skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sheriff's have been very crafty to not generate any evidence of wrongdoing. Unless one of her direct reports decides to turn against her and testify there will be no evidence that she ever directly communicated the monetary requirements to get a permit. Prior to this it has largely been indirect evidence used to probe CCW issuance, looking at the correlation of donations to permits being issued and non-donors getting denied permits. Sheriffs have even quashed that in that many won't readily give out or accept the paperwork to apply for a permit so there is never a record of a denial that is subject to sunshine laws. If you keep it verbal, there is no evidence if no one will testify.
Better/cheaper municipal IT is the same kind of public benefit as more urban space or services for poor people. The sheriff's discretion over CCW is the same as the planning commission's discretion over construction.

I think both are slimy but neither are corruption, per se, both institutions are serving the public interest.
This sort of pay-for-play CCW permitting isnt unusual: it's very common in the May-issue counties that have the lowest acceptance rates (Bay Area and LA). Normally the bribes are just campaign contributions to the sheriff's reelection, so this is notable in that it was a much bigger bribe.
Convolution is such a core concept. In my era, it was a college sophomore/junior sort of thing.

Is it a standard high school topic for AP math types in high school nowadays? If not, why not? There are a few topics like that, for which I’d gladly give up high school teaching (or learning) L’Hôpital’s rule for.
In California, you cannot carry concealed except on your own property or on the property of a business you own.[1] Employees cannot carry concealed even if they have permission from the employer.

1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I guess the easiest way to slice it would be knowledge labor vs. unskilled labor. Regardless of where you live.
I recently had a surgery done and we weren't sure it was going to be covered by insurance. I wanted to make sure I knew how much of a liability I was taking on by moving ahead before knowing about insurance. I was told the insurance was going to be billed $150k, but if they didn't pay, they would only charge me $15k as the cash price. I was ok with that since the surgery was important and insurance did pay, but that type of pricing variation is why healthcare is so expensive in the US.
I am always curious how data are compared between countries which will pretty much always have different reporting standards. For example, how does one doctor in Germany attribute a death to smoking vs. a doctor in the US?

The reason why I bring this up is I know of at least one metric where the definitions being used are quite disparate: child mortality. The US is very inclusive in counting pre-mature births as infant mortality whereas a lot of other countries would conclude these were not viable births and thus are not counted in the statistic.
One side of the street is Little Italy, the other side is not someplace to hang out after dark.
Your source combines access and quality in order to put the US at the bottom. If you go further down the page you’ll see that the US is sometimes better and sometimes worse. (Apparently Canadian doctors have trouble delivering babies.) If you seek out other sources of information you’ll find that the US has the best survival rates for certain types of cancer. Supposedly the US also produces 50% of the new pharmaceuticals that reach the market.
The only thing you need to do before selling an iPhone (or iPad) is go into Settings->General->Reset->Erase All Contents and Settings. This will prompt you for your iCloud password and remove the iCloud lock and wipe the device. Source: sold at least a dozen iPhones and iPads since iCloud lock has been a thing.
Ahh, that reminds me of another one where one was (more or less) steering a stick man on a sled. More precisely, one would create custom slopes for him, which he would then follow automatically after hitting "Play". The goal was to prevent him from falling or crashing.

There was even a YouTube video of a guy who must have spent hours creating slopes, which the stick man would then follow to the precise melody of some classical piece of music. Truly epic.

Does anyone remember the name?

UPDATE: Line rider! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBn04IyELc
> Regardless of instrument, at a minimum you need to know your major and minor scales in every key, and arguably piano is easier in the sense you can transpose up and down octaves with the same shapes.

First of all, "Major" is "Ionian", and "Minor" is "Aeolian". Both are the same exact pattern of notes starting at a different point. This means that playing C Major (Ionian) involves the exact same set of notes as A Minor (Aeolian).

> C and Eb major look pretty different across a fret board, and if you want to shred, there is going to be a lot of scales in your practicing.

They look exactly the same. One is simply shifted 3 frets away from the next. That's my point. Playing Eb major in the same position as C major would involve changing shapes, and playing Eb major in the same shape as C major would involve changing position.

To contrast, playing Eb major in any position on a piano requires playing a totally different shape than C major. That means learning totally different muscle memory for Eb major, which is not necessary on guitar.

> Nothing is stopping you from becoming a virtuoso on something like an Ableton Push, but there just isn't any short cut around the practice and that's honestly the main slog.

There is nothing stopping me from becoming an expert on something like a Janko piano, except that I don't have one. I do have a piano. My point is that if I had both, I would find it much easier to learn the Janko piano, because it requires significantly less learning.

> 2 hand independence, internal sense of rhythm, syncopation, groove and understanding the relationships and functions of chords/harmony take tons of dedicated practice.

That's true. Factoring in different muscle memory for each individual key also requires tons of extra dedicated practice. That skill is totally unnecessary, and could be completely factored out by using a chromatic layout, allowing the learner to focus a significant amount more time and effort on those other skills you mentioned.

> To get where this is second nature just requires a lot of time. Issues with the keyboard's ergonomics are small in comparison.

Small? Arguable. Trivial? Definitely not.

> Theory is descriptive not prescriptive; it's how musicians can discuss what's happening in a piece.

Yes, and our current descriptors are convoluted. If we had better descriptors, we would be better equipped to discuss.

Frankly, they are prescriptive. They prescribe we call "loud" "forte", and "fast" "allegro". They prescribe that we call the 14th half-step up a "9th". The whole thing could use a complete overhaul, but professionalism demands we preserve antiquity.

> You will need to practice and learn some goofy names, but pretty much it's just a way to describe relative notes, groupings and relationships. Knowing your major and relative minors scales you can learn the other modes relatively easily; Mixolydian is a major scale with dominant 7th, Dorian is a minor scale with a major 6th.

You have illustrated my point well.
More likely the destination IP address is hard coded, so no name resolution is ever required.
Chromecast devices (some? all?) have Google's public DNS servers hard coded. Paul Vixie wrote a nice rant about catching these devices trying to bypass his local DNS servers.
If you want to talk, prove your good faith by responding to my overall points above instead of finding smaller and smaller points to niggle with and ask leading questions about.

Seriously, the loaded/dishonest article and your antagonistic and pseudo-dishonest mode of argument has done more to erode how seriously I will take arguments in this area than to deepen my concern. If this is your objective, keep going down this path.

On the other hand, it's stupid: wage theft is a severe enough concern, deserving of additional advocacy, that it can be done honestly without these kinds of questionable argument tactics.
None at all. Neither did the parent. We’re two (now three) strangers sharing opinions.
This reminds me of a optometrist exam. And, gives me an idea for an improved version of one.
<shrugs> I haven't been there. This is what I have been told by the folks I'm dealing with over there. Mind you the island itself doesn't haven't anything.
California is a two-party consent state. It's safe to assume a LEO soliciting a bribe would not also consent to having that solicitation recorded. So the only way you are getting that recording is illegally. Depending on how you record them, you could be facing several charges yourself and there's no guarantee that anything will come of it for a variety of reasons. You might even be caught doing it, which could be disastrous. In short, it's a pretty big gamble.
There is an argument to be made that licensing in general is a poll tax. There is an equal protection argument against not recognizing permits issued to out of State residents who meet the same standards except for residency. Sadly, I am not holding my breath to see either come to the test.
There is an argument to be made about which odds are better though. Take the risks with a vaccine or don’t and suffer the disease?

It’s just that using the vaccine is an active choice so you run into trouble with ethics.
Steve: I'm a simpleton I've always had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do
those things. That's why we pay taxes. Now if we can get out of paying taxes I'll be glad to put up Wi-Fi.
That's exactly what's happening. Just because Apple/the head of security doesn't want to pay off duty/retired police who have CCW permits because of their LEO jobs, it doesn't mean that isn't completely relevant to the CCW issuance situation.
Yeah, I'm not saying it makes it right. I'm saying it makes it possible.
This type of crap is why CA needs shall issue permits for CCW.
That's interesting, but for 'life expectancy' my understanding is that it's the expectation for an X year old, where X is something like 12 or 20 that I can't remember - designed to eliminate such effects, and instead indicate the environmental impact.

Edit: apparently I'm wrong, Wikipedia states that 'life expectancy at birth (LEB) is the most commonly used measure'.
I suspect that trend will continue until the wealth inequality is so rampant that the taxes needed to secure and defend the wealth of the rich can't be extracted from the rest of us because we no longer obtain enough wealth for our taxes to matter. At that point, wealth will need to retreat to their next most stable country to bunker down.

At some point, people may identify many of these people and entities for what many of them really are: leeches of society--not value creators. Let's not confuse your entrepreneur innovating and improving life with profit maximizing corporatism.

We continue to play this experiment under a rhetoric that claims this is progress, all while we continue to play the song of failed promises of trickle down economics. To me, our current direction seems a lot more regressive than progressive, but who am I.
>Pretty low risk. Broken headlight, and behind it is a high voltage arc? That's a very real electrocution hazard.

There's not enough amps available there to do anything serious.
Due to work, I spent:

- 3 months in Japan
- 3 Months in Germany
- 3 months in the US
- 3 months in India

The transition was alarming. I see bits of both Germany and India in the US. Unfortunately (having grown up in America) I see the trend as towards India. I don't mean this as a cultural slight, but as a cultural observation. I've seen high-trust vs low-trust societies brought up many times on HN. Traffic was most pronounced. In Germany, they obeyed the rules to the extent they wouldn't J-walk even if there was no traffic. In America, you'd look both ways then cross. In India might makes right, big cars get the right of way, pedestrians have to be aggressive and just make their way, eyeballing cars down with a death stare of determination.

Anyway all this is to say, it seems like there are two types of wealth:

- In India, you can found a startup, make money, buy a Ferrari, but that would be a terrible move because if you drive it anywhere on public roads you will go max 30kph, and it will get destroyed on the roads
- In Germany, you can have a modest Skoda and still hit 200 kph on their impeccable freeways with confidence that the person in the right lane will never, ever change lanes without a signal and mirror check

So, my personal take, and I realize that this is highly reductionist, but I hope, relevant is that there are two types of wealth:

1. a type where society is wealthy, and that translates into well being for the individual and the whole
2. a type where wealth is relative, and the wealthy take joy not in having an absolute sense of wealth (as in compared to a German), but as in "my neighbor lives in a shack and I live in a gated tower high rise"

I fear America is at a cross roads and will make a choice that makes us poor in a global sense.
I found the documentation to be plentiful compared to other projects, though it's not as comprehensive as the Arch Wiki. The docs definitely mention how to install KDE [1] and firefox [2].

To learn more about Nix, I'd recommend grepping the nixpkgs [3] repository once you grasp the basics of the Nix language (Nix Pills [4] would be a good start for that). Since everything in the Nix official repository belongs in nixpkgs, it's easy to search for the information I want. I just wish CentOS and Debian had a way of searching across the entire codebase this easily when I couldn't figure out something from the docs.

[1]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-x11
[2]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#idm140737322634320
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
[4]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/
And if Apple Security wasn't qualified in the eyes of this Sheriff's office then what chance does a person of regular means or small business owner have!? None, nothing!
A random blogger who no one's ever heard of explains this in excruciating detail and very persuasively:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...

He agrees with the linked article that lifestyle factors are what drives the worse health outcomes in the US relative to other wealthy countries. They're not primarily driven by differences in access to or effectiveness in health care. He also makes the case for a few other very unintuitive points:

* Health care spending is a direct function of national wealth. If a country gets richer it spends more on health care, and every country at every time in modern history spends about the same amount on health care as a function of its wealth.

* The US looks like an outlier in health care spending because GDP is not a perfect measure of wealth. Actual Individual Consumption is a less well-known but much more relevant measure of national wealth. AIC shows the US is more of an outlier in wealth, which makes its high health care spending less remarkable.

* There's no magic bullet. Single payer nations pay less than the US mostly because they are less wealthy and health care spending is a function of wealth. Other countries have better health outcomes mostly because of demographics and culture, which can't be fixed by the health care system. And even though finding obvious waste and inefficiency in the US health care system is easy, at a macro level it doesn't look like the US is remarkably less efficient than other rich countries, and most spending goes towards things that patients want.
Yep. Gun control legislation has deeply racist roots and the left hates talking about it.
That doesn't hold up. A lot of the countries compared aren't that ethnically homogeneous either. In fact, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and Sweden all have a higher ratio of migrants per 100k population than the US...
You can see this in flight. It's pretty obvious if you're sitting near the wing.
While in high school in 1968, I took a typing class in which I was the poorest touch typist, and was given use of the single IBM Selectric typewriter. I was given a passing grade only on effort - not by the skills I learned poorly.

But a year later, at my first Fortran computer course in college, I was the star of the the keypunch room which had the same keyboard on the 023 Keypunch as my familiar IBM typewriter.

I got an A in every computer course, which was greatly enabled by the lack of frustration in the keypunch room.

From worst to first.

Now at age 69, there has not been a year in which I did not program, which is the most satisfying avocation I can imagine.
At the county level I dont think it neatly lines up to coasts vs interior. There's definitely a serious problem of the interior southeast though
Quest to Disable LAN LEDs of an Intel NUC
There are several preconditions. It's not a computer message; think 1970s tech. There's a accelerometer to say you need a head-on crash and a seat mass sensor to say there's a large enough human in the seat. There are cases where the passenger bag did not deploy, for example a stuck-closed accelerometer, and then a responder knelt on that seat getting to the driver, satisfying the last condition, and causing a deployment with obvious injury.
Having a look at how people with various ethnic background fare is interesting and can be essential to optimise the effectiveness of health policies by targetting the right groups.

However, they are still all US Citizen, there is nothing misleading about the article or their analysis unless you want them to start splitting the stats by 'race', which would be a strange starting point (why would ethnic background be a better way to group people than socio-economic brackets anyway?).
And Torontonians could make questionable generalizations about Brampton drivers.

Though, now that I think about it, residential street speed limits are way lower here.
> There is no way around it

I have just presented a way. Were you willing to listen?

No, it's not a "conspiracy". How condescending. It is, on the other hand, a real problem. Maybe reconsider your persecution complex.

> The keyboard as it is is laid out for efficiency.

How many times to I need to explain that is not the case? The keyboard is extremely inefficient. It was not designed for efficiency. It was designed to look like the Ionian mode, with accidentals on a separate row.
Just like @TuringNYC,I spent the early part of my life in the lower half of socio-economic ladder. With a bit of luck (and yes, work), I extracted myself from this group. I'm not rich, but I have zero debt. I own a house, multiple vehicles, and an 4 season expedition camper - free and clear. I have a rewarding and unusual career.

By contrast, the entirety of my close and extended family lives in poverty. Bankruptcy, car repos, eviction, and mortgage default are almost a game. MY father died at the age of 40. My grandfather: 36. My brother died at 42 (after a lethal encounter with police after speeding).

I'm 56 (The oldest of any male in two generations). I have multiple retirement accounts. First class healthcare. I take care of my Mom. I can't predict the future, but I suspect my economic success will allow me a longer, more fulfilling life.

I'm convinced that access to healthcare, decent work, and basic housing would have allowed my short lived male family members to live longer with a better quality of life.
> The only cherry picking is that the numbers need to be small enough that the decimal digit does not overflow

Aren't you restating my point?

> So, if you convert to a digit of a large enough base you can do any multiplication with just a convolution and no carry.

There is no convolution at all. There's only a cherry-picked example of how plain old multiplication feels similar to a sliding dot product, which for some reason some people confuse with convolution. This is not helpful, and only adds to the confusion already expressed.
That Andersonville to Uptown transition can be a shock.
Bastion is my favourite small game.

Chills down my spine every time.
At least one talk on youtube lambasted python for this in-joke "I get my packages at the cheese shop".

If you want to build infrastructure, be boring; sensible is the new sexy.
I agree but fighting against a culturally accepted standard isn't the issue. It's what everyone uses. Thinking it's not as private as IRC doesn't change the fact that it's easier to get on facebook than it is IRC.
FYI, your in-page video uses a DRMed format, and results in the following message for me:

>The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
Oh wow, Yetisports! I haven't heard that name in at least 10 years!

Speaking of very popular and very well-made flash games with winter/Christmas setting, this reminds me of Orisinal Winterbells[0]. I still can't believe how many hours I spent playing that game.

[0]: https://ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm
I can't get over how polished and professional their website looks.

Is there funding behind it? Are people somehow making money off jailbreaks, perhaps downstream?
Start following some row crop farmers on Twitter, especially the guys that post tractor porn. This stuff will blow your mind. They can plant dozens of rows of corn in a single pass. The software and tech that drives a big John Deere planter is just unbelievable. Also, unbelievably expensive.
How could you have an external lever that would disarm airbags without someone randomly pulling it when you leave your car in the shopping centre for example?
I would expect military aircraft are always guarded so wouldn't have this problem.
Brian Shelburne's PDP-8 Home Page
>Of which the end result will be that the desired functionality will be somehow hacked within the plugin or will not be available at all.

It depends on the scope of the functionality. For example, right now, authentication and token generation are in the core, but it's okay right now because authentication spans across the whole product.

We eventually will extract it out, so we could use it as a component in another product, but for now, it's not inappropriate to leave it in the core.

>When business requirements change, you then have the difficult dilemma - just insist on "no", introduce a minimal hack, redesign interfaces to support the use case in a clean way (possibly big task) etc.

Some days are easier than others.

>Yes, worst outcome of all. In reality, plugin based architecture is no silver bullet. It can be very counter productive, especially when you're figuring out what you actually want to build, as you build it.

That's why I talked with the scope and abstraction level. We tend to make the few and loose assumptions that get us a lot of leg work done automatically. We won't make further assumptions just for 1% advantage. And if we do, there's a fallback. For example, we say that a plugin has a certain structure and expects say an icon file. If it's not there, it's not there, the plugin is loaded but just not displayed. We issue a warning, in case it was by mistake, but the application does not break.

Very few and loose "specs" that one can go through quickly and easily without looking at a checklist or something.

Again, it's not a panacea. The underlying assumption in what I wrote is that neither I nor the reader believe in silver bullets. It's not a dichotomy. The question of course is not whether a plugin architecture solves all problems and makes bacon or solves nothing, and I may have been unclear in my message. My point was that it's one of the most useful things we have done because it reduced the amount of work we had to do. We still wake up and build product.
nix/guix = academia and like conceptualism

others = industry and leverage existing subsystems

that's why