skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think by now everyone is aware that law enforcement officers, just like any other grouping of people, can be highly dangerous. We only get in trouble when we let these groups operate in a brazen fashion. Communities that don't wield proper oversight of their law enforcement personnel develop these kinds of issues.

To ensure we contain the inevitable fallout evoked by abuses in these communities it, from time to time, becomes necessary for the larger society to "bring the hammer" so to speak when it comes to fixing these law enforcement agencies. Unfortunate, because it brings down some officers who could have been potentially good along with the problem officers who were naturally bad from the outset.

The job will attract these natural born bad actors. There's little we can do to change that fact. We can only control how aggressively we fight against them. So articles outlining the existence of police officers who are criminals should be expected. Their existence is a simple fact. How we should judge a society is by how aggressively we prosecute the police who are criminals. Some places do little, some places do lots. And sometimes the larger society has to step in and tell the idiot local leaders to step aside or get taken down with their officers. But my sense is that on balance, we're trying a lot harder than we were 20 years ago. And 20 years from now we will be more aggressive about rooting out corruption in law enforcement than we are today.

Still, yeah, lotta work.
Clarifying my earlier point: offering to help in a way which only requires a yes/no answer is going to be cognitively easier for the recipient.

They can of course provide a more elaborate response or make an alternate request, if they choose to do so and are capable of formulating such a response. But make the initial ask easy to answer.

Another trap people fall into is in offering gifts or help for their own gratification. Baking a cake for someone who doesn't like eating cake (or has reasons not to eat cake) is not in fact doing them a benefit. And if the baker's response on learning of this is to rebuke them for rejecting your "gift" ... well, that just clarifies that their motivation was self-serving rather than other-serving in the first place.

(Such responses, along with all sorts of other basically idiotic behaviour, is of course far too frequent. I'm hoping some reading this might recognise the patterns.)
Randoseru scooter backpacks when?
You erroneously inserted the word “will” into the above comment.
I dunno, the "why" for me is "why are we doing this, and doing it this way?". If that changes, but somehow the comment isn't changed, that would feel really strange. It's not just tweaking a few lines, it's rewriting the whole routine. If all the code changed but not the comment, that would have to be deliberate, and definitely picked up in code review.

Though, obviously, accidents happen, etc. But then that also happens with tests and everything else. I have definitely seen out-of-date tests in code bases, where the test is no longer relevant but still maintained.
FYI you can get third-level certs wildcard or not if you subscribe to their Advanced Certificate Manager product.
Georgia's voter portal gets crash course in client vs. back end input validation
Slightly, but you can tab expand the % and then just edit the name at the end of the path
We're running a beta for $10/month for a T4, which is definitely affordable, but we are running at a steep loss for now to test our system at scale. If you're down to be one of the first few users email me at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com!
While I never left Firefox behind, I absolutely can relate to the "its fast", because I remember when it was true.

15 years ago, the laptops never fast enough and I watched most of my friends started to abandon Firefox for Chrome after trying it out.

> I expect that as malware blocking becomes less effective in Chromium

Why do you expect malware blocking to become less effective... ? Adblock is not antivirus.
Which is where the role of guardians / gatekeepers, which I mentioned in an earlier comment on this thread, comes in:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41177346>

Those people politely but firmly and effectively remove such people to their appropriate ring.
What did that measure actually do? County sheriff is an elected position; shouldn't it have been covered by California's normal recall process, which passed more than 100 years ago?

The California Constitution directly provides only for the recall of statewide officers, but it also requires† the legislature to "provide for recall of local officers" [except where the locality already does so], so provisions for recall must already have been in place?

† https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I would get an open source ERP platform that you can extend yourself - for example Microsoft Dynamics Business Central or Odoo and start building on top of that platform. These platforms already have edi modules and all other basic functions such as sales and purchase module, finance etc. That will save you tens of thousands of development hours and you can start building your custom processes straight away.
> I switched to Chrome when Firefox was really, really bloated

When was that, again?
How exactly is ChromeOS "secure"? Is it just a word that gets passed around in the marketing materials? Where is the evidence that it's more secure than Linux?
How do you jailbreak midjourney?
China is stockpiling – we must do the same
Appreciate it! We're reaching out on a smaller scale for now to manage how many signups we get to not break our systems. Happy to share a demo vid and/or more details at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com.
NPR Obit (from an earlier submission): <https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5065675/chinese-america...>
I'm assuming this applies globally?
For a management and executive position, it is a bit more perilous.

A hired CTO at a startup is often really a tech lead. Not always. Better to use a vague “head of xyz” in such cases. Vague and easily transformed.

You see second and third time founders do that.

Title inflation is fun and cheaper than cash. But not really transferable.

For example, I had a friend, which was a founder CTO and a team of 15 and wanted to be a director at Facebook.

I asked him how he would deal with leveling questions for other managers and their engineers. His company hadn’t implemented ladders yet (no need at that size) and had no idea what I was talking about.
I assume they're asking about the video from the Teenage Engineering link (which is not AI, but is at least new content).
What seems to be missing is discussion of the fact that Google's customers are the advertisers. The search engine users are the product. To what extent does Google monopolize the sales of eyeballs to the advertisers?

And, if Google can't pay to be the default any more, and given that users are the product, maybe the solution is for the search engines to somehow pay us to select them as the default.
This is a well-known remedy in collector’s circles. An eraser on the contacts also does wonders.

One common cause for NES glitches is for the 72-pin connector to get bent out of shape. You can find replacements on eBay, and it makes a world of difference. Surprisingly, it’s also good advice not to push the cart down once it’s inserted, as that increases pressure on the pins and bends them more over time (despite the slot allegedly being zero insertion force).
ChromeOS flex can't run Android apps like native ChromeOS - so getting the framework chromebook edition will give you all bells and whistles.
Isn't that Cloudflare's fault though? If you choose to offer a free account, you're aware of this risk. If you weren't, stop offering them and grandfather them.
But then by this logic isn’t everything made of space dust?
Unlike Anthropic, OpenAI models don't have a `max_tokens` setting for API calls, so I assume the max token output limit is automatically applied to API calls.

Otherwise the max token output limit stated on the models page would be meaningless.
For the wealthy here, it's very useful to be friends with the local police. In a city it's a bit more complex, but in a rural area - say, a place where you have a vacation home - it's quite easy. Every police department in the US has the equivalent of a "benevolent association".

Here is the Los Angeles benevolent association https://larfpa.org/benevolent-association/

Donations to these organizations are not usually tax deductible. Giving them a relatively small amount of money, say $10,000 per year, goes a very long way to making you friendly with them and the chief of police / sheriff / etc.

These organizations are basically slush funds. The money is used to throw parties at best, or enrich retired and connected police at worst. The state police have one as well, and they are supra-entities across the state. Donating to these organizations is one way Jeffrey Epstein was able to avoid prison for the sexual assault charges in Palm Beach.

If you are a wealthy person that likes to party, do hard drugs, or throw your own events, I highly recommend engendering yourselves with the local and state police via money donations. It goes a long way to solving problems.

My father (RIP) was a musician who played at many police events in the city I grew up. Police are people, and generally average intelligence people. They are no better or worse than other people, except they have the benefit of being above the law in all cases except those that rise to the level of a public relations disaster. My father was an alcoholic who should have had multiple DUIs, but always got out of it thanks to his local connections, among other legal issues he should have had. He was not a good person.

I am not posting this as an advocacy good or bad, I am posting this as advice for the reality we live
Show HN: I made an app that helps you find your next favourite book
I was tired of reading lengthy book reviews and depending on others' recommendations. I realized that excerpts could serve as a quick book preview, helping me decide whether to purchase a book.
Even if it was 5 drive 2.5" to hold SATA SSDs would be great for me. As networked mass storage I don't always need NVME speeds.
A spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey.
Musk might be coaching all his moves on twitter in political terms but to me the from the looks of it twitter was extremely bloated and wasting money. And Musk is doing his best to get out ahead on the money he spend to buy it. And as far as I can tell he will get out ahead. If Trump wins the presidency again I think he might get out ahead huge
Would eat up inodes? Not sure how these work, does it create separate files for each one?
Because burning a body is inherently disgusting. Try it with a small animal, see how it is. Commiting someone to the earth is far less awful, far more natural, and just generally better.

In concept, cremation is lovely. In practice, you need a bone grinder, a cremation chamber that requires you to break the femurs of the dearly departed to fit them inside, and massive filtration to prevent the entire area from smelling of burnt corpse. Burial requires a box.
Measurement, awareness, and memory, are not required for time to exist. These are all things that make observation possible, but time could still exist even if the universe were just a fog of loose atoms bouncing around with no self awareness.
Hi Cheptsov, know you mentioned wanting to learn more. We have some demo material that we can share if you're interested. Would love to chat at carl (at) thundercompute (dot) com.
it's an excerpt from a book, that presumably has a lot of things to say about China. Why focus on that to elevate some petty point that China does not have 5000 years of history. So what? it still has millennia, counting only written history.

It's a bit tiring to see the average tech guy on HN demonstrate their critical thinking about everything China. Being able to write some code and read your own country's propaganda does not mean you're well equipped to talk about other countries.
I have that same related affliction. It's not easy if I visit my parents and they have the TV on and then they'll just keep the advertisements on with full audio.

Don't want to fully high-jack the AutoEditor post comments. So to bring it back to feedback; that video on the top of the site is also too flashy and quick for me. I do like that it shows the feature of using text as a way to scroll through the video.

On the marketing side, I think the site works well, but I would focus even more on that it saves time.

From the website:

> Why use AutoEditor instead of other solutions?
> Some of our key advantages are:
> Direct access to the C-Level of the company - meaning you can request features and we'll tend to it
> Good free tier so you can get started without having to commit
> The best request/price ratio in this market
> Our editor provides a flexible way to edit the videos exactly how you want them to be

I wouldn't do it like that. I would say something like "Save hours on every video you edit using our features like text-based editing and quick import and export." and if you want to show you are open to feedback, I would again talk about speed along the lines of "If you know of ways how we can save you even more time creating great video content, you can directly discuss these feature request... etc"
When's the Controlled Atmosphere Banquet?

(I guess nobody noticed when New York apples were still sold 'fresh' in February)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/th...
Define Clojure functions with parameter pattern matching just like Erlang
Oh sure, but it is a side channel attack to be aware of.
I seem to recall peppermint os started out as the Linux alterative to the windows netbook (circa 2009 maybe?), with the hope of being what chrome os is now, but after awhile of losing to chromebooks it looks like they shifted gears pretty hard.
Show HN: Koi 1-Click Shipping Label Creation with WebUSB Printer/Scales
Hey HN,

I'm Marcus, one of the co-founders of www.Koi.app. My background includes running e-commerce businesses like Little Bird Electronics and Pi Australia, where I encountered the common issues of managing orders, inventory, and shipping.

To address these challenges, we bootstrapped Koi, a business management platform by merchants, for merchants. Koi integrates custom shipping hardware (WebUSB postage scales and label printers) and automates tasks such as weighing, photo capture and label printing with a single click.

Beyond shipping, Koi manages inventory across sales channels, automates mundane tasks (importing products from suppliers), and features LLM powered capabilities for assigning HS Tariff Codes and managing customer interactions. It also includes barcode scanning and photo capture for added reliability.

Koi was designed to make e-commerce operations smoother and more efficient. Feel free to reach out with any questions or feedback.

Best,

Marcus
Koi Co-founder
Having grappled with this dillemma myself as a founder, interested to see this FS model gain traction towards a middle ground. Knowledge is shared not closed off. And the company that is keeping the tech progressing can stay competitive.
Looks like Apple is in favor of the WebTransport spec, so it's just a matter of time: https://webkit.org/standards-positions/
XMR <3
This is untrue. Both "free" and "open" licenses do the same thing in this context: they are legal documents that tell you what different parties are able to do with the code, but none of the licenses mandate how you run your project: whether you must accept contributions from others, whether you provide a bug tracker, or anything else like that.

Hell, you could have a GPL project that is developed entirely behind closed doors, as long as you always give users a copy of the source code when you release a new version.
That's true, but i mostly want to encourage coders to learn the vocabulary, because even at one or two years of coding experience you apply most of the rules you need for this (you explained this term way better than i could).

In physics i had a lot of trouble in the beginning with the new symbols that where introduced, but they just shorten longer functions. Also chaining output of one function into another or combining them is something most coders do every day and it's written a bit different in math, but the same.

What i was missing was someone telling me: "This xyz basically is what you do here with zyx every day and already on a complex level like spacetime. You can do this!". Certainly no teacher can know every specialty of their students, but usually people uncertain about their abilities are the ones that are so deep in their field that they mistake others not understanding them as being behind - when they just miss the vocabulary to exchange ideas.

Last month i started with spinors and on one slide one term was named with a handful of different identifiers - same in category theory. The terms and names come from different fields and it can already be an eye-opener to some coder that a vector is just an array or that a scalar is a simple number, etc.

The education system and environment may have given up on coders that are sitting in some company struggling with themselves even though they do a lot of good work and i'm always trying to reach those as i know how isolating it can be.
Chien-Shiung Wu, who conducted the experiment that proved Lee’s (and Yang’s) theory didn’t share the Nobel Prize with them in 1956. When I read people lamenting the fact that Rosalind Franklin didn’t get the Nobel due to sexism I wonder why Wu is not mentioned. For more information on the circumstances see https://physicsworld.com/a/overlooked-for-the-nobel-chien-sh...
Website design made me click the buttons for good several seconds until I realized this a photo of a real deal, not a web replica of the instrument.
Nicely done, wonder if web trial would be possible and attract more “I probably want this” fans/consumers
Oh i forget: Many thanks for the Terry Tao mentioning, i will certainly have a look!
> If you can reduce feedback loops by getting good at, for instance, sneakily and quietly collecting a large position by many small increments under many different accounts, then you can get somewhere without being pulled into a giant spiral.

Implying that you otherwise have information or purchasing clairvoyance that other people cannot access which would make this approach more likely to payoff than not. Otherwise, it's a lot of effort for a small chance at reward, so why not just buy into an index?
Azure AD/Entra ID I don’t mind. It’s crufty, but seems to work reliably. But the Microsoft B2C solution is far less supported and configurable than most of the competitors in the space. It doesn’t seem to get nearly as much attention from Microsoft and the dev experience for it shows. I’ve found solutions like Auth0 to be far superior.
CKEditor 5: Modular Rich Text Editor with Modern Collaborative Features
I don’t think they make cranes tall enough to get you off that high horse. This thing is cheaper than my crappy middle school beginner trumpet was and professional musicians don’t have a monopoly on making or experimenting with music.
HN is not the place to discuss diet, exercise, fitness, or health. Every thread is the same: the human body ackchuwally runs on magic. Diet is really, really complicated. In fact, nobody burns calories at all. The body just does it's own thing. Watch this Youtube video about it. They quote an anthropologist.
You can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list

should be doable
You'll have to just to send your reply!
You know an area is fucked when people start trying to blame the victims for the crime.
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
I want to know who had the stupid idea to start the UI trend of making error messages tell you absolutely nothing (e.g. "There was an error. Enjoy being helpless.").
Walmart has always been headquartered in Bentonville, AR so that's a huge difference from the other examples here. People in well paying jobs move all the time though so it's not the commitment or strategic retention plan you seem to imply unless you think everyone in NY or CA is so pretentious that they couldn't believe that Walmart employees are worth poaching despite their IT and analytics department being bigger bigger than most tech companies.
Not sure what parent is referring to, but recent drama is that he's tried to hide / not discuss the fact that he wrote security scareware a while ago.
It's been a while since I used tools in this space. Some questions:

Where does AI/semantic search/vector DBs fit into the state of the art today? Is it generally a total replacement for traditional text search tools like elastic, or does it sit side by side? Most, but not all, use-cases I can think of would prefer semantic search, but what are the considerations here?
HP Dragonfly Chromebook exist with up to 32GB RAM and has pretty good specs (good screen with touch), but it's very expensive for what you get.

I have one of those at work and it's a nice device, but I don't think it's worth the money.

Besides, I'm a sucker for fanless laptops. I used to have pixelbooks for personal use (first the 2018 and then the Go). A while ago I bought an M2 air and run asahi Linux on it. That HW plus ChromeOS would be nice...
When did Palo Alto become South Bay? South Bay was always much further south.
Police are well known to rob citizens that make the mistake of driving with a lot of cash or valuables or their car. This civil forfeiture is under the guise of blocking drug money, but we know what it really is... simple highway robbery. The US is not a country with very many property rights. It's increasingly a stagnated country risking a downward trajectory.
Maybe, but it's all relative. Isn't it not self respecting to be working for anyone making over say $2m a year? You're just contributing further to inequality to "get yours".

There are plenty of horrible people who are CEOs out there (and plenty of companies that do actual evil), I think you're grandising Musk a bit due to him being a public figure.
A water-powered lift may explain how Egypt's oldest pyramid was built
Except schools, crime, and kids able to get into trouble.
I was hoping that the update would be real-time.
Otherwise it works well.
I think you won't gain anything from conflating "detectable change" and "awareness". We kind of already had this discussion in Quantum mechanics with "observations" and the "consciousness" of an observer.
Nowadays the information theoretic point of view is prevalent among physicists and an observation is often seen as just a correlation between the observer system and the measured quantum system. No consciousness needed.

Nevertheless I agree, that it is interesting to think about time as an series of changes or events instead of just as a dimension of 4D spacetime. I didn't watch the video yet (I prefer text), though, so I refrain from bothering you with may opinion on this topic.
12 Coins in Verse: Genius solution of twelve balls and a scale problem
SFUSD lotto system, and the schools being far away enough. Yeah, everyone I know in sf drives their kids to school
Indeed, migration was often how humans survived climate change.

Not such an option these days.
The move to Chicago was made by Condit. Ostensibly it was just a cover to stay far away from the wife while he kept his mistress shacked up at the HQ.
Hey godelski, thanks for actually taking the time to clarify on this and it's always great to be taken seriously. I have not really much to add, but i would love to see your energy in educating the people that are commenting here.

I like this page a lot: https://d2l.ai/chapter_preliminaries/calculus.html
And i also learned a lot from ben eater (Youtube and this: https://eater.net/quaternions)
Category theory was a godsend from Milewski, esp. his PDF is great! https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

Maybe you can add a little and offer ressources from your background?