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Meta (the company) too, maybe. They have a pretty big datacenter footprint.

Did I miss something? Title was "What You Need to Know About The Rise in U.S. Mass Shootings," but seemed to only tell me "number of mass shootings go up" and "lack of consensus on what qualifies as a mass shooting." The title I saw on HN, "U.S. Mass Shootings on Rise No Matter How You Define Them", seems way more appropriate for an article that never even tries to get into determining causal factors or solutions.

The '?' was removed from the title some time in the past 6h, making "They're right" much stronger.

Why do you think the '?' would be "inspired by legal"?

the '?' is not present in the title of the linked article. please remove it from the title. From the guidelines[0]:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

EDIT: looking through older comments, it sounds like it originally had a '?' that they later replaced with a '.' .

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Observing that, say, parks are being patronized by certain demographics is far from condemning those parkgoers as white supremacist.

I suspect that this is the point GP was trying to make. A criticism of anti-racism I've encountered many times is that most arguments for something (e.g. parks) being racist or white supremacist are unfalsifiable and based solely on a specific demographic outcome (e.g. national park visitors are disproportionately white) while ignoring other factors.

ah, the heckler's veto. I had only heard of that happening on college campuses recently. Never expected it to happen on someplace as big and diverse as Reddit

It is linked right at the top of the article: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4104

I wonder how this law will play with documentation that requires the recipient to sign an NDA. I know Framework, for example, only gives full schematics to repair shops after they sign an NDA (due to NDA on some pinouts or something); will everyone obtaining full schematics through this law be required to sign an NDA as well?

Are you allowed to say if it is the board manufacturer or chip/component manufacturers that require the NDA? I'm mostly curious what level of vendor the restriction is coming from to get a better idea of what needs to change for Framework (or any other company) to be able to release the full schematics without NDA.

> The USA has a rather distorted health care and medicine system, in that it's viewed here as a profit center, not as a basic societal necessity. In contrast, police and judicial services are not really viewed as an investment opportunity (let's skip private prisons), just a basic necessity.

The profit center vs societal necessity way of looking at these things is super interesting and definitely new to me (at least in such a concise form). In this framing, I'm not sure I want healthcare to move, since everything I can think of on the societal necessity side of the spectrum is slow moving and underfunded. Police departments tend to be underfunded and slow to adopt new technology (though maybe that's a feature), while hospital facilities and medical treatments seem to advance quickly to adapt to new discoveries/tech despite insane FDA regulations as a barrier.

If we flipped a switch and made law enforcement a profit center, what would that look like? I'll go first, but I sincerely want to hear your take, as I'm sure I'm missing something. I assume they still have to enforce local/state/federal laws, but they will somehow be subject to the same tug of war over tech/efficiency advances and regulations around safety/civil rights. I hope we pay them directly/willingly, rather than them simply making bank on speeding/redlight cameras or parking tickets. Maybe we have to pay some kind of crime insurance, where rates (i.e. risk) changes depending on crime stats in the area defined by the insurance companies, which could incentivize the police to meaningfully reduce crime. Insurance would pay out when crimes are solved, and any attempts to fudge the numbers by the police would be insurance fraud. Sounds wild.

DEI is never focused on viewpoint diversity, though, it's focused on racial, ethnic, gender, disability, etc diversity. The latter kind of diversity does not imply the former.

> one should be careful not to allow emotions and sensitivities to creep in, to do the ideological work for you

Attributing all questioning/resistance of DEI to emotions and sensitivities is pretty condescending. GP was clear and reasoned about the contradictions they saw in DEI efforts, and your dismissal of them is quite frustrating and unproductive.

Also, are you saying that the work that needs to be done is, in fact, ideological? Ideology should be nowhere near this.

I like this idea. It would serve as a place to put a well-sourced answer to the question about this character, and the talk section could be used to discuss further investigation into the topic, or when new uses inevitably arise.

Ian Cutress (discussed elsewhere in these comments for also having his description of a CPU copied in the patent) suspects it's an intern[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1511716678199132173

what strikes me about your comment is how you consider it entitled to want control over one's own hardware. Like, I paid money and have this hardware in my hands, I wonder if I can somehow fill up this empty slot and get some extra space. Fuck me, though, right?

> Why does Dave need a car at all living in Brooklyn?

This question bugs me quite a bit, mainly because it shouldn't matter why someone needs a parking space; there are many valid reasons that I'm sure you could think of if you spent even a minute thinking about it. If someone does actually need a parking space, there should be some way to have one that takes into consideration scarcity and other market forces so Dave can decide whether it is worth it to live there/continue living there based on his own needs and means. Many cities have systems for this that usually involve permits that need to be paid for and while I'm sure none of them are perfect, it's better than subsidizing spaces or outright banning them. And if the locality decides that there just can't be any parking spaces, so be it, but it should not be because those deciding are completely lacking empathy and are so unimaginative that they can't think of a reason why someone might want something as benign and common as having a car in a city. Driving, parking, private car ownership, etc as a whole and clearly imperfect, but the reality of public transportation, especially outside of cities and in the United States, is abysmal.

This has been happening for the better part of a decade already. Back around 2012, I had already stopped seeing Vimeo come across my browsing history completely, but I was reminded of it's existence at a film festival where I heard about and saw vimeo being used to screen most of the more independent films. When I asked some of the festival organizers about how movies were screened, they said there were two ways (again, back in 2012): Digital Cinema Package (DCP) for more mainstream films (a DRM-laden harddrive package that was carried around to the screening location in a locked, nondescript hardcase), and password-protected Vimeo.

Since then, the only time I've interacted with Vimeo was to watch episodes of IKEA Heights[0], as at the time this was the only place where it was officially distributed (i.e. in original quality, rather than re-encoded and re-uploaded to youtube). Great, weird, short series if you are interested. The play between the drama/acting, and then being brought back to reality by being caught, is very fun.

If I recall correctly, this was around when they removed recommendation type features from their site, which was the first sign that I saw, personally, that they were moving away from something consumer focused.

The DCP system was intriguing to me. They made DCP sound like a pain in the ass, requiring expensive projection equipment and some kind of special internet connection (they weren't familiar with that part) to receive films not distributed physically or to receive updates to films. Later, I looked up DCP on Wikipedia[1] and found it enlightening. The thing that stood out to me was the use of asymmetric encryption to ensure a particular DCP distribution was only able to be played on a particular projector, thanks to a symmetric key for the film being encrypted with a projector's public key, and decrypted using the private key stored on some kind of FIPS compliant HSM.

[0] https://vimeo.com/channels/ikeaheights [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package

why?

I wish I could get windows 10/11 to look like that. Seems like the last version of windows that would let you use that style of window decorations was Windows Server 2008.

If you can find an agent to buy one for you from another country, you could get close, with a 3:2 aspect Huawei monitor: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/monitors/mateview/

There is an employee run arcade where I work that I am the de facto maintainer of, and the hardest part to keep up is the multiple 29" CRT displays. Specifically, their chassis (control boards in the pack) tend to need frequent repair.

Pulling the displays out of the cabs to work on them is also a huge pain. The size/weight has been mentioned here a few times; imagine having to pull a giant one out of an abdomen-height hole in a cab, and putting it back in without resting it on the plastic shell framing it.

The glass where the image is displayed is quite thick, and leaded for just this reason. There is also a protection circuit that will shut down the whole set if the voltage were to increase enough to risk xrays that can't be contained.

Yea I guess it's big relative to the batons I see police in the US and Europe carrying, but not absurdly big. It was large enough that it looked like it would be awkward to use with any amount of precision.

EDIT: read the article in chrome's reader mode, thanks for the tip!

The first place most foreigners will get a taste of that (or at least where I got a taste) is the policeman with a very long stick standing on a small, raised platform in the train station below the Narita International Airport.

less about screwing the competition, more about hindering their ability to learn about development through trawling resumes. The more I try and describe it, the weaker it sounds in my head, but the idea is you could get some info on what Apple is doing by looking at resumes referencing Apple, then corroborate what you saw by checking former position with those firms.

(Just to throat clear ahead of time... I obviously find what Apple is doing super shitty. I just want to find some reason besides "Apple bad" for why they would do this.)

Could they be doing this title change, at least in theory, as an information security measure? Competitors and journalists could potentially corroborate (or have an easier time corroborating) leaks if they can verify that a former employee is the position/level they claim to be.

I worked briefly at Apple as contractor doing some professional services integration type stuff in the datacenter space, and one thing that struck me was how secrecy seemed to ooze it's way into super unexpected places. This was to the point that I wondered if an infosec team had a hand in designing some of the systems I was working with that were way closer to the power lines than they were to the products they were designing. This was also around the time that I was reading about Apple's "Worldwide Loyalty Team" and how they would plan operations to catch people leaking.

As an aside, does anyone know how accurate the reporting was/is on the "Worldwide Loyalty Team"? Looking back it seems absurd, to the point where it makes more sense to me as a myth than fact.

neither of those worked.

You seem to be confusing Don Imus, another radio shock jock, with Howard Stern.

anecdotal evidence doesn't really go to show anything

what part of their comment brought you to that conclusion?

I don't really like ENS (or any of the blockchain DNS facsimiles) for decentralized identity. ENS doesn't really have a story for verification of socials or other wallets, and there's no way to look up your ENS domain or eth addr from any of those other identities stored as records on an ENS domain.

Ceramic[0] (a sort of mutability layer on top of IPFS) solves this off-chain by using your crypto wallet to authenticate a DID (their DIDs are known as 3id[1]) which can have a list of socials and crypto wallets associated with them (using their IDX[2] system and the schemas called alsoKnownAs[3] and cryptoAccounts[4], respectively), and the validations are made possible by systems called IdentityLink[5] (verifies similar to Keybase) and Caip10Link[6] (sign a message with your wallet) (respectively). The Caip10Link also allows reverse lookup of a DID from a blockchain address. A reference implementation of these systems in action can be found at https://self.id/ .

Grain of salt: I'm working on a project that makes heavy use of Ceramic.

[0] https://developers.ceramic.network/learn/advanced/overview/ [1] https://github.com/ceramicstudio/js-3id-did-provider [2] https://developers.idx.xyz/learn/overview/ [3] https://github.com/ceramicstudio/datamodels/tree/main/packag... [4] https://github.com/ceramicstudio/datamodels/tree/main/packag... [5] https://developers.ceramic.network/tools/identitylink/overvi... [6] https://developers.ceramic.network/streamtypes/caip-10-link/...