skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could apply a tarrif on the licensing fees? This might upset the WTO.
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Data compression. Low flame. "paq man" is there, "durilca man", "ans man", "zstd man"... ("oodle man" left ...)
What are the moral implications of doing this voluntarily?

This seems "easily" reversible by just having the chip removed.
How is it compared to Intel's Hades Canyon? I'm thinking between those two mini-sized computers.
The problem with this article is that Dr Gawande is too quick to point the finger at the EHR vendors for increasing the amount of non-clinical work that physicians are responsible for today. The EHR has become the face for arcane and archaic billing, regulatory, and compliance requirements which, when enforced through the software of the EHR, cause additional work to be shifted to the physician. Those questions that you get when you place a radiology order have typically not been added by the EHR vendor. More than likely they were added at the advice of legal / compliance.

Unfortunately the problem isn't as simple as getting more competent EHR designers and developers (although that certainly wouldn't hurt), but rather a deeper look into each aspect of increased work for physicians and analysis of why it is in the workflow (5 whys application would be great). At that point, organizations and physicians will better understand the reason work is on the physicians' plate and have a chance to weigh the pros and cons of either removing that work or shifting it to another person.

The other side of this that most don't see is that EHR vendors are also being held back by these same billing and compliance pressures. Here's a secret - EHR vendors actually want to help physicians be as efficient as possible and would love to automate work off of their plate. Unfortunately the environment created by compliance departments who are afraid of being sued and hospitals who would like to get paid has handcuffed the more innovative development from EHR vendors. If a system reviews incoming medication refill requests from patients, evaluates protocols, and determines that a refill should be approved who does is listed as the authorizing provider for the purpose of the pharmacy and the patient's insurance?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-...
I mean, if we're giving anecdotes, I bought a Dell laptop in 2006, refurbished for something like $600. I was able to upgrade it over the years all the way to Windows 10 (I think I paid $40 for the Windows 7 upgrade at one point). The only thing that failed for me on that machine was the built-in wifi. I only ended up getting rid of it two years ago because I really had no use for it, and had long since replaced both my laptop and my desktop machines by then.

Topically - it was at one point driving my television off this old E1505 and got a 2010 Mac Mini as a Christmas present, and hooked that up instead. Netflix and Hulu chugged on the Mac Mini, which also locked up for no reason from time to time. I literally installed nothing but Flash, for playing back videos.

Hulu and Netflix ran without hiccups or lag on the 2006 Dell laptop, so we put the laptop back.
The difference is, that the Irish rate applies

Speaking as an Irish resident, I can tell you that this is effectively untrue. Indigenous businesses, or even businesses small enough to not get the sweetheart treatment of the relevant authorities definitely do not get equal treatment. The difference is vast.
"TECH GIANTS HATE HIM."
We also tend to have the latest technology, or else we choose models we have a particular affinity for. Try working on a random laptop that’s several years old and a 3-year old phone. Your experience will be completely different.
He did test one thing to match a lower end configuration:

>Interestingly, I disabled Turbo Boost to simulate the base i3 model’s thermals, and couldn’t get the fan to spin up audibly, no matter what I did. Those who prioritize silence under heavy loads should probably stick with the i3.
When I need to wait 15m to compile my toy Gtk-rs project vs 5m for the former Gtkmm version, it already puts away the idea of trying anything more complex.

And since competition is a good thing, Kotlin/Native with Gradle/Maven does allow for binary dependencies, with Swift 5.0 hopefully having them stabilized as well.
SEE MOM! I TOLD YOU!
I have no personal anecdotes to bring in here, but they said:

> Part of the reason wild bee colonies are collapsing is because of the diseases cultivated by commercial colonies.

So if another bee comes at the cost of multiple existing bees, that's a problem.
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I don't really see it that way, to me it sounds like he's trying to sound like he wants to have a friendly discussion with the Irish finance minister (and not sound too coercive or aggressive). People routinely drink beer in Parisian bars and pubs as well, if he's playing on an Irish stereotype it's a very mild one.
To be fair, credit cards in the US can have great rewards, probably better than in any other country. I get 2-5% back on all of my purchases, which means that the credit card fees paid by the merchant aren't really "wasted" on the payment processers.
Right. But, echoing what I said, it's not "just an option" - it's a whole different model that they happen to be selling under the same name. Different CPU options, different monitors, different port configuration, etc. They don't even have the same number of microphones.
In my opinion/experience, certifications for Java programming are useless. I've been working in Java for 10 years now and not once has anyone asked or cared if I was "certified" by some random company to do Java dev. It feels like a scam to me. In regards to the other certifications I have no idea, but I feel that they are probably similar.

I agree that old tech will have EE in it for a long time. But all the docs for EE are also free to read and learn on your own. The best skill you can have when being a programming is self learning/teaching.
No, that's not completely true. It's a part of the picture but there's plenty more strokes going on than that.
you are replying to an irony... that was about the rich never going to agree to a "solution" that won't make them rich.
Why would a sovereign state even need permission from others about purely internal matters such as corporate income tax rates?
I greatly enjoy AI startup press release bingo.

- .ai domain name
- No mention of how they use or define AI
- "AI + Humans"
- Banner picture from science fiction film (Prometheus)

(Disclaimer: I used to work at an AI startup and am generally interested in how companies market themselves)
You linked to a Lyft program for “Non emergency medical transportation”.

Pretty sure my comment you replied to acknowledges there is a difference between emergency and non-emergency transportation.

If you want to argue how a worker with a crushed hand/severed fingers going to the Emergency Room for emergency medical treatment isn’t an emergency...go nuts, and please feel free to be liberal with the case Law you cite.
CoCalc brings collaborative persistent graphical Linux apps to your browser
A Koch brothers opinion piece on the front page of HN.
Decoupling, Architecture and Teams
NYC was already doing better than most of the country economically. NYC recovered from the Great Recession rather quickly compared to much of the rest of the country.
This is the case in many (most?) states in the US as well.
> Individual people's income taxes cannot be treated this way, because the closest analogy to "business expenses" for a person's lifestyle is their cost of living. If cost of living were deductible it would be highly gameable and ripe for abuse by numerous parties.

You are being a little bit funny here. This paragraph basically proves the OP's point.

Because companies would never abuse the taxation rules, of course. They would never cheat by shifting money around in opaque ways so as to lower the profits they have to report for taxation purposes. Clearly, that's why they can be trusted to be taxed on profits rather than revenue, but mere mortals cannot.

/sarcasm

I think in your gas station example, the net effect of a 4% tax on revenue would naturally be a 4% increase in the sales price of goods. Or, the gas station would go out of business...

I actually don't think a flat revenue tax would necessarily overall be better than the current system where taxes are based solely on profits, precisely because of examples like the one you give. It seems like some sort of combined model of a revenue tax and profit tax may be the way to go. Which is incidentally where the EU was going with this particular proposal.
Haven't taken the time to read through this properly so forgive the question - but is this any different from the above problem?

And if so - if someone solves this programming task on leetcode have they not then also solved the permutation problem from OP?
Do you have any evidence for this you'd like to share, or do you just accuse any publications of libertarian viewpoints of being orchestrated by the Kochs?
Are you giving Lisp as an example of functional or object-oriented programming?

I mean, Common Lisp has had CLOS since at least 1984.
> so as materials and structural technology improves, hydrolox continues to look better.

The opposite is true. The relevant problem of hydrogen is that it readily leaks through thin walls. This means that as methalox rockets move to ever thinner composite tanks made of better materials, hydrolox really cannot do better than the current state of the art.

> operating oxygen-rich causes the bulk density of hydrolox to improve dramatically.

True. But it also makes your exhaust into a hot, oxidizing torch, meaning you need much more durable (and heavier!) engine bells.

> For upper stages, hydrolox again looks very attractive

The other problem is that it must be cooled much deeper, and takes much less energy to boil off, making long term storage a hard problem. This makes hydrolox less interesting for any upper stages/manouvering engines that do anything more complex than deliver cargo to earth orbit. Once you add long coast times, it gets really bad -- to the point that the SLS moon missions actually get lower efficiency from their upper stages than they would get from kerolox, once you account for the extra hydrogen they have to ferry up just to let it boil away.

> commonality of stages is also desirable at lower flight rates

Commonality of stages is desirable at all flight rates. Paying for the highest possible efficiency gadget for every task is one of the reasons old space has such huge problems competing in cost with the new entries. Just having a little more thrust and burning a little more fuel is more cost-efficient than having another engine manufacturing line.

Methalox engines will probably power almost everything newly designed going forward. Not because they are the best solution for anything, but because they are 90% there at everything, while lacking the worst problems of everything. Their fuel is easy to contain and stable for long-term storage, they have no carbon build up in the exhaust, their exhaust is reasonably cool and not heavily corroding, and they have enough thrust and enough of Isp that these advantages will outweigh a minor efficiency loss in almost all situations.

The winds of the industry have shifted, and now that methane has been proven, no new hydrolox engines are being developed, with basically everyone choosing methalox for new designs instead. JSC Kuznetsov, SpaceX, BO, ESA and Landspace all independently made the same choice. Others have chosen to use engines developed by some of them. The end result is that the only major rocket operators still developing a future rocket with non-methalox engines are:

- Roscosmos (The Angara rocket family development was started before methalox was seen as viable. There are future plans for switching propellants, but afaik no funding for them currently.)
- Arianespace (The Ariane 6 development was started before methalox was proven. Ariane NEXT is going to run on methane.)
- NASA (SLS was mandated to use existing engine designs by the senate, because the senators' home states needed the money.)
I got an rfid implant 10-ish years ago. It's useless really, after the first giggle of signing in to Windows with your hand (I hacked up a gina module at the time to do this). Because of the many compatibility issues, it's hard to hook this up to mainstream building access systems,and the implantable chips are very basic and insecure (it's trivial to read and spoof them, moreso nowadays with software rf equipment).

Apart from that, they're not dangerous. You can get mri's with them, hold your hand on an induction stove at full power, and fight with it (bjj and muay thai).

I had mine taken out because I didn't use it and I wasn't sure about the long term risks (migration under the skin, mostly). I had to find a fairly hardcore body mod studio to have it put in/taken out, the regular ones and doctors wouldn't do it. Mine was put in with a dermal punch and two tiny incisions, which from what I could compare with pictures online made for clean healing.
Then the short answer is :

- Die. In large numbers. Preferably people from the developped world.

- The planet may maybe be able to afford half a billion developped world people.

There is a link to a Bill Gates blog post in the thread, look at it : agriculture (feeding people) is 25% of the CO2 budget, manufacturing+housing is 27%. Basically reducing these means reducing the population. That's the reason why having one less child is the biggest contribution you can do, short of dying.

Any volunteer ?
Yes, this precisely. Smart TVs of all flavors as well as Roku boxes voraciously mine your viewing habits, connected devices, network layout, mic input, and practically anything else they can get their dirty little hands on. They’re usually running out of date OSes and are full of holes to boot, making you a potential vector for smart device botnets.

Smart TVs and Roku boxes simply cannot be trusted. I have a brand new, relatively expensive Sony smart TV and while its Android TV support is more than adequate I don’t use it at all and keep it off the internet at all times. Instead, I use an Apple TV 4K.
Because they are a member of the EU, a trade union that evolved into much more. They can choose to leave and also lose all their tech HQs that are only located there because Ireland is part of the EU.
I'm not saying you would be motivated. Or that society would be better off overall.

I was making a point about social engineering. Similarly: if you optimize for low inequality, you get Cuba.
Wow, didn't see that coming.
I'm not a pro audio guy, but I think if you want to work with any external audio device and want that connection to be noise-free, your safest bet is still optical.

I have an external DAC/amp, and I had been using optical until I recently upgraded my workstation. Now I am using USB, because the new motherboard doesn't have optical; I assumed USB would be fine, so the lack of optical wasn't something I considered with the purchase.

Unfortunately there's an awful amount of hiss with USB on this DAC. I'm not knowledgeable enough to pinpoint what's causing it, but standard remedies I've found (eliminate ground loop, try ferrite cores, get a usb filter) have not made a difference. It could be the USB interface on the DAC side, I have no idea.

While I don't _need_ an external DAC, I like using one for a few reasons: mine has a low output impedance which is good for some headphones, a convenient switch to toggle between headphone and speaker output, and a big volume knob with really smooth action. I like it. The alternative is to use the motherboard's ports; this motherboard does jack sensing such that the rear line out gets disabled if something is plugged into the front, so switching between headphones and speakers involves plugging/unplugging the headphones all the time. I also don't like adjusting volume through a tray applet.
I've worked for companies that got acquired and also acquired other companies.

Year 1 is usually nothing and things stay the same unless there is some serious fat that needed trimming. The interesting years are 2 and 3. That's when the parent company tries to optimize things (e.g. streamline the sales force), create synergies, etc and you start seeing the changes. Depending on where you are in the acquired company, it can be heaven or hell.

I'd like to read blogs about the acquisition at the end of year 2.
Good call, yes its not THE facebook app, just A facebook app. I fixed my comment.
Yahoo is sending email from no-reply@cc.yahoo-inc.com
I just received an Unexpected sign-in attempt email from yahoo. The from address is no-reply@cc.yahoo-inc.com. I was sure this was a phishing email. But this is the from address yahoo chooses to use for official account related emails. This seems like a really poor choice for people trying to determine if emails are from the actual company. Anyone have any thoughts or insight on this? Why not use no-reply@cc.yahoo.com or even no-reply@yahoo.com so it's more clear it's from Yahoo.
Does anyone know if TRIM is supported using an external SSD over thunderbolt?

I remember reading it’s not supported over USB3.
> Find a place where men and women of equal experience, time at work and so on are being paid differently because of their gender and you have an easy lawsuit on your hands. In practice this doesn't happen because such discrimination doesn't happen.

There are hundreds to thousands of such lawsuits every year. And within a month of California rolling back forced arbitration, more popped up. Including 2 high profile class action lawsuits.

Maybe instead of listening to a man who thinks synonyms are clever life advice, you should research the actual subject. Comments like this suggest you don't have any understanding of the subject at all.
Internet-era ways of working
Hello Ruby and the magic of programming
I also has very good about pages that make it seem like a lot of love and thought went into it.

For example, all moderator action is public. You have to give a reason to downvote comments or flag stories, and other mods as well as the user in question can see those in the case of comments, everybody can see them in the case of stories. If a user is banned, the reason for the ban will always remain visible. It has a tagging system for stories, every user can customize what tags they want to see. People can apply for "hats", which means being officially authorized to speak for a website, a project, an organization or company.

Pretty awsome, if you ask me.
Blockchain.com announces $125M crypto giveaway
Yes but it's not where Denmark make their money. I am talking about holdning companies.
So true. This year, finally, my kids local school system deployed an online replacement for the ~20 paper forms they require at the start of each school year. I have always loathed filling out those forms, especially since there was no checkbox to the effect of "everything is the same as last year"

If anything, the online version is worse. They essentially preserved the same layout and organization of the paper, just converted to online forms. There is duplicate entry everywhere. I entered my address on at least three different forms, my phone number on four or five. And everything had to be repeated from scratch for each kid. And it was all presented in a weird iframe container that didn't quite fit the content, so you had to scroll around to see different areas of the page. If a phone had been my only way to access these, it would have been even worse.

It was so much like what would have been done in 1995, I could not believe they found this in any way acceptable in 2018.
VotingWorks: better voting machines
I agree with the "move to Jersey" part, but NY Waterway is a truly terrible company.

They fraudulently overbilled the government for ferry services they provided after the 9/11 attacks. Really profoundly sick behavior. [1] [2]

More recently, they've sold their Weehawken depot to a developer -- and then used their lack of a depot as an excuse to shadily land-grab space in Hoboken. They're threatening to put an industrial refueling depot in a spot surrounded entirely by parks, housing, and a university. [3] [4]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/nyregion/ferry-operator-i...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/nyregion/18ferry.html

[3] https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/01/hoboken_mayor_bl...

[4] https://betterwaterfront.org/?p=7820
This Photocell Generates Both Power and Hydrogen
What Microsoft Needs to Learn from the New Mac App Store
I do agree with the wasted space part but why would you call it ugly? Also, I don't find the UI intuitive at all. Many actions like to go to the list of episode of a podcast you have to kind of start from the beginning. But ugly? No. In fact I find it pretty clean.
I always find the below statement interesting because it is 2,000 years old. But it shows that even 2,000 years ago, the tendency of the human species to destroy the planet was already clear:

"But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came...to bring to ruin those ruining the earth." -- Revelation 11:18

It's interesting that the human tendency to "ruin the earth" is still a problem 2,000 years later.

Given that scientists are now saying we're close to the point of no return on climate change, I don't have much confidence humans are going to turn this around...

If this problem was listed in a 2,000 year old book, and we're still "ruining the earth" in 2018, I'm not convinced humans as a species are going to have a sudden change of heart in the next 10 years...

Just saying..
Designing an Engineering Performance Management System from Scratch
Because it's not a purely internal matter when you have the Single Market. You know, the one they have willingly and knowingly signed up to?
Thanks for the great article. Long read, but lots of great examples.
Fair enough, but it "values" the Mac Mini at $799 with a year-old i3 and 8GB of RAM? It valued the last one at $499 and it was 5 years old. I guess what the market will bear is really true...for Apple.
Everything inbetween will lead to blurry text/assets and decreased performance since the output as a whole will be scaled and downsampled by the GPU.

I run 2 27" 4k displays off a MacBook with integrated graphics, both scaled at 1.5x to "look like" 2560x1440. It works fine; text is not quite as sharp at it would be at 2x, but it's far better than it would be on an actual 1440p display. I haven't noticed decreased performance, but I'm not doing heavy graphics work.

Agreed that display manufacturers are messing this up. 4k displays should be either 20-24" for 2x scaling or 40+ inches for unscaled; 27" displays should be 5k.
You should use backups anyway. ‍️

But if the computer dies and the motherboard survives, you can connect to some thingy on the board to get the data.