skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The submitted divulgative article did not quite clarify what the AI is doing - it seems like weather forecasting on crime related events, but I expected more content about "how" and "how well"; for example, you do not need AI to determine "how much", and it takes some cleverness to instead predict "when", which is one of the interesting points you want explicit.

So I found another divulgative article at Phys.org : https://phys.org/news/2022-06-algorithm-crime-week-advance-r...

and a news piece / press release at UChicago.edu : https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/algorithm-predi...

and finally, the original research article, at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01372-0

I am unfortunately lacking the time now to examine the material (hopefully I will later). For now, it seems clear that the effort is not really about crime prediction but to show that some methodology can produce unbalanced police planning:

> We introduce a stochastic inference algorithm that forecasts crime by learning spatio-temporal dependencies from event reports, with a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of ~90% in Chicago for crimes predicted per week within ~1,000 ft. Such predictions enable us to study perturbations of crime patterns that suggest that the response to increased crime is biased by neighbourhood socio-economic status, draining policy resources from socio-economically disadvantaged areas, as demonstrated in eight major US cities
I buy the frozen ginger and garlic cubes TJs has and that’s been a revelation. Fresh taste, no prep, only slight modifications to use. The snobs can go rub stainless steel with their garlic scented hands!
Do you know who has it even worse? Spotify

Because of course this band from "part of the world" has the same name as "other band from a different part of the world" or even from the same country and they have nothing to do with each other (because why google before naming your band - but I digress)
> There's a danger, while steelmanning, that you might come up with an argument that sounds good to you, but it's actually weaker to the opposition. Therefore, while trying to steelman their argument, you actually fill it with holes.

That's why normal practice is to check: "So I hear you saying something like this: <steelman argument>. Is that right?"

> To truly do it, you have to embed yourself not just in their rational thought but also in their worldview.

Indeed; the best word I have for being truly persuasive is "incarnational": You have to enter into the situation of the person you want to convince, and see the way out of the cave they're in from where they are now.

> And I really mean the part about it being dangerous. In all honesty, we aren't the purely rational creatures we think we are. Honestly steelmanning an argument changes you. And maybe that's for the better in some situations, but I certainly wouldn't take that for granted.

I dunno; I have more faith in the power of truth. You certainly need to be careful that you're not taking information only from one source; if you only listened to Goebel's propaganda for 2 years you'd certainly start to have Nazi patterns of thought infect your thinking. But if you want to rescue someone who has only heard Goebel's propaganda for the last several years, you have to learn how to recognize the flaws in thinking from within it.
No it's really not. Texas's energy grid is entirely independent and they produce a large percentage of the country's oil and gas.

Also California has it's own specific blend of gasoline and that hasn't been adopted nationwide at all. It's only used in California.

Texas produces around five times as much wind energy as California, and for half the price of California's wind energy.

Unless you can identify a certain thing in California that caused Texas to increase it's wind power I think your argument is pretty vacuous.
Go deep into any topic that excites or interests you, and you will find the worst of people's behaviors on display. Very often there will be a vocal, toxic minority whose opinions sit firmly in the realm of gatekeeping and polarization, and a silent majority will stay silent as it's simpler to avoid confrontation, or not think about the implications of such. Author's unfortunate disability made them realize this, though you can see this pretty much everywhere.

At the same time, a lot of people put too much stock (ha...) in what other people think is right and 'proper'. It's entirely possible to love cooking and use prepared ingredients, do what works for you. It's entirely possible to enjoy pineapple on a pizza, and a well done steak, with a cocktail, eat what you like and for yourself, don't eat for others.
Networking and software introduce a new systemic risk.

Instead of Cloudflare is down, AWS is down, we can start having Uber is down this morning or "Taxi fleet suddenly switched into left-hand traffic mode for five minutes".
Linus is guilty of clickbaiting, but I have yet to see anyone accuse him of anything apart from impartial fairness in his reviewing.
They will probably outsource this to GPT-3 as soon as they are able to
If you are worried about people's tone and approach, go over to 4chan for a bit then come back here. It should toughen you up.
From TFA:

> Chattopadhyay concedes that the data used by his model will also be biased, but says that efforts have been taken to reduce the effect of bias and the AI doesn’t identify suspects, only potential sites of crime. “It’s not Minority Report” he says
I don't think anyone would seriously claim that the existing 8-bit architectures represent any optimal design point (AVR definitely does not). A constant cycle of innovation is what characterize all technology progress.
Yep, that is why Halon is used in data centers. It stops the combustion reaction at relatively low concentrations and it is a gas so it does not damage electronics. However, breathing it in is not really recommended.

I am surprised at your last line, if there was not a fire, why did some hardware not survive?
Spammers contribute to user & engagement numbers and might even drive real engagement behind themselves as (angry) real users respond to them.
Agreed, I was illustrating what Python programming looks like to me. Having experience in embedded C, I see Python as a templating language at best, and it's obviously not something you'd use for critical systems. Every time I use Python I end up rewriting libraries in C.
What would defend you from an npm install script adding a few lines to your bashrc file and starting a keylogger on each start with full network access? When would you realize it happening? What about a malicious build script (have you ever run anything from Arch’s AUR?), a PDF reader with a buffer overflow error exploited by a random PDF file you wanted to read or the like?

EDIT:

But this whole thing means that a normal CLI app also gets to read everything on your screen! It is not only desktop-to-desktop protection, X has no protection whatsoever.
Hi all,

I made a quick landing page for a project idea that I had and I'm hoping some people can share their first impressions.

Hopefully the site and project should be self explanatory (let me know if you have questions! - I'm still learning the art of marketing) but I've got a home made photo album system that I've been using to organise my family photos, and I've found it to be a great way to store and thread together some stories. It's also a great way to share stories with the rest of my family too.

So I thought this might be good for others as well, this I'm putting this landing page out there to share a bit of the idea, my story, why I'm doing this and gather if other people might be interested. At the moment it's a shonky Django site, but if a few people are into it I can clean it up and make it more reliable for others.

Let me know if the landing page needs work!

Thanks,
Dre.
Bluetooth is designed for devices backing off in response to congestion for scalability, not devices trying to shout louder than other devices.
I'm assuming they're easy to detect yet I'm super confident about the patterns I'm seeing that I'd bet money that it can be implemented.

False positives should ideally be zero yet algorithms don't have to ban right away.

If there's a relatively small team of people reviewing those spams manuallu after the algorithms flag, I don't see any problems with the approach.

I of course get there are many different corner cases, Unicode characters that look like other letters etc. to bypass the filters yet they're also very easy to implement a filter that would probably detect many spams right away even with many of the corner cases. But again, a human team would still review these tweets anyway giving no room for false positives.
Absolutely. I am not installing VSCode on production VMs, the step I described is purely for setting up a portable developer environment. Then instead of telling other developers to install a laundry list of tools I can just give them a copy of my VM. Throw in something like Vagrant and it's easy to share a standard work environment. Then to roll things into production it's another game.
Especially considering that it is being independently developed by three organisations as an open source protocol that offers complete self-hosting and doesn't require an intermediary during operation...
There are oh-so-many, but the one you think of might be Olof's SERV (https://github.com/olofk/serv)
It could be even constant except for day 0.
value = 0 for day 0, value=1 for all other days.
The majority of nutritional science seems full of bullshit to be honest. I remember how we laughed at the Atkins diet when it first appeared as well all knew so well that the science told us fat was bad. Now Keto diet seems to be gaining a lot of acceptance, and refined sugar is the real enemy. Refined sugar being bad for you seems to be one of the few things that is agreed on. Will that change in another 20 years?
This is so funny, as - after 30+ years in US IT -, while working in a French office, one of my partners keeps asking me to press dièse [djɛz] on the keyboard, and I keep staring at him...
They can't spend it for arbitrary purposes. It must be spent on campaigning for election.
Love the idea, but color scale would be so much better. This is so difficult to use.
It's a well-known thing in AV circles that some companies were actually faking their route by hardcoding them for demos etc.
Also one shortcut is to use HD map data, and relying on 100k+ LIDAR sensor data that will never will be cost-effective.
I know of only a handful of companies that rely on 'cheap' sensor data (cameras/radar) and use real-time calculations.
Yes, it wont interface directly with all the ECL circuits you keep in the basement.
Nope, clipped or glued ferrite, you used to also get them on power cables for certain devices
Just because that’s the current market strategy doesn’t mean governments won’t hire those companies on contracts to run buses. It would be a lot cheaper than paying human drivers most likely, but even more than that it’s probably easier to build and maintain a bus and dedicated tunnel/lane than it is to build and maintain a railroad track.
It isn't. Not to mention that 80% of the soybeans are used to feed livestock anyway[0]. This is a bullshit argument, as most tend to be when it comes to this topic.

[0] https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/susta...
The failure of the free software movement of totally removing closed-source software has resulted in the creation of GitHub and the 'open-source' crowd with the tech bros happily running along with that despite not learning anything about what happened to Sourceforge.

The only one that learned very quickly to take advantage of this was Microsoft that is buying the open-source ecosystem and offering the best tools for free. It's not only a clever pricing scam, but a form of EEE; that suffocates the likes of JetBrains which they have to increase prices themselves.

It is not early days anymore and this time GitHub is part of Microsoft and it tells us that it will be around for a long time. The tech bros cheering on GitHub and Microsoft will soon realise that neither of them are their friends and Microsoft is still at its Embrace, Extend and Extinguish ways.
I don't disagree that american policing practices are horrible and a significant number of racist police officers will cause the data to be skewed and that would cause AI trained on that data to be skewed aswell.

What I am rejecting is that the underlying "true" data wouldn't show differences between different races. Again, tax fraud is likely commited to a much higher degree and in much higher numbers by white people (especially investment bankers). An AI wouldn't be racist to predict a higher likelyhood of a white man commiting it than a black woman. But somehow predicting a higher likelyhood of violent crime by a black male (especially if they receive wellfare) is racist because it must be so, even if the underlying data shows this to be correct.

My argument is simple, if your statistics contains racial data, either directly or transitively, than you will find statistical differences between them. It becomes a racism issue if the polices based on that data are racist, i.e. harsher sentences for the same crime etc.
I can't find your quote in the article. Instead I find

> pass round the cards allowing the audience to cut the deck, thus not altering the cyclic order.

which makes sense. Cutting is fine, shuffling is not.
The politicians have no access to the PAC campaign donations other than directing them to spend it for the purposes of the campaign. A politician can't use their PAC to buy themselves a house or a fancy car.
Cheaper than $1? https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater
>What is vegan cheese? Could be anything. It's not very descriptive.

If you google "<name of most commercial chicken burger patties> ingredients", you'll see that chicken meat can be less than 60%.
I think this comes from, if you get natural respect from people or not.
Garlic in a jar is the React of cooking.
The court isn't very far right. They're middle of the road if anything. Lest we forget, they upheld obamacare and shot down Trump's border walls.
But it's not great if now we've moved denial of service attacks into our real-world transportation infrastructure. It's not too different from truckers in Ottawa blocking all the streets and causing chaos. If this can happen by accident, it seems likely that a future version could result from being hacked.
But then you are just claiming inconsistent things. Also, screen sharing is indeed a different problem as that often mandates sound recording/transmission as well which is very much not in scope for a display manager.

(That’s where we can see how a cathedral model could fare better). I think having a simple screen shot api in wayland is a good idea, while letting pipewire properly solve video (and optionally audio) channeling a good technical solution.
This makes sense to me. Surface layer partly evaporates, it immediately cools down remaining surface layer and then convection spreads it around. It would enable quick "forced" cooling similar to AC and due to convection, it can continue for a long time as warm water and cold water rotate.

Quite counter intuitive. You would expect to have water cooling slow down when it reaches temperature of colder water.
If you change your license to exclude this particular use, it's no longer Open Source (no restrictions on how it's used).

If you change your license to forbid removing the license, then there's a good chance that it doesn't hold any legal power. Reason being that machine processing is allowed by copyright laws.
But launching rockets isn't rocket science. You build giant steel tube, fill it with some explosives and liquid oxygen, ignite it and, kaboom! you go to space. That's the theory behind it. Now, to put that into actual practice is whole different thing.

The same with CRUD. CRUD is simple, but to do CRUD on ~Facebook~ Meta scale, that's a different thing.
I've worked on dozens of embedded projects that don't need string manipulation. Or just outputting some log string through a serial port, which is removed in release.

Why do you think you'll need to process input strings?

> just a bit complicated

Like what? Most embedded projects don't use concurrency, or even dynamic allocations. Not every projects is a hackable bluetooth/wifi stack, that you need Rust otherwise [insert favourite exploit FUD here]. It can be as simple as a toothbrush with two buttons and a motor.
Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good.

A lot of embedded devices and white goods are profitable to build and sell in the economies of scale, because they can reuse an old microcontroller design like the AVR, which is not the pinnacle anymore, but that's been proven over decades to be robust and reliable for specific use cases.

Technology progress is happening regardless, but not all products benefit from switching to the new shiny. Especially legacy boring products.

Some AVR perks like 5V tolerant I/O, and pins able to sink high currents, is something rarely found on newer more modern ARM or RISC-V chips which tend to be more "fragile" in some regards. So this is why sich older chips could still be advantageous.
> "We're going to make PSC less onerous and stressful by only doing it once a year!"

There's something interesting going on here. I agree that people will probably perceive annual PSC as less stressful than semiannual PSC. But even there, some people might not.

And there is a point where more frequent is very clearly less stressful. If you did PSC once a week, it wouldn't be cause for stress, it would just be something you did every week.
Maybe its time to have versions of various open source licenses that expressly prohibit such use. GPLv4?
The Conservancy post/site mention SourceHut (thats in the US though):

https://sourcehut.org/
It wouldn't surprise me if, within 15 years, the pendulum goes the other way and anonymity is prized again, with the former "influencers" deeply regretting their public exposure. I was briefly (barely) famous in the tech world and it sucked.

There are a lot of evil governments in the world, and nearly all private companies are functionally evil. You don't want them knowing who you are. That information will only be used against you. The government is not always your friend and your employer almost never is.

It seems to be rooted fairly deep in us to believe that if we just told our stories and had our true selves known to the world--if our reputations portrayed us fully and fairly--we would be not only accepted but embraced by the world. This isn't the case, and it's not for a lack of personal value, but because the human world is not always a benevolent place. It's full of conflict, and it has a lot of terrible people in high places.

As I get older, I'm increasingly convinced that, while I have no patience whatsoever for the intolerant, self-righteous, and right-wing strains of US Christianity, we do need something like religion, at least enough of it to convince people and society (a) that cultural integrity is important and worth fighting for, and (b) that playing a decent role within one's culture, rather than trying to dominate or "influence" it as much as possible, is enough. Sadly, the most effective strategy for preserving a culture seems to be convince people that terrible supernatural consequences will occur if the culture is violated--the most dangerous individuals won't necessarily believe in these consequences, but their potential followers will, and so one could (in theory, anyway) proactively deprive these would-be warlords and CEOs of the supporters they would need in order to seize power. Worse yet, it seems in practice that this doesn't help, because nothing prevents horrible people from using religion to their benefit (in fact, it is historically very common). So... I don't know. All I know is that mukbang is fucking disgusting and anyone who watches it should feel bad about themselves.
Why do you think you know enough on the topic to have such strong claims? Wouldn’t giving the benefit of the doubt to the developers behind Wayland (who came from X by the way) be the sane thing to do?
Just because you're forced into extra "make work" activities to get the label, doesn't make it any less of a fraud.
GitLab imports issues and pull requests, with some caveats: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html#p....
> profiling people based on what they are.

The London police do race quotas in stop and search. So for every X they stop they need to step some proportional k*Y too.

No matter how you do it you will end up stopping people in "bad" neighbourhoods more. So if that is considered a problem you need to give up patrolling or do unnessecary stopping in other places to weigh up due to racial composition in the worse of neighbourhoods.
If we're talking about Rust and Risc-V specifically, there are pretty straightforward reasons for why people like them so much.

Rust: native code with very strong safety guarantees and no garbage collection. I have yet to see another language fit that niche.

Risc-V: fully open source processor design, along with a reference implementation and tooling. As far as I know, hardware does not have a history of being free and open.

HN is hacker news after all. People like to tinker. Just because something is tried-and-true doesn't mean it can't be improved on or be re-built for practice.
It sounds like you're assuming that Google sticks to a single approach and doesn't waver from it, despite spam still being present. They wouldn't do it like that, though, would they?
Actually, intervention is also not the best metric. The best metric is driverless miles. Removing the driver is the true test of autonomy.
I buy ginger in a squeezy tube that I keep in the fridge. And I use real garlic. And I have bags of frozen herbs in the freezer. But often I use fresh ones.

As I think we all agree here - it's about what works for you. Not just in general, but on that day.
You have the option to settle down to a decentralized system. Imagine the US still on a gold standard. If you lose trust in USD because of changes in the government (election of obviously corrupt or incompetent officials), you can settle out of the US Dollar to gold, which is apolitical and allows you to be self-sovereign.

The breaking of the gold standard has allowed the US government to extend its monetary base significantly, which is a price future generations (read: our generations) will be footing the bill for.

I'm a bitcoin maximalist, but I don't mind if all existing banks were to build a second layer that scales vastly, so long as I'm allowed to settle my bitcoin in their ecosystem with bitcoin on chain.
Good question, the flow is like this:

1. Clients trigger HTTP function endpoints (add a player, do an attack).

2. Centralized state is being updated (based on Durable Entities).

3. The Azure Functions publish messages to the realtime channel (via a REST based client).

4. Clients are subscribed to the realtime channel (using a WebSocket based connection) and respond to the messages (update player health etc).

So clients are only subscribing to messages that the Azure Functions are publishing.
Ask HN: Why are no flights taking off from Munich?
The Munich airport is down, and every minute there is an announcement that the whole IT system is down.

EDIT: So the total downtime was ~1h, from 10:45 to 11:45. No idea what the cause was, but I heard the crew saying Amadeus was down.
Thanks, that's about what I suspected right after posting ('something like log-function'). But does it have to be?

The more I think about it, there's quite a wide range of data sets I can create from my initial rule. The daily increase is not limited, so it should be possible to create almost every kind of graph, as long as it increases. Truely a noob question I came up with, if I don't overlook something again...