skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if California does it better. I just know much of the funding comes from the federal/state government. A significant portion of the sheriff budget in my county is local taxes. Local funding is 3% for social services, the other 97% are state/federal taxes.

One of the narratives I've seen in news articles is that a writer will talk about the proportion of general funds to police vs social services. The funding levels could come from city general funds, county, state, or federal agencies. It makes sense to talk about overall funding instead of local funding for things like police and social services. People that are taking that tact are either disingenuous and slanting hard for their political gain, or ignorant of the complexities involved.

As to the hand me downs, $6b worth of equipment has been passed down to police from 1990-2017. That to me doesn't seem to be a significant amount. Averaged over 27 years across 50 states is $4m/year per state. I know it wouldn't distribute evenly, but that isn't a significant amount of value. There would likely be some unique items they couldn't get anywhere else though.

https://www.statista.com/chart/14027/how-much-is-the-polices...
And/or oysters.
That feels pedantic to me. A more important, but also more difficult, measure would be of information conveyed, regardless of how it's accomplished.

A very effective friend of mine once said if your messages are perfect you're spending the oo much time on them.
When is a fact not a fact?
Ask HN: Getting Laser Eye Surgery?
Was hoping to get some first hand experiences about laser eye surgery.

- Did you have any visual artefacts like halos?

- For lasik, has anyone known someone who was misfortunate enough for the flap to dislodge and what were the consequences?

- If you've done it, are you still happy with it and say it's worth it?

- If you're in the UK: any doctor recommendations?
Why would we not want to know about a tumor in the body? I assume competent doctors will assess the risk of such a thing, but knowing about it is better than not.
Like a password enabled BIOS option to allow for booting off of external storage with no access to onboard storage provided? “Valet mode” if you will.
We have plenty of data to prove the camps are real, birth rates among Muslims in the country fell through the floor. People disappear in the night, cities that were once heavy Uighur communities are now devoid of them. We've intercepted shipments of Uighur Muslim hair, etc. It's not to the extreme level of the Holocaust with mass executions, but it is real.

China has done a great job of making people frame it as the US/EU lying and the "whataboutism" in your last paragraph. This is also a tactic that Putin loves to use. Using Western shortcomings to justify their own tyranny.
right? sure there are a lot of buggy slow electron apps but isn't vscode built on electron too? that's the smoothest program on my pc right now
It's a platform play where pipelines would be built and maintained
lol, if-then checks for maliciousness
Yes I know..

Hence my final comment about the origin of the word pre-dating IT/technology.
> I spent 10 years in mammography software, and I saw first hand how many outside factors can impact a physician's decision to biopsy or not a given artifact on an image.

This is slightly tangential, but I'm curious about your perspective on a classic example of medical statistical illiteracy. Whenever surveyed, the strong majority of doctors vastly overestimate the odds of a true positive mammogram (half of them by a factor of 10!!), due to flawed Bayesian thinking and the low base rate of breast cancer.[1]

Does your anecdotal experience contradict this data? If not, wouldn't two minutes of stats education (or a system that correctly accounted for base rate) utterly swamp intuition-driven analysis of tiny artifacts? Or is it simply that, through folk wisdom and experience, they implicitly adjust other terms in their mental calculus in order to account for this huge error in estimating one factor?

[1] https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2014/11/12/doctors-dont-k...
Only for companies that share a corporate parent, e.g. @google.com for any Alphabet subsidiary, or free email provider - lots of small businesses operate from @gmail.com
There's only so much room in the title.
Where would the world be if we just would stop innovating after the first idea that works?
The right-wing angle of most of most of these comments, while not surprising considering the article, belies the fact that the right has a similar free speech problem to the left. In fact, the left response has been partially motivated by opposition to a notably authoritarian former president and his willing allies. Where is any discussion of things such as:

- Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) statues being written into state and local law in jurisdictions all over the country.

- Efforts to legally sanction corporations that exercise their free speech rights in opposition to certain political issues, such as repealing MLBs antitrust protection for moving the All-star game from Georgia.

- Even if there are not legal efforts, widespread outrage at similar exercises of free speech, such as the rights holders of Dr. Seuss books voluntarily deciding to discontinue publication of a small subset of his not-very popular books.

- Anti-protest bills that in some cases essentially decriminalize violent opposition to the free speech rights of people you may not agree with. (1)

- The Trump White House banning left-of-center media from attending certain events (2), and overall making numerous statements aiming to paint media they don't agree with as fake, lying, etc.

I can readily admit the left has a free speech problem, but this problem is in no way unique to the left.

(1) https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-legislature-oks-bill-t...
(2) https://outline.com/dfhh9h
To be clear, Lasseter was fired from Disney before the film was ever made.
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Under warranty I guess that true. But I've found that once not under warranty a repair costs the same as buying a working used one.
The article's citing of purely anecdotal evidence notwithstanding, you're gosh darn
right a largely Anglican culture such as the US compartmentalizes a visually
and culturally distinct demographic as economically but not socially useful.
As such we're (I'm AA) seen as faceless instruments, which I'm totally cool
with, and anybody who couldn't tell one monkey from another should feel the
same (if you believe I just equated Asians to monkeys, then you've missed my
point). There are clear evolutionary reasons why humans need to quickly and
efficiently classify someone from an outside tribe as "Other."
Macs have an "Apple hardware test" you can boot into. And you could as well just boot from an external drive to run all kinds of diagnostics.

Phones however...
This is why I’m optimistic about ai based software engineering tools.

Speeds up development processes by a lot increasing the total the total amount of software produced and freeing. up resources to focus on ux/features/bug fixes.
> all you want to do is give a great demo

And any time spent on the non-visible portions of the project (at least 50% of the value) are seen as "waster" because there's nothing to demo.
I'll be excited when it lets me do things I can't yet, like control a second pair of arms. Every piano player's dream.
gRPC for browser to serverless in 7 minutes
> Dushman has said he was unaware Auschwitz existed during the war, only learning about the atrocities carried out there in the years after.

Germany was USSR's ally in their planned occupation of Europe, which fortunately never happened.

USSR spent the remaining 45 years of its existence erasing the fact Union-Germany military alliance from the history.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution constrains the limits that laws can impose on free expression. That's one definition.

I don't think I need an authoritative source to assert that you can't stand on my lawn with a megaphone and yell at passers by; and if you guest on my blog, I can moderate your posts if I don't like them. If that's censorship, then it's perfectly legitimate, when done by a private individual who is responsible for the channel.
> and the EU is blatantly ignoring the insane conditions migrants are subjected to on the other side of the EU barriers

What would you propose to do?
A Facebook friend posted about getting a new phone. It was one of the last posts before someone tried to fish me through FB messenger posing as her. I reached out to her father, brother, and one friend that she posted pictures with - all people that know her IRL. All 3 appear to be compromised. I keep thinking this may have started with her old phone getting in the wrong hands.
You are participating in the denial when you make statements like this. Let's say we start at our most charitable to the ruling party: there's no work camps, Uyghurs are treated fairly, paid a decent wage. Why then are the compounds, which we can see from the sky, off-limits to human rights observers? Why are these complexes expanding at an alarming rate?

I expect evidence. I do not get upset because it is the fashion to do so. If someone calls me a liar and demands proof I didn't mislead them, I do my best to display evidence in my defense. All that the CCP offers is threats to other sovereign nations.

There is a pattern of behavior from the CCP which indicates duplicity and untruthfulness from the destruction of viral lab samples in Wuhan, to entire fishing fleets going dark off sovereign waters. Every day we receive more of these reports of bad behavior. If China wants us to believe them, they need to start producing evidence. Let observers in. Show the world.
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What are they going to do about the porous coral rock bed?
See also the forthcoming deadline (June 23rd) for opting out from having all your data irretrievably slurped by the likes of palantir: https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
Personally, I like Wikipedia, for its "direct" and "succinct" information, BUT every single time I read an article, I have to remember to NOT fall in the Dunning-Kruger effect, reference has some irony, as it is IMHO not at all hypothetical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

or, alternatively, that I am not instead suffering of the (fictional) Gell-Mann amnesia effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

so I do check the Wikipedia page for something I already know about, find the outdated (or plainly wrong, or both) info in order to not fall in it.
'The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind'
>Since adobe gobbled them up they have a quasi Monopoly

I dont have a problem with Monopoly per se. I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement. Microsoft, Adobe, AutoDesk..

Worth watching Steve Jobs's comment on Tech Monopolies again.

https://twitter.com/dwineman/status/1274101859049893888
its a combination of things. People want convenience and that desire is never ending and never sated.

in the age of consumerism, people want to consume MORE but live more minimally. This gives way to more cloud, connected services, more "renting". More.. processing by someone else, somewhere else.

And yes, people spend less time creating and doing and too much time just consuming as their main hobby. They need to spend more time outdoors, doing stuff with their hands, being creative and constructive.

And lastly - my more controversial, generalized but hyper-specific point - is up until COVID and tons of protests turned riots, people were moving into cities at a high rate. They moved into gentrified areas, down played the crime, downplayed the smog, downplayed the endless mismanagement of tax money by old corrupt city governments. They'll go as far as to call people who don't want to move into the city as being racist (for wanting to avoid the crime) or for destroying the environment b/c they don't want to live packed in like sardines in a smog filled urban center.

Well for all those hipsters who think crime isn't such a problem and only something "racists" point out - they all seem to have this incessant need for RING doorbells to keep people stealing the never ending array Amazon and other CongloMo Inc packages from their middle class porches.

They go out in the streets, pumping their fist in the air for BLM, then go home, waiting for their packages from amazon, hopefully protected by Amazon RING doorbells which are expanding the private/public partnership in an ever growing police and surveillance state. They get online and finger wag in one direction and allow their money to vote in another. They're an awful lot like rural republicans voting against their own economic interests, but at least on the Republican side there's a bit of a bait and switch going on. here, it's just direct hypocrisy.
I recall stories of IBM Watson's failures were focused around how they sold it as just dumping data into the machine and wonders coming out.

Meanwhile actual implementation customers weren't ready / were frustrated with how much prepping the data was required, how time consuming it was, and in a lot of ways how each situation was a sort of research project of its own.

It seems like any successful AI system will require the team working with the data to be experts in the actual data, or in this case experts in radiology ... and take a long time to really find out good outcomes / processes, if there are any to be found.

Add the fact that the medical industry is super iterative / science takes a long time to really figure out ... that's a big job.
Short term workers usually cost more per minute, but they may be cheaper overall since you can get away with only paying them precisely when they are contributing to your bottom line.
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Apple stores require this for screen repair or even battery replacement. I won't get my aging iphone X battery replaced for exactly this reason. It's too much work to erase my phone and restore it.
We're talking about a vast area of ocean. Each buoy would only be able to monitor a small circle. There are limits to anchoring depth so they can usually only be used close to score. And marine electronics require frequent maintenance due to the harsh environment.
That's just lazy javadoc style. The worst kind of documentation, since it adds nothing over looking at code itself.

At the very least, there should be examples of usage.

I never did PHP, but they have one of the best documentation features: comments. It allows you to recognize if a function is a footgun: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php
UNIX once dominated CAD/CAM/CAE and was never a strong name on the desktop. Robustness, security and stability are valuable features for such market. Ignoring linux today for technical tools shows a lack of vision or unportable low quality legacy code.
>I just cannot see how it can be done.

Learning to think and communicate in terms of what people and things do rather than labels, i.e. what they are, has been helpful for me.
> Simple is ... not the opposite of hard.

...yes it is? The word has multiple meanings.

> free from complexity or difficulty [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simple]

> involving minimal difficulty or effort [https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simple]

etc
That's surprising to me. I mean, if I could put on a headband or hat and "type," hands free and wirelessly, on any connected Bluetooth device, that would be pretty incredible even if it only went at a portion of my current speed/accuracy.

Obviously, that's still sci fi at this point, but that's what you seem to be rejecting here.

To each their own, I guess.
OP was talking about comparing typing speeds with his buddy, not the neural interface.
I believe the owner is https://twitter.com/levicook https://github.com/levicook?
Charge a lot of money?
For completeness sake, I would like to mention, that Apache Drill works with local files and can be used for exactly the same purpose.
I think the value here probably depends a lot on what it's doing under the hood. Like, if this is just a wrapper on importing to sqlite, building up an index, and running a query, then maybe there aren't a lot of use-cases.

But maybe it does something interesting with the fact that it can receive data in a stream?
The various visualization plugins were cool.

Streamripper.

Others can't remember atm. Good times hunting through the plugins and themes.
>Leaving aside your implied threat of violence, what on earth convinces you that “opportunities are finite”?

Of course they aren't. Once the central bank hits the 2% inflation goal it is just a matter of time until there are enough opportunities for everyone.
To be clear, I'm not doubting the author's claim, I fully believe that it's an infeasible task.

I'm just curious what the specific problems that would arise would be. I don't know anything about off-road driving.
I imagine that taking out the HDD would've been beyond most Apple customers even when the storage was removable and the computer was held together with (somewhat) standard screws.
That depends on your objection. If your object to the fact that no tank man results were shown, then yeah, maybe that's a fair argument. But if you object to the decision to remove tank man results, then it makes no sense to penalise Duck Duck Go for that. In fact, if you trust Duck Duck Go's authors more than Bing's, you might want to actively direct traffic to them in the hope that they can obtain enough users to become independent.

Even those who take ideological stands can object to purity. The FSF publishes the LGPL alongside the GPL and even has an exception to the GPL for GCC, to make it usable also by those who aren't fans of their position
Cellebrite only works if you've unlocked it, anyway.
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Depending on how much precision you need, it's already possible. An external interface can read gross changes in electrical activity that a person can learn to control. But it's pathetic compared to what the nerves can do.
Just got a postcard from my optometrist the other day saying it’s time for my annual prescription check. My eyes are no different, but my glasses are scratched, so I need to spend an hour or two to get this fixed instead of just reordering glasses online. Can’t wait to use a service like this instead, much faster and easier, good luck!!
Hello,
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Looks quite interesting indeed! Thanks also to GP for sharing the link

So good to find focused, lightweight software that doesn't squander gigabytes to load.
A suggestion I make repeatedly to people with expertise in other domains: Look for programming jobs in that domain. Find companies making software related to CE work and leverage the 6 years professional and 4+ years academic experience you've built up.
"Measuring typing speed" is just silly, if you ask me. For the reasons you already pointed out.

Typing speed is not about understanding information to its fullest, it's just a somewhat quirky metric for the speed of replication of words.
Similarly I used Darktable under OS X and didn't hit to any bugs. Exporting files require some patience since it maxes all cores at once, but nothing crashed or burned during the journey.
Sell data to intelligence agencies around the world.
Would this be considered product thread hijacking? The 'compliment' could also be interpreted as a disguised subtle diss (7wk product vs 2yr one)..
The biggest running fraud in crypto is the idea that "stable coins" are backed by fiat currency.

Even some of the original purveyors of it have more or less admitted the fiction. But the idea persists thanks to the "exchanges" who are directly involved and tend to benefit from it.

If it is not backed by USD, there is no real justification for USDT having a stable value at/near $1. And by extension, there is no rational for the fact that more than half of all crypto transactions involve stable coins. The entire market is built around this ruse.
I'm curious about the WPM test methodology; for example if all those studies use a standardised method or not. Because at least the various WPM testing tools and websites are extremely inconsistent in different aspects.

My own typing speed ranges from ~40WPM to ~110WPM depending on what tool or test method I'm using. For example some tests just use any random word from the dictionary, which of course includes very long and complicated ones, others go as far as to limit themselves to the 100 most common English words. And even with those factors being identical I can still get different speeds depending on the UI; the cursor movement, presentation of the text and input latency all have a measurable impact on the end result.
I had this experience at an Apple authorised repair center (ie. not Apple Store but a shop that is partner with Apple): they almost forced me to give the password of my Mac, even after I argued that we set up security/Filevault explicitly to protect data and it would be stupid to give the password to anyone after that... They argued that when they change the component (battery problem), they have to test that everything works fine. I found that really shady!

At the Apple Store, they also asked for the password, but when I said no way, the support person was just "ok, no problem".
> It's not to the extreme level of the Holocaust with mass executions, but it is real.

Those may well be actual death camps. The stated amount of people disappeared (2m+) far exceeds just how much people you can physically fit into those camps. They may fit few hundred thousands, but not millions.
One of the observations I have had is supporting opensource on donations is not a model that works long term. It could have been true back in the 90s and early 2000s. But these days the tech shift happens at very fast rate. So if your opensource product or concept is successful in the market, you cannot compete with another product or a startup cloning you idea on donations.

As coding and software development is getting democratized, if you have a concept that definitely has a market even though you are first to market. Other developers will build similar product and saturate the market, essentially diluting your value. For instance, I have been tracking Heroku style deployment tools in the market, there is like tons of opensource platform doing the same thing built by startup as well as individual developers. Same for opensource airtable clones.
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>You can't have no identity.

True. But one can become less attached to their identity and learn to be more fluid and less rigid about it. Thinking in terms of what one does, rather than what they are, seems helpful to me.
The fact that we can apparently detect repeatable patterns of brain activity, and do it across a few modalities (handwriting, cursor movements) shows that a lot of the core problems are solved. We’ve achieved Proof of Concept.

With greater sensor fidelity, greater quantity of data, improved ML approaches combined with alternate detection targets (particularly subvocalisation) means that getting to faster than parity WPM seems like a realistic result. Incremental improvements to tech is something we humans are quite good at.