skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar enough with Barron County, WI to doubt this. I grew up in neighboring Rusk County and my mother spends about half her time in Cumberland. While there are some disturbing incidents of violent crime, very few people there would feel that are at high risk of being a crime victim.

My quick attempt at searching suggests violent crime is 220/100K for Barron (https://www.areavibes.com/barron-wi/crime/) versus 1,509/100K for Milwaukee (https://www.areavibes.com/milwaukee-wi/crime/). That site gives Barron an "A" for crime versus an "F" for Milwaukee.

These stats aren't quite perfect, since this is for Barron the town versus Barron the county, but it really doesn't seem to support your view. The other small towns in Barron County that I checked were rated even better than Barron itself and rated as "A+".

I'm willing to believe that there is some axis on which your statement is correct but I doubtful it's the one that most people would use. Can you offer any more support for your position than just your say so?

Edit: As a quick gauge for others, I'll mention that most cars are still kept unlocked. The joke was that they were only locked in the fall, to prevent people from "gifting" you their excess zucchini. My father always left the keys in his cars as well, in case someone needed to borrow it. Our house was locked only if we left for long vacations. The key was lost sometime after I left home, and no attempt was made to replace it. I'm not nearly as familiar with Milwaukee, but I'd be surprised if this is the norm there.
You need to do some soul searching (or, I like punk rock, "you've got soul doubt", to quote Fat Mike)...

Are you just nervous because of the news you are reading

OR

"my interest in webdev is still dead"

Have you gone through your college career and you realized you do not like CS?

You need to answer this question first. Then you have the answer... if you love CS, the the job will come. Forget what you are reading and pretend this job hunt is another algorithms or operating systems class that you need to bust your ass at and pass.

If on the the other hand the flame is dead, you are getting separated and moving on to another field, well then, there is your other answer. Pretend that is another kind of problem that you have to solve and go solve it. You just went through years of problem solving school, go do it.

-- Full disclosure: not trying to be mean, just trying to boil it down to simplest "if A then B" parts.
You can mostly likely land short term agency contracts right out of school. They don’t have the same benefits or prestige as FTE but it is a real job and many immigrants take them very seriously. If you can handle doing this for a few years you will certainly land an internal FTE eventually. Don’t give up, you have a good thing going.
I wish wikipedia had indicators for when a different language's article had more content. Not surprising for a geographic topic, but it happens for others. (Something I don't readily think about being anglo).
Shotspotter falsely classifies popped volleyball as gunshot:

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/false-shotspotter-al...

Slamming doors:

https://www.axios.com/2022/04/07/campaign-zero-against-shots...

This list can go on. Jackhammer, nail gun, normal hammers.

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2020/09/22/shotspotter-sensors-s...
Boyacá as well I think
Translating freelancing jobs went down by almost 20% on Upwork since ChatGpT got released, so yeah.. translating isn’t a better option https://bloomberry.com/i-analyzed-5m-freelancing-jobs-to-see...
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That seems like a super obvious conclusion, the fact that it isn't what is actually happening is a good indication that it isn't as straightforward as you'd think.

This might be true for an individual that only owns one or two properties, but for a company that owns tens or hundreds of properties they can let stuff set empty to drive up prices on all of their other properties.
I suspect the current record for sustained plasma is owned by fluorescent lighting, so not sure that's a valuable metric.

My comment that it doesn't seem like "serious science" means that I'm going to ignore anything not peer reviewed and I suggest others do the same.

I honestly still wish them the best, they just have a lot of work to convince anyone they're really dealing with anything new or interesting, and I don't think that video production is the path to that.
Sounds like we should all start digging
Your argument assumes that the devices are only used as marketed. My understanding is that this assumption doesn’t hold, and that police regularly use these systems as an excuse to harass people in poor neighborhoods. The reports I have read suggest that police will enter a neighborhood they want to patrol, and if they see someone they don’t like they can claim they were called in by shotspotter, then shake down the person and if they find something, arrest them for that. This is textbook over-policing, which I assure you would not want to have done to you, and that is the precise concern mentioned in the quote.
I’m still waiting for quicksand to be a problem.
Better option: learn it on your own. Pick up a side project, take a course, make mistakes and within a year you’ll have enough skills to be dangerous
Get a job where you can use your programming skills to automate most of job, think finance or accounting. Then, you'll have free time to study up on something else and move up the career ladder.
Probably $$$
In my experience, the workplaces that talk about "humility" are actually the worse environments. It basically translates to "know your place, peasant". Be highly skilled, but never question what you're asked to do, always show reverence for those above you in the hierarchy, etc.

I don't want "humble" coworkers, I want confident coworkers, who also happen to be reasonable and cooperative. I especially want them to be able to confidently state their opinions, without fear that they'll be targeted for "not being humble", even if they're willing to change those opinions based on a discussion with the team.
Addressing a few points that have been raised about e-ink, apps, and Android, I've been using an e-ink tablet as my daily driver for the past three years (Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, running Android 11), and have a pretty good idea of the capabilities and limitations.

Overall, the device has been far superior to any earlier Android device I've owned for overall readability, usability, battery life, and satisfaction.

For a demonstration of what e-ink displays are capable of, see this video, which starts basic (static signage systems), and progresses through video-capable displays (not, it's true, high quality, but serviceable): <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KdrMjnYAap4>

An Onyx BOOX Note displaying video, similar to my own device: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI>.

For e-ink tablets and mobile devices there are typically multiple display modes, which can be set on both a per-app and overall system basis. It's reasonably easy to switch between these where needed (e.g., on a Web browser). Higher-quality rendering comes with slower refresh, and there's a trade-off for visual quality vs. speed, but even basic animation is possible with only very modest quality degradation. "X-mode" for full video sacrifices a lot of quality, but you'd typically use that only for video-intensive apps (or occasional video viewing in a Web browser). The main side-effect is ghosting at higher refresh speeds.

Android devices can use third-party app stores such as F-Droid (VERY strongly recommended), with an independent selection of apps, or the Aurora Store alternative interface to Google Play Store which provides any Android app available through Google Play. I minimise the apps I've installed, and have avoided virtually all authenticated services (one article-managing app excepted), to minimise distractions, but have several installed from both sources.

E-ink itself does have its strengths and weaknesses. I like to say: Persistence is free; pixels are cheap; paints are expensive; refreshes are slow (1-8 Hz rather than 60--120); shades and colours are limited or nonexistent; line-art, dithered images, and half tones render quite well (raster and gradients far less so); paginated navigation is vastly better than scrolling; graphics are reflective rather than emissive; touch/Wacom may exist; and feature-detection capabilities are limited (e.g., CSS @media queries). It's a different medium, and rewards some adaptation of design principles. See: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/638a8d10e041013afba844...>.

I'd make one further addition: dark-on-light styles are hugely preferable to "dark-mode" (light-on-dark), which is far more difficult to read. Generally, e-ink prefers full black on full white styling.

I'll note that apps which are designed for e-ink, most particularly EinkBro (an adaptation of the FOSS Browser) make for a much superior experience: <https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro>.

And yes, there are full e-ink monitors which are available for desktop systems: <https://shop.boox.com/products/mira>
I've never actually seen "blanks" at any sporting goods or gun store in the 15 years I was really into guns. Reloaders typically reload rifle bullets, so I find it highly unlikely anyone is shooting blanks. Especially during drunken sportsing celebrations.
I've used XPS 15 and the GPU is really a problem. I've had better luck with a gaming laptop Legion 5i which has dedicated mode for the GPU.
Analyst or not, the issue is knowing who is willing to underprice you. You can't know that unless you have insider information, in this case provided by a shared database. Scraping public listings doesn't give you that.
Thanks for this. I've been thinking about pulling my phone use right back. I was really wanting to use the Light Phone, as I like how small and minimal it is. The only problem is it doesn't run Telegram/Whatsapp which is kind of essential these days. This phone looks like it would be exactly what I'm after. How do you rate it overall?

Ideally I'd like something half way in between this and the Light Phone - small, stripped back phone that's less appealing to use (i.e e-ink with its grayscale and slow refresh rate introduce enough friction so it's not worth being on infinite scrolling apps), but still backed by an ecosystem like Android so that you can still access "essential" apps like Telegram/Whatsapp and Notion/PocketCasts and don't have to fully give up all the helpful progress we've made since 2005. I saw your other comment about the camera - it would also be nice to have high-end camera built in for taking photos and videos, even if I essentially can't look at them on the phone I'd still be happy to capture and sync them for use elsewhere. It's a fine balance. I'm hoping enough people start looking for this over the next few years to make the market worth targeting for manufacturers, but I'm not confident.
The "..." is not warranted because that is clearly not the sense of "run" they were talking about.
I guess you could believe that when rich people are murdered it is not reported and quietly hushed up, but when poor people are the full force of the state swings into action.
Biology is so cool.

Every place you look there are these amazing processes going on. It's not just in rare or special situations like hydrothermal vents. Chickens have rifled uteruses, your body produces 1-10 billion of a certain cell per kg per day (neutrophils) that not only generate bleach to kill bacteria[0] but also sometimes just explode the DNA out of their own nuclei to trap pathogens[1].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochlorous_acid
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil_extracellular_traps
> Are you going to tell Chinese that they can't take advantage of their coal resources because they were 30 years too late in their development?

Precisely.

> all your industry and water is in the east, while all your solar and wind resources are a few thousand miles away.

There are only a small handful of countries that even have an "a few thousand miles away" in the same country. The large majority of developing countries are rather near the equator and can put solar anywhere.

> Heck, you still need natural gas for heating

In early-stage developing countries, heating is generally wood because they don't have the infrastructure to distribute anything else. In late-state developing countries, you put a nuclear reactor in the city and use cogeneration for heat. This is one of the other advantages of the infrastructure not being built yet.

> you might use it for cars (like Thailand) because you have gas but not oil.

This is soon going to be irrelevant. The bulk of cars in developing countries are the used cars from developed ones, so as developed countries transition to EVs, everybody does. Which is all the more reason to build renewable generation now, because charging those batteries at the right time of day can smooth out the load but also requires more generation, and that's going to be needed not a lot of years from now.

> You still can't go renewable alone with the investment they require

Renewables are cheaper than the operating cost for already paid off coal-fired power plants, much less new ones. If you can't afford to build renewables then how can you afford to build something even more expensive?

> There might be some of that in the middle east, but most countries aren't so resource rich (with the exception of Australia and Russia) that this is going to be a dominating factor.

> Are you going to tell Chinese that they can't take advantage of their coal resources because they were 30 years too late in their development?

One of these seems to contradict the other.

Also notice how the countries you're trying to make an exception out of are some of the largest CO2 emitters. Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Australia all have per-capita CO2 emissions higher than most of Western Europe. Meanwhile China is the highest on total CO2 emissions of any country in the world by a factor of two, accounting for almost a third of global CO2 emissions and higher emissions per capita than the UK or France.
One option would be to land a steady, secure and simple job like a refuse worker.

I know it might sound ridiculous for someone graduating with a CS degree but it could work to your benefit -- especially if you're feeling burnt out and unsure about your field/focus. A friend of mine drives a garbage truck in a small town and works 3-4 hours per day: as long as it takes to do the route and empty the truck. He's got great health insurance, a 401K and a union. While I make more running a software consultancy, I have none of these benefits and am way more exposed to market fluctuation (like right now). You could spend your afternoons doing research, working on FLOSS, doing freelance dev gigs, etc.
They can't. There are a lot of false positives. That has always been one of the biggest criticisms of Shotspotter.
Indeed. In the old days, we had to write our own malware!

Kids these days have it easy…
They aren't, they're outsourcing pricing to a 3rd party knowing that the same 3rd party is doing everyone else's pricing decisions as well.
The partial alpha blending support for translucent materials is really cool (glass, plastic, etc).

I'd be curious to see how well this plays with inpainting. Apparently img2img is also on the authors todo list.
It may incidentally do that? But if it reliably saved lives you would be selling it to ambulance dispatchers.

In reality, ambulance dispatchers would look at the high rate of Shotspotter dispatching a car and finding absolutely nothing and immediately recognize this proposal would harm people by sending emergency services on wild goose chases while real emergencies suffer longer wait times.
Ironically even this article is a decade behind as it depicts planar CMOS transistors. Around 2010 the industry started moving to finfets which are gates surrounded on three sides by poly. Manufacturing those structures almost destroyed Intel as the first process had their worst yields in history. Source: former Intel process engineer that got out before p1274/1276 shat the bed.
It's called "a book". ;-)
> "my interest in webdev is still dead"
> Have you gone through your college career and you realized you do not like CS?

The Venn diagram of “web development” and “computer science” is two separate circles.
just remember, the shotspotter may well make police come.... AFTER you were shot... why the aversion to getting a gun??
It just makes sense to put the sensors near the phenomena being sensed, and if people know where they are they could be manipulated. If guns are going off and people are getting caught, that seems like effective policing, not over or under policing.
Consider the military if you are a US citizen. Officer school if you have a degree.
What does dx mean?
I'm with you. As I mentioned elsewhere, I'd have a Light Phone if it could use Telegram and a few other "essentials." Throw in a good camera and it'd be incredible.

At the moment I use greyscale mode on my Pixel and have uninstalled apps, only using them in the browser if I "need to." It's not much, but adding that small friction helps somewhat.
Where does your target audience hang out? Go there and talk to them
Exactly, instituting pervasive audio surveillance is bad even if it's rarely used in court, because it can and will still be used for parallel construction.
I don't know how you can call something minimal that is built on top of Android. This isn't going back to the basics, this is another complex abstraction layer added to the top of an abstraction skyscraper.
Double checking I think I'm wrong. I may have been thinking of some specific crime. But Milwaukee is specifically bad due to historical segregation issues. Anyway drug and addiction issues have hit rural issues really bad
> it's going to further increase their student debt

Never accept a PhD position that you need to pay for (beyond opportunity costs). A PhD position should pay you.
Some messages were sent through relays, or the lines could be tapped, I wonder if any telegraph operators encrypted their messages using a shared key.
>Also you sounds like you are a bit burned out. Translating sounds even much more AI-replacable than CS -- don't do that if you fear CS.

Sorry, I accidentally removed the last part of that sentence. It was supposed to say this:

So far, I've thought about translating (I'm bilingual) and technical writing. AI is already quite good at both of those, and Duolingo just replaced most of its translation staff with AI.

Thanks for the reply.
Apple might claim that it makes it easier for you to download all of your apps onto a new device or some such nonsense.

The reality is that it is primarily for Apple's benefit, not yours: Apple wants you to set up a billing account with them (even one without a current payment method) in order to make it easier to sell you stuff in the future, and they also want to target you with advertisements in the app store based on the apps you've downloaded, etc.
I’m not dropping Emacs for it, but I’m pleased to see another designed for extensibility editor.
The first observation of humpback whale copulation
Those could all be true and still the statement true.

For example if all crime in Barron county was entirely random as to selection of victim, and in Milwaukee it 100% only happened to poor blacks, then infinite crime in Milwaukee could never affect you unless you were poor and black, whereas Barron county could affect anyone.

But I suspect that there’s a sleight of hand on “crime” - people usually mean crime by force against another, but technically suicide by meth overdose is two or three crimes.
> The properties people purchase as second and third homes aren't going to make a difference to the people struggling to afford 1 bedroom apartments.

They will. As fewer homes are allocated to current homeowners, they will be instead available to renters. With fewer renters on the market, the cost of renting will decrease.
Yeah, you’re thinking of Boomerang. ShotSpotter did some limited body-worn stuff for the military back in the day, but the vehicle mounted stuff is all Boomerang. Entirely different approaches (distributed microphones vs. a single microphone array at the expected target) done by different companies.
the link at the top of this thread does so.
The soundness of the advice depends on the person's specific situation. I've known a person who benefitted from a Master's as the degree gave the person access to certain internships, which helped the person break into a specific field that would've been difficult to enter otherwise.

Another person who earned a Master's found it easier to get a work visa working in a foreign country with a better market for that person's field.

However, each of these people had a specific goal in mind with getting their Master's. The person who asked advice could also find it helpful to only consider a Master's if they also have a specific outcome in mind, served directly by pursuing the degree.
I've also been blogging about ShotSpotter and review the evidence that the system is good or bad.

https://quickthoughts.substack.com/p/shotspotter-good-or-bad

There's a lot of evidence that ShotSpotter detects almost all gunshots and that's been validated by multiple third party groups. ShotSpotter also seems to alert to things that are either false positives (construction sounds, fireworks, etc) or are not useful.

Chicago IG says 9/10 times when officers respond to a ShotSpotter alert they find nothing. 1/10 times it leads to an arrest, but the arrest isn't always strictly related to the ShotSpotter event - e.g. police responding to an event stop a speeding car and discover drug paraphernalia or an unrelated gun.

Some cities, e.g. Atlanta, discontinued ShotSpotter over cost benefit concerns. From their analysis it seemed a better use of money to hire more officers than use ShotSpotter. Still, it's in use in 84 metro areas today.

Ultimately, I think it should be up to the local community. The individual community is the one who will most benefit (if it is beneficial) and suffer from increased police incursions.
I would call it critically endangered, but would never call it a failure. Forth landed on a comet, and ran most astronomy labs and telescope control systems back in the day. For a couple decades there was a large amount of productive and unsexy work getting done in Forth, much of it under the radar in control systems for manufacturing, scientific tooling, waldos. It wasn't really until the mid 80s that it started drying up.
Pick any industry and this environment we’re experiencing in “CS” is going to occur 3 or 4 times in your working years. No matter if you’re an electrician or a software developer.

Do you like building software? Based on your post I get a feeling (which may be wrong) you’re looking for the $$.

If you like it, stay with it and keep studying. It will pay off.

(Edit: my experience) I left college and started out writing COBOL. Several dot com busts later and I was lucky enough to lead several SaaS teams and have wonderful exits.