skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What organizational challenges might impact succeeding in this role?

Can you walk me through your management style?

Can you share your expectations and success criteria for the role?
Americans love guns more than freedom.
I realize that. But there is nothing stopping them from sending him money, if they think he deserves it.
Where Do I Fall in the American Economic Class System? (2023)
Some more friction, use a password manager and change the password to a really long string of characters, then don't install the password manager on the phone.
If you don't mind me asking.

What did you do for Nintendo and Disney?

Because doing VR in theate 90s sounds super interesting!
ShotSpotter's own public statements say that audio is retained for 30 hours, see e.g. https://www.soundthinking.com/faqs/shotspotter-privacy-faqs/. In the past they provided Albuquerque with a document that said 72 hours, but I believe they have been reducing that period over time. It may also depend on their specific contract with the law enforcement agency. Still, we know that they must retain recordings, because they do take requests from customers to reanalyze data that did not result in an alert.

For convenience, the most relevant text: "If the system misses a gunfire incident, police may contact the company to see if there is any audio or location evidence. In this case, only authorized ShotSpotter personnel with proper credentials can access sensor audio to search. Their search is limited to the 30- hour sensor storage timeframe."

ShotSpotter used to have significantly fewer privacy protections, and retention was indefinite early in the product's life. Fortunately, a combination of legal challenges and statutory privacy policies among their customers have lead to them significantly improving their privacy controls over time.
If you own a house and it sits empty for a year because an algorithm told you you could get more for it, you’re an idiot. If you use an algorithm to effectively collude with others and you fail to rent your house but keep rents artificially high, then you an idiot and a criminal.
This particular machine has been on HN a few times before (and with good reason!)
You have a duty to your family/pets/shareholders to extract maximum value clearly. /s

I added /s because dear lord this thread is full of people who think its true. Housing shouldnt be an investment venue when we have millions unhoused.
> If you pull up a map of crime in most cities the inverse correlation with home prices is obvious.

If the police department spends the majority of its resources on certain areas, it will respond to the majority of incidents and make the majority of arrests in those areas. You can truthfully say "look, these numbers are higher than anywhere else!" but that doesn't necessarily mean there's more crime happening there — it could also mean the residents are overpoliced relative to other neighborhoods.

With regard to the article, why is it obvious that police are putting surveillance in areas with the highest rates of gun crime?
Why do you want more coments?
Thanks, interesting documentary!
I mean, if you really think this thing is the next Dropbox…sure.
I think I do like CS, but dislike the domain I'm in. I think webdev is pretty boring, both frontend and backend. So this recent shift in the job market makes me think "So I have to go through the applying/interview grind again, this time with much fiercer competition, all for a job I won't even like?"

I have always found game development more appealing (tools programming, game design and gameplay programming in particular), but chose to not go for that path, fearing that I wouldn't be able to handle such a notoriously cutthroat industry. I know that it sounds like I threw in the towel there without even trying, but for a long time I had a terrible, painful chronic condition, and it was only recently that I became closer to normal after years of trial and error with different treatments. This condition made me always strive for the "easier" path (webdev), which was a big mistake in retrospect.

To be completely honest, CS is definitely not my biggest passion, but it's the next best thing. From early on in my childhood dream was music and storytelling, always. My dad was strongly opposed to me pursuing it as anything other than a hobby. I think he was right, and I'm still glad he stopped me from enrolling in music school (twice...).

Sorry, I'm just kind of rambling about personal stuff here, but your comment made me think a lot. Thanks for the reply.
Also I got a lead pretty recently from Florida
And yet the author of this piece gives examples of having done it, and doesn't mention that he's now homeless.
They can’t and this is by design

You need capital and increasing amounts as you get closer to threatening any monopoly. Who do you think have that capital? People that want to end monopolies? No they want to just be part of a new one. So unless you’re just offering a new monopoly opportunity they won’t see the value and you’ll not even start.

Don’t forget, you don’t accidentally become a monopoly, the govt protects you. So beyond a certain point, you start dealing with government impeding you on behalf of corporations you’re affecting

In my opinion the only way to end this process without just making a new set of monopolies is with non-stock cooperatives but it’s going to be a long road
Finding papers and digitizing them takes a a lot of work. Is nice that sone not for profits like archive.org do that work for no cost but expecting others to do it for you for free is what seems strange to me.
The thing missing from this post is any sense of whether you have talent and interest in programming. The closest you come is to say you've "gradually lost interest in [...] full-stack web development", but even there you use the language "only domain I have any real-world experience in". It's pretty clear the problem here is job search anxiety. Hey, I don't blame you, I started my software career in the summer of 2000, so I can relate to the doom and gloom.

The thing to remember is that your success is not primarily determined by macroeconomic trends. Sure some industries are clearly on a downward slope and you wouldn't want to start a career there, but tech is not one of them. Software is still eating the world, and yes AI will change it, code may go away, etc, but ultimately understanding and solving problems in complex systems is going to stay an incredibly valued skill for the foreseeable future.

So, are you any good at programming? If so, and it doesn't feel like pulling teeth, then I think you probably have more upside there. If not, and you want something stable and reliable over time, maybe consider the trades. Whatever you do though, understand all career success is based on being able to solve problems, and have the person with the money recognizing that you can provide an above average solution. The best path to this is get a job, any job, learn to do it exceptionally well, and make sure in your first 10-15 years you are continually learning and growing, and building good relationships with the people you work with. If you keep doing that serendipity will find you. No amount of pre-planning or strategizing is a substitute.
I absolutely love it compared to my current iPhone. Super comfortable eink display that looks like paper. Messenger works great with a monochrome theme. And great battery too since screen doesn't emit light. Love using it for reading, especially right before bed. If you want to learn more check out the r/eink subreddit.

Good call, when I upload my camera test video I'll include a small section of viewing the photos taken as well on the eink screen. But for still photos it will look pretty similar to how b&w mode looks like on normal phones.
They don’t change the data. They change their interpretation of it. The police say the classifier got something wrong, so the classification gets updated, both for the record and to improve the classifier. The police say that the location is wrong. The company looks at the data, maybe finds that the system automatically located on an echo at one or more sensor and then recomputes the location using the primary pulse.
is this cursor.sh ?
This guy lost me when he made it about himself. It just sounds like a bunch of "I'm not like those other devs".

The conclusion from the top of the article is basically "why im better than those silly 10x developers"

Also this guy thinks his crap doesn't stink somehow.

Something about "I focus on making code that other's can maintain".
They'll literally never 'fix' that, users having the app is essential to their model.
Quadratic Payments: A Primer (2019)
Lenovo T490s, everything works except precision track pad functions
By the time you have billions money is pointless to hold endlessly. Land is something you can buy that no one else can say they have the same. Take that to the max and you want land where land is scarce and desireable. Hawaii is a perfect fit.
Gotcha! The comment parent of mine makes a lot more sense now.
I was hoping this would go into SHARE and was not disappointed. I'm happy to see people interested in this era of our industry.
Are these things public microphones that pick up street conversations or are they specialized microphones without stored recordings? The capability of these things is the only important question, since if they can be used for mass surveillance we shouldn’t trust cops with them.
Think of a business/analyst/marketer type person who knows Excel, SQL (or can use ChatGPT), and knows roughly how everything works. They want to do things but dont know how to code, or they do but in such a way its too simplistic.
Trove is fantastic. It came in handy very recently for the same project I used the Library of Congress for[1]. The Museums of History New South Wales has a great online archive as well[2].

[1]: https://ajxs.me/blog/The_Identity_of_The_Sanctimonious_Kid.h...

[2]: https://mhnsw.au/collections/state-archives-collection/
There is no such information that is not double edged. Information by itself is neutral, and it all depends on what the person using it for. Otherwise one can attribute anyone as potentially malicious when acquiring information. No guilty until proven so.
Could explain what you mean by that?
It works very well where I live (DC) and I and people I know have seen police respond to actual things with shotspotter

Many shootings where nobody calls it in and cops respond with shotspotter
Is that, like provable though, thats my biggest issue. Cities are allowing a private company to mass deploy microphones all over (mostly lower income) areas and just _trusting_ them to not be keeping recordings.
This will be required in the US for all providers within a year unless a sufficiently large number of people comment on the Commerce Department's proposed rule: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-department-commerce-...
> it is running on a very very short recording loop

I'm curious what your source for that information is
Dutch speakers have enjoyed such a wiki for a long time already: WegenWiki https://www.wegenwiki.nl/Hoofdpagina

The UK's got SABRE: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pag...
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course
Nah, I think from being around privacy communities there is definitely at least a big German presence, and even in EU privacy regulation, Germans have played a part.

At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, I think it genuinely does come down to the Nazis and Gestapo and what those groups did with the information they had. Not saying that every German thinking about their privacy is thinking about that, but it does kind of de-fang the "nothing to hide" argument and that allows a bigger pro-privacy culture to develop.

At the same time there's some notable exceptions, such as their rules around impressums.
i broadly agree with the sentiment in this article, especially the "no public oversight" part.

but this:

> The reader can probably infer how this coverage pattern relates to race and class in Albuquerque. It's not perfect, but the distance from your house to a ShotSpotter sensor correlates fairly well with your household income.

is facetious and is almost certainly argued in bad faith. well, duh. the distance to the nearest "shot spotter" box also correlates with the incidence of crime and gunfire in the area. to bring up racism or classism is unhelpful. that correlation is unfortunate, likely true, and also not the problem at hand.
Yep Lenovo tends to be the best AFAIK but I run Ubuntu on a Dell Lattiude and it all works fine.
Certainly this man's laughter.
As great as reducing complexity is, I just don't see how it's possible to avoid implementing a service mesh in a FedRAMP moderate or high impact level environment. You essentially need to implement mTLS to meet SC-8(1), and to implement mTLS at scale, you need something like a service mesh.

Are there other ways of going about this for FedRAMP moderate or high IL?
I’m currently running a T460p and another random Lenovo from like 10 years ago. They both work great. But if I was buying a new one, I’d probably give System76 a try. I know it’s Clevo, but they also appear to have gotten pretty good lately. Plus, Coreboot built in is pretty sweet.
> How does one get their data out of the cloud ente.io - and into a self hosted instance of the server? Is there any data loss during this process?

Just to jump in cause I was curious myself. I think your question is answered here:

"Command Line Utility for exporting data from Ente"

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/cli
> The consequences are pretty low to nil.

Having American cops rush to your door thinking violence is happening is not inconsequential. Just a few days ago they shot at a kid who was playing with fireworks, due to a false positive. Also, see swatting and its fatal consequences.
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39573172
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Some more discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39573172
That's true, but the question is why is the market doing that? What is it about the new hire that is worth more?
I went to the Google Store today and they verified my item with an in person ID check. That was pretty cool.

#mountainview :)
This phone is not the next Dropbox.
I have a Dell XPS 15 with an Nvidia graphics cards (I installed the latest nvidia driver via the ubuntu interface), and everything works well
> Putting surveillance for gun crime in areas with the highest rates of gun crime is obviously what’s happening.

This is in fact the crux of the problem. By significantly increasing monitoring of areas with higher crime rates, you inadvertently create a vicious cycle feedback loop: The more you monitor an area, the more samples you get, biasing the stats (because your sampling is no longer uniform). Then these stats are used to justify more monitoring and policing in the area, further biasing your data.
I also prefer the Windows Taskbar rather than the dock as you mentioned, that's why I created Taskbar for macOS. Feel free to check it out: https://lawand.io/taskbar
Wrong: Spanish usted comes from the Arabic "ʔustāḏ", a honorific title meaning something like "distinguished person"
I'm on flickr and the semi-regular emails over the past few years telling me that I have private photos which will get deleted soon, would be my reason.
sorry, need to find another way
> SOS is also easy to remember without knowing full Morse.

It's not simply a question of memory. SOS and Morse are meaningfully different protocols.

But I don't think I conveyed that bit particularly well. Try alternating between IAB, SOS, and IJS all are are dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot. However, IAB and IJS is uses 3 different pauses not just 2. And that's before your tap morse code adds yet another type of pause.
Well since _HE_ could do it clearly _ALL OF US_ can do it.

Thanks, Captain Obvious.
I have a Framework laptop (the original 11th gen Intel one) with Arch Linux and some experiments with NixOS. I've been really impressed with the laptop and their Linux support has been superb. The one caveat is that the battery life isn't great, but I hear that the newer motherboards (particularly the AMD one) greatly improves this. It's nice that I have the option to just drop in a newer motherboard, but I honestly haven't felt that it's aged nearly enough to do that yet.
Lambda Tensorbook
They can do a lot of things, but they're consistently doing this. The question is why?
> Please refrain from telling me what I think. You don't know what I think.

Huh? The quoted section is not even suggesting to take it up as your own thoughts, let alone 'telling'. I'm not 'telling' anyone to even read my comments in the first place...

> I've come across this pro-corporate, anti-human ideology in person as well.

It seems really unlikely that you've met even 1/10000 of the user-base in real life, nor likely would it be a representative cross section, so how does this relates to the parent comments?
Framework 13 AMD

Initial issues with the iGPU seem to have gone away with software updates. The one chore you will have is finding a fractional scaling setup that works for you. I went with turning Gnome's experimental fractional scaling feature on. (See 1.1.1.1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI) Some people just use a font size multiplier.

Everything else works great.
Hands down ChatGPT.

Google Gemini is a close second - using it for Google Search is amazing :)

#google
I happen to be reading Sapiens right now. The author seems convinced that we genetically developed the ability for abstract thought (which he calls imaginary or fiction), and that allowed us to cooperate much more easily in large numbers. For instance, believing in a particular flag allows you to identify your allies on the battlefield without having ever met them before. The theory goes that other animals, including other hominins, genetically lack the hardware to rally around a flag.

This also led to the notion of a shared culture across many individuals that can adapt much more quickly than genetic evolution.

(Unless I misunderstand, of course.)

The author squarely blames Homo Sapiens for wiping out the other hominins, pointing out how many other large species seemed to go extinct as soon as we arrived someplace new, even long before the Agricultural revolution.
Shame that Bill Gates was able to force Apple to kill MacBasic.

I wonder if Apple would have included it in the box, or if it would have been popular, and if the Mac would have attracted more hobbyist programmers like the Apple II did?

On the other hand, a couple of years later Apple introduced HyperCard, which really was a kind of end-user programming revolution, even if it largely became an evolutionary dead end (though HyperTalk influenced AppleScript and probably other languages as well.) Perhaps if HyperCard had been networked then it might have survived longer into the web/JavaScript era.
As a person learning Spanish, this reminded me about how regional differences with the language has led to some debate about which variations to cover in courses and textbooks.

For example, a university course I took tested for the proper conjugation of verbs with "vosotros/as" (with its typical usage in Spain). But I later read about some debate over why the usage of vosotros/as was tested, but not the usage of voseo (vos for the singular instead of tú), despite its usage being common in large parts of Latin America.

Some textbooks for language learners treat voseo by including it in the conjugation tables just for awareness, but not testing this in the exercises. Your hometown's usage of "ustedes" is quite interesting, and it would be great to see it documented in a learner's textbook somewhere, to further reflect the diversity of the language.
A few year down the road the Shirky principle demands a revelation that ShorSpotter sponsored the NRA.

It’s amazing lime 500 years later, there’s still a developed country on earth that hasn’t figured the externalities of gunpowder
B19.SE Data Dumps: OPML
Learning theory is the attempt to formalize natural science up to decision. Natural science's unstated assumption is that a sufficiently sophisticated algorithmic world model can be used to predict future observations from past observations. Since this is the same assumption as Solomonoff's assumption in his proof of inductive inference, you have to start there: with Turing complete coding rather than Rissanen's so-called "universal" coding.

It's ok* to depart from that starting point in creating subtheories but if you don't start there you'll end up with garbage like the last 50 years of confusion over what "The Minimum Description Length Principle" really means.

*It is, however, _not_ "ok" if what you are trying to do is come up with causal models. You can't get away from Turing complete codes if you're trying to model dynamical systems even though dynamical systems can be thought of as finite state machines with very large numbers of states. In order to make optimally compact codes you need Turing complete semantics that execute on a finite state machine that just so happens to have a really large but finite number of flipflops or other directed cyclic graph of universal (eg NOR, NAND, etc.) gates.
Why Mainers Are Falling Hard for Heat Pumps
Apple FileWare (1983)
Same here, Lenovo Carbon X1 gen 9 (ca. 2021) with Debian Bookworm. No problem at all.

I also run a Ryzen 4000 HP Envy 13" (ca. 2022) 2-in-1 with Debian Bookworm. It works somewhat fine in laptop mode but is crap otherwise. I seriously consider reinstalling MS Windows on that one.
X220
While this sounds good, it sort of assumes you're trying to solve some puzzle, and you're going to them for hints and answer. That's not the problem at hand tho: we're not asking them to solve some puzzle for us, we're just seeking understanding.

Because what we're actually doing is building capability to be able to work on a wide range of problems on our own. And getting guided by people who already know there way around the codebase and know what everything does is going to get you there quicker than any other method (unless docs are truly excellent, which in most cases they're not).

So, after reflecting on it more, I disagree. I think assuming you can poke around for yourself, and start to build up a picture of what things do, may end up giving you confident delusions, that could be then hard to unlearn, or at least blockers to further understanding. Better to go to the old guard with a blank slate mindset, and let them fill you in on the overview.

Then go away and work on it, having that guidance in store, and then (if you were friendly enough in the first meet) come back for additional. That is what I think people would truly appreciate.

Think about it: assume you were someone who generally had time to help people coming to you for assistance, would you not love to sit someone down and give them an in depth download of the big picture, and details overview, of this thing into which you poured great love and devotion (or at least, many hours, sweat and dollars?). I think you would.

Anyway, it's a reminder to me that what often sounds right in the moment, and is easy to agree with, actually turns out to not be the best idea. I'm always eager to see another side, and empathize with someone else's view, but the lesson for me is: I often take that too far, and in doing so, forget what I originally came in with, forget my own frame, and forget what's true, so eager am I to see it from someone else's point of view. So that's a big lesson for me. Thanks for being part of it! Haha! :)
Celebrated stylemaker and self-named 'geriatric starlet' Iris Apfel dies age 102