skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually this is a direct example of how systemic racism works. The goal isn’t to surveil minorities more, it’s just that the system watches places where crimes occur. Consider that, when an area has more surveillance, more people who commit crimes are caught. All of a sudden, you’re disproportionately catching minority criminals. Better put in more surveillance to cover the higher crime rates in those minority communities.
I get they can’t necessarily do anything about this, since they’re gonna put microphones where it’s most efficient, but maybe it’s yet another argument against mass surveillance.
Similar setup with the XPS 17" model and Ubuntu. Might try Debian somewhere in here.
>>used by the wearable computing people, circa turn of the century

One of the things they discovered, is voice command really wasn't suited to a wearable as it was distracting in meetings, susceptible to background noise, made you look like you were talking to yourself, etc.

One of my favorite BoFH style stories was of someone that worked in an office where each PC was equipped with dragon naturally speaking. Apparently, you could walk thru the office yelling "format c:" <pause> "yes"....
One option that tends toward this is to have a cellular modem which tethers to the device of your choice. SIM is assigned to that device.

Voice comms go over a VOIP service such as Jitsi or whatevs.

Carry the VOIP device you want to use, whether a minimal comms-only device, or a more capable tablet or laptop which you can talk to.

A device which talks to a headset or transport-based option (e.g., your car's Bluetooth system) might also be convenient. The idea that you need a full-compute device with a high-res screen just to make voice calls is ... somewhat silly.

The main concern I have with this is the level of phone spam either now present or in the likely future. You'll want a comms system which filters out unknown and/or suspect calls. PSTN, of any stripe (POTS, mobile, VOIP) isn't cutting it any more.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen5 (Intel i7, nVidia)

Pro:
* The warranty service is wonderful. Both online-scheduled mail-in service and in-person service. Calls are answered by real people quickly. Fan broke, but it was quickly replaced. Some electrical noise coming out of the motherboard -- Lenovo is willing to replace the motherboard, but so far no catastrophic failure.

Con:
* Poor QC with thermals. I had to repaste myself after both factory and service center couldn't get it right.
* Fan and motherboard issues (as mentioned above) but fixable/fixed by Lenovo under warranty.
* Small things are broken all the time with Ubuntu: speakers, microphone, screen sheering etc. With the lastest Ubuntu, it is marginally better.

I still would not recommend this model unless one is an advanced user willing to debug these things (I still haven't figured out what's wrong with the headphone jack noise). But once the bugs/defects are fixed, this machine is a dream to use.
> it won’t stop until we adopt realistic government controlled system.

Are you aware that the government is the entity preventing housing from being built in many cities?

I don't think zoning should be abolished or anything but clearly the regulations the US has now, at least, are incorrect and restrict supply far too much.
System76 Oryx Pro! I've had it for a well over a year now and I really love it.
For shotspotter? No.

If someone made a system for detecting fraud, embezzlement, or insider trading, you bet your ass it would be deployed there.
Now I am curious

For 20Hz noise, are there too many reflections to use an oscilloscope with 3 mics on a 25ft baseline to triangulate it (you'd have to elevate the mics)?
If you feel this way about tech now, you probably picked the wrong field. It's a really exciting time if you're actually interested in this stuff.

If you want an AI-resistant job, look at the trades (plumbers, electricians, etc.). There's a huge shortage, the pay is good, and it will be a while before robots are dexterous enough to have an impact there.

Don't bother with translating. It's already being impacted.
Don’t buy the s*n. Don’t read the s*n. Don’t regurgitate the s*n.
I almost bought a system76 Lemur instead of my X1 Nano, but decided against it after reading a bunch of reports of bad QC by their ODM Clevo. The ThinkPad having a 16:10 screen over the Lemur’s 16:9 screen was also a factor (which appears to have not changed since 3 years ago).

Tuxedo’s Pulse 14 looks interesting but I wish its screen were a bit brighter. Also no ANSI keyboard layout option which is a bummer.
Is there any evidence of shotspotter using the data that it collects for something other than good? Even if shotspotter collected audio that didn't contain gunshot-like sounds (which they don't; without a triggering event, the sensors never write the audio out to a file or send it over the network for review), how could they monitize it or do anything malicious with it? How could they tie loose audio of people walking around to the identities of those people (besides the method in the two court cases cited by the article, where homicide detectives listened to the audio of the shootings and heard verbal exchanges incident to the shootings where the victim verbally identified the shooters)?

It it's so amusing to me that people who carry around a phone 24/7 spend time imagining these intricate Rube Goldberg surveillance systems to be afraid of.
The Mac was priced too far out of the hobbyist snack bracket. And Steve Jobs deliberately sealed it off to be un-expandable and mostly unfriendly to tinkerers.
It's the scope and breadth of deployment and the algorithm/business pressures.

> 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.

This is the key to why it's price fixing. Everyone playing ball and means that the raising rent rates increases everyone's take home even if a few operate with lower occupancy.

The software calculates rent rates that make sure occupancy isn't too low to keep everyone in line. It removes bargaining with the promise that "if you play ball, you'll be rich".

Tenants can negotiate prices just like you can theoretically haggle with amazon.
I would not be at all surprised if the salesman got a little bonus for every app that was confirmed installed on a sale.
Try Nobara. It’s basically Fedora with some extra stuff for gaming.

I use Fedora on an Lenovo x1
This is really cool. The music and world (especially the mysterious structure in the distance) remind me of the eeriness of Myst.

Can you share more info about how you built the 3D world made of dots?
> if you're going to play Bad Cop then you have to bring something more to the table than the rationalizations of a gambler.

I think that's an important point to raise. However, I had thought I dealt with that well. I wrote,

Why should the admnistrator and other people have compassion for you if you don't have it for others? I'll bet that, not being saint and under all that stress, you weren't perfect in what you were doing. I'll bet the administrator and others were also under many different stressors like you were; who was understanding them?

The GGP already said they weren't a saint - I used their language - and my assertion wasn't that they did something awful, but that they simply were imperfect - a pretty certain guess for anyone.

Still, I generally agree - one needs evidence, not a fabrication.

> Forgiving minor trespasses, turning the other cheek and all that hippie Jesus shit makes for a pretty chill life. Even he lost his temper.

Are you being sarcastic? Also, I don't think we need to forgive only tresspasses that are minor, and I don't see it as a 'chill life', but as important and even essential behavior by all of us (IMHO - I'm not forcing anyone to do it).

> Otherwise this is coercion.

A minor point, but where do you see 'coercion'? What am I coercing them to do and how?
Even with the ripstop shock absorber, it’s going to hurt the whole way down. You won’t die, but you won’t feel good either.

There’s surprisingly few videos about this: https://youtu.be/A5w9Kkd-f2w

Even in a lab setting, pretty violent.
The Stasi, as well. I wonder if even within Germany there’s a difference in attitudes between east and west.
No cab company had a nationwide or even statewide monopoly, and yet Uber was still forced to spend vast amounts on legal and lobbying, so I would consider them more of a "point" than a counterpoint.
So long as the only real consequence is a (small) fine, killing unions is just going to be a cost of business. See how Starbucks conveniently closes unionized locations not long after they organize due to "market forces".
asians have a lot of denisovan dna too, and there are bone fragments originally attributed to denisovans that were found by DNA to be a 50/50 denisovan/neanderthal mix somewhere in the ballpark of modern uyghur territory atm iirc (some of the only denisovan pieces ever found i believe)

hybrids are usually unlikely to be able to reproduce but its not impossible depending on how distant they were, and we simply dont have enough evidence to deny they could have

so it could have been neanderthal-denisovan hybrids that went across asia for all we know
The voice recordings were only picked up because they were incident to shootings. Without the shooting, the audio wouldn't have been written out to file or ever be heard by anyone.
i've been meaning to set this up for some time. now this does nothing but nudge me to do it sooner than later.
Had an interesting conversation with someone who used to run a radio shack and now works for one of the few remaining 'screwdriver shops' (PC shop).

If I understood it, her theory was basically that radio shack wouldn't come back because the size of components nowadays is too small.

And its funny you mention touchscreen. Because I bought a mechanical switch from her to do a DIY Mod on a 20 year old car. It was pretty simple and worked well. But this car also had a touch screen that was extremely anti-DIY friendly. These screens tend to get 'burnt' by the sun after 20+ years and stop working correctly. The typical fix for this screen is complete replacement or extremely complex repair via mail. Parts won't be available forever and the whole thing is closed source and incredibly hard to reverse engineer.
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I have a workshop laptop, Lenovo Thinkpad X1.

But I did have a System76 until I fell down the stairs and it came with me.

The System76 is built for Linux Pop OS but the Thinkpad ran Ubuntu fine... it may have been Kubuntu even, I can't recall.
This is one of the most misguided, misinformed, incorrect, and dangerous comments I’ve read on HN.

Do NOT do this. You _will_ die from a relatively simple fall.

ONLY use a proper via ferrata set on a via ferrata, with rip shock absorber rated to do so.
Whenever I think of Entity Component Systems I think it as the furtherance of basing your game systems around singletons.

I prefer testing and so typically avoid singletons, but I do acknowledge the pros of thinking of games as a series of “managers” telling things how to behave. Enough to appreciate that thinking of a game as centralized set of manager systems is kinda the basis of ECS.

Throwing this out there in case anyone in this community has interesting thoughts on the subject!
System76 Lemur Pro, the best and lightest laptop I have ever owned. And the purchase price helps to support the development of PopOS, the smoothest Linux distro for people who want it to just work.
Ah, that's much better. It's still confusing that they're separated.
Well today it was “add a comma at the end of every line in this block” and “replace this word and the next instance of it with this other word”.

It’s just nice to be able to select a bunch of stuff (multiple ways to do that) and then do the same thing to all selections at once (including things like arrow keys to move all the carets at once).
"Tesler: Each engineer set his or her own schedule. Some engineers work something like Monday through Friday from nine to five. Others work all day at the office, then go home and work all night there. And what an individual engineer does may vary from time to time.

Daniels: These people have pride. They set their own milestones and they want to meet them, so they'll put in extra work to do that.

Tesler: We decided a long time ago that since the project would obviously go on for more than a few months — a couple of years — we couldn't have this constant pressure on everybody, because people would just crack. "

This is great managerial wisdom right here.

From everything I've read, Larry Tesler really was someone great. RIP
I’ve worked at both types of places. The main difference was if one was a contractor or on salary.

I also believe everyone needs a mental break at the end of an accomplished iteration. The satisfaction of feeling done. You might only answer email or edit docs on that day but that’s definitely worthwhile.

Not to mention, when you have a family, weekends aren’t especially relaxing, so if you “sprint” every week for years, it leads to almost certain burnout.

In other words, we don’t run marathons at full speed for a reason.

Oh and by the way, even at the contracting place where we were given fresh tickets when done early, no one ever expected them done immediately. So in effect we’d sit on them, take a mental break, and everyone was happy with appearances—the theater of work.
~3 millions of active users vs ~300 M on XTwitter. Not bad, considering the amount of bots in twitter.
With price fixing, would-be competitors cooperate and function as a monopoly. That’s not a functioning market. These services act as a centralization point to accomplish the price fixing without colluding directly with each other. It’s actually much more efficient than traditional price fixing!
Microfiche is a small flat sheet, microfilm is on reels. "Fiche" being French for card.

The More You Know...
https://archive.is/bceQp
What? Uber bought their way into the market it's the exact problem that the person you are replying to is trying to address?
I found an HP EliteBook in a recycling pile. It looked good so I grabbed it. It was just missing SSD. I coincidentally had a compatible power supply. I got ChatGPT4 to help search for and find a suitable SSD drive (there’s a lot of little codes that you have to watch for beyond just basic SSD memory size). I spent probably $20-$30 for replacement refurbished Samsung SSD (though the vendor said it was new). Ultimately, installed Lubuntu on it. I really like having it as a secondary laptop to run Docker natively, for example. But, man, I would never want Linux as my primary system. I would miss too many of the features that you find on a modern commercial OS (e.g, accessibility features like text to speech). Yeah, I know, there are probably open source alternatives, but as far as I could tell, they were non-starters in terms of quality.
King Salman International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is set to become the largest airport in the world, following its opening in 2030.
The rental market analogue of a dark pool is the rental market. All transactions are secret by default, allowing higher-information parties (landlords) to set prices that are advantageous to them, and prevent transactions from moving the market.

These algorithmic pricing systems extend that information advantage by pooling information across landlords (maybe not illegal by itself) and leveraging their position as market-wide price-setter to push rents higher, with the promise that so many units are following their recommendations that renters have ~no alternative (very illegal price fixing)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon for a lot of years, now. Have been considering going another direction next time (System 76 or Framework seem likely).
India aims to regulate AI- A blow to nascent industry
Same w/ game boy cartridge header.

Fwiw I think they were used for automated cartridge testing, since they all used varying memory bank controllers, so the hardware checking the ROM needs to know which MBC it's talking to.
Collusion is if they, well, collude. Copying is not the same thing as colluding.
Wow. A *lot* of these are far older than Gen Z. Like "tea", among others.

And it's not "af" like ahf, it's "A. F."; and "As. F".

This reminds me a bit of those Parenting magazines that got like half the slang or origins wrong
> hey’re gonna put microphones where it’s most efficient, but maybe it’s yet another argument against mass surveillance.

BINGO!
Ahh, I mixed up my oppressive German secret police forces, I meant the Stasi as the Gestapo were already covered under Nazis. (The fact that it happened twice though does help against "nothing to hide")
HP Dev One built for Pop-OS
I have a Framework 13 AMD. Everything works great on Linux (even the fingerprint reader)—-I’m extremely happy with it. The keyboard is good, the speakers are good (with EasyEffects), the screen has a perfect 3:2 ratio, the battery is great, and I can upgrade and fix it. I also had an XPS 13, MacBook Pro (2013 and 2023), and a Thinkpad X1 6th gen. All things considered I like the Framework best.
Many people? That depends on the definition of "many". If it's "more than 2", then it's certainly true.

We do have something close to Discord in functionality, it's Matrix. It's not the best, but at least it's not built on the foundation of recursive WTFs.
Asus Zenbook UX325EA

I use Ubuntu and everything works OOTB except hibernation. The computer is cursed with the new Intel power levels, because someone at Microsoft thinks suspended laptops should receive mails like they were smartphones. There are workarounds.

Other than that it's perfect: great screen, Intel graphics, USB-C charging, everything.
Game industry is going through huge cuts right now[1][2] after a covid/free money boom over the last few years and stagnant revenue growth now.

If you end up staying in this field, one very valuable piece of advice is use your free time, while looking for work, to prepare for interviews and specifically leetcode and other interviewing processes you're likely to face. It's basically standard operating procedure right now for both big and small companies. Look online at tech interview guides. If you're in the US, when hiring picks up again, it's probably the single best chance to financial well being, getting into one of the cushy tech jobs.

[1]: https://gamecraftpod.com/podcast/episode-02/
[2]: https://www.matthewball.co/all/gaming2024
What is blowing my mind in this thread is the amount of comments giving advice NOT to use a via ferrata set. One commenter even said to use two prussic hitches… let me keep this short: you will die.

Use a via ferrata set. Any ‘climbing bro’ that gives you any other advice is a dangerous person and you probably shouldn’t have them belaying you, as they value their ego more than your life.

USE THE CORRECT EQUIPMENT: Only via certified via ferrata set with a rip shock absorber.

https://youtu.be/A5w9Kkd-f2w
> I'm not sure "mature" is a word that can be applied to anything Musk touches.

Certainly Musk is very far from the traditional notions of maturity that you'd expect from a corporate executive, and clearly Musk doesn't care whether anyone thinks he's mature or not. But there's absolutely no question that Tesla and SpaceX are both as mature as any corporation could possibly be.

> At a time when it needed showmanship, he was its showman.

I never understood this line of thinking. I think Musk is a self-evdently terrible showman[0] but everyone has retconned some supposed showmanship as a component explanation for Tesla's market success. In my opinion, Tesla never needed a showman, because the product itself was always the "showman." Musk could have handed launch event duties off to a marketing exec and the outcome would have been functionally identical.[1] Perhaps marginally fewer early sales, but they were manufacturing constrained for so long that it wouldn't have had any impact on production ramp or total deliveries.

I'd bet at least 99% of Model 3/Y buyers never saw the launch event. They bought the car because of word-of-mouth from satisfied customers and positive reviews. The launch event sold a bunch of pre-orders, but there were enough people interested in the car to fill their order book for a long time. Within a year, these cars were selling themselves.

There's a lot of parallel with Jobs. In Jobs' case you also had a pre-eminent showman, but ultimately the star of every show was the product itself, not the slide deck or the speaker's tone. Both Musk and Jobs were obsessed with the product, and steered the ship of their respective corporations to focus on making a product worthy of dramatic reveal. This meant knowing what about the product actually mattered. (Consider, for example, whether it was more important for Tesla to focus on software or panel gaps.)

When the "Model 2" is ready, Tesla could do literally nothing to launch the vehicle. Just add it to their website and they'd sell everything they could possibly manufacture. Its continued success will be driven by customer satisfaction with the product, not marketing. The only point in having a launch event would be fan service.

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[0] I would distinguish his skill as a presenter with skill as a speaker. He's a terrible and often cringe-worthy presenter. But when he's talking about things he's passionate about, he can be a deeply compelling speaker.

[1] Arguably better because a C-suite in suit-and-tie would have stuck to the script and not waffled on with overly optimistic predictions about future R&D milestones.
Note that the brand new KDE Plasma6 solved fractional scaling on Wayland.
> commodity futures markets

What? Commodity futures are viciously competitive open markets, where do you see the connection?
Thinkpads, of course - I've gone from one to the next over the last decade-plus. Currently at work I have a T14, while at home I'm using a T480.

Generally I have used Ubuntu, but I switched my home machine to Mint recently, and it's been fine.
that doesn't really change the fact that they have microphones that are capable of recording voices, they have storage of the recordings, and are able to retrieve recordings and are willing to provide them to the police.
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Anyone entering graduate work in AI now is likely going to be entering a market with a glut of similar graduates in 2-4 years.
Dell XPS 15, the laptop itself is pretty great.

Currently running Arch + Hyprland, and the whole setup runs smoothly just off of the iGPU and is a savior on my battery life.

Kind of sucks to have an expensive laptop and not use the GPU at all, I might switch to using the GPU when plugged in and when I unplug it have a script switch back to the iGPU.
"in any way" is doing a lot of work there though. The way they're using a 3rd party algorithm is effectively communication and the FTC isn't standing for it.
System76 Lemur Pro. It works great but it looks, acts, and feels a little too cheap.
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