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This isn't a 'new' trend. It has pretty much been happening since they couldn't simply teach women how to cook and boys how not to cut their fingers off in shop classes.

I am 42. I had less than 9 weeks of cooking. Part of that 'cooking' was cooking once a week, a cookie contest that almost got me in trouble because I didn't cook while home sick, and how to set a table for a formal setting (i've never used this). The once-a-week cooking was in a group setting.
I had "financial education" in social studies class - taught by a car salesman friend of the teacher. We got extra credit if our parents went to look at used cars. I was in 8th grade: 13 years old at the time.

I had health class, which mostly taught us the parts of the body and sex ed over and over again. PE class at one point consisted of ping-pong for 6 weeks: I didn't learn anything that I could actually use in life - how to be do cardio, stretching, weight training, nope. Nothing like that.

Not once was I ever introduced to any sort of child development classes. You see, I took AP classes and had a full college prep schedule, so they didn't think these classes were important. Some others were so much better prepared than I was.
Neutron stars resist gravity due to the internal pressure just like planets and other stars. Which is why they end up spherical. Put a tiny black hole in any of them and you get the same issue as trying to build a house on thin air.

The only way it could be stable is a tiny body which is supported based on the structural integrity of the material. This is why asteroids can have very odd shapes.

PS: As to spinning, Neutronium really wants to blow up. Neutron stars are stable due to gravity and internal pressure. Start spinning them around a black hole and you just get a normal accretion disk
My American education touched on the Greeks and the Romans, and we did read the Odyssey; however, as I recall, we quickly jumped to late-Medieval (post-Norman-conquest) England. I always wondered what was in England before these medieval kings and queens. I began learning about the Norman conquest, the Viking invasion, the Anglo-Saxons, the Roman invasion and Romanization of England, the native Celts and so on. Then I began to inquire about those people; what were their homelands like, how did they arrive in their homelands, how were their languages interrelated, and so on. The etymology in particular fascinates me (and I highly recommend the podcast "The History of English"), notably how one language family spread throughout most of Eurasia (from Britain in the North-West to India and Western China in the East). I also highly recommend Jean Manco's books (https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Manco/e/B0034P5S3C?ref=sr_ntt_sr...) as her histories incorporate the latest information from many fields including history, archaeology, and the rapidly evolving field of ancient genetics. I haven't read many ancient texts yet, but I really want to if only to get a sense for how ancient people saw themselves and their world. Some day...
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Yeah, that makes a lot more sense to me: using this primarily as a tool for targeting power players or dismantling large criminal organizations, and having the process closely supervised by a higher-level court.

As opposed to Officer Clancy’s expert assessment that “well, he sure looked guilty to me and that was one real nice car he was driving, I don’t reckon he could have afforded that on his own.”
I was told an Eagle Scout card might have the same effect, but it seemed.. un-Eagly to try.
In Illinois, land of the drivers license / license plate cash grab, you can order a custom plate that "shows your support" for the police.

https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/vehicles/lice...

https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/vehicles/lice...

Stack that up with a bunch of bumper stickers and, if you're brave, hang a checkered headband on your rearview mirror and you'll have a cop thinking you're a cousin of someone on his squad. (Just make sure you're white)
Removing "hide" is the wrong call. People, especially in work environments, need to be able to hide links for all sorts of reasons. For example, if you work at Apple and there is an inflammatory article or if you've recently lost a family member to suicide and there is an article on a famous figure in the tech community committing suicide like Aaron Swartz, you probably don't want to see that on the homepage of HN for the day. It's one of the best features of Reddit and HN, imo.
There used to be something similar in the UK IIRC - the traffic police nicknamed themselves "black rats". If you had a sticker of the black rat mascot/logo on the back of your car then you were either a traffic officer, or someone close to them (wife/husband/etc) and a wink and a nod an you were on your way. I don't think it was a deliberate "get out of jail" move - just more of a "Oh you have a sticker for my unit's mascot on your car!" recognition type thing.

I think it kinda stopped when they started giving away the stickers on "enthusiast" car/motorbike magazines etc
While this article goes into the technical detail of how an attack from jwt.io to a developer might work, I think it most importantly leaves out what the potential threat actor in this threat model is, and what they hope to achieve. The actor would need to compromise jwt.io and use it to specifically target some developer (since the data is likely in localStorage).

This kind of attack is, I think very unlikely to happen because the costs vs potential rewards / risk are so poorly balanced. A jwt.io compromise is pretty hard, and you might get nothing from it!

That said, I agree with the idea that within the web security model, people should not be pasting security-critical data into sites! But I think this is more an issue of people having access to these security-critical keys than the sites themselves. After all, they could have downloaded a malicious binary, or their laptop could be stolen. People should not be put in a position where they have security critical keys on their clipboard.
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From the article:

> Mike works in an industry that regularly puts him into contact with police officers, which gives him the opportunity to form personal, trusting relationships with them. As such, he said, he frequently receives PBA cards as a thank-you for extending cops small business favors and deals; currently, he estimates that he has somewhere between 10 and 12 unexpired courtesy cards in his possession.

That is literally a bribe.
The mere appearance of corruption in police is enough of a problem. Even in minor cases.

Debating whether this is bribery or nepotism is pointless, because the appearance this gives should be plenty to fire officers who hand out such cards.

Conveniently, they supposedly write their name on the cards they hand out :)
But why, if completely 3D GIS would be so super awesome, do you think that that decent tech stack doesn't exist? The answer is that for the vast majority of applications of GIS, 3D is just an unhelpful distraction.

I don't want to upset you, but I really think you are not speaking from a position of knowledge if you think otherwise (I have a couple of degrees in Geography including one in GIS specifically, plus 15+ years' experience in the field).
Bad faith and basically anything that is only in your mind is such a difficult thing to prove and that's why it is so problematic.

There are judges who are sensitive to it and will go out of their way to punish it. I think part of the problem is that there are many occasions to "fix" the process by getting case resolved in a state that is known to be lenient to certain kind of behavior (very popular with patent trolls).

I don't think there is going to be an easy solution that could be written in law. Rather, the solution is to publicize "bad faith" behavior and lenient treating by judges.
And somehow I get that in the rest of the world by just being a regular customer, without paying a tip.
IMO MacOS is not an example of good code, or good engineering.

The engineering decisions made are often terrible, including recycling the legacy of NeXT for what I assume were ego-based reasons...

Nothing in the history of Windows compares to that scale of bad.
I work at a place that takes this all very seriously. No. Google search is available but monitored, skype/gitlab/bitbucket/etc are all blocked. Code formatting tools are blocked to the extent possible and people are instructed not to use them. Folks that slip up and get caught are usually written up the first time, after that they are terminated.

The only way to legitimately use tools like these from work are if they pass rigorous vendor assessment processes and rock solid contracts in place covered by nine figure E&O policies.
Isn't that like saying "the President really has no ability to stop the military from invading a country, sure, he's the Commander In Chief, but they have powerful buttons to push ..."?
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Plenty of Americans that don't run in these corruption circles view traffic laws and other intermittently enforced laws as a tool to hassle "undesirables".
The "favorites" feature is amazing and just rightly inconspicuous. On my website, https://mihir.ch/#hn, I've been collecting and displaying my favorited posts and comments from an API I created for this purpose only.

The API: https://hn-faves.now.sh

Source: https://github.com/plibither8/hn-faves-api
It’s damn near impossible to even get the government to setup a locked down file sharing folder for an active lawsuit using a platform like Box or OpenText that they already have in place unless someone relatively high up is committed to pushing it through IT. The justice system does not mess around. If you try to send, say, a casual Dropbox link to a DOJ employee, they typically aren’t allowed to even click on it.
We have unions in other countries too, they don't endorse or organize corruption/nepotism/bribery, or the appearance of such.
I would have thought that they mostly take away the "rough em up" type of discretion. The public is fine with police giving warnings over fines in many cases. They are just upset when it is warning over fine along with the association card.
Relatedly, the fact that light is reversible (behaves the same forward in time/direction as backwards) means you can swap the light source and camera of an image (if just one point lightsource). I.e. you can render the scene from the perspective of the light source as if light were emitted by the camera. I recall seeing a neat demo of this but I can't find it on google. Anyone know it?
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Police used to be very popular/trustworthy (in the public imagination) until recently.
Cutting police budget is a big pot of worms that most mayors don't want to get into. Police might strike or just barely do their jobs, you'll definitely get labelled soft on crime during the next election, etc.
> I really, really disagree with the idea that bad code that ships is always better than code that doesn't. That is how we get software that is riddled with security issues. Even if the specific application isn't that important, it very well might be a major catastrophe if it has a severe security vulnerabilities that allows an attacker to get a root shell on a server in your internal network.

Your argument fails to be an argument at all.

Can you justify that first sentence? I do not see any convincing reason why you disagree... or even any reasons here tbh.
This is not the same.

Knowing someone at Google/Apple who can help you out with a totally legal tech support issue is nothing at all like police corruption.
IMHO the main issue here is seizing the car without a conviction rather than seizing a borrowed car.

It'd be pretty unjust if someone who's saved long and hard to buy their own car got it taken away, but trust fund kids driving daddy's BMW received a lesser punishment.
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> Ideally, the officers should act as if everyone has these cards.

Totally agree with this. I think part of the reason they are in issue is it reduces the political pressure on this happening if some people can get this treatment anyway.
Thanks for providing the fixed kernel versions here. I was able to check that our RHEL boxes are not affected. Take your bloody upvote!
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HN users are probably offended by this comment but the truth is outside of devs very few people use FF. What I see around me is that people use either Chrome or Safari, but mostly Chrome.

Personally, I tried to use FF a couple of months ago but it didn't work for me.
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I once got pulled over for speeding in the middle of Kansas. The cop who was giving me my ticket told me that they had a program for avoiding having the ticket reported so your insurance rates won't rise. So I went along with it, and mailed the cost of the ticket plus a hundred dollars to that city's police department, care of the "sheriff's benevolent association" (or similar -- it's been a decade, the name is fuzzy to me).

...it remains one of the more blatantly shady-feeling things I remember encountering in the US.
I've noticed these and that's probably only because I trained myself to look carefully at stuff (that was a lot of work too). Small, light grey font on a beige background, well, what did HN expect.
> that will never happen

That will never happen if there is no effort to make it happen.

> 100% of our population is virtuous

Yes that is impossible, I never made or require that assumption.
The racial connection here is quite a stretch and sounds like more race baiting. It has nothing to do with that. Knicks players have them. Yankees have them.
Most European countries have a general police inspection and the unions are not as strong, and there are no 'federal employee' protections like the USA does.
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It's about equilibrium, a sphere is a stable equilibrium, a spinning shell is not (plus, how does orbit on say 45 degree North work?)
And a good one too. I'm currently maintaining https://0bin.net, and because we encrypt everything client side, people feel like they can post anything they want. We get some pretty personnal stuff.

They really should not. It's a can of worms. We can get compromised. Bought. Receive a court order (we comply with dmca). Or they could be on the wrong URL (typo squatting, phishing...).

Don't trust random online services with your data. FOSS or not, the code we serve can only be trusted as far as you and I we can be. And you don't know us. And you will make mistakes.

Now I'm guilty of it too, I share passwords with 0bin sometimes. But at least it's my service, I can assess the level of threat.
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If you compare the Model 3--which is a sedan--to the median sedan sales, you'll see that the price is about $35k for the cheapest Model 3 versus about ~$20k for most sedans. Of course, these prices also generally exclude trim level upgrades, both on Tesla's side and on the more established carmakers' side.

The more expensive cars being included in "average price of a new car" are going to include pickup trucks, minivans, and SUVs. The equivalent model here is (AIUI) Tesla Model X, whose base price would be about $80k, whose competitors are ranging more around $30k-40k base.
Can you explain to me why others are downvoting?

I think we should support companies that each of us think act responsibly, and avoid or boycott companies that each of us think is acting irresponsibly.

How is that remotely controversial?
I want to throw out another angle that I think is relevant:

The curriculum broadly is determined by the school board.

The school board tends to be made up of more "well off" people.

They will prioritize the types of classes that they took to get them where they are.

If you are on the school board, you are most likely not a house wife, not a mechanic, not a seamstress, etc.

So you get a prioritization on classes that lead you down the "four year degree, rise to management" type of life.
That is just a symptom of the problem as the tyrannical administrative bureaucratic police state expands at exponential rates, to cheers and demands for ever more control by mommy and daddy government.

But to your point, you are correct, the only people left on the wrong side of the law are law abiding productive people who do not have personal connections to law enforcement. Ever other group gets treated with a light touch and has excuses made for them and criminals are now getting off the hook left and right, while the anarcho-tyrannical administrative state increases it's abuses of regular productive and peaceful people.

It's either by design, out of desperation, or due to incompetence; but it will not end well for any of us, regardless.
Most of what I put on the public internet supports IE6 just fine.

It might not look as pretty but if nothing else (TLS etc) stands in the way it should Just Work (TM) thanks to the magic of generating the content on the server side and also careful use of CSS.
There's still a lot of outdoor and online activities going on. There's much less indoor activities and outdoor activities with big groups or in close proximity, but there's still a lot of activities going on.
> his translation of the Iliad had already been acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal."

This is the literary equivalent of claiming 640K should be enough for anybody.
Thanks for the link! I've been looking for such a feature that shows me the most popular posts within a given timeframe. My thought process was that, as much as I enjoy discussions on HN, I don't want to spend too much time on it and, in particular, I want to avoid browsing HN out of FOMO multiple times a day. Instead I'd rather just schedule half an hour to an hour every week to have a look at the most popular posts.
My neighbor in Austin is a lawyer for the police union. He would hand these cards out to everyone in the cul-de-sac along with some booze for Christmas presents. There's a little "CLEAT" sticker that you can put in your back window too.

I put the sticker in the window of one car but not the other.

In the car without the sticker... I got pulled over in West Texas visiting relatives, and the cop literally had his gun drawn as he came to my window. Alone on a dark and empty road, guy with a gun on you -- probably the scariest moment of my life.

In the car with the sticker, in a similar small town in West Texas (lots of speed traps between Austin and Midland)... as the officer was walking to my car he saw the sticker and his whole body language instantly shifted. He got to my window, "Hope I didn't scare you with the lights, you don't seem like you're from around here. Are you lost? Just trying to be neighborly."

I was going 20-ish miles over the speed limit both times.

I looked into getting another sticker and it literally only cost me $25. Significantly better treatment from police doesn't cost very much. Anyway, yup corrupt as fuck... but as long as these exist, for a simple $25 donation, might as well have a CLEAT sticker in your window.

Also, what really bugs me... Police in Texas are allowed to unionize, but Teachers are not. Oof. Been here almost 20 years now, I love a lot of things about Texas, but some of the politics still suck.

PS: Also I keep a Book of the Mormon in my glove compartment, that way if I ever do get pulled over I just casually grab the book when looking for insurance papers. For some reason seems like a lot of cops in Texas are Mormons...
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Early versions of Solaris, as most Unix systems, didn't come with any compilers - a C compiler was an expensive add-on option. Other development tools - other languages, debuggers, linters, code-generators, etc, were not provided in the standard distribution.

The college I graduated from, when I visited a couple years after graduating, had compilers installed in their Unix machines (mostly AIX, some HP/UX and, IIRC, one DG/UX). Usage was limited (they were licensed by seat).

The availability of GNU tools was a big thing - for the first time we could have a C compiler and other developer tools on our Unix machines without worrying about per seat licensing.
How do you know so much about the organizational structure? I would like to learn more, everything from the secretary on up to the potus.
It also is sadly not fantasy.

Security is all about habits, using such tools make you train bad habits.

Sure jwt.io should be fine, but what about the dependencies they use to build it how through are they checked. What about domain hijacking, https downgrade attacks and similar. Etc.

It's probably still all fine for jwt.io they probably use certificate pinning and similar.

If you want to know how tricky attacks can become just look into the etherum dark forest article. Which had been posted here a few days ago.

It's not a question if such attacks (based on undermining widely used web tools) happen it's just about when and how big the fallout will be.
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