skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police in 2016 used a "military helicopter to descend on an 81-year-old Grandmother's home to seize a single marijuana plant."

"Mr Holcomb said he was told that as long as he did not demand that a warrant be provided to enter the property or otherwise escalate the situation, authorities would file no criminal charges."

So, give up your fourth amendment rights, or else? For having 1 marijuana plant?

What are police thinking? Or maybe they just aren't?

Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/national-guard-and-police-in-military-style-helicopter-descend-on-81-year-old-s-home-to-seize-one-a7348666.html
Reddit put forward the idea when Ryzen was about to launch. An AMD engineer said he'd "see what could be done" or something to that effect

A few months later he admitted it wasn't going to happen, unfortunately
You might be surprised, changing the world is fun, and you can find great solidarity with others.
>It required only a shell script of 107 lines, 308 characters, 2934 bytes. This could be further reduced.

Yeah, totally common for average people to do this.
M9 was known for a shitty camera with fucked up colors. Did you forget the pink tint?
It's interesting to read this comment because I experienced nearly the same thing. Thought I was clever because everyone told me it was so, was admittedly quite arrogant about my technology skills, learned Japanese, moved to Japan, and could barely explain anything to my programming peers at the level of a five year old.

It took several years of forced humbleness to erode the arrogance, stop thinking I was so clever, and simply apply myself to the task of learning the necessary Japanese to explain myself correctly.

What I generally see with people new to learning Haskell (or similar) is that they approach it with their bag full of imperative language cleverness, and find the concepts and terminology hard to grasp because they refuse to become humble for a bit and examine it as a paradigm different from the one they know.

To be fair I was no different until I finally started understanding it, but looking back, learning Haskell was similar to my Japan experience. It became much easier once I buckled down, learned the parts that didn't make sense, and most importantly began applying them.
It would be interesting to see a count for cURL :)
Smalltalk documentation is written in first person
Grocery stores already have workers inside that prep food to make them ready-to-eat or easier-to-cook -- pre-chopped vegetables and fruits in plastic trays; soups and rotisserie chickens; cakes in the bakery section.

I think the real question is whether there is enough volume at a given grocery store on meal kits that they can afford to hire a person who just spends their day assembling and stocking meal kits by the deli section, or if this load will get shifted to existing employees.
By your own estimates, Tesla is effectively shipping 2-10 data centers worth of AI hardware a year, with a budget of something like $500M ($5k electronics in 100k cars).

Granted, AI is probably more of a $10-50M budget, but... Does it really not make sense to talk to chip houses if you're moving 100k units of special hardware at $50M/year for the foreseeable future, and looking to scale up?
The first one that comes to mind would be to invalidate all existing cookies so that the ones accessible to the other server aren't useful. I wouldn't call that the "best" since invalidating cookies can be annoying for users, but I'm sure there are other ways.
Watch the video and see how many times a disabled person not wearing full protective gear would have been wounded or killed by the ramp and you'll probably change your mind.
Since I am calling out the responses to you, I feel like I should do the same here.

> All the other things that people use exist as (individually) extremely simple extensions that you can learn in isolation in a few minutes.

If by "learn" you mean you can type in something that is the correct syntax, sure... but in terms of actually learning how to use them to model problems? Come on...

> Haskell is possibly the least over-engineered language out there

Javascript is pretty under-engineered. But more seriously there are several real contenders here in Smalltalk, older Scheme standards, and Go (though again that may be considered under-engineered).
This is definitely an Umami Burger problem. I've had it there and at Cockscomb down the block, and it's infinitely better at the latter location.
You’ve outlined our tax system as it exists today.
They're thinking they can get away with whatever they want, because local jurisdictions do shit-all to actually hold them responsible for huge wastes of money and/or active malfeasance.
But then you can’t use bangs anymore. I think the idea is that Google is there if you need it while still retaining the benefit of using bangs. So, it’s the best of both worlds.
I can't agree more
I'm not impersonating Jesus I am Jesus. I am fucking jesus
Performance of Enterprise Applications in Docker Containers on VMware vSphere
FedEx => Uber => FedUbX Delivery
Yes the Corvette's importance to GM isn't the number of Corvettes sold, its the number of prospects who buy Camaros etc.
It is functional regardless of OS.

> Intel AMT uses a hardware-based out-of-band (OOB) communication channel[1] that operates regardless of the presence of a working operating system. The communication channel is independent of the PC's power state, the presence of a management agent, and the state of many hardware components such as hard disk drives and memory.

> Almost all AMT features are available even if the PC is in a powered-off state but with its power cord attached, if the operating system has crashed, if the software agent is missing, or if hardware (such as a hard drive or memory) has failed.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
The pollution analogy might be useful. Specifically: "The solution to pollution is dilution".

Now, that mantra has been mostly rejected for environmental pollution because there's a far better option: Gather the pollutants, process/eliminate them, and work to eliminate the sources.

Back in our context, hopefully the elimination of people with unsavoury viewpoints is not on the table. We must fundamentally agree that humans being what they are, free thought being what it is, these ideas will never be 'gone'. So accepting that, perhaps "the solution to pollution is dilution" applies.

Apply it and we quickly see how censorship will be counter-productive - Those people, viewpoints and opinions don't go away and instead they concentrate in localized 'hot spots' (or cesspools), where they actually do far more intense and immediate damage. Obvious example: 4chan/8ch. Less obvious example: People's minds.

By avoiding chasing these things into the shadows they remain open to challenge. While the mind of the person you're challenging might not be changed, when its out in the open all others that come past and read that interaction get to judge it on it's merits and make their own judgement call.

Without that, folks end up in echo chambers. When newcomers get to those places, they are not exposed to a balance of viewpoints and the opinions they themselves form will tend to conform to the leanings of the echo chamber where they spend their time.
With moore's law it would make more sense to just replace the processing in the future than try and future proof it.
Work to change the law for your residential home based business then, or fundraise. Like we disabled people have to do, to defend our rights to be in society, shop, work, and use transit while disabled -- and like so many other wheelchair users I know have to do just to get the wheels to get out of their own house. Sorry about your barn, but you seem oddly out to mess with fundamental access for other people because you need to do $3K worth of renovation, and that seems odd to me.
> Keep on with this ...

This is still kind of a mishmash of early thoughts and I have a couple of different lines of thought, which I hope will come together. I'll start with a couple of observations:

1. Most programming languages and DSLs are uni-directional - the computer doesn't talk back to the human in the same language.

2. The mental models (not the language) humans use to communicate to each other, even when using a lot of rigor and few ambiguities, is often different than the languages and models used for computation.

The first idea is: there are some repeating structures in mental models. We think new concepts in terms of old by first thinking the structures (which are few and axiomatic, like the structure/function words in English) and then materializing the content, as well as refining the structures. E.g. I can say to a non-programmer that 'classes contain methods' and they kind of get the structure without knowing the content. In my mind this is represented as a graph, where the 'contains' relationship is an edge that connects two 'content nodes'.

[something called class] --(contains)-> [something called method]

If I follow up with 'methods contain code', they can reason that classes indirectly contain code, without even knowing what these things actually mean! So 'contains' is kind of a universal concept - it applies to abstract content and physical content in a similar way. Another universal connection is 'abstraction of', this implies one node (the abstract thing) is related to other nodes (the concrete things) in a specific way.

Maybe structures can be made composable, and we can operate on graphs structurally, without knowing what the content means? While another operation might eventually figure out what the content means. The main assumption here is my thoughts are organized as graphs, where connections are both universal also domain specific but of few kinds. Can I talk to the computer in terms of such graphs?

The second idea is: I want to combine high level concepts and strategies from from somewhat different domains. E.g. if I know different strategies for 'distributing things into bins' (consistent hashing, sharding, etc.), I invoke this 'idea' manually whenever I have see a situation which looks like 'distribute things into bins' and make a choice - irrespective of scale. Can I get the computer to do this for me instead?

So the final thing here is to get to something like this: I take an idea (i.e. a node in a graph) from the distributed computing domain, merge it with a definition (another node) of a computation I created (e.g. persistence strategies), and have the computer offer options on how to distribute that computation (i.e. 'distributed persistence strategies'). Then I can make choices and combine it with a 'convert idea to machine code' strategy and generate a program. This is all a bit abstract at this point, but I'm also trying to find where this overlaps with prior art.
Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6B in damages, just for starters
> I can have a shoemaker business named Microsoft without much issue.

In a technical legal sense that's sometimes true. In reality, Microsoft will pursue you aggressively until you capitulate. In that sense, you have a very big issue.

The less common the name, the less likely you are to skirt by without issue in such a scenario. You could name your candles, Apple Candles, and be on pretty good footing (Apple is likely to leave you alone even at scale, so long as you maintain very strict separation from what they do and their branding). If you name your candles, Google Candles, Google will figure out a way to stop you if you ever get big enough to show up on their radar.

In the case of Microsoft (or Google), their name is unique enough that the USPTO is very likely to find against you for combining that unique name in as part of your new business name. You won't be able to get or defend a trademark on Microsoft Shoes, and Microsoft will shut your use down accordingly.

Most often, the category separation concept works so long as the naming is at least semi-generic, such as Apple Candles or Apple Shoes. It won't work for Pepsi Shoes.
I love this kind of thinking.

I've always wondered even further about this - how you take this and extend it to 3 dimensions + time. In terms of maps, that would also help you with elevation or other obstacles that might slow you down from a straight line path.

Certainly, with the processing power and capacity today, we have the capability of knowing not only the two dimensional direction and the time it takes, but even the three dimensional position plus time.

I like to think of this crazy idea like a 3-D video recorder (maybe)... something that records positions of all objects in the specified space in slices of time, and can reconstruct any such slice and analyze the relative position of objects in space over time to each other.

I am not sure how such a technology would be made... capturing all the positions of everything in slices of time. I think we can do it with 3-D simulations, but not sure how we could record such data for the real world without modeling it in the virtual.

Still, this is such a cool direction and I for one like seeing people experimenting with something that we take for granted so easily, the map. I feel like everything that is amazing about time and space is somehow embodied by maps - astronomy, time, geography, relativity, etc.
This is not ignoring transactions, this is ignoring any block that contains those transactions. You make your own pure chain that's longer, and everyone else uses it too because it's longer. If someone else mines a block then such a transaction can temporarily get a confirmation or two, but the 90% steamroller will come by and quickly reduce it back to 0 confirmations on the longest chain.

If someone with 1% hash power ignores certain blocks, they make a chain that's totally irrelevant in their own corner. If someone with 60% hash power does it, they win.
But you can also can rent land on which to farm, to build a factory, or a skyscraper, without living on that land.
Yeah, seems to be limited to Google’s own payment services.
Just so you know, Apple doesn’t see nor store the item/s you purchase via Apple Pay, so if Apple Pay is accepted through this payment API, I think it’s unlikely to send purchase information directly to Apple.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/cURL/since1851/...

Sadly the search is not case sensitive, so a lot of the recent hits are hurricane paths curling...
You can get started, sort of, from the white paper: https://urbit.org/posts/

(TL;DR: "Urbit also invents a lot of alien technical jargon. We admit that this is annoying. Abstractly, it’s part of the clean-slate program: words smuggle in a lot of assumptions." - to which all I can say myself is: qupnux.)
“CDC estimates 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the United States”
Does anyone know if this Inception Drive will be patented heavily as well? Or if it will be fairly easy to build products around this sort of design?
And we all know how well that worked out for Motorola Mobility. Especially for its fungible "people resources".
These numbers do not come from the CDC:

“https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/index.html”
What I mean is that while it may be worse for optimizing the global output of the system than simply letting the scamming happen (which is what you seem to be asking about), it's important to remember that it's not all about optimizing the global number, but also preventing individuals from experiencing financial ruin.
Yeah, I was waiting for the "you can use Urbit to do X". No idea what it's for. There was a bit about real estate transactions .. then alot about space.
Apple's explanation of why they did this. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
well, more stuff:

> South Korean manufacturers have been not allowed to bring production facilities back to South Korea

also, the Chinese gov's stance (and BTW, gov != people) on THAAD is ridiculous at best: China has nukes, acquiesced to NK having nukes, but are opposed to other countries having defense mechanisms...?
I don't think the High Assurance Platform (HAP) flag removes any firmware partitions; it just doesn't start certain processes.
Standards and Methods of Operation
Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico
> Do you apply the same standards to your own life?

Yes, absolutely. Most mature people do and most modern societies do. The U.S. has actively supported freedom and democracy around the world since it became a major power, and part of its ethos has been to take in the 'hungry, tired and poor'.

In fact, if you are an American, you are one of the major beneficiaries of this attitude: The entire society, it's freedom, safety, and prosperity, is build on sacrifices of others. Like everyone else alive today, it was given to you by the generations before you. What will we give to others? Recent generations won WWII, gave the nation civil rights for women and minorities, and did so much more. What will we give to the next generation? Hatred and greed?
The fact that you don't have any idea about the points I presented makes me doubt your story in its entirety.

I would love to see a source on this one, but frankly it sounds farfetched. I can't find any record of a contract to upgrade KC-135, which would frankly be odd anyhow since the AF is buying a new tanker. Further, I can't find any evidence of an espionage prosecution against a Boeing employee or subcontractor employee in any tanker program. This seems like a fiction made up entirely for an HN audience.
Maybe you read too much into my statement, I am not a web dev. I was in a previous life (years before bootcamps even existed).
Another key here is that commercially packaged ground beef does not come from one cow. It comes from around 400 cows.
If you're searching for scholarly material:

!scholar <terms>
Don't put urls in quotes!!

https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/index.html
> I am not aware of any other service with a comparable number of properties and reviews.

Why do you need so many properties and reviews? You're staying in one room, presumably. You just need at least one room with a few good reviews in your price range and you're good to go.
I fully support upward mobility but it's a tough argument to make that it was culturally good for an organization to promote people in part because of seniority.

Kodak is dead. In no small part because they lost their ability innovate.
Any folks in PR? Hope you are well and safe!
Beautiful.

Reminds me of Wilson Bentley's old photos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley
It would also be more vulnerable to the influence of the US behemoth, the oil-hungry giant that considers south-America its sphere of influence.

I don't want to appear pro-Chavez, many of his actions were despicable. But understand that "free-market" in their case means an economy controlled by USA. Chavez came into power precisely because the free-market economy before him failed to raise wages even as the GDP increased. It also failed to diversify.

Economically, Venezuela has two problems: over-reliance on oil and corruption. In 2017, we can consider it proven that neither central planning, nor free-market have succeeded alone in solving these problems. They are mostly orthogonal to the organization of the economy.

Politically, it has one problem: they don't like USA. Look at Saudi Arabia. They are centrally planned and they are extremely dependent on oil. But things go well economically. You just have to let US companies install themselves there and don't call yourself a socialist.

Why can't a free market diversify Venezuela's economy? Well when you have the world's biggest proven oil reserves (yes, more than Saudi Arabia since a few years) and an underdeveloped oil sector, where do you expect investments to flow?

You can redirect some of these investment by giving the government an amount of control over what the oil industry does, by putting quotas in place, this kind of things. But then, you are opposed by "the free world".
IMO the only two phone manufacturers worth considering are Apple and Samsung. Their devices are the most polished, the customer support is good, the hardware is innovative. Just compare the latest iPhone and the latest Galaxy and buy the one you like.

Everything else is an also ran. You will always have some shitty problem that will ruin your experience. For example, camera with Sony, random Bluetooth glitches with pixel, generally shitty reliability from HTC and LG, weird sim card issues with Xiaomi, WiFi issues with OnePlus.

Both of them may seem a tad too expensive if you compare similar hardware from others, with Apple even more expensive than Samsung. But the extra money is there for a reason. It takes more money to deliver a good experience. It takes more money to develop your own chips and your own software.
Multiple jurisdictions are investigating the antitrust implications of how Google Apps are controlled on Android.

We'll see if this is still a problem in a couple years.
Charitable giving is not an unusual or even noteworthy activity; it's done by many, many people throughout the U.S. and the world. Without it - and not just money, but time - society would collapse.

Charity is also provided by government via tax dollars, something else the U.S. has always done and will continue, even under Trump.
I wonder if some sort of projection would help there: expand areas around the points of interest, and compress space between points.
I was only talking about ground beef, but perhaps I am using this tool incorrectly?

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/
Obviously? No, don't have so much faith in your ability to read other people on the internet. I am not a web dev. I was in a previous life (years before bootcamps even existed).
I've only used BlueApron and HelloFresh but the quality of the ingredients has been comparable to stuff picked up at Safeway.

The real value for me besides time saved (and the insane coupons/free meals) is using ingredients that I wouldn't have otherwise picked up. I'll just grab button mushrooms most of the time but getting some different variety is nice.

I also usually grab the store brand meat because its cheaper. It's not like the grass fed organic whatever isn't there, I just usually won't pick it up.
If scripts were injected into it, how do you know the form would not submit?
I don't know where the dividing line is between "regulated markets" and "central planning", but I think you raise the need for some distinctions.

The space program is a great example. Could the US have beaten the USSR to the moon without private suppliers like IBM? IBM couldn't exist in a centrally planned economy, and the Apollo missions wouldn't have been successful without private suppliers like IBM.

Apollo, Manhattan, WWII and South Korea via the Korean War and post-war American influence are all great examples of successful government programs, but I don't know that any of them would have happened without US markets providing funding and infrastructure. Ford was building a Sherman tank every 90 minutes during WWII.

There's probably a tipping point where large programs like these extract so much value from the markets that fund them that those markets cease to function, which is probably why wars are often funded with debt instead of direct taxation.
Ok, I can appreciate those concerns, but if someone wants to do this, I think that's their right. What if they have a cabin that they want to wire with solar? What if they just want to setup some panels on top of an awning, or in their backyard, and hook them up to a beer cooler?

To be fair I installed a solar+2nd battery+inverter that can also charge or be charged from the primary battery in an RV. I waterproof'd the roof, did the wiring, there's lots of guides on how to do it and it is not rocket science. Should you or my local gov have stopped me from this?
https://www.homewyse.com/services/cost_to_install_concrete_s...