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The other night I watched the 1989 movie [Patlabor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patlabor:_The_Movie) directed by Mamoru Oshii who went on to direct Ghost in the Shell in 1995. The plot is simple and there isn't too much grand philosophy, but the movies was prescient on issues of proprietary software, Internet of Things, urban waste, and Corporate/Government complicity/inaction.

The movie doesn't read as a gritty cyberpunk or even as super cyber/futuristic. It's visually light and the public is optimistic and satisfied with the present. It resembles our present to a certain extent which makes it all the more interesting. Its main divergences from our reality is with the mechs which can be seen as bit of fun or be read as metaphor for technology that is starting to seem divine/magic to all expect for the few technically savvy enough to understand whats going on. I haven't watched the other movies or anime yet, but look forward to checking them out.

[Spoilers] The general plot is.. A genius hacker creates a proprietary operating software(HOS) for a floundering robot/mech company. The company is able to not match competitors in creating robots, but is able to corner the robot OS market. The movie opens with genius hacker committing suicide. Shortly thereafter some robots/mechs sporadically go haywire. You follow from the perspective of a police unit who try to uncover why the robots are acting up and the mystery/motivation of the hacker. A small/funny scene..the police officers are concerned about their mechs own OS fearing that they also run HOS and have been compromised, but their chief engineer reveals that he lied to the higher-ups about installing HOS and chose not to install it because he couldn't see the code inside of it.

Edit: HOS not BOS
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I have WiFi on when I am at home or work. When I am outdoors I often force it off because it ends up connecting to weak signals that are not actually useful and basically causes the phone to not 'see' any internet.
The new Star Wars is at 91% on rotten tomatoes. That alone should raise some questions. The public did for a brief time have an unbiased avenue for assessing the entertainment being offered to us, I think that window is closing though.
Ok. I stand corrected. But what I meant to say is, that labeling something as "very volatile" only works in comparison.
The sad part is I too can see someone who needs to do batch processes reading about short circuit evaluation and having this "amazing" idea for a framework that would look exactly like that if. Its moments like those that make me wake in a cold sweat.
People who care for the safety and well-being of the prisoners that would be injured by the prisoner who is being confined away from them.
Does anyone have an idea of how much the cost of staff is for a container ship?

With crews of ~15-25 per ship and most of the staff coming from low wage countries is it significant?
Doctors often do not honor DNR orders because there is no penalty for disobeying them while they can face severe penalties for failing to save someone's life if their DNR order is invalid for some reason.
So an orthogonal approach here might be crowd-sourced centralized model zoos for better idea sharing across the entire industry. Curious how others see this (automated point solutions crafted to the data set) vs [hopefully soon popular] ONNX model zoos where we have more collaboration across orgs?
1. Saturday, fine.

2. You need that system of a complete and up to date registry of people. It’s simply a prerequisite. It can be state based if a national system woukd be too scary (the state based registries would then have to communicate when someone moves across state lines). You have an intelligence apparatus that probably knows everything about everyone on the planet. It wouldn’t be difficult nor government overreach to just issue IDs and keep track of their addresses.

I get a letter when it’s time to vote, telling me where to go vote. Because they know where I live.
For example: Levi´s jeans sell for 100 dollars here in Uruguay (incredibly high import taxes). A lot of people make a living smuggling clothes.

I couldn't believe the prices in the U.S. when I visited, I knew it was cheap intellectually, but seeing it in person was something else. And I don´t mind at all wearing an in-store return or using an open box or whatever gets me a cheaper price :) ... a lot of refurbished items make their way to Uruguay where they're sold at an U.S. new price...
I will defend the OP here, and say that LA-SF trains indeed make little sense, when perfectly good sunk-cost airports already exist that allow various airlines to compete over that route on price and features. Trains are more susceptible to disruptions along the route, because the route itself is more anchored to a particular geography, not to mention they cost a lot to build out to the satisfaction of being truly competitive with airlines if the infrastructure and level-of-service is lacking at this time (which it is).

However, where a train does make sense, is connecting other points along the route.

Air travel tends to be either hub-and-spoke between busy hubs and tiny spokes, or point-to-point between two busy points; rail travel, however, is always along a route that allows intermediate points to be served at similar levels-of-service as major destinations.

Whereas a Sacramento-Bakersfield journey would typically require at least one hop to SF or LA by air, train (and roads, for that matter) allow that journey to be taken without intervening hops, and serviced at a marginal cost, because the two lie along a route that a train would travel anyway. That ability to connect ancillary cities is where rail travel really shines, in ways that air travel can't currently mimic.
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What are you trying to do, give everybody in the USA a voice or something? Not in THIS lobby!
There is a massive difference between paying taxes when you choose to participate in an economy than having the government compel you to make a political statement. You choose to buy land which is protected by the state. You choose to buy things at the store. You choose to have an income. You can choose to not buy a house, you can choose to not work for an income.

The closest thing to compare compelling people to vote would be the draft.
What you say is true, but there is also this: political certainty to get something done once decided.
I think there's some confusion. The Trackman Marble is OK, but it's the Trackman Marble FX that is the best trackball, and no longer in production: http://weblog.mrbill.net/archives/2007/10/17/why-cancel-good...
I'm nearly certain that this will not be the case. Once you reinvent everything that the DOM does, it's highly unlikely you'll end up faster than the DOM.

Everyone thinks that the rendering engines in browsers are easy to beat in terms of performance. I thought that too, until I implemented one. They are definitely beatable, but not easily, and certainly not with an architecture like that of Qt or GTK.
When it's fresh the flavor is pretty close but of course the texture is different. I'd imagine pre-boiled with salt and vinegar it'd be stable longer. It tastes fresher and more potent to me than onion powder or dried minced onion which is more what I'd replace with it.
Alive bees make more honey than dead ones though.
Many countries don't :( including mine. Stupid protectionism.
How much does that cost if you roam outside of Europe?
In my opinion this is exactly what prison should NOT be. There are of course different theories on why we put people in prison but the main thing to achieve should not be to punish and scare people. The aim is to keep crime rates low and therefore to properly resocialize prisoners.

By putting them in solitary confinement you are doing the exact opposite: not helping them but actually turning them further away from society because you are actively hurting them. Changing the prison environment to a place where criminals can actually get out of the vicious cycle they're in is the way to go. Not putting the failure to do so on them.

Apart from that I also strongly believe that solitary confinement is inhumane in itself and so are life long prison sentences. (Corporal Punishment is wrong on a completely different level)
The only time that people should be locked up for life is if they are mentally ill or pose a concrete threat by the time they would be released.
> Is it actually a JIT? It's just compiling everything unconditionally.

Still counts as JIT in my book, but you're right that it's a bit subtle.

Unix-style configure/build/install isn't considered JIT.

Installing a .Net application is pretty similar, but we don't consider it JIT.

In the usual .Net model, what's distributed is IR rather than source-code. Compilation to native code happens at install time. The build-and-install process is less explicit than the Unix way, and it's less error-prone (fewer dependency issues and issues with the compiler not liking your source code).

Really it's a very similar model to the Unix one, but we call one JIT and not the other.

Oracle Java, of course, only ever compiles to native code at runtime, and never caches native code. 'Proper' JIT. (This may be set to change in the near future though.)

Interestingly, .Net seems to be moving in the direction of full static compilation, or they wouldn't be asking devs to rebuild UWP apps to incorporate framework fixes - https://aka.ms/sqfj4h/
It would be awesome if Nintendo would highlight the fact that people could upcycle materials around them (cardboard, paper, plastic, etc...) to achieve the same result.
One significant downside is the way the bonds and ballot measures work. In CA, we're asked to approve a few billion for the project in each election. Failure to pass means sunk costs or higher costs in the future to re-start efforts.

If the state asked upfront for $2B/year for 15 years, I doubt it would have passed.
They will fail not because it cannot be done, but no union member will load these ships nor unload them. The real problem is not going to be technical, it will be political.

The only way it could be done now is create non union ports on both ends of the route and never have your ships dock at unionised ports, where they would be blacklisted for ever going to a non unionised port and might even suffer sabotage.

Stevedore unions around the world cooperate with each other and are all corrupt, have rampart theft and use violence to bully members and non members into submission. You seen The Wire?

I worked in the shipping industry. Never again.
>I'm sure someone knows some dark secret I haven't read about

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/26/world/union-says-coca-cola...

=D
I don't know enough about the prison system, but I imagine there is a way to keep other inmates safe but also allow the individual an opportunity to interact with others (ie. highly supervised, with approved inmates only, physically separated etc).
7. Remove outside funding from the process.

All candidates should be provided a travel and marketing stipend and no personal money or corporate donations should be allowed.

This ensures an even playing field for the average non billionaire candidate.
Is the point forcing people to participate in something against their will?

Diluting the voter pool so much that the people paying enough attention to hold a candidate accountable can't actually have an impact?
I’m opposed to mail in voting. For any reason, not just voluntary.

I think a voter should have to make the effort to go to the polls on Election Day. If you can’t or don’t want to do that then you can’t vote. It’s not that I don’t want old or disabled people to vote, it’s that I want people voting to be making a direct effort to do so. Not just checking off every D or R box on a form weeks before they even know anything about the candidates.

I also think you should have to show ID and all voter registration should be abolished. Show up, scan your State ID and fill out a ballot. No ID? No vote. Also, getting a State ID should be free.

Finally Election Day should really be on the weekend. Ideally a Saturday. Regardless of the day there are going to be people that have other obligations but as the majority of people work M-F it should be based on that schedule.
The world bank estimates between 17-21m$/km.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/co...

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/04/chinas-high-speed-rail...

So a little math - china has 22km of HSR ATM - well, that is a big number, $418 billion.

If you are a private investor and your bonds paid for this, whether it can make a profit is important. Unless the government is going to bail them out (and being SOEs, everyone expects they will!), then it is important to move that debt from private to public. China's debt numbers ATM assume that much of the SOE debt is private, which is dubious at best. China Railway's $6 trillion yuan debt is 6% of China's GDP.

I've ridden the Beijing-Guangzhou HSR a couple of times (my wife's hometown is on the route and it lacks an airpot), and the car we were traveling in was always very empty for much of the 8 hour trip.
It could depend what network you are on behind the scenes. There are special codes you can use to switch networks if you are in an area covered by more than one.

In general, cell quality voice should be similar to that of a POTS line. Better codecs can provide higher quality for VoIP, even on small bandwidth, but with "real" phones you are going to get the lowest common denominator.
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FYI they will throttle users down to 256kbps if an individual user goes above 15G.

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6201699
I don't disagree with the idea that a model doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. But I do disagree with the prevalent idea that such theories are the "truth" when they are not.

Understanding that a model or theory is useful even when we ignore certain aspects of reality is quite different to the often displayed belief that a specific theory is "gospel" even in the face of anomalies and discrepancies of the real world compared with prediction. Too much of the "theoretical physics" genre (word specifically chosen) is based on the idea that mathematics is the means of finding the "truth".

As I said above, mathematics is a wonderful and useful tool, but it is not a good master. It provides a possible insight into what is going on. However, those insights are not "truth" as such. I have been doing a review of my old mathematics texts for scientists and engineers, as well as other resources. It is interesting that all of them talk of and demonstrate that all the mathematical models are simplified and incomplete. Yet, if one raises the various problems with the various models in use today, one is shouted down. This does not bode well for our advancement in understanding of the universe around us.
SAS DATA steps create new datasets (table) from one or more input datasets. As far as I understand the author, Bistro creates just a new column in an existing table.
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Ask HN: What can I do with a large international network of people?
I have a large network of people that work remotely and live all over the world. What can I create/build/service I can provide to give them jobs?

I'm interested in creating something that pays people fairly (no mechanical turk type work where you're paid per item.)

I have 1000+ people, they live in over 50 countries, and the work would ideally allow them to work collaboratively with others.
I suppose maybe it was an overstatement to suggest it was well-considered. I was thinking more along the lines that a guilty plea to take the death penalty off the table in what appears to be a slam-dunk case is definitely a solid piece of advice. But I think I misunderstood, it appears that what he did was plead innocent and then concede that he was guilty, which did not have the benefit of sparing his life.

Still, my conclusion is the same -- the defendant should always have the right to steer his own defense, and if his lawyer actually countermands him then it should be grounds for a mistrial. And disbarment of the lawyer IMO.
Hey its 99% clam free!
Does that include international coverage?
wow. chronic hunger is still a problem in the first world. i hope you are trolling. either way i hope you are banned.
In Australia IT is also a broader term encompassing development of software.
I think as a society, physical violence is now considered "medieval" or primitive. Even things like spanking a misbehaving child is considered primitive. Whether that's justified, that's the current direction society is going. So non-violent methods of punishment will just be easier to sell than more violent methods.
Punishment has many purposes - for those who believe that punishment is meant deter and serve as retribution, it is in line with what they believe. For those who believe in rehabilitation, not so much.
Cleaning. You can replace most uses of paper towels with rags.
If you're looking to get a simple server up and running that supports Let's Encrypt, it's a lot easier to use Caddy¹ than it is to set up Nginx with LE. Out of the box Caddy will automatically secure all your sites with LE (and automatically redirect http to https), and it also makes a lot of other common configurations much simpler than Nginx does.

Of course, there are still plenty of reasons to use Nginx, so documentation like this is great. But speaking as someone who had Nginx with LE set up and migrated over to Caddy some months ago, it's a lot simpler to manage my server (and especially set up new virtual hosts) now.

¹https://caddyserver.com
This. I upped my amount just to avoid the messages.

The cap at $60 is a really nice addition. I've had lots of people want to go to Fi but as heavy data users they just couldn't.
Yeah, really liked those but it eventually died. I still have the wired Logitech trackball in the middle one but never liked it as much.

I used trackballs for ages but I actually preferred the trackpad when I switched to a Mac even though I had always hated pads on Windows laptops.
You think people are less compelled to have an income than they are to vote if a small fine is levied? It doesn't make any sense. You put in a small fine for not voting, you make it clear that you can walk into a ballotbox and draw a huge x and stick it in the machine and you don't have to pay the fine and bada bing bada boom, we've got a lot more voters.
bummer ><, I was hoping it would perform a lot better. The brief coverage of the poor performers explains why I couldn't skim it and land on it. Only the strong contenders had long enough coverage to skim with a mouse hover over the timeline and spot them in the thumbnail. Sounds like it was trading on low allergic response vs flammability according to his commentary.
So it is actually sad. It means you just downloaded a lot of stuff and only used a fraction of it.
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Crews are unionised and paid a lot of money. This would not replace all crew members. You would still need ship engineers to maintain the ship and electrical engineers to monitor and repair refrigeration containers (they will attempt to fix them at sea if they mulfunction). So you would still need a cook to feed them.

So maybe you cut the crew in half, and significantly reduce risk of accidents, piracy, etc.
I'm not sure this is a very convincing argument to make. The underlying economic conditions have not changed drastically in the last few months or even years. The tax plan's effect on the economy is presently a projection. Apple's decision to repatriate this sum is a no-brainer: America's economic landscape hasn't changed, but the deal that was offered has changed.
Of course it's hotly contested. It involves taking property against the wishes of the property owner. But it's not contested by society in general, but rather those on the pointy end of the stick - many of whom are perfectly happy with the results of previous eminent domains (ie highways).

One could say society in general is "on the take". Which gets back to my contention that your "property" is yours only by the consent of everyone else.
Start a cooperative. Collectively work towards a goal that benefits everyone. Ask "what can we build" and "how can I mentor them to be successful?"

If you have a 1000 people who feel like what they do matters, you will reach any goal faster than you can imagine.
There are meal recipe subscription services that do exactly that. I've been a subscriber to CookSmarts for a few years now, and love it!

https://www.cooksmarts.com/weekly-meal-plan-service/

I pay a low monthly fee for four recipes a week and have access to the archives if I don't like some of the recipes. I like to jokingly call it 'Netflix for meal recipes'. Each recipe has a vegetarian, paleo, and gluten free variant, and it creates a shopping list for your week. You can get a free trial if you want to see what it's like.

Recipes specify what you can prepare ahead of time (so you could do most of your prep for the week in one go), and contain embedded videos showing how to do some of the prep steps if you are inexperienced.

I will note that I simplify some of the meals. For example, some recipes contain salads and specify how to make a particular salad dressing from scratch, but I opt to use prepackaged salad dressing to save time. Other recipes specify expensive items, like capers, that I skip.

I also have lost weight eating these recipes in the portions specified, which has been quite nice.

(Note: I'm not affiliated in any way with CookSmarts; I'm just a super happy customer!)
It's even easier to just have certbot install and configure everything for you.

https://certbot.eff.org/all-instructions/#ubuntu-16-10-yakke...
I think our experiences aren't that different but our view of what juniors need probably does diverge.

"Algorithmic or read-up-on-it technical or math" aren't the things I consider to be deeper thinking for programmers but instead are skills and methods that we'll always be continually having to add or hone. Deep thinking, which through my experience with others qualifies as hard due to the relative rarity in which I've seen them capable or willing to do, are much closer to the things you feel are brainlessly easy. That's not unusual since we often under-value the things that come easily to us by assuming that it comes easily to everyone. Learning how to _think_ about a problem, how to understand it at a fundamental abstract level and then build a mental and theoretical model needed to bring that vision to the point where implementation can occur is far harder than writing the code for the vast majority of people.

I also used to think "this is obvious and easy for me so it must be for others as well" but time and again that's proven not to be the case. I learned to focus on making sure my people can think the right way so that at worst they can respond to surprise difficulties or crises on their own but the best hope is that they become better than I am. With the right people in the right environment, if I'm doing my job well I will make myself redundant or superfluous.
Sorry, not a native English speaker.

What the State does depends on which State. You would probably agree that what the State does in Venezuela is atrocious, but of course pales in comparison to what State has done historically in other countries.

So by what principle do you judge whether a particular thing the State does is good or bad?
is that the follow up to the Aurora project ? https://www.defenceaviation.com/2007/06/sr-91-aurora-aircraf...
Yes, you could be right there. Although a bit sticky since it is only a similarity of names and not actual usage of "TWiT" that Leo allowed them to continue with.