skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it could be made 100% reliable I’d be happy to have a car restricted to (say) 30% over the limit. That would reduce crazy people doing 90km/h in 30 zones etc.

But it wouldn’t be perfect, more likely it would occasionally pick up the 30 zone on the parallel street and limit my speed to 40 in the 90 road. No thanks. I don’t think it’s a solvable problem in the short term.
did anyone find a link to the study and how they processed the data?

A couple of points.

There is a portion of illegal aliens in the US who do commit within gang and narcotic cartels violence homicide rape is overrepresented

I do believe that it is a small minority but a very prolific one. As we can see across the border as well.

In fact, a lot of illegal immigrants come to the US due to the level of violence from these groups.

Then a lot of illegal aliens are deported instead of jailed.

Lastly taking the study as reported in the Linked to Article as fact, I don't think the point it makes sense.

If 100 native-born men commit five rape, each and 109 illegal alien men only commit two rapes each that still means 200 rapes extra in addition to those that would happen if the illegal aliens were not in the US.
To tell the victim that illegal immigrants commit far less crime will probably not help much.

I am a legal immigrant myself.
I came from the US. I think the US should make immigration in some form more straightforward to obtain legally.

I also think it is the responsibility of the US to accept their for share of desperate refugees that is a direct result of our military interventions as well as our occupations.
That’s how we build a web where indies can thrive - one that’s more village centre than financial centre. For this to happen people are going to have to open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses.
I used to work for a company that made “super Bearcat scanners.” These were “DC-to-light” scanners, with multiple demodulation methods (SSB, DSB, Phase, Frequency, Amplitude, etc.). They cost about 40 grand each, in the early 1980s.

Needless to say, most customers were military or TLAs.

We could listen in on mobile phone conversations without much difficulty.

Then frequency-hopping started to become en vogue, along with encryption, and made it a lot more difficult to eavesdrop. Most of that happened after I left the company.
I have a hardware version 4 HS100, and it's completely updated. It receives commands on port 9999 fine, so maybe the beta firmware has been rolled out generally, at least for V4 devices.
Most ideas in this article are not new (criticism of yarvin's ideas and how they are embedded in urbit), the article itself is from May 4th 2019 which may warrants us to ask whether all facts stated are still up to date (ie. does yarvin still in fact own sizeable address space in urbit?).

The central idea here seems to be that, regardless of the project goal and merits, help improving urbit means benefiting Yarvin directly due to his stake in the address space. Seems like a too lengthy post for an idea that could have fitted a tweet.

There are so many others involved in building urbit today (and for the past 2-3 years, even before yarvin left the project). Maybe someone can write about the aspects of Urbit that drive these other people.
A web where everything needs a subscription is a closed web. I would only subscribe to the things i deem fun enough or necessary enough. So that would be perhaps fb, Whatsapp, Gmail, Tinder, Netflix and Amazon. The latter three i already subscribed to.
Was there any rationale to using a "deep learning model" to train a 20 parameter model? Sounds like some amateur DS convinced the team this is a good idea because he thought deep learning was cool?
I think this code does not fulfill the task: you need to sum columns 4 and 7, and keep the rest of the data intact in the output.
That's nice. The YouTube problem on Edge appeared after a few weeks usage. Maybe I accidentally use of Google service triggered it. Now it assumes that I have an account, insist me logging in with my account to get better experience. It is very annoying. I cannot delete Chrome because I use it for gmail. I don't want to log into gmail with other browsers. Maybe I should keep using Chrome for YouTube as well.
Thanks, I thought as much. Do you still suffer with it / has it got any better or worse?
I'm watching this episode now and it's great! Thank god for Netflix and all the Star Treks on it. :) ;p xx
Most people don't have money, and when I say most, I mean at least 90% of people. So free services powered by ads are the best thing for them, and those people are the large majority.
The problem of course being that if anyone tried to implement the standard without having a license agreement with those companies, they'd get a threatening letter.
The only thing I've pointed out is that repeatedly missing workdays (it doesn't matter whether you work on-site, or remote) without others knowing it in advance can be disruptive in some situations.

This is similar to planning an activity with a friend, and them not showing up. If they do this to you multiple times; you waiting for them and they do not even answering their phones, will you plan your next thing with the original enthusiasm? Or will you think "oh god they wont even show up, whats the point of planning anything".

This has nothing to do with disease or disability, this is just a simple break of promises multiple times in a row.

This can be avoided though, simply make promises which can be kept; do work, which can tolerate unforeseen absences, or work in a different way than others which compensate the issue in some way that is fair for and agreed upon by the other teammates.

I have my own fair share of health issues, and managed to choose a workplace which accomodates my needs.

Some people are not that lucky to have the opportunity or even ability to do that, but this is not in the scope of responsibility of an average citizen to solve.
Looking at one of the studies mentioned, the study period was 1990-2014 [1].

Secure communities was piloted in 2008, and by 2011 appearantly still wasn't in effect in most communities [2]. Thus it seems that the low crime rate found in these studies PREDATES the secure communities program. Which would make it a tough on crime program targeting a low crime population, which would make it arbitrary and inefficient.

[1] https://news.wisc.edu/study-shows-undocumented-immigration-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Communities#History
> apologize for the design of my blog being almost actively hostile to users

I edit a newsletter of blogs of HN and I can tell you that your design is not more hostile than most HN bloggers, don't worry you are fine
Shame that the original German text was lost, now all I can do is hazard a guess:

Most German words with the meaning of "otherwise" are pretty long/verbose: "andernfalls" (literally: other-case-d), "ansonsten" (literally: on-others).

"sonst" (short for "ansonsten") might have made an appearance, and I'm struggling to find an English word as short as that (that isn't "else").
Interesting. Would like to see some compatibility matrix against gVisor/runsc. I know they're not the same thing, but they attempt to solve the same goal (lightweight VMM-based isolation providing a Linux ABI).

Is there a summary list of supported syscalls somewhere?
Abortion and Contraception in the Middle Ages
We get this problem all the time. The registry of cars was “public” so anyone could call and ask for the details or a car (e.g whether it had debt or parking fines or whether the guy trying to sell it was actually the owner). Then with the arrival of the internet, should this information be available at everyone’s fingertips? Should it be possible to web search it or was the phone call a good “rate limiter” and prevented abuse? It was actually decided it was, and it’s now call/text only.
The discussion about everything being logged is why I like the GDPR. It’s the long term mass gathering of data that should be addressed.
At 15 cents per diode I don't think that would be a particularly expensive fix or worth throwing out an otherwise perfectly good scanner for.
There's the old joke: "All those present that object to receiving speeding fines please raise your right foot".

People object to speeding fines but receiving them is entirely optional.

Personally, I'd rather they clamped down harder on tailgating, poor lane discipline and uninsured drivers than on motorway speed limits.
The problem of supporting older hardware raises a question for me: Why is it worth it to reimplement 2D graphics using such cutting-edge GPU features? Isn't that just contributing to what many people perceive as the upgrade treadmill?

Take those legacy Android devices you mentioned. If CPU rendering, or more limited use of the GPU, was good enough for those devices when they shipped, why isn't it good enough now? Do we really need to keep increasing resolution, frame rate, color depth, or whatever, at the cost of leaving behind people stuck on older hardware and adding to e-waste?
It’s one of my favorite games of all time. Unfortunately, like Myst, once you’ve played through, you know too much to truly appreciate it again. Wish there were more games like this.
I would happily pay for all of the services I use. The problem is that that isn't enough for them and it would still be an capitalistic greed anti-consumer shit show.

If I pay I want: No ads, no tracking, full access to my own data in sane export formats, schemas, no data mining, no data selling, no "sharing data with our partners", encryption options, no dumb hoops, no dark patterns, the ability to point a product at an API endpoint of my choosing, backup options that default to my infrastructure first and so on.

Actually let's add more: The data generated by my use of my data in the product. Non-canned support responses that don't ask for information I literally put in the ticket three weeks ago. Prominent indication of where (geographically and legally) data is stored and used. If/how often you do backups. If/how often you practice disaster recovery.

So really what I want to pay for is sanity and no bullshit.

Yet if I do pay, many services and companies will still do all of this shit in the background until midnight the day it's finally made illegal, all the while gaslighting me about "how much they value me as a customer" and how they "respect" our "relationship".

It's literally obscene.
Perhaps this shows that the fire code was not the best example of assessing upsides versus downsides.
Like economic protectionism?
Here's what I get. 1980s BBSs didn't have wrapping this bad unless you were quoting.

To start: yes, long time no see. Well, COVID-19 has been like
that. Some days I
feel accomplished if I successfully check my email. I finally
managed to clear
out a backlog of an entire handfull of things that needed
thoughtful responses,
though, and so here I am, screaming into the void instead of at
anyone in
particular.
In Finland - is has a bit:
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/face_masks_fool_finlands_...

Seems weird to me, as someone who’s used to the UK system of photo from the back and the owner being responsible for identification of the driver, that people hadn’t already figured this one out :)
Haha, apologies... At least it's only soft totalitarianism, or inverted. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

I think it's encouraging that there's a way to categorize what's happening, because it suggests an alternative route, or at least a way to engage with it without feeling crazy.

These are strange times, and a lot of smart people seem to be voting in favor of their own defeat. A tough question would be to ask why, and I think it's a combination of factors: an atmosphere of insecurity and wanting a strong figure to end it, naive idealism, wish fulfillment, cultural alignment, etc.

Smart people can find ways to rationalize bad things. There's no sense in getting caught in the quagmire of trying to convince someone on the internet that we're headed down the wrong path. Instead, we can actually create an alternative that's just plain better.

So, maybe it's not all so bad - but more of a call to action.
The problem is, companies overcharge in dollars and undercharge in ads. Your visit to a website may make that site, say, $0.1 in ads. Would you pay $0.1 per day? Of course you would. But when they add a paid ad-free option? It's more like $1 a day. They're greedy.
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I do for podcasts. There are a couple of reasons, but the main one is I don't want a "platform" taking over. Partly that's because I don't see the value they add, partly because of reliability issues (you tube deleting channels by mistake) and partly free speech.
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There's already plenty of paid content available, but for now, the advertising model wins? Why? Because most paid content is simply too expensive. You can't charge $5-$10 or more for rarely used niche stuff when Netflix is $8.99 and when musicians get $0.01 per streamed view or less.
Alternatively: Someone hiding from the government due to illegal immigration is less likely to jeopardize their stay by committing crimes.

How about the fact all those people are already criminals?

How about illegal immigrants are more likely to target other immigrants and go unpunished?

How do they even know how many illegal immigrants there are in the US, what number they're feeding into?

"""
“There’s lots of opportunity to commit crimes in Mexico and Venezuela and other places people are emigrating from,” Light says. “The argument is that many people who want to immigrate are selected on attributes like ambition to achieve, to find economic opportunities, and those types of things aren’t very highly correlated with having a criminal propensity.”
"""

They are drawing conclusions while I think their findings are highly questionable. It's ultimately just an opinion piece.
The dmd D compiler adopted this approach and got a significant performance boost. [0] Looks like it still uses a pointer-bump allocator today. [1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190126213344/https://www.drdob...

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/025caed79/src/dmd/root/rme...
Electronic amoeba finds solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
I think part of urbits argument against installing apache and wordpress is: it's hard to maintain by non-sysAdmins and not very portable (in case people want to exit). In theory, urbit can be updated seamlessly through the chain of sponsorship (galaxy > stars > planets) and if a start or planet don't like their sponsor (lord?) they can pack their bags and look for another sponsor (urbit is contained inside a single folder).

Maybe an personal server running a single app can have a similar experience (I remember urbit crowd comparing themselves to sandstorm) but it would be harder to migrate (in theory)
There’s too much focus on the easy to measure speed problem. I’m not saying inappropriate speed should not be enforced against but i strongly believe more effort should be applied to avoid the more common cause of major road traffic incidents - inattention.

You can’t easily measure inattention but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.

The solution doesn’t only have to be in penalties, it could be in making it harder to be inattentive to begin with.

That said, this is all low priority stuff in the UK. In the UK today there are basically zero road traffic police, you are exceedingly unlikely to come across any. Their numbers have been cut relentlessly as miles driven have increased. And yet... road deaths are down over the same 20 years and mobility is up.

Road traffic enforcement isn’t even in the top 1000 issues facing the UK today.
Not always. There are quite a few drivers with more than 12 points on the road.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40862975

I personally am aware of many people that were speeding at well over 100mph. When they went to the majestrate they were let off with 6 points. People get away with things that should get them a suspension all the time.
> I can’t tell if you are being serious or sarcastic.

Of course they were trolling. I don't claim that there isn't a lot of bogus stuff in ethomusicology (as the OP sarcastically proves), just that it is a perfectly legitimate field. You can also find a lot of pompous bullshit in machine learning publications, but that does not mean that ML is bogus.
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Being a contributor and owning copyright are two different things, because not all contributions are copyrightable. When a photographer takes a picture, the camera manufacturer contributed to the result (some smartphones even add a "shot with X camera" watermark by default) but that doesn't mean they own copyright. When an author uses a spell checker that suggests a correction, that doesn't grant the spell checker copyright of the resulting novel.

The copyright owner of a mechanically produced creative work is the person who provided the input, not the person who built the mechanism.
I wonder if some of the videos you've watched had darker themes with poor contrast ratios or maybe the font size was too small? Font size makes a huge difference in the end. It's as important as contrast ratios.

I have a $300 13" Chromebook with a 1080p IPS display and I spot check some of my videos on it. I'm able to read the text outside. Although I try to position myself to not directly have the sun glaring on the screen. That would be an issue to read anything, video or not.

I'm always for improving accessibility. If it's not too much trouble would you mind skimming one of my videos to see what it's like on your main device? Here's a video on creating a GPG key pair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vVIpIvboSg
That's just one of the many questionable decisions.
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869-894MHz. That's it.
Moreover, running a site with ads and tracking has higher hosting costs than a cleaner one that just serves contents to paying customers.
I'm not sure it's that clear. The fact that free services with ads manage to thrive means that they somehow manage to extract money from those 99% of people. I'm pretty sure it's not only the richest 1% supporting the whole Internet ad eco-system.

Ads convince people to spend money on some product they wouldn't buy otherwise. This in term finances those ads which finances the service. I'm not convinced this is better in the long run for many than paying services directly.
Nice Project.

But, I think that Linux kernel is more Battle Tested than this. Also, Compiled Linux kernel can weigh 6.7MB or even less.

What i am thinking is that we can compile linux kernel , drivers needed for the particular device, compile runtime and application and deploy on bare machine. It will be monolithic approach too.

Further i think that unikernel applications are more helpful if application take features of underlying kernel and vice versa . I also think that unikernel approach is not much helpful if that unikernel acts like shim layer to run other applications. Briefly,i am saying that unikernel applications must be built from bottom unikernel to application all integrated.

So,how is this unikernel better than Linux based monolithic deployment that i mentioned above? what about security updates in this unikernel ?
> I’m sure you’ve already experienced being very “productive” after a short time when joining a large project

Most definitely, but that only happened when at least one of the following conditions were met:

1. There was good documentation in place and an onboarding process that made it easy to transfer the foundation of the architectural knowlegde.

2. The work was clearly delineated and compartmentalised, so understanding the overall architecture wasn't critical for at least the entry-level tasks.

3. The architecture was a simple, standard pattern I was already very familiar with: for example a Django monolith.

I'd also like to add that a better name what I called "architecture knowledge" would be "institutional knowledge", as it does not include just the architecture per se; it includes the auxiliary things like development process, testing mechanisms, deployment etc.
I do the same thing, and like you also appreciate learning of a term for this approach.
That’s great to hear. It is interesting on RPN, I got used to it and normal entry feels foreign to me now. I guess you need to use it for a while to get used to it.

Thing is I only do basic calculations with RPN, I can see how it may be jarring for scientific calculations or longer multi form ones (although there are many who are very comfortable and prefer this mode of entry).
As in almost all fields, the existing leaders will need to die off before correct theories have a chance to take hold.

In geology, it took many decades for absolutely compelling evidence for plate tectonics, for the catastrophic flood that shaped eastern Washington state, and for the meteorite that eliminated the non-avian dinosaurs (and every land animal bigger than a cat) to be taken seriously. (Geologists typically still insist it must have been a series of smaller floods.)

Historians have not come to grips with the very oldest Egyptian artifacts being, by far, the most advanced -- in some cases, well beyond what we could reproduce today without first inventing new methods.

Publications and trials in Alzheimers research still overwhelmingly favor the amyloids hypothesis, despite its utter, abject failure in every trial.

People still imagine that excess saturated fat causes heart disease, so that work to understand how eating meat really causes it gets minimal attention.

In psychology, for decades every publication was obliged to cast all results in terms of behaviorism.

In physiology, it is still required to evaluate every electromagnetic effect on biological activity purely in terms of heating.

Endless examples are available, in any field, not excluding physics.

Promoters of science like to congratulate themselves over known cases where the facts did, finally, win out, but are happy to neglect the necessarily more numerous cases where advocates were driven from the field, and never got vindication, so falsehoods are still taught.

This phenomenon is in large degree a product of the professionalization of science, and the system of journal reviews and, moreso, grants, controlled by the old guard in each field.

It is easy find Wikipedia articles being defended against new evidence by emeritus professors with plenty of time on their hands.
One wonders if there is even business model on web? Maybe it would be better to go back to passion projects. Ones where person making content also pays for the hosting. Probably leads to lot less content being around, but also removes money.

Ofc, this could exist with actual paid services.
HP calculators were great. I’ve owned several of the postfix based ones. (I.e. one enters 12, 30, + instead of 12 + 30)

The article may not make it clear how many efforts were going on in that timeframe to manufacture calculators. The first electronic calculator I saw at MIT was a desktop system by Wang; it had a Nixie tube display, see [1,2,3].

The first handheld calculator I ever came into contact with was in 1971 when I saw a student with a Bowmar Brain.

[1] https://peoplaid.com/2020/08/12/the-story-of-an-wang-develop...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube

[4] http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/bowmar_calculators.ht...
HermiTux – A Linux binary-compatible unikernel
Equal parts sad and unsurprising.