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Exactly. They apply a double standard when they need it. They got so stubborn about it up until it got to this point. Now they will loose a lot of their perks. Good! Better learn from this

In Long Island a higher ranked cop would retire after 20 years with a pension of 500k, and in Long Island they really don’t do anything. While that, a new recruit in the Bronx would start at salary of 40k with poor training and lots of headaches. Seems like we need to reform the police!

Discussions about these things just started popping up on NPR and other sources. They brought it up on themselves.
I have no idea why people discussing these protests aren't focusing more on this. How else do you capture "systemic problem" better than widespread thuggish police behavior during countrywide protests about police brutality. Of all the black civil rights activity in recent memory, this is probably one of the most powerful methods of conveying to people the gravity of the issues that black activists talk about.
The right explanation is tailored to your conversation partner. Perhaps every third or fourth sentence, punctuate your speech with an open question. Does their response feel like they’re close to what you’re trying to communicate?

Writing is also a great way to practice and validate your own understanding of the concepts you want to discuss.
> Kinda how some people have dozens of dropbox accounts to take advantage of the free storage every account gets.

That's only part of the story (and trying to manage storage across multiple Dropbox accounts is a pain). The real benefit would be the expanded free storage your primary account gets as a referral incentive.
The problem is the notion of victimless.

There are crimes that put people at risk but don't always create a victim. Do we allow for crimes that have a risk of a victim even if there isn't a direct victim?

There are crimes where we say that someone is a victim despite their own feelings of being victimized or having suffered a crime. Do those stay as well?

We have crimes where there isn't someone physically hurt and not a direct theft, but there is a reduction in value of items. Do those crimes stay?

Take zoning laws. Is violating a zoning law victimless? If I open a foul smelling poultry factory in the middle of a downtown commercial zone, it could greatly negatively impact that commercial zone to the point where businesses would not be able to afford to stay open. But if that makes it a victim crime, then what about when homeless people living in that same area also drive away customers to the point it no longer functions as a commercial zone?

As for drugs, what happens when companies start selling direct to users? Antibiotics and opioids without needing a doctor's prescription. We already have seen the problems even when doctor prescriptions are required, imagine what happens if drugs are declared a victimless crime and no longer prosecuted.

I think the notion that some crimes are victimless is based on looking at specific incidents that don't have victims and not considering it at scale. Which is to say that the example by the other poster of drunk driving might be a much more fairer comparison than what people originally took it as, because while the relation between the risk and possible victim is easier to understand, the question is if such a relationship is consistently used to justify a victim, not if the relationship is easy to understand.
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I switched to https://mailinabox.email a while back and really loving it. You rely on using a mail client rather than a webapp, but I’ve enjoyed having the control.
"...but police here is trained to shoot to incapacitate, and it generally seems to work."

I've never heard of this practice, and the opposite is regularly taught to various armed forces around the world. I'm curious to read about it, do you have any info or sources to share?
For those that are not afraid of using a DSL to generate scores, Lilypond is great.

Much like using graphviz to generate workflows, you can just hop in an editor and start typing out your score, creating reusable chunks along the way. There is also a decent live-reload style editor called Frescobaldi.
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> Ideally, the document format should specify which parts are in what language.

But this is "off-band" information and it kind of defeats the purpose of unicode. Moreover it is extremely annoying in practice: imagine that you write a text (e.g., a comment on HN) where you want to explain the character differences between japanese and chinese. How do you get to do that? There are no "language selector characters" in unicode!
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Han unification is kind of overblown. There are a few characters that look different in contemporary Japanese and Chinese fonts, but you can find pre-War Japanese books that use the "Chinese" style character. There are a few characters that really shifted like 令, where the man on the street might not realize they're the same, but most are obviously the same, like 乘 and 乗. I think most Japanese would expect a search for a Japanese-style character to turn up its Chinese-style counterpart. Not doing so would be mostly a pain because you'd have to figure out how to type the Chinese one with your Japanese keyboard.
Police generally have contracts where they have weaseled out of criminal, civil, and even administrative sanctions, allowing them to break the law with impunity. If you don't see this as extreme corruption, then you don't actually believe in the rule of law.

> Per the latest Monmouth poll, about 60% favor the police (compared to ~11% for congress) and most people see the police as their protectors

Unfortunately this instance of corruption is a tough nut to crack. The sheer majority of people will never be victims of the police, just as most people will never be victims of any violent criminal. Hence the focus on video evidence and actually discussing the issue now that it has the spotlight, getting more people to care about these unaccountable criminal gangs calling themselves police. It's called solidarity and the rule of law - caring about what is right even when it does not affect you personally.

>> Blaming voters is a fallacy of late-stage Democracy

> Everyone pretends to like Democracy until they realize not everyone shares their opinion

You just seem to be going on a tangential rant here. I was referring specifically to this tendency to ascribe a democratically-chosen action as the responsibility of everyone who was given a chance to vote. I personally do not hold up Democracy as some sort of ideal, but rather Liberty.
Terrific. Thanks for the links, and the edit. :)

After skimming these, and poking around, I haven't found any metrics for participants. Like applying Moneyball notions to wikis. A very effective, popular example is GitHub's contribution visualization.

From the hip, I imagine sparklines for various metrics. The badges are nice, but depicting the timeline is important feedback. Like how many articles an editor helped shepherd to publication over time. So it'd be more obvious if editors are gatekeeping, how many of their decisions are appealed, how many decisions they lose, etc.

Frankly, the wikipedia governance is overwhelming for a noob.

Unsatisfied with most depictions of how bills become laws, I created a graph to represent the tortured path each bill takes. (I really need to stay off HackerNews and work on my projects instead.) Imagine one of those American Gladiator course challenges as a flowchart.

Again, thank you.
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Nope, it was a third party control. I believe it was originally written in C but someone wrapped a VB6 control around it.

It was something you could drop into your app and it had an API for all sorts of nice features. It was one of the best controls at the time for creating a text editor.
There have been several posts in the thread advocating violence. Is that allowed here?
Although, speaking of Let's Encrypt, there will be a series of disruptive events over the next 18 months or so.

* Soon (although when exactly I'm not sure because it has been delayed at least once) the Let's Encrypt systems will tell compliant ACME clients that the "correct" intermediate is Let's Encrypt's ISRG-signed X3 intermediate. This is a different certificate for the same X3 private key you're used to but not signed by the same trust root. If you use a correct client and have done things properly, this may cut off TLS clients for your systems that don't trust ISRG (the charity which runs Let's Encrypt). Six year old Android phones, the Windows XP system you know should have been retired, a VoIP desk phone running out-of-date firmware, stuff like that.

* In March 2021 the X3 Intermediate expires. If your certificate software was not compliant with ACME, or you manually overrode it to use the old certificates to avoid the problem in the previous item, things break now. More things, and worse. Although...

* Maybe before March 2021 the Let's Encrypt systems stop issuing from those soon-to-be-obsolete Intermediates and use newer ones instead perhaps named Y3 and Y4. In this case if you've jury rigged things (in an ACME non-compliant way) to keep using the old X3 intermediate that'll break suddenly after your renewal. Common web browsers may not trust the nonsense you're emitting, exactly which browsers break may vary depending on exactly what stupid things you did, but chances are you haven't tested and don't know. If you are using a compliant client then modern browsers are all fine, but archaic stuff breaks suddenly.

* In September 2021 the DST Root X3 root expires. If you have somehow clung on to trust via this root, whether through your own effort or via trust path discovery code inside client systems, that goes away instantly. Any systems that don't trust ISRG will refuse to trust your certificates, no matter how often you re-issue them and reconfigure things, those clients themselves need updating urgently and you probably have no way to do that. Oops.
14 nm in actual distance is only ~50 silicon atoms (~1.4 angstroms) wide. 14 nm process finFETs have a fin width of ~8 nm and in general 14 nm process transistors have a gate length of ~20 nm.

> Such as what’s the resistance of a wire 1 atom wide?

Quite high; you also get a lot of leakage since electrons are basically scattering elastically all the time. You can't use copper for a wire like this, you need special low-scattering conductors.
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The RDP's texture memory (that the RSP had to dma a texture in to before it could be drawn) was 4kb. Yup, with a k.

There were a few texture formats you could use. 16bit RGB was the lazy choice but you could squeeze more resolution if you used 4 or 8 bit greyscale (single channel) and put colors in the vertices.
You could also use palletized textures, with either 8 or 4 bit lookups (eg 256 or 16 unique colors per texture). Unfortunately that split the texture memory in half - the palette was 2kb and lookup was 2kb. If you were doing things right you spent a lot of time tweaking palettes by hand and writing code to best chose palette colors.

Tldr; 48x48 16bit RGBA, 48x48 palletized 256 color RGBA, 64x64 palletized 16 color RGBA, 96x96 4 bit intensity.
I read the whole documentation and I have absolutely no idea what this is, besides something about CSS?

The best information there is is by going to the last two tabs in its Theme Builder, which makes me think this is some sort of CSS framework. But the GitHub boldly denies that, so I have no idea.
I don't think the concern is about performance but compatibility.

Even if all major developers (Autodesk, BlackMagic, Ableton, Steinberg, etc) are able to switch to ARM there is a myriad of plugin developers out there who might not be able to do it.

Catalina and the 32bit EOL hit the audio world very hard.
I heard about the first plane from a colleague of my dad, and I (admittedly not that old) threated it as a fun fact kind of, almost like a joke. "Can you believe crashing a plane into a building! How can the plane fly so low, how can the building be so tall". Almost like we expected it to be featured on the next blooper reel. Then we came home and watched it on TV, and understood the seriousness. Learning about the second plane was surreal, that planted a seed of this couldn't be an accident. Then the towers fell and the world changed. One of the smallest ways it changed was that we never again will be as naive when we are confronted by an act of terrorism like we were then. That is a weird untangible world that now are lost.
You’re right and that’s part of why I love the web as a creative medium. Feel free to check out my site if you’re interested. I love your idea and am going to draw inspiration from it for a thought experiment I’m working on.
Another possibility: Xcode for iPadOS.
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Avoid using ANY VPS for your Tor relay, no matter where.

Why? VPS==Virtual Private Server

Privacy is virtual.

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I see that guix is a declarative package manager like nix. Where does it have a leg up over nix?

And how's the GUI integration with KDE and gnome? Is there a backend for KDE Discover or the Gnome Software Center?

Finally, I see that installation goes over a "curl | bash", which imo is a pretty insecure method of installation. I can understand why such an insecure method exists (so many different ways of installing software on linux), but that's like saying HTTP is a good idea because it's easier than HTTPS.
I think it depends on the context. I need the search-and-replace dialog in my text editor to be strict about it, whereas I would find it weird if my web browser would not treat a, à, â, and ä the same way. After all, in the languages I speak they are all the same character, just with different accents. This is of course also language-dependent.
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This kind of thing goes way back and used to be much easier.

Over-booking of flights used to be a huge problem back in the 90's and earlier. You'd get on the plane, someone would be in your seat already, and that's when you found out you didn't get to fly on that flight.

Airlines figured out this pissed people off and started counting tickets before letting people onto flights. If they had too many people waiting to board a flight, they would make an announcement and start offering free stuff to people willing to be bumped or take a later flight (this still happens in rare circumstances today but used to happen on most flights for a few years).

I remember listening to a gate agent threatening to call the cops on a college age guy who was picking up his third free ticket of the week for accepting being bumped off an Oakland to Las Vegas flight. He'd apparently figured out that that flight was always overbooked (which wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist given the high rate of overbooking at the time), and the only reason he got caught was the same agent kept getting assigned to work the counter for that flight often enough to remember his face.

Interestingly, I also flew on a nearly empty flight once during that era. The pilot came on the loud speakers and said "the next time you are wondering why flights are over booked, remember this flight - this plane was booked to 120% capacity (or some other number well over 100%) for this trip."
Not the op but I was using a mixture of DuckDuckGo and Google for searching recent news this past week and got very different results from the two. I don't think this is intentional on Google's part, I suspect it's tied to keyword expansion (given a keyword like "Chaz" expand it into "seattle protests") but the result was that Google consistently returned a small result set of the same few news sites across multiple different searches compared to DDG giving me a much wider swath of results.

I've noticed this is an issue on medical terms too. I wanted to look up the claimed health benefits of spirulina (tldr, it makes you go) and consistently got bogus sites that had successfully gamed Google's SEO practices while academic and government sites were rather buried. DDG seemed to have a better representation of sources.
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> Police body cam footage can be rejected as evidence if it does not start with the officer stepping out of his vehicle. This is why so many iPhone recordings from bystanders gets thrown out in trial.

That's nonsense. Evidence is never excluded because it doesn't tell the whole story. If that were the case, admitting any evidence at all would be a rare occurrence. Rather, each side in a case tries to piece together their version of the story with the evidence that is available to them. Generally speaking, evidence is only excluded if it's unreliable (e.g. hearsay) or irrelevant.
I think you are comparing apples to oranges. Your comparison would be more accurate if all humans were law abiding citizens. I don't think you could put blame on pilots if airplanes could sabotage flights at will.

Of course if all humans are law abiding citizens there would be no issue to begin with. I think every society with lower crime has significantly smaller police brutality issue with some rare exceptions like Hong Kong.
Can someone provide on ELI5 for what this company does and how it's different? I get that its goal is to allow folks to buy instead of rent their hardware, but how is it different from the old days of buying servers? Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? Or am I just totally missing this?
I never owned a PSX, but my impression is that a lot of games did that thing where the actual game content was a few dozen MB at most, and the rest of the disc was either empty or used for background music, FMVs, etc.
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> Starting with that as a thought experiment, isn't it expected that the bigger code can be shown to execute slower, as soon as the performance isn't measured with a microbenchmarking test which avoids to stress caches?

I agree that it “should” be so. I’m just saying that based on data I’ve seen so far, I don’t think it actually is. But only one way to find out, and that’s to run the experiment.

Note that some apps care about icache for perf and some kinda don’t. Sometimes the thing that the program is blocked on in the cpu is data or something else, not instruction fetching, so if you make the fetching slower it won’t affect the end-to-end perf. Basically run time is not a linear function of overheads but rather something much more complex since there is queueing and asynchrony going on. It’s possible for one element of a program to be worse but it doesn’t affect running time because the CPU is blocked elsewhere.

And lets stop talking about microbenchmarks, ok? I don’t use those. None of my claims are based on them.

> Or to be more specific, imagine starting with your proposed modification of the compiler and recompiling both an OS and all the applications. Would the resulting change in the performance be measurable or not? I honestly can't imagine how it wouldn't.

Yeah, that’s an experiment someone could try.

I think probabilistically so I don’t want to say that I believe that the experiment will definitely go one way or another. But I can give you my odds:

- 20% chance you see a speedup of any kind, and only 5% chance it’ll be uncontroversial (remember when you test big shit, somethings will be faster and others slower and you’ll have noise - so good chance you’ll see data that makes you feel like something is just wrong).
- 80% chance that speedup is less than a quarter of the speedup if you hadn’t pinned down the register.
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I am no lawyer, but I was told this still is "third party tracking cookies" which is what the GDPR is about.
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Well at least for this:

> We are excited that the Nlnet Foundation has sponsored this work!
>You could watch 100 videos of disgusting malpractices in restaurant kitchens and begin to think you should never eat in a restaurant again.

If you did that, and then decided we needed either better laws concerning food safety, or better enforcement of existing laws... where is the logical issue? If someone was to make the argument that a certain tolerance of bad food handling is to be allowed, then we would need to know the rate to know if we needed to make changes, but if the view point is that no restaurant should be engaging in that behavior then I don't particularly see the issue.
Sorry I can't remember! I was thinking of a short story by either Clarke or Asimov
What a clever way to make more sales.

1) people are dismantling goods, then ringing for advice but being embarrassed they broke it, then rebuying when we refuse advice,

2) tell people not to dismantle it, they'll get curious and do the opposite,

3) ...

4) pro-fit!
> I guess a bit like reading a single story on Quora about going to prison, or surviving an aircrash - you can pretty much expect your daily digest to be full of those for the next 3 weeks.

Man, this but on Youtube. There is a definite chilling effect, where I don't click on ANY ads or anything that looks targeted or served solely because I don't want to get spammed for for the next month. You click one video about Joe Rogan and then it's all you see.

When Jordan Peterson got big I broke down and watched a couple of his vids to see what he was about. And holy crap I got nothing but conservative videos spewed at me for weeks, PragerU ads for months. Even now I'm hesitant to watch any BLM, COVID, or anything that's trending because the algo will just spew more crap at me.
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As a mere mortal, I am more interested in their podcast than their products. :)
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A theoretical possibility: Apple could make Bootcamp support Windows on ARM. I don't know that they'll do it, but they could and it would be interesting.

The choice will also say something about how Apple views these ARM Macs: Are they iPhone-esque devices made exclusively for Apple software, or are they (relatively) open-ended computing platforms capable of booting alternate operating systems?
I think they were trying to keep Unicode fitting into 16 bits. We later gave that up, but now it's kinda too late to go back and de-unify.
Rendering is a textbook example of implicit parallelism so scaling with transistor count will keep going even if CPU single core performance and synchronisation bottlenecks slows down progress
I think a lot of the pushback against this library, is in how it is marketing itself.

On the homepage, you cannot tell what it is (i clicked around as well, still no idea). It looks like it is a CSS framework, but it claims it is not without clarifying what it is.

For many engineers, myself included, that ticks all the wrong boxes thus making it under deliver if it is not the greatest thing since slice bread.
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No because the goal is to have public safety organizations that don't have any of the personnel, historical lineage or goals of the police. By poor analogy, the goal isn't to clone facebook its to make a twitter,Instagram,telegram,etc. Different orgs with different goals with different people ultimately focused on public safety.
They would probably say ok, it must be declared officially by the WHO. For custom bets the conditions tend to be pretty clear on when the "win" counts.
$30/mo vs $99/year, are you seeing something I'm not?