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> I thought high-speed chases were often about getting a dangerous driver off the road.

Not all high speed chases are initiated due to reckless driving. Police can lookup vehicles by plate and see if the registered owner has any warrants. Police can just be searching for someone with a known warrant. And plenty of people commit some initial crime and then simply flee in the vehicle.

> Well yeah—trust cuts both ways.

Ironically, I suspect this has more to do with departments more recently terminating chases by policy when the original want isn't a serious crime and where a chase might put other drivers at undue risk.

> Just another box for criminals to have next to a police scanner and radar trap detector.

In a Hollywood movie, perhaps. In reality, most people who are chased by the police do not have these items in their car nor are they planning to engage in some high tech getaway as part of their premeditated crime.

The thing that really calls into question their utility is they offer nothing in identifying the actual driver of the vehicle when the dart was attached. So, you may be able to find an abandoned vehicle, but even if you do and you're fairly sure the registered driver was operating it, you're going to need to do the same detective work as before to determine that beyond a reasonable doubt.
no, but based on replies, I guess I am burned out
This is what poorly run companies do. In the process of evaluating people to support an agenda, whether layoffs, top ranking, salary/bonus allocations, etc., it destroys any credibility that performance reviews may have had. Granted, in most companies, the credibility of the performance system isn’t that high to start with. In my time managing, the team members knew who was performing well and who wasn’t. And it was/is incumbent upon the manager to have similar insights. Such insights don’t come from semi-annual reviews. They come from frequent team interaction and engagement. Reviews are a substitute for good management, mostly to make HR teams happy.
>> AWS seems to mix the concepts of Build Pipeline with Deployment Pipeline.

>> Deployment has had historically a meaning in software development, I do not understand why to change it now.

Maybe because traditionally software shops would run a build server on premise, and a deployment on AWS. Now Amazon want's to move the build process on AWS as well - making them a little bit of extra money.
You guys need to crunch harder. The Lord MZ isn't happy, look at his face expression.
It's always bittersweet to see this posted. It is great and I wish more people knew about it, but it also has a daily limit so every time it gets press it runs of of api requests early in the morning and doesn't work again until the next day.
He also made this, which is extremely useful: https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
My brother-in-law has a saying, "You can't outrun a radio!"

Well no, especially not if the radio is attached to your vehicle...
My uncle was a sheriff for many years. He was always fond of saying: "You might outrun a cop, but you will never outrun the radio"
The scientists found that applying an electric field to PZT could make it act like a heat switch, resulting in a two percent difference between its maximum and minimum thermal conductivity, as they had predicted. This is a four to five times greater effect of an electric field on thermal conductivity at room temperature than previously seen.
Another dimension besides just the economic outcomes is the constant appearance of normalized, or even celebrated, impropriety. There's no real accountability for exploiters and no meaningful restitution for the exploited in pretty much any domain. Institutions which advertise themselves as society's equalizers (e.g. "Nobody is above the law") regularly prove to be either nakedly inadequate in the best cases or even active promoters of predation in the worst cases. So people stop believing in the premise. Impartial institutions, or at least the believable perception of impartiality, is perhaps the most essential component to sustain "Western society". For example, I strongly suspect that if any real accountability and real restitution had followed in the wake of something like the 2008 financial crisis, we'd see a lot less radicalization today.
I like having groups of customers segmented into copies of your architecture. It means you know how to spin that up independently which is good for a lot of reasons.
If you’re a safe c++ programmer who never writes code that has memory errors, you need to be tracking ownership and lifetimes.

Once you get your head around the borrow checker, Rust takes a lot of that cognitive load off you, by tracking things for you at compile time and dinging you on it if you get something wrong.
Back in my younger years, I was stopped at a light when a guy pulled up next to me and revved his engine, an invitation to drag to the next light. I revved my engine back. Light turns green, we race to the next light. I see a cop put on their lights behind us.

Now we're both stopped at the light with the cop coming up behind us. I'm on the inside lane. The guy next to me decided he's going to try to run from the cop and makes a right turn.

Cop pulls up beside me, shouts at me "pull around the corner and wait for me" then goes off after the other guy.

So I pulled around the corner and waited for her. She did manage to catch the other guy down the street. About 15 minutes later she comes over to me and says: "I can't believe you did what I asked. I had your plate and would've tracked you down. Don't let me catch you drag racing again. I'm letting you go with a warning."
In Barcelona too. There's no point over a cab really.
Business software: what's a price which doesn't need approval?
Many years ago, I was told that in the USA, "$800" was the highest price you could charge for software for a business, which would avoid all sorts of internal and external bureaucracy. I consult for a company that used $800 as the top price.

Recenly they've asked me if the "$800" limit is still true.

I have no idea!

The question: In 2023, for business purchases of software, are there any price points which are "easy" vs "hard" in terms of getting approval?
> Salary ranges for open positions in California are public.

It seems that they've figured out how to get around that: https://news.yahoo.com/90000-to-900000-pay-transparency-laws...
Would the water be fit for human consumption after this sort of use, or is this reservoir only used for almond watering?

Edit: @bitxbitxbitcoin: Thank you for the quick info, much appreciated. The questions are genuine, not a water system expert here.
“AI trolling”? Basically with the 5 request limit, Bing has created a game to create the most outrageous conversations in only 5 requests.
Never run from the police, because they never kill people who are cooperating?
>The reality is that everyone runs from the police nowadays.

I think the reality is they have something to sell and are happy to deploy some over the top rhetoric to try. Unfortunately police are inundated with this kind of language building the image that police work is full of action and danger when in fact it's more dangerous to be a pizza delivery driver.
$14m in security. Where does that money even go, high-tech weapons?
You are thinking about chats like a soapbox perhaps, by calling them posts, and trying to make them cater to a network. They are conversations, when you add people, it is so they can join the conversation, naturally that's not your soapbox.

So you just don't do any of those things you mentioned, people rarely broadcast using group chats. You are trading quantity and breadth for quality and depth by choosing just a small group of people to keep in contact with meaningfully.

Social media does really help people stay connected no doubt, but it breeds shallow connection habits, and I wager it makes less meaningful connections out of people who could have been very close had they not been given that feeling of connection through shallow means. Like eating a fast food burger instead of a nutritious meal, you are satisfied so you don't seek more, but you robbed yourself of a better opportunity.
Its interesting why this article included into Blender 2.03 source repo.

Here is a [pdf] for whole issue where article published.

[pdf] https://vintageapple.org/develop/pdf/develop-25_9603_March_1...
Did you see the new Bing chat ?

#1 is already happening !

See here (other HN thread) : https://twitter.com/tobyordoxford/status/1627414519784910849
A lot of times just giving it the description of the task and the directory listing is enough. For simple tasks. Other than that you can also using embeddings to search for code that is relevant which OpenAI also has an API for.
Is that still a common practice? I figured most companies are running builds in their existing pipelines infrastructure which in my experience is usually GitHub/Travis/GitLab/Azure DevOps/CircleCI/etc.. and then moving it up into AWS
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Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34847645 (6 comments)
If police did this to me, I’d just pull over somewhere, rip off the dart and put it on another car at a stoplight.
Author here. This has got to be one of the simplest web pages on the planet :/

Logged with Brave support and as issue on the site’s repo.
I mean we could be far overfeeding our data models too. Of course data models don't take years in real time to train either.
Step 1. Purchase 5 SDR's, Spoof GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, QZSS, BeiDou to show location as other side of the globe, middle of ocean, etc - run all 5 inside of car.
Step 2. ??????
Step 3. Run from cops, keep going after they tag you and pull back, only to see your location as antarctica and realize they're not catching you
Step 4. PROFIT
This question is irrelevant because we all know that if Ukraine secedes Donbas/Crimea today, next decade Russia will attack again for other lands. There is no end to this. You cannot appease dictators by letting them do exactly what they want. They will come back for more. This rhetoric of "let's secede some land to Russia to stop the war" feeds into Russia's hand.
This is a totalizing the solution. Why not put pressure on a company, which is easier than getting the law changed? Corporate entities can be herded by other means than regulation. Not that we shouldn't consider changing the law, but that's one of the slowest and least responsive approaches.
> not everybody comes with a CS background.

Something doesn't sit quite right with me to describe the "basics of hardware" as being something that comes with a "CS background".

I come from a formal CS background, and we spent more time dealing with finite state automatons, programming language theory, and other aspects of abstract computation. Getting down and dirty with data sizes, system components, and bit fiddling was an available, but optional path. We all spent one or two courses dealing with the practical nature of computers, but it was largely drowned out by theory, at least in my program.
Thank you - what great info & videos.
Seems pretty easy to substitute that out with whatever IaC tool you want
I tried to like it, but when it'd get stuck for a long time at a step with no good way to get information or control what was going on... I moved on to Terraform and have been relatively happy ever since.
In my experience when negotiating any discounts the Amazon sales guys are very aware exactly how locked in the customer is. If they use a ton of proprietary AWS features Amazon may offer 5% discount, on the other hand if the customer uses Kubernetes and other stuff that is easy to move to another cloud they may offer 50% off.
Why shouldn't I hate the players? That's just some BS used to shrug off accountability.
Facebook Parent Plans to Sell ‘Meta Verified’ Accounts
Some people like to think of criminals as evil geniuses. The reality is that the vast majority of non-financial criminals are barely educated dumbasses and that’s how they got there in the first place.
You can create a second network behind your router to keep your LAN separate from the server's LAN.
How many Ukranians will be tortured to death like in Izium on the occupied territories if they are never liberated?
One possible reading of the current title is that the humans at MS are threatening people, whereas it's actually the AI doing so. Humans doing so would be both more surprising and IMO more threatening, since humans making such threats probably can and will follow through, while the AI... at least is a wildcard.

Like, it's a problem either way, but there is a difference in the nature of the problem.
> It’s the outside world that needs to change first.

That is never going to happen if you’re not part of that outside world. Queer people should be normalized, not hidden. Though it’s absolutely true it’ll suck for the ones alive now, it might make it better for the ones born three generations from now.
Eh, I disagree here. Like some responsibility is always on the consumer, but clear information is essential in good markets.

If I pay for a hard drive and get one TB of space, I get it til the end of time. If some other product says "1 TB of storage", with no other context, it'd be easy to confuse the two (especially for people who aren't tech-savvy).
No but if you can get your hands on some laser beams with shark-mounting hardware I would be interested.
I'm in biotech but I'm not a programmer. Have you looked at job listings to see where your experience parallels and where it doesn't?

From what I've seen many of the programmers with biotech experience don't really have a good understanding of what we do in the lab. Communication is really important.
Especially not the Russian ones.
My dad said you can't outrun the helicopter
How the mighty has fallen.

IBM Research used to be the best research group in the world. Now they are implementing a fairly reasonable NVIDIA cluster and the only "research publication" is a video talk given at NVIDIA's conference.

Compare that to the linked Microsoft Open AI Supercomputer, which talks about DeepSpeed (really significant breakthrough in distributed training), the ONNX runtime (which allows the same models to be run on things other than NVIDIA GPUs) etc etc.
Then I suppose there’s no problem banning high-speed police changes, which present unreasonable risk to unrelated third parties for little clear benefit.
In my experience it is - having on premise build server is a lot cheaper than running a very CPU intensive task in the cloud. Can save thousands of $ a year.
Also, Spider-Man uses Spider-Tracers, first depicted in 1964. That probably wasn’t the first time these were seen in fiction.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_11
This seems to be a really common sentiment, and I find it very strange.

The pattern: new thing -> decide if good or bad -> hype or attack.

Waiting to see how it evolves and gathering pros or cons is boring. Using it? Boring. Thinking? Better see if there's some expert you trust that has some opinion already. Readiness is all.
If the theoretical unit economics works out, _and_ that the market size allowed for the scale that those unit economics required?
awesome read thank you!
Exactly. Having worked with plain tcp/udp sockets, and then trying to understand WebRTC is like trying to run a marathon after winning the 100m sprint.
Somewhat to my surprise, I ended up writing some script-fu lisp when I couldn't get python-fu to do what I wanted in GIMP. I believe it got some use seven or eight years ago at work for batch resizing of images.
Bixi isn't subsidized anymore (and I don't think they have been since they went private in 2014). They even got acquired by Lyft last year.

Edit: I was thinking of their international division. Looks like the Montreal network is still run by the city of Montreal.
It should be news when Google commits to not abandon something nowadays!

But even then, Stadia happened. So all bets are off.
Strong disagree on this.

I don't treat it like a person, but rather as ChatGPT that has access to Bing's search index. For factual queries ("who invented X? at what company?") it's more reliable than ChatGPT and saves me quite a bit of time. Similarly for content aggregation tasks - I'm *scared* to click on a lot of "Top 10 X", "The best Y in Z" type pages because they're SEO and advert mined. Bing does the initial aggregation for me, and if interesting, I ask it to tell me more about that resource or visit the page myself.

There will always be a segment of people who troll on the internet - that doesn't detract from the immense productivity tool it can be when used correctly.
i think it might just be due to not being considered relevant to what hn posts are usually about, and is just an emotionally charged blogpost.
If it comes, you switch to a different hosting provider in about 5 minutes, that's not a very big effort
The worst part is that ethic minorities there look up to Russians as their overlords, they are even more brainwashed as being second class citizens than they were during Soviet times.
Informal reasoning doesn't mean subjective reasoning.

Just because someone believes something, doesn't mean there is a compelling argument it exists.

But if something can be studied by many independent people, with strong agreement not based on passed-on beliefs, then there is likely to be something there.

I.e. I am unaware of a universal experience of souls, or informal arguments for souls that are compelling.

I am aware of informal arguments for existence ("I am, therefore I exist") and consciousness ("I experience myself, my own thinking, even this thought itself, so I am conscious of myself"). In both cases, the vast (vast, vast) majority of humans conclude they do exist and are conscious. And the informal reasoning is very strong, even informally tautological.

Soul's don't have that kind of support.
Inauthentic lols?! Next you'll tell me that all those people starting off with Dear Im3w1l, don't actually find me dear at all nor are they sincerely mine.
I would recommend trying out SolveSpace first, which is what CAD Sketcher is based on. It has a delightfully simple UI, and the basic sketching workflow is the same, so you can learn the concepts first in SolveSpace, then get familiar moving around in Blender and transfer your SolveSpace knowledge over.
Yeah that would be pretty effective unless the person being pursued had removed the plates or something.
I feel like these are just clickbait at this point. This user intentionally and methodically forced the model to act as antagonistic as possible to gather view. Of course, the model will reply like this when it was told to do so. If I use MS Word to type out a note threatening myself, is it Word's fault?

The little value in showing the edge cases of an LLM behaving erratically is overshadowed by the fact that the user wanted this in the first place. We all know how many ways a user can break a software even when they don't want to. It is nearly impossible to make something as complicated as Bing and account for all the way a user can misuse it. At some point, a scissor maker can't be blamed for cutting off a person's finger.
Ok... What are the cases where running from the police is the preferable strategy?
Ask HN: Finding a Business Mentor
Hey everyone!

I'm a young product development engineer based in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in hardware. I've always been entrepreneurial and have lots of business ideas that could solve real problems.

But the thing is: I tend to overthink my ideas and struggle to validate them in the market. So, I'm on the hunt for a business mentor or owner who can offer guidance and be a sounding board.

Do you know anyone who might be a good fit?

I can offer my skills as well for a mutually beneficial relationship
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Peabody College at Vanderbilt just apologized for using ChatGPT to write an email about school shootings.
The Eleven Labs guy told me they put out an update that made it more consistent, which maybe it is slightly better, but still unpredictable like you say. Maybe you could ask them about it again. I did suggest they make a higher queue priority available for higher level paid tiers.
As you elaborated elsewhere:

> Honestly this whole "adapt" thing is a load of nonsense parroted by people who aren't immediately under threat and have nothing to fear. Who is going to adapt at 30/40/50 years old? How about people who just graduated art school? Go right back into college? Please.

I agree completely, I just don't think a degree being involved has anything to do with it. I assume most people work the best job they could land, so someone doing menial work and losing it due to automation is in about as much pain as someone facing the same situation on a very specialized role. If anything, the person with more education has a much better chance at getting another (perhaps lower paying) job.

I interpreted your first reply as conveying the message that it's not so bad if low skilled labor is automated, and it's a bigger problem if it's high skilled labor that is replaced. My apologies if I misunderstood you.
Most engineers will tell you that the transition from a junior engineer to a senior engineer, or the truly transformational work in our careers, does not come from just crushing tickets non-stop for extended periods of time.

Of course it doesn't. And that's because "the transition" he refers to is an illusion at best, and a lie we tell ourselves at worst. It's all about politics and getting on your boss' good side. Toot your own horn and you'll move up the ladder of made up titles. Congratulations. It's not more complicated than that.

Most managers don't look at code, and even when they do, they can't distinguish good work from CRUD boilerplate. Most managers don't know what it is you do, only what you say it is you do.

And the reason why we're in this situation in the first place is because our management class is filled with people who just want things to work without issue so they can collect a paycheck off of someone else's labor and provide for their families.

Managers don't care about your work, and you are being tricked into caring about your work so that managers don't have to.
> and once done don't have to be done again

Hardly, you'll have to update the rules when the program gets updated to do new things; whereas with pledge(2)/unveil(2) the developer simply applies more restrictions if needed before the program is distributed.

pledge(2)/unveil(2) is not only superior because it cannot be disabled, it has better aesthetics than any of that apparmor/selinux garbage.
If they can ditch the car then they're gonna be ditching the GPS dart with it.
Where's Frank Luke when you need him?
If Google Docs suddenly disappeared, everyone would just continue as usual, except that they now use MS Word or LibreOffice instead. If GPT-3 disappeared, what's the alternative?
It doesn't seem like a product. The conspiracist in me sees this as pure propaganda. Particularly pieces like this and other outlandish stories such as the Blake Lemoine episode.

The primary purpose seems to be to overstate the capabilities of these relatively incapable language models in order to manipulate investors and in particular to interfere with specific segments of the labor market in order to suppress salaries.

Otherwise, I've been seriously struggling to understand what value these easily broken and lying _chatbots_ would have.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to all the HIMARS? We were getting daily videos of their exploits, and then it started to slow down and now I can't recall the last time we saw one in action.
They don't. They're fairly orthogonal concepts. You can have a concept of lifetimes without memory management (for example, the object changes state while you have a reference to it).