skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who spent 10 years at the forefront of synthetic biology (and has programmed for 30+ years) I always found the biocomputing baffling. I would be willing to bet against Cellular Supremacy over any time frame, except evolutionary or geologic timeframes.
Yeah, I'm waiting on the replacements for BP, Wells Fargo, Comcast, ...
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> Professional organisations are middle class, while unions are working class.

I see a lot of hemming and hawing about "the middle class," but I don't think it has any real meaning. What defines the middle class and how is the working class excluded from it? Are you using "the middle class," as a substitute for a professional/managerial class?
Hello HN community,

You've been an immense part of my career without knowing it. You're the reason why I'm still passionate about programming and can live comfortably as a senior developer.
I'm having fun sharing all the online knowledge you taught me with my not-so-passionate coworkers. They appreciate it and it is all thanks to you. I keep believing PHP ecosystem is going strong and it has a bright future ahead.

I would like to take the time to give back through my modest contribution.

I identified an unfulfilled need while I was being frustrated of not finding a reliable (at least according to my standards) library to do spellchecking easily from PHP.

I decided it would be a good candidate to finally achieved my goal. I though it would be a matter of 3-4 weeks of work.

It took me 11 months, not of actual work though. But it was hard. I felt alone, overwhelmed, being too perfectionist, not confident on the real world usage and at some point real life caught up.

Eventually I made the last final push at the end of this year, as I feel I reached a state I'm proud of I present it to you.

On a bright side, I also learned a freakin' ton !

* Travis CI
* docker / docker-compose
* Makefile
* Packagist publishing
* Documentation (I've built my own generator !)
* Github Pages
* Spellcheckers algorithms and features,
* and so much more.

I hope you'll find it good enough to star it and give it visibility, that sounds cheesy writing it and I would probably ignore it myself if I read it in a post but now that I'm on the other side... I understand how much it can help the author and the community if it's deserved.

Happy new year everyone.
The quip "human memory is not very good" is the most accurate part of this comment.
So sad that this is the right answer.
Not really sure about that, a distant family member was a mechanic onboard AN-24 plane and was killed in a crash in 1995; I never met him personally, just his widow, I never had the chance to ask him questions about his job.
Are not they use c++/GO for their server side programming?
Consider it this way: The person you're talking to is an intelligent human being who knows they're capable of solving the problem that caused them distress.

The remedy they need right now is not a solution. The remedy they need is having someone listen to their situation and empathize.

Bonus: If they really are unable to think of a solution to the underlying problem, after venting about it they will be in a position to better think constructively and even take advice from you.
A flat tax would be more regressive than a progressive tax scheme - it's a spectrum.

> That's about as equal and fair as you can get

Equal in terms of % of income paid: yes, fair: no way. Your statement makes the assumption that the opportunities to gain higher income are equally and fairly distributed, which they are manifestly not.
The big loss here IMO is Jibo. I think it could've been a lot more successful had it gotten to market faster and Amazon and Google hadn't eaten it's lunch. I think it provided a better experience for consumers.
The pilots did know to turn off the automation, and they did exactly that. The problem was that they didn't decrease thrust, and then they turned the automation back on in an attempt to regain control because they couldn't move the control surfaces because they were going too fast.
Private prisons only account for ~8% (and falling) of US prisoners[0]. Their incentives are bad, but public prisons have just as many self-interested groups with even more political power[1].

[0]: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

[1]: e.g. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/biggest-obstacl...
Grown 'organically' within constraints of geography, climate, and local customs over large times vs. industrially stamped out mass products modelled after contemporary design fads.
I'm not sure if it does or not, but you can have one W-4 per paycheck, so I thought it was just used to figure out your withholding. The amount withheld shows up on your W-2.
But Python is not GPL or similarly restrictively licensed, so RH is not obliged to publish the changed code they produce for their paying customers. Whether they will do e. g. via CentOS I have not investigated.
When I've learnt something it often is helpful to get well known problems so you get to compare to how other solve it too. Kaggle was good for big data stuff like that. I'm not sure about ML.
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No, your Portugal-model belief isn't that "out there." In my (subjective) opinion, once you do your homework on the issue you come away assuming that the continued scheduling of drugs with low addictive potential and high potential for therapeutic use is due to:

1. The healthcare and pharmaceutical profits at stake if people needed less care and fewer prescription pharmaceuticals

2. Cultural momentum excluding Alcohol from being considered a drug (LOL) and approving of drugs that support the protestant work ethic and existing labor system (caffeine, nicotine, and prescription amphetamines to stay alert on the job and alcohol to wind down in the evening), plus the cultural momentum of billions of dollars and decades spent on a pointless and damaging "War on Drugs"

3. The threat that psychedelics in particular pose to existing authority structures: high self-respect, beliefs that each human is as worthy as the next, and the ability to imagine less authoritarian systems are all threatening to the existing system. Tim Leary wasn't wrong when he said that (users) "won't fight your wars, won't join your corporations"

~~~~~

There are five different schedules of controlled substances, numbered I–V. The CSA describes the different schedules based on three factors:

Potential for abuse: How likely is this drug to be abused?
Accepted medical use: Is this drug used as a treatment in the United States?
Safety and potential for addiction: Is this drug safe? How likely is this drug to cause addiction? What kinds of addiction?
I'm not asking about the specifics, and I don't really care about them.

But the fact of the matter is quite simply is that any single physical server solution will never be satisfactory for backups or HA purposes.

You can't store your backups in the same place as your data and call it good - what do you do when you have multiple disks fail and your RAID can't be rebuilt? This happens. What do you do when operator error accidentally destroys the array? This happens. What do you do when there's a datacenter fire and the server burns up? This happens. None of these things should be a business ending event, but if you only have a single server handling quintuple duty, that's what it has a real chance of being.

If you need HA, a single server isn't good enough even if you've got multiple VMs running the service. What do you do when the utility power is out and the generator fails to kick on properly or they run out of fuel? Both of those happen pretty frequently. What do you do when there's a network outage at the DC? This happens. When someone fucks up BGP somewhere and now the prefix you used is being routed to god knows where? This happens. When you have any sort of physical server failure that brings your single box down? This happens. Any of those situations will take you offline and render your HA meaningless.

I'm not saying that any of these things are impossible to do when colocating your hardware - but they're not free, and they're not mentioned even at a high level in this story. And since we're not talking about running benchmarks on price/performance and instead talking about a service that a business needs to keep available to their customers to make money, these are important aspects to talk about. Everywhere I've worked, keeping our services available and being able to recover from hardware failure are far more important priorities than being able to optimize performance. And doing those things properly takes more than one physical server.
> The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced.

Yeah, no. They played the game, but as megacorps, they have an outsized voice in lobbying for those rules.

That is the root of the problem - money in politics that is "invested" to get a return by bending the rules in their favor.
I don't feel like there is much that unites the left and right in American politics these days, except for perhaps anything said by Jeff Sessions is a pretty strong argument that the opposite opinion is the correct answer.
I've been on a trans-oceanic flight in the middle of nowhere, checked the screen to see where we're at, and the altitude is always within 4 feet of a flight level.
Recreational Marijuana Laws has generally meant regulating it in a manner very similar to Alcohol. Given what we've seen with black market products being cut with dangerous chemicals that have sent people to the hospital, I'm happy to know my state performs quality control tests on the marijuana products I'm buying.
I always use TurboTax online to complete my taxes and then copy all their info into freefillableforms.com to file for free.
Are there protocol documentations?
The FDA/DEA war on Kratom is truly heinous. The worst part is certain media outlets (like USA Today) are happy to regurgitate FDA propaganda without even mentioning the counter arguments. There are a few articles I see in other outlets that are fair, but more often than not it's the government-approved line.
Brown people historically refer to blacks and Latinos in the US.
When Ireland rejected by referendum the Lisbon Treaty in 2008, a series of clauses known as the Irish Guarantees were added. One of those guarantees is:

> Nothing in the Treaty of Lisbon makes any change of any kind, for any Member State, to the extent or operation of the competence of the European Union in relation to taxation.

Ireland holds a veto (as do all other EU countries) on any proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, so the chances of a CCCTB as commonly envisaged being enacted is exactly zero.
It seems most systems that support multiple database drivers include or allow to be built drivers for delimited text. DBI, JDBC...
i had shoulder surgery in April of this year. I react poorly to opiates - primarily digestive problems ("heroin makes you constipated", as Trainspotting said) but also it just makes me feel awful. Shoulder surgery is pretty painful to recover from; without weed I'd have been in a much worse place. But also, I leave near a decriminalized state, so obtaining edibles is easy.
Isn’t there also a memory limit with using Puppeteer? Last time I checked, there was a hard coded memory value for screenshots within Chrome.
It's amazing what they can do with joint replacements now. I was playing basketball with a guy who had a hip replacement, and I was amazed, because he was only in his 30s, and he was only a couple months post-op, and he was running, jumping, banging bodies boxing out for rebounds. A far cry from the way things used to be.
"Those" have admitted it publicly too:

https://qz.com/645990/nixon-advisor-we-created-the-war-on-dr...
Your exact dates are debatable; here's a good piece (https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-surprising-ori...) that has a good history of the older decks. (tl;dr: a bit older than that, though the 'divinatory' use was much more like kids playing MASH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game)))
The thing is, when they did make up the Tarot meanings, they were basically just mappings onto ideas with an older provenance: the four suits became the four elements, elements map onto astrological meanings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_the_classical_el...), and so on and so forth. You get to those astrological houses, and you've gotten back to the Babylonians. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology)#Early_forms_...)
From my understanding, the interpretations and methods of the I Ching have been just as historically variant. I think there's nothing more or less serious about these different systems if you like one or another better.
The promise of computing has sort of died too.

We buy computers, but they are owned and restricted by others, especially and problematically phones.
Edward Luttwak's Predictions from 1994
Burning the incestuous fox: A Tibetan fumigation ritual
Depends on the context.
Let me be more precise (for you and for the people who downvoted me): fusion will never be cost effective. Ever. There is no conceivable material for the walls of a reactor that could withstand the neutron bombardment from the reaction. Maybe there’s some super-inexpensive way to replace the entire reactor core every 18 months... but I seriously doubt it.
This is how it works in Sweden, at least for people with reasonably simple situations: You get a piece of paper saying "this is what we think you made and how much taxes you should pay". Unless some reporting is wrong, you just log on to the tax website and approve it.

They also keep a running tab on your tax account, if you underpay or overpay you have an interest-yielding balance that you can either correct or let sit until next year if the amount is so little it doesn't matter. And it's symmetric with respect to a surplus or deficit, unlike the IRS "if we owe you, then thanks for the zero-interest loan you gave us, but if you owe us then there will be interest and possibly penalties" scheme.
to be fair, all the CVEs I see in the last few years are related to urllib (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...) - there are tons and tons of applications which aren't even using any kind of network communications, does it matter for them that Python gets updated ?
Many people drink almost exclusively bottled water.
Because you can.
The feature actually uses the syntax from the old SQLLDR tool, and can also specify fields in absolute columnar position as well as defining delimiters (reminiscent of gawk). There are also conditionals (when), rounding rules, and other transformations.
The value of the index tells very little. You must compare market cap to something and look at the ratio.

Here is good summary of important ratios December 27, 2019 https://www.yardeni.com/pub/valcapsales.pdf SP500 price to sales, price to earnings, market capitalization, TOBIN’S q.

We don't know what happens, but it's certain that if you buy SP500 at current price level, you must accept significantly smaller return next 10 years than previous 10 years.
Based on empirical evidence the government is terrible at doing pretty much anything. I don’t remember the last time I had a logical, efficient, pleasant, and cheap interaction with a US government agency. I happen to have those with private companies all the time.
Gee, what a surprise.
Nonsense. Pharma will greatly benefit from the increase in number of schizophrenia patients.

Cannabis is a well established trigger among people whose genes are latent for schizophrenia or other psychosis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604190/
And with the design that both Boeing and the FAA certified to fly, that system would simply fly the vehicle into terrain. In this case it is exactly the automation that is at fault, not a pilot misunderstanding or mistraining. The automation system was designed to prevent a pilot from doing something she might have been familiar with doing while flying the old design on the new design. It was designed to keep the pilot from putting the plane in a bad state for flying. That entire system made an error that cost 347 people their lives.

What is painful, is that the pilots recognized that the system was in error, and attempted to correct it, but were unaware that it had the capability to override them. They were unaware because the designers intentionally hid the mechanism. That is made the mechanism hard to see, understand, and needing special knowledge to disable. The designers had not considered all failure modes, but acted as if their implementation was failure-proof and never to be tampered with.

The question in this case is how can one verify something like an automated aircraft system? And more importantly, if there is a technique or practice to assure the system is valid, is the company trying to build it mature enough in its engineering practices to follow it properly?
Vaporization (heating the flowers to ~200C) is also effective and less harmful than burning.
Gerrymandering is not a one-sided thing. Both parties have done it and will likely continue to do it.
It's difficult to buy their causality thesis.

Opioid addiction rates across states (and nations) already varies quite wildly, totally independent of weed laws, which were all quite similar some time ago. And the variation is large, far beyond the 5-10% supposed relationship in the paper.

Organisational, legal, social attitudes towards opioids change quite frequently as well - these would be very hard to normalise for.

If someone can validate how they crack the normalisation to achieve causality I'd love to hear about it.
For what it's worth, I used "those" rather than naming names because that way it is easier to keep to the specific issue and avoid descending into partisan warfare — which is more in the spirit of the HN guidelines.
Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us (2018)
If linux phones are going to be a thing (pinephone, librem) they'll need great cameras and excellent image processing software t be even somewhat competitive with Google Pixels and iPhones and Samsungs.

Given how hard other manufacturers try and fail to make equally good cameras, it's going to be a steep climb for the open source community too.

So far I am not seeing much work being done in that space. Maybe this is a start?

I want an open non-spying phone but it's going to be hard to let go of the amazing camera in my pocket now (Pixel 3a).
> And not all of it in time for April 15th

Tax filing and payment periods can be amended to accomodate that, even the fiscal year. It is not like these periods are unchangeable articles of basic law.

FYI we get all those figures ready by the start of March here in Turkey (Turkish yearly income tax deadline is March 20th). US can clearly figure a way out with three times as more people than Turkey.
For a specific example, you can definitely take a company's products off the Chrome Web Store for multiple weeks with a forged DMCA request. Of course, if your company relies on Google to make money you should be expecting this to happen already... Whether you could effectively do this against other marketplaces like the iOS or Android app stores is an interesting question. I suspect those are run better but they'd still have to honor the takedown.
> It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions?

only shellex here is 7zfm integration and I get occasional explorer.exe crashes. Also I had an install where edge just wouldn't start. At all.
Pinker made it easy for me to slip into my own thoughts about writing, how I currently write, and how I would like to write in the future. Just for that I thought it was worth it. However Pinker has Opinions about writing rather than just suggestions. Be prepared to disagree with what he says and how he says it. I suspect he would be glad for you to do both.
Seems like a feature that Keybase could implement (this can be a way for them to gain users, too); they already allow sending cryptocurrency to other users and they have the ability to authenticate based on online identities.

This would require that the sender and receiver both have keybase.
Nonsense. The number of potential marijuana users that would stand to benefit vastly outnumbers the number of potential users who have a psychotic break in their future that could be accelerated by marijuana or another psychotropic drug. Which, yes, is an acknowledged risk of many of these substances.
Many will, just not most of Hacker News...
I'd expect it to be complementary to the existing libraries for scanning/cameras, not mutually exclusive. So something like sane or libgphoto would presumably link in libcamera to access those "complicated" devices.
> Defined benefit plans would be better for a lot of people although they have their own issues--including underfunding and, at least historically, a very strong bias towards long-term employment at a single company.

I came to the opposite conclusion: Defined benefit plans tend to be suboptimal. As you mention, underfunding is a problem. In the private sector what protections are there if the fund goes bankrupt because they overpromised? The safe thing is to make the defined benefits smaller so the account is always funded, but that's leaving money on the table. At least with my 401K (with decent low cost fund choices), I never have to worry about this. The money is mine and it cannot go bankrupt (unless the market dies, of course).

My state's employee pension is a defined benefit pension and everyone who is not a state employee agrees that we're heading for disaster. There's no bankruptcy escape clause - the Supreme Court has ruled that what has been promised must be paid out - even if it means raising everyone's taxes or shutting down all non-essential services. The fund doesn't have enough to pay what's been promised, so the state keeps borrowing money to pay existing pensioners. All the mayors in the city hate it, because pretty much any time they get extra money (via taxes, etc) almost all the money must be diverted to pay the existing pensions. Some smaller towns have increased in population quite a bit in the last decade, yet the cities cannot afford to increase the capacity of schools or increase police/fire presence because all the extra tax money from the new residents needs to be diverted to the pension funds.

Also, there is no cap to the benefit - and it is based on your income while you worked. So we have one retired person getting paid $80K/month from the pension because he was the president of a state university.

It's gotten to the point where many people automatically vote against any increase in funding in, say, schools etc because they know the money will simply be diverted to pay pensions. So legislators try playing games by adding riders to bills that say "None of the extra money raised by this bill can be used for pensions" - but of course that doesn't work because they simply shift the money from elsewhere.
Voyager 2 and 1 are powered by thermocouples and a chunk of plutonium.

(I ordered them that way because Voyager 2 was launched first)
And most people think of that money they get back as a bonus! Like it was never their money in the first place but a gift from the government
Platform holders (Google for example) also generally refuse to give you information on the submitter, which means you can't chase them down in court even if you want to.
echo "Xft.dpi: 120" >> ~/.Xresources

and be happy forever after (tested with i3wm, not sure with other environments which may do weird stuff to DPI handling like Plasma and GNOME)