skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, kinda? I don't have a spectacular source, but there's this [1]
Deportations were highest at the end of Bush's term. Obama gradually ramped down internal deportations. You may recall there was a pretty strong emphasis on DACA, the DREAM act, and a bunch of stuff about sanctuary cities. That got rolled back somewhat under Trump.

This has been a politically charged topic, and I'm doing my best to tread lightly.

My understanding is at the end of Obama's term, deportations were mostly driven by criminal activity. If someone got arrested for something, ICE is tipped off, and they're deported. On the other hand, they ran a stop sign, that was generally overlooked.

Later, there was a push to improve those numbers, so there were various people who were suspected or known to be undocumented. Some were visited and deported. There's various stories of homes being busted into. I have some opinions around all of that, but that's a minefield I don't want to walk through.

What is disturbing is, the enforcement varies with the political winds. They have a lot of power. "abuse" is pretty charged in this context. My preference is for the rules to be a lot less fuzzy. We already have a lot of rules around how citizens are treated, my preference is to treat people as citizens until proven otherwise. I'm ok with kicking in the door, if they can get a warrant.

There's lots of special cases, there's lots of horrible outlier examples. Yeah, I get the guy picking tomatoes getting paid under the table is not paying taxes. I know some folks don't report their tips.

Enforcement is super tricky, and I don't want to make it a million times harder, but I would like it to be more consistent. Again, this is a politically charged topic, which makes it tough to really think through (for me anyway).

[1] https://econofact.org/immigrant-deportations-during-the-trum...
Ask HN: How to spot the next thing before it hits the mainstream?
It is a question that has been on my mind a lot, and which causes me to go to sleep late as I am browsing to find the next thing that has not hit the mainstream yet.

Where or how, or what kind of approach should I undertake to increase my chances of spotting something that has the potential to become important in the future? What kind of news outlets should I target, as when its news its already out there and thus I am too late. Or other way around, if its not reported anywhere, how could I know about it (chicken or egg problem as well).

Some silly examples:

- How could I have known about the internet before it was popularized?
- How could I have known or heard about Bitcoin before it went mainstream?
- How could I have found a coin that was later listed on Binance?

Some might say that certain things are due to circumstances, eg if I was working at IBM or Microsoft at the time, I would have heard about the internet before.

However, this can not be it. It cannot be that it is just luck or being there at the right time. There must be more ways, or a certain mindset, to optimize and increase the chances. What are your ideas or approaches to this?
While you are admiring Darwinism, keep in mind that all-natural ecosystem collapse is a thing, and 6 all-natural mass extinction events had >90% of all living things disappear.
I bet if you searched for "CBP 100 mile arizona" or something similar you would find out.
Two things:

1) San Francisco has suffered from a massive tech exodus during COVID and its lockdowns, exacerbated with many municipal policies:

https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/

2) The city has only been saved from deep budgetary cuts by a massive federal bailout:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Federal-stimulu...

Which is not a sustainable strategy.

I interpret this announcement as Breed recognizing many of her administration's policies have have a disastrous effect on the SF tax base, and for the tax base to return, she needs to clean up the city.

I'll be watching the numbers to see if the city can turn itself around.

A lot of the companies that went remote due to COVID or went to Miami due to politics will never go back.
Area 120’s ‘Museletter’ (Google) shutdown after only 3 months
Yeah that would make most sense wouldn’t it.

Definitely something to bear in mind when buying one though.
This is misleading. Police funding was never actually reduced. The proposed funding shift, as paltry as it was (only 120 million), never actually happened: https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
I think it's an awesome way to make pull compelling visuals into content - especially for authors who lack a background in data science. Have you guys thought about making the canned dummy data sets available to developers as well?
Google says unvaccinated employees will lose pay, eventually be fired
This isn't really true in the wider ecosystem. Yes, the app developer does, but the library developer does not. As Deno adopts newer versions of TypeScript and config options libraries can fail to compile. This is compounded by the lack of a package manager so that references to specific versions and CDNs are hardcoded into dependents.

All with essentially no benefit over running plain JS with associated typings.
That's great for people weaned on Java's false promise of a uniform type system. Then you find out you want the behavior of unsigned integer overflow and have to jump through contortions to get it. You can't set a single standard for the default that works universally.
As a sibling comment posited, its popular pretty much anywhere.

Do you have another example that is so stark and readily apparent? If you did I'm sure we could find people eager to explore it damn near anywhere. It doesn't really require a specialized interested in psychology to find a topic like that fascinating.
If you haven't had the chance to check it out, Unitarian Universalism [1] is pretty much what you describe -- community and support for figuring out life's big stuff, without being tied to a creed. It is perfectly acceptable to be an atheist UU member. If you are in the northeast US there are many congregations around here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
More "Find _something_ fast with vector search". I was not successful in finding anything relevant. PageRank works because it _ranks_ pages by, among other features, number and quality of visitors.

E.g. searching for Huxley quote gives me silly blog posts about saving money.

Query: "The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful."

Answer: "How to trick your brain into saving money"
What's particularly helpful in the case of WindowMaker (another NeXTSTEP environment, mentioned in TFA), is that the window manager itself can simply be restarted.

This is / was the case for several of the early-generation window managers, including twm, fvwm, and probably a few of the *Step window managers.

I suspect you might be able to pull this off with GNOME or KDE though I've not tried this in some time.

When restarting WindowMaker, the "naked" windows are briefly painted (without decorations) to the display, then decorations (frame, titlebar) reappear and windows resume their status (open/closed) and remain near their positions (the decoration toggle usually means they shift down and rightwards).
I think I understand your point and agree with the hype aspect, but statistically how can they be statistical outliers? On a broad annual basis they’ve beat everyone 10+ times in a row or whatever the number is. That’s far more than statistically significant. How can 1 fund beat 10,000s 10 times in a row and be just an “outlier” with no rhyme or reason to their performance? Please correct me if I’m misunderstanding.
Flavo(u)r Of The Month. The thing that's popular today and will be surpassed by something else soon.
> Sure, but semantic versioning really is the wrong kind of versioning to use for a language.

I don't agree. I usually don't care so much when a particular feature was introduced into a language (and if I do, it's usually a Wikipedia search away). I mostly care whether or not code written assuming version X can be compiled with version Y of the compiler. Semantic versioning can tell me the latter. Making versioning arbitrarily depend on what someone considers a "big" feature doesn't help me.
Same thing with the same problems. The difference being that Deno isn't going to have the same no-breaking-changes policy that the web does.
Not necessarily. Simple things that don't have much context to interact with and are well defined can become stable.

Many chips have been stable for decades without any serious modification with today's version being effectively identical to those of 25 years ago.

It's not defacto secure, but age is not a reliable indicator without more information
There's definitely a deficit. It's pretty hard to have shared beliefs unless they are the table stakes. It would be great to have an organization that provided community, charity etc but it's hard these days to get people to agree on anything. I've thought about starting a new church and calling it something like the Church of Jesus Christ, Storybook Character. Keep the life lessons, dump the strained interpretation as non-fiction. Not sure how it would work out in practice.
Did yabai ever fix native tabs totally breaking your window layout? I really want to use it, but not being able to use terminal or finder tabs with it is a tough sell.
A MITM can inject anything into the page including ads or scripts and is able to redirect you to anywhere on the internet.
So have adults in all organizations that mix adults and children. If you count public schools as a single organization, teachers are worse than priests.
You make a good argument. Anything that keeps the marketers away does seem like a pretty good feature.
If the father is practicing, it’s something like 80% of the kids will. What we are experiencing now might be a second order blip due to WW1&2 wiping out so many fathers.
it'll do that after a few more iterations.
"clean up the city" = further brutalize the poor and unhoused.
> It's also made me wonder if there's a way for humanity to pivot to more "horizontally" scaled science.

Today with F9 (and Starship not too far) yes. Launch costs are a fraction of what they were just a few years ago.

When Webb was planned? No way. Keep in mind that it's the same agency that gave us the SLS.
Sounds like the latest version of GoFundMe, playing to the Cryptocurrency and NFT trend to cover living and lawyer costs.
Playing fast FPS games under wayland/xwayland (and under Gnome/gnome-shell/mutter) is currently suboptimal. It's because gnome-shell will pass mouse moves only at the speed of your monitor refresh rate (see https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/12/08/an-eventful-ins... for the explanation)

I have a 240Hz monitor, so gnome-shell passes data to xwayland and then to applications at ~220Hz (as seen in the event-freq from https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/12/08/an-eventful-ins...)

So, my expensivish 1kHz (or even 8kHz mice - as these exist) will pass mouse movements with 4ms+ delay and only <240 times per second.

Under Xorg, the xinput proto will pass data at the ~usb polling speed. For my 2kHz mouse, the tool (event-freq) shows ~1700 events / second.

By the way, this ~220Hz is the speed at which gnome-shell passes data to clients (via XWayland or directly). The libinput accepts and passes data at correct 2kHz - and it's only gnome-shell aggregates it under wayland - this can be seen e.g. in the evhz tool (direct /dev/input access) vs event-freq tool (gnome-shell in wayland session, and xinput in xorg session).
my macos screensaver is generating art at 60fps then
I hold an MS in psych, specializing in intelligence (the study of), and the original message matches with what I know. What you're saying matches with what people with anti-science agendas hold (and with what people who've received low scores on IQ tests say). Go back to Reddit is my advice to you.
You’re correct, but in all honestly the devil is in the details. The difficulty here being in determine if a three-finger gesture has started or if it’s actually a three-finger gesture on its way into becoming a four-finger gesture - the sort of issue that plagues first input delay on mobile devices because it’s not clear if a tap is a “tap to scroll” or “tap going to become a pinch to zoom.”

The solution is simple but somewhat ugly, just like on Android and iOS: set a maximum time limit (up to 250ms) before going with the number of fingers detected.

Also, I’m not sure if macOS is distinguishing between tap and click? The online documentation says it’s with force click enabled.
That was truly a killer feature. Sadly I have 2 similar pairs and one I cannot change the audio quality on sadly, but wow it really works seamlessly to replace pulseaudio.
Some dude spends countless hours creating a neat little project and gives it away for free and the best response you can come up with is "I don't like how you named one of your thousands of files"?
Totally fair -- breadth of architecture support is definitely one of the biggest strengths of Ghidra! IDA does as well but purely for disassembly which isn't nearly as useful.

EDIT: But yeah, we designed our lifting to be as simple as possible. Specifically the way we handle flags tends to simplify much of the normal tedium around what's required for other decompilers. If you do decide to build a C167 module, give us a look again. :-)
It's extremely useful when you don't know exactly what keywords to search for.

You probably benefited from it several times already, but haven't realized, since it's subtle and works behind the scenes.
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It's a beast. Just looking at the graphs is good enough ;)

Additionally I found "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Johnathan Haidt illuminating too. Like, everyone isn't crazy, we just have different priorities and hashing them out is good. And that's not a door stop, it's a fun read.
> society is in a fragile equilibrium, and any change is dangerous and could be for the worse.

That's not what the GP said. He only said the consequences of societal change are unknowable. That doesn't mean we should never change society because we're afraid it will break. It means we should change society slowly, gradually, recognizing the limitations of our knowledge, instead of forming grandiose plans and trying to impose them top-down.

Women's rights is actually a good example of gradually changing society. Women didn't insist all at once on changing everything they thought was wrong. It took centuries for changes relating to women's rights to happen (and they're still happening). And even then we're still figuring out how to deal with unintended consequences of those changes. But I don't think any reasonable conservative would say we shouldn't have made those changes.

> society changes all the time from technology and market forces

Yes, that's quite true. And we're still figuring out how to deal with unintended consequences from those changes as well. And I would say that the changes that are the most problematic in these areas are the ones resulting from some one person's top-down intentions, rather than from bottom-up evolution based on the natural interactions of many people. For example, Facebook isn't a problem because of gradual social evolution; it's a problem because Mark Zuckerberg has grandiose visions about how social media and society should work.
Maybe they are just not Christian, but still pray in their religion. Maybe they are agnostic and still want to try to have a connection with the divine, but not within an organized religion complete with dogma.
Is a mid intersection merge illegal in California?

The drivers handbook only says that if you start into an intersection you need to finish crossing. Nothing about what lane.
Windows (and vs) version numbers are a pain in the ass though. Constantly need to check that the version you need to put in some config file actually corresponds to the version you really mean.
> I would imagine that a virus would eventually adapt/evolve to a point to where it co-exists harmoniously with the host organism.

Well, how much of our own actual DNA is nothing but virus DNA that got stuck in there for nigh eternity?

Answer: 8%.[0]

[0] https://www.cshl.edu/the-non-human-living-inside-of-you/
From my experience, the US is unique among developed countries in how effectively religion has been weaponized and has permeated its way into politics. Combine that with the electoral college system and we have minority rule by declining but increasingly radical evangelicals [1]. This Faustian bargain with Trump largely explains his election victory in 2016 and his near-victory in 2020.

I've never seen anything like this elsewhere. Obviously there are religious troubles elsewhere eg the Republicans (Catholics) against the Unionists (Protestants) in Northern Ireland.

I grew up in Australia and we just don't have this radicalism. Abortion isn't a defining hot-button issue. The issue of gay marriage was settled by a popular vote and then largely considered settled and most people just moved on.

I, personally, don't really care what anyone's religion is. That's your choice. But where I draw the line is when that minority tries to enforce their religious view into law. SCOTUS's unwillingness to act against Texas's SB8 bill (where normally they'd stay it pending full review, particularly when it so flagrantly violated 50 years of established constitutional precedent) is shocking and deeply disturbing.

So where I otherwise wouldn't care, I'm pleased to see the decline in this article of evangelicals in particular.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2021/05/evangel...
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> And in my generation, people send their kids to Catholic school because the uniforms are cute.

And because they are allowed to kick trouble makers. That's the main feature.
Only 3 years away from Sanctuary Districts:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District
The Socialism and Capitalism dichotomy has nothing to do with markets or planners. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. Capitalism is when there is an owner class that owns the means of production and extracts profit from the workers' labor.

Socialism can be enacted with markets or it can be enacted with central planners. Capitalism can be enacted with markets or it can be enacted with central planners.

The point I'm making is that the mechanisms by which an economy chooses what to produce are distinct by the mechanisms which determine who is in control of those choices are distinct from who the proceeds from the production accrues to.
Of course he will. He wants re-election. But he's a rat like the rest of them.
> Are you expecting to be able to literally summon a visual hallucination of these objects?

It's not a hallucination because that would imply it interferes with your eye vision. It's like a third eye, independent of the other two, so it doesn't interfere.
The descriptions in the article are very handwavy (especially on the X side) and they blame X for things it doesn't do yet while at the same praises Wayland for things... it doesn't do yet either (HDR).

However the measurements at least are good (interestingly i was actually planning to do the exact same thing at some point using pretty much the same approach) and basically show what most people expect: X without a compositor (or with the compositor being disabled for fullscreen gaming, though note that not everyone may want to play games in fullscreen - e.g. i often play games in a window myself) and vsync disabled provides the best responsiveness.

Also one thing that should be made very clear is that these are about KWin/X11 and KWin/Wayland, not X11 and Wayland in general. For example last time i checked XFWM allows disabling vsync in the compositor, which would certainly affect the results here. Also it isn't made clear (and actually i don't know myself) if KWin disabled the compositor for fullscreen Wayland applications or not: i'd guess it doesn't because under X in my laptop where i use KDE i had to explicitly disable it even for fullscreen games (there is a shortcut key for that), so i'd expect the same behavior in Wayland too.
It can very well be that the sensation of "hearing" includes the placebo effect - spending insane amounts of money on an audio system that you perceive to be superior will make you believe the sound quality is better.

Of course, the answer here is proper education as opposed to selling overpriced snake oil.
I’m interested in what the future of 24/7 drone surveillance looks like in the U.S.

Many countries are using this technology, which lets them rewind, and then fast-forward (and rewind, and so on) to catch and understand criminal networks, but eventually it will be used by divorced couples to find out where the other person was.
> The debate isn’t about whether you have the right to unilaterally tear down a fence, it’s about whether it’s a good idea for the fence to be removed.

And the point is that no individual person can figure out, just by using their own reason, whether it's a good idea for the fence to be removed. The only way to know that is for the long-winded social process of people interacting with each other to either eventually convince them that the fence should be removed, or not.
"It's the only way to keep those "people" off the streets."
– San Francisco resident, 2024 ("Past Tense, Part I")
Looks very good, thanks for sharing!

How does your course relate to the vector search approach discussed here? https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
Putting up more cctv cameras is not remotely in the realm of science fiction. It's present-level tech more widely deployed. Privacy advocates won't like it, but that doesn't make it anything like precrime.
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I made a little toy project to try the explanation capabilities of Codex. It is a website to explain complex regex.

https://www.regexplainer.fr/

It is already half of the time accurate but if I could fine tune codex it could yield really impressive results.
This is incredible, nice work!
Object Oriented Programming is bad
For me, it’s very specific. I can visualize a generic elephant, a generic apple or other generic or static object. However, I could never visualize a person’s face for more than a split second. I can describe the person’s features, but never maintain an image of a person’s face for any length of time. If I think of their picture, I can imagine that picture. I’m not sure how else to describe it. It’s kind of weird, but I never really think about it.
Seems like maybe you misread something. I didn't suggest it was recent...I put the date in the post.
As expected, all of the comments here are very critical of this without proposing something new. What are some alternate proposals to solve these problems?
Arguably covid is already less deadly, the majority of deaths are concentrated in older populations. Generally the disease isn't as impactful to those under 50, meaning its not interfering with your ability to have children or raise children.

Age and Date Data:
[https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...]
"almost all the projects of social reformers of these days are really liberticide"

Utter nonsense, we've had escalating financial de-regulation since 1970's, we removed Usury laws, Interest Rate Ceilings, Repealed Glass-Steagall, etc.

Maybe if we didn't, house prices would still be suborbital.

https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/dereg-timeline-2...