skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm, I'm double checking and I think I was misremembering / exaggerating slightly.

I think the recruits are all college-educated (associates or so), or otherwise pretty high degree of training. And the non-recruits are experienced cops with good reputations from other parts of the state.

In any case, my point is that rich counties are in a talent-war with the poorer areas of your state. Higher qualified and/or trained cops will leave the poor areas to be paid higher (and be recognized better) in richer counties that care more about education and cop-knowledge.

Its bad enough that just being a cop in a poor area is already more stressful / work than being in the pleasant suburbia of rich people / low crime districts. But on top of that, all the good cops know to leave the poor-areas and seek out better positions elsewhere.

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This 10,000+ departments thing in the USA? Its not working. People need to realize that and start tearing down police departments and/or merging them together.

We *DO* have highly talented cops. They're just hanging out in the areas with low crime / less work and better pay.
That's a bit over the top. It's just people having a conversation and sharing their experiences. Quite interesting to see that it's not that uncommon.

Is there selection bias here, with those reporting ill effects having a particular thinking style and interests? Sure, could be part of it. As you allude to, it's a complex topic, people will have these experiences for a variety of reasons and unpicking the various causes is probably very hard.
People question the user numbers yet ignore the rising number of instances which is non-trivial and hard to fake. The usual bots dont (yet) set up new instances. Its not that easy and it costs real money.

It wasnt quite clear how serious the reddit event but it seems now more than a blip. Many subs still silent or disable comments because they cant moderate without the tools.

The fediverse platforms and overall design have still some way to go but those inroads are vital validation and testing at scale.

Remember these are still tiny teams with very limited funding. When the history of social platforms is written they will be hailed as heroes and visionaries long after the lazy comments on HN are forgotten.
Tell that to everyone who got laid off this year - they’ll love to hear your take.
> He's been somewhat critical of OpenAI. Specifically the part about it pivoting to a for-profit business.

Because it was thereby starting to compete with his own for-profit.

He was even asking for a moratorium for 6 months so his company could catch up.
I think this action from Twitter showed that it isn't public information. It is pretty much twitter's to do whatever they want with it.
Is twitter worth scraping though for AI?
I mean, Reddit I get, but twitter content has suuuuch a low signal to noise ratio.
> nobody really knew or cared about the externalities of what they were doing.

People were protesting from pretty early on. Students, hippies etc. They cared, but the establishment didn’t.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement
> RHEL clearly does not care about the GPL

You're obviously confused as to the terms of the license. Red Hat seems to be fully compliant.
RIP. His TTL and CMOS cookbooks have been of huge help in the late 80s and early 90s with no Internet available. They're still relevant today and highly recommended, especially for learning, since you can't teach the basics to a kid using an Arduino, although you can use it to simulate them later in software.

His web page at [1] contains a lot of interesting stuff. Better mirror it before it vanishes.

1 - https://www.tinaja.com/
> getting real data every action

Libertarians Gone Wild in this thread lmao
They’re passing up an interesting opportunity to compete.
Be like the Silkworm
My parent was somehow dedicating more empathy towards single-man operations than large companies, and I aimed to tone that sentiment down.
When I was at Kagi I implemented their fallback poly-fill for web sockets that way. Worked great!
could you just do something like beehaw does, but a bit less "don't hurt my feelings" I bet it would be pretty easy to sort out the bots...
OK, not gonna argue with that. There is, I guess, a perception that it matters because policy-makers, and the wonks and hacks that influence them are hooked. The value for me (and ergo the public, some classic NGO thinking there for you) lies in understanding those dynamics.

I do not use the Twitters myself, and actively discourage others from doing so. Sends people bonkers.
But does wallabag work with Kobo's default firmware?
What makes you so sure other countries' police don't? The London Police swatted someone in August, 2022.
It already was semi-hard to machine-read, that is the reason I use Nitter for doing my small-scale continuous scraping of twitter which is now temporarily broken. Nitter is tons easier to parse as it's not reliant on JS, etc, and simpler to create screenshots of with headless chrome.

However if you mean implementing some even worse obfuscation (kind of like FB putting parts of words in different divs etc) that is not really compatible with the situation that this needed to be done as more of a temporary emergency measure. And PoW doesn't sound reasonable because it sets mobile devices against the scraper's servers. If all of this was just so easy, scraping would be dead. Good that it isn't.
> We are oriented to think that way after ~15 years of the algorithmic engagement-maxi world of Twitter.

I never cared about algorithmic engagement.

Before (and during) the engagement Twitter:

- has everyone you needed there, centralised

- has search, where you can find people and topics you care about

Mastodon has none of that: you have to know which server to join and how to find people and topics. Centralization always beats distribution in convenience.
Are you thinking of Discord?

https://discord.com vs https://www.discourse.org
That looks like some very lazy criticism. Care to provide contradicting studies?
Like Steve Jobs said, DropBox is a feature not a product. They are barely profitable and in 2023, there are much better integrated solutions for most users - GSuite, Office365, iCloud, etc.

Why for instance would I pay $120 a year for 2TB of storage when I can get Office 365 for 6 users + 1TB for each user or combine the storage for $99 a year?

Apple and Google both also offer a better value proposition.
What does a spill of cesium and strontium at a research site have to do with nuclear power generation?
We've finally come full circle with gRPC, which is basically a simplified CORBA. I went through the whole cycle, and while I don't exactly miss CORBA, I do wonder why it took us so long to get back to that baseline of functionality.
There was also a thread obsession. However, luckily, 'Threads' magazine is about sewing. I had an issue on my desk.
Gnome used CORBA in the form of Bonobo and KDE reinvented the wheel with DCOP.
Signed Distance Function (Field): Drawing 2D Shapes on the GPU
I think the solution is to do it like Singspore, and pay head of states similarly well as big company CEOs, combined with strict lobbying, transparency and trading regulations.

Everything else creates perverse incentives and attracts parasites.
Everyone is busy getting mad at Red Hat when the ones they should be directing their furor towards is Oracle. In simple terms, Oracle fucked this up for everyone and forced Red Hat's hand. They've been stealing megacorp contracts from RH left and right by undercutting them on price and how could they not? Their development is minimal. Truly "we're gonna build an OS...and make Red Hat pay for it." So while this situation sucks for everyone involved, this was indirectly Oracle's doing.

And if you're building infrastructure on free software that has dependencies on RHEL, or rather "free RHEL", shame on you. RHEL is for shops with wheelbarrows of money that used to run Solaris or HP/UX and are running proprietary software. What is happening is IT project managers are trying to justify their existence and cut costs, so they switch the contract to Oracle Linux so they can earn that bonus check.
Bye bye Birdie!
> they never build nuke plants in nice places!

I think you have it around the wrong way. The plant is what makes the place undesirable.
Isolated and uninhabited is quite appealing.
Yep! I have the Evolv, and I use the third-party MedM BP apps[1][2] to sync the readings from the device via bluetooth to my phone (and HealthKit). No first-party app needed.

[1] (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/au/app/medm-blood-pressure/id10409095...

[2] (Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.medm.medmb...
Ask HN: Cheap “Heroku Workers” Alternatives?
Hi HN users, i'd love to know if there's cheap "heroku workers" alternatives so that i can just run a long-running background job ?

Rent a VPS is an option, but i want to free from devops work.
> one article breathlessly predicting that in the future bespoke development would become bunk as folks would just buy e.g. an Aircraft object off the peg and plug it into their application

Every time I consume a third-party’s REST API, I’m doing that, no? Albeit the article may have oversold the idea in the work ending there.
The cops there IIRC were outgunned.

The shooter had an AR-15 rifle. You ain't beating that with just a side-arm / pistol. AR15 shoots at 3x the muzzle velocity with larger bullets, meaning the AR15 penetrates walls / cover better, and has better accuracy to boot (less drop over distances so its far easier to aim).

I don't know exactly which magazines he was using, but AR-15 rifles can come with effective magazines as large as 30 shots, while typical pistols only have 9 far weaker shots. A trained man with an AR15 could very well beat an entire squad of pistol-armed police men depending on the distance of engagement, body armor available and cover available.

Ex: The AR15 could penetrate doors and walls, while the Police could not (and even if the Police __COULD__ penetrate the walls, there was a chance at injuring the hostages).

People just don't realize the mechanics of what happens when a shooter has access to guns that are more powerful than the Columbine shooters. It makes the tactics for stopping those shooters that much more perilous.

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You can't expect cops to walk into a fight with literally weaker weapons than what the shooter was obviously using.

People don't realize that here in the USA, not only are guns legal... _BIG_ guns, like the AR15 are legal. This is what people talk about "assault style weapons", which is poorly defined but obviously means things stronger than a typical pistol.

When guns get bigger, they shoot further. They penetrate more armor and cover. They shoot more accurately due to barrel length and faster velocities. You literally are getting outgunned and favored to lose from a tactical perspective unless you sit around and wait for the SWAT team.

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> "We have him in the room. He's got an AR-15. He's shot a lot ... we don't have firepower right now ... It's all pistols ... I don't have a radio ... I need you to bring a radio for me, and give me my radio for me ... I need to get one rifle ... I'm trying to set him up.

The Uvalde cops _DID_ attack the shooter. They were so obviously outgunned that they retreated. Welcome to the reality of AR-15 all over the damn place.
This looks like a fun way to get into programming. I'll have my kids check it out!
I literally worked on a project two years ago that was still using CORBA. Oof.
I am still working on a code base that has slowly evolved from around 2000 with as its core CORBA as the internal communication bus between actors, so we still use it. We likely want to remove it because it is a bit an overkill in our application, but at the same time it is working and no one wants to pay for a rewrite.
Besides the new discovery, isn't it worrying on its own that basically nothing was done the last 13 years, showing one part of the problem?
> No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.

Having all the casual users left behind and siloed on Reddit would be glorious. Lol.
It's true of illicit markets with a high ceiling for what buyers are willing to pay vs the requirements for sellers to engage in trade. People are willing to pay so much for drugs which are so cheap to produce that dealing with dealers does virtually nothing for consumption because rising prices inspire people to fill any gaps you poke in the supply chain.

I would say sex is not dissimilar.
This is a direct consequence of Elon gutting Twitter's infrastructure.
Got that info from wikipedia? Because I made exactly the same mistake the other day. It's 120 guns per 100 people, 1.2 guns per person in the US.
It's both and the technological element is laughably easy to recreate. The social element takes time but Reddit never had any meaningful control over that anyway.
Terrible, just so sad. Now go make an HBO show with naked guys in the mines about it.
I kinda agree, but I still consider it P2W. It doesn’t matter if that’s the standard “fare”, its an insane and arbitrary barrier to entry. Hockey is a horrible comparison, by the way. Because that $500+ is mostly for gear so you don’t get yourself killed. In Magic, that would be at best comparable to your deck box, binder, sleeves, etc.

For instance, in Modern due to a strong mana base and other expensive staples you can easily reach $500 for a midtier deck. One can argue this is “pay to play”, but there is no logical reason for these costs. It’s cardboard. Typically decade old cardboard. Wizards is playing with what is called “reprint equity” so they never make a set “too” good and “burn through” their backlog too quickly. To me its an excuse to profit off the secondary market.

Legacy is even worse, as the P2W is that at any decent level you are required to have the consistency of Dual Lands and various other strong pieces of mana to be competitive. It’s why decks typically cost a few grand on average. This is due to the Reserved List making it impossible to get such important cards via reprints.

And finally, on the extreme end you have Vintage, where the decks are primarily built around the most expensive and powerful cards in the entire game. Including the Power Nine. Decks here typically cost as much as a car regardless of level.
It's also true as well. If it's low friction and easy to use your average person doesn't care and isn't aware of T&C's. And even when made aware don't care either.
Others may be interested in what the CEO says even if you think it's false.
I'd love to be able to purchase something like this and a weather station that will submit data to a free public service so people can receive better and more accurate / timely weather data. I can't tell if that is possible out of the box via AirGradient from this website (or if such a service even exists, as they only mention "24 months AirGradient data platform / map" which implies proprietary)? Do people know of a similar solution for a weather station?
Average how?
Half the murders in the US are done by black males, basically 600% more than you'd expect if looking at per capita basis, and you want to look into why maga boomers have an uptick in violence (which I somehow doubt is even true)??
Looks like melanoma.
where's the long live apollo part?
Ah of course. Sorry the thread was long and winding so I didn’t realize that’s the part you were referring to.

For reference to anyone else, this is what they’re referring to

https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...
Can we please have a code example for this technique or any similar way of not using JavaScript for this feature set? This is very interesting!

Thanks!
Sounds they want self custody of their keys. This isn't what the general public want.

Decoupling identity from social is a good idea but you can't just migrate the key storage to a single custodian entity. There'd need to be a multiple custodians to ensure the same power imbalances didn't reappear in a different form (e.g. Google owning everyone's logins).
My first exposure to CORBA was 1996/97 where it was used to deploy a major distributed infrastructure. It worked quite well to manage and integrate this large scale deployment, some of it expanded beyond just one datacenter, so it was nice to have a really good control system to manage thousands of services across such a large estate with minimal user intervention. Applications were patch and upgraded through the CORBA services and we scaled the system to provide national and international infrastructure services. I would wager nearly 20 years since I had insight into how that infrastructure worked that this is still running… Obvious use case is telcos.
I vaguely remember those spinning balls in Windows 2000, XP etc. to know your DCOM components were working. Are they still a thing? We did the 3 tier DNA thing, using VB because in VB it was simple, in C++ it looked hellish.
(For some more details, see also [1].) The bright boiling granules (comprising most of the image) show photosphere convection. There's also the inward movement of the tips of penumbral filaments (which surround the dark sunspot cores), though the material in them flows outwards ([2]). Note how granules get deformed in constrained areas before the two major sunspots.

All this can be seen in a "somewhat" higher resolution on time lapses from professional telescopes, e.g., [3] (from the 1 m diameter Swedish Solar Telescope).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evershed_effect

[3] https://ttt.astro.su.se/isf/gallery/movies/2010/
Why don't they just use Nextcloud or SyncThing or similar for syncing? Too much wheel reinvention everywhere!
Marc Andreessen was all about CORBA. James Gosling said that JVM (Java Virtual Machine) was more important than Java itself. Remember EJB.

In the end it did not matter if the technology was good or bad. Microsoft effortlessly killed everything that was not theirs to control.

Now we have n:th iteration, more simple with less ambition. WASM, HTTPS, REST, json...
I wish it were so innocent. In reality it's libertarians literally hard for legalizing their prostitution startup dreams. These people would pimp their mother for a higher credit score, with their mother's consent of course.
We are working on an integration with openAQ [1] to share air quality with them (opt-in for people that use our data platform). OpenAQ is an NGO with the mission to collect air quality data from all kinds of sources from around the world and make it available to the public with its free API.
However this would only cover the air quality part -not weather data.

[1] https://openaq.org/
No. The majority is incorrect. This is a broad overstep of the court's authority. The individuals in question have zero standing and if it was such a broad overstep then the call should be on congress to sue the executive branch and pull back that authority. Not on the judicial branch to make up what they think congress's authority should be.

The reality is that this court is increasingly corrupt and going over their authority. And they should be reigned in.
I agree, "Steel Bank" is way more natural.
> Surveys show the top drugs as marijuana, cocaine(no crack), lsd, and ecstasy which are more party/social drugs. It’s not the “bad” drugs like crack, meth, heroin, or pcp.

Surveys? As in asking people what they've used, and maybe how much? I can think of some reasons why prestigious/party drugs are well-represented there and gutter drugs aren't.

It's safe to assume that most money in drugs is made on harmful use, if you define harmful use even remotely sensibly. This is the case for alcohol, tobacco and gambling, and although there is always going to be more uncertainty around illegal products, you can be pretty confident it's the case there too.

This is why legalization isn't an easy fix. People running businesses that are harmful to their significant customers, know it. These industries will still attract gangsters in the sense of people that are OK with profiting from spreading misery, only instead of risking prison for it, they can openly build relationships to other powerful people, participate in lobbying etc.
Have you got an example of regulatory pressure working?

Drugs, alcohol, sex, abortion. You make it illegal and you get the same behaviour with a whole load of bad add-ons.
If we're sharing bash.org links... http://bash.org/?795779
I second the other comment just made in reply to yours. I also want to add that this would kind of happen on Reddit as well where occasionally there’ll be more than one community for the same topic. Sometimes it’s different themes (there’s standard mature f1 and there’s the f1 that just wants to shitpost and meme). Sometimes one community exists but hasn’t gotten enough attention or growth moderation so people join a more well managed one. Sometimes one community exists for general purpose discussion and one for more specific stuff (like cycling vs randonneuring)

I feel like similar things will happen in the forum fediverse (it’s what I call the fediverse alternatives to Reddit). There’s going to be a period of thrashing and churn. And then it’ll settle down with each community having its own vibe and we members get to try it out and settle where we want.
This is why I didn't plug in the BlueAir my gf kindly bought us.

People have figured out how to run them off raspberry pis since I believe though, so I should sort it out to run cloudless.
Is it ethical for the "public square" to have a robots.txt?

Musk is trying to have his cake and eat it...

(Clearly it's not a public square, but his position is incoherent).
Those numbers are per 100 people; while the US does have more guns than people, the problem is not quite that severe yet!
I strongly associate the strong desire to instantly label people with lower intelligence.
> And PoW doesn't sound reasonable because it sets mobile devices against the scraper's servers.

Scraper servers and mobile devices have different access patterns though. I I'm reading tweets then I'm fine waiting 1 second for a tweet to load. Page load times for this kind of bloated stuff are super slow anyway, meanwhile my mobile could spend a second or two on some PoW. But if you want to large-scale scrape, you suddenly have to pay for 1bn CPU seconds. And this PoW could even keep continuously increasing per IP. 0.1% with every tweet. Not noticeablr for the casual surfer sitting on the toilet, neck-breaking for scrapers.

> If all of this was just so easy, scraping would be dead. Good that it isn't.

Small-scale scraping could still be provided through API access or just a login.

The reason they are not doing the "easy" thing is that they don't see a need (yet, perhaps). Just get an account, they'd say, and they are right. It works for Instagram too, except for some weirdos who nobody really cares about.
These aren’t considered delicacies. Every culture has good food and lower end “working man” type dishes.
HN can run on a $10 droplet with cloudflare cdn. It is a text based forum with relatively low volume visitors.
True - I would like to choose which org I share it with though.