skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timely, as a boy was shot at last week in Chicago while setting off fireworks that triggered a ShotSpotter alert:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/02/27/chicago-police...
Which region is it?
Eggs were laid January 25. Pip watch begins February 29th
The main strategy is to build sound but imperfect analyzers, i.e. analyzers that never raise false negatives but that may raise some false positives. See §1.6 in [1], a simplified version of the classic Principles of Program Analysis. Good analyzers are practical, rarely raising false positives for well-written programs. The Astreé analyzer reported zero false positives for the 1 MLOC fly-by-wire A380 code.

Another complementary strategy is to avoid Turing-complete constructs as much as possible, i.e. use DSLs with restricted semantics. This way, advanced semantic properties such as termination are provable.

[1] Program Analysis, An Appetizer. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.10086.pdf
“paranoid” is a symptom of a disease involving delusions (ie false beliefs) and is not a synonym for “anxious about”.

It’s also not paranoia if the government does actively conspire to imprison as many people as possible on flimsy evidence.

Both possible usages are incorrect here.
Apparently also referred to as a "Business Virtual Phone Number" or "Virtual Business Phone Number"...

Related:

Google query: "Virtual Phone Number":

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22virtual+phone+number%22

Google query: "Virtual Phone Number" free:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Virtual+Phone+Number%22+f...
Archiving is really expensive and time consuming. Making it actually useful is more so.

Archiving some things like photos is also complicated from a rights perspective given it wasn't even on the radar when a lot of the content was originally used.
Person of Interest is a criminally underrated show.
Doomerism
Yeah the brief seems to be describing a much more clearcut example of collusion than the intentionally vague and broad blog post is trying to imply.
Ah yes so it's police presence that makes crime the number one cause of death for young black males.
I still remember a time when radios occupied almost a whole table, and the magic of portable "transistor radios". we used to smuggle them into class to listen to the broadcast of cricket matchew. The teacher would pretend not to know we were listening to it, but when a wicket fell, so did the facade, and he'd ask what the score was. we would tell him, the whole class unified in a conspiratorial code of silence
Please don't engage in ideological warfare, it's boring and against site guidelines.

No reasonable person could look at any meaningful measure of violent crime rates and come to your conclusions.
One thing missed in this writing is that shotspotter also saves lives. In my city, people shot in the alley and left for dead are found shortly after they are shot because of the detection.

Without this tech, some would be left to a slow death in an alley where no one would find them until morning.
Belgium is definitely an outlier. It's 2k after taxes and contribution in France (so like 2.9k/3.1k if you are working for the state or a private company)
That is interesting. We traveled by minibus throughout our trip, so traveled through rural areas, and only in Afar encountered lots of men with guns (one group of whom wanted to hang out, and shared their Khat [a stimulant plant]). Even with lots of men with guns, I never felt threatened (nor was a threat ever made nor implied).

The people we met in Tigray were amazing. The folks we encountered there were probably not affiliated with militias. I imagine (possibly wrongly) that militia members would make up a small fraction of the population? And that an ethnic militia would probably be more likely to contain folks who subscribe to ethnic hatreds etc. than the general population. Similar to white supremacist militias in the US-- they exist, but they are a marginal group who's viewpoint does not represent the majority of society (even among ethnic groups identifying as "white").

I've met people like you describe, just not in Ethiopia. I'm glad my path somehow avoided that. My memories of Ethiopia are 100% good/happy ones.

Per wikivoyage, the guards in Afar are guards. The wikivoyage article attributes the attacks on tourists to Afari rebels in the talk section, but not in the main text (I remember reading in a travel wiki that the attackers were Eritrean; but that could have been un-sourced BS). There are no references listed for any claims made in wikivoyage about the attacks.

Refusing guards and getting shot sounds like it supports it being a mafia protection racket, but rephrased, "the people shot were tagging along a bit behind, but not within the group ahead with the guard," just makes them sound more vulnerable to attack. Both descriptions are consistent with what you described. Seems like attacks would be greater in number, and more frequent than two attacks, 5 years apart (2012 and 2017), if it were a protection racket. Perhaps the wikivoyage list of tourist attacks is incomplete, but if attacks were common, it seems there would be more than two in over 10 years recorded.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Danakil_Depression
I’m the target audience for this, as I use Newspapers.com for a lot of my research. There are a lot of services like this. $99 is cheaper than the current $75/6 months I pay for them.

I think Newspapers.com needs the competition, but I wish it was from a source other than a directly competing genealogy company.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17113

The author Lvmin Zhang is the same person behind ControlNet.
I mean, it could just be built into android, or maybe even an app with enough permissions. But agreed, even at that minimal level of friction, I'd probably turn it off most of the time, and deal with it via old fashioned self control. And for the times I'm out of control, just turn the phone off.
This is helpful. I now understand what younger co-workers mean when they talk.
Children get arthitis too, with life-changing effects – but exercise can help
Your argument is now a completely different one than it was when the thread started.

If the argument is “you should have to pay to be in the App Store”, sure, I don’t have any problem with that. But “fee to exist on the App Store” being 15-30% of every transaction is absolutely egregious and completely out of line with any real world cost. And in any case Apple already charges a $100/year fee to be able to put apps in the App Store.

But, yet again, Apple charging that amount would be more acceptable if they fully supported the web as an alternative platform for those who do not care for the App Store exposure. But they do not, because it is in their interest to funnel everyone through the App Store and take a cut.
Yeah, I neglected to mention that there are necessary compromises, and Bloomberg Terminal is a great example. I’m not sure that product could serve its users’ needs without being dense and cluttered.
For extra irony, get the fake info into Wikipedia long enough that someone uses it, and then use what they wrote as a source to put it into Wikipedia.

(There's a WP: page about this problem that I think gives it a name, but I can't find it right now.)

Aha, someone else mentioned it in these comments: "citogenesis", and it was indeed Randall Munroe's coining, and the meta page is

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_in...
This is entirely grotesque. But the systematic deception is especially appalling.
Reducing consumer choice by artificially setting sinilar prices as comptitors.
I think the argument in this case is the algorithm is effectively acting as a single agent that will always come to a fixed price and is actively recommending having vacancies to prevent competition.

Where as if individuals are assessing the prices they are in a sort of prisoners dilemma, if they leave a property vacant someone may lower the average price meaning they can't recoup the lost earnings when it is occupied. So their best bet is to keep a property occupied as much as possible.
> Who mentioned plastics .. that's correct, you did.

You said, "Pressure is on various traditional fossil fuel comanies [...] Countries are well able to strike deal with fossil fuel extractors [...] That said large scale consumers, entire countries, purchasing blocs, can put pressure on resource providers to change behaviour, and on secondary processing to take increased input from recycled materials."

Quiz: which recycled material comes from fossil fuels?

> Have you read the report yet?

Which report?

> > You're literally proposing we reward these companies for the harm they cause

> Did I?

Yes, you did. You said: "Countries are well able to strike deal with fossil fuel extractors to invest in parallel atmospheric carbon extraction".

That's just rewarding fossil fuel extractors for their bad behavior with government contracts.
Software stack checking does not guarantee protection from stack overflows wreaking havoc. E.g., your thread could blow its stack, then get preempted before the stack checker can run.

Mandating guard pages/MPU protection would rule out targeting embedded platforms which lack sufficient hardware support.
Sure. in the same way walking out of american suburbs is an option
Big cities are pretty safe. For instance you more likely to be a victim of a crime in rural northern Wisconsin, like Barron County, than you are in Milwaukee.

Don't let your narrative be shaped by stats that aren't proportional.
I have seen some examples of Farnsworth Fusor on the web but they are admittedly (stated by those posting the videos) amateur. Can you show me strong examples of something that could be called "industrial class" that is in the category of Farnsworh Fusor?

As far as I am presently aware, a Farnsworth Fusor has not produced multiple plasma layers.

>> but not useful for a sustained fusion reaction.

The plasma in Safire meets the definition of "sustained fusion reaction", but whether this particular sustained fusion reaction is useful or not is a legitimate bigger question.
Germany Probes Security Breach After Russian Wiretapping of Cisco WebEx
> "Most casual users of computing devices have long switched to phones."

... which almost exclusively tend to be some bastardized Unix or Linux variant. "Year of the Linux pocket device"? ;)
Sounds like it might be a good idea to add a sound maker near these devices.
There's the zero-interest-rate era and the post-zero-interest-rate era. I think there's still going to be adjustments to come, and it will get a little better as orgs get more used to working in a PZIR environment, but I don't think it'll ever be like the peak ZIR hiring situation unless we get back down to zero interest rates.
Would anyone know the general steps to making an interactive webpage like this? I tried to take a peek by opening the Web Inspector and scrolling to see what changed, but couldn't uncover anything definitive.

The general technique I can identify is that the webpage uses an approach called "scrollytelling" (also noted by the references to "scrolly" from the Web Inspector) to make the animation advance in reaction to the user scrolling down.

For the pictured objects, I assume that an animation team (likely a bit separate from the web development team) created the assets. But I wonder how the developers then made sure that each provided asset enlarged at the proper rate as the user scrolled down (and also made sure that the scaling worked properly upon changing the width of the window).
The author ends the review by saying “AVP is the superior product” so I find it hard to agree with your take. The information presented clearly shows the tradeoffs that Apple has chosen with their displays. It’s left up to the reader to decide if that’s a subjectively more enjoyable experience but from the objective viewpoint, the article does a good job at showcasing the drawbacks.
The Wikijournal effort https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group is supposed to plug that gap. If you think you have worthwhile primary research that is up to academic standards, it can be published in WikiJournal after review, and that information can then be referenced in a Wikipedia article.
Chickens eat a lot. They lay less without access to a lot of food rich in fat and protein.
Hard to imagine this can discern between things like engine backfires, fireworks and garbage trucks effectively enough to be anything more than a really expensive checkmark on some captains yearly performance review.
A Farnsworth Fusor does not create multiple plasma layers each separated by self-containing magnetic fields. This would be the key difference with Safire.
It's relevant when it doesn't work after all that time. As I argue further down the thread, the trajectory of FRCs looks much more promising.
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Do you need to verify the things you buy online?
I everyone I was curious when you do online shopping car, clothing, apartments, furniture, etc) do you wish you had someone who can verify the item in person for you? What would you want to know before you make an online purchase?
> Vacancies kill returns.

Unless you can guarantee prices will rise, then you just recoup lost revenue when it's next occupied.
>Since the last ice age we've been dropping like flies.

the last ice age was ~12,000 years ago. the latest evidence for any of these other branches of humans is 3x that many years ago. on the contrary, the human population has skyrocketed since the last ice age
> It's not reasonable to expect every landlord to become a data analyst or statistician!

Why not? It's what they did just fine for thousands of years. What fundamentally changed in the last 20 years that makes it impossible for landlords to determine their own price?
> This system detects door slams and popped volleyballs just as well as it detects gun fire (which is to say, imperfectly on all counts).

Sound classification moved far beyond what you’re claiming years ago.

If you set the threshold at “imperfectly” then no system will ever meet your bar, because perfect is an unreasonable threshold. However, the claim that we’re unable to differentiate between gunshots and car doors is extremely incorrect.
The one who posted it?
sucks to be 3.55GHz IBM,8231-E2B with 1066MHz DDR3, POWER7 revision 2.1
No, because Airbnb is sharing market information with you, and is quite happy for you to undercut the market to drum up demand, or raise prices if you think you’ve got a winner, which keeps market efficiencies intact.

What’s described in the article is a bunch of estate agents agreeing to use a price recommended by 3rd party software and minimize cheating on that price, which is price fixing.
"The police disproportionately focus on poor areas for drug possession / traffic offences / white collar crime" is an important criticism, and the kind of thing awareness of which leads to reform and fairness in policing.

"There's just as much gun crime in rich areas as poor ones, but the police focus on the poor areas because of historical racism" is an extraordinary claim that should require extraordinary evidence, and the kind of thing that holds back improvements in police work.
Never heard of Astro but looks nice. When you say none came close, in terms of what? Performance? Simplicity? Value? Dev experience? All the above?
https://code.golf/rankings/holes/all/sql/bytes
IANAL but it probably would it you did it whatever the circumstances.

If you were the cheapest gas station in the neighborhood with prices appropriate to your operation but one day decide to align your price to your competitors and keep adjusting your price to whatever they set while nothing changed for you, that feels like the very definition of price fixing.
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You can easily find historical newspapers on archive.org. For example:

https://archive.org/details/sim_los-angeles-times_the-los-an...
Wikipedia supports more than one article. It’s dumb to not have related articles about specific details.
? 2023 is still a new record year in term of emission.

Greta is fighting for a decrease in emission not a decrease of increase. It's an improving trend but not a win.
If it's widely believed that other landlords use the same pricing system as you, then that's exactly how landlords can refuse to negotiate.
Seems fairly typical of software developers drunk on cool aid
Yeah, this is exactly what I meant. Wearing a mask (I guess, or not?) is a political affiliation. It’s stupid. I don’t claim either party, for what it’s worth (“no party claims me”; I’m happily unaffiliated).
Because shotspotter can triangulate and give accurate location of shots. When people call in the area they need to cover can be massive.
This is a strange claim. How is it that software can eliminate the possibility of rent negotiation? A tenant can negotiate, or try to. How does software eliminate the possibility that this will succeed?
Precedent in the US is very much on the side of the person, not the method.

Whether the Xerox photocopier, the Sony Betamax or (so far) generative AI, judges are ruling that the fault in using technology to infringe copyright doesn't lie in the technology, but the way the technology is used by a person.

Generative AI isn't (yet) a person, so it is neither capable of creating copyrightable works, nor in itself infringing copyright.

I wrote a research paper on it, if you're interested.

https://www.zipbangwow.com/intellectual-impropriety/
Seems like a serious data privacy concern to me.

Are customers actually able to opt out of Amazon Sidewalk? Or is it the case that Amazon will continue to override customer settings for Ring and Alexa devices in order to achieve this mesh network?

"One must also assume that Amazon will do its best to encrypt its network traffic and make its devices as hard to hack as possible."

So far, Amazon says nothing when large volumes of customer data is leaked via vulnerable Alexa and Ring devices. Will Amazon be forced to disclose that it's systems are successfully attacked?
The edge lord way to respond to this article, would be to go around "contributing" to various projects under their name with bad commits. I'll leave that for someone else to do, but signing commits means they did actually come from you. In this world with a big bad Internet, where supply chain attacks are real, it really isn't that much effort to register on GitHub and verify commits. If you have some religious reason not to against GitHub, sure, don't do it, but for the rest of us, after reading the article, I don't see why not. The article says it's unnecessary complexity, but I don't think it is because it addresses a weakness in git's design. That it's a permanent record that you did something in the past is a feature, not a bug. It means you did it, not someone claiming to be you. Scammers are getting more and more advanced, and it's just so little effort now to say you didn't do a thing.
Agree, that will be the proof. But tokomaks have yet to do the same despite decades of investment.

We know that helion is able to recover 95% of the energy of every pulse. And they've measured the scaling laws. There doesn't seem to be anything that will prevent net positive energy in the reactor they're building right now.
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Isn’t Milwaukee one of the most segregated cities in the country with low income higher crimes areas juuust outside city lines? Great example.
I'm far from an expert on compiler development, but I think it's just a matter of walking the AST to ensure that there aren't any calls to procedures with the Global or Nonblocking aspects inside a parallel block.

The bigger issue is that the `parallel do` and `parallel for` blocks added in Ada 2022 [1] haven't been implemented and as far as I know, nobody's working on it.

I suspect that if we ever do get parallel support, it'll come from the GNAT-LLVM project [2], rather than GNAT-GCC. In the meantime, there's a CUDA compiler [3].

[1] http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22over/Ada2022-Overview.pd...

[2] https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm

[3] https://github.com/AdaCore/cuda
Minecraft, one of greatest game since Quake
Probably because legal defense outside of public defender is considered a luxury good. And it's rare to need a public defender if you're living a "normal" life.

With housing, everybody has to live _somewhere_.
I'm happy to hear he is finally realizing the error of his previous decision, but this should not be an epiphany. So many of us that followed the project told him exactly that when he decided to throw out the MMX and start over. I still worry that he hasn't learned the lesson that "perfection is the enemy of good" and will use yet another change of direction/method to avoid actually finishing something.
It's used the way police use any technology: to over-police the poor and non-white communities. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/24/us/shotspotter-cities-choose-...
That tale of a policy being scrapped the moment new leadership shows up is typical though.

Leadership churn is often high these days, so workplace experiments or innovations tend to just vanish, unless they become popular across multiple companies very quickly and become the new norm.
this looks like lots of people in Germany(Hetzner and Contabo) and France (OVH) are privacy-oriented, more than in other places in the world.
does anybody have an idea why ?
> how desperate the sales people were for residents, and still be told that rent was going up hundreds of dollars a month because of demand in the region

This literally sounds fraudulent

I have a hypothesis, that the reason for many ailments in Western economies is that in the past 20-30 years we have created a lot of parasitic, highly-sophisticated economic fraud, and regulators have not caught up to it yet.
It's amazing how much they've contributed to imagegen. I started using forge recently and it's a great speedup from regular sd-webui.
https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge
Not likely. As mentioned in a parallel comment it’s partially that Jody Allen, his sister, doesn’t value the geek culture in the least and partially that the owner, Vulcan, is run by MBA accountants that are finally unshackled by their eccentric nerd funder. Between them they’re seeking to put the nerd passions of Allen to death and focus squarely on playing money managers. There appears to be little respecting of his legacy or wishes in his estate management and a lot of avarice.