skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is simpler than that which is to remove high-denomination notes from circulation and provide all citizens with free bank accounts. Eventually, just move to cashless transactions entirely.

The bigger problem in countries like Greece though is that the tax burden is immense, for example the sales tax rate is 24%. This creates a huge incentive to avoid the tax. This windfall is then either wasted on corruption or spent on healthcare and pensions for the elderly - ie. not services that the taxpayer can immediately or personally access.

Sales tax, company tax, and flat income tax rates around 10%, with no payroll taxes, seem like a better and more sustainable way to go. Flat taxes in Eastern Europe have actually seen tax payments and compliance go up, even with lower and non-progressive rates.
I think a big part is the balance between a scientist/doctor wanting to be "first" to achieve this, and the fear that something will go wrong. With a human clone, you'd basically have to monitor it for 35+ years (really, monitor a population) to make any sort of statements about the absence of unexpected health effects.
I have been in this industry for about the same amount of time, and I absolutely could not have said it better. People entering the space can either try to learn from this article or learn these lessons themselves over 2-3 years, I hope they can do the former to avoid spinning their wheels.
I wonder why. Given the popularity of HTML you'd think some large organization would've developed a reasonably fast _and_ memory efficient browser engine by now but everyone seems to be aggressively optimizing for speed.
I completely agree but that is how it all works. I think if the IRS wanted to crack down on this, the US economy would grind to a halt. (I never see people paying taxes on these gifts.)
I have my own anecdotes, but maybe some one here knows more...

Is the tech stack in Silicon Valley that's used by the most recession vulnerable companies wildly different from what "boring" companies are using?

I see C#/Java and SQL used a lot at companies that are not trying to change the world. Is there going to be a great big skills mismatch?
But that doesn't help, because * also commutes, and string concatenation still doesn't.
The simple answer is "because it'd be a hassle".

Just look at He Jiankui post-crispr babies. Sentenced to 3 years in prison. 3 million dollar fine. Ostracized from the scientific community. It's just not worth it.
why has nobody released a gen modification of a virus ?
A cryptocurrency is basically a timestamping service. This was mentioned in the original whitepaper.

> The solution we propose begins with a timestamp server. A timestamp server works by taking a hash of a block of items to be timestamped and widely publishing the hash, such as in a newspaper or Usenet post [2-5]. The timestamp proves that the data must have existed at the time, obviously, in order to get into the hash. Each timestamp includes the previous timestamp in its hash, forming a chain, with each additional timestamp reinforcing the ones before it.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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Why has nobody released a gen modification virus ?
"China jails scientists for CRISPR gene-edited babies" doesn't count ?
Caddy works with more than just Let's Encrypt though, and we'd like to avoid encouraging a monoculture of automated CAs (as much as I love Let's Encrypt).

> That's clearly not always the case otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation to begin with.

Well, sometimes we forget that HN is not actually the center of all new tech. ;) This discussion is a bit of an exception. Most of our leads don't come from HN.

But I will see what we can do to make that more obvious once we're out of beta.
I’m convinced that a human has definitely been cloned. I’m convinced a lot of things have happened that are taboo or socially not-yet-accepted.

Somewhere in the world there is a lab (or many) doing this kind of thing. The technology exists. We have more people on the planet than ever before. Someone has surely thought, “yeah it’s illegal/immoral/unethical/uncharted territory but someone has gotta try this and it’s gonna be me”

I could be wrong of course, it’s just a theory. But I think that statistically it makes more sense to assume it’s already happened than to assume otherwise.
Why would a Go server need to run as root?

Asking because I run Go based servers (in production) on Linux, and they're not running any of the Go processes as root.
It would be nice to read an attack on the technology rather than an article highlighting hater quotes on the feuding misogynist, ego-maniacal founders.

Iota remains a speculative cryptocurrency. It does not rely on the technology before it and is not a copy-paste crypto like many that came out of the last boom cycle.

I still think it is quite innovative. That said, it may eventually fail due to its poor implementation. The value of it on the exchanges reflects the fact that it may survive this latest fiasco.
git's a blockchain. you have commits (blocks), which contain a hash of the previous commit (chain).
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That's the thing. When the bubble pops, the socialists will vote for wider-reaching welfare. I mean, people around here are already talking about universal basic income non-ironically. I think Canada will be the first to pass it large scale after the next major economic downturn.
Why set a severity if you're not going to use it? A crash is still a crash if you don't set the severity and just write that it's a crash in the bug description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_church

Hidden chapels are fairly common in Europe during the Reformation when one could not be a practicing Catholic in a Protestant country and vice versa.
In many cases tokens were distributed on ethereum, which could later be used in the product once it got released.
I will have one browser window open, but in my task manager will have like 17 concurrent chrome processes running, slowing things down so much. I understand there are certain things running in the background but it is extremely hard to close out of certain tasks and stop plugins without terminating my entire browsing session.
I'm sure there's a market of people willing to pay a pretty penny for brand new cloned organs to double their lifespan
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WebWindow is another library that takes the same approach. It's still in progress but is very promising. It was very easy to get running when I tried it last.

https://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/WebWindow
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> when you need to determine which bugs to look at first for triage

If you can't at least do a rough triage of all the new bugs in one sitting, you're either not allocating enough time for triage, or letting yourself get way too bogged down with ancillary conversation during the triage meeting, or it's just time to scrap the product and go home.

If you can stay on top of your triage, then there's not really any need to worry about what order you do them in.
Thank you for your condescending reply. I understand Go's memory model quite well (and have used Go quite a bit). News flash: you can have bugs of other kinds besides buffer overflows.
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Link to source would be very much appreciated.
How do you know that?

Also, even if AI/ML are not being used to generate fake reviews, they sure as heck are being used to determine the search ranking of products stuffed with fake reviews. Amazon has created a game for less-scrupulous sellers to play, and even they don't know the rules.
The larger issue here is that the wallet was built in a very similar way to many crypto wallets. They sort of sell the fact that private keys are not stored in a central DB as a silver bullet for decentralization. But since the private keys are copied into memory, and the software is automatically updated, the location of the key storage becomes irrelevant.

The only real way to keep your keys safe is in a hardware based solution that has been audited by multiple parties. Our credit cards have that level of security, crypto wallets need at least that much.
Interesting. Are you exaggerating a bit here or being accurate with those timelines? Cos Gmail is really slow on Firefox for me too, but it doesn't take half a minute to load. More like 10-15 seconds, which in this day and age is a nonsensical amount of time. Similarly operations have a 2-3 second lag. Noticeable to normal users but people like my parents wouldn't be able to see it.
Thanks ! :)
We don't for now. If you want to import your data to Hubspot you can export in CSV.
I mean, could be interesting in resolving some nature vs nurture questions.

Pick a famous scientist (Einstein? Hawkings?) clone them, and watch.

Does this person rise to the top of their field? Are they even interested in physics? How much of intelligence ends up being your genes vs your environment?

Probably not a good enough reason to clone though :)
None of the bugs is critical, not even medium severity.
I mean, there are countries that don't care about human rights and possess the necessary technology.

However, growing whole human for just an organ or two is a huge waste of resources.
Around 2000's there has been couple of claims from company called Clonaid[1] that they successfully cloned numerous babies. It has never been confirmed to be true though.

My humble and amateurish opinion is that cloning is happening in some degree, especially in China[2], but on very experimental basis.

It's very surprising to me how little media coverage the topic of cloning gets. I would be really interested in a podcast/interview about the latest development in this area.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid

2. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/05/c...
I'm not religious, I'm not against atheism, but I think it's unfortunate that math and science have become so strongly associated with atheism. We tend to forget that many of the most influential scientists and mathematicians were mystics who had experiences similar to Matt's (Pythagoras and Newton being two prominent examples).

Some people need these transcendent experiences or else their lives feel empty. Nothing wrong with finding it through math or science instead of organized religion.
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How about same sex couples who wish to have offspring without a 3rd party's DNA in the mix?
> Technology is driven by starting companies.

Almost always scientific and technological breakthroughs are made in publicly funded institutions such as universities and research laboratories.

The research done in companies usually takes the core science and shapes it into a sellable product, nothing much more than that.
"Why would you be allowed to do it to a live person?"

Because you are the government making the rules, or you have a few billion dollars and can easily hide it.

I'm not sure anyone's doing it, but if it is truly the case that nobody has cloned a human, it isn't because of "the rules". "The rules" don't apply to everywhere or to everybody.
The biggest ethical issue with cloning and genetic manipulation generally in humans is it's essentially experimenting on a human subject that can't consent and will have life long health impacts from the process.
> For mathematicians, operators are essential to how they think.

But programming is not math, just like it isn't text, or color, or datetimes, or any other type of value our programs deal with. Even in programs I've written whose purpose is numerical processing, a vanishingly small fraction of the program involves doing math.

We have no problem using a domain-specific language (like regular expressions) for the occasions where we need to work with text. Likewise for querying a database (SQL), or text styling (HTML). We shouldn't need to infect the rest of the language with all the massive complexity of "operators" just to be able to write "a+b" in every possible context.

In fact, even when I need to do math, the built-in operators are too weak to support half the math I need to do. We're paying a huge cost, and not getting our complexity's worth.

It's not even visually correct. The example here is:

x + (y + z) == (x + y) + z

which is true in mathematics but not true in most programming languages, where the values could be implicitly promoted modulo integers of different widths, or IEEE-754 floating-point values. He says he wants operators so you can see that addition is associative, but in his language, it's not.

My favorite design, in terms of separating the syntax, is actually Tcl. Remove the complexity of needing infix arithmetic operators from 99% of the language, but keep it available for the times when you want it. It still doesn't support half the math I need, but at least the language was kept simple by having math ("expr") and text ("regexp") off in their own commands.
Tailwind isn’t the first to take the utility class approach. Atomic CSS was an early implementation of the idea: http://acss.io
If it was in the UK, there was a period of time when the monarch was Catholic and burned Protestants at the stake and then the monarch changed and then the Catholics started getting burned. People of the "wrong" religion would have to practice in secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole
If this was in England it may of been an extended priest hole to hide Catholic Priests after the reformation. If there was an entire chapel hidden away it may of been for said priest to conduct mass for the Catholic household in secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole
Ask Falun Gong followers

> An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims include imprisoned followers of the Falun Gong movement.

> The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was a prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said in a unanimous determination at the end of its hearings it was “certain that Falun Gong as a source - probably the principal source - of organs for forced organ harvesting”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...
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Identity looks like a potentially interesting use case.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3244128/how-blockchain...
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I share your worried about WebAssembly, which is why I won't use it.
I have no problem with table tennis, bean bags, and open offices.

The worst export of Silicon Valley by far is the "work cult" where you have to pretend to love your company and every company is out to change the way we X, etc.

If a company has a good mission and good people, employees will feel that way naturally.

If you try to engrain it, it feels like a mandatory pep rally at high school. Some kids are into it, but most don't really care that much or get turned off by it.

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My favorite example of Silicon Valley aping is a company I shall not name here in New Jersey that built a giant three level open office with a large tube slide between the top and bottom floors.

AFTER it was built it dawned on the company what a huge legal liability the slide was. People were promptly told to stop bringing their kids in to use the slide and you needed to sign a waiver.

So now the slide is just there to "look fun."
This post really illustrates why HN needs MathJax support, and/or browsers need MathML support. Math notation is hard enough to read when you're reading the real version... when you're forced to read someone's ad-hoc "notation that I'm forced to use because I can't use real notation" it just becomes that much worse.

Luckily, Chromium is getting MathML support (finally) unless something weird happens, which (presumably) means that Chrome and Edge will inherit that support as well. Firefox already has MathML, so hopefully we'll soon be in a position where three of the most widely used browsers support MathML.

Still, it would be interesting to ask the Powers that Be if they'd be willing to implement MathJax here on HN....
This is a false equivalency. Cooks are not chemically addicted to food in the same way smokers are chemically addicted to cigarettes. Practically speaking, cooks usually only use knives in rooms/places with food. Smokers could be smoking anywhere.

When my apartment building nearly caught fire because someone two buildings over fell asleep with a cigarette in hand, killed themselves, and burned down two other apartments, of course people wondered why cigarettes don't burn out on their own when you stop taking drags.
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Good riddance, I remember during the bull run my friend was talking about Iota. I was into mining at the time and looked up how to mine it. Read about the project and knew it was scam then, not sure how it survived until now.

Looking forward to the day where the shitcoins die off and there's only a handful of cryptos on exchanges/people talk about.
Individual action is great for environmentalists, but it will never be enough when the vast majority of people don't care about their own emissions. A carbon tax will make everything you mention more expensive and doesn't rely on ignorant truck drivers to switch to Priuses or travel-lovers to stop traveling.
> Then that's the problem we should fix. Instead of creating an extra database field to capture somebody's incorrect opinion, the people who understand priority should be helping developers know enough to have useful opinions.

The priority database field is how you communicate this factor, but there is a point where reasonable people can disagree and the organization needs a way to make decisions clear.

To draw out the example even more: you could have a $600K invoice riding on customer acceptance, when the person at the customer site who signs off won't do so until the customer's logo color is correct. While that crasher when you enter a non-numeric character in a numeric field of a new feature? "We accept the functionality meets the milestone so will sign off but we don't plan to roll it out until next quarter after we have begun training personnel on the new feature."

Sure, every good organization should want everybody, not just developers, to understand the customer's business and such but sometimes you just need to get it shippable.
I think it's a little more subtle than you're saying.

When you use inline styles for everything, you're making the initial development a little faster by making future maintenance and changes a lot harder. (Like, if you decide headings should be italic instead of bold, that's a one-liner fix if you're using CSS properly, but if you're using inline styles you have to individually fix every heading on every page.) So most people have internalized "don't use inline styles for everything" as a general rule.

But if you don't actually care about that sort of future maintenance (or you're charging hourly for it), then using inline styles for everything looks really attractive to you! But you can't literally use inline styles for everything because even non-experts know that using inline styles for everything is bad for future maintenance. So instead you pull in Tailwind so you can say you're using a CSS framework.
I would have expected the rate at which drivers are less likely to stop be parabolic rather than linear.
Cloning isn't a photocopier. You don't just hit print and get a bunch of adult humans with blank, docile eyes.

Putting aside, um, "assembly", what makes feeding, housing, educating (at least to worker-bee levels), etc. them cheaper, easier or faster than the normal way of getting new productive humans?
I'm no business expert, but I'd wager any "stick" method that bans consumer accounts is not going to be popular with boardroom types.
From an evolutionary perspective, cloning is a great way to shoot yourself in the foot. Why would you do that to the population?

The more similar genes are, the easier it is for a single pathogen to kill all those that share those genes.
Branding and marketing is the most important thing in the universe for an open source project.
But usually zoonotic diseases are especially deadly since killing the host is not in a parasites best interest but new diseases haven't worked out an equilibrium with the victim species yet.

https://aeon.co/essays/when-bacteria-kill-us-it-s-more-accid...
This is not super friendly either because even if you identify an issue early there are many rabbit holes of failure, ratelimiting, and tool integration, that make it a PITA to deal with.

Being good at catching errors doesn't soften the blow of the errors being so readily occurring in the first place.
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I’m assuming that the comment I was replying to was using the perceived “tidiness” of the picture as the sole evidence for their claim that it looks engineered. What else could they mean? — Of course you’re right that an engineered virion wouldn’t necessarily look tidier than a natural one. My comment wanted to point out that the perceived tidiness isn’t evidence of engineering.
You can't get the energy back because I assumed you have a magical compressor that only compresses carbon dioxide. I didn't include any terms for compressing air. You get a slightly cheaper term (ca 420 J/kg) if you set the upper pressure to atmospheric but then you're storing gaseous CO2 which is not practical. But recovering energy by restoring the original [partial] pressure of 0.0004 atm is not possible unless you somehow jettison the CO2 into outer space.

To be clear: all real processes probably require many times more energy than this. There is no way I know of to selectively compress one component of a gas mixture. But if you did, this would be the energy cost.
But it requires way more collaboration and effort than just one guy in a lab, right? How would a group keep a secret that powerful?
HTML and CSS are too low level? Does such a tool like dreamweaver with response rendering exist?

It's an interesting concept.
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I don't suppose you have an (English) link to that news story? Im getting concerned about my (tourist) trip next week if stuff I want to visit is closed.
It’s common, even expected, to extract that card into a component of some kind (React, web components, mustache template, etc) so you still only have to update the css once.
I think this is a feature more than a bug. For the most part, sorting by priority then severity seems like the best way to approach things, unless something is extremely obviously a quick fix.

That said, the P-spectrum may have some crossover, especially at P1-P2, depending on the release cycle. For example, crashes should be focussed on a little more for always-online software, whereas for more glacial, manually-updated software, prioritising incorrect behaviour or functional issues may be more important.
There won't be mass protests, there will be vocal minority protests like we saw in France. For better or worse, vocal minorities can do a lot of damage to the policies we need.
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For the virus the biggest challenge is if it survives the weather. If it’s in the same family as SARS, summer will kill it. The window is closing and My bet is it won’t have chance to infect more than 1M people within China. Btw I think 1M infected Chineses are bad enough to bring the economy down seriously, let alone 2% died of the whole population (280M dead people? Oh lord)