skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong statement.

The question is: Do they deserve it?

Do not assume that heterogenous countries should be compared with homogenous countries.

EDIT: For the person strawmanning me as a racist:

Consider a nation like Japan, or Finland. Everyone is of similar genetic background, similar wealth, similar living conditions, similar strengths, similar weaknesses, similar struggles, similar educational opportunities, similar transportation requirements, similar family background.

Compare that to the US: Wildly different genetic backgrounds, massive wealth gaps, massive differences in living conditions, massive differences in strengths and weaknesses, massively different struggles, massively different opportunities, different transportation requirements, different family backgrounds.

In Finland or Japan, the amount of empathy you naturally have for other people is very strong, because you can see how most people are just like you, and are inherently less likely to be violent to people you see as similar to yourself. In the US, developing hate for the "outsider" is much easier, no matter who it may be - take last week with the shooting of the healthcare CEO. Diversity is great for people who benefit from diversity; but there will (in my opinion) always be a subset for whom diversity is a temptation to engage in tribalism.

It would stand to reason then, that a heterogeneous country is going to be inherently more violent, and have a higher incarceration rate, than a homogenous one, and therefore comparing violence between the two is like comparing apples-to-oranges.

EDIT 2: For the secondary "racist" complainant:

You're making the assumption that me pointing out "genetic differences" implies superiority/inferiority. I'm merely saying that it affects whether Random Normal Person A views Random Normal Person B as being similar to themselves. Even if Random Normal Person A is not deliberately racist, it does follow that violence is more likely between people who don't see themselves in each other.

Even if we are not deliberately racist, humans are inherently tribal. Heck, we're tribal over blue bubbles versus green bubbles, and letting something that stupid control interaction. There's no way skin color does not also have an effect, consciously or not, maliciously or not, causing an estrangement between the two groups, without implying that blue is better than green or vice versa.

The point is: I'm saying we have differences. Differences (as seen even on smartphones) cause tribal behavior. Tribal behavior (I am theorizing) causes increased violence between tribes inherently. Because of this, a nation with many differences, should not be compared to nations with few.
I think they tweet prototypes and then don't ship most prototypes. Seems reasonable to me, otherwise you have instant bloat.
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To be fair, the crime in the 90's is different than the crime today.

In the 90's, there was absolutely more crime than today. No question about that. However, how many Target or Walmart mass shooters were there in 1990? How many hotel shooters mowed down 260 people in the 90's?

Just pointing out that there has been a slow change in the nature of threats in society over time. At the same time, I'm not sure our laws, or even our law enforcement infrastructure, has changed to interdict that kind of crime/(terrorism?).

Now here's the thing however, the answer is not to invade everyone's privacy and make every conversation or action you take available on social media or whatever. I think the answer is to really dig into why interdiction is not happening for some of these new forms of crime. Sure cameras help police and Walmart uppity ups when the inevitable happens, but I think we can be a little more creative and maybe even get better results?

What we learned by reducing crime in the 90's is that interdiction is always better than crime scene investigation. That's not any less true for the type of crime we're seeing today. In fact, it's more true. You definitely want to interdict mass shootings.
The study is about today. I would bot ever think to extrapolate that to “forever in the future” also is only one vendor. That is what the statistic shows and I think is fair comparison against human drivers currently on the street.
> an irrational belief

You won't walk around with a calculator in your pocket, will you?
Mathematicians regard 'symmetries' as algebra (as in group theory etc rather than high-school algebra) rather than geometry and I suspect this is about the use of the word geometry in part.
Conversely, it can be amazingly rare to break out of these local maxima.

For instance, it took 60 million years from the first trees until the appearance of the right fungi able to decompose the lignin in wood. (Coal deposits arose because trees from the Carboniferous Period had nothing to make them rot). If you think about it, that's a very long time for a very small amount of evolution.

Equally, as I understand it, all life on Earth has a common ancestor, and therefore a single origin. So life only started here once. And therefore is exceedingly rare.
You see the issue here, right?

Instead of just checking with a first party source, you ask a statistical guessing machine for an answer.

There was a disagreement about the answer, so we needed to dig deeper.

You bring up Wikipedia, a 3rd party source of information. That description could also be wrong (it’s probably not, but stick with me)

Instead of just checking with a first party source (IMDb is very easy to search on), we went through several layers of obfuscation.

This was an issue for Wikipedia early on, but it has citations, at least. AI doesn’t and doesn’t have an army of people constantly fact checking every answer generated either.

There’s no benefit to asking AI for information like this. Especially since the in flight summary has accurate information that’s more than “drama, sex worker, cony island”

Maybe something like perplexity is better, since it has citations, but I haven’t tried it for very long yet.
Pray tell who would be creating the legal cost if the isp weren't collaborating? Copyright holders just have the inherent ability to impose costs on other people, no government support required?
El Salvador's case is not as clear cut as it might seem - see #3 at https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...
They're $5 spatulas that melt and shed bits of plastic over time. Wood, silicon, or stainless steel are all better and not too much more expensive. Even if this was a hoax (which it's not), there's plenty of reason to upgrade anyways.
The episode of Black Mirror "The Entire History of You" comes to mind.
So sorry Dustin. We'll have a new version of tldraw with user accounts in a few weeks that should improve things, but until then please no one clear your browser storage
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Ah, got it. So in the event someone managed to get access, they are limited to signing things in that moment on that infrastructure. I can see how that would reduce the blast radius of a hack.
I think that crime is a fear tactic to sell these and to make excuses for worse customer service. Why hire more employees if you can just put cameras on everyone?
I’ve had paranoid breaks in life where I felt I was being watched or monitored. It truly changed how I behaved, where I walked, stuff I did/say.

That quantum observer principle follows here. Just being observed can influence things, in this case reducing crime.

But think about what I just described, a literal paranoid state. It’s quite uncomfortable.
It's simpler intuition but more complex from a data / ml perspective.

Their algorithm is really built around their features. Specifically, temporal representations of user interest:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9458799/

The features used by their algorithm tells you what a user is interested, historically.

Contrast this to Meta, which uses the social graph as their features. Imagine features like the number of times a user likes another author's / cluster's content.

Tiktok will serve you $TOPIC because you have $INTERACTED with $TOPIC historically.

Meta will serve you $TOPIC because you have $INTERACTED with $PEOPLE who post $TOPIC, historically.

Meta only coincidentally gives you what you like.

Tiktok knows what you like.

This is the difference. This is why IG is losing.
Read the article:

> California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a ruling Thursday that requires taxi and ride-hail drivers who are carrying unaccompanied minors in the state to pass a fingerprint background check

So, yes this does apply to taxis.
1. They remodeled City Hall Plaza in 2022 [1], unfortunately not a street grid, but less of a cold wasteland than before.

2. Agreed regarding the Congress St side, though the added playground from [1] adds some interest to that side (before the solid brick wall part).

3. Agreed with the interior. Something like just changing the flooring or interesting lighting would make it feel less cold. The floor is either brick (I assume an homage to Boston's brick) or terracotta tile. As a very rare visitor inside, it's kinda fun to see how the decor/lighting/infrastructure works with all concrete (hanging things from the ceiling instead of nailing to a wall, for example)

[1] https://www.sasaki.com/projects/boston-city-hall-plaza-renov...
Flexoki is an inky color scheme for prose and code
Tymoczko's take is far more interesting and educational than the article.

(I'm being polite.)
From what I can tell, they didn't release the actual model, but rather a kind of framework for running and training models in a distributed way. The only actual "model" in there appears to be three Dense layers in a "demo" file.
The second sentence says they do require taxis. Please read the article.

"The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a ruling Thursday that requires taxi and ride-hail drivers who are carrying unaccompanied minors in the state to pass a fingerprint background check"
When Everything in the Universe Changed
Fear is also highly irrational. We have a 9/11 in terms of auto deaths about every month. We watch millions die from a preventable pandemic just to keep the economy going. Neither of these things seems to provoke much desire from the state to protect americans.

I don't think it's just fear, either. I remember the bloodlust and feigned victimhood that spilled out after 9/11 and I never want to live through that again. We got permission to behave in the worst way possible and so much of our culture never recovered from that. We now live under a more despotic government than we ever accused the soviets of. "patriotism" can kiss my ass
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I have very bad news for you about modern cars that don’t drive themselves under regular circumstances.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
Like Israel did 15 years ago with Kindle/iPads: upon arrival you give up your device for "safekeeping" and pick it up as you leave the country.
Liquid Death's leather mosh pit diaper sells out after viral bathroom incident
We are being told it is necessary. We don't know that it actually is.
Sure, that’s not good, but neither is getting killed along with your whole family, while waiting at a bus stop…?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/3-month-old-infa...

Also, it’s certainly better than having everyone drive themselves home after drinks at a bar?
I really want to buy something like this but then you find out there is no mainline kernel support so you need to use their modified Ubuntu kernel and while not impossible you are on your own with anything custom, including firmware and boot code.
It's obviously going to be much much more difficult to steal $450K from an actual bank account and get clean away - you're going to need a lot more proof of identity than a google login. From that POV, owning a lot of cryptocurrency is painting a target on your back.
Many western nations (I'm in Canada) seem to be doing a speed run towards low trust society.

Is the USA now a low trust society? Probably not (although in places, likely) but the social trust has certainly eroded in recent years.
The number of drivers that i see get into aggressive non-prevention habits just so they can "be right and angry" is kinda mind blowing. Ie someone goes into a roundabout when they perhaps shouldn't have, and so the other person who likely had rightofway guns the gas to make it even more obvious and risks and accident just to be "right".

If you watch those dashcam communities you see similar behavior in what feels like half of the accidents. Someone else in the wrong but boy oh boy did the camera driver do nearly nothing to prevent the accident.
This is pretty awesome. I especially liked replaying the graph layout. I do wonder what kind of native GUI toolkits whis would work with (since I don’t really care much for web UIs and browser overhead).
What are you talking about? Many politicians catch public transport around the world. I remember a few years back a mini nothingburger controversy about a politician 'caught' drinking a canned cocktail on the train in London https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/20/diane-abbot...
We're burning more coal than ever thanks to China
I was not describing exterior shading. The terminology is hard. I was describing overhangs that create shade during the summer.
This is very true, you can film people in public but if you step on to private property and do the same you can be told to stop, and removed if you don't. It will be entirely asymmetric.
I don’t know man, when I used to work a Walmart deli we would throw out roughly 400 lbs of meat and cheese a day from expiring and were too lazy to mark it as shrink as we were told to.

As far as the store was concerned that was indistinguishable from theft and the managers/supervisors never gave a shit either. Then you’ve got CEOs of retail organizations admitting they they overstated how much theft had increased[1]

I’m pretty sure it’s just C levels lying to justify the changes for other reasons and then pinning it on the brokies as a convienent scapegoat

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...
Why would you have opposed this as a teenager?
Self-driving cars help get us past the path dependence and move toward better public transit.

I tried using the train for my commute. However, I had to maintain a car at each end and I could only use the 7AM train as the parking at my origin would be filled at any later time.

Self-driving cars break my dependence on a car at destination and allow me to pick an origin train independent of parking.
That’s probably one of the least convincing and anecdotal things I’ve read online. I’m going to remember this for years.
>- You ll have to dispute a dead family member against a faceless company that conveniently deleted crucial logs.

What does this have to do with self-driving cars? What type of "crucial logs" do today's car even keep?

>- They will make you wear wireless tags every time you cross a street, and fine & shame you, if you don't.

>-Tags will contain your real identity, so that you ll get a bonus for your medical insurance.

1. people already carry "wireless tags" everywhere they go. It's called their phone. They don't seem to mind.

2. Why would they do this, when they spent billions into developing lidar? If anything mandating this is bad for them, because it weakens their moat against incumbents, who can develop self-driving systems that are cheaper because they don't need expensive lidar technology to avoid pedestrians.

>- Insurance companies will refuse to insure your ild mechanical car, and will force you to buy a subscription for the new shiny car, that will have to be replaced every N years.

1. Insurance companies can theoretically do this today. Why aren't they doing it? Why would they suddenly do it with self driving cars?

2. All of this seems... fine? If you're driving a deathtrap that's a hazard to you and others, and the insurance company is on the hook for the millions of damage you can inflict (if you severely injure someone), they should have the right to refuse coverage. I doubt they'll actually refuse insuring such cars though, it'll just be really expensive.

>- The new car will refuse to drive you at X location because you overused your monthly C02 quota.

Pure speculation and fearmongering.
That's a crazy design choice by meta if true. The interests of those in my social graph have very little connection to my interests.
Older structures cost more because they lasted longer and were more maintainable. Growth was given priority over tradition - and we've had to deal with the tradeoffs.
It isn't even one year since the press stories about how dumb a product Alexa was and how it makes no money and all the devs are getting laid off. Something changed now?
I mean, it's their serving infra, but not their features. See my reply in another parent comment.
This sounds interesting. As a mathematician (in the sense that I have a PhD in group theory), is there a good guide to music theory for mathematicians?

There seems to be lots of stuff along the lines of 'if you understand music, here is some mathematics to help you think about it' but not much 'if you understand mathematics, but not so much about music, here is how to think about music'.
> a significant amount of the population thinks that the killing was justified. I've seen numbers like 60% of young people support his actions. If you go on reddit, you'll see that he has a huge amount of support there.

Can you share where you've seen these numbers?

> In a healthy press, in a healthy society, there should be a ton of discussion happening about this, why so many people are so upset and angry with their situation that they're willing to support a killing in broad daylight, what can be done to fix these issues, how this should be a wake-up call that deep changes are needed, and so on.

Doesn't this go against the ethics of reporting such extreme events, which empower people with mental health issues to "copy cat" in order to seek attention and gain social status?[0]

I don't see how empowering someone with a mental disorder who chose murder as a means to set the public agenda as a "healthy press in a healthy society". Isn't this simply devaluing those who choose to pursue justice through peaceful means? Like using the Justice System, Protesting, etc?

> Do you see that happening anywhere in the established media?

Yes, I've seen plenty of coverage, I'll even say too much coverage on this subject as a whole.

[0]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5296697/
Social media is a skewed perspective.

I go outside, and make my opinions on people based on how the general public interacts. I don't make my opinions based on (crazy) outliers (online).
>The grocery store is 1.3 miles from here but it’s a 300’ climb and it’s 42f and raining right now.

I would get a jacket and umbrella and walk this without giving it a second thought.
Does it see you or is there someone else it's seeing?
We have to compare potential downsides though, we have two choices, we can:
* not ingest novel chemicals
or
* ingest novel chemicals that may be carcinogenic, but scientific research will not be able to prove anything either way

Do you not think that it is rational to choose option 1, given our understanding of the Lindy effect?
> I got a call from a very professional sounding woman

That's usually the tell, right there.

Legit support operations tend to sound unprofessional as hell. Heavy accents, scratchy lines, scripts referencing the wrong OS, etc.
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Why do they have tinted windshields?
Yes, you can easily install it using Docker.

https://docs.cx-reports.com/getting-started/docker/
Can drivers choose not to simply not pickup teenagers? I bet most would prefer that even without this new requirement.
Excalidraw is more open source than we are at tldraw! We're both source available on GitHub but Excalidraw is MIT while the newer versions of tldraw are a kind of watermark-ware. (We still have an older MIT version available but not in development)
Can someone tell me what this does? Is it draw a diagram and it will automatically implement it in code?
> What's the difference between a standard library and a runtime? In the three decades I've been programming, they've been used interchangeably.

First of all, you're right. But despite its definition I think people tend to look at it differently.

A runtime is generally thought of as a platform on top of which your code runs on; it needs to start first, and it manages your code. Or perhaps it runs in a side thread.

A language that has a runtime is hard to embed into something via just the C ABI, because a function call wouldn't use just the standard platform calling convention; it would have to start that runtime, perhaps marshal the parameters into something supported by that runtime, and then finally the runtime runs your function's code.

Take for example cgo, for which you'd need to start the garbage collector first (among other things), hence why the cgo FFI is expensive. Take as another example an async Rust function, which would require e.g. a Tokio runtime to be started first. Another example is Java, for which you'd have to start the whole JVM first.

A language that has no runtime, or a minimal runtime, can be called via the C ABI directly. All the function needs is to follow the calling convention, and then its code starts running immediately.

This is just my opinion of other people's opinions, I may be wrong.
Radxa did pretty well with their RK3588-based boards, but we'll see if this gets the same treatment. I really want to preorder one, but I'm also highly skeptical about software support. I don't care about "open source" firmware or anything, I just want to be able to boot mainline Linux and use all of the advertised features.
I’m far from an expert on this - but doesn’t it seem like they are just locking up all the people inclined to commit murder, not actually deterring people for the most part? It still seems consistent with the idea that crime is mostly impulse-based and hard to deter.

Additionally, wouldn’t less serious crimes (like shoplifting) be even harder to deter than murder, since they are even more likely to be committed impulsively?
Can you explain more what type of game would need a call stack snapshot? I've never developed a game, but it seems like as long as you store like the initial state and prng you could always get the current state by replaying the full history. All the other logic would be stored outside the state, and only added when "committed". As long as prng is stable and you start from the clean state every time, you'd get the same outcome.
You do respond it’s about the drivers not the passengers?
Ah yes, of course. 36T ... increasing the number of pitches per octave is a different approach to the problem, and works (at some cost to the performer :)
it might lead to drivers declining rides for teenagers and make it harder for them to get to events / concerts and etc?
You don't give body cams to counter retail theft. There are better surveillance systems for that. The body cams are for safety vis-a-vis personal offenses not really property offenses.

I understand why the cameras are there, and I still believe it takes society in an ominous direction. Soon, everything you do will be uploaded and processed because everyone is recording every interaction. With "smart* eye glasses, with body cams, with phones and watches, and so on.

Maybe ubiquitous gaze is the only way to be safe, or to ensure you capture violent offenders? But I think we should all take a moment to think about the consequences of establishing ubiquitous gaze long term.
Oof, source available, that is an oversight on my end. Or was there a recent license change? Off the shortlist then, unfortunately.