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2022 and 2023 numbers are even worse: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv23.pdf

Same with 2024: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv24.pdf

Also my second link from my first post showed higher Urban Victimization rates in urban areas in every year from 1995 to 2015.

This is false. Urban areas have the highest rate of crime compared to rural and suburban. For example look at the years 2020 and 2021 from this report:[0]

Table 8

Rate of victimization, by type of crime and location of residence, 2020 and 2021

Location of residence

Total violent crime Violent crime excluding simple assault Total property crime

2020 2021* 2020 2021* 2020 2021*

Urban 19.0 † 24.5 7.7 9.7 158.9 157.5

Suburban 16.8 16.5 5.6 5.2 90.5 86.8

Rural 13.4 11.1 4.5 4.4 65.6 57.7

You can see clearly that urban has the highest rate of crime, and this has been true for decades.[1]

Also, many crimes are not recorded at all in NYC, which is why many stores have locked down all their items with a key that requires permission from a staff member to access. I haven't seen this in the small towms I've been to.

[0] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv21.pdf

[1] https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/...

Re:Chromium Has Merged JpegXL on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:46AM (#46600254)
Webp has a maximum pixel dimension size of 16383 x 16383.[0]

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#what_is_the_max...

>This feels like another circular investment where Disney is hoping to make money back I'm sure.

How is that circular?

Re:CSS now has an if() conditional function on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:33AM (#46161783)
I should have read the docs for it then. Thanks.
Re:CSS now has an if() conditional function on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:44AM (#46161172)
Because modern UI toolkits like Flutter proved that UI should just be code, not separated into three different languages. In this case, adding conditionals can remove the need for js in some cases, which is good.
Re:AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:25PM (#46155771)
I have no doubt they know what they are doing. But it's a srange metric no matter how you slice it. Why compare AV1's bandwith to the average of h.264 and h.265, and without any more details about resolution or compression ratio? Reading between the lines, it sounds like they use AV1 for low bandwidth and h.265 for high bandwidth and h.264 as a fallback. If that is the case, why bring up this strange average bandwidth comparison?
Re:AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming on Thursday December 04, 2025 @07:56PM (#46155532)
>AV1 sessions use one-third less bandwidth than both AVC and HEVC

Sounds like they set HEVC to higher quality then? Otherwise how could it be the same as AVC?

Re:Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:43PM (#46072602)
>That would require a standardized userspace abstraction layer like the one Android has been building out Can you expound on this? And can desktop linux take advantage of it or do something similar?
Re:What happens when even college students can't do math anymore? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:05PM (#45987051)
Damning for who? Education is just one reason parents choose public schools for their children. Depending on the school (eg. Catholic schools) it may be the last thing they care about. Also you should look at the cost per pupil for public schools. It is very high in many states, with the average being $18,000 per student in 2021.[0]

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb/public-school...

Re:What happens when even college students can't do math anymore? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @10:13AM (#45980549)
They do perform better on average

>The average private school mean reading score was 14.7 points higher than the average public school mean reading score, corresponding to an effect size of .41 (the ratio of the absolute value of the estimated difference to the standard deviation of the NAEP fourth-grade reading score distribution). After adjusting for selected student characteristics, the difference in means was near zero and not significant.

For math:

>The average private school mean mathematics score was 7.8 points higher than the average public school mean mathematics score, corresponding to an effect size of .29. After adjusting for selected student characteristics, the difference in means was -4.5 and significantly different from zero. (Note that a negative difference implies that the average school mean was higher for public schools.)

In the context of the specific discussion here, it doesn't really matter that the effect goes away when controling for selected student characteristics. First off this was from 2006, we would have to see if any of that has changed. The 2024 numbers are here[1]. But in any case they are not worse than public schools, although they may be no better or slightly worse than a public school in a rich neighborhood or similar.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/2006461.a...

[1] https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/dashboards/schools_dashboa...

Re:What happens when even college students can't do math anymore? on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:38AM (#45980058)
They can and do. Private schools already exist.
Re:GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20 on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:19AM (#45953763)
Many people have said they don't like it, and all that did is make its supporters even happier that it's there, because it makes them feel special is some strange way.