skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a local police force. The same officers will be responding.

Apparently he was SWATted 4 times in day. The same officers will be going back to the same property. They're not morons.

Either:

1. This didn't happen / this happened far less frequently than reported

2. The police are harassing this guy
>These are citizens not subjects

On paper.
Five and a half books a day, every day, all summer seems high.

What counts as "a book" here (the seven volume À la recherche du temps perdu seems a bit of challenge to rip through in a day) ?
Perhaps a good defense, but the target of the article didn't get into an internet argument with anyone, and he's still been targeted. Have to stay off the internet entirely.
Running it for a few years. Very good! Helps you focus on what matters, easy to tweak and fork. Replacing the default OnePlus launcher make me gain a bit more performance as well, especially switching accounts on the phone! Plus I suspect some battery as well.
> You know what driverless cars can't do? Redirect a passenger to the emergency room due to acute problems that occur in the car.

You state this as a fact with absolute confidence. That's interesting. Not only do I respectfully disagree, but I'm actually surprised you are so sure of yourself. It seems (to me) rather obvious that self driving cars are not a mature technology yet. In fact, they aren't even deployed widely. In that regard, of course it isn't a mature technology!

So I'd really appreciate it if you could help me understand how you arrived at that conclusion. Being so incredibly confident you must have a rock solid set of arguments about this topic and I'd love to hear them.
When the pandemic hit we needed a quick solution for my daughter's piano lessons. I built a setup with OBS, Synthesia and an old Logitec web cam I had lying around (these were impossible to get new at the time).

I transmitted a frontal video of the player from the laptop cam, a top-down view of the center section of the keyboard (the cam angle was not wide enough for the whole), and the virtual keyboard from Synthesia. I had three different layouts of these elements in OBS, that could be switched by pressing the space bar. On the audio side I sent a mix from the laptop mic for voice plus the direct audio from the e-piano.

Served us well for the time.

One constraint that improved solutions probably don't have now was that teachers could not decide on a video conferencing software, so my setup-up needed to be independent. This almost made OBS a no-brainer, because of the virtual cam support.
He doesn't deserve how he was treated but yeah he has been acting a bit strange through this entire thing. This podcast is a good treatment of the story: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-164-the-torture...

It also tells the story about how a Swedish man was accused of being the swatter based on no other evidence than an audio recording where he allegedly had a Swedish accent.
This is a hilarious take. A few youths went bonkers and defaced private property. Has nothing to do with philosophical beliefs or a Big Tech agenda. You should debate the finer points of the Big Tech agenda with them while they run up to you in a maddened rage.
Ask HN: Are there any LLM projects for creating integration tests?
I’m curious if anyone has seen a project involving LLM’s that takes a series of user actions and creates integration test code for them, something like:

I goto to example.com
I click the search bar
I type in “fruit”
Expect to see a list of fruit

Then the LLM would execute something like playwright to achieve each of these steps and report back if any steps failed…
The problem is that you are playing a word game that ignores anything that actually matters. Thereby destroying any interesting conversations that could be had about a topic.

And you are doing it in the worst way possible where you get to be technically correct, but correct in a way that is completely irrelevant to what anyone else is saying and is also worthless.

Here is how this conversation basically went.

Other person: "I like these very common qualities about housing that many other people also like. This is proved by the fact that houses with all these qualities have much higher demand and price".

You: "Whoa dude. Have you consider that everything is relative? And that there is no way to prove that those qualities are better than other qualities?

What about a person who really likes their house to be burnt down. Or to have rats in their walls. Or to have high crime and being in constant danger. Nothing is better or worse dude!"

All of this is completely worthless commentary. Yes, it is technically true that I cannot use math or science to prove that certain qualities about a house are better or worse.

But that doesn't matter. Because we live in the real world and it is perfectly ok to generalize preferences without getting into the fact that I cannot prove to the universe that some qualities are better than others.

Instead, we can just generalize things based on obvious and common preferences.
Someone did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
Only if python gained the ability to execute externals and handle stdin/stdout/stderr, return value, & environment directly instead of through exec().
And ditched the meaningful indentation.
And was backwards compatible so that old scripts work today and today scripts work tomorrow.

Bash has it's own uglies so I guess it's fair enough to compare two imperfect things, but the problem is these are two different jobs, and python just doesn't do the job bash does, and that job needs doing, so python can't be the replacement.
I am of the opinion that each time the IRS adds a new form, they should by law provide a way to e-file it for free. Essentially no end-user tax software supports my personal tax situation, because the support for international situations is usually pretty terrible. Alternatively they could dramatically reduce the reporting burden for international people, perhaps with a cap on income or net worth, but I suspect pigs will fly before the US does that.
> major investment in public transit (essentially, get to Tokyo levels of density).

FYI, the trains in Tokyo are privately run by corporations.
Could you expand a bit on the challenges with Skype/Zoom?
I'm not sure why you believe that humans are better at anything.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-drone-racing
This is also a fair take, but not a very compelling reason why bandwidth costs are vendor lock in...
Companies attempting to pay an engineer according to location, in my opinion, is another kind of discrimination. You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, not her location.

We have rules in govts that companies should not discriminate against employees based on sex, religion, sexual orientation etc etc.. But it is fair to discriminate the salary of an employee based on location? For ex: I know a few friends who have moved from Europe to Asia with the same role and are getting paid less compared to what they were getting paid in Europe. Its the same role, its the same person, but getting paid less just because of location ?
Rural areas often don't have enough passengers along routes to fill a bus, so the car is going to be better. (Doesn't have to be privately owned though.)
Maybe for podcasts? That's the only thing I can think of.
There's also https://plugandplink.com/, which includes a hardware component to help the person learning (lights on the snake).

The app also includes preprepared videos and lessons (scales, arpeggios etc.) which interact with the hardware component.

My son's been using it with a tutor remotely and it's been working great! Not only that, but he can use the app and the snake to self-guide his practise during the rest of the week.
It's not a generalisation, it's just the definition of the word 'competent'.
Based on your comment, it appears to me that there may be a correlation between the number of X or Y chromosomes and an individual's height. Typically, individuals possess either XX or XY chromosomes. However, variations such as XXY (Klinefelter syndrome) or XYY syndrome do exist and are associated with increased stature. The question of whether this correlation is scientifically substantiated and the mechanisms behind these phenotypic expressions are intriguing and worth exploring further.
Are there statements from the people who actually did this? I'm trying to understand the context.

It's intriguing, people in a city with over $300K GDP per capita burning an AI enabled transportation robot. I feel the urge to fit it in some kind of cyberpunk narrative.
"Normal people with no playbook"? These are police SWAT teams we're talking about, the entire reason the specialization exists is to make them highly trained to deal with these situations.

Of course, in America that training tends to take the form of learning how to use their military-style weaponry to kill the Bad Guys(tm), not eg how to deescalate a situation.
...and with as little traffic as with buses and trains.

Constant traffic makes urban streets unpleasant. City life is better when the streets are mostly empty, with at most one or two vehicles per minute in each direction.
Once you buy in a cloud, both you and your data become hostages. And you have to pay ransom monthly.
Oh, wow. I have read his book, Ogilvy on Advertising. Found it interesting, to say the least.
So, high schoolers stapled two off the shelf AI tools/datasets together to make a new AI checkpoint?
Funny how anybody can call a SWAT team for free that costs taxpayers upwards of $10,000 per instance, but god forbid a $1000 ambulance ride gets financed by taxes
It is true [1]. And clearly driverless technology applies to vehicles of various sizes.

[1] "Depending on bus type, driver cost accounts for between 40 and 70 per cent of total bus operator cost in Singapore (Ongel et al., 2019) and Australia (own calculation based on ATC, 2006). In Japan, driver salaries account for 53% and 70% of total operating costs of buses and taxis, respectively (Abe, 2019)."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22120...
> Location based salaries are discriminatory

I used to feel this way, but largely grown out of it. In the end, you're asking for SF salaries, and those in India are asking for NL salaries(or SF salaries). You'd largely find a race to the bottom, I think.

The simple fact is you made a good living for your area, and they made a good living for theirs. If you want more, move. If you won't move, there's likely a reason why.

Everyone wants a SF salary with an Indiana or even India cost of living. For obvious reasons, that can't work.
If I am not mistaken nectarine have been doing it for year?
In situations where 1 person is driving a bus averaging 10 people it hardly seems worth getting rid of the driver
Ruby's entire programming model was based on the premise that language speed does not matter since most of the time you are waiting on IO / Network. Well now, both on Node.js and JVM we have programming models which say that - while I wait for IO / Network let me do some other work or service more requests (Async / Webflux / Coroutines).

IMHO - using Ruby/Rails in 2024 can be wasteful, but of-couse for the right situation it can be a good choice. (Just) For example an enterprise app where you know the number of users will be limited, or when you know the development speed is paramount or where you want to build a quick proptype to test the market out. Rails is a great framework and the productivity is unmatched, but with time a 2-3 years old Rails project is always tricky to maintain.
What about the economy post COVID has given you any hope that if private corporations are allowed to control the tech, that they will be cheaper than our current solution? Companies have done nothing but inflate profits mostly for making more profits.

The nightmare scenario in self driving is if we can no longer own cars, but have to subscribe to car services, money from public transportation goes to private corporations, and they can raise profits or remove routes as they see fit for the most money.
Sorry if the point wasn't clear.

I meant literally substitute "local non-emergency police line" for "911" in this comment:

"Lock up the people responsible at the companies allowing anonymous VOIP calls to 911"

It shouldn't matter if these spoofed calls are going to 911 or to the local non-emergency line. They shouldn't be sending swat for spoofed calls from other states. The comment I was responding to seemed to imply that there's some meaningful difference that the calls are coming through the local non-emergency line. There really shouldn't be any difference in terms of what response these spoofed calls generate.
Most of them are though. People can’t get off their phones, they’re addicted. Every time I see a car swerving in front of me and I pass, they’re on their phone. We have to figure out self driving cars because humans can’t disconnect and focus on their multi-ton vehicle.
Are community college professors not professors?

(Edit: I wrote “community college” because I though that was what the grand-parent had said - but it was just “college”.)
Discrimination is around things that an individual can't choose (religion being the weird elephant in the room). Fair or not, this isn't discrimination.
I disagree. I believe a company should pay based on ability of employees to have comfort and wellness, not some universal measure of value (which I believe to be impossible). What you are advocating for inadvertently breaks community and exacerbates gentrification and destruction of social fabric via inequality. Location matters.
While I agree that RDS is expensive, you're making two false claims here:

1. Hiring someone full time to work on the database means migrating off RDS

2. Database work is only about spend reduction
You’re going to get banned but you’re speaking the truth

Ironically can’t reply to the person who replied to me because my account is partially banned :D

To the other reply: dang has personally confirmed that I am rate limited, so no. It’s also in the publicly available HN source code. If I post more than 5 times in 12 hours I get a “you are posting too fast” message. Other people don’t get this
> The Apple Watch seems to be the only smart watch I see around - though granted smart watches are not as ubiquitous as smart phones.

From some quick Googling, while they are the biggest player by far, they have around 23% of the smartwatch market. And as far as I have seen, other smartwatches are not so similar to the Apple Watch as Andoid is to iOS.

> MacOS is tricky because it just feels like if it wasn't for Office at The Office, it would have just fully won.

MacOS is tied to extremely expensive hardware, so it was never going to win. And Apple never actively pushed for training on Macs like MS did, so there are many orders of magnitude more pieces of software exclusive to Windows than to MacOS. Office may be MS's crown jewel, but there is giant long tail of Windows software that dwarfs even Unix, not to mention MacOS in particular.
> This (driverless tech) is amazing for what it can do to help people that are old/poor and live in places with no public transport

The ability to type this on an investment forum with a straight face indicates you have a bright future in our industry
Yeah I absolutely hate that. I get why they do it from a business point of view but as an engineer, I'm instantly put off when I see something along the lines of "up to $x (depending on location)".
Not an expert on ML model, what does the smallest box represent exactly? Function calls?
It will be quite a while before anything else besides the student just engaging with playing and sticking with it matters at all. IMO.

To that end, I think a crappy plastic MIDI keyboard can do a better job than a steinway if it is easier to acquire and accommodate. Being at hand is more important than being just right at this stage.

I say this as a music major, but it is not in any way a universal opinion to be sure.
There is nothing "green" about
German politics either way
This isn't a revolt against AI. SF attracts anarchist mobs and they'll vandalize buses, trains, police cars, bikes, whatever is around.
I'd go further. If carriers are delivering these calls, they should be removed from the network.
> You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, not her location.

I don't believe that is a legal requirement, anywhere. Remuneration is based on many factors, which can include the cost of living. A company will not be able to hire someone in New York City, for the same price as someone in a less expensive jurisdiction.

This isn't discrimination, it's simple economic reality.
That's implied, yes.
To write papers
Trump 'encourages' Russia to attack NATO states not paying 'bills'
For featuring in a podcast episode, I guess.
That's not because the french police is especially militarized or anything, it's just that they are under threat. Swedish police patrolled the streets and malls with submachine guns this christmas too, it happens more than you know. Islamic terrorism is a real and ongoing thing.
>It was easier, and easier came with a price.

I kind of doubt it's easier. If you use your own servers you need some stuff to manage them. If you use cloud, you need some cloud engineers to manage your cloud infrastructure. On top of that, if your developers use cloud APIs and frameworks, they have to learn that.
Did you read the blog post? The whole point of the blog post is that the model does not demonstrate that it's learning in interesting ways (as strongly as people make it out).
I mean it's an unprotected corporate asset in a city where the median employee only makes 1/3rd the revenue they bring in, it's not difficult to think of an excuse.
Somewhat related, there was a John Oliver segment regarding raids which you maybe (depending on geoblocking) able to watch in full on YT: https://youtu.be/WYdi1bL6s10
Thanks. Yeah, I forgot. Fn-up and Fn-left are particularly useful.
Big discussion, let me touch another point

>It doesn't matter whether you're paying somebody in the Bay Area $100 000 per year, or somebody in the Philippines, because the cost for you as a business is the same.

The cost for you as business is NOT the same. Start from the taxes part, that 100k is what the employee gets but the cost for the business is higher depending on the country/area because they also pay tax on top, social benefits etc. Also need to have in many cases a local business, doesn't matter if that is virtual etc, since they need to adhere to local laws thus having resources supporting that etc.

So while I'm on the employee side here as I'm also working on a multinational coorp with global role yet paid with local standards, there is more than meets the eye
it sounds like you're saying that grad school trains people to be autodidacts
not just some of the blame but pretty much all of it

this is pretty much not a thing in any country with a properly working state of law

it's absurd to a point you have to wonder if it wasn't one of the police officers themselves or someone related to them which called in anonymous
> So dense the Criminally Insane Agency & the Not Skilled Asswipery both outsourced spying on us to Sweden. The swedes found it so bad they had to hire Denmark to avoid not killing it's entire population..

...what?
That's a thing the police worries about everywhere. And not just AR-15 as the criminals typically will have way more lethal weapons.
> Companies attempting to pay an engineer according to location, in my opinion, is another kind of discrimination. You are supposed to pay an employee based on his/her abilities, not her location.

So you’re saying, we should be paying engineers in Europe and in the US the same as an engineer in LATAM or India or Asia that has the same level of experience and skill.

The only way to be non discriminatory is to have a standardized formula of compensation that takes into account cost of living (rent, food, healthcare, taxes etc) where the final take home pay in locations around the world are equivalent - which I believe should be the case at most companies
Surely this can’t be justified as a ux driven “oversight” - I am not an economics professor but I would be feeling totally sketchy if I manipulated a data source in such an apparently arbitrary manner.

In combination with the (reportedly)blatant lack of any reference to the methodology in his paper this feels like wilful gross misconduct in professor-land.

IMO this sort of thing rightly undermines confidence and credibility of research in a much broader context and should be a sackable matter if shown to be true as asserted.
There's tons of unprotected corporate assets all over the world, only some are burned down.

I wonder if its a result of discontent with the social contract or just drunk or drugged folks.
> I didn’t even know he was sick.

well played
this is cool and all but doesn't have a full sized piano version..? And $125?! (although probably because its 1st gen)
This is a really unfortunate but also quite common pattern in Sweden, where there's a veneer of internationality which tricks foreigners instead of helping them. Swedes will generally understand that Jönköping university isn't formally a university and wouldn't compare it to the more prestigious schools, but for international students it's not at all obvious. They might pay a lot of money and discover too late that the education and/or credentials they get in return don't match at all what they paid for. As usual, the Swedish authorities seem unwilling or impotent to take action on this type of issue.
With a VPS you get free egress
These studies show how people with mediocre window manager and that doesn't know how to manage their windows benefits from a second screen.
That's not my case and I am pretty sure I could show that one monitor is the fastest and most productive environment.
I am pretty sure that tiling window managers, clever keybindings that never makes you need to move from the home row, replacement of the mouse by a keyboard based solution and vimification of the desktop are faster on a single monitor, and that they are faster than normal desktop on several monitors.
> Location based salaries are discriminatory

The article is nice and well articulated, but I'd argue exactly the opposite on this point. The author seems to confuse equality and equity. He takes the Netherlands and Bay Area as an example and don't make a compelling argument as to how and why paying differently those employees is akin to discrimination based on race.

Were you to pay the same salary in Netherlands and Bay Area, you would effectively either (i) pay absurdly high salaries to your dutch engineers, similar to what the prime minister earns or (ii) pay absurdly low salaries to your Bay Area engineers (to the point that you'd basically have none of them).
There is nothing ideological or political about noticing that threads are removed.

I fully agree that excessive ideology and politics are ruining this site and it isn't what it is for.
Anarchist mobs? It was almost certainly some drunk kids in the middle of the Chinese New Year celebrations.

But the question remains: what was the political ideology of these youths? Anarchists? Marxists? Fascists? Technocrats? Monarchists??? We may never know!
The most common password is "123456", surely this can't be true?
From what I can tell, most apps I use now at least enforce some kind of minimum password requirements e.g must be so many characters long, have special characters etc.

I guess the data used for this comes from security breaches, so maybe there's a bias in the data towards less secure apps that don't enforce strong passwords.
in total impunity
Just in case its not clear why the quoted statement is so ridiculous:

What makes Waymo a more suitable solution to lack of public transport, than actual public transport?