skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because he's probably lying/exaggerating. I highly doubt your average officer makes anywhere near that. I don't make over 200k as an experienced developer, either.

People are terrible with nuance. OP did a good job at contextualizing danger of policing, without claiming it's "safe", as you'd see on reddit, but I'm guessing something is getting lost here.

I'm very sceptical someone is in the multiple sixes of figures without serious responsibility and credentials. In my area officers make similar (lower) pay than tech jobs, and every area I've seen is similar. So people on reddit will be complaining about officers making 80k-100k out west, when in reality that's just marginally better than bartenders.

So yeah, they're making like 60k-100k, or more out west. Here in the midwest it's more like 40k-80k. This compares to developer jobs I've seen, but it's not apples to apples. Cops end up years behind in pay, but end up with better benefits. So they'll be at 70k 3-10 years in, instead of 0-5 in.

In either case there's other tiers and roles, was assuming grunts. There might be other cases where "super grunt" jobs exist, and get paid very well. Just like with engineers it seems like the way to advance is increased specialization and moving to management.

You can spin your wheels at low level engineering jobs for decades if you want, too. Usually, people also have to move towards leadership roles to advance in engineering...

So I digress, but I guess it's fair to say police officer is of similar value as engineer in terms of job perks... but engineer is considered a good job.
For double it would be harder to check but for float (that should have the same corner cases) it's easy to just check all possible values if you have a gold standard. I've been doing that for image processing functions and it's amazing how many corner cases you fix and keep fixed by writing unit tests that iterate over all possible values or a good subset of them when that's not possible.
Just curious where all the Apple CSAM defenders are when information like this comes to light. All the "I have nothing to hide people", don't understand they don't control when or how the information is used or if the information is even accurate. Your information is power given to an invisible fist, that you will need to defend yourself against.

> NBC News reported last year how one Gainesville, Fla. resident whose information was given by Google to police investigating a burglary was able to prove his innocence thanks to an app on his phone that tracked his fitness activity.

He was forced to prove his innocence because a tech company gave incorrect information as incontrovertible 'evidence'. Everyone let that sink in as your spyPhone scans all your photos looking for 'evidence'.

You don't have access to all the information they collected and they don't share it with you even if it will prove your innocence. All prosecutors want is a persecution and they don't care if they have the wrong person. Giving them information is equivalent to slowly closing the steel door of the jail cell you didn't realize you were standing in.
The duress login shouldn't reveal that anything is happening, so they have no reason to suspect you're using such a feature at all. Thus there would be no reason to ask you to log in again, and even if they do, you can simply use the duress credentials a second time.
That was the theory, but in practice people spent a lot of time debugging the transaction server and cleaning out the registry, trying to figure out why their components weren't working. I think we had something like 50K lines of VBS and it was alright because the code was decently structured.
> "The biggest problem from my PoV is that people seem like they are always absolutely sure that the contemporary understanding of morals is actually correct, unlike the primitive beliefs of the past, and that there's nothing left to challenge."

If they claim to be on the left, point out to them that that type of worldview is actually a form of conservatism. Quoting from Wikipedia, "Traditionalist conservatism places a strong emphasis on the notions of custom, convention, and tradition." and note that "customs
[and] convention" is the same as the "social norms" argument trotted out by the modern left to defend their activities.
I like walking and have walked around 2-5 miles a day for the last 7 or 8ish years. I also go without a phone and I go every day no matter what the weather is like in NY (hot summers and snowy winters).

There's a bunch of benefits and I'll continue doing it because I really do enjoy it and I do think it helps get clarity but I wouldn't treat it like a magical activity that's going to make you successful on its own in whatever field you're working in.

It's still very possible to feel the pressures of what a non-walker will experience such as procrastination and everything else we all know and experience.

But with that said, I do highly recommend giving walking a shot. It's a really relaxing way to decompress.
Unconstrained auto is unwise in globally accessible templates that participate in overload resolution, but is fine in lambda literals.
Everything in my life I've ever won an award for I thought of/through while walking
Not sure what you're talking about with regards to the price being similar.

The base Model S is $90k and the base Model Y is $53k. That's a big difference.
It is still a highly human resource intensive process to investigate and punish crimes using that surveillance. It doesn't get used to identify who broke into your car and stole stuff out of it, because they just don't really care about that. They do care about everyone who was at the demonstrations, which affects the police directly and which threatens the role that the police have in protecting private capital. If you understand what their role and focus is then the lack of enforcement on petty crimes isn't a counterexample at all.
I have heard they pay in the higher end of Dutch companies, which is still underwhelming especially compared to FAANG.
Shallower discharge means reduced range. Or more batteries, but that increases mass of the vehicle which in turn increases energy consumption. Customers are going to see a car with substantially less range, or a much more expensive car with less usable space and heavier weight. And it might not even be able to reach the advertised mileage if the customer is in a hot climate.

Easily replaceable batteries is probably a better bet for preserving the retail value of electric cars. Purchases are probably going to be made assuming that the battery pack is worn, and can be replaced with a new battery pack which ideally makes use of more recent battery tech.
Careful you don't get arrested for running a plant-fighting ring.
Had the war been won in 2 years and a successful succession regime put in place in less than 5 years, censorship would've been successfull.

There is still places where you can buy "Freedom fries" in the US (until at least fall 2019, i've not been back in the US for obvious reasons)

You don't need it to work in the long term, you need it to work short-term and hope that you're right. Until the myth you created is deconstructed you are good. I'm not a huge fan of Baudrillard, but the point he raised in "The Gulf war do not exist" (he talked here about the first war) was basically unchallenged, and the myth of this war still stands. And i think Baudrillard have been well received in the US, no?
Why not honeypot into a docker with fake data? Everyone would be happy (during a first moment). Sure if the attacks t is well informed then they will double check whether the target they got in is real or not.
> Censorship did not work in the medium-run

It worked perfectly. No one is preventing you saying it was mistake, because it literally does not matter.

It made War possible and the soldiers are still there.
If that's what's mandated, you may have little choice.
Even after thinking on it for a day I still cannot see how this comment of mine was in any way a personal attack or "Musk hate".

It wasn't a good comment as I didn't even try to make an argument, so the downvotes are definitely deserved but I cannot comprehend why it received a warning for said reasons. I'm neither attacking anyone personally nor do I say anything bad about Musk. I'm only pointing out that there are people around that literally worship him. That is not an opinion but a fact. Do you want me to link to content of that nature?
Buddhas of Bamiyan
Would listening to music or a podcast or an audiobook interfere with the generation of ideas while walking? I love running and walking but I always feel like I have to have something playing in my ear during.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203422.
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You’re telling a story about Google and blaming Apple. You’re telling a story about tracking Google does and Apple does not, and blaming Apple.
I think it’s okay for a public venue to deny people access due to something being present, but not due to something not being present.

For example, I generally support laws that let people go topless or nude in public. But I’m okay with places banning people due to clothing choices… like all white conical hoods.
Just don't this as an excuse to have walking conversations in an open floor plan office.
It is simple. Calorie intake increased while calories spent decreased; creating energy surplus which is then stored in fat. The causal relationship between obesity and mental health is also not clear.
related: "Perhaps the reason walking helps us think is that we evolved as persistence hunters."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1429535366705463298
One company serving one government.
Forward looking statements from Musk don't have a good history of accurate timelines.
https://www.craft.do/ I assume you're referring to this, took a bit of googling.
It's because they're trying to code the problem instead of solving it end to end. As you can imagine if you're trying to code driving scenarios you're never going to finish. Only Tesla and Comma.ai are on the right track. Think Alpha Zero vs Stockfish.

This problem has to be solved end to end. It can be done with just vision as humans can drive with just vision. It's literally just a software, machine learning and data problem. Just takes time
Evidentiary tests may change.
Your comment about counterfactuals reminds of a saying, or what I would call a more accurate version of a common saying - "Hindsight is 50/50". (Note, that doesn't make hindsight necessarily wrong, just difficult to have confidence in.)
A short explanation is that they set it up once after WW2 by copying from the US and Europe, but since then the countries they copied from got wise to the IP theft and copycat manufacturing and blocked the transfer of later tech and processes. So Japan is forced to keep up the old thing because it's the only way the know how to run.
They couldn't modernise from within. The Japanese economy has many traits of a cargo cult. Their culture around office work, the suits, the drinking, the smoking, the "entertaining your clients with prostitutes", the over hours doing "dara-dara" (grunting and head-scratching in front of an open Excel sheet) just for show, etc. is all straight from the Mad Men era as well.
If the attack is in hot the data is unencrypted, so getting the login password will (usually) also give access to the unencrypted disk (already mounted)
Does "conservative-aligned" still mean anything at all in the UK, except an ad-hominem jab on a more liberally-oriented website like HN?

There's basically no more serious non-conservative political parties in the UK (Labour is mired in one scandal after another and can't elect a proper leader), whereas the COVID lockdowns (lasting roughly 8 months) were enacted by a conservative leader.
A bunch of the better defaults mentioned are already handled by vim since v8(:h defaults.vim), but beyond that using Tim Pope's vim-sensible¹ feels like it may be a better starting point. The repo's issues also contain some real gold on the reasoning behind why some settings are useful as defaults and why others are probably less so.

In the spirit of that reddit thread, my only tip is to have a few full runs at vimtutor and then simply buy both of Drew Neil's excellent books²³. Structured learning from domain experts, not piecemeal randomness from our fellow internet commenters. Drew's free vimcasts⁴ are great too, and give a taste of the quality you'll find in his books.

JNRowe leans back to chew on some piecemeal randomness

¹ https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible

² https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-editio...

³ https://pragprog.com/book/modvim/modern-vim

⁴ http://vimcasts.org/episodes
Well the new one would have about 100 Wh of battery - how much does the current one have?
Critical theory is being outlawed in variety of contexts right now and it is legal.
Maybe you could use it as a webcam?

https://www.amazon.com/tv-camera-built/s?k=tv+with+camera+bu...
https://techpenny.com/where-cameras-mics-smart-tvs/
Is the future driver assistance perfected to the point where the car lets you drive but prevents you from doing something bad?

Try to jerk the wheel into the woods and it won't obey.
New book on Data-centric Computing
Well those are at least $90k, the Y is about half that.
Why is it infamous to use paper money besides during a pandemic? It’s the only way to buy something without being tracked and profiled, and it makes budgeting easier. You can actually exchange it without an intermediary taking a cut or deciding to block the transaction
This isn't a challenge but just a request to be educated.

Can you show me an example? I had always considered the BBC (I'm in the US so I get the world service) to be pretty decent. Is there some terrible side I don't see?
This is not what I think of by "it worked"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/new-zealand-lockdown-one...

At best, its a fragile, brittle, costly "solution" that may work in an isolated country like NZ until vaccines are available.

It's been 8 months since vaccines have been available, and they're still in the low 20s in terms of people getting the vaccine.
They could just be less ridiculous instead.
One aspect which I have not seen mentioned is private landlords are taking advantage of the current inflated prices & general sellers market. They want to take profits and are selling units out from renters. They typically want the unit empty to sell, and so they are not renewing leases.

My landlord did this. In July, I learned that he had decided he wanted to sell my townhouse, and wanted me out. I was fortunate enough to find a place to buy that reduced my commute to my son's school, but it was pretty nerve wracking.
I wrote something similar by description in ruby, I’d be curious to see your python implementation.

I considered python but Ruby’s easier chaining with map/filter/etc made it easier for me to use when writing just one line with it to transform some json.

https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/rson
"möbius sync" works pretty well.
Taxing earned income is double taxation because corporations are taxed. Corporate tax is double taxation because sales are taxed. Sales tax is double taxation because income is taxed.
> That doesn’t mean anything at all. It could just be random.

This is not a serious response. The correlation is far too definite to be mere chance; and the mechanisms that cause it not hard to understand. Or in plain English: it's not random.
My current work involves ground-truthing sensor and classifier hits from various automotive OEMs. Take, for example, reading old-fashioned speed limit signs. In principle, doing this correctly and reliably in context is a relatively simple machine learning problem, particularly when restricted to a single country.

I have yet to work with an automotive OEM that doesn't consistently mis-classify some speed limit signs in some common cases that are completely unambiguous. It leads one to wonder about the quality of classifier design and testing such that these end up in production vehicles. The cases that cause a classifier to fail are different across automotive OEMs too, it isn't intrinsic; other automotive OEMs will handle that specific case just fine.

On the other hand, when it works it often works surprisingly well. The good/bad news is that most of the problems I see are ultimately caused by poor model design and testing. These are all surmountable with better quality AI engineering.

There is more AI to self-driving cars than the classifiers that pull features out of their environmental sensors. However, the driving AIs are making decisions based on the output of those classifiers -- garbage in, garbage out.

These are the kinds of situations that will produce relentless incremental improvements over time, and there is still a lot of low-hanging fruit to improve on.
The duress credentials are exactly how you avoid the "pipe wrench" scenario. The point of the FDE in that case is simply to prevent them from looking on the disk without your supervision.
Ha, classic. Works with pretty much any two nationalities.
> When NYC re-landscaped The Highline to make it exclusively native plants, property values in the area literally went up 10x.

Any source on this?Because it seems like Highline-adjacent properties probably would’ve seen a pretty good ROI over the past 10 years regardless of what plants were up there.

> Planting nice trees is the only home improvement you can make where you can spend $50 and add $100,000 to your property value. The returns are literally like getting a chance to go back to 2011 and buy Bitcoin.

Any source on this one? I work with arborists and even they’re not quite so gung-ho on promoting this kind of return. And $50 is getting you a sapling that’s going to take (maybe) decades to maximize any return.
I’m unsure how granular Firefox permissions can be, but this requires access to all data from all websites.

Edit: Yikes, they will save your search history on all e-commerce sites: https://www.wecultivate.us/privacy-faq

This is spyware.
Ask HN: Is it possible to start A Glamping Business without any of my own money?
I live in southern utah near Zions national park a huge tourist destination. I'm a burned out developer wanting to get into glamping but I'm lacking the financial resources.

I've been doing some market analysis and there's many people around running glamping businesses averaging around 100-130 per night according to Airbnb.

So if you have 5 units on one property there's decent potential as that could gross 3k per unit per month or roughly 15k per month.

I'm looking for someone who'd take 70/30 until paid back and 30/70 after including 30 percent equity upon sale of the property.

I freelance and that's been a little difficult to use in the past for a normal bank loan.

I've thought about crowdfunding which could work because I'd be able to offer a night or longer stay..

Eventually I'd also like to create a mobile glamping retreat business eventually for corporate retreats, festivals, weddings, etc... But I want to get my feet wet first with designing a great experience in a single location.
In bavaria the police abused contact-tracing guest books (a paper process!) for criminal investigations. Even well-intentioned surveillance can be turned against citizens.
The socioeconomic group that had the most deaths were people of foreign background aged 65 or more. Maybe Sweden just has a proportionally larger group of those?
I tend to disagree with both points.

I can't read minds. I need people to tell me what works and what doesn't for them. An employment is a continuous transaction, if the situation changes it is absolutely open to re-negotiation. It's on both the employer, the direct manager and the employee to make sure everybody is happy with the arrangement.

And the two times I did hear about problem before the new contract was signed, I was able to find a solution. In the other case there is not much I can do.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Drone Sets New Flight Time Record
Definitely not the USA, was my point here. Health care in the USA is absolutely and completely insane, to any outsider.
> and now everything has gone back to normal

Right now it seems quite the opposite. Their vaccines are not very effective against the Delta variant, and they're having several outbreaks. They recently shut down a huge port. They never learned how to do partial lockdowns and just dealing with low levels of infection, so if they don't manage to eliminate the virus, they're screwed. What are they going to do with the Delta variant? Import foreign vaccines? Wait for better domestic vaccines? What if a new more infectious variant comes along that's even less affected by their vaccines?

I think China may be a case of the cure being worse than the disease. We know their approach has killed people, and the huge amount of resources spent on these lockdowns and massive amount of testing may have been better spent saving lives elsewhere. But we'll never know because they don't publish reliable data on excess mortality.
> I’m not the type to willingly buy in an HOA area

The problem is that there's a hard trade-off between private property ownership and walkability. If you want to live somewhere where you can walk and bike to restaurants, houses inherently need to be close together. And when houses are closer together on smaller lots, there is more value to having communal property, and to keeping private property cohesively managed. In short, the more walkable a neighborhood you want to live in, the more game theory pushes you toward forming HOAs, co-ops, etc.
Yeah, I'm sure it was the native plants and not the 100s of millions spent in re-development.
Lockdowns are an incredibly fragile “solution”. It’s a multi agent problem with lots of probabilities. All lockdowns allow some “essential workers” to not lockdown. You could have only 2% of workers deemed essential—and there is no general rule since all geographies are different and in situations like the exact details matter—and have the exact same long term outcomes as no lock down at all. It’s fun to run multi agent simulations and see how easy it is to screw up any centralized plan through the injection of little probabilitities.

In my opinion anything that does not allow people to exercise conditional probability at the last mile is bound to have negative expected value.

Things that I do think make a difference: better airflow,
more outdoor time, less obesity, better testing, a public equipped
with better tools to diagnose and treat conditions at home, vaccines, better data infra and publishing of medical data, etc. Dumb blanket mandates that are applied across a population are stupid.
thats how it works in essentially every market. Think about 18 year old drivers compared to 45 year old drivers when shopping for insurance. Why the difference in quotes?
If your attacker has a full image of your system why are they bothering with duress?
So, this is not "bringing it to the 21st century." I feel like what would actually do that is related to the idea of don't try to succeed perfectly, try to fail elegantly?

I want some sort of non-destructive way for "the shell" to take a best guess at what's going on when I make a typo, or when the data's not formatted quite right, like a live linter that's there all the time.