skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was around for the initial discussions on CTAN having run a popular FTP archive for TeX-related software in the late 80s/early 90s. Given the heterogeneity of computing platforms in those days (EBCDIC vs ASCII, bigendian vs littleendian, CR vs LF vs CRLF to separate lines, blocks vs streams for file structures), even a relatively straightforward text-based archive had its potential footguns. Add in the lack of anything resembling a reliable cross-platform scripting language (Perl was the first contender in this space, and didn’t have the insane cross-platform reach TeX did at the time) and there were some rather heroic efforts to use TeX itself as the scripting platform. The best-known and most widely used of these would be docstrip which was used as a sort of WEAVE/TANGLE for TeX code, but I remember there being an effort to also do some translation of files and out of BASE64-encoded format for reliable cross-platform transport. The original CTAN FTP server in the UK also had the cool feature that if you wanted the contents of a directory, adding .zip to the end of that directory name would return the directory’s contents zipped.

Being a first mover has had its drawbacks of course. Most notably, the lack of any sort of versioning of dependencies and that everything is functionally in a single flat directory (even if on disk it’s arranged in a hierarchical tree, that tree is flattened for all inputs). People who complain about the functionality of newer dependency managers have no idea how much better even the worst are compared to what it was like in the past.
> Homo Denisova

There is no "homo denisova". They're called Denisovans.

Svante Pääbo refused to give them a Latin name or declare them a species because he thinks it's pretentious.
As permanently mobile as a wife and young kid allow. We spent 3 months on the road 2 summers ago and had a great time!

I expect our radius to get smaller as our child gets older and goes to school, but we are very passionate about being outdoors as much as possible.

For example - I helped build a mutually accessible structure in a national forest, and my favorite work days are out there. We installed solar last summer, so it’s workable year round now.
"No one knows why, but some muskoxen hate the sound of a plastic water bottle being crumpled."

Muskoxen misophonia!
SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone
Once again, fuck cancer.
Taking on a monopoly is not the worst idea. You can do things they can't. There is a build in percentage of people who won't use the monopoly because of past bad experience.

Taking on a monopoly and taking over their position are two different things. If you can carve out 1% of any monopoly you have a huge success.
every time i see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
From a customer perspective, though, Intel's first FinFET chips (22nm, Ivy Bridge) were at most a few months late, and price and performance were reasonable. The next node was a bit more late and definitely underwhelming at first, and the one after that was the real disaster.
The summary here seems to be that no, police do not regularly invent false positives for ShotSpotter.

Regarding:

1) How do you know you are dealing with a false alarm? Given the seriousness of gun violence, isn't it perfectly reasonable to send someone to investigate the situation rather than to ignore it?

2 and 3) Isn't it also the case that black neighbourhoods in Chicago have the highest gun violence and murder rate? What else would you expect from ShotSpotter other than for it to confirm that those neighbourhoods are indeed the ones with the most shots fired?
This looks really awesome. Great work!
The absurdity is painful. That in a wealthy nation people can be unable to access medicine because the system for deciding who will pay how much for it is unavailable. Absolutely grotesque.

The hack isn't the problem. The system that privileges access to medicine is.
Jones has said a few times that there's no demonstrable benefit to the sequent calculus over the lambda calculus. Here they conclude that the sequent calculus is better for term rewriting optimizations. Of course, term rewriting itself hasn't been shown to be very useful.
A more reasonable explanation is that it has been found that all animals are repulsed by the sent of their dead. This is true for fish all the way up to humans. Burying them greatly reduces the odor they release while decomposing.
What tends to happen to budding challengers is acquisition and assimilation. It takes the right people and circumstances to persist not selling out. The dating app marketplace and Match Group was discussed here recently, for one example.
It integrates far better into the entire Apple ecosystem of products.

Given the current state of the software - both visionOS itself and available apps - it’s simply not a mass-market device. I believe it will be in 1-2 iterations, but we’re not there yet.

For what it’s worth, I say that as someone who loves their AVP and owns several other headsets including the Quest 3 an Pimax Crystal. I’ve had my AVP for jsut over two weeks and would comfortably estimate that I’ve spent over 100 hours with it on.
That's weird! Did something happen during 2020???
I think part of it comes down to a mix of transitive dependencies (common on both platforms) and a handful of core dependencies requiring native compilation (I don’t think anything in npm does this, but I don’t have the familiarity). It‘s the latter that creates the fragility. I thought I knew make until I had to deal with cross-platform makefiles. If you had the bad luck to want to use a module which had somewhere in its dependency tree a module who compilation had never been tested against your environment, insert gif of mushroom cloud here.
Doesn't 1000 per 100k imply roughly average of 100 age span?

Which seems really good to me.
There should be a slack or mailing list for founders playing the long game because the competition is even slower.

I’m game to join or kick one of :)
It is a time commitment, but it can’t be offshored nor automated.
Its worth noting in US federal law, there isn't a distinct statutory prohibition or definition of price fixing. “Price fixing” is a description of one general pattern of violation of a very broad statutory language in the Sherman Act (15 USC § 1) prohibiting “Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations”.

State competition laws may have separate rules for price fixing and other specific kinds of behavior or have similarly broad language to the Sherman Act.
The problem is not that the ransomware attackers attacked. It's the fact that $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 be come a monopoly through acquisitions and using the bludgeon of government regulation to ensure no competition occurs.

The next step is to move to declare this critical national infrastructure and create all sorts of new obtuse rules and regulations that will be in the name of security, but will mostly be theater and whose only real effect will be to create tons of new "compliance" jobs by low skilled morons who couldn't cut it in a real security job and whose primary job will be preventing actual security and sapping energy from anyone who builds things, because "it's not on the checklist".

Not to mention the dozens of new vendors who will pop up soliciting a product that will promise to ensure customers are in complaince with the new regulations.

Meanwhile Joe blow will still be unable to get his prescription filled and have his personal health data stolen and sold all over the black market.
Heh, asl used to mean something different 20 odd years ago. I also like using "based" quite often, especially to agree with something controversial which is primarily how I've seen it used. The linked article to -ussy is also hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy
Old internet didn’t have as much of a reliance on ads

It was just for surfing
1992 to Facebook (2006?) want much different and a very different and great internet
Thank you for the advice!
I have pre-orders for ideas to be validated. I start building it in public on Twitter after even one pre-order.
Because wasting time over something people wouldn't pay for doesn't make sense to me.
If you don't like the thing, you can always get back to me on discord server I add you to after the purchase.

I basically want to make anki the beginner friendly way.
José Rizal: Philippine National Hero and Ophthalmologist
I mean, even on a good day, the people who need drugs can't necessarily access them. Can't wait for the system to come back up so I can find out another important medication isn't covered.
Mastodon using a local instance (not mentioned) has been good in my experience so far. I've had fun and useful technical exchanges, as well as healthy general random chats. I think I've been able to control what is in my "feed" well enough. So far.

I do not think Mastodon (or especially Lemmy) are immune to the outrage culture of X and the like.

My guess: More growth ahead for the Fediverse, outside of areas discussed, and it will degrade rapidly.
The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland
Being skeptical of face value claims makes sense if they have never been used before. But, they've been in place in some cities since before 2000 and after searching I'm still not aware of any incident audio from it was used that didn't have to do with a gunshot.

Looking into it more all the cases of audio being used in court, that was not audio of gunshots, was audio immediately after a gunshot. Spotshotter is open about recording that and it seems completely reasonable to me this audio should be used.

What's most boggling to me about the criticism is Albuquerque apparently has 10,000 cameras law enforcement has access to. I know we likely disagree on the usefulness of those, but if you are privacy concerned why would shotspotter even be on the same level of concern as cameras that don't need a gunshot to start filming?

https://apnews.com/article/albuquerque-crime-cameras-technol...
>China is not doing anything to the US

In many cases the ownership has been traced to government funding. The suspicion is that these are just the tip of the iceberg.

So, at least in the eyes of the US Congress, based on some damning evidence, China is doing something to the US.

That said, "black money" is also a problem. But I suspect that's the case in China as well. There's no way to eliminate all corruption, even in China.
Communicating with a common intermediary is, or at least can be, indirect communication.

This was, e.g., the case in the major ebook price fixing case where Apple was the common intermediary between the publishers.
One is a sovereign state, the other is a criminal?
The undoubted Hero of the Modern Philippines is Jose Rizal. Famous intellectual, ophthalmologist, botanist, drawing, painting, sculptor, poet, writer, polymath (22 languages!!), and revolutionary.

Death by execution / Spanish Firing Squad at the young age of 35, this man accomplished so much in so little time.

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I was between multiple articles from Wikipedia, Britanica, and some other encyclopedias. This one from Jama Network focuses on Rizal's accomplishments in the field of ophthalmology (his medical profession), but he did so much more than this. The article also has a reasonable review of other subjects, but feel free to research more about this fascinating character.
I know you will need to see it, but I have kept the pre-orders to see if everyone wants it.
I am a student, if I don't get any value from making stuff and people won't buy it there's no value for my time given.
For people who don't get to watch it, I have kept the price less than $1 per month (according to yearly plan).

If you want anything changed, just get back to me!
Thanks for the reply!
If both of you aren't on the lease, alternate between the two of you. At least you won't have to move very far.

When I was just out of school I did this in a large complex with my wife more than once (we had different last names and used her parents address for mail).

The first time, we didn't even have to move, because she got the pick of open apartments... one of which was ours. We worried they would want to paint it, but I guess since I'd only had a it a year, they didn't bother. The Sales person was happy because they got commission anyway, and we got a free months rent rather than paying an extra month's rent in increases.
I've been using fractional scaling without any noticeable problems in Gnome on Fedora for 3 years.

I have to compile my Emacs from source with the flag --with-pgtk and I have to arrange for the command-line arguments -enable-features=UseOzonePlatform and -ozone-platform=wayland to be passed to the Chrome binary when the application opens to prevent Emacs and Chrome from being blurry.
I skimmed the README, but I don't see anything similar to the grep-like behavior described in the post.
Birdshot doesn’t travel far enough to reliably harm a drone flying at even the US-legal maximum of 400’ AGL.

The travel distance for #9.5 birdshot is only 700’ - and that’s ground distance covered when fired at optimal angle, not vertical reach.
Fiber is not the only medium available for transfer, and an unregulated vertical monopoly is not the only utility business model.
The procedurally generated audio is really cool, and it feels similar to Cocoon's background music.

Do you know of any Python library that lends itself well to experiment with procedural audio generation?
I wrote a short rant about it a while ago [1].

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1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855014
> I'm sure they do get shot down sometimes, but 'often' enough for it to be a problem?

For one person with a bolt-action rifle, no.

For a battalion of conscripts with automatic rifles? I’m sure it happens quite a bit.
S.F. schools abandon disastrous payroll system after spending $34M
That's clearly not true, and one of the primary design choices Go makes. It trades concise code for more readable code.
“only have one option when it comes to full device backups,[…]iCloud”

No, you can always do a full backup with your PC/Mac. And as with any local backup, of course you can move it to any cloud storage you want.
Your average duck is far more maneuverable than a Mavic.
You might find the example in section 4.2 of this interesting: https://www.applefritter.com/content/enlisting-user-help-sof...
The job hunt process sucks. Do you like software engineering? If so look for jobs at smaller shops in areas you are interested in. Networking may be needed. Things are way more stupid than they were 10+ years ago. Everyone seems to think the FAANG interview process is the cats meow. But if you can connect with someone at a company you are interested in that can help.

Freelancing could be an option, but a track record helps.

Honestly, look at old school options like craigslist and find options.
It's a really unfortunate year for comparison. There was that one advantage to being outside...

For those not reading the article,

> The death rate across all 22 localities increased from 814 per 100,000 homeless residents in 2011, to 2,752 per 100,000 homeless residents in 2020.

> Among the general population, the nationwide mortality rate was much lower: 1,027 deaths per 100,000 people in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
The Miseans call it “Anarcho-Capitalism”

Basically everyone for themselves with no rules and total corporate control of the economy
I'm guessing Python.
I mean brass can be crazy hard to find, I'd bet if you did a geocaching experiment with brass picking a random spot within shotspotter's accuracy tolerances, you'd find the casing less than 50% of the time. Add in an hourly employee that is in no way motivated to find the casing and you'd prob drop to 10%.
You're saying that with the benefit of hindsight. If their dominance was broken, then retroactively they were never a monopoly.
Google has monopoly market search in search, web browsers and mobile.

They have access to more data than anyone else, so I'll put my bet on them to win the AI wars.

First you need the data, then the money, then the power.
Fusions of Consciousness (2023) [pdf]
"Definitive evidence of shots fired" is a higher bar than shots actually being fired. I agree it's still very low though, especially since it means that at least 95% of the time responding to the call was a complete waste of time (= even if shots were fired, there was no evidence of crime).
In my experience GNOME with fractional scaling works mostly ok if you can stick to Wayland-native GTK apps and terminal but XWayland and Qt stuff can be wonky. Point in case, Anki needing an ugly custom drawn titlebar in GNOME under Wayland thanks to the whole fiasco with client and server side decorations.
Sundar needs to go, period. All these articles undersell how bad the morale is at Google right now. It has been unpopular change after unpopular change, and Googlers have zero trust in the leadership. There's zero psychological safety anymore, and the environment is basically like this[1], but actually worse because even the "sister" teams in the same org are being very territorial.

I don't think the next person is going to be better (because they'll be appointed by the very same board), but Google needs a change at the top.

[1] https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/201...
I'm sad that you took offense and downvoted. I guess you didn't read the first comment? It was meant as a joke on the absurdity of asking what it's opposed to.

>I accidentally wrote “IRL”, he quipped, “What? As opposed to us meeting ‘in fake life’?”
"CEO & Chief Geek at Flickr"

Flickr does it, why wouldn't SmugMug?
No, but I really gotta know how you drew that conclusion
Absolute rubbish article. It does include 3 numbers, the income that typical "lower", "middle" and "upper class" households have, but other than that, it's mealy-mouth platitudes.

Unfortunately, it read like a human wrote it. If so, the author should be ashamed of writing something that an LLM could do.
It might "just" be the homeless population is ageing. We really need a model prediction of how we expected the homeless population death rate to change over time. I doubt it is in a steady state.

"The number of Californians 55 and older who sought homelessness services soared 84% between 2017 and 2021" (from the article), so something demographic is changing. It'd be interesting to know what happened to their retirement savings.
Forth's niche was embedded control using small 8- and 16- bit computers with from 8 or 16 kilobytes up to 64 kilobytes of memory. Its heyday was the 1970s and 80s when those were the largest, most powerful computers that were economical for embedded control applications. As larger, more powerful computers with more elaborate software became affordable, Forth's niche shrunk away and the language became an obscure curiosity.

In its heyday Forth delivered impressive functionality on very small systems.
You could have an interactive development system with a command interpreter, editor, assembler, compiler and the application on an 8 bit microcomputer with less, sometimes much less, than 64 kilobytes of memory.
I want this to be a success, but I really can't leave my iPhone. I love the design and simplicity.. just practically, I don't think it will fit my life.
> If you aren't intelligent enough to see in the raw video footage that you are looking at something new and novel, that's not their problem.

What does intelligence have to do with seeing a video? To make an analogy, you think you'd be able to discern Intel Pentium IV from 14900K from a video footage of a working processor that would have its model number scraped out?

Fusion is just going to produce light of a certain spectrum. I don't think your brain is good at spectrometry.
> The more you monitor an area, the more samples you get, biasing the stats

So by monitoring an area with high crime rate, you catch more crime, which results in more policing for the area with a confirmed high crime rate?

And that's a bad thing?
Every country, now and throughout history, has homelessness. Are all countries failed countries?
> These devices don't send audio over the network unless a shooting-like noise is detected.

How does this jibe with the fact that the police can apparently request a ShotSpotter operator review of audio recordings for up to 30 days if a known shooting is missed by the system? How does this jibe with the fact that the system has apparently at least twice recorded voice conversations that were used (and thrown out in one case due to violating wiretap laws) in court cases?

Edit and even if we trust ShotSpotter to do the right thing, how do we know their systems are secure enough to keep those recordings away from less-honorable actors?
This is like a rejected version of one of Heinlein’s omni-competent hero fantasies. Humans aren’t fruit flies, with anll individuals interchangeable and ready for life shortly after birth. Even ignoring the dubious math getting to those numbers, think about the skills and equipment. In your scenario, everyone’s so busy taking care of food and childcare that they’re not going to have time to realize that they don’t have teachers for all of the subjects or specialists who can maintain intricate manufacturing lines. The people who work on semiconductors can’t just switch to make pharmaceuticals or engines!
Joseph Epstein's 'Lucky Life' in Literature
It’s actually incredibly unclear why houses with cars on blocks would warrant more policing than houses with manicured lawns. Why don’t you elaborate?
No no, please don't confuse people here. That is not what anarcho capitalism is, nor would any Mises supporter call what was described above as anarcho capitalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Corporate control over the economy is not what anarcho capitalism is about. In such a world there isn't even "an economy" as we traditionally know it.
Its not just presciptions. Its eligibility , claim submission, prescriptions, etc.

This is really affecting doctors and patients. Patients are not getting the drugs they need or the authorization for a critical procedure. Doctors' cash flow is interrupted.

A lot of admin workers are backed up, and that itself is leading to problems too.

Why the backup? Its not just electronic data exchange being offline. Its that everything is now "going to paper" (submitted hard copy) which requires humans. Those humans used to take care of the actual work. Now they are stuck shlepping paper from A to B instead.

I submitted two links explaining this in more detail yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39561697
I like how about the same time some else made a HN post title "Google Gemini’s Woke Catechism". Google destroying YT Music team that tried to unionize, runs completely opposite to the "Woke Catechism" or any leftist ideas.
with that trailer attached behind you, I don't think you'd front flip
Hamming's Reflection
The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
You can't fight a radical with logic.
Nah, this forum does and you're going to be severely punted for propagating it.
Copilot-Explorer – See what the Copilot extension sends to the server
US might drive on the right side of the road, but UK has the wheel on the right side of the car