skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we are saving the planet "for" someone else, who are they?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but there are billions of people in the world already, and another few billions that will be born in the next little bit regardless of our individual actions. Do those not matter much? Does it have to be something "of your own" in order to make it worthwhile?

> The extreme logical extension of the philosophy in point 8 that isn't "if I care about the future, and if all life is equal, I should remove myself from the gene pool and build a society that doesn't value the environment".

I don't quite see how you arrive from "I remove myself from the gene pool" at "build a society that doesn't value the environment". Is it because you don't have someone to raise and tech who will carry your values forward? If so, then there's a good alternative: Teach someone else, be a mentor, get your message out to other people who are not your dependents. Sure they may not adopt your philosophy entirely, but then again, even one's own kids will make up their own mind and you're only one of many influences.

Moreover, by influencing people who already exist out there, you'll make a direct (hopefully positive) impact compared to the baseline of you not being involved in any way in the first place. If you have a kid to "build a society that values the environment", it'll be a net win for the environment if (a) your kid offsets its natural carbon impact by dedicating a significant effort to climate action, (b) same goes for any of their descendants, and (c) they make up for the time that you could have spent on climate action instead of raising your kid, such as mentoring or getting involved in politics. Building a society that values the environment isn't worth much if the outcome is still a net negative.

I feel that "continuing my legacy" is a widespread desire among hopeful parents. It's important to recognise that if your legacy is mainly to raise a child without making much of a direct contribution otherwise (because raising a child is a heck ton of work) then it's not unlikely for your kid to do the same. How long do we want to pass down the baton until one of those descendants makes a sizeable contribution by themselves? And how many lives will have been created, producing carbon and love and all, in order to get there?

I think there's a great deal of power to multiplying one's own efforts and get others to carry on one's torch, but really, having kids is by far not the only way to do this.
It's not a joke: https://leetcode.com/problems/cracking-the-safe/

It has been asked in real interviews
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What did these people expect, with that doped-up delusional playboy at the helm?
Some options besides CEC over HDMI:

- Amazon FireTV remote (connects via Bluetooth)

- Logitech F710 (if you also run RetroPie, connects via USB)

https://retropie.org.uk/ is a great emulation system for several vintage consoles (80's-early 2000's).
With Steam Proton you could call this the year of desktop linux gaming!
Private Joe Citizen can take a taxi wherever they want (like how I took a cab to an urgent care a couple years ago after breaking my ankle in a bike accident).

Medical practitioners, however, cannot send someone in a cab. It's a huge liability issue for them. If someone is injured and needs medical transport, they need to use proper medical transport. This is what Tesla is accused of violating. Their on-site nurses are licensed medical professionals. It's worlds different from random person taking a cab to a hospital.
I definitely agree with this, especially the last paragraph. I feel like a lot of people responding to this have never really talked to factory workers. There is a lot more ambiguity here than they seem to realize. Unfortunately there is a lot of moral hazard here as well.
It did mention scribes. Even talked about virtual scribes in India.
So, can someone recommend something similar to this?

Last time I read Three Body Problem but got dissapointed
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maybe put two devices inside the body, and if they change orientation or distance too greatly they will no longer function.
There are certainly more than just those two engineers that work at Heptio. Surely some of them will also continue the work that Heptio still has in front of it? I don't have any insider knowledge about this besides what was in the article, but it says that "Beda and McLuckie _and their team_" will all be joining VMware.

I have no reason to doubt any of that, although I don't know what it means for Heptio's Amazon partnership, or utilities like Heptio Authenticator. Presumably that work will still continue in some form though, it would be a surprise to hear otherwise since VMware and AWS are already "strategic technology partners" as well.
To save some of us outsiders from researching, can someone give a brief overview of the proposal? Specifically why new taxes are needed and how the targeting is specified (i.e. who is affected).
That's the question that nobody ever answers.

I'm not american but I live in a country where I believe does not employ true democracy. I actually question the ability of the majority to decide on anything, but in either case, how do you get out of that?

Here voting is mandatory which means even people that don't even know who the candidates are, have the same political power as I do.

Voting feels like a sad joke that the rich and powerful gave us so we can pretend we are "in control". In reality money votes, not people.
The local government is the will of the collective group of people who are governed by it. Maybe you're the home owner who would love to have your home demolished and replaced with a high rise, but the fact that you can't means your community doesn't want to be subject to that, and they've exercised that will through the legal framework where you, too, have a voice (albeit an outnumbered one). We trade authority to the government for it to stop you with legal means so that your neighbors don't stop you with clubs and pitchforks.
The review was good but I'm honestly surprised that Marco, of all people, would have such a badly dubbed video. Get Casey Liss to help you, his audio in videos isn't as good as your audio but it matches his voice at least. #AccidentalBadVideoDubbing
Kodi is good, but I got a lot happier when I switched to Plex, and put the backend on my home server, and just used a Roku device for playback.
Here in Sweden there has been several alternatives which all puts barriers in front of public information in order to prevent it being accessible through the internet.

One method is to simply not allow people to copy it. I can go to the department and request the information, but I can't leave the building with any digital or physical copy (photoing inside is forbidden). Technically within the legal definition of public information. The other method is using copyright to grant permission for private use but not distribution, which mean no one has permission to put the public information online. That way its publicly available to request from the department but it will not be published online. The third method is not really a method but simply relying on the gdpr. The information may be public but there are still legal limits on the kind of databases people may have about private information.
From the post: "Ray tracing was invented by Turner Whitted around 1980."

I believe that Turner probably did some great things, but somehow I don't think I believe he invented ray tracing. Ray tracing has been around for so long in physics...
Sorry I did a Ctrl+F search and it didn't find anything, my mistake.
Probably because it can't be made to be "just an option".

Having seen teardowns of a MacBook, I'm pretty sure that one without a touchbar would be more-or-less a completely different computer - different keyboard, yes. To accomplish that, though, you'd need to also make a different housing to accommodate it, and a different motherboard, too, because this stuff's all soldered together as a single unit these days.

And for all that, people would still be griping about the keyboard and the monoport.
This doesn't make it acceptable. It sounds like what you're proposing is that a company must build its own streets, electrical grid, telecom network, generation plants, etc.

Very few business would do well in such an environment.
Uh, what? Stop being vague and describe exactly what you mean.

Response to edit: Please describe the full calculation (with factual numbers) of "national wealth", and then we'll talk.
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quick search shows this Peter Norvig blog

http://norvig.com/carcassonne.html

fun
Why should we care whether they are making a profit or not?

There are so many ways a company can legally and artificially lower its profit numbers.
Now I see that you're OP and looking through the comments, I just want to say I feel for you. I am 26, when I was in high school I was highly active with a lot of exercise. Due to the peripheral manifestations of my AS I can't really exercise much any more without inflaming my arm or my knee. I think some other posters here raise great points about diet and exercise (There's been a lot of talk about starch and AS, see kickas.org, google Specific-carbohydrate diet, look up the work of dr. Alan Ebringer from King's college london).

Also, you may find articles by Dr. James T Rosenbaum interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204318/ .
I'm not a doctor but experimenting with diet and trying to be good to your gut I have found to be helpful.

I have a whole bunch more thoughts on our disease, but I just want to say it can be rough, I'm sorry you're going through this, and you are not alone friend.
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> seems way out of line with inflation compared to what I bought then

Can't speak for European pricing, but the base model Mac Mini 10 years ago cost $599, and adjusted for inflation it would cost $750 today ($50 less than the current base model).
Not normal. Walk away from this investor. Will save you a lot of time, and emotional distress, in the future.
> physically stolen from you and never recovered

... or taken out of service and scrapped/resold/otherwise leaves your control. Which all drives eventually will.
The margins of businesses like Amazon are largely a matter of fiction, since the subsidiaries can make arbitary charges among themselves: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-fu...
It seems more like companies would have stronger incentives to keep the profit margin high..

I would be concerned if low profit margins is a problem.. companies with a low profit margin is the reason we can afford so much stuff.
A couple of years ago I would have argued with you, but we recently added a WebOS TV to the household: 4K HDR+ Netflix and Amazon Prime, perfect playback of seemingly everything on the NAS box (which is just a hard drive hanging off the router), all effortlessly and with zero mental effort or maintenance.

To reiterate what I said elsewhere, this Mac Mini is meant to be a desktop, not a media device (or some sort of perverse NAS). It's being pushed into the home theater niche by people who probably have a big trashcan Mac Pro at their desk and try to justify this lesser device. But it's an extremely competent legitimate PC for most people.
Next step: GATTACA.
The only complaint that I have is that the UI is ugly ugly ugly and has so much wasted space. The previous version had so much better UI.
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You're referring to Randolph County?

No.

Elections consultant recommended to the director of elections that poll sites which were not ADA compliant (required by HAVA) be closed, because there was no funds to upgrade them.

Both candidates for governor, many organizations, and the residents opposed this plan. The two member bipartisan elections board voted against.

This was all easily fact-checked with a quick google.

Please try harder.

The takeaway lesson from this particular drama, for you, should be that our elections are chronically underfunded and mismanaged.

Most smaller county's clerk (auditors) are completely dependent on their secretary of state to keep the lights on. A cynic might suggest the director forced the issue to shake some more money out of the state, for which I would strongly approve.

Cast that as a partisan issue if you wish.

I didn't bother to fact check your North Dakota stuff. I assume it's also less than wrong.
That may be well and good, but who's telling people that? What's society teaching people as they grow up?
People run js everywhere and use ruby/python/php on the server. None of these are efficient
Apple is so big, I don’t know why they can’t be mass market and luxury at the same time. Toyota:Lexus, VW:Audi:Porsche.

It’s never been so easy to switch ecosystems. Trying to milk the apple cult is a quarterly earnings trap. Lacks vision.
Approval is also just better than ranked methods given strategic voters.

http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
http://scorevoting.net/AppCW

And today Fargo votes on it.

https://reformfargo.org
it's just to attract investors. see how the top comment is about this being the future of the universe or some other TED talk-level BS? it works.

they are just an outsorce provider. plain and simple.
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>Engineer.ai’s “Builder” product breaks projects into small ‘building blocks’ of re-usable features that are customized by human engineers all over the world, making the process cheaper than the average process

There doesn't appear to be AI involved. A very good business model, but no AI.

What I expected the founder to say was "we've proven people want our product, now we can scale it even further by building the ai tool we always wanted to build," but I don't see that.
I think this probably has a little to do with AMD. AMD wasn't there to push intel and they introduced incremental upgrades for a while. I remember when athlon64 was introduced it really kicked intel into gear. At this point it might be that there might be less you can do to improve performance since we might be hitting semiconductor limits, but I think a lack of competition probably didn't help/
sued -> used hopefully.
That is the cap uber will pay drivers for cleaning in my market, I'd be interested if you knew of cases where customers have had to pay more.
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That seems like a "pedestrians don't die 'crossing the road without looking', they die getting hit by cars" type distinction. The removal of 'crossing the road without looking' is still the solution.
I heard that acronym expansion with a different A-word which ends with 'hole'.
That is a terrible idea. Not voting is a form of protest vote. It signals the fact that the platforms the candidates are running on are not popular. If everyone was forced to vote, and voted for the lesser of two evils, it would only signal preference for one party over another. That would take the incentive away from parties to realign their platforms to better align with the voters.

The current voting system is terrible, the two party system is terrible, the electoral college and gerrymandered districts are terrible. The whole thing is a shit show, we need to completely scrap it and start over.
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Trust the regulators. They have less of a stake in this than the CEO (who purportedly hates yellow) or the writer (the company that purports the CEO hates yellow).

The regulators will insure that corrections take place if the company is really misidentifying, mistreating, and underreporting injuries.
Interesting. I bought a pretty cheap soundbar this year (from Yamaha) and I think it had optical as an option (along with 3.5mm and Bluetooth) but the main interface was HDMI-ARC.

And it works great over ARC! The TV remote's volume buttons get passed through automatically, and it turns itself off and on along with the TV. I don't even know where the soundbar's own remote is anymore.
"while Oracle spends tens of millions of dollars every year on the several hundreds of full-time OpenJDK engineers it employs. We must support that somehow by getting more companies to contribute either directly in code or financially through support subscriptions."

An unsustainable situation will continue until it can't --some quote I'm butchering.

I'm inclined to agree with you that we need more contributions from outside Oracle.

Right now, Oracle is doing most of the work, but isn't happy with the money they're making. That allows those companies to contribute less back, but if Oracle stops doing that work, they'll have to step up, and I think they will. They'll shift some of that effort from internal forks to maintaining the base (those internal forks work well for them precisely because they're building on such a stable base).
There’s a Netflix plugin that uses the directory structure on Kodi for v18.
> Can vlc scrape Metadata and download art?

yes

> Can I browse my catalog through vlc?

yes

> Does it work with my remote?

if you got a remote that connects to your pc, yes.
there are quite a few of these around, especially if you buy a microserver or similar.

> How hard is it to get to the next episode when watching a season?

pretty easy.. actually, its imo way easier than anywhere else, as you can always use a wireless keyboard/mouse and just jump around

VLC can even cast to a chromecast device and serve its content to TVs if you want that

most of that needs to be enabled through the settings though.
Perhaps because they are not held to the same standards as an MD. PAs are typically employees in a clinic, hospital, or practice, and they work with limited autonomy under the supervision of MDs.

I'm not sure I'd say that PAs are not "professionals" but I would say that they are only in a broader sense of the word.
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Apologies for the meta commentary, but I just want to say that I'm glad these kinds of questions still get asked and can reach the front page of HN. Ask HN and Show HN were the two big things that attracted me to come here.
Elon Musk is not stepping down as CEO.
It's probably a waste of time and money. Just read the free documentation for spring, it has everything you need in there. And EE applications are def on the way out. It's all spring boot, unless you're working on old stuff.
Ask HN: Im in San Diego this week. Anyone want to meetup for a taco?
Hey, Im an engineer at www.transcriptic.com. We are a cloud laboratory for life science research. We’re like AWS but for science. We expose a programmatic interface to our labs so anyone can conduct research without investing in lab space. We’re opening a second lab in San Diego backed by Eli Lilly and I’m down here through Thurs evening. Our HQ and original lab space is in SF Bay. Anyone interested to grab some tacos or a coffee and chat about hacking? Im curious what the dev seen is like down here and its always nice to meet new folks when traveling.

scott at transcriptic.com
How do you find the time to deal with applications at multiple companies? Between phone screens and interviews that's a lot of time.
Okay, so what was hypocritical and immature about it? Please see bji's other responses in this thread, and perhaps mine, to get a fuller picture. If you have a strong argument point then perhaps you can make me aware of hypocrisy and immaturity - I hope you do so if it's true so I can learn, albeit and alas, most people don't put that effort in and instead make a quick response of simply sharing a loose feeling without deeper critical analysis to understand the situation and feelings in depth; this is in part a problem with the lack of tone in text.

I was pointing out their ignoring of the main point of my responses, and pointing out their put down; pointing out a lack of intellectual integrity isn't a put down, whereas saying simply because I haven't heard of a source "says more about me than the source" is nonsensical. Likewise, letting them know I'm done engaging with them is better IMHO than "ghosting" them. How is there integrity in a conversation if someone simply uses put downs and ignores the one main countering point to a proposed solution? Perhaps a gentler or kinder way to put it is they're lacking intellectual honesty - in order to try to prove a point, and backing that up/reenforcing that with a put down.
I'd really like to see those BitSet/BitMatrix types factored out into their own crate. Ever since BitSet was ejected from std, we don't have very many options for well-maintained and performance optimised BitSet types.
I have no doubt that better app builders will emerge in the future, but I expect them from cloud providers, not gig agencies. Look at something like Aurora from AWS - what are you paying for? You're paying partially for the functionality, but mostly for the operational support (someone else keeps the SLA intact).

My guess is they are being built with a cloud acquisition in mind.
Never would have guessed that for headphones! I guess they have some kind of a dock?
I'm an American with a chipped hand. It's pretty much useless but I enjoy it all the same. Just a little too ahead of the tech it would interact with. All I want is a reasonable nfc lock that doesn't have shit reviews on Amazon so I can lock my stuff at the gym, but I'll settle for rickrolls I guess.

Cost me $100 for the kit + $40 (after tip) for implantation by a trusted professional in the bodymod business.

It's an ntag 216 if you're curious about the specs.
Ireland have already been given some lucky charms by the EU. For example, they were given permission to set their corporate taxes to a ridiculously low 12.5%.
It's certainly a bit more of a pain if you're paying with card. As noted in a sibling comment, it's pretty uncommon for bars to allow you to run up a tab in a lot of places in Europe. I lived in Sweden for awhile recently and out of the many bars I went to I could only think of one or two in the entire nation that allowed me to open a tab. So you have to do the whole song and dance with typing in extra every time you go to the bar (assuming the card machine is set to allow it, some aren't). There isn't even a guarantee that the extra amount will go to the bartender, so your best bet is to just tip in cash. But wait! a lot of bars in Sweden for example don't even accept cash.
When I've entered various countries recently I've been able to go through an automated gate where you scan your passport and then you have to look at a camera and or scan your finger prints etc.

Surely the RFID under the skin is just a convenient way to carry your passport rather than getting you around the biometric scanners?
That's fine. Do you know what's still Public Record?

"GENDER","DOB","EMAIL","FIRST_NAME","MIDDLE_NAME","LAST_NAME","PhoneNumbers","FULL_ADDRESS","IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER","IDType"

if IDType is DLN, then IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER is your drivers license.

if IDTYPE is DOBSS, then its the month/day/year/last4 SSN

Frankly, this should not be public record. This would be a breach notification if it was a company doing it. But I walked in to election central, and they PLUGGED in my usb stick into their computers. I could have been a bad actor and had powershell or ironpython exploits - but i'm not that person.
The programming model for GPUs is pretty different from CPUs. (Branching is discouraged on GPUs, simpler hardware, highly parallel, etc.). I think the right approach is to have separate languages for the two.
I'm on latest Firefox with it's default tracking blocked and uBlock running. Didn't see any issues
(The following based on US income taxes)

You as a person don't have a clear "profit" to tax. I would argue that the system of deductions is the nearest equivalent to taxing your individual income on your profits.
A better solution would be to implement stricter accounting standards across the EU so that such tax dodges wouldn't be possible. This would solve the actual problem.