skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "buy oil" stuff is a non-sequitur from an economic POV. A current-account deficit is the flip-side of a capital-account surplus, i.e. of money flowing into the U.S. as investment, from whatever source. Far from handicapping "ability to produce and manufacture things domestically", a persistent trade deficit may thus be a reflection of that very ability.
Yes! Before I went all-in on desktop Linux, I was a Mac user, and MacOS definitely got virtual desktops exactly right in this regard.
Yes, please.

The emphasis away from semantic HTML and towards component-based frameworks with all the associated utility CSS classes has been a disaster for accessibility, and it's good to see projects that have all users in mind.
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http://fraidyc.at
Genomes are sequenced when they're both accessible and are of scientific/economic interest. This results in an overrepresentation of:

- Humans and their pathogens

- Economically important organisms (e.g. crops and farm animals) and their pathogens

- Model organisms

For example, compare the number of Genebank sequences for HIV-1 [1] versus Feline immunodeficiency virus [2]. HIV-1 is additionally problematic because it has an extremely high mutation rate [3], making it more likely for a random sequence to match some sequenced HIV-1 genome.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mod...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mod...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574155/
I’m always wary of these lists, because if you search for the languages you know you always see that most of them are actually translatable and/or rare expressions that nobody uses.
Really disappointed by this comment, totally uncalled for and extremely disrespectful, and in case you were living on the moon the lockdowns have been very hard on alot of people, see skyrocketing suicide and overdose numbers from these actions.
We have the tools we need, already, to avert the catastrophe.

Problem is it will cost the rich and powerful a little opportunity cost and a bit of wealth.

The looming climate catastrophe has political and social solutions. Not technical ones.
“Latine” suffers from the same problem, which is that it’s mainly driven by the concerns and politics of highly educated white people, along with the small fraction of minorities who rely on highly educated white people for jobs, platforms, etc. The overwhelming majority of Hispanics speak a gendered language, think that’s fine, and don’t see a problem that needs solving.

I’m not opposed to “identity politics”—but I think as it’s practiced in America it’s often parasitic. Activists—often in league with white elites—trade on the group’s political capital to advance views that are unrelated to or may be directly opposed to the interests of the group. It’s morally wrong to use a minority group’s political capital for ends that aren’t aligned with what the group wants.

For example, in the context of this article: Hispanics are more supportive of increased policing than whites: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/562738-pol.... Over the years surveys have shown this repeatedly: the majority supported stop and frisk in NYC when it existed; they were the least supportive of ending mandatory minimums, etc. Couching anti-police activism in terms of what “Latinx” or “brown” people want is just putting ethnic window dressing on white progressivism.
Gaming it out in my head, I would assume that this increases access to testing for those who are either uninsured or those who could not afford the turnaround time for their insurance to reimburse them for purchase of at-home testing.

As such, in this alternate world without the intervention, a chunk of the populace cannot afford to test. If one wanted to make slightly rasher assumptions, this segment might include those who are in jobs (Walmart, food preparation and service) that expose them to a large part of the population.
I've noticed that successful companies don't have this so-called "steady" growth everyone looks for. Early on it comes in bursts, and it's very clear because sales growth suddenly jumps up and it's hard to find that new high until it eventually does occur. It's really hard to survive. You either wildly succeed, or you never get off the ground. I've never seen it any other way.

Lifestyle or consultancy businesses are entirely different. You can be alive forever and just have good and bad years.

A failing startup will commonly not have a growth strategy which usually looks like some form of marketing, cold calling, and penetration by industry events, these are the top three entry points I've seen over the years for growing companies small and large, or have a tremendous cost of acquisition and low retention rate. You can get this from startups that share sales metrics with the wider company.

There are absolutely signs. Don't listen to people who say there aren't. You'll know. Your sales teams will know the most because they'll know all of the telltale metrics from having seen them more frequently than you.
Right but when was the last time anyone you know got polio? Vaccines aren't 100% effective but if we can get the average susceptibility to the virus in the population down far enough (even though it'll never be complete) there's a threshold where the virus can have a hard enough time hopping that it really makes a difference.
None have commenced operation, but NRC has approved applications for new nuclear plants.

It's easy to blame regulators, but a big factor is simply cost. For the last 20-30 years, low fossil fuel costs in the US have meant that the huge investment needed to get a nuclear plant from application to operations didn't make sense. Westinghouse Electric went bankrupt in 2017 because of it. Add in that nuclear has been very out of favor with the public, it makes it really hard to get a reactor built.
Um providing an API endpoint to a closed, proprietary system, does not make one open source.
Show HN: Static e-shop and stripe checkout
Hi

I did some major updates to the shop editor (WIP), you can play around with the live demo here:

https://shop.listws.com/v2/store/demo/editor/demoshop.listws.app/default/

I still need to improve a lot the UX and the navigation between the form editor, the preview pages and the html code, but I am constantly working on this.
Now you can deploy the result to a CDN, but I am working on integrate this to a Wordpress instance

Let me know any feedback!
Review of supercritical CO2 power cycle technology
> I suspect once she goes to school she’ll give up Japanese in favor of English

That's not necessarily the case; we spoke German in the home and our son remained personally comfortable continuing in German with us (speaking, reading, texting etc) through leaving the house for university.
Haven't experienced that myself, but I'll check when Ted Lasso season 3 comes out.

At the very least I appreciate that Apple defaults to emailing a receipt every month when it renews, unlike some other subscriptions that go radio silent and hope you'll just never get around to canceling it.
Measured: Typing latency of Zutty compared to others X terminals
Yes, they are pretending to be open source for SEO purposes and that is not okay. They do get the definition of OSS right:

> "Open source support ticket systems are unique in that anyone is free to inspect, modify, and enhance the underlying code that’s used to build the ticketing system."

But then somehow they include Zendesk in the "Top 10 open source helpdesk ticketing systems". Can I see the code used to build Zendesk? Obviously not. Now suddenly the definition of Zendesk is this, which is different from the Open Source definition they themselves quoted:

> Zendesk is an open API ticket system which means third-party developers can build new integrations on our platform. Unlike other open source ticketing systems, Zendesk software offers all the advantages of open source ticketing without your team having to build a system from scratch. Zendesk’s open API ticketing system software gives your team all the tools they need to build as much—or as little—as they want.

Open API !== Open Source ticket system

PS, archived:

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.zendesk.co.uk/help-...
So, what would a quine look like
The Middle East to Europe and Asia seems more likely.
People are just questioning it because it seems like one of the 'tripwires' is a significantly higher barrier.

Like if I said "I will give you £100 if you either give me a high-five, or if you punch yourself in the face until you bleed", they are independent tripwires but you might ask why the second was included.
That dramatically increase the logistics problem, it’s not as though the government has a reliable address for where each person would want a test shipped.

People who are worried about omicron and can afford $15 per test already have a supply.

People who aren’t worried about omicron will throw them away.
Docker bypasses ufw firewall rules
> Engagement around conflict works at all age ranges though.

It certainly does, but content like that is described in the article, is clearly aimed a less internet-savvy crowd. Maybe the same crowd that didn't grow up with internet trolls and have copious free time and are at the highest risk for contracting plague, so they are especially juicy targets for online engagement vampires.
I think you need to get your knee jerk reactions under control. Just because someone says something that seems outrageous to you doesn't mean you should just jump directly to insults. Moreover, the parent comment did not endorse this theory, it merely noted that the theory "is spreading quite quickly... as far as I can tell".

If you're interested in debunking the parent comment, perhaps reading it carefully and responding to the points would work better. This could potentially open people's eyes and even make them agree with you. Instead you have opted to go for divisive insults, which likely reinforces the belief of anyone who is inclined to disagree with you.
It was years ago but I had no problem writing a simple library to run SOAP requests against a .NET-based provider in PHP so long as authentication wasn't involved.

I almost figured out authentication and it woulda worked if the server followed the spec but the server didn't follow the spec.

You can't go wrong with Java on the back end.
> When I had an AndroidTV and could root

I haven't rooted my Sony Android TV since it already lets me install apks and emulators.
Definitely, I use bspwm for my work computer and its great.
I think it's weird that people expect to just be able to just watch a pile of cash and have it maintain value indefinitely (or even grow in value). Every other resource you could trade for that money would decay over time.
Water/tea. Anything else seems like it could be an unhealthy habit. Even the tea is pushing it because of the sugar.
People who make this comment, do you really think that it's not a basic assumption that a government service is tax funded? Where the hell else would the funding come from?

Does "it's not free you pay for it from your taxes" really need to be said? "free" in this instance means no charge on top of the taxes funding it. For instance, Amtrak is partially tax funded but charges fares.
You can vote for multiple options in the poll, so this isn't really possible to unpack from the given numbers.
Is this for words or expressions? Clicking through a few, it seems both. I'm not sure it's fair to say phrases don't translate...they just aren't used word for word. I think single words that have no single word translation in other languages is far more fascinating. Like say, Schadenfreude.
Test Prudently
Zendesk seems to have their own definition of what "open source" means, contrary to everyone else:

> An open source ticketing system is software that service teams use to document customer issues. The system helps these teams correctly route, resolve, and track all their customers’ problems and requests.

But then go on to state:

> Open source support ticket systems are unique in that anyone is free to inspect, modify, and enhance the underlying code that’s used to build the ticketing system. [including a link to https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source]

I'm interested to see where I can "inspect, modify, and enhance the underlying code" for Zendesk? I've used it sometimes in the past, but never seen any of the underlying code for it.

Edit: seems to contradict themselves a couple of more times in the article too. Here is another passage under "Cons of an open source help desk ticketing system":

> With a help desk like Zendesk’s, all it takes is a plan upgrade to access a whole bevy of new features. But with fully open source systems, modifying the code can take multiple days—or weeks if your developers are busy.

Seems they are saying here that Zendesk is not a "fully open source system", judging by that?

More:

> [...] if you have a strong development team ready to go, an open source ticket system could be for you.

> On the other hand, if you have a lean team, or if you want a full feature set that’s ready to go, Zendesk is your best option.
Naval reactors always run on highly enriched uranium, to make the core lighter and more compact. It's easy to make a gun-type nuclear weapon out of HEU, though. Not a big problem on a military ship, problematic in a civilian context.
Ask HN: How is it that programmers can simply ignore leap seconds?
I am an professional software developer, and have occasionally needed to work with dates and times, including applications that require a certain level of accuracy (e.g. processing pricing feeds from financial institutions)

Since 1970, there have been 27 leap seconds applied. But these don't show up anywhere in any computer system I have ever used (OS, languages, applications, third party APIs). If I create a date object of 1970-01-01T00:00:00 and repeatedly add 86400 seconds, should I not end up with a date/time that is no longer midnight?

I assume that we are collectively just ignoring leap seconds and hoping for the best. Is this OK?
Unfortunately no longer works on latest webOS releases.
You mean taxes. I'm happy our taxes are going to this.
I work at a company that pays on the low end for its industry and I have watched no fewer than 10 people (of ~50) leave in the last two years. When I asked each of them why they decided look for another job, they all said they were not making enough to survive/save long term and they needed more money. I have stuck around, despite the low pay, because it is otherwise the best workplace I've ever had and I like the owners, but I have also recently started looking because I need to make more money as well if I am to have a secure future.

Maybe people do start looking because they're unhappy, but it seems like a cop-out to say "nobody left because of money", if the reason for the unhappiness is that they're not making enough money.
That says more about you than the list. I'm guessing you must be pretty young, because "pearl-clutching" is an older term that may be used less frequently these days, though I do still see it fairly often.
I'm sure its "open source" to employees at Zendesk
Yes you own the blu ray, but you don't actually own _the movie_. Despite owning the disc, your legal rights to how you can view the content on it are quite specific, and I believe that circumventing the DRM on it is illegal. So the fact that you have physical ownership of the disk is almost tangential to the discussion.

And of course there's always the whole, "Well actually the government has the final say in everything so does it count that you 'own' something if the government can simply take it away from you." but that's a whole other can of worms!
You can tell them, "dame la multa" (give me my fine) and most of the time they'll wave you on.
Midly related: John Koenig recently released a book called "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows"--a continuation of the amazing homonymonous YouTube channel[1]--which contains new words he created to describe emotions. Personally, I strongly recommend it to all those that love languages and would love to explore more about themselves! Being able to put a name to some emotions is very empowering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
They're two aspects of the exact same problem. Stopping and prosecuting real crime, while preserving the rights of the innocent, is a very difficult job. When police are criticized for failure in one aspect, they respond by closing ranks and doing even less of the other aspect. Criticize the level of crime and they respond by finding some easy targets to round up and pin charges on. Criticize their overreach, and they respond with a working strike and lawless police riots.

Succumbing to individual incentives, it's easier to focus on easier-to-handle perps and conduct organized militaryesque "operations"... just like it's easier to run roughshod over the rights of the accused by assuming they're guilty and doling out extrajudicial punishment. Neither one means doing their job better.

Ultimately it's a complete failure of accountability. Accountability of police organizations to their employers, the community, to effectively do what they are deputized to do. As well as the failure to bind police under the overarching law, both civil and criminal, like everyone else. The problem is not deep set and everywhere, but rather distributed because we're only seeing the cherry picked worst examples of both sides. But we need to seriously up our systems of accountability if anybody is going to have any faith in our institutions going forward.
Contrary to the HN title, the paper is not about causal inference, it is a case-control study. A good primer on the limitations of case-control studies can be found here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/280936#limitations
<3 Thank you for saying what I couldn't put into words.
Full-time job to look for another job...while you work your full-time job might I add. I get home and gag a little when I look at my computer. The last thing I want to do is paperwork when I get home from slave labor. cough I mean work*...
yes, i didn't mean this in a way that was dismissive of monero, only trying to convey my excitement about privacy tech becoming an intrinsic part of crypto as a whole
>Using Heidegger as a starting point, he argued that the brain does not create internal representations of objects in the world. Rather, it learns how to see the world directly.

That's not how vision works. There's a small high resolution foveated area that is scanned to look at regions of interest, while the peripheral vision does a far lower resolution perception of the rest of the field of view. Everything that our brain does is a model of the world, not a direct perception.

If you're in a room, you can't look at all the corners at the same time, yet you know where they are, to a fair degree of precision, and can point to them with your eyes closed once you're oriented, even the corners behind you.

>Deep learning experts essentially found a way (backpropagation, gradient descent, fast computers and lots of labeled or pre-categorized data) to create the rules automatically. The rules are in the form, if A then B, where A is a pattern and B a label or symbol representing a category.

Not really, they are function approximators, very good ones. However... the next point is still true, none the less

>The problem with expert systems is that they are brittle. Presented with a situation for which there is no rule, they fail catastrophically.

Functions which work reliably over a given set of inputs, are only valid for inputs very near that range. They do fail when unexpected inputs are presented. This is evident to any parent upon reflection of their experience.

This is why I've suggested many times, here and elsewhere, that Tesla needs a team to just make up unusual circumstances and aggressively try to get the self driving network to fail, and add that to the training data.

>Why the Brain Does Not Model the World

Just pain wrong, in so many ways. It's not an exact model of the world, but the model we have is good enough to predict things that effect our survival, which is all that really matters to evolution. Surprise and humor are what happen when a model of the world meets an unexpected input.

>A New AI Paradigm Will leave Deep Learning in the Dust
Discrete signal timing should be the main focus of AI research, in our opinion. It is the key to generalization.

Spike timing might generate a better model of the human brain, but that doesn't imply it will make better function approximators. If it can some how reduce the computational complexity of training, I'm all for it.

Eventually, with enough time and training, a neural network learns how to efficiently represent the world, and anticipate what's next. It's a question of training data and computation. Consider it takes a human 16 years to be considered adequate to the task of learning to drive, and you get a rough approximation of the complexity involved.

Eventually, full self driving will happen, and it's likely to all be neural nets doing the job.
My team uses zendesk and they don't hate it, but this is enough to make me consider the other options on their "top 10" list.
Having had more time to think about this, I think one distinguishing factor is to what degree the dopamine is based in superficial signifiers, vs actual accomplishment. Of course not all games have to be about accomplishment at all, but I think the ones that are are more fulfilling when it’s rooted in substance and not just fanfare (noises, animations, numbers going up).
The lockdowns have been hard, yes indeed.

The lockdowns are in fact nothing to do with the virus, and instead are part of a scheme to hide the true nature of contemporary capitalism? Please ...
You're out of the woods. If you're vaccinated then unless you have some high risk condition your real risk is extremely low.

More tests aren't going to solve anything. At best they might slow the spread down only slightly. In the long run everyone will be exposed regardless of whether they go to their favorite hangouts or not. That is our reality.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
If the majority of companies that rely on Linux use it as a server for some kind of service(s), desktop environments or even graphics are not a priority. That's not to say that such use-cases don't exist. But the focus is, generally, not on outshining another OS or platform through the user interface or graphics.
What are the reefs ahead that can shipwreck us?
Some non-English languages are importing English words/phrases when the English one represents an idea that it's a bit more complicated to express in the non-English language. I'm not talking about technical terms.

Random example: "work/life balance"
Christ, I can go to a chemist and get a pack of 7 free of charge, or order online for next day delivery.
Middle managers in particular get paid in large part for "drinking the kool aid". They might honestly not realize that their subordinates might see other companies as a viable alternative since so much of their self worth is tied up in this one particular company.
The GitHub example actually is pretty spot on. If you wrote a non trivial piece of code in 2016, then in 2020 it was used verbatim in another program, what would your conclusion be?
On the other hand, I also like to make my modules standalone, and not have 20-30 dependencies.

I agree with you about things like "convert this string to a number", where it's too easy to get wrong (like not handling overflow) or be inefficient. But binary trees (and linked lists), like I said, are so trivial it is just not worth the bother.