skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned this in an HN comment earlier this week - be careful about the "Neanderthals had bigger brains than us" stuff. A big chunk of that difference is in the occipital lobe, which is involved in visual processing. And the likely reason for that is that they had significantly larger eyes than modern humans: Larger eyes = more pixels = more real-time visual processing demands (assuming Neanderthals had the same visual acuity as modern humans) = bigger chunk of brain, since evolution is not gonna easily minimize the neurons themselves or find a more efficient algorithm. But on the other hand, their brains being comparable in size to ours is a good reason to think their intelligence was basically comparable to ours.

FWIW this study suggests that Neanderthals and modern humans might have had very different approaches to language: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766443/ Neanderthals and modern humans both evolved to make sophisticated vocalizations, but it's possible that the Neanderthals had 10000 words yet only a few ways to join them in simple sentences. (E.g. what if Neanderthals couldn't ask questions, only state disagreements?) In particular we know that humans can have local brain damage leading to near-total disability in using language while still being able to comprehend language, so you could see ancient hominids being "as smart as modern humans" in terms of general problem-solving - building tools, administering medicines and performing surgeries, long-term planning around food - but having profound blocks in language that prevented them from forming larger societies. Neanderthals tended to live in small family groups, whereas almost every modern human hunter-gatherer lives in a much larger tribe (absent war or disaster).
Isn't bluetooth bundled with every wifi chip / mobile soc these days?
If you were to design a system to spot a certain kind of crime in real time, would you place it in zones historically more plagued by that kind of crime or in zones that experienced it scarcely? It's hard to buy into the rhetoric of "it's only fair if you monitor the crime equally" if you have already independently sampled it for decades and by now know the zones where it's much likely to happen.

Would you patrol a desert in the same way you patrol a busy road intersection if you're trying to prevent car accidents?
"If so I wonder who funded the original lawsuit -- was that not enough -- or was this the idea all along?"

The plaintiffs law firms "funded it" by working for free, on a contingency basis: if plaintiffs win, the law firms get paid for their work. They won. Now they seek payment for their work.
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What are the potential downsides to police oversight?

> But, if asked, they provide a form letter written by ShotSpotter. Their contract prohibits the disclosure of any actual data.

A potentially dystopian surveillance apparatus is installed citywide, and the police can't discuss about it's efficiency because the company that sold it to them won't let them?
I took a look at Freeforth. It's a pretty innovative Forth.

> which is an STC Forth that assigns registers to the top two stack elements to avoid SWAP instructions. I take your point about caches, but surely a Forth like this that optimises the words during compile (inlining etc) would help?

Certainly. The way Freeforth seems to be doing things is by storing the swapped state and by testing against that to make a branch. I'm curious how this works with branch predictor penalties, but if swaps are done in loops then it might actually work out very favorably. You need to be careful that your code doesn't use too much ROT or DUP but as long as it's mostly SWAP oriented it should be okay.

> I guess that this hypothetical stc Forth would have to have abstracted I/O and registers- any spare ones outside the stack management could be used for data passing, maybe as the top of the data stack.

Forth implementations are notoriously architecture specific for exactly this reason and the differences in registers and stack semantics between architectures. A lot of recreational Forths target abstract VMs exactly to be able to target a single architecture and not care much about performance, but if you want to adapt Freeforth to different architectures you may need to make deep changes. I'm not sure how FASM works but maybe FASM decreases some of the pain.
Always remember: half of all people are below average
Good interview. It includes insightful commentary on how Xerox did and didn't influence the project, starting with this:

> BYTE: Do you have a Xerox Star here that you work with?
The developer in this case is the sociopath. Not uncommon.
Those devices are free though. These guys do the equivalent of typosquatting for phone numbers and you get directed to a call center for one of numerous Miami-based Medi[care||aid] fraud operations. They're scamming the government, not you. Often you'll be given a $50 gift card and a legit arm brace for going along with it.
I thought the article was quite clear:

Signing a commit creates an expectation that you approved of the code. And it's permanent, so easy to screw up with lasting effects.

But a signed commit really just means that whoever created it could run a CLI tool on your computer.

That means the expectation of quality created by signing is misleading.
Stay at uni and get another degree.
Well, if the supply is going to be limited forever the way it's looking, the least we can do is make it cheap and stop any more economic activity going exclusively to ultimately unproductive rent seekers. It's option three to your "make the area shitty".
To those lamenting Martin's "descent into madness," I'm not sure I'd agree. In fact, I assumed, starting a couple of years ago, that he's drawing out the process deliberately as a steady source of income. As long as people remain fascinated, then, well, why not? We still watch a video of his from time to time, but I'm not expecting a finished machine and world tour soon, or ever.
I'd argue that the iPhone without the app store was unfinished / a prototype.
At the macro scale they are the same thing

The failure of direct aid as described is entirely inclusive of all actors priorities involved.

There is no true global cooperative desire to solve these problems so it doesn’t happen, and these signaling actions - which is what they are - are known to be ineffective.

CFCs and Polio were eradicated. For all its flaws were pulled together to get through COVID. We can actually do stuff we want to do at global scale when we really want to

Go read the book on medicins san frontiers to get a closer look at the massive differences in what the “Aid” community does versus they claim to do

The fear of scarcity and all its downstream effects of hoarding and individualism
Perhaps, but it is a false economy. Anyone writing a UI for the web, should be fluent in HTML/CSS and so on. In that case, other templating approaches make more sense.

I say this with absolute conviction; you're just deferring costs, technical debts with compounding interest. When you come to pay it off, it'll bankrupt you.
https://archive.is/UlZUR
This isn't fully correct. Drawn 7nm is like 20nm, but effective gate length is shorter due to short channel effects. So, this numbers are almost 1-to-1 reflection of effective gate length. People mix up the transistor pitch with gate length. We can make small gate length devices but diffusion (source/drain) and contacts don't shrink as much, so we end up having a larger area needed for these.
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1 - the way the dog at the end gets a reflection off the floor is pretty nice.

2 - i wonder how this compares in terms of latency/complexity with a comfyui pipeline that just does a typical edge detection/masking layer to achieve the transparency effect. however i dont think that method would work with the glass example as shown
Pretty much all companies, especially large ones, rely on a series of intermediary sources for things like pricing, salaries, etc. They're not constrained by those sources for individual products, services, and people but they're absolutely aware of them. And it's probably a fairly short distance from there to "We're not going to pay you more than an equivalent level at Google" whether or not that's explicitly stated.
Discussion a couple of days ago[0] (278 points, 178 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39545676
What a perfect example of Campbell's Law.
It's nice when federal agencies are funded and led by people who aren't trying to sabotage them from the inside.

Ignoring all other considerations, the current incumbent political party in the US presidency on average tends to produce effective & functioning federal agencies, and the other party on average tends to produce corrupt & dysfunctional federal agencies.

I try to point this out frequently because voters tend to ignore this kind of thing until it affects them personally, or they read about some isolated grievance in the news. But it really should be considered a more important topic.
I don't think it does any other processing honestly, it might have a slight delay added in on each token, but it's pretty close to just streaming the output
I would request that a crowd as technically sophisticated as HN move past marketing claims when discussing this system. "Gunshot detection" is pure marketing.

The devices are hot mics — public audio surveillance. The software layer triggers alerts on loud noises, which are sent off to a facility that is little more than a call center, for characterization by a human worker there. This system detects door slams and popped volleyballs just as well as it detects gun fire (which is to say, imperfectly on all counts).
> "I used to dual boot too but I started playing more and more on Linux and I didn't touch my Windows for two years."

Pretty much exactly how I ended up on Linux full-time myself. Eventually the only thing left on my Windows partition was EverQuest, and then suddenly one day WINE started supporting that pretty much flawlessly and that was the end of my dual-boot.

Then along comes Humble Bundle and GOG and Steam all with a wide variety of Linux-native games, and later on well-emulated Windows games too, and I just never felt the need (or even want) to dual-boot ever again.
How many more examples do people need that this entire class are purely power hungry psychopaths?
But you're not obsessed. Not at all.
Neither of those examples are what I described and are perfectly fine.

You have to use a third party that is setting a price and stick to that, knowing others are doing the same. You're describing individuals determining their own price using their own judgement.
What you consider your role is irrelevant. Your role is what the client wants it to be.

For example, they don’t want your role to be setting up a gmail account even though that would make the spam problem mostly disappear (and avoid a bunch of other email footguns) so you aren’t doing that.

Even though they need a gmail account because potential customers will expect and accept it.

And if your client already has email and use it, they already have practice dealing with spam because putting an email address on the web hasn’t been necessary to attract spam for a couple of decades.
Once again Silicon Valley was too on the nose with their Benioff portrayal https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5pt1bvutQ
Also, that there is a veil of secrecy of the system's installation and exact capabilities suggest that incorrect or excessive reports could provide pretense for more invasive policing.
Because he's a billionaire... So why not. He has more money than a can reasonably be spent.
I think in my country, the single-payer system is still linked to an individual, by his social security number, so the culprit's insurance will "pay", even though what will be paid in healthcare will mostly be aestethics or other non-reimbursable. But mainly, it will pay for damages. In my country, f you are hurt in a car accident, you can be paid depending on your average salary and invalidity percentage, called an "invalidity rent". If docotr estimate you're invalid at 80%, you'll get paid 80% of your last month salary until they check on you again, then if you're 40% invalid its 40% of your salary (before the accident, even if it was years before)... up until you're fine. I think they have to give you at least 10% as long as you have sequellas, even minor ones. That, plus fixed damages (between 5k and like 40k).

It isn't perfect. It doesn't take into account missed career oportunities, inflation, the pain, or mental issues. But you can work besides the money they give you, and oftentime, you'll get the 10% for a long time, because paresthesias (whatever that thing is spelled in english) and small sequellas can stay for a long time (I know soemone who earn roughly 200€ per month, but she has trouble working in most kitchens now. She used the main check to get into academia though, and will probably end up with a master's degree for her troubles).
ei wada is immensely talented, see also his open reel ensemble[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4
Shocking that he figures that the right amount of empathy is zero (see toomuchtodo's comment).
> Alternatively you could federate it. Maintain wikipedia as the primary instance but allow users to add secondary, wikipedia community vetted wiki instances

Nowadays, Wikidata is playing that role already. Its concept of "notability" is flexible enough that labeled roads or individual Pokemons could handily fit there - if something is described to some minimal extent by a verifiable source, it can go in. Each Wikidata entry can contain links and "identifiers" that describe or refer to the same real-world entity in different namespaces, and you can use the Wikidata-specific browser extension Entity Explosion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Entity_Explosion to seamlessly browse to other descriptions of any given entity as you browse the web. So the vetted "secondary" sources you're talking about don't even need to be wiki-specific, they can be practically anywhere on the web.
Yeah my the time of general unmasking, I took off the full respirator. Probably picked it up since then since I had some nasty head colds these past few years.
I don't understand how it's possible that every single biglaw firm offers the exact same starting salary but that isn't considered illegal collusion, while landlords using a market-estimation service as a starting point for pricing their units (but sometimes pricing below or above the algorithm's recommended price) is considered illegal collusion.
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The key distinction lies in how YieldStar approaches setting rental prices compared to other systems. YieldStar not only recommends rental prices by analyzing the entire inventory it oversees but also incorporates a strategy that effectively eliminates the possibility of rent negotiation with potential tenants. This approach mirrors the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma, a situation in game theory where individuals may not cooperate, even if it’s in their best interest to do so. However, YieldStar transcends the Nash equilibrium—the point at which no participant can benefit by changing strategies if the others remain unchanged—by stripping tenants of any bargaining power. This ensures that the rent pricing strategy is firmly controlled, without the usual back-and-forth negotiation process.
It's not inflammatory, it's a statement of fact.

Of course the public surveillance is located in the areas where crime is most likely to occur! But an important side effect is that innocent people in those areas now are more surveilled than other people. So it becomes yet another injustice inflicted on people who already tend to suffer more greatly from injustice than others.

Maybe there are offsetting factors. If the surveillance makes neighborhoods significantly safer, then maybe local residents will be happy to be surveilled in exchange.

The article is stating a fact of correlation, not causality. But the particular outcome of "greater surveillance" clearly happens, regardless of why it occurs, and regardless of other offsetting considerations.
I would love this paired with sharing photos of certain faces in (eg our children with my wife). Perhaps a dynamic album (with a list of faces) that I could then share.
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Thanks for the reference! Seems like a really good resource.
I disagree with the reasoning about pipefail though. If I expect a command to return non-zero exit code I'd rather be explicit about it.
I'd like to see thousands of apartments hand back the increases to renters they illegally collected.
That's great and all, but this is quite irrelevant conjecture, you can argue your point all you want, it does not matter to me. I don't care about what you do, and I probably never will.

The research performed in this study is relevant, and no one so far has demonstrated that it is "misleading", "bad or poor quality research", or really anything to demonstrate to me that it's results are questionable, going back to the parent thats what I address.
So can't you use Leverage? If the software is already working what kind of funds do you need to keep going?
Given you wrote "focusing energy on a documentary doesn't scream serious", you give the impression you are just going to ignore the findings they have published. There's plenty video showing the plasma running for far more than the "world records" of these external-magnet reactors (Tokomak, and that other Helion one), so I don't know what to point you to that can actually help you.

In the documentary they published, they do waste the viewer's time with "look at this lab we built", but if they feel passionate about telling the story of their journey, that's fine. Also in the documentary, they share some of their data and what they did to validate that data with a third party.
This is on the cards. Thanks for reinforcing the importance :)
Their statement about observed crime was an historical claim (as in: "historically there's been a lot of ...").
What kind of question you ask ? Is it normal everyday errands or something specific about your work / business.
What is the Chinese system?
I’ve been playing every day it’s relaxing, quick, fun. I added to my Home Screen so I don’t lose it.
The only way you can productively refuse negotiation is by knowing the price is fixed (or you have the only supply), otherwise others will take your business.
Could this change how tech salaries are set? I know many companies base their salary grades on an algorithm that amounts to looking at what "comparable" companies are doing and aiming for the middle of that.
> Or, they can go after the same original sources you have cited and write their own summarizing article (but not copy the blog post, and they also can't add any of their own conclusions).

That's my point: you've done the legwork, but you don't get credit for it, and as far as Wikipedia's policies are concerned, can't. They aren't supposed to cite your blog as a source, because it's self-published. I've seen many edits citing what I thought were well-researched entries get reverted because "it's a blog."
> historically there's been a lot of "black crime" in the US due to the US police watching black neighbourhoods

You can control for this by just looking at homicides. Dead bodies are pretty objective. And the homicides also follow the same trend as the general crime rate.
> you can't tell people in the developing world that their lifestyle isn't allowed to improve because we need to save the planet.

This is nonsense. It's easier for developing countries to adopt renewables because they don't have to compete against existing infrastructure. When the US has a coal-fired power plant that was built 30+ years ago, the capital expenditure is paid off and it's only paying for operations and fuel, and renewables are still out-competing them.

It also makes it easier to build because of different expectations. In the US if you wanted to shut down existing natural gas peaker plants in favor of renewables you'd see objections or demands to back them up with something expensive for times of low generation. In a developing country, building enough in renewables to power 60% of the homes 80% of the time is a bigger win than spending the same money to build enough fossil fuels to power 40% of the homes 100% of the time, and then you can add the expensive reliability technology at the end as the country becomes more developed.

When that's the case it makes no sense to be building new fossil fuel power plants in countries where they don't already exist. They have to pay construction costs, and can be expected to be even more out-competed in the future, implying that the construction cost will be a waste of that country's finite resources. The countries doing it are doing it for political reasons, e.g. they have a domestic fossil fuel industry to subsidize, which is not a sympathetic excuse.
If tokomaks worked as well as Rockets, then I would agree. But the age of a technology does become relevant when you're discussing the history and development trajectory. The trajectory for FRC's looks far more promising. Direct electric conversion reduces the required efficiency by ~2x and the use of a low-neutron emissions fuel dramatically reduces shielding complexity and maintenance costs. And FRC requires much smaller reactors to reach net positive energy. Even considering high-temperature superconducting tokomaks, FRC's appear far more promising.
Dell Latitude E7470, Arch Linux, I3 window manager.

The only annoyance is that some programs (Gimp, libreoffice) have really tiny text in menus and such.
> why don't long time employees look for a better paying opportunity?

comfort, convenience, they know all the shortcuts, they know the tribe, they know the people who that will help them and the people to avoid. They pick up the phone and get the thing they are looking for in 5mins, no begging required. A learning curve can be a b*tch, and folks that have been sitting in the same chair for 20y got nothing new to learn. If they are smart they are doing 100% of their tasks at 50% of the time, so they nap at home, or take really long coffee breaks in the office. Work is close to home (probably) and getting another job that is 30mins driving more (meaning 1h/day, 5h/week) ain't worth the extra $500 per month.

Also, 'better the devil you know'.
Will it be busier than Atlanta's airport, the busiest airport in the world?

Biggest doesn't mean a thing, although Atlanta's airport is also huge.

Smallest and busiest would be much more impressive.
Given the details the Aureon team has shared, very clearly not Rossi's lab. I don't want to hurt your feelings or whatever here, I'm just going to be very very honest with you, if your comment wasn't so obviously in bad faith, that would be a very dumb guess.
The environmental costs of rejecting nuclear power are soaring -- and mostly getting blamed on end users.
Some bumbling police chief might say something stupid that would draw media attention to ShotSpotter and their massive data collection operation. You definitely wouldn't want that to happen.
Author here. Thank you for the feedback. I may tackle a history of the registries from netlib and CTAN forward in the near future.

For this article, I deliberately kept the scope limited because it was getting rather long.
This is fully reflective of what I intended to convey thank you!