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It's unlikely Adobe will be on board. Porting their apps to ARM, even with a virtualization layer, is going to be hell. They dragged their feet last time around, I bet they will do that 1000x now.

MS might decide that "the web is good enough" and just drop native Mac apps for the time being.
I wasn't aware it was for 10 years... yeah, that's really low in general. I was under the impression it was a single year, I only quickly skimmed TFA.
You claim that law enforcement culture differs in the countries which you are comparing and that is indeed true. But is the crime culture the same? Or is that not a factor worth considering?
That's impressive. But I'm also curious as to what other applications this setup can be useful for, because that looks to be one hell of an expensive operation. It's awesome to see such things actually happening.
Cool story bro, but it has been decades since the court has even pretended to live up to that fairy-tale example we tell little children about it being an impartial body of judges. The court is nine politicians in black robes who are competing to enact their tribes policy objectives while striving to avoid infamy.
> You can't contract out of criminal sanction

You're just nitpicking the word "contract". The arrangement with the cities generally result in public prosecutors do not bring charges against the police. That's part of the de-facto contract, even if it is not written down.

> The idea that citizens don't have control of local police through local government is wrong. Normally, local citizens are between actively approving and tacitly tolerating the behavior of police rather than actively seeking change, but they absolutely do have the power should they choose to exert it.

I've been caring about unaccountable police for well over a decade, so forgive me if I don't see myself as having much power to change anything. The vast majority of people will never be victims of the police, so as long as police keep up the illusion of providing safety, they will continue to be supported by the masses.

For what I was referencing specifically, look at Minneapolis city council members' descriptions of what happened to their districts when they previously tried to reign in the police. Yes, those same council members are now at a breaking point where enough is enough, and do actually have the power to act in concert and change things. This doesn't invalidate my description of where the vast majority of cities are with respect to the police unions. And the police unions know this, which is why their instinct is to start riots when citizens protest.
That's not really a justiciable standard. If I say only aggressive, pushy people can effectively sell cars at my dealership, and a timid person thinks I'm full of it, how's a court supposed to resolve that dispute?
I'm sure some albinos could claim discrimination in customer-facing jobs due to skin tone and eye color. It just might not be obvious (e.g. the employer simply never called them back after the interview, rather than hiring them and explicitly firing them later for "scaring our customers").
The problem is that Apple has moved to a home-grown stack for it graphics and deprecated OpenGL and moved wholly to Metal.

There is no way Apple would create a Windows driver for that custom silicon- it has always relied on AMD or Nvidia for those drivers in the past, it has no in house code base or expertise to write the requisite code in Windows and none of the silicon has been optimized for it.
So I understand how they can detect the presence of a neutrino, but how do they trace that back to form the image? Is the Cherenkov radiation directional?
I'm not very well versed on the physics, but every time neutrinos come up, I wonder when can we establish a data link that goes through the earth, instead of around it.

When neutrinos can be captured and emitted with good ability, and they can go through the earth, then how feasible it is to build a data link with them from between let's say Japan and US?

It's not possible today of course, because it would have been done already.
Eg would be great to add 'hand drawn look' to other tools like graphviz without having to hugely modify the underlying tool, e.g. graphviz.
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Just read about this and was curious to see what kinds of businesses they're investing in. But it all seems very hidden and purposely out of view.

I can't find anything concrete except articles on blogs.

Can't find a link anywhere with more details, or a link to "Apply".

Is it all smoke and mirrors?
Exactly. It's not a solution, but it's a way to stop the problem from getting worse.

It's like moving from a variable rate credit card to a 0% loan. You still have this pile of debt you need to deal with, but you more or less stop the problem from getting any worse.
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But in all seriousness, if seeing it on github is damaging to the mental health of descendants of slavery in america, why do we allow the word to exist at all and where is it acceptable to use? Should words like this be put in something akin to a biohazard lab?
I don't think you're saying anything different than the comment you're replying to. They are themselves replying to the question "well, why not just forbid discrimination on anything except the ability to perform the job", and their answer is the same as your second paragraph.
Are you familiar with the IndieWeb stuff? This sounds kind of like WebMention.
People get angry when the possibility that culture has something to do with black (vs asian, for example) success in America is floated. They will scream racism without even allowing the conversation.
How about Higuain's miss from the German header back to Neuer?
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Does MuseScore have feature parity with Finale wrt notation? Essentially:

Speedy Entry or its equivalent (keypad-entry ftw)

An escape hatch for the user to paint their way out of all western notational edge cases (splayed stems, chord clusters, crazy slurs, etc.)

If it doesn't have the first then you lose all the copyists (gotta go fast).

If you don't have the second then you don't get the contractors engraving Henle editions (because control over the score isn't fine-grained enough).

Edit: I initially wrote "reliable escape hatch" but removed reliable-- at least when I was using it, many of Finale's workaround tools were buggy. Stuff like dragging a shape and the shape drifts away from the pointer the further you drag it from the origin. But you could power through the bugs and eventually get exactly what you want and print it out.
Question from someone who has no physics background - they mention the neutrino can go "faster than speed of light" - how is that possible?
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GitHub's CEO is named Nat Friedman. According to some, economist Milton Friedman had problematic relationships to Pinochet.

I'm triggered by the name. Since GitHub is willing to rename, would it make sense to draw up a petition? What are your thoughts?
Good point. Does that consider that case where the economic value of running the PoW is part of the network itself, as say running an Ethereum app? For the miners the PoW wouldn't be valuable, but instead of burning computation time the byproduct could be useful part of the network.
Do you think that the feds would win politically from overriding local authorities to send in armed troops to evict thousands of people from a glorified festival? There was a ton of push-back on the feds clearing out sections of DC, and the feds have a lot more authority there.

Clearing out the area is fundamentally a political issue, so I think you need to focus less on who would clear out CHAZ and more on how they would justify their actions. The area is in a dense area and is easily accessible by transit so tons of people have gone there in person. Plus, the local establishment news has been visiting the area and taking pictures.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/dubbed-a-lawless-s...

Whoever clears it would need to create "probable cause" as you mentioned initially. Our police chief has been trying to justify clearing the area by saying: 1) business are getting extorted (no evidence) 2) assaults and rapes have increased (the crime blotter doesn't support this) 3) there are armed guards doing ID checks at the barricades (people can just walk in to the area and tons of people have visited. There have been a few people with long guns hanging out, but my understanding is that they leave shortly because other people tell them it's not a good look). So far, none of those accusations have stuck:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-prote...
> which doesn't sell my data

For now (also, are you sure?).

With HEY I can trust my data won't be sold as long as DHH or Jason are alive (and maybe after that). I can't be sure Microsoft or any other company won't change their TOS even this afternoon. In fact, I can be sure they will eventually if it fits them.
Of course, thanks for the suggestions.

1. I agree, but there is a reason for this. We'll soon be adding the ability to run/modify feature even without the need to sign up so the whole thing will go away.

2. Thanks! We are experimenting with this (the default scheme is different, but we had a lot of people requesting dark mode so trying out different things for the published articles.)
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Mailbox and Sunrise being acquired are some of the saddest losses over the last few years. Both superior products, that would remain extremely competitive today.

I'm extremely bitter about Sunrise in particular, because both Google and Apple have such mediocre calendar platforms.
This guy comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egukLtEhyP0
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It's not that it's more difficult to do, it's that you generally don't do it. SCOTUS in particular will not respond to, mention, or address anything even approaching a hypothetical scenario, which is sometimes frustrating when the specifics of a case aren't just ride for larger sweeping changes that society may want. You'll often hear of proponents of one reform or another saying that a given case is perfect for SCOTUS because it lines up very closely with their policy objectives.
We actually do. Do you know anybody with a mortar tube?
Is anybody else scared that we're heading for a self-driving car future where the critical components wear out in only a couple of years?
Why "tput el", when ANSI/VT100 has won?
I commented on this at https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/130. This is nothing to be concerned about, for quite a few reasons. I don't expect any compatibility issues with being stricter since Google Chrome's new X.509 processing does enforce the stricter syntax.
Looks like a good product. Its an interesting test of how much people value privacy, I'd imagine 99.9% of people would rather be tracked and have ads than pay for email.
Ok, so something I wrote years ago hit the HN front page. This is what it feels, uh?

I also have a github with more notebooks about football here: https://github.com/rjtavares/football-crunching

If you gave any questions about football analytics, hit me up.

(Gmail and Twitter are the same name as my HN account, if you prefer email or DM)
Ooof those downvotes didnt age well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
Parent's condescension drips a little heavy, but anyone building power tools for a species like ours ought to reflect a while on the potential consequences, imho
Can confirm a lot of developers seem to be going to WSL lately, including myself.
Totally! I was annoyed by the default 'jump back to selection' so I created a PR to lock that (with the little lock on the right). It took about 10 minutes after PR approval to merge to production. Really nice.
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I did the same thing. So awesome. Also wrote a script to print 4 pages on each side. Saves a ton of paper, and makes it easier to absorb.
It's perhaps in 1964 many of those voting would not have thought of transgender folks... on the other hand we also expect these laws to be applied fairly. A random house member might have some constituency in mind, and not everyone else, but is that the basis for not protecting someone under the law?

I worry that going too close to the line of "what would a house member from rando time period want" becomes a strange place of conjecture.... and frankly relies heavily on a sort of mind reading / our own biases of the past... and legislators who are not bound by reason, existing laws, or any sort of absurd contradictions.

But perhaps that's always the judicial quandary. How closely to follow the letter of the law passed when it may not pass a constitutional test, or even just logic test.
Here's a great summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIr_v3a5T-s
If you want a good tech example of how courts evolve the definition of phrases as society evolves, you need look no farther than the word "eavesdropping." We use that word all the time today, but why do we call it that? When towns started to give way to cities, the spacing between houses began to shrink to the point where rain could cause water to spill off the roof of one house onto their neighbors property, a process that was called eaves dropping because the water dropped off the eaves of the roofs. Who owned that water and who was liable for the damages it might cause became a thing courts needed to address. That English common law decision, that courts could adjudicate the ownership of and damages caused by things that unintentionally pierced property boundaries "because water" is today the legal basis for a broad class of infosec law that we think of as eavesdropping law.

EDIT: HN won't let me respond to the question below on sources. This comes from a physical copy of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica, which has Eavesdropping as an entry and only discusses the water dropping off roofs meaning, strongly suggesting that our modern use of the term had not become common by that point.
That's not the intention of these laws though. The basic presumption is "it's a free country, so people should be able to discriminate for whatever reason they want". However, when there's an overwhelming need for it, we will make carve-outs for specific situations. In particular things that people really can't change (race, nationality, sex) or that we deem as a society that they shouldn't have to change (religion).

For anything that doesn't fall under these categories, it's fair game to discriminate. You don't like vegetarians or people who play tennis? You can discriminate. You're might be a f* moron for doing so, but we don't have laws against that.
Well, the dev responsible addressed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

Woops.
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I don't follow, would you mind elaborating?
That's me. I can go almost anywhere on the internet for politics. On HN, I want news about hacking.
> a guy came from Essex to defend some statues he didn't understand ended up urinating on a monument he didn't notice

That article doesn't say much about the guy who urinate, how do you know what he knew/understood, or where he came from?
Fun fact: I added this to Excalidraw for this exact reason! It was super annoying.
You're right, we should move this to twitter.
I think you're talking about "the electron is accelerated at a speed greater than the speed of light in water"? The "in water" is the important bit. Light travels [as measured in a straight line] slower in water due to bouncing off of the water molecules. It's not that light itself is slow it just takes light longer to make it through the water because it takes a longer path.
So, if I'm holding un-vested RSUs in a tech start-up, it isn't a financial instrument because the monetary contract stipulates that I can't _trade_ it?
And if you enabled mipmapping, that practically cut it down to 2KB. 32x32x16bpp.
It's possible today but not economically practical. You could get low-latency messages, but you would miss most of the bits coming through.
>I suspect since Guix heavily utilizes Lisp quite a few Emacs lovers might watch Guix closely and even contribute

As an Emacs user who contributes packages occasionally - yup, that's about right! It's a really natural combination. Every so often I'll run across something I want that's not yet packaged for Guix, and if you're used to hacking on elisp the Guix package definitions aren't too hard to get the hang of.

I think it's the only distro I've used that readily accepts new packages from the community (with review of course) - haven't used it myself but I think NixOS/nixpkgs is similar in that regard.
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It goes faster than the speed of light _in water_. While the speed of light in a vacuum is fixed, light will pass slower through different mediums (i.e. it goes slower in water than air, which is how you get refraction).
It isn't ever going to model our style of thinking. A "neural network" is just high-dimension linear regression; the idea it has anything to do with the brain is metaphorical nonesense.

No algorithm running on digital hardware can emulate the biological process of animal intelligence.
Not really. This scans from a textualist perspective, which is one approach to law greatly encouraged by conservative judges.

You throw away A LOT of law without textualism.
Because the notion of sex is implicit in some sexual orientations. If you fire a man for loving some individual, but not fire a woman for loving the same individual, then that is discrimination on the basis of sex.

The question that I think is still untested is what happens when you consider someone asexual or bisexual, as that isn't as simple a case to handle as just flipping the genders. If you fire a man for loving two people and fire a woman for loving those same two people, it doesn't appear you are discriminating based on sex. But given that such a relationship would also be considered poly-amorous bisexual and not monogamous bisexual, and given that the likelihood of having a business that only fired people for poly-amorous bisexual relationships and not for monogamous homosexual relationships is extremely small, I'm guessing it will be some time before it is tested in courts.
Why not use "primary" then? In database terminology primary and replica are quite common for instance.
No you're completely right, the argument they make is quite correct: the discrimination is based on preconceived notions of who a certain sex is allowed to present as or be attracted to.

The correct term would be the majority, or assenters maybe
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Only if you believe discrimination laws are cost free. On the other hand, if you believe that such laws have cost at scale - frivolous lawsuits from fired employees erroneously claiming protection, and more constrained hiring and firing to avoid such lawsuits - then you'd only want anti-discrimination laws for the cases where discrimination has existed historically.
You are right in that my argument is somewhat incomplete, one could be stricter and not match "Buße" when searching for "Busse" because that would be a somewhat uncommon almost-misspelling in German German.

But: "Busse" is not a always incorrect spelling, it's just an "emergency" one, if you really can't use "ß" for some reason. One example is allcaps text, here "BUSSE" and "BUSSE" are not distinguishable, although they have different meanings. Also, there is Swiss German, where replacing ß with ss is the normal form and not at all "accepted in an emergency" like in German German: https://www.galaxus.de/de/page/schweizerhochdeutsch-fuer-anf...

Incidentially this is one of the instances where you really have to know the language and the context to be able to do a lowercase -> uppercase -> lowercase roundtrip, otherwise you might screw up with "Buße -> BUSSE -> Busse", changing the meaning. Or not, if the current locale is de_CH instead of de_DE.

Together, since very often search will be case-insensitive, I think that while you may be correct, being as strict as to not match here would not be what the user would expect.

Yes, again, I18N is hard and sometimes it is impossible to do correctly for a machine.
SCOTUS does not consider or rule on hypotheticals, only the specifics of a given case. And generally, judges will rule only based on the individual attorneys' arguments, not other arguments they can think of but the attorneys did not make.
[Caution, pointless reminiscence.]

>Very frankly, most people who think they "just picked up" things up did not picked things those things up from nothing. //

Yeah, not from nothing, but sometimes from not a lot.

I'm middle aged, when I learnt some programming I didn't [knowingly] know anyone who could program. My parents knew how to put the cassette in and load a program; the teachers at school didn't even know how to switch the thing on (or pretended not to?).

The computer came with a manual and from that you could work out how to list programs and try changing them, some example listings were given to type in.

High-school age my mum bought home a computer (orange screen and big turbo button; Win3 I think) as she was volunteer librarian at the school; eventually I found Qbasic on it and it had 3/4 example programs that I gleaned enough from to make a fractal drawing.

I spent quite a lot of time at a command line thinking of things to try writing instead of "win" which loaded up MSWindows - most Basic I knew didn't do anything in DOS to my recollection! All text interfaces should always respond to "help"!!

Wasn't until Uni that I found out there was such a thing as computer science. I mean I'd seen War Games by then and dreamt of having an audio-coupler for several years. I think I thought everyone just used computers if they could; like the guys who programmed spacecraft were just the people who made it.

A little guidance at those early stages would have gone a long way I feel; but I'm sure some managed to grok gorilla.bas, or their equivalent, and bootstrap themselves in to full-on programming.

Anyway, get off my lawn ...
Just for the record: this is the quotation that the fellow managed to make disappear by flagging:

"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." George Orwell, 1984

I really don't understand why someone sees the necessity to flag something like this. It perfectly fits the topic under discussion and doesn't violate any HN rule. This is world literature and can still inspire us to think seventy years later when we see which developments, considered dystopian in 1948, have become reality today in the described or analogous way.
Clearly, it's not "pretty obvious" or there wouldn't be this case or ruling.
Both, from my experience
Yeah this is my take on it too. While I deeply admire the GNU philosophy and practice I debated adopting NixOS or Guix a few months ago and ultimately adopted NixOS as I got the same vibe as you.

That said I really want to learn more about Guix. It seems like a more pure impl of a functional package manager but haven’t worked with it enough to know the difference.
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