skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a similar case of ShotSpotter faking shots for the cops in my city. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/17/s...

> On April 1, 2016, the ShotSpotter sensors picked up several audio bursts from a northwest Rochester neighborhood. Unable through its algorithms to detect a specific location, the system did not alert 911 or police. The system also thought the sounds to be the whirring blades of a helicopter, and not gunfire.

> Police notified ShotSpotter of the shooting, and the company revisited the audio from the scene. The analysts at first thought there were three shots, then changed to number to four, then five. Analysts found the fifth shot after a prosecution request to review the audio again, prosecutors say.

Never any evidence he fired a shot. They needed the fifth shot “found” because the cop shot four times, so magically it was!

Reuters did a more detailed expose later: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...
There is very little simple about running an RSS aggregator, especially at scale.
The US outsources a lot of its polution.
Could you please provide evidence for your claims?
Google Password Manager
Although this is true I find these online notebooks awfully slow
I don't understand, how does that invalidate my response to that person's comment about GC's?
> "Wait, are we still allowed to say "dum"? Is this even visible?"

Nope. You've been moved here to the "shadow ban" forum with the rest of the "cool kids".
> I wonder why people even tolerate MS's behavior

Well, what are users supposed to do? Switch to macOS?! Switch to Linux?! Yeah, like that works for the majority of desktop users that need to get their work done.
It's encrypted with a password, but yeah. I spent a bit of time looking if I could load it into a Yubikey. I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I only have a U2F Yubikey at the moment, not a "full" one.
and I won't be able to write a letter to my friend Dick about his ass breeding, or the tennis balls he left at my house.
A lot of people who run ponzi schemes give up on actually investing after a while. See Madoff and others.
They are basically just a creditor which retailers use for payment. So while you can absolutely pay immediately, they offer pay later and credit type options. Its different sepending on the store.
Zuckerberg says words to excite investors
> If the code you randomly pulled down from GitHub puts your computer on fire, you're the only one responsible for that happening.

That's what's the license says, but your local laws and regulations might disagree, and your license does not overrule the law.

Distributing malware is illegal and malware is defined differently in different countries. If you intend to upload sketchy code, make sure you've read up on what constitutes as cybercrime where you live because one of your victims may go to the police.

To make a flawed comparison: setting up a stand with cookies that happen to be poisoned next to a sign that reads "cookies free to be eaten at your own risk" don't necessarily let you go free when someone ends up in a hospital.

Now, as a counter argument, your average commercial OS is packed full of what would've constituted spyware twenty years ago, so you're probably free to package some types of malware. I don't know if what the colors.js guy did was illegal (at least he reminded people oftthe dangers of npm, which everyone then proceeded to forget) but I think he got away without a lawsuit. I doubt he'd gotten away would he have lived where I live, though.
I don’t see how that could possibly be true in western russia. Eastern Russia, sure. They’re poor and under the government boot for the memorable past. But western Russia? Like Moscow? There’s no way people still feel like that.
Some people would say thank you for taking the time to explain. Others seem to belittle long answers. Which message do you want to convey? Something else? Do you want me to try again to distill it in a way that you can understand? If so, what effort have you put in to meet me halfway?

Look I'm being direct with you, but I'm not upset or attacking you. I'm just seeing the standard patterns of online discussion, and I'm pushing back. We can do better.

There's too much passive aggression wrapped in seemingly logical arguments. But one level deeper it is really clear what is bothering people. I think people don't feel heard. They want to convince people but somehow fall back into sharp criticism which just repels people.
I think the context of Clojure as a project and a community needs to be taken into account when reading Hickey's "you are not entitled to anything" piece.

Clojure as a community is _VERY_ welcoming, it has a healthy level of discussion, a wide variety of users, and many innovative projects. I was surprised when I first read that gist in 2018, but I've come to believe it's a reaction to some people who perhaps had made demands or public/private gripes about Clojure in a way that rubbed Hickey the wrong way.

He perhaps could have communicated his sentiments differently. It seems a bit "scorched earth" to me. Admittedly, he doesn't say exactly who/what he's reacting to, so maybe it's justified.

But IMHO, for every raging a-hole who need to be told to slow their roll, there are probably a few earnest, well-meaning folks who will think twice about reaching out and contributing with valuable ideas, for fear of crossing the "you-are-not-entitled-to-anything" line.
I've been paid to be a software engineer for 15 years, and played with computers for years before that, basically from the day my parents brought one home when I was a kid. Everything I've ever learned has come from failing. Really, everything everyone has ever learned came from failing. Don't feel bad when you're struggling, just remember that on the other end of it is something new to learn.

Loving a theme is absolutely enough to do it as a job, but you may have to work at it - and that's ok, great even! Just remember that your colleagues were new once, too, and someone probably said negative things about their work as well. Sure this comes easier to some than others, but that doesn't mean that only those people should be allowed to do it. Some days are productive, some aren't. Just try to make your average score more towards productive, and you'll be alright.

Tomorrow is a new day. Get some rest, take a breath, and get back at it.
Seems like a way for rich to avoid inheritance tax.
Something not discussed is the why. Why would we want more or less people. The less people, the less pollution. The more people, the more ???.

One way we have been able to have this many people, are modern farm practices. But those rely heavily on chemicals. Which is not ideal(dead ecosystems, poisoned water). Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
Upvoted because I make this argument too, but I think it’s better applied to the kind of person who says “words are just words, man” than free speech absolutists.

Though, to one who believes that swear words have power but shouldn’t be censored: is that just in a legal sense or in a societal sense?
Hard to say.

Part of the appeal of advertising in Cosmpolitan or the New York Times is that the readers have qualified themselves by paying for a subscription.

Netflix is playing a dangerous game by letting people pay to turn on ads because the kind of person who values their attention so little to save a few dollars isn’t going to buy anything. The really desirable people to advertise to are the ones who have more money to spend.

My guess is that a person who subscribes to the entry level of a product is more likely to be upsold to something else than a free user is going to even think about paying. (e.g. try watching TV during the daytime and it is depressing to see ads for prescription drugs and Medicare scams and personal injury lawyers, the one thing you might rarely see that people spend their own money on is car dealerships and I guess they need those because I’d nobody bought a car you could never get hit by a car and call William Mattar.)
Another comment mentioned they had a spreadsheet. That would qualify as a centralised coin.
I think there may be many a use case where the data being operated on cannot be shared with third parties.
I think that's fair approach to something you don't care too much about, like your clothes for example. Sounds like he just wanted to look presentable.
I think it only becomes a problem if it's a pattern that you apply to multiple things in your life.
> If there were free lunches plants would have evolved them.

Well, chlorophyll evolved for survival, not to maximize yields for human agriculture. In the wild, plant growth is bottlenecked on the availability of water and nutrients, and they tend to get way more sunlight than they can use. This is shown by the fact that chlorophyll is green, so plants are actively reflecting away most of the energy from the sun (where green is the dominant wavelength). If wild plants benefited from absorbing all available sunlight, they would be black (or, given the specific chemistries involved, probably a deep purple). In artificial conditions, perhaps one could do better.

Which isn't to say that artificial starch poduction isn't still the way to go, but even in the grim darkness of the future where we're all eating starch capsules for every meal, people will still want a tomato once in a while.
Yes they do, but maybe not on YouTube, since that's for older people. TikTok, Instagram, twitch, etc all target niche groups all have gamer like thinking but with less autism

Food screeds though are very different depending on gender.
I've watched my husband be able to watch a streamer dissect "Mr beast" chocolate for 90 mins.

I just watch Instagram reviews, and they can get pretty mean spirited.
>Except for the long list of issues that WC proponents pretend doesn't exist: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728

This is the sad reality for web components. You end up needing so many libraries to do basic things that a framework would handle, that your project just becomes a defacto custom framework.
People are obsessed with real estate prices going up because low interest rates result in full employment which means more people can afford to pay more for a house. The strange part is the argument that raising interest rates is going to somehow make housing more affordable. It doesn't solve the underlying problem of a lack of housing near job centres. An interest rate hike means less employment and that is ultimately what drives house prices down. It doesn't make housing more affordable, there isn't enough housing to begin with and now there won't be any jobs.

If you want to lower home prices you are going to need to stop land speculation and so far public land ownership has been the only way to do that e.g. in Singapore. The alternative is a land value tax.

This orthogonal problem needs orthogonal solutions. Money is about employment and trade, not about housing. Housing is a land allocation problem e.g. zoning.
The APC higher end "Smart-UPS" models might still be good, I've used them for a couple of decades without these sorts of problems, current 750 kVA one bought in 2017, just had to replace the battery at its prompting only a month ago or so (that's normal).

I can also attest their consumer level including the "Back-UPS" models are subpar. Had one bought by a parent arc inside when I was trying to diagnose what was wrong with it.
Second this. I've been self-hosting Miniflux for years and love it. It's dead simple to run (a single executable daemon or docker container that you can run behind a reverse proxy) and it sounds like exactly what the author of this article is looking for--no frills RSS reader with a very minimalist interface.
Average is great when you really care about the total, and want the total expressed per thing. For example, if you make 100 investments, the average return is just a way of talking about the total return on all your investments, expressed per investment.

For other uses, it can be very misleading.
> It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

This is an argument for the intentional creation of bad software.
This hit home for me. The current servant leader on my product team feels their job is only to foster discussion in hopes the right thing will magically happen. Unfortunately none of the team is stepping up to drive the outcome, so tasks will just sit and linger. I’ve tried to suggest goal-setting for the team but she’s unwilling to do so unless it came directly from the team, which again won’t happen because they’re not mature enough to take the initiative. It’s frustrating to watch.
That case was mentioned in the original Vice article and was a big part of the complaint.
They're a business. I would presume they weren't able to make enough, or perhaps any, profit off of it.
> for the foods you want to eat less of: don't buy them.

I have no willpower. Any semblance of self control is due to not buying junk in the first place.

+1 for Pollan
> You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

I wish I understood this earlier in my life.
These look really nice hardware. I wonder if there's any chance of coreboot on them...
I think of the awful battles over configuration languages and systems like YAML, TOML, and the Spring Framework. People eventually get the idea this is the road to ruin so they think “let’s write configuration as code” which is the highway to hell.
Here's a similar list for failed NCUA-insured credit unions:

https://www.ncua.gov/support-services/conservatorships-liqui...
I wonder what the max transactions per second rate is in a shared Excel doc. More than 7/s?
I think my microbiome decides that. I'm following my cravings (all but sugar) for 2-3 years now and it's going great.

When grocery shopping, I get those "oooh, I NEED that" urges when looking at certain veggies, fruit, meats, dairy products, breads/rice/groats and even spices. It's all changing over time but mostly with seasons.

In addition, I eat fermented stuff daily and supplement different probiotics: Saccharomyces boulardii in the morning, Lactobacillus helveticus, Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Bifidobacterium longum in the evening. Fermented stuff is a craving but supplements are researched. I also have ADHD.

I'm on 17:7 intermittent fasting with addition of ~41h fast every couple of weeks.
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I've been a non-paying Feedly user since Google Reader shut down. I think their nagging is tolerable. I currently see no point in an upgrade as I don't miss any feature.

I've also been a long-time user of Pocket. I would really like them to add feed functionality to their service. It would make it very easy to find new things to read while also having a list of things to read later. That would be a very good value proposition in my opinion, and a reason to pay them.
So far this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, and these words are much more universally taboo in every culture. It makes me nervous even just to type them in as an experiment and the words are so shocking to me that it's very possible I have never spoken or typed them out. But they are not censored.

It also only blocks one misogynistic slur (the slur that is in Scunthorpe, but not say the slur that looks most like 'slur') that I've tried.

That's quite a skewed definition of "bad" language.
They ruled that the constitution does not confer the right to an abortion. That’s it.

The constitution does not confer the right to clean water and yet, it’s not unconstitutional for the federal government to make laws regarding clean water standards.
I believe you are oversimplifying the issues.

>Said that, if you can’t find workers, you are not paying the market clearing salary. Maybe now you have to offer 4K€ for 4 days of work.

Yes, and 5K€ would be even better, too bad that on the other side (the firm income) prices are de facto capped, so it is not possible to pay more the workers, margins in this field are really thin.

And 3K€/month net is already a rather high salary in Italy.

>Proposing that the state pays for these licences is not that insane, it may address a market failure. Many countries, Italy included, have similar programs to help the unemployed find a job.

Cannot say how much they are effective in other countries, but I can tell you that in Italy these programs in practice rarely succeed in making even a dent in unemployment numbers, for a number of reasons.
Maybe it's piß
The first edition of this book was a game changer. I still have my hardcopy paperback but haven’t turned to it in years. It’s probably largely out of date but I look at it fondly. Glad to see the material updated with new APIs and Python 3.10. The open access is very nice because it can easily be used for teaching and reference.

I would like to see some of Wes’ cautionary tales included into the book. Pandas feels so magical at times that you can uses it to solve anything. That can create problems. Ideas like this should be some appendix to the book.

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/

Lots of tools in the data space. It feels like choosing JS web front ends. I use pandas quite a lot but less frequently, as my data has gotten larger I turn to spark more. I’m also impressed by the work DuckDB is doing.
Some words have specifically pejorative or derogatory meanings, and if general swears are considered acceptable I'm afraid there are people who will exploit that for genuinely offensive purposes.
I quit Android Development after 10 years and what I plan to do now
My suggestion is to install Cloudready[0] on it. It's secure and less likely your daughter will install something malicious on it. Also this OS is mainly for the Chromium browser and you can still do coding / logic / creating stuff on it using online services. You can turn any laptop into a Chromebook with this and it's a no brainer for kids. Just make sure you update Chromium as much as possible.

[0] https://www.neverware.com/freedownload
Web 3.0 is not crypto – it's machine generated content
Web 1.0 - platform owner generated content

Web 2.0 - user generated content

Web 3.0 - machine generated content; increasingly hard to to tell apart

Thoughts?
Can we just flip "money" into "debt" altogether already? It's not like most people have any money to begin with and now they want to make it even harder to ever have anything.

Boris is doing this so he can delay the collapse of the economy btw.
> Edit: I pay £10/month for Adobe Creative Cloud and get Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator, etc. I pay ~£8/month for Office 365 and get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. All massively rich and powerful tools. Why does feedly imagine I would want to pay £5/month to read rss feeds?

Because Freedly doesn't have Microsoft or Adobe's budget and needs to have its costs covered?
Maybe some examples would making this more convincing...
From an environmental efficiency perspective I cannot recommend. The power consumption of old server chips, even in idle, is pretty big compared to modern, more efficient 10-7nm desktop chips.

If your energy bills are a rounding error in your monthly budget then go ahead, but then you can actually afford modern and more efficient chips.

And then there's the extra heat and noise you'll have to deal with.
This was a great write up. I've already sent it to a few people.

On the question of what happens if a file's contents change after the initial checksum, the man page for rsync[0] has an interesting explanation of the *--checksum* option:

> This changes the way rsync checks if the files have been changed and are in need of a transfer. Without this option, rsync uses a "quick check" that (by default) checks if each file's size and time of last modification match between the sender and receiver. This option changes this to compare a 128-bit checksum for each file that has a matching size. Generating the checksums means that both sides will expend a lot of disk I/O reading all the data in the files in the transfer (and this is prior to any reading that will be done to transfer changed files), so this can slow things down significantly.

> The sending side generates its checksums while it is doing the file-system scan that builds the list of the available files. The receiver generates its checksums when it is scanning for changed files, and will checksum any file that has the same size as the corresponding sender's file: files with either a changed size or a changed checksum are selected for transfer.

> Note that rsync always verifies that each transferred file was correctly reconstructed on the receiving side by checking a whole-file checksum that is generated as the file is transferred, but that automatic after-the-transfer verification has nothing to do with this option's before-the-transfer "Does this file need to be updated?" check.
For protocol 30 and beyond (first supported in 3.0.0), the checksum used is MD5. For older protocols, the checksum used is MD4.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync
Have you considered that if this happens every time, that the miscalibration might be on your end?
That depends on the licence, though. GPL3 requires that obtaining a license should not be harder than obtaining the binary distribution. If you use some kind of obscure version control system for your source code but link the binaries in your website, you're entitled to the source code in a similarly easy way.

The developer could exercise their rights and insist on sending you a DVD with the source code on it (and make you pay for materials+shipping) but throwing up difficult burdens is clearly forbidden by the GPL.

Some more extreme licenses grant you, as a user and as a developer, a lot of rights, but also a lot of burdens. I don't think the stricter ideological licenses such as GPL are used much by people who distribute their own code and then decide to make life difficult for their users, though. It's likely that the only cases where this rings true are people relying on GPL code that then want to avoid fulfilling their obligations to their customers.
Possibly the greatest abuse of "to be fair..." I have ever seen.
IME 'fucking' is used very often in words, considerably more than 'bloody' - in British Fucking English.
Thanks for the corroboration.

ShotSpotter has now an earned reputation as:
1. Generally full of crap
2. Tampering with evidence as a practice