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I would worry more about PTSD than about death or injury if I was a cop.

Almost getting killed tends to cause PTSD, but the tendency is stronger if someone intentionally tried to kill you.

And doing violence to another person is also potent cause of PTSD.

For those 2 reasons, I would expect rates of PTSD to be higher among cops than among the other 15 occupations you list.

I would also worry that the habit of suspicion needed to be effective as a cop would be bad for my marriage and other relationships. In other words, I would worry that the work might make me pathologically cynical.

Finally, some people really enjoy having power over others and using that power to inflict pain. Even if the other disadvantages of police work did not exist, it might be wise for me to avoid it just to pessimize the probability of my needing to work with someone like that. It is a complicated issue, but certainly I find such people distasteful and suspect that most adults in my country (the US) share my distaste.
You are conflating extermination with concentration.
Surely the issues of "publisher as middleman" and "book-by-subscription" are orthogonal?
That's actually not that bad honestly. Nice!
Would you say there's a difference in kind between the risk of death due to equipment failure or negligence, versus the risk of another human being actively trying to kill you? They seem different to me, but I'm not sure how to reason about the difference.
I would really like to see one of those movies now where they identify the unknown guy by photo as a big time terrorist only this time it turns out he's a janitor in the local high school, then it can be one of those feel-good cop - unlikely partner action-comedy flicks, but only halfway through, the first part will be trying to catch the terrorist who keeps getting away from them by doing janitorial work at unexpected junctures.
It is still worth pointing out as it is a little shady, even if it isn't illegal.

In some ways it is similar to SlideBelt and how MissionBelt essentially stole their product. Except in that case I believe it was a family relation and not a professional relation.

In this case, we have businesses asking for money. What if the founders decide they like one of the bids? They could hide/remove the bid and then steal the business idea and use their connections, which the struggling business likely doesn't have, to steal the idea.

Would you really trust these people?
Last time I saw an air card in a laptop, you had to turn it off whenever you sleeped the computer to save battery life (because it would die in your bag) and the connection took a long time to boot. That was in 2011 or so though, is it better today?
> I would have no problem with being a police officer in iceland, but certainly in the US. I get why they don't want to give up their guns, especially now, but that has consequences for policing work. If you can assume your "victim" to be unarmed, you approach the situation differently.

Iceland has a fairly high guns-per-capita number, with about one gun for every third person. An odd choice to use as an example of a country safe due to an unarmed populace.

> So I do think it is a quite dangerous job there to be honest. Moreso than the ones you mentioned. Some time ago deep sea fishing was the deadliest job. Would still prefer it from a risk assessment perspective.

"I see your data, and I willfully ignore it."
DF is much more forgiving and easier than it used to be. Follow the wiki, setup DFHack for a lot of bugfixes and UI improvements and you're pretty much set. You don't even need Therapist anymore when you have the in-game labor manager. Yeah there's a bit of fiddling involved but I can't possibly believe this can be a problem for Hacker News readers.
> What build systems get wrong f

Build systems are not getting anything wrong. You're just struggling with a bunch of misconceptions about what a build system is and does, and what role a compiler plays in the whole process.

> is that the compiler has hidden inputs

There are no hidden inputs. There are only the compiler settings and project configs, and even the choice of compiler, which are all managed and set by the build system, and then there is the source code.

That's it.
There is a factor to consider: Having an awesome setup, is something underprivileged kids also need. To show off, yes, but also because it gives them the feeling of not being ten social classes below. Once you break that feeling, they are able to reach much higher.

Imagine you are going to a new company. The company is doing all their development work on a remote server (e.g. Visual Studio Codespaces) accessed by browser. What would you think when they give you a 5 year old, second-hand, ugly ThinkPad to you as a developer earning your $100k-$200k (or whatever a dev in California earns nowadays). The company would do the right thing, but the typical developer would be insulted. You would ask where your MacBook/Carbon X1/whatever is.

I am also not a fan of people showing off. But the act itself is still good.
For some reason people like to compare perl to cobol. Perl fell out of usage more like lisp or tcl, mostly a failure to deliver on some of its promises which proved to be market advantages for others. The influence of latin is obvious.

Let's hope the windows 7 phase is over. I personally think perl 5 was a mistake, perl 4 was more fun and minimalistic ... just like javascript 5 vs typescript.

Commercial things have a way of ruining fun.
I wish they hadn't stopped the DF TALK podcasts. Listening to Tarn talking in crazy detail about the 10 year plan for some new feature was one of the sweetest ways to fall asleep.
Then maybe all they intend to do is to keep the company alive, somehow, at a minimum operating level, until such time as the Covid-19 situation is less of a concern, and then resell it to somebody else for a profit.
The question is too vague for a specific answer. For starters, how much do have to spend?
You might want to re-visit this.

Under "Depth First Search" you say:

> Depth first search is the only algorithm listed which will NOT find the shortest path.

That turns out not to be the case. Euclidean will also sometimes not find the shortest path. And indeed, you say so in the section on Euclidean you say:

> *However because our grid is only traversable on horizontal or vertical vertices using this heurtistic will NOT always give the shortest path, ..."

You also mis-spelled "heuristics", but that's easily done, and easily fixed.

The app is nice ... well done.
Perl is dead, long live Python.
A consumer grade laptop with SIM card at the cost of a Apple product. Oh yeah, easy to find. In doubt, check the business section ;)
A non-gold Rolex can be bought for less than a top of the line Macbook Pro :p. I just wanted to give the example of a very fancy and expensive brand, which doesn't have to hide behind glueing their product together. The same applies to any quality brand mechanical wristwatch, be it Seiko, Tissot, Omega, IWC just to name some.
One main feature of the iPad that was not mentioned, is its instant-on capability. It is something that has not been replicated successfully in any intel-inside device (pc or mac), despite the serious efforts there from intel, OEMs and OS developers. I don’t know what the reason is, but when I click the power button on my iPad, I get back instantly to whatever I was doing. No lag, no loading, no lost app state, no staring at a black screen. Once I am done, it instantly and reliably sleeps.
I think it is a specific branding strategy. And I don't mean that in the direct sense, like planned obsolescence (it's NOT just about lost revenue due to repaired products staying longer in circulaton).

The Apple product brand image is that these are sleek smart unified objects. All from hardware to software should be looked at as a singular entity, a well designed black box for my satisfaction as the customer.

Opening it up, gutting it out and seeing wires and mechanical parts destroys the illusion. Just as it's not fitting/elegant to think of a celebrity diva or queen farting on the toilet or examining their smelly tooth cavities or whatever, it's not fitting to lay an Apple product barren with all the broken parts sticking out.

Because then it looks like just any other contraption, not this futuristic sleek intelligent product.

I claim that tinkering (and even just imagining the possibility of someone else tinkering) is in direct opposition to Apple branding strategy. It should just work. If it doesn't work, it should be disposed of, replaced, forgotten.
As a Linux tech, I welcome this Apple move honestly.

Having a proper competitor for x86/x64 is a good thing.

The fact docker is slower on ARM (at the moment!) is mostly due to the lack of interests for optimizations.

With Apple starting to produce MacARM machines, and maybe more ARM servers in the wild, docker (and other platforms/frameworks) will start to get more performant on ARM as well.
"usually" punishes misconduct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_LaVena_Johnson

LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was an E3 in the United States Army. She was found dead in her tent. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide, contrary to evidence of rape and battery leading many[1] to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
In general i think it is fine that banks and similar places are years behind. It is not exaclty the kind of institutions i want to mess around with bleeding edge, barely tested and undocumented technogy.(not referring to Angular here)

The problem that I have seen in the enterprise/goverment world when I was in it, is them not keeping up from behind. E.g. They might be reasoanbly recent for a new project, but then dont update for a decade or so.

There is this recent introductory talk about enterprise frontend stacks on why it makes sense for them to stay quite far behind (compared to the pace in frontend dev) the latest developments that I found pretty interesting.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/second-generation-js-fram...
There 's really few tyrants left Assange has not been willing to support, screw him.
Love to see this for gmail
Pc version: https://ssl.tksc.jaxa.jp/htvgo/pc/
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This has driven me absolutely nuts as well...occurs when trying to visit wbay.com (instead sends me to ebay.com)
There's at least one prominent case of someone being arrested solely on a face-recognition match https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394 and there are at least a few cases where someone was convicted due to mistaken identity, let me just pick one https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-man-who-blamed-w... So I wouldn't call it "automatic" but since there is a false-positive rate in convictions, it's important to try to reduce false positives at earlier steps as well.
Is pyenv and the Python 3 it wants to use in official/supported packages? If not, it doesn't exist for many IT departments in such cases.
For web dev, it shouldn't matter.

For embedded? We're going to be done unless there's a rock solid emulation layer available to us, because if I can't run Linux VMs to build embedded stuff I can't use it.
For anyone wanting to try it directly, here's a quick link:

https://algo-visualiser.herokuapp.com/
> nothing wrong with challenging the law if you think its unjust.

That’s a straw man...the CEO fired people who didn’t break the law at his direction. He didn’t give a damn if the employees felt the law was just or not. Forcing employees to break the law or fire them is absolutely wrong.
Also logistically, it is nearly impossible. The idea falls apart when attempting comprehensive surveillance. There is simply too much noise and too much uncertainty from the low quality, at distance, uneven illumination video. I write FR software, and large installations typically fall apart because the humans are simply too lazy, they delegate too much that should not be delegated, they are lax and frankly incompetent. Outside of developing tech orgs, FR is too complicated for under-educated persons like the police. At minimum, you need to understand probabilities better than a typical consumer.
For me, that title was recently taken over by My Summer Car.
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Author here.

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Most of the deaths are accidents. Actual homicide rate of police are 3.0 per 100k vs 5.6 per 100k of regular people.
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Agreed they're more general. If I have a working guard implementation I can build the x, x case atop it. Meaning, the x, x case can be sugar.
>Small business often fail and thus small business loans tend to have garbage rates. I'm assuming the idea is to hit people on an emotional level, allowing 'investment' into someone that you can relate with as opposed to some large corporation.

So the article wants people to make a worse investment (lower ROI and/or higher risk), and hopes that they will be okay with it because small businesses are more relatable? Am I understanding this right?
Usually when you or your unit is told to take point. Or more generally, act as a forward element of some sort.
The actual homicide rate of cops is almost half of the normal population.
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Replacing a worn-out component doesn't really qualify as "tinkering". And throwing away products, that could be trivially repaired/refurbished should be banned for environmental reasons. At minimum, a company that prevents the repair of their products should be called out for their environmental unfriendliness
Ask HN: How to keep academic integrity during Covid-19
Hi,
I am a CS student in Israel(just to clarify this is a large and respected university that cares deeply about its reputation and standards), during the past semester we have been studying remotely using Zoom or other alternatives. Next week the semester will end and an exam period of approximately 6 weeks will start.

Currently, the CS department has decided that ALL exams are to be held in person, on campus. The average class has probably 350 students while some of them have as much as 700 students, some measures are taken to ensure social distancing such as exam rooms with fewer students. While the numbers in Israel are relatively low we still have many infected and after a few weeks of improvement, the numbers are turning upwards again.

Currently, the university won't change the evaluation method from fear of students cheating (probably justified), I am wondering which ways are there to keep the academic integrity during the pandemic while adhering to social distancing (in-person exams don't seem like a solution). As an example of one of the many issues related with on-site exams, many students have stated that in lack of an alternative and if they have already invested the time to study for the exam they would take it in person even if they should be in quarantine due to contact with a confirmed case.

Thanks,
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I think it is a more than fair criticism of many modern pianists of Baroque era music, but let's cut them some slack too: it is entirely valid to re-interpret existing music through a more modern lens (hence the 1000's of covers) and Bach himself saw absolutely no problem with re-interpreting other composers works.

Music is both finished product and raw material, a score is much more raw material than finished product. Finally, the original is still available, nothing got lost.
Apple’s iPad Magic keyboard?
True. It had defects; however, I think for serious crimes they’d attempt to catch the person (Wanted postings), but for less serious things they would ostracize them and have them pack their bags.
HQ is in Armonk which is Westchester County. Somers (since sold) and Poughkeepsie are there as well as is IBM Research at Yoktown Heights. Raleigh is in an industrial park (RTP). I'm by no means familiar with all of IBM's locations but, yes, many of them are suburban. IBM also sold their building in Manhattan in the 90s though they may still have some space there; they did when I last visited but that was quite a while ago. Most of the IBM people I work with work remotely.
> Brown people get shot in malls for much les

Not by security or police, so my point still stands.
> police unions that create the system within which police officers are protected

Police unions exacerbate the problem. But they aren't the root cause. Their leadership is supported by the rank and file. And police unions act much more antagonistically in comparison with other public unions.
Not only did this locality allow people to recover from past mistakes, it also limited the power of any one actor. As soon as a town loses faith in a ruler (or other large actor) that ruler loses the ability to locate more radical dissidents in that town. That's how revolutions are possible.

With total surveillance any revolution movement can be efficiently destroyed before it gains any momentum. That removes an important check on any government's (or corporation's) power.
We don't really know how feasible multithreading is, but the community suspects at least some tasks could be computed on different threads, such as e.g. the pathfinding stuff that one of the worst offenders when it comes to FPS.
Could not agree more, at least for iOS safari. It's way worse that IE ever was.

Safari lacks features, it's inconsistent, it's full of bugs, and the worst part? There is nothing you can do about it, it's not like Apple allows other browsers access to the platform.

I can't even count the number of times where scrolling stops working, but then you refresh the page and it works again, even if it's the exact same HTML and CSS.

And then there was the issue hundreds of user complained about: the keyboard would not show up when pressing the url bar, on any page. Quitting and opening safari again usually fixed this.

For some reason iOS users seems to have no idea what's what. When the browser stops working, they usually contact me, like I would be able to do anything about it. Apple needs to take feedback from their users.
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Yes, surely this must be the main use for human smell, to evaluate the safety of food. I remember being laughed at in my youth because I would always sniff a drink before drinking it (these were in my university days so a lot of odd concotions were imbibed). Seemed to me that it gave some very crucial information about what you were to expect!
No one I’d call a techie bought it, it was the artsy environmental types. The reasons for replacing it ranges from the OS not being updated to run modern Apps to the phone breaking.

We’re pretty digitised in Denmark, so if you can’t download apps from the iOS or play stores you’ll have a harder time transferring payments to friends, using public transportation, ordering food online, interacting with the public sector, accessing your citizen mail box and stuff like that, and Android isn’t very good at longevity.
Regarding this often-cited argument of "people can own guns, so cops need them" - in a situation with a gun, does it actually help if the cop also has a gun? Now you have a gunfight on your hands. By analogy, people are allowed to own rocket launchers as well (it's true!) but that doesn't mean every beat cop should carry one. What's the actual problem with disarming the police completely, and having them call in a SWAT team in the rare event that someone actually threatens a cop with a firearm?
And that even though MSFT started creating Office Online much later and also had to basically create a whole new product. And yet they now have the by far superior product.
You did not get parents comment. Its not a derivation its a definition.
Would you apply the same logic (screw them) in regards to world powers? None of them ever hesitated to support tyrants when it did suit their goals.
> On the Mac, sandboxing limits what a user can comfortably do,

I do development work all day on a mac. What is sandboxing preventing me from doing?

> while the UI is increasingly ugly and inconsistent.

As a long time Apple user I agree, particularly with the early Catalyst apps. But, in some ways macOS is a victim of its own success here. Apple users have become so accustomed to pixel perfect UI consistency that even the smallest deviation is noticed. It does look like Catalyst is much improved in Big Sur, and the new Messages app seems to show off a best in class Catalyst app.

> Meanwhile developers focus on iOS, since that's where the big numbers are.

And ARM macs are getting ready to get access to the entire universe of iOS apps. IMO, macs are about to enter another golden era.
Even if it’s more than just a little shady, people are free to do as they please as long as it’s legal. The law is the law.

Not really sure what you propose they do about it?
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The danger also scales with the number of aggressive assholes wearing the same uniform. It is like any job where your coworkers don't do their job. Eventually you will be held responsible for their results. When the boss asks you about it you might be reluctant to point out your coworkers since you still have to work with them.
30-40% of police officer deaths aren't gun-related, they're traffic accidents[0] with another 30% being "job related illness"[1]. And in some years traffic accidents is the leading cause of deaths.

About 50~ police officers die via guns per year. The police kill about 1,000 citizens per year via guns though[2].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/leo/default.html

[1] https://nleomf.org/facts-figures/causes-of-law-enforcement-d...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
> 5pm to 11pm in the UK, and 6pm to 12am across most of Europe

This is completely ridiculous and means abandoning any kind of family or social life. It also means they probably only hire young, single people with no kids. Based on this, they sound like a seriously insensitive and diversity-hostile company.
I used to sell life insurance. Dangerous careers would be more expensive. When I was an agent in 2004-2005 in the USA, being a police person was not considered dangerous enough to warrant a rate increase. As a professional wrestler, you'd be lucky to get life insurance at any price.
> one gun for every third person.

I would suspect it's a high rate of long guns, not hand guns.
Not to be annoying and plug my own projects, but I've tweaked Tufte CSS to work within a jekyll theme: https://et-jekyll.netlify.app/
BBC BASIC was also fast. A lot of the "Better" BASICs were also quite a bit slower at the time.

Microsoft BASIC was relatively swift compared to most early peers, had decent precision FP, and had limited interoperability between platforms. This made it ideal for small business, education, and magazine listings.

So once again Microsoft won with an inferior product by turning it into a de facto standard :-)

I did like the simplicity of it.
Part of my Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence book series.

The companion book in the same series:

Deep Learning for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with CUDA, OpenCL, DNNL, Java, and Clojure

https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/