skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work in law enforcement. Its a tails you lose, heads I win situation for the police.

Generally speaking police leadership likes to justify their jobs with "crime numbers are going down" its an easy "objective" way to show they are effective and its the primary metric they try to game. Then its ask for more budget because we can make numbers go even more down with more resources.

When crime numbers go up its "we need more resources!". Which is the traditional refrain of well every government agency that is not succeeding in their mission. And succeeding in their mission. Every agency is gonna ask for more money. Always and forever.

Line officers dont care as much about overall metrics but have different incentives put on them. Their immediate leadership want numbers to look good too.

No matter what way the number goes up or down there is a ready narrative that involves we need more budget. If number goes down, its my leadership caused this. If numbers go up then its external things fault.

Typically speaking police chiefs like numbers to go down because it reflects well on them. Detectives like persuing cases that result in convictions because it makes them look good and promotable. Zone leadership likes numbers to go down because it makes them look good and promotable. If you are the Captain of the highest crime rate precinct you are less likely to get promoted than the one with a better rate. This trickles all the way down.
Heat is call "Low Quality" energy in thermodynamics. Heat is basically disorganized particle movement. It is very hard to convert disorganized energy to organized energy like electrical current.
Or so it might seem to some human intelligences.

Predicting what superintelligences might think or do, or what motivates them is like ants trying to understand human culture and civilization.

This is why strong AI is considered a singularity.
Unfortunately physics and mechanics of these sources are not unlimited either.

Current renewables would require huge expanding battery capacity as well as mega production and construction we likely won't have in a few decades yet. (And we're already about 30 years too late handling the global warming.)

The problem is caused by energy density per manufactured unit panel/turbine, and additionally basic physics of the energy source.
This is so level headed and "sober" compared to whatever "think of the children" rhetoric we encounter today, not even for drunk driving specifically but for any kind of trading liberty for safety. I believe we'll retrospectively realize that western society peaked in the 80s and this kind of common sense doesn't dissuade me.
Workers are also free to vote as a block. I was highlighting the similarity that exists there between shareholders and workers: if you lose the vote, you will get represented to management by someone not of your choosing, bloc-voting or no.
Hmm. I think of thundering Herd being about retries.

All your failing requests batch up when your retry strategy sucks, then you end up really high traffic on every retry, and very little in between
Encouraging births isn't hard if a government decides its important.

Got an example of a successful encouragement of more births? Plenty of countries have tried.
OODA Loop – the decision-making model from a top fighter pilot
im also getting it after trying with troubleshooting mode on (disables extensions, themes and custom settings.) this is on windows and latest firefox 90.0.2

https://i.imgur.com/y5lkfHI.gif
I think that, at least for young people, it is not as popular as it was for us older people.

Things like the death of Google Reader and web browsers making it harder or even disabling subscriptions to websites via RSS were a huge deal. Allegedly all of that was because RSS lost momentum.

People like me had to resort to use things like Feedly, but frankly it is not the same. I for one dream about the resurgence of RSS and making the web again a little less corporation-in-the-middle.
Thank you for your comment. It is true that it also helps on observability. To add into the story it would be the restaurant owner can look into the orders afterwards to analyze and suggest changes.
It's a bit of a clown land

1636 someone says I think tulips are real and maybe people might like them? Really cutting edge opinions.

And I know there was no tulips mania, just a few weirdos who paid a lot to be popular. Because tulips were cool and stayed cool.
> How often is it that you have a malicious iframe on your website being used to trick people though?

Definitely more often than whatever hacky edge case websites relies on this behavior.
> Who the hell is in charge over there, and what compels them to incessantly break the web?

Well, to be fair, they went to the standards body and proposed it, and both Firefox and Webkit were in favour of the spec change.
Bragg can be downright blunt when one of his guests is floating around some questiom he wants a concrete answer to. It's very helpful.

I'm so glad to see this here. Bragg has what appears to be the best job in the world to me.
Very excited to hear things are moving!
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Increased per-worker productivity, automation, and a realignment of goals from lining pockets to contributing to society.
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All of USB, I2C, low power UART (9600 fixed), and high speed USART.

They all equivalently are JSON request/response ports. I2c uses a simple serial-over-I2C protocol.

Most customers use the I2C or low power UART interfaces because the device only uses ~8uA when listening on those ports. (Our internal MCU can listen on those ports while in STOP2 mode.)
Driving and farming I can agree with having automation potential. But the issue I have with cooking is that automation for the culinary area is limited to McDonalds’ type assembly of uniform pre-made food items that require the absolute minimum in terms of culinary ability. I can comprehend robotic prep machines, slicing, dicing, maybe even butchery. But it is a significant step from there to a robot following even a well written recipe for demi-glacé or for a custard, let alone being able to tell when potatoes are roasted to the right fineness and have a sufficiently browned appearance. Maybe my kids won’t work at Burger King in high school, but I can’t see line cooks at any real restaurant being replaced any time soon.
I dunno. Maybe it's not "all about the money."

I was a manager for 25 years (and stayed at the company for almost 27).

When my team was finally dissolved, in 2017, the person with the least tenure had a decade. The person with the most had almost 27 years (he and I started on the same day, in 1990).

The pay was...not so good. The corporation had some fairly lousy HR policies.

I'm told that I was the reason that these folks stayed.

Apparently, I was a half-decent manager. I hated the job, but did it well.

These were a different breed of engineer from what seems to be the benchmark, these days. They were very experienced, senior-level C++ engineers. We did image processing pipelines, and various forms of "engine" code (like that BASF ad: "We don't make the software you use. We make the software you use better."). A lot of my management style involved abstracting the corporate HR policies, and working with my team. They all had families. One actually had a serious medical issue, during his tenure. Most had to deal with various emotional and family issues.

I also completely supported them pursuing any training they wanted; whether or not it directly applied to their work with my team.

I had to deal with each person as an individual. I had to understand their drives, and work with them. I treated them all with the utmost respect.

They worked very hard. They stepped up to the plate, when it was crucial, and I let them have slack, when the dust settled.

It seemed to work for me. YMMV.
Unions reward and protect unproductive employees at the cost of productive and prospective employees. For the employer, this results in subpar capital allocation and fragility to future market forces.
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Brick laying robots already exist. This isn't a problem that can't be solved, it's a question of making it economically viable.

But the future is pretty obviously going to be skilled machinery operators overseeing the automation.

Even more interesting its once you automate like this the constraints start changing: i.e. it's easier to have a robot lay bricks with epoxy then cement, whereas a non automated work flow would struggle.

There's a Perth based company which has a prototype which basically will layout an entire house on a concrete slab via a boom arm that uses this approach: pallets go in, structured bricks come out.
The market for information is practically infinite and this resource isn't limited along the axes presented in the article. Not sure what else to say.
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This is one of my favorite ted talks, on animal behaviour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk

The examples of animals doing things the way they do are both funny and entertaining.
Regulatory capture is real.
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The rebuttal to this is presented in "Exponential Economist vs Finite Physicist": https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

The argument boils down to that all economic activity, whether material or just information, requires energy as an input, and at least on one planet, the ability to heat-sink that energy (let alone generate it) must set some finite growth limit.
> Generally speaking police leadership likes to justify their jobs with "crime numbers are going down"

If that's what happening, sure, they use that to support “we're doing good and therefore should be given more resources to do more good.”

If crime stats are flat or going down, they use that to argue “we are stretched to thin to effectively reduce crime, and therefore need more resources.”

The input is irrelevant, the output is constant.
The robotic bricklayers are in the future and on the moon. Intelligence, dextrous, cheap labor is plentiful on Earth, but that won't necessarily be true elsewhere.

As for contemptuous automation, consider that it frees up humans to do more emotionally, mentally, or physically challenging work. We do need to provide for those immediately displaced by automation though, since despite economists' wishes, humans don't instantly retrain and self-allocate to new jobs and industries.

In the post-scarcity world that I hope we are working toward, people will have more time to pursue their interests, which may include hobbyist bricklaying, while machines labor to make living safe, affordable, and pleasant.
Rinse & repeat when every desktop environment brought their own audio daemons, then later PulseAudio and now PipeWire.

I still roll my eyes and I don’t get surprised every couple of years when somebody releases a yet another Linux audio daemon.

Maybe it’s some kind of Linux tradition.

At least PipeWire is saner compared to PulseAudio.
AMD Hiring for Open-Source GPU Driver Work Mentions of Tesla Model S, Steam Deck
Hmm, the linked bug is from March 2020, and this thing will be Removed in December 2021. That's nearly 2 years, no?
KISS Linux taught me this! Once I realized I could read/write to IRC over netcat, I paired that will all the Bash magic KISS taught me and created a pure bash IRC client in 54LoC: https://github.com/retrohacker/irc-sh
basic auth is super useful for protecting staging sites, however.
I like the idea. Am I correctly understanding that you don't actually create any ETFs, it's just a tool for constructing a portfolio of individual stocks?

Assuming I've got that right, do you know ballpark how badly the tax inefficiency hurts you relative to ETFs? (assuming a taxable account of course, doesn't matter in a 401k or IRA)
That may be the case. I am not in a position to say.
Printing works really well. It's print drivers (software) that are an utter and complete mess.

I've never had a printer that didn't work: I've had plenty that wanted the correct offering to the HP website to be made and several hundred megs of adware installed before a postscript file made it to the actual hardware.
> trust in institutions

Unless it's the local baptist church telling you about the evils of the gays (right trusting institutions), or Jeff Bezos telling you that the institution which is Amazon is actually a good thing for humanity (left not trusting institutions).

Point is, these sorts of generalizations are generally wrong. Populist distrust of institutions exists on both political poles.
So over a year ago they did publish their "Intent to remove" for this https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hTOXi...

Honestly, what is the right way to "notify the people affected" for changes like this, apart from publishing them to their mailing list. There is no centralised place for these sorts of things, apart from each developer's mailing lists, or the standards mailing lists.

I'm a web developer and I've never paid attention to the blink-dev mailing list, but perhaps I should more?
Honestly if you just pay attention to the constantly shifting fads and “best practices” you’d have noticed by now.

Example: object oriented programming was THE WAY the write code a few years ago. Now functional programming is all the rage even though it has existed for decades. In fact, idiomatic react code just recently made the same switch.

I think it’s important to think critically and frankly having a discussion about the efficacy of contemporary design choices is the starting point.
We do this right now in a totally disconnected env. We have process in place to get images and manifests into our env. All containers have to go through scanning pipelines and have to be approved through a process.

We also for any container that makes requests that does not have the mechanisms for adding certificates we have to rebuild the containers in the disconnected env to insert certificates to allow communication.

Makes daily life really interesting
Hence the existence of lp(1), which at its simplest is just a queue that sends things to the network as they arrive.
> I loved never having to scour the web for drivers on the manufacturer support websites

That hasn't been a thing on Windows for 10+ years, so glad you got ~5 years out of that.

> Nearly everything worked out of the box, even when it was brand new

I remember the olden days when hardware wouldn't work on Linux, then eventually someone would make a driver for it. These days, it's arguably worse. Nobody writes drivers for modern hardware without the aid of the manufacturer. So some hardware, including virtually all "Amazon's Choice" USB wifi adapters on Amazon, don't work on Linux without hacky unofficial drivers on github, which haven't been upstreamed or vetted for backdoors. (Plus you get to compile and load them into your kernel yourself, which is beyond the ability of most users)
This is great but are there any plans for a self-hosted option? There's potentially a lot of VERY sensitive data to be stored and I wouldn't be comfortable just putting it up there (no offence) but would happily run it myself.

I've been looking for something like this for a while and this a very slick interface that covers pretty much all the bases.
Good question. They say that they need 10^-11 pascals. The pressure in low earth orbit is 10^-8 pascals [0], but the suggestion is to put it at a Langrange point (L1 or L2), where the pressure should be much below that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(pressure)
I would be skeptical of a union for 3 reasons:

1 - seniority hierarchy

2 - protection of incompetent employees

3 - having more rules to follow and 2 bosses to please

That said, I have never been in a union, but this is the reputation.
As a summer student in 1999 I saw the Segway's gyroscopic technology evaluated in a stand-up wheelchair form by https://www.herl.pitt.edu/. This research lab sat between the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Veterans Affairs department. The lab still exists.

The wheelchair hit the public as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT. I knew it as "FRED". I have never observed anyone using its equal in terms of mobility capabilities.

As an example of what sort of other stuff HERL did back in the day: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00039...
> Saves a lot of time in meetings, although it adds a lot of time in preparing documents. I suspect it probably nets out to positive time savings

I pretty much won't take a meeting without some kind of prep work from the organizer.

Otherwise, the meeting is just a form of procrastination.
Yes, the people who are specifically critical of abusive practices of poweful executives are the "control freaks" here. Flawless logic.
"in my experience most developers do their best work after about 6-8 months of starting a job at a new company, and that comes to an end after about 24-36 months of working at the same company. After that the vast majority of people just stagnate, get complacent, the job stops being interesting to them and they move on."

Thanks for sharing this, I think you are probably "right" even though what you said is not an easy/popular thing to say.

What is your observed sample size on this? Could you elaborate on how you see people stagnate, and why you think this might be?
yep. This is a business led by accountants. I've also seen businesses led by sales people (great sales people, btw) - that wouldn't understand anything other than selling features. The best jobs have been with companies who have a technical leader. It still has downsides, but it's night and day compared to the other 2.
> computer people

The article suggests efforts go back over 100 years, so it seems bizarre to suggest this has something to do with "computer people".

There is a commercial burger cooking machine north of me in SF (https://www.creator.rest/), and there are similar machines for pizzas and other fast food. That isn't an unsolved problem.
I used a Samsung SmartThings tracker to track my baby’s stroller.
Automated hamburgers at https://theroboburger.com/ and https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/business/white-castle-flippy-... and https://sf.eater.com/2018/6/21/17489084/creator-robot-burger...

Automated cement-pouring in place of brick laying at https://www.nbc12.com/2021/06/24/virginias-first-3-d-printed...

The robots have arrived. Unskilled labour needs to be concerned.
Japan already do that, with some bad reputation. https://www.jitco.or.jp/en/skill/
I'd suggest changing "Aditor" to "Auditor-General of Western Australia".
> if businesses start to pretend that I owe them something for the privilege of spending money there, I just won't do it.

I've started doing exactly the opposite. Almost every place I spend my money these days caters to reasonable people and quickly kicks out most of the riffraff.

I don't want to go to a business that caters to all customers, because being surrounded by annoying people is miserable. I want to spend my time in an enjoyable ambiance. "Take all comers" places typically aren't that. Doubly so for any place that serves alcohol.
I kinda hate the "we give you a microcontroller that you can't program, only talk to it using some protocol" model. It just feels wrong, having to add an external one just for the application code. And here the protocol is even tied to a particular web API on the other side (looks like you can change the URL to your own instance but it's still all tightly coupled to the shape of the API).
I completely agree - at the moment I'm focused on getting feedback from "tech savvy" early adopters, so I thought this description might help express what I'm going for most effectively here on HN. But once I nail down the features that make sense for buildings and real estate, I'm hoping I can come up with a more approachable way to describe the functionality (even though I would like to incorporate and build on the more sophisticated concepts that GitHub has made pretty standard for code.)
From that teardown, it looks like a solid charger with an unchallenging design. (I.e. they didn't try to make it small.) I think it uses the iWatt 1699 control chip: https://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/acdc-conversio...
I understood what you meant by "regulatory capture". I was implying that capture often happens when there's regulatory heat.
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I'm building https://starboard.gg, it has the same issue. The iframe is important for sandboxing user code, and alert is often used in tutorials (despite being bad practice, it's intuitive for beginners).
Is there a decent way to test this? I'd like to trigger it and have it go all the way to making the call to be sure it is set up right and working, but I'm not sure the 911 operator would appreciate that.
On one side it might not be a good idea to have actual actionable and efficient criminal plans enacted in popular fiction.

On the other side, it seems to be a disservice to the community to have stupid ideas widely spread around. It's hard to balance for sure.
More notable is the fact that (like software transactions) drug transactions happen in private between consenting parties. The war on non-addictive drugs (say, psychedelics) failed too.
Any interest in looking into ebike chargers? Particularly on the diy side, there are a bunch of folks out there banging up battery packs in their basements and getting shocks, starting fires.
Thank you for this. Can you explain why it’s a red flag to you? Are you distinguishing between a local API versus one accessible via the internet?

Problem diagnosis is a great point, thank you.
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It’s odd that the author does not mention that because this is FreeBSD, the recommended print spooler is the Berkeley line printer daemon, not CUPS. It’s discussed right on the page he linked to.
Did you ever get a turnip?

Every other week!