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>So apparently you haven't watched any of the videos, huh?

Yes, I watched a few from this link, and that admittedly small sample didn't show a single peaceful protester being abused by cops. I suppose you watched more of them?

>Guess what? The problem is that police are frequently "on edge" in their normal jobs, and as a result innocent people are seriously injured or die. And worse, police are "on edge" far more around blacks than whites, meaning far more blacks are injured by police than whites.

Could there be a reason for some of that that is not linked to racism? Are only white policemen more on-edge around black people?

>It doesn't matter what the cause is, it's a problem and is has to stop.

I can agree with that certainly.
Apparently not, according to the article:

„More than 90% of the corporate dairy industries’ emissions are produced by the cows themselves, mostly in the form of methane.“
the question was not whether she committed fraud or not, the question was:

"Creating fake identities is playing fair? In which country?"

The question supposed that creating fake identities was by itself unfair, but in the U.S other conditions must also apply for it to be considered unfair.
1. Cookie policy management should be done at browser level with using standard HTML/JS constructs. Instead, everyone nowadays is doing it by adding custom HTML to their own pages to handle the panel/popup logic: they're doing it wrong, because it makes it much harder to detect which part of the page hosts the cookie settings panel.

2. Also, many of those panels have "Accept all" as a default option. Many make it purposely hard to disable some trackers without going deep down into crowded cookies preference pages. This is also the wrong way of complying to GDPR, and the sites that do it must be appropriately punished. The default should be "Deny all except for non-third-party functional cookies".

3. In the meantime, NoScript helps blocking some of that crap. If you never whitelist domains like cookielaw.com you're unlikely to see many of them.
Yup, it's very similar to what happened with Windows Vista. Those security dialogs were annoying as hell, but the real issue was that most applications were used to running with way more permissions than they really needed. Windows 7 didn't get the flak that Windows Vista got, but the biggest difference was just that applications had had time to fix their permissions so they didn't ask for admin rights that they didn't actually need.
Not like Google. Google make some really neat stuff that people start using only to have it killed for no reason - especially chat apps.
I think that their continued behavior is putting the pensions at risk, since those depend on continuous taxpayer contributions.

It’s not wise to tear gas the people who are going to pay for your retirement.
Sure, absolutely. People understand domain names, they're found on billboards, adverts, business cards, all over the place. And it's a simple text match. Does the bar say "google.com" or "google.co.uk"? Yes? Then you're on Google. So when it's simple people get used to checking and can be reasonably told they're expected to do it.

The greying out and replacement of padlocks etc, the anti-phishing training, it's all just working around a historical design problem in browsers. There's no need for it to exist. Notably, mobile apps don't have this problem.
I'm mainly hoping to rid our technical vocabulary of non-inclusive terms, like master/slave, based on https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#r...
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I think it comes down to get past your emotions primarily and secondarily you need some internal mechanism of curiosity and critical thinking.

By mechanism I mean a habit, which is something you practice deliberately until it becomes automatic. And then you keep practicing still.

Of course you already knew that, but It helps to remind ourselves, because that is in of itself the very practice I tried to describe.
We could argue that those issues would apply exactly the same for both H.264 and VP8 hardware-based encoders, so these aren't reasons for lacking VP8 encoders in phones and other devices... otherwise we wouldn't have H.264 hardware either.

I agree in spirit with the parent comment (although judging from my post it would seem the contrary). Ideally, both codecs would have hardware encoders. The difference in performance and battery savings are huge. I just understand that the industry players felt that it was necessary to provide a royalty-free option among the proposed codecs... either that or it was just Google pushing their own thing, which also sounds very likely.
I think also code using x86_64 vectorization (AVX, SSE) is going to be non-trivial to port. Same applies to JITs, which I guess are a lot less mature on ARM due to lack of users at the minute.
The thought of Thiel or Palantir anywhere near the NHS makes me gag.

Talk about making a deal with the devil.
"A team of developers comprises several roles..."

I disagree. This might be true at smaller companies where having "one of everything" on a team leads to a mix of dissimilar skills, but in "moderately large" and larger companies my experience is you need teams of people with THE SAME skills working on their piece of the enterprise codebase. Having the same narrow focus and ability when it comes to specialization helps significantly in these cases because if you hit a road block then talking with your team mate about the issue it's a glorified rubber duck exercise but a true back and forth from which knowledge can be gained.

I also take issue with how a Team Lead is defined. In my experience the titles Team Lead and Software Dev Manager vary so much from company to company that the titles mean far less than a description of what the people holding those titles actually do. I've seen SDMs who code 50% of the time and I've seen Team Leads who did nothing but attend meeting and spend the whole day deconflicting expectations between product and engineering teams so that upcoming specs actually make sense and aren't a pile of contradictions and nonsense by the time they land on the lap of the developers who need to convert the vision into running code.
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Why don’t the good ones arrest the bad ones then? Or even testify in court?
There are numerous factors in pricing and one input is the sophistication of the buyer and their common behaviors. The pricing is just fine for typical travelers who want to insure their trip and are not using their past experience to distill high-probability delays with 20+ identities.

Dynamic pricing isn't free to implement, and raising prices to account for accurately for delays may result in policies never bought by travelers who find them too expensive or a clear signal to get a better flight instead.
The article is from 2007 but is about what happened at the time NTFS was developed, so likely the time it happened was 1992/1993 or so.
Watched first 10 videos with youtube links in the list:

url - description - what I see in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4_yJjdsJ_0 - trampling a peaceful protestor with a horse - protester stepped into the horse's way without looking in that direction, nobody's fault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suTGneu7tZU - Shoving an unarmed woman to the curb, prompting a seizure that put her in the emergency room - police pushed somebody away from them, clip is cut right at the push, we have no context on what prompted that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1KRskL-0E - doing an intentional hit-and-run with a car door to an unarmed protestor standing in the non-vehicular bike lane - protesters standing in the street in front of emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, but the door hit (minor) was definitely intentional and unnecessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOzn6rWbpwU - NYPD were just beating a variety of people earlier tonight because they could - police try to arrest some people who are resisting, some other protesters jump the police, police hit people with sticks, get them on the ground, handcuff. No unnecessary violence I can see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESAl1OK5V8Y - beating a variety of unarmed protestors for sport - line of policeman pushing protesters back, nothing more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8CPc_R5iEI - pepper-spraying a variety of unarmed protestors for sport - police pepper spray protesters who got in their face insulting them, but where not violent. Pepper spray unjustified from what I can tell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlRSPE2lL0 - Minneapolis PD officer in an SUV indiscriminately sprays random citizens with pepper spray from his car window - yes, because people where getting in the way of police vehicles with lights/siren on in the middle of the street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH0HPW8Eagk - detonating flashbang grenades in a docile crowd of unarmed protestors for sport - video shot from very far away, we can see nothing of what is going on there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G0WhaqBRb0 - shooting a random protestor in the neck with a rubber bullet, then detonating more flash-bangs - people surrounding a building with policeman on top, video of low quality with fingers in front of camera, from far away, nothing I can understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftLzQefpBvM - Police arresting CNN reportes on air - reporter gets arrested in a very peaceful manner, both him and police are very chill. No context on why.
And yet the _most_ recent releases on the Mac lineup have been much improved. If that is the trajectory and not an outlier one could make the case for the positives outweighing the negatives!
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And that's why in 2006 they introduced Macbook Pros which were 32-bit only?

If you want to switch to 64-bit, you don't introduce machines that cannot do that, that need their 32-bit ABI and have to be supported for years to follow.
The police did that in Portsmouth, VA ie. stood back and allowed a mob to pull down a statue which struck a man causing what is probably a life long injury.
All Netatmo owners can put their local weather station on an open service. You can find it by searching for Netatmo Weathermap and the data is very dense in populated zones. I was able to fairly accurately pinpoint the location of where rain is/was in the town. I'm surprised Netatmo hasn't leveraged this data better.
Very nice! (and pleasingly similar)

Thanks
You don't even have to fully disable GA. You just need to disable individual level tracking, as far as I know.
At first I misread "piracy" as "privacy" in your comment. It still checked out.
No, someone showing up late to work and someone else violently beating or murdering a citizen is not the same thing. At all.

Those two scenarios are so far apart, attempting to draw a comparison is disturbing.
Because you're not buying it to win money. You're buying it to limit downside loss, because aside from the massively wealthy, we are loss averse. It's worth our while to pay $200 to insure against a 1% chance of losing $10000, even though in purely probabilistic terms that's a bad deal, because most people can't afford an unexpected expense that large. Even people who can afford that, it's still more painful to lose it than to have a 99% chance of having wasted $100. The larger the potential downside, the bigger the incentive to insure against it, even when it's a bad deal.
CNCF Technology Radar, OSS Community Support the Black Lives Matters Movement
There is also pystun in pip, a comparatively old tool so it is probably much less sophisticated than newer options, but still nice to know about:

https://pypi.org/project/pystun/
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GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology
Heh, well you cherry-picked there. It goes on to say ". The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable."

Regardless, it's Wikipedia, that definition ought to be fixed to say "identity" rather than "name".
yeah, i had to learn it alone - my father didn't know how to program :p

10 PRINT "good old days"

20 GO TO 10

RUN

AHAHA
Built a similar thing: raspberry pi + bme680. Code is python + kivy. Allows me to run the frontend with X.org.

Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBc5uWLDOgc/?utm_source=ig_web_c...
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Link: https://github.com/similarweb/finala
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- New resources detection on AWS.
Can we begin with the fact that this isn't even remotely in the same universe as a peer reviewed study? There's nothing to compare it to, there's no data on what the timeline is, there's no meta analysis of the different cases, what sparked the incidents, the outcomes, or how often non-violent confrontations or de-escalations happen, etc.

Basically you're looking at a single specific dataset, like "number of children strangled", and deciding to extrapolate from that whatever you feel like, like "a systemic and perpetual abuse of mothers and babysitters power by evil matriarchs".

Honestly, I credited this crowd with more brains. Horror porn is not an intellectual argument.
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Specific actionable bit: "... as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. ... avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary ... write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty. ... use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember."

tl;dr "c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron"

Edit: one exercise from soviet education (no idea if this is still done in modern russia) I'd think worth stealing is that the teacher would pick a selection of famous lines out of a poem, and ask the class to write their own verses around one of them.

If I remember the story correctly, the chorus to Leningrad's "In [St.] Peter[sburg] we booze" was inspired by a line "Peter — endure, endure" from a classical russian poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ugivNRYfjc
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I think this is a false dichotomy. "Police brutality" isn't when police use force when required, it's when they use more force than required.

> Crime and violence are not homogeneous around the world

It's also a bit defeatist to say that somehow the US is infested with crime and violence and that must always be the case. This isn't a problem that will be solved in just one or two generations. Attitudes take a long time to change, but perhaps Police culture is part of the propblem and not just the solution.
For at least the last year I have been DDG first, and it is getting better slowly, I find myself using !g less and less
Perhaps this is too off-topic but I was just looking into home automation and perhaps someone might have good advice: I have an old (~25-30 years) radiant ceiling heating system with 15 thermostats that are starting to malfunction and I need to replace. I don't want to break the bank just doing this, but I'd love to have the ability to read temperature and command on/off on each of one.

I'm going through ESPHome right now, but in any case, any recommendations on very low-key but reliable thermostats that are amenable to hacking with them would be super welcome!
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This is a pretty good example of content marketing done poorly. Superfluous content, somewhere between 98% and 99% opinion, the rest just incorrect. And it seems to taken about ten minutes to write and throw up onto the blog. If they made the memes that would have taken longer than writing the piece.
DARPA threw some money into the problem, and stuff advanced from toy problems to things that are still small but often useful.

See e.g. pyro.ai is already working on non-trivial datasets.

Ultimately, I'm convinced it's a hard compilers / static analysis / abstract interpretation problem. That requires lots of resources and a decade or two of work.
> but all these will be controlled by large companies that can afford the ground work. So, I don't expect small outfits, research teams at universities or tiny startups, to make a big difference. Academia is fast losing the ability to produce work that beats the state-of-the-art anyway (that's from personal comms with other researches).

That makes me particularly sad. In a utilitarian sense, the ideal situation would involve new approaches being democratised. Instead, we're ending up with walled gardens.

The current situation isn't dissimilar to what has happened to the Web Platform during past 5-10 years. And, similar predictions are made wrt VR and AR (both seem to attract different types of investors).
> Humans are diurnal animals.

Humans, maybe. But programmers?
Isn't Oculus doing better than ever? Citation for "Mark proceeded to fuck with the successful management team until they quit"? (genuine question)
Yes, the BME280 is very good at sensing temperature deltas, much less at sensing absolute temperature. A correction factor is most often needed with this device.
Or even the proportion and impact of ice v. water droplets. The modelling of this in a warming world is making the latest global climate models used in the upcoming IPCC AR6 show a higher equilibrium climate sensitivity than the previous edition [0].

[0] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/06/sensit...
I wonder if people will ride the Soyuz one day for that classic vintage experience.

Seems like such a vital part of our history.
I would definitely recommend to add a 20% buffer for people who are new to the team. Once you have been around the block, you get an extra 20% boost simply because you know people, and the culture and start figuring out ways on how to hack the system to get your work done
These terms at least make as much sense as the old ones.

But where would "greylist" fit in here? It slotted in nicely between whitelist and blacklist, and I'm not sure what a good name would be in the context of "allow list" and "deny/block list"?
Which Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest?
> The EU cookie laws were well-meaning, but have had the unintended consequence of making the web more annoying, more difficult to use, and more fragmented.

Not really. GDPR says that non-transactional cookies should default off.
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I use this on all my machines. I even donated to support the project. It works like a charm. It removes most of these cookie popups. I wish there was a better version like someone stated directly in the browser - currently this is a mess.
Despite Push to Reopen Economy,Americans Unconvinced It's Safe to Return to Work
> Indeed the one about security updates is valid and my biggest grievance with such an approach.

And that stems from misunderstanding.

Flatpak has a concept of runtimes. If you have some basic library that would be updated by your distribution, you have pretty much big chance that it would be part of the runtime and updated by runtime maintainers, not by the application authors.

I.e. you would get your security updates, subject to the maintenance period of the runtime (for example, the org.freedesktop.Platform has 2-year support).
Is it true that black on black violence kills massively greater numbers than the police?
If the proposal is true, looking at places where you have strong emotional reactions would be a place to start.

Next time you find yourself getting angry over some group's wrong thinking, make note of it for later review. Sit down and figure out why you got angry about it, and honestly consider whether it shows a spot in your psyche where such an idea may have taken hold.

A strong reaction is not an indicator that an idea is necessarily wrong, obviously - just a place where your strong emotions could be clouding your judgement, if you haven't learned how to process your emotions and understand where they're coming from (that sounds easy but at least for me it has been surprisingly difficult).
Building a text editor is fun. It's the ultimate scratch your own itch project.

I remember building one back in the day (2002) with Visual Basic 6.

Unfortunately I lost the source code but I still have the website's code. Feature wise it had syntax highlighting, column selection, project wide find / replace, file edit history (timeline), multiple clipboards, splits and more.

Does anyone remember what that really good text editor control was in VB6? It did most of the heavy lifting. It wasn't a built-in control.
I got curious - SunOS 2 introduced NFS, that was in May 1985, and I was incorrect - it used hostname:/path/... thought I remembered a colon in there somewhere

SunOS history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS

and NFS originally started in 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System

examples
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/5-nfs/
> that pulled off two seamless architecture transitions

sorry what :-) I know people who still keep a PPC mac around because some critical software they use in e.g. art contexts has never been ported.
> The article says the insurance companies have now closed the loopholes she exploited.

When I read that sentence in the article I immediately thought they closed it by optimising pricing or by challenging airlines. But no - as the next paragraph states - they closed it by adding a clause to the contract which basically forbids doing what this woman did. Go figure.
Is IPFS blockchain based?
I'm honestly surprised it has taken this long. I was uncomfortable with the phrasing back in 99 when studying for my A+ exam.
FWIW, you can embed Unity apps/games into websites too. Haven't used it for a while, a few years back there was an HTML5 player, but still in beta I think.
At least in the UK a lot of bookies will take "custom" bets and those can be placed on nearly anything you want - political events, financial markets, sport events.....you could place a bet that there will be a pandemic declared in 2020, and well, you would have won. Obviously the more obscure the bet, the more likely the bookie will refuse or simply offer such stupid odds that it's not worth doing - depends how much is it worth them doing research into it.
That title (not the HN one, the article one) is so editorialized that I doubt the credibility of the analysis. It feels like something people would think about and then find data to validate their perception.

As unfortunate (is it though?) as it might be, people do like that content and it creates engagement with the platform. I see it as business as usual for social media.
> even Queen Elizabeth's christmas messages have become measurably less posh

To be clear, her reduced 'poshness' is due to changes in her pronunciation over the years, not the content or reading age required. She has moved to a more generic southern English accent rather than the 'cut glass' accent of the upper classes when she was born, in which 'house' would be pronounced 'hice' and 'trousers' as 'trizers'.
I was in second grade and it was show and tell, I dropped my LEGO Tie fighter and was in the hallway. First thing I heard was the White House or pentagon was on fire.