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To your point about a few bad cops, the "bad apples" theory is just a way for institutional leaders to throw blame away from their own leadership, by isolating the blame to a few low-level individuals. We have to get away from the "bad apples" theory and start thinking about "bad barrels" that spoil the apples within.

We know how a riot can be a bad barrel that leads the people involved to do bad things. But a riot is not a day-to-day occurrence with its own persistent culture.

On the other hand, a police department does have a persistent culture, and we don't exactly understand how or why some police departments engender more brutality than others.

"The Lucifer Effect" is a very interesting book on the institutional dynamics that lead otherwise normal people to do horrific things. It is written by Philip Zimbardo, of Stanford Prison Experiment fame. He is a proponent of the "bad barrel" theory.
The whole point of the article is the Wikipedia's revision history is public, on a per-article basis. It is concerning when entire articles are deleted, however.
If Apple had two versions of their laptops, one with the touch bar and one without, I feel pretty confident that the version with the standard F-keys would outsell the touch bar.

I mentioned this before, but the real proof that the touch bar isn't for professionals is that you can't buy an Apple keyboard with the touch bar. Local labor laws require that I have a "external" keyboard when working at my desk, so the touch bar is pretty worthless, unless it was available on the standard alone keyboards as well, and it's not.

Personally I prefer the old keyboard because I find it easier to change volume and brightness using a key and not a slider, but that's personal preference.
Sure is. I doubt there s anyone who got depressed because their reddit karma was low. Posting an instagram selfie, however, and getting no likes -- that's tough.

"Social media" is a misnomer, in reality it's skinner boxes for humans
>it's impossible to get a terminal screen without anti-aliasing. My favorite font, IBM VGA8, is unreadable when anti aliased

You could try scaling your favourite bitmap font 2-3x up - I did this with mine when switching to a 4k laptop. Unless this means that terminals no longer support bitmap fonts at all.
Not a laptop but I just wanted to add that the latest Mac Mini does a decent job. Also, not being a laptop forces me to avoid work while sitting in a cafe or when going out on a short trip. I mostly do backend work with some front-end work mixed in lately, but no graphical-intensive stuff.
Many more people are using the camera on their computers now for videoconferencing. Of course the decision was made long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, but it turned out to be a bad one.
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I must disagree with you.
I have been installing Linux for people who barely know how to use a mouse and the experience was always successful.
Of course, I choose a distro with simple UI and software with GUI every time.
I don't want to get into the typical "if my mom gets it everyone can" (also because she is a power user) but trust me, the people I installed it for had the same problems they would have had with any OS (some quite funny).
I hear you, trackpads have kept me in Mac camp for awhile. I loathe the glass ones Apple switched to though.
I bought the 13 inch with emjoi bar when it came out.
Returned it.
Recently bought the 16inch when it came out. Like the new keyboard but ended up returning it as it got insanely loud when plugging in external display.

Hard to beat my 2013 mbp retina I guess I’ll stay with it for now.
We need remote work, more home delivery options (e-truck/vehicles), greater incentive for electric bikes, and better/more public transportation.

100% agreed. Unfortunately improving transportation and mobility is pretty much orthogonal to profiting off the ai/ml hype cycle.
Another appreciation for BetterTouchTool. That app change the way you use macOS and open up some new way of interaction you didn't think it's possible, all in a well- designed app.

Also it made the touchbar usefulness rating goes from "yeah, that's...okay?" to "I LOVE IT!" instantly. Apple seems didn't really care about the touchbar much, which is a pity.
Just got my first MBP.

Found problems with USB devices on day 1 with USB 2.0 devices intermittently freezing.

Documented https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/gp5b1z/usb_20_issues_o... , and there is a workaround... do not use any hub that shows a USB 2.0 device to the Mac, find and use a USB-C hub that presents everything as USB 3.0 to the Mac even if it's USB 2.0

I believe that this is a Catalina software bug, and now I have a workaround I am happy. Sucks for those who can't figure out the debugging though.
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And Gil Shaham on Bach (70-second video): https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=n6d6JEZCObg
There's nothing I hate more than text config files
I feel like I told him he had a "Chaplin-like moustache" and then your comment paraphrased my comment as "Hitler-like moustache." They may be similar moustaches, but the latter would neither be what I actually wrote, nor meant.
Being "creeped out" is mostly a function of instinct. It's something you feel in your gut (or wherever instinct lives for you). This means that if you do not have it, it's hard to explain.

The questions you are asking sort of miss the point, there's plenty of ways people can explain their instinct but at the end of the day it's not really a conscious process. If you don't have the same instincts as some people have, I suppose it would be natural to end up with the questions you do. What's important to remember is that they don't have the answers either.

If you really want an explanation that may or may not be true, in my personal experience I can tell that things are simulated or inauthentic unless (as you say) they're being simulated by an extremely competent actor (in the sense that they are acting). Even with people who act very competently, there are always (at least, I've never met an exception) small indicators over time that feel a little wrong. You can't act 24/7, so the longer people interact with you (if you are acting) the more likely it is they'll see you slip up.

This isn't really a problem, as the experience of getting to know someone naturally tends to lead to you seeing them in an entirely different light. The trick is figuring out when to show some authentic drive of yourself and when to present a socially desirable composite. That trick is something you learn by making a lot of mistakes (or if there's some rule to it, I have no idea what it is). If you don't consciously stop acting at some point and people see through it on their own, then it becomes creepy. The ideal is to head that off and figure out together if you are compatible personality types.
One datapoint of a power user using this method https://braindump.jethro.dev/
I don’t mean to belittle any issues you have, but

> I cannot press the correct button without looking

does this seem like a really really minor problem to anyone else? I can’t imagine using function keys often enough that this would actually become annoying.
One think to note is that if you use cryogenic proplants for your lander or lunar tug, you might face issues with fuel and oxidizer boiling off over time (unless you go for very good isolation or use active cooling, both rather heavy), reducing your time window to have everything launched & used.

You can opt for hypergolic propellants that won't boil off, but you sacrifice performance and make ground handling more expensive and dangerous due to these being highly toxic.
I go between last years Pro for work and this years Air for all things personal and I loathe the Pro. This years keyboard on the Air is by far the best typing experience I’ve ever had on a laptop. I have no idea why they are leaning so hard into the Touchbar, it is the most frustrating “innovation”. I frequently accidentally perform actions and need to break flow to look at it to do actions as simple as changing the volume.
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That would be interesting, considering the feeble drone would have to fly against the massive rotor downwash/draft to get near them. Could also be they have some sort of wire mesh against foreign object intake installed...
My employer provided workstation ( which presumably uses Pro) is still always spamming me about Teams and OneDrive.
> how do I send it for repair safely (as in my data be safe)?

You have backups, right?

(That is, unfortunately, the legit answer to this question.)
Couldn't disagree more. There are all kinds of people everywhere and there is a term to judge people by nationality/race . I wont tell who is great or not, but if you have a cultural bias dont judge.
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We're a mature microinsurance SaaS startup, building software to help bridge the gap between insurance companies and those who are not insured or under-insured. High traffic, mobile first + SMS and USSD platform that requires some interesting compliance and security requirements with deployments in countries with variable quality infrastructure.

Stack is Vue.js with mostly django in the back end although pyramid/sqlalchemy is being introduced. Plenty of third party api integration. Gitlab, unit tests, and continuous integration are standard.

Mature and international dev team with a few PhD's included.

Ideally we're looking for a mature developer who can also talk to clients - industry experience is of course welcome, but not nessecary at all.

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I do think the person above you is correct in that the author of the blog made a mistake. I've never seen arrow slits that are narrow inside the wall.

If I look at the old wall around my city's medieval centre we can clearly see they this:

From the outside: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.845463,5.6946097,3a,75y,330....

Inside: https://www.google.nl/maps/@50.8456076,5.6945364,3a,75y,165....
I stopped visiting wired.com years ago, when, instinctively, I could just sense the bloat by the spike in CPU, and lag in pageload, for what was ostensibly plain text, plus a serif font and one header image.

As if I wouldn't notice that casual reading material was causing my cooling fans to spin up.

As if I were multi-tasking so hard, that it couldn't be discernible which dog in the room could take the blame for who just farted.

The wired.com website first showed hints of becoming unusable when their audience participation widget provided by Disqus, for reader/user comments, became this opaque blob of compressed/minified JavaScript. Then they started piling on video. This was back around 2009 or 2010. By 2013, I had mostly washed my hands Conde Nast publications.

Whoops.
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>Everything is slow even though the specs are good

Have you tried running without antivirus? Some parts of Windosw are still slow eg the filesystem, but the main thing making everything slow is antivirus software IME, including Defender.
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This is an interesting story; however, much of it seems predicated on the idea that the police want things to be safer, which seems false. There seems like a open determination to make things worse - to be confrontational as possible and demonstrate their impunity. All the people making "you'd think they'd manage to not do police brutality at the rally about police brutality" jokes are missing the point - the overtness IS the message.
> This situation is very annoying, especially for a touch typist as my fingers are always on hjkl and my thumb on the spacebar. This makes my thumb knuckle constantly brush the trackpad and activate it.

I thought standard touch typing position was index fingers on the notches (f & j in US QWERTY). With that & some fairly large hands, the trackpad rests comfortably outside of my palm area? the trackpad seems pretty well-designed to just miss the palm in standard position.
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Thanks, I agree with almost all of this. I didn't mean to imply that Cryptopals is how you become a cryptographer, just that it's a fantastic way to get down and dirty with cryptography, and learn a ton.

These challenges are not easy, and you need some programming sophistication to get through them, since most of them require you to actually implement well-known primitives and algorithms (like Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSA, PRNGs, etc.)

And to do that correctly, you end up studying a _lot_ of side material.

You do come out of the other end learning about various classes of attacks, but not necessarily how to avoid them -- that depends entirely upon your intellectual curiosity. :-)
Out of interest, what's the status of Linux support for the touch bar these days?
There are now 5 C-17s between Andrews AFB (DC) and Fort Bragg
Coming from a 2013 Air, he probably should have picked up a 2017 Air, the latest "old-style" MacBook made by Apple.
But there are good tools also. I'm using wing IDE for years, it has excellent debugging: multi threaded debug, remote debug with SSH (which works almost as fast as local debugging), deep introspection to anything on the stack and call chain, conditional breakpoints, powerful debug console that can hook to any step in the call chain of any thread, and debugging a server thread easily which is useful for debugging services and scenarios that can't be fully replicated on a local machine.
> Both the police and the protesters has bad people in them and good people, you only need to look at the individual level.

A crucial difference is that the police is an actual entity/organization, and one that is entirely responsible for its members. The whole problem is that this organization is not properly keeping their 'bad apples' in check, and even actively shielding them from consequence.

On top of that, this organization is immensely powerful, has ridiculous weaponry (and some degree of training), and is legally allowed to do a lot of violent things that most other 'groups' or individuals are not.

I think it's absolutely fair to consider the police as a group (while acknowledging that it has 'good' members), and make more individual distinction concerning the protesters.

I also think it's not a coincidence that Trump and various others are pitching the "it's Antifa destroying our cities" or for that matter even the whole idea that Antifa is a properly organized entity. So much easier to justify the use of force against the whole lot of protesters!
I think negating low-hanging bridges is one of the scenarios OEMs specifically calibrate for with auto manufacturers. It's not rocket science it's a tuning/calibration processs for that specific vehicle's dimensions and layout.

Front radar calibration is not a new problem and is well understood in the auto industry.

These accidents really raises the question, assuming they do have a front radar, what is Tesla doing so differently that allows a competitor entry-level AEB system to outperform them?

To me it seems that NHTSA, TUV, etc. should ban Tesla's auto-pilot on public roads until they can show evidence of their safety.
Why didn't you get a 2017 Air? It sounds like that would have been exactly what you're looking for--a performance boost but with the old build quality.
I tried roam research and org roam only to find out that the overhead of managing notes quickly started preventing me from taking notes in the first place.

Why? Because now instead of just writing down a note I started thinking about what terms do I want to make links and maybe go through previous notes to do the same. Of course you don't have to do that but the whole promise of the system is that the more you connect the more value you get.

I've dealt with this problem a lot (for example it's the same with going through lot's of rss feeds to categorize articles for later reading) and it's always about book keeping taking more time than an actual action.

After that I started thinking what was the most important about note for me. Actually it wasn't connections it was about the sole fact of taking a note (it has a higher chance that I'll remember it) discovery and ability to take a not from any where. A laboratory journal of sorts.

In my particular case discovery is easily covered by git grep and since I use plain markdown files I can always edit it offline with vim or online via github/gitlab web ide. Since it's only one file I don't even need to think about file names. The structure of notes is pretty well defined so it shouldn't take too much to write a script that would generate a digest for some term.
One of the first SF books I read as a young teen (and so don't recall the title) was about the pilot of an asteroid-miner. I was already intrigued by astronomy, and that got me interested in space travel. I don't really care what the excuse is to go.

There's a lot of intense interest in that idea, and yet so far we've barely gotten off the ground. Furthermore, unless some things change, our time window for being able to do that is growing shorter. Without a re-focus, it may not happen for a thousand years. And that'd be a shame. Dreams and stories that don't fuel action are wasted.

Lots of old books talked about 'Conquering Space'. Looks like we need to conquer ourselves first.
I think I'm getting six with a Surface Pro X
Tiny difference, in continental Spain deploy is translated as "desplegar"
"Beyond reproach", a claim made by whom?
I can think of few skills that do more for your career than excellent writing.
So what? If you offered a reason for why this particular article was better, then your comment would have added value. Otherwise it seems like a poorly paid social media worker at the nytimes spamming here.
Yeah, I guess the experience differs...

I run Ubuntu on my work Dell Latitude (i3wm), Debian on my personal System 76 (Mate) and both work more or less flawlessly, although I do agree with the guy who said Battery is not great.

I also have a Desktop with Windows and Linux dual booting, and while I agree Windows is quite polished when it works, I also find a million little annoyances.
You can be the beneficiary of a system and still understand that there are specific positive externalities of that system's partial failure.

For example, a corrupt politician can understand why an anti-bribery campaign is beneficial for his country.

I think it's fair to say that destruction of private property turns the situation into an economic problem, which in turn is a political pressure point. Rich people have more influence over police departments and attorneys general than do poor people. But for such pressure to do any useful work, the message must be, "give us justice and the looting will end."

(That justice may come in the form of charges against specific police officers, or perhaps as a campaign of institutional reforms within the police apparatus.)
That's a very good point. A lander without an ascent module can't abort to space. Once you do your deorbit burn, you will land no matter what.

That's a good reason to have multiple supply/equipment depots on the surface before you even land the ascent vehicles. Walk up to the nearest one, then drive the rest of the way.

Also that's one good reason to have spare ascent craft (or supply depots) parked on low lunar orbit that could be directed to pick up any stranded astronauts.

A last option is a LESS-like lifeboat assembled from lander components. Surface to orbit on a convertible has some appeal.
There is mandatory military service for males, so you actually see a lot of guns being open-carried by people heading home for the weekend on public transport etc.
no, the conversion funnel is "people see ad -> people click on ad/notice book -> people buy book". Getting the advert in front of 100mm people to sell 10K copies seems reasonable.
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Yeah I get their reasoning. It seems to still go against their brand positioning to have such a glaring omission of quality though. I remember when they would spend money figuring out how to poke tiny holes into the side of their laptops so they could have almost invisible battery charge indicators (now gone). You're not really supposed to consider if the quality of a feature on a Mac is good enough for something, it just should be. Hopefully they will sort it out.
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>as in my data be safe

You should have disk encryption turned on. I would not worry unless you think there is someone who is willing to spend an enormous amount of time and effort to access your data.
the commands: script / scriptreplay are the ones you are looking for.

Now if you also would like to reproduce the video experience you coul use:
https://asciinema.org/

Wich records a your terminal session, looks like a video but is in fact text characters.
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I love my 2013 rMBP, it's still plenty fast enough but it really needs a new battery. As long as the board is fine I'll do whatever is needed to keep it going.
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Show HN: Full-text RSS feeds and feed creator
Hello

First post on HN, although I've been following the news for _years_ (via RSS feeds). I wanted to share with you a tool I've been working on for some time, a tool to turn "truncated" RSS feeds into full-article RSS feeds.

The tool can also quickly create RSS feeds from web pages.

It's open source (https://git.pictuga.com/pictuga/morss), you can self-host it or just use it at https://morss.it/

Hope you'll like it :)

PS. Yes, it works on HN RSS feed as well! (https://morss.it/https://news.ycombinator.com/rss)
PPS. Works so-so iPhone Safari. Works better on Firefox or Chrome.
And you dont need to be black to get suffocated by police
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> By the way, not including the extension cord is unacceptable. This cord is not only a convenience, but it increases safety, because it's the only way to have earth grounding for the laptop. Without it, rubbing your fingers on the surface of the computer generates this weird vibration due to static.

.... THAT'S WHAT THAT IS?

I have wondered for _years_ why my laptop sometimes feels that way. Another mystery solved!
It takes me some effort to focus on most things. I'm not going to invest the energy to decide if the assault on my senses adds some value.
Correction: -are is by far the most frequent suffix, -ere intermediate, and -ire therefore the least frequent.

Many terms we need daily seem to have no real native analogue; at least not one that wouldn’t sound as if you’re deliberately trying to engage in some form of Dadaist absurdity: file, record, monitor, mouse, record. Others have perfectly serviceable local alternatives: algoritmo, tastiera for keyboard, processore for processor, puntatore & cursore, memoria, archivio for storage (aside: by God does it annoy me when people who should know better speak of hard drives or SSDs having a certain amount of ‘memory’: it’s storage goddamnit!), sistema operativo, finestra for window...

It’s kind of a mixed bag.