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We have data on the incarceration rates of Americans as a whole, versus other countries.

I think the current activist climate is in response to the fact that the status quo is built on the premise that all that befalls the troubled populations in the US is always because they deserve it, and they brought it upon themselves. And therefore, all the prevailing cultural/ policing/ political/ fiscal positions that have been in response to these conditions are reasonable.

That doesn't seem reasonable to me.
I had to use Adobe Connect recently and they also had the option to install Adobe Connect as a desktop app that seemed awful lot like it was just Chrome/Electron with Flash preinstalled... Also no Linux support, which was fun to notice just before the meeting.
> A lot of these policing issues seems to come from progressive localities so I'm not sure it's even due to government unwillingness to solve the issues.

Part of the reason for this is that police unions fight vigorously against reform and police unions are powerful in local politics. That's why some police departments ended up getting disbanded by their municipalities to restart from the ground up.

It seems like opposition to body cams in general isn't strong, but the real fight will come when stronger laws are proposed for when body cams need to be on, penalties for not having them on, and when footage must be released.
So the "trick" to location satellite systems is super accurate and stable atomic clocks. Each satellite basically pings a timestamp out and you derive your location from the difference in when you receive which ping from several satellites.

So the issue would be "how much more expensive is it going to be to equip these satellites with those clocks?" There might well be enough other uses for accurate clocks on these to make upgrading whatever they do have worth it. They might not be that expensive anymore.

Apologies for any misunderstandings im suffering here.
There's a billiards simulator/game[1] that uses event prediction instead of step-based physics for realistic and reproducible results. It solves the equations of motion to find the next event, animates to that point, and continues until nothing is moving. This is feasible since there are only 16 balls and 1 cue tip, but I imagine that as computational power continues to increase, the scale of such simulations will increase too. I'm excited to see what's next :)

[1] - I read a paper that specifically talked about step-based vs event-prediction for billiards simulation, but I can't find it now :/ Virtual Pool 4 might use the system for its physics, but don't quote me on that!

P.S. - Unity has a pretty handy built-in CharacterController class that lets you move around while respecting collisions -- you just need to add your own Gravity. Also, for more advanced character movement, Catlike Coding has a great series of tutorials: https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/movement/
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Apple dropping Intel changes the way I feel about Graviton. I thought it was sort of a ploy from Amazon to maybe get better deals from Intel and AMD and to give them a fixed cost way to run their own stuff.

It makes me think that Intel's issues are substantially bigger than some process issues and maybe an architecture generational issue to be sorted out. These are two big, high profile customers that have lost the faith.
It's not perfect. Preprints are even less perfect. Just having a big finding based off of a single peer reviewed article is also a very bad idea. You really can't get much certainty until you've got dozens of papers and meta-analysis finding consistent threads, but people don't seem inclined to wait for that before reporting unfortunately
Buzzfeed uses a kinda misleading pull-quote from the analytics: "African American males made up the majority of protesters in the four observed cities vs. females".

The stat this refers to is gender ratio /amongst Black protestors only/; the overall racial mix of the protests really wasn't much different from their observed daytime (ie, control) racial mix.

FWIW, they also observe the same in-city out-of-city breakdown during the day and night, indicating that the 'bussed in protestor' fantasies of the right wing conspiracy machine were baseless. (though, really, that was pretty obvious anyway, and the tin-foil hats won't be convinced by any kind of evidence...)
I'd bet the some capacitors would go into fail mode way earlier than a moderate quality SSD would wear off.

Saying that: home, we've got 3 laptops - all of them have removable drives and 2 drive bays (3 if counting SATA2 optical drive). All of them have replaceable and upgradable ram. All of them have replaceable cpu (one has been upgraded as well). Replaceable keyboards, trackpads... and batteries too.

It's kind of new trend to make anorexic laptops with everything soldered straight to the PCB, and if you're Apple apply no conformal coating either.
I'm curious what your source is for that, because that's pretty remarkable, especially given the outcry about out-of-control military spending.
> In my experience, major label artists have an easier time getting on editorial playlists. ... But major label artists also only typically get 13% - 20% of streaming royalties… so there are still plenty of reasons to stay indie!

This is just like the tradeoff startups make when they choose to take VC.

Will giving up 80% of the company lead to the company being at least five times bigger? If so, then it seems worthwhile.
I would just call that a UI race condition. Desktop GUIs occasionally had them but anything mobile oriented is just so much worse.
That is the issue... Flash was not LIGHTWEIGHT! It was an obese messed that Adobe "NEVER" managed to control. Sure the files you pass from server to client was "somewhat" light weight but the player was breathing heavier than a fat man leaning over the buffet table!
The comments are revealing. People are having an emotional reaction that's preventing them from realizing any real way of addressing climate change will substantially change/reduce their living standards. I've had this conversation with people in real life and almost no one gets it at first.
How is 'dynamic payment for cellular services' the best technical option than ditching SIM altogether for WiFi and using encrypted apps for voice calls? More over, no handset level changes or changes to govt. policy is required, user can choose to not have a cellular provider(Parent link has couple of companies doing that in India).
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IMO a great example of this freedom is the Stephen Colbert character roasting Bush in person at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. This was when 9/11, Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Katrina, etc. were on peoples' minds at the time.

https://youtu.be/6ZnuYKKtpxg
Apparently if you're not dramatically over-charging for your consumer technology products, you can't afford brick-and-mortar locations. Those who do pay for the premium platform should realize that not (nearly) all of the additional cost goes into product quality.

Note that this discounts design superiority/inferiority.
My understanding (and personal opinion too) is that hybrid teams (half remote, half onsite) don't tend to work well. Most likely, the remote portion of the team will be left out of a lot small impromptu discussion that happen within the office. A solution is to force all conversation and discussions to happen via Slack/email but that makes a lot of small discussion not happen as the activation energy might be too high. Ultimately if you have a small portion of your team geographically removed from the rest of the team they might end up being left out a bit.

For example, let's say you have a team of 5 people, 4 people live in city A and 1 person lives in city B. It might be the case that the 4 people in city A meet up every week in person. They'll eventually form a closer working relationship with each other potentially leaving the person in city B out. Hashicorp's decision might be to try to prevent these kind of situations (for what it's worth I've heard about this Hashicorp rule by talking to people but I can't find anything online about it).
For manual repairs it's certainly viable for some components, but it takes some care to not end up with tiny passives stuck to everything - if you literally just shake (or more, likely, scrape) everything off the board you'll get an absolute mess. And then you don't know if things end up damaged (or were damaged before, if you're talking about e-waste). It's not really something that works at scale. Even in the simplest case it's labour-intensive, so it's not economical in the vast majority of cases. Not for SoCs, certainly not for smaller things that cost singular cents, or less.

To reuse components in new products you'd have to harvest, clean off the old solder paste (reball in the case of BGAs), and sort everything, and then repackage them for pick-n-placing again. And if you're talking about more than just Apple reusing Apple products, there's also quite a lot of varieties of components.
This appears to be the primary concern raised in the article. But surely data scientists could put in guards against this, such as weighting the crime count versus the time spent policing the area? In fact, presumably any functional predictive policing system must already do that, else you'd just tend towards policing one area incredibly intensively.

If they are concerned about the police arrest stats or racism biasing the data set, they could keep the input to something hard to interfere with, like where murders occur or where crimes are reported by the public, rather than where arrests occur.

My opinion is that predictive policing does need regulation, but banning it entirely, to me, seems like an overreaction that will over time result in much less effective use of police resources. I suppose time will tell.
Wow that's a complete misrepresentation of what I said, but the post was flagged so now nobody will ever know. I'm not going to repeat my original point, even though it was valid, on topic, and not abusive. HN censors absolutely everything that doesn't fall in line with the narrative.
> or crime is a function of income inequality

That depends how you measure. The total value of wage theft in the US is comparable to the total value of all other property theft combined.

https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft

Rich people commit lots of crime. They just get away with it more often than poor people, because rich people are under-policed.
Is there evidence for this though? The great crime decline in cities like NYC were due to increased policing and the “broken window” policy, along with stop & frisk.
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I used to sit on my friends porch when I was in college before pot was legalized, smoking. We are white people in a white area. If we had been black I have no doubt the increased police presence would have resulted in us getting arrested. There are tons of other stupid things I did when younger where if there had been more cops around I would have gone to jail. More police means more people are arrested for the same crimes committed with impunity in less policed areas.

In addition the fact that you can be arrested for resisting arrest means that if a police officer wants to arrest you they can do so and create a crime afterwards. Recent headlines have shown very vividly how police actively encourage and look for confrontations hoping to spark a reaction. In a high crime area, everyone is a criminal in much the same way everything looks like a nail to a hammer.

Imagine if this man had actually actively resisted the officer:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/24/man-su...
I regularly spend a week or two on a project which immediately begins showing increased revenue on the sites I work for, and that revenue accrues. I don't think that is expensive at all. In fact, I think my company is getting an incredible return on their investment in my labour. The same cannot be said for startups but I feel like the VAST majority of software development is done on projects where small changes are yielding increased revenue, decreased labour costs, better compliance with regulations, etc.
I don't necessarily think paradigms are the problem. The real problem is too much code is just that - too much code. Projects grow to huge sizes, and anyone under time pressure to either produce or extract code under business pressures is bound to get frustrated.

In an ideal world, regardless of the paradigm we choose, we should be looking to do more with less code.

For instance (and this is rather extreme example) use a dictionary in Python that occasionally pickles its contents to a disk for your mom and pop bread shop, as opposed to a full Docker / SQLite / React spin up.
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I used to look at the BLM protest videos to determine how many of them wore masks and a vast majority of them did in the videos I saw. Meanwhile those protesting the lockdowns and going to bars and beaches hardly did any.
Same. My whole family uses my account, and now that I have kids, all I get are Disney music and Baby Shark knockoffs.
I couldn't begin to estimate. (We don't use those.)
Food for thought, that factoid doesn't say anything.

For multiple reasons actually:

From the fact that we could be spending any arbitrary percentage and it wouldn't mean it was enough...

To the fact your 50% number doesn't map to 50% spent of the type of social services they meant. Just because it Social Security has the word social in it doesn't mean it's helping the way these social services would...
I was a contractor for a large insurance company (Fortune top 10). One of the main applications they used internally for managing mailings to people was a flash app. When I was hired my first question was when are we rewriting it and was told "It's being planned". I left in December and they still didn't have a plan.
Violent crime can be measured by victims rather than criminals, e.g. where do homicides occur?
Be careful, some of these young white middle class people trashing neighborhoods could be the next Che, Lenin or Pol Pott.

Agitation is the first stage of a physical revolution.

No, I'm not being hyperbolic... history repeats itself
Do these neighborhoods commit more violent crime, rapes and murders?
Honest question here, because you seem to know the topic.. Given the risks and what everyone seems to know about how these firms operate..

Who is lending them this money? I understand when they take a company public, the literal public is giving them money, but otherwise, who typically just gives them money on such good terms that they can recoup their investment and then some..

Isn't someone just getting the PE's risk shifted onto them when they do that?
> because images on the internet don't use up that much of our bandwidth anyways,

On the Internet, Yes. But for web pages, Image is still by far the largest payload. It could be anywhere between 60 to 90% of total content size.

Thinking in the context of latency, where you could benefits with images appearing much quicker or instantaneous ( embedding inside the HTML ) because of its reduction. Especially on first screen.
The most technically challenging part was probably wiring the storage & sharing side up to not behave like a traditional Dropbox shared folder or shared link (e.g. not take up storage quota or sync down to your machine). There were certainly a long tail of internal reliability work to get that operating smoothly (there are many internal services to work with here).

In terms of tricks at handling failures:

The first (and probably most important) thing is finding the failures. Bug bashing sessions and also just reading failure logs can help catch the trickier transient problems our integration or unit tests do not catch.

In terms of mitigating them, retries and correct error handlers in code are essential (e.g. Promise.catch case should not be ignored!). Retries on the client side are made a bit easier as we chunk uploads into 4mb blocks so any upload errors of actual content can be retried piecemeal.
MS stores were created trying to emulate the success of Apple stores. However, from the get go this was a strange decision, since MS has no exclusivity on HW. Even Xbox can be purchased on other physical and online stores, sometimes at a cheaper price. They also don't provide support to a lot of this hardware, opposed to Apple that also uses stores as as service centers.
It’s not just advertising. It gives the organization responsible for curating the feed an incredible amount of power over the consumers of the feed. Currently the most popular way to trade this power for money is via advertising.
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One of my favorite data structures. I was learning about the internals of LevelDB/RocksDB and noticed they use skiplists as a default for the in-memory datastore. It's an alternative to balanced trees (AVL/Red-black) but it's way easier to implement and understand. Invented in the '80s and still widely used in modern tools.
Small text is indeed one of the fail cases, and more research needs to be done here (see also my other comment [1]). We mention this issue in the supplementary materials [2], and you can check out an example here at [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654161

[2] https://storage.googleapis.com/hific/data/appendixb/appendix...

[3] https://storage.googleapis.com/hific/userstudy/visualize.htm...
Even if it were true, and I'm not even mostly convinced it is. Why would this be surprising and why would anyone immediately jump to the conclusion that it's from humans?

I mean Covid-19 didn't just pop out of the air one day, it's been present all along in animals like bats correct? How is it surpising that an animal carcass found it's way into a swage water sample?
Thank you for this - my first music recommendation from HN!

Particularly of interest to me is the 'slightly slippery' beat it appears to have. It seems slightly off in places, but pleasingly so.
This is why YouTube for me, despite containing billions of hours of content, has become just a glorified vehicle for ASMR and Norm Macdonald clips
I always believed composition and interfaces was saner than inheritance, but this was sneered at during the 90s and 2000s.

Still, OO isn’t all bad.

It’s perfectly suitable within a self-contained project or library. i.e., a hidden implementation detail.

But there are API land mines if you expose non-final classes for public use.

API design is fundamentally hard, and every language reverts to
some sort of versioning.
> Conspiracy theory: you claim they’re colluding together but you have no evidence of it.

The entire point of the article is to investigate why there's so much evidence of police colluding to hide misconduct.
Spotify's responsibility is to cater to its users' preferences. But preferences don't exist in a vacuum. They are a consequence of a society's values. If a society cares only about a few winners taking it all, then yes, indie artists should have no expectation of getting paid. But if a society cares about cultivating art and not just about profits, it would want to incentivize a wider group of people making a living from creating art.
That doesn’t make much sense to me. The model is a model (coupled spins in a heat bath). The “solution” (the equilibrium states) can be found using maximum entropy considerations but that’s not unusual. What makes the Ising model popular is that’s simple and interesting.
Great point! So probably a biosphere ignition might have been possible.
oh man, i bet podcasts are so much more work
Man, that's a gruelling release schedule, even if it's basically "once a week per person". Most podcasts don't do the weekly thing, and those that do, it's either their full-time job AND/OR have a whole team working on it... I suspect that you guys could have benefitted from cutting back on the rhythm and working more as a team on more episodes.
Would you be interested in a solution that allows your access to the old VMware stack to continue?

If yes, how much would you pay for such a product?
>Is this really true though?

According to the research papers and professional groups I've looked as this is true. If you want to discount experts that are well aware of the problems, methodologies, etc., then I don't know how you'll reach any conclusion. Non-experts are rarely more accurate than experts on complex issues.

As to methodology, CDC lists and recommends methodologies for all diseases, and COVID deaths are counted by them using the same methodology that all deaths are, whether cancer, heart attack, car wreck, etc. So there is nothing special about how COVID deaths are counted from their recommendations.

Many states seems to have political pressure to downplay COVID, but I've not seen credible complaints (or any complaints) by whistleblowers claiming they're pressured to increase death counts.

And overall death counts versus expected death counts gives a picture of likely COVID caused deaths that makes them far undercounted.

I expect scientists to arrive at pretty good counts eventually, then political and nonsense spreaders to ignore anything that doesn't suit their narratives.

Here's [1] some CDC covid methodology info - if you google CDC COVID methodology or CDC disease methodology you'll find plenty of methodology on data collection.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129
We have carbon capture technologies, it's trees. Any man-made technology will be worse:

- It still needs energy to be built and to run, so it still (ultimately) depends on petrol to run. Petrol still emits CO2 and, more worryingly, conventional crude oil has peaked in 2008 and is in decline since then: https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/iea-2018-worl...

- At the scale we need to capture carbon, we start hitting other issues, namely the shortage of materials needed for building them

Unfortunately those technologies won't "solve" the problem, merely move the goalposts
I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to. Disable automatic uploads, and don't upload them yourself. There, your problem is solved.

Those that want to contribute their samples in order to have them white/blacklisted can, but just because a feature is there doesn't mean somebody is forcing you to do it, nor that it's inherently bad because you're willingly uploading files to a 3rd party.

How, exactly, would you expect AV/security companies to be able to analyze samples that are actually relevant to their customers if they're not submitted? They would never be able to find nearly as much malware on their own.
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