skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main item in certain states is not prosecuting crime. We recently had a smash and grab robbery that made news here in SoCal. The suspects were quickly apprehended, but it turns out they were released on bail almost immediately afterwards. Due to the non-prosecution of criminal acts, these people will probably never do any jail time. People are definitely cognizant of this at this point, and it's eroding peoples trust of the government.
The police in essence said: “If you challenge us, if you insult us, we will no longer protect you.” - https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/nypd-police-slowdown-defund-d...

Police are intentionally allowing crimes specifically to boost the narrative of posts like this.
Thank you so much for the support. The share sheet is exactly the way I’m thinking. Skipping the cloud. I’m going to look into that soon.
Is there any evidence that, on net, state welfare programs deter crime in any significant way?
Since I had kids in school, I talked with people who expressed "defund the police" at the time. My observation is that it was a hasty reaction to things that people were acutely observing, such as the school police "resource" exclusively engaging with black students, sometimes violently, in one case lethally.

And in fact, they had no clue what a police force or a democracy were supposed to look like.
It makes very little sense. I mean, sure, maybe try to avoid vendor specific databases and use stuff like rds/managed cassandra/whatever vs Bigtable or dynamodb, but it's MUCH cheaper to lean in as hard as you can to one cloud provider and just pay for a month or three of consultants to move you if you ever actually want to than it is to build that in from the start.

k8s is a nice way to get there, if your k8s is running on gcp, aws, or azure it doesn't really impact your pipelines or process at all.

Things are harder at the bleeding edge, I'm working atm on a site that's all in on aws lambda with server less framework and aurora, kinesis and such, to the point where a migration would mean a rewrite tbh.. And that's alright for them, they're ok with their cloud partner.. And it's cheap too..
Or perhaps mandatory civil service?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/31/us-democracy-mandatory-...
It isn't a recent issue. Progressives in the US were warning about this trend in the 1980s
I'm just a programmer with a tiny homelab, and it took me less than a week to understand enough to be able to set up an IPv6 LAN. This included learning enough to be diagnosing and fixing routing/DHCP/RA issues in my router OS and all the LAN machines, implementing prefix-delegation to one of the LAN machines to make it a subrouter for Docker containers, and setting up NAT64 and DNS64 on the router so that the LAN machines could even disable IPv4 entirely. And those latter two were just me flexing because it was a homelab; a regular LAN wouldn't go that far.

I'm not sure what this "ton of system administrators that don't understand it" is having difficulty with.
The problem with "defund the police" is that we never really defined what it was.

Are we talking about the libertarian thing were you literally don't have the police anymore, and then you have a posse of ordinary citizens come together to execute arrest warrants and a high rate of private firearms ownership to deter crime? That would have been a weird thing to hear from progressives, I would think. And did anybody actually do this anywhere?

But if it's not that then the whole thing comes down to the details of what you're actually talking about.

That's kind of the problem with the whole movement. You have some really quite serious problems with the criminal justice system. Police unaccountability, perjury, prosecutorial misconduct, overcharging, the plea bargaining system. Civil asset forfeiture. Traffic fines used for revenue generation, creating adversarial interactions between ordinary people and the police and needlessly increasing the opportunities for things to go very wrong. Over-criminalization of everything, causing the US to have the largest prison population in the world. The War on Drugs. Things that really need to get fixed.

But then we have a video of a white cop killing a black man and a media narrative that says it's all about race, even though the statistics don't bear that out.

If you misidentify the problem then you're going to come up with dumb solutions.
Also to police forces closing ranks around their own misbehaving officers, such that it's not possible to effect change within the system short of tearing down the whole system and replacing it with something else.

I think that 2020s protests might've gone very differently if, after the previous 18 complaints against Chauvin for racially-motivated excessive use of force, his department had said "Yes, this is a problem. He is no longer with the force" rather than continuing to employ him until somebody died. Most police officers I know have been decent people, with some bad apples. But unfortunately the bad apples are protected and ruin the trust in the police force for everyone.
Leighton Woodhouse wrote the article.
Yep. But note that MV3 is a lot more powerful than Safari's adblocking capabilities. It's still declarative, but supports dynamic rules, header modification, etc.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...
Could be, but those aren’t exhaustive possibilities. There might also just be more crime e.g. because of the pandemic rather than anger at the police, or there might be the same actual level of crime but more is getting reported.
That probably because their operating system is infested with advertisements and data exfiltration mechanisms. Why would they need the browser to do it too?
That may or may not be true and is worth exploring more. Although as another poster points out, this is a vastly different argument than saying as the article does:

>As the surge in violence has become less theoretical to white, middle class residents, Oakland’s mayor has been afforded the political space to push to restore the funds that were cut from the police budget.

Which seems to be to be a misunderstanding of consensus reality
> The planet’s position and momentum can be described by six numbers, three for each property. If you represent each of the different configurations of the planet’s position and momentum as a point with six coordinates, you’ll create the phase space of the system. In this case, it has the shape of flat six-dimensional space. The motion of a single planet can be represented as a line weaving through this space.

Sounds like ephemeris?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris
Frankly, why should a company NOT lie? There's no reason to tell the truth if the truth will hurt your business.
There's a Russian plane mounted autocannon that was not practically usable because it shook the plane apart. Light bulbs and other glass would break when fired and the airframe sustains structural damage.
Well, first off, a 1.3% increase in dollar terms in the face of 6.2% inflation is, in point of actual fact, a budget cut.

In real terms, the Oakland policing budget went from $706mm to $674mm. That is unambiguously a cut in their ability to fund their operations.
Some added data to back up what you're saying: https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi...

Increases in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Kentucky would indicate to me a lack of correlation for various partisan policies driving this.
420 MHz (and above) is generally line of sight propagation. The frequencies mentioned in the article (29.25 and 51.7 MHz) are able to reflect/refract off the ionosphere and allow much longer propagation paths.
Creating the next America in the Cloud
> All that adds up to more crime

And yet there is a dearth of evidence for this claim.
... Or you just throw it in a s3 bucket like everyone else..
I distinctly remember thinking when using some of the early web-log platforms (Slashdot, Kuro5hin), that the combination of rating, reading, posting, and other actions by users would make for one hell of an effective preferences-determining engine.

My gross error was in thinking that by not assisting in the development of same, the world might be spared such a thing.

When Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook emerged shortly afterward, the seemed manifestly harmful on that basis alone. That wasn't nearly the half of it, of course....

Google picking up Doubleclick was also one Very Large Step for man toward the dark side. Contrary to the "personal choice and responsibility" philosophy, individual actions and blackholing didn't do much against that either, ultimately,
Well the US taxpayer is paying for it. It is military equipment that is transferred to police departments

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/24/pros-j24.html
I grew up in one of these game units. It was a shotgun only unit. Unfortunately, a steel slug in a shotgun would permanently damage the shotgun because steel does not give the way lead does. A shotgun has a choke which reduces the barrel diameter toward the end of the barrel. There are sophisticated ways around this problem such a sabot loads but this begins to make the shotgun perform more like a rifle defeating the entire purpose.
Apologies don't undo a history of a mal-intent towards employees who helped build the company. Similar to how apologizing doesn't undo a bad first impression.
Obviously this is not a solution for everyone, but tailwindui solves all my problems. From that point all the updates are suuuuper quick to make.
> Tsar Bomba was already beyond what was useful in military terms

If we think of it as a weapon, yes. If we think of it as a demolition device, then not even the sky is a limit. You never know when you might need to demolish a small moon.
Just another entertainer grasping desperately for an audience large enough to justify an upper-middle class income's worth of ad revenue.
Why do I have the opinion that ThoughtWorks is better than Accenture (or EY, Deloitte, etc)? Do they pay more for talent?

About half the projects I see come out of non-boutique consultancies are shit. Actually, no. More than half lately. Probably 80%. I work in a role that exposes me to a wide range of partner-led engagements across large enterprise, but I admit my role is limited by region.

ThoughtWorks on the other hand is massive, and seems to pick and choose engagements a lot more. They also seem to stack their teams with relevant talent. If they're assigning juniors or mid-level devs, they almost always seem to get some oversight by someone with a lot of relevant experience and input before going live.
US compared to EU countries in CIVID deaths per capita [1].

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri...
I (not OP) get all of these, incl. the relief of not naming things.

But I still prefer naming things to the class soup and the excessive repetition.

ITCSS (Inverted triangle CSS) works with the cascade and results in clean, minimalistic CSS files.

I do not build SPAs though and do get that quick styling works really well for that scenario.

I do import Tailwind colors, spacing and sizes in SCSS maps for easy access and do like the standardized approach.
Not affiliated nor currently active, but I want to plug Aether for its moderation and discovery systems. I wish it wasn't a dedicated app, but that's also part of what makes it tick, for now. Trigger warning: there is a blockchain element to it; one of the very few useful cases for it, imo.
Flatten-the-curve: Why total carbon emissions matter much more than date of zero
I have a wall of shelves behind me for video calls and I spent a full week carefully selecting every single item on them, even purchasing new items, because I knew each item would be a point of discussion or shape how the other person on the call treats me.

I feel compelled to do this because, in the absence of in person meetings, people will constantly be looking for something to judge about me. It's human nature. So a wild wall of 'Stuff' deflects that conversation away from me and onto that stuff.
Honestly I’m kinda not a huge fan of Hashicorp these days. They’re super late to managed services and they’re incredibly expensive.
Similar propaganda being pushed by LAPD union leader: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/we-cant-guarantee...
Wow, that was a wild ride. Thanks for helping clear that up.
Computers revolutionized chess – Magnus Carlsen wins by being human
> The only way having an IPO go down on the first day actually hurts an employee is if they start that day or are granted stock or options at the IPO price.

This does routinely happen, because the 409A valuation for the quarter or more prior to an IPO is usually pretty close to the IPO valuation. Anybody who joins a company during that window of time will get ISO grants with unfavorable strike prices (prices close to the IPO price). These options could be worth nothing post-IPO if there’s a slump (in contrast to RSUs, which will always have value).

The difference between a company’s valuation and share price is important but irrelevant to this conversation as far as I can tell. Sorry that imprecise language on my part in my earlier comment created that distraction.

Edit: To be clear, the problem is not the bump or the slump (I tend to agree that it should be irrelevant, and if anything as a shareholder you may prefer a rational slump). Rather, it's the practice of granting ISOs at a soon-to-be market strike price that is the problem. The people with unfavorable ISO strike prices should be upset due to the strike price, not any slump or bump; but if there's a slump, they usually (incorrectly, IMO) blame the slump, and so the slump gets a bad rap internally. On the flip side, although I've never been in the position to make this decision, I find it unconscionable to offer ISOs as part of a compensation package within 6 months of an anticipated IPO date.
I often have trouble writing CSS. Here is how I approached this challenge.
https://jsfiddle.net/mwabc719/

Anyone have good advice on a better way?
The budgets shouldn't be compared in nominal terms because of inflation (6.2%) and the increased costs of pensions (more police officers retiring). Your article also says that 18% of the budget is now allocated to the police as compared to prior year's 20% (not accounting for the $17 million redirection)
Intel, Arm and Khronos Feel Ready to Land SPIR-V Back End Within LLVM
You could say 500000 just as well. Where is the list?
So it was either a DNS attack, a squawking NIC, or an ad system bug. That's very helpful.
>His reasoning was that they use to feel like they were on the side of the community, but in many places it is now the community is opposed to the police.

This is like your grandpa telling you kids have no respect nowadays when all he does is scream at any kid he sees and then demands respect. It works both ways. Police used to be part of the community. Then they put themselves in tanks and body armor and come into every situation guns blazing and scared of everyone in the community.

How is the community supposed to react...?
I suspect any professional law office that needs to research precedent, any legal journalist, etc will quickly exceed the $30/month. But yes, for normal people engaging in democracy it's effectively free.
Having used vault quite a lot, I'm not really sold on it. Do you see any value in this tool? I've done the whole sidecar mess, middle of the night three keys unlock like we're arming a nuclear weapon and everything, and most of the time it's just been a total faff and imo security theatre vs actual security.

End of the day, the secrets are being written to a .properties file or /proc/<pid>/env somewhere anyway and can be read by whomever has the permissions or the shellcode to do so..
I don't think this is a great path, though. Extensions like uBlock Origin should not only be available to people like us, who understand the risk of giving extensions more permissions, and would (hypothetically) have to click through some scary warning dialogs or edit config files to allow it. Your average-Joe user probably needs extensions like this even more than we do in order to remain secure on the web.
Consider that LVT prevents urban sprawl (which happens because speculation drives people out of urban centers).

But yes, that is a consideration that must be made. Georgism is a very logical, mathematical train of thought, and as such does not effectively (in isolation) address human subjective needs, which certainly includes living in beautiful (or at least, non-terrible) places.
I don't see how defunding the police provides any kind of solution to the problems you mention. I know there's a strawman argument here, do you think that you'll get better treatment from local gangs/militias/warlords, in a society without police?

'Police Abolitionism' can't be taken seriously as an ideology. I'm not white, and I've been the victim of crime multiple times, unfortunately. I don't think the police are perfect, or a perfect institution. They did their job, and helped me in these cases. Whenever I hear people talk about being afraid to call the police I switch off immediately. Total bunk.
"And we can get arrested for single like in social media."

[Citation needed]
China literally does finance the companies. They’re required to have N% of their staff be CCP members once they reach a certain size.

It doesn’t mean companies are free to just lose money. It means they can take risks and not just milk immediate profits for stock gains.
Yes.. I thought that incident made him look very, uh, disgraceful.

He likes to predend Repl.it is some marvel of technology when it is unironically a weekend project (which the intern he attacked did better). Bruised egos are dangerous.
On the contrary, assignments continue. Suppose Alice wants to sell a /16 to Bob. The mechanism goes like this: Bob agrees to pay Alice $5 for this address block, Bob writes up paperwork saying why Bob needs a /16, and sends it to RIPE. Alice sends RIPE paperwork saying she doesn't need this /16 any more, and has agreed a deal to sell it to Bob.

RIPE checks the paperwork matches, and transfers this /16 from Alice to Bob. They can charge whatever they choose for this, RIPE's members are the LIRs who are paying those fees (including Alice and Bob), so they're effectively agreeing among themselves how to pay for the existence of the RIR.

However, this entry is about the Waiting List, which is for a steady trickle of small blocks (one /24 each) just to get new members started. The idea is, you need a few IPv4 addresses for say, the new Spanish ISP you started, even if it's mostly an IPv6 ISP, so here is a small block for that purpose.
Hm. Considering it paints a fairly dim view about life in south korea i would think NK could just use it as propoganda
No it isn't.

Mistaking a taser for a gun and killing someone is very risky.

Kneeling on someone's neck while they are handcuffed is risky.

Normal policing is not.
Viewing us as an authoritarian police state is very funny, because those measures were not partisan, widely supported, and now over on account of us doing them, and achieving a high vaccination rate. Reading this one article, aghast at the authoritarianism is very interesting. What I recoil in horror at is the 800k dead Americans, surely though they appreciate how free everyone over there has been.

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
All of this debate is based on the bs idea that poverty breeds crime. When in fact it's a bad culture that does. I have seen places in 3rd world countries much poorer than most poor minorities in the US , and they just lived, helping each other out the best they can.

But when the culture praises gangsters, being a "bad bitch" or whatever cancerous crap they brag about these days, then you get the issue of crime.

Unpopular opinion, but culture is a bigger factor than most people recognize.
That data doesn't show 2021. It only goes up to 2020.

You don't have to try very hard to find data that supports a massive uptick in violent crime in 2021. Dozens of cities have reported all-time-high murder rates. Even cities like Philedelphia, which was already pretty high to begin with.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/27/us-murder-ra...

I don't think it is due to defunding the police, however. As has been pointed out, murder rates are up in large cities, and small towns, both Red and Blue.

There is a simple explanation: Nobody is getting incarcerated, because of COVID requirements in jails.

In my hometown, which is not a major metro area, a friend of mine (who lives inside city limits) even had a cow stolen. When discussing this with the police officer, the officer's remark was "crime is up over a thousand percent" because "they can't incarcerate anyone" because of covid. They would book people, but the jails are at max capacity, so they don't even do time. They get "booked and released".

https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-the-covid-19-crisis-str...
I believe Replit sets your region based on your IP (the UK for me). I'm not aware there is any way to change it.
"unintended interaction" is newspeak for life-threatening defect, now.
Net zero carbon pledges have good intentions. But they are not enough
I'd say they should.

There are lots of tasks that my computer performs all the time that are very low priority that just could run on small cores. While the browser is not rendering this page, it should be idling.

And, if they make a chip with lots and lots of low-power cores, they can call it an EPYC Phi.
k8s won, it's kind of madness not to get onboard at this point. Yes, sure, you can do the 'same things' (almost) with nomad apparently less complexity, but k8s isn't anywhere as hard as it was a year or two ago today..
Releasing on bail isn't the same as non-prosecution. Tons of people who are released on bail are later convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
That's good. Condensers and like appeal to my steampunk sensibility but they aren't magic or instant. If batteries can do reactive quickly and as well as they do FCAS then it's a huge plus. Getting more than 6 hours is a good point too. I'm sure battery tech is going to include scaling to meet that, this kind of heat storage might just be about time to market.
If cops aren't willing to do their jobs, and instead let their feelings get in the way, they are negligent in their service and incompetent... to say the least.

It is not the jobs of people being policed to watch their own tone so they avoid offending cops. It is the job of cops to serve and protect, full stop.

It is well-known that police departments align closely with the cultural segments that (among other things) critique alleged "snowflakes". If what you say is true then there is ironically a glut of snowflakes at our local precincts and they cannot be trusted to handle weapons in public spaces.
A blast from the past, courtesy of me - play Zork anywhere you can run a OCI container:
`<container engine> run -it quay.io/games/zork`
Can't call 911? Did you try turning it off and on again?
I made a public bet it was a code update to the Amazon EventBridge service. Waiting to know if I pocket the money...
I meant http://slim-lang.com/

Never close another HTML tag again, never type or read a single character while writing clean compliant solid html.
Supply and demand. Demand is low, for all the reasons mentioned. Lead shot benefits from economy of scale.
I tried installing Nyxt. I'm not sure how common CUA bindings are. I tried pressing Alt+Left and Alt+Right to navigate between pages, but got a strange error in the status bar: "Warning: Error on separate thread: There is no applicable method for the generic function # when called with arguments (NIL). See also: The ANSI Standard, Section 7.6.6". Which is baffling as a user.