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> (6) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the messages and information provided by various state drug and alcohol programs promote no unlawful use of any drugs or alcohol.

> This bill would repeal those provisions.

Does this mean that the bill lets California start promoting unlawful use of drugs and alcohol? What is the purpose of this change?
It'd be impossible to do that on the honour system. It would take an absurd amount of coordination to avoid ever doing it in a game like SMB, and the effects would be pretty immediately obvious.

If you're using an emulator, you have to enable allowing it. If you're using a hardware adapter you'd have to have your adapter blocking it.
Indeed. COM provided and provides integration that Unix nerds can only dream of. Windows in the 90s, in general, was technology indistinguishable from magic, compared to the state of the art from the Unix realm. That's why it would have killed Unix entirely but for Linux.
I hope Peter Norton got paid enough to be worth enduring this running of his once good name into the ground.
> I think it's a matter of accuracy and bias. If the tech keeps making false accusations, especially against the same kind of people over and over, then a ban might be in place.

It seems like we should then ban eyewitness testimony. That has tons of accuracy issues and bias.
If you ever want to see thee Ars community dogpile on a certain topic, read any article on cryptocurrencies. You will get the following comments at the top of the heap:

Crypto means I can't buy a graphics card

Crypto is a ponzi scheme and should be banned

It is immoral to own Bitcoin, and governments should punish people who do

Would you like to buy my new XCoin ha ha ha.

Elon Musk is amazing, but this crypto thing makes me a little unhappy with him.

Ad nauseum. I have been visiting that site less and less, because I think the audience has become an echo chamber.
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"The legislation bans the use of the software by county government agencies and administrative offices, including by the King County Sheriff’s Office."

So anybody else can use it anywhere, including third-party contractors performing work for any of the above parties.

Also, strangely, I see no mention of hardware or other non-software facial recognition technology.
There is the conservative and the progressive. The conservative hold their 1984 bible and say the end of world is coming. The progressive just go forward and everything is fine.
yeah private cryptos like the Secret Network, Monero, or Tornado.cash contract on the Ethereum network all have a way for the user to provide audits. so what you find interesting about the technology is still available or even more available. Secret Network offloads necessary state information into Intel SGX chips that all the validators have. Tornado.cash generates state information client side and offloads it all client side and must be saved by the user, for now. Monero is much more complicated.

ultimately the only thing changing is the state's ability to flag electronic transactions, as there are no financial intermediaries for them to deputize. they didn't have that ability in the cash based system, and they temporarily got used to it in the electronic one. This is just a reversion to the mean.
Having a barrier helps manageability of the site, so from a business' perspective it's been good, indeed.
I always had a question for people who do such things.
Is it really worth the time to configure such things and get into a habit of it?

It's like a ton of time to get into such framework, much easier to install some app on your phone.
What's the point? (Sincere question)
Short stories tend to be a little more gimmicky than novels.
Why is infrastructure on the internet?
> As I said, we can dislike it, but as a society we have basically decided that anything short of reasonably straightforward violent crime/extreme violent crime and high value property crime and easy to prosecute drug crime is not worth the effort.

No, I would say that a few counties have decided this, but the majority of counties have not. In most places, you do get arrested for property crimes, you still serve prison time for this, police still do things like use bait cars and exert resources to catch those who steal, and the idea that property crime should not result in jail time is not widely accepted by the majority of the population.
Ok I'm at a loss what amendment don't we talk about that leads to violence on the streets. Are you just being trying to be cute and talk about the 13th?
This level of corporate hacking existed prior to cryptocurrencies, the difference is that it was used for stock market manipulation and profiting on short or long positions. It appears that this is even more profitable than ransomware, in the hundreds of millions or possibly even billions of dollars. [1][2]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/03/manipulated-stock-prices/
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybercybersecurity-hackin...
I did a COM project around the same time. It took a little bit of searching, but I found an excellent tutorial on a random site. Something that could not have existed at StackOverflow because it didn't answer a specific question, any question it answered would have been downvoted, and it would have been difficult to find there.
Wouldn't ZMK be slower due to having to handle bluetooth?

Do you have the full data for each QMK feature written out anywhere? Or is just roughly something like, more features turned = more lag.

Did you get faster input when you only used one side of the split?
It was supposed to be Experts Exchange and... yeah, bad choice of domain name, especially since "sex change" is an outdated term now considered a slur, on par with "Eskimo".
I've always preferred the five-star scale over a simple thumbs-up, down. The stars never went away on the dvd.netflix.com interface (I still have a disc plan along with streaming). I think the red stars for movies/shows I haven't rated reflect Netflix's guess for how I'll rate them but further down there's small print that shows Neflix's guess numerically and the numeric average rating for all users.
I don't think that's the problem. The problem is that the justice system believes that it's enough to convict someone of a crime.
My father has been using a mouth guard for years now, and the sleep apnea is simply gone!
The whole machine setup he had at the beginning was so loud, he's really happy he's gone with the mouth guard instead
Please do! And if you find any bugs and want to share feedback, the discord server is already pretty active
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Nobody knows.

There’s no clear cut answer for this; some say it was intended to be every 20 frames, and there was an off-by-one error in implementation.

https://ggn00b.com/for-noobs/frame-rule-mario-explained/
How will this facial recognition tech ban be enforced? The most common users of the tech are the ones who will be enforcing the ban. Are we honestly expecting the police department to self-regulate?
Thanks for taking the time to describe that, it makes sense now.

I'm impressed that it manages restarting everything on the fly without a reboot on a running system.
Why would anyone support Tor? I mean, really, it allows for absolute evil. I would rather read about terrorist attacks in countries because of discontent than read about a tor site, okay?

I used it once to try and find an anti-government website, something like the anarchy cookbook but practical and a forum, and I found a Tor site that looked normal but just scared the bejesus out of me. Never used Tor since. Well, I did get forgetful in college and tried to Torrent through Tor because I wanted to not get arrested for pirating or kicked off the uni network. Brain-damage and memory loss sometimes go hand in hand with schizophrenia.

I am a paranoid schizophrenic - who has been paranoid of the government for a very long time - I don't use Tor. I will NEVER use Tor. I would rather be arrested for anti-government writing or something than use Tor. I would rather be charged with promoting terrorism because of my own server on my AWS account than use that goddamn evil network. At least I would include instructions that indicate Tor exit nodes as viable terrorist strikes.
In the last 6 Months my workplace has started heavily using Power Apps. The first impression I got was 'holy crap, this is MS Access on steroids'. My workplace heavily(ab)used Access in the 90's and we got bitten very badly when support for Access was discontinued. We also had a lot of VB6 code which was similarly orphaned.

In the mid 2000's someone in our IT department decided all new business apps were to be written in Java I believe this decision was made partially as a reaction to what happened with Access and VB6. The result was everything stagnated our in house apps became massively bloated, buggy and almost no one did anything 'to fix things. Any changes had to go through external contractors because no one knew Java or how to support these apps. If they had mandated Python like the post I'm replying to suggested I am sure the results would have been the same. Probably worse because harder to find cheap contractors to work on business apps in Python.

You are not going to get HR people, you are not going to get Finance Accountants, you are not going to get commercial team or legal to learn a full on programming language. That is why these products have such a niche in large Enterprise orgs.

Yes you get buggy monstrosities but you can also very rapidly develop working tools that solve real business problems.

I think what makes Power Apps attractive is the whole Azure ecosystem Microsoft have built around it. There is a whole suite of tools that all talk to the same common backends, Power Automate, Azure Databricks, Azure ML, Power BI, Power Apps etc. From what I've experienced as all of this stuff has been rapidly rolled out across my org is it all "just works" and seemingly solves real problems.

My real fear is that 5 years down the line it will have all be abandoned and we'll be left with MS Access 2.0 and a bunched of orphaned unsupported apps again. I hope Microsoft have learned from what happened with Access but at the moment it remains to be seen.
I agree with you - this is just forcing policing to be more expensive and inefficient. It would be absurd to ban a police department from using Microsoft Office for example, and instead forcing them to track data in physical spreadsheets. Banning facial recognition is equivalent to forcing a police department to hire enough staff to monitor county-wide feeds and match feeds against a long list of criminals they're looking out for. With humans in the loop and requirements for when facial recognition can be used, I feel like there isn't a "real problem" here. But when we look at quotes from this article, for example the person quoted from Latino Advocacy who is concerned about ICE enforcing the law against illegal immigrants, it's clear that the motivation to ban facial recognition is really more political in nature - it's about letting some people get away with breaking the law more so than fundamental concerns with facial recognition.
The ridiculousness that is King County at this point is borderline a conspiracy. Most of it surrounds, "insert skin color" bad, all others good.

Our subreddits are cancer and have been known for a while to be the highest manipulated forums for astroturfing on reddit.

Can anyone help? Can we help ourselves?
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The only thing that keeps them from harming you is your power relative to them. Handing them more power only increases the probability that they will abuse what powers they do have.

I thought the election of Trump would disabuse people of this idea that it’s smart to hand more and more power to central authorities. But at this point I think it’s hopeless. People just want the state to be Daddy, and assume or hope that its power will always be wielded by people they like against people they don’t.
Speedrunning is software QA as a spectator sport. It's no wonder we like it. :)
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113658
But first you have to figure out how you got owned the first time and fix the issue. Otherwise you'll just get owned the next day again...
Bot Framework was a good idea: one framework to write a bot for multiple IM platforms at once. But of course it immediately suffered the exact problems you would expect: lowest common denominator features, older target platforms falling into disrepair, new platforms never getting official support, etc.

Using Bot Framework to write just for a Teams bot is broken before you start. Using it to support both your Teams and Slack integrations sounds nice on paper, but probably doesn't work in theory as soon as you need platform specific features or do something "advanced". You still can't use Bot Framework with Discord.

I liked the theory behind Bot Framework, but the practical reality has so far been mostly a disappointment.
I think the complaint is that it takes a lot of work to check, each time you visit the site, that the JavaScript your browser downloads is really the same as the published (and assumed secure) source code (plus obfuscation, as you mention).

Ideally there would be a mechanism in browsers to pin a specific version of a web app, and only let that app update (to a version with a specific hash) if the user explicitly gives it permission to.

The nearest thing we have to that right now is the SRI-bookmarklet trick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456
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Thats pretty incredible. So I can work on configs, switch back and forth until it's exactly right and then switch to it permanently.

Where's a good place to start? Some of the configs people are throwing about are quite involved and look like they need a bunch of specialist knowledge.

Thanks for taking the time to explain. Can't wait to start trying this out.
I wonder why they don't build and sell power to the local market in Australia and then use those funds to build the cable?
This solution seems to work like this:

- Generate type safe client based on your schema.
- Access GraphQL properties as if they were just JS object properties.

So in this solution the codegen step comes before writing a query.

You get the same advantages pretty much, and you have less likelihood of querying for unused data.
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Off topic so I edit, delete if you can mod and sry
Why ban it? It's not the facial recognition that's the problem; the problem is that the justice system believes that it's enough to convict someone of a crime. It's hard to believe that prosecutors can be like, "The computer says it's you, so you're guilty." Especially when there's probably a known margin of error.
When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months (2020)
This jives with "The Dead Internet Theory" which says that most of the internet is AI bots.
Generally a good idea, however the risk/rewards does not pan out in later life and seen people kicked out of Uni for what was a silly in the spirit of the group moment prank.

So you find a balance, compromise and if any of the drawing pins get knocked due too it's placement and fall upon the floor I remove them for health and safety reasons, Now why don't I pin it back in the board, well that board is not my property and at a structure level of the board, albeit cork, would still leave a trace of sort and would technically be damage towards housing property. So I recycle those health and safety risks and avoid damaging the property of the housing association. Coz eventually there gets a stage in which there are no drawing pins and makes it hard for papers to stay up. This and paper litter in the hallways is dangerous and we had a letter about that, so again, I recycle as I'm a good person.

In short, you can't beat the system, you can sometimes bend it, but you can sure use it's bureaucracy against itself and have a less stressful life. Though the term, spirit of the law and letter of the law can be equally applied to rules.
My least favourite use of typography on a website. It's a nice font but almost unreadable, the letters are small and the edges look fuzzy. It's rather ironic.
> That's why I insist that you do post it, in the place where it's the most relevant, with the appropriate caveats

Sure! There was already someone else who made a post similar to that (which is the top-post on the thread). I also replied to that one, to reinforce the point.

So...done.

> But the other side of that is making an effort to post it where the opposite claim is actually asserted

Yep, I did that too! In fact, my first posts were mostly questions, and those formed into more concrete posts once I felt I understood the mistake of the article well enough.

After I had done those two things you suggested, I also responded to a handful of posts from people who looked like they had interpreted the article as being accurate when it wasn't.

I'm not trying to disagree with your point! I just wanted to let you, and people reading your comment know that it wasn't accurate (as was described in the headline of the post and the article) in this case.

Fair enough that it would be unfair to only comment on your post as my only comment in the thread! I didn't do that, though.

> And not in a way that implies no one should care about the general issue.

I can see how my initial comment came across that way, but that wasn't my intent and I apologize that it reads that way. I'll try and be less dismissive of the meta-point in the future.
This is off topic and the title breaks the rules also. Please read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Not a read, but this feature from KOMO goes over the Seattle situation pretty well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
Does anyone know of any data about the racial bias of human police officers vs. facial recognition software?

That is, I am not sure if it makes sense to ban the software if it is less biased than the human. But it might make sense to ban it if it is more biased.

There are loads of people of color who have been falsely imprisoned for looking like someone in a grainy security camera footage well before facial recognition technology was widespread.
The client is generated from the schema, so “query.me.name” is fully typed.
> Joel is giving himself a bit too much credit here

Especially since Stack Overflow was created specifically as a better expertsexchange (with a better name too).
At least cryptocurrency prevents censorship when sending funds, unlike centralized solutions.

Ideally, in the long run, cryptocurrency takes on a value of its own, reducing the need to use exchanges.
You won't have to choose. We'll see guns attached to facial recognition systems soon enough, both "authorized" and not.
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Rust: Internationalization Components of Unicode (ICU4X)
It isn't hypothetical at all. The FSF's standard copyright assignment contract includes consideration on both sides – the contributor's consideration is assignment of copyright, the FSF's consideration is a non-exclusive license to said copyright. It has to include consideration on both sides or else it wouldn't be a legally valid contract. (You can still have a legal agreement without any consideration, but then it has to be a deed not a contract; people often prefer contracts to deeds because in many jurisdictions deeds have more stringent formality requirements.)

Another possible consideration the project could offer Alice would be the intangible benefit of having her code included in the project. Those intangible benefits include the benefits to Alice's reputation (she can truthfully say "I wrote part of X"), and also the maintenance benefits of upstreaming code.

Legally, consideration doesn't have to monetary. It can be something intangible, such as a copyright license, reputational benefits, the maintenance benefits of upstreaming, etc. All that's really necessary for consideration to exist is each side has to give something to the other, but usually the legal standards for what counts as consideration are pretty low.
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