skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There wasn't enough evidence to bring any charges. Apparently, the witnesses weren't credible enough.

Doesn't mean he didn't do it, but doesn't mean he did.
> The conclusion of KL and related work is that we have to be careful when training ML models to remove sources of underperformance, not that all ML models are useless.

Sure I don't disagree with that, and I'm not saying that all ML models are useless in this space. However the original article's point (that currently implemented predictive policing software doesn't function) I think is very much in line with Lum's work. I'm just attempting to give a more concrete case for the point, as I felt the Gizmodo article was pretty lacking.

> people commit crimes because they don't think they'll get caught

My hometown had some of the lowest crime rates in the nation (no auto thefts, no burglary, no armed robbery). This was absolutely not because it was hard to get away with it (my mother has left her car unlocked every night since I was a teenager, it would be trivially easy to rob her and escape). My town also was extraordinarily wealthy, among the richest nationwide. Now, maybe (probably) there was a lot of white-collar crime or domestic violence. However in terms of public violent crimes there is a clear effect of socioeconomic status. Yes someone in total destitution probably will not commit a crime if they think they will immediately get arrested, but I think the calculus is far more tolerant of the downside risk of arrest if the upside risk is that your kid gets dinner that night. This is what I mean when I say that desperation is a major driver: that it raises the bar on "how much risk of prison am I willing to accept in order to get what I need".
That's not introversion. That's being asocial. People get those confused as often as they confuse introversion and being shy or quiet.
No it's not. I'm making a claim about what ML models are capable of in response to someone incorrectly summarizing a possible weakness with them.

If police don't want to make drug busts in wealthy neighborhoods, they don't need models to justify that. There is no jurisdiction in America where discretion has been ceded to statistical models.
I was asked to do that for a state government job that paid above market, so it's not just retail. It was awkward and I would probably decline to do it again unless for some reason I still really wanted the job.
Make ADAS mandatory. Criminalize modification of firmware with death penalty, life-long working camps, or some such. Deploy geo-fence via always online ADAS.
Grid locked...

SPLYRRQ

Edit: Enforce integrity of ADAS-firmware at all times by agents of the 'Driving Quality Ensurance Agency' analog to the stuff the TSA is doing. JOBS! SECURITY! PROFIT!
Or just pump up the DMV with those powers, and the people.
Because JOBS! SECURITY! PROFIT!
I'm a little disappointed to see people forgot about little Bobby tables again :'(
Rounding error on the other costs involved, but sure.
Please use DBeaver, MySQL Workbench, or Navicat side by side with Beekeeper Studio and I think you'll understand how my UX philosophy differs.
I'll chime in.

There's 4 things we call "crime" and the only thing they have in common is that the state sends in an agent to physically restrain you from doing it.

1) Rational crime. Someone looked at the payoff to getting away, the cost to getting caught, and the probability of each and concluded the expected payoff was positive.

2) Victimless crime.

3) Political crime. Crime where the point is to openly defy the law itself. From Rosa Parks sitting in front of the bus to the unknown man standing in front of the tank, we all know what this looks like.

4) Deranged crime. Actual anus-type personality disorder.
tinlc
> A build should ideally not require internet access to complete.

You've got a non-internet CI with non-internet source code repository with non-internet vendored dependencies??

Technically possible, but I call BS.
Wall Street Thinks America’s Homes Are Overvalued
Plenty of blockchains—Filecoin included—use some amalgamation of IPFS, but the reverse isn’t true.

Heck, even Bluesky uses some IPFS tech. Does that mean it has a blockchain? Of course not.

> Let me put it in another context, would you say Brave has a blockchain? I'd definitely say it does.

I don’t use Brave, but from a cursory glance I think probably yes, it “uses/depends on” a blockchain for some functionality.

https://brave.com/1.39-release/

Can you show an example where that is the case for IPFS?
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It does! If it doesn't thats a bug, please file a ticket :-)
I Have Discovered That Giving Up on the World Can Set You Free
Clearly this is set after the great "eye-aye" vowel shift.
The artist of the music released "wanderers" another short film from Erik Wernquist without voice and just the music. Maybe he'll do the same for 1 rpm?
https://youtu.be/pIubYfm-YO0
Get your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it explores Europa
+1 to this. I work with people who would love returning to office and others who are adamantly against it. Even though I overall prefer WFH there are still things I miss from being in the office. I used to commute an hour each way by bus and that was some of my favorite time; I could read, sleep, listen to podcasts, whatever. OTOH now that I WFH full time I can work out before work and help run kids around right after work.
If a sociopath could demonstrate all the behavior we associate with empathy including the right responses and actions then i'm extremely comfortable saying that sociopath understands empathy and any other conclusion is bogus and makes no sense.

Internal processes don't matter. Only results. If this hypothetical sociopath was able to respond exactly like any empathetic person in any scenario then there is no actual distinction.

In reality of course, the sociopath would slip up somewhere. But that just proves my point, real distinctions manifest in results. If it can't then it's not meaningful.
> I would often try to explain nuances to people and how they need to invest in their own skill as well as buying a good product.

Yeah, this is (partly) why I was not a good professor/teacher. I don't think I was horrible at it, but I have a very strong compulsion to mention every bit of nuance in what I'm talking about. Sometimes that can be a good thing, but when a student is trying to learn introductory programming, getting into the weeds about how the textbook is "basically right but kind of simplistic because in this case..." really is not the right approach for teaching freshman students. I grew a new respect for teachers who learned to suppress those instincts and teach the simplified stuff.

I almost think that Trump being an idiot works to his advantage. He's so utterly stupid that I think he's completely unburdened by any kind of nuance, and as a result it's very easy for him to speak authoritatively about everything, no matter how wrong he is.
> That doesn't mean causation.

You might be interested to learn about the field of causal statistical analysis. There are many, many ways that a researched might infer a causal relationship from observational data. No doubt each individual case is complicated, but I trust professional researchers over your armchair epicyclic theory of the causes of crime.
Everybody says that until they're forced to live next to wind turbines. Solar yeah why not, but turbines are awful.
I have a 40% off sale right now, which means its $51 for a year, if you cancel right away you still get lifetime access and 1 year of software updates.

I think that's a pretty fair price, but always happy to get more pricing feedback.
> it's sort of common knowledge that you'll be sexually assaulted in prison

While a blasé attitude toward such abuse is certainly reprehensible, I don't think there's any support for the magnitude you describe.

Even the most dramatic statistics imply that prisoners are far more likely to not be assaulted.

Official numbers are like 2-5%, activist numbers are in the 20% range.

Anything greater than 0% is horrifying of course. Although FWIW I also checked official and activist numbers for non-incarcerated males and females in the US, and it's actually very similar.

(Never been in prison, never been a victim, never been a perpetrator, not in law enforcement, not an activist, don't know what I'm talking about, but wish the problem could be understood honestly and eliminated completely.)
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In the country of the blind is a great speculative historical sci-fi thriller, and was how I first learned about Taylorism. A fun read.

https://books.google.com/books?id=2MrNykSR2WkC&newbks=1&newb...
Just want to point out that 'cmd-l-c' does the same thing, in all browsers.
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LLVM: Scalar Evolution (SCEV)
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

-- William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-inn...>
On the importance of staring directly into the sun
Yeah, 2600 Euro for your model here. And it appears to be soldered LPDDR5 memory.

Nice thing about SODIMMs is that you can now even upgrade to 96GB RAM. Maybe more in the future. Thats pretty sweet considering the APU has almost 10 TFLOPS - could possibly load large ml models.

I wonder how the thermals are with the 7940HS and RTX 4060 inside a 14" chassis? It must be getting hot under load/throttle down after a while?
TIL: Finding and Ignoring Files with Glob
> I'm not doing it, I'm saying that the crowd that cares about iPhone brand image, cares about iPhone brand image.

The company obviously has a bit of a cult following, but the point is that there are crowds who would have no objection to any premium phone whether it be iOS or Android but would put you in the outgroup if you showed up with a flip phone or anything else that cost <$200. A repairable premium phone checks the box.

There are also crowds that want to see the Apple logo or they'll cast you out. Which makes it hard to argue that there is no market for a repairable phone from Apple -- because there are clearly people who would buy it.

> Apple's brand image is as a premium product, and Apple has been openly hostile to unauthorized repair for the stated reason that many aftermarket parts are of lower quality than OEM parts. Apple obviously doesn't want low quality refurbs floating around and diluting their brand image.

That is indeed their stated reason, and yet Toyota maintains one of the highest brand ratings for reliability even while anyone can have their Prius repaired at an independent shop with third party parts.
Is my understanding correct that the need to copy columns makes starting a migration potentially extremely expensive on a large database?
It’s an analogy. Lending out—or even spending on working capital—customer deposits isn’t necessarily illegal. The context is what makes it fraud or business as usual.
Notwithstanding DJB's importance to cryptography, and the fact that I'm ignorant of a large number of details here, there was a point where he lost a lot of credibility with me.

Specifically, when he gets to the graphs, he says "NIST chose to deemphasize the bandwidth graph by using thinner red bars for it." That is just not proven by his evidence, and there is a very plausible explanation for it. The graph that has the thinner bars is a bar chart that has more data points than the other graph. Open up your favorite charting application, and observe the difference in a graph that has 12 data points versus one with 9... of course the one with 12 data points has thinner lines! At this point, it feels quite strongly to me that he is trying to interpret every action in the most malicious way possible.

In the next bullet point, he complains that they're not using a log scale for the graph... where everything is in the same order of magnitude. That doesn't sound like a good use case for log scale, and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why it might be justified in this case.

Knowing that DJB was involved in NTRU, it's a little hard to shake the feeling that a lot of this is DJB just being salty about losing the competition.
Having lived next to large windfarms I can't say they were any more unsightly than other common edifices of industry like pumpjacks, radio/cell towers, smokestacks, cooling towers, skyscrapers, tower cranes, or bridge towers. I kind of appreciated the calm repetitive motion of the blades spinning.

Wasn't close enough to note any low frequency noise so I can't say either way.
An important detail you really want to understand before reading this is that NIST (and NSA) didn't come up with these algorithms; they refereed a competition, in which most of the analysis was done by competitors and other academics. The Kyber team was Roberto Avanzi, Joppe Bos, Léo Ducas, Eike Kiltz, Tancrède Lepoint, Vadim Lyubashevsky, John M. Schanck, Gregor Seiler, Damien Stehlé, and also Peter Schwabe, a collaborator of Bernstein's.
Thanks for your reply. When I describe "the business" I am referring to Product teams that manage SOP, help prioritize new offerings, etc. Here's an example of a feature request from the business:

"I want to allow customers to run scheduled reports from our portal and receive them via email."

Development then designs and executes, delivering a scheduled reporting suite for testing. Business will come back with feedback such as:

"I don't like how I have to select the time for every report. Can't you just default it?" or "Only some users from the customer's account should be able to create/edit scheduled reports. Please add this by Tuesday so I can demo." or even "This is great, but my customer has special holidays that they don't want emails to be sent on. We should have a yearly calendar that prevents reports from getting sent."

There is a large gap between feature request "requirements" and the expectations of the business. Thus, we request specific feature request requirement documents to be turned in prior to development starting work.
Are you drones a problem near your house?
> Would it ever be socially acceptable for large groups in the past to run amok and violently burglarize others?

The line between a raging horde of criminals and an army has been razor thin through history.
I am sorry for your loss. I hope that you have many happy memories of your time with your dad that can provide you some comfort as you grieve.
I'm not american, but I do live near quite a few. I have no problem with them.

In fact as someone who has walked up scafell pike, the highest point in England to be greeted with a view of Windscale, I would say I bloody love them, compared to the alternative.

The rural landscapes round these parts bear the scars of man, these are less deep than previous
If you are interested in a book length version of this argument, I'd recommend Goliath by Matt Stoller: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/...
TIL: Rich.console.status for Slow Processes
> The goal of price discovery is to find the price that the market will bear; it is not to find the price that your so-called competitors will agree to match.

I'm sorry, huh?

Who exactly do you think is participating in this "market"?
Your opening line can easily be interpreted as stating that the stock 22.04 server install has an account with this privilege:

> The scenario is this: a brand new Ubuntu 22.04 server has an account which is restricted to running sudo logrotate .

It might have been better to say:

> The scenario is this: take a brand new Ubuntu 22.04 server and create an account which is restricted to running sudo logrotate .
Inkscape also offers an option to use Poppler as the renderer engine when importing/exporting PDF documents.
Thought it might be an interesting refutation, but there's just a ton of arguing semantics. Follow that up with "mainstream media", and NFT's aren't worthless because worth has two meanings (neither of which applies to 95% of NFTs). I am not enlightened.
That's certainly what people who charge rent and own media outlets say. Who am I to disagree with their megaphones?
So what are you suggesting? Reduce housing?
I like the look of wind turbines and even large wind farms. The UK has large fields of them offshore which are awesome to see on or even below the horizon.

I cannot comment on the auditory impact, as I have not spent a large amount of time in the near vicinity of one. But surely they're less annoying than a generator or the noise from ICE vehicles we live in daily.
If we're doing one bad thing already, we may as well do a hundred!
> I think the answer is that they are still building with the same weight as a train, rather than a bus.

A non-trivial part of this difference is that train cars are generally bigger than a bus. Light rail is generally more bus sized and they are generally closer in weight (though still heavier).

> * Homogenous cars. They all have traction motors

Electric passenger rail systems generally already use EMUs which have a power unit per-car or per pair of cars.

> small batteries

I'm not sure how you're going to have a small battery in a bus-sized vehicle that needs to operate fairly continuously for a good portion of the day unless this is on a partially electrified ROW. EMUs with smaller batteries to serve such routes already exist FWIW.

I think there's a reasonable case to be made to adjust US passenger rail regulations to allow lighter cars (especially in the context of high-speed rail), but allowing pneumatic tires seems like a poor motivation for it.
Ask HN: Has meetup.org been replaced by anything?
In ~2015 when I was living in Chicago and frequently traveling, I could reliably find something interesting to do through Meetup.org. It seems that that are far fewer things being listed now. Are there really fewer things being organized in general or have people gravitated to another site/app?
What if lowering prices has both consequences?
Note that this is not Michael T. Flynn who is a retired general and former adviser to President Trump.
Rural landscape is kind of an oxymoron. It's not a natural landscape but we've been raised to think that it looks lovely.

Hopefully people can cope with enough wind turbines that we reduce emissions before the climate storms destroy too much of our modern infrastructure.
But not all "preapproved narratives" are bad, though. Things like "murder is bad" is something almost everyone would agree on.
> Your phrasing almost makes it sound like you're sharing a clear example of it analyzing and completing a complex task correctly, while perfectly understanding what it's doing.

OpenAI has hardcoded (or heavily overfit) several special-purpose functions into their ChatGPT systems. In the past few months, they've integrated other special-purpose models, so their tools can do more than just predictive text (e.g. image recognition).

GPT can do limited verbal reasoning, whatever else can do image recognition, but that does not mean the combined system can do visual reasoning. There's no mechanism by which it would (unless you specifically create one, but that's not trivial and doesn't generalise).

> Who knew that to get results that look like it knows what it's doing, it's enough to predict what could make someone say that!

Everyone. Some call it “specification gaming” or “reward hacking”, and we've known about it for a long time. It's a really obvious concept if you have a good mental model of reinforcement learning. https://doi.org/10.1162%2Fartl_a_00319 is a fun example.

> We are truly living in the golden age of statistical prediction that does not involve any degree of thinking, analysis, or understanding.

This is a straw argument. I can't speak for anyone else, but my criticisms are mainly of people seeing some thinking-like, analysis-like or understanding-like behaviour, and assuming that it is human-like thinking, analysis or understanding, while ignoring other hypotheses (some of which make successful advance predictions in a way the “it's doing what humans do!” models don't).

I will note: the people being the most loudly exuberant about ChatGPT's vast intelligence seem to view it as a tool. If I were faced with an opaque box, inside which was a being capable of general-purpose problem solving, conversation, and original thought, my first reaction would not be “I can use this for my own ends”. I am glad that I have seen nothing to convince me that ChatGPT is such a being, and I have theoretical arguments that ChatGPT probably won't ever be such a being, but if you genuinely think this technology has the potential to produce such a being, you have an ethical responsibility.
Haskell: Syntactic Heroin
I had some friends next to solar panels on a hill. The amount of heat off of the panels raised the ambient temperature of their house by several degrees and raised their cooling costs ironically. The HOA sued the power supplier and they came to an agreement to pay them part of the output of the panels. Ended up being something comical, like 20$.
> Why not just ignore it altogether?

hah.. even worse, if you follow down the thread in your last link, apparently there is an SXID_IGNORE which they decided was better implemented as an SXID_ERASE for some variables.
I hope he finds all sorts of crazy documents from his FOIA thing. FOIA lawsuits are a very normal part of the process (I've had the same lawyers pry loose stuff from my local municipality). I would bet real money against the prospect of him finding anything that shakes the confidence of practicing cryptography engineers in these standards. Many of the CRYSTALS team members are quite well regarded.
Please don't post in the flamewar style, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines recently in other threads as well, such as the swipes in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749506 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749471. Moreover, we've had to ask you about this at least twice before.

Can you please review the site guidelines and fix this? We want commenters on HN to make their substantive points thoughtfully, not aggressively—partly as a matter of respect for other users, but mostly as a way of preserving the forum for its intended purpose.
I’m not saying polkit isn’t an improvement, but it also isn’t a panacea: https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-r...
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What exactly you mean by "operating system could handle that transparently"?
What exactly mainframes handle transparently? Moving SNA connection from one box to another? Is even possible today?
Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models
Modern DRAM doesn't address individual cells. For both DDR4 and DDR5 the minimum burst length is 64 bytes, the width of a cache line of most CPUs.