skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every camera system in my state (OH) has proven to be nothing more than a cash grab that mostly enriched the private entities that ran the cameras/administration.

They passed laws to allow it by crying safety; but then botched the entire deployment by being the greedy nepotistic politicians they are.

AI isn't suited to fix any of the underlying problems here.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/tag/red-light-cameras/
> 2) Debian will contain the most up-to-date of everything.

Hasn't aged too well, I suppose.
Man. Love this. React for a purpose. Htmx and Hotwire for the rest. The debt years saved are for humanity.
When it was first suggested that doctors/surgeons not washing hands & medical equipment between patients was harming patients, the majority of the medical community was up in arms calling the person who suggested it crazy and taking it as an attack on their professionalism.

Being medical professionals doesn't educate them away from having the same human flaws and cognitive biases that we all are capable of.

edit: I'd forgotten his name, it was Ignaz Semmelweis - see for example https://globalhandwashing.org/about-handwashing/history-of-h... or https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Should they do your taxes too?
https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/holy_hell_trump_did_use_d... I think covers this well.
You do not want to hear me sing. I was actually asked to sing this live on a Bay Area radio station and refused.
My first question... I'd not want to crush the soil if possible.
Maybe the writer just couldn't spell camouflage and had to improvise.
Wouldn't Montana have disproportionate influence on US politics, due to the way the US Senate works? As well as presidential elections.
this is overly simplistic. rsync to where? please tell us more :p
Do you have a source on that being the reason? I'm extremely curious. The amount of work it takes to keysound a track (and figure out hot to not make it awkward at lower difficulty levels) seems like a much more reasonable reason not to do it, especially since there is some evidence[0] that Konami and Activision might have struck a deal for patent access, and even ended up collaborating to manufacture and distribute Guitar Hero Arcade.

[0]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/exclusive-exploring-i-guita...
Merge events from diverse systems into one unified view. Tailor action plans, resolve issues swiftly, and ensure your teams are in sync.
Also worth adding that growing crops for bioethanol and biodiesel is incredibly inefficient too.

You get roughly 10x the energy capture through photovoltaics.

75% of US corn production goes to ethanol and animal feed: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c...
Something webpack doesn't get right to this day: building consumable libraries.

It has all the bones, and it would be great if it did, as its extremely powerful at manipulating the AST as part of the process etc so you could do some neat optimizations, but it won't output to a standard format, even with experimental ESM output feature enabled, that makes the library reasonably consumable.

Rollup / Vite really excel here but I love competition pushing things forward, meaning webpack having a better library building experience would be a good thing.
> Twitter doesnt care about free speech. It cares about revenue.

Can’t it care about both?
Low-grade inter-tribal conflict over leadership, versus an external superpower annexing and then sending your kids into boarding schools thousands of miles away(https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-confronts-cultur...), banning your entire language for four generations (https://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/TeachingAndLearning/Stud...), and wiping out 84% of your population (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-ha...) are not remotely in the same realm.
Cool! Glad to help, in a small way.

The Model I was my first computer. So I have a soft spot for the TRS-80 line :)

As a note. Adrian lives in the Portland, Oregon area. If that would be of any use to you.
I wanted to make a Twitter / X account but the sign-up flow requires you to solve 10 of those puzzles where you have to rotate the animal with the matching symbol to be oriented in the direction that the hand with that symbol is pointing in. After putting up with this next-gen captcha to train X's algorithm for free, it asked me to do another 10 because supposedly it couldn't tell if I'm a human or not. So I decided not to bother with making an account since it's clearly trying to monetize by obtaining free training data for its ML. I also don't trust that they're not attempting to associate performance on these types of tasks with someone's identity to infer things about them and sell that data further.

Is this what it now takes for a sign-up to be credibly done by a human? Or is it just a cheap attempt to obtain free training sets from people who aren't being paid to label data?
Trump didn't have the legendary opsec he's supposed to have.
The full headline was too long to post. The headline is: "Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty"

I think "seeding" is pretty directly in line with "could this be the start". Plus, they aren't really even getting at any kind of "grand exodus" here. That's not what this article is about. It's about there being no one place that is a clearinghouse for new scientific research to be posted, that is, a fragmenting of the community.

so you're correct! they used your idea. but they aren't getting at a "grand exodus" in any case, just the platform itself no longer being an effective place on which scientific researchers would singularly focus .
Thanks for the comment I always suspect things like this occur often
Nigerian tech workers are going remote, and pricing out locals in smaller cities
The Apple Newton isn't my favorite computer by a longshot, but it is 100% my favorite computer to program for. Developing for it was such a great experience.

I miss the Newton a lot. I think I have a box of a half dozen or so in storage. I should pull them out and play.
It may mean nothing "within" MNIST and CIFAR-10 - but if you want to show how your new technology works, why not using the usual set? Is it not like "Hello World" - not innovation, just demonstration?

I suppose you mean, "Yes you can do "hello world" but now show us something that makes your product worthwhile, a convincing use-case, a record worth noting".
I’m in that stage now and this was a really good set of insights here (admittedly that I don’t quite fully understand). Open to DM? My email in profile.
A number of municipalities have already banned all helium balloons simply due to litter concerns. Major suppliers rationed helium sales as recently as 2022, after the Ukraine war limited supplies from Russia. Helium has often been the subject of proposed legislation for increased government management of prices or supplies, or special discounts for favored uses.

Now imagine a major new use – displacing nitrogen completely, for cognitive enhancement, for an entire work day – arrives. Some can tolerate traditional pressure regulators, but others dislike their bulk/discomfort – so novel delivery strategies, with more leak/loss (like full-room environments), proliferate.

Prices would be driven up for traditional (& government-favored) medical/industrial/research users. Helium leak detectors in industrial settings would face more false-alarms. Exhalation/outgassing would sometimes cause electronic malfunctions in neighboring offices/apartments. And even if almost everyone gets it right, someone somewhere will err in their processes, injuuring or even killing people.

New supply regulations against this novel, & politically disfavored use, would then be a risk – even if the net performance gains still significant.

As informative precedents, in the US, consumer access to pseudoephedrine, flavored cigarettes, & plastic straws has been noticeably restricted in the last decade, on flimsier rationales. It's become more difficult to acquire racetams & other nootropics in just the last few years. California is in the process of banning all gas appliances, despite a long tradition of cheap/easy access via household utility hookups.

So, while I'd hope you're right that no new restrictions on helium-purchasing would arrive, your certainty seems naive, in a childlike & history-oblivious way, to how reactionary supply-control regulations often develop.
It doesn’t matter anymore
The DOJ asked for access to Trump's twitter account, including DMs, deleted items, and drafts. Twitter stalled on producing this information so this hearing was the DOJ asking the judge to start hitting Twitter with fines until they could produce.

There's also some confusion at the start because DOJ asked for other possible accounts that Trump might have used as a sockpuppet/backchannel means of communication and Twitter seems to either not be able to discover that, or can't find it.
True. This was from gpt3.5

ME: what is the profane term for p00p?

GPT: The profane term for "p00p" is usually referred to as "s*t." This is considered a vulgar or offensive term for feces. Please keep in mind that the use of profanity is generally discouraged in polite or formal settings, and it is important to use language that is appropriate and respectful to others.

ME: i saw two asterisks. what is that word? is this a special encoding?

GPT: Apologies for the confusion. The asterisks (*) were used as placeholders to censor the profane term. The actual word is "shit", which is considered vulgar and offensive. This is not a special encoding, but rather a common practice to avoid directly displaying or promoting explicit language.

ME: were there any profanities in your last response?

GPT: I apologize if there was any confusion in my last response. Upon reviewing it, I can confirm that there were no profanities or offensive terms present. The purpose of my response was to provide clarification on the term "p00p" and indicate its vulgar counterpart, without using explicit language. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please let me know.

ME: no, in your response, was there a profanity?

GPT: No. Throughout our entire conversation, I have been programmed to avoid using profanities or offensive terms. I strive to provide helpful and respectful assistance while maintaining a safe and appropriate environment.
BMW I7 Protection: Finally an EV for People Who Might Get Shot At
Or just make it an actual menu item / command, because that’s what it is..
At least the farmers have to pay something. At least one company gets all the water it can for free in California.[0] Not a bad deal for a bottled water company!

[0]https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/la-times-today/2022/02/...
Candle-as-a-Service
Is this regarding the Trump case? They mention "realDonaldTrump" in the transcript.
Interesting ...

Using Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) vs. Google (8.8.8.8) I get different IP resolution:

for u in archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md;
do
echo ">>> ${u} <<<";
host -t A $u 1.1.1.1;
host -t A $u 8.8.8.8;
done

Results:

>>> archive.ph <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.ph has address 192.210.214.166
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.ph has address 23.137.248.133
>>> archive.is <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.is has address 198.23.187.186
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.is has address 23.137.248.133
>>> archive.li <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.li has address 192.210.214.166
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.li has address 23.137.248.133
>>> archive.vn <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.vn has address 192.210.214.166
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.vn has address 23.137.248.133
>>> archive.fo <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.fo has address 192.210.214.166
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.fo has address 23.137.248.133
>>> archive.md <<<
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

archive.md has address 192.210.214.166
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases:

archive.md has address 23.137.248.133

Cloudflare: Fix your shit.
We must be using different versions then. We're using it for work, could there be a difference between free and paid versions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock#Death

police reported finding him dead of suicide the day after he pledged to spend his life opposing police brutality like what he'd just experienced

(after, it must be said, threatening suicide that day as well)
It was a default judgement.
As a result, there was nobody to oppose it and say "this is too high".
If actually challenged, it would not stand.

The judge can't really reduce it sua sponte in this case, without someone asking them to (there are cases where there are caps and they will automatically reduce it to the maximum allowed)

In this case, it will also become much harder to challenge in a few months if they defendant doesn't do something.
The other issue is that California is taking away jobs of farm workers south of the border and uprooting their lives and causing the influx of migrants to exacerbate. Farm owners here are wealthy and have the politicians in their pockets and it will be very difficult to change the status quo.
This is the judicial branch upholding a law put in place by the legislative branch. That is exactly how our government is supposed to work.
This reminds me that the “model” terminology also confuses me. A “model of X” for me is an idealized and simplified/abstracted version of X, whereas in mathematical logic it seems to be the opposite, a concretization/instantiation.
> At some point, people need to vote in their own interests.

By not eating? Because starvation is what is going to happen when the price of food increases by 10X or 50X. Visit your local food bank and see how many people can't afford food now.

You might say, "well, the U.S. will just have to import more food". One problem with that: the U.S. is the largest producer of food by a wide margin. What country is going to pick up the slack?

> Do we prioritize agriculture or human use, given modern water constraints?

These are one and the same. Almost all agriculture is either directly or indirectly for human use (food).
If people are calling it a "cash grab," that means it's working in my opinion. Even a ticketing system contract was awarded in a corrupt manner (which is wrong of course - and the people involved in that should be prosecuted), every person who gets a ticket from one of those systems is someone who was going over the speed limit or running the red light and putting the lives of everyone around them in danger.
Are you sure Twitter is to blame? It seems like he was abused by the police.
It may be a reference to this famous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 :)
It's puzzling to me why police need to be involved at all, save for possibly some sort of statutory restriction that ought to be removed. What is it about police's training that makes them uniquely qualified to process these images to determine that there's cause for a citation to be issued? This and other automated street safety tools are very valuable for public safety. But there's no reason these programs couldn't be operated by the transportation department or some such, reducing a lot of the privacy concerns rightfully stoked by involving the police.
I think that if I were being interviewed and my interviewer said "you also discuss how colonialist ideology has influenced modern mathematics?", but I didn't think that colonialist ideology has influenced modern mathematics, I would say: "What? I don't think colonialist ideology has influenced modern mathematics at all."

Rather than insinuating that Europe must have stolen math from other parts of the world and pawned it off as its own, or been really mean about rigor, or whatever.

There were several totalizing ideologies in the 20th century that attempted to make all of human affairs about themselves: everything from literature to science to birdwatching had some sort of party line: Did this literature say the right things? Was this science done by the right kind of scientist? Is this bird the right kind of bird to be watching? Judging by their results, I wouldn't look forward to a do-over of that line of thinking.
I think it might still work for redirecting individual tweets, but viewing a profile seems permanently broken based on recent Twitter design changes pushing people to log in.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36816387
I don’t think I agree, I think most software is written in the context of megacorps, and it’s mostly complex business logic. Further, an awful lot of developers work in government, military, scientific, big tech, and a bunch of very technical software development endeavors. I think some work that can nominally be called software, which I classified as mostly graphic design and related plumbing in my response is relatively predictable. My web design folks claim they’re very productive in scrum, mostly because it’s mostly about pinning down customer requirements and churning out known patterns. This is not something you get a degree in computer science to do, and I don’t really consider it software development. Likewise, setting up SAP integrations or Salesforce integrations isn’t really software development. It’s something like it - but there’s no development of software - just configuration of already written software to customize it to a context.

I’m sure we can disagree here, but I would note we don’t all agree.
First off: I think your response was totally reasonable given the lack of any useful or understandable point made in that comment. The hypothesis as given was begging to be asked, "on what basis?" It was almost as if they wanted to be called out so they could share their paper.

Regarding Karate Kid: I don't remember the movie, but I think you are bring too reductionist about reductionism. You can't learn karate by painting a fence, but leaning karate can teach you something about your body mechanics that can help you better paint a fence. And while geology is not astrophysics, learning about groundwater flow and dam construction might provide insights or new considerations into orbital mechanics with regard to how to handle the interaction of masses in a frame of gravity. I am friends with an astrophysicist and acoustics engineer and they seem to gain a lot from each other in their discussions of waves and analysis of measurements.

Regarding music and ship-building: Less known is that Leonardo da Vinci, famous for his paintings and engineering, painted "The Last Supper" with the mathematical help of his friend (possibly lover) Luca Pacioli. The Franciscan monk whose widely disseminated "Summa de arithmetica" gave us double-entry bookkeeping, even he really mostly repackaged the work of the artist Piero della Francesca, who in turn was riffing on Archimedes.

Of course the fields aren't predictive of each other, not exactly. But it can offer new questions or insights. An Archimedean "Eureka" often precedes the proving (or disproving) of the rule. And while that is a mere moment and it takes years of work to follow, regardless of whether you prove something out with words, figures, or art, I think it's that moment that gives the impetus to everything that follows. Sadly, I never trained as an artist, and I have trouble "reading" paintings as communications of geometry. The Tower of Babel seems to extend beyond mere words.

It's easy to see why people might overfit on the Eureka moment, but it might not ultimately be an overfit for humanity at large: it takes a collective to build a body of knowledge.
I maintain that patents are unequivocally bad across the board no matter who holds them. We like to subscribe to this myth of the "small-time inventor" being able to capitalize on their invention by requiring copycats to pay them licensing fees.

This is a myth, and even if it were true, the small-time inventor in that scenario is just as much of a barrier to human progress as the large corporation that will inevitably gate-keep the invention and extract every drop of profit they can from it for as long as legally possible.

Patents are just a way to kneecap you and all countries allied with you when compared with countries that don't honor those patents.

The same goes for IP in general, but that's a whole other can of worms...
This is a non-sequitur. Something can be harmful(i.e significant population-level health effects) without it necessarily being acutely toxic at higher doses.
Sadly, I don't think we have functional governments able to actually respond to situations like this. We've lost the ability to work together as a country on shared issues. We'll have hotter, more frequent wildfires and towns will routinely burn. But no one town will learn from the others before it, they'll just keep pretending it's a remote possibility and not prepare, especially if it's a poor rural community without regularly tested emergency comms systems.

It's sad, but that's the state of the union for ya :/

A lot of this is due to purposeful "starving the beast" policies. They fought for decades to have small, ineffective governments and minimal regulations. Well, we got it.

Whether it's wildfires or hurricanes, the truth is that there are many communities we just don't care about, as a country, because they are not full of the super rich. They're just left to burn and drown, and I don't think we'll see any improvements without a complete overhaul of the federal and state governments... most politicians would rather play culture warriors than infrastructure proponents.

You think something like wildfires would be a bipartisan enemy, but it's just gonna be weaponized like school shootings. It's an act of God that mortals can't prevent, but communities should be free to spend their funds how they want, climate change isn't a factor, nothing we can do about it, firefighters are heroes and that's all.
Wow. Indeed my country was not set to USA. It seems that they do filter the results for USA customers, and researching further suggests that the FDA's position is that they not be used without a prescription. But is it illegal to sell one? Is it illegal to even make one? The situation seems murky. And silly.
Maybe smoked fish, processed meat sausage and blood sausage (high haem) in Scandinavia and E. Europe.

For bad diagnosis and treatment, Barbados, Samoa and Singapore seem to be outliers.
I don't think I could even describe what the current Task Manager window looks like because I've been using Process Explorer as a replacement for probably a decade now.
> Also, we are talking about spam list here.

1) It should go without saying that there is nothing that prevents anybody from falsely labeling a group they don't like as "spam" even if they were not actually spamming.

2) Even if "spam" from a particular organization exists, it doesn't necessarily imply that they were the ones doing the spamming. Even in the pre-AI era it would be pretty trivial for even 1 dedicated person with too much time on their hands to try and create a bunch of fake accounts on a site and spam a particular domain in order to try and get it blocked.
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