skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies selling fake reviews are “tarnishing” brand, Amazon says
Ask HN: How to scale a list to an knowledge platform
I'm looking for advice on how to scale OpenSustain.tech, which is essentially a awesome list for open climate and sustainability projects, into a central platform for data, software, and knowledge in the field. After about 16 months, we have managed to capture a large part of the active open source projects in this field. Now the list has grown so large that it is difficult to search for suitable projects. Fortunately, we always added the Git repositories directly to the list, so it was possible to get meta data from each project via the GitHub API. Here is the datasets we have been able to generate by crawling metadata from every project:
https://airtable.com/shr9we419r2TkpLkc

My experience with website development is limited. Any ideas, hints or thoughts on how we can use this data to create an open source website that is a bit more user friendly than the previous list? Of course it would be best if this is also done with open source tools.
I do not, but from working in companies I know that a lot of things are not as simple as they look from the outside. Most times decisions are taken with a bunch of constraints factored in (can we attract talent to work on that stack?) that aren't necessarily just about "how can we build this in the simplest way possible".

Thinking that they haven't thought about this one simple way of doing it is a bit naive.
It’s just the nature of working for someone else.
KYC & AML are useful things that protect customers and prevent people doing things with money that we as a society have deemed unlawful (e.g. tax evasion, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, etc.).

Is giving up the ability to detect those things good?

I wouldn’t use a bank that didn’t care to identify who was withdrawing my money…
Can you tell me a little about why you built this?
Got a link to a news article about such an event?
CNN? Gross at times of peace.
> How rare?

Zero other exact matches, in the database.

An n of 1 has infinite variance. The relevant rarity, though is not the database, but rather "in the universe of viral sequences.
The database biases for sequences that we've sequences, so at best you can give a really shitty estimate.

Fwiw I believe the story that this was a stack overflow copy-paste operation from the moderna sequence, but I can only ever call this a strong belief[0], with no numbers behind it, unless someone comes forward and admits having done it.

[0] why strong? Because it follows the scientific method. If the hypothesis is that it's a lab leak, then your prediction is that existing sequences would bleed through. A bit crazy that we only found this now, hell I could have done this blast search years ago, but it is what you would expect to find.
Very much this. I see users getting locked out of Google account often, or Google changing their policies (like the recent change of free G Suite accounts to premium ones) which would mean you'd be locked out of most accounts.
(paraphrasing) "i was right and it only saved users by buying instagram" != "first ever user shrinkage on facebook"
Nuclear contamination doesn't tend to stay put and respect borders. Russia knows that, so I don't think Russia would drop a nuke anywhere in their own vicinity.
The Ukraine war: "The mistakes that have been committed in foreign policy are not, as a rule, apparent to the public until a generation afterwards"

One could put it better than Otto V. Bismark here ... in another context but same principles.

(Of cause the concrete destruction and ugliness of war is to be denounced on personal level, and protested by ordinary citizens).
The article seems to imply that this organism is single-cellular:

> Its threadlike single cell is visible to the naked eye, growing up to 2 centimeters—as long as a peanut—and 5000 times bigger than many other microbes.

The study[0] however speaks of "cells" in plural, and "daughter cells". It would've really surprised me if that really had been a single cell - unless I'm misunderstanding something here.

edit: I stand corrected. Misunderstood it.

[0] from other comment: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.16.480423v1....
I would love some clarification on what "patented" does mean. For instance, I can find a "patent" here: https://seqdata.uspto.gov/?pageRequest=viewSequence&DocID=US... that categorizes it as an "Artificial Sequence".

Is this more like a naturally occurring sequence that has been documented before, isolated, and then claimed by the team that isolated it?
Feeding effort underway to save starving Florida manatees
> "Conventional biostatistical analysis indicates that the probability of this sequence randomly being present in a 30,000-nucleotide viral genome is 3.21×10^−11".

This is just going to feed more conspiracy theory nutters.

First, a 1 in a 100 billion chance is absolutely nothing. There have been hundreds of millions of infections in humans, each representing billions upon billions of replications of the virus. Every replication carries the chance of mutation. Given that,

Second, mutations, whether random or not, are subject to selective pressure and incremental progress. A mutation that moves a sequence just slightly in the right direction, coding for a slightly different but close protein, will be selected for. Basically, evolution optimizes some structures (and therefore sequences) by hill climbing, accepting mutations that improve fitness and discarding mutations that don't. It doesn't roll all the dice at once and start over every time.
It's definitely possible.

First because the list of videos you advertise on an instance/channel is dynamic, not an append-only log like on a blockchain. So you can properly delist a video from your Peertube channel and it will no longer appear to clients.

Second, because even if people still has the infohash somehow and continue to seed it, there needs to be a mechanism to find other peers when someone wants to download the content (how did they obtain the infohash?). It's technically possible (although becoming harder with peertube moving from Webtorrent to WebRTC+HLS) but not a supported use-case (you'd have to write another piece of software for that).

All in all, the situation is pretty similar to that of Youtube. Yes someone could have a copy of your cringy videos and decide to upload them elsewhere, but your followers would not automagically discover them. The same goes with Peertube, which is more federated than P2P in its design.
> Back then it was assumed that the management could be held accountable.

When in doubt, create a committee.
Supply and demand come into play too. It only takes a slight imbalance to drive costs up. That is if there are 1000 units in an area and 1001 families (counting roommates and single people living alone as families) want a unit then the price will go up until someone is no longer willing/able to pay it.
Something I've always wondered about these shields... How do you ensure the platforms where users embed them don't cache the images in their CDNs?

Is it just a matter of setting headers?
But then you depend on West Africa for uranium. It's not a coincidence if Russian groups are in Mali, maybe they have an eye on Niger's mines.
Watch: NYPD Arrests Amazon Union Organizers at Staten Island Warehouse
That some gene is patented does in itself means nothing. At some point in the nineties the patent offices around the world started accepting patents for discovered gene sequences (i.e. sequences read out of some organism). This meant that patents rights could be granted for any drug targeting the protein the gene codes for, and not just a specific drug that does it. It does not mean that this is an invented DNA sequence. In fact it seems like one that is naturally occurring in humans. The fact that the sequence is patented is irrelevant, and should be ignored. It does not seem like the article make much fuzz about it either.
The voice of the people always matters to some degree. Especially if said dictator wants you to risk your life or the life of your loved ones for his conquests.
I miss my sodastream. I still have my machine and 3 empty tanks, but no way to refill them that's practical last I checked.
Estonian here.

That is Russian propaganda, Estonian citizens all have the right to vote. There is a minority of Russians here who do not want to learn the language and become citizens, hence they can't vote. They have the attitude that we (Estonians) are occupying their land... it's crazy. Younger generation of Russians who are born here are mostly not like that though

*edit
Even non-citizen Russians have the right to vote in local elections, just not in nation wide elections.
Lichess doesn’t?

There’s reference to thread support in the library documentation.

https://github.com/hi-ogawa/Stockfish#threads
He outlines the methods they’re using and they’re explicitly prohibited.
If they just block your account due to an automated process run by bots/ai. No customer support, no one to tell your story.
This is indeed a big problem. Phone numbers are easy to transfer to a new phone when you drop yours in the toilet. This, however, makes them easier to attack.

The way to handle this correctly is to have backup options. This can be a second device or a printed sheet of backup codes. I’d wager that few people actually do this, though.
The truly ironic thing about this comment is that there are more devices is users hands today that run Linux than run any other operating system. Of the remaining devices, the majority run a variety of BSD Unix.

All of these devices might not use a WIMP paradigm—opting instead for a touch interface—but for most users, the majority of the GUI interactions they have with computer applications are facilitated by a Linux or Unix operating system.

Linux won in the end, it’s desktop computing that lost.

Maybe something similar will happen with IPFS and related technologies?
What would stop Russia to retaliate in that case? Every western company property in Russia would become a fair game, including e.g Bidens son and his property in Ukraine.

It's not the game anyone would like to play.
So this is the very beginning of an argument.

"Serious virologists" isn't proof.

Which virologists think it's natural, and which think it's unnatural?

Now lets see the data and thorough reasoning by each, and see the rebuttals of each for their opposition's reasoning, etc.

Until this is laid out clearly it's all shallow discussion - that no one should blindly trust or believe.

The above is the scientific process, method.

There clearly isn't consensus yet.
I would say statistically it is not rare. I mean it's a sequence of 12 where each item can only be C,T,A OR G from the little I understand about DNA. It would be quite a bad password even though it's 12 characters long.
Met plenty of bullies in my time, it’s their basic psychology.
Someone correct my foggy experience with this -

The 'tun' (tunnel) interface is user accessible, because it's creating a layer 3 packet/datagram, and programs are expected to need to be able to write these to do their job (web browsers send packets to a web server; email clients send packets to a mail server, et cetera)

The 'tap' (like a viper's fang injecting venom) interface is not user accessible. It requires a privilege escalation to perform the operation of receiving all of the layer 2 frames on a network interface. This allows the software access to greater information, and allows the reception and introduction of broadcast traffic, snooping on frames destined for other stations, and allows for a more comprehensive managing of the local network.

It's been a very long time.
The article isn't about the vaccine, it's about the RNA sequence directly in COVID.
And now there are Christian persecution and genocide under US protection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Serbian_heritag...
Thanks.

Our team loves finding leverage through new tools, apps, and services.

But our 'supply chain' of daily apps continues to grow. How do we share and pin our go-to apps with the team — especially new hires? What's the best, and most memorable way, to introduce a new app or service to your team?

We built Launcher to help wrangle our own growing ecosystem of apps, and open-sourced it in case others want to contribute or host it for their own teams internally.
My experience with NewPipe is twofold: on the phone its great; on Android TV the UX is maddening.
Cyclical history isn't false. Population boom/bust cycles exist in humans just like they do in every other animal. Humans reach the carrying capacity of their environment and then reach out via war for more resources.

Ascribing any fixed time scale to the cycle is going to be fallacious as it depends on environmental factors.
If the markets followed the news, they would crash and stay down. Why in the middle of the COVID uncertainty did they start rising again in March 2020? Nobody knows. And nobody knows the "why" of the markets, just the "what" - and the news is just made up afterwards to fit the market's movements.

If in one week or one month Ukraine is still invaded and the markets are up, what does that mean?
Why should my children see any videos of fighting in Ukraine?
I've wondered why so much content that used to be in a user friendly web page is now on YT, even if it is more cumbersome to consume. I can only conclude that people think they're going to get rich from YT ads, it's easier to record a YT video than to set up and post to something like Blogger (depending on the production quality, of course), and/or people think YT videos are a valuable portfolio/practice for speaking/being on screen (and see YT as a stepping stone to another job).
None really beyond interest, amusement.

@screye picked per capita as a measure. @herodoturtle pointed out how good India are at cricket right now. Seemed interesting and fun to combine those especially given recent cricket results and that basically nobody lives in NZ? Sometimes following these digressions leads somewhere interesting, informative, instructive and entertaining. Not always.
How is this different than any other walk of life?
We should really stop using ITER as the reference. SPARC uses the same plasma physics with newer superconductors, and is expecting ITER-level performance in 2025. Most fusion scientists agree with that assessment.

SPARC won't have a turbine either, but with a construction time of four years, it brings us a lot closer to the next reactor which will.
It is amazing how this sort of thing sticks too. One cell company I used to work for has terrible GUI's. I mean they are actually infuriating to use. It has been that way for at least a decade. I was reminded of how bad they were yesterday when I had to use that GUI again to fiddle something in my account. I told my wife 'no wonder the line is 20 people deep at the stores no one wants to mess with it'.

Does no one do usability testing anymore? Sit down and make someone use the software. Not 'do x and y happens, call it a day' I mean end to end 'hey here is a task figure out how to do it' then sit on your hands and take notes while they try to do it? Bad interface design makes people feel powerless. That powerless feeling makes people give up and just accept that 'computers are complex'. Then once you are in that mode little changes become a huge deal.
AMD is now worth more than Intel
The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted?
They are both "something you know" only if you keep them on the same device.

Yes, there are comments of people using them here that way. At my previous job, even a security IT guy did not find that an issue when I brought it up how people automated 2FA for CLI scripts. In that case, they are not even 1.5FA, they are strictly 1FA password-authentication (jumping through a few hoops to get all "components" of a password, but it's a single password protecting access).

If they are separate devices and you don't really remember your key, they are hardly something you know, IMO, so I disagree there.

In a sense, you could also extract the base cryptographic key of any hardware token (or the producer of the token might have it), and it's also "something you know", which is why I disagree. It's just trivial to extract this key for TOTP, but extraction is a separate step IMO.
I disagree with that analogy.

Modern Russia is not an unstoppable army of nomadic warriors with a strong martial culture arising from their making their living as herders. It's a badly run kleptocracy trying desperately to remain relevant.
Are you an Iranian?
Study sheds light on axion dark matter
I met a good friend through playing Counter Strike before social networks were universal, 2003-2005 or so. Early 2000s gaming felt (or I remember feeling) a lot different. Match making wasn't prevalent in PC games yet. You would play on different servers til you found you like. Then you would get to know the other players are form deeper relationships that I haven't had since then. I haven't really met any friends in Counter Strike after it implemented match making in CS:GO.
We've lived in that world for at least a couple of decades, if limiting to “any one person”. Heck, a thousand is a rookie number: look at all the crap on youtube/tictok getting millions of views.

If you stretch the definition to “any one person with some money” we've been in that world a lot longer.
Most of the federal grants I am aware of have duration of 3+ year (the typical duration of a PhD after having completed the course work).
You know, I really know nothing about this stuff, but this use of statistics (across many fields we see the odds of this occurring are X) kinda feels like nonsense. The odds of this occurring is 1. Because it did, and we found it occurred, and then went back and concocted these numbers. It’s like a poker hand you draw, and wow, the odds of getting this hand are miniscule. But the odds of getting a set of cards, if you draw them, is 1.

Going back and finding the “odds” of an event that already happens is mostly meaningless. Extremely unlikely things happen constantly, see any particular game of poker.

What I think would have been at stat that would be interesting is what are the odds of ANY patented sequence appearing in this genome.
I try to keep my online life as decentralized as possible. Thus, multiple emails on multiple providers, and never use SSO unless it is at work.
Body measurements for all 11,000 bird species released in open-access database
Russia’s most cutthroat hackers infect network devices with new botnet malware
Ukraine's president is Jewish, I don't exactly think he is favoring "Nazi partisans"
Yes, one thing about Putin's mafia form of government is that if the godfather is no longer able to keep the money flowing, he will be put to pasture and someone with a cooler head will take his place. It's an unfortunate situation for Russia but even if Putin goes insane and wants to die in a nuclear fire, his system of patronage will follow the logic of greed. And they're going to be very angry about this when they lose their yachts.
I believe it's quite common outside of Ruby world - for example both Python and PHP have popular active record implementations (Django ORM and Laravel ORM respectively).
Putin is just doing what NATO did in Serbia in 90s, I see no difference really, yet these NATO hypocrites get upset when someone else is doing it.

Only countries which can speak out are those which were against the NATO bombing and don't recognize Kosovo, everyone else has blood on their hands even without Ukraine.
The writer makes a decent account of the current Russian propaganda machine... sew discord into the fabric of democratic systems by amplifying extremes. This causes ambivalence... you never know what to believe.

there are some other good nuggets
Interestingly it seems that TrueNAS (previously known as FreeNAS), which is based on FreeBSD, doesn't seem to use the "sharenfs" property
I think we're having separate conversations - you're describing how things are, I'm talking about how things should be. I agree that the nature of employment is one of exploitation - I'm saying that's a bad thing.
Not just Theranos, virtually all early stage investment sees warm introductions as more important than a perfectly structured deck

Part of it's perfectly rational: faced with two competently written but not directly comparable proposals, knowing that one of the proposers is less of a mystery than the other is additional information about their ability to deliver, and part of it's humans being humans.

Ironically I'd see much of crypto and other investment bubbles as the opposite cognitive bias (who cares about the gaps in our knowledge, this number is going up faster than that number?)
Do we have to pay license fees now, if we already enjoyed SARS-CoV-2? SCNR
L.A. woman jailed for nearly 2 weeks in a case of mistaken identity
The bottom line for me is that people are being harmed and they have no legal means of recourse. Victims can probably sue the original uploader but what about other people who do not know it is harmful? And there is nothing to prevent users from uploading the same video forever. Is re-uploading this harmful content a crime?

I think the host should be held accountable if they keep allowing the same harmful content to be uploaded again and again. The first occurrence is their notice. Future occurrences is negligence.
Farmer's protests aren't uniquely Indian, they happen in many Western countries and are sometimes rather spectacular. Especially French farmers can paralyze traffic very efficiently.
what's wrong with tags on top of a tree? Do tags even need to be part of the filesystem?
Show HN: A Sports Statistics Problem Solved in 30 Lines of Tidyverse Code
When Scott Nestler announced via slack channel that he'd released a new edition of his sports statistics book, I was curious whether it would make a great gift for my dad, who loves horse racing.

After some online searches didn't tell me how much of the book concerned horse racing, I started typing a message to Scott to ask. Mid-message, I realised I could probably answer it myself.

A quick search for the book's title with search operator filetype:pdf located a copy. It's 377 pages. I could control + f for horse racing, but my dad likes other sports too, so I figured I'd come this far, let's take a second and do this properly.

Wikipedia had a lit of all sports but it's a tad too comprehensive for what I needed, so I grabbed a list of sports off another site that came up when I searched for a list of sports.

I wrote 30 lines of tidyverse code [1] that downloads the 377 page pdf, parses every word in it, filters on the list of sports, groups by word, and provides the number of occurrences of each sport in descending order: providing a rough indicator of how much of the book is dedicated to each sport, all in a few minutes of coding.

As someone who codes a lot in ruby, I have a high bar for 'developer happiness', but say without hesitation that R and its tidyverse are joy: expressive (almost always read left to right, top to bottom - just like the prose of a book), fast, reliable, succinct, and productive.

For anyone put off by R's indexing starting at 1 rather than 0, or by use of <- instead of = for assignment, I encourage you to suspend your hesitation for a short while to discover the tidyverse: you may well discover it to be a pure joy.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/E64yF4Y.png

[2] https://pastebin.com/Danc9KNr
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