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> about 100 people die each day in car accidents

I fail to understand how this has to do with anything. There are considerably more people driving cars than interacting with the police, probably more than 10000x. Which means, you're statistically more likely to be killed by police than in a car.

No other developed "1st world" country even comes close to the number of deaths per capita by police than the U.S. This is 850 lives and many thousands of family members affected each year by gross negligence, of which most deaths could have easily been avoided.

Guess what other countries share similar police killing rates as the U.S.? Iran and the Philippines.
I'm not denying there was deliberate intent in some cases. But your own quote says "some planners" not "all planners."

Some planners were intentionally pursuing an explicitly racist and classist agenda. And some were just doing what other planners did because "monkey see, monkey do" and some were just trying to do their job and get their paycheck and make their own lives work.

Planners don't always have the kind of god-like powers to rearrange the city as they see fit that outsiders seem to routinely imagine them having. There is often a political process involved and planners themselves are frequently tearing their hair out about their own inability to do as they please.

I've had conversations where people characterized large swaths of single family detached homes -- aka the modern suburb -- as "racist architecture" and I tried to say "I don't think that is helpful framing. I think to some degree, we made large swaths of single family detached homes because greenfield development was expedient and not because single family detached homes are, per se, racist architecture."

And someone was upset and trying to tell me I was denying racism or something and I finally said "Let me put it this way: I'm sure they would have found ways to keep out people of color even if they had been building condos in towers in the downtown area. Racism is a social phenomenon and should not be conflated with a particular form of architecture."

That's very similar to what I am trying to say here. If that's still not clear, I think I need to just let people be confused. I don't know how I can more clearly state my meaning.
No real reasons given.

Just an old-school anti Microsoft rant.

Hohum.
Why has no one suggested he call the police yet?
I think that holds true for car modifications. Like cars with all the brand stickers for performance parts they don't have, or the cars with spoilers but no hope of getting to a speed where it would be useful.
It sucks as a programming language because it’s a shell. No I’ve written rather large scripts that were robust but had no need to be written in a programming language. If your gluing programs together shell script are literally designed for that. If you’re doing lots of arithmetic and huge amounts of variable logic then, yes, you should switch to a programming language. Each tool has its place but I’ve seen people with this attitude spend a day writing a program in python to solve a problem we could do with a couple of shell functions in half an hour.
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Well I use Windows and Linux currently, with a hackintosh for macOS after a bad spell with a Mac. I find the Linux OS to be the best for programming, since it just runs everything like a breeze. Windows is what I use for Office since macOS office is clunky and I'm locked in to the Windows shortcuts.

The issue with Macs for me is not the usability of the OS (apart from the lock in that Apple tried to do), but because of its irreparability. Spilt a few dropfuls water on your PC while using? Tough luck, gotta go to the Apple Care centre and wait till they fix it in a week or more. Meanwhile once I accidentally spilt water on my ThinkPad, I just disconnected everything, left it to dry for a day and voila! All of my data was preserved, no issues at all. Another time, I accidentally dropped the ThinkPad from my desk, yet it still works as good as new. Even if some issue were to happen to it, I can be assured of getting out-of-warranty support anywhere in the world - heck, I've had an old Dell repaired at the bloke's who runs a computer shop in my grandfather's village in rural India.

Another gripe I have is with Mac's updates. People complain about Windows updates, but it just takes an hour or two tops if it's a big one, and can be done on restart. Compare that to Mac - last year, Catalina took more than 10 hours on my Mac. Those are wasted hours of productivity, and it's always the same story with Mac every year.
I agree SHA-1 is a poor choice for signing git objects, for reasons that should have been obvious when it was implemented.

Unfortunately I don't think the same developers who are assuming all hashes have some kind of magic security properties, are the ones who would follow your best practice for default choice of hash functions.

Also I wish some of those higher throughput hashes were available in e.g. python's hashlib by default. For applications that can include minimal or no external packages, hashlib.sha1 still turns out to be the best choice in certain cases.
I'd say work at the fear behind it (the world isn't ending), with both facts and reassurance? Hard road to hoe.
Merely possessing a copy does not indicate infringement, you could be in pursuit of your fair use rights, with no intention to share.

Right, but you're looking at the wrong thing. The use of youtube-dl by you to download Taylor Swift is not what the courts are looking at (and note, that would generally not be fair use if your intent was just to watch it later as the time-shifting defense from the Betamax case is generally not applicable to content available on-demand, though using the video in a derivative work like non-profit educational content would probably still be fine).

It's the fact that youtube-dl holds itself out as being the tool to use so that you can download Taylor Swift that is at issue.

The person who took a copy has no substantial reason to share it with anyone, as it is freely available through the content providers. Anyone with a copy of youtube-dl can get it, (does youtube-dl enable the download of any paywalled content? If so, that might be a fact that changes the game. But if so, does the RIAA claimant have standing to make that argument?)

It doesn't matter if they intend to share the video further. The copyright violation act is the downloading of a permanent copy of video content provided on a streaming/on-demand basis. The downloader sharing the video with others would be a separate copyright violation.
Pedantic note: At this scale, a particle is nothing more than a distribution of the probability of making some kind of measurement. So composites of multiple samples aren't a suboptimal means of imaging atomic structure, they're the only way. To do anything else would be to show only part of the probability field that is the atom.

(Right? I've been going back and forth about this since I saw those "videos" in 2015 of "individual photons". My gut reaction was that those aren't videos, they're simulations that cleverly represent the probability of measuring a photon as the brightness of of the "photon", but since we're measuring inherently probabilistic things maybe that's the only honest way to do it, in which case perhaps we ought to accept them as images.)
> The intuitive explanation for why XOR instead of concatenation doesn't work, is it lets the output of the broken hash function influence the output of the remaining good hash function. That is obviously cause for concern!

The bits of a good hash function should be random. XORing with some unrelated-ish thing should be no problem. So that's not enough of an explanation.
It really is defunct. The corporation "US West" is no longer registered.

Acquirors don't keep their acquisitions' corpses registered forever.
Anyone have recommendations for express api scaffolds in the same vein (and easily compatible with CRA).

I’m looking for something that bakes in background jobs, db structure, and deploy scripts but haven’t found anything with comparable community/usage.
Yikes, this post gave me really, really bad vibes about Shopify. Maybe that’s unfair, but wow, that is a seriously pretentious post. It’s hard to imagine anything screaming “out of touch, incompetent execs” more than that. He makes it sound like a place where success means mastering office politics, not actually improving the product and growing the company.
I got two of these - I don’t recall “receiving the CEO’s opinions” as one of the stated reasons for collecting my corporate email address. CAN-SPAM comes to mind, what’s the fine per user these days?
Articles like this on the internet are usually completely garbage, but Natalie is a really fantastic journalist. If you’re worried about woo because of the title, there isn’t any here (and quanta magazine is generally great for coverage of science)

tldr: there’s a calculation you can perform in quantum mechanics that suggests particles can tunnel through barriers faster than they could have traveled through free space at the speed of light. Scientists have now measured this more precisely, and this effect seems to hold up, but is still very small, so it’s hard to understand the ramifications of this for things like causality.
Extremely wrong.

The difference between A=415 and A=440 is not "minute" at all; it's a full half-step difference!

Also, no: absolute pitch does not necessarily confer the ability to distinguish very small differences in pitch. Many people with perfect pitch can name a given note if played, but can't reliably identify if the pitch in question is 5 or 10 cents off. This is a common misconception.
Good on the whistleblower. More of you should speak up.
Most solar doesn't require rare metals. CIGs does, but that's not very common. I can see complex fabrication, but pretty much everything requires that.

Besides cost, the other issue with nuclear, or any large single generator, is that they can go down unexpectedly and their output drops from whatever to 0. This is less common when generation is from many individual generators. If a wine turbine goes out, it only drops the output of the wind farm by some small fraction.
Once again, this is incorrect: absolute pitch (also known as perfect pitch, but there is no such thing as "absolute perfect pitch) does not necessarily imply or bestow the ability to perceive differences in pitch that are very small (say, 5 cents). Many people can identify a C# or an A-flat or what have you, but without the ability to tell whether that pitch is very very slightly flat or sharp. They nevertheless are said to have "perfect" pitch.
Ask HN: What is the most underappreciated country for tech innovation?
My vote is Sweden. Being an American, and spending an extended period in Stockholm; 3 months and 1.5 months independently. Sweden is underappreciated. While not always "high tech and academic" look at the biggest YouTube game streamer Pewdiepie. Then there is Pirate Bay and of course Spotify. "Stockholm has produced more unicorns per capita than any other city in the world."[1]

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/26/sweden-is-a-tech-superstar-from-the-north/
I don't get it. Is it an update? A dissemination? A directive? Just for funsies?

I worked at a place with an internal podcast and never had time to listen during work hours and doubted I would learn anything I didn't from trusted water cooler comrades.

I just get Heaven's Gate vibes with an updated medium, honestly.
> Still looking to see what harm solar is doing that it is not paying for.

Nuclear power is doing measurably less harm - in deaths, in habitat damage, in volume of waste produced and management thereof. Solar companies also aren't going to be held liable for the social costs of grid disruption which will inevitably cause outages or require additional countermeasures by other parties to secure their electricity supply.

Nobody is going to protest when solar company employees get skin cancer. Nobody is going to protest solar power when toxic sludge from carelessly-disposed heavy metals waste (or indeed solar panels themselves) contaminates drinking water in some rural town. Groups won't be organised to phase out solar installations in response to accidents in foreign countries.

And I think solar is perfectly fine, I just don't see why we impose all these silly restrictions on nuclear when it is a measurably superior form of energy.

> I'm surprised it takes 50 mines for uranium, that's far far more than I had expected.

Sounds like you might be in for a nasty shock when you find out how many coal mines the world has.
My bad I noticed on twitter he has once already

"Updates:
* he started played the song again.
* he started staring at me through my front window and banging on it.
* I phoned 911. Two police offers arrived and got him to stop playing the music."
I think that’s a nice take and I think it applies very well with piano. I am not the GP but I think perfect practice is more of an umbrella term. I think sometimes the perfect practice session would be a mindful practice other times or in other situations (besides piano) it may not be. I think perfect practice is probably easily tied with perfectionism. Perfectionism does not have a good connotation, because it usually means one is either too self-inflated or too self-defeating. When I think of perfect though I think of the right thing in the right situation. It acts almost like a liquid it fills the very shape it needs to be in for it’s helpful use case. I may be arguing with loaded terms though that’s the problem with words they can be conflated and misinterpreted, and sometimes their connotations change from what some might say is a more pure/exact definition.
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Who said anything about correcting banter
No, iTunes was designed for organizing music. How you got that music was a separate function, and you could split out the CD ripping functionality and still have the primary function of iTunes.

Well, being able to rip music off your CDs was literally advertised as an iTunes feature; Apple promoted iTunes after its introduction in 2001 with the slogan "Rip, Mix, Burn." And Apple did get accused by various industry players of promoting copyright violation. I wouldn't say that iTunes was "designed for copyright violation" any more than I'd say youtube-dl was "designed" for it, but Apple definitely understood that iTunes had value to people who wanted to make digital copies of media in ways that did not strictly fall under fair use guidelines. :)
Replies to your comment are unanimous so far:

"You can give every engineer and team complete freedom, and you’ll end up with too many microservices to count"

"Giving devs the green light to go crazy is also a recipe for disaster"

"Where would Uber be without three thousand microservices for three thousand engineers?"

"What you’ve described is a recipe for endless technical debt"

It's crazy that these replies do not even entertain the possibility that devs might be responsible enough to not abuse that freedom. I could spin up a hundred services tonight without approval but I obviously don't because it would be a nightmare to maintain, and I'm pretty sure my colleagues feel the same.
I tried buying from the publisher but they demanded by phone number.
Perhaps the SFLC[0] should be actively seeking out popular Free Software projects and pre-emptively auditing them for legal issues such as these. That must be a more cost-effective (and crowd-sourceable) process than actually fighting a legal case against the RIAA.

[0] https://softwarefreedom.org/
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The latter being much more likely to happen to the average company than the former, in my experience.
No. Example #4 above has absolutely nothing to do with perfect pitch, and is instead simple ear training combined with some music theory training. (Professional classical musician, here.)

All classically-trained music students learn to identify various chords and hear which note the root is, and only a small percentage of them have perfect pitch.

#1 and #2 in your list are definitely examples of perfect pitch, however. #3 is a bit more like extremely good relative pitch combined with above-average pitch memory that lasts longer than most people's.
Thanks! In previous feedback we saw that uploading your own images to create a new visual theme is the most requested feature. So we're definitely thinking about that.
This seems to be the location manager that's involved: [redacted]
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Did a disservice to Thrift here. In my last job we had I think a hundred services communicating via Thrift. It's pretty fast, type definition is easy to read, has support for union types, and supports A TON of languages. We used the Java, Node, and PHP clients/servers...
So, basically what the church has done for all of recorded history?

I'm going to guess that when the church was recruiting executioners for the inquisition they weren't selecting for the most well adjusted people then either. And I guess you could call that radical politics.
1. The world does -not- need nuclear. Green sources simply collect zero-cost fuels that are available to everyone, everywhere, without mining or transportation or political borders. Nuclear is expensive.

It costs money to store green energy for future use. It also costs money to store nuclear waste ... for what use?

2. I'm not afraid of nuclear -power-. But the risks are quite clear, much greater, and more costly. The industry has consistently demonstrated that the nuclear path is vulnerable to human error, acts of god, deliberate shortcuts and cost-cutting , lack of maintenance, undetected deterioration, sabotage, bad design, and so on. Each risk can result in leakage of very dangerous and persistent toxins into the environment.The cost of remediation - if that's even possible - (Fukushima for one example) can be much, much higher than the cost of avoiding the problem. How much windpower could Japan create with the money they'll invest in Fukushima in coming decades (for what return)?

The technology is already available to allow us to go Green, at much lower cost, on a much faster timeline, with much less waste and environmental risk, anywhere in the world where there's sun and wind.
The ARM processors will not be "far ahead of" PCs. They will almost certainly give better battery life, but their performance will not trump what Intel and AMD are doing by a long shot. Don't buy into the hype
Not sure I understand what you’re talking about. Do you mean a stock broker?
We should definitely be afraid of misinformed nuclear apologists using an example of a major nuclear meltdown event as a testament to nuclear's safety. Comments like these are why nuclear is not trusted. These kinds of disasters demand respect and sobering retrospectives, not flippant dismissal.
Not true. Many professional musicians (like myself) routinely have to sing or play at various pitch levels: A=390Hz, A=415, A=420, A=430, A=435 or so, A=440, a bit sharp of 440 (European orchestras), etc. Many of those musicians have perfect pitch to varying degrees.

Having perfect pitch does not make it impossible, or even difficult, to "enjoy" music at varying pitches, etc.
FaceTime is basically a verb at this point, and only growing more usable with Mac to phone conversations and 32 ppl simultaneous support
> I own an Index and I love VR, but I have the feeling that if VR was going to be huge it would be a lot bigger it is already. In my opinion it's more likely that in the future it will remain a niche, but never become really a hit in the general population.

Historically (that is, from the point that VR first became a buzzword in the '90s), the importance of low latency and other ergonomic issues has been consistently underestimated. Improvements in hardware were usually eaten up by greater rendering fidelity and scene complexity, keeping latency right on the edge of acceptability, which unfortunately means that about 10% of the population experiences loss of orientation or motion sickness. A similar effect occurs on standard desktop setups, but affects a much smaller group (something about the difference between moving the scene in response to head vs. hand movements).

As long as developers (of both platforms and games) keep trying to push more polygons at faster refresh rates without addressing latency, 1-in-10 people are going to reject it outright, and rather more forcefully than in a "eh, not for me" sense.

Keep in mind that the reason disagreement between the inner ear and visual field causes nausea is to get you to vomit harmful psychoactive substances, so it's a pretty deeply rooted response that doesn't respond much to desensitization through exposure (ie. If it's a problem for you, you may not be able to "get used to it").-
Amazing! I do think these two methods will become complementary, since the output can be very different. Both cannot do what the other can.
Every place has issues.

The top down these three people decide everything can lead to abuse or neglect. Most importantly it makes people do irrational personal things to win over the top three. This leads to internal cults.
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You keep making statements without backing them up and when others refute them with giving actual evidence you ignore them and move to another unbacked statement.

Regarding your statement that nuclear receiving high regulatory costs and renewables being highly subsidised, that statement is false again. The subsidies received by nuclear are significantly larger than the ones received by renewables.

Source europe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Too_much_money_for_dirt...

Source europe:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Subsidies-For-O...
What you’ve described is a recipe for endless technical debt and a culture that focuses on playing with whatever new tool is popular on HN this week instead of growing revenue or improving profit margins.
Ask HN: What's the client app that you use for Hacker News?
Hi. What's the HackerNews client app that you use, majorly. Be it Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, etc. let us know what you use and, if possible, also tell us why do you like using it.
Doesn't surprise me. They're in the certification business more than the education business.

Promising rigorous proctored tests gives their degrees more credibility than a self-awarded collection of MOOC course completions.
The invasion of privacy starts with the act of tracking peoples' behavior and using that data to target ads.

It's also not about knowing what a specific user sees. The targeting configurations that advertisers use should be made public, but nobody needs to know which individual users see which individual ads.

So, you should be able to click a "?" link in the corner of any ad and see which demographics or groups the ad is targeting. And likewise, you should be able to look at individual demographics or groups and see which ads are targeting them at any given moment.

This sort of transparency would go a long way towards restoring trust, but I suspect that it would also reveal what a cesspit their ad market is. The advertisers would also probably object, because many would consider their targeting parameters to be a sort of trade secret. And whoever pays the piper calls the tune.
It's not "cheating", but it's also not absolute pitch, by definition.

Absolute pitch (or perfect pitch) is the ability to identify a note without having any memory aid or reference tone to compare it to.

So if you have a constantly-present reference tone, due to tinnitus, and you figure everything out based on the interval from that tone, that's simple relative pitch and the ability to figure out intervals. Not perfect pitch.
If the "particles" don't have any mass, the "issues" you're assuming are likely irrelevant, as they would result in division by 0.