skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is his worst idea yet, it's basically the ideal approach for bullying. Only the target will see the bullying so their supporters will be ignorant, and continuous bullies will be permitted to continue indefinitely.

People treating this as a backpedal or a commitment to keep back moderation have not thought this through -- this is a fig-leaf.
Yeah, how about that? Look beyond the Stanford/MIT/Berkeley pipeline, find people who are good, not just part of the techbro club.
I think even now you can find Linux distros preferring to ship their data over HTTP with GPG-keys recommended for the security.

This isn't really to solve the same problem though. The GPG key thing is so you can use mirrors for hosting that are distributed but still trust the package came from the real source. TLS termination of where the packages are retrieved is separate.
> The last thing I want to see on HN (or anywhere else for that matter) is thoughts on Taylor Swift

You’re responding to the original submission. You can flag it if it’s that important to you. Or just skip it in your reading list and never respond at all. Of course if you’re interested in Swift programming topics there might be a little missing from your feed as a result...;)

I feel the topic of online markets and nuances thereof have high hak-relevance to HN. As witnessed by the actual discussion. OTOH I don’t think you should be downvoted for grousing about it, as someone has obviously done for you...
Those who are interested in the Broad Institute can reach out directly to me at mdelamaz@broadinstitute.org
Can you no longer install free apps from the App Store on a Mac without creating an account or signing in? I thought that used to work.
> And in the meantime the scooters are dumped everywhere

That is only a problem with "gig economy" rentals. I think that is what I distaste, not the scooters. Hopefully the VC money will dry up soon before the rivers are filled to the brim with scooters.
160 millions people with many men having nothing to do...
I've been in Russia several times. Putin gave something like 200000 ruble for each baby born, the natality exploded. They are not really bothered by human losses, they are more bothered to look like incompetent fools with their unprepared army.
For what it's worth...

In Sciter you can simply define tree view as <select type="tree">:

<select type="tree" treelines>
<option>
<caption>Giant planets</caption>
<option>
<caption>Gas giants</caption>
<option>Jupiter</option>
<option>Saturn</option>
</option>
<option>
<caption>Ice giants</caption>
<option>Uranus</option>
<option>Neptune</option>
</option>
</option>
</select>

And you will get:
https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/select-tree.pn...

Tree view is quite popular in desktop UI, so I've decided to add it as built-in.

And needless to say, that rendering of a tree is just one part - it should also be keyboard navigation and other a18y things.

As of tree lines themselves:

:scope[treelines] option > option
{
display: list-item;
list-style-type: tree-line; // <<<< Sciter's CSS++
list-marker-size:1px;
list-marker-color:#ccc;
list-marker-style:solid;
}
I work in this field at a large medical research institution. There is a significant amount of genomics analysis that occurs here on a day-to-day basis. The genomic processing pipeline work all falls directly into my group.

There is next to zero demand for tool development internally. I do it on the side of "normal" IT data management because I love high performance computing, algorithms, and multithreaded hackery. But even at my large, well-funded institution, there isn't a specific role where that is all that you do by design.

I do suck at marketing - meaning, despite having some success with big improvements in research tools that folks have definitely appreciated, no one comes to me asking for help with better engineering of genomic applications. Partly that is due to many researchers maybe only know R, so they will default to whatever packages are already available in Bioconductor, install those, and throw the resulting mash-up for their current research effort onto the compute cluster and simply wait for hours or days for the jobs to finish.

PIs are often insulated from software engineering problems too - if work is completed before the next bi-weekly meeting and update session, well, it must be ok.
Spring. When there is a thaw. But that's in March and Europeans are considering
formal winter up to the ~20th of March, when astronomical spring starts, so you are misreading the data.

However you need that energy in January and February, when there is no hydro going, because everything is frozen.
Why is that mind blowing?
I'm actually leaving my current company because our current PM and CEO aren't big enough assholes. I brought up a problem that can be partially fixed right now with small technical debt that can be rolled back but has a big impact on the customer. One said no and the other doesn't care enough to push the PM. The apathy, lack of aggressiveness and drive annoy me. The CEO also is unwilling to hold 2 unproductive employees accountable for frankly doing little/nothing. I'm sick of feeling like one of the few to care about the product and mission. I love this field too much to deliver poor products and results.
State-dependent memory is fascinating and likely a factor. I don't play all that much pool and not always in similar conditions (e.g. game room in condo). I can relate another time I had unexpected good performance playing Halo (a rare activity for me) while socializing. For the mid portion of the evening, I was an extremely good sniper getting top scores that I never usually do. Being a one-off case, it's uncertain but I'd say that being relaxed and not thinking about it at all to be a necessary but not sufficient factor.

These times feels almost like beginners luck when you barely have any context and just trying things--like hitting that tiny bonus target while axe throwing for the first time as a hail mary, 'why not go for it?' shot.
I could cover the entire of her latest album and sell copies? I didn't think copyright allowed for that without permission but maybe I don't know copyright like I thought I did.
Prioritizing and Planning within Heroku Postgres (2013)
The point is that there always exists a market clearing price for everything, which can be modified temporarily via human action, but not forever.
Blood-alcohol levels are typically measured as permilles in some countries, like Sweden. 0.2 ‰ is the legal limit there. Also used in some countries in Europe to denote the grade of slopes (as in warning for steep hills).

Never seen permyriads, though.
It may be worth pointing out that several of the leaders in the Genomics field started off in commercial software development. I agree that it does not make monetary career sense to move into genomics -- academic labs cannot pay you more than the lab head makes, which is probably much less than many software developers are worth in other markets.

But I've known several financially successful developers who have gone back for a PhD in bioinformatics and genomics, and, after getting over their distaste for existing tools, have made important and well-recognized contributions. But they did not make more money.
And now to dockerize it and throw it on fly.io? :) I mean, why not..
Indeed - which is probably why the attorneys of the Delaware proceedings have applied to combine both cases.

Apparently, there is a court hearing scheduled for monday about that motion. I imagine the status of the seized funds will be one of the main topics of that hearing.
There is no reason to believe FTX was going to succeed via regulatory capture. SBF wasn’t a rational thinker. The establishment sucks but it doesn’t mean SBF was competent and had a realistic out. He didn’t. He is an out of control sociopath.
More realistically, software will run on other celestial bodies which have different time periods (e.g. the moon, mars, asteroids, etc.).

For me, the use of those annoying constants is a form of mental relief: I don't have to remember why I'm dividing by 60 or 100 or whatever in this specific spot, it's written out in a way that reading it provides the context.
> Many people miss the larger point that the scooter troubles have brought to light: this is a preview to what a post-ownership society would look like. It quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons when everyone uses public resources (rentable scooters and the space to park them) with little regard to the larger impact of their collective actions due to the absence of consequences for antisocial behavior.

There is more going on here. Compare the condition of subways or buses in American cities, to those in Japan. In some cultures, collective property is rapidly vandalized and destroyed by the same people who rely on it. In other cultures, collective property is treated respectfully.
They also, iirc, act a bit like a specialized bank for venues, by paying for contracts up front (and I think I read also loaning money directly?) in exchange for the fee upside in sales and resales later. Venues want as much revenue as they gdt to come in as close to on sale date as possible.
So it's "every sufficiently large company sells financial services", too.
Name and date of birth

Edit: Also Chris Smith is still a very limited sales opportunity compared to everyone. Plus Chris would be going alone assuming their partners name was not listed correctly or partners name didn’t have a ticket matching that too.

Hamilton already does something similar with having to present your ID plus the credit/debit card used for booking and the names must match. See https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/hamilton/terms.html

The flaw in Hamilton is it’s only the name of the payer, but if multiple seats in one booking, those additional seats could still be on sold so long as the scalper escorts them into the theatre.

Solved by requiring names and dob for all ticket holders. No changes allowed. Mistakes (wrong name or dob) must be refunded and tickets back to lottery.
Seeing the same thing here.

"Let's bring it into kubernetes!"
I would imagine they mean "could be served in a restaurant as a very close substitute to oysters". Mushrooms and seaweed are perfectly edible as-is and can be served in a restaurant, but people would not confuse them for oysters.
Europe‘s goal has to be to create a world in which Nordstream is not needed anymore.

And it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Obviously military buildup is the correct response to that incredibly callous action. Russia has to lose this war, there is no alternative.
The stupid grins on everyone's face are especially off-putting.
Your last example is an example of terrible journalism. But I wouldn't quite call this article good journalism. There are lots of spots where it crossed the line of presenting facts to making bold, unprovable assumptions. Here are some examples that felt like bias

- "Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models."

"Hubris" here is unnecessary colouring. And although it links to an article (yay), an article can't justify statements like "big tech has a blind spot", "big tech hubris", or "language models are _severely_ limited".

- "Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take [this technology's limitations] seriously."

This is unciteable.

- "They think that this is the future of information access, even if nobody asked for that future."

This was a quote from one of the researcher's. But presenting it as the last line of the article, without noting that this is one researcher's opinion but instead using it almost as 'proof' of a previous sentence "But Meta’s handling of Galactica smacks of the same naivete [as Microsoft's Tay bot]." Makes the use of the quote biased.

Also biased is the information not included. One of the tweets they cited shows that Galactica had a big disclaimer that it did hallucinate and that you shouldn't blindly trust its output. They choose not to directly include information by the project the whole article was about, to push the argument that "big tech is ignoring the limitations of this tech".

I think an unbiased article to me would've looked like :

- describing what happened first. Galactica took down their model. There has been a lot of criticism from researchers.
- expand into the known limitations of this technology (including Galactica's stated limitations)
- speculate whether there's a place for this tech on the future based on the cited work.
Doesn't this discriminate against fans that would not like to share their personal info. or who don't condone to this kind of tracking?
Data xfer'd vs. data stored.
Yes, most companies do that. School is weakly correlated with real world performance
Hmm. I dislike Ticketmaster and I am sympathetic to your sentiment, but the argument used here is flawed. Is it a live concert? If yes, does everyone has to have the same level of access to this entertainment/culture? If yes, there is appx. 7.8b people on earth now. Are they all guaranteed access to entertainment and culture?
This last paragraph reminds me of a all hands monthly meeting a while ago during which the DE&I lady reported that we did great with diversity during the past month by hiring ~80% women.
It might seem like an exaggeration but this morning I was thinking of doing more work in scientific software. I lost my mother to cancer. This seems like a way to channel that energy and motivation. Thanks for posting, OP.

PS. Feel free to reach out. Email in profile. I’ll be happy to email around the subject.
Speaking of Prince… I wonder if a municipality could enact a one-day renaming of a venue. Arena with exclusivity contracts becomes Prince Arena ahead of time.
I think it's a search engine with a bad curation/ranking algorithm.

It's trained with a corpus of research papers it mines from in response to a search prompt. It's a bit like if Google were to haphazardly compose a website from the first 20 pages of search results, or worse.

Composition is the novelity here, and we should judge it based on how well it can select and compose. Turns out not that well yet; judgement is lacking. Its performance depends on how easy it is to get it right for a given query and goes down the more difficult the query is, also because "is actually good" weights are not usually part of the input dataset to begin with (since the researchers hope to one day build something that comes up with its own notion of that - but so far have no idea how).

It's a bit like inventing pagerank and then stopping there, too.

That's a useful mental analogy to understand the limitations of this tech for now in case you ever go "I know, I will solve my problem with ML".

One of the ways I see people get this wrong is not believing in "performance goes down the more difficult the query is", because we tend to mistake complexity for difficulty, and a more complex and specific prompt helps these models produce convincing output a lot currently (i.e., prompt engineering). But that is not demonstrating understanding - it is handing the model a better set of training wheels.
Yes , and that's great. Science is about inventing ideas and testing them, it's literally about chasing wild geese.

A typical scientific review paper or perspective contains tons of such speculation. But right now the process of hunting down citations is excruciating and most often done lazily. Even the best review papers contain erroneous citations to irrelevant papers, or improperly cited results , papers etc. Peer review can only do so much. This is why this tool is useful, it accelerates those things. It's not like anyone will cite Galactica.org
Almost vices are regulated.

> Banning one app at a time is not the way.

True, let us ban *all* apps from countries that (1) ban US apps and (2) seek to influence US citizens.
You are absolutely right. I think these companies have only gotten away with the business model because the scooters seem to have less maintenance costs or are cheaper to replace. Many bikeshare companies pulled out of Paris because people were so hard on them and some have been pulled out of the Seine. Newer companies have entered with e-bike rentals and there’s still the public bike share program, but they’re expensive, which must be a discouraging factor for their abuse and helps the company recoup maintenance costs.

All the elegance of a bicycle is removed to make room for the indestructible design so as to be viable for public rental. And still they have flat tires, grimy chains, and shoddy brakes. They’re also so heavy, which makes commuting further than a few kilometers a slog unless they’re electric, and those are expensive.

I suspect that people are dissuaded from alternative transport for this reason of disrespect for common space and property. The metro is disgusting and sometimes dangerous, and the rental bikes aren’t a great alternative.
To hide their illicit gains?
> Instead of using mutual interest to sway the Russians

This is a bit of a strange perspective.. The EU was the largest buyer of LNG from Russia, Russia had everything to gain economically.

There are a wealth of issues involved, one of those is the Russian paranoia surrounding the "Big Bad NATO" when last I checked, NATO never annexed anywhere. In fact they go out of their way to AVOID conflicts.

Putin and co's claims that Russia was under threat is just nonsense.
Personally, I only bread animals after they are dead, and never before.
I understand and agree with the need for factoring in additional storage costs for wind/solar, but why would you do it on a 1:1 basis?

We will probably never need to store 100% of generated renewable energy. Storage would probably need to be a small percentage of the generation capacity.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/much-storage-back-high-renewable...

This link seems to indicate that the need grows non-linearly. Existing storage is sufficient for 30-50% penetration, whereas it grows to about 20% when it reaches 80% penetration, only hitting 1:1 in the worst case regions for 100% penetration.
From the linked lawsuit https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.63..., one of the major complaints is:

> Defendants [LiveNation and Ticketmaster] have also recently begun using
their unique multi-level leverage (which arose from their merger) to prevent artists from
using Songkick’s competitive services, and to tie (1) Live Nation’s concert promotion
services, Live Nation’s artist management services, Ticketmaster’s concert venue
ticketing services, and/or use of the venues Defendants own, manage, and/or control; to
(2) the artists’ use of Ticketmaster’s own artist presale ticketing services (recently
rebranded as Ticketmaster’s “OnTour” division).

> Michael Rapino, LiveNation’s CEO and Director, has admitted that artists today make 95% of their income
from live music events and that Live Nation is now the “largest single financer” of
artists worldwide (more than record companies). Armed as he is with this power over
artists’ careers, Mr. Rapino has used this position to intimidate artists into using
Ticketmaster over any other artist presale ticketing service. Indeed, Mr. Rapino made
several threats to withhold Defendants’ services if artists insisted on using Songkick’s
artist presale ticketing services. He also told several artists that they could not take a
single ticket off of the Ticketmaster system, period.

It's worth noting, in this context, that https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/our-notable-victories/... linked in the original thread states (though certainly from a self-promoting source) that:

> Following fact and expert discovery, the defendants moved for summary judgment on all of Songkick’s antitrust and non-trade secret claims. The Court denied that motion in its entirety on the papers. Before that decision, no antitrust plaintiff had ever withstood summary judgment against Ticketmaster, making Songkick the first. The decision also set up for trial (for the first time ever) what the defendants’ lead attorney acknowledged was a claim that put the legality of Ticketmaster’s exclusive dealing practices “squarely at issue.” Faced with Songkick’s claim and the prospect of a looming trial against Quinn Emanuel in late January 2018, the defendants resolved the dispute by paying Songkick $110 million in settlement (nearly 100% of its lost going concern value damages) and acquiring its assets for a confidential sum.

(Note that Songkick announced it would shut down in October 2017. It's very possible that Songkick was likely to succeed on the merits but was forced to take a settlement to meet the needs of its team and investors.)

IMO it's vital that this be taken seriously. An increasingly gloves-off anticompetitive Ticketmaster, in the midst of a global recession, could do irreparable damage to an entire generation of musical creators. Something has to change.
Assuming no backend as you describe and based on everything else you’ve said I would go with React or another similar library/framework (even Elm like someone else posted but that’s going to be a bit harder in terms of support and learning curve).

I also suggest react because after extensively using multiple frameworks I can say without a doubt the react ecosystem stands out far above the rest. There’s many high quality graph and table libraries for React. And having also dealt with integrating these sorts of libraries into component frameworks, it’s just not the sort of thing you want to waste time on.

As for language I would highly recommend just embracing TypeScript and skipping JavaScript. This will certainly help eliminate a whole class of potential frontend-typical problems like strings being interpreted as numbers due to developer error.

For styling I would use tailwind (although if using react styled-components is another approach, but tailwind definitely gets out of your way). This will easily get you past the styling problem you mentioned.

For hosting I would use Vercel. I would have suggested Netlify and really both are good but I’m considering migrating my sites to Vercel because netlify appears to load CSS files in a weird order, but that’s not too relevant to the discussion here I suppose.

Happy to answer anymore questions or help you get started with the code and implementation - contact links in profile! I hope this advice has been practical.
From a Windows perspective, Apple might seem somehow generous, but if you're not interested in Apple's cloud services or you're actually concerned about privacy, the Mac setup wizard is still a minefield of shit to opt out of. :-\
Really? https://twitter.com/eglyman/status/1590385689895784448
Illness from oysters has been known for a long time - it may be part of the reason why oysters are not kosher.
Honest question: do hiring managers look at what college an applicant attended? I don't, couldn't care less about your GPA and what not.
I don't think anyone doubted that this was sabotage. The interesting thing will be to see if it can be determined which party was actually responsible - there are valid reasons to suspect most of those involved in the war.
This is disgustingly sexist. Some of the brightest engineers I know are women. Get that attitude off this forum, it does not belong here.
> I thought it was a process of supporting hypotheses with observations?

Then you're doing it wrong. Science done properly is a process of coming up with hypotheses, and then attempting to disprove them. If you're just jumping in trying to support your pet theory, you're very likely to wind up fooling yourself.
It’s constructive dismissal…
One interesting aspect of the story is that the author was a junior at the time (almost brand new to the job, if I read it correctly), and it was one of the more experienced operators who realized it was exogenous.

in addition to being a good story about the site reliability, it's also a great lesson in the value of collaboration, mentorship, and having senior people around whom you can ask for help!
Can you provide a list of the top problems in that space? Much rather try to understand them deeply myself and build a company solving them than just getting a job.