skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the data distinguish between a pretext stop, and a stop for a genuine traffic infraction, like minor speeding or a broken light, that a cop uses their discretion on and issues only a warning?

Naively, forcing cops to apply the law even more strictly and always issue fines for minor violations, is not something we want, is it?
Others have speculated on this in the thread, and I concur with them.
During my time in the Navy doing radio comms and intelligence, I quickly learned a mastery of Maxwells equations, information theory, Fourier series etc. was much less important than learning and applying practical knowledge from manuals like this. For the folks discussing transmission lines I think the telegraphers equation is a useful tool.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. For me this is one of the best pieces of reporting I’ve ever read.
You can in fact build a new single family home in Manhattan, if you can afford the land to do so.

Meanwhile, regardless of land price, dense housing is illegal to build pretty much everywhere that is not currently dense, due to zoning laws. Why shouldn't someone be able to build dense housing in a suburb?

What it sounds like you advocate for is that everywhere currently dense can stay dense, and everywhere not currently dense must stay not dense. That doesn't make sense unless you want the dense area to continue to skyrocket in price as more people want to live there and we have no new housing to accommodate them.
Here are two versions of the original jargon file from AI:HUMOR; free of ESR's pollution:

AI:HUMOR;MITSAI JARGON (25.3 KB):

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/mitsai.j...

AI:HUMOR;JARGON > (85.3 KB):

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/jargon.6...

Also NASA jargon:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/nasa.jar...

Alice's PDP-10 is also a classic:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/humor/alices.p...

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Chaosnet designers... Lisp hackers... TECO hackers. TECO hackers
right there on the bench with me! And the meanest one of them, the
hairiest TECO hacker of them all was coming over to me. And he was
mean and nasty and horrible and undocumented and all kinds of stuff.
And he sat down next to me and said:

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)+z,.f^@fx\*[0:ft^]0^[w^\

And I said "I didn't get nothing, I had to rebuild the bittable in
queue six" and he said:

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I'm not a chemist, so this may be false, but I've heard it's almost impossible to make NA drinks that are very similar to the real thing. The reason I heard is that whilst ethanol has no flavor itself it does enable/carry (whatever that means) interactions between other chemicals meaning there are flavors present that will never be there without ethanol. Would love to know if that's actually true...
Forgot to paste the actual link. https://elsazhou.medium.com/lk99-chinese-replication-efforts...
As someone who had their appendix removed yesterday, I’m grateful that cheating nature can actually be done safely and effectively.
you may be interested in James C. Scott's books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governe...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott#Major_works
For some who may be confused about this: Twitter (err... "X") is alledging that the scraper company explicitly agreed to their ToS, and is pointing to the company's twitter profile as proof. Since they registered the account in the first place, they had to affirmatively agree.

Ordinarily I would say scraping is legal, but only because there's no agreement between the scraping party and the service being scraped that states the contrary. In this case, the scraper agreed not to do so with Twitter, then breached that agreement.
Not at all.

Server Up 1375 days, 10:05:01

*.XXX.net[xx.x.x.xx] 0 9696 10570 56550590

Its server to server link, online 56M secs.
Now do the math, how much days this link is up (no netsplit).
Fortunately, I maintained a similar passing grade in maths/reading comprehension...
Most of the times the sensor modules are actually pretty accurate but the heating up of the enclosure e.g. from heat radiated by the MCU creates the issues.
In our indoor monitor it took us several months to get the airflow through the enclosure right so that the temperature and humidity sensors are very close to ambient.
How the internet survives when basic rights conflict is the active question. 202x is the decade ever nation on the planet woke up & decided to start regulating what happens across the internet.

And most of these rules don't respect anyone else's. Your people in your country do whatever you say whenever they travel across the internet afar. But those people running their servers also have their own laws that apply to them. The potential for conflict here is vast.
Crew Republic, one of the biggest German craft beer producers, makes a session IPA.
Hmm. Do I understand your comment correctly in that thoughts should be either rational or not?

I think different kinds of thinking have their applications in different contexts. Gödels theorems are hardly ever relevant to most of mathematics and not in the least to computers (which are finite).

I also doubt that industrialism has anything to do with Leibniz or Hume. That part of history is most likely fuelled by greed for money, not for philosophical thought.
I appreciate there is nuance, and some checks would be computationally expensive, but something like training data and evaluation data being literally identical seems like it would be pretty straightforward to check for and a very simple quick rejection.
Hasn't this been the case for some years now?

In any case, I look forward to the LED bulb that can keep my cat warm in the garage (covered by a terra cotta pot and inside a cardboard box), or survive in the back of my oven (which can sustain 550°F/290°C).
I'm not sure what you are hinting at by saying "like a potential criminal who may be using someone else's card." Were you using someone else's card or not? Its a membership based store and your card is what validates that status. What exactly was the scenario you found yourself in? maiden vs. married name? Picture scratched up?

It looks like from reviews left that the Costco Shop gift card[1] is a one time use. How they would know that, maybe via system tracking, I'm not sure. It would seem that you would have to have a new card every time you go verse a single card with $3k on it. Other reviews seem to indicate that they check the member that gave you the card which after the first year of renewal you would not be able to show since your membership lapsed.

[1] https://www.costco.com/costco-shop-card.product.10024438.htm...
It's cultural. In India and other places in Asia, honking is just to say "hey, I'm here, did you see me?" and prevent an accident, but it happens so frequently that sitting in traffic is a cacaphony of honking at all times. In (my part of) the US, honking is to express displeasure at whatever it is the other driver did, and is infrequent. In other places, they might as well not install a horn, because it never gets used.
My brother is law is a British police officer. He laughs at how much effort we spend in the US and Canada policing traffic. "We just have cameras. They do the same work for free."

His job is to investigate violent and serious crimes, rather than to bother motorists.
> the most good for openness on the web.

With all due respect, WEI is antithetical to this value and goal.

The question is, will you hear people who don't agree that your proposal will result in an open web, or continue classifying many people who want an open, non-toll-gated web as criminals?
> the project dreamed up by Leibnitz (and more distantly by Plato)

More distant than that. It all comes from Euclid. Who, you know, was actually tremendously successful in that project.
I feel like this perspective comes from not having coming face to face with the nihilistic, sociopathic behavior of a decent percent of the underclasses. Some people don’t understand anything but immediate pain. It’s tragic, the life circumstances that got them to that point, but that’s where they are. Maybe we can do things to prevent more kids from growing up into that. But right now, millions of good people, who can’t afford to move to a nice suburb far away from the problem, need cops who are willing to bring that pain, and if that doesn’t work, lock the criminals up until they’re old enough to be docile.
The PEP notes subinterpreters as an alternative and says it can be considered a valid approach to achieve paralleism. However it does not discuss why nogil was given preferences. I guess that's ok because the PEP is about nogil.

I'm not sure whether the SC has considered alternative approaches but it would be surprising if not
> There have been no significant changes to vehicle-related death statistics since the 90

I mean, if you look at the data, you'll very quickly see you're wrong

https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/statistics-data/...

Fatalities have gone only down over teh past 20 years.

Your assertion that car deaths haven't moved is false
Does it use Intercom’s interface or Intercom’s AI to answer questions? There’s a huge difference.
A couple of AI hype cycles ago, everyone was abuzz about genetic algorithms. I recall a cautionary tale that was related about someone using FPGAs to do genetic algorithms.

After a while they noticed several disturbing things. One, that the winners had fewer gates than theory thought was necessary to solve the problem. Two, some days the winners didn't work, and three, sometimes the winners didn't work on a different FPGA.

After much study the answer was that the winning candidates were treating the gate logic as analog. Manufacturing flaws or PSU fluctuations would result in the analog aspects behaving differenty.

To fix this, they split the fitness test in two passes. All implementations that actually worked got re-run in an emulator, which of course treats the behavior as purely digital. Only if they worked with both did they avoid being culled.
Ah, then let me rephrase, it's actually this model:

> P(A|B,C,D,E,F....)

And with clever choices of B,C,D.... you can make A abitarily probable.

Eg., Suppose, 'lolita' were rare, well then choose: B=Library, C=Author, D=1955, E=...

Where, note, each of those is innocent.

And since LLMs, like all ML, is a statistical trick -- strange choices here will reveal the illusion. Eg., suppose there was a magazine in 1973 which was digitized in the training data, and suppose it had a review of the book lolita. Then maybe via strange phrases in that magazine we "condition our way to it".

A prompt is, roughly, just a subsetting operation on the historical corpus -- with clevery crafted prompts you can find the page of the book you're looking for.
The British police (apart from the metropolitan police) are just fine thank you very much.

Please don't try and generalise problems from (parts of) the USA to the entire world.
Good luck with that, Israel is a legal haven for seedy data exfiltration and backdoor SaaS companies.
Polars vs. Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda. – Confessions of a Data Guy
It's there, but here's more evidence and data to back up the assertion that suburbs are a net drain on city finances, with more cost than tax revenue from properties: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/16/where-did-the-...
Backwards.

What we want is the police to prevent crime, not stop it.

Their role in that project is not to solve every crime but catch every criminal.

I imagine they do not do well from that metric either.

In too many places the police are the army of the rich controlling the plebians
How can one default to TLS1.3 on Windows 11?
I was shocked to see how absolutely callous american police was while browsing this youtube channel [1]. Many of these are incidents where death was EASILY avoidable. There are videos where the "Police" openly shoots at a group of people because one of them was the suspect. Maybe this callousness is a direct result of lax gun laws ?

[1] https://youtube.com/@PoliceActivity
America's varied policing systems seem to be wildly worse than average for the developed west.
A hangover is primarily dehydration.

Just drink alot of water during your drinking session or before bed.
The tooling for the plastic enclosure was quite complex and time consuming. If there is interest I can write a blog post about it.
Would this imply you're using a globally available key to briefly talk, without having to see / switch to the voice app? I don't think I've seen or noticed that, if so, only "focus discord and hold a button to talk"... at which point I'm already looking at it there's nothing to track, personally.

If it's global though I can absolutely see why that's useful.
Let's stop subsidizing their accident insurance then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
I started using their template for writing a mini ops manual as a read-only-friday project, and it's still in use and the format became the business's standard for other documentation. feels nice when I see a new hire reading it.

Also, I like the cookies. https://quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/publications/recipes/se...
I don't see why your personal experience is all that relevant.

Just because you haven't been able to negotiate a contract with residuals shouldn't prevent anyone else from getting better terms. Maybe you should join a union and collectively bargain for a better contract? Or get an agent to negotiate for you?

Residuals in acting are the rough equivalent an employee stock option for software developers. They are part of the total compensation, and help align the interests of the actor/developer with the interests of the company. Work hard, and if the show/product does well, the worker gets an extra reward. Remove stock options, remove residuals, and total compensation drops, leaving you with angry employees.

The argument about the amount of residuals support the strikers' argument that they are getting less total compensation, which is one of several major points made by the unions.
It'd be a shame if makers of self-driving cars stuck to actual cars and single trips.

Something in between that and buses might be very efficient and practical, especially for things like work commutes, visits to the supermarket and the like. Having say 6 or 8 seats and picking up multiple parties who are heading in the same direction or going to roughly the same destination. It would likely be quicker than waiting for a single trip car and definitely cheaper. Additionally it would likely reduce the number of autonomous vehicles on the road and use less resources.
Observation: Your profile says: You call it "alt-left", I proudly call it "Antifa".
Ask HN: Do you still recommend Chrome to non-tech friends and family?
As a forever Firefox person myself, I have always advised people seeking browser advice to give Firefox a try. For very close ones, I might have gone ahead and migrated their data. Pretty much none ever seemed to notice the differences because the UX is about the same at this point.

But with Google handing out death to the open web with a thousand cuts - latest being the WEI proposal, Manifest v3, FLoC, dreaded and forced AMP; I feel curious if you still use Chrome and recommend it to non techies?

If yes, please elaborate on the love - it would be a good exercise in building patience for me :)
If not, what was the tipping point?
Here in Germany, it's common to mix beer and sprite 50:50 for a 2,5% drink. It keeps more of the beer taste than you'd think.
Ask HN: What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?
Oh my god they actually rebranded to X.
I'd like being able to toggle certain parts of the world, also the "include tiny countries" toggle is not clear if it's on or off in my opinion

And for some reason I keep getting the same 3-4 countries?
The indoor monitor looks really interesting! I bought a Aranet4 recently, so don't think I'll invest in another Air Quality monitor soon, but I'm interested in checking this device for next buy.
> there's so much PTSD/cognitive dissonance that the human brain and body is now forced to endure post-service

Combat is traumatic by its very nature. Of course many people who experience it are going to have PTSD, just like with any other traumatic experience.

As for "cognitive dissonance", anyone who has been through a particular harrowing experience is going to have some difficulty dealing with people who not only have never had the experience, but devalue it because they don't understand it. The only way to fix that is to (a) teach civilians that people who volunteer to serve their country in the military deserve respect, not disdain, and (b) teach our political leaders that they need to not use the military unless it's really necessary, so that the public will support such usage instead of protesting against it.
Range Restriction Causes Systematic Underestimation of SAT's Predictive Power
Love that it starts here:

> Demonstrate tactical and technical competence.

> Know your business. Soldiers expect their leaders to be tactically and technically competent. Soldiers want to follow those leaders who are confident of their own abilities. To be confident a leader must first be competent. Trust between soldiers and their leaders is based on the secure knowledge that the leader is competent.

(emphasis mine)

If only this advice were followed in other spheres (and is it observed in the Army or is it aspirational?)
Policing as a concept? Because my local bobbies are stand up folk.
Using Your Sociopathy for Good
Between the two kinds of empathy (Affect and Cognitive), I'd wager many great founders on here are high on the latter and low on the former - that doesn't have to be a bad thing though!
i wonder if anybody has ever tried storing digital data in vinyl...itd be interesting to see if they can actually surpass cd's capacity
> And our energy demands are not shrinking.

I think they should be, but even if they aren’t, there still is the observation that a kWh of electricity often can produce more of what we really want (light, motion, compute power) than a kWh of oil (about the only thing we can efficiently convert that into is heat)

For example, Google tells me

- petrol is about 12 kWh/kg,

- the modern fiat 500 has a 47l gas tank,

- Tesla sells cars with 50kwh batteries.

Yet, that Fiat doesn’t have ten times the rang of the larger Tesla.
> Do I understand your comment correctly in that thoughts should be either rational or not?

You didn't understand correctly. "Rationalist", in the OP, is a historical label which can retrospectively be applied to a specific set of thinkers, who defended specific beliefs, from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

None of them were claiming they were the only people who thought "rationally"; rather, they were mostly claiming that only rational thought could reach truth, and empirical evidence need not factor into it.

In modern parlance, the Rationalists believed that all knowledge would end up being deductive, like math.

> Gödels theorems are hardly ever relevant to most of mathematics and not in the least to computers (which are finite).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

> I also doubt that industrialism has anything to do with Leibnitz or Hume. That part of history is most likely fuelled by greed for money, not for philosophical thought.

In this time period, the intellectual circles that Leibniz and Hume frequented are exactly the circles that gave rise to modern economics, the ability to measure longitude at sea, the ability to calculate rates of change over time, using steam to power machines, etc. In other words, we're literally talking about all of the intellectual developments that directly led to the industrial revolution.
I have been wanting something like this, but with a few more features such as "git diff". I took a crack at it, but the popular (and maybe only) Go Git implementation has some issues:

https://github.com/go-git/go-git/issues/700
That was the holding company, not Twitter itself. It does seem like Elon is going all in with the X rebranding, though.
Good. The fewer cars for frivolous purposes, the better
Why I always took 300-500mg of acetyl L Carnetine capsule before commencing an evening imbibing. It handily blocks Acetaldehyde formation quite handily. Doesn't protect your cardiac rhythms in the least however, and this is a another attendant risk of accrued long-term damage as with Acetaldehyde.

https://www.wikihow.com/Minimize-Cancer-Causing-Acetaldehyde...
The Texas situation as I understand it is the state refusing to enforce federal law, which makes sense as the federal government has their own enforcement agencies. That seems a bit different from the state compelling the federal government to do anything.
I wonder about survivorship bias in Musk's case. Lots of fearless people with overdose levels of hubris don't lead successful car and/or rocket companies after all. You could probably make a reasonable argument that those traits helped Elon Musk specifically, but that's different than arguing they're useful traits for success in general. I agree with your point about those traits manifesting negatively for Musk himself, but I feel like that effect is going to be even more significant for entrepreneurs trying to succeed by emulating the 2023 version of Elon.
I’d love to use open source solutions but my friends would never switch over to that because they are lazy and don’t care.

I assume there are many such cases
I blocked Musk and Tesla, and that filters out a lot of the note toxic tweets.
The source material makes it sound like the traffic stops are like.... profiling people and wasting their time...

The 79% on traffic stops is an officer acting on what they classified to be a traffic violation -- it's not 79% of them are pretextual stops & warnings, and 11% are catching speeders/reckless drivers... it's 79% pulling over speeders/reckless/etc. drivers and 11% "reasonable suspicion of a crime that is not traffic related"

If you think about it that way... People CONSANTLY violate traffic laws... So it's not terribly surprising. I certainly hope calls for help are promptly answered, but that source doesn't seem to include data other than the fact that responding to calls for help takes twice as long as a traffic stop for an officer's time.

Edit: removed attribution to parent post
Despite the article is on US data, it is no different in other countries, which many of them don't have the structures regularly held responsible for in the US. It is by the nature of the very system we have in common; central government. Law enforcement is primary goal of police, not crime prevention, it is nuanced and magnified in practice by the sophistication of our societies and more grift nature of everyday violent crimes.
> Driving there seems positively insane to me, except if I’m shopping for a party or something and need to fill the trunk.

How much food do you keep at home? In the US many people have room for quite a bit of food at home and on most grocery runs they are filling the trunk or at least buying enough that carrying it home would be difficult.

Walking might require them to go to the store 10+ times a month whereas driving might only require 4 trips so even if walking is as fast as driving they can spend much less total time traveling to and from the store if they drive.
Not sure but from what I've read it's a pain and takes several weeks. Inferior cycling infrastructure too. Though I still love visiting the place. Certainly beats NL when it comes to mountains!
What Waymo et al have now probably is sufficient for a "public transport" role, given the fixed service area and high density enabling investment in mapping infrastructure with manual fixes and local heuristics.
Yes, GIGO even applies to humans.
Just don't talk about jury nullification[0]

[0]https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-02/jury-convict...