skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, these numbers are meaningless without a null hypothesis to compare them to. If you stop random people in the monitored areas, at the right time of day, how many guns do you find?
If you're traveling to meet face to face with other humans, you're probably going to be spending quite a while doing it, and often with clients. Doing this in VR would be extremely exhausting, and how would you convince the client to even do it?

I'd rather spend a day traveling to meet someone face to face for a few hours, than spend a few hours in VR.
I accidentally discovered one of the most egregious pharma scams imaginable
You misunderstand, cryptic public statements are a longstanding part of GNOME's commitment to transparency and user cooperation.
I had this game as a kid, and actually managed to muddle through it, collect all the phone parts, and win the game. I have never heard about anyone else completing it, but it was possible!
> Usually big cities

I'm surprised to see this is somewhat true in the US. In Canada rural crime rates are higher than urban ones, but that trend doesn't seem to hold for the US (per sources below)

Of course extrapolating from "average crime rate" to "location of hotspots" might be suspect in both cases...

Stats Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article...

Bloomberg article with some nice graphs, and really good links to sources (at the end of it) - the text focuses on NYC but the second line chart in particular (based off of linked CDC data) does a good job of answering this question: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...
Something I've been wondering for awhile about this: is it specifically jerk that humans can't handle well, or all of the higher order derivatives? A lot of times we're talking about a car that's at rest (and has been at rest for delta t>0), so every order derivative is going to be positive when the value starts increasing (the rate of increase, the rate of rate of increase, the rate of ...).

Is there something specific about jerk that makes it important to optimize for, or are all position derivatives of order 3+ the same?
Or maybe it's an approach similar to VCs. You're hiring a ton of people with the calculation that at least a few would make company-wide impact.
it takes some mental fortitude to maintain this position, but you have to understand that 99.99% of the time, those other people think of themselves as good and reasonable too. and the feeling of violence is a direct result of identifying with your chosen "side", thus feeling personally affronted. rather, you can create space between who you are and what you believe, and in this way, someone can attack those beliefs without it affecting who you think you are. you don't feel it's violent against you because of that separation. you can similarly project that separation onto other people, so that you're not attacking them personally, but just discussing their ideas and beliefs.
The issue is that ShotSpotter may be profiting by giving police an excuse to search people when they would not otherwise have sufficient legal grounds.
There is a huge class of people that aren't capable (either they're too junior or lack the ability or motivation) of writing core functionality themselves, and are only able to stitch libraries together. Is the stuff they create painful to use? Generally yea. Does it create enormous technical debt for the rest of the team? Yep. But does it tick feature boxes that people pay money for? Also yea.

I think for those folks, "prefer writing your own 'ReactFlyout' module" is literally not a path forward. Like it or not, those folks make up a large portion of the work force.

There are software organizations that live by a "prefer renting and buying over building it" tenet, for the same reasons that outsourcing made sense to the MBA types. But when you all of a sudden need to render a button differently, or a service goes down, they refuse to take any responsibility for the mess.
If you just want to watch courses (not the best way to learn), I got you with this aggregation of course playlists: https://youtube.com/channel/UCjgQ2pJDjZlhdI4Ym7NQdUw

You have to click the multiple playlist titles (the ones with left/right sliding arrows) to see all the playlists for that category because YouTube truncates the lists.

I need to add more courses (including a few more basic ones) but YouTube has a memory leak issue that prevents me from doing so right now.

If you watch one course I would recommend Bill Shillto's only course.
In the early days of the Apache Incubator, Stefano Mazocchi pointed out that what works to seed communities is good ideas and bad code - the other three combinations don't work.
IMHO it's a classic innovator's dilemma. They get something so uncool because they spend so much money on it.

Reality Labs employs what, 17,000 people? The organization is large enough to be hidebound and risk-averse, but too small to effectively moderate an advertiser-friendly VR social network.

To quote the novel which coined the term (Snow Crash): "You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a giant talking penis in the Metaverse."
I would have a problem with that, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

My gut feeling is that shotspotter mostly works and is mostly accurate, regardless of what Vice reported. I can imagine how I’d build such a system and I don’t think it would be very complicated. You don’t need any powerful signal processing or AI, this entire idea was feasible 20 years ago.

And secondly, I think that if any technology is rolled out by a city in a way that’s discriminatory, that falls squarely on the city and their police department, not on the technology company that sold it to them.
You know about Omeleto, TheCGBros, and ALTER in addition to DUST? Omeleto also has a sci-fi specific side-channel.

Those are the well known ones, but there is also smaller channels like Sci-Fi Central and Screamfest which also put out longer-form (for YouTube) fictional shorts (and some feature length stuff).
Before ZFS, you can layering bcache on top of your file system. But otherwise, ZFS L2ARC I believe nowadays also does persistence L2ARC.
The state is based on Christian beliefs? What beliefs should it be based on if any?
> I don't know anyone in my life who's heard of the site besides my uncle, but I enjoy showing it to friends and coworkers as an example of the type of website I grew up with, and which stands in a class of its own, at least to me.

I came across the site when I read Daniel Rutter’s Dan’s Data(1) pre-blog blog in the early-2000s when I was devouring everything about Palm devices as a geeky teenager. Dan had a tendency to link terms and phrases to sites that discussed what he meant in detail. Everything2 was his go-to for a lot of references and it soon became mine. Before a certain point, I think I was looking stuff up on E2 before looking on Wikipedia.

A few years later, I found my group of “wholehearted geeky but well-masking” friends in university. A couple of them also read Everything2, and the discovery of this site was one of those subconscious things that nudged us closer together.

I hope this site stays up forever, and I am disappointed it does not often come up in search results for random topics.

Of note, E2 has indeed had a small change in the last decade, and that was the main interface colour going from Burnt Orange to Purple.

(1) http://www.dansdata.com/
>you are no longer in control of your own software.

In a business setting you have no control over what will happen with your software in the long run, and somebody else will take over for you, so this is an INCREDIBLY weak justification for not using libraries.

One of the major appeals of libraries is that the very fact you can figure out how to use them means that somebody else can. That’s something you can’t say about your own code as easily. If you don’t reuse other peoples code, how can you know the first thing about writing code other people can reuse? Not using other peoples libraries is akin to being a chef that will only eat their own food.
Mate also has supported type-ahead search for a long time. Possibly Gnome2 did with an add on.
ET wasn’t the worst game ever. I think it’s largely an influence issue. People told other people it was terrible, so those people walk into it expecting it to be terrible. The myth persists.

The game has its challenges, but the reputation is enforced by decades of games with better graphics, better hit boxes, and storylines told onscreen instead of in the instruction booklet.

Incidental to this, I remember when I realized that World -1 in Super Mario Bros. wasn’t some trick or secret, but just a pointer bug that was surprisingly playable. Turns out programmers are people too.
It wasn't just slow and clunky, it changed how to do basic things, split configuration between about three different places, and changed defaults (which they still frequently do, to the point that it is still on-going and my "go-back-to-sane-defaults" script is now pages long)

The best UI is one the users already know. Changing to get more users only to lose your existing ones is a massive failure.
> I want to better explain the benefits of having a custom short domain to run your own URL shortener for your brand.

I don't understand. If I own http://www.example.com you make a custom domain like http://xple.com/something or http://xple.uelr/something or what?
I think you misjudge how much artistry goes into placing those photographed assets.

You are probably way off on your estimates in how this will change the workforce.

Small teams of artists can now produce television VFX that rival what took hundreds of film artists to do decades ago, but if you pay attention to movie credits, the number of artists working on big films seems to be increasing.

Also, it seems to me that AI and procedural generated assets are more likely to be the future than real world scans.
No, I didn't. It was somewhat of an offhand comment. I'll break it down a little more directly:

1) Jackson MS is 80+% black.

2) The (mayor + city council) of Jackson MS is 75% black

3) The command staff of Jackson MS police department is 100% black.

4) The city and police department decided to deploy shot spotter in Jackson

5) (don't get distracted by this please) The city has not deployed shot spotter in areas that are predominantly white

Given those 5 points, where is Jackson deploying their shot spotter tech? Is it in predominantly black/minority neighborhoods? Yes.

Why are they doing that? Does the predominantly black government intend to keep black people down?
My sense from the few projects I've seen attempt to use Druid is that there is quite a lot of infrastructure overhead / DevOps support required to manage a cluster at scale, and that fairly complex ingestion pipelines are required to load the data in the right format.

Anecdotally, I've heard that ClickHouse is easier to deploy from this perspective with similar performance, but would love to get others views / experience with these and similar data stores.
> She decided to cut her losses, which ended up being around $8,000.

Damn, I hate to say it but this strikes me as almost l-u-c-k-y considering her total capital outlay.

I happen to "know someone" who finally bit the bullet and took an $80K loss in one asset alone just a couple months ago, an asset which had otherwise been providing helpful income during a difficult time in life for almost a year.

They had built this position up on the back of 600% profits on this asset prior to the loss spiral though, which made the situation a tiny bit easier to swallow.

I also have a neighbor who took a $700K loss, and he just laughs about it. I LOST SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND...I can still hear his voice echoing across the street.

I noticed it's kind of funny how many mental models we have to deal with this stuff, many of which are even contradictory: Easy come easy go; don't FOMO; BTD; don't try to catch a falling knife; if you don't sell it, it's not a loss; diamond hands...the range and depth seems like it ought to be amenable to some kind of algorithmic representation. Type in your current position & parameters, and out comes a ranking of likely-helpful mental models...
I don't like Apple in many ways but thank fuck they moved the market along in high resolution screens. 1920x1080 was the defacto standard for far too long and I was supremely agitated by the lack of progress.

“If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

When you KNOW the technology can do it sometimes you just need to give people the friggin' faster horses!
My childhood home didn't had a lock. We were all surrounded by relatives. Everyone knew everyone else. Sadly, not anymore. (I am from Kerala, India)
They should at least do ranked-voting
Agree with whomever said options but it should be noted that the higher derivatives “lurk” in the lower ones in real life.

Example: a simple change in position means that the object had to move or experience two changes in velocity (starting and stopping). And to change its velocity it had to accelerate, and in order to do that it had to change its acceleration (from 0 to whatever) and so on.

So it is with all deltas that require basically many derivatives to happen at the edges.
I saw “worst” in quotes in the thread title and thought for sure this would be about Daikatana.
Visual voicemail should be a thing of the past now, my carrier just sends the audio as a standard rcs message, no need for special apps.
You just need to figure out the tech they had in Minority Report and put it on AWS.
We're discussing React in this thread, are we not? What's the name of that fallacy where you put emphasis on a whole other topic, so that your point still stands?
The reframing is that it have cops reason to go in armed and expecting an active shooter when 93% of the time there was no reason to expect that, and 4 it of 5 times SS reports led to civilians being stopped for no justification.
You're assuming the "gunshot alerts" are actually gunshots, though. As noted, the sensors will identify other sounds as gunshots, and the company won't reveal its methodology so... do you live in a neighborhood with 50k gunshots, or 5k gunshots and 45k backfiring cars / fireworks / loud songs with gunshot sound effects?
The Perfect Storm – concurrent crises are leading the world on a path to hunger
Hate that guy
>start with reasoned first principles (the constitution is a good start) and continue to reason your way to a position on any given issue that is consistent with those first principles, sides be damned.

How do you come up with first principles? Consequentialism vs deontology has been around for centuries and it's obvious which one is the the correct one.
Sturgeon’s Law[0] states that “90 percent of everything is crap.”

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
An egregious example from the first link:

Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place.

Except that’s not entirely true, according to recent court filings.

That night, 19 ShotSpotter sensors detected a percussive sound at 11:46 p.m. and determined the location to be 5700 South Lake Shore Drive—a mile away from the site where prosecutors say Williams committed the murder, according to a motion filed by Williams’ public defender. The company’s algorithms initially classified the sound as a firework. ...

But after the 11:46 p.m. alert came in, a ShotSpotter analyst manually overrode the algorithms and “reclassified” the sound as a gunshot. Then, months later and after “post-processing,” another ShotSpotter analyst changed the alert’s coordinates to a location on South Stony Island Drive near where Williams’ car was seen on camera.
>9% actually seems like a lot? Considering that most criminals don't stick around after illegally discharging a firearm.

Are you under the impression that the only evidence of a firearm being discharged is carried away by the person firing the gun? I was under the impression that evidence of a gunshot is kind of famously objective because of the presence of bullets, bullet holes, casings, victims, property destruction etc.

By your reasoning, it’s a feasible proposition that criminals regularly patch up bullet holes and what, fireman carry their victims away from the scene?
HypeScript: Simplified TypeScript type system in TypeScript's own type system
> OP's comment implied that it is a tool used by the majority(whites) to deploy in minority(black) areas, in order to oppress them.

The OP said nothing like this. You're projecting a lot of personal biases onto their comment. But you know that, and are trying to hone in a single example in order to strawman/red-herring valid concerns about the technology and its effects.

> It seems you were very distracted that I pointed out that whites are a minority within Jackson MS, but that was really just an offhand comment and not the point of the post.

That was the whole point of your post. You literally said nothing else.
> they're generally actually high-quality experiences as other commenters pointed out

they are not competitive with 20 year old Playstation 2 software
And that's why one should never make any important decisions based on a temporary emotion.

* Love
* Sadness
* Happiness
* Hate

All have wrought countless problems when we made a decision on those feelings.

(Yes, Love, is mostly a temporary emotion)
And another:

In 2016, Rochester, New York, police looking for a suspicious vehicle stopped the wrong car and shot the passenger, Silvon Simmons, in the back three times. They charged him with firing first at officers.

The only evidence against Simmons came from ShotSpotter. Initially, the company’s sensors didn’t detect any gunshots, and the algorithms ruled that the sounds came from helicopter rotors. After Rochester police contacted ShotSpotter, an analyst ruled that there had been four gunshots—the number of times police fired at Simmons, missing once.

Paul Greene, ShotSpotter’s expert witness and an employee of the company, testified at Simmons’ trial that “subsequently he was asked by the Rochester Police Department to essentially search and see if there were more shots fired than ShotSpotter picked up,” according to a civil lawsuit Simmons has filed against the city and the company. Greene found a fifth shot, despite there being no physical evidence at the scene that Simmons had fired. Rochester police had also refused his multiple requests for them to test his hands and clothing for gunshot residue.

Curiously, the ShotSpotter audio files that were the only evidence of the phantom fifth shot have disappeared.

Both the company and the Rochester Police Department “lost, deleted and/or destroyed the spool and/or other information containing sounds pertaining to the officer-involved shooting,” according to Simmons’ civil suit
2008 was just yesterday. Woah. Time has catch up with my knowledge.
There's really no need to shit up the country even worse.
The reality is in those areas cops are always armed and expecting active shooters. Look up the gunplay stats for places like Back of The Yards in Chicago.
Or what happens if they ban you because of pressure from wokemob Twitter or whatever policies?

This kind of business sort of makes sense for customers you know having a single sign on sort of like use Google to login but I agree there's big risks for companies.

I probably don't understand a whole lot about it or about how you mitigate those risks or about what people really value there.
This omits another IP-related issue of at least equal significance. KDE is based on the Qt UI toolkit library, which had an encumbered license at the time the GNOME project got started (1997) -- and the first free software license it was released under, the QPL, was not GPL-compatible. This was resolved in 2000 (with a GPLed release of Qt), but by then, GNOME had its own momentum.
> there will come a time where you have to say goodbye, one way or the other.

Or zap it with a wand of polymorph and hope for the best!
That would tell you if it correctly detected gunshots... but it wouldn't tell you if it falsely reported certain sounds as gunshots, if it works in all weather, etc.
Thanks for your work to disentangle the two systems. I don't envy the work involved, but certainly appreciate what you're doing.

I'm one of the users frustrated when accounts were forcibly merged, but thankful Meta listened to user feedback and will revert it moving forward. No particular reason, but like many others, I prefer to have a separate identity for each service, instead of commingling all of them together.
Postmodernism.
Researchers: Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable – AP News
Aztec Diamond
Agile Development
1. Story points
2. Velocity = user story points completed per iteration
3. Burn out = number of sick days per iteration due to unreasonable estimates
4. New hires = number of new developers you have to hire because the old ones quit
In the before time, the long long ago, developers didn't need to bundle everything. Mythical, I know.
But don't the 'best' ideas on the left tend to assume strong central government, whereas Libertarian prefer a more limited government?
4. I'm an old. I will almost certainly try scaling my display by 125% or 150%.
No. "Infrared" isn't a very descriptive term, since it means "the entire electromagnetic spectrum with energies below the human visual range".

Near-infrared is very close to the visible range and is sensed just fine by normal CCD/CMOS imagers, and they have to be specifically filtered to ignore it, otherwise it swamps the visible-color portion of the image. By removing the infrared filter, you lose color fidelity but gain sensitivity.

Thermal infrared takes a vastly different sensor, which is fiendishly difficult to manufacture, which is why thermal cameras are so expensive. Thermal sensors with certain performance characteristics may fall under ITAR, but you'd know if you had one of those.
Increasingly I think the screenreader/ARIA proposition of navigating a (linearized ordering of) elements on a 2D page is fundamentally limiting for blind users. The web needs a more robust model of application state from which text, audio, and GUI representations can be derived. Our applications clearly structure "objects" and their "methods" under the hood, and it should be possible to present these more directly to users in whatever format makes sense to them.
that's a false dichotomy for the rhetoricians. it's both, and more, and more complicated than that.

we spend the first 18 years or so of our lives empirically deriving those first principles together, along with the derivations of our ancestors in the form of documents like the constitution. since none of us are intrinsically perfect, we have a whole running population who nonlinearly superpositions our perspectives to create a common, if dynamic and imperfect, consensus of what's reasonable in a social context, and what's not.
This certainly explains the state of Apache.
I wouldn't want to live in a community with even 10% of the loud noises being gunshots, no. Saying that there's only 5k real gunshots doesn't make it sound any better.

Maybe we should focus on why there's so many gunshots in these specific communities.
So what? Let them have TikTok.

The evidence may be clear, but it is also driven by tech that is increasingly effective at pressing our dopamine buttons. I'm not sure that the opinions of a drug-addled constituency are important for the far more simple question of, "is there a sustainable business here?"