skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of crime? Violent? Non-violent?

The US has more murders than Europe for sure. This is the simplest statistic to collect, because the definition of a dead body doesn't vary, and in any functional country almost all of them end up in the morgue.

For other violent crimes like assault it's not so clear, by some numbers Canada & UK lead the US. Maybe it's easier to punch someone if you don't need to worry that he may have a gun. Or maybe the police record similar events differently, or never hear about some events.

For rape IIRC Sweden is the only western country which makes the world top 10, the US is way down the list. But this has under-reporting problems everywhere, and perhaps much larger ones some places than others.
> A lot of people are bemoaning this move from the viewpoint in the Valley.

Even from the Valley perspective, the picture is more nuanced.

Business leaders from the Valley are fully aware of H-1B restrictions on job mobility and take plenty of advantage of it. Particularly the fact that the huge GC backlogs for employees from India and China allows a version of indentured servitude they can take advantage of.

After the 2014 State of the Union address there were plans[1] to provide EAD[2] to people on Greencard backlogs, allowing them to switch jobs with less friction. This was torpedoed by Tech business leaders. Also, notice how little attention Tech leadership puts on Greencard backlogs (and the H4 kids who will age out) and contrast that against the crocodile tears they shed for DACA, Muslim ban etc.

[1] Executive Action: Support High-skilled Business and Workers - http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_...

[2] Employment Authorization Document - https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-pr...
Not really, OS X supports PowerPC and Intel (32 and 64 bits) at various stages in it's lifetime.
In France, there are definitely a few. There are places where even the fire brigade gets attacked. That's why they're called "no-go zones". The police can still go there but only with heavy means; you can't just send a random police car with two cops there, you need special units in riot gear.

The French term commonly used in the media is "zones de non droit" meaning "areas outside of the law" or sometimes, perhaps more politically charged, "territoire perdus de la république" (the republic's lost territories).

Officially they are known under various names that start with "zone". Currently the official term is "zones de sécurité prioritaire" (areas of priority security).

Those areas generally correspond to the areas that most countries warn about in their advice to travelers when it comes to France.

They exist in other European countries as well under similar names.
In practice, in mostly countries that use STV PR, you have smaller electoral districts, for this reason. For instance, in Ireland, electoral districts elect 3-5 TDs depending on population. This is big enough to make gerrymandering difficult and not very effective, but small enough to avoid the situation where someone has to cast 53 different votes. And 53 would be the low end here, really. That would assume you only want to vote for one candidate per seat, which is not typically the way it works out. I'm in a four seat constituency and voted about ten preferences in the last election, say.

In practice, in STV PR it is generally optimal to vote for almost everyone on the ballot; you give low preferences to people you don't care about to avoid people you actively don't want getting in (it's commonly claimed that you should optimally give a preference to everyone, even those you actively don't want, but this is incorrect).
I think there must be a place "outside" where you can talk about it. Somewhere were people do not know the facts of your country and so on. And have less bias about it.
> I guess an architecture change was as good a reason as any to revert back to a normal, sane versioning system where the first number increments like most programs. But it's just weird how "unannounced" or unacknowledged it is.

There are many ways to version software.

They changed the major version from 9 to 10 when they went from classic Mac OS to the NeXTSTEP-based Mac OS X.

Arguably they could have bumped the major version a couple of times between them and now, for example when they dropped support for the PPC architecture back in 10.6 Snow Leopard. Likewise, when they deprecated Carbon in 10.8 Mountain Lion (alternatively, with the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina when Carbon was officially discontinued and removed entirely). And probably they could have had other major version bumps along the way too.

Nonetheless, the fact that they didn’t hasn’t really seemed that strange to me for a long while, given like I said, that there are a lot of ways to version software.

Choosing Big Sur as the name for the first major version bump in a long while seems like no coincidence to me.

From the Wikipedia article about Big Sur, California:

> It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery. Big Sur has been called the "longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the contiguous United States," a "national treasure that demands extraordinary procedures to protect it from development" and "one of the most beautiful coastlines anywhere in the world, an isolated stretch of road, mythic in reputation."

> The stunning views, redwood forests, hiking, beaches, and other recreational opportunities have made Big Sur a popular destination for about 7 million people who live within a day's drive and visitors from across the world. It is among the top 35 tourist destinations world-wide.

> The region receives about the same number of visitors as Yosemite National Park [...]

Seems to me that the release of this version of macOS is a big deal to Apple, and I would agree that it is. With the introduction of their upcoming computers that will be running ARM CPUs, I can see how they would want to signify that this is something really worth noting both in the version number and in the name.

Personally I am really excited to see these new upcoming computers, and to use them and the macOS 11 Big Sur.
No. Not at all.

Because there is always a infinite amount of work to do.

Usually you do the most rewarding work.

With no money involved, then it is usually the most fun part.

And with money, it is what other people want. That can be the same, but does not need to.
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Reflections from a Week of Vagabonding (Pt. 2)
The software versions are never mentioned and since the article says "cwebp only supports TGA input" I suspect that's a very old build of cwebp.
The Poetry of Science
The payment scheme of the future will be something where a digital product is created and then kept locked up until it’s unlocked by Kickstarter style fundraising. Each individual person gets something they want (the digital product) in exchange for their money, just like before. But under this model, everything might be open source by default, the product only costs society what it is worth (unlike current digital products like movies and songs) and the convoluted nightmare of drm and each-tv-network-has-their-own-subscription-service can finally die.
Yet another person allowing others to control their life, sad, very sad.
> leading off with the problems, and giving the students time to grapple with the problems without the answers

Sounds good, but how do you get them to grapple? You only turned "tell people the solution to a problem they don't have" to "tell people of a problem they don't have". I don't see how this (alone) will make a difference.
Typically bulemia and terrorism content isn't promoted through paid advertisements.

A lot of problems in the world if we could wave a magic wand and give everyone critical thinking skills, but without that wand, throwing every vulnerable teenager into the deep end of toxic content will mean that some drown.
Valve doesn't seem particularly worried about it either. Steam's macOS support has always felt like an afterthought -- they've put more effort into supporting the miniscule number of users on Linux (through efforts like Proton) than macOS.
When you said “2 dimensions” I assumed you were referring to the spacial dimensions X,Y.

Reading the rest of your comment, it appears you were referring to transistor parameters?

Edit: corrected tapographical error to spacial.
There have been 10 million confirmed cases and probably 10x that many infections with very few reports of longer term adverse impacts.
Easy when you’re not a criminal.

Who will enforce this anyways?
When did you check last?

Nothing about the photographs I have seen of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market suggests "outdoors".
> Is the Privacy Policy link broken? It just links to https://www.economicliberties.us

When I click the link in the hamburger menu, I'm getting sent to https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/privacy-policy/.

Edit 1: looks like they're affiliated: https://www.economicliberties.us/about/:

> The American Economic Liberties Project launched in February 2020 to help translate the intellectual victories of the anti-monopoly movement into momentum towards concrete, wide-ranging policy changes that begin to address today’s crisis of concentrated economic power.

> Economic Liberties is led by Sarah Miller, who served as the Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute and has been recognized as “one of the primary architects of the modern antitrust movement.” As concern over concentrated economic power has broadened beyond the community of antitrust reformers, Economic Liberties has quickly grown into a hub for organizing a diverse set of leading policy experts and advocates in areas impacted by concentrated power, ranging from community development to national security to entrepreneurship.

Edit 2: it looks like their privacy policy (https://www.economicliberties.us/privacy-policy/) is boilerplate language that appears identically on by many, many other sites. For instance:

https://www.andrewcuomo.com/privacy

https://clairemccaskill.com/privacy-policy/

https://plantshopgr.com/privacy.html

https://www.missourigreenparty.org/privacy_policy
Maybe it's a UI thing. I only watch individual stories, from the left pane, because I really don't care about watching someone's story who I haven't talked to in six months -- if they're scrolled out of that view I probably don't care about them that much.
> Why compare with Seattle?

Because if Seattle has significantly higher wages, the best talent will move to Seattle.
> And now that balance has tipped away from the power-user, the developers, to the end-user

What do you mean by that? (Personally, I can't think of anything I can't do now that I could do five or ten years ago on my Mac. Yet a lot of things are better.)
That was probably a fair assessment a decade ago, but Linux seriously "just works" now. About a year ago I bought a Dell XPS 13, I've thrown Pop!_OS on there, and it worked out of the box, no driver downloads, no sneakernetting Wi-Fi drivers, no codec installs, no track-pad problems (two fingers to right click works!), no scaling issues, no 3rd party repos. It just works. (I'm sure FOSS folks may dislike the distribution of 3rd party binaries, but I don't use Linux because I'm a FOSS purist.)

Pop!_OS comes with a built-in tiling manager you can toggle on that completely changes the game for development. If you have never used a tiling manager, you owe it to yourself to do it at least once. The built in software manager is excellent, and is the one-stop-shop for installing VSCode, Android Studio, Steam, Chromium and IntelliJ all at once. No finding/adding repos, automatic updates, it just works.

Even gaming (on Steam and Lutris) is a breeze. It honestly requires zero tinkering (on Steam at least) to get 90% of my library to run (including AAA titles.) If you haven't used desktop Linux since 2010, it is a radically different experience. It honestly is easier to use and get what I want it to do than a MBP today.

(Disclaimer, I'm sure mileage varies depending on your environment, hardware, and chosen distro, just sharing my experience. I prefer to compare the XPS + Linux experience to MBP + macOS)
I think the Chinese text that comes out confuses Google translate. I took the whole first sentence of Hamlet's soliloquy which compressed to 䮛趁䌆뺜㞵蹧泔됛姞音逎贊 and plugged that into Google Translate. It came back with "Commendation." The reverse translation is 表彰
You could also ask the people you serve with. I believe a chomsky approach to our lives is very important. Its useful to have a diverse set of friends and colleagues because through multiple view points you have a chance at understanding more of the world.
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Instead of blurring faces in photos of protests, Google Street View, etc., blur them and then upscale them, so they don't have the jarring blur effect but still anonymize.
I don't know anything about this database, but this link did break the browser <back> button. Perhaps you can look into fixing that in a future release.
I don't count that as purchasing Windows. In the same way the cost of Linux support for my computer is included in the hardware purchase because AMD paid engineers to write drivers.

I'd count consciously giving money for a license as paying for the license, because the argument is about the attitude.
Except the compilation time of course
Unfortunately just the kind of experience you can expect when buying non-open systems. Company loses interest in hardware - it can stop everyone developing for it. If they would at least open it up for sideloading so the hardware isn't doomed to become electronic trash.
There are a lot of comments here essentially saying this is not a problem an we are properly reaching herd immunity.

I am wondering if these commenters are discounting the possibility of a vaccine? There is a strong possibility that we will have a vaccine before we can safely reach herd immunity.
Do you have some kind of obligation to read the advertisement sections of a newspaper that gets delivered to your home for free?
Imagine (at current buying power of the $, including rent and everything; not saying that this is or isn't realistic) that everyone who's employed makes at least $100k/year, and unemployment is below 5% again. But at the same time there are pockets (perhaps even sizeable pockets) of people that make shit ton more. Do you think so many would be angry at the system?

The point is while "technically" (via some precise mathematical measure involving the entire wealth or income distribution) the inequality may be huge, if you can feel safe you'll not be very angry. "Safety" involves really basic things: shelter, healthcare, food, social purpose.
Promoted to Dev Team: What they didn't tell me
I am very likely naive in these circumstances, but I honestly don't understand how cancel culture can work at all. So there are some voices on twitter who loudly express their immature mob mentality. Why don't all the sane people just block them and ignore them, and then go on with their lives as if nothing happened?
I have done that on a 2009 as well, but that is a slow machine at this point. I don't think I've used it beyond 2014. I have a 2015 around that I still use and works perfectly fine, but so does the 2018 which is lighter. Neither need upgrades or changes to do they work they are doing.

I did upgrade someone's 2015 in 2018 with a bigger SSD because they needed 2TB and it wasn't available at that time (they were on 512) and they used it as a local buffer for footage before offloading. Because they only have USB3 or TB3 drives and no TB2 drives, the multiple transfers on that MBP are too time consuming to do in the field.
And police could have resolved this peacefully but chose to escalate the situation with someone who was terrified of them because they were incapable of understanding why she would be scared of them, and in doing so creates more fear when people see how police may treat them.

UK police are generally quite good at de-escalating situations they understand. I've praised them for that many times. E.g. they will go into situations with completely irate people without weapons, and rely on deescalation to bring it under control.

What was it about this situation that prevented this officer from doing that? I've seen first hand that UK police are fully capable of being far more patient in far more serious situations. What was the urgency here?

The police officer chose to escalate in a situation where the suspect was calm until he acted, and where his basis for wanting to search her vehicle in the first place was her fear reaction.

Police need to be able to handle people with mental health issues, so whether or not you think her fear was justified, their way of handling it demonstrated a total failure of compassion in a situation where they had no basis for knowing why she was expressing fear.

The issue remains all too often entirely blind to this kind of fear because they don't believe it is real and fail to understand it, and reacts by making all kinds of flawed conclusions, like in this case where the footage shows signal after signal that her fear of him is genuine, and his response is to assume the only explanation is that she is hiding something.

As we know in retrospect, he demonstrated that he can not be relied on to make that kind of judgement.
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This makes no sense! Storage and RAM requirements have steadily increased, and costs have gone down dramatically. On the other hand, keyboard technology has not improved massively, and CPU speeds aren't significantly different.
> I literally can think of no reason I personally would want to do this

Being able to swap out RAM and storage and battery from factory-provided can extend the lifetime (and even increase the performance capacity) of a given machine at nothing more than the cost of the new parts. And Apple used to make it pretty easy to do this, and enough people did that there was a subeconomy of vendors selling for this purpose, although of course there were full-service options for people who literally couldn't imagine doing it themselves.

This also meant that downtime wasn't controlled by Apple Store service availability (literally had a drive fail on me once, had my bootable backup, swapped it into the machine, good to go).

And on a number of occasions I've done more complex replacements, a DVD drive here, a keyboard there. I can see why most people wouldn't want to do those, they're a giant pain, but having the option can be empowering.

What's actually hard to think of, if one is thinking, is what Apple has gained in return for this. I can kinda squint and see that irregular (and therefore, perhaps, less efficiently swappable) battery shapes have some credible advantages, but the rest of the marginal ounce-gains and dimensional-golf scores belong to a category of diminishing returns.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into it!
I was talking about an aspect of the ethical standard for journalism in The Netherlands; not the law.
I hit the reverse button again, and got "recognition" which translated back to 承认 which finally got into a closed loop to recognition and back to the same Chinese text.
Even if you don't use them they'll collect data on you in many different ways:

- "like" and "share" buttons on completely unrelated web sites that track your IP when your web browser downloads the images for these buttons or runs the associated javascript

- people you know tagging you in photos they upload of you to these sites

- recaptchas on unralated sites that collect data about your IP, browser fingerprint, and site you're visiting

There are doubtlessly many, many, many other techniques they (and sites and companies you probably have no idea are owned by them and that feed data back in to them) use that don't require you to be on their sites to cyberstalk and spy on you.
WebP also supports animation, which is important because GIFs are notoriously large.
No; you just have no compatibility whatsoever.
The way it looks now, a self-hosted gogs with a nojs patch may be the way forward. The application-specific part (gogs.js) is <2kloc and it's already rendering stuff on the server. I'm giving it a few weeks before I've had enough...
That's fine, but to out bid bing, you only have to outbid bing. Microsoft have been forced to divest under this new antitrust regime. A maybe yahoo or askjeeves will come to the rescue?

And remember, to improve chrome extension support, you need chrome to get more money from the new sponsor than they got from the Google, one of the richest companies on earth...
Can you please give me feedback on my podcast? It is more related to India
Literally from the article I linked to above:

> A consultant psychiatrist’s note says Bennett had a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder from a serious house fire and is likely to have been unable to comply with police instructions because she was experiencing a severe panic attack.
Looks fun. Is there (optional) IPv6 on front?
I'd pay $250 or $1000 for just using Arch month by month. Bear in mind I actually do, I donate $1200 plus to "Linux" or open source in general, per month, because I like it so much.

Haphazardly donating ~~ $1200 per month, and many times; more, but that's about it. It's a donate system I know this, put your money where your hearts is or are. Which could be anywhere. But that's my plan and in retrospects. Donate people, support whatever you want, whether it's Candy Crush for windows 8 or some other projects. I do. And have done. It's been going on for 14 years now. Donate people. Where you want to see either changes or stability.
> It actually wasn't designed as a security feature, but for speed. No matter what the OS does there's little need to continually load these DLLs from disk when we know they are already loaded to even display the desktop.

FWIW, this optimization is unnecessary on modern Unix systems with a unified buffer cache because libraries loaded from disk are already CoW'd into the user process, without the need for special semantics. It's a pertinent point, nonetheless, but I'm guessing Apple made the switch in macOS for other reasons, perhaps related to disk space, its less than ideal ASLR scheme for Mach-O, or something related to code signing and sandboxing.

I second the TOCTOU concern. It's a bad code smell and a poor habit to stat and then open a file, period. (Likewise for the more general pattern.) There are reasons to do it (some better than others), but they're exceptional. You should never be eager to do it, and when you do you should rule out all possible security exploits or bugs, which is usually more work than abstaining from the superfluous hack. Breaking such code patterns is worth the cost in backward compatibility, IMO, for all the exploits and usability headaches this coding pattern leads to.
Hey Tom!

Cool, maybe I'll have to buy an iPhone
Honest question. Why does nobody consider the fate of US university graduates that are up to their neck in debt and unable to find a job because companies would rather hire an H1B worker with 10 years working experience for cheap? There are large swathes of American workers that have been plunged into homelessness, drugs, or cannot feed their families because they lost their jobs to labor arbitrage. I understand that due to inherent bias, non US citizens couldn't care less about the fate US citizens but I believe it is abhorrent that an American citizen would balk at suspending H1Bs, especially in an economically tough time like this. If you have children or plan on having children, you're essentially selling out their future.
I used the App Store to install a couple apps once, and I didn't see the value add. It offers nothing (I care about) and can't comes with trade-offs I don't need, such as untimely updates.