skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird lack of examples. I was curious but I am not going to download before I have some idea of what I am getting into.
The flip side of that is, what the cop thinks warrants paperwork is different from what citizens think warrants paperwork.

Cops will often gaslight victims of crimes in an attempt to not have to do paperwork. I witnessed a man attempt to steal a car while the owner was unloading supplies into his store (a pizza place in NYC). He failed to steal it only because he couldn't get it into gear(a manual transmission), and probably damaged the clutch a bit.

when the cops showed up, it was clear the cops did not want to write it up, and went as far to accuse the owner of lying(and actual phrase said by the cops: "how do we know you didn't say he could sit in your car?", and threatening him with making a false report, or assaulting the thief by holding him until the cops showed up if he pushed it.

Of course, there could be other reasons for not doing it. Maybe they're under pressure from their commander to not take crime reports so the crime rate appears lower in the neighborhood than it actually is. But I assumed it was garden variety professional laziness.
I think that you uncharitably misinterpreted some honest and reasonable comments, that your own view isn't as informed and reasoned as you think, and that you unloaded an unnecessary personal attack to discourage genuine curiosity and concern.
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Hi, I just engraved myself in the highscore for the jpeg level with 17 seconds. What a lovely competitive game! I had great fun just "shooting from the gut" (no minmaxing, just did the movements i would do "instinctively" to get to the requested position)
I particularly cherish the "show me the moves of leaderboard games" feature which hopefully can serve as an educational resource.

In regards to how the leaderboard is constructed, i noticed some of the top players are at 1 second, which doesn't seem humanly possible to me (that would amount to < 0.05 seconds per move). my assumption is they are using scripted input, which with this interface will be hard to prevent. i read you are still figuring out how to regulate everything, so here's an idea: if you rank the leaderboard by number of keystrokes (might consider special handling for shift etc.) instead of time elapsed, you will get the most efficient leaders instead of the fastest ones - that way scripting wouldn't help cheaters anymore.

All the best moving forward!
I think it does it very well.

Had some recent experience trying to write a shell and have it exposed over the web using websockets.

There are some parts where you wish it behaved like C but it does the job and is more than sufficient for a shell.
Not as revolutionary as the Telum, but not even IBM can do those things on every generation.

I wonder if they'll show a new POWER this year as well.
Kind of makes me want to get forgotten best-selling novels of years past from the library to see what they are like!
https://archive.is/3UMcU
Miami has been popping off in the tech scene from what I have been hearing.
Sublime Text has had some IDE-like abilities even before the LSP plugin, because its own filesystem code indexer reuses the syntax-highlighting language grammars to power best-effort goto-definition / goto-references functionality. How well that actually works varies by language.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is basically that.
This is bizarre reasoning.
I understand that's the popular narrative, but that's not really the main point of targeted ads.

There's an old saying in advertising: "I know I'm wasting half of my advertising dollars. I just don't know which half".

The main point of targeted advertising is to avoid wasting money showing ads to people who will almost certainly not purchase your product, and redirect the money to ads shown to people who are more predisposed to purchasing your product.

Examples of the former include showing ads for Depends to teenagers, or for McDonalds happy meals to the elderly. Examples of the latter would be gaming PCs for people who own lots of video games.
I don’t really get the workflow or how the AI helps.

Whatever the cop is feeding to the AI, if the AI can make a narrative out of it, then that thing is what should be in the record.

A loop where the cop generates prose with the help of an AI is bad because

* the AI might lead the cop

* more superfluous prose (which is all the AI can possibly generate because it doesn’t have any actual information about the case other than what the cop feeds it) is bad, it just wastes people’s time.

The point isn’t to create beautiful stories, it is to make a record of the cop’s observations.

It might be the case that we’re making the cops generate a bunch of prose. If that’s the case:

1) maybe it is done for a reason (like to make them sit down and consider what they observed). Circumventing that by just having them jot down off the cuff stuff and having an AI do the “sit down and consider” part defeats the whole process.

2) maybe it is a stupid task and we should consider just asking them for a couple bullet points.
Pretty bad maths there. Those committee members are not independent.

They are highly correlated even amongst LLMs from different vendors.
Feels like propaganda more than a news article. Where is tech crunch based?
The challenge here is the broader challenge with AI (eg self driving cars). Folks want the benefits but while also absolving themselves of the responsibility, liability and accountability for the quality of the output.

That’s a fundamental issue with so many of the proposed use cases for these things. You can’t throw an AI in jail for filing a false police report. Yes you can simply say officer must review but we all know folks are going to cut corners. Until someone goes to jail for filing a false police report and fails with a “but the AI did it” defense, I’d expect full blown shenanigans here.

We got a preview of this with the lawyer that filed an error ridden court filing and the judge threw the book at the author attorney and wasn’t having any of his “but the AI wrote it” defense.
People today are being told they need to save around $4m to retire (70% of income for 18 years). That's about $2k a month for 37 years (ideally with sub 3% inflation and 5-6% returns on your investments throughout). That's a lot of money, even at an above median income. It also doesn't account for having to pay for inflated housing and college loans.

As for people looking to retire today, given the market issues which reset more than a few 401k portfolios and the unexpected lack of job wage growth (compared with inflation and/or housing), it's not too surprising. Live longer than expected, or get a bad medical bill, and it's really unsurprising.
> new technology to reduce human error and biases

If the meaningful choices have been made before the AI is engaged -- which seems likely -- then this might have the opposite effect. For example, a few years back one of my coworkers was arrested on a domestic violence complaint. We searched up the charges and were surprised to find an extremely lurid and descriptive account -- right alongside a dozen other identical-but-for-the-name accounts for others arrested on domestic violence complaints that night. Clearly the local police department just had a "domestic violence template" into which they dropped peoples' names without much thought. This level of carelessness would have been much less obvious if they had a LLM change up the details each time.
Levada has published this to answer such questions: https://www.levada.ru/en/2023/04/24/are-meaningful-public-op...

In short, insignificant number of people refuse to answer, and answers cannot be discarded with "that's not what they really think" because surveys measure how people act in the public. One may very well be against the war in their thoughts, but if they go to a munitions factory every morning and fill shells with explosives all day and in the evenings cheer with neighbors over another strike at Ukrainian cities, then their innermost thoughts matter very little.
Tech companies are already working slightly to solve this, but the high cost of living will be a huge drag on future agglomerative effects.

Tech must stop accepting the NIMBY environment which has existed in California for 40-50 years and shift it to a YIMBY environment for housing, if the cost of living is ever going to get under control.

Ironically, the local NIMBYs have been blaming tech for the mismatch between cost of living and wages (for those outside of the tech sector), but one only need look south to LA to see a place with even greater cost-of-living vs. wage mismatch.

The days of working out of a garage to get a startup going are disappearing, because so few own garages, and so many garages are already converted to decrepit living spaces.

Biotech is particularly at risk in the SF Bay area, due to generally lower salaries than tech, and longer riskier payoffs from startups.

If Harris wins, I hope to see sweeping changes, as the NIMBY democrats in the area hopefully lose both influence locally, and are subject to some national policies to improve the housing situation.
I don’t even understand what the term "tech sector" really means. It seems to be exclusively companies that sell or provide a software (platform) as their main product, plus chip/electronics manufacturers, but excludes defense contractors, aerospace (minus spacex maybe), automotive (minus Tesla maybe), biotech/pharma, and finance (aside from "fintech" startups).

The word tech really got co-opted.
Maybe the phone transfers a secret to the webclient, and that secret is then used by the other participant to certify it is indeed an "authorized" device, but i was under the impression that you had to rely on the server to correctly give you a list of correct devices for a given participant.

i'm happy to know more about that topic if you've got some documentation.
Yeah, it's more than a book now.

Maybe nobody remembers the best-selling novels or authors from 1928 anymore, but who doesn't know 1928-debuting Mickey Mouse?
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A lot of the decisions made in the 80s were more based around hardware limitations. For example BASIC was chosen not because it was the best programming language for home computers but because it was able to fit on tiny ROMs on systems with between 16 and 64 kilobytes (!!!) of RAM.

The reason we have DOS is because CP/M could run on those systems too. A Unix-like OS wouldn’t even come remotely close to running on early 80s micro computers.

And much has been said about the problems of UNIXs design but the reason it was designed they way it was is entirely due to limitations in the hardware of its era too.

Unfortunately once a standard has been set, it’s very hard to change. It’s why there is still DOS remnants in modern NT-based Windows, why Linux and macOS still have TTYs, and why C-based languages even though decades of CS have given us far better principles to build from.
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why do you use a canary version of an old react version ?
That would be a useful feature, so long as there's some associated UI that makes it obvious that the feature is active along with an easy way to toggle it off. Seems like it could be one of those features that users accidentally trigger without realizing it and then feel "trapped" not knowing how to make it stop.
Her TED talk is legendary. Thank you.
Neither is better than personalized hands on care. For the patient, that is. For those who would rather not pay for it with their money and/or time apps and robots are attractive.
"compliance" alone is a sufficient misbehavior. No matter how people get to a price number, you can't have a contract or any other mechanism for the competitors to try and enforce the coordinated price, that's straight out wrong by itself.
This is fun! I've been working on Spellbound which is in a similar vein: https://www.tryspellbound.com/app/scenario/65838/create

It's a bit more open ended though, are the constraints on actions intentional (ie. they're predetermined), or is the model just adamant on picking from options provided
Cops will be fine, I can tell you that.
Maybe at one point really early on the external tank was planned to be reused, but it was expended in every launch of the shuttle with no provisions for re-usability. They even stopped painting it within a few launches.
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I didn't expect to be writing this comment on this article hah, but apparently there is such a thing called a surge tank for storing boost pressure to mostly eliminate turbo lag:

https://www.highpowermedia.com/Archive/the-surge-tank

https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/air-tank-or-com...

It's such an obvious idea that I'm kind of shocked it took them until 2003 to do it. Surely someone thought of this in like the 60s.

I would probably do it differently with a separate supercharger to intermittently maintain another 1-2+ bar of boost to make the tank less than half as large, but that would add complexity, and what do I know.
When I was following these things, if you end up in employment court, the typical penalty was 3 months wages.
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To be fair it's not really based anywhere. The legal headquarters are in the Virgin Islands and the ops HQ is now in Dubai.

Saying telegram is based in Russia is like saying the pirate bay is based in Sweden. Used to be true, but not so much anymore.

Regardless, I think it's totally reasonable to be concerned about having shared symmetric cryptography keys stored on servers in Russia while claiming your app is 'secure'/end to end encrypted (not sure if they're claiming the latter anymore or if that was even official claims to begin with vs internet BS), and is especially relevant for Ukranians or Russians politically opposed to Putin.
Obviously, they the article misrepresents the proportions of tech employees, and thus them, and fails to mention that 80%+ of the tech economy is outside of SF.
Sloppy and ineffective psuedo-journalism. There should be more investigative reporting and outrage for greater concerns like a particular former President acting as Boeing's pimp and using the DOJ to espouse untruths contradicting the NTSB during an ongoing probe investigation for PR reasons.
We could also ask the Soviet Union which despite being an authoritarian shithole, did not have homeless people.

In any case, most cities in the US have obvious supply side issues with housing. It doesn't matter who builds it, we need more supply. Why shouldn't it be the government?
Meaning that the 'fake' student loan value is not limiting itself to housing, but also propping up the stock market? I think that's fair.
How would they buy more if the US gov is making this illegal? The Trump/Biden policies are only increasing the US trade deficit.
>there's been several stories which could not be explained by anything else than FSB having access to Telegram

If your device is compromised, all bets are off.

Example: FSB once leaked Navalny's emails. He used gmail. And no one suspects Google of conspiring with FSB.
Linux distros are much better but they can still phone home. Here's one example: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPopularityContest

For awhile Canonical had a deal with Amazon that was highly questionable. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html

The most dangerous however is the auto-updates. Even if the software is safe today, how do you know what tomorrow's auto-update will bring?
So physically inactive people, over a 10 year span, are 10-20% approx more likely to die from all causes than those who are physically active. Am I reading the conclusions/statistics correctly?

I wonder how this varies with age. I would expect the benefit of exercise to be larger for older people.
If you manage a message board with illegal activity and don't do anything to take stuff down, you're going to jail. see all the people in the jail who managed sites selling drugs/weapons on Tor. Even worse if it's CSAM like Telegram was doing.
And supply constraints come from regulations on housing, zoning, and federal subsidies for "homeowners"
This is irrelevant to the example cited by Hopper. If you have a large log, you don't have time to breed a larger ox. You need to solve the problem with the oxen you have.
How about... https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856820 405 points by ohjeez on May 8, 2023 | 73 comments :: original with comments by author - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286770 )
Having not read the article yet, this was one confusing comment until I realized by "logging" you meant actual trees and not log files.
You assume current reports are better. That's probably a bad assumption.

So many current fears around AI are based on the fact they might produce an error, as though the status quo is error free. It's not in most fields.
Thank you! Hopefully it ends up being useful to people
If you're making income you should max your HSA. It's triple tax advantaged.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/12071...
I could be seen the other way around: theoretically he gould have known that the ruling would make the price drop so selling before ruling (which he did) would be better for his wealth than selling after the ruling. I have no idea if that is meaningful if done a year before actual ruling and in the amount he held.
What might be better is have a large language model interview the officer and the whole thing recorded and transcribed.
Personally, I don't use them because if a thing needs to talk with a server you don't control, that means the thing is almost certainly spying on you, very likely has security issues, and will simply stop working sooner or later when the company decides to move on.

That's not something that's worth my time and money.
The key point is not the share of overall tech workers, or emerging talent, or capitalists, but finding those who are willing and able to sort through the uncertainties of new technologies and markets to realize their promise.

Since time to market (i.e., time to engagement with the real problems) is the key factor in success in these businesses, introducing delays by spending more time seeking collaborators can be a strategic mistake.

To me, the real problem is that deciders make the converse mistake: of quickly choosing those they know over those they have to learn about. It's less work and less emotionally risky, but it's a trap that leads you to defer issues about how you're trying to build teams until you have conflicts - particularly if people avoid conflict. Starting when you don't really know each other makes it easier to scale past the point where everyone really doesn't know each other.
You can make clear before you die — e.g. in your will — that you don’t want your brain scanned like this, and certainly don’t want to pay for it. So you take the choice out of their hands.

Why should we want to pay for our brains to be scanned like this?
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That is covered by the word "practical" in their comment. No regular (as in, not technically educated or minded) person can even begin to use Linux on their devices. Heck most are almost exclusively using iOS or Android.
This is an obvious conflict of interest. While he may not have been recused, it should have been disclosed on the outset.
To run a,startup, you need to run into co-founders, early employees with startup experience or with a right mindset and risk appetite, and into potential investors.

This all works better with face-to-face meetings, weak personal connections that allow to reach the right-looking person you won't otherwise discover, and even serendipitous meetings in environments that tend to attract birds of a feather.

SF, with all its bitter and needless shortcomings as a municipality, is still an excellent place to meet the right people for a startup. Even with the extreme ease of video calling these days, physical proximity has a certain edge.
Website gives "fake" vibes for some reason. Also, for a product that sold "over 10,000 units" there are no YouTube videos except for a couple following the CES 2019 announcement.
The entire concept of column-level data lineage as you know it is a lie. It's broken, and no one is willing to admit it.
Are they paying them more than software engineers? If not, that is the problem. Increase the pay and they will come.
My point is that theorems are provable in a logical sense. How will you prove that the mathematical representation of an empirical measurement of nature is true in the same sense?

Arguably this is down to philosophy of science, and I admit to take to the ideas of Karl Popper on falsification as a criterion for sound physical theories.
This is very multi-faceted and complex.

From one perspective, there should be no harm in simply using LLMs as a text processor, if the accounts written down in said text are genuine and verified as such by the officer.

From a more practical perspective, an account written by a witness itself will always be more accurate to what they actually saw and how they interpreted it, than a statement written by any third party. It doesn’t matter if the third party is human or not.

Also, LLMs show heavy Silicon Valley ethical bias. This is not news to anyone here. To ingest this bias into our legal system, I think grants too much power to the tech companies. Especially in common law, where precedents can be established.

On the other hand, the justice system will be largely supervised by humans, so perhaps they will discern what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, or what has perverted ethics.

Then again, if this system becomes more AI-based over time, we may lose human control and our legal system may be in large part controlled by tech companies. This is not a good slope to slide down, and how slippery it is remains to be seen.

Also, what if the halo effect created by the way LLM expresses itself hides institutional prejudice? You can always push ChatGPT to come up with 20 polite ways to express your racist beliefs, for example. But if you wrote your own statements, they may be more visible. I’m sure police already know whatever LLMs produce is more PR friendly as a benefit, but is there a dark side to this?

Lastly, what about data protection? What if I don’t want my data to be ingested by LLMs for training, but I am, let’s say, a victim of a crime? Do I have no reasonable expectation of privacy anymore? Remember what Google said about people who hand over their data to third parties and how they argued it is evidence that such people don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The responsible adult thing to do would be to run research on it and find how the LLMs bias police statements and what kind of effects that can have to a justice system — proper double blind studies. Done by a committee of experts from judges to institutes and projects for civil justice.

With so many ways to slip off the thin tightrope where everyone acts with integrity and not only best interest, but also competent best interest of one another and justice… I think this is bound to end poorly if we go balls to the walls with this sort of thing.

And then to top this off, other commenters present strong arguments that further complicate the matter.
He has 4 arms there. So $1200 minimum and they look super flakey like they can't dig into a laundry basket.
May help break DRM? But not sure
The first machine I was paid to write code for! Fond memories.
Yes, my understanding is that Onegrep is meant to provide context from your documentation and past incidents, which can be helpful when trying to solve an alert. We're focused on root-causing underlying infrastructure issues by actually looking into the logs/configurations/metrics.

Ah I actually did see beeps a while back. I haven't tried their product, but they seem to be similar to rootly/Onegrep in that they're working on on-call management/post-mortems
It's a game you can't stop once you start.