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Both Colorado and California had significant commercial medical cannabis industries for years and years before going recreational. Why is that not often brought up in reporting? It’s already been close enough to recreational in California for years - anyone who wanted to smoke could get a card for 100 bucks and start shopping at dispensaries, or grow their own. I wouldn’t expect any major changes from recreational in a state has had loose medical for years, but for some reason the media does.
Except... Haiku is POSIX? The POSIX compatibility isn't just some compatibility layer, it goes all the way into the kernel. We use the fork-based process model, POSIX filemodes, etc.
The interesting part of this article was that Epic intentionally circumvented Google Play Store and required Android users to download the launcher from its own website.
Hopefully this leads to more app developers skipping Google Play and launching solo. Of course most apps won't have the name recognition of Fortnite, but I can't imagine discover-ability inside of the Play Store is any better.

I got a new phone recently and had to re-download some apps; Imagine my shock when I opened Google Play and saw that it had become like Google search; crawling with ads for some of the worst, lowest-rung "apps", all of which appear to be some variant of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans. Who honestly wants to fork over 30% to Google for that?
Hi unfortunately not :( . I wholeheartedly recommend https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ as a starting point though if your interested.
The example of the judge is an instructive one, although a little extreme. Due to the immense power vested in judges, even the tiniest perception of bias must be avoided.

For instance, we might find it a bit troubling if the judge in a case is golfing with one of the lawyers on the weekend while the trial is ongoing, even if no gift or consideration is involved. Judges must also take care not to comment publicly on politics and thereby threaten their independence from the executive and legislative branches of government.

In contrast, in the Winnipeg city council example the gift is from the mayor to council members - all of them. They are all elected officials, including the gift-giver, and they work together on a daily basis. In fact, they might in the normal course of their jobs declare open allegiance or opposition to the positions of another member. Unlike a judge, who is sworn to impartiality and must exercise her judgement solely based on the facts before her, politicians are elected by the public based on their express declaration of partiality to a particular set of viewpoints. If we learned that the Mayor golfs with certain city council members who are known to oppose his policies, we might commend him for reaching across the aisle and fostering dialogue.

So while elected officials must be free from bribery, I don't think it's appropriate to apply the same standard with respect to token gifts that we would apply to a judge who acts as a finder of fact within an adversarial system.
To be fair, most of this work, as is the case for any popular operating system, is mostly drivers. It’s entirely possible to write a succsssful operating system for a narrowly defined platform.
Average price is $3.27/gallon in December.

Source: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/RetailMil...
Those are merely wishes, not rational expectations based on a realistic engineering schedule.
Note that OP was referring to a 2015 MBP, before they seriously thinned the laptop.
There'd be no legal basis for that. Federal drug law trumps state ones if there's a conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
Awesome idea and writeups. Something I didn’t see mentioned as a consideration was an in-ground installation... not that I know it would benefit, and I know it’d be a whole heap of extra logistics. But root cellars and pit refrigeration were things before the appliance was invented.

TIL about the Yakhchāl (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchāl) which I found searching for an example of a pit style. Also that 7-Eleven sprang from an icehouse company in Texas (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)).
That wasn't the claim or my point. The question was whether there's a reason to send the gift, not whether there might be an undesired side effect.
Excellent resource. I’ve actually been fortunate enough to work for an Erlang company, although it passed away last year.
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I see comments like this a lot about Perl and PHP as if they are trying to justify why they shouldn't have fallen out of favor. Both languages had plenty of good things, but rehashing them in this way doesn't do anything because the good things are not the reason they fell out of favor.
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See other comments in this thread about where that question gets you. My experience has not been any different. IE, the answer ranges from "I can't tell you until the procedure is done", to exorbitant quotes. Of course I don't like those answers, who does?
this really resonated:

>Imagine the concrete goal and the rewards. Let it pull you towards it. Don't think about the long way till the goal, think about the way you've already behind yourself.
less technical explanation with background:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/guardzilla-security-camera...
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You could....just most jurisdictions did not bother.
> The fun part will be extending it to track and apply to foreigners, even outside of China.

> It's a very small thing to make people second-guess a critical blog post or Reddit comment about China in case they ever want to visit or do business with a company that has any Chinese presence.

That would be difficult to extend to activity in non-cooperative regimes. China has been working to de-anonymize internet access by making phone numbers traceable to national ID numbers, network connections/IP addresses traceable to phone numbers [1], and forum posts traceable to IP addresses.

I think it's unlikely that they'd be able to automatically trace a pseudonymous post on reddit made by an American in the US to a particular US passport number to factor reddit posts into a social credit score at a large scale.

However, they might be able to do it for public posts on a real-name policy site like Facebook. With facial recognition and a real name, they could probably reliably match an account to a passport to sanction posts they dislike. They'd probably be fine with any false positives due to fake accounts, etc.

[1] e.g. to connect to airport wifi, the landing page asks for your (local) cell number, and texts you a code for access.
To generalize the idea: as long as anyone can create a new account, then the value of a new account is zero. The value of the lost account is the value of the differences between it and a new account. The recovery cost should be directly proportional to the value of the account. Aliexpress turns this formula on its head, starting the recovery operation by taking a high-value account and turning it into a low-value one, then presumably using a correspondingly low-cost recovery method.

There is an issue of not needing credentials to delete payment data as a kind of DOS attack.

Your idea is smart as well: it turns the high-value component of the account into a credential of its own.
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We did the bakeoff and AWS Cognito is the by far the cheapest. It's not as well documented but supports Open Id Connect just like all the other 3rd party auth solutions. The downside is that Cognito does not support a Resource Owner Password Flow (not recommended anyhow. see RFC6749).
"Fake news," cries the person with some skin in the game he desperately wants others to also play.
In its time jazz was full of harmonic and rhythmic innovations. People played chords and melodies "wrong" and it felt dangerous and exciting. Jazz was always about pushing boundaries, but once you got to free jazz in the 1960s there was nowhere left to go, and the only thing left was to turn it into classical music.

All that energy is has been in hip hop for decades now. Oh yeah, and people want to dance too.
I freeze quarts and half gallons. They preserve seemingly indefinitely when frozen and the jugs hold up fine. Give it ample time to thaw before you use the milk, and it'll be normal. In a single person household without much home food prep this prevents a lot of waste without excessive trips to the store.
As an aside, the stuff that comes from a partially thawed jug is interesting. It seems concentrated, as if the full water content is the last part to return to the liquid.
Yep. Totally fair. I edited my comment to say “strictly POSIX.” Is that a fair characterization?
The way you say "useful" brings to mind Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride: "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Are there any practical / commonly used programming languages in which you can prove thread safety with that approach for significant programs? You mention it can be undecidable even with constraints like the actor model (Erlang). Maybe you just mean edge cases not encountered in real systems, but I'm guessing it's not practical. Why do you say it's useful?

I see accidental data races a lot more than any other kind of race condition; I'd guesstimate that avoiding them gets you 90+% of the way to thread safety. Yes, you can release and reacquire the mutex in inappropriate spots (i.e., ones during which invariants are broken), but in a typical program there are a lot fewer mutexes acquisitions/releases than data accesses in general, so it's a lot more practical to audit for this. I feel a lot better with a program that has no data races than one which has no guarantees at all (most languages).

Likewise, deadlocks are also a concern, but I'd say there are relatively few spots in your code where you have to be concerned about them. (For starters, they only occur with multiple contended resources (usually mutexes), whereas data race problems can and do happen with zero or one mutexes all the time) And the behavior when they happen is more consistent and far less subtle. The latter is similar reasoning to how people say that a panic is less worrisome than undefined behavior.
It's an absolutely terrifying idea with little benefits and some of the scariest drawbacks imaginable.

You decrease crime rate by improving quality of life, by providing good education and healthcare to all citizens. You don't do it by building a surveillance state that reward citizens for supporting the authoritarian government's views (e.g. by spreading the propaganda like you're doing now), while punishing citizens who engage in behaviour that the government doesn't like (e.g. talking about the tiananmen square massacre, concentration camps, organ harvesting, etc.).
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>> Nowadays you can always hire someone or easily outsource the first version to some company in India or elsewhere.

True.

And the process of gathering requirements, managing a software engineer, verifying quality all while working nights and having a full-time job - is somewhat similar to the entrepreneurial life.

So it can be a good test.
"It's ironic that for so many Americans the idea that people should be allowed to make their own choices would be such a tough sell..." Good point, if you are not allowed to put something into your own body do you really have freedom?
This is probably the proof that I spent way too much time on IRC over the years.
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On what grounds? It was already conclusively decided in Gonzales vs Raich.
> What is your strong opinion on believing that people should have no responsibility for the obesity, when we know it is caused mostly by over-eating?

We don't know that obesity is caused mostly by over-eating.

Many basic questions about diet are unsolved, including the reason(s) that some people gain weight while others don't and the reasons that the vast majority of people can't lose weight. We just do not know to what extent do genetics, gut flora, lifestyle, and diet affect weight. We also don't know what makes for a "good" diet, or whether the same diet is good for everyone.

This is not obscure knowledge. Literally if you google "what causes obesity?" you'll get pages like this: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/healthy-li...

> How many experts did you consult with to form your opinion?

I spend a lot of social time around doctors, and I read a fair amount of medical literature (for someone who isn't in the medical sciences, anyway).

I am not claiming to be an expert, but I am claiming to be somewhat informed, yes.

I am also claiming, more strongly, that before we as a society punish someone for causing something we'd better be pretty damn sure that the person actually did cause the thing, with mens rea and so on. I am claiming that the scientific evidence is not there for obesity.
What does "strictly POSIX" mean, and how does Haiku not meet it?

If there are POSIX APIs we don't implement, it's simply because we haven't gotten around to implementing it / nothing needed it so we didn't bother, not because we are explicitly avoiding said APIs.
> No do overs.

Wasn't the DAO rolled back?
>I think it is commendable that Epic used some of this profit to change their Unreal Engine Marketplace rates in favour of the developers

Now if only they made the marketplace actually available to developers. There is literally no way for me to buy assets from my Linux workstation. They disabled the ability to buy from their webpage to push people through their launcher, but they refuse to release it on Linux for some reason. I guess they don't mind the missed sales? It's pretty much the reason why I ditched it for Unity.
JWT's are NOT encrypted by default. They are cryptographically signed. That is totally different.

If you get somebody's JWT, you can get everything stored in the token as well.

If you want it to be encrypted, you have to encrypt the token (presumably following JWE).
>>...there is essentially none in Zimbabwe right now

> I recently spent 6 weeks driving around virtually the whole country

I think you should have made it clearer that your initial statement was hyperbole, because if taken literally, how were you driving for 6 weeks?
Reminded me of https://ncase.me/trust/
The point of OS research projects is definitely not creating Windows competitors
I’m not even kidding, this is how I still make websites:
I open a text editor, and stub this out (by hand, it only takes like 30 seconds — I’ll even do it as I write this post to be authentic — except stinkin’ tab doesn’t work here):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>I code stuff with my bare hands</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
Hi there
</body>
</html>

Then I open a new tab and make a CSS file; something like this:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box; }
body {
font-size: 18px;
color: #333;
}
p {
line-height: 1.4em;
}

Same here. The main advantages are brevity, speed, and debuggability.

Having tried CSS frameworks like Bootstrap on the one hand and vanilla HTML/CSS on the other, I really don't see the attraction of frameworks.

It's not hard to quickly build something that works decently without prefabricated components. In the later phases of a project, I find it much easier to maintain a code base free of third party material.
You are just nit picking. He is talking about the closing circle game mechanics. Yes simple but yet genius.
She's not your regular jazz artist. Even so, she's more like a mix of trip hop, tropicália, funk and blues. Unique blend, but hardly new avenues.
Minecraft. Pokemon Go. These things come and go. There is always some new fad.
Well, Haiku reuses FreeBSD's ethernet/WiFi drivers, and we will probably wind up reusing DragonFlyBSD's DRM drivers. Most of our time in kernel development is actually spent on the kernel, not in driver development.
To shine a different light here in these comments, I think the recent resurgence of jazz is interesting and very special. A lot of different forces combined to make this happen, the most obvious being the trend of popular music towards hip hop and people discovering their roots. But I think the resurrection of vinyl had a large role to play here as well. Vinyl has blown up in the past few years and many young people are quickly realizing that some of the best recorded/mastered LPs were classic Jazz and Soul albums from the past century. This is a gateway drug into modern Jazz and also blends nicely with music nerds interested in obscure samples from their favorite modern artists. Also, I dont see the point in being pedantic about genre labels, but hey, its hacker news.
PHPStorm is what I use and hear a lot of. After Zend Studio switched over to Eclipse, I moved to Sublime Text, then PHPStorm/JetBrains

I haven't heard of people using Netbeans for PHP in ages. I don't know if PHPStorm still has their Early Access program, but it basically gave you a free 30 day build of their beta version. Within 30 days there was a new build and the ticker started over again.
>You haven't heard "love is a crying game" by Amy Whitehouse then - I though it was a lost Billy Holiday side when I first heard it.

Doesn't that makes the parent's point even more?
> Europe the lowest level to adopt a law is the state

This does not really makes any sense. Scotland has a parliament, in Italy some regions have special local powers, and I believe many other countries have various kinds of exceptions.
Sure there are no guarantees. Even leaders who understand the innovator's dilemma eventually miss a disruptive shift in the market and lose their dominant position. That's why I'm not too concerned about the current dominance of large tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In 50 years MBA students will probably be reading case studies about how they screwed up and were acquired for pennies on the dollar by competitors who don't even exist today.
I would argue that that average is probably an extreme outlier. For one, a 6 group synesso hydra is an absolute beast of an espresso machine. I'm a "coffee snob", and I can't think of any of the best espresso shops in my city that have a machine near this big or high-end. For comparison, a 2 group hydra retails for $18k. My guess is only the busiest, highest-end shops could support a machine that big.
It's strange to me that the social credit system in China seems to rarely be discussed alongside credit scores in the United States, an already existing, massively opaque, punitive system that keeps people in cycles of debt and poverty.
This is free market at it's best - a company taking a concept, building a better product and offering it to the customers. It's like Sony building a better portable cassette player, Samsung building a better TV, Apple offering better headphones and Valve Software building a better first person shooter.

Trying to block or interfere with this, like IP laws tend to do these days, will cause stagnation and break the main reason why free market has proven to be the most people-serving economic system.
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As mentioned in the article, 30% of our customers have been switched to the new JMAP-based interface. We’ll resume migrating the rest in the new year.

For clarity, we’ve only had beta users (other than ourselves) on the JMAP-based interface for a few months. The previous interface (which has been in use since the start of 2012) was built on the precursor to JMAP, which works in a broadly similar fashion.
>How do you do mixed mode debugging of Java / C++ code

You don't, and it doesn't matter much, since that's a niche concern.

The others, sure.
All my pictures from my phone automatically go to Dropbox. I manually move pictures off my camera and put them in a folder that also gets sync on Dropbox.

Then everything on Dropbox is also on a physical drive.

As an extra redundancy, all of that is on backblaze.
But they're a new genre, a new "sound". It doesn't need to be completely unique to be a new or novel experience. Jazz was derivative of earlier genres, and those genres deriative of those before.
BTW this podcast episode is literally talking about exactly the question that you were asking, namely, to what extent can people have responsibility for actions?

Might be worth your time at 2x speed. Or not, I dunno.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, but would love some feedback.
We know that people with an opioid addiction need a medically assisted treatment programme for any real chance of sucess.

The evidence base for 12 step programmes isn't great.

Unfortunately the US has a load of wilderness-retreat style camps using some half-assed version of a 12 step program. They're very good at getting people's money and attention, but pretty poor at sucessful treatment.

Beth Macey has a good book about the Opioid Crisis and some of it is alarming.

https://www.amazon.com/Dopesick-Dealers-Doctors-Company-Addi...
Thanks. I think you are a correct exception to what I said. I should have known that using words like "nobody" would not go over well on HN (but tedious to type "a very large percentage"), despite that statement being a verbatim quote from one of the world's leading ML engineers and, to me, not controversial.

I do consider the cloud both widely available and near infinite in resource adding capability.

If it is really not economically feasible to add resources, then the performance gains were not as promising as thought (whether cloud or on-site).
I use PHPStorm these days. It's quite good. Long ago I was a Netbeans user, but at some point I switched over and never really looked back.
I flagged your comment, not only because it is utterly irrelevant (which would just earn you a downvote), but because it is a lame attempt to start yet another language war. Please try to post better in the future, thanks.
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No, but my whole point is that at some price they stop paying altogether, and then your coffee shop goes out of business, and nobody gets that higher wage. Saying "there is no shortage, employers just need to pay more" does mischaracterize the issue by making it sound like these employers have unlimited pricing power.
If theory of mind is the issue, some pigs display some attributes that could be interpeted as theory of mind.

In any case, your argument fell apart because there is no metric you can pick to justify what we do to animals other than: it is wrong but it is the least of evils right now (from a legal standpoint), which is different to "humans are more important than pigs".

Your argument is a slippery slope that leads to very dark places: can the rich experiment on the poor?, can we experiment on the disabled or mentally ill?... if being "important" justifies abuse, we would live in a world of abuse.

That is important because when simulations can solve the problem, we could outlaw experimentation in-vivo.
PUBG is a technical mess (but getting better). However, it's a marvel of game design, especially if you've spent more than a few hundred hours playing. The design of the new map (Vikendi) is insanely good (save for a few issues with loot spawning) — in size, topography, speed, etc.

They've been able to capture the realistic military style sim, but without the massive player overhead required to learn and be good at those games. The gun mechanics are some of, if not the best I've ever played.
What if my model is really good and maps to the angle between two vectors almost perfectly?
This is considering realistic scheduling. If following marketing roadmaps these items would have either already been done or will be done in 2019.
Decentralized isn’t a binary. The courts can’t edit the blockchain but a federation of private keys can. It still allows an alternative to transferring money without Visa or PayPal.