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What do you mean by "needlessly" complicated? The whole point is to make it very complicated, as that is the main mechanism by which they achieve resistance to ASIC designs for it. How is that "needless"? Even if you say that an ASIC can still be built, the point it to make those ASICs much harder and more expensive to build. That coupled with regular change of PoW scheme (as is done in Monero) means that it is just economically unviable to develop ASICs for Monero.
It is Kendriya Vidyalaya[1], chain of Central Government Schools in India, so they have almost one school in almost in a district of a state. or sometimes two or three in the state depending on Population Density.

So at that time Syllabus is something like this[2], it is not exactly same, almost same and I think this was overall pattern of that[2], now it is again revamped[3].

At our time it was more like 4 hours theory/week and 1.5/2 hours lab sessions(which sometimes becomes theory).

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

[2]: https://www.kv1bhuj.org/admin/downloads/1997118251study_mate...

[3]: http://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/Curriculum19/Main-Se...
I've thought of a shorter way to answer your question.

> If you can’t find someone to fill a position as a police officer, I would suggest increasing the compensation or leaving the position unfilled before simply accepting anyone who might want to be a cop with no standards whatsoever.

Let's say we decide to pay police officers 1 million/year and really raise their standards. Great! We did it!

Why don't we just do that across the board? The answer is - we have a limited number of highly capable people.

I see the shortage of highly capable people as a problem. My previous post was a way of highlighting that. One would have to think big picture to understand the point I was making.

Regarding leaving positions unfilled - I'm not sure you've thought this through. Imagine we have a shortage of doctors and your appendix burst. Would you rather a medical student try and save your life at say, an estimated 50% success rate, or simply die?
> That won't work because most people will want to just permanently block tracking cookies. You could legislate it, but it would effectively kill targeted advertising

So? The only difference between what I suggest and what we have is user friendliness. The law is already here.
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People aren't being killed left right and centre by the police in the UK of any ethnicity, their main gripes seem to be stuff like stop and search which already has dramatically declined over the last few years.

Maybe the met does have "poor race relations" historically but it isn't anything remotely close to the US police.
Your terminal emulator (XTerm, Gnome Terminal, etc.) already sits between your shell and your windowing system, and does not notably slow things down.
I have this idealised vision of a police force that are more like monks. Their main training is mental, meditation, mindfulness, situational awareness, sensitivity training, de-escalation training. They are also extremely well trained in combat and self defence but almost never use it. When they do they can quickly disarm and subdue violent perps without struggle. They exist just to keep the peace between people. People could grow to trust and respect them in a way that they can't for cops.

It would have to be a lifelong pursuit like a real monk, without much financial incentive. The problem is without trust and respect it wouldn't work since no one would enlist. I'm not sure how you would bootstrap something like that.
If you’ve ever visited the profile of a woman with a very sexualised or glamorous LinkedIn profile, you’ll see the “people also viewed” results are almost entirely other women with glam photos. The normal case is that “people also viewed” is others at the same company or with similar industry/job type.
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Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
Looking for some inspiration. Ive done a lot of MVPs/Early-stage apps over the years and I tend to lean on the same SaaS portfolio for mails, text gateways, payment etc, but Im sure Ive missed a few valuable additions.

Here's a few I use:
Mails: Mailchimp / Mandrill
Payment: Paylike
Search: Algolia
With most of my customers the conversation goes something like:

- Customer: We must still implement that cookie popup before launch!

- Me: No. You don't have to. If we just disable SomePerformanceMetrics and GoogleAnalytics, we're done: we don't need a pupop.

- Me: who is using the performance metrics ATM? And who is acting on GA? How do you use them? Would this (shows three really neat Log-analyzers as alternative) suffice?

- Customer: We don't use them yet. But we might want to in future. And we then we might need all that data. So we want to start collecting it now.

Point is: you don't need Google Analytics, you don't need any of those 20+ tracking cookies if you actually look at it.
But there's a lot a FOMO, combined with "but this is how we have always done it, so shut up".

There are some rare cases where GA, new-relic, tagmanager etc are really nessecary and none of the privacy-friendly (ie no-cookie-popup required) alternatives cut it. But those are rare.
I daresay that a vast majority of tracking cookies is just there because the developers/business is too lazy to take a serious look at the problem.

Which is why I truly welcome more legislation that turns "collecting vast amounts of data" from "free" into a real and looming liability.
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So there is a computer virus cat-and-mouse game, where viruses always get better, and antivirus software and new computer languages always get better. So what in your logic, does that somehow display "how flawed" computers in general are? We are still going to use them because we need them, and some people are still going to keep using PoW until that is the only viable method to achieve a decentralized trustless ledger.
Survey: Impact of Covid-19 on the SEO industry
As a non-native English speaker I wonder — is it common to call a man "beautiful" in reference to his looks?
can respond to criticisms against its own argument in a coherent way

I'm not sure about GPT-3, but let's imagine GPT-4 next year will be able to do this. It just does not strike me as a particularly high bar to clear. Let's go further, and assume GPT-5 in 2022 will pass the Turing Test (you personally will not be able to tell). What would you say then?
In China they are kicking people out of their homes for being black. But we do bend the knee for them because of money. Selective social justice...
The video points out things like: how do you spot an eTLD? There's .com, but what about .co.uk? .github.io? Do you know all the exceptions? There's basically a database of them and you just have to know them to correctly interpret the security origin of the domain.
The archaeological museum in Burgas has a pretty incredible collection of Thracian and Roman artefacts from the surrounding area, and more likely than not you’ll have the place to yourself if you visit - not once did I see any other visitors at any historical site or museum in Bulgaria - more than a few had to be unlocked for us by the surprised and excited attendant. It’s a shame - Bulgaria has an incredible amount of archaeology and history, and precious few people seem to be interested in it.
It really isn’t like this everywhere, not at all.

I lived for a number of years on a caribbean island–modern, mix of people, pretty crowded, but a police force that was just cool af. They just didn’t get aggressive unless it was absolutely, positively, unquestionably a life or death situation. They weren’t invisible, but they weren’t anywhere near as pervasive as we see in US cities.

And I never felt unsafe there. I would walk through the worst parts of the cities at night and no one bothered you. Sure, there was crime, but basically the same shit you see in US cities where the cops everywhere and hyper-aggressive.

There is something going on with our cops and it’s a large and very deep cultural problem.

Other places have police who are drastically scaled back and the quality of life is so much better.

I’m guessing unless we alter our policing structures to where our police understand they need to make the overall community’s day to day quality of life better, these massive cracks are going to continue to widen.

Again, there were far less police and the world did not fall apart, the daily quality of life was significantly higher.

One of the major hurdles we need to get over is the rather large amount of people (and many of the police also belong to this group) who just don’t understand that people have different interests. A bad analogy, but this is a group of people who rage out when someone has pink or green hair. It’s not enough for them to personally choose to have a buzzcut, they’re furious that everyone else doesn’t also have one.

I could probably come up with a better analogy, but I think one of the answers is in there. I’m not sure how we convince those people to live and let live, because at the heart of our policing emergency is that thought process.
Same thing with eastern european communism.
Mjg59: Libupnp's default behaviour allows anyone to write to your filesystem
It doesn't necessarily affect the total power consumption, just the more democratic distribution of it. Where many more small players can be in the game, instead of consolidating all of the mining in a hands of a few centralized miners.
I don't think thats the right angle to look at it.

It's not a problem of policeman brutally beating/killing people (its a issue alright but). Its about the organisation protecting and turning blind eye on their misdeeds.

There will be bad apples in any organisation. Be it police fore or church. The problem starts when the perpetrators are protected insted of being ousted.

That emboldens other to do similar and openly advertises to anyone 'Join our org and you can to X, Y, Z with no repercussions'.
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> I'd guess the simplest way is to write a small script which copies the binaries over to all the machines

I do roughly this. custom application is rigged to run as a service on debian , managed by systemd. I.e. path of least resistance, app is run in idiomatic way by the operating system. I have an ansible script to copy over a new version, ensure all dependencies are installed using apt, run admin tasks to update anything that needs updating in database, then restart the service to pick up the new version of application code. It is a bit sloppy & doesn't automate everything but does automate the common path for upgrading an application code change to an existing deployment.
Expect the push for more funding of the police to be the eventual narrative. This is to allow for more training and putting more officers where they are needed.

Simply put, the defund the police slogans are damaging to the DNC outlooks in November and three major unions basically read the riot act to the DNC and members in Congress that no talk that can come back to collective bargaining being a reason police get away with so much abuse is allowed. Instead it must be that they lack training, the security of their pension system raises anxiety among the forces, and lack of officers incurs overtime furthering anxiety. So the only solution is more money for training, propping up their pension systems, and more money for community policing.

just put it this way, when that was dropped on me from a relative as their new marching orders I thought they were joking.

tl;dr the whole defund the police calling is poison in November and the big influences in politics has called their party to the carpet to change the direction of the debate
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> refuses to spend extra time looking at other sources, like Twitter.

I don't blame them, Twitter is it's own special hell and widely regarded as a bubble.
A rose by any other name – Norwegian parliament passes mass surveillance bill
The Internet Archive?! A lot of old (and not-so-old) websites are only available on Wayback Machine links. I've gotten a lot of old books from the Internet Archive (as in published in the 1700s, 1800, 1900s), they have almost everything pre-early-20thC that I search for. When I was getting into Forth and learning about Snobol, for example, they have a crapload of books and documents about both. And for lot of classic stuff from the 1970s and since unavailable anywhere else online[0] you can borrow an ebook free. Also I've got some great films and documentaries from there. Etc. I'm on there nearly every day, it's one of the very best sites online to search for stuff.

[0] i.e. instantly and free.
Interesting that you got down voted this.

FWIW I think you are right, we are trained and raised by society to buy and buy all the time.

I know people who think I'm odd for having a Nokia 6 which is nearing 3 years old (but has current Android) and no intention of replacing it - it's partially the circles I move in via work but everyone earns decent money and replaces their phone every year when the new models come out.

More generally I don't replace something unless it's uneconomic to repair, I'm rocking my 2012 road bike, I just stripped and rebuilt it for about 50 quid - I've friends who buy a new one every 18mths.

I like fixing things maybe that is the difference.
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Ask HN: Matrix or Tox?
Which platform should I use to communicate with family back home? I tried matrix but it is not very user friendly for non-technical folks. Also, I was never able to get voice or video chat working.

Anyone used Tox? What is your experience? Will it be easy for people who don't have technical know-how?
Proof of work is anyway bad idea (work for nothing), unless the work is something useful.
Thanks for the fab-classic link. I too spent a week inside Fabric2 / Invoke trying to port our extensive Fabfile and ran in to so many problems that I'd pretty much given up too.
It’s really not as complicated as you’re making it out to be. If I’m making a function that has potentially confusing parameters, I make it accept an object. This forces named parameters, and it does so only using core language features.

Yes, there’s no dedicated syntax to allow people to name parameters that weren’t intended to be named. So what?
A lot of trash is created by people who do it out of love.
Cases include fanfics, youtube videos and videogames. (I am personally guilty of producing trash in all of these categories.)

Also, a lot of people love trash.
Cloud ERP benefit during lockdown
Good point but at all places I've worked, it's more likely to have meetings or other social exchanges after 5pm than before 8am.
It's a bit like the clause about how you shouldn't be buying fire insurance for a house that is already in the process of burning down.

It's not an unreasonable one.
Is "Scanner Pro" good enough to be able to:

- take a photo of a supermarket receipt and OCR all the items

- get that at least 95% correct

- output that in a document with correct horizontal grouping?

If not, can someone recommend me an Android app for this?
What is the difference in weight carrying capacities of the space shuttle vs Falcon 9?
Preventing surprise and refusing to be complicit in grossly unfair and unequal negotiations are separate purposes of the courts. The surprise part is more for dealing with the contracts that are part of everyday life that are too lengthy and numerous to have everyone read, understand, and agree to everything. In that case, the courts will enforce what reasonable people would actually understand and agree to.
Authenticate with FaceID and Touch ID
Users love Touch ID and Face ID because these authentication mechanisms let them access their devices securely, with minimal effort.
Please someone transcribe "The Lick" for this medium.
I don't think either one is right.

That first one is from Jan 2015, but according to Wikipedia the first release of Flatpack was Sept 2015. The second one doesn't even seem to be a vulnerability, but rather the general concept of web shells. One of the vulnerabilities mentioned in the article (CVE-2019-0604) is for Microsoft SharePoint, so that's unrelated to Flatpack. Also note the difference in order of the words "ghost" and "shell".
Well, some places frown upon borders, and some places build a wall. We like the former here in Europe.
Ugh, this is so right. A lot of the trolls are also just new accounts the IRL troll makes to keep harassing. And don't forget the bots and the hordes of paid trolls employed by either companies or foreign governments to foment decisiveness. It reminds me of the Simpson's episode when the teachers go on strike and Bart runs through the angry mob yelling inflammatory and accusatory tripe.
No-one but (hypothetically) Intel putting a rumour out like that might make people thinking of switching to AMD to hold-off and see.

If I was been cynical.
It won't stop until companies start refusing to hire leftist activists, or take investment from them, and fire the ones that do sneak through the hiring process.

A lot of this bullying evaporates when there's some risk involved in doing it, but that doesn't happen because companies are filled with people that have no strong moral foundation to their lives. So they aren't really sure if they're good people and easily pushed around by anyone who comes along and says with conviction and clarity, "you are a good person if you do X and a terrible bad evil person if you don't".
The only exception to that rule I would say is it might be useful to have your own lightning strike sensor if your nearest airport doesn't have one. Lightning strike data is highly local and time sensitive. You can learn a lot about which clouds a small airplane should fly through 'right now' and which ones you should not, just looking at lightning strikes.

Otherwise, your tax dollars are paying for those airport readings, use the data you're footing the bill for already, imo ;).
Likely they mean a combination of:

- could be replaced with something with less moving parts that has the same properties

- it's difficult to analyse because it has so many moving parts so there might be a fatal hiding somewhere

Simple is good when you're looking to confirm the security of something. This likely counts even more for a cryptocurrency.
> Also I've seen it before here not many year ago with comments like "can only compare US to Brazil not any Europen country"

Can you explain why you feel that's terribly unfair? I don't know why somebody would pick Brazil specifically, but you might easily say "compare the US to countries with a similar income inequality". Take the gini coefficient for simplicity [1] and compare the US to Côte d'Ivoire, Argentina, Haiti, and Malaysia or Mexico, Madagascar, El Salvador, and Rwanda, depending on whether you take the CIA's numbers or the World Bank's. If you look at the list, you'll see that the European countries are closer together and in a different area of the list, the US isn't in their group.

Wouldn't that be a better indicator for "similar countries" than average internet speed or NATO membership status?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
> Especially compared to other countries, the US police seem to show quite the restrained

There have been multiple instances where the us police shot someone and fired more bullets in this situation than the while german police in a whole year.
And i don't mean big standoffs but shooting a single person.

/edit: in 2018 the german police fired a total of 54 bullets on persona killing 11.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_i...
Ask HN: Which IDE was your first when you started coding?
My first one was Notepad++ on Windows then Xcode on MacOS, for a year I've been using only Visual Studio Code with many plugins.
Thank you for sharing your experience I will investigate.
This is extremely ambiguous, the insurance company may refuse to pay any insurer at all based on this clause.
That's projecting contemporary social structures onto a very different time and place. It makes as much sense as saying the Han were white and the Xiongnu were black. "Whiteness" and "blackness" are social constructs that didn't even exist until a millenium after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Sure, the Romans discriminated against and had stereotypes they held about different foreigners. But they didn't think of themselves as any of white or European or Western; the demarcation was Roman and non-Roman. They would have felt a much closer affinity with someone from Alexandria or Carthage than they would have with some random tribesman in Belgium, who would have just as many cultural and physical stereotypes about him as a Nubian from Kush.
The scale is very different, yes. The UK kills much, much fewer people. But it still happens occasionally, and when it does we see the same problems of poor accountability. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/11/black-deaths...
Racism needs animosity and distrust doesn't qualify as that.

Systemic racism doesn't need animosity for it to happen. Systemic racism is a term for how a system discriminates against race - that might be something like defining how much to spend on schools based on the taxable income of residents. That's not "racist" in the sense that someone deliberately decided to give people of color get less resources, but the outcome of the decision is that people of color get less resources. That is systemic racism. There doesn't need to be any racist intent on the part of any individuals in that system for it to happen (though there often is.)
> which might make them biased against it.

How is IPFS related to blockchain? On a technical level that is.

AFAIK IPFS is somewhat related to FileCoin which runs on "a blockchain". But not IPFS.

Or am I missing something?
What are you referring to? I live in Sweden, and have not seen news regarding police brutality during the BLM protests.
I don't really understand how she made money. She apparently still bought tickets. If they weren't delayed she refunded the ticket early. But wouldn't otherwise the insurance payout just offset the price of the ticket? Or was there a premium on top of that?
Close. Running 2009 version of a commercial DB that does everything with no cheap upgrade path.
This is not limited to ebooks, it is present in all modern digital distribution, especially in software.
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One obvious result is generational poverty and what hints at 'learned helplessness' of sorts and loss of hope. It isn't limited to just the racial context. London schools found that their low end of the bell curve were native working class children. Worse than even refugees from a non-privileged background in even the 'relative to origin' sense.

The phenomenon is larger than race, although it may be involved in any given instance or manifestation. It is a shared cliche for successful professionals hailing from both inner city to suburbs and dying small town Midwest that they never want to return to. That 'they're ones of the ones who made it out of that (shit/hell)hole', along with a disgust at its inhabitants or melancholy resignation that they are stuck in dysfunction, along with optional lingering resentment over mistreatment by the local crab-bucket.

I'm not sure anyone has an answer for how to solve those issues. A hypothetical solution probably wouldn't be very popular even if it isn't anything morally or ethically uncomfortable just from how 'counter-intutive' it would have to be.
Absolutely true, but well-meaning advice like "just use an adblocker" and "why not use a VPN" somehow doesn't quite cut it for me. Defaults matter.
What helped me is measuring my "success" by how much I've learned and not by finishing a certain course. I might watch 2 lectures from a course and learn 80% of the things I needed to learn for a specific project, I don't feel bad about not finishing watching. At least I try to :)
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