skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Texas they are legally required to sell you alcohol without the membership. They have a totally separate area with a different entrance for the liquor store in every Costco in Texas that I have been to. I tested the theory that they will have to let you in/sell it anyway in the main store because they still sell beer and wine in the main store. To give some context, in Texas, you can buy any beer/wine in a "grocery" store i.e. Costco, but hard liquors must only be sold from a licensed liquor store.

So with that in mind and without a Costco membership I loaded up on a case of beer and some wine only in the main store and took it to the checkout. They subsequently refused to check me out in the main store and sent me to the liquor store with the outside entrance.

I wonder what would have happened if I had tried to purchase beer or wine in the same fashion on Sunday (liquor stores must be closed on Sunday per Texas law, but selling beer/wine in grocery stores like Costco on Sundays is legal). I think they would have been legally required to sell me beer/wine in the main store if so, and even though they probably would have refused as before I believe if challenged/complained this practice of refusing to sell beer/wine to non-members inside the store would not be ruled legal by TABC (the state commission in Texas that governs alcohol sales).

It would be an interesting niche law to explore if you were interested in challenging Texas laws regarding sale of alcohol I guess.
I dunno, it kind of makes sense. Besides the IRS they probably have the most negative brand association in all of the US government. Their activities, especially recently, make them pretty easy to characterize as the bad guys. It’s not that crazy.
ICOs are mostly illegal unregistered securities so any service that trades those tokens is also illegal.
I'm 95 percent sure that every dns response is bigger than the request, so it might not help much. Although if they're getting a lot of garbage in it might be helpful.
Executive speak is designed for minimal fallout. But it has other deeper value in maintaining power structures and internal org stability.

Any deviations and rumblings from within the hierarchy become very easy to identify if they don't use the same language.
I've played under a few batons, in orchestras, theater pits, and so forth. Here are a couple more uses of a conductor. First, the conductor directs the rehearsals. This is a vital role, and it only makes sense to perform under the same conditions.

Second, the orchestra is not necessarily the idyll of unity that it appears to be. It's impossible to herd 100 cats together for every performance, and the typical contract allows players to take nights off. They have to hire subs, and for some performances, throw an entire orchestra together for an occasion. Depending on the level of the orchestra, there may be one or two players who are quite proficient, but not quite up to speed on the repertoire. Those folks may need the conductor to get them through tricky portions of the pieces, or to address issues of interpretation on the spot. I've had my arse saved by a perceptive conductor on more than one occasion.
There are slightly more expensive models that are 500W-1000W+. The Segway and M365 are ~350W. I had a hard time with the battery life on the Segway ES2 on hills, but am a little bit over the supported weight limit

Source: own escootercartel.com
ICE is as good an example of the police state as anything else.
I have to admit, I just say no and keep on walking.
Never thought I would see these bands mentioned on HN. Would have even missed a heartbeat to see Thergothon or Skepti but Mordor is an absolute total surprise. Cheers, good fellow!
Marijuana is now legal in California too. What standards apply there?
Even if they aren’t explictly there to prevent theft I’m sure they do. Knowing you’ll have to run that gauntlet on top of the other loss prevention techniques would make me want to try a softer Target (pun intended)
That's the article you're commenting on.
>> Haiku is an OS that basically no one uses for any purpose.

> By your logic, since macOS has ~1/10 the install base of Windows,

Does not follow. MacOS use relative to Windows is not at all a fair comparison. Firstly "everybody" uses Windows, so 1/10 of huge number is still a huge number. Second, except for gaming and some particular areas like EDA, MacOS has a general software library with a broad-base of technical and non-technical users throughout the world. Haiku OS cannot claim to have anything like that.
> There is no way to hold leadership responsible in comparison to, say, a letter or email from HR to all employees where a statement is written and more concrete

Wouldn't the answer be to just leave your job? Don't support the company if you don't like what they are doing...
Oh, this is a specific definition I've never heard of. Is that common? Some quick Googling suggests that people use the term "pioneer" in relation to computer science in a broader sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_s... (spans 500 BC to 2011 AD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Pioneer_Award
(awarded each year)
People with emphathy or ethics can get jumpy about ripping children away from their families. I wish I could still find it bizarre that some people don't.
The logical conclusion of your arguments basically Fascism - putting profit above people, which isn’t remotely close to common sense. Nor is labelling those who oppose locking children in cages as “extremists”.

Shouldn’t businesses be free to serve who they want to?
So what happens in Simulacra if I start moving DOM nodes around?

Does the binding break?
> Soros transferred $18 billion to this foundation over the past year.

That would mean Soros transferred over 70% of his net worth[1] to that organization, which would thereby have become the 4th wealthiest foundation in the US[2]. Alternatively, the Conservative Review is not a reliable source.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Wealth_and_philan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_charitable_...
The author means literally 1000 satellites.
A bunch of Pis networked together is sufficiently far removed from a real HPC cluster that you could probably create a more realistic simulator without too much trouble.
It's everything mentioned. It just sounds better to tell everyone that you're worrying about over-charging, than that you don't trust your customers and/or employees, and also want to make sure there was no mistakes.

It doesn't matter how these people are trained, or what they are told. They will still prevent theft, even if they think it's not their job. It's even better if they genuinely think they are helping customers (which they in fact do!) because that makes the attitude of everyone involved better.

It doesn't matter that they don't catch many theft attempts. That's the whole point, that if they are effective at prevention, there will be no attempts in the first place.
Ah, my past life and knowledge developing Oracle systems comes flooding back.

I don't know if Oracle still uses CBO now, or even SQL or PL/SQL but I am sure that a large chunk of their revenue still comes from supporting these legacy systems.
> AI will be bigger then the web. Solar might too. The 'Google of AI' will be way bigger then Google.

My marketing bullshit sense is tingling.
Correct. It gives time for the staff (eg security) to decide what they want to do with you in the case of suspected theft or deception. You don't have to stop, and sometimes I don't. It's not a legal requirement and any legal challenge is less cost effective for them if you aren't a suspect.

The fact that isn't obvious, is not surprising but it is elementary, regardless of professions to the contrary.
> We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country

Okay, so left of the democrats.

I'd be fine with that.

I don't think you know what intersectionality is.

Not giving law enforcement broad surveillance capabilities hardly seems like a position conservatives would oppose. As usual the ones who yell loudest about tyranny are also the ones who cheerfully fight for it.
In Comp Sci O() notation has a very specific meaning and "on the order of" does not approximate it. I think it was probably just a misuse of the notation.
> There are and always have been professions dominated by men and those dominated by women.

Put in the most mercenary way I can think of:

There are and have always also been professions in which hiring decisionmakers screw their own organizations out of talent by ignoring or down-ranking candidates they were bigoted against. There similarly are/have been professions in which talented people with potential to add great value have been driven away by similarly bigoted leaders.

We don't know what might have been, what potential might have been achieved, because of the idiotic/cruel things we've practiced throughout history. Acting like ethical, compassionate, empathetic people seems like a way more pragmatic way than "well, it worked so far, let's keep being bigoted assholes" to see if we could do better in the future.
Some databases let you just set the stats numbers to what you think they are and pin them, so changes to data won't change the stats and the optimizer will always use your stats and not stats calculated from the data. You'll get the "prod" execution plans on an empty database!
This is great as learning material.

Have you benchmarked your approach?
It's VERY relevant - regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement - the agencies that protect and allow Amazon to thrive and exist. This whole anti law enforcement narrative has been popularized by inter sectionalism - in whose heads law enforcement is full of majority race, privileged individuals oppressing the minorities.
This + emacs + org-mode + a heavily customized doom emacs means I can track money using ledger, generate workouts using a python script outputting org tables and a lot more. Even worked out how to sync my folder to Dropbox, called from an emacs shortcut.
You can't discount the confused product strategy re: old software in this failure.

People want desktops to run desktop software. Not WinRT/universal/modern/UWP. They did not understand this. So for multiple iterations, they shipped tablets, phones, etc., under the "Windows" brand that could not do what people think of when they hear "Windows".

They should have shipped a device circa 2012 that let you recompile desktop Windows apps for arm. They had the technology.
Parents and VR: Most parents are not concerned about adverse health effects
Can’t the cashier do that?
There is no intent to standardize this or expose it to the web. This is purely for use internal to Firefox. Of course that may end up meaning that it is used as the internal storage for some web feature.
Kant would like a word with you about moral imperatives.

If you think something is unethical, then facilitating it for a profit is also unethical. If you don't think it's unethical, fine, but you don't get to have it both ways.
DNS servers often return different results to different clients for load balancing, so checking multiple resolvers would lead to many conflicts.
a) The project might be used by other people - say a public disclosure of a vulnerability after no reaction

b) The deletion action is much much more extreme than what a maintainer could do before. Anything controversial is still quite public vs. now it can be just deleted without a trace.
Not really. PR is all about taking the edge off things. Which is why this struck me as odd.
Even 10 years ago parts of it were more exclusive than today: you used to need to pay for the Executive membership to get the monthly coupons and other offers that all members can get now. I'm sure they crunched the numbers and realized they were leaving money on the table by doing that.
I believe you are correct that v1 uses Docker behind the scenes. And that's fine with me so long as it doesn't infect my project, which hasn't been a problem until now. The beauty of Zeit's v1 platform was precisely that it would take my code and run it smoothly with no fancy configuration or modifications. It Just Works. I generally prefer explicit behavior, but this is a case where the behavior is not something I want to know or care about. My app should run on any common platform without special configuration or modification. And it does, everywhere... except on Now v2. I wanted to like it, but the desire is just not there. Maybe I'll keep using them for DNS but host elsewhere. Zeit's command line experience is top notch and I'd like to keep that aspect where I can.
We ran this survey, here's the conclusion:

*Historically, VR has been a highly niche technology and there is a lack of scientific research (and data) on potential adverse effects. While our small survey doesn’t contribute to scientific research, it tries to capture the current views and mood of parents regading this issue. Our survey found that even parents that use VR themselves seem to be conservative about their kids’ VR use. Most parents’ kids in our results use VR less than one hour per week. Furthermore, parent seem to be more worried about negative effects of VR use for their children, but not for themselves. When asked what adverse effect they worry about the most, the majority of parents said eye problems."

Make sure to check out the link for some more data and graphs and looking forward to your thoughts.
Two, at two different companies. One had a male/female team, the other just had a guy.
Badger looks nicely done! Did you end up needing to change much in implementing Badger from what was described in the WiscKey paper?
Fair enough if you disagree!

Regarding actively marketing to law enforcement, is there any law enforcement use case that is not unethical? For example, if a facial recognition system is set up to only alert on faces that are listed in the Interpol Most Wanted list is that system unethical?

It seems that there's a moral line between identifying faces and profiling/targeting people arbitrarily. It's impossible for Amazon to know how any given customer will use its products before they actually use them so the only reasonable ethical expectation is for Amazon to outline improper uses in its TOS and go from there.

EDIT: What if the above facial recognition system doesn't use automated software but instead relies on humans reviewing video feeds and trying to determine if a face matches one on the list? Does that change anything?
I think Teslas $35k is unreachable in the foreseeable future. But hey, doesn't hurt to try.
Possibly. If you put everybody into two groups "white" and "brown", that could certainly fit.

If you take popular preconceptions/prejudices around "white" "black" "hispanic" "asian", etc, maybe it doesn't match as well.
Why weren't they interested in making this ten years ago? Too busy cheating on the emissions tests to care about something actually real like lowering the carbon foorprint of your vehicles. Tesla forced these companies to do this, plain and simple, so if you're going to clap this it should really be Tesla getting the props.
> regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement

Sorry but you don’t speak for regular Amazon employees. You’ve just made that up.
> MacOS has a general software library with a broad-base of technical and non-technical users throughout the world. Haiku OS cannot claim to have anything like that.

That was the second half of my comment. Please re-read the first half.

My point in that part, though, was that macOS has ~1/10 the users of Windows, but Windows' UI/UX was/is widely regarded as absolutely atrocious, and macOS' as being pretty good to great, depending on who you ask. So "if it has less users, their thoughts on design are irrelevant" is ... not a good argument.
"Extremists" are those who compel, nay blackmail, their corps. to stop selling to agencies and people whose politics and world views differ from theirs. 100% of law enforcement isn't in the business of caging children. Please stop making straw-mans - your security is also the responsibility of the agencies who you demonize as "child cagers". These same individuals will protect and serve you, while you take away their ability to use technology to do their jobs
Is Accurately Repeating a Defamatory Allegation Itself Defamatory?
I would replace "consumer" with "poor student who isn't given a choice on what textbook they can buy", and why they don't care makes a lot more sense.

To me the greater issue is the highway robbery that is college textbooks. A lot of professors force the newest and don't care that a single one costs several hundred dollars, nevermind if the material is literally centuries old (e.g. calculus). If textbooks were a reasonable price, the counterfeit effect wouldn't hhappen.
You could connect to a TV, as well. Honestly, for actual IT/programming persons, such a set up is unlikely to be be exceptionally useful, but I could see using Ubuntu Linux on the phone in more modest ways. You could play a native Linux game (perhaps one you coded yourself), while using a Bluetooth controller. I'm kind of grasping for straws here, actually, but I'd say that the dex pad is pretty cool more broadly speaking. For example, you could use your phone's unlimited data to play back netflix or YouTube videos while connected to a TV. You could use the Samsung dex mode (which predates this Ubuntu mode by several years), while relying on only the touch screen to launch the playback of said video. For me this seems uniquely useful because my mobile carrier, T-mobile, limits tethering to several GBs (and bypassing it hasn't worked in the last few years) and it would be unwise to spend them quickly just to provide a data connection to the smart TV or another intermediary device.
Definitely not possible. The implementation becomes the interface.

Classic example from when iOS/macOS had manual reference counting: fixing an over-retain bug in the framework causes the app with an over-release bug to crash.

Even more extreme example: https://twitter.com/gparker/status/1050903609142009856?s=20
Coffee can protect the brain, and it has to do with the kind of roast you drink
I remember Expert Sex Change. Strangely, it didn't have the expertise I expected.
I guess with this revealed as being fake, the solution is: each "subforum" is really the copy of a different newsgroup, and each copy was covering a different time range.
And yet expensive cars sell. Additionally the margins can be higher if the selling price is higher (and the product more about emotion), so there is more budget to fit in a good battery.

This is the entire reason the Model S was built the way it was.
I don't know if I buy into the fact that that's the only reason why they're there. But I did have this happen to me. I only took one of a thing that could only be charged in pairs of 2. They weren't packaged that way, so I only took 1. The cashier didn't catch it, but the door person did.
I haven't worked much in IoT but I kinda assumed devices get private IPs on whatever LAN and phone home to traverse NAT.
Apparently it has no connection, even though they're both technologies for running things on Android.

Presumably someone in branding at Samsung thinks this makes sense. They might not even be wrong considering this is end user focused whereas .dex files are something only developers see.
3 - 4 years.
Perhaps, but I honestly buy the "catching errors" idea. They don't have to be perfect to catch enough mistakes to identify a bad cashier (scanning an item twice and missing an item are both bad).

I think checking at the door is not good enough to prevent theft, especially at busy times. It's just too easy to hide stuff or blame it on the cashier forgetting to scan it. There are more cashiers than checkers, so it seems the bottleneck would be the checkers if they tried to make it thorough enough to be effective.

So yeah, my guess is that the OP is correct, and that interpretation has always been my assumption.
The idea is to mark when you're leaving the store, so you need someone actually standing by the exit. If the cashier did it, it wouldn't really prevent the scam. You could still circle back into the store and skip the cashier on the second run.
And what data can you offer to prove that a majority of Amazonians support not serving law enforcement?
> We blame the user, but it's our fault for laying hidden traps. You can implement social media without tricking users, but we choose not to.

Aside from the fact that it's a minefield of dark patterns, how did social media get into this discussion?
>Now, the author is probably just bullshittng things out of his fingers, an assumption I make based on the lack of any evidence being provided.

Also based on the author talking about "doubling probability". What does that even mean?
Dude, it’s a loan.
Excellent write-up. Thanks.

Has any thought been given to whether this query planner could be adapted (much further down the road, I'd guess) to support dynamic replanning? (That is, altering the plan mid-query, if it should be found that the row-count estimates were way off.)
That's not true. It was just bespoke. The first general-purpose "forum" software was mid-90s per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum but initial one-off implementations grew out of the BBS scene that goes back to the 70s and 80s. They were pretty universally crappy, and just north of "guest book" comment lists, but they did exist.

That said, enough of the early stuff in here mentions newsgroup that it was at least seeded from Usenet. By 2000, though, Usenet was essentially dead for actual communication use so I'm guessing the later stuff in here was done within a forum.

Might not have been this forum, though. It's on phpBB, which only goes back to 2000, and more tellingly, the domain was registered in 2012.
> They expect that the smaller amount of lifting will increase satellite lifetime by 50% even after accounting for atmospheric drag.

I'm curious: why will this provide a longer life? Is it the lift burn itself that affects the lifetime (so reduced lift burn is better for the satellite)?
Ahhh... I think we were talking past each other a bit above, but your comment above is clear, and probabaly what everybody in the thread really meant...
You mentioned "good cultural fit". I have heard many hiring managers mention that they want somebody who is a good fit for the team. And it's very natural, I mean, everybody is going to have to work with this person, right?

This almost guarantees the perpetuation of inequality. We need to stop hiring for that kind of fit.

I'm certain that I have heard of research (by IBM maybe?) that determined that more diversity made teams more productive, but the people on the teams were less happy/comfortable.
Redo is one of the very few things that ever made me think it might replace make. This implementation is pretty awesome.
Nissan was producing and selling a mass market electric car eight years ago, when Tesla still only had the Roadster.
As a follow-up to my sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18410528: if your point is that the question should parallel the answer, note that the exchange could also go ”Who robs banks?” ”John Dillinger robs banks.” A question that can only be asked if you already know its answer (so as to decide whether the verb in the question should match a singular or plural noun) is not so useful!
Antitrust enforcement is a completely different type of regulation than most others because the number one problem with most regulations is that they harm small businesses and add fixed costs that promote business consolidation. By contrast, antitrust by its nature applies only to very large businesses and does not have that problem.
You joke, but there are android apps that will bruteforce the admin password on the current router you're connected to using the standard admin logins for each manufacturer.