzfeed article it was bought by one guy, and then the DAO community appears to reimburse him.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amansethi/spicedao-dune...
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."

-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
Also these:

• https://guidebookgallery.org/

• https://ui.codexpanse.com/
I came here to comment something in the likes of this, just to add it helps to understand not only the price of art NFTs but the dynamics of it.

These "investments" are all backed up by some fantasy that works in their "realm" - like buying an avatar that will be used in "the metaverse", being the metaverse a collective fantasy and illusion.

Just like these fellows are so emotionally invested in this fantasy that they were already selling the rights of a TV Show to a streaming service... and I bet that if you go to them now they have the narrative that this will be sold to some yet to exist streaming service of the metaverse based on NFTs.
My favorite part of this story is that they DAO has actually raised ~$8m, spent $3m on the book (10x the expected auction price), then the "core team" has started paying themselves ~$30k a month[0]. Also, how is this "decentralised" when one person owns over 50% of the voting token?

[0] https://snapshot.org/#/dunedao.eth/proposal/0x2038fc240d0e85...
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

This is a stepping stone. A reactive, relational store is very useful, something I've been thinking about for a long time.
oh, i was looking forward to this being an excuse to let all amazon payments end.

I found it extremely insulting to be told that i should change my card to meet the expectations of a single company.

to be clear i think that the transactions fees probably are too high and i am sure visa are not better. but trying to use me as a pawn like this was a slap in the face.

I am still considering cancelling all services on the 19th.

edit: only silver lining was getting 5% cashback from visa on things bought on amazon during this (which being over christmas was handy).