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I want to remind people of Chris Dorner[1]. Chris Dorner was a black police officer that based on his manifesto, had witnessed many use of excessive force by his colleagues. When he reported them, he was fired in retaliation.

When the manhunt begun, the police started shooting at people that vaguely fit his description. The police shot 102 bullets at a mother and daughter delivering newspaper. People had to paint messages on the back of their truck so the police don't shoot at them.

Watching it at the time was unreal. The police and media portrayed him as a psycho, while the people whose car he stole had a different story.

In the last stand off, he was in a cabin and the police burned it to the ground. The police denies burning it down, but they did use tear gas and in the police recording, you can hear a man say "use the burners".

One year later, LAPD chief Charlie Beck, admitted that 8 LAPD officers had violated the use of force policy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...

Edit: as the comment pointed out, Dorner killed 4 people, including 2 officers and the daughter of a police captain. I did not omit this information, it is included in the very first paragraph of the wiki.
Hey let's probe the boundary conditions of the universe.
"and better local control over the code powering the whole thing"

I am finding it hard to think the city would have engineers releasing their own Kernel.
Fast and Furious was a DEA operation to allow gun dealers to sell weapons to straw purchasers in the U.S., knowing and hoping they'd go to Mexican cartels, allowing them to legally go after the cartels.

The Obama admin was responsible in "the buck stops here" sense, but this wasn't about admin policy.
IME, more bodies usually always equates to more bugs and slower release cycles.
The SEC and FTC have failed us. Even 2008 was largely fueled by M&A so banks could lever even harder.
Why is it so hard to make a living as an Indie Hacker / Creator
I think that is problem for the Democratic Party.

Most US urban areas, some with the most problems, are completely controlled or mostly controlled by progressives -- some for multiple decades.

Why is there so much fail in the urban cores? Either the progressive policies fail because they don't work. Or, the progressives are not really interested in improving the situation. Or, a combination of both.

Progressives hire the police chiefs, negotiate the police union contracts, set the certification/hiring/training standards for police, make many state and most local laws, and so on.

Yet, police in the urban cores remain a problem? Why is that?

Many people will reasonably come to a conclusion that the progressive Democrats do not really want to improve things, or they are too incompetent to do so.
Language (Technology) Is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP
Iirc, the initiative in Munich was very impressive, with public servants being taught how to file bug reports and whatnot. This is great news imo. Less spending on proprietary software, more accountability, possibly job openings for consultants. Good job Germany! I wish more countries would follow.
They don't want you asking questions like that. It goes against their narrative.
Why doesn't the US have the freedom to choose what commerce they want to engage in?

You have that freedom: if a company does something you don't like, you go to their competitor. You would (rightly) be outraged if the cops showed up and forced you to spend money at a company you hated.
> He just wasn't enough of an asshole to appeal to the US voter.

Based on his marketing tactics I'm inclined to disagree there. IMO he also lacked the charisma that Zuckerberg would struggle with.
Nitpick: the HotSpot 'client' JVM's default JIT threshold is 1500, not 1000.

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/vmoptions-js...
User agents usually do this. This Basic.css demo does show an outline for Chrome and Safari, but not Firefox... odd, because that does appear if I remove Basic.css stylesheet.
Why Apple’s Newest iPad Pro Packs a Powerful Punch
There is nothing inherent in "basic economics" that postulates that fulfilling or fun jobs pay less.

I also find the idea of "basic economics" laughable given how impossible economics is in the first place. I mean, yes, if you assume spherical cows...
Labor is not as simple as supply and demand; a huge portion of a worker's value is in their knowledge and ability to train other workers. When they strike, they are unavailable to train replacements.

Most of the people reading this are likely to be tech workers, so imagine what it would be like to try to join a company that was on strike[1]. How do you log in to your computer? Where's the bug tracker? What are the current goals? Where is the code stored? What part of this code base is actually relevant to what you're doing? What five year old architectural decision means that you can't just do this the obvious way? How do you deploy code? How do you roll back deployments? How do you find the metrics for what went wrong? Imagine trying to figure out the answers to any of these questions without senior engineers around, and in fact nobody around except other strikebreakers with the same questions. When I was at Google it was generally accepted that a new hire would take 3-6 months before the were productive, and that was with considerable help from the rest of the engineers.

Tech is a particularly severe instance of this, but all labor is more complex than it appears on the surface. As any roboticist will tell you, the real world is overwhelmingly detailed.

[1] Don't do this by the way, it's called being a scab, and it's against your own long-term interests. If a strike in your industry succeeds, it raises the average conditions of people in your industry.
I built https://tiiny.host. might find the useful. There's also Vercel & Netlify
Thank you for being one of the few people that recognize the real reason many people want to legalize drugs

So many times it is countered with "You just want to get high that is why you want to legalize drugs"...

No I dont want to have my home invaded at 3pm and be shot dead by a trigger happy gang member because the "informant" the police bullied in to snitching gave them a random address for their "dealer"

//true story that has happened more than once in the USA
Think about all the industries that profit from drug enforcement, incarcerating otherwise harmless citizens committing victimless "crimes". And where would hand-me-downs from the federal armed forces go!? Lots of cash cows...
Ask HN: You surf the web on 2070, stumble upon 2020 Hacker News what do you say?
"...Or to put it another way: cell phone cameras have gotten good enough that they will do 90% to 95% of everything that the average person would ever want out of a camera. ..."

I've been a photographer my entire life. I love the hobby. Over the last few years, I've been thinking a lot about this also. I have the latest Pixel. I also have a couple of DSLRs and a few lenses. Recently I bought the best point-and-shoot you can buy. From the reviews, I was promised great things about it.

Result? Meh.

The phones and mirrorless DLSRs are not bad cameras. Both have reached the point where I'd guess they'd do about 80% of what I would do, and that's pretty cool. It's especially handy if I'm in a hurry and just want to bang out a few shots to send or post somewhere.

The problem is that last 20%. My time is not free. Usually if I'm going out to shoot some, I want to shoot some. That is, I want full control over the light bucket, a great bucket, and I'm taking time to get shots that might turn out well when I get into post-processing. These higher-tech cameras take pretty cool shots all of the time, but they're just guessing as to what might make a good shot, and they have built-in limits. So if I'm taking an afternoon to shoot, I'm taking my DSLR.

Oddly, the newer mirrorless camera has been the most disappointing, probably because I had such high hopes. It's great tech, it's just not a professional part of a photography workflow. Once I stopped thinking I could take pro pictures with it, it got more fun. But now whenever I'm using it I wonder why I'm not just going with the cell phone.
The "uniform" thing is very true. I'm a software developer in the Pacific Northwest who loves to wear suits (they look damn good on me). I was told long ago that jeans and a hoodie are the de-facto uniform of my profession, and I needed to dress the part.

That got really hammered home when I showed up to a job interview in a button-down shirt and slacks and I was _far_ more dressed-up than the CEO. Getting bounced for not being a "culture fit" cleared up any lingering ambiguity.
Meanwhile in Munch...

"German city of Munich, famous for rejecting Windows in favour of using Linux on its PCs, will return to Windows after the move won the backing of the full council."

Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-e...
> Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.

No. No, no, no. A thousand times no.

The war on drugs is just an objective of the police. The objective isn't why brutality happens. Brutality happens because of a systemic problem - the complete lack of accountability. Drugs are just the impetus for some fraction of police-public interactions. They are not the reason for how those police-public interactions are carried out.

The police are completely out of control in my neighbourhood. There are walls of tear gas rolling down the streets, rolling into people's apartments, their living rooms and bedrooms. Nobody, not the city mayor, not the state government is willing to reign them in - which is why this is happening.

The war on drugs is a bad thing, but if you end it tomorrow, it won't solve a single one of these systemic issues.
You're thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

It started in 2006 under Bush and continued under Obama.
Your parent said decriminalise rather than legalise. It’s a strategy that Portugal has had a lot of success with.
Wow it's looking like you'd be broke pretty quick. At least at first.
Generally character evidence is avoided in most cases. Often, character evidence that is negative against an individual is excluded as unduly prejudicial. Trials determine legal facts and judge whether these facts constitute a crime or liability (depending on whether a criminal or civil case). What a person is like is not a legal fact. Even so far as "being the type of person who has been convicted of a crime in the past" is not a legal fact in a case of "did this person do this new thing?"

There are two common exceptions.

The first is establishing the bona fides of an expert witness - you want to establish the individual as an expert in the eyes of the court. Only an expert may opine (offer an opinion) regarding facts to which they were not a witness. Lay witnesses may only testify to facts which they have observed.

The second is with regard to truthfulness, as you have mentioned. If a witness's credibility can be called into question, then this can cast doubts on the veracity of their testimony. Having an established history of lying, or having perjured oneself in the past can be valid character evidence to cast doubt on testimony.
The way they tried to bully Tyler Shultz [1] was also fascinating. I was impressed by his ability to resist them. I think his parents mortgaged their home to aid in his legal defense.

He tried to warn his grandfather, a member of the board, that something was wrong at Theranos. His grandfather said "Tyler, they can't convince me that you're stupid, but they _can_ convince me that you're wrong." His grandson turned out to be right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Shultz#Theranos_scan...
Go with your gut! The worst case scenario is that you end up over engineering the idea or new technology ends up obsoleting the idea because it takes too long to develop/research. Everything I've read about unicorn ideas is that the timing and climate was perfect for the product/service--other factors weren't as important. In my opinion the best big ideas aren't apps, rather it's something you made to solve a hard problem or as PG says if you are "living in the future". Trying to make the concept into an app may relegate the idea itself.
> which should be caught and dealt with accordingly

Which is easy when you have an Either<L, R> construct for your returns or when you have checked Exceptions, which Java devs dislike.

So you get errors like this, because devs are often not aware or misremember all the failure modes of calls they make. Because they're only humans and they're using tools and practices that like to pretend everything that matters is the happy path.
Agreed, we need more specifics.

OpenStack might be the closest to what you are looking for but there are hundreds of different services, some of which alternatives exist and others do not.
Thanks for the idea! I'll forward it to my designer :)
This seems to be a kind of mixing of two concepts. First, that "a state that is big enough to give you anything, is big enough to take it all away". And second, that being provided resources "for free" is a forced exchange because you don't have a say.

If the state was a dictatorship, then the point might apply. However, democratic states (to lesser or greater degrees) contain some measure of feedback; and that weakens both of the prongs.

Plainly speaking, a democratic state provides its people bread for free because that's what the people want. The state can't take it all away since it is responsible to the people, and the exchange isn't a one-sided forced deal because the people in the state's jurisdiction have collective power on the state itself.

If that power is the power of the ballot, then the mutual exchange could be seen through an adversarial lens to be "good behavior in return for free bread". But the consequence doesn't hold, as the state doesn't have absolute power over its people. The exchange is mutual because if either party reneges, so does the other party.

But the stronger that feedback is, the less the adversarial model works. Consider a community small enough to support a direct democracy along consensus lines. If the tech existed, such a community could create an automated bakery and then hand all of that bread to its members. Here the members govern themselves; there is no external power that arises out of the state and then unilaterally controls the people.

A larger state may be different, but that difference is a matter of degree. "The one in power of that resource" only has "absolute power over you" if you are not part of it.
This is true, but doesn't have anything to do with quantum mechanics -- the third law of thermodynamics is basically a statement that you can't cool things to absolute zero.
It does more than record video. The use case I have for it is applying green screen to a camera feed, and then being able to pipe that video into an app that doesn't natively support green screens (ie Google Meet)
> Democrats [...] run as the slightly better Republicans. Obama [...] basically did nothing to improve the situation

That doesn't seem consistent with facts on the ground. I know what you're saying is that he wouldn't take firm policy stances, but neither did he gas protestors. The ability of the executive branch to control national discourse, find compromise and defuse division is important.

And we have one party that tries that, however flawed the results might be. And another the runs the government for the parochial benefit of their own voters only, basically laughing at the rest of the citizens whose needs aren't being heard.

And you can see the results. That doesn't look very similar to me.
OBS is primarily for streaming.

It also has a lot of advanced features beyond simple recording of a video source or your screen.

ALSO the name is literally "open broadcaster studio"

Maybe take two seconds to investigate what you're talking about before making comments like this. Sheesh.
Advantages of In-IDE Code Reviews
For me, cards are usually lists of self contained items (usually summaries). So the cards parent is usually a `<ul>` or `<ol>` and the card them selfs are `<li>` with a single `<article>`, `<aside>`, or `<figure>`.
Zuckerberg couldn't run as anything but a democrat either. Cambridge Analytica and the like ensured that, but his beliefs (as far as he has shown any) are leaning democrat with libertarian tendencies at best. His lack of moral spine is compatible with both parties (not equating said parties to be clear).
...by buying a top of the line Porsche?
Yeah, let's start by not worshiping rich businessmen.
The Evolution of the Urban Fox
Because banning protests would create a serious 1st amendment constitutional question.

It was the same with the Reopen protests - they were allowed, just stupid. Health authorities say the same thing here - a lot of people are going to get COVID-19 from the civil unrest going on now, and ideally they should be quarantining themselves for 2 weeks.

FWIW, I support the BLM movement but I'm not going to any protests, largely because of the prospect for COVID-19 infection. We've been avoiding seeing friends because of coronavirus; we're not going to stand shoulder to shoulder with shouting strangers right now, no matter how much we support the cause.
Named editors. Peer review is recent, and has mostly proved itself a bad idea. Editors who have a personal reputation to maintain will do a better job, just as they did back in the day when, you know, guys like Einstein walked the earth.
Whether or not you have a 'right to privacy' does not mean Zoom has to provide it. You can choose a provider who allows you to exercise that right.
On the desktop app there's a green icon at the top left that says encrypted when you hover it. Not sure about mobile.
And back to open source.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
OBS let's you edit video on the fly and the pipe the output somewhere else. For example, you can take the video of you playing a game, add a video of your face from your webcam to the corner, add text overlays of your channel name and then send the result to twitch.
Same, except it's an Olympus OM-D with a 14mm f/2.5 lens (28mm field-of-view) in my case. It takes fantastic photos even at ISO 1600 and above.
What happens when you have incoming audio from two different groups?

Can you select a particular group to use PTT?
If democracy is majority dictatorship, then why do constitutions provide rights also to the minority?
Thank you very much, the picture and especially the sound file helps a lot in terms of coming to a decision. I will try to reach more people who are using a walking desk - but especially our longterm-ish experience helps a lot.
That's because I'm a human being instead of a libertarian tech-bro pretending to be a rational actor.
My folder structures mirror the various git remotes I use. At the root of the structure, I have github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc folders. The contents of each mirrors whatever repos I'm working on for each.

All my personal stuff is backed by a set of repos in my personal gitlab account. I have one for references, another for notes, another for my personal log, another for documents, one for secrets (encrypted using blackbox), and one for machine configs. I commit and push these as I add things out of habit, but I might do something more automatic eventually. I've also thought about building automation to maintain ToCs and changelogs and stuff for some of this and executing it on gitlab ci.
>>pointing out problems

That's the first step. Proposing a complete solution that takes in the needs of the various stakeholders and doesn't just move the problem and does so in a way that makes the whole situation easier is the hard part.

If you've done that and nobody is listening, it's time to change the culture or leave.
These fall into the class of 'thought terminating cliches':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
PeerTube 2.2 Is Out
Peertube 2.2 released
G-Shock
Ask HN: What do you think about the current no-code trend?
Tangentially related, I've seen that behaviour with Google Meet as well. Sharing a specific tab takes a much bigger performance hit than sharing the whole screen.
Oh wow. Had never heard about that. Wouldn't that pass within the range of the Oort Cloud? Seems like we might have some issues from the gravitational effects if so (although that's assuming humans manage to keep ourselves going for another million years).
You do know that most Republicans feel the same way about Republican politicians

"Republicans haven’t had the courage to take a real position for a long time. Their program is basically to run as the slightly better Democrats".
luring people to invite them as per clickbait methods, using obfusication so they are accidentally invited, straight up blackhat hacking to manipulate the system, early on the public meetings were getting bombed by flashers

these types are handled by identifying and outing them, or chasing them away, internet has to go beyond the "your ip number is" thing and demonstrate that there is a real knowledge of who they are, and that they are bothering people and it isnt going unnoticed.
What long term goal is slaving away at McDonalds or Wal-Mart accomplishing? All the people advancing society are being paid pittances compared to the true leeches (landlords and shareholders).

People should not be required to work to survive. People should be required to work to make the world a better place. Most people work bullshit jobs that do not advance anything but the wealth of the 1%.
My point is no one has really trusted the USA for decades.

And yet it's unclear to me how the popular opinion of the US president in France translates into meaningful policy differences.
OBS and SLOBS are internal capture++. They allow for more complex multi-scene/input (mic and video) setups and allow you to setup configured "scenes" that are comprised of multiple things. Think of them as the difference between either having a stream or a recording that is just you or your screen versus having a professional style multi-input shoot like a news channel with tickers and graphics included.
This is a completely uninformed take. The Biden platform is by far the most progressive to ever reach the general election. Just because it doesn't go as far as medicare 4 all and completely ending the war on drugs doesn't mean it's "slightly better Republicans". Seriously, go look at it some time. The GOP wouldn't support any of it.

The whole "both sides are the same" needs to stop. The entirety of the GOP's governing philosophy is based on conspiracy. The hardcore Trump cult itself is completely disconnected from reality, thanks to 30+ years of scams and conspiratorial media that has demonized everything that made the country they claim to love what it is.

The contrast between the Dems and GOP should be stark for anyone who actually cares to look:

https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2kaubu/just_a_remi...
OBS is essentially a live video production studio. Multiple scenes, multiple sources, title cards, etc. can all be controlled with OBS on the fly as you stream.
Thanks! But arent Uber and Airbnb also apps?