skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using a System76 Lemur pro. I've had it more than two years and I only have good things to say about it, some of which are:
- The battery life started off as spectacular and is still not bad, I get about 5 hours out of it for general use, including compiling code
- When it arrived it had a dead pixel in the middle of the screen. They replaced it in a very low-fuss way, sending the replacement immediately (before I'd sent back the original, so that I didn't have any downtime)
- The spec is well-suited for coding/general linux work. It doesn't have a fancy graphics card or a hi-res screen, but I don't want those things,they add weight and cost and decrease battery life.
- I installed NixOS from the get-go so didn't ever experiment with PopOS so nothing really to say there
>The Department of Justice has previously secured a guilty plea related to the use of pricing algorithms to fix prices in online resales.

This is no idle threat. Be sure to click on that link and find out that in 2018 the FTC stopped the greedy corporate profiteers in the wall poster industry from price fixing back in 2013. Algorithmic price fixers beware.
>With regard to the article, why is it obvious that police are putting surveillance in areas with the highest rates of gun crime?

Because there are nicer neighborhoods and less than nice neighborhoods? In so far as I can tell this is true to various degrees in every place I've ever lived or visited. Colloquially, some neighborhoods have manicured lawns, other neighborhoods have cars on blocks - it's 'obvious'[0] that the latter warrants more policing.

[0]The truth of it is arguable, perhaps, but it is very obvious.
It probably has to serve a much larger burst passenger capacity than Atlanta given that it like most Saudi mega projects needs to serve the ever increasing needs of the annual Hadj. However the other 11 months of the year will look like a podunk regional airport.
You can't regulate away the physical cost of building millions of miles of fibre optics cables or a trillion dollar semiconductor fabrication plant. There are many barriers to entry that aren't created by companies or governments.
Exactly what is stopping King from having an online account or just having “login with $x” where $x is Google/Apple/Facebook? You act as if creating an online account is a big barrier to entry.

I can set up a scalable online account in literally a couple of hours that allows login with third parties like the above with Cognito, Lambda and DynamoDB. It’s not a heavy lift. Yes I’ve done that at scale.
Sourcing this for you, I see that there has indeed been a great deal of rigorous investigation, reporting, and lawsuits regarding the ways ShotSpotter leads to overpolicing, though I had misremembered one thing - the false detections come from the system itself, though this does also lead police to perceive areas as more dangerous and then patrol them more often, leading to measured increases in stop and frisk pat downs.

The ACLU has a thorough article breaking down reporting from the City of Chicago Inspector General, Northwestern School of Law’s MacArthur Justice Center, Vice news and the Associated Press.

ACLU article with links to the other reports here:

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/four-problems-w...

Key takeaways from the reporting linking ShotSpotter to over policing listed here:

1) ShotSpotter false alarms send police on numerous trips (in Chicago, more than 60 times a day) into communities for no reason and on high alert expecting to potentially confront a dangerous situation. Given the already tragic number of shootings of Black people by police, that is a recipe for trouble.

2) Indeed, the Chicago IG’s analysis of Chicago police data found that the “perceived aggregate frequency of ShotSpotter alerts” in some neighborhoods leads officers to engage in more stops and pat downs.

3) The placement of sensors in some neighborhoods but not others means that the police will detect more incidents (real or false) in places where the sensors are located. That can distort gunfire statistics and create a circular statistical justification for over-policing in communities of color.
This is extremely exciting. Shout to y'all!
It won't be. Dubai Int'l and Istanbul were both also built by their governments to be the largest in the world and are already open. Per wikipedia neither has come anywhere close to ATL so far -- 66 and 64 million as compared to 93.7 million passengers in 2022 -- although much closer than most normal airports of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_...
Yes, I would love to see, thank you. GSMArena does not have the phone.
Well Paul Graham and team built ViaWeb with VI and it worked very nicely.
Let's go through the events here...

Tesla was close to bankruptcy where it needed to massively ramp up Model 3 production (and prove that there was demand for electric cars) in order to succeed. Tesla was the most shorted stock on the market and almost every hedge fund manager thought it was going bust.

Musk takes a pay package where he gets no salary or compensation if Tesla stock doesn't increase. For every $50 billion dollar increment in Tesla's valuation (Tesla was worth $60 billion at the time), Musk would get 1% of Tesla's outstanding shares at the time.

Basically everyone calls the pay package ludicrous and laughs at how ridiculous the deal is (no one thinks Musk will make any money).

Tesla manages to scale up Model 3 production and prove there is demand for electric cars.

Tesla proceeds to 10x (something very few people expected) and Tesla shareholders are massively rewarded. Every tesla shareholder is thrilled.

Musk makes $56 billion dollars but Tesla's valuation increases by $550 billion.

A tesla shareholder with 10 shares sues and says Musk's pay package was too large.

An activist judge agrees and now the lawyers want to walk away with $6 billion dollars.

Yeah.... summarizes the state of the US pretty well.

Punish risk takers & boldness. Award the lawyers.
The point about Musk changing his opinion on disagreements after collecting vast wealth might be relevant.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."
What’s missing here is that landlords agree to use the algorithm or leave the unit empty. It’s part of the TOS. So when many marker participants do this, it’s colluding.
Location: Greater Boston

Remote: Remote and hybrid preferred, on-site north of Boston only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, Security, Terraform, Containers, GoLang, Python, SOC2/HITRUST/ISO2700X compliance, Kubernetes, DevOps

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pnjTvSZPpUqoZ-qXJrszWhPr5SZ...

Email: jamie@theorlandog.com

Hello! My name is Jamie. I am a software engineer with a decade of experience tackling complex infrastructure and security problems. I spend half of my focus working with startups and small businesses to build, operate, and certify security management programs to be compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, HITRUST, and ISO 2700x, and the other half with my hands on the keyboard working on GoLang, Python, or Terraform codebases.

I left my last start up at the beginning of 2023 when the general market shakeup led to a change of focus for the company. I took on a role working at a security consultancy to build out their cloud practice. I enjoy the excitement and learning that comes with being exposed to many different customer environments, however, I ultimately view the position as a stepping stone to stay sharp and develop new skills until I find my next opportunity to grow and build with a new company.

Please reach out if you are looking to find a scrappy hacker who builds elegant infrastructure for regulated companies.
The old internet had no need for ad block. The old internet wasn't infested with sites trying to make ad revenue.
As a member of gen z, I have no idea what most of these mean. I won’t bother learning them. By the time I can memorize 5 or 6, they’ve probably already moved on to even more indecipherable abbreviations and random words
For Apple users, you can use the `say` command which is included in macOS.
What amazed me was that sometimes the recommendation from the software was to not lease a unit to anyone.
I got it loading in a Commodore 64 emulator. It seems cool but I don't really know what I'm doing just yet.

The download I found had a full manual so I might see if I can figure out how to do some kind of graphical stuff.
Why Americans drive on the right and the UK drives on the left
Why is something full of glue and binders better than quickly grown softwood?
I agree that having a pure function is better than one with internal state or which uses global variable. But if your problem requires global state, then there’s nothing you can do.

Games generally are inherently a complex system all interacting with a global state.

So whether you’re making a singleton class, a regular global variable, or averting your gaze while passing a massive state variable to every single function, you can’t escape it.
Ok I enjoyed the article as a piece of self-indulgence. I agree it is pretentious and I don’t write like that. But just for funsies:

“Once your ‘personality type’ has been found, it feels like you know something definitive about who you are. You only answered some small number of questions about small segments of your life, but the quiz authoritatively asserts it has seen you to the core. In this way the quiz turns ‘when X happens I do Y’ statements into ‘I am X kind of person so I always do Y’ statements. This is probably bad.”
Good AI rotoscoping is welcome any time.
Have to mention Shen, the strongly typed functional Lisp, whose type system is based on the Sequent Calculus.

https://shenlanguage.org/learn.html

A bit of an esoreric language, but fascinating nonetheless.
Related:

April, a compiler from APL to Common Lisp, releases version 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30192096 - Feb 2022 (3 comments)

April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24434717 - Sept 2020 (23 comments)

April: An APL That Compiles to Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225136 - Feb 2020 (11 comments)
Local storage is not the answer. It’s the expectation in 2024 that you should be able to use an app across devices and keep your state. And you act as if setting up accounts on a server is hard. It’s literally a CloudFormation template with Cognito, Lambda, IAM and DynamoDB.

Yes, I’ve done it at scale and yes it’s that easy.
Allowing another option does not decrease that integration.
As of right now, I'm happy enough to play with emulators and/or the MiSTer. I was initially excited about the Commander X16, butI've been a little disappointed with the concessions that the 8BitGuy made, and I feel I'll have enough fun with emulation.
> I was curious that they claim that lithography is done with ultraviolet, and I looked up the wavelengths involved. Sure enough, "typical" UV is still hundreds of nanometers long, like visible light. This would be too coarse for small features since you'd get diffraction at the edges of the stencil.

173nm DUV is used commercially to create features in the 20-30nm range, possibly smaller.

> I looked up UV in wikipedia and apparently they have defined "extreme UV" to be down to 10nm - which I would have called X-rays. Indeed, if 10nm is extreme UV, perhaps we can term 100nm light "underachieving X-rays".

What are you are trying to say? EUV light used in lithography (13.5nm) is close to soft x-ray light, but what does 100nm light have to do with it?
The headphone jack noise might be from automatic power saving of the audio controller. You can deactivate that with tlp. It helped me with my ancient Acer ES1 some years ago.

Thinkpad fans spin up quite aggressively in my experience. You can use thinkfan to set higher threshold temperatures.

Screen tearing has been solved for me after switching to Wayland.

A very handwavy final remark: some problems might vanish on their own by using a recent kernel, e.g. on Fedora instead of the Ubuntu LTS release.
They do when you control the link shortener
The old old internet (1969 to 1992) banned all commercial activity including of course all advertisements.

(The ban was imposed by the US government, but most or all of the internet's backbone was under US jurisdiction back then, resulting in the ban's scope being global in practice, or at least that is my guess: I only ever used the internet in the US. The main reason for the ban was lobbying by telecommunications providers who objected to the US government's competing with them for commercial customers.)

The old old internet was very cool, but of course most people had no idea it existed, and with the exception of the web (which was quite small in 1992) consisted entirely of terminal user interfaces in my experience.

Despite the ban on commercial activity, by 1992, the internet was the largest network of computers in the world.
Homeless Mortality Data
How the supply chain is impacted when the main route between CA and NV closes
The fiber optic cables you can definitely regulate. You can make a law that prohibits owners of last mile fiber optic cables from operating retail ISPs and that they are required to allow any retail ISP to lease their last mile infrastructure.

I’m not advocating for this solution, I’m just saying that it’s possible.
Binance: Nigeria orders cryptocurrency firm to pay $10B
Sure, just like the 16 other Saudi megaprojects that will all totally get built and attract hundreds of millions of tourists overnight as their PR firms are telling us.
voters tend to ignore this kind of thing until it affects them personally

And when it finally becomes a problem that cannot be ignored, scapegoats will be found and used, even if they have to be invented in a fairy tale (internet conspiracy).
You can’t beat monopolies by doing the same thing as them. You can only beat them through a new tech breakthrough.

For example, mobile phones for taxis, LLMs for web search.

A startup can only take on monopolies at rare opportunistic moments.
> Getting the data into table form is often better suited for python. Fitting models that leverage autograd are also better with python.

Totally agree. If it's in a dataframe, I prefer R. If I get involved pre-dataframe, I prefer Python.
He mentioned two main problems, the marbles would get jammed and the timing was off so the beat wasn't very tight. Both of those things should be fixed, or at least greatly improved, in the next version.
Related tangent: Dr Ben Hardy's book "Personality Isn't Permanent" has helpful things to say about this topic.
"900M years" is a typo, right? That's the time of the earliest sponge-like animals ever...
These devices don't send audio over the network unless a shooting-like noise is detected. I get it, if the state can listen to all of our communications that are immediately coincident with shootings, what privacy will any of us have?

But in all seriousness, you should actually read the section for that court case. Here's all of the text for that case from the link:

"""
Commonwealth v. Denison, No. BRCR2012-0029 (Mass. Super. Ct. Oct. 7, 2015)
"ShotSpotter is a listening and recording system that runs 24/7, attuned to the sound of gunfire. When the system hears gunfire, or what it recognizes as gunfire, it locates it, reports it, preserves the recording, and send the recording to the customer within seconds.” The defendant, charged with first degree murder, moved to suppress a recording made by ShotSpotter of an verbal exchange among numerous individuals before and after the fatal gunshots. The court rejected that the argument that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights because the exchange was “audible by anyone passing and was in fact heard by a crowd of neighbors and other witnesses.” However, the court found that the exchange was an “oral communication” and that the recording was a prohibited “interception” under the Massachusetts Wiretap Act because the defendant had no knowledge that the exchange was being recorded. The court also found that the interception was “willful” because the police had “purposefully directed the placement of the sensors.” The court granted the motion to suppress: “the continuous secret audio surveillance of selective urban neighborhoods ** is the type of surreptitious eavesdropping as an investigative tool that the Legislature sought to prohibit."
""" [0]

The verbal exchange was recorded because it was incident to the shooting that triggered the recording. In addition to recording the shooter(s) shoot the victim(s), it also recorded the shooter(s) and victim(s) speak before the shooting. This was in public so there wasn't an expectation of privacy, and I can't imagine this is the kind of recording that the Massachusetts's legislature "sought to prohibit".

[0] https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/01/08/CRIMINAL%20E...
They publish the source code for Whisper...
I am doing just that with my startup. Competing with the effective monopoly in security that is Burp Suite. The only reason we succeed is because I could afford to spend 3 years without pay to build it and we are barely starting to generate revenue.

There are a lot of monopolies that are hard to break because VC won't touch them (this is our case). But at some point the incumbent becomes so full of themselves that customers have enough and then you can compete. But it can take many years.
> It's not reasonable to expect every landlord to become a data analyst or statistician!

And it’s not reasonable for every business to succeed. Good businesses get good at being a business and learn skills necessary to succeed. I had a corporate landlord where the leasing agents would go on tours of neighboring buildings in their spare time to build comps. You don’t need a price fixing algorithm or a pay-rolled data analyst.

I think Americans have a soft spot for landlords because it’s a common business for the middle class to use to move up in the world. Which is nice, but most Americans also have stories of parasitic landlords that left them in terribly unmaintained homes with big rent increases. Regulation will absolutely hurt middle-class landlords but will increase the average sophistication of the industry.
I always assumed "no cap" was short for "no capitulation" which originally was used to mean something like, "this is what I really believe, without altering my views to kowtow to anyone", but has morphed more generally into the less nuanced and more general "no lie".
Linux Mint (LMDE) could be a nice option there
I need to digest this but it is a seductive idea. My quick take: there may be a connection between back-propagation and reversibility, both computational and physical. For a system to be reversible implies conservation of information.

It also makes me think about the surprising success of highly quantized models (see for example recent paper on ternary networks, where the only valid numbers re 0, 1, and -1.)

Artificial Neural Networks were originally conceived as an approximation to an analog, continuous system, where floating-point numbers are stand-ins for reals. This is related to the ability to back-prop because real functions are generally differentiable. But if it turns out that we can closely approximate the same behavior with a small, discrete set of integers, it makes the whole edifice feel more like some sort of Cellular Automaton with reversible rules, rather than a set of functions over the reals.

Finally (sorry for the rabbit-holing) - how does this relate to our brains? Note that real neurons "fire" -- that is, they generate a discrete event when their internal configuration reaches a triggering state.

Lots to chew on...
> less than five percent of cases

Wow that's even worse than what I had read from reports about the deployment in Chicago (which I read up on when Seattle was considering it). I think the value was like 10%.

Chicago also ditched it recently I think.
Evaluating a two factors in a comparison (expected weight vs weight reported by scale) is not really making decisions, though, is it?

And even if you submit that this is decision-making: You're still going to be able to check out. The process will stall until a human comes to help, and you'll ultimately be allowed to pay for the things you're buying and leave with them.

The kiosk works like this: If the value is unexpected, then get help.

When this happens it is an inconvenience, and it's a very low-value inconvenience at that. You'll pay what you expect and move on with life. There's very, very seldom any negotiation at the checkout, whether at a kiosk or with a cashier.

But with AI in charge of complex things, it can go more like this: If the value is unexpected, then refuse the claim/loan/inquiry/whatever and tell the person to pound sand. (What human?)
This phrase "systemic overpolicing" and ShotSpotter both come from the same mind - the mind of the state.

The state - which like most organizations is concerned mostly with preserving itself - has an interest in the surveillance of the population and in shifting blame from it's failures to deal with poverty and crime to skapegoats: the police, racism, property taxes, etc.

The west is run by priests (professors, advisors, journalists, students, diplomats) with the support of the merchants. Priests always pretend it is flipped, but it's not. One "tell" is that the priests are never the villains in Hollywood movies. The other groups (warriors, merchants, and peasants) all do even villain duty.

Bias shot-spotter placement is a classic case of priests blaming merchants. There might even be something to the substance, but the priests run the show - not SoundThinking Inc.
Ignoring the side effects of io, a main loop can be replaced by a recursive call that passes the new world state resulting from the time step back to the beginning. That world state can be expressed as an ecs, and the operations performed on a world state to produce a new one can be the systems, and still be pure functions. There is nothing in an ecs that requires imperative programming. Some of the benefits of an ECS are related to allowing granular copies to be as shallow as possible for such a world state, to allow for immutability. I'm not sure where a singleton would get used even if you were wanting to go imperative with an ecs.
Did we surf a different web? Monkey punching ads appeared not long after JS and Flash. Pop up ads got so bad browsers locked down a site's ability to even open another window.

DoubleClick and Google were a breath of fresh air, with their simple text only ads.
I'd hope so.

The linked article talks about the human bottle neck 900,000 years ago, that's almost a million years, but well short of 900 million.
Spoiler alert: with a secondary audio source you can map out physical spaces as easily as one might with lidar
How would you know no one called it in?

Also ShotSpotter has false positives. You have no way of knowing if you (or it) even heard a gun or one of many other things.
Nice, never heard an (attempted) explanation for that one before.
if a strategy is profitable for a few days and then loses money then you have to decide how long you want to keep running it to be statistically confident that it does not work and does not mirror the behaviour you saw in backtesting.

if it turns out you need to keep running it for a month and each day it loses 3k and you don’t have 90k to risk then you have to pull the plug.

keep in mind this is just running the strategy. colocation and data also cost money for example.
US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack
Exactly. If it had been drug crime, I’d be totally prepared to believe everyone in a rich area is coked beyond reason and gets away with it.

But gun crimes are different (unless they’re saying something like “possession” but in most states that’s some variation of legal unless a felon).
Higher vacancy rates are associated with lower rents and lower house prices. Vacancies are at the lowest rate in years in high demand areas.