skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the cop says you were 6ft away and you say you were 8, who are
they going to believe?

The video footage. Image analysis along with metadata is sufficient
to determine the viewpoint.

> Does it really matter, you are already going to jail and your phone
was unfortunately damaged in the arrest which you were also
resisting.

5G, and perhaps within a few years the new civilian internet
satellites, will evolve this situation. Constantly uploading/syncing
video and images to secure remote storage is something war journalists
have long sought. By the time someone with a gun threatens you to
delete things you can go through the theatre of complying, or they can
even destroy your device, but it's too late for them.
Can you please not post like this to HN? I understand the fun of these sorts of swipes in a more intimate context, but on the open internet it's just guaranteed to make discussion sour and dumb.

What you should do instead is explain what you know about NLBs in a neutral, respectful way that the rest of us can learn from. Either that, or it's always ok not to post.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
8ft should be the required distance for everything unless the person is involved.

Police doing an arrest have every reasonable reason to ask people to 'stand back a bit' and 8ft seems about right.

The moment there is some kind of interaction of consequence, the 'spot' becomes an issue of civic concern, conflict, violence etc.. Cops may have to draw weapons, fight, god knows what in order to do their jobs.

You can watch/film or whatever from 8ft.
As a person who's been interested in physics but without any depth at all, this was a very interesting article and I'm kind of relieved that it's not settled.
>Is that in reference to something? Got a link or an article or something?

Very much yes[0]. It was one of the defensive lines from Bill Clinton. I was still in high school during this, and it set me on a very bad path of thinking how to twist anything and everything anyone ever said. After all, if the pres can do it, then we should all be able to do it.

[0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1998/09/bill-clinton-and...
Sure, but it's no longer generic, you're just using runtime types again.

This is extremely important, because it means `func (someType[T any]) foo(T x) T`, `x.foo(1)` would return `any`, not `int` like a generic function would.

In fact, if you're going to instantiate a generic type parameter with `any`, I would very much doubt you wanted a generic type in the first place.
There are some ubuntu-certified laptops, but I have very little problem with Thinkpads (T480 for personal use).
I got existential crisis and withdrawals. Looks like I am addicted to HN :)
You get off the train onto your segway.
I upvoted your top-level comment! But what happens if the comments on this topic get long enough for pagination to kick in? Very few people click the new next button for the linked list :).
I love how my phone runs this better than Flash on Android ever did natively.
> Write a server that does communication or emulate select in Go in other languages.

I just did that - I've been working on a very similar thing to goduplicator (a mirroring proxy), however with an additional requirement that it must not add latency to the primary communication path, e.g must connect mirrors asynchronously and buffer data instead of waiting for a slow mirror.

I chose Rust and the resulting code has been at the same time simpler, faster and uses 3x fewer memory than the Go implementation. I have not only select!, but also things like join! or try_join! at my disposal, way simpler to use than channels and waitgroups.

Also looks like closing connections in Go is a mess. In Rust I just remove a connection value from the vector and I'm done. In Go they have to close them manually, but defer is quite useless in async code, where the connections are passed to a coroutine.

In Rust I can also interleave work concurrently on a single thread with async, avoiding synchronisation. In Go I'd have to spawn goroutines and then coordinate them through channels which would be both more complex, more costly to execute and more risky.

So IMHO Go is definitely an interesting language to write concurrent networking code in, but feels quite incomplete to me. You get products but no sum types, you get select (which is kinda sum for channels) but not join (which is an analogy of a product for channels). You get semi-automatic cleanup with defer, but it is tied to a lexical scope ignoring the fact that goroutines can outlive it.
"Reduce energy consumption" is not a solution. The population is growing every year. Energy consumption is growing every year. Energy production has to grow to keep up. If it can't because the chosen technology doesn't scale, then that's a problem with that technology.
> The language is huge, a lot larger than Java, takes a lot more time and effort to master it. It's easy to get started programming in it, but I'm talking about mastering it, not intermediate-level knowledge of Python.

If you talk about mastery in Java but exclude build tools like maven and gradle you are far from mastery in the Java ecosystem.
It's the internet. Just say it with enough conviction, and others will buy it. Continue to say it, and everyone will buy it.

Er, not just the internet now
What a lovely comment - a real joy to read. Always enjoy listening to an artist meditate on the tools of their chosen craft.
James Webb Space Telescope Calibration Images
> I suspect it's also designed to stop passengers in a stopped motor vehicle from filming

No - "The same exception extends to anyone recording while in a vehicle involved in a police stop."
Nah. Getting a high bit per pixel raw image with minimum distortions maximizes your creative freedom to produce final prints or digital images. There are important caveats - cheaper gear you are comfortable paying for is probably still pretty good, maybe you want one click effects with no need to edit on PC or phone,analogue art for arts sake. Also some effects like polarized filters can't be replicated with post processing. But otherwise it's trivial to create dozens of automated workflows that replicate effects of older lenses and films, whereas you would be hard pressed to carry all of these with you.
To some degree, there is sharing of parts and carbodies. Most of the subway systems built around the era of the DC Metro have compatible specifications, most new systems today (and soon Caltrain) use a lot of slightly modified Stadler European rolling stock, etc. And even if not the entire car can just be taken, a lot of the pieces are also modular, but BART doesn't really benefit from any of that.

The bigger issue is that they can't use existing railroad rights of way without expensively converting the gauge or building a whole new set of tracks. A bunch of proposed/new extensions are just regular standard gauge rail to deal with that issue.
This is such a crock.

Here's the bill:
https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/54057/0/...

All they have to do is charge per unit time and electricity used, not give away electricity for free. They don't even have to charge their full marginal costs.

This merely prevents people from using these as unlimited free parking.
Typo: should be “minecraft gap!”
The human body adapts to most anything you can consume, even poisons.

You stop noticing the difference because your body beings you back to a homeostasis, not because whatever it is stopped working.

Many people have experienced this in their lives with drugs and alcohol, but it's the same effect with pretty much everything, including things that are good for you.

The idea should not be to 'chase the high', but to consume resources that are beneficial to your internal systems.
Jounce, also known as snap. Which to people of a certain cultural background explains where the names for the 5th and 6th derivatives come from.
I wonder if it might be closer to 40,032 hours. The official Dell wording [1] is "after approximately 40,000 hours of usage". 2^57 nanoseconds is 40031.996687737745 hours. Not sure what's special about 57, but a power of 2 limit for a counter makes sense. That time might include some manufacturer testing too.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f5k95v/dell_emc_u...
And understandably so!

Wide adoption means certain academy-hostile rules: backwards compatibility, a lot of user pressure towards certain directions, etc. Academics need freedom, and adoption is not about freedom.
A concept from knot theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangle_(mathematics)

Which impacts dynamics/effects in various systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer

https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys1504
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2319S.pdf

IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR A PERSON TO KNOWINGLY MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING
7 OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY"
31 MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
32 1. QUESTIONING A SUSPICIOUS PERSON.
33 2. CONDUCTING AN ARREST, ISSUING A SUMMONS OR ENFORCING THE LAW.
34 3. HANDLING AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED OR DISORDERLY PERSON WHO IS
35 EXHIBITING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR.

Edit:
If you're the subject of police action, the 8 ft rule doesn't apply.

A PERSON WHO IS
22 THE SUBJECT OF POLICE CONTACT MAY RECORD THE ENCOUNTER IF THE PERSON IS
23 NOT INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS,
I ended up just DNS blocking it on my work computer. Now I just spend a lot more time on my phone though :/
I signed up for the newsletter for this one - https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/apartment-vacancy-rate... - again, I don't know the interests, but he seems data-driven and there's a sense of neutrality in the analysis.

YouTube-wise I've grown fond of "Wealthion" which has interviews with analysts in the financial industry, not all with the same views (although there's pessimism these days). And they're not gold bugs like Kitco News.
Please show code then

I dont remember misusing C# generics even once and I struggle to see example of such a case
There's been higher quality & lower cost gear on the market for ages, but it's the modern version of "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Same can be said for Oracle, Dell, VMware, et. al.
Agreed about the US and Saudi Arabia and Yemen. And Trump and Biden handed Afghanistan over to the Talibans, they should go to prison for thousands of lifetimes for having done that

> Has the U.S been unaware of the human rights atrocities commited by Saudi Arabia

I think most people are. But not the politicians
> > Little known fact: HN is also available through Cloudflare. ...

> What does that mean? How do you access HN through CloudFlare ...

As written, it seems to suggest HN is in the Cloudflare cache. But, I don't think there's a way to access the cached version if a site's not down. I wasn't around during today's outage, so I can't speak to whether a generic Cloudflare cached version of HN was available during the downtime.
Thanks for the informative comment - I know a lot of that, but it's good to see it here from someone who knows.

But it doesn't address the question, and even sweeps it under the rug by implying that because of these systems there can't be serious problems: There may be serious problems at DHS

> US Secret Service historically had the best mission culture.

The US Secret Service has had numerous, serious scandals, including some that led experts to say they were a failing organization. Several times people getting drunk and also abusing locals during overseas missions. One used their power and organization resources to intimidate their (ex-spouse's new lover? I don't remember it exactly.) Under Obama, IIRC, the attacker who made it into the White House and was discovered by accident. Etc. Etc.
This happened before in countless products where it used to matter who made it, then all players achieved more or less satisfying results and the product became a commodity - or took a completely irrational turn into emotions, retro and sentiments; wrist watches come to mind.

There used to be specialty high end manufacturers of nearly all everyday items but once something hits commodity status, it gets sent to China and to the lowest bidder.

Making lenses imperfect just to give retro character is going exactly where the watch industry went after Quartz.
iOS TouchType Typography Tool
If he was the only thing dragging twitter toward $54, and then he stops dragging it as hard, it's hard for me to see that as driving value down. If he hasn't caused any other damage, that's just twitter returning to its natural value.
Is it just me or is Musk constantly finding himself in the middle of failed and shady deals?
That has nothing to do with abusing children and violently attacking citizens. I am absolutely sure I could do my job without that.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...
The law (it's in the article) says 8 feet from police activity and then lists out activities such as: arrest, questioning, handling an emotionally disturbed person.

A police officer is standing there doing crowd control, that's not included.
PC desktops indeed suck, but I have much less problem with mobile OSs. Not sure whether it is due to the more modern OS, the reduced problem domain or the higher level OS-program interface.
If company owners want credit for creating jobs, that comes with the reciprocal responsibility of it being your fault if those jobs go away.
Why would you imagine rather than spend a few minutes to read the article? It explicitly exempts passengers in a car from the 8 foot rule.
please then, enlighten me to reality.
See! People should register via mail for those important notifications! (Or alternatively do quarterly checks that your firmware is up to date).
> This is good for Twitter

i think you are referring to twitter.com

imo this is pretty bad for twitter the company. they’ve been flat for years, they’re current valuation is less than in 2013. they’ve lost the plot a while ago and seem to have been in a managed decline, probably because they were looking for buyers.

> and good for the world

you are overestimating how many people care about twitter outside of the US.
After around 20 hours, it just started working for me. I am with Fido for mobile and use Tecksavvy for home internet but both of them rely on Rogers at the end, so both were down. Walmart was only accepting cash or credit card. Debit cards were not working as Interac was down.
It feels wrong to me that pop comes after crackle. Crackle seems like the ultimate high-frequency effect. In fact, "pop" seems like it should come before "snap". But I guess it is somewhat arbitrary.
They haven’t taken that down. On the contrary; in their writing instrument analogy, what would happen if all pens produced the very same “perfect output”?
Anecdotal experience, my intel MacBook Pro also fails to wake up from closed lid from time to time..
Most of social media is PR companies running bot farms, this has been the case for many years. Especially around African elections (well studied) or large social issues ( Johnny deep court case )

My country is notability bad they close the comment section so real accounts can't out comment the bot accounts, our government has social media influence programmers running this, people I know. ( small country )

They use gpt 2 to generate around 100 curated comments for each news article, You can typically tell by going into their account and seeing when they joined and friend count ect. However recently they started hiring normal people to comment.

This has been the PR industry for at least 4 years.
As soon as Tesla’s stock started falling I knew this wasn’t going to happen. But from everything I’ve read the agreement is iron clad, Elon waived diligence, and he’s on the hook for 45B.

If I were Twitter I’d take my chances in court to sue him for everything I’m owed, the full 45B or something really close to it. At least they’re due the breakup fee. Maybe they can 10x that for breach of contract.

If this does go to court and the outcome is that the agreement is thrown out or something like that it will severely undermine the legally-binding nature of contracts and have all sorts of ramifications.
> Why do you need a law designed to [...]

He tried it before in 2016 (20ft). Also "Kavanagh sponsored legislation that would prohibit oversight boards of police departments".

Cynically, you might say, since he's an ex-cop, he's pandering to the police vote and/or funds for votes and election monies.

(But given some of the other stuff he's promoted, he might just be a dick.)
The context is what was said above: Java generics can't abstract over primitive types, they only work for objects. That is awful, and it is important, because this one limitation is the only thing that makes the implementation of generics in Java possible and simple.

If generics had had to actually support ArrayList<int>, they would have required significant changes to how ArrayList is stored in memory, and to how a lot functions which work with generic types are actually compiled. Instead, Java has the easy path in the implementation: since everything only works with reference types, there's no need for multiple copies of a function to work with different types.

Of course, this means that sum<Integer>(new Integer[1000000]) is going to be orders of magnitude slower than sumInts(new int[1000000]).
Response to Keunwoo Lee’s Review of Accelerate
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31729428
Source? As far as I know his financiers committed on the same terms he did and neither he or they have any right to demand proof about Twitter's user information. You say "it appears" which sounds like speculation.
20% is on the order of 40%
I'm hoping that deep in your spam folder is a critical firmware update notice from Dell/EMC/HP/SanDisk from 2 years ago :).
This analogy doesn't really hold here – programmers are usually paid to write some code that doesn't yet exist. You can write it as open source, too – if your contract allows this (e. g. https://commonform.org/switchmode/switchmode/3.0.1; although more often it's an informal agreement that your employer will open source the work in question).
A large email provider like Gmail could probably train a network to find emails that look similar to an official brand (start with payment providers). The client could warn the user that "Warning! This email looks a lot like it is trying to impersonate a different brand".
IMO controls that require some kind of time-related action (e.g., magically disappearing popups and buttons that hide themselves) should violate accessibility standards.
> I have little doubt anyone lending that kind of money would require the buyer to independently verify the mDAU.

Nope. Musk's financing is not conditional on that.
ok, how?

ok, why can that method that you choose not be applied to nim?
In the sense of

>“consolidated repository of encyclopedic information about basically all topics”

I don’t expect a sequel, it seems that fan wikis and Wikipedia pretty thoroughly cover the space.

In the sense of

>”large scale collaboration projects which haven’t been done but would be sea changes”

One I expect in the near future is the incorporation of all our modern tech to do user-friendly, VPN-less, encrypted, censorship resistant and decentralized cross-media piracy.

Torrents seem to have died because streaming got “good enough” and enforcement of anti-piracy got efficient. Streaming services have since then gotten fat and lazy and now want to collect increased rents from users on smaller libraries and with less in-house production. They largely stopped being worth the squeeze to the average consumer, and have split across too many endpoints to be economical.

Tech has greatly improved since the mass piracy die-off of the early 2000s, both in terms of digital privacy and user experience. I imagine a platform that aspires to be like Libby for E-books and audiobooks, Spotify for music, and Netflix and all its ilk - all in a single platform.

You press “download”, and in a fashion that validates the file is actually what you requested (no viruses) and completely masks your requesting it from hostile counter-parties (no legal fuss), simply retrieves the content as asked.
In-camera-phone processing has the advantage of access to depth and accelerometer data recorded during potentially multiple sequential exposures of multiple cameras for stacking and motion blur deconvolution.

There's a parallel in the advent of stacking being a massive boon for amateur astrophotography. There, the natural format for unprocessed data is video, hours of which are recorded in-camera and processed afterwards. Perhaps someday a new RAW-over-time format will be developed to hold the raw data of multiple sensors, optical and otherwise, to enable smartphone processing after the fact.
> Republicans view NYT as very biased, but democrats almost entirely believe it’s unbiased and accurate.

That is not true of Democrats. In fact, everyone dislikes the NYT (which is excellent evidence that they are good journalists). For example, progressive Dems have long seen they NYT as a tool of the corporate mainstream, almost the epitome of it. For centrist Dems, the Times broke the Clinton email server scandal and covered the Wikileaks DNC emails.

Dems generally have more skeptical views and get news from more sources.

> democrats and republicans largely regard Fox News as entertainment news and more biased. They don’t ride the line too well.

They are exceptionally influential and profitable, so it depends on your standard for 'well'. And don't forget the Wall Street Journal, the elite outlet for the same organization.
clean simple code .
is it used in production any where ?
If any of you have time to answer this, I'm curious about how you do backups. Are you using frequent rsyncs (or something functionally equivalent like BorgBackup), ZFS snapshots, or something custom? It looks like you must have had frequent backups, since when HN finally came back, it was quite close to the state that I remember it being in when it went down.
I just went and double checked, 4 emails a day for the last month ( not 10). All the same email suggesting I login.

I have not logged into twitter since 2016, no friends and no followers. Just set up for my company noticeboard.
In the United States, being the 3rd best city in public transportation is infinitely better than having literally zero reliable public transport because everything is car first. suburbia is quite a miserable experience and it's tragically justified because we don't know what we don't know.

i haven't traveled the world and experienced the worlds best public transit. rather, i've grown up in Los Angeles where we can't conceive that a public transit system could possibly be of any value. "what poor lowly miserable soul can't afford a car? SHAME SHAME on you poor soul"

Anything is better than the suburban denial that is the concrete jungle. I love Bart.
I;m not savvy with law, but wouldn't an officer talking to you be engaging in " rQUESTIONING A SUSPICIOUS PERSON."
bingo. if you want to assume bad faith why not go whole hog - Musk never intended to buy Twitter because he never believed they have what they claim to have, it's all a big scam involving inauthentic accounts and now the world knows it too

it probably couldn't technically be due diligence without the lawyers deadlocking on how to prove the authenticity of a twitter account
I have read some beautiful articles and pdf from HN which were in my browser bookmarks.
I don't think this is true at all, anyone engaged with this work realizes how much effort is going to be involved in electrifying the vehicle fleet. It's only when you acknowledge that a problem is tractable that you can even begin to answer the question, "what do I do next to make this happen?"
Stats get increasingly expensive and useless to store, but one would think mDAU would be one tagged for high precision long retention storage.
Ha. Human nature hasn't changed a bit, we just have oil now.