skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just because some terms became mainstream doesn't mean the current young generation of the day gets credit as their slang..... Gaslighting, Gatekeeping and even Ghosting I'm sure were terms used in certain professional realms like therapy etc before Gen Z was kicking them about. They're not even used as 'slang', they're just ...words that people use and apply, because they're mainstream now.

Ultimately these kinds of things are what drives me crazy about Gen Z is their ephemeral disdain for history or context, existing only in the now.
Crypto promoters still don't understand they have to obey the same laws as the banks in the countries they operate in. Blockchain isn't a get out of jail free card.
How does this kind of article get allowed by Wikipedia anyway? Wiki editors are ok with pages being used as a concise edition of Urban Dictionary? heh
> The summary here seems to be that no, police do not regularly invent false positives for ShotSpotter.

Right. That was the part I referred to as misremembering in my above comment. The false alarms come from the system itself, not necessarily police lying about it. However the reports from multiple sources do say that false alarms occur at an alarming rate, and this leads to over policing.

I wanted to provide a citation for the article's claims of over policing, and I believe I have done so (the ACLU article has multiple high quality sources clearly linked in the first few paragraphs).

Your comment mentioned that shotspotter leading to a high police presence is "obviously a good thing" and that if you lived there, you would want this too. But if the residents were happy with what was happening, there would be no controversy. The problem with over policing is that it leads to unfair treatment of marginalized communities, and this is what people are unhappy about.

It seems like you are trying to reason away these concerns, or get me to answer your follow on questions, but I am not an expert here, just someone who remembered seeing articles about issues with the system. I would encourage you to review those sources and check their methodology regarding false positive detection rates, and seek additional information about over policing.
I don't quite follow where you are deriving the reflection of a vector across another vector. You seem to assume that it is the parallel part which needs to be flipped--isn't it the perpendicular part?

And the GA derivation doesn't seem that much different from the operator-based one, viz:

let a||b be the component of a parallel to b, let a_|_b be the component of a perpendicular to b:

I too would start where your operator-style derivation starts, i.e.

a reflected across b = (a||b) - (a_|_b) (flipping the perpendicular, not the parallel, component).

Given that a||b = (a.b)/b and (a_|_b) = (a^b)/b, we can express it as:

a reflected across b = (a.b)/b - (a^b)/b

Because the geometric product is associative, we can factor out the division by b, and rewrite it as:

= ((a.b)- (a^b))/b

Now, the numerator, (a.b) - (a^b), just looks so *achingly* close to a geometric product, doesn't it? If only we could somehow swap the sign of the exterior product....well, gee whiz, all we have to do is swap the order of the arguments!

= ((b.a) + (b^a))/b

= (b*a)/b

Substituting in for the definition of 1/b, we get the sandwich product

= (b*a*b)/(b*b)

which, if b is a unit vector, = b*a*b. If we start out with b as a unit vector, the derivation is so simple it feels like cheating:

a reflected across b = (a.b)*b - (a^b)*b = (a.b - a^b)* b = (b.a + b^a)*b = b*a*b.

Is that really so much harder to derive, or does it really give that much harder of a formula to remember, than the operator-based approach? If so, can you spell it out a bit?

To me anyways, the geometric product really shines here: because it operates so much like ordinary (though order-dependent) multiplication, its easy for me to use my mad algebra skillz to wrangle the expression into any particular form which is handy to me.
Came looking for "spicy", was disappointed

Gen Z vernacular usage of "spicy" is one of those difficult idioms to pin down/describe but not that difficult to understand, so I was curious about a wikipedia list's take on it
Having recently experienced an interview at Google, I feel scadenfreude.

Their interviewers stood me up twice. And then, when I didn't pass the coding round, the HR reps I initially spoke with completely ignored me and passed me off to some other HR rep who said basically, "Sorry, they're busy. Thanks, goodbye."

Not the level of professionalism I expected.

scha·den·freu·de

pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
thank you.

beyond the simplicity of the process, i guess the merit in both our approaches lie in preference for files over apps. This [article](https://stephango.com/file-over-app) articulates it well.
you're tryin to make friends? i'd be a little careful around here
I didn't realize that there's a conservation law for crime. Is this some kind of ingenious application of Noether's theorem that I haven't heard of?
Can confirm this, I had quite a few semi-professional interactions with Germans and Germany-adjacent people, and they seem to be all-in on Signal. I can't speak for everybody, as far as I know, this is mainly tech-adjacent people, the rest of the population seems to prefer WhatsApp. With that said, if you need to talk to a German who's involved with tech in any way and using a company-provided platform is not a possibility, you're highly likely to be asked if you have Signal.
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> can still take a sauna normally and afterwards you have a cooked sausage to eat!

that's what she said
That sounds like it is still part of the system that privileges access. In a sane world, you have the option of paying the seller for the thing you want, then they give it to you.

That is a big part of what makes this crazy. People are in an insane system where they can't pay for drugs. Then the system goes down and they really get into trouble.
So have I, and they weren't. So we're no better off where we started. I at least made concessions on my side of the argument, but you are free to dig your heels in.
Why would he go? Based on the stock price (which is what the board looks at when finding a new CEO), he's doing amazingly. It sucks for employees but unfortunately they have no say in how their CEO is chosen.
I think that some of this work was hamstrung by constraints of fitting in which ghc as it already existed. But it’s a very interesting line of work
Encode.su discussion on bzip3 [1] was quite interesting to me back then. Tl;dr, she combined some unpopular ideas into one package but those ideas themselves were well known in the data compression folks themselves, so that was hardly novel to them. Nor those ideas were independently reimplemented or optimized.

[1] https://encode.su/threads/3867-BZip3
Yes, what do you suppose is the meaning of a country? Whats the point of country if there is no safety or benefit for a person.
Who is supposed to learn these lessons, and how should they employ what they learn?

This reads like an introductory text, and a plea to employ the methods against authoritarian propagandists of today.
It's wide ranging. For example, when I was diagnosed with one of those things that requires a hematologist I told the receptionist jokingly: "I got the spicy diagnosis"
The Northern Irish population voted to stay in the European union, with 55.8% voting to stay. Could this trigger a vote for leaving the UK, and uniting with Ireland?

https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/06/northern-ireland-vote-brexit-...
Keep moving those goalposts. It really makes you look like the reasonable side of this conversation.
I get your point about the utility and appropriateness of foil.

But then what about warfighting ? I'll betcha the US has a railgun up there somewhere.
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My impression on both is that they are US/European centric. Not very true to their "scouring the world for newspapers" line. So, they only show events that impact or are reported on in those areas. I know that newspapers.com has a few (2 or 3) asian newspapers but that is all.
This is so embarrassing.
I’m actually way more familiar with it than I come across. I was a Mises Institute member briefly, including attending a Ron Paul event they hosted.

I think “Democracy the God that failed” was the final straw where I was like “this is basically advocating for private kinghoods”

If you extrapolate, then you basically get Amazon, United Health, and 8 other companies with their own currencies and mercenary armies and all manner nonsense that winds up basically just looking like a Corporate wasteland as described by Mike Judge

And frankly we’re pretty close -with Apple Cash and Apple hiring city and municipal police to guard stores the transition is effectively complete
some sort of specially designed vehicle with brushes on the side. what would we call such a thing. some sort of sweeper for the street. idk
How can a payroll system cost that much? Certainly it’s a solved problem since many other districts manage payroll just fine. Any reason this isn’t just corruption?
From TV (esp Poirot) and movie adaptations. Also, anecdotally, knowing a couple of people who love her books, who just don't do problem-solving (aka "detecting"). Instead, they more enjoyed the setting and relationships. I surmised that she was popular for portraying the declining upper class as morally suspect to the growing middle class.

But I'm curious and happy to be wrong - which is why I asked. Do you have an answer?
going to give that a try
That's because the catchall definition of "leftism" or "woke" is merely a caricature designed by Republicans.

These organizations will pick and choose whatever labels work for them the best at any point in time. Culture wars are for fools while shareholders make out like bandits at the expense of said fools.
Yeah - all of that sounds like a pain. No argument from me. Sometimes, things rot and we have a bigger mess than before.

There are many circumstances in which a design system is at best a lateral move and at worst a huge distraction. My issue with GP sentiment is that many of the hardcore pragmatists here on this lovely discussion board have one or two bad experiences and throw the baby out with the bathwater entirely. I just wanted to be a voice on the other side of the aisle.
> Our relatives always had a nice big piece of meat in there when we visited

seems like you and your relatives had a good time ;)
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No mention of how United and Optum are a racket that harms people and needs to be broken up

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealth-antitrust-i...

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/united-we-scam/
Node.js Readable and Web API's ReadableStream both implement [Symbol.asyncIterator], which means you can usually use `for await` without extra code nowadays
The way I see it, is that this is terrible for the reputation of the Nigerian goverment. This is how you scare off businesses from operating in your country.

Or am I missing something? Did Binance truly do something morally wrong; would the naira have been ok without Binance?
The whole idea of anti-monopoly laws is to prevent price fixing by market, and there are numerous (illegal) ways to do that: being a monopoly and using that position to set prices that are not representative of market value (both buying and selling. Iirc antitrust in the us started as a result of standard oil setting the price oil would be bought from suppliers).

Another illegal option is collusion. That is a group of competitors get together and set a price that they will all use, again independent of actual
Market value, just because the colluders have sufficient control of a market that when they set a price people have no choice but to pay it. This is super effective when the market it not fundamentally “free” like housing, gas, power, healthcare, etc.

What these companies are doing is providing a tool to launder the collusion between competitors in a market, by having every “competitor” in the market get an “algorithmic” price that is fundamentally tied to the “algorithmic” price they provide every other “competitor”.

If these landlords got together in a room and decided the prices as is happening here, it would be more or less immediately subjected to scrutiny. By doing the same thing via a third party and calling it an “algorithm” it is somehow not subject to the same restrictions.
It’s not new though

Teddy Roosevelt was known for trust busting

The business plot was literally bankers trying to stage a coup on Washington because they hated FDR

https://connecticuthistory.org/gerald-macguire-and-the-plot-...
I'm not sure this is the message of this story. There are tons of computer systems involved under single-payer systems.
If it's a readable stream, you can just directly consume it with an async iterator: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#streams-compatibility-wit...
In tough times a Jr person can be more attractive to companies because they are a fraction of the cost. Also, don't underestimate how much these layoffs are companies just dumping thier overpaid bloat.
> It'd be interesting to know what happened to their retirement savings.

What happened to what retirement savings?
This is frustrating given the humans affected

I always find it interesting how some Russians seem to understand our system better than we do, and we collectively seem to know so little about theirs for the same level of fun and profit
they're not employees, they were designed to be disposable from the start. They are "workers" with a "contract" which ended "at the expected time". all very convenient musical chairs for google.
Yea like I've heard everything from "neurospicy" to describe neurodivergences to "spicy autocomplete" to describe GPT. My best shot at a concise usage definition is that it's like an especially flippant way to say "special" or "different" but there are places where that would fall apart

You also sometimes get it having a connotation of sexuality but that actually seems like a holdover of an older (maybe millenial?) idiomatic usage of the word
This type of interview, with such detailed technical questions and answers, with actual engineers (not product spokespeople), would be impossible these days.
work with steve jobs, or someone like him.

> One of the best, if possibly exaggerated, examples of the reality distortion field comes from Jobs's biographer Isaacson. During development of the Macintosh computer in 1984, Jobs asked Larry Kenyon, an engineer, to reduce the Mac boot time by 10 seconds. When Kenyon replied that it was not possible to reduce the time, Jobs asked him, "If it would save a person's life, could you find a way to shave 10 seconds off the boot time?" Kenyon said that he could. Jobs went to a white board and pointed out that if 5 million people wasted an additional 10 seconds booting the computer, the sum time of all users would be equivalent to 100 human lifetimes every year. A few weeks later Kenyon returned with rewritten code that booted 28 seconds faster than before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
By monitoring any area more, you find more crime, which results in that area being considered as "high crime" and in turn increasing monitoring--that's the cycle OP is talking about.
Perhaps in the US. Some surveillance states like Singapore and China are quite effective at catching criminals (thoughtcrime and otherwise).
Incompetence and corruption.
I agree that the hack is the problem, but a single-payer system would mean the moving parts of the distributed system are less complex which means it's easier to manage. Just having fewer corporations involved means fewer boundaries between systems which means it's less likely to break.
> RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.

Of course they would discourage them from deviating from Realpage's recommendation. Why are you paying for a software that recommends the most profitable rent if you aren't going to follow it? Realpage doesn't want property managers to complain that the software isn't working when they're ignoring the software's recommendations.

I have yet to see any evidence that there are any actual consequences of ignoring the recommendations. I'm assuming that Realpage will always accept payment for their services. This suggests that price fixing is unlikely. In the case of a cartel, members are incentivized to sell more than their quota allows, and you need active enforcement to maintain compliance. See the history of OPEC.
Reverse Engineering the (client) Github Copilot: It appears to be sending an enormous prompt, considering the 20 most recent files, from which some snippets are extracted:

> By default, the fixed window Jaccard Matcher is used. This class slices up a given file (from which snippets are to be extracted) into sliding windows of a fixed size. It then computes Jaccard similarity between each window and the reference file (the file you’re typing in).

Code:
https://thakkarparth007.github.io/copilot-explorer/codeviz/t...
I'm still using a T480, keeping my eye out for the T14 G5.
I disagree with the general notion that making an app that is compatible with an operating system (i.e, that calls its APIs) is a "use" of the OS maker's IP, at least on a legal sense (which is all that matters in this context).

For furher clarification, please see this fellow HNer's comment and its response by user kmeisthax: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564383
> This is an area that is new to me, but a big part of my new job.

Can you tell me more about what your new job is, without releasing anything sensitive?

If you are running applications on Linux containers in the cloud, then I would recommend Brendan Gregg's blog and books (https://www.brendangregg.com/overview.html). He does a lot of knowledge sharing from his experiences at Netflix.
Perhaps it's possible for the public to outbid the parasite's owners and pay the ransomware group to just shred the entire operation. As companies become ever more virtual, the corporate death penalty ala Fight Club or Mr. Robot seems ever more plausible.
Cyberattacks like these deserve the same kind of government response a terrorist attack gets.
If Northern Ireland did vote to leave the UK, what would happen? Would the UK actually let them leave? Would the EU allow it?

When Catalonia voted for independence from Spain, Spain arrested the people who organized the vote, and even the EU said they would not accept an independent Catalonia.

Despite police violence meant to disrupt the vote, there was about 42 percent voter turnout, and about 90 percent voted for secession. Nonetheless, Catalonia is still part of Spain.
Gotta love how he's like, all patent medicines are fake, except the one my friend is selling...

Bah.
> $10 says they've been systematically underinvesting in security and nows it's biting them in the a*. But it doesn't matter because they've basically managed to become a monopoly [...]. The next step is to move to declare this critical national infrastructure and create all sorts of new obtuseness rules and regulations [...]

There really only need to be 3 for critical infrastructure.

#1 - Patch your shit according to industry standards, and have documented audit records that you've done that in a timely manner.

#2 - You're fair game for NSA and DoD offensive pen testing. Failed pen tests are responsibility disclosed, then reported to the market after delay.

#3 - So goes CISO, so goes CEO. Along with a ban from leadership roles for a number of years (5?).

The issue is that the CEOs of these companies hire fall-on-your-sword guy as CISO, ignore the issues / listen to their CISO glossing over deficiencies, then claim breaches came out of nowhere, fire the CISO, and repeat business as usual.

It's not going to change until CEOs have a realistic expectation that deficiencies will be found and personal consequences when they are.
IIRC, Nigerian Government depegged their currency with respect to the dollar, which caused their currency to market correct, thus, devaluing itself.

Keep me honest, if the above is correct, this seems like a dishonest attempt by the Nigerian Government to extort Binance into paying for their poor policies and finances.

It's like claiming a food delivery company is personally responsible for increased fuel prices, when all they do is pay their drivers market rates to deliver food.

Bullshit. Completely unrelated.

I hope Binance retorts Nigerian Government to pound sand.
"Incredibly unclear"? Really? Not the OP, but let's spell it out:

Manicuring a lawn is expensive and serves no useful purpose, so most practitioners have disposable income and/or spare time, and care about keeping up appearances.

Putting a car up on blocks implies it's being used for spare parts, which is generally not something the well-off need to engage in (they buy new and use professionals for repairs as needed), and having one on your front lawn in particular implies that you value spare parts more than appearances.

So both are reasonable proxies of wealth, and wealth correlates inversely with the kind of violent crime you could detect with gunshots.
What seems more obvious to me is that the more surveillance you do in any area (regardless of whether the lawns are manicured), the more crime you're going to find there. If you put 5 cops patrolling the wealthiest, nicest areas of your city, and 1 cop patrolling a less wealthy less nice area, the 5 cops will find more crime than the 1 cop. Even if you don't assume crime is uniformly distributed (which it probably isn't), it's logical that more surveillance -> more crime found.
The reason it’s unclear is that nothing either of you have said has anything to do with policing.

Edit: you added the correlation bit after I replied, but why do you believe that to be the case? If you have more police in an area, of course they’ll hear more gunshots there. That doesn’t necessarily mean there actually are more gunshots.

What you’re actually saying is “poor people need more policing”, which is A) offensive and B) counterproductive.
> the same kind of government response a terrorist attack gets.

Has that particular kind of response ever achieved anything?

(Anything germane to the concern at hand, I mean - of course it has often achieved enriching well-connected contractors and such)
I've found it to be the exact opposite. It doesn't work well at all on mobile. It's overwhelmingly complex for anyone looking for something simple and useful like what was offered before. It's incredibly slow and has more limited useful information compared to its predecessor.
But none relating to payment or ability to pay. In the UK, medications are dispensed without checking whether a person is eligible for free prescriptions. Anyone can collect a prescription medication without paying by claiming an exemption (e.g. being on low income, pregnant, etc.) without proof. The pharmacist can also waive the £9 fee for a prescription. There's never a situation where not being able to figure out the paperwork prevents medicine being available.

The prescription system itself could be compromised, in which case everyone in society would face the same issue (which would be mediated by the fact that paper prescriptions are still produced, and a pharmacist can telephone a prescribing surgery). Only a supply chain attack would really cripple the system.
I don’t disagree! The only antidote is for the government to come out swinging with overwhelming force.
I heard "dialed into the Webex call from Singapore over an unsecure phone line" one.
Yeah, that’s the original point I made which is currently being downvoted.