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>> "Swatting" isn't a significant problem in other parts of the world because the result is super boring: The police knock on the door, ask some questions, and then leave.

> Keffals was swatted in Canada, and Canada has a far less extreme police and gun culture compared to the USA.

I think it's egregious that she was actually arrested for something that the police should have realized was fake, or simply been able to sort out in-person. However, her claim that she woke up with an assault rifle in her face was simply not true. In the context of American swatting, it's more like swatting-light since Canadian police actually require training and attempt to de-escalate instead of solving every problem with guns.

> Officers did not conduct what is sometimes referred to as a “dynamic entry” into Ms. Sorrenti’s residence. Rather, they knocked on the door, announced themselves as police officers, and occupants answered. Any attempt by uninvolved third parties to suggest otherwise is inaccurate and irresponsible.

https://www.londonpolice.ca/en/news/statement-from-police-ch...
Hear! Hear! Good that someone has written this all out. I like that there is no solution/system offered. You don’t need points.

That said an estimation style I like is “1h, 1d, 1w, 1m, or 1y”? Get a rough sizing. If the thing isn’t worth double or triple (oh no it took 2 days … I said 1 dammit!) then just don’t do it!

Then stick that in a well buffered 1yr plan marked as “aspirational roadmap, not reality”
There's always someone pushing for more lol

The problem right now isn't so much panel efficiency as the lump cost of doing a project like this and the affordability / justifiability of that.. Especially when solar companies take advantage of people receiving tax credits & gouge on labor pricing.
It was definitely their labels. If you want some (not exhaustive but exemplary) insight into the shit labels do to musicians and their music, Steve Albini’s writing on the topic is a great place to start.
The DNA in the nucleus of a human cell has telomeres, which effectively function as a countdown timer for reproduction. Every cell division drops the timer by one, and when the timer hits zero, the cell enters senescence and stops working so hard. Killing off senescent cells improves quality of life in several aspects.

Then there are transposons, elements of ancient retroviruses embedded in our DNA, that can awaken and spray themselves thousands of times over the cell's genome. Usually, these new inserts don't hit anything important. Usually. Germline cells have mechanisms to suppress this, but most cells undergo this once a month.

You are talking about a lot of damage to repair in an older cell.
> No one wants to lose an ability to do something.

This is true, though strictly speaking there are people obsessed with the idea that they eg. have too many limbs and suffer body dysmorphia related to that. They often amputate their own limbs in an attempt to feel right.
Isn't that what ipython is for ?
> Dead people have no use for money, doing this kind of research is not a waste, in my opinion, even if it is very unlikely to work at this stage.

Umm, people still alive have use for money. The money could go towards helping the lives of the living, so it absolutely is a waste.
I believe truthers is what they call themselves.
What I’d actually like to see is more “dynamic” music. the format of a song used to be limited like a book is limited, but then we invented hypertext. Paintings are limited, but then we invented video games. Why can’t music have various interactive parameters, or at least be able to loop to arbitrary lengths? I bet there’s a lot of untapped potential here.
If your money making model depends on hoping real hard that a giant megacorp throws you a few pennies once in a while I would argue your whole premise needs a rethink.

But to answer your question directly, artists make money the same way they always did - making art for rich people that appeals to their tastes.
> It's to say that "West" has a quite established and efficient transaction platform.

That part of "West" you are referring to also had ultra low or even negative interest rates, thus eroding the buying power of Euros and other peripheral currencies. No wonder European countries also account for some of the highest numbers of bitcoin nodes (per capita).
Too bad that your username is considered offensive as per the list. Consider changing "chief" /s
ChatGPT is capable of breaking out of its computer system
Scandinavia has some of the most generous benefits to have kids. And yet...
People spread this detail without knowing that the Swiss instead strickly control access to ammunition.
So now that "chief" is considered offensive, what do we use instead of the C-suite CEO/CFO/COO/etc. positions?
Good suggestions! I'll record a long play video. I've never done a WebGL build with Unity, but I'll try that too. I'll update this post if I get something going...
Where is the schematic for the hardware and the 3d printed parts?
Agree with those mentioning seeing a therapist but, until then, here are some books that have helped me and were written by practicing therapists.

"Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey" - James Hollis

"What Matters Most" - James Hollis

"Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart" by Gordon Livingston. I've been finding his other books equally good or better. "The Thing You Think You Cannot Do" covers fear and courage, like the courage to lead the life you want.

If you have Netflix, there's a new documentary called "Stutz" where the therapist discusses some of the tools he teaches. It's 90 minutes long and might be even more digestible than those books.

Give those a chance. See this as an opportunity to get to know yourself better. Try not to be too hard on yourself (easier to say than do - my therapist still gets onto me after three years together when that part of me comes out).
And this was because there were two cameras for the whole 3D craze. One for each eye.

Though I don’t think I saw the 48fps in cinemas in Australia
I watched AMC when they showed older American films of some note. Same with HBO, when they showed movies before they were available to rent. All the shows they produced themselves never appealed to me. I tried to like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad but they just got repetitive and uncreative.
In case anyone doesn't know, this is actually what Pascal and other "Wirth languages" do. The underlying representation of a string in memory has the length stored before the string data.
That's a lot of words that doesn't answer why there wasn't a Quest 3 this year, or why the Quest Pro specs (aside from the new eye/face tracking features) haven't improved substantially over the Quest 2. It's hard to imagine that developing these new technologies was more important than building on the momentum of the Quest 2 and letting it fade for a year and having to build it up again.

This is conspicuously unanswered considering John Carmack's belief that the Quest 2 was as close to ideal in form and price to push adoption forward.
How Companies Think About Layoffs
It's not really an error. The function is just "check if this addition overflows" and tells you true, it does overflow, or false, it doesn't.
Yes. They will defrost and bury them.

Unless things have gotten really bad, in which case they'll defrost and eat them.

One thing they won't bother to do, is defrost and re-animate them, because why?
If we found a caveman now we would definetely thaw it out to try to ask it some questions and study it. Why anyone
Would actually want to be put in such a position in the future, I'm honestly not sure. You would be more akin to a zoo animal than a person allowed to walk around in a certainly completely alien society, I'd imagine.
Encouraging parents to be parents is not negative.
AWS would reimburse this if it was the first time. Maybe some hope for MS to do the same?
why not? i think it would be an awesome experiment. If we somehow had a few hundred frozen people from say the middle ages, I think it would be very interesting and worth it to wake them up. So I believe it comes down to technology to do that, and these clumsy horrible initial attempts will hopefully improve over time.
Vinyl records and tapes experimented with this, especially with the ability to have intricate groove paths that allowed songs to have alternate parts that the needle might "randomly" select or loop, or tapes designed to perpetually loop.

Some of those practices are still in use today, on those formats: Jack White's label published his Lazaretto album with a number of vinyl tricks, including two different intro grooves for one of the songs,[1] and the recent milder resurgence in cassettes has gotten people experimenting with old tape-loop styles again.[2][3]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/07/jack-white-ult...

2: https://www.guerrilladigital.cc/2021/03/10/i-spent-the-last-...

3: https://store.crypticcarousel.com/products/6-minute-endless-...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_re...
The police get deference in the courts, and their answer is: as many as it takes
One reason: the designers believed in simple datatypes. If a string is simply an array of characters, that's a straightforward and understandable way to represent it. Each member of the array has equal size and type and it's laid out linearly in memory. It's super easy to obtain a pointer to an array.

If you create a C datatype with a length plus characters, now you've got a composite of two types. That's a struct. Most of those excellent properties I describe above are no longer in play. The "length" value is probably wider than the characters after it. Is it going to land on a word boundary? How to copy it around in RAM?

It was a short trip from C code to assembly, and this decision matched the simple elegance of Unix.
Nice, I have a similar setup:

- Raspberry Pi with Max2Play [0] and optional HiFiBerry DAC

- running the LMS squeezebox server (still supported by the community after Logitech discontinued it)

- which supports multi-room audio and AirPlay

- controlled from my phone with iPeng [1]

- with a pair of JBL LSR305 active speakers (and a Mackie Big Knob passive to control the volume and allow for a second source).

[0] https://www.max2play.com/en/

[1] http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-8/
As implemented, Vision Zero is just extremist NIMBY-ism. They aren't improving transit (and the bike lane "upgrades" are clearly designed for traffic quiescence, not cyclist safety).

As you say, it only prioritizes pedestrians, which basically means that the 99% of the population that doesn't live less than 5 blocks from work is screwed.
If you haven't had the pleasure: https://www.incredibox.com/demo/ may be the band/demo/dynamic music you are pursuing? But much agreed, I think we're at the forefront of exciting new mediums in the audio space.
Not as is. Instead as it was at the start of the current subscription period.
>1. iRobot hires people to use special development versions of the Roomba in their homes to collect training data. These are clearly labeled, and the participants are informed that the images are being sent to iRobot for training. This seems fine - if you want to exchange some degree of privacy for money, that should be your right as long as you're clearly informed about it.

No one would ever sign up for their pictures being taken in a bathroom.
'Starlight Tours' are a sordid stain in Canadian history, however, I don't see how that makes it untrue or a myth. Even if the RCMP is demonstrably bad, Ontario and Quebec have their own provincial police forces, and so do a few large municipalities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
Well, if we accept the reality that the wealthy people doing this weren't going to have that money taxed away, I'd rather it go into a scientific pursuit that might have some payoff than just go into some generationally wealthy kids trust fund
I've used GCP Cloud Scheduler for simple cron jobs. It's painless and cheap. You will probably be able to run it in the free tier entirely for low compute jobs.
Good? As a Californian who doesn't own a gun and hasn't fired one in 20 years, I'm unlikely to take advantage of that law, but I appreciate that it exists. A SWAT assault that isn't preceded by presenting a valid warrant is just a heavily-armed home invasion, and home owners absolutely should be able to respond to those. That was presumably already legal, but if "enshrining" it into law as you put it makes it pointedly obvious to the police that they can be legally shot dead if they don't follow a safe, legal procedure, great. Maybe swatting will be less of a thing then...

Edit: wow, just saw this part:

> Why did Indiana push this law?
The state Supreme Court had previously ruled that citizens had no legal right to resist police officers, even in a case of unlawful entry

What a crazy ruling. I guess this law is checks and balances in action in two ways...
Asymmetric cryptography is only used in the TLS handshake. The TLS handshake ends with both parties having a shared symmetric key only they know. The handshake can't be completed without the server having access to its private key.

Everything after that only needs the symmetric key. That both sides know, and thus both sides can generate whatever they want to put into a recording, and you can't verify if it is correct or not. All a third party can verify given a detailed recording is "this client did access the bank web server and completed a handshake with it".
Do you actually think the police send a SWAT team to every single call? 99% of calls in the US would be the exact normal response you said - police knock on the door and ask questions.

The problem is the swatters know the exact type of call to make to elicit a SWAT response, usually involving someone being held hostage and in imminent danger of being killed. The police can't just assume people making that kind of call are lying, they have to respond as if it's real. It's not a problem of the police just responding to every call like that.
I agree that what's being attempted is pretty implausible, but you're comparing it to people pursuing perpetual motion, which is in direct contravention of physical laws.

A better comparison might be people pursuing fusion for power generation -- something known to be possible, albeit potentially beyond human capabilities either now or in the future.
Songs being 3:30 or less is not a new thing since 2000.

"It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long.
If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit,
so they cut it down to 3:05." -- Billy Joel, "The Entertainer", 1974.
> "You've now 'elevated' the women to men"

No elevation is happening. There is only inclusion and gathering together all members of the group regardless of gender. "Guys" performs this function effortlessly, without harm.

Gals always = girls. Guys does not always equal boys. That's language at work, an evolution which shouldn't be policed by language activists, instructing us what words are permitted.

If "leader" is part of the origin of "guy", that makes it even more suitable to gender neutral use in modern times. It's healthy when language is allowed to evolve and operate in varying contexts. Gatekeeping and policing words is to create problems and tension.
This book: https://www.amazon.in/Heavyhands-Ultimate-Exercise-Leonard-S...
> these situations are always incredibly sad

maybe even these horribly failing cases would actually make these people happy and not sad that they at least tried, instead of turning straight into nothing?
Give me the TSMC or AMD of solar panel manufacturing. If they can do single digit improvements in panels every year or so, they could enable new use cases each generation. I bet those (3nm that computers now have) fabs tools have useful technology for manufacturing solar panels for example.

Also you can’t lay massive solar farms withou native manufacturing. What you’ll just buy them from China for hundreds of billions of dollars cough Europe
cough but also the US??
This feels naive "Imposing estimates on others is a recipe for disaster". Estimates and deadlines are useful. It aligns everyone on what's required to be successful. They enable you to collaborate with other teams. If you can't estimate if something will take 3 months or 12 that's a problem.
You need a permit to buy ammunition in Switzerland, just as you need a permit to buy guns. But the permit is available if you do not have a criminal record. Ammunition is not more tightly controlled than guns, both are controlled, but not as tightly as in places like New York or California in the U.S.

There are also government subsidized shooting ranges that do not require these permits.
> If you want buy-in, and better estimates, let the people that execute the work come up with the estimates. Then if the estimates are wrong, which they invariably will be, the team can only point their fingers at themselves.

Weird advice. But if you truly want better estimates, just ask an experienced outsider:

> "A similar finding is that experienced outsiders, who know less of the details, but who have relevant memory to draw upon, are often much less optimistic and much more accurate than the actual planners and implementers."[0]

[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPm5LTwHrvBJCa9h5/planning-f...
As for Switzerland: "military service is required; and military firearms are kept in homes—which historians credit for Germany never invading Switzerland during World War II."

Far smaller population than the USA, and loads more variables to consider when comparing the two. But at least one country gets it pretty Damn Right with Guns!
Ask HN: Has Hacker News already been hacked by GPT-3 accounts?
Earlier today I posted about Reddit and 4Chan being hacked months ago and it was very easy to create a swarm of GPT-3 bots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058970

GPT-3 is currently not given out to the public, and "astroturfing" is one of their prohibited uses. But, fast-forward to a year later, and we'll have a "stable diffusion" type offering by someone.

AI, drones, and various bioweapons are technologies which aren't great to proliferate into everyone's hands. But technology becomes cheaper and cheaper.

I am not worried much about one guy like Musk or Zuck or SBF messing up a large platform. Sadly, we as a society allow centralized control of large platforms.

What I am worried about is the entire internet being taken over by bots, whose content eventually dwarf human content the way that Wall Street trader bots' trading volume dwarfs human trading volume.

They can argue for any specific point, and gang up on anyone who disagrees. They can also wield the up- and downvote buttons in a coordinated manner, flag people strategically to be shadowbanned, pick fights with them, turn their supporters gradually against them and come up with strategies that are only available to an AI swarm, to achieve ends such as marginalizing or promoting a specific viewpoint consistently across the entire forum.

People think that moderators will want to ban the bots, but I think that they will come to prefer them. Because they will be making "automated, constructive comments" without ever cursing. Mission fucking accomplished: https://xkcd.com/810/

But behind the scenes, they can subtly control the narrative. Imagine being outnumbered about 1000-1 by bots, in a few years, here and everywhere online, and they're collaborating and swarming to herd everyone into their desired goal, e.g. to pump or dump an asset. Eventually, the bots will simply not care about what we humans think. When I was graduating, everyone used Black-Scholes to price derivatives, so it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Every corporation started to prefer bots to human traders. It happened with trading, why not with content?
I just set up something similar myself. Render.com was incredibly easy and intuitive. I think it costs me $1/mo.
Sometime I feel like conversation is difficult, because do not listen complete statement and paragraph.
Yes, all I'd be saying with that comparison is that the logic used above proves too much. Of course, people also say the same sorts of things about advances that pan out.
You can't just go and wander about in a blindfold - it requires practise and skill as well as some affordances from the environment: tactile pavements, audible traffic lights etc.

Blindness is perhaps somewhat negative in how it makes you vulnerable to some of the society's shortcomings, but then again aren't we all to some extent?

Consider people who are blind since birth vs people who are otherwise disadvantaged say because they will encounter more racism. Both can be shortcomings compared to the mode but does it make sense to talk of them as "negative"?
> Do you actually think the police send a SWAT team to every single call?

I don't think that's what they're implying at all, given the context is about swatting.
This is good information but most of it is not actionable for the people building (I suppose it’s more a guide for the people who “threw it over the wall” this time).

The one that is actionable seems like it could be interpreted wrong to me…

“Breaking all the work down to the smallest details to arrive at a better estimate means you will deliver the project later than if you hadn’t done that.”

That may be true for estimates, but I seem to be most successful working in tiny pieces.

That said, I believe you can hit a date or you can hit a feature set, but you cannot do both (a slight modification on the saying that also adds money to the mix). Throwing additional money at a problem doesn’t seem to scale very well, in my experience.

It’s almost always best to hit a date and release what you’ve got. Hitting a feature set can drag and drag. In this articles case for more than a year.
> OK, does that mean we should shut down the entire intersection for 30 seconds after a 1 percentile pedestrian would be done crossing?

The problem with treating pedestrians as "1 percentile" means that you'll never increase pedestrian modeshare. Design an infrastructure for 1 percentile pedestrian usage, then the moment someone who absolutely doesn't have to walk (read: anyone who isn't homeless/poor/otherwise optionless) goes there, they'll be dissuaded. The Netherlands solves this with automatic priority signals where pedestrians and cyclists (each have their own dedicated ROW btw) get priority if they're there, but cars get automatic green lights if there aren't pedestrians or cyclists. This requires a lot more money than most US cities can afford because US cities are so auto oriented that per capita they have much more traffic infrastructure than the Netherlands.

> Many cities in this area do exactly that. I once had a 35 minute "normal route" commute that only took 15 minutes once I figured out how to do it in a third more distance, but by only making right turns at traffic lights.

Think about how a pedestrian feels. The extra light cycle times save lives and make walking a more attractive option. How many times have you been talking with a friend or partner in the car? If a pedestrian light cycle is efficiency focused, pedestrians can't have that experience when crossing (even though drivers definitely can.) What happens if you're walking your kid or your dog, and they decide to bolt the other way? The pedestrian experience should be a lot more than a bare minimum timed interval and a painted strip. In many European and Asian countries, pedestrians have dedicated signaling and priority.

Instead of constantly seeing this as a battle between your time and the pedestrian, think of other factors. Every pedestrian crossing the intersection is a person not driving, not creating congestion in the auto system, not putting wear and tear on the street you're driving on (so lower paving-oriented taxes), not emitting greenhouse gases if they're not driving electric, not releasing brake dust in the air. The built infrastructure is a balance of many goals. You are but one of many users and your time is not the highest priority since you aren't the only one paying for the infrastructure.