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What if we all become vegetarians and the only meat we eat is recycled human flesh after we die.

This is just an extreme thought experiment.

What if there was a way to sanitize meats of pathogens and parasites?

Imagine we are in a distant planet that can’t sustain CAFOs and there are just other humans around...and we don’t have resources or energy to raise meat for protein, nutrients and calories..and can only grow a certain kinds of plants as food.

Re Apex predators: wouldn’t shark or whales be apex predators of the ocean? And we consume them..some do anyways.
Trump, Congress Reach Tentative Deal to Reopen Government for Three Weeks
This is why the D programming language is Boost licensed. Many other languages are adopting D features we could have patented, but did not and will not.
But how about transportation as a whole? Wouldn't people have better transport than ever these days then? I doubt that public transport is ideal anyways.
The policy under which they might gain the right to mobility - proof of ancestral custom - fixes in place what would have been a continually evolving aspect of historical culture. The Orenda discusses a particular huron tribe picking up their whole village, including their dead, and moving it somewhere else - a practice they would repeat every few years or so. They couldn't recall any one place to say "thats where our ancestors lived" except to point at the whole territory where they made their various villages. The policy of requiring 50% native blood seems also geared towards eventually ending this allowance, given that entropy never decreases.
Also Point Roberts Washington. School kids are bussed daily from the US through Canada to the US, and then back again at the end of the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington#Educ...
The article is about leaving without resigning or doing anything. Even quitting with zero notice is better than what is being talked about here.
He has literally made a lot of money in chaotic situations, and sometimes even orchestrated the chaos himself. He has spent billions to make people believe that he is actually a good human and some are buying his bluff.
Yes - the argument is against the primacy and dominance of cars, not their existence in reasonable circumstances.
When the wealthy[1] can opt out of having to use public services, those public services tend to be crap.

When the wealthy are forced to use public services, all of a sudden, they become interested and politically engaged in improving them.

Uber doesn't drive improvements in transit in this sense - it starves it of political capital.

The best transit services are ones which are used by a wide swathe of the public.

[1] If you are regularly paying $6-30 for a one-way taxi commute, you are either wealthy, really money-foolish, or a truly special case.
You can also take a blacklisting approach, where it's open-by-default and users shall be able to restrict any domain to properly authenticated users only. That way, it is purely a security enhancement for those who want it (like me).

I demonstrated this behavior to eggsampler after discovering it quite a long time ago by messing around with HTTP payloads in their web interface - it's wild to me that FastMail will use the DKIM private keys from an entirely different FM account to sign your messages.

Unlike eggsampler, I won't be ditching them, but I hope that FM reconsider their policy eventually. That they have awarded themselves the privilege of a "green tick" on their own official emails while throwing everybody else to the wolves is slightly ironic.
With a big enough wrench, you can beat confession out of anybody...
I highly doubt throwing this issue at the free market will result in less car traffic in the city.
It's a combination of many different factors that all add up. Off the top of my head:

- End of life care in the US is indeed a lot more extensive than in other countries.

- As davidw said, administrative overhead throughout healthcare is ridiculously inflated due to the nature of having to deal with insurance companies and billing. This is both people and software.

- Drugs generally cost a lot more than they do elsewhere in the world due to a lack of regulation on costs and the need of pharmaceutical companies to recoup their development costs by charging Americans more than they can make elsewhere.

- Without a single payer system, billing is completely ridiculous and leads to hospitals way overcharging for services, knowing that insurance companies will negotiate it back down.

- Hospitals are required by law to treat everyone, even uninsured and homeless people who will never be able to pay for their care, so they have to charge more to everyone else to compensate.

- The profession of doctor in the US is a weird semi-monopoly setup with artificial constraints on how many new doctors enter the market each year. As a result, you end up with people spending a good chunk of their lives studying to be a doctor, regardless of what kind, and taking on huge debt until they become a "real" doctor. The end result is that the profession makes a lot more money than it does in other countries.

- Because healthcare in the US is so expensive even with insurance (the amount you have to pay before your insurance kicks in can easily be thousands of dollars a year), many Americans don't use healthcare for preventive care and thus health issues that would be cheap to prevent become expensive to treat later.

- Hospitals in the US are mostly private and for-profit, with margins in the 6-8% range. That's money going to executives and shareholders rather than to actual healthcare.
In other words, exactly what the Schumer bill voted down yesterday proposed, with an additional week added on.
Except instead of applying to known terrorists or criminals, it applies to people who posted something the government doesn't like on social media, or have been unemployed for too long.
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This kind of ignores the fact that the quality of public transit has been rapidly declining, and had been before Uber/Lyft came into being.

Take the DC metro for example - it used to be arguably the best public rail system in the country. Now, through mismanagement and neglect, it's pretty awful. IMO dirty, unreliable public transport created a massive void that Lyft/Uber have filled.
>The only benefit of this is clean logs.

Except no. Less attempts translate directly into less risk.
"Another study blames the internal combustion engine for the decline of horse ridership".
Jimi Hendrix would absolutely crush Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Spotify's "play queue" won't let you scroll the list with your scroll wheel while you're rearranging songs. The only way to scroll the queue while you're dragging and dropping some songs is to put your mouse near the top/bottom of the list view.
Life and government isn't this simple. Subsidizing metro draws in high-income earners and thus builds the economy and increases tax revenues. The stratospheric price of housing near Metro stations increases real estate tax revenues as well.
You also need to redesign streets around cars, widening them, and making the city less pedestrian friendly in the process. And the less people walk, the younger they die and the more health problems they have along the way. You see your visible problem but don't consider the more diffuse and less visible problems caused by the car subsidies you favour.

What do people with your condition in Paris or Rome do? Most of Europe isn't designed around cars the way the usa is.
I am going to try Arq Backup (www.arqbackup.com) with B2 or maybe Onedrive (I have an O365 subscription)

I have less 1 TB of data, so I will save money and get rid of the external drive headache with BackBlaze Consumer.
Things that many Republicans don't want their tax dollars going toward:
1. Poor people who are in need (those lazy people who are abusing welfare just need to get a job).
2. Weather models (global warming is a lie made up by liberals).
3. Air traffic control shouldn't require federal participation and should just be handled by private companies. (All that regulation just gets in the way of airline profits!)
4. Craft breweries should be able to release beers without having to go through months of red tape. (All that government regulation is hurting business owners!)
5. etc, etc...

Many Republicans actually love the idea of less regulation, so a government shutdown is great!
Here's my second reply to him, where I myself point out that idealized Von Neumann machines don't exist in real life, and certain idealized O(n) operations (such as memcpy) may in real life for any possible "n" be cheaper than some baseline constant C (such as the cost of a Ruby method call): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988075#19001585
Except if you think about it for any length of time there is no way the Golden Rule either good, desirable or workable.

There are some people who have preferences that you just don't like and they would do unto you in a way that they would want to be done unto but that you certainly do not.

I'm convinced the subtext of this rule says something very different than the text of this rule...
If you’re not living in the Bay Area, this is not a conversation this comes up very much. People tend to love their cars, and the freedom it gives them, and frankly that doesn’t seem to be changing outside of some cities which were built in medieval times and suit walking better. A lot of “every thinking person believes X” topics you find here simply don’t exist on any significant scale outside of this bubble.

My point being, for armchair futurists who predict the death of the automobile, it tends to be a serious passion. Arguing with these people tends to be fruitless, because more than anything they want to preach. I try to avoid it myself, because right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, there is way too much money to be made selling cars for the business model to fall, short of being confronted with a superior replacement (a la cars vs. horses).

There are more productive uses of limited lifespans than... this.
I don't think the people down-voting you realize that if (US) society put more authority locally (city > state > federal) the car-free cities they want would be closer to reality. Cities would have more power to impose tolls and restrictions on cars. If cities relied less on the state for their transit budgets they could more easily do as they please, same goes at the state level (the federal .gov is known to hold transit budgets hostage over unrelated things). The overhead of always having to deal with the next level of government is a big hindrance when it comes to changing the status quo.
You can first divide the solution in two parts, 1) the letter selection and 2) finding a valid permutation.

There's a fairly finite set of letters that you might want to enumerate based on both your initial 'seed' text and the letters that are in the numbers especially if you consider 'one [a-z]' as seed text. That is to say, the amount of sets of letters that have different sets of numbers that you can spell with them is small.

If you know what letters you have to write and you know all of those must have 2 or more instances you can add the "'s"'s and single instances of those letters to the seed text. At that point you just need to worry about selecting numbers that including their own letter counts sum to the seed text constant. This can be easily expressed in an ILP.

The ILP will define a 26 boolean array for each possible number we can spell representing whether that number is the count of that letter. We add a constraint that the sum of all active numbers on a given letter == 1. Next we simply add constraints that sum all active numbers their lettercounts to the known constants from the seed text.

But as it turns out that is overkill, a more traditional and flexible solution would involve a tree search that keeps track of the lower and upper bounds of lettercounts and picks number words within those bounds without associating it with a specific letter yet. And you associate at the end. Runtime is a 15 minutes in python for most numeric bases/seed texts/variations.
Calvin and Hobbes resume got me interviews at 21 startups (I applied to 24)
Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights
I guess not that many loans

>Trump, Congress Reach Tentative Deal to Reopen Government for Three Weeks

I’m not even in the US, but my inbox has been flooded with emails from various financial institutions offering interest-free loans to government workers.
No. I’m suggesting we fix our healthcare system so that fewer people die, and no one is driven into financial ruin because they need to see a doctor, and that it’s available to every citizen of these United States regardless of their financial status.

And worry not - those with deep pockets can always pay extra for premium treatments, but some baseline should exist.
> Public transportation can only win by competing with alternatives.

Exactly. Improve the quality of public transportation and the usage levels of Uber and Lyft will decline. Whatever the failings of Uber and Lyft, and there are many, they can't be used as a justification to curb their use (essentially eliminate competition) so public transportation systems can continue their unchallenged mediocrity.
Going to the extreme is a good strategy to kill any debate. I am not sure if the GP intended this but I so often hear "Want to make changes to health care/ taxes/ others? Socialism! go to Venezuela!". Debate ended.
I disagree; I and a few other good coworkers were managed by a pretty horrible boss (pretty horrible as in he is known by name as a horrible person to work for by multiple corporate HR departments and recruiting agencies in our metropolitan area who all wanted to poach us), and I think we all gave our two weeks notices when we could.

You should always act in a way that optimizes your own desirability as an employee or a person to be associated with in order to keep your options open. It's very rare to find yourself on a hill worth dying on, and to have that hill be clearly seen by others. For me, that standard is not letting an employee go to a funeral, or be at the birth of your child, or something timeboxed and will cause similar extreme emotional/mental pain and duress.

Of course, the flip side is to not have your internal judgments skewed by constant interactions with said boss or bosses. I'm guessing that's how you become a bad boss or employee over time.
I am agreeing with you, lol - it's an analogy that simply raising gas prices to fix the problem is like simply raising the price or taxing the crowbar to solve break-ins - it does not work.

Yes I definitely think the yellow vests would similarly be upset as well - again it's not solving the issue.
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If we are being philosophical, plenty of left-wing thinkers have advocated for police abolition.
"I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now."

Can't tell if Russian troll farm agent or just someone with poor English skills...
Won't systems always generally decline a bit until they need a refresh? But now that refresh won't come because there will be no political pressure to do so.
Democracy works by the very direct effect that almost always when anybody is powerful enough to make a coup and take the government, that somebody has been powerful enough to take the government by vote for a long time.

There are many indirect effects that may help, people feeling represented is one of them. But they are near to irrelevant when compared to that direct one.
I feel like I've repeatedly been proven wrong when I have these kinds of thoughts, but surely, he can't be stupid enough to try this stunt again. After 35 days of hurting people, he got nothing. He must realize shutting the government down to try to force his will is counter-productive, right?
You can also look at public incomes of physicians in for example, transparent california. Single phsyician practices with over 1mil in income is pretty common.
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Off-topic, but damn HN... I submitted the CNBC and CBSNews versions of this. One got zero up-votes, and the other got flagged.
I know it's only an anecdote, but myself (and many other colleagues) in Boston switched to periodically using rideshares to commute due to the decline in public transit quality. The tech boom in the area completely overloaded the system, and when you combine it with the rampant corruption behind the MBTA, this was inevitable.

Uber and Lyft have not been the best actors, but someone was going to step in and profit off of public transit's incompetence here.

Even prior to the prevalence of rideshares, Boston was dealing with absurd corruption in attempting to expand on the public transit systems. See: Green Line Extension project
As a recent transplant to the bay area, I'm surprised so few people ride motorcycles - I know that it's not tenable for parents and people with medical conditions, but there are so many people here who could.

I cut my commute time in half, I got a lightly used motorcycle + gear for less than the price of a used Prius, I get mileage that's comparable to an economy car and performance that rivals that of a performance car.

Heck, I even took it to Los Angeles and back over the New Year's and I was surprised at how comfortable I was for the entire trip despite doing ~90 mph in 45 degree weather. In particular, my back would be uncomfortable if I had spent 6 hours in the car, but 6 hours on the bike was great.

It's just so cool that a machine that works so well in congested cities can also work so well on the open road. It's not like driving a large sedan or SUV - where the open road is a joy but city driving is terrible. If we could just get 25% of people out of cars and into motorcycles, we could reduce congestion dramatically -
https://newatlas.com/motorcycles-reduce-congestion/21420/
Yes. The framing of these articles is atrocious. The framing should be, "It's great that people are gaining more transportation options. Public transit should adapt and improve in response to those changes."
Amazon open-sources Neo-AI, a framework for optimizing AI models
there probably arent enough rich bastards in small planes to poison those of us in the same countries as them
That was a great book. In college, I read it on the plane on the way to an interview with an operating systems team. During my interviews, people thought I had a ton of experience with operating systems coding, which I didn't, but the concepts, terminology, and design debates from the book were fresh in my mind. ;-)
Thanks for clarifying, this was definitely not clear from the article. Is this article part of a series? It's still not clear to me why OLLP works. When I think of optimistic concurrency my next concern is whether the system is guaranteed to make progress.
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Replace "government" with "Silicon Valley groupthink" and the same argument applies. Meanwhile, Google is happily doing business in China & other oppressive country when I'm absolutely certain they do censor based of government standards.
Less attempts of something that has zero chance of succeeding (password login against a system that requires keys) doesn't really translate into less risk.
A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding this post. Here is some background that you should keep in mind:

1. The author is a well-known database researcher who studies deterministic databases. Deterministic database eliminate all randomness and race conditions, allowing multiple nodes to execute a shared transaction log with minimal coordination.

2. Calvin is a deterministic database created by researchers, and FaunaDB is the commercial version of it.

3. In this post, the author argues that one aspect of Calvin---eliminating two phase commit---could be separated from the overall design and used in traditional, non-deterministic distributed databases like Spanner, VoltDB, CockroachDB, and many others.
The problem is when you first find a video that's interesting you don't necessarily find the playlist that it belongs to. (or worse, you find it in someone else's playlist which includes the video along with other seemingly random videos that the playlist creator was interested in)
That is an interesting thought experiment.

As a side note, plants do produce proteins.
The first concern is the vanishing/exploding gradient issue within neural network based models and the inherent bias.

But greater is the propensity for abuse, the algorithm that determines the risk model isn't publicly accessible.

Once we get to a point where an AI controls sentencing, it could be manipulated. The idea that an AI get's to determine which humans go to jail is the last thing we should ever utilize AI for.

A more important issue would be to focus on prison reform, let's reduce the causation of crime. Unfortunately private prisons are expanding right now and there's no reason to assume the prison lobby wouldn't love to influence an algorithm designed to send more people to jail.
There is snow and ice on the ground continuously for about 6 months of the year. Rain in winter here is rare and when it does happen it is often undercooled i.e. it freezes on contact with the ground. The climate in Amsterdam is not even close to comparable. Cycling on ice is totally different to cycling on a couple of cm of fresh snow.

Oslo has very steep hills. I know people that climb 100's of meters per day during their cycle commute.

So yeah very different.
Sorry, this triggers no empathy to me. This is alledgedly a workforce that requires years of study ,training and practice.

Being unable to work 10 hours to prove it shows you are a pauper, all the other excuses are complacency.
It's an option. And it's disabled by default.
Honor != sainthood. Like teaching and nursing, some people feel a calling to help, and are willing to make not-insignificant sacrifices to do so. They're not in it for the money and won't be transferring into fintech for better wages.

My partner is a "civil servant" and I see on a weekly basis how she is consistently overworked and undervalued. But she has a mission to improve our city's infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians, and you just can't do that effectively as an engineer outside of the public sector.
You're right, there is this other side to the coin. I'm also not aware of research studying these high order effects. I wonder if you could apply the approach from the book Growing Artificial Societies, which is basically generative modeling of social organization, but I don't think that approach has a lot of academic support.
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I'm curious to see a StarCraft II mod where you can assign advanced micro behaviors to groups of units.
I would immediately put a X mark on a company which asks as stupid interview questions as those...

Thats not how you look for developers with passion - people that care about you as a customer and want to solve your problems the best way possible.

Thats how you hire coding monkeys which produce sub bar code and dont care about their job..
I used Yahoo Mail at the time, which had a limit of 6MB (and IIRC that had been an increase at some point). Soon after GMail came out they upped that to 250MB. Searching now I find an article saying this happened December 2004. I seem to remember it happening closer to the GMail announcement though but I could be wrong.
Two-phase commit deals with network failure, not change semantics. The message itself (whether "BALANCE=40" or "SUBTRACT 40") isn't something that matters to 2pc.