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Every time I see one of these projects, it gets me more and more excited about magenta/TF.js. I feel like we're just scratching the surface with these kinds of projects, and they're already awesome.

As someone who works on model serving infra, there are so many tricky problems teams run into around running inference that—at least in theory/in part—seem like they could be elegantly circumvented by running certain models directly in the browser. I really hope to see more development in this space in the coming years.
What the actual fuck ?

From an outside-the-US perspective, the stack of “Things I’d never believe about the USA, please, Alex” is just getting higher and higher.

How is it legal to have preferential treatment, no matter under what circumstances, for ‘friends of the police’? Is Lady Liberty not famously blind while balancing the scales of justice ? Does the maxim “justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done” somehow not apply in the USA ?

Over the last few years, it seems to me the rock that used to be the USA has been overturned, and all the slimy creepy little nasties are being exposed to the harsh light of day. What happens in a few months is going to be critical to the soul of your nation. Get it right, I doubt you’ll recover if you don’t.
1.Plenty of Americans view enforcing traffic laws are nothing more than "a greedy gubbermint cash grab." For those participating, they view it as using corruption to avoid corruption.

2. You can't easily do something about it other than taking away police discretion. Unlike with a traditional bribe, where something is exchanged for something, you can't demonstrate that the person got off for the card compared to the officer just deciding to give them a break.
I'm not sure that is in the "better" column. At least anyone with access to some cash can pass a bribe. Here we are making it a more exclusive to those who hang in the right circles. That to me is more corrupt.

Even the signal it is sending stinks. The law should apply even to other cops (on and off duty but that is another story) equally as any other citizen. If just being friends with a cop gets you some special entitlement then what does being a cop mean, near total immunity?
also pointing out mdwiki here which uses .md files plus a single .html file to create a wiki, could also be used with git: http://github.com/Dynalon/mdwiki though its unmaintained for years.
I wasn't even talking about this tech obsessed stuff.

Just clumsiness with ergonomics and weird design.

My preference on ergonomics and color has long been Canon -> Nikon -> Sony distant last

If the camera is unwieldy to use and I miss the shot I don't care about a little more dynamic range and these other things. Ergonomics is very personal though so some people are going to hate Canon and love Sony or Nikon.

The constant harping about dynamic range & high ISO noise is always hilarious. Every brand has ridiculous high ISO and amazing dynamic range compared to so many films back in the day. 1600 used to be stupid high ISO!

We have it staggeringly easier & cheaper than in the past and yet everyone just constantly complains way more than in the past.

If you knew any of the techniques from film it's super easy to work around any of these things. It's always hilarious to see sites like dpreview write articles where they make a case for one camera being the only way to do something cause it's got a little more dynamic range and they completely ignored all the old techniques that will instantly make the shot work on any of the cameras, and look better than the way they did it with the "superior" camera.
> What's the difference besides how the special permission to break the law is obtained?

Outright bribes can be demanded on the spot for infractions that’s don’t exist. They incentivize stopping more people to demand them. They directly benefit the responding officer and can become a core part of their income. Once that happens you’re really screwed as the only people willing to become cops are dirty cops.

> It's still corruption.

I didn’t say it’s a good practice. But just because it’s bad does not mean it’s worse than living with a “police tax” every time you’re stopped.

> The article shows you can buy these cards on eBay for <$100.

That’s be pointless and is for suckers. The cop is supposed to contact the source to verify the relationship.
If curious, see this discussion about the topic from early 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207890
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Honestly, how many kids do you think would choose to study anything if given a choice?
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> I can't believe this. I've seen the sheer difference in speed and maintainability a single solid web developer can deliver in a framework they are familiar with versus teams of more Jr developers who spin their wheels for weeks. Rewriting when you don't even understand the starting point is always a waste of money.

I agree completely.

It can be quite shocking just how much damage a poor developer can do to small to medium companies. I know of 1 company that's holding on for dear life right now because they lost their biggest client due to a very poor developer they had employed. I told them 6 months before this all happened to get rid of him, but they didn't. And Corona is just making it that much harder for them to find new work.
Not sure I get your argument. As far as I understand there's no VM for Typescript specifically. Hence as "no VM" is different from Spidermonkey/V8, Typescript packages should go into its own package manager?
The Unix Wars article mentions Santa Cruz Operation (SCO).

It is very important to realize that this is NOT the same SCO that sued IBM in 2003, which is what starts the very first Groklaw article.

A company named Caldera renamed itself to SCO in order to create confusion. A few years later, during the (in)famous SCO vs IBM lawsuit, and covered by Groklaw, SCO considered naming itself USL. I would suggest that idea was simply to create more confusion and give an appearance of legitimacy to the company.

Technically the SCO vs IBM suit is still alive. SCOXQ.PK has been in bankruptcy since 2007! (13 years!) Nothing has moved for several years except a few notices of appearance by different lawyers.
You don't need a physical card.

A friend of mine who used to get into trouble all the time when he was a teenager got away with a ton of stuff. His father was a chief or something, so every local cop just knew who he was.

You don't want to arrest your boss's son.
The feedback loop is this:

1. When the user says the service doesn't work (which means it doesn't work according to spec) we look what is at fault (is it the user that misunderstood the spec, the spec is faulty or the implementation is faulty).

2. If the spec or implementation is faulty we ensure there is a test that checks the correct behavior (and fix the spec if necessary). For example, the user might submit a piece of logic that in his view should work correctly but it does not. This might get distilled to a test.

3. We ensure the test fails (which means we were able to reproduce the error).

4. We fix the code and ensure the new version passes the test.

5. We get back to the user to confirm.

Now, if you read it you will notice following:

- after completion of the process we are left with a test to check, so as users complain with problems and incidents the spec and library of tests checking the spec gets updated. This is the feedback loop that updates the library with relevant tests over time ensuring more complete suite.

- this is no different form the idea of TDD, just implemented for functional testing. It is not like there is something fundamentally wrong with TDD, it's that TDD cannot be effectively forced on developers. On the other hand, it can be enforced for functional testing because it is just a simple fix to incident/bug handling process.
> "The police are doing naughty things"... dude... they're on the mayor's orders. The chief can be instantly booted out by the mayor.

It's not quite that straight forward. The police have powerful buttons to push to influence the mayor through as well; strikes, blue flu, media, etc. On top of that the mayor is constrained by the union contracts as to what they can demand the police do.
Or microscopy
Incredible. And with the various upscaling/denoising neural networks kicking around, I imagine we can clean all these novel methods of seeing around/inside/through things up to where they're nearly perfect.

I don't know why this strikes me as so incredible, but it does.
I think that today a Trump 2020 bumper sticker would have the same effect.
I would like that too. It seems like none of them have the time or incentive to do that though.
>I've never understood how things like this can happen in the US - why is this tolerated?

Police unions and a strong pro-police "thin blue line" culture.
this is not true.

objects and classes are a fundamental concepts people are familiar with from real-life experiences. 'teaching' them is barely necessary at all, its more a case of assigning labels and some specificity to already familiar concepts.

monads are not like this at all. they are not a basic concept. they are not involved in day-to-day life from a very early age.
The cards are bribes. They have a cash value. You can earn them in exchange for "small business favors and deals" extended to officers.
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When it comes to history... yes, there's a large overlap. The ancient times, the history of philosophy due to the development of ideas, the recent modern times due to their relevance to today's neighborhood politics, are three topics that I am constantly interested in. With the exception of ancient history (maybe due to the dearth of established dates), school had problems teaching me those.
I don't think this is systemic at all. If companies found out that this was going on in their organizations, most of them would shut the practice down pretty quickly and almost certainly fire anyone involved. Otherwise, those companies could face some pretty heavy lawsuits and fines.
Sorry, you're correct. I meant bearish.

That's what I get for posting pre-coffee :(
> was told by dang that he was actually considering removing 'hide' and 'favorite' too, because people rarely use those features.

That's something you do with a corporate site where you're constantly A/B testing and aggressively removing features that don't generate revenue. Hacker News isn't (or shouldn't be) run that way. It's perfectly fine to have features only a few people use.
> Can anyone care to elaborate the situation where you live? I'm very curious what motivates people to learn dead languages and read books thousands years old.

I'd guess religion is one driver. My impression of Sweden is that it's not a terribly religious country, so interest in languages like Latin or Koine Greek might be less compared to countries where religion has a deeper hold like the US.

It could also simply be a question of population size: more people suggests more people might share those interests.

It might also have to do with foreign language learning. I don't know about Sweden, but my impression of the Netherlands is that they teach foreign languages very early (e.g., my Dutch professors all sounded mostly American). It may be that if you have early language learning, the barrier to entry is lowered for subsequent languages.
> If you put it on the web, it should work everywhere, otherwise you're just being lazy and/or incompetent.

Everywhere? Do you support IE6 users too?
> Isn't the problem they are not available anymore?

Eh, no; they're probably more available on average these days. Average working hours are down quite a lot in most developed countries, and far more people have regular scheduled employment (vs working on a farm or similar, which could frequently be every waking hour for most of the year). But the assumption that most parents either know these things or are good at teaching them is... optimistic, to say the least.
> to donate extra money to the police force so that they are more forgiving

So a bribe then. Wow.

As citizens of the country we live in, we should all be subject to the same laws and restrictions. Anything less than that is a form of corruption and undermines the whole concept of democracy and a fair society.
Sorry I dont have anything besides my Github: https://github.com/chrislgarry. All of the robotics work I have been doing is confidential and theyre quite strict about that.
Oh well, BoJo gave out a contract to a girl who he probably was fucking, and the inquiry concluded "No harm done": https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/21/boris-johns...

This article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... is a review of the book about corruption "Thieves of State". It's an interesting analysis of corruption in several different countries, and I suppose if you're going to suffer because of it, might as well understand it.
I assure you, “friend of the police” cards have been going on for more than a few years. And from what my military friends tell me, handing a cop your military ID tends to work just as well.
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Would the latency of the system be improved by reserving some amount of CPU for the container? For example if a container always got a few milliseconds per period, or if you even reserved a part or all of a CPU for the container.
Why would they save money on fees? Would the podcast-focused company build and maintain this app for free?
Sure that sounds cool! My gmail address is chrislgarry.
I was going to say Chernobyl created a huge wilderness park, these just sit there doing nothing.

But if they do pull then up and have an accident the article claims fishing might have to stop for a while, so perhaps they are as good? I'm dubious on the claims though.

Either way, the tech and recovery is the interesting bit.
So in a way, it's less democratic than bribing :)
Homeworks makes them accept it, which means it perpetuates it.
Can't you just ban the cards?
Not sure why this is here, it's brings nothing new
While I agree that it seems our strategy has gotten its results the past months, I don't really agree that this would point to it being a successful strategy overall. We will need to update our strategy for future pandemics. The most important part of Sweden's deaths (which imo i see way too few talk about) is that more ~98% of them are in ages >50.

I would say our strategy of trusting the population to by their own following safety precautions (not large gatherings, work from home of possible...) to keep the infection rate somewhat stable while infections increase, was ok. The thing we really need to change 'til next time is protecting our old and vulnerable better. Though that needs larger changes in the elder care as a whole so that will be a hard thing to achieve.
Another hidden feature is 'top links'(https://news.ycombinator.com/best). It is not visible to me (may be because of low karma), but if I directly type it in the url it works.
Even so, I'm not sure it's useful for kids to memorize names and dates, as opposed to events and their impact.
The first step to being an authoritarian is separating the in-group from the out-group so you can deal out harsh punishment to one and be forgiving to the other.
Hate the game, not the player. This is definitely corruption. BUT, at least, it is supposed to be for minor infractions.

Unlike meter maids, police officers should be given leeway to let people go. It’s the mandatory minimums and fines you should worry about... cops doing revenue generation for the city. And when their department doesn’t get enough from taxes and tickets, police departments across the country turn to civil forfeiture.

Ideally, the officers should act as if everyone has these cards.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20100607_Police_s...
thats not true at all, repetition is natural.

map is also quite natural, but isn't it telling that the way a human will do this on paper is by reptition of the same task in sequence... i.e. a for loop.

> The only thing it’s easier to do with Java objects is to delude yourself into thinking you might understand them, because they have a familiar name.

i'm not sure why you consider this 'delusion'? that familiarity of name and concept is precisely why its so easy to learn.
Huh? China is seen kinda negative in press... India is usually shown as shithole country too.
I find unequal enforcement of the law to be one is it’s worst aspects. There is not only officer discretion, but there is also discretion several places in the judicial system and privilege in being able to hire better legal council. Some neighborhoods are policed more heavily than others. Some groups of people are targeted more heavily than others. Some city police departments enforce state/federal laws unevenly.

There should be one law for everyone, and if two random people with similar criminal histories break the same law in different places we should expect their outcomes and sentencing to be very similar. Right now this is far from the case.
There's no water vapor on Venus though. At a certain point in the atmosphere, wouldn't it be cool enough and pressure low enough to make clouds still? Maybe they move around the Earth to the cool side away from the Sun?
I did not know that. What would be the point of encrypting the JWT? Allowing the client to see the claim should not really be a concern.
>Who reads Homer in your country, and why?

In México, both Homer works are standard readings in high school. Latin and Greek authors are well known in academia here.
The Amazon drivers seem to be far less careful in their deliveries as well. In the past, deliveries were delivered to my porch. Then the started showing up on my drive. Yesterday my wife found a book delivery under a shrub next to the curb.
Subscribestar does not censor creators and is pretty much the same service.
It's not the same. It's much, much worse. This is sanctioned, happy-few bribery.
I don’t use favourite often but that’s the point. Favourites are 100% signal
In some communities other memberships can also hold sway. I remember one person mentioning some sort of scouting membership getting him out of a traffic stop.
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You can't do much about it. Thirsty men willing to pay for content, and women looking to make easy money will always exist. As long as a market like that exists, someone will create something to facilitate it, whether its a man or a woman, it really doesn't make any difference. As long as no one is getting hurt in the exchange, i don't really see why it is anyone's business but i do hope, lonely men with no money aren't raking up credit card debt over this.
Not judging, but they might have their video off because they are in their pyjamas, laying on the bed, they might be doing something else until it's their time to speak.
This is real at least in the NY area. NY law gives officers "discretion" in issuing violations (not crimes). That doesn't have a limit. So being friends with a fellow PO is technically not an illegal reason to not issue a violation. I agree that it is not fair. Generally though if you do something like drive 30 over the limit, they aren't going to let you off with a card.

But a non connected person can get pulled over for something minor and get every ticket they can. This snowballs for poor people that then have more fines on top of fines.
You can download a free nicely-formatted epub of the William Cullen Bryant translation at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/homer/the-odyssey/william-...

This is the first transcription of Bryant's translation available online, and it was very well regarded in its day. Like Wilson's translation, it's in iambic pentameter. It still reads really well, considering its age!
Oh good! That's great. I hadn't realized that. I'm glad it worked out for him.

I agree about damages. The consequences for this sort of thing should be steep enough that any officer/department who's tempted to do it would take a real long moment to consider how worried they'd be if they found themselves facing a judge.
Hi Devanon, why would you say so? Rather than the fact that it's not a decentralized service, it still ticks many of the boxes that make the service very private and secure:
1. it's open source
2. They use end-to-end encryption
3. No personal information is required to create an account

Can you explain your position please?
It's hidden behind "Lists" in the site footer along with some other pages.
Like what, the freedom to install the software you want on your device?
That is showing this years assessments, which I imagine, were done during the lockdown. I'm wondering about previous years.
On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap
A different/related point - aren't (always on) body cameras taking away police discretion anyway?
> And from what my military friends tell me, handing a cop your military ID tends to work just as well.

Not literally handing it over, but I've seen this work a few times growing up.
I don't understand your position, can you explain yourself better?
The 1% have always tried to keep knowledge locked away from the commoner. Because knowledge is power.
I’m the same regarding that article. I always thought of that article as a kind of “deconstruction” or “decoupling” and “rearrangement” of traditional DBMS architecture.

The end result you speak of is a more flexible data platform, which can handle more use cases, including applying decoupled parts to different things.

A good example, in my mind, is Apache Spark - which is like taking a compute and SQL query engine, making it distributed and decoupling it from the underlying storage. Now, suddenly SQL or code can be used on anything you can fit into a data frame, even streams - wow!

Pulling out the transaction log - and wow, suddenly we have durable, potentially immutable queues we can use for even long term storage.

I was so excited by the line of thinking in that article. :)
Is there a recent follow up work?
Confiscation\Destruction of items used in crimes irrespective of ownership is pretty standard, even a little old fashioned. Owner\Lender beware is the principle here. Sometimes laws even specifically ban the loaning of items (say guns) to give added culpability. The point being, that you're at least somewhat responsible for the things people do with what you lend them...
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