skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why nuance and details are key in legal matters and where the sum is greater than the parts. Where the line gets drawn is often unclear and is often a matter of “I know it when I see it”.

Just individually comparing prices isn’t an issue.

What does become an issue is if (at least) all of the following are met.

- You use an algorithm service does automates all of this

- This algorithm uses both public and private data

- The algorithm is ubiquitous and widely used by almost every relevant market player

- The algorithm tells all users to not negotiate and the users abide by this recommendation

- All of the above has a noticeable effect on the market to the detriment of a big demographic of market participants
Assuming you did the course work and passed your classes, I'm guessing you're feeling some serious imposter syndrome. Many people get jobs after going to a 3-6 month coding bootcamp, and you just spent 3-4 years learning and letting all that knowledge slowly sink in.

GPT4 isn't doing the architecting, planning, understanding priorities, what should be built first and how, according to company needs and your own or your teams abilities.

If you understand what you're doing and are willing to work hard, you've got a valuable skillset- likely more than you realize.
If you think the current market is bad pivoting into the game industry is not the direction I would go.

The baseline for that industry is... bad and the latest round(s) of layoffs in that industry has made it worse.
> It just says a signal if there is a loud noise in public.

as a community we really ought to be suspicious of claims like this. There's another word for "acoustic sensor" and it's "microphone". When a corporation says "trust us, we only use the data for good", we should collectively raise our eyebrows, knowing that when data is collected for one stated purpose and stored, that the data at rest will always be used for additional purposes. Once data is collected, the number of things it may be used for is always unbounded; any claims to the contrary should not be taken at face value.
I suppose the '47' in your username tells the same story as the Kalashnikov one does?
Very interesting to see this in HN. Dream job for someone who loves football and product building. Hope you find someone great
People say this but I'm skeptical. I regularly leave valuables in my car. My windows have never been broken. I've never had anything stolen. Nor do I know anyone who has.

All the stores have free-to-use, unlocked public bathrooms. All the product is available on the shelf for anyone to grab.

When I go on travel to more urban locations, that's not what I see. Unfortunately the urban blight is creeping closer every year, and judging by the crime reports, in a few years or decades I too will be experiencing these joys.

I have heard in especially bad-off areas desperate meth addicts are a theft issue. Usually they target people they know, so small comfort as it may be to their friends and relatives, it's usually not a random crime.
Yes fields that are easy to get into and licenses are easy to get have natural filters
Shotspotter is trash.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/chicago-watchdog-harshly...

https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1512138327205589004 (criminal defense attorney)

https://boingboing.net/2022/04/12/shotspotter-wastes-million...

I supported units with them while I was a contractor to the US Army, and the soldiers I talked to didn't think much of it either.
> 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.

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?

> 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.

Sure you can spend a few 100 billion to build a giant dam, and that might give you something, but all your industry and water is in the east, while all your solar and wind resources are a few thousand miles away. Heck, you still need natural gas for heating, or you might use it for cars (like Thailand) because you have gas but not oil. You still can't go renewable alone with the investment they require, and maybe you will be able to, but not yet.

> 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.

That's just downright cynical. 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.
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Geek from SmugMug here. Love to know why you're thinking of moving on. :)
It sounds like you are paranoid. Why would the government be listening to a conversation you might be having near a device used for tracking gunshots? Is there some little man somewhere just waiting to pounce on you or anyone just for that purpose?

I don't know how effective these devices are but any tool that helps the police go after criminals is a good thing and no one should be fighting against good things.
It looks and sounds cool, but can someone explain what it is?

It seems like a sort of projector/camera based AR computing environment; it reminds me of the original tabletop-sized Microsoft Surface prototypes, or those floor soccer games that they used to have at movie theaters or shopping centers.

The pitch is anti-screen, but isn't it using paper and tabletop surfaces as a projection screen?

What are the most interesting bits? How are dynamicland apps easier to create than apps in scratch/python/etc.? How does it scale when your program gets larger than your desk or table?
For more of this sort of thing see:

https://folklore.org/0-index.html

though I still think about what might have been when I read:

https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html

and wish there was something readily available and well-supported along those lines now.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you
I remember typing in program into GraFORTH on my friend's Apple ][ as he read it to me. The resulting animation of the earth and the space shuttle opening its cargo doors was amazing back then.

I'll never forget it.
(studied competition law in law school). Everyone having the same starting salary can be arrived at by non-illegal means, such as seeing what the others are offering and matching. To successfully prosecute for price fixing you need actual evidence of collusion. That is usually obtained by whistleblowing, as the first person usually gets a reduced sentence (example: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/cartel-immunity-policy...).

Price fixing in buying/hiring is not monopoly btw, it's monopsony.
Get an office admin temp job where they use a lot of Excel? They’ll think you are a genius.
The solution is More Houses. Build more houses. Keep building.

It would help long term if houses were required to be built well.

It would also help if there were incentives to build more housing when the market was notably dysfunctional; as it has been for the past 40+ years.
you can definitely tell gun crime has happened without listening to the sounds of it. people die, get hurt, police reports are made etc. we don't typically determine if gun crime has happened by... listening do we?
Trade skills are a possibility. Plumber, electrician, etc.

Also remember that the people here self-selected, so try not to take anything personally.

[Edit]

"In my experience," "You must be doomscrolling" thinking they know you better than you do, straight up insults; all the classics.
chickens are omnivores and opportunistic predators. if they get to roam around and get bugs/worms/etc in their diet, that is actually reflected in the nutritional composition of the eggs and meat. there are a lot of high quality eggs for sale with much more nutritious yolks. more expensive of course.

free range chickens also get more sunshine and exercise, which reflects positively too.
My college programming homework under the influence of alcohol always worked but the result was usually strange and horrible and had to be redone.
That would be nice. It's such an easy defense for companies to say: this is what the market pays.
Also the creator of Fooocus, the open source version of Midjourney. It’s amazing how much one person can contribute to a field in such a short span of time.
Yes, you're ultimately liable for damages you cause.

I would expect your insurance to ask the damaged party to release you from further liability as a condition of accepting settlement at the coverage limits, but if the damages are significantly over the coverage limits and it seems likely that they could significantly collect on a judgement beyond your coverage, it's a possibility.

Umbrella insurance can go up to much higher limits ($2M is maybe already be an umbrella policy), sometimes up to $10M is easy to get, and depending on your insurer, often the upper millions are much less expensive. The tail risk is pretty small. If you're worried about it, may as well ask for quotes at $5M and $10M.
rqlite 8.20 to 8.22: Enhancements in Stability, Performance, and Data Handling
I think it's lame to limit the detection to just gun shots. Like the web has analytics, I think real life could have audiolytics. One example: I can collect all the data I want from my backyard and give a report to my neighbor about exactly how long and how loudly their dog has been barking.

I can hear which birds have been in my backyard.

I can... hear what a customer says about my product in-store and offer them coupons at checkout or later or get feedback about my product...
> That secretive information sharing is the basis of the whole scheme.

can you recommend a link that this describes this in detail?
Random personal opinion: get a masters degree, researching computer vision or NLP, or something that hedges you against AI. Or if you are inclined, do a PhD.

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.

(Also Blind is toxic albeit informational! Call up some people. Ask me; or ask HN or some less negative places for how the industry is looking.)
> and that the wealthier you are the more likely you’d NOT want to be where the shots are.

The way this is phrased sounds like “the poorer you are, the more likely you would want to be where the shots are”. Which is obviously false.
Am I the only one sick of this cyberpunk dystopian tech? VR tech was a fun niche toy and this isn't that much different. Walking around all of the time with one is a level of cringe I can't even fathom.

Might as well call them iSores.
> I mean, it could just be built into android

Isn't this literally already built into Android? Extreme Battery Saver effectively turns your phone into a feature phone, disabling every app except Clock, Phone, Messages, Settings, the Play Store, and your camera. And you can add other essential apps to the whitelist (e.g. I have my note taking, ride sharing, banking/wallet, calendar and TOTP apps enabled, and my music player if I'm on the go). It even degrades the phone's performance to match lol, and the added battery life you get from it is fantastic.

Might be a Pixel-only thing now that I think of it...then again I'm pretty sure other OEMs like Samsung would have their own versions
>Is MERN stack still in demand?

For getting a job? Express is probably less common in enterprise, but since the whole stack is JS/TS you'll have no problem porting your knowledge from that to any of the newer server-side frameworks. React is to my knowledge still the most widely used framework in modern front-end development.

Regarding self-hosting, make sure you look into isolating the RPi you use to serve your app from the rest of your home network as much as possible, and change the default password.
Sounds like benioff was out reporting the reporter
You need to look to work through a recruiting agency.

You work for that recruiting agency, they find you interviews, you pass and get a job, you work, client pays them money, they take their cut, the rest goes to you.

Write me an email to this address

temp.dl9bv@simplelogin.com

and I will send you the name of the company that got me into the field.

I recently got a call from a recruiter from that company saying there were a lot of layoffs and they are looking for past employees to fill in positions. So there is work, you just have to know where to look.

Companies don’t hire directly. Companies hire through recruiting agencies, and often there can be more than 1 recruiting agency in between. For 2 jobs that I worked there were 2 recruiting agencies between me and the final client.
The author’s neighborhood is mentioned in the article.

“The "pocket of poverty" south of Downtown where I live, the historically Spanish Barelas and historically Black South Broadway, are predictably well covered.”
The sound of that piece reminds me a lot of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's rendition of 'Fanfare for the Common Man'[1]. Progressive as Progressive Rock is though, I'm not sure ELP would have been let into the Toronto Olympics stadium with an assortment of electric fans and televisions!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8
Are people shooting blanks?
Well, translating is the first thing on the AI chopping block. Even if it still viable, doubt it pays as well as entry level software jobs.

Election years are always terrible for the job market.

Why not pivot into AI development. The market is hot for this. Get any entry level job in it.

You are not supposed to make bank, this early in your career. It is all about working for companies that will give you the most skills. The foundation to build on.
California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567597 - March 2024 (397 comments)
You’re probably thinking of Boomerang, not ShotSpotter if you’re talking about military use.
Your answer is predicated on the ability to get into said career.

Do many jobs list "humility" as a qualification they are looking for?

[Edit]

As a primary qualification, and not a company value or whatever.
I don't think it has anything to do with Germans or French people. Hetzner, Contabo and OVH are just popular (and cheap) providers to host bare metal instances, and they're not big tech. Those two reasons are probably why we're seeing a lot of them.
Large solar farms could trigger rain in the desert
That’s what I mean. The lag between my action and the updated screen. Caused by the low refresh rate.

When you’re trying to tap the screen a bunch to get something accomplished if each step takes 250+ms extra just waiting on the screen it would add up to frustration fast.
I haven't seen this behavior. All of my photos synced from Android to OneDrive have GPS data, as expected. I just checked a few from 2017 (Windows Phone) and 2018 (Android) and still there too. Did you see the same behavior on all your devices?
Lessons to be learned from Sefton Delmer's anti Nazi propanganda in WW2
Megaparsec Tutorial
It's a banality of evil situation for the developer and their entire chain of command.
> Wealthy areas absolutely have a higher police per capita presence than even the most well funded low income neighborhood.

As a test, you can call the police from an address in a wealthy area, report a crime in progress, and do the same from an address in a poor area, and time how long it takes before they show up.
I think that's because our police force is incompetent though. Shotspotter may very well suck but if the police cant solve shit either way its not shotspotters fault. Murder has a 5% clearance rate here
I would actually really love to live in a world where I can have a reasonable expectation of privacy when going about my day. A personal bird recorder is fine, but I absolutely would not want a networked system of sensitive microphones available for unlimited data gathering spread across my town. The prevalence of Ring cameras already makes some neighborhoods havens of surveillance, I’d rather we not expand things like that.
> assumed the nature of analyzing for a sound signature would be throwing much of the data away immediately

(INACCURATE, SEE EDIT) It does. The "conversations recorded by ShotSpotter sensors" were a few seconds before/after the shooting, and consisted of people saying things like "[shooter's name] Why are you going to [shoot] me like that, [shooter's name]"? [1]

[1] 'The recording of the second shot also captured the voice of Tyrone Lyles, apparently addressing the person who shot him: "Ar, Ar, why are you going to do me like that, Ar."' https://casetext.com/case/people-v-johnson-5116

edit: I was wrong. Apparently "the detectors keep hours or days of continuous audio": https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/shotspotter-ceo...
this is kinda funny to me. practically every social scientist I’ve known that had to use R was appalled by how cryptic and unintuitive it was.

I always understood that it was its open source nature being a successor to the S language that gave it traction
I remember him saying something similar like a year ago or more.

I like his pursuits. I would personally rather he make more music though
Ask HN: What's your favorite interview question to identify bad jobs?
For me, I usually ask what the development process is like from identification of a bug or feature through delivery. I've had 5 jobs and my liking of the answer to that question has correlated with my liking of the job 100% of the time. What's your favorite?
After they ingested everything
No Javascript, works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=705956329570&w=K4diwNzkbVu...
Wow, I didn’t realize GPT-4 usage was so high. Where did you read the DAU numbers?
I looked it up. China is 26% and Europe is 20%.
Maybe? I thought it was the same system of microphones just mounted on a vehicle, maybe it was different.

Anyway, they found it unhelpful. "Wouldn't even notice our own gun shots" and stuff like that.
The classic "make a new account to insult people" - stand up behavior that violates no guidelines, surely.
The Taboo of Animal Friendship
The police know what’s good for them. They have extraordinary powers and the more they can keep the public in the dark about what they do, the more freedom they have to act with impunity.
You are sick of the tech industry already?

Well, no offense, but you aren’t in the industry yet. And if you really are sick of it, maybe you should invest in your long term happiness and do literally anything else for a career. Money isn’t worth being miserable.
One person wants to be where the shot is (he pulled the trigger) but yeah, most of the poor people would rather be away but lack the ability.
I finished a programming type school (way before online bootcamps) right at the height of dotcom bubble. Few months later there were no jobs and tech was dead everyone said.

Couple years after bubble and 9/11 landed first job.

Then MS started touting outsourcing to india as the next big thing. Tech was dead everyone said.

Then 2008 great recession. Tech was dead everyone said.

Now AI. Tech is dead everyone says.

From my first job in early 2000's to today I was unemployed for exactly 2 weeks.

Just sayin.
The other comment thread walked through the UK example as well. American insurance is over priced.
Hm, didn't think about that. Is it like.. days? or weeks?
> But a signed commit really just means that whoever created it could run a CLI tool on your computer.

"just" is doing a lot of work there. Someone running their code on your computer is a big deal! Hopefully it's benign and sandboxed, in the case of webpages and JavaScript, but if an attacker is running code, be it a cli tool or otherwise, on your computer, you should be really worried. If somebody is signing git commits under your name on your computer, they could just as easily wait until you login to your bank's website and steal your money.
Oh yeah, probably not causation. Definitely correlation. My point was that mask retention was greater in blue areas as compared to red areas.

It may have been absurd how quickly masks were given up in red areas (don’t know; wasn’t there), but our laggard approach in Santa Clara county certainly was and felt reactionary.
Because it's a market operating point set by supply and demand. Increasing incomes support demand and raise prices.
By not being a professional and in the industry yet, your not really in a position to make a judgement about how things are. So your source of information about your fears of outsourcing and AI/LLMs is based on second hand information. If its Blind and reddit, its from other uninformed people, or immigrants who have it particularity hard in the US.

Any job search in any career is going to be a grind. In some twisted way you could even think that tech is better, at least you don't need to dress to impress and tech interviews can be a little more objective.

Re webdev: Your coming out of school, your junior and a blank slate. You don't really have a specialty, you can work towards whatever comes your way.

Honestly, get off the internet,(whats your screen time?), get some hobbies, drop the idea that you really know how the industry is.

The job search sucks, you'll feel a lot better when you get your first check.
City centers have far, far more theft crime objectively from a dollar value perspective. The vast majority of this crime comes from two sources: employers and police. This is widely documented fact.
All those providers also have US presences. I'm in the US and have servers in the US and Germany. Not fedi, but Hetzner has good pricing, good reliability for me, and good configs for their vps/cloud offerings.
The WSB might not be the best example of modern concrete construction considering it was closed for a couple of years not very long ago for repairs to said concrete.
The good workplaces do. Low ego, high skill is a common refrain.
This is a huge bet and it's going to further increase their student debt. If it doesn't pay off, they'll be much worse off than just moving back home with their parents and trying to say, start a business or freelance.
Real estate will continue to be a good investment as long as demand outstrips supply.
that is what the interview is for