skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're comparing Waco and Uvalde, in both cases there was shooting and police had reason to believe that kids were in harms way. The situations, while not identical in all regards, are close enough to demonstrate the point that law enforcement need to make these kind of calls on a case-by-case basis. Neither one approach nor the other will always be correct, and obviously the police won't always make the right call.
Sure. But you're just moving the goalposts from "what counts as a vehicle in the park" to "what counts as a vehicle in the park using even the most tenuous logic you could imagine." And I'm sure people could disagree about that, too - does the logic contain even a kernel of truth, or is it totally specious? The game simply shows that whenever you make a rule that requires any level of judgment whatsoever, what seems like "common sense" to one person may seem ludicrous to another.
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They were not a nutty cult and the fire was caused by the tear gas.
Can someone explain to me how this happens? Don’t law enforcement get suspicious when you get sent to the same house, incorrectly say after the third time? Why would they go back 44 more times?
> It’s arguably why deep learning took off: matrix multiplication happens to be really cheap on GPUs

Multiplication of large matrices is intrinsically simple to parallelize, and in addition it has great data locality and a very regular structure. It's just a great operation to perform efficiently on a parallel processor.
my opinion (as a dad with kids learning piano, who learned piano as a kid) playing with 88 weighted keys is like learning to write cursive with a fountain pen - maybe artistically interesting, but doesn't matter for the core skills. My kids are learning on 61 key unweighted boards and they're learning melody, rhythm, notation, theory, and all of the things that are about music, not about the particular physiological requirements that a machine originally built in the 1600s imposed.
What you're suggesting doesn't make sense.

Dark matter isn't non-luminous matter. It's matter that only interacts gravitationally, but not electromagnetically. This means it doesn't undergo collisions and can't shed angular momentum. It forms a diffuse, largely uniform cloud throughout galaxies. The result is that galaxies are more dense further from the galactic core than we would predict from luminous matter alone.
There's a big difference between "quite some time" and 30 minutes, though. Of course sed needs to read the file and write it back to disk, but that's capped by I/O speed which is very high on modern drives - we're talking seconds for a file in the tens of gigabytes on the fastest SSDs, a very far cry from half an entire hour.
The images generated are based on two things:

1). the code within the systems

2). the data entered into the system.

Those images are the result of how the data is processed by the code. Even if you put in a random number generator, the code processes those numbers based on it internal code constraints.

Now a well designed and built code base may be able to generate every image of the same dimensions. You can certainly write code that can exhaustively generate every possible image, but the question here is whether this exhaustive generation is intelligent.
I don't get it, how is it different from customizing any other OS, except that Android has many more options to do so than the very-limited iOS? You spend countless hours on your phone, why wouldn't you sit down for an hour to make it suit your needs better if the defaults bother you? I tweaked Nova Launcher on mine, spent an hour or two doing that, what, 8 years ago now? Definitely worth the time.

I very much hate the default Android and iOS experiences. I guess the downside is that making my phone more usable means, well, I actually use it more (i.e., too much).
Perl is a great programming language, unless true.
When you mine asteroids in orbit on a large scale around your star, the released dust/debris would form an IR halo around the star that would be very easy to detect and reveal your presence but we dont see any of it.

So, early humans it propably is.
China's military is very corrupt. Much of the materiel has been straight up stolen by military officers and Party cadres. Chairman Xi has been purging elements of the military, partly to reduce corruption but also to eliminate potential political rivals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-06/us-intell...
Or maybe we have just conditioned people to not share useful information publicly anymore.

Amazon selling what used to be open source projects has certainly had a chilling effect on people publishing source code under a permissive licence.
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I don’t agree and not agree, just exploring the idea. I think the deterrent part of a justice system is to deter the person harmed from initiating or continuing a cycle of retribution that reduces civilization to ruin. If it could be a deterrent for people who do wrong, then it does a bad job of it. In reality the wrongs and rights people do are not their own, just random happenstance that configured a person to be in the position to act in a certain way at a certain time.
As a student, you'd be well-served to explore the various power tools people have used for many decades, with emacs being at the top of that list.
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Wow! This looks like it could be used to transfer temporary tattoos onto your arm. If that were available, my two small kids would sure love it.
Not useful for people who live in areas without cell service. These folks will have no way to make calls from home if ATT pulls out.
If you don't have the background, to me you would be a risky bet since you may be missing some fundamentals. But I'm not sure what niche you're specializing in, or if you could provide some social proof that you've otherwise picked up the requisite software engineering skills.

If sounds like gatekeeping, it kind of is.
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So oil, like the Middle East.
I thought STIR/SHAKEN was deployed now. How can someone still call 911 with a fake number without it showing up as a fake number? Aren't PSAPs seeing the attestation level of the call? A local call that doesn't have an "A" attestation level is very suspicious.

Although this is supposed to be deployed throughout the US telephony network by now, apparently the public safety answering points are not up to speed yet.

Background: "NENA Spoofing Mitigation Information Document"[1]

[1] https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nena.org/resource/resmgr/standards...
Let's do both. There's two crimes:

1 - Giving away info without consent

2 - The crime of abusing police resources.
Text-to-3D
Hi everyone, please play with this and tell me if you have ideas/comments/suggestions/annoyances. The model in question is OpenAI's Shap-e.

Re-posting as it no longer requires Google OAuth.
This may have been distorted by time, but I think that's about the average size of the ones I had at my old apartment.

I discovered we had them when I was going to bed one night and one was just hanging out a few inches from my light switch.
Which this is not.

A validating parser, that is. The paper clearly indicates that invalid JSON like [1, 1b] will pass, unless your code happens to try and decode the 1b.
Okay, let's back it up to the simple part - which isn't to say anything about you, but things went in several different directions.

Right - leases are credit-like, somewhat. However, leaving aside the concept of eviction taking time (that to me is investment risk, not 'extending credit') - lease payments are made in advance, and when I was a tenant, every single one had a clause allowing for termination in the event that prompt payment was not made, in advance.

My objection there is that these payments should not be being reported to Credit Reporting Agencies because they're not credit.

And as supporting evidence, if they were credit, every tenant for decades would have every lease or rental agreement being reported as a matter of business. Why has that not happened? Because it's not credit. And now, some "innovative" companies are offering to work with Property Managers and landlords to offer it as a "service" to their tenants.

However, you look at things and very quickly you realize the benefit to the tenant is almost a side effect:

These services charge a fee to the tenant, a portion of which goes to the landlord (can you say kickback?), and if you look at the websites of these services, the "allow your tenants to record good payment history on their credit report" is but one bullet point. Every other bullet point talks about the benefits to you as a landlord.

You mentioned landlords doing credit checks to establish a sense of the tenant's fiscal responsibility. I think that is fine. As for evictions, damage, deposits being withheld, and so on - there's a need for that. And it exists, entirely separate to the CRAs.

This whole thread started because of one point, that I don't believe they should be able to report it as a credit tradeline, because it's not. And I still think the single biggest argument I have that that's the case is that it's only been in the last three or so years that this has been offered, when credit reporting has been around since the 1980s.
It also could be that interstellar travel is possible but never inexpensive enough to be casual or useful for ever-expanding colonization. Or it could be that civilizations stabilize before the point where ever-expanding colonization becomes attractive.

As an example of the latter, look at birth rates in different societies on Earth: Almost universally, they decline to replacement level once they hit a certain level of per-capita wealth.

It’s very likely that a society that achieves interstellar travel will do so after it achieves the ability to provide the highest standard of living for all of its members indefinitely using just the resources of its local system. This already describes Earth; the reasons we don’t do this are ideological, not based on any inherent constraints, while interstellar travel isn’t in our grasp yet and is likely to be extraordinarily costly.

Such a society wouldn’t face any pressure to grow, so any colonization would itself likely be ideological—“We don’t want to do things Surak’s way, let’s pull up stakes and find a world where we can live the way we want!”—or as a contingency/hedge against large-scale existential risk. Neither demand colonizing even a small fraction of a galaxy, assuming habitable worlds are even remotely plentiful near and reachable from the origin world.
that's the day I'll eat my red hat
Naval mines delivered by submarines and bombers provide a feasible military option to break a PLA blockade on Taiwan. China is dependent on foreign imports of fossil fuels and other raw materials. That tactic was highly effective against Japan in WW2.
You don't know what moving the goalposts is. You're moving the goalposts when you insist that my claim is that it is easy for people to agree, when my actual claim is, and always has been, that the experiment is not evidence of this.
Emergent behaviour can occur, not a problem. But if you study such systems, I think you will find that the emergent behaviour is based on the programming involved and is not "beyond the programming".

When it comes to intelligence, this is not something that we can say is actually emergent.

There are currently a number of projects that are looking into intelligence and free-will. There are researchers on the same teams who hold quite different opinions - the results for these projects are not at all conclusive.
After that 3rd or 4th SWAT you'd think something would click
A few years ago Steve Gibson talked about "The end of clever" on his podcast. Essentially that we've (now quite awhile ago) passed the point where a clever password was sufficient to protect you.

All the database leaks have shown that many people aren't nearly as clever as they think they are. I'm not sure if Passkeys are going to prove out as a good solution, so for the moment I am inclined to say your best bet is a good password manager and long, random passwords.
We already have a fair amount of that infrastructure:

* Land ownership is generally public record, or at least orchestrated at local government levels for property tax assessment, school enrollment eligiblity, and other similar local services.

* Some states already have concepts of presence-- different tax regimes for part-year residents versus full-year.

I'd expect that this would end up being relevant in only a very narrow set of cases. Most cases are slam-dunk clearly "owner occupier" versus "investor-owned", and hopefully they'd put more than a HN post worth of effort trying to define rules that handle the ambiguous cases.

I tend to be a bit suspicious of the LVT, because it can create toxic consequences for individual landowners.

Sure, if I have an empty lot and a new Job Factory opens next door, a rising LVT creates incentive for me to build. But if I already had a house there, my LVT has tripled and my house is no longer affordable.

Locking the LVT to the current owner might prevent that toxicity, but it also encourage all sorts of evasion strategies.
I pulled that specific number out of the air and it was intentionally an over exaggeration. We don’t know the crossover point.
Making sure you can justify your request for a funding increase next year since your SWAT team is so busy
Or the nuke launch code - CPE1702TKS, if I remember correctly.

"God" from Hackers is missing too.
This is an interesting and novel paper. Speaking as a biophysicist, I see potential applications in the regenerative medicine space with cartilage and/or joint replacement. There could be also applications in the field of dermatology with aging therapies or skin grafts. More speculatively, one can imagine scientists developing superior types of joints or connective tissues than the ones evolution has landed upon.
I hate that this answer isn't absurd.
awesome. I remember reading about this a while ago, but never tried. Since it has the same API i can imagine its not daunting as a multi-cloud infrastructure.

I guess permissions might be more complex, as in EC2 instance profiles wouldnt grant access, etc.
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Probably the first step would be a good, non-regular-expression (IIRC, URLs are not regular) based link parser that's ported to every possible language on the planet.
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Oh, that's right, dang is the only moderator now. There used to be two.
How would you know? Based on what we know of simulations in this reality, which has rules designed by whoever created it? If you're programming a simulated universe and don't want its inhabitants to know, it seems like a pretty obvious mechanism to try to enforce that would be to make the rules so that it seemed like "leaking" information into a simulation was impossible, even if the rules of their "outer" reality made it impossible for them to fully prevent it, only dissuade us from looking into it.

This is kind of why I mostly find the discussion of whether we're in simulation to pretty quickly reach a point where it stops being interesting even from a philosophical perspective. I don't really see how you can differentiate between fundamental properties that we observe that reflect the "real" universe where we're just a simulation and fundamental properties that explicitly designed for the purpose of the simulation itself and may not actually reflect the "real" universe. We might as well ask if the OS our simulation is running on has a toggle for dark mode or not.
Also, it is often overlooked that you still need skilled people to run RDS. It's certainly not "2-clicks and forget" and "you don't need to pay anyone running your DB".

I haven't run a Postgres instance with proper backup and restore, but it doesn't seem like rocket science using barman or pgbackrest.
Residential usually has some kind of hard data cap. Like if you transfer >10TB they'll just cut you off. You're also generally barred from running any kind of commercial application.
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I'm speaking outside my area, but dark matter is not really confirmed to even exist?
> if the person has no prior criminal record what are you doing bringing the SWAT team out?

I believe the usual technique is to say you say two armed people enter the house followed by a scream/shout. You want to convince the police there are heavily armed hostage takers - hence the SWAT response.
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The article was posted in March 2018 and the Wikipedia page was gone by September at least. Here is the last version from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20171028065637/https://en.wikipe...
I love the kind of games like the 'no vehicle in the park' one.

Please someone send me more links to games like these
Well actually you want a thin layer not a thick one otherwise bugs walk around it.
That’s the difference between active shooter and barricaded suspect situations. Best practice for an active shooter is to immediately intervene with the first officers to arrive on scene with whatever equipment and training they have on hand, and I’ve seen footage of many instances of officers responding quickly and decisively in those situations. Uvalde was an instance of negligence and cowardice and in my opinion the laws regulating the police aren’t sufficient to hold the Uvalde police department accountable for what they allowed to happen.
They wouldn't be, just like now they aren't in a world of hurt now when the same risks materialize in a fake call response (some people die during these raids)
that's an incredibly fallacious argument that apple and others make in really bad faith. unless you mean security for apple, that is.

having the right to choose whether replace my screen/battery/etc. with a genuine apple (tm) part or a high-quality substitute does not diminish my security. if i use a cheap knock-off from alibaba, it might be less quality or any number of other scams and problems, so if you care - don't do that.

it's not apple's job to decide whether i want more or less "security", what my security goals are, or the best way to achieve it (e.g. not being "securely" locked into their ecosystem). and for some people it will be just buying apple-care and new phones every couple years, and that's fine.
Just to be clear, after I (and a few others left), they moved everything entirely to the cloud.

Even with documentation on the hybrid setup, they'd need to get a new on-prem environment up and running (find a colo, buy machines, set up the network, blah blah).
Small cities are a relic from 100 years ago when 40% of the US population worked on farms. Their diminished present day stature is a indication that they are not a productive use of resources (e.g. roads and other infrastructure). We don't need government intervention to save them.
I don't expect it to be private from apple. I'm just counting on apple not sharing it with 3rd parties like google or anyone willing to give them a buck to report my buying/app/whatever habits in order to send me ads.
Wow, that is pretty bogus. I'm no fan of Fox News, but what if I want to watch Fox News as part of a research program into news biases? I can't even get the URL from Gemini because it isn't taking context into account.

And it won't talk about Playboy, but I was trying to help my girl who actually works for Playboy; and about 60% of Playboy's employees are now female. You can't even debate the damned thing on this topic.
> Google "RLC circuits" if you don't know what they are.

I'm not sure if you are purposefully trying to be insulting, but I want to give the benefit of the doubt so I will chalk it up to poor reading comprehension.

Actually, I remember interacting with you before, and you have consistently spoken to me and others in a similar condescending manner, so I will assume that you know exactly what you are doing.
$40-$50
I imagine it would - it seems to be a modern version evolved from ERMapper of the late 1980s | early 1990s that did exactly this kind of work.

ERMapper was a program that could pipe in many raw input multi channel data files from satellite | aircraft | other sources along with an "algorithm" file that described what to do.

One part of the task is to geo mosaic and merge data from seperate files together so that per output location there is an awareness of what cells are local to that output, the cell dimensions, type of data, channel, etc.

The algorithm part is to (say) combine data from channels 3, 7, and 9 using a particular filter and to adjust (say) for rayleigh scattering.

Such programs are geospatially aware spreadsheet programs that pipe in raw data an pipe out "cooked" or processed data.

When the GeoColor scientific papers you linked talk about the filtering operations they do on channel data they very likely are not "coding" in the sense of writing C code - but constructing "algorithms" by specifying which mathematics operations to perform on input channel data and writing that out in the algorithm file*.

* Which a pre existing program (perhaps ERDAS Imagine) reads and applies to it's input data, the raw captures from the satellites.

Yes, I wrote such things 35+ years ago, no I'm not in the field today and don't have a copy of ERDAS Imagine.

I'm not sure what the state of art for open source geomosaic software is these days - something like

https://github.com/sshuair/awesome-gis

might help to wind your way into the right kinds of geopspatial forums to discuss further, get references, etc.
I'm down with that. Thought you were serious /s
Your "counterargument" is a presumption in Fermi paradox models. The alternative isn't particular interesting.
Human nature is a scary thing, but it never changes. Not in 50 years, 500 years or 5,000 years.
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Yes, money is money, what does it matter if it comes from paying customers or investors?
Ya, I don’t see any of these schemes being sustainable until they are somehow universal (eg an option even for the rich, but not one they can somehow monopolize). Like Singapore’s public housing, which isn’t gated by income, but rationed in other ways (marriage, have a family, must be a resident).
If you don't yelling trash, noobs and gg ez in games like league, dota, cod or cs, is it retirement? /s
I'm talking about photography as documentation, not art.
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My impression is that’s only one half of the story. If you look at some of the subreddits where he’s mentioned he’s basically turned into a lolcow. Lolcows are essentially terminally online people that are made fun of (up to cyber bullying, real life stalking and swatting) on websites like kiwifarms and reddit. The most famous lolcow that you may have heard of is Chris Chan.

This is not to defend the terrible things being done to this guy, but if he just went dark people would lose interest/age out of fucking with him. What gives a lolcow longevity and notability is their continuance to post weird stuff and actively engage with their bullies.
Bitcoin mining network doing what the IMF and World Bank couldn’t, funding new clean power infrastructure and potentially help a poor African nation bootstrap itself out of poverty.
Keep talking theoretical bounds, while I post real, not theoretical, dollars
That some point is on the first one. They should not send in a violent response due to a spoofed call from another state.

Worst case, once they find the first one was a 'swatting', they should really temper the response on future calls.
It's consistent with observational evidence. You are correct that no one has detected dark matter particles.