skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland is seeing a huge increase in violent crime. 16.6% between 2021 and 2022. Serious bodily harm and rape were the crimes that saw the biggest rises, increasing by 17% and 14.5%, respectively.[0]

- [0]: https://www.iamexpat.ch/expat-info/swiss-expat-news/most-vio...
The published version of this paper is open access and has additional clarifications, as well as a supplementary video by the lead author Abdalla G. M. Ahmed:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550454.3555519

Check out all these other super cool papers too: https://abdallagafar.com/
> with the reforms to pensions UK pension funds are no longer a particularly good source of capital on the UK stock exchange.

Surely it's the other way around? The UK pension system has been reforming recently to _encourage_ more equity holdings, especially of UK-based companies.
In some states they are allowed on the sidewalks as well.
In my day-to-day work, we analyze millions of files every day, and it's well-known and well-utilized detection evasion techniques to host and serve malware from "trusted" websites. It's so widespread that I did extensive research on that issue. There are well-known apps with $Ms in funding and revenue with a plethora of malware hosted on their servers. Some are even used as C2 servers for data exfiltration. I see an increasing number of companies proactively blocking all traffic to those notorious sites to increase overall network security.

The outcome of my research was the following:

- Disjointed content moderation and cybersecurity departments: Not many companies have content moderation teams equipped to perform malware analysis or make cybersecurity-related decisions (the only company that does an exceptional job in this regard is Meta).

- If hosting malware doesn't impact the company's revenue and reputation, the content moderation team has other priorities.

- Section 230: Companies will refer to Section 230 when asked about hosting malicious content or scanning the content for potential malware.
How can the company commit crimes without its decision-makers committing crimes? This double-standard we have is ridiculous. Every 1% increase in stock price is always attributed entirely to the wunderkind CEO and he therefore deserves tens of millions in bonuses every year, but a criminally negligent company kills people and suddenly the CEO has nothing to do with it? They are acting as the chief executive of the criminal corporation. Those fuckers should be thrown in jail. "Oh but then our favorite Harvard MBA Graduate with a transcript full of Gentleman's Cs who's the grandson of the previous billionaire CEO wouldn't want to be CEO!! Who would want the job!?" -- fucking GOOD. They get paid 300 times more than line workers, and we're worried about how the job might not be cushy enough to attract our favorite nepo-babies? Maybe the most lucrative jobs in the entire world should only be attractive to people who are actually competent at making sure the company is operating well and not literally murdering innocent people!?
So, if I had lets say whatever, 10 close friends in a chat, producing deepfake porn and sharing to them is ok?

I'm not sure about this copyright argument? Lets say that there is whatever meme that is just making fun of something dumb, a "karen" doing something stupid in public. Would you argue distributing that meme is illegal?

So, lets say someone was naked in public and was fine with being photographed, then someone else cut out a publically available picture ( whatever, maybe it was a free shutterstock face) and pasted it on the body of that person, is that bad?

/shrug
The graph you linked doesn't take it into account.
> The inequality gap between them and the banished would have been immense, just as the inequality gap between the homeless and middle class today is immense.

You can be poor in America and still have access to healthcare, food, housing, etc. Almost everything that you think of as middle class kicks in at really low income levels and net negative assets due to government assistance. As in what people own is worth less than their debt.

Meanwhile someone exclude from their community in Neolithic times could have several days worth of food after killing a deer. They had less long term safety, but in terms of material wealth or income the difference wouldn’t be that huge.
"no space left on device", probably a log file grew out of control
>Just use Postgres

Now try running Postgres on vintage hardware from the period and you quickly see why we did what we did.
I feel like humans, especially children, are in some respects similar to LLMs or current AI models. With an LLM, if you explicitly tell it not to do something, like keeping a secret hidden, it's notoriously eager to disobey the command and do just that. Similarly, if you tell generative AI like DALL-E to not include something, it will try super hard to include it nonetheless. It's as though once the concept is shown, they can't stop thinking about it.

Maybe an "out of sight, out of mind" thing would do better than explicitly telling people not to do something?
By that argument China should be releasing more CO2, unless you have a reason why Chinese people shouldn't have the same quality of life as Americans.
> Intel N100 or "refurbished thin clients" from HP or Dell -- that cost ~$150 but are way more powerful than a raspi in terms of performance and capability.

Comparing a refurbished PC to an SBC is like comparing apples to oranges.

I think the only people who are disappointed are the ones who were buying the wrong tool for the job.

You get a Linux SBC if you need some combination of small size, low power, convenient access to peripherals (I2C, SPI, and so on) or other unique features.

If you really only need the most powerful computer you can get for your budget and you don't care about the SBC features, you probably shouldn't have been buying Raspberry Pis to begin with.
I think you have a point here and maybe my conduct here wasn't the best.
If your are choosing not to do anything based on the data, gathering the data is objectively a net negative. There are financial costs related to taking the tests as well as emotion costs related to false positives and even with deciding not to act with possibly true positives.

There needs to be a net positive action on a subset of the cases to outweigh the costs of gathering and sharing the data.
I think this is a niche of a niche of a niche, but it’s interesting to see the creative decisions young developers are making to carve out a sustainable career. I hope this path works out for you!
My pension contributions need to go somewhere, and without a flow of new companies going public it's just gonna bid up and up the price of the old guard.
> And things like the ESP-32 have reduced the Pi's practicality on the other end where you just need something powerful enough to read and transmit data from a sensor.

Especially with ESPHome making it so easy to integrate with common sensors without writing code.

That said, the Pi Zero W is pretty cheap and small (similar in size to many ESP32 development boards) so it provides a nice upgrade path if you want to do more processing on device, exceed a few megabytes of ram, etc
> Russian missile hitting a mall in LA, because a colonel working in logistics took his kids shopping there also kosher

No, because it violates "Proportionality". In this definition, even the very anti-war ICRC admits that it is sometimes necessary to kill civilians to achieve military objectives. https://casebook.icrc.org/highlight/targeting-under-internat... - The law they cite is "expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated".

Where you draw the line is to be litigated. Is destroying the entire apartment block to get a single hacker justified? Probably not. A single-residence home, even if his wife and kids are there? If they're an important enough military target, for sure.
I remember seeing Photoshop, when it was pre-Adobe, in a hospital, in Ann Arbor.

I thought it was amazing.

One note: I'm almost certain that the version of MacApp (the Apple Pascal app framework) was still in beta, at the time.

I used some of Tom Knoll's code (a B-spline algorithm), as a base for a curve editor. He had done some work as a contractor for the company I worked at.
In America this is not actually a useful thing. America's ICBM silos have technicians sitting in front of consoles, and basically every day, they get a command of keywords/numbers to punch into the computers. The technicians do not know whether the numbers are a test, or a real launch, at any time. This is purposely designed to prevent a low level button pusher from preventing the US from launching nukes.

If the president wants to launch a nuke, the only thing that stops them is their cabinet simply not relaying the order. This happened several times when Nixon got shitfaced.

Like nearly everything in american government, this is just a "norm". The only thing preventing an insane american president from doing pretty much anything, at least for a while, is "norms" and customs. Nixon wanted to nuke pretty much all of Vietnam pretty much all the time, and it was only his cabinet that prevented that. But there is no precedent, or legal reason, to actually force that to be the case. So what happens if you then get a president who has surrounded themselves with a cabinet that explicitly thinks Nixon was right, that Nixon had the right to burgle the Watergate hotel because the president should be able to do anything (this is a real faction in US politics right now) and have openly put together a plan to fire damn near everyone on day one and replace them with explicit yes men?
Switching to Linux as a Game Developer
> Amazing how right you can be and still wrong.

Of course I'm wrong, I think differently than your beliefs, Atheist were wrong too.
I don't think they decided that, they included Finish which is completely unrelated to the other nordic languages. If they just picked languages that are related for cross learning including Dutch or German would have made more sense indeed.
There was a time when prefacing your message with `begin 644` would hide your message, or the remainder of it, from users of MS Outlook. Maybe still works, who knows.
There's a lot of harmful stuff already in the world, but most of us would rather not add to the pile on an industrial scale.
How difficult is it to determine local noon at sea? I assume that on a rocking ship, it's probably not a trivial task...
I cant speak for all PS users, but it's not that it is a special UX so much that it is embedded in the muscle memory of the user community, and that degree of familiarity contributes mightily to people being able to get work done quickly.

The closest example I cam think of, which people inside Adobe most certainly know about, is the failed attempts by Quark Xpress to update their product in the late 90s/early 00s, which led to them losing a 95% market share position to Adobe InDesign. You do not mess with the tools that a loud and creative community rely upon to get their jobs done.
Does anyone have the real CPI without all the manipulation they've done recently?
I'm going to guess that the OP has less than neutral reasons to post the title as he did.

>
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally
adjusted basis, after rising 0.4 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.4 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The index for shelter rose in April, as did the index for gasoline. Combined, these two indexes
contributed over seventy percent of the monthly increase in the index for all items. The energy index
rose 1.1 percent over the month. The food index was unchanged in April. The food at home index declined
0.2 percent, while the food away from home index rose 0.3 percent over the month.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent in April, after rising 0.4 percent in each
of the 3 preceding months. Indexes which increased in April include shelter, motor vehicle insurance,
medical care, apparel, and personal care. The indexes for used cars and trucks, household furnishings
and operations, and new vehicles were among those that decreased over the month.

The all items index rose 3.4 percent for the 12 months ending April, a smaller increase than the
3.5-percent increase for the 12 months ending March. The all items less food and energy index rose 3.6
percent over the last 12 months. The energy index increased 2.6 percent for the 12 months ending April.
The food index increased 2.2 percent over the last year.
I also never looked at RPi 4s and 5s but for a different reason. Cheaper is good but I don't need "more powerful".

I'm using a 3B+ (or whatever) with a TV hat to convert free to air channels to IP streams that I can watch on my phone and tablet. The winning point is obviously the TV hat but also the low power consumption. It's 3.82 W right now.

I'm also using an Odroid as my home server, because there where no RPis available and because I can plug two SATA 3 disks in that machine. It's using 3.71 W. Given the load I put on it I could be OK with a less powerful server that would consume even less Watts.
Yeah, you can avoid holding the xact with the means that you mentioned, e.g. SKIP LOCKED and set some value to PROCESSING, then do your processing, then update to DONE at the end. Or as you mentioned, timestamps.

I think the SKIP LOCKED part is really only useful to avoid contention between two workers querying for new work simultaneously.
What manipulation are you speaking of?
> TBH for projects that need GPIO I would be inclined to use an RP2040 or similar hooked up to USB, then any machine can be used as the host

Two separate platforms connected over USB is substantially more complicated, expensive, power hungry, and consumes a lot more space.

The value prop of SBCs is that they're compact and you can do low-level work in a single package. Connecting an RP2040 to a PC and writing software for both is the opposite end of the complexity spectrum.
> Despite the uncertainties, consumer-products companies are plowing ahead. Their holy grail is a paper bottle that is easy to recycle, avoids fossil fuel-based plastic and—ultimately—boosts sales.

Danish brewer Carlsberg says its research suggests paper bottles could attract more female drinkers, and find a home in upscale establishments. Pepsi says paper could better communicate the natural ingredients in its smoothies and juices. L’Oréal thinks the ability to emboss paper could help its hand creams stand out on shelves.

The conclusion I came away with is that this is largely a marketing exercise. Although they may be able to eventually come up with a suitable product, it seems at least as likely that this will end up being a very costly virtue signal. I'll pass.
For argument's sake I rewrote your prompt. I think gpt 3.5 understood it on the first try:

Prompt:
Let’s play a cypher game.

The rules of the game are as follows:

1. Imagine a numbering system where each letter of the English alphabet corresponds to a number starting with 1. For example, a corresponds to 1, b corresponds to 2, c corresponds to three.

2. When you receive a word from me, break it into individual characters.

3. Convert each character into a list of numbers by following rule #1.

4. Subtract two from each number of the list and generate a new list, if the result is lesser than 0, add 26.

5. Convert each number in the new list into a letter by following rule #1 and present me your result.

Are you ready for the first word?
-------
GPT: I'm ready! Go ahead and give me the word.
Me: anthropomorfic
GPT: Sure, let's start:

a -> 1 -> 1 - 2 = 25 (z)

n -> 14 -> 14 - 2 = 12 (l)

t -> 20 -> 20 - 2 = 18 (r)

h -> 8 -> 8 - 2 = 6 (f)

r -> 18 -> 18 - 2 = 16 (p)

o -> 15 -> 15 - 2 = 13 (m)

p -> 16 -> 16 - 2 = 14 (n)

o -> 15 -> 15 - 2 = 13 (m)

m -> 13 -> 13 - 2 = 11 (k)

o -> 15 -> 15 - 2 = 13 (m)

r -> 18 -> 18 - 2 = 16 (p)

f -> 6 -> 6 - 2 = 4 (d)

i -> 9 -> 9 - 2 = 7 (g)

c -> 3 -> 3 - 2 = 1 (a)

So, "anthropomorfic" becomes "zlrfpmmnpmkpdmga". Your turn!
Hey, great question ... Again another tool we love. A few key differences:

- Visual studio code as the editor through and through

- Dashboards are fully defined in code Quary which is different to Rill

- At its core our architecture is also very different, Rill is built on top of Duckdb for that interactivity which can call out to other databases whereas we can call other SQL databases without everything going through DuckDB.
"Long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror"
And it's not lazy or delusional to claim addiction is as simple as being a disease?

If anything, that's a more lazy approach than saying it's a failing of self-control, which is itself a complicated and complex issue (hence my paragraphs and qualifications and whatnot above).

Writing it off as "a disease" removes all agency from the individual involved, whose lack of self-control is probably why they're addicted in the first place. That's true regardless of whether or not the addiction itself is a disease or a lack of self-control.

Saying "it's a disease" is also hugely insulting to the many people who have broken addictions by improving their self control. Even if you consider it a "disease", every person who has accomplished this has proven that the cure sometimes really is "improve your self-control".

And if that works in some cases, how can you prove whether or not it will work in another case without trying it first?
3.6% annualized, 0.3% for the month.

Grocery-store food is down, restaurants up.

Most of the increase driven by fuel and shelter, both normal for this time of year (not sure this dispatch reports changes with seasonality considered).
Walking in Switzerland isn't without risk of collision from street cars, buses, cyclists and cars, especially for an unsavvy 5 year old. But the short leash rule extends to areas of parenting beyond just long walks to school. America is obsessed with infantilization all the way to the legal drinking age being fixed at 21 and strictly enforced.
For the ill, the doctor is necessary. But only for the ill.
I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year
Yep. And it's lazy to think that the pro-cryogenics, pro-nuclear, pro-engineering people are the same as the ones storming a Tesla factory or causing wildly unexpected Gemini output.

"No no no, this thing though actually, may be a problem. If you're rejecting it because we sound like a bunch of crazies, Just notice that some number of people who are worried about this, I'm on your team, I'm on the techno-optimist team. Its not obvious why its true. It takes a good deal of engagement with the material to see why its true. Because at first, it seems like it shouldn't be that big of a deal, it shouldn't be that big of a problem. but then the more you dig in, actually, oh wait a second, and it is." -Emmett
I don't know much about mail servers, but would it be possible to validate the signature somehow before delivering the message? Is this impossible or impractical for some reason?
Agree in general. While there remains issues on making/using AI, there is plenty of utility that doesn't require new science but maturation of deployment. For those who say its junk, I can only speak for myself and disagree.
I claim in 2024 this has doubled or tripled.
Root cause is probably still C-suite for creating such a terrible culture and adverse incentives. If the test pilot and engineers are under a LOT of pressure (maybe even financial with some bonus structure) to make sure the plane gets the same type certification, and if the consequences aren’t that bad (e.g. they didn’t expect the buggy nose down behavior when one altimeter was broken), pretty easy to see how they did this. It’s so easy to become complacent and for things at your workplace to feel normal. Like, it’s not really absurd for engineers working on the same plane body and general design to try to keep the same type rating.

It takes a strong culture of safety, people willing to ask hard questions, and people willing to respond well to those hard questions. You don’t get that result when C-suite pressures everyone to cut corners for profit
>No point fixing something that isn't broken

But how do you know a UX isn't broken, when you've only seen one iteration of it you're whole life and have nothing else to compare it to? Kind of like Plato's Cave Allegory.

You have to try new things, and if you see them fail, then you know which one was the best.
Completely agree. "Download our App!" is a huge red flag. It suggests at best that some VP at the company wanted to check a box and at worst that the company wants to harvest your sweet, sweet personal data and they cannot do so with a mere website.

There are some apps whose existence makes sense like Uber and turn-by-turn navigation but the vast majority of apps now should just be websites.
When I see things like Bitcoin price and GameStop stock I guess if we still have too much money on the economy.
If you want a local community of small business owners, does it even need to be online? Do you have a local chamber of commerce?
So, you're telling me that the US refusing to extradite a national is, indeed, sufficient justification for another country to start bombing LA?

Or is it one of those 'we make the rules, but we aren't bound by them' things?
Just like adding code to textual models helps the model develop its reasoning capabilities, it seems like adding more languages helps in other areas too. What is needed is more good quality data to train on...
I suspect today's helicopter parenting culture is partly a reaction to all the 80s media sensationalizing the "horrors" of being a latchkey kid.
The N64 has a GPU, which is not the same as modern GPUs, and you need that GPU to render graphics.

Skimming the Github repo, looks like this uses rt64 under the hood for the raytracing support ( https://github.com/rt64/rt64 ), and that uses the ubershader technique to emulate the GPU. This excellent article talks about the what, why, and insanity that are ubershaders: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
Maybe stimming helps people with PTSD, too. Has anybody tried that?
You might like this - ZeFrank's video on mantis shrimp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
Does the zip file not work?
The Elastic License
I think you’re taking the “job” bit too literally. As someone else said, “responsibility” might be a better term. We all act (vote, talk, help, purchase etc) and have the ability to do so in a way which is ethically informed.
You could say it’s everyone’s responsibility to make sure that the important jobs are being done by someone.
Perform better how? Knowing more languages gives you more data and different points of view rather than just using the English corpus and culture. When I ask chatgpt for a translation it seems to understand the meaning behind the words and finds the closest thing in the other language. The datasets seem to merge in some way
> Anyway, around here, even a small investment in reducing idling (or just cutting funding for traffic quiescence projects) would be equivalent to increasing vehicle fuel economy by something like 20-80%.

sure, but I'd rather just lobby against cars at that point. Especially in a place like the Bay Area that should be mostly served by public transit and dense housing. Lobbying to micromanage idling just feels like a waste of effort for such a negligible benefit.