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This is the classic chicken and egg problem with any multimedia encoding standards.

As someone who mostly uses video in the context of online systems, MP4 (H.264) is the closest we have to a universally supported format on the user's end and it has been for years. However, it's complicated, patent encumbered and very inefficient by modern standards. And even MP4 isn't 100% universally supported.

Once encoding and decoding at reasonable speeds is possible -- we're not there yet, but there has been a lot of progress already -- I see no reason that AV1 shouldn't render H.264 and similar legacy formats obsolete quite quickly. The new format doesn't need to be perfect at first, just good enough to use with mid-range to high-end devices. Then the openness and improved compression/quality will make it an attractive alternative, with legacy formats reduced to being just a fallback for less capable devices. One generation of devices later, almost everyone can play it. Two generations later, you probably have hardware support, but at that point it's more about efficiency things like reducing battery drain on the viewer's side and hardware costs on the encoding side, because the format itself has already won.
I won't deny that there are corruption and accountability problems among US police forces, but I also can't help but feel like many people, especially now, don't appreciate the fact that American police deal with people who are violent, disrespectful, and frequently mentally ill on a sometimes daily basis.

These are humans too and they're watching society (and especially media) totally dehumanize them. To some degree their anger is arguably justified.

I feel like it's impossible to get an accurate feel for how many people are protesting and what proportion of the population supports the protests. But I have a feeling it's a minority, maybe 10-30% of the population, in which case you cannot let a fraction of your population hold your entire city hostage, especially when opportunists are simultaneously looting and burning, though that seems to have calmed down recently.

Point being, if the protestors won't listen when asked to leave, and if they are disrupting the lives and livelihoods of 70-90% of the population, I don't see any option other than gradual escalation, which typically precedes gas and rubber bullets.

The police in a city in Canada went on strike in the late 1960s[1]. Things didn't go well. And we've already seen that American demographics are willing to burn and loot even with police present...so I don't mean to defend police but I really don't see anything good coming from police standing down or refusing to use force.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot

Edit: Downvotes are intended for discouraging low effort or otherwise poor comments, not to shame people for disagreeing. Whether you like it or not at least half the country supports police, they play an important role in society, and that makes this a discussion worth having.
So the keyword here is 'perception' - which is ultimately a game of populism, which dry realists may loathe a little bit.

There are some very good arguments for 'critical masses of sentiment' necessary to effectuate actual change, at the same time, populism is a war for 'hearts and minds' and the first casualty in every war is of course the Truth.

Personally, I'm far more interested in real nature of every day policing, which is a complex and nuanced subject, not likely suitable for the narrative-driven vignettes proposed to use every night on cable news.

I believe that 'narrative and populist driven change' is usually not the best way forward. We've seen this very poignantly with the rise of the 'doctors and bureaucrats' to the fore of public display during the Covid epidemic. It's been mostly heartwarming to hear from the dry, mundane, secular, academic mandarins managing our pandemic responses behind the scenes.

Dr. Bonnie Henry managing British Columbia's COVID response as a fairly good example; we're now getting actually charts and data to explain and validate the inherently complex nature of COVID, and the impetus for the resulting action.

On TV, the narrative-drivers and those trying to make big statements completely drown out a much-need opportunity for dispassionate discussion about this issue. I feel that people are being highly misled one way or another to the point that when real facts and hard evidence don't align with a narrative, they become anthemic to the presentation, and anyone proposing to discuss them becomes a heathen to the cause. A lot of people are spending a lot of time, decades even, in bubbles of 'very incomplete information'.

America has made huge strides in all sorts of areas, and in most ways 'it's better than it's ever been'. I wouldn't for a second give Trump (or any incumbent president) credit for this but as avg. Black income, wage-gap, and unemployment-gaps become historically low even during his tenure, this is saying a lot. If you look at the broad measures of ostensible progress, they don't really jump at points of social contention, really, it looks mostly good over broad units of time. Progress is mostly a steady grind, made by a lot of thoughtful people.

Particularly disturbing is the entrance of major brands, deciding to participate in the situation - though sometimes it's hard to see how earnest intention may be exploited ... it definitely is. Master marketers don't sell you products really on the basis of function, rather an aspiration - and if that aspiration has moved off the court onto the streets, you can be sure that someone hustling you shoes because of a deeply held political or social conviction ... it's a huge red flag.

It takes a real kind of mindfulness to 'see something bad in a video or tweet' as a data point, instead of an emblem. A quick gander through Pew polling, actual police stats, victimization reports, and decent research paints a totally different picture than one would form from reading headlines or drowning in Tweets.
If you're using desktop ubuntu, you're using snaps. Run `mount` to see which snaps ubunutu has mounted on your system.
Serious question. Why would I learn Sketchup when I can invest the same time in learning Blender [1] and get much higher ROI?

[1]: https://www.blender.org/
> If you just mainline your driver, you'll no longer need to worry about this costly maintenance burden

"Pro" move is to just skip the costly maintenance and keep the kernel same, for old times sake.
I have seen large amounts of intolerant people latch onto this philosophy always seeing it as a justifying their own intolerance. Never, ever do people see themselves as those who are so intolerant that they need to stop being tolerated for the greater good of society. So I've found this philosophy to be a bit self-mastrubatory way for the intolerant to fancy themselves as simply "bombing for peace".

I do find poppers actual philosophy to be interesting though. I'm just amazed how often the "paradox of tolerance" is used to justify gratuitous suppression and violence.
They also said he tripped until the video emerged.
I haven't noticed it personally, but I'm curious to know what dang thinks of this.
Not what Project Veritas has revealed.
Haha, that's a good point and rarely wrong.

No option to disable search autocomplete and whatever else they do that's yet to be discovered.

The only anti-feature they allow to be disabled is the shitcoin thing, but perhaps because it'd probably be federal crime not to.
In both absolute terms and by averages, the protestors have demonstrated better individual restraint than law enforcement.

Which is quite an indictment considering the protestors can be joined by, as you noted, and random opportunist or provocateur.
Not all phones have access to baseband controls, and I’ve never seen a “turn off 2G” option, but yes you can turn off 3/4G.

It’s easy to get a burner phone in some countries, but many you need a passport or government-issued ID to even get a prepaid SIM! Let alone a phone!

Governments really don’t like citizenry to be anonymous.
Clearly theres a bias against men, even if they’re not violent they’re perceived as more dangerous because they’re potentially stronger. Men are also more likely to be part of a gang, women, not so much. Now add the race to the mix and black and hispanic men are very high on their radar. We’ve been hearing of racial profiling complaints for a while, for at least 15-20, it is a true thing.
It is no longer his money after donating to the foundation.
He ceded control of the money in order to get certain tax benefits.
If you're in a position of appointed authority, then surely special rules must apply.

How about starting with 3x the sentence of a normal citizen for breaking the same rules?
> Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation?

That is really a separate issue. If there is no differentiation from its competitors, then it may not be used at all.

People aren't generally the customers of dual-licensed software; usually companies that ship proprietary software are the customers. The typical model for dual-licensing is to allow the code to be used in an open source project for free but charge for the code to be used in a proprietary project.
Me too. The success of blender really sold me on Open Source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings...
I’m afraid the two cops weren’t even fired, they had only been suspended pending investigation. So the rest of the force wasn’t protesting a result in favor of the protestors, they were protesting against even a review of the situation by their peers.
I agree that the lack of full support for add-ons is frustrating, but the alternative you end up going back to, Brave, doesn't (seem to) support add-ons at all. How is that better?
$3 hdmi splitters
Thought I should point out you receive BAT for viewing the notifications. Not for clicking on them.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026361072-Bra...
The majority of Americans feel protesters' anger is justified https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmout....

And by the way, the point of protests is not to leave when people ask you to.
Four (Still Relevant) Lessons from a 1923 Classic
> My top earning friends in BC work at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Juul and earn about $60-$120k CAD

Are your top earning friends L4 or equivalent? If not the comparison is worthless.

Those looks very much like junior level salaries. 90-100K$ CAD for a junior position at one of the FANG in Canada is as low as you can go.
SS7 spoofing is not a hard thing to do. Who knows if you really are initiating to +14055551212 who you think they are. I guess using multiple techs in serial could obfuscate the initiation correctly (voice, IM, Social Media, etc)
This is where people get the "All" from.
It's further been reported that the officers that resigned did so not in solidarity but because the union refuses to legally back them [1]. With the caveat:

> “Some of them probably resigned because they support the officer,” said another officer with whom we spoke. “But, for many of us, that’s not true.”

[1]: https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-p...
Not trying to disagree with your point, but the company I work for built a design tool on top of blender that feeds custom designs to our automated mill. The customer gets a high quality 3d render to approve before materials are cut & packaged. It seems to work well. Maybe we are an edge case.
Look at the question case by case, instead of statistically. You can see that almost all are killed as a result of their own violent behavior towards police or others.
You might want to keep them around, because sometimes you want to ONLY charge a device, without allowing the possibility of a data connection.
I'm all in Firefox too, but Brave is not just a Chrome privacy thing.

Brave goes out of its way to make money by ripping off publishers.

As a publisher myself, I respect ad blockers. If they block ads, they aren't gonna click the ads in the first place, so it's their choice. I even respect DNT header and not put my pixel tracking for the users.

Brave, on the other hand, is doing these sneaky stuff to earn from my efforts. A site that has Alexa rank hovering 10,000 accumulated about $10 worth of BAT currency (their own shitcoin) in exchange of showing ads.
For me the font on your landing page doesn't load because of a CORS issue, thought i'd let you know!
Parallels with Opioid companies

Excessive use of social media may have a similar impact as using opioids...

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facebook-cocaine-opioids-how-ad...
Can you make it from raw silicon via CMP or MOSIS? It seems like a pricey hobby (probably you'll be out US$20k before you have a working chip) but not in the same league of costliness as antique cars or art collecting.
Looks like their plan for resolving the outrage is an opt-in setting.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269404443818119168
Ha! I also use it to test my network connection. If HN loads slowly I know it’s the network!
The point of AV1 is that it is royalty-free, not that it is open source, right? x265 for example is a open source implementation of HVEC among others.
> There’s been an unbelievable amount of violence perpetrated by police these last few weeks. You cannot stand by this argument if you’ve been watching the footage.

There’s no way you can say with a straight face that the police have committed more acts of violence and destruction than the rioters.
There's another video of a man who approaches a line of police at a protest, likely exchanging a few words but clearly unnarmed and walking very slowly. One police officer walks up to the man and pepper sprays him. As he turns to avoid it, a second police officer approaches, and fires what appears to be a tear gas canister at the man's head from point blank range.

Even not knowing what happened leading up to this, it's completely unacceptable behavior. The sheer number of videos just like this one make me ashamed that I ever gave the police the benefit of the doubt in the past.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jusalotofpain/status/126763842772...
This is a very good point.

To me, the cops quitting in solidarity is a far worse problem than the cops pushing the old man.

We need to grasp that in a national eruption of 1000's of interactions, some of them will be bad. There will be emotions, stupidity, even racism and true bad acting. I fully expect that even in a highly professional and well-trained police force ... that stupid will happen.

BUT - the cops quitting ... this is 1) not a decision made 'in the moment of passion in the blink of an eye' and 2) as you say, it arguably contradicts the very nature of their oath.

My cousin, a Marine, said to me that a common creed is 'Unit, Corps, God, Country'. I don't know if that's official, colloquial, or even widely true ... but ... I found it really deeply wrong to put 'unit and corps' above 'god and country'. But I never got the chance to discuss it with him.
The newspaper + money + printing costs system has done that for generations. If you want engaging information to stop being spread more than less-engaging information, then you're going to have to come up with a way to stop more engaging newspapers from printing more copies than less-engaging ones.
"Best practice Android development" is soon to phase out XML (for the most part) with Jetpack Compose. Working with two way data binding in XML seemed like a good idea, until you had to debug it.
Firefox is STILL largely funded by Google right?

I find it odd that one of Firefox's only features, over Chrome, is privacy, but they're funded by Google who is the anti-hero right now in the privacy space.

If Firefox's mission is successful they would lose all their funding.
That narrative doesn't fit the sheer number of videos showing a violent response to peaceful protest. It's an avalanche of evidence showing hostility, if not outright violence, towards peaceful, legal protests and journalists with press passes covering the situation. What’s shocking to me is the callous disregard the police have towards the very people they’ve sworn to protect right, even as the nation watches. When coupled with the fact that there is almost no accountability except in the most egregious cases that draws enough public outcry to make a politician uncomfortable.

This shit is seriously broken.
Some of that might just be sloppy development but I have a feeling that part of it's the SDK's fault. It's a weird mix of being too abstract to let you take tight control of performance but not abstract enough that I ever felt confident it was doing a reasonable job of taking care of that for me. Though maybe I'm wrong and that part's fine, I don't think I ever benchmarked power use (another thing: the tooling is about as mediocre as you'd expect for a proprietary platform like that)

I tell you what, though: having a declarative UI where "declarative" is "now draw text at coords [some coords]. Then draw a square of dimensions [dimensions] at coords [other coords]" is a fucking refreshing break from webdev. Even more so than regular mobile dev. There's simply no room on the devices for much screwing about. You've got your lifecycle methods and some calls that draw things. You can listen for button presses. That's about it as far as the UI goes.
> If you're going to make a claim like this, you should provide a link so that readers can make up their own minds.

fair enough: https://i.imgur.com/Iu7CLxN.png or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834895
Couldn't that comment apply to all social media. What is popular is what is deemed quality and other things like it get promoted.
Yeah so it seems you don't know how suggestion boxes work -
If I have more relevant links like some logged in binance page that I visited and type binance.us it will also not show binance.us at the top.
If you have problems with how suggestion boxes work though, why don't you just disable them - it's pretty easy, it's a toggle in the settings and it's not hidden or anything. U can disable it and the list still works but without suggestions.
If an individual wants to be violent and doesn't care much about the repercussions, there are many avenues to be violent that don't involve waiting for a protest. If an individual wants to be violent and avoid repercussions, there aren't many opportunities besides joining the police.
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They didn't say there is one global unique absolute moral principle that anyone can hold. They're saying you can only hold one, because necessarily everything else must be compromised in favor of it.
Same here. The manual was an incredibly readable on-ramp from total basics (hah) all the way through to the FX & OSBYTE & 6502 references at the end. (And I was distraught when my ringbinding started to unravel on the Advanced User Guide)
Ok, I understand the value of writing, but it feels uncomfortable to me that a company creates a "Tone of Voice guide" for its employees.

I am not saying that is necessarily wrong (maybe it is), nor that is not useful, but it just seems like another small step in removing the individuality of the people working there. It doesn't feel right to me.

The writing advice that I follow and that I like to give is that your writing style should reflect your personality. Your individuality should be with you on some level even if you are representing your company in a meeting with a client, or to the press, or internally. Writing style should be unique to you, not to your company. An exception should be someone whose job is to be the spokesperson or a lawyer creating a document that declares the position of the company. But that's a very different use case from the one declared at this guide.

The way it says "How we write", "Our voice is who we are", "We are clear/honest/transparent", "We are empowering"; it looks uncannily familiar to the Borg.

eidt: Another thing. When they say "Swap formal words for normal ones. There's a whole lexicon of British "business-speak" that one can use to sound professional, but also needlessly distant. We try to avoid that:

It reminds of another cultural change where the principles remained just the same, like:
"Remember when everybody on business had to wear a suit and people would make fun of anyone who showed to work on a plain t-shirt? We are not like that. Here we make fun of people who want to wear a suit".
Police being unable to do their job in the face of a mob doesn't justify police violence against mobs, it justifies a reform of the law enforcement system sufficient to satisfy society and restore order. The alternative is to suppress civil liberties, which will violate the Constitution. We have had many peaceful days in the past; they can return.

Police are, in fact, given far too many duties. They deal with traffic violations, drunkenness, domestic violence, homelessness, property crimes, public emergencies, and many more things. Most of their time is spent on systemic problems in society that they cannot usefully intervene in, but only obscure with fines, arrests, and talking-to. These are tasks that call for more specialization, and therefore a more stratified set of enforcement tools than the average cop gets.

The system makes the cops bad. We spend a lot on them; several U.S. cities spend more on their police than entire countries do on their military. Spending hasn't changed the outcomes. This is why the term "police abolishment" has come into parlance; a full reform of enforcement requires a larger set of concepts than "police".
"minim"
mitxela is one of the hidden gems of the internet. Another great project by him — there are so many! — are these earrings with an embedded ATtiny9. Really inspired me to get into hardware hacking.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzbg-BqIdJI
Writeup: https://mitxela.com/projects/charliestar
If you found a robot trying to climb inside you, wouldn’t you kill it?
I can almost instantly load a hn page, but you go somewhere else similar like reddit? 8 10 seconds of rendering.
I recently switched all my systems to another desktop environment because an app I needed to run was buggy under gnome and gnome developers in their infinite wisdom decided to remove the setting needed to fix it. Mind you, the setting had existed in gnome shell for years.

What gnome devs seemingly fail to realize is that gnome is only a means to an end (i.e. to run software). People /will/ switch to alternatives the moment that it fails to do it's job. The exact same thing applies to ubuntu.
Does this guy own the rights to these images?
Not only that, they should hold themselves to a higher standard, they have training for this type of situations and am sure exerting violence is not a point on a slide. In addition they are theoretically being paid by the protesters as well. There is a problem with the police culture in general that the op you’re respinding to seems to be blind to. There is weird tendency to militarize the police which I hope will start changing soon

How many cops does it take to realize that their bullying would eventually backfire? How many judges doesn it take to realize that killer cops getting scott free is going to eventually backfire badly? I hope that they learn their lesson this time and hope it’s going to sting badly
No because it's part of your rights as an individual.

Gaming Reddit's upvote system is however directly prohibited by the ToS:

> [...] the following behaviors are prohibited on Reddit:

* Asking for votes or engaging in vote manipulation [...]
Other than the performance, I think Mozilla changed their focus to browser based mobile operating systems and starved Firefox from developer talent.
I memorize the commands/functions/capabilities of the language/libraries - When I face a problem I need to recall what I can utilize to solve the problem. Which functions will I need or which libraries could get the job done.

Memorize solutions that you make or read about, like methods to optimise databases and their queries. The better you write your code the more it will become your reference.