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> The cities were very safe until the summer riots and the defund the police nonsense.

Quick reminder, there isn't any clear correlation between police defunding and the recent increase in crime. Cities that never defunded the police, cities that even increased police funding -- they've still seen increases in crime. And even in cities that did reduce police funding, many of the trends we're seeing now started before funding was cut, so the timing doesn't make sense.

People have a perception that police budgets across the entire country were all slashed because that's just how the cultural conversation happened, but the rhetoric is not the reality.

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My take: anyone who tells you they know for certain why crime is increasing is either overconfident or lying.

I am personally of the opinion that COVID is a very probable explanation. 600,000 people have died, a large number of businesses have gone under, schooling was disrupted, industries and income were disrupted, homeless shelters became dangerous and behaviors on streets were adjusted accordingly. Not to mention that there was a pretty decent chunk of time where a lot less people were going outside and traveling through certain districts. To me, the timing lines up really well and it was a consistent event across the entire country that helps explain why crime might be spiking in multiple otherwise unrelated cities.

BUT even I am not going to claim with complete certainty that COVID is the cause, we don't have enough data for that. If I tried to tell you COVID was the obvious cause, I would be lying too. It could be related to economics, it could be a cultural shift, it could be some other cause that hasn't even been proposed. We don't know. I am reasonably certain though that defunding the police was not the cause. The data just doesn't line up well enough for that theory to make sense to me.
Proposed antonym: "meatverse".

Example sentence: "I'd rather be stuck in the meatverse than join Zuck's online metaverse."
I mostly agree with this author but I think counterfactual isn't the most useful word in the article.

For example "The admin did not configure file purging." isn't a counterfactual unless admins were in fact purging files.

A better phrase might be subverted expectations, along with the admonition to make expectations more explicit with the author's if-then examples. Inaccurate expectations are just as important to analyze and fix as hardware and software bugs.

Counterfactuals are actually very powerful and useful because they do let us analyze the past instead of just the future. I have found that chasing counterfactuals usually bottoms out in known failure modes in practice. For example tracing back that lack of disk space in build nodes would probably arrive at either "insufficient design" or "insufficient review" or even "insufficient understanding", all of which are pretty well-known and common engineering failure modes and we already know the solutions in the future; spend more time on design, review with more people, ensure education is happening. It's actually quite useful to do this because as a trend over many postmortems "insufficient design" has very different organizational solutions than "insufficient understanding" and it's a meta-level counterfactual of "if we were better at (design|understanding) what problems would we avoid?"
What about the current DeFi framework makes it impossible to address?

Imo smart contract engineering has much more in common with firmware, hardware, etc. than the mindset a typical React/web2 engineer might have (i.e. try things and iterate). I think that point is not talked about enough.
Similar: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00064-7

Dreams help the brain in generalizing the world. From the article:

"That is, dreams are a biological mechanism for increasing generalizability via the creation of corrupted sensory inputs from stochastic activity across the hierarchy of neural structures."
NFTs as a decentralized DRM scheme would have the same weaknesses as traditional DRM systems. Centralization is also literally the entire point of DRM, so no one has an incentive to try to make it work.
7-11's ATM is exceptionally well made ATM in Japan (in other words, others sucks). They correctly investigated UX, so they won't beep annoying sound and have Topre's numpad. Try it if you visit.
Fascinating anecdote, and I'd love to see the report on this. I wonder what else they learned from such an interesting case study.

But I doubt it's 100% "no pre-wiring". What about gravity and musculature? Surely brains must know or train on these in some way before birth.

And what about fight or flight reflexes and presupposing monsters in the shadows? My understanding is that these had a primitive evolutionary basis and that we came hardwired to respond to certain stimuli.
While technically correct in that it is not the 'official' Debian project, the Mobian project fills the gaps to actually make Debian usable on mobile. It's a minimal set of packages to make the Pinephone usable and work is being done to upstream the packages. I've found it's pretty much the only way to use an otherwise vanilla Debian install on the Pinephone.
This is a polemic against Extreme Programming that could have been written 15 years ago (and been just as wrong-headed then). And was. Many times.
We've got mars and the moon on the site. I've been wanting to do some of the recently released Martian craters. They would look killer!

I've never thought of electron micrographs but just did a google image search and wow, I have to agree!
I often downvote low effort meme posts, but the irony of groupthink here is palpable. I guess we’re all guilty
It's weird terminology. highwayhash aims to be cryptographically secure for its problem domain. But it's designed by (afaik) non-cryptographers, has weird security claims (they gauge security from statistical tests) and hasn't (afaik) received any formal peer review; it can also be instantiated in sub-secure hash sizes. You shouldn't use it to protect secrets, beyond the kind of incident secrecy you'd ask from something like SipHash.

It would be better if people would be clear about this stuff; you see the same thing from the PCG RNG people, who say that their generator isn't a CSPRNG, but is somehow more secure than other non-CSPRNGs.
How can you tell? What are you comparing? Are you sure you mean costs and not premiums?
Why would I read some tosser?
I Tried a Viral Electrocution Game Just to Feel Something
About Goldfinch: Perhaps I've seen too many movies, but the "backers" look like the guys that will vouch for you to get the loan and break you knees in case you forgot to pay it back.
Tether is holding on by a string...it's vapor, like all crypto. It will crash, and take the market with it.
I guess the suggestion that fetuses might dream probably seems outlandish if, for some reason, you were already committed to the idea that fetuses are "not alive."
In this situation they could stagger the updates over the night. If you look at the network usage graphs from ISPs and such you can see that downloads drop to about 5% of the network capacity at the 00:00 - 06:00 times. There is a lot of spare capacity to push out updates at night which uses a tiny amount of data compared to the video calls and streaming that go on during waking hours.

As a side note, upload rates seem to be somewhat constant at all hours. I assume it must all be IoT security cameras.
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I assume you're referring to the azimuth we place the sun for the hillshade? If so, it varies, though it is almost always coming from the top, generally from the upper left.

Exactly where it is coming from depends on the terrain, we'll move it around within a 45 degree window around 337.5 and see what makes the particular landscape look best.
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Cable TV doesn't play every event: it can't, they overlap
You can't compare crud web apps with a large operating system that was on the cutting edge for the day.
Most of these situations you've presented aren't actually necessary, and are arguably harmful.
You can with the truncated versions, though.
You can run it locally.
I understand this approach, however as there is no way to compare long-term risk induced by a new vaccine to COVID-related risk, I see no way to directly conclude that vaccination is the best path.

Letting nearly all members of a population simultaneously take the very same risk during a short timeframe is a recipe for disaster.

Moreover people feeling very threatened by the COVID can extra-protect themselves, and even refuse contact with non-vaccinated people (I'm OK with this). Another take: I want everyone to stop driving because I want to walk exactly as I wish (without taking cars into account), and also people emitting exhaust gas are threatening my health.

If all this leads to coerce some into taking a risk because others want to reduce the impact on their lives of another risk, I can see some social long-term problem. "Coercing into solidarity" should ring a bell.
Clever condescension, you'll go a long way with intellect like that, kid.

Nice job dropping 'given history' in there, you win! History shows that is a fantastic argument and adds significant value to your post.

Next time, though, try to use that big brain of yours to figure out how to address what I said instead of resorting to reddit level dialog and a straw man.

Did you genuinely believe that I was referring to every individual human? That's an awfully Machiavellian take on what I said.

Unfounded assertion: "redheaded humans aren't real"

Illustration counter to assertion (not an argument): "Of course humans have red hair, just google 'natural redhead'"

Society is, and this might be confusing if nobody's taught you this before, filled with people with disproportionate amounts of power, whether social, capital, political, corporate, legal, or other. This might be scary to your sensibilities, but predators are attracted to positions of power. I don't think anyone of consequence disagrees with this.

We obviously agree here, because you based your entire straw man on the fact that they don't represent every single human everywhere.

I would however like to understand how you think we beat 'natural law' and the predators with this mythical society when you also think that they are the richest and most powerful in said society.

Society "beat" predators? I think most people who have been victims of systemic or institutional oppression would disagree here. I know every police victim I have worked with sure would.

Or maybe I'm wrong and they are all just misunderstood when they beat, steal, lie, and kill the underclass while they destroy our planet and laugh about it.
> Facebook, PayPal, eBay

I don’t see anything going good, PR wise, with those three in one team
That struck me too. My initial impression was to simply implement "Set s ⊆ Type t" as something like "∀i: sᵢ instanceof t"
You're tired because you stayed awake. The volume was full because the admin failed to configure file purging.
Debian moves far too slowly for that to have been a viable approach. Had that been attempted, we'd be sitting here a year plus later asking why Debian still doesn't support the Pinephone. (notice that it still doesn't!) This way, we have Pinephone support today (pretty much since weeks after it was released) and the majority of the work can be upstreamed so that hopefully by the time Debian 12 rolls around it will be an officially supported device.
> Perhaps the author has not observed good TDD.

It’s quite possible; Microsoft perpetrated a brain-dead interpretation of TDD around the time the author is describing (2008) and there are still people there who believe that’s what TDD is.

(Their definition: write all the tests, then write all the code. Moronic.)
I personally think it would be excellent if that was the only way you were allowed to code. Though I'd probably lose my job haha. I'd sleep better at night.
I’m reading a book called “An American Sickness” and it discusses medical devices. Turns out a lot of them are pretty poor and often have less testing and verification than most people think.

There’s one story about a hip implant that went bad. Turns out the doctor recommending and performing the surgery was also the patent holder and had a vested interest in getting this particular implant in as many patients as possible. Turns out the patient was actually patient #8 who received this particular implant. Also the implant wasn’t fully approved yet and the FDA simply trusted the doctor to monitor the device for problems.

Also this isn’t isolated. The chapter has several examples of medical devices going into patients and patients experience negative health outcomes. Turns out laws are only as good as the agencies that enforce them.
Seven days is good enough. It's also great insurance: it allows them to stop a bad rollout before bricking every phone.
You missed the point.

Bitcoins value can go to zero.

Stocks, bonds, cash: all monetary instruments' value can go to zero. Non-crypto assets can also be taken from you against your will.

Part of why Bitcoin is valuable is because it cannot be seized without consent of the owner (if owner is diligent about security).

Your criticism of Bitcoin broadly applies to all forms of "saving money" or preserving value. Value can go away from any vehicle you park your money. Your argument essentially boils down to "I believe Bitcoin in particular will crash more than other monetary instruments, so it doesn't have value" - which could be correct and you could short BTC if you feel confidently about that, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The recent post "Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans" [1] and one of its comments asking for alternatives to the common open office plans reminded me of this documentary where Erik Spiekermann explains the design of his idea of the ideal office.

I couldn't find the original video online but instead this interesting article about it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27962633
Think of it more like this: "cyclist who is very good at riding all-out on her own has chance to ride all-out on her own; peloton that has potential advantage of strength in numbers doesn't use advantage; to some surprise, lone rider wins."

This doesn't happen in stage races because of radios and professional teamwork, but I'm this race the technology and incentives aligned to open the door for a breakaway win.

The fun part is that the cyclist who won isn't even optimized to compete in the same way as the others. She's literally a time trial specialist who rejected a pro team offer because she didn't want to compete on anything but personal cycling performance, and then she beat those teams.
Yeah, I gladly go when I need to physically manipulate stuff. But, my role has shifted into data analyst, which involves a lot of nights with zero sleep nowadays since I’m using my own time for computational methods development.
When off is not off, or “why is my amplifier pulling 30mA when it's off?”
This tool is actually genuinely useful when you’re working with your local tree and did an operation that messes with authorship that you would like to fix. (For example, if you squashed two things together and then extricated the old commit out by hand: you’d like to give ownership of that to the original author). These days I just amend manually, but this is a nice way to wrap that functionality up into something that is easy to use.
I played chess extensively as a young girl. I was in chess club throughout elementary and middle school. Friday night was tournament night. I was always the only girl there in a room of 100 guys. It's extremely daunting - especially because idiot elementary boys will make smug comments about getting an "easy" victory because they're playing The Girl. There was nothing more satisfying than watching their faces as I dismantled them move by move. It's a huge confidence builder to be underestimated and then win. I credit playing chess with my ability to stick it out in tech as I experience a lot of the same smug sexism. If you have a daughter that you want to be involved in tech, I highly highly recommend playing chess with her. It's a huge confidence builder and a great place where the only thing that matters is how good she is at the game.
One tool per thing you want to do
Person-to-person interaction is an important component of most jobs. If a candidate could not conduct a verbal conversation as part of an interview, I would have a lot of trouble fitting them on any of my teams. Siloing with independent projects is an option, but I think would only be sustainable in larger orgs.
I assume 1 and 2 are placeholders here... Not literally meant.
What do you do when you write the test, "fix" the bug, only to find out the bug you saw is just a small example of a larger bug.
And Germany is one of the countries with relatively good public coverage.

I am in the UK, we don't get medicine for some things because it is too expensive: HRT has been in shortage for years, we don't get most newer cancer drugs (it is unrelated to efficacy, it is just too expensive to treat people), epilepsy drugs are the same. Because drug prices here are so low, pharmacies get drugs, and then ship them to Europe to flip. I have relatives who are sick and don't get treated because it is NHS policy not to treat conditions properly (the most well-known one is CFS, the UK's approach to CFS/ME is...unique, and governed heavily by cost). And ofc, lots of money thrown into "cheaper interventions" like public health advertising (coincidentally, the people who run these campaigns are friends with people in the NHS...which is nice for them). Mental health is another area: too expensive, massive underinvestment, even today most of the mental health system is nurses who get a couple of weeks training from psychologists, psychologists are too expensive (somehow, almost no-one who studies psychology in the UK ends up doing clinical work).

There is no trade-off. Someone has to pay because doctors don't work for free. The US has a relatively optimal system with targeted universal healthcare that is heavily subsidised by the wealthy. Germany is a derivative of that system with a relatively large private component that subsidises the rest of the system. It is far better to overproduce healthcare for the wealthy, then underproduce it for everyone else. Ofc, "free healthcare" sounds very nice (unless doctors start working for free, the cost of a US public health system would largely be what it is already...Medicare and Medicaid is cheaper...but not by much because doctor and nurses, for one, are relatively well paid...in the UK, nurses make the equivalent of $25k, again no trade-offs).
I've also found that under these conditions kswapd will effectively consume all your CPU time. The time it spends running is probably proportional to your maximum memory too - in our case it parses through 500+GB of LRU. The blocking writeback behaviour can be managed effectively with dirty page writeback ratio tuning. You don't want to block trying to write 50GB to disk at once when you hit the high dirty page watermark.
It will take a lot more than books to help my career.

I've read Getting to Yes, The Coaching Habit, and Never Split the Difference. They seemed to have decent information.
Right now, a company gives their movie to a reseller and gets a fraction of a sale price. The reseller pays for hosting out of their percentage.

NFTs don’t help with storage because blockchains are both inefficient and global so you still need to pay someone to host the actual media files and only give them to people with valid keys.

Worse from a rights-holder’s perspective, blockchains don’t allow you to remove content. That means that any time something gets compromised, you have valid keys floating around with no way to remove them. It’s true that leaks happen anyway but there are some key differences: these are always the best quality and they look like legitimate usage so it’s harder to block or track the way they go after torrent users. Anything which reduces risk will increase the number of people bootlegging by a hefty margin.

You can do things like, say, having the key in the blockchain be what you use to request a temporary key with lots of rate-limiting but if you’re building the infrastructure for a separate login and distribution system anyway, it comes back to the question of what benefit you get from the extra cost and risk of using NFTs rather than just using that system. If the answer isn’t “a lot more money”, nobody is going to jump on a system which is less reliable and harder to use.
I mean, yes? The OS not being locked down is a feature, like the ring tone being changeable. If you want that feature, buy a phone/tractor with that feature.
Yes, exactly. I believe people are misunderstanding my comment. No matter what processor you use, depending on how Amazon decides to refund you it will absolutely become a hassle for the customer. It's just inherent - it's not really a "problem" tho, not anymore so than trading stocks.

If you bought Bitcoin for a buck a decade ago and bought a GPU for Christmas and decided on New Year's Day you'd like to return it, but Bitcoin changed price you'd have to deal with a lot of tax stuff. There's no payment processor that can resolve this.
Real estate industry for individuals is really behind and bad for everything. They must be replace but won't because there are huge information gap. Is there good tool to fill information gap? IT! So that's why they still sucks for IT.
Chargebacks are a great point - they’d love to shift that to the buyers
Interesting. Could this also partly explain child geniuses? In general they are worlds ahead early in life. But they aren't significantly better then the non child genius peers later in life.
the article did say it, Qualcomm will be using the Intel 20A process.

here's a better article, but the Reuters article did include the point about Qualcomm using Intel 20A.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210726005136/en/
Sounds good. Find a bug, write a test. Never find a bug, never write a test.
If this is happening more than once then it sounds like your codebase is total shit (no offence)

Hire an external auditor and have your code checked properly, because it's only a matter of time before someone finds the 'big one' and that they won't tell you about.
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OP here, yes that's exactly what I meant by unix! Just the design, not the functionality :)
what type of currency goes up 20 percent on some unverified rumor from a newspaper no ones ever heard of
> Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains that cannot mature due to birth canal constraints

I strongly doubt that human babies are physiologically capable of walking before 6-9 months regardless of their level of brain development. The entire baby is born many months "early" compared with other mammals due to the limitations of the human pelvis.
Liability just means more controls to avoid blame and tighter specifications. Malpractice laws don’t make doctors less dangerous, they mostly encourage ass covering exercises.

I worked at a place that had a formally verified application running on some mainframe. It was wonderful, except that the process was excruciating and maintaining that validation prevented any changes. Every code change cost a minimum of $25,000 2002 dollars.

It was dumb. They would have been better off with a paper process and army of clerks.