skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until we actually look at why crime occurs (mainly because poor people need money badly, secondly because people in sufficiently dire poverty stop caring about the social norms of the middle class) we won't be able to make a meaningful difference.

1) Wanting to look at the root causes of an issue is always commendable, but the problem with this kind of analysis on HN is that it's a community of very smart people trying to explain the behavior of very dumb criminals through the lens of a high-IQ. You're trying to find the logic in what they're doing and putting yourself in their place to explain it with a logical reason, but you can't conceive how different the world is for the low-IQ people looting and stealing and harming others. Their reasons for crime might be far different than the reasons you try and see based on what you might do in their shoes.

2) I think that simply explaining that current crime comes from poverty and needing money is an explanation that falls flat. Much of the human experience has been in immense misery or poverty that the poorest person living in the US today can't even conceive of. Poor people in the US can still have TVs, smart phones, and more food than they can even eat. Poor people in the past used to literally sometimes die of starvation and have to choose whether or not they were willing to eat rotten food or hell, even rats or worse to survive. They had to risk working in extremely dangerous mines, factories, etc to barely eke out survival. Why didn't these people casually turn to crime? They had it much worse! Would it ever be socially acceptable for large groups in the past to run amok and violently burglarize others? No, I don't think it's poverty. Something else about the world has changed other than "poor people need money so they resort to crime."

3) My thinking is that something closer to an extremely high and increasing time-preference is what is causing a lot of these problems. Whether it's through the influence of technology, apps, music/movies/tv and other cultural causes, many people have been conditioned to value the dopamine hit of immediate gratification far more than thinking about the long-term.
Funny story. When I was going the coop workshops in uni they invited in some people from microsoft to talk about what they look for in a cover letter and they straight up said they don't read them.
> The solution to reduce crime is also logical and clear, but politically unfeasible: extended incarceration.

Some form of 3-strike law is on the books in a majority (28) of US states (including NY), so they clearly are not politically unfeasible, nor are they obviously effective.
Generative model for cooking recipes. Input my ingredients, outputs a recipe.
Maybe in Jail HN but not in Show HN.
The dysfunction in those communities is caused by being generally broke.
You could initiate a chargeback with your card issuer or bank for non-delivery of services paid for.
Related thread from last year, with 443 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360533 ("NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government (cr.yp.to)")
I have the same experience with Invoke.ai or MochiDiffusion in the MBP M1. I can only match the quality of other images with Automatic1111 (https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui).

You’ll need more time and memory compared to Invoke or an Nvidia graphics card, but it’s not that bad: 1-2 s/it for an image in standard 512x768px quality, 14-20 s/it for an image in high 1024x1536px quality (Hires Fix).
> On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate (for money, for drugs, etc.),

I suspect that often what happens for the most disadvantaged people is that the arrow of causality gets reversed - the deck gets so stacked against them that it's almost a crime to simply exist at all. And that, in turn, puts them into a desperate situation.

There was an interesting piece of investigative journalism in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that I read maybe 10 or 15 years ago showing how policies set up by (then County commissioner) Scott Walker more-or-less made it implicitly illegal to live below the poverty line in a majority Black neighborhood in Milwaukee County. Not through any one law, but through a series of edge cases related to the interaction of laws and urban planning initiatives that were almost impossible for anyone without significant resources to navigate successfully.
> Do you not have a computer at home?

I have several and I would never install work software or store work materials on it. The privacy and security risk alone is just not worth it — and I work for a company that respects privacy.

I would also never pay any money to maintain a computer to do work for a company.

I value my commute tremendously. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day.
There's an entire media ecosystem for this sort of stuff now.

Step 1. Write a crappy paper or make an otherwise ill supported claim in the scientific community.

Step 2. Scientific community says "hey that work is not good."

Step 3. Run to media outlets that are thirsty for "look at how this community doesn't permit alternative thought" narratives.

Step 4. Pivot into reactionary grifting, rake in patreon cash.
Anyone can declare they have a sybil proof network if they have the power to declare everything that invalidates the proof as being non-sybil.

It might be a productive discussion if there could be an agreed upon definition of Sybil. The "proof" requires Sybils to inject an excess hop but no rationale as to why they would do so.

Saito is as vulnerable to Sybil attacks as Bitcoin is to miner concentration. In an open network cooperating nodes will always have an advantage over independent nodes. You cannot distinguish between the two in a permissionless network.
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Don’t bother. This guy doesn’t respond to anything that contradicts him.

Would be cool to have a dashboard of some sort that provided “probability this HN user will respond when called out for speaking from their behind”.
Check out people movers at large airports: they look like trains, run on their own tracks, but have tires.
You're advocating paying a dev at a significantly much higher hourly rate to develop something that will find Ryan Gosling stole the gas from Santa's sleigh with a pattern of snakes painted on it. Now what?
Does this have any internal model for recessive and dominant genes, for example for eye color?

How was this trained? With photos of actual parents and children, or it just a mix of the visible characters of the faces?

$1 looks too low. Have you tried offers like 3 photos for $2?

> How accurate are the generated images?

> The AI model attempts to create an accurate image, in edge cases the results can vary.

That reply is too optimistic...
That sounds... weird?

Not saying it doesn't happen, but if this is indeed the case, what is preventing the same scammer from essentially registering all still-unregistered UPC codes to do something akin to domain squatting?

(I am not familiar with how Target online works so maybe I am missing something)
https://archive.ph/et37H
All companies share a common pool of bottom 99% applicants.
Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House
Looney Tunables – Local Privilege Escalation in the Glibc’s Ld.so
Bluetooth controlled? The device sure, for all we know it's just kicking over the dispenser. The clerk isn't looking but I'm sure if they look at the pump on the register it's counting.

It's still all serial based comms, but unless the attendant is trained or aware they might just think someone is pumping. It will show up on the daily report when the dispenser report doesn't match the sales report.
>they should move on to another location

I don’t think that follows at all. People like to be intoxicated in/near their homes.
Introduction to Mojo Programming Language
thanks dude :)
FDA approves Novavax Covid booster for ages 12
Was the HAL really that compilcated?

It was listed as one of the reasons why Compaq had bailed on NT.

Also were you involved at all with the 64bit versions of NT?

It's cool that checked build got out, and kind of funny how the compiler was hiding in plain sight for decades, but glad I spotted it.
Most people are terrible at writing resumes. We used to joke that we would throw half the resumes in the bin immediately on the grounds that we didn't want to employ unlucky people!

The biggest mistake I see for people with experience is that they describe their role and responsibilities but not what they specifically contributed and why they are awesome.

The best advice I was ever given is that your resume is a marketing document. It should contain things you would like to be asked about in an interview. Cut out everything else.
It says "providing sex services is probably an act of desperation in many cases" which was enough to trigger me, but I agree I overreacted and posted a follow up.
while you are correct I am very contrarian....

I do happen to like both PHP and Powershell (and C#)

I like the syntax, I like the languages.

I find Bash, python, and other "traditional" linux admin tools to be harder to use. Bash especially, I hate dealing with text streams, i would much rather pass objects around
In two years my property taxes increased ~$1,200/yr. Due to caps in tax appraisals this will continue marching up higher and higher every year even if housing values stabilize, which they probably won't.

Sure my house increased in value more than the tax increases I'm currently paying, but its largely value I don't actually see and won't end up touching for a long, long time. I can't actually realize those gains until I effectively downsize the house. which is at least 20 years or so out. And who knows what my neighborhood's desirability will look like in 20 years, maybe it won't even keep up with housing inflation.

To me, day to day its just some number that keeps shooting higher and higher costing me more and more every year.
> In my case, I found that WFH only was isolating, impacted focus, and cut me off from the information flow of the organization, something electronic means cannot really substitute.

I worried about feeling isolated but found I didn't feel that way. And I think generally WFH has improved my ability to focus. My company is fully remote so there are not many in-person channels for information to flow.

Before the pandemic I would not have taken a remote job, I would have not been sure it would work out for me, but having done it for 3 years now, I'm real happy with it.

I do still like seeing people and will go out to work occasionally or cowork with friends. Traffic where I live is horrible though and avoiding a 30 minute dance with death twice a day is an amazing reduction in stress levels.

I guess it's going to work out that this is just one other thing to consider about a workplace and there's no one right answer where all businesses should do the same thing, people need the options.
I mean, except if they are clearly copying works they don't have copyright to, they are violating the law and effectively taking some amount of money out of the pocket of authors and rights holders. You can try and demand people use more "neutral" language to disucss copyright violations, but good luck.

I hope you never know the misfortune of having assets devalued by people that feel they don't need to operate within the boundaries of the rules.
What bother me is the recent trend of putting people like typists at the concentration camps on trial. Most people, given the situation of working as a typist or getting murdered by their government, would choose the former.
Are you using custom weights? I'm assuming you are but there is a major difference between using the default RunwayML 1.5 weights and using a model finetuned for a specific purpose.

Generally the trade off is that any of the impressive finetuned models are far less generalizable then the default weights, but in practice this is not a big deal and the results can be a substantial improvement.
Every market is going to be different in terms of skill and standard of practice... in urban markets, people only selling residential, they may not need to know much about land use, but you are paying them for their market analytics and negotiating skills. In my market, to actually serve clients well, I need to know an absurd number of things as my people are dealing in land use, water rights, fencing, development, etc...

Regarding being on sell vs buy side - the buy-side should be helping you make sure you don't use a foot gun. They should be helping identify any material issues with the property and/or sourcing experts who can help with risk mitigation. And, they should have savvy to help negotiate the strongest possible offer to your favor. Because of several national lawsuits, it is very likely that consumers will be negotiating a price for a buyer's agent's services and paying for it directly in the near future. That's a whole other topic and probably requires frosty beverages.
The humans may be light... the car around them built to survive a 100mph crash certainly isn't.
Ask HN: My Meta ads account was hacked – Is my only option to sue?
I'm at a loss and I need advice.

Hackers took control of an FB account of freelancer who was helping me run my ads, and ran a "Wine Course" for $21,000.

I'm a small business, and now it's been 177 days and I've been back and forth with meta requesting updates probably 50 separate times.

Finally today they said "Based on our initial investigation, we don’t believe there is evidence to suggest there was a compromise on Business Manager ID...".

I'm at a loss. $21k just gone. Citibank denied my dispute. If you look at my Meta account this is the most obvious hack / steal ever, I can't imagine a judge wouldn't find in my favor.

I don't know what to do. I'm just sad and at a loss. Any advice would be appreciated.
That's more a colloquial sense, which I think imo is closer to a 'fall guy'. The parent is the biblical sense.
They are. This article is just...wrong.
"We don't know what we're doing so we are copying you" - Explains most weird startup behaviors.
Removing guns, at least temporarily, from homes where someone is actively suicidal or in mental health crisis would be a good start. Locking guns up appropriately away from the ammunition would be another good step. Removing guns from homes where there is domestic abuse and domestic violence would go a long way as well.
I don't agree with this thesis because I don't seem to agree with the unstated definition of war.

Was the Six Day War really a war? What about the Kosovo War? The Spanish-American War?

I picked these as well-known examples of "curb stomp" events with the title "war" in them. (They are even listed at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CurbStompBattle/RealL... ).

What about Anglo-Zanzibar War? It's famously the shortest recorded war in history at less than an hour. If it isn't a war, why not?

Was the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire a war? Fewer than 2,000 Spaniards died, compared to 200,000 or so Aztecs.
>If a defense lawyer knows that his client is guilty, and successfully defends him anyways, that means there was not sufficient evidence to convict.

This assumes the jury is rational and objective. There's plenty of behavioral psychology that goes against this, but a more glaring observation is that lawyers do not seek to maximize the objectivity of the jury during selection. It's usually very much the opposite.

The goal of the district/trial court system is finding of fact. That's objective. Winning is about swaying the jury, which pulls on the levers of subjectivity. The system is, in part, designed to protect the rights of the innocent. Take the Blackstone ratio, which assumes it is better to let 10 guilty people go than convict 1 innocent. Verdicts cannot be purely objective in a system designed to be asymmetrical.
> I found it interesting to realize that most modern antitrust theory - that consumer harm is the only reasonable basis for government intervention in monopolies - appears to lack historical basis in the law. For instance, the consumer welfare standard severely downplays the importance of free and fair competition among businesses as a means for class advancement.

This feel similar to the myth of shareholder primacy. In both cases, the "agreed on standard" has little to no basis in the law, but happens to enrich the powerful and well connected over the little man.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/22/so-long-to-shareh...
I just tried searching for a local restaurant.

"sucks" removes it
"is awesome" brings it back
"stinks" keeps it
"has bad food" keeps it
"is weird" keeps it
"sucks" and it's gone again

Restaurants and products probably have different rules.
I certainly understand the reality on the ground, but I also think in many districts, especially with the number of electronic lessons (read: limited actual teacher planning or participation) that we are getting closer to this as a possibility.
And Sapporo in Hokkaido.
Understanding it at a high-level certainly doesn’t take away from the achievement one bit. You still have to be incredibly precise and know the techniques inside and out. Obviously everyone agrees since they received a Nobel Prize.
Had DEC no cancelled, NT would have never been, and Gates wouldn't have had the confidence to abandon OS/2.

So in the end we all won, just Dec had to die.

But DEC only saw Altavista as a toy, something for showing off big systems, or doing personal desktop search. The missed such incredible opportunity.
FWIW, my experience with WFH (pre-covid times) was that I was way more prone to over-working and I think it eventually led to burn out. The line between work and home blurred considerably. It wasn't unusual for me to not ever get fully dressed somedays. Hygiene also somewhat suffered at times. I would find myself still working on problems well into the night. Part of it was feeling like I had to prove I was still working even though I was home. In short, it wasn't the utopia I predicted it would be after driving a long commute for a number of years.
anyone have leads on newer versions? many of these are over 10 years old
Half right. The limit at this point is much more do with what (likely standing, possibly not even holding on) people can tolerate, not what the device is physically capable of generating.
Like you're going to do a chargeback for "X premium", oldest trick in the book ...
> would rather have a belief that the system will find the root causes of crime and take actions to fix them then believe the system will punish those who break the rules

I thought similarly. But these are baked into our psyches. Jailing the drunk driver won’t bring back the dead child, but if you don’t do it there will be backlash. This sense is profound enough that we generally celebrate people who take justice into their own hands when they’re denied retribution through lawful channels.

If I were to cite one common failure mode of the last decades’ criminal justice reform efforts (in America, but coast to coast) it’s in attempting to rationalise away our social need for retribution. The key is in recognising that every exercise of justice need not satisfy all three facets. A remorseful defendant need not be incapacitated. And a crime with no human victim need not seek retribution.
Exactly - houses are very affordable in Japan, which has a decreasing population.
NASA has huge funding problem. High-cost missions that need very expensive research will never be funded to completion.

And yet NASA has such 'prestige' in the US that whenever I state that on US websites like this, you can be assured that I will be down-voted to oblivion. Probably because deep in their hearts, those downvoters know that NASA is running on fumes and just literally cannot afford anything really expensive.
Thank you for your detailed comment. Disclaimer, I don't think I fully understand this topic or your comment in entirety.

When you say

> Before sampling, the square wave is filtered to remove all of the overtones above 22kHz, which are not audible (as that's above the upper limit of human hearing) and would cause aliasing issues in the sampled signal.

Do you mean that the human ear "hears" (for lack of a better word) in sine waves because of fourier transforms? So, a pure squarewave signal (cut off above 20khz due to human ear limits) sounds identical to an "imperfect"/wavey sq.wave made from harmonics lacking higher frequency parts?
It's not going to become zero, just irrelevant for developers to test against.
Yes, she likes to glance at the screen when she's stopped at a red light and can do so safely.
It kind of does, all else being equal. What else do you have in mind? Parasitic capacitance on signal lines?
Worth noting that Fair Use is more than just transformative work. Your work can still be found to be infringing even if it's transformative if it egregiously violates other tenets of fair use, like disrupting the market for the original.
> It was really hard to filter down who to interview because they all look the same and we only had one position

Did you make up some BS metrics, or did you do the honest thing and draw résumés from a hat?
Itanium XP was weird, it's like that super early AMD64 version where more of the OS is 32bit than 64bit, with no high theming.

It was still exciting at the time.
Yes and they are wonderful. I hope Asus doesn't drop the PN line because of this.
This whole video and everything is clearly a joke right? Video is made like a parody of computer ads. But I don't see a single comment here about that and looks like everyone is taking this seriously.

Is BCNY a real channel? Have I missed something? Am I out of loop?
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty bad urgent care.
If you haven't noticed there's a war in Ukraine. If you think those refugees should be turned away I don't know what to say to you because "If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all"

Housing was shit show even before the war. Blaming things on immigrants is poor taste and bad logic.
Working directly with people is disastrous for my mental health. My base heart rate dropped 20 points once I started working from home. I’m not introverted, I have a rich social life and I’m usually out of the house if I’m not working. I just don’t like working directly with people.
The bloat incurred by the extra column is certainly present while the migration is in progress (ie after it's been started with `pgroll start` but before running `pgroll complete`).

Once the migration is completed any extra columns are dropped.
We've tried nothing and are all out of ideas!
Can someone explain what this library might be useful for?
We provide 24/7 on call support, so that’s not going to happen, as much as the sentiment is agreeable.
Please post a link here.
I most curious to know what happened to the faster-python project progress. I see there were some changes contributed by Mark Shannon and Eric Snow but the performance "upto 5x in 4 releases" doesn't look like happening. I guess the biggest question is is JIT still being pursued?
what do you have against dodo birds
So far I have tried with:

- Technical (software and maths)
- Psychology and philosophy
- Well-being and anthropology
Sounds amazing. Looking forward to a pricing page and a simple way to sign up and create an API key.
Could you elaborate a little more here please?
I mean, I was being deliberately obtuse on it to be fair!

While I could see myself getting onboard with locking these fraudsters up for the rest of their lives, I think our disagreement stems from the fact that I think actually executing people should be reserved for explicitly violent crimes, if at all. As stated, I'm broadly against the death penalty in any case, but I'm more amenable to it in regards as a direct means of public safety from violence.
Good tip. Thank you!