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by Alice Gainer (~4–5 minutes)

Updated on: September 22, 2023 / 8:09 PM / CBS New York

NEW YORK -- The NYPD already uses drones and robot dogs, but now New York City is turning to robots to potentially patrol subway stations.

Mayor Eric Adams said the city is leasing a Knightscope K5 Night Security Robot, which will patrol the Times Square subway station overnight during a 2-month trial run.

Adams said the city is looking to technology since the number of law enforcement personnel is dropping.

"It will record video that can be reviewed in case of an emergency or a crime. It will not record audio," said Adams.

The robot, which weighs 420 lbs., will be active and moving around the Times Square station from midnight to 6 a.m. It also has a button riders can press to connect with a live person to ask a question or report an incident.

"For the first two weeks, it will be trained to map out the station. It will move around the main station area and not on the platform," said Adams.

The city is leasing the robot at $9 per hour for the next two months.

Some New Yorkers were skeptical about its usefulness.

"Waste of money. Are you kidding me? Unless it can sprout legs and turn into a transformer and kick the s** out of somebody, not really gonna do anything," one person said.

"It requires a real person," another rider said.

If someone were to try to damage the robot, they would be recorded and prosecuted, officials said.

Other New Yorkers said they're interested in seeing what the robot can do.

"Late at night, especially if you're by yourself, that'll be something that can help anybody who needs it," said Will Lopez, of Hamilton Heights.

"If it's a preventative measure, then sure," said Ben Cion, of Midtown.

"Sounds like it's worth a shot, can't hurt. Can't get any worse down here right?" another rider said.

Officials said subway crime is down as ridership increases, even though some people feel uneasy after recent violent attacks underground.

"Subway crime is down 4.5% versus last year," said NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper.

"This will very likely be the highest ridership week we've had since the pandemic over three years ago," said New York City Transit President Richard Davey.

For now, the robot will have two officers with it at all times, according to Adams. But if the city decides to continue using the robot beyond the initial two months, it would patrol by itself.

Robots like Knightscope K5 are also used in airports in malls.
What makes you think that the gangsters who extort and terrorise Indo-Canadians today will not start doing the same to white Canadians tomorrow? You have no idea what kind of monster your politicians have raised in your backyard; and seeing you domestic politics now, it might already be too late to control it.

But feel free to keep laughing, it's good for the health.
The translation isn't splendid, but that seems to describe someone being badly burned as a side effect of passing very high current, rather than by high-energy RF exposure.

There's also an anecdote I think I once heard from an old Lockheed engineer, about the idea of microwave cooking having been sparked by the misfortunes of birds exposed by surprise to WWII aircraft radar being tested. No idea whether that one's true or not, though; I was quite young and very credulous, so wouldn't put it past him to have been pulling my leg for the hell of it.
Put down your phone and go outside!
> less than a page; about 1kiB IIRC

Interesting, didn't realize the kernel would let you do that. I guess it makes sense since it's up to user space to map pages for the stack. The kernel doesn't have much to do on clone except set the stack pointer.
You can play against it here.

https://parrotchess.com/
> I have to give an ocular patdown

hold it right there, jabroni
I’ve used the internet for nearly 40 years, and I know exactly what happens and what I was in danger of myself without someone guiding me. The point isn’t to hover over her, and I don’t monitor everything she does. But I’m aware of what she’s into and what she’s doing. That’s my job as a parent. I’m legally and morally responsible for what she does and what happens to her. That’s the burden of being a parent. The flip side is to allow her to do as pleases as long as it’s not dangerous, and I don’t interfere in her life.

What’s worse are parents who either allow their kids unfettered access to the internet, which is awash in dark patterns designed to warp and exploit children for profit, and predators seeking to exploit children for pleasure. Their kids are being psychologically manipulated to their detriment everywhere.

Likewise, the overbearing parents that control all consumption aren’t great. But worse of all is the parent who allows no access.

My job as I see it with respect to the internet is to teach my daughter how to resist the pervasive manipulation and inoculate her against meme and dark patterns now. Letting her be manipulated without guidance now is a bad idea, and letting her build no facility or competence until she’s an adult is worse.

I’d rather not do this, I agree in some sense, but it’s just not the way the world works and and parenting is often about doing what is necessary even though it’s not your preference. That includes disciplining, etc etc, and doing all the things you thought you never would do as a parent but realize why parents do it when it’s your turn.
All cases of undefined behavior in C/C++ language can be replaced either with explicit aborts of the program or explicit infinite loops. The result is a subset of C/C++; then anyone can write any C/C++ code, use it as the restricted variant and most exploits resulting from UB (those that cannot cope with the aborting or hangup) will be eliminated automatically. To implement or not such a safe mode is the sole decision of the compiler author. Blame the compiler for rigidity, not language for flexibility. Developing new languages from scratch and tools, libraries for them costs much time and effort and fractures the market of programmers and costs them time to learn it as well.
Its not “irrational female” vs “reasonable men”. It was described well in the article. Its that women have historically needed to date higher status men to guarantee their life for their children. The sperm is cheap vs eggs are expensive that the author mentioned. Its not a conscious decision its the dynamics that human beings have been playing out for centuries and it is exacerbated but the order of magnitudes higher dating pool that apps provide (just as author mentions)
Adding on to this, you've effectively just moved the chokepoint from the plane to the security queue itself.
At the moment, we are definitely changing - it will either be the introduction of socialism at a reasonable level, or completely unreasonable fascism.
There are no SEO implications, AFAIK.
Why link to a reaction video instead of the original? https://youtu.be/ZOCTSp_U-KI
You'd be probably slapped with a law banning exactly that, which I'm surprised if it doesn't already exist.

It's not the same thing as a bank in another country refusing to open an account to an average Joe because of too many hurdles involved with reporting your balance the the IRS.
But that's my point: why can't a version control system be good for this as well? It's the same thing underneath. Why do we have to split these different use cases across different tools and hope a foreign key constraint holds?
You can think it’s BS but the data disagree. Just look at correlated divorce rates, suicide, depression, etc.
I've been looking for automated help with the kinds of problems this app claims to solve for some time. I've done the usual HackerNews thing of finding imperfect solutions (currently a series of overlapping periodic tasks in todoist) and considering making my own service.

I understand this is very early, but right now this feature set feels like an anti-product. The idea that I would get "daily reminders" of every relationship I am tracking (At least twenty people, but perhaps as much as hundreds depending on how widely you cast your net) is less of a promise and more of a threat.

> * something to validate our ideas and get the conversation started.*

This potential user would like to hear your ideas for how to deal with this "at scale." The high points you describe here seem out of sync with even mildly busy adult lives.
> it's never "check on first use."

Personally I always manually check on first use, but I agree this puts me in a small minority.

I said something similar in a comment last year. [0] It's unfortunate that the term TOFU is ambiguous. In practice it's used to refer to check on first use and blindly assume it's ok on first use.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30366424
which makes quality of discussion even more confusing.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37625567.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37625567 and your own https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37627541.
Far as I'm concerned, medical devices should be "nationalized" to the degree that all designs are 100% open from the most easily-sourceable parts available and must be 100% interoperable. DRM should be outlawed rather than enshrined.
Eh? Propagandists take care to present their arguments palatably. It's a very poor way to judge truth.
Yes. Even before the AI risks, I have moved everything locally – photos, files, nothing syncs to iCloud/Dropbox/etc. Every once in a while I prepare and order printed photo albums.

The only service I still did not localize is email, secifically Gmail, which I believe Google is imminent to monetize/AI-ize in the very near future.
Even at the archive link the styling hides most of the text. Firefox Reader mode make it visible.
The American way is to save the elderly at the expense of the kids while also saddling them with debt.
> It seems consumers should be able to choose between an AI narrated and human narrated audio book - given equal access to both.

If humans want human narrated books, they'll get access to both. Human narration will only disappear if people aren't willing to pay for it. I'm pretty sure that ultimately AI narration will be so much better that human reading will be a niche thing, but I view that as a positive overall. More books get read with high quality narration, and consumers don't have to cover the cost of a human narrator.

Obviously unfortunate for the human narrators, but that's why we should be pushing for UBI - AI and robots are going to eliminate a lot of professions, and I think it's wrong to keep jobs around for no other reason than to keep people employed, especially when doing so ultimately leads consumer costs to be higher. You see this in lots of places now - a big one is the teamsters using their union power to keep automation out of our ports. Literally everyone in the US could benefit from goods moving more quickly, efficiently and cheaply through our transportation infrastructure, but instead everyone has to pay a bit more so humans can keep unnecessary jobs.
To follow that: Genetic changes that have a short term advantage & a long term disadvantage, it's going to be selected for. Evolution stops caring as soon as you've got your child to child bearing age.
Show HN: Knowtz – simple notes with inline todo lists
I wanted simple app that didn’t distract me with unnecessary features during meetings...so I created Knowtz.

It allows you to add todos inline with your notes without context switching. All your todos are organized into a single list no matter how many note files you create.

All data storage is done 100% local to your machine.

Send me feedback...there is still much to be done!
Why pick just one? There are a number of excellent Discord/Matrix bridges available which make it possible for users on both sides to seamlessly participate with users on the other services.

If you want to get extra spicy, there are even bridges from Matrix to IRC, Telegram, or Slack. And they work transitively -- if you've got Matrix/IRC and Matrix/Discord bridges running, users on Discord can see and communicate with the IRC users, for example.
> “It IS e2ee.“

Well, not really…:

” Encryption of certain metadata and usage information:
Some metadata and usage information stored in iCloud remains under standard data protection, even when Advanced Data Protection is enabled. For example, dates and times when a file or object was modified are used to sort your information, and checksums of file and photo data are used to help Apple de-duplicate and optimize your iCloud and device storage — all without having access to the files and photos themselves. Representative examples are provided in the table below. ……”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

For example, file names in iCloud are not e2e, etc. etc.
> FURTHER WARNING: This command is a work-in-progress and may yet contain bugs.

Purging and shunning are two entirely different things in fossil. Shunning is for removing "bad" content and purging is very specifically for use with the "bundle" command (a rarely-used option for submitting "drive-by patches" initially conceived as fossil's counterpart to pull-requests).
Can't forget Elon.
Show HN: Find Stuff with Alphabets
Found this site when looking for a domain to register that started with "web".
The recipes that I'm concerned about will show this issue 100% of the time if the generating command touches the output file and then fails.

GNU Make offers us a blanket solution for such cases and so we should take advantage of it.

That solution doesn't nail all the the corner cases like being killed by uncatchable signals or kernels crashing.

That issue affects not only the recipes I'm presently concerned about but potentially all recipes. Even those which ensure that the file is gone when the tool fails.

Fixing that problem likely requires changing every single recipe in every Makefile, except for those which invoke a tool that already does an atomic create or update, or reasonably simulated facsimile thereof.
> because doing FOSS is just a way for some people to enhance their careers.

That's a very cynical view. Perhaps it is somewhat more true when it comes to the HN audience, but outside of here "enhancing career" is probably not even in the top 5 motivations behind FOSS work...
> if you’re feeling too anxious remember that human beings are, currently, living longer, healthier lives than they ever have.

Not in the US, where life expectancy is plunging.
> No matter how primitive I doubt a TTS model would mistake I for 1.

"I" is the correct text, but it's intended as a Roman numeral and should be read as "one". (And, a few chapters later, "IV" should be read as "four", not "intravenous".)
I was there too and I don't think it was so much better. I find it very useful right now. Have any better arguments?

You are also misconstruing what I said. I don't say I "don't really know" if it was better. I don't think it was better and seeing people baldly assert the opposite without proof hasn't convinced me my memory is wrong. I'd like to hear something better than "trust me bro." I'm tired of people getting published with evidence-free arguments (though I guess it beats someone condescending to me based on a wrong guess of how old I am).
I once set up drive for a family member with two computers effectively nuking their docs slowly without any warning then ended up just "hanging".

"Hanging" with no progress bars, no warning, no errors is the Apple way of doing things still after 15 years.

I wonder how hard it would be to implement a dev-mode where it actually told you why it hung, or what the hell it's "doing" in magic (black box garbage) mode.
> decides that the version of your PDF from 11:35 is the newest main one, not the one from 11:45.

Wrong clock on some of the servers?
It is a low wage... it is literally $5 less than minimum wage.

And also, nothing I said literally changes at all, whether its $7, 10, or $12.
You failed to use either the sarcasm font or sign...

https://youtu.be/JnfDIIuMHag?feature=shared&t=19s
i think that that needs an addendum along the lines of "as long as it's not necessary and/or consumable", otherwise you have to decide between using it as a medium of exchange and just using it.

even in this case, the only way you could really "spend" the sheets is by removing the roof and walls of your house, so until you have some extra, unneeded ones, they aren't really money. they're more a store of value; an analogue might be buying artwork that you know you could sell later if you needed the money.
There have been no options besides that paradigm.

Laptops in the 90s had swappable batteries, as did phones. It's perfectly doable.

You have the scent of someone with Apple stock.
Similarly, I can't stop you from coloring my (very much benign) comments as weird, rude and combative, which I myself find rude and combative.

If you wish to engage substantively, do see the multiple confused people in this very thread that illustrate the point clearly. It's very hard to reconcile their confusion with your point that this is clear to the general audience.

Perhaps your very experience with the subject is a hindrance to seeing that. Cheers.
On one hand it seems like an ncurses tool to install to a disk seems appropriate. On the other hand, the number of times one of these images would be configured for a company is probably pretty small.

I’ll have to spend a bit more time, but this seems like a nice option for orgs that want to run on-prem (e.g. not in cloud), and have a low maintenance container host.
Yup. But the maddening part is that this is never made clear in any of the messaging.

You get a message like "all notes will be removed from this device", but without any kind of reassurance that "all 172 are still present in iCloud".

And if you're not an expert in this, it's a huge risk to take. When does deleting something synced locally leave it in the cloud, and when does deleting something synced locally also delete it from the cloud? This is one of the biggest and most dangerous UX confusions that exists right now, not specifially with Apple but all around.
It's probably easier to express this sort of scale as a linear function y = mx + b, where y is the font size and x is the screen size. If you have:

minFont = 12
maxFont = 18
minScreen = 320
maxScreen = 2400

Then you calculate the slope (m) using the ol' (y - y) / (x - x):

m = (maxFont - minFont) / (maxScreen - minScreen)

Then plug one of the (font, screen) pairs into the equation and solve for b. Use that as --linear-font-size.

Once you have the linear equation for your font size, you use clamp() to bound the screen size between the min and max that you set before.

font-size: clamp(var(--minScreen), var(--linear-font-size), var(--maxScreen))

I think this basically has the same effect as the blog post produces, but it fits in my head better when the dynamic part is expressed as the equation for a line.
Feel free to do so! I'm not interested in law in US, nor is law my point in general.

Safety of nuclear is confirmed by death stats and bills like the one you mentioned don't prove otherwise. In fact I'd say they encourage lesser safety measures if anything...
I’ll take not having shared seating with a potential future partner due to the breakdown of my relationship with my current partner over spending $450/person to see a band I liked back in high school.
If the flowers were white, at least they didn't change Earth's albedo much.
I have a hub and an extra cable hidden under my keyboard. When I need to plug in a device for power or thunderbolt transfer it is a two step... 1) grab cable 2) plug in. Konnect is fine for other cases.
I don't work for them, but: BitBucket changed their SSH keys earlier this year due to possible compromise of their secret keys. [0] I don't think they change them periodically.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/blog/ssh-host-key-changes

edit I see eichin also linked to the same page
> Why do people borrow so much money to go to school? I don’t understand why kids do this shit, are they just stupid?

No, quite the opposite. See: https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190723_R45090_4000d00...

And particularly, Table 2, Figure 4, and Figure 5.

There’s a popular observation that real wages have been largely flat over the long term from ~1980. And that’s true, in aggregate. But the premium for bachelor’s (and even more so, higher) degrees has increased in that time period, with real wages for the degree-holding group going up, and for the non-degree group going down.

> I did live at home

Even if there is a public university campus close enough to allow that (and that’s not always the case), the student load is generally high enough that (other than the kind of people who are also likely to qualify for academic scholarships anyway) there’s no guarantee of a qualified individual getting in to their first choice school.
Imho it looks more like a "look how easy it would be for me to kill myself, if you don't stop seeing that little whore".
How Games Will Save the World (Again)
You know, tabs weren't always awful [1]. Before and during Web 2.0, back when the web was rife with JS-free, non-commercial labors of love, educated fans and scholars of music created phenomenal sheets and tabs, full transcriptions of their favored artists, scores, and bands.

Then came adtech, and when those goons rolled in, they just couldn't believe the opportunity that these idiots were wasting by doing all this work for free and just giving it awa... er- STEALING SALES from LEGITIMATE ARTISTS.

It usually started with campaigns of rude emails that threatened and insulted the site owner. "How could you do something as horrible as stealing the food out of the mouths of the artists you claim to love by competing with their official sheet music? You're lucky I found you first you first since you're such a small-fry, because if they knew what you were up to, they'd be disgusted by you, and their lawyers would sue you so hard, your grandkids would still be in litigation. Oh and by the way, your tabs are shit, your site is shit, and you're a shit person, so why don't you do everyone a favor and shut down?"

Then, once the site owner had a very predictable panic attack and crisis of faith, typically chronicled publicly on their home page, they'd be made an offer of a few hundred dollars. "Look, the only way out of this is to sell. We're connected, partnered with artists. Unlike you, you lowlife, you thief, we make money so we can PAY the artists. It's the only way to do this fairly. If you really think about it, you'll understand and do the Right Thing."

Then, if the site owner sold, the site would be stripped, frozen, and crammed with ads until it was a desiccated husk of itself, or else forwarded to its new home. Either way, there would be no more new tabs, no photos from tours, event updates, band recommendations, or community interaction, all waning value siphoned into some traffic-whoring cramscammer's [2] pocket.

And if they didn't sell, either the interaction left enough of a negative impression they they lost their passion, or they were legally harassed until they shut down, but only after they were scraped and hoovered up into trashy meta-sites like ultimate-guitar.

This is the slum web we live in today, but with more aggressive authoritarian identity management.

[1] For reference: https://www.classtab.org/tabbing.htm#history

[2] I wonder if anyone can name the top two private forums for this prior 2005? Bonus points if you can name a person we all know today who was part of them!
Funnily enough, we are once again faced with a choice between rational socialism of the kind that was implemented in the USA in the 1930s, or fascism of the kind that was implemented in various other places in the 1930s.

At that time, America rejected Fascism and chose Socialism, and they prospered for the rest of that century, though by the end the process of dismantling the source of their own success was well along.