skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Singapore whipping the shit out of criminals probably has a lot to do with it. Not just Singapore, but most of the rest of Asian countries as well. South Korea treats their prisoners so harshly that the US military has to have a special agreement in place to ensure that US servicemen imprisoned for crimes by South Korea actually get fed more than a starvation diet and don't have to do hard labor: https://www.stripes.com/migration/for-u-s-inmates-in-s-korea...

Of course South Koreans know better than American soldiers not to commit crimes in South Korea, because prison there is so awful. Unsurprisingly they have a much lower crime rate than America.
A machine learning algorithm known as Patternizr is included in the DAS, which connects potential criminal suspects to other unsolved crimes in order to speed arrests and close old cases.[20][21] The algorithm is trained on a decade of historic police data of manually identified crime patterns.

Potential criminal suspects. Who needs civil liberties, anyway?
No real need for marketing as project funding is set by bureaucrats and engineers.
That performance around the 8m40s mark is truly impressive.
> Why force some other company (Apple) to bend to your will?

Because they exist in a stable world created by rules, governments and people, and ultimately we the people get to decide how they should behave.
OP was original submission—you can tell this because its ID is smaller.

Timestamps get relativized when we re-up a post [1]. That's an artifact of HN's re-upping system [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle!
If it's like what they did with the military, they're just trying to push them into a more expensive licensing scheme.
Where is the evidence that a half-cooked reckless AI or an LLM for that matter was rolled out in this hospital? It’s not like this is the first AI tech used in a medical environment. Patients deserve the best care possible regardless. Who would argue that the current system is working as best as it could?
How does it differ from an AI search engine like perplexity? For simple topics like brewing coffee, a quick search on Perplexity would get me all the information I need. I don't need to make a Masterclass for it. For more advanced topics, I would subscribe to an existing Masterclass taught by experts. The use cases for your product are a bit unclear here.
Free users already have to suffer through advertisements while the artists get ridiculous amounts of money.

As I wrote below: I doubt many people will start paying if they don't have access to lyrics. It is just another power move to make the "free" alternative worse for those who can't or won't afford the paid version.
Singapore isn’t safe “because cameras” it’s safe because it has high social mobility, social housing, high levels of education, high levels of income equality and is generally wealthy and much wealthier than its neighbours.

And also it’s a police state where you get sentenced to death for drug smuggling and can be punished for doing drugs in another country while on holiday if you are a citizen, for example.

To the naive, Singapore is a paradise, but once you visit for long enough you realise it’s just a super nice prison and it’s not very fun being with the other lags
Extism: Cross-language framework for building with WebAssembly
Sad that so many investors/founders couldn't figure this out themselves.
That's a valid reason; sadly I don't have it. My family was the first that I knew of (personally) to get cable internet, we had it in some capacity since 1999, so our internet was fast and unlimited. We should have done a Google search.

Still, I don't feel like we came to the conclusion of CDs being archive-grade on our own, someone probably told us that a "CD will last forever" and we just never questioned it.
There is no rule you can make the query like: ?vitamin=b12&mineral=ca&mineral=se
in this case the query woukd be for B12, calcium and selenium
Logseq are just text files stored in a folder in your computer.

You can use pretty much any generic file sync tool and it should work. Mobile is trickier but there are ways if you really want it.
Apple deal could have been "suicide" for Google, company lawyer says
1. Ivestigation/prosecution/Trial of which country? (people can be influenced)

2. As last resort: Us Gov can take over and actually reform Boeing (fixing public perception)

And there is whole continuum between 1 and 2.

(I really doubt that anything shady happened with this pneumonia; but IF something shady was done, US will make effort to preserve/save national aviation giant)
American criminal subcultures treat going to prison as almost as a rite of passage, rather than something to be avoided at all costs. Sentences are too short and too easy.
I want to put a word in here for being cautious about the capabilities you can achieve in novel systems --- software developers are often working with multiple whole sieverts of novelty without realizing it --- without having a lot of the boring theory stuff nailed down.

If you're using (say) libsodium to do exactly the kind of thing 100 other developers have successfully used libsodium to do in the past, you're fine. But it takes a deceptively small and subtle set of steps to end up synthesizing a new cryptosystem (see: attempts to build secure messaging systems out of libsodium primitives) without realizing that's what you're doing.

Learn a bunch of the theory! It's important.
There's also cheating : isn't coffee bean edibility observed from goats? essentially outsourced trial and error is a thing too.
My thoughts on this are to slow down and document and explore that knowledge and information. If it is really valuable, the "loss" in efficiency from slowing down will be offset by the gain in skill/utility from really grokking the stuff.

If it's not...then there's really nothing "left" on the table — if ever turns out to be valuable, you'll probably come across it again, when needed.

I constantly get a similar feeling. I'm speeding around from task to task, just grasping enough to get the current task done so I can get to the next one and the next one...

And somehow this is value-creating? Apparently it is, but it seems almost accidental, at that rate.

I'd rather slow down and appreciate the value as it moves through me, into whatever I'm doing.

I usually get more from the process, at the same time.
Not leaning either way, but there was a famous case about a lawyer in Guatemala who recorded a video message claiming he wasn't suicidal and that the government was out to kill him. He was killed days later and the video was released. The country was (briefly) thrown in to turmoil. A few days later it came out that he had ordered a hit on himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Rosenberg_Marzano
This is confusing to me as I thought the simple act of measuring the wave collapsed the wavefunction.
Science has not proven that the observation will continue to hold. It happens to have worked so far, but you cannot prove that it will continue to.

You're applying the scientific method to itself, making a large-scale inference from limited data. This is precisely the grounds on which the Logical Positivists realized that they couldn't achieve their ends of putting science on a sound scientific footing.
People exaggerate or flat-out lie about these sort of things all the time if they feel victimized (rightfully or not). Threatening phone calls I can believe, but it gets more and more unbelievable the further down the list.

I make no judgements, but this is absolutely a "trust, but verify" type of situation IMHO.
I've been a builder for a lot of my life but the last 10 years I've worked as an optimizer. The interesting thing about that is the work and playbook I used in the past is more of just a standard industry practice now. I used to do an audit and find a ton of low-hanging fruit and go from there. Nowadays, there's a lot less to correct and I have to think in different ways to provide true value.
Look up the F-1B.
> You have been well formatted by propaganda, they can be proud of them indeed.

I don't think you are here for a productive discourse. It is more likely you are waging a class war here. Please, find another person to preach Marxism to, I come from a country that has suffered greatly from Marxist ideology and the damage was so severe that recovery is still not in sight.
Absolutely. Main reasons being 1) that we don't need any of the new features modern .NET can offer and 2) we specialize in mission critical, high performance apps

For example, recently a customer wanted a security solution, a filesystem journaling application, powered by a low-level FS kernel driver (C/C++) together with a managed .NET assembly to interop with our unmanaged driver DLL. Running on the highest altitude - on top of the driver stack - means handling, filtering, and intercepting a huge amount of filesystem requests before it reaches other system components. Therefore, performance is key.

In that scenario, using modern .NET we experienced nonstop deadlocks which froze the whole system. .NET Framework had no issues keeping up.

I can also think of other examples e.g. issues working with custom virtual filesystems.

So yes, NET Framework would be my first choice for standard Windows-only desktop applications.
What's with the 5-digit year format? Premature prep for y10k?
I'm classist I guess but McDonalds is really not OK unless I need some fries on a long drive.

But people can eat whatever they like/can afford/find convenient.
Someone should make "Omegle for Parrots" and let them hang with random parrots from around the world online whenever they feel like it.
I don't know about NYC but it's common to see at least 4 cameras per lighted intersection where I am (small city in the PNW). They're replacing the loops used to sense vehicles, but I'm pretty sure they're also remotely accessible.
There was a Backblaze report a while ago that said, essentially, that most individual drives are either immediate lemons or run to warranty.

If you buy used, you're avoiding the first form of failure.
How did you create / obtain the example shapes?
Is there a standard format your code parses?
(I found it: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200708)
I’m not surprised to read this, as it only takes 1-2 people to do these sorts of things, and some people are capable of it. They may not be totally mentally stable, or they feel desperate, or confident they can get away with it, or all of the above.

American history is full of these sorts of incidents of harassment, violence, and sometimes even murder. The history of the labor movement or civil rights movement is sobering.

It doesn’t take a CEO making a call to some assassin on the corporate payroll. Usually the reality is far more banal: a supervisor or coworker or neighbor who just takes matters into their own hands.

To be clear, I’m NOT claiming that that is what happened to Josh Dean; I’m speaking generally about people getting harassed for trying to do what they think is the right thing.
There are two main mechanisms that cause asteroids to spin. The first is as a result of collisions, which is fairly intuitive. But even in the absence of any collisions asteroids can acquire spin due to the YORP Effect (named after Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddock). The idea is that if the surface is anisotropic (which is true of asteroids), then as the asteroid radiates heat, the photon pressure will be anisotropic and will start to impart a torque onto the body.
Nah, they're just doing PR to manage their public image. AWS has known about that since 2006: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1785402732976992417
Yes, but the Spotify family plan is twice the price of Apple Music. Youtube is free but has the same problem, questionable user generated content.
The first, and most important, way is to screen your job very carefully. The same applies to your significant other, and any other person you will spend time with, or organization that you will be active in. This is surprisingly easy to learn how to do: Career wise, just keep an eye out for message threads where people relate horror stories. Dating-wise, don't commit your life to someone too early in a relationship; make sure to date enough people so you know who you get along with, and who you don't.

The second way to manage stress is to learn from your mistakes. We all take jobs, assignments, dates, volunteer opportunities, ect, that we regret. There are others that we don't regret, but "won't do that again."

Case in point, in high school I did a club that had a few weeks of highly intense work. I really enjoyed it, and then in college, I joined a club sport that had a similar pattern. I quit after one year. At that point I figured out that leaders who thrive on intense work are just stress magnets, so I've avoided them throughout my career. I once finished an interview with two business leaders, smelt that the job was a grind, and then promptly told the recruiter "hell no." (But, if I hadn't had the high intensity experiences in high school and college, I wouldn't recognized the smell and might have accepted the job.)

Third, set boundaries in your head, and only cross them on your terms. I work "honest" hours, but I only do weekend/overtime when I get significant personal enjoyment from the work. I also will guilt-free leave early every once in awhile when there's something more interesting going on. The same attitude is needed with volunteer opportunities, clubs, ect.

Finally: Walk away as soon as can from a bad situation. This is easier when you're single, and harder when you have a family or similar obligations. This is why it's important to screen your job (and spouse, ect) well, and why it's important to learn from your mistakes.
I think what it's about, is they can squint a little bit and see a near future where there is massive class-action suits against Microsoft for all the harmful uses which inevitably flow from a police department uncritically using hallucinating AI for their day to day work.
It's like...if "less is more," then "more is less."

Reminds me of a floating point number. The bigger or smaller they get, the less accurate they become.

If you're chunking on a ton of data and tasks, you're getting less out of it. At a certain point, none of it even seems to enter your brain at all.
This is cool! I've been trying out bits & pieces of the RAG ecosystem, too, exploring this space.

Here's a question for this crowd: Do we see domain/personalized RAG as the future of search? In other words, instead of Google, you go to your own personal LLM, which has indexed all of the content you care about (whether it's everything from HN, or an extra informative blog post, or ...)? I personally think this would be great. I would still use Google for general-purpose search, but a lot of my search needs are trying to remember that really interesting article someone posted to HN a year ago that is germane to what I'm doing now.
Why would you hit `5j` when you could just hold `j` down for an extra tenth of a second and then just literally put your finger/cursor on any line you want?
A Demonstration of the Hobby Algorithm
I forgot one more option I considered: Even though every ingredient is stored in a different table, I could enforce unique PK across tables. Then I would not need to specify type in the ID. This would mean that I need to lookup every ID to know which tables it belongs in though.
Do you point Logseq and Obsidian to the same vault or you keep separated vaults for each?

I tried using both a few years back and found a pain to manage, ended up staying with Obsidian that was more my style.

I personally prefer organizing things in folder and sub-folder structures and Logseq was not friendly to that approach at the time.
The claims made in your first paragraph are undermined by your third paragraph.
Yep. It’s a pain in the ass to deal with from our end, to put it mildly, but easy to piece it all together on the other, so it’s barely an impediment to bad actors. Since there are functionally no restrictions on government using parts of that system to grab all kinds of data from private sources, it’s a national ID connected directly to a crazy-powerful dragnet spying system, too. But inconvenient, insecure, and very hard to gain oversight of.

All the bad shit, none of the good. We may as well just have a national ID, it’d be less-bad than what we have now and might provide a jumping off point for making it a lot less-bad.
The overhead of handling the 403 is very very small compared to what S3 charges for a PUT.
Hobby's algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines (2020)
Yes but I’m wondering if in addition to that did the vaccination have a massive effect on the those numbers.
I always feel a little weird using memcached because it has never once crashed on us but when it goes down we have a bad time with circuit breakers.

We only have problems with memcached when we create them ourselves. Disk backing store would soften that considerably.
I’ve got fond memories of RISC OS from my school’s room full of Archimedes. I spent a a fair bit of time designing and failing to build a text adventure in Basic, while my teacher tried to get us to learn how to use TechWriter. Best feature was being able to drag a slider to create a RAM disk.

Amazingly you can still buy a copy of TechWriter 9.1 for £85! http://www.mw-software.com/software/ewtw/ewtw.html
*unilaterally
Love it! Really well thought out. Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow.

Explorer it so far, here are a couple of pointers that I think would make it better for me:
* I'd like the Nautilus to be larger, so maybe have that on the left and the text input on the RHS next to it?
* The shading of the yellow and blue areas seems to subtle and difficult to tell apart on my screen. Would it be possible to have those more distinct?
* Some keyboard shortcuts would be great, e.g. for quickly reordering tasks; maybe something like Ctrl+J/K or CTRL+Arrow keys?

Overall, the Nautilus shape is a bit foreign at first and I don't immediately have an intuitive sense of it but I think that's just unfamiliarity and would quickly change with time. With a bit of training so that the shape becomes second nature then I think this will be awesome for productivity! At that point I'd love to be able to use this in a standalone app, maybe an Electron app or something like that.
Leech-inspired device may make for kinder, gentler blood sampling
> When a 32Gb USB stick is $3, why are you thinking about a 1Gb CD?

I've got data CDs from 1998 still reading fine. There are CDs and DVDs listed in TFA as having 50 to 100 years of longevity.

How's that 32 GB stick going to do in 50 years if left untouched from now till then?

I've never heard about USB sticks for long term archiving.
I don’t think those are necessarily recording cameras. They could just be radar or video vehicle detectors to let the light know if a car is waiting.
He was also in the middle of testifying against the company that had made his life hell for years. That is a rather strange time to kill yourself.
https://archive.ph/1HRDo
Is this a reinvention of async/await?
So for some things, you are happy to watch the way they behave and assume they have this magical property of consciousness like yourself, but for a kalman filter, you'd have to be one to determine if it has a point of view?

You still haven't said what a point of view is in this context, if you can have it, and some other unspecified beings have it but you can't say upfront if a kalman filter has it.
Nice work!

Unfortunately, though, it didn't find what I was looking for in the following real-word test case: The other day I tried to remember the name of an SaaS to pin/cache/ back up my apt/apk/pip dependencies, which I think I had read about either here[0] or here[1]. After quite a bit of time and some elaborate Google-fu, I did end up finding those HN threads again. However, they did not show up on hackersearch.net for me, neither when entering the service's name nor when I searched for "deterministic Docker builds" or "cache apt apk pip dependencies".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39684416

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39723888
No one has pointed out that the AI companies are being sued for 'stealing' vast troves of copyrighted data, and the case is still in progress.

If the police departments are complicit, then does copyright stand to lose de facto as AI will only be increasingly implemented while the case slogs through the courts?
How ironically hypocritical of you.
Seriously.

> Insane to me that people ignore that.

Yeah for sure, but I don't think this is a super representative crowd, though. People uncritically frolicking through all of these developments with AI-enhanced rose-colored-glasses glued to their faces are over-represented in the SV universe. I know a lot of non-tech-focused folks that are casting a very wary eye towards our impending incredible AI-powered corporate utopia. The only similarly optimistic people I know outside of tech are the devastatingly credulous fellows still trying to figure out how to recoup money on all of the NFTs they bought, and they seem to be much better at generating headlines than societal changes. But maybe I'm the one wearing the rose-colored glasses, here.
You seem to be reading something into my wording there that I didn’t intend. I meant proper jail, not a fine, not a suspended sentence or one of the cushy prisons financial criminals tend to go to. I mean the same jail as a non-rich murderer, for example. No “ don’t drop the soap” tropes implied. Those piss me off too.

But yeah, white color crime that for example kills people (deadly pollution for example) should absolutely be treated like murder, or manslaughter at the very least. Why the hell not?
Did Verbatim ever look good?

Afaicr, the writable optical media market has been race-to-the-bottom since ~2000.
> Science has not proven that the observation will continue to hold. It happens to have worked so far, but you cannot prove that it will continue to.

Yes, that's true. So?

> You're applying the scientific method to itself

Yes, that's true too.

> This is precisely the grounds on which the Logical Positivists realized that they couldn't achieve their ends of putting science on a sound scientific footing.

Maybe, but I'm not making any claims about knowledge. The only claim I'm making is about effectiveness and that's an empirical claim. not a philosophical one. One can go on to hypothesize that science is effective because it is "true" (whatever that means). That seems plausible to me (for some reasonable definition of "true") but it's still just another hypothesis.
AI Is Helping Referee Games in Major Sports Leagues, but Limitations Remain
I had some time several months ago and happened to look through a copy of Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism instead of reading on my phone. It has some good sections about the styles of permaculture you mentioned. But it is more of a collection of short chapters on each technique rather than a deep dive into any one.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/julia-watson-lo-tek-design-b...
If we assume their base mortality rate is 0.1%, that the pool is only 100, and that the deaths are completely independent (and we know that since they were both whistleblowers, both worked for the sample employer, that may very well not be true), it's a low probability case, yes. The sense is that those are both extremely conservative numbers.

Try looking at the cumulative probability for P(X>=2) when you manipulate the numbers a bit. Even if you just change the base probability of mortality to 1%, it jumps to 26% chance. If you restrict the population to 32 people, the threshold for it be more likely to happen than not is a 5.2% chance of death.