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> Innocence Project and similar organizations have to screen hundreds of cases to find the one or two meritorious ones. Ending prosecutorial immunity would mean 99 completely frivolous lawsuits for every one worth considering.

This is interesting phrasing. It was an often-repeated statement during American history that, "it's better 100 guilty people should escape than that one innocent person should suffer."

Prosecutorial immunity removes State consequences for violating citizen rights. Lawsuits against the officers/prosecutors/states are some of the lowest consequences we could impose; as another commenter has mentioned often they just result in the State paying out money and little to no individual consequences for bad actors. But even that is at least some discouragement against violating Constitutional rights.

John Adams commented on this by saying, "It is of more importance to the community that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished....when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.' And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever."

He argued that without strong protections from the State for people's rights, that people would stop depending on or trusting the State to secure their rights, and that society would start to slip into extralegal chaos. Citizens would stop looking to the law as a protective force, and instead consider it to be something to avoid and subvert since "virtue itself is no security."

This is a particularly prescient idea today. We tell people to trust the legal system to protect their rights. But prosecutorial immunity undermines that message, because people see that their rights can be violated by the State itself and they will have no legal recourse to fix the situation. When they see that, we run the risk of making them disregard the entire legal system. Why cooperate with the State at all in any capacity; why trust the process when the process doesn't hold itself accountable to its own standards?

We live in a system with double standards, where citizens can be prosecuted, penalized, and even jailed for lying to the police or the FBI under extremely broad criteria, but where prosecutors and the State suffer no personal penalty for withholding evidence from the defense during a trial. How much damage does this do to our institutions? How can we possibly hope to convince ordinary people that an institution with those standards is trustworthy?
> Wow! That's a whole lot you've managed to unpack!!

Huh? They just repeated two things from you and asked if they interpreted them correctly. That's almost the minimum analysis someone could do.
It's universal. If you want someone to do something, make them feel like it was their idea to begin with.
Most of the time, blurring is down with a Gaussian blur and this is, in theory, reversible. In practice what is actually done is round_to_fraction_over_256(gaussian_blur(point, image, …)) so there is an error in the unblurring process. But this error is often not insurmountable, especially with extra information.
I wonder how you'd explain to someone from the 19th Century why the public is perhaps even more gullible for snake oil and miracle cures now as it was then, despite having vastly greater literacy rates and access to information. I have a hard time putting my finger on a particular reason this should be the case, other than human nature being what it is, and it's one of the things that makes me feel like we got switched to the wrong timeline.
YouTube and the NYT are fundamentally different businesses BECAUSE of CDA 230.

You're right that YouTube will exist as long as CDA 230 exists. However, if CDA 230 is ever repealed, YouTube will have to change as its business model is not protected by the 1st Amendment but by an act of Congress.

Ad hominem arguments are ignored.
@shagie posted a few examples in a sibling comment
> They require you to send them pictures that you took using their app.

Nonsense, just tell them you can't do that and will email them. Have a back bone.

> I want to use my accounts for anything other than debit purchases, I need to use the app.

No, you don't. Use a bank that has a normal web site.

> Some jobs require you to install and use apps on your phone.

Yikes ... never install work apps on a personal phone. Just don't.

> Even just applying for a job requires an internet browser, and many people's only access to the internet is through their phone.

So people need phones because people use phones? What nonsense.
I agree csh/tcsh should only be used as an interactive shell, not a scripting one.
A zero correlation across time also doesn't prove that there isn't causality. Suppose that there's (e.g.) a positive relationship due to an unobserved third factor, and a negative relationship which is genuinely causal. These two could cancel out in the observed data.
thats why i brew my own lacto fermented ginger beer/ale from scratch. the flavor is way better than anything in the store. I particularly like brewing ginger ale/ginger beers with molasses. it taste like gingersnaps.
Yeah, the first thing that popped into my head was some poor n00b spending the next six years of their life deciphering glibc. There have got to be easier ways :)
The Mac and Windows using developers at work never know how to file a bug report. I have to play 20 Questions to get them to give me the information I need to isolate the problem and fix it.

The Linux-using developers fix the problem for me.
I was surprised that Apple still sells the iPod. It is not on the front page of their store, but if you search for it, there it is sporting a new’ish A10 chip.

Looking at the specifications, it would not be a bad device for traveling if you object to phone for privacy reasons. Really light weight.
Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle
Stack machines also tend to have better code density than register or memory machines, and code space is almost always at a huge premium on spacecraft. The high code density is because most instructions have all arguments implicit (by stack location). The need for stack maintenance instructions like dup and swap means they tend to require more instructions for a given function than a register machine or memory machine, but the per-instruction space savings almost always more than offsets the increased instruction count.

An accumulator machine can be thought of as half way between a register/memory machine and a stack machine, where most instructions have an implicit argument (the accumulator) and an explicit argument. This typically means code density somewhere between a stack machine and a register machine, with very little penalty in terms of instruction count. The main downside of an accumulator machine is the accumulator almost always introduces a dependency between adjacent instructions, making performant superscalar implementations more difficult. IIRC, examples of accumulator machines include V8's current internal bytecode and the old Apple II SWEET16 VM.
The goals of library authors are frequently different from those of application developers. Library authors usually have to consider how to make their code work on more environments, on older language versions, more configurable, handling more edge cases.

I think there’s definitely value to reading a language’s standard library, and I’ve also gotten lots of value from even reading the language’s implementation! But I hope people take this advice to start with reading the standard library with a grain of salt: it can be one extra resource for you, and likely to show you new things that weren’t written in docs somewhere, but if it doesn’t click or is proving difficult to understand, that’s fine!

In particular, for the “reading code to learn” bit, consider reading an application written in that language (command line tool, web application, etc.) and it might serve as a more reduced intro to the language.
> zero-click

Literally worth millions of dollars on the wholesome greymarkets these days, possibly the most prized, just in case anyone was wondering.
Without the iPod, there would be no iPhone. Simple as that.
> java.util.Calendar that has setFirstDayOfWeek(int), the default depends on the locale used to create the Calendar

That is exactly the kind of hidden assumption that I’m trying to fight against! If the date and the locale were both passed in as parameters, preferably just plain data, this would be a transparent function. Instead, you have to find and read through the documentation to see what kind of mischief is going on. And you have to do that every time you encounter a Java.until.Calendar.

Edit to clarify: if “locale” is some class, you have to learn that class DSL to examine it, and depend on a runtime debugger that does the same. If “locale” is just a hash map, you can examine the values without a lot of faff.
Personal experiences are valid and important, but they're almost never representative. That's why we run studies and experiments: our anecdotal experiences don't give us enough data and often lead to generalization fallacies. They also typically come along with confirmation bias, a pitfall which the Mayor here likely fell into.

For the rest of your post, I'm not saying we can't talk about problems affecting individuals? I think a lot of good can be done on the individual level: drug treatment, counseling, medical care, etc. Not sure where you're coming up with any of this.
This issue could be even harder to detect with a generic Abs function. It would work on floats (I think?) and on almost all ints, but it would have edge case failures on certain ints.
This is from 2019, and they say a robotaxi could make an owner around $30k in a year.

https://medium.com/swlh/30-000-from-a-tesla-robotaxi-not-as-...
Actually, we didn't see that many people go to jail for rigging the LIBOR rate. There were a few fall guys but a lot of people made a lot of money.
Probably some optimistic estimates involving being able to send your car out to make money by doing self-driving Uber while you aren't using it.
Article's like this is why I visit HN.
Sherman Act: "Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony."

People do go to prison for Sherman Act violations. Here are some older Department of Justice statistics.[1]

So when will we see the first arrests?

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/about/commissio...
I agree the French position is a stunning capitulation, specially from a country that is generally hard-nosed on sovereignty issues and quite justifiably cynical about espionage.
If anyone is interested in following a self-study curriculum but with more of an emphasis on pure vs applied math, you may find my experience and recommendations useful:

https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner
They actually did it with iOS 14 (named Blastdoor) but apparently it's not helping much.

Considering how tightly integrated iMessage is with iOS, it doesn't seem likely that it will really be fixed in an easy manner.
There's a big disconnect between people who do not own FSD and those who do.

Those that complain are 100% in the "don't own FSD" bucket. Prove me wrong. Find me one owner of FSD that is so dis-satisfied that he demanded a refund.

Those who do pay for FSD use terms like "my mind is blown", "it's amazing". They do videos, evangelize the product and wait until midnight on Friday (that's when Tesla releases updates) so that they can test it at 2 am in the morning.

You can make what you will out of this.

To me it shows that product is great already and will be very successful when finished.

The complainers that never used the product are noise.
> real political accountability

How about personal accountability of the officers involved? Person X did something illegal and ended up in jail. Officer Y did something illegal, and the taxpayers paid the wrongfully accused.
If you are worried about MS running rootkits on Windows, then I got some worrisome news for you.....
Not an ad hominem. Your argument is bad because you don't support it with anything other than blind assertions. You also are clearly motivated by your political beliefs, which makes your selection of facts, should you choose to bring any facts to this discussion, suspect.
This kind of story feels rare for IT, thanks.
Forcing people to get a vaccine to be able to procure a wide range of private services, including eating at a restaurant and attending a cinema, is a more slippery slope.
Downvotes unfortunately do often only indicate disagreement. What makes it's tone deaf?

I suspect the common observation people would make is similar to "Because you don't like it, other's shouldn't like it as well?"
Especially when, in most areas, you could literally pay a full time driver for $100k a year. Granted, I suppose your Tesla could drive for 24x7 hours a week minus charging time, but I don't think it would hold up very well in those conditions.

I really want to like Tesla, but the wacko things coming from the mouths of Musk and Tesla fanboys make it so difficult.
Not a dev, but dev bg -- looking for all these dev-adjacent roles -- i'm old as rocks, but there are a lot of us out there, especially in big boring non-tech companies:

* Solutions Architect
* Technical Product Owner
* Sales Engineer
* etc.

i'm now getting blown up, but i'm keeping up my 250+ applications/day, and mixing in studying (aws, etc.), company/market research, NBA (a little too capitalist and exploitative and dehumanizing, but we all have our vices), etc.

Probably 10 to 20 applications I send get some type of "Social control tech is really appealing to me!"-type love letter -- the rest are spray and pray.

I also started going thru the HN Sep/Oct "Who's Hiring?" posts -- there are literally hundreds of companies looking, and I have a feeling if I was a dev, I'd be hired by now. I do hold out hope that one of them is doing something cool.

As shitty as applying and interviewing is, it's also somewhat exciting to me, especially as I've had some real shit jobs, and I've rarely had a position where I was like, "Oh, so _this_ is what a contented professional life feels like."

In terms of _getting_ jobs, I feel like an expert (keeping them, not so much -- i.e. I've rarely been happy, whether I thought it was going to be great or not), I would generally suggest staying with your core stack/tech -- if you're primarily concerned about _getting_ a job, as opposed to anything else, like wanting to keep it, etc. If you've done 'Tech X' and some company really wants 'Tech X', they're be all over you. OTOH, if you have _not_ done Ballerina programming, but you have a PhD in Computer Science, they/recruiter will likely shit all over you -- it just doesn't matter, so don't waste your time and emotional energy with the 'But but but' stuff -- save it, keep it movin', don't look back in anger.

Outside of that, if you're semi-competent+, I would always lean towards HN-type/tech companies -- because they're _generally_ -- _generally_ -- less incompetent and less petty than other companies/personnel. If you're semi-competent+, you can talk to a semi-competent+ person as some HN/tech company and actually relate, because you will both have a visceral negative reaction to having to work with/for f**ing idiots.

:-D

Good luck!

p.s. hope you follow up with a post later after you've got something and been there for a month. i've started keeping a 'the_job_hunt.txt' running notes file -- i thought of blogging it but too much drama, etc. i've been thru the job hunt, i would argue, more than 99.9% of people on HN, and have some experience on the other side of the tab, so i thought it might be interesting for someone to read about my experience. tho, i don't know where people would post things. i don't have a personal blog, etc.
>that are known to be offensive

Unironically, virtue signalling is offensive to me. What now? Who defines offensiveness?

>you probably shouldn’t put the confederate battle flag on your own car as a reference to it.

Who are you to define a cultural symbol for other people?

I think we need to recognize that offense is not given, it is taken; and it is up to the individual to recognize that context matters before taking offense. The alternative is effectively authoritarianism, dictation of culture and weaponization of victimhood.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but most people never manage to get passive income. I wish it was real, but it's about as common as winning the lottery and you're just burning the candle at both ends while you're doing it. I try to spend my free time doing stuff I enjoy rather than gambling it away for the hope of getting more free time later instead of having to work. I'm sorry.
> Is it possible that everyone is as jaded and upset as you are?

Gods, I hope not. I see your point... and I hope you are wrong.
A dried jello knife that turns into, literally, jello when stabbing someone... let's hope no-one beats me to Hollywood with that.
Yeah - personally I think languages should allow a lot of constraints like sealed classes (it makes your intent clear, and can allow extra optimizations, that's good!), but highly-risky "escape hatches" need to exist because they solve real problems.

"Fork and modify" is a very capable alternative, but it's far, far, far more costly than "monkey-patch this one time issue that'll be fixed next week". And some languages make it extremely painful to achieve, often requiring significant code rewriting, and which sometimes make contributing back to the source-library significantly harder. And when such hacks hang around longer for a week... well, sometimes that's fine, sometimes it's not, and the library author is not the one who should be making that decision. It's my program, it should do what I tell it to do.
Behind China’s role in climate change
Everybody knows the earth is flat. Also before you ask - four elephants and then it’s turtles all the way down.
Nothing is, but this is simply common sense.

But anything threatening to rock the boat will be embraced and corrupted until it's worse than what came before, hence Scrum etc.
They can still use hospitals for non-COVID related stuff. I would purposely support making government healthcare program taxes/coverage opt-in, but that's less politically feasible than what I proposed.
Wow sure got covered a lot. Thanks Dang. I’m going to go through the highest commented ones first
forkfreshness seems like a really nice idea.

I have a repo[0] where I would like to check how active any of the forks are, just to see what they have done with the project, and/or speak with them about contributing upstream. I noticed that just adjusting the URL[1] did not work, however since running this website is costing your money, I don't feel comfortable asking you to add it.

Is there any chance you would feel comfortable open sourcing the code? (It can even be under some kind of fair-code license)

[0] http://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal

[1] https://forkfreshness.com/GitJournal/GitJournal
"Vote with your wallet" might as well be "stop thinking about it", especially when it comes to a niche site like Hacker News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzhREYOK0oo
The infection fatality risk of short-COVID for the 18-49 demographic is 0.05%. For under 18 years it's 0.003%. And this is for unvaccinated people. For the vaccinated it's at least one order of magnitude lower.

Under no sensible cost-benefit analysis, would you restrict the entire population with risk profiles like this.
I believe that people themselves aren't as gullible, but rather that we now know how to manipulate people much better.
Huge companies like FAANGs only exist because of human manipulation, there's entire fields dedicated to manipulating us, the obvious being marketing, but data science is also used for this.
Art Under Capitalism: On the Passions of AO3
Life imitates art I suppose! You don't see opaque boxes used in Hollywood productions. Blur matches a popular fantasy aesthetic
> I'm okay if banks apps are using that.

I'm not okay with it, to be honest. It's my money, and I trust a rooted LineageOS with it much more than I trust the default firmware of most phones. Besides, my bank lets you do the same operations from their website that you can do with the app, so in my case it's pure inconvenience, not security.
Saline dihydrogen monoxide?

Don't know if you're meming or trying to sound smart.

Just say seam water man
> Those who do pay for FSD use terms like "my mind is blown", "it's amazing"

Absolutely. Then you tell them you heard the car does odd things like randomly coming to a full stop and they say "well, yeah it does and it sucks, but it will totally be perfect one day."

It's funny how people can change their attitudes towards something when they've sunk $10,000 into it.
> Where agile often went off the rails is when people implemented agile in a way that contradicts the four values

I can't remember a discussion about Agile in which the No true Scotsman fallacy wasn't mentioned at least once.
Actually, if you can identify the exact font and exact location of each letter (as is in this case) it doesn't matter what kind of blur it is.

If you assume the photo was made with one of the consumer applications, there are only so many popular bluring algorithms. You can brute force it quite easily by testing each character and each type of blur until you get exact match (and in many cases even inexact will suffice).
Also HDFS. This bit me the first time I tried to write a Hadoop job that wrote every run to a new output dir.
I did the same thing! I'm still fond of that smell!
That’s bullshit though. Everyone wants the cheapest from Amazon, target, etc as well. It’s not an excuse for manufactures
And the evangelists who never used the product are also noise.
i'm considering adding a gmail filter to auto-delete these rejections. just don't want to get too hasty.
This could really use a picture of the recalled product
CBT products?
Depends when you bought.. 6k here :P
As a rule, I don’t trust vendor estimates for amount of savings/revenue their product will cause :D
A Resurgence in Value