skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BLAST estimates are derived from extreme value theory and large deviations, which is a very elegant area of probability and statistics.

That's the key part, I think, being able to estimate how unique each alignment is without having to simulate the null distribution, as it was done before with FASTA.

The index also helps, but the speedup comes mostly from the other part.
Some might consider me part of the "second group", but I'm perfectly fine with abstractions and I create them all the time.

I do however have a problem with indirections that don't really abstract anything and only exist for aesthetical reasons.

Not every function/method is an "abstraction". Having too many one-line methods is as bad as pretending that functions with 2k/3k lines are appropriate in all cases.
Similar question, four month ago (299 comments):

Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500429
The title is inflammatory and yet there are few nuanced takes in the article. It's weird to see it shoot to the top of HN.

I think the loglog article is a much better, nuanced, full critique of Rust.

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

The internet is just so full of negativity these days. People upvote titles but don't read articles. Reading about people's views on subjects is useful, but I don't think this one is.
Anyone here ever actually try coca leaves? Going to guess its effects are somewhere between coffee and cocaine
It does have a nice gravitas to it, however I think "repudiating something" suggests a kind of vocal and intentional opposition, as opposed to allowing for a kind of disinterested neutrality.

While Wordpress.org would probably like its visitors to oppose or criticize WP Engine, you don't have to do that to get past the logon page, being uninvolved is sufficient.
Not even in the 10th % for the area per https://www.levels.fyi/heatmap/
How did you manage to spot the spam? I host static comments on my site[1] with a comment form. I get a lot of spam that looks like Russian!

[1] https://rishikeshs.com
> new projects that come into a well established space should make it clear how they differentiate themselves from existing solutions.

You sound like a helpful person. Maybe you're volunteering to create a site to do just that?
I write with my left hand, play guitar with my right, and use the mouse with my right. Same as you though, I'm not ambidextrous
That gives an hint on which words had similar endings, but there's still a chance we're wrong about how these endings sound in the first place.
I feel like it's safe to assume the official Internet Archive would not write a "friendly"/attempt-at-humurous/unprofessional/confusing/delivered-by-popup message advertising a devastating security breach. Oh also while announcing that nowhere else.

Obv an attackers ability to insert a message does imply a breach beyond a DoS. But I am pretty confident that message was not from the IA.
It makes sense with GETs if you’re opinionated I think.

This way an in-flight request has a chance to complete (otherwise if you send requests too often none of them would ever finish), but any request that hasn’t started yet isn’t sent since it’s meant to be overwritten by the result of the later request anyway. Of course if you expect later requests to do anything other than idempotently replace the previous ones you’ll be surprised.
Pointy haired boss. Coined by Dilbert.
So dumb to pay according to where you live.

Fun fact: VCs own lots of corp and residential real estate. They want to drive people to live in their areas, pay more but houses cost more and it’s just a big con
Lots of techies out in Bend though
That's like complaining the reporting on the weather forecast channel is so often wrong. This news broke about an hour ago and the IA is down, what witchcraft do you expect news media to practice! Nobody yet has the answers you're looking for, give it some time and log files will be audited and the reporting becomes useful :)
It's a non profit. You're probably not choosing to work for the IA for high compensation.
> access to employee records and time-tracking

I’ve seen subsidies where hourly totals are required ‘employee records’?

Why does money go to Automattic instead of the Foundation?
Trump Pledges to End 'Double Taxation' of Americans Abroad
IMHO the biggest Rust async annoyance is exactly this:

> Tokio's default choice of making `spawn` take Send/Sync futures

... combined with lack of structured concurrency.

This means async tasks look like threads in every respect, causing you to end up using Arc<> and other concurrency constructs all over the place where they ought not be necessary. This harms efficiency and adds verbosity.
What’s hard for you to understand?

Plumbing is good and useful. Plumbing using lead pipes is harmful.

Advertising can be good and useful. Modern advertising that requires tracking everything a user does is harmful.
Non-trivial data structures are often just a bunch of arrays/maps with additional semantics. You may consider implementing/using unchecked versions of basic operations for a little bit of additional performance. If you implement (de)serialization yourself, you may need unsafe code. Sometimes the safety of deserialization may be a convenient lie, if checking the invariants fully would be too expensive. And sometimes you may want to expose internal helper functions for various purposes, which may have to be marked unsafe if they can break the invariants.

Beyond that, you only need unsafe code for specific kinds of data structures. At least in my experience.
> People were eating only the best parts of the animal and dumping the rest.

That's not true. As recently as 50 years ago my relatives had pigs and they ate or otherwise used every single part of the animal, even the teeth, without throwing anything out. And they weren't poor, either. It was simply a mindset of utilizing what you have to the best of your ability.
It is both. They got attacked by a DDOS after the security breach.
> - Caddy plugins mean I have to download xcaddy and rebuild the server. I really do not want to rebuild services on my servers just because I need a simple layer 4 reverse proxy (e.g. so that I can terminate TLS connections in front of my IRC server).

I mean, you don't havse to "rebuild services" -- if you need the plugin, just deploy the binary with the plugin. It's not like it changes (other than upgrades, which you'd do regardless of the plugin).
Only coca tea. It's a small boost, perhaps like coffee if you don't drink coffee everyday
There is a big difference between doing something for pure curiosity, love, or exploration and doing something directly harmful to other people for the same reasons. One is art; the other is sadism.
Probably want it wants to purge incriminating documents against a nation state?
I started a small business selling candles during the pandemic. It's crazy how quickly you change your opinion about advertisements once you start needing to advertise your own business. All of the sudden, they're this amazing benefit for society.

Advertisements can be good (when the business is good and genuinely wants you to know about good new product), and they can be bad (when the business if bad / misleading / scammy). An optimist would say there are more good than bad. I suppose you wouldn't consider yourself an optimist.
Actually figure out what is happening, or at least say how confident they are in what they know.

They aren't predicting the future, they are reporting on an ongoing event.
Nail scissors can be quite the experience for a left-hander, instead of achieving the proper cutting/shearing motion it will just try to bend your nails due to the widened gap between the blades. A bit less painful but also annoying is cutting paper for the same reason.
Well, what else do you suggest that I put on my fried corn mush?
How about how the non-profit Wordpress Foundation lists the Wordpress Plugins and Themes indexes as Foundation projects, while you maintain that they’re something you personally own, and are openly controlling for the sake of your profit-seeking conflict with WPE?

https://wordpressfoundation.org/projects/

It’s ironic that you make analogies to “getting Al Capone” while you yourself appear to be engaged in a decade-long tax fraud. But like your constant allegations of “astroturfing by WPE” to explain why everybody holds you in contempt, I guess it’s easily explained as narcissistic projection.

It’s not astroturfing. Everybody can read you, Matt. And they don’t like what they see.
Individual gene mutation test for predicting risk of sudden cardiac death
Had a lot of them chewed or in tea in Bolivia and it's pretty close to a caffeine buzz, it's very, very mild.
Hackers can start to learn what kinetic response is then.
Me too. I went to a store online that sells them and determined which one I wanted by features and reveiws.
Great points, thanks for sharing.

> Honestly, this is the American Way. One day our luck will run out and we will fail or be forced to make better choices.

Amen.
Besides the fact that optimizing for GDP growth only vs other metrics is not necessarily economically healthy for a country and its citizens.
It's apples and oranges. The type system in Kotlin is integrated into the language. TypeScript is a preprocessor for JavaScript that isn't allowed to change the JavaScript language, or have any runtime.

The "as Foo" construct is for you to tell TS that you know better than it, or that you deliberately want to bypass the type system. You can have a runtime check, but you have to write the code yourself (a type predicate), because TS doesn't write or change any JavaScript*, it just type-checks it.

I've certainly worked in new codebases where a relatively simple subset of TS types were used. Even then there were a few places the crazy type system was helpful to have. For example, we enforced that the names of the properties in the global configuration object weren't allowed to have consecutive uppercase letters!

(* with minor exceptions like transpiling for new JS features)
>> obliged to balance the best interests of shareholders, a public benefit, and stakeholders, such as employees and society

This seems like a very murky structure. Probably fine in good times but how would it operate in practice when things are going badly?
> The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise.

This policy position feels necessary, considering how thoroughly reviewed GAI output can be indistinguishable from human work product- otherwise, what would an outright ban on GAI use here look like, and how would it even be enforced?

Also, I am somewhat moved by this example[1] of GAI's beneficial applications on Wikipedia: image generation for "presenting rendition for subjects that can't simply be captured", like for Burdian's Ass[2]. Many pages for abstract ideas could benefit an apt visual representation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Computer-genera...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
Wouldn't be surprised if the service was purchased by some publishing empires. This kind of things usually costs some $$$.
FYI this site doesn't use ``` for code blocks, it uses indentation (two spaces).

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I agree with statement. Nothing really to add in to your response, just seconding it.
Assuming it is built on top of OpenResty https://github.com/openresty/openresty
> The use of Rc is already very widespread in projects when people don't want to deal with the borrow checker and only want to use the ML-like features of Rust (Sum types, Option, Error etc.)

And the fact that this hasn't caused alarm is kind of an issue.

The problem with that is Reference Counting is WAY slower than good Garbage Collectors on modern CPUs. Reference Counting breaks locality, hammers caches and is every bit as non-deterministic as a garbage collector.
Q: How many surgeons does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Why don't we just remove that socket? You're not using it now, and it could cause trouble in the future.
We have no idea, that’s just what they said
this is so freaking cool
Hmm, usually the application start latency is very good. Significant improvements have been made to ensure that Tier-0 compiles fast. A base ASP.NET Core template takes about 120ms to start on my machine as tested with .NET 8 and Hyperfine (I modified it with starting the server with await app.RunAsync, then raising a CancellationToken on it in 10ms which outputs an error message in console about the fact and exits).

There is a good chance something else might be going on in one of the dependencies or perhaps some other infra package a team maintains, that slows this down. Sometimes teams publish SDK images on accident that have to be pulled over the network if they got evicted from the node cache, or try to use self-contained instead of runtime image + plain application - I know at least two cases where this was causing worse than desired deployment speed on GKE (arguably GKE is as much at fault here, but that's another topic).
> and costs literally nothing to host

Costs nothing to host, but then you need to train every user, which demands time, will make productivity go down every time there's a new user. VS wordpress, which any copywriter or marketer already knows how to write on, or will learn in just a few minutes because creating a post there and clicking 'publish' is easy
There is more on your ballot than the president, you know.
> or at least say how confident they are in what they know

This I can very much underwrite. Error bars or rough confidence indicators are missing far too often, also from sites reporting on e.g. benchmark values of hardware they've been testing... such professional organisations yet such basic omissions
I think sending back the decoder-only transformer plus the one sentence "try this on the whole internet to pass the turing test" should count as sending back less information than sending back the whole encoder-decoder transformer architecture.
A fun watch for the engineers in the room [video]
I have been getting into electronics a fair bit in the last year. I always find Dave jones from EEVblog entertaining.

Dave does some simple back of the napkin calculations in this video to pull apart the claims of [reflectorbital](https://www.reflectorbital.com/)

I am just sitting here amazed that this idea got past the idea-stage for the startup.

I was entertained by the video - I think you might be too.
The presidency is not the only election on the ballot.

And if you ask people who don't vote why not, very few of them are going to mention the electoral college. I would wager most people who don't vote couldn't even explain what the electoral college is.
If you're a blackhat and you want to be annoying, you can use Stripe tokens to charge your target's customers. The target is the payee, so you won't make any money, but it'll add to the chaos.
Turkish language has a gossip tense
That's not how it works. Rather, Google realizes someone else would take over their business if they didn't make their product better. If Google stuck to no data and XYZSearch used data, then XYZSearch would provide a better product and Google would go out of business. It doesn't take greed, the "could make even more money" part, to have an incentive to do better. All it takes is a desire not to go out of business.
If you're not having any more kids (or are childfree by choice), no need for the fallopian tubes, and the ovarian cancer reduction risk is material [1]. Bilateral salpingectomy (or a "bisalp") is also the standard of care for voluntary permanent sterilization. In the US, this procedure is covered at 100% as preventative care if your health insurance is ACA compliant, or government provided (mentioned as relevant but this piece is from Canada).

(IVF is still an option after a bisalp, with a potential reduction in success rate)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137013/ ("Bilateral salpingectomy to reduce the risk of ovarian/fallopian/peritoneal cancer in women at average risk: a position statement of the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (KSOG)")

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8785125/ ("Ovarian cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide, and the fifth leading cause in women in Europe and the USA. National UK statistics report five-year survival for ovarian cancer of 31.0%. This poor survival is partly attributable to late stage at diagnosis: in both UK and US populations, about two-thirds of women have advanced disease (stage III or IV) at diagnosis.")
It's not just VCs. Do you think your manager wants their home value to go down? They just paid $2.5 million for that 70 year old box of aluminum wiring, lead paint and asbestos and they sure as hell want to sell it for more when they retire.
Eat rice and beans $50/month. Live in a $200 tent with a warm sleeping bag replace every 10 years. every year you get $100 for clothing at goodwill (walmart for underware) No other possessions. don't get sick as you don't have health care, but you should on average live to 70 or so [5-10 years less than average with health care], assuming you are not unlucky. so about $70/ month.

I wouldn't want to live like that and I wouldn't wish it on even the most undeserable (life without parole prisoneers). you could do it. Some do it for a month or two in college as they see the world - but they go back to a more normal life and just fondly tell stories.
An update on disrupting deceptive uses of AI
They aren’t “under-represented” minorities. They, at least in California, provide the breakdowns.
>It is a cursed problem no matter how you look at it.

But the funding model is also extremely blessed: you have a stream of people telling you every page load what they're interested in at that exact moment, and it's not hard to match them up with advertisers for those keywords.

And arguably the SEO parasitism problem is worsened by their monopoly -- to the extent that optimizing a site for one engine deoptimizes it on on others, the stronger the lead engine #1 has the more incentive there is to game it.
I think it's pretty common for visitors to Macha Picchu to receive a cup of coca tea upon arrival, for altitude sickness. The people I talked to said it was like a cup of coffee.
Sure, allow me to clarify.

Matt voices a number of grievances including WP Engine's changes to WordPress, their use of the term "WP", their donation/sponsorships, and more. At first glance they all seem a bit silly.

The important context, in my opinion, is that this comes after the breakdown of a licensing agreement between WP Engine and Automattic, an agreement that would've seen tens of millions of dollars paid to Automattic by WP Engine for a license that WP Engine does not think they need.

To put a point on it, none of the things WP Engine is accused of doing were problematic before the breakdown of licensing negotiations or the filing of WP Engine's lawsuit.
Epic Games Has Gone from Losing $1B a Year to Nearly Breaking Even
It might just mean that people with certain disorders have much bigger immediate problems in hand-movement to overcome, so that there's no extra capacity/opportunity to engage in mimicking the right-handedness of people around them.
I zoomed in on my home county and the surrounding ones multiple times and each time got a different result. It showed Franklin county in Columbus Ohio to be Indianapolis.
Surely the people here could solve the problem.
It's been tried several times, but it's hard because it's such a massive quantity of data. The IPFS backup never really got off the ground.

They have their own backups which I think is good enough for now unless someone plans on donating a few hundred million.
https://archive.is/QIQJ1
This is not a criticism, but I’m amused that someone with an HN account as old as yours is just now finding out what “PHB” means.
TFA literally already says what you said. They're making a reasonable distinction between chewing coca leaves for mild stimulant effect and huffing a fat rail of the pure stuff.

It gives the wrong idea to say these 17th century people were doing cocaïne.
I disagree re Python. It is a brilliant, flexible scripting language. It is easy to build expressive libraries such as pytest or argparse, with deep introspection. It is easy to prototype by subtly changing return types, or even keeping them flexible. It is really easy to eg build a custom data type and build custom expression trees, such as what ML often needs.

It has a number of features (often stemming from the above) that make it a PITA for other applications, even when it would be fairly well suited to them otherwise. What I would give for proper static typing for production Python! Alas, that's not coming, and Rust's occasionally mind boggling borrow checker is there to stay.
Yeah that make sense, will work on adding for this heatmap
The type of logic leads to schools in the US being valid targets so long as a drone pilot drops off their kids to school on the way to work.
Surely it’s something more difficult than that. I’d actually love to work on this.
aren't SSH tunnels layer six proxies in essence?
Does this extend to putting a military base next to a shopping mall?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaKirya

What’s the permissible distance in a three mile wide strip of land among the most densely populated in the world?
He's the Elon Musk of PHP.
Yea, Wordpress has always been a nightmare... But it makes things so convenient and that's what most people care about.
> why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?

They aren't. This is exactly what I mean by modern advertising.

If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
No, devolving powers to the states is what makes it a federation. Having a state-representative legislative chamber makes it a federation. Electing a federal president via popular vote does not indicate defederation any more than the existence of the House of Representatives does.
Author here.

> A thoughtful production team could add a "spoiler block" to the ending of short matches

Yes, that's why I recommended in the article:

> Events that livestream sports or games where the result can be strongly implied by the video duration could append empty livestream time to all their videos.

And after writing the article, I was told by a friend that when AVP streams on their own website, they do in fact disguise the results with extra streaming time. So it does happen, but it would be nice if a large platform like YouTube took certain measures by default on certain types of videos.
Gas and oil industry
I'll do a system d but a problem is (1) system environment, and (2) machine specs.

To normalize machine specs I will run it in a VM on the cloud.

To normalize system environment I run in docker.

I also like to run on Java for code safety and consistency.

So what I have is a VM (Java) running on a VM (Docker) running a VM, running a VM (cloud compute), running on system D. I don't think it's abstracted enough though so I'm looking to find ways to add more VMs to the equation, so as to ensure consistency. Figure if I add a few more VMs, good luck hacking that!
> a form handler for static websites available under the AGP

Marketing and copywriting people don't know any of those licenses. And I guess not ironically, first search result for me for AGPL was "Understanding the AGPL: The Most Misunderstood License". So this already makes it kind of a no-go. If I'm in a rush to add a form, I need a simple answer: can I use for business purposes and do I have to pay for it?