skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fuzzier than that. For example, there is a lot of momentum behind carbon capture and storage research and implementation that was built up under previous presidents (yes, even pre-Obama), and it would take a great deal of work for congress to re-route funding that the Department of Energy has already allocated. Even 45Q tax credits for capturing and storing CO2 started working through the federal government before the current administration, with the partial goal of determining what a carbon price would actually be.

CCS technology may be currently used to say "look, clean coal!", but it's still useful and important for a low-carbon future.
Since you specifically mentioned DNA similarity and not strings in general, I assume you want to align the sequences rather than just the Levenshtein distance between them...
If that is the case, I recommend using Biopython (https://biopython.org/) for alignments. There are modules for pairwise sequence alignments both global and local alignments.
I get the sentiment but Python is to assembly as Tailwind is to assembly. It's too far removed.

The leap between vanilla css and tailwind is not large at all.
Competition driving adaptation is really important, but darwinism predates capitalism!

I'd argue that the most fundamental lesson of capitalism is that markets magically allow individual self-interest to contribute to the collective benefit

Ok, fun facts: Adam Smith got his PhD in a department of moral philosophy. His first book was about why people are nice to each other: I feel good if you feel good, I feel bad if you feel bad.

His second book, "Wealth of Nations", was also about why people are nice to each other. He described capitalism (aka market economies) as the basis for large-scale moral action. Markets and trade naturally support collective benefit.

Adam Smith wasn't extreme -- his point was to promote "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" -- a phrase coined by Adam Smith's PhD advisor, Francis Hutcheson.
Which made me wonder: is there a wave of startups ending with X these days, imitating SpaceX?

Web 1.0 (or was that already 2.0-beta-2?) had so many <consonant>r’s, imitating flickr, it became a joke. Wasn’t even Facebook at some point thinking about “Facebookr“?

Don’t really see that level of groupthink anymore.
It's really not that surprising if you think about it. They have caffeine free coffee and alcohol free beer.

I suspect it would not do well as a product, all the downsides of smoking without the rewarding nicotine buzz. It would be interesting to learn more.
Things are simpler for me than for many, since I am retired.

- Planning purchases for hunkering down for a few weeks: Food, water, batteries, water purifier, battery-powered radio, hand-crank power generator for radio, etc.

- Sold 50% of my stock holdings.

- Putting a large amount cash in my checking account.

- Getting a smaller amount of cash (paper) to have at home.
Son of a Stalinist Executioner: One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Understand Why
> the “techlash” by Congress and the public “in the wake of myriad privacy scandals” and the 2016 election

This just makes my head explode. Because tech companies tend to be poor at privacy, let's use that logic to make it so the government can invade your privacy anytime they want?
Adventure game trailblazer Roberta Williams to receive Pioneer Award at GDC 2020
This is a good point. Lists of all the options are not great. I recall... a long time ago... the GNU tar man page didn't have much in the way of examples, just descriptions of all the options.
My 4.5 year old (at the time) was playing school with his 6 year old sibling.

Older: What is 1 plus 1?

Younger: Two. Or eleven.

I see Javascript or law in the future...
CDC has japan at a level 2 alert.

Why are you going to japan/what do you want to do there? If it's not essential for you to go, then it's probably an unnecessary risk. With how quickly the disease is spreading, 2 weeks is a long time for things to get worse, and there's always the risk of you becoming a vector for disease so it's more than just your own health to worry about in terms of safety.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/alert/coronavirus-japan
I use Semantic-UI, which had a problem of finding sustainable funding. There is a community fork (Fomantic-UI), which does not align with my (business) needs: stability, bug fixes, long-term sustainability, rather than adding features left and right and becoming Yet Another All-Encompassing JavaScript-heavy Framework.

Tailwind-UI looks very interesting and I would have no problem paying for it, rather than getting a "free" version, if only for the long-term sustainability. Community projects often go through endless rewrites, and suffer from feature creep and lack of direction.

In a business setting (I run a self-funded SaaS business) I am much more interested in a framework that fixes bugs and is stable.

The only thing that worries me is that the pricing is one-time rather than subscription. How can the authors expect long-term sustainability with a one-time payment? Maintaining a CSS library is a continuous effort, not a one-time thing.
Tricks of the Trade: Tuning JVM Memory for Large-Scale Services
While it's not criminal, infringement or breach of contract does create an opportunity for Apple to bring suit and have discovery.
> It's probably called Good Old Games because it caters mostly for that market.

The name was changed to just "GOG" in 2012 because they didn't want to only be associated with old games.
That can be verified by clicking through the result, after you bang out the code. There's certainly nothing that prevents verification later, if you bang out the code first.

Automated verification may save some time (in some cases), but is not the only way to verify the component behavior.
Same here. And the word “launches” added to my confusion as I thought SpaceX “launched” a rocket.
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstra... is about 20K, gzipped

plus javascripts
Nitpick on Catan.

The optimal strategy is to trade with players weaker than you who have something worth trading.

I've had many games where the "dead man walking" comes into effect because a player generates too few resources or not in demand resources (usually by bad initial placement) and therefore is only useful to squeeze for the occasional resource. They can't engage in constant trades because they literally have nothing, potentially not even as a space blocker. So optimal strategy becomes mostly ignore them except for kingmaker.
That's an interesting gut reaction. Meditating why would be an interesting exercise.

Almost all animals, us included, reject unknown things at first, likely because they might pose unknown dangers. Fortunately, humans are equipped to deal with that by understanding the real dangers, and decide if rejection is still necessary afterwards.
Interesting to read in context of the fact that public sentiment surveys suggest there is no “techlash” at all.
We tried to respond thoughtfully to each of the strange arguments made by the DoJ regarding the need for encryption backdoors to protect children:

https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryp...

It's difficult at this point to think that the DoJ is arguing in good faith.
No OP, but I assume Risk is out.

But Chess is OK because game ends when one player is eliminated. Therefore, no lingering players eliminated and standing on the sidelines while the rest play.
SMB Is Dead, Long Live SMB
Right, that goes back to my original comment:

>there is an element of strategy in Monopoly (or can be, if you take the time to learn it).

Buying every property you land on immediately from the bank for listed price is not an optimal strategy.
> If the other houses are occupied then why isn't anyone getting any income from them?

I think you're talking about profit here. If you're going to take the metaphor seriously I think you'd have to assume income is coming in if the houses are maintained. Your profit is the money you take from the other players. If you land on Park Place, you specifically need Park Place, and you're forced to pay a premium. As the property owner you're waiting for those premiums to overtake the initial outlay used to build the houses.
Should I sue my former employer?
Hello HN,

Over a year ago, I got fired.

I have been working for the company for about 5 years.

At year 4, the company got acquired.

I didn't get much out of the acquisition, most of it was retention bonuses.

During that year I took overall maybe 1 week worth of vacation.

At a very short notice, I asked for one week vacation and they refused it.

I took the week anyway.

In the middle of the week they told me I was being terminated.

I was supposed to get my 1 year cliff of RSU/bonus 4 months later.

The bonus would've been around 200k (half cash half rsu).

I later learned that they said I forfeithed my employment.

Any advices ?
I thought I'd mention another library, since it is a competitor to HDF5. In HPC ADIOS2[0] and HDF5 are commonly user. ADIOS2 helps with streaming data if you want to do in situ work, but it can also read and write HDF5 files.

[0] https://github.com/ornladios/ADIOS2
Note that 40 of these are assigned to the cruise ship off Japan.
Acquire is such a better game if you enjoy the idea of financial wheeling and dealing.
Entirely possible! But the main point is that these cases started to show at relatively the same time. That would mean that these 14 people would have all had to have close contact with the seafood market visitors almost immediately after they visited the market. Which is totally possible! But very unlucky.
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And as always claims about cryptocurrencies should be taken with a grain of salt. Nano uses delegated proof-of-stake which has a questionable level of decentralization compared to proof-of-work coins like Bitcoin.

(But it's not as bad as IOTA of course.)
The US has tested a grand total of 445 persons since the beginning of the outbreak, according to this CDC page updated today, Feb 26. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html For comparison South Korea is testing several thousands per day.

To a lot of people it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of undiagnosed cases in the wild. They are not testing anyone unless you are coming from a known risk area, which means by definition they can't detect local community outbreaks.
Isn’t the tech lash for the complete opposite reasons? The fact that too many people have too much of our data? Why would people (outside of effective propaganda, which would be true even without the tech lash) support something that makes their problems worse?
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From my non-Japanese background, it sounds equivalent to destroying cremation urns. I would expect outrage.
> It's difficult at this point to think that the DoJ is arguing in good faith.

I think people in the tech industry, and especially people working on security or privacy, have known this for over a decade. Unfortunately, the public doesn't pay enough attention to the issue. And why would they? They have enough things to worry about, why pay attention to one of the things that is currently working?

It's unfortunate that we're not that good at PR.
7 bits directly coupled to a control of a filter cutoff, for example, will create a zip. I doubt any living pianists can present substantially more than 127 discrete velocity values, however.

Filter cutoffs are another example where 7 bits aren't enough, and if they linearly map to 20..20kHz, then even 14 bits isn't enough.

As for conscious piano velocities, there are ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, fff, and you could maybe add pppp and ffff for 10. But those are velocity ranges, and you definitely will notice if every note within a passage is quantized to one of 12 or 13 velocity levels.

First of all there's the accent pattern of each measure where in 6/8 time you'd want 6 velocities. There's also expression within a chord and from note to note on a melodic sequence, where e.g. a note struck by the pinky might be expected to be just a little bit quieter. There are gradual crescendos that might last for more than 12 notes as well. And finally there's just the subtle randomness of the player and the instrument that makes things sound natural instead of artificial.

So for a piano piece to sound natural, you absolutely must have more than 128 velocity levels. Maybe 4096 would get you by. Boesendorfer's older CEUS computer piano system used more, but I never used it and it looks like they have switched to Yamaha's Disklavier.

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All that said, I think you do have a fair point that the jump in complexity is significant from MIDI1 to MIDI2. Each protocol seems to have been designed near the state of the art of its respective time period. Maybe in another 30 years it will be just as easy to drop a $1 microcontroller on a board and talk MIDI2.
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it would still be a one line fix if you are building with components
Oh it still is.

Capitalism is not exactly equal to "free market". There's still a hell of a lot of market under socialism.

I'm just pointing out that you have to regulate SOMETHING. Regulating nothing = people amassing wealth and buying political influence = those current power holders regulating everyone else so the current power holders just continue to win. Then you don't have your "free market" anymore. It's inherently unstable.

In my opinion, the wealthy should have no more political power than the poor. But of course the wealthy have an outsized ability to influence politics. So they can work to repeal or nullify the very laws meant to reduce their influence - it's a fight that will never end and requires working and poor people to constantly be aware, organizing, and participating in politics to have any chance at all.

Or maybe one day, in my dream world, the rich and powerful will realize hey it's not so bad to have a workforce that is educated and healthy and has enough money in their pocket to buy the things we produce without taking out loans! And then we all leave in peace and harmony...
> Texas had a population of 212k in 1850 and 29 million today. How can you compare the size of a house or land ownership then to today?

You are pinning your argument on houses in _TEXAS_ having gotten smaller? lol bc if anything they have gotten larger.
What's your opinion on Kudzu or Himalayan Blackberry as erosion control devices?
The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room (2012)
I’m still irritated that only Safari implements tail call elimination as specified in the ES6 spec.
Amazing guide. Everything I read makes sense. Also cool to see YC taking bio-tech so seriously
https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/for-hardtech-biotech-a...
I bought monopoly money for 100 USD, hoping that they will become a thing. Then I lost my monopoly money. From my standpoint, all explanations are true, therefore irrelevant. I can no longer redeem my USD, 100 of them or less. 100 USD is gone during my gamble.

The responders are wrong about my proficiency with crypto. I've been following the tech and finance side of it since Bitcoin was worth 120 USD. I've written trade bots, some fun smart contracts and even participited in Dogecoin giveaway with some doge I mined.
If you read more on that. After he said that someone else from the WHO immediately contradicted him.

"The claim was quickly challenged by an infectious diseases expert who serves on a committee that advises the WHO’s health emergencies program.

Gary Kobinger, director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Laval University in Quebec, said it would be highly unusual for there not to be mild or symptom-free cases that are being missed. He pointed to the fact that outbreaks have popped up in countries far from China — including Iran and Italy — because people with mild infections were not detected and traveled to other places.

'There are mild cases that are undetected. This is why it’s spreading. Otherwise it would not be spreading because we would know where those cases are and they would be contained and that would be the end of it,' said Kobinger, who insisted that mild, undetected infections cannot be ruled out until people who haven’t been diagnosed with the illness can be tested for antibodies to the virus.

'As long as we do not have good serology data, I think that it is completely speculative to say that there are no undetected cases,' Kobinger said."

What Dr. Aylward says makes no sense and reads more like a PR fluff piece designed to praise China to keep them happy, and as Kobinger points out he's probably wrong. From the same press conference he says this "If I had COVID-19, I’d want to be treated in China."

Which is obviously bullshit.
Alternatively, hidden traitor (Shadows over Camelot, Dead of Winter, Battlestar Galactica)! Then you can't trust the "Quarterback" because they could be LYING!!!

Other games solve this via real-time constraints. Thinking Escape from the Cursed Temple and Space Alert. There's not enough time for on person to coordinate everyone, so everyone needs to communicate and take initiative.
Is trading legal in Monopoly? I'm assuming that's what you are referring to.
It’s basic enemy-of my-enemy logic. It’s not always correct, but often enough to remain a powerful heuristic. It would be interesting to know if anybody has thought deeper about it, and if there are specific strategies of persuasion that work better in such situations? I’d intuitively think it might be beneficial to acknowledge the cognitive dissonance people might be experiencing when arguing this matter.
Are you thinking of the Phoebus Cartel?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

I suppose it's accurate to call it a conspiracy since they literally conspired to divvy up markets and set predetermined bulb lifetimes.
Calling Georgism "common ownership of land" is seriously misleading. A tax is not ownership, no matter how many times the neo-feudal "vulgar libertarians" (as Georgists and geolibertarians call them) try to establish the trope via mere repetition.
I bought a mattress that is made purely of wool and nothing else. There is an "eco-mattress" market that has a number of companies making such products. Wool is also naturally somewhat flame-retardant too.
Web3/Solidity based wargame inspired on overthewire.org
They're "universal" languages replacing other "universal" languages. That's orthogonal to parent's point that "universal" languages are better.
Hmm, I may have missed it, but is the article strictly referring to companies? It seems to me that it's asking in general why nobody (in the public or private sectors) has cloned people.

In any case, my comment was referring to the idea that in general research comes from the private sector. Sorry if I miss-interpreted your comment.
Your problem isn't that you are only working 8 hour days, the problem is someone taught and you accepted that it is normal and acceptable to work 12-16 hour days as a standard. I have built more than one successful business now, the first one I killed myself doing 14+ hr days for a few years straight taking only a weekend here or there off, it aged me and destroyed me in ways I didn't realize until much later. The sad part is that business wasn't even the most successful for me. At the time I believed all the hype and BS I had been fed too about working crazy hours etc. What I have learned since is that the number of hours does not in itself equal success, productive hours spent intelligently where you have free time to explore life will make you better and more successful in the end.

I still will work some long days, but I always try to keep my average day around 8-9 hours at most, that way I am sane and can explore and clear my mind. I also believe that people should stop measuring their day by the number of hours they work and instead measure it by the number of milestones reached (even as a percentage completion base) each day. Doing this, you will work more some days than others and that is ok, cause you are focused on the goal not the number of hours.
Talking from the user perspective ?
The chrome/ram meme are enough to explain the issue
And I’m sure macbook owners care about battery more than what you think !

And for the argument of Safari is the hated browser I’m more than okey with that at least they still test for it (I feel sorry for Firefox because the oups we didn’t test blablabla
I think that the idea of using well designed CSS rules and classes basically just turned out to not be very useful in the real world (one discussion of the issues: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js)
>the idea of potentially walking among clones made me sick

Well for sure you are walking among "test tube babies" (IVF) where an egg is fertilized by donor sperm and transferred into a uterus, (sometimes the biological mother and sometimes a non-biological "host").

I don't really see the difference from starting with donor sperm and donor egg and starting with donor cell and donor egg.

Admittedly I have read all kinds of case law in this area (not clones but parental rights with respect to biological mothers/children and host mothers), so perhaps I am a little desensitized to the uniqueness and reality of birthing options made available today.
From this:

"By 2019, members of the IOTA community earned a reputation for routinely harassing women security experts, like Open Privacy founder Sarah Jamie Lewis, who found flaws in IOTA research."

Fair enough that it's implicating the community and not the founders, but is in the same paragraph with the Sonstebo/Narula scandal.

I see that I did infer, but perhaps that was the intent.
"Georgism" is actually a really great idea but the name is terrible. I remember I tried to discuss it with someone once and they chuckled when I said the word "Georgism". They couldn't actually listen to my argument.

I think names are very important. For example, I find it ingenious that the country "French Guyana" has the word "French" in it and that there is another country in South America already called "Guyana"; it's probably a key reason why "French Guyana" is still part of France; they literally have no identity without France; they'd have to invent and popularize a new word first and that's very difficult to do.
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A small anecdote.

A few years ago in an undergrad business class, we were having some discussion and the topic of encryption came up during one of my presentations. A student asked a question related to the ethics of encryption (I don't recall exactly what), and I was clearly confused by the question.

To clear up confusion, the professor asked those who thought encryption was "bad" to raise their hand, and at least 60% of the class raised their hands.

It was pretty jarring to me, and makes me pessimistic about the outcome of a DOJ campaign to demonize and regulate encryption
There's inherent value in supporting something with money though, it's likely to actually stick around and improve, rather than some hacky OSS project that will die in a few months.
Puffery is endemic in just about every other marketplace I'm aware of, and I imagine emptors would caveat in a similar fashion.
Thank you for the correction. I do see OP's points. This however does not invalidate the alternative theory that the virus was extracted from a bat in the wild and somehow escaped.

I wish there was a way to prove definitively if it escaped or not. Without the cooperation of the CCP or whistleblowers, we will never know for sure, at least until it can be traced to an exact animal at the market.
I'm less worried about possibly astroturfed reviews if the brand is something I've already bought from, like Samsung or Sennheiser, or a cheaper but otherwise reliable one like Anker.