skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The soft-on-crime approach taken over the last decade under Gascon and now Boudin coincided with San Francisco having highest property crime rate of any major US city.

Maybe that’s coincidence, but the onus is on those who brought us to this point: Where are the results that were promised? Where is the evidence that we should continue down this path, when by all metrics, it appears to be a disaster?
I think it is a point of historical interest that Stalin was a bank robber at one point, with his takings being used to fuel the revolution in Russia.

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/joseph-stalin-was-ru...

(I'm not suggesting that these thieves are a part of a revolution of any kind)
In Emeryville (across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco), there is a Pak N Save supermarket that underwent a significant remodeling/rearrangement a couple of years ago. One of the major changes was that all the alcohol, cosmetics, and personal hygiene supplies were moved to a separate section of the store with a supervised "choke point" through which customers had to enter/exit.

I asked the management why they did this, because it was chronically understaffed, and required customers effectively check out twice if they were buying items from this section and the rest of the grocery store. Their response was that it was the only practical option to keep the store open, because otherwise, the amount of shoplifting taking place was going to render the location unprofitable.

So yes, this is a very real possibility.
Of all the web based mobile app development services, FlutterFlow makes more sense as flutter has graduated to be a viable cross-platform development software and dart is well-suited for creating a visual programming tool.

I'm excited to see desktop applications built using FlutterFlow as desktop support for flutter is fast improving.

P.S. I've added FlutterFlow to my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com/ under Visual Programming. I wish you all the best.
Imagine a society similar to the internet where people roam hiding their identities while doing whatever comes to their head. We have great times ahead, in Mars. I’m seriously starting to consider buying those tickets after all.
"He wrote some stuff and somebody didn't like it" isn't a good faith description of what actually happened. I also don't know what it has to do with democracy.
I notice the commenters who agree that it seems to be biological are the ones who actually have children.

I have a two year old. He was raised with gender neutral toys and due to the pandemic largely in isolation from the rest of society for the last year with a lot of time spent with both parents. Moreover as the father I don't show strong interest in “typical” male interests like cars or football.

The first time my son saw a digger, he was hooked. He is completely enthralled with construction vehicles- dumper trucks, cement mixers etc. His favourite colour of Play Dough is "mud". He has dolls but they hold limited interest over his toolbench.

Before having children I would have said it was largely societal. But I've watched my son show strong preference to "boy" hobbies since he was able to show interest in anything and it was really quite surprising how "boyish" he turned out to be considering we tried to give him equal opportunity for all activities. Of course you can never rule out external influences entirely but I remain convinced the difference is biological.
> Nope.

I don't know if 2020+ EVs are louder, but at least our Fiat 500e does make this tiny whirring sound at parking lot speeds, supposedly so pedestrians can hear it. But it is so quiet that it doesn't accomplish much. Even the quietest ICE car is substantially more audible in parking lots.
> The $50k Cybertruck gets you 300 miles.

The Cybertruck gets you nothing. It doesn't exist.
Dev.to is banned by HN so that’s limiting.
If you were a cop in SF would you be brave enough to chase criminals and arrest shoplifters? I wouldn't. Way too much Monday morning risk.
Shutting down college campuses? Hear of the 1960s? Sit Ins? We had a little of that in the 80s around Sout Africa and, oh Alaska ANWAR. Shutdown wallstreet toxics campaign. It is different now but in just the way everything that the Internet touches changes.
Most people like yourself are publishing pseudonymously.

If you are building your personal brand with your writing and can’t publish pseudonymously, then maybe don’t, until you’re free enough to not need the Apples of the world.
Research carried out using NetBSD
Not building shelters is only part of the problem. SF can't build any housing. It's also astonishingly inefficient to build homeless shelters in one of the most expensive cities in the country. That, and it induces demand from other homeless people in the region who flock to the city for its services (some already do this). On the other hand, the state housing homeless people somewhere outside Bakersfield isn't morally viable, either.
I've often theorized that what we call "American exceptionalism" (and similarly Canadian, Australian, and New Zealandese) is made up of the fact these countries are very heavily populated with early-generation, by-choice immigrants.

The population was effectively self-selected for those ambitious enough to emigrate, and in many areas, tame a new frontier and/or start businesses. They were then dumped in an environment highly supportive to it (cheap land and natural resources, rapid technical advancement providing huge vistas of economic opportunity) That probably has a significant ripple effect for a few generations. (The "Grandpa had to swim across the Atlantic and learn English and sweep floors to get started, so he's going to ride his kids to make sure they get the most of their education" pattern)

On the other hand, I suspect there's some toxic counterfactors in that; the celebration of bootstrap-pullers tends to encourage "I've got mine" attitudes and may end up underserving parts of the community that would benefit from more social support and community services.
In Texas you could shoot them. We don't have that problem here. But guns are bad and so are Texans, apparently.
It was a temporary exhibition
(Nov 13, 2017–Apr 8, 2018)
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3863

It is exasperating to hear you complaining because an art show didn't treat tech in the depth you would have liked. The focus was works made by artists (not "exhibits") and it sounds like the GP is just not the target audience for that. It is certainly true that contemporary art's take on tech is shallow and more about a vibe or an aesthetic than about, let's say, rigorous exposition or exploration of technicalities.

As a person with a computer background who also has an MA in fine art, I often find that what happens to be on show in local galleries is "not for me". A show by Lucy Raven et al, for example, made a fuss about LUTs in image processing as if they were some kind of dark art. This can be a frustrating feeling until I remember that no creative expression can possibly address everyone. Once I remember that, I don't feel the need to write a dismissive review of the artist's work; it is a relief to be able to move on to search for material (artistic or technical) which is more stimulating.

I think the GP's experience with the MoMA show can be understood in terms of the Gell-Mann effect: mass culture treats a topic you know well, and it seems shallow to you. Is everything the museum shows equally shallow, when seem from the "right" perspective? I don't know what that would even mean.

We know that the Gell-Mann effect isn't really an argument that the newspaper trivializes and distorts everything to the point that it does more harm than good.

It feels important not to get cynical and come to a damning conclusion about the art world based on similar reasoning.
To quote Ralf Gommers (post 16 in the thread) [0]:

> The issue with CUDA 11 in particular is not just that CUDA 11 is huge, but that anyone who wants to depend on it needs to bundle it in, because there is no standalone cuda or cuda11 package. It’s also highly unlikely that there will be one in the near to medium future because (leaving aside practicalities like ABI issues and wheel tags), there’s a social/ownership issue. The only entities that would be in a position to package CUDA as a separate package are NIVIDIA itself, or the PyPA/PSF. Both are quite unlikely to want to do this. For a Debian, Homebrew or conda-forge CUDA package it’s clear who would own this - there’s a team and a governance model for each. For PyPI it’s much less clear. And it took conda-forge 2 years to get permission from NVIDIA to redistribute CUDA, so it’s not like some individual can just step in and get this done.

https://discuss.python.org/t/what-to-do-about-gpus-and-the-b...
So when will journals start requiring a separate team has replicated the results before publication?
The mayor lives in a different neighborhood, but that one also has paid patrols iirc.
They absolutely have not “paid their debt to society” unless they can undo the felony. You can’t pay back the debt of raping someone or stabbing them or killing them. Even if they let you out of jail.
Reminds me of when Facebook was busy banning and censoring Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi Kurds while ISIS was openly recruiting on Facebook.
I lived in San Franciso for a few years (2010 to 2015) and hung around with some of the "low class" people, and this theft spike doesn't surprise me at all. It was already astronomical while I was there.

San Francisco is a strange place, where the only places you're allowed to be poor are in the tenderloin, 6th and market, or the projects. It's the only place I've lived where I regularly had to dodge human excrement on the sidewalks, car windows are all smashed, deodorant is locked down in the stores etc.

The poor don't consider themselves of the same people as the rich. The infrastructure is not for the poor, the police are not for the poor, the parks and sidewalks and houses and cars are not for the poor. Hell, while I lived there the poor weren't even allowed to sit or lie down! So why should they feel any civic pride or duty or identification at all? It's like some sort of Elysium and Deponia. The Elysians are so far removed from reality that crimes against them are hardly crimes at all as far as the poor are concerned. They'll never taste of the good things Elysium has, so why even care? Better to just grab whatever you can from them and try to eke out whatever existence you're able to. It's similar in many ways to the bandit camps and highwaymen of the Roman era.

I've traveled and lived in many places, and this sort of behavior only happens when there's massive inequality, tempered a small amount by the severity of the law.

I know this will get downvoted to hell because almost everyone on HN is rich, so they're blind to this. For you, the answer is better policing and stronger laws, because those are the only things that can help keep you separated from the rest unless you're rich enough to afford private security.
A lot of people get into software because we love to make things that are useful and we love world of elegance and beauty that algorithms and abstractions allow us. We tolerate but don’t support the people that want to become some rich and famous person. I cannot tell the difference during an interview, fortunately, but you can after a while of working with people.
Apple pulled it off with the audio notification for Apple Pay payment complete sound. Reminiscent of The Good Place.
True(ly) funny.
Agreed. I've listened to and enjoyed several of his debates (as a Christian, no less) and mourn the loss of him.

He was a formidable and worthy opponent on the debate stage, and by all accounts one of the most kind, thoughtful, personable, and affable people off the stage.
I feel people completely forgot -- for the right reasons obviously -- the disaster that was IHTML. https://web.archive.org/web/20030526173831/http://www.idude.... run.
The hardest part of blogging is having something interesting or valuable to say.

I assume everything on Medium is professionally stupid, based on what I've read there so far.
If you want a "Pi-V" (yes, I do mean a hypothetical RaspberryPi5 running on RISCV, with even a performance increase over the Pi4), then this board is a HUGE leap forward towards that goal.

The spec, the design, the implementation, everything? Is advancing. And this DevBoard with a limited use-life? Is a stepping stone in that process.

It is released to the public to allow developers to begin building for what comes later, and to help finance this growth.

It is a strange process, isnt it? But hey, that last part (the money) of the process is both the strangest, most perverse, and most essential bit to continue development.

But hey, what are you gonna do, abolish the need for Capital to advance our society? Because the alternatives are quitting, or being overly beholden to at least one manufacturer.
The nostalgia is great in this one. Back in my Windows webdev days UltraEdit and HeidiSQL were the tools that got 90% of the job done. You didn't even have to rely on PuTTY with UE due to its auto sync features.

Those were simpler days.
I live in SF, it's normal to see someone run out of a Walgreens while an employee tells another employee not to chase the person down (because they don't want to get injured). There's no accountability for theft.

Don't need to send someone to jail, but there's gotta be something better than shrugging shoulders.
I can say it's rare for me to think introspectively like that. If I have a moment to reflect I almost always distract myself with my phone. My mind is on the moment unless I force it otherwise or right before bed.
Windows 7 is covered by paid Extended Support Updates (ESU) till Feb 2023 even.
Yes I was. And actually, now I’m using a 1600p ultrawide with the M1 and it’s completely silent.
How about a snare or a net trap? They're non-lethal and restrain people until the authorities arrive. (Obviously I'm joking.)
TBH, I first struggled to see if this was a mock website.

Film festival laurels galore, the world's best text editor, best results, best support, best usability. I mean, how best can a text editor be?
A lot of publishing is for building ones personal brand so you can get jobs, speaking engagements, invitations to cool parties, etc. can’t really do that psuedonymously.
Any way to read the article without giving your email away?
Wha... what?

If the people who were police were better able to keep cool instead of jumping to shoot people in the face in fear... all that would be left would be the criminally insane?

And somehow we'd have less controlled application of protocol?

What the hell are you talking about?

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Police would finally fit the shoes they claim they're walking in: https://youtu.be/HPRmzpGyycY

There really would be a line that separates them from the "rest of us", and anti-police sentiment would be a hell of a lot weaker. I mean, how often do we have national anti-firefighter sentiment? Maybe when police use them to mow down humans?

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If being a police officer is just about carrying a gun and looking out for number one, all we're looking for is people who don't hesitate to pull a trigger.

Just realize, lowering the bar to "willing to shoot to protect self the moment anything threatens me" is a hell of a lot lower than "willing to put other's lives at similar value to mine, even if it risks my own".

Ironically the lower bar sounds like how attract to the "criminally insane/psychopathic unfazed by the utilization of violence"... to become police.
Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware
> cannabis legalization.

Because there was so. much. money. in it. Both from tax revenue and from reduction in policing costs.
Not a Mac user or developer, poking at the source code because I might be interested in building a Linux equivalent. Why is code so damn complicated these days? What does all this crap do? Why isn't the source code of things these days 100% human-readable?

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What if it was assault and battery or grand theft? Wouldn't someone feel justified that they were going to be punched in the face or have their phone stolen while around the person thus creating a hostile work environment? In this case, it was something someone said outside of work which is a whole other level of paranoia.
Sounds like someone that afraid of shoplifters shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun, or really have any punitive enforcement capabilities on anyone.

Cops are the whiniest babies. Everyone else does their job without self-crucifixion at every opportunity. “Wow I’d really like to ruin this persons life but paperwork”. So much wrong with this mentality
For me, I learned back in middle school that imagining an erotic
fantasy would drive away any real thoughts and make me sleep almost instantly.
UTF-8 can represent any Unicode code point. If there is a character that it can’t represent, then that’s because that character is not encoded in Unicode; it has nothing to do with UTF-8 itself.
You jump over turnstile without an amazon account.
Once in, you take what you want and leave.
"Your labour and are not owed because they got lucky, they are owed because that is what you are exchanging with the lord for the privilege to work this land"

"Your labour and skills are not owed because they got lucky, they are owed because that is what you are exchanging with the owner to pay back your debt and earn your freedom"

You can use that logic to justify any oppression as long as you frame it in the language of property. It's not a valid argument - you don't have a choice but to exchange for money because you're in a position where you have no choice but to engage in oppressive social structures or face the violence of the state if you want to survive.

It's not a choice. You have a (metaphorical) pistol to your head to engage with the system as it is, die, or be killed.

Its really not so different from what your ancestors as serf or as debt slaves in antiquity might have lived.

As long as you live in a society where private property in absentia (ultimately based on theft, might I add) exists, the "choice" to exchange is colored by violence and is far from truly free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group#United_States You're just not going to find a list of protected classes in the United States that doesn't include religion, edge cases notwithstanding.
The first one is a perlin vector field plus a deformation. I haven't heard of those artists but I will look them up.

On the brush: That's a chinese calligraphy brush. I spent a bunch of time making a bearing holder to let the brush swivel freely. It didn't work. The brush is very, very hard to get to behave. A human will tilt it slightly in order to get the bristles to go in the right direction, but the CNC machine keeps everything completely orthogonal. Works for pens but not brushes.

Edit: Keith Peters' algorithmic stuff ( http://www.artfromcode.com/ ) does seem to share a lot of the same underlying techniques. Perlin flow fields and hex truchet tiles especially.
It sounds like it may have been a pretty awful partnership for both Bill and Melinda. I can't imagine how it would feel to have it all, as far as many key measures of success are concerned, and yet constantly have this feeling of a psychological thorn in your side.
Amigas have a Help key. I can't think of any software that actually uses it, though.
I thought Tesla was primarily a battery company?
How much intersection do you think there is between people who shoplift at CVS and people who have something to lose if they get a fine?
My favorite Polish language-related computer problems:

1. windows installing both programmers' and typists' Polish keyboard layouts by default + shortcut to change between them (I think it was alt+shift+space or even alt+space ?). Most people had no idea there even are 2 layouts and if they randomly pressed this shortcut and logged out - the next time they tried to log in - Z and Y are switched and if they had Z or Y in their password - they can't log in. This one caused millions of support calls.

2. corporate computers with English and Polish layout installed - if you happen to have layout switched to English and try to write an email in outlook - you will likely start with "cześć" ("hi") and when you press alt+s for "ś" it will send the "cze" as the full email. "cze" is very casual "hi" like writing a business email: "yo".

3. same as above but in eclipse with some version control plugins alt+s committed the code. Especially frustrating in cvs/svn.

4. python2 code often breaks if you have Polish letters embedded in code as string literals. It depends on the default system coding page vs default python coding page and other stuff, for some reason it's not utf-8 by default in python2. The solution is to use python3 or mess up with the default settings.
> The problem is that there's no real evidence that being tough on crime is a very effective way of solving the problem.

But this article was just arguing against your point. The crime enforcement laws were relaxed and the crime rose. It is obvious that allowing law enforcers to enforce the law reduces crime. Some people in SF are losing their jobs when the stores close you know? These crimes are not victimless.
I remote edit with ST. I choose File | Open to get the native Open dialog, type 'sftp://my.dev.server' and press Enter. Username and password logs me in. Then I navigate to the folder I want, and open a file or folder in ST.

I don't use VS Code. How do you do it there that is so much better?
> seeking equality and justice

Equality of outcome or opportunity? That matters. I'd support one but not the other. I lived under Communism until 1989 and I know what equal outcome looks like after decades of having its run. There is no incentive to excel and all the incentives to conform because equality comes before merit. After some time the whole society slides into poverty.

What I don't like is to put ideology over humans, meaning to prefer abstractions and reifications over concrete realities and ignore those realities. Fighting for justice on a societal level can often be blind to personal details. It's usually us vs them and personal details don't matter, in that regard it's similar to war, dehumanising their opponents in order to make them legitimate targets.
This is a great point. I don't see why somebody should be able to steal my motorcycle- the object of my affection- and me being helpless. What's next, somebody kidnaps my girlfriend and I have to watch them take her away?
> Does anyone have ideas on how that may be achieved - what a correct incentive structure for research might look like?

Perhaps start with removing tax payer money from the system.

Stop throwing good money after bad.
My tiny contribution is within main.swift. The heavy lifting is done by the CoreImage/Vision API, and a library that interfaces with Screen Capture.

You can achieve the same thing using Tesseract on Linux, or even better quality using Google Vision.
I’m still back on V1.0 but I’ve been happy with ghost.

https://ghost.org/