skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In contrast, in policing people really do shoot at you

Definitely, some people do. Some don't. Some are trying to commit suicide-by-cop. Some are unarmed and not even a threat. Your post makes it sound like anytime an officer decides force is necessary, that it necessarily must be. Let alone, lethal force. Sometimes police get that determination wrong, whether by accident or intent. Sometimes police abuse qualified immunity. This stuff almost never goes before a jury, and on the occasions it does, if there's no bodycam and no other narrative (i.e. the other person's dead), unlikely to result in a conviction.

Angelo Quinto [0] was an unarmed, non-violent, non-criminal, 30-yo mentally-ill Filipino-American veteran killed in his own home by Antioch PD, by kneeling on his neck, while handcuffed. His mother was the person who called 911, and noone asked for the police, she only asked for medical. He apparently wasn't even committing any crime, just having a psychiatric emergency. But the police killed him.

Antioch PD didn’t disclose Quinto’s death to the public for nearly a month, then only after public requests. And there's no bodycam of his death. None of them were fired or charged, and there's no public mention of disciplinary actions. In response Gov Newsom signed eight police reform bills.

The level and frequency of police use-of-force in the US is also too high. It needs to be reduced.

> 'feel' of police work in regards to danger to be quite different than logging or fishing, and ignoring that will lead to the police acting in ways we really don't want.

Equally, ignoring all the above also leads to bad consequences too.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Angelo_Quinto
Damn, really fantastic article - there goes the rest of my day playing with this!
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Everyone's downvoting, but this is what did it for me.

Especially if you have an unusual situation, brokers and personal bankers will know how to handle it.

I had 0 credit history in Canada (literally a completely blank printout), but wanted to buy a house now that I'm a PR. A personal banker was able to work with a copy of my US credit report (Canadian banks don't/can't pull this on their own), and proof of assets in the states. The first item on my Canadian credit report was cosigning a mortgage at prime rates.
I don’t think it’s related solely to income though. Rich and poor alike in Japan are thin as sticks. It must be something nutrition based, and something that the US has an abundance of but other countries do not.

To some extend I see it in the Netherlands, but not to the levels visible in the US.
This sounds very familiar to when I was a young man and I was given a lot of painkillers and had a very high fever due to an infection. I had a very intense waking dream where I felt like I was hurtling into an infinite void. I had a few flashbacks in the next week while totally sober. Overall it was an intensely unpleasant experience.
This is slightly tangential, but I just realized in reading that article that the JAMA paper on AI besting physicians with regard to empathetic responses was based on ratings of empathy provided by physicians? Not patients themselves, or providers actually trained in empathy as a core skill, like psychologists?

There's some irony there and it makes me wonder about the study.

I guess more to the point of the article it's maybe not surprising AI rollout is a hot mess given all the problems with healthcare at multiple levels. Like the pandemic, it seems like it just becomes a reflection or test of all the problems involved in the system as a whole.
"If you don't want your kids buying cigarettes that's on you."

If we want to live in an environment where children have any degree of autonomy, that means delegating some aspects related to restricting age appropriate behaviors to the state. Now, I'm not a fan of government mandated age restriction on websites, but your point is obviously not well thought out.
You basically can’t make a law without the president. I can’t see how you can claim they’re not part of the law making process. Two thirds of both houses means the president absolutely is a a part of the branch of government that makes laws.
What are the "many" cases in which exercise is not feasible or safe? Unless you're an ICU patient on life support or something you can always exercise more. You would have to get pretty far out on the exercise curve, like consistently over 30 hours per week, before safety starts to become a concern.

And as for focus stealing it taxing other systems of attention, that's just bullshit. You don't know what you're talking about. A rigorous exercise program actually enhances your ability to focus.

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky is a competitive athlete who exercises a lot and also sells his own line of nutritional supplements. I think he would be the first to tell you that it's always going to be exercise, that's just what it takes. Drugs and nutritional supplements can help a little, especially for people with some underlying pathology, but they will never substitute for frequent hard exercise.
> The Verge is a Vice publication. It’s the same company.

No, it isn't. The Verge is owned by Vox, not Vice. Vox is an independent private company.

It's not hard to spend 3 seconds Googling things before ranting about them.
They replace the banana every few days in any case.
The issue with the old lowjack is that whilst it was better for privacy it was far worse for actual recovery.

Cars that were outfitted with low jack would have the devices removed or disabled before the tracking could be enabled and as they didn’t report their position the police would have nothing to go by.

Whilst I agree that the information sharing is pretty despicable since you are already paying for that service the new model is more useful at least in a situation where the police actually has resources for recovery instead of doing the bare minimum because most vehicles are insured.

There probably is a market for a solution that would be more reliable than an airtag but one that you can control.

One can probably build one fairly easily with a low power SBC with cellular capability and one of those IOT global sim plans.
Thank you for the moderation in the answer, I appreciate it.

What's perhaps even stranger is that physically we're hardwired to generally have the same emotional needs, though obviously with some variety, and that most ways of being are different strategies for meeting those emotional needs. This is a topic discussed in Nonviolent Communication and I rather appreciate it.

What I have seen a number of times is that there's a turning point once I see how someone is meeting a basic emotional need with a particular strategy, and the through-line to it. Without that through line, things can be a bit scary as they don't seem to follow causal rules from the outside, and we're all limited in our models.

I don't always stay in really close to people advocating for violence, for example, as that's not a culture I entirely prefer. I've come to a belief after a while that nearly everyone is an extremely rational agent in their decision-making, and that it's actually the information presented to the person inside their brain at the point of the decision-making that is oftentimes the culprit for the vast differences in behavior for certain people. I've seen it from traumagenic mental health disorders to even normal differences in political opinion. Realistically I can't quite get in to that place of reasoning to speak with that person always, and it's not even really my place to do that or maybe even try. But it is humanizing, and it has helped me keep my head on straight instead of writing someone off so I don't feel disturbed by an unknown unknown rolling around some proverbial emotional garden.

Daryl Davis is another person I really respect and like as well. I look up to a lot of how he handled those kinds of clashes, as the way it resolved for him always has been so strange and mysterious to me. Incredible story, tbh.

I'll leave off with this quote from him here. Of course the goal is not necessarily to convert someone always to a different belief system, but I think it can maybe then be reinterpreted here as finding a peaceable middle ground:

"When they see that you know about their organization, their belief system, they respect you. Whether they like you or not, they respect the fact that you've done your homework. Just like any good salesman, you want a return visit and they recognized that I'd done my homework, which allowed me to come back again.

That began to chip away at their ideology because when two enemies are talking, they're not fighting. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy — it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything...you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship. That's what would happen. I didn't convert anybody. They saw the light and converted themselves."
We use a tracker to track our cat who we allow outdoors every day until an hour before sunset.

We initially used a Tile and then decided to switch to an AirTag since it had a larger network.

After 4 months of the air tag we're looking to switch back. Most of what the tags do is allow us to know when we're within X number of feet of our cat. The Tile had a better range and was lighter. But most importantly, we could have multiple accounts track the same Tile. Somehow Apple's airtags are missing this really critical feature that has come up again and again for us. If one of us is not home we need to be able to have another one of us be able to track her down but we simply cannot

To be honest, the biggest reservation for me personally has been the company itself. It seems like an obvious industry where a very in-your-face-look-how-trustworthy-we-are approach to marketing like Mullvad the VPN service does is the right move. Mullvad's "only one price no matter how many years you buy it for" and "we never have a sale" on top of their just straight up "our quality speaks for itself" product seems like the perfect approach for a company where trust is so critical. In contrast, our Tile tried to force us into buying a brand new Tile when the battery died instead of just... letting us get a new battery. We had to cut it open and then buy special glue to glue it back together. I understand not all the models do this but... really? This doesn't seem like the market where you should be trading customer trust for a quick buck.

Another thing I've yet to see from Tile/Chipolo/AirTag marketing is specific mention for our use-cases of ~~tracking~~(making easy to find) our outdoor cat. The network effect in this market is killer but this seems like an obvious audience that I'm shocked no one is targetting. People walk their dogs and people who let their cats out often have to check NextDoor or FB when something comes up. The point is that they talk. And the thing about the network effect with bluetooth trackers is that the network effect is localized. Meaning Apple can dominate NYC and Chipolo can dominate SF but if everyone in my suburb of Chicago for whatever reason happens to be using BlahBlah, I'm obviously gonna go with BlahBlah. I want my cat to be findable and the most important thing is what my neighbors are doing. A targeted approach seems obvious yet it's rare to see a product specifically marketed for that
I bought a bunch of Tiles, and after a year the non-replaceable batteries failed and I got an offer to replace them at 15% off. Talk about garbage. Your product isn't good for anything if it just stops working after a year and needs a full replacement.
What legal basis do you have for enforcing a $1mil civil penalty on stalkers?

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems out of proportion to any damages sustained to Tile and likely unenforceable (not to mention uncollectable)?

(FWIW: I think ID verification is a good non-technical deterrent to what is largely a non-techincal problem!)
>that should be made to be illegal.

Paying a wage that both parties agree to should not be illegal.
Yes, the classic example being from Jaws https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open an app switcher of all the open apps.

The most recently used app is usually immediately to the left of the one you’re currently in.

On older iPhones with the Home button, double tap the Home button to get to the app switcher.
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The jobs went to them only after going through India and lots of other developing countries over the last few decades. At this point there aren't a lot of cheaper places left in the world.
This isn’t a criticism, but the examples are mostly from very recent films. As a casual fan, I’d be curious to learn about some of the seminal uses of each technique as well.
With general tech literacy among doctors quite poor, hospital IT staff underfunded, and outdated EMRs with vendor lock-in, this outcome is not surprising. If one considers linear regression to be basic AI, tools such as wells criteria are widely used. Like the article states, you really have to convince the doctors it's useful.
Wow, the police allowed their entire fleet of vehicles to be used by a private company? And taxpayers considered this ok and not blatant corruption?

Capitalism, you scary.
The LaTeX/METAFONT article used as a reference is a pretty good read: http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Historical%20or%20Techn... Reading it, I'm kinda... surprised? By the sophistication brought to the task (eg. the very nice font they got to print with) by the Mormons way out in the middle of nowhere, even if the final alphabet apparently is a bit of a disaster.

The main impression I get from it is that shorthand scripts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitman_shorthand are probably underappreciated now as an inspiration.
stringent penalties for misuse, including a large fine.

How exactly does a non-government entity impose a fine?
It sounds like you're choosing to interpret "safe" far too narrowly. I understand for opsec you likely don't want to share the specifics, but if you have "all the benefits" of my safe, good for you, sounds like you've got a safe:

* Single location for things you've only got one of, or which are super valuable and small

* Not somewhere that a burglar would just immediately check (rules out places like "nightstand drawer")

It sounds like you're just bragging that you've saved $50 by not having a true lock on your thing. I'm guessing you're pretty sure you've hidden it so well that a lock isn't worth "bothering with." Good for you! Enjoy your safe regardless.
That's hilarious. If you find it I'll add it
"Deus ex Machina, it's not just a bad literary device anymore."
The person you’re replying to is not worth the time.

> I can see how someone without a good grasp of the English language might feel it implies that

Only an asshole would say that. Only an asshole would be so confidently incorrect.
> TIL about the CNC song

Your memory is slipping 082349872349872, watch those cosmic bit flips

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596922
No, you're just completely wrong. That doesn't make people unhappy. Where did you come up with such a ridiculous notion? Do you lack experience in the real world? Have you never played competitive sports?
Wikipedia:

"In March 2016, the company was acquired for $134 million by CalAmp, an Irvine, California-based provider of Internet of things (IoT) software applications, cloud services, data intelligence and telematics products and services.[4]

In March 2021, the vehicle intelligence company Spireon announced it had acquired the LoJack U.S. Stolen Vehicle Recovery business from CalAmp, joining LoJack users with "nearly 4 million active subscribers from over 20,000 current Spireon customers".[5]

Under Spireon, LoJack technology moved from RF-based location to GPS and cellular-based technology, growing availability of the solution throughout the U.S. and Hawaii and expanding the solution from only stolen vehicle recovery into connected car technology for both dealers and consumers."
I've lived on military bases. You get subsidized housing. You get issued military furniture. You buy from the base PX. You follow the military's rules. This all goes away if you leave the military for whatever reason.

I don't recall anyone having a big problem with it, because if you did, you opted to live "on the economy". Your choice.
Yea I think Dolly Zoom. https://eycndy.com/dollyzoom
There's also double dolly https://eycndy.com/double-dolly
It has some good reasoning abilities for trick questions but no ability to scan books or webpages, it just suggests them. I'd say it's model is over 30B parameters it just limits its responses to adhere to a good assistant voice exchange.

You get 10 trial interactions then there is a phone number signup wall tell you it wants to spam you. Before I got cut off it did say something interesting: "As AI becomes more sophisticated, it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine a future in which humans play a significant role."
I enjoy participating in the discussion and contributing to it. I just don’t want my comments there forever.
The NYer article mentioned: https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1971-borges-anautobiographicale... Even as a Borges fan, I found it quite informative.
Its because often unity is worse than division.

Unity allows easy spreading of disease and corruption, cancer cannot spread between different people. If a union in one country is corrupt, it won't automatically affect the unions in another country.

China was a united entity against the mongol invasion, didn't work out very well, because you take out the center, the rest collapses.

Europe was deeply divided, and just because your neighbouring castle surrendered, doesn't mean you will. Because you are the local noble who owns the land, rather than some bureaucrat employed by a distant emperor.
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I majored in math and my biggest problem with this is that you don't get to "do" anything infinitely many times in the math that I'm used to. In discrete contexts where infinity is used, you instead can "do" something an unbounded but finite number of times. In a continuous setting you are allowed to pick an arbitrarily large (finite) number.

In that context the first quantity that you refer to above is nonsensical because you can't "increment infinitely many times".

Secondly, I'm not sure your construction is correct, since your Infinity+1 set cannot be a singleton (it must contain all the numbers less than Infinity).
6 year old: But, sensei, what about Inf in the IEEE 754 spec?

Sensei: Grasshopper, lecture over today.
I don't publish at github anymore. I won't do it. I still use my account for bug reports and stuff for projects that host there, that's all.

I'm not one of the old guys, I genuinely do not like email based collaborative workflows, I prefer the web repo paradigm that comes with github and gitea/forgejo, gitlab and the like. It's not ideal but I prefer it. But github is at this point a no go for me due to the fact that they make you agree to terms which essentially allow them carte blanc with your products, including giving them the right to violate your license.

Something ideal for me would be Fossil with RSS feeds for every type of action.
Highly recommend the economist Richard Werner for his defense of small banks as the most productive and resilient financial institutions.
It is, firstly there are legal agreements when you’re an enterprise user of such solution then there are various tools like DLP solutions that integrate with cloud/SAAS services such as Google Docs or Officer 365 and lastly there are CASB solutions that allow you to control how corporate users use those solutions in the first place.

E.G. you’ll probably be able to use the corporate account to sign into the corporate Google Docs or O365 instance but if you try to sign into your own it would be blocked and likely also reported on so you might get a call from SecOps down the line.

OpenAI currently offers none of it and more importantly it openly uses the data that users submit to it as well as the responses for additional training and any other purpose they might come up with.

As for browsers these are also often also configured not to send data outside of the company and yes it’s possible. Windows 11 web search and other features would also likely be disabled on your corporate device.
Not if it helps them find and remove the AirTag. It might have a deterring effect if the Airtag was somewhere hard to remove
How did you get access to GPT4? Were you guys already using the 3.5 model and get upgraded at some point?
Theocracies can be republics (basically, any non-monarchic system is a republic), and can have elected representatives.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, for instance, meets both.

Now, the assertion that Utah is effectively a theocracy rests on the claim that the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints asserts informal power loosely analogous to that held formally by, say, the Guardian Council in Iran. I’m nit saying that that’s true. But that it is formally a republic with democratic election of representatives isn’t even slightly incompatible with it being an informal theocracy, you can even be a formal theocracy with those features.
Wait till he finds out that police departments don't build their own cars, or sew their own uniforms.
What a hyperbole. I guess Oppenheimer took the "Unabomber position" as well.
Ok, then it's off to the archiving sites which flag edited comments with a red background.
Well NYT themselves announced an editorial board overhaul a year or two ago because they said they had become too “left”, perhaps like Fox and WSJ were so far right? But now I’m not sure, since i subscribe and it seems balanced.
"Paternalistic attitudes infantilize society"

It's not 'paternalistic' to require people to pass a driving exam, or gasp, do a safety test to buy a gun.

This pseudo-liberatrian crap is the most toxic part of HN, and frankly what is 'infantile'.

I have a number of nephews and nieces now and completely emphasize with my brothers and sisters who don't want to allow you and others to infect their kids with your supposed 'ideals' willy nilly - it's a cesspool out there.

At minimum parents should have choice.

We can be smart about it and provide anonymous tokens to validate age, it's not even hard, we just have to think about it, it should have happened long ago.
This really sucks, Westfield is one of the brighter spots downtown. We've worked out of the coworking space on the top floor for a few years and I absolutely loved it. It seems like it's falling apart now : ( The downstairs food court seems empty expect for an occasional insane person dragging their belongings.
I found the same recommendation. While I haven’t gotten to daily-driving yet, I am pleased and impressed with the settings Vivaldi exposes and the reasonable defaults included out of the box.