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This is really interesting and I hope it's a success. It seems like it's intended to be 80% useful and 20% tongue-in-cheek joke.

I'm skeptical that viewers will prefer this live scheduled format rather than simply posting all the videos to be viewed on-demand. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of this anachronism (and especially their 80s-era channel ID logo to go along with it) but personally I prefer to consume videos from tech conferences on-demand. [1]

It looks like they are also posting the videos for on-demand viewing in the Best-Of section, so maybe the live scheduled format is just a delightful gimmick.

[1] https://media.ccc.de is my favourite
Ooh I had not heard "purity" defined this way previously in such explicit detail, but it makes perfect sense and I really really like it. Thank you so much for giving me better words for this going forward!

Edit: I think, though, that my point kind of still stands in that, with respect to a specific level of semantic detail, a language is either pure or it isn't. Further, I think it isn't useful to compare Language A at Semantic Level 3 to Language B at Semantic Level 1 to compare purity; you're generally going to be sticking to one level of semantic detail at a time, and within that lens all languages will either be pure or impure. Right? Hmm maybe I need to think on this more.
I don't think we should have to be constantly reminded to be kind and discuss in good faith. Maybe it is necessary for some, but I expect better of HN users than to need their hands held. The regulator of HN behavior should be the users themselves; that responsibility should not have to fall on the administrators.
Did you just advocate for tearing apart the current policing paradigm and then wind up with "Unfortunately, the greater group of protesters is incapable of understanding nuanced policy or democratic change"? That's a wild ride of a post right there.

How do you think what's happening will differ from what you're suggesting?
Let me guess, this is a new content marketing channel?
Not “we all” thought — plenty of people have been saying this would happen for years. Specifically, epidemiologists and black people. Maybe we should listen more!
Microservices are good for scaling teams not hardware. If you don't have more than one team then there is no reason to break up your monolith.
Furthermore the land in southeast mexico is very hilly, and when it's not, it's often swampy or waterlogged (or was at the time of the maya). It's certainly more straightforward to use barges.

Related, I very much recommend the book "Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs".
Why? None of those cities have reformed or rebuilt their police departments.

You're just spreading FUD.
>It's directly comparable

How? Is Minneapolis also disbanding it's entire civil beaurcracy? Is Minneapolis also blacklisting the current police from other jobs? Are they letting the current police take home any equipment they currently have access to?

Your Ukraine comparison is slightly better, but "corruption came back" doesn't address whether the move was beneficial or not. Nobody expects the result of disbanding the police to be a perfect racism free police force.
Answered in the github repo itself: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#why
The Overton Window is as far left as it ever has been such that drug possession is becoming more decriminalized, sentencing and bail reforms have recently passed, and body cameras are more prevalent than ever before.

Reduced policing in Baltimore after Freddy Gray's death has led to more than 100 extra murders of black men per year.
I understand you see two roles that should be separated, and I won't weigh in on that - perhaps you are right. But let me highlight something that isn't so obvious in this discussion:

Job #1 for police is to keep everybody alive, even the criminals. Everything else is secondary. They are not primarily trained "for aggression with weapons", they are trained in deescalation, social resources, helping the community, etc. And contrary to most TV shows and movies, use of a weapon is a rather rare event in a police officer's career.

Whether police should or should not be armed depends entirely on whether the criminals are or are not armed. Here in New Zealand police have arms, but they are in lock boxes in their cruisers, and only brought out when necessary. Then there is a special "armed offenders squad" which comes in with sniper rifles and such and takes care of hostage situations, mass shooters, etc.

If the current 'abolish the police' sentiment intends to send the message you are expressing, it's not sending it very effectively. My fear is that police will quit/retire in droves and not be easily replaced. That will cause inner city gang activity to increase. As I understand it, there are a small number of powerful remorseless hardened criminals forcing inner city youth into a life of crime via credible threats, and using them as pawns to distance themselves from the day to day criminal activity. The police are the only ones powerful enough to fight this and to protect these kids.

Yes, they often do a shit job at it, and yes, they often are infected with racists and overly aggressive assholes, and even criminals using that position for the power it affords. But I think we'd do better if we focused on finding and weeding out the bad cops, rather than throwing out the entire institution.
at first i was very excited just hearing "cloudflare TV", but it doesn't look like this is what i was expecting.

i don't really get the point of this. it's just another live conference broadcasting platform? why would people use this instead of just broadcasting on YouTube? Maybe i'm missing something but feels like just another marketing scheme that came from someone saying "hey this coronavirus is supposed to be the fad of the day for video startups, we should do something too".

the 24/7 aspect is cool and it is this point I was excited about. I thought they would do something different, instead of building a service dedicated to a fad which is probably about to expire.

p.s.

The "online conference" angle is not a good idea. Those who say "all tech conferences will die after coronavirus" have probably never been to tech conferences. Most people go to tech conferences not to watch speeches but to network in person. And there's a big difference between networking in person and doing it online in a public place. This problem may be solved in the future, but not through a live video platform, but probably through an AR or a VR platform.
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> without any access control

The point, I reckon, is that you should be implementing access control.
It’s important to note these provisions are given to police in lieu of salary increases. Citizens and elected officials could choose to raise police wages, attract better candidates and not substitute legal concessions for salary increases. When cities are trying to cut costs, these “free” provisions can seem like a no brainer, as opposed to giving in to wage increases.
Many humans operate by parroting things they've heard recently. I'm 90% positive from the phrasing that OP recently saw popovich's video recently and is just repeating the claim.
I don't disagree with you there are better languages which have learned from Java's mistakes, and I don't think I've argued it's the best one. Just that it's extremely successful, a good platform, and that programming in Java doesn't have anything to do with flinging XMLs like someone claimed.
I don't live in Minneapolis, and I don't know if this is the right solution or not. But what bothers me about what I've read so far, is they seem to have remarkably little details about exactly what they want to replace the department with. Exactly what does "community-led public safety" mean?
Yet those were the signs being held. There are clear goals for police brutality protests. The anti-quarantine protests had no clear goal, the narrative seemed to be “the government hit their ‘disable economy’ button and we want them to turn it back on” as if relaxing legal restrictions would suddenly make everyone ok with the rampant disease and go spend time rubbing shoulders again. People were self quarantining before it was a legal requirement.
Like you said, that's not representative. It means nothing.

Of course, if you just add up all the cases across the country, then you don't need armed police in 99% of case. The problem is that you don't know which one percent does need armed police.

You want police to be able to bring the situation under control as soon as possible, you don't want to wait for people to get stabbed or shot by some guy who couldn't be stopped otherwise.
It doesn't matter if this is the right solution, what matters is that they're willing to substantially change things to improve them. If they're wrong, they can change it again.
> Police brutality is wrong and there is reason to think that it is a worse problem for black people than for white people. At the same time, we recognize the disproportionate extent to which white people suffer from black violence. We may perhaps disagree about the extent to which the discrepancy is due to systematic racism or socioeconomic issues, but we recognize your concerns. We want to reach across the division and work together to fix all these issues

So you want to dilute the protest which is specifically about police violence against black people into something entirely different? You're essentially arguing to destroy the entire protest for something it's not at all about.

Protesting police brutality against black people is protesting police brutality in general.
Sorry, it's because I am French, my English is not that good yet.

My country (France) is sinking: daily violence, ethnic gangs, religious fanaticism, tribalism, women being harassed daily in the streets. It's really scary for the future actually.

So when I read comments on HN about disbanding the police, it seems to me that some guys in here have lost touch with reality. It's not because you are a good person with moral values that all people in the world are like you.
It wasn't mean spirited and it was justified. If people are using link shorteners to hide the fact that their link is a referral, then it invites everyone to sneak referral links in their comments here. Do you really want that?

He removed that link from his comment and he apologized because it was the right thing to do. Also, virtue signaling to encourage bad behavior isn't right, no matter how good or superior you think it makes you feel. Especially considering you weren't smart enough to realize that I wasn't criticizing the referrals in his article ( valid ), I was criticizing the shortened link in his comment which was a referral.
At work, we have:

* two services that accept requests via telephony protocols (SS7, SIP, these are quite small) and forwards the request to:

* the business logic component (large only because of the complexity of the business logic implemented). When there's some state changes, it sends a request to:

* the replication module (say, midsized), which ensures that the state change is replicated at The Other Site to handle geographical redundancy (a requirement from our customer).

* There's one other microservice that the business logic uses and that's to send some data to Apple so they can hand it off to iOS phones (all our stuff internally uses UDP (except for the SS7 stuff)---the addition of a TLS based service was too much to add to the business logic component and this is quite small as well).

All of these modules are owned by the team I'm on, namely due to the esoteric nature of it (the telephony protocols, this is real time since it's part of the call path [1], etc.). Within our team, we can work on any component, but generally speaking, we tend to specialize on a few components (I work with the telephony interfaces and the Apple interface; my fellow office mate deals with the business logic).

[1] As a cell phone call is being made.
Fireweapons are still too primitive and badly designed. Rubber bullets caused several events of distroyed eyes and horrific injuries in many young people. Some cases feel nasty and directed to the face on purpose.

So lets assume that there will be always a policemen in some location that can't be trusted or has sadistic tendences, stop focusing in training people to make the correct decision in a highly stressing situation, and lets solve it at machine level once and for all.

Lets make the bad choices impossible.

A possible solution IMAO could be to include software in the weapon able to measure distances (with ultrasounds or so) and that will refuse to shoot if there is something too close.

Or even better shoot it but reducing greatly the shoot force.

Photo Cameras do the same since decades. They measure distances to autofocus and even can refuse to take a photo if is too far from range. Cars have something similar also, so why deterrent weapons don't?

The technology is available and mature and is a crime not to use it. The people that passed by the horrible experience of an exploding eye should collectivelly sue the maker by making unsafe weapons.
Some really interesting topic there. I hope it's sort of tech TED type thing.
I just noticed that link the other day and wondered if it could be put to good use. They certainly don't make it obvious, but maybe that's part and parcel to ignoring it anyway. :)
We think interactivity is key, hence why we are prioritizing as much live content as we can. Site will become more and more interactive over time.
Nice. In case anyone else is looking, I guess it's moved to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cities-Albert-Lin-Season/dp/B07Y...
John’s blogs always set me off in one direction or another. Now he has me thinking:

Our human minds can only hold a finite amount of information in long term and short term memories. I don’t too much buy into direct brain augmentation in the sense of NeuralLink or my friends in the SingularityNET community.

What I am hoping for is external augmentation using smart glasses that record everything I study and that I hear, and sufficient AI (doesn’t have to be AGI) on the backend to learn when to prompt or remind. Ideally this would be paired with something like an iPad that the system could draw on top of what I am looking at.

This is the startup I would like to work for. Apple is supposed to be releasing smart glasses sometime. I hope the hardware and software support is hackable and extensible.
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What? No, really, this seems like a strange question.

You'll learn and forget all sorts of things in your life. The things you remember, the things you need to remember, are the things you use all the time.

Outside of exam halls and ridiculous interviews, you almost always have a search engine. Knowing how to use it is 50% of professional development.

(Note: I'm not saying don't learn things. Of course you need to learn syntax and how stuff works and ... well, there's huge amounts of stuff any given developer might know... but there's a difference between picking stuff up and dryly flash-carding out topics. I [obviously] favour learning what you need by doing than trying to learn a whole book, cover to cover.)
Exactly.

The science shows a well fitted “cheapo” mask can protect you better than a poorly fitted N95 mask. Even a surgical mask provides a little protection: if they provide 25% protection and 50% reduction in transmission, and everyone uses them, that is a huge reduction in R0.

Not everyone can invest the time required to learn how to source a real N95 mask.

My impression is you are trying to educate the uninformed, while sweeping under the carpet important nuances. I’m sure that isn’t your intention, but that is how it comes across to me.
> Being able to prove that you cannot possibly decrypt the partition, moves you out of the XKCD 538 scenario.

It does not. I think your mistake is modelling an adversary willing and enabled to torture like an entity that behaves like you would do, which I assume is according to logic + knowledge + willing/able to communicate + respect for human life.

How about the adversary just not buying your proof and torture you anyway (to death) just in case you are trying to deceive?
How about the adversary not even giving you the opportunity to explain or show your proof? (imagine getting yelled "open it" because they don't speak much english other than that and get beaten for whatever you do that doesn't look like "opening it")

I'm writing this just in case someone reading will actually at some point need to prepare for such threat. "Proof of inability to decrypt" (as also "Denial of encryption") does not give you a way out of the "XKCD 538 scenario".
If you can't avoid the scenario entirely, there are better bets (e.g., disguise still-encrypted data as plausible, non-sensitive other data).
Why has a question mark been added to the title here?

IMO by HN's usual standards it makes it a worse title, not better.

I assume it's to present it as a debate for discussion rather than appear partisan? (Let me say here I'm British, live in the UK, don't really care for US politics, at that level at least.) But we have controversial titles all the time that are presented as fact (the author's opinion, the author's title) and yet discussed all the same.

If we need a '?' to have a discussion, then every submission needs a '?' suffixed.
That gamble exists in one way or the other with any tech platform. I double dare you to take on a codebase written with NodeJS, Golang or Python without checking its sanity first. This isn't exclusive to Java.
Should have never accepted the cookies. NPR gives you text only page if you don't want tracking
That Medium page on is hilarious! I recommend it if you are into oscilloscopes and want a laugh. My favorite parts are the opening paragraphs and the list of Key Points for each scope, which include:

• Available only in Grey. [Rigol]

• The color available is Grey. [Siglent]

• The devices comes only in blue. [LIUMY]

Yes, one of the main things I look for in a scope is what color it comes in!

• Works with both laptop and desktop PC. [Hantek]

Uh, why would any USB device not work with both a laptop and desktop PC?
I often wonder how much human languages, math, music, programming, and other symbolic endeavors overlap...
I can only assume you've awakened, Rip Van Winkle style, from a extended sleep - not only one so long you missed dozens of people getting severely assaulted by the police and hundreds of people being held for extended periods of time (>24 hours) without charge, but so long that you apparently also missed the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.

You also missed Trump musing on the idea of Muslim internment camps, so "not even considered" is a long bow. We might also include "kids in cages" while we're at it.

There are plenty other worse countries, but this seems like a rather low standard for a victory lap ("Freer than China! Less repressive than Belarus!").
>The idea that 400 years of structural racism can be proven seems highly doubtful to me.

We had slavery in America from 1619 until 1865. Jim Crow and segregation for 100 years after that. The Civil Rights Act, and related laws, eliminated much of the legal basis for institutional racism. But as we all know, that didn't eliminate racism. Safe to say, there's plenty of racism left in this country. Especially in institutions like the police. That's 401 years.

ETA: That's focusing purely on the black population. If you count what was directed against the native populations, you can go back even further.
I think that this has awesome potential. I've asked them if they're open to individuals or groups producing a show and getting an hour on their schedule.
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Surveillance is one area where large drones are preferrable because of their capability to loiter for a long time and further reach.
It was even called ‘steak à l’américaine’ in France, early in the 20th century. That said, from my experience it is much more common in France than in any other country I have visited. Hell, they even refuse to do anything less than medium-rare in American restaurants most of the time.
It all depends on your definition of 'rock bottom'.

I lost my wife house and family all at once when I was 42. "How do I start again when my life is nearly over?" I spent several weeks just staring at the wall. A friend asked me what I did before I was married. 'Travelling' I said. "Well, do that again." she said.

So I did. Being self-dependent for six weeks got me out of my depression. Within a month or two, friends came out of the wood-work. Within six months, I had to choose which of two women I would stay with.

I chose well, 32 years later we're still together.

"You have to like yourself first, before others can like you."
I clearly spelled out two studies that I thought were reasonable in the parent post. What do you think of them?
Don’t forget those offended by master/slave architectures, blacklist/whitelist, etc. The world is getting stranger by the minute.
After reading the schedule...

I understand how this benefits Cloudflare, but I don't really see why I'd tune in. Seems like a mix of Cloudflare ads and "technical" content that is barely technical. More vague TED Talk-style philosophy.

If I had to describe who I felt was the target demographic, I'd name middle managers who work in tech but don't actually know much tech.

I mean they have someone from McAfee talking about security, and title it "Cyber: The New Frontier," it is so cringy, and they seemingly don't realize that.

I obviously don't speak for others, so maybe I am wrong and there is a lot of people who want to watch video content showcasing corporate America's biggest tech illiterate "tech" luminaries, spouting their outmoded concepts of what the future will be like from the viewpoint of ten years behind the cutting edge.
Yeah, to add to your comment, this link has some more detailed explanations regarding the wheel+axle combo: https://www.livescience.com/18808-invention-wheel.html

It is also worth pondering why wheel+axle was invented so late even in Eurasia (after bronze alloys were invented and adopted, only around 5.5 kya, many thousands of years after agriculture).

This fact has changed my perspective on how much infrastructure already must exist to enable large wheels that rotate smoothly around an axis. Knowing that, it is no longer shocking that one might make toy wheels, and never scale them up to large ones.
Well, sure. But if you define "protestor" as "no violence, no looting, no arson", of course the protesters won't do those things.
The question was "How different are Blink and WebKit these days?" and "But perhaps that has changed?".

My answer was "they are different" and implicitly "yes", partially because of the heavy development work that has been done since the fork seven years ago.

If you look at the featuresets and when they introduce features I think it's reasonable to conclude they have diverged enough that they can't just pull patches from each other.

Also, there was a webkit mailing thread back when they introduced their cut-down version of service-worker that said that most of the code from blink was basically unusable for them because of the differences.
That's the hard part of the problem, extracting signals from the noise. Have a look at the Google Autopilot paper (cloud scheduling, not self driving). There are a few interesting ideas that could be adapted. They generally have some good ideas if you peruse their research page, specifically the data center and related topics.