skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The key issues are instead police unions, lack of police training in the US, impunity for police abuses, etc

Police unions, poor training and qualified immunity are really serious issues - but ones that are intractable to fight for on the national stage due to political gridlock. Just breaking up the unions as they stand right now and enforcing transparent employment history for law enforcement would make worlds of difference, but the action can't be taken unilaterally by a particular district - that district can ensure that incident reports are preserved but officers moving into the district may have had their employment history purged.

Defunding the police is an actual policy decision that can be made on a local scale to address issues of over policing and start reinvesting in crime prevention rather than punishment.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
They were forced to allow AMD early on to have a second source to sell to .gov, and since then AMD has gained enough patents that they need to cross licence.
The "no-shortage-if-you-pay-enough" dog has caught up to the car, and now the proponents need to show the US citizens can indeed fill many of these positions.

I think it will be a unfortunate denouement for both industry and research.
mDNS would be used for the internal network to discover hosts. The proxy server would terminate SSL using a LetsEncrypt certificate before forwarding traffic to one of the internal nodes (discovered via mDNS).
After outcry, Apple will let developers challenge App Store guidelines
Is there a BEP to make this work for native torrents too?

Also I don't understand the name "Web3torrent", is it intended to indicate a new version?
I assume it's a reference to rising temperature. Thermometers used to contain mercury which expands when heated.
I suspect they aren't going to rule out external GPUs, they were just demonstrating the platform capability without them.

The whole presentation struck me as a big middle finger to Intel and just Intel.
That site looks amazing. It only seems to be state-level though. Do you know if it (or any other site) has aggregated local (city- or county-level) data?
I disagree, I think that's how we should expect dialogues to proceed. To uncritically accept any evidence presented to you is a much less effective method for reaching the truth.
Every app looks like the old iTunes, which had an appalling interface. I don’t understand this at all.
Another common issue is the lack of scroll bars or other UI hints like shadows means it's often impossible to know when/if you can scroll.
Perhaps better government assistance in finding donors would be nice? It shouldn't have to involve people going directly to social media so they can tell the whole world about their medical condition.
You should recheck that assumption and watch some of their old tech talks. They made some good pivots and had to move quickly to scale with the growth they had.
It's a reference to a mercury (the element) thermometer. When the temperature rises, the mercury rises.

It's been decades since mercury thermometers were common for the average person. We'll need to update our idioms!
Boomers trying to explain 4chan is anything but great journalism.
It was debian, and in the state of the union talk, they called it out as an ARM build of debian.
I was looking at the benchmarks of the latest MacBook Air here [1]. In GPU performance it's not competitive with the iPad Pro, and that's quite an understatement. For me the most obvious win of this migration to "Apple Silicon" will be that entry-level MacBook/iMac will have decent GPU performance, at long last...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/macbook-air-2020-rev...
Hey I still want to exciting watch movies with story lines, no matter what Cameo does.
No problem. Check out r/unixporn and r/kde on Reddit, too, there seems to be a trend of some users mimicking macOS flows on there.
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For the last few versions of iOS, MacOS has felt somewhat old-fashioned, lacking things I've grown to really appreciate on my phone and iPad like the Control Center. I'm glad that is now coming to MacOS. This feels like a much-needed facelift.

I'm glad is isn't a polished XFCE, there are a lot of options for people who like this sort of thing already, just run Linux. In its current state, Linux on the desktop is definitely not for me, but then, I like the touchbar (as a software engineer, even), I like their new keyboard better than the pre-USB-C one (the butterfly one was terrible though), I'm fine with four TB3/USB-C ports, I don't miss MagSafe much. I like not having to bother with a myriad settings, because the defaults are usually just fine and most things can't be fine-tuned anyway.

Big Sur seems to be a really interesting spin on a desktop iOS that embraces and extends the security and UX concepts from iOS, but for keyboard/mouse and without being so locked-down and constrained. From what they've shown so far, I like it.

Now please have iPadOS become more like MacOS – that would be terriffic.
That's weird, I remember doing the opposite - he only survives if you fight it out with him. Is GP's save bugged or am I having Mandela effect?

States as such here (Spoilers, of course): [0]

[0]: https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Denton#2052
Something about this really skeeves me out, and I'm having a hard time articulating why.

The whole thing just seems really cheap (in a non-monetary) and seedy.

I guess it's just the final nail in the coffin of old Hollywood stardom, where stars may as well have been on another plane of existence.
No one has mentioned so far that there are many variety of durian, which has different smells. Another factor is how ripe the durian is. For example, probably anyone could eat a montong durian that's not too ripe. The kind and ripeness that is most popular seems to vary by country as well.
I mean, this is an issue in every company on the planet, not sure why you single out tech. If anything large tech companies have the best IC paths out there.
Hmmm curiously, just read a book about how Freud brought about modernity and was conscious of how people would keep looking for some life guidance even though he had basically got rid of Tradition/Culture.

That said, keep looking, it has been terribly helpful for me to have someone who can analytically call on any bullshit I tell myself. I've learned to catch a lot of my patterns myself, but this guy simply catches the ones I miss or helps me understand why something is troubling me. I'd say our conversations are pretty balanced in who is speaking.
They explicitly said they don't want to do that, for reasons that really aren't clear. There are a LOT of companies that want to be able to mix developers and reporters, but can't because the price is astronomical for zero benefit. So they live with a lower tier (likely free).

Doesn't make sense.
You are actually mistaken yourself. Green cards do not depend on non-immigrant status, being an immigrant visa. Thousands of people (at least 50000 DVs + CP EB and FB) get these visas, arrive to the country for the first time and become LPR without using any non-immigrant visa.
Apple has an absurd amount of money.
Wages are not considered at all for Canadian Express Entry. Only a job offer in and of itself.
This isn't exclusive to exotic fruit either.

In a trip to central Washington, I bought a flat of Pluots (plum/apricot hybrids), and they were one of the most profound things I have ever eaten. So sweet and juicy, they almost burst like water balloons when you took a bite.

Less than four hours away from where they are grown, I have yet to find any varieties with the same magic available in grocery stores. They good ones are simply too delicate and too short lived.

It ends up being worth the trip every year to go when they are in season.
How close are we to a feasible space elevator? Once we have something that can withstand the forces involved, we can just ride up to space for a fraction of the energy and cost, and start our propulsion from orbit instead of the surface.
No. They have already leverged as much as possible to profit as much as possibe.
Which abolitionist tactics do you think were likely to result in the best outcome per death / misery?
This seems to be yet another variation of the classic, mistaken belief that "your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail" [0].

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[0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
Interesting. I've got mixed feelings about this, as Echo VR (multiplayer) is definitely one of my most played VR games. If you have a VR headset, it's definitely something worth checking out.

On one hand, "boo facebook", on the other, hopefully this will give the Ready At Dawn developers a chance to deliver an excellent Lone Echo 2 experience without worrying so much about financial stress.

Again, if you have a chance, Echo Arena and Echo Combat are in my humble opinion, the absolute best VR games on the market today, rivaled only by HL: Alyx. The unique zero-g locomotion is something that needs to be lived to understand. Being able to just grab onto any surface, push yourself off in the direction you want to float, and then mix it up with thrilling ender's-game style gameplay is something so completely amazing (albeit, nauseating to some) that I'm surprised that it is not much more top tier and talked about much more.
Unless you're using DoH, in most cases the browser is using the device's stub resolver just like all other apps on the device.
>Does anyone here know how video platforms like Twitch managed to get started considering how expensive cloud data transfer pricing is?

A very high quality stream at the start of Twitch was 2500 kbps. Viewership numbers were much smaller. This meant that bandwidth costs were significantly lower.

Back then ad revenue was much higher per user. Ad block wasn't common and I'm pretty sure ads paid more. This essentially allowed Twitch (and YouTube) to grow to become big enough.

Streaming sites before Twitch/JustinTV were even lower video quality. Eg livestream. We're talking about 480p looking good in comparison. Even the audio quality on those was poor.

Twitch actually had a great competitor in own3d.tv, but they had a lot of trouble paying out to the streamers. That eventually sank them.
> Well that and the fact that tech website users basically complain about every UI change. Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience.

.... Yeah, that's pretty much true, and for very good reason. Every time an interface changes, it forces people to stop using the system and figure out the new interface. As such, while it is possible to make changes that are beneficial enough to justify the cost, UI changes are very expensive and you'd better have a very good reason to justify breaking everyone's workflow. And by that standard, yes; XFCE is nearly perfect. It's been on the 4.x series since 2003, and going by screenshots I strongly suspect that even a user from XFCE 3.x would find the very latest version to be a drop-in replacement. And it does have decent quality, which combined with its general "get out of the way and let me work" vibe and 20 years of continuity makes it easily one of the best options available.
And what, exactly, does all of this have to do with ARM vs x86?

> Locked down to oblivion, everything requiring to be signed, no i-know-what-im-doing option in the settings anywhere to just disable everything and get on with your day.

If you really know what you are doing, you should know how to disable and enable SIP.
2 summers ago when Ninja was really popular I did a back of the envelop calculation on total viewer hours over a year and it was roughly the same as a season of the Big Bang Theory.

Obviously not comparable for a variety of reasons (viewer quality, syndication, youtube clips) but that show was spending 100+ million on just the main cast.
Reinventing History (was: Introduction to HTML 3.2 (PostScript)) (1996)
Longan and papaya are pretty easy to find in New Orleans if you know where to look.

In the Indian subcontinent a common phrase is "the jackfruit is still on the tree and you've already put oil on your lips/mustache" meaning don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched.
On my laptop, scrolling through Discord's GIF list can cause Chrome and Discord to hard-lock until I kill the GPU process. Possibly because of a bug in AMD's GPU drivers on Windows.
Poisonous?
DEC reborn.
Why are new features in apps mentioned in an OS update? It is a recent trend but I recall being able to upgrade to Office 2003 from 2000 without requiring an entire new OS.

These days, they talk about tiny features in one of the apps (eg. Messages) as if it’s a giant new feature of the OS. Application software is not system software!
Yes, Electron is a bit of a battery hog. But the Slack app itself is horrendous. If you read through their API docs and then try to figure out how to recreate the app, you'll see why. The architecture of the API simply does not match the functionality of the app, so there is constant network communication, constant work being done in the background, etc.
This is pretty awesome. Kind of like a better catalogue of code-pen examples. I'm always trying to find snippets for small UI components, but I can't stand browsing code-pen directly.
I'm sure I'm missing something. This is saying, for analog, if you can't find the right IC, then build that part of the circuit from discrete components.

That's true, but seems obvious, and I don't know of a practical general alternative for low volumes.
Using influenza surveillance networks to estimate SARS-CoV-2 in the US
I don't know what you mean. Maybe you just don't pay attention?

A few years ago transactions were limited to 15 transactions per second, today there are multiple ways to achieve thousands of transactions per second[1]. A few years ago privacy didn't exist and now there are multiple ways to achieve privacy [2][3]. A few years ago end users had to remember long complicated strings to send a transfer or to restore their wallets and now there are easy ways to transfer to human readable names [4] and social wallet recovery [5] if you lose your funds or make a mistake. Argent alone is a huge increase in usability for end users.

There are more but if you even look at these metrics then things are improving at a great clip. Faster than the early web even.

[1] https://medium.com/matter-labs/evaluating-ethereum-l2-scalin...
[2] https://tornado.cash/
[3] https://www.aztecprotocol.com/
[4] https://ens.domains/
[5] https://www.argent.xyz/
No, it really doesn't. If anything, your observation of "low paying", which is often a defining characteristic of "gig" work, is sufficient to not to apply the term to more general contract-work employment situations. It is much more comparable to consider them in the same category as "temp worker". Enough so that the wikipedia page for is flagged as a candidate for for the two to be merged.
I can build out a backend with a microframework and sqlite in no time. Why doesn't every company just throw out all the frameworks (or frameworks disguised as libraries) and just do what I did?

Because it doesn't scale for large projects and is impossible to work on with larger teams. Rails may seem bloated to some people, but if you are creating a set of complex business rules that constantly change and cost too much to rewrite with the framework flavor of the day, it makes a lot of sense.
You can steal features. You can't steal an entire platform + userbase.
Their dev documentation states that rosetta is only for user mode emulation.
> Being all-remote makes it harder to get acquired

Do you think this has changed amid the pandemic, though?

Wouldn't having a proven remote workforce actually increase your desirability?
Things are more complicated now but after the Civil War, during Reconstruction, the Federal government began to pass various criminal and civil laws in defense of freedmen. Technically these laws were superfluous to state laws, but necessary as state laws weren't enforced fairly, including in state courts. But after marshal law, these Federal laws had to be narrowly tailored to fit within the powers granted by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments--e.g. addressing lynching. The Federal government had no jurisdiction to enforce general criminal laws, and technically it's still similarly constrained, though the boundaries have been pushed out considerably.

The now famous law (currently 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act) granting people a Federal civil remedy for harms by state officials was part of this trend. Though, until the 1960s it was rarely used as Federal courts often interpreted it to apply only when a state-based remedy was unavailable or if the officer was directly enforcing an unconstitutional state law. It was [liberal] "judicial activism" that changed the precedents and made that law more readily available. And then [conservative] "judicial activism" that created Qualified Immunity, partially neutering it all over again.[1]

State based anti-hate laws seem to have come about as a way to 1) signal to the community a newfound or renewed commitment to apply laws more fairly and 2) focus resources on certain categories of crime that the community deemed especially egregious.

[1] People lauded Justice Thomas' dissent to the refusal to grant certiorari for a Qualified Immunity case. But if you read his actual dissent he not only believes QI to be wrong, but also suggests the court should revisit the 1961 case, Monroe v. Pape, that actually gave S. 1983 teeth. Overturning Pape would be worse than Qualified Immunity in terms of the ability for harmed citizens to hold police officers accountable.
Isn't that basically the same thing as just having data collecting companies pay users directly?
> You're just a rookie here so lose the attitude and read the guidelines.

Don't the guidelines say to be civil?
I will admit that it's a privileged position to even have the opportunity to think about broader inequality. My personal needs are thoroughly met, and that's why I'm in a position to make personal decisions based on this stuff. Lots of people's needs aren't being met, and I'd never blame them for putting those above abstract ideals.

But it sounds like inequality and the abuse of power are the very things you escaped, no? Surely you at least sympathize with those still in that situation, whether your current circumstances allow you to take any action on it or not?
I agree that going outside, especially when wearing a mask and staying socially distanced, does not seem especially risky. Public officials in Southern California have generally been accepting of outdoor activity, so long as it hasn't involved large groups gathering. I have avoided it myself because I have family members in elevated risk groups. (Although, in truth, I think we are all to some degree.)

The thing that would worry me most about the Huntington Beach photo (being familiar with that spot) is not being on the beach. It would be getting too and from the beach. You're going to be shoulder to shoulder with others once your ascend from the sand and get back on PCH.

The other part of the risk equation is the consequences of catching COVID-19. It reminds me of Taleb's Black Swan characterization: small risks predominate but potentially catastrophic consequences in the event. And an accumulation of lots of small risks as people ellide long-tail risks and treat them as no risk at all.

I get the impression from online chatter (mainly Reddit) that most people around here are catching it working in hospitals or restaurants. I recognize it's an unreliable sampling. I wonder if it would help keep people safe if local health officials categorized sources of infection. I suspect they couldn't do so in most the US right now even if they wanted to.

Vox, by the way, put out a nice simple guide on the topic:

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/22/21266756/coronavirus-pandemic-...
I live in Vancouver and ~1/2 of my salary goes to rent. In Seattle, my rent was ~1/3 of my salary. I don't think Canada is even beginning to compete in terms of Salary.
History being made!
My wife's family is from SE Asia and I always eat way more fruit than normal when visiting. It's always cheap, plentiful and high quality.

Star fruit are one of my favorites. Kind of a crunchy, tart apple flavor.
John Brown was recognized as a hero by his contemporaries.
Hilariously, in Singapore jackfruit is banned on public transport because it smells so awful. I tried some of this though and it it's not a flavor that I had tasted before. Hard to describe but really good if you could hold your nose for the smell.
How long till deepfakes make this obsolete?
> if(!sync() || !sync() || !sync()) return SWBB_FAIL;

I don't know why, but I find this really elegant. It's a lovely use of short-circuit returns combined with the electrical protocol to find the frame initialiser (3 syncs) that marks the start of a valid frame.

This is a really cool implementation!
Those are IP packet TTLs. Also useful in some cases for diagnosing mysterious RSTs and SYNs. Also useful in some cases to purposefully set low if there is route flapping.
You need 8 hours of sleep?
I don't think it's your machine, although I hadn't tested this until now because I almost never use shuffle. :)

I think the problem is that they're indicating state by toggling between your chosen accent color and black. If your accent color is, say, pink, the difference is pretty obvious, but if your accent color is relatively dark, like blue or purple, it's harder to see. It seems like they could solve this by toggling between the accent color and gray, or "lighting up" a solid roundrect of the accent color around the control when it's on.
From what I've of FB comments, this is almost entirely untrue.

Look at all the dumb things people say with their real names on Twitter as well.

Discussion is civil when you actually cultivate civil discussion, not when you force people to use real names.
Douglass directly confronts and addresses this, if you read the source.
Yes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24325083/
Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good'
They’ll pass the savings onto the consumers though right?? I mean, a fully specced MacBook costs over £3000 which seems expensive...

Here’s hoping anyway!!
We already have that https://mynorthwest.com/152537/growing-number-of-seattle-nei...
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Twitch caps the bitrate at 6k ¹

[1] https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/guide-to-broadcast-health-a...