skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you question electron microscopy then why do you not question your own eyesight? Eyes are just as susceptible to EM radiation no?
It markets itself as pinpointing gunshots and police use that as probable cause. Either they reveal something of their methodology so that courts can determine if police reliance on them is reasonable or police shouldn't be allowed to use them.
Does anyone know why American farmland is suddenly being consolidated [1]? Is it cheaper than it has been? Is there reason to believe it will become particularly valuable in the coming decades (e.g. due to climate change)?

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farml...
All of electricity production requires surplus, we run our systems at a fraction of full capacity because that's the only sane way to design a system that has zero storage.

As storage gets deployed more and more, we will be able to increase the capacity factor of all the more expensive parts, like transmission and distribution.

Already, T&D is a huge cost of our electricity, something like 6-8 cents of the average 13 cents/kWh in the US, with the rest being generation costs. As solar and wind plunge below our current costs, to 1-2 cents/kWh, T&D becomes a much larger cost center, and only storage has the potential to undercut that.

T&D is sized to peak draw, which is many many many multiples of average draw. Storage close to the meter solves all that, and drastically reduces the cost of T&D. If we are at 5-15 cents/kWh right now for lithium ion storage, it's going to be 2-6 cents in 10-15 years, faster than we could get the first new nuclear reactor online if we started building today.

While I agree that underused storage does have higher cost, we will likely have a plethora of cheaper storage options in the future that only work at lower usage rates than daily discharge, and those can fill in the other parts of the cost/discharge frequency need.
You should be investing on Jetpack Compose and save the unnecessary troubles in the future. I’m not sure if React can keep up with the Android and iOS SDK updates. Flutter is all good for simple apps but not suitable for complex scenarios.
mgarrett@chiark:~$ file /lib/libc.so.4.6.27
/lib/libc.so.4.6.27: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
mgarrett@chiark:~$ dpkg -S /lib/libc.so.4.6.27
libc4:i386: /lib/libc.so.4.6.27

Unfortunately the installed kernel has no support for a.out binaries, so nothing can actually run against it any more :(
I don't know about the accuracy of these sensors or the statistics cited, but having lived in and around Chicago for over 20 years, including 2 years on the south side, there are a lot of shootings. Summers are especially bad. Most weekends have double digit body counts. I don't know how many gun shots I've heard in Chicago over the years, but I can tell you how many cars back firing I've heard: zero. I've also heard a ton of fireworks. Southside around the 4th of July? Looks and sounds like a warzone. At least it did down near Bronzeville when I lived there. And before you question my ability to discern a difference, I can. I grew up shooting rifles & shotguns and happened to have a vehicle that back fired with some regularity. Gun shits tend to have a sharper report, a back fire lasts longer, a bit "boomier".

And while I like the concept behind ShotSpotter, the company, it's methods and its data governance are... Shoddy. That's probably the most charitable I can put it from what I've read about them.
Where “LSM” is “log structured merge tree”, an alternative to a B-tree which writes sequentially to storage.
Wouldn’t SSO be difficult ?
That "Quick Look" preview feature was one of the few things I really liked about the newer Mac OS X variants, but I cannot find anything in my KDE / Dolphin like that thus far. There is a feature easily enabled for hover tooltips with a document preview that I've found tho. Close enough, I guess…
I live in a city where ShotSpotter is often used to detect gun violence and it seems, at least from local reporting, that it's often accurate in detecting gunfire and often finds victim(s) on the scene, often uncooperative with police.

In so far as I can tell, it seems to be doing its job, though I understand there are several institutions here which obviously are not trustworthy.
I like using edge, because it allows me to keep my computer totally free of Chrome.
I toyed with Linux growing up (2005-2012) then fully committed in 2014 with fedora. Gnome definitely had some issues at that time but I still sound it very productive to use.
You can also disable phoning home in Chromium.
Redating specimens of Australopithecus may rewrite human history
In my experience you are 100% correct. This is also the potential use case for non-warrant based Ring/Nest video and audio along with smart speaker collected audio. I’m also certain this company and those like it are consistently looking for opportunities to advertise and sell the parallel construction utility of their services.
Let’s tighten that up, some. Canadian police are armed with lethal weapons and need to go into active shooter situations less often than the U.S., which is a wildcard outlier of gun violence, second only to active war zones.
If something has a racist outcome then I don’t see how its “implied” to be racist. It is racist. They just didn’t say anything about whether it was intentional (which no one can know except people who decided where to put the systems).
You can #pray for your god to fill your stomach if you are Weak or worse.
Basic authentication ?
I have a pet theory for this: it pisses off the Open Source Tea Party.

So, one of the problems with power users is that they not only demand weirdly specific features, but that they all want different features from one another. And they will be very loud about how that particular feature is critical to their workflow. So the net effect is that they overcomplicate software.

Let's say you're a developer and you want to uncomplicate your software. How do you do that? Well, yeah, you could cut features, hide them in a junk-drawer menu, or redesign your UI to guide people to the most common options. But here's the problem: how do you know what the common options even are?

Telemetry.

You put in something in your software that counts up how many times users actually use each feature, and then it pings your server with the counts. You count how many active installations there are and bam, you get the data you need.

Then you release your fancy new redesign only to get assaulted with all sorts of abuse that could only be charitably described as "negative criticism". Oh my god, how could they have removed the "heat CPU when spacebar is pressed" feature!? They have telemetry, don't they know how many times I hit the spacebar?! Everyone else is just happy the app no longer flattens their battery, but the power users shout over them.

If you're a power user, telemetry has zero upside for you. Why the hell would you want the 7zip developers to know that you're the only person who has ever used the "Compress directory and e-mail" shell extension? You don't want the software to be easier to use! You already know how to use it, and screw anyone else who doesn't!

"Professional" software runs the risk of accumulating garbage in their designs and interfaces for exactly this reason. This goes for everything from Photoshop to git to MySQL.

(And yes, there's totally an inverse of this where the developer rounds off all the edges to the point where the software is more useful as a practical demonstration of gaslighting than an actual app.)
Your "gut feeling" does not comport with any evidence presented so far. Until SpotShotter is compelled to reveal their techniques and present them to the defense, as the defense is entitled under law, it's just a magic box that conveniently agrees with the police when they want it to.
Then it's just one more reason why the world's biggest online advertising company shouldn't be allowed to also own the world's most popular search engine, the world's most popular mobile operating system, and the world's most popular browser.

> How do you think Google waking up tomorrow to announce the removal of third-party cookies would go over, from their perspective? If they don't "work with" anyone?

People (those of them who still don't block ads for some reason) will cheer that it's the end of creepy targeted advertising.
Note that I shoot both, depending on the project needs ;)

I usually like to use my Nikon D700 for that.
What perplexes me is that in the USA we have a constitutional right to face our accuser in court. But this is a piece of software.

> In one case, a 65-year-old grandfather was held in Cook County Jail for nearly a year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic before his case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

I mean, WTF.
When I was a kid, we had one of these things and it was triggered by a motion sensor. But we _also_ had a large taxidermied dog sitting in the window. Used to really trip people out.
Clicking through this ad, I really disagree with your contention that it's anything other than total garbage. It's an on-rails walk through a series of screenshotted instagram ads, the idea being that users will be... really excited to learn about the ads they can see in the metaverse?

There's no other pitch here. It's literally just some instagram screenshots floating in a near-featureless room you can slowly click around. This seems like the sorta thing you'd make if you've completely lost touch with your users and are just throwing spaghetti the wall as your PM directs you.
Well the system wouldn’t really be a problem if it wasn’t faulty. It’s the false positives that are an issue. You could put it next to the house of the biggest gun nut in America and it still wouldn’t be a fair system because it just doesn’t work well.
An assessment of "sufficient" cannot be determined without understanding how the ShotSpotter system works. Therefore the argument is that police should not be able to use them as probable cause if they don't give some insight into how they work.

This is no different than other technologies. DNA testing wouldn't be admissible in legal actions either if the tests were essentially black boxes that couldn't be scrutinized.
What annoys me about the update is obviously the layout and UI. You can’t scroll freely and you don’t know how many flips it takes to move to the next item.

But worse is the content selection.

A really nice feature of instagram used to be that the feed had an end. “You are now done watching who you follow. If you wanna keep hanging around here’s some random stuff”

That was really nice and quite the refresh compared to other doom scrollers.

Then they slowly started adding non-subscribed content into your main feed and I’m sure the metrics were great. I at least ended up looking at them longer than average cause I couldn’t figure out who the hell I knew that was posting _that_. Then realized it wasn’t anyone I followed and got annoyed.

But the metric don’t capture that.

With the redesign you might as well not follow anyone. Its like 75% of your feed is ads and randos.
I think "humans" as a race will be fine in the same sense that after a plague of locusts dies out, locusts as a species are still fine.

There will be less of us, but we'll live on.
I think the crossgrading in the post was definitely a more manual process than the automated crossgrade tool, but yeah the tool is relatively new in Debian terms.
So you instead of having the inconvenience of opting out of a few privacy settings, you'd rather have to opt out of a bunch and still get spied on by Microsoft. I hate to break the news but Edge has turned into the worst browser of all when it comes to privacy.
Cross-Grading Debian
Can be done with a redirect through the authenticator domain that would then pass a token in a query parameter or something. Not as streamlined, but it works. Some oauth flows are already doing this exact thing.
Is Daniel Dennett conscious in any meaningful sense of the word? Is he, as an individual, responsible or accountable for anything he says? Or do we regard Daniel Dennett as an automaton, however fleshy and complex, that says (and thinks) what he is compelled to by the composition and workings of his physical being?
I'm using TrueNAS which makes it pretty easy. I'm doing it via SMB (Samba). Previously I was doing it via AFP (Netatalk). This looks more or less correct:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/lh0yjc/configure_a_t...

Basically it creates a dataset and a Samba share, and the configures Samba with a couple plugins so that: 1) a dataset is created for each user that connects to the share, so there's per-user datasets; 2) a ZFS snapshot is created automatically whenever Time Machine disconnects from the share. (2) is so that you can roll back if need be.

In the past, I've had Time Machine decide that the sparse image it uses for a backup is corrupt and it wants to zero it out and start over. The ZFS snapshots lets you recover from that, though I haven't had it occur under macOS Monterey and/or since I switched to SMB from AFP.

On the parent dataset I disabled sync.

If you google for "TrueNAS Time Machine" you'll find some discussions of all this in the TrueNAS forums.
> Something needs to happen to save the bayou around New Orleans.

Why? (Genuine question interested in your answer)
Yes and no. We will all experience the same world wide changes.

But the rich people WILL have an easier time of it.
Sure, the rewards, shopping assistant, multiple preloading pages and sending results to Microsoft is so much more privacy friendly.. if you ignore reality
Would your home office benefit from 40TB of SSD space?

Or is it one of those things that would be cool to have but not really necessary?
Assuming the question were to reach the Supreme Court, and not considering the possibilities in the various Circuits, there is a substantial chance all of the Supreme Court’s various composition over the last 50 years would uphold the use.

First consideration would be applicable legal standard, which practically always errs on the side of the State, second is the reasonableness of statistical methodology presenting the locations based on crime statistics.

I would not personally argue for its constitutionality, but given the precedents stemming from pretextual patrolling cases, it isn’t as clear cut as one might hope.
SQLite is a great choice as an in-memory database or when Postgres is clearly an overkill, e.g. storing some configs. I'm using it myself

However, given that so many hosted Postgres solutions exist and that Postgres has so many essential features that SQLite doesn't, there really is no reason to choose a new hosted SQLite over one of the mature hosted Postgres services. Especially typesystem and mvcc come to my mind, but there's much more Postgres offers over SQLite.
There really are... which is why projects should decide up front who the target audience is, and not try to please the suckless crowd if that's not the target.

The downside is of course, the suckless crowd can get totally left out when the whole world switches to the new standard(see The Init System That Starts Flame Wars), which is almost unsolvable since there's no product that can please both minimalists and those who want things to just work with zero tinkering, and not much reason for mainstream users to pay attention to anything but the popular standard.
Hit me up @gmail.

I've spent years and countless hours doing research in this space. Happy to knowledge share and discuss the subject if you're interested.
The current thinking is to retain muscle mass; it’s the reduced muscle mass that causes the falls.
Random but, I job shadowed at shotspotter back in highschool...maybe they were much smaller back then. I recall a small office space in San Jose
>You'd have to ask London police, since they don't.

No, I wouldn't, because your facts are wrong. Yes, London police are generally unarmed, but they still get called to respond to situations where there is a likely armed suspect, and in those cases, they send in special units that are armed.

The question here -- that you avoided -- is, what is the appropriate probability before sending in such an officer, and is it higher than the 7% in the situation you cited? You were asking others to be outraged that there was "only" a 7% chance of an actual armed shooter. In an attempt to move the discussion forward, I asked what the appropriate value is, so as to appropriately judge whether such intervention was unwarranted.

To which your entire response was to shoehorn in an irrelevant factoid about London and falsely imply I'm not aware of it. (And, of course, work in a Fermi reference, because, why not?)

If I may make a suggestion: next time someone asks a substantive question, and you don't have a substantive answer, just don't reply. That's a much better approach for the forum than what you just did.
Yeah, I know nothing about Chicago so I'm not challenging anyone's anecdotal experience. Just pointing out that ShotSpotter, as a source, is potentially pretty awful.

Another thing I didn't point out in my comment is that ShotSpotter also changes its data if police tell them to. Which seems like either an admission that their sensor is not very good, or that they're willing to compromise good data when told to.
And Gab's rivals use their megaphones to say less-than-flattering things about white people, men, etc. You're not going to escape bias or vitriol by sticking to one echo chamber. Not in this cultural climate, at least.
Isn’t that fruit of the poison tree though?
This site gets posted a lot. However if you looks the comparison code for vanilla JavaScript vs jquery, it looks like the jquery syntax is much easier to comprehend.
If we can afford $836 billion for defense spending, we can afford $11 billion to get some kids some fucking food.

That's the only acceptable answer to that question.
I think Facebook has just chosen a graphical style for their "metaverse" which makes it really hard to make anything beautiful or interesting. To me it's reminiscent of Corporate Memphis (which FB arguably invented) - an extremely safe and bland visual language which is chosen to avoid drawing attention or making a statement.

https://www.hov.co/blog/post/the-rise-of-the-globohomo-art-s...
no. they had to link it with standard libaries/binaries which were... bundled with your OS
Recruiting the New Industrial Base
Adopting the reactionary, revanchist rhetoric which the southern plantation owners used to justify their continued subjugation of others, contrary to the will of the majority, is the opposite of being "independent".
Sure, that sounds like a great thing to focus on, but in this particular thread that's specifically about ShotSpotter it mainly serves to change the subject.
If you think armed cops are the obvious danger in shotspotter neighborhoods, you've departed objective reality.

Eg https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/7/27/23280415/chicag...
But that’s a ridiculously non-applicable analogy. Any request for such brain scans would be deemed, at least in almost all conceivable circumstances as over reach by the defense. In reality all the cop has to do is say based on his training and experience he is comfortable in distinguishing the sound of gun fire in a city environment.

The proper analogy is to say that this company is not allowing for the experience and training testimony to be shown to the court. That would be how I would argue against probable cause in this case. However, as another comment in the thread discusses, this is probably not an issue since there is a heavy dose of parallel construction argument going on.
I run a ClickHouse cluster. I’ve heard Druid is more difficult, but ClickHouse isn’t exactly a piece of cake. It’s great for a while, but sometimes you can get bitten by weird states. Still, compared to everything I’ve used, for the use case where it excels, it really excels.
Okay, the constitution is as far from “first principles” as you can possibly get. Totally arbitrary. If that’s what you value, that’s fine, but it is not more logical than someone else’s view.

If you really do start from first principles (I think “utilitarianism” might be a better example of something that would be a first principle), and you find out that one side of an issue is good and the other is evil, or even if you find out that one political party is a good bit morally better than the other, you’re now back to picking sides. Because picking the right side of a morally important issue is a moral imperative to most people.
What's the alternative? Build a citizens' militia? Hire a private security firm?
That is incredibly insightful and thought out. Rarely do I see a comment that dives into the science and psychology. I agree with everything you said. I will give it a read.

I would like to see more advances in typing as well. I almost envision a new language or device may have better performance as well.
This guy is actually a genius, delivered a game in no time!
I was replacing your model with actual data... Not suggesting the link I gave you was old data. The important thing to note is the shape and peaks of the renewable data. You can grow those curves but you can't really change their shape much. Solar is going to be offline by 9PM 100% of the time, and when the wind doesn't blow for a week at a time, and rolling blackouts start people will question why their bills are going up, and the reliability is going down.

Anyway, I'm sure solar will be built, and the graph will look similar to the past 15 years of retail pricing.. AKA the solar will suppress the energy investment in other things until it fails catastrophically and retail customers are left holding the bills for all those NG plants that were quietly going out of business until the "black swan" event gave them some breathing room while simultaneously killing a few hundred more Texans and jumping the utility rates up again to pay for all the deferred maintenance on the generators of last resort.

https://www.texaselectricityratings.com/resources/historical...

Bottom line, while presumably installing a lot of really cheap energy Texas energy costs were going up, a little less than double if you factor in inflation.

Which makes sense, if you add the cost of the wind+NG, someone has to pay the bill for building surplus supply, and now we are going to have solar too, so best case a ~3x peak energy overbuild, while simultaneously not having enough to cover actual peak load when the weather doesn't cooperate.

So same as always, some smart investor will make off with a bunch of money from the solar plants, the carbon emissions might decrease slightly, still leaving us with one of the dirtiest energy generation mixes, and likely 3x higher energy bills than just using natural gas 100% of the time.

A winning formula for sure. Unless of course someone actually invents a battery technology that is cheaper than NG plants and can literally store the 10's of TW's required to bridge those black swan weather events that seem to be happening more and more frequently as we continue pumping CO2 in the atmosphere while playing around the edges with wind/solar.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Typescript ... you know the rest.
Secret questions are _barely_ 2fa or not 2fa at all, depending on the implementation, they're just about the worst idea in security.

They're either public info, arbitrary, or some combination of the two.

If you answer them honestly you're very vulnerable to account takeover. Many places treat them as a strict override of the password instead of something additional to a password.

The only sensible way to treat them, as a user, is as backup passwords, which ends up making quite little sense.
For people used to working in TypeScript who suddenly find themselves having to work on a vanilla js app... and don't wanna use JSDoc?
Aren’t the people arguing against their rights the ones causing a problem? Everyone looking out for themselves is supposed to lead to at least a half-decent outcome - kind of the idea behind the “free market.”
Making good progress too. I got laid off from Rivian this morning.