skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people blame SF's prosecutor but that makes no sense, this is a policing problem. The police is lazy and won't do their job. The police union sees their role as deflecting blame while working as little as possible and collecting their six figure salaries. The reason to defund the police is because they're awful at their jobs, throwing more money after bad won't help.

I know I'll be downvoted here because people already have their police-good progressives-bad narrative all set. But if you actually looked into SFPD's clearance rate you would know they're incompetent.
This page from countthings.com makes it obvious that counting things isn’t all that trivial:
https://countthings.com/en/counting-templates
I’m not taking offense wt your statement, but do want to say: You are being unkind to Somalia. I’m serious.

The perception of Somalia is skewed heavily by western news for the simple reason that the Somali people rebuffed the attempted invasion by US & UK proxy forces. (Guessing you most Americans don’t know that even happened.)

Somaliland isn't somewhere I would want to live, but I would pick it over the Bay Area. With an arrangement with the tribal elders, one would be safe, and property crimes like this would be dealt with by a judge. Unlike in SF.
http://chuck.stanford.edu/

Another interesting one is Chuck, a strongly-timed language. :)

Useful for making musical programs.
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It mostly does not. San Jose still has deep trouble with homeless camps, that is getting worse (and more widespread) year by year, so I imagine crime will get worse - thought not as bad as in SF, most Valley municipalities aren't as insane as the shining beacon of insanity in San Francisco, neither their inhabitants would likely tolerate these levels of craziness for long.
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I hope everyone in this thread talking about feeling unsafe understands they can leave San Francisco. Lived in the Tenderloin for almost 4 years now and this type of discussion always fills my throat with bile. Haven’t posted on HN for a long time but wanted to emphasize how little I think of this rhetoric. “Progressive policies”? Use your words.
This argument assumes that authors are free to choose other publishing venues. In truth, the present regulatory regime in most countries uses publishing records as a major indicator of research quality, making it desirable or researchers to publish in as high-impact journals as possible. As a tragedy of the commons, the upside of a high-impact publication for the researcher is much larger than the marginal cost of buying access to that same work.

Even for well-established researchers who are not themselves dependent on publishing track-record, there will most often be junior researchers on the team who are.
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You don’t get to point to centuries of free speech tradition as a justification while you advocate directly for undoing some of that tradition. That’s not a credible argument.
Why? I mean, you can't tell people their life depends on knowing something and then not tell them.
I've been using a TV as screen for increased real estate and I must say I'm happy
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decarceration, even for repeat violent criminals and no penalties for property crime.
> authors can publish in any journal they choose, including open access journals

Not if they want to have their academic jobs and get grant funding for their research. The entities that have sweetheart deals with companies like Elsevier aren't scientists; they're universities and governments. And universities and governments control academic jobs and grant funding.

The real fix is for it to be required by law that any research that was funded by government grants must be published with open access.
Sometimes all you need are ideas or suggestions to get your project going.

I have design questions all the time that are vague because it’s a design choice that SO can’t help with but does that mean someone can’t offer guidance on how to solve a certain problem?
If this company depends on engineers to create its product, I don't think it will survive much longer. If I were in your position, I'd start looking for a new job at a better-managed company.
There are a lot of homeless and SF is indeed in shit hole in a lot of areas, but I don't understand people who say they wouldn't visit because it's not safe or whatever.

Looking at crime rate rankings [0], SF is pretty low compared to other US cities both in terms or violant crimes and property crimes. What am I missing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
https://news.ycombinator.com

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you probably saved it as an inkscape svg instead of an optimized svg. it is a bit confusing, but the former is basically the equivalent to the inkscape-native file format, and the latter will remove things specific to inkscape
They just elected him a year ago. He didn't change since then. He promised to do exactly what he did - release criminals from jails to the streets, reduce policing and de-emphasize small crime enforcement. This is exactly what is happening now. Why would anybody want to recall him for doing exactly what they elected him to do?
SF's areas of poverty are mixed in with the highly visited areas and aren't really getting gentrified. Its easy to make a wrong turn. When you lived in NY did you go north of 110th st or further east then williamsburg?
It looks like the Belarus KGB was on the flight anyway - presumably the journalist was being followed/tracked:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/belarus-seizur...
SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin ran for office in November 2019 focusing his campaign on ending mass incarceration with restorative justice models, rather than punitive incarceral methods.

Since then crime in SF has absolutely exploded, fuelled by proposition 47 which reduced stealing less than $900 day to a misdemeanor. Add in a massive opioid crisis and the result is a rapidly growing crisis of shoplifting, petty theft, home invasions, carjacking and general armed thuggery.

The rapidly growing homeless population ( half US homeless are in California with migrants arriving daily) makes the situation worse with drug dealers preying on the vulnerable. I lived in San Francisco for close to 25 years and am now 50 miles north. I'll be in the city tomorrow. I have never seen it this bad, or seen so many predators watching and waiting to strike.

It's still a beautiful place, but you really need to keep your wits about you and stay aware at all times.
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This is performative politics, the people writing are hoping that the courts will strike it down so that they get all the benefits of signing the law without the headache of ever needing to implement the law. This is good electoral politics, but awful for our society.
Neither are they “prominent”, nor do they “check facts”.

Someone has to be the arbiter of the truth. I’d rather it be courts and some legal process, or even the government rather than some so called “prominent fact checking organisation”.
The issue with that statement is that iterators don't have to. Rust guarantees that condition. Safe Rust can't return multiple mutable references to the same value.

So how does Vec return mutable references to elements? Unsafe code, apparently. You can't write your own safe collection class with an iterator and return mutable references. You'd need a proof of disjointness system to do that.

The question is whether a piece of encapsulated code is always memory-safe for all uses. There's no guarantee of that from the language. That is ultimately impossible to prove completely and statically.

One can construct code for which memory safety is not decidable. That's a good reason to reject it. The Microsoft Static Driver Verifier has a simple solution - if symbolic execution can't verify safety within some time limit, it rejects the driver.
SF is a weird city crime wise, lots of property crime and theft. Occasional shootings but nothing like a rust belt war zone city.

San Francisco’s crime is mostly inconvenient for rich people, that’s why it’s in the news.

St. Louis is the 13th most dangerous city in the world but you won’t hear about it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-mo...
>My story originally happened to run on the same day the New York Times did a piece on the growing problem of shoplifting in the city and the reluctance of local law enforcement to police minor thefts. Clearly, this is a trend that will not play well politically and will result in changes sooner rather than later.

I found this naive optimism almost hilarious. SF is in no way about to magically get better once voters finally wake up to how terrible their choices have been over the previous decades. The city's disintegration was a long time in the making and is beyond fixable.
Commenting has taken a _marked_ downturn the past 4-6 years, I know exactly the comments in any Apple/Google/Facebook/MS article and exactly what not to say if I want to keep karma.

You are unfortunately, correct. A good agglomeration of nerdy subreddits, but nonetheless, reddit. Arguably worse than Reddit because it agglomerates a higher number of people across a variety of subjects in an unnatural way.
Agreed, all riders should be able to stop before their event horizon. So if you can't whip blind corners on crowded paths if you would hit someone who is a the worst spot on the turn.

I ride a lot of bike paths. I don't like hollering or ringing. I just slow down and let people hear my hub if need be. They can take their time.
You are correct; my original definition that only went till `copy` was encountered is only the most common case of your more general definition.

The principles are still quite similar and it still seems easier to implement to me than shallow copies as a generic trait.

I don't know how I would fit shallow copies into Rust's trait system.
You're missing that the data in that page is from 2017, and Chesa Boudin didn't become DA until 2020.
At this point, Chesa Boudin might as well give the thieves a pat on the back and congratulate them for their enterprising spirit.
What's the point? His policies are what the local population were asking or even begging for. Even if the recall is successful, you will just get you a carbon copy. He is not using his position of power to abuse a powerless electorate, so why not let the local experiment go on?

Even if you are against it, you should still want that experiment to continue right? Otherwise you would get people claiming that x policy wasn't actually tried for real and that y opposition made it fail before it could bear fruits. NYC went bankrupt right before it came back and reached one of it's peaks. And maybe hitting the bottom of the barrel was what it needed.
I'll bite. Can you please expand on what you mean by this?
That is indeed some black and white thinking! The US executive is a whole lot more trustworthy than most others. In fact, your very prosperity and freedom depends on this truth to a larger degree than you might want to admit.

And it is not clear that Snowden tried "the proper way". He says so, but he doesn't want to prove that in court. Instead he defects to an enemy state and cooperates with their intelligence services. And yes, he did defect and cooperate, the only question is what exactly he did (and still does) and how much of all of this was his intention.

The crimes Snowden committed, if any (it's not clear he could even be convicted), are absolutely legitimate. Publishing secrets you were sworn to keep secret has to be punishable. If someone decides to break those laws, out of ethical considerations, they must also face the consequences.
It would be unusable. Porn is legal, gore is legal, hate speech is legal, as is any threat that’s not likely to cause “specific and imminent lawlessness”.

The bar for the government being able to legally suppress speech is purposefully very, very high. This is good when it comes to keeping the power of the state out of matters it shouldn’t be involved in, but this is bad when you’re trying to make a social media platform usable by anyone but the absolute dregs of society.

Content moderation is very, very hard, but people actually want it. There’s a reason why people stay on Twitter while whining on Twitter rather than going to 4chan or 8kun
"Progressive Bad" isn't really the takeaway here. It turns out nuance is important. Questionable policies combined with a complex socioeconomic situation due to decades of perverse incentives isn't, in fact, an optimal strategy of governance.
I am saying they are lying and so should you. You are engaging in a losing battle trying to argue these people into sense.
Some Maps and statistics to confirm or refute one’s perception about San Francisco:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

https://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/sanfrancisco

I should add that I am not a US citizen nor I live in the US. I live in a 10 million inhabitants south American capital, where Tv reports on crimes of all sorts committed every day. I, however, have not been robbed in the last twenty five years. Sometimes personal experiences do not reflect geography and statistics.

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Fair enough. I don't actually know that much about Somalia other than the (probably outdated) impression that it's a place that literally has no government.
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I wish I had seen the deleted comment. My take was obvious, but it was intended as a compliment to the creator of the piece, not to incite argument. Still, I'm curious to know why I got trolled for it.
Policies of not prosecuting criminals.
I actually don't know if the crime rate in SF is higher than elsewhere, but if it is I think cause is the opposite. It's what happens when capitalism goes unchecked. Cost of living is on the rise while wages are stagnant. Crimes are often committed by people who are desperate. Also there are no facilities for people who are mentally ill, who will go on to commit crimes.
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You're "missing" that San Francisco's policies (and to a degree California's as a whole) are always used as political footballs. Whatever the perceived issue is, it's always clearly due to [insert controversial policy and/or politician here, whether the controversy is genuine or imagined] and a sign of why San Francisco is always [the way of the future|an object lesson to others].
@cosmicexplorer I just donated some money this weekend to help tihs kid and her grandmother escape the Tenderloin. Supervisor Matt Haney is in cloud cuckoo land, the local politicians are ideological idiots. This is a disaster for the D party (I'm a registered Democrat).

Kids shouldn't be growing up in streets littered with dead and dying addicts shooting up while drug dealers hover over them. It is an absolute disgrace.
https://twitter.com/DTenderloine

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> Politicians are bound by literal centuries of free speech tradition and precedent. I trust them much more than I trust activists in Bay Area meeting rooms who believe that a company's mission should be promoting a worldview they got from Tumblr and Twitter.

But...that centuries of tradition means that companies, whether as a result of activists in meeting rooms or otherwise, get to make those decisions, and politicians don’t. By transferring that power from private actors deciding what ideas to use their own resources to transmit and promote to politicians, you would terminate that free speech tradition.
I have been using tsoa to generate API documentation from TypeScript types.
https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa

Example project: https://github.com/RaedsLab/demo-project/blob/master/backend...
> Also, I've always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don't regret it.

It’s much nicer, if you can stand suburbia, and more technology oriented than SF, which used to simply be the Valley’s bedroom community.
not sure i like the complete separation of the tabs from the rest of the browser. makes it seem disconnected and thus uncorrelated which tab corresponds to what is being rendered.
i use it for all my icon creation needs, i like it just fine. it's not what i would call intuitive in terms of workflow but i get the feeling that vector graphics in general just aren't
I would agree with this seeing public statements by LASD (Villeneueva) here in LA and his colleagues in Riverside and Orange Counties, as well as counterparts in police unions, and also unofficial chatter on twitter and elsewhere. It's not so much "progressive policies: lax on crime" vs. a reform prosecutor is in town, and I suspect there is deliberate pullback by the police unions, to let crime increase and get them voted out and replaced by a more cop-friendly prosecutor.

Factor in a not insignificant dose of squeamishness among police rank and file due to the pandemic (not unreasonable since first responders are at a higher risk of exposure) and policing isn't really optimal at the moment; at a time when the current economics foster desperation.
Policing problem? SF police is explicitly forbidden from arresting anyone for most misdemeanors. Criminals just get a citation, a court date, and are set on their way.
I've lived in both SF and north of 110th street in NYC. I frequently visit tough parts of Bedstuy. There is absolutely no comparison - the worst parts of SF is much more dangerous than the worst parts of NYC. Expensive shithole is an appropriate description.
All I heard was "We're going to break your plugins again, because reasons".
I love PowerShell too, but I think the real barrier to adoption is that it's just too slow.
People are going to have unsafe sex for the entirety of human existence, period. Even during the height of the HIV epidemic in the 80s they were still doing it. We should accept that truth and work now to be prepared for the next pandemic.

If you insist on people using condoms just in case a novel virus is circulating, then we should all be wearing masks too at all times well into the future. Respiratory viruses can be just as bad as sexually transmitted ones.
I actually think NIMBYism isn't a San Francisco specific problem. It was just brought to the forefront because many people decided to move there all of a sudden. But the reality is most popular places have people choosing to protect their property values.
I remember when Twitter was not an "SPA", it wasn't great either.
Somaliland is an autonomous region seeking to break away from the larger Somalia and get international recognition as an independent nation. From what I hear, it is a relatively peaceful and orderly place
The anecdotes I have heard are that "culture of fear" is just Oracle.
You can easily buy a roll of them as stickers for a few cents each, no special machinery needed to apply.
Still with the BS arguments. There is a world of difference between a justice system like in the US and the one in Belarus.

If you can't see that, how can you ever defend democracy?

But you probably don't ever need to, because the US system is already quite trustworthy (despite a lot of faults) and on average does quite well.
It seems like a group of 10 concerned citizens could get together and steal $9000 per day from Chesa Boudin until he realizes this is a bad policy.
Capitalism isn't what's happening in SF.

NIMBYism, cronyism, inability to build, tons of regulatory red tape to do anything, high taxes, etc. is not capitalism.
Special Olympics and events already exist for mentally ill put them there they sort of belong
Compared to Medellín or Fallujah, it's probably even more safe. But I don't go to these places either. And compared to, say, just going to the beach, going there is much more dangerous, with pretty much zero benefits - even if I don't get mugged (which I most likely won't - I don't have anything valuable on me and I don't look like somebody inviting to be messed with) I will just end up being pissed off about how disgusting it all became. And then there's a risk they break a window in my car just because, if I go in a car. Or I step in somebody's poop. Why would I need all that trouble?
> This was my third time in SF.

> Also, I've always refused to move to Silicon Valley

> The author is in denial.

> it is a really expensive shithole

I'm always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a tourist and think "I'm qualified to shit on people who choose to live here". What makes you think you have any say in the situation?

SF has massive neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck. So what? That's the case in a ton of cities. I've lived in a neighborhood here for 7 years that has low crime, no shit on the streets, and is generally a great place to live.

Yeah, we've got a shit DA right now which hurts the city with increased petty crimes. We'll turn it around eventually.
Well they are getting paid like 500k no?
Okay that looks super interesting, I know what new thing I’m going to fiddle with while my girlfriend grumbles that I’m not paying attention to whatever we’re supposed to be watching this week ;)
I’m not seeing what’s new here compared to github, figshare, zenodo, overleaf, authorea, etc. Github is actively used for scientific papers and code development. Heck, there are open journals that are based on github for both the paper submission and review process (see Journal of Open Source Software). Figshare and Zenodo are used for artifact hosting and citation. Overleaf and Authorea are used for collaborative editing and publishing to journals and archive sites. Publons exists for tracking peer review activity. All of these have some collaboration with institutions pushing the open science movement forward, be it large research institutions like CERN, non-profits, universities, funding agencies, etc. I don’t see any connection of Researchhub to the open science movement - just some “founders in San Francisco”.

I really don’t see what this adds other than a cryptocurrency component and a leaderboard. I’m not convinced that the missing component in modern science is some form of internet points.

[Disclaimer: I’m a couple decades post-PhD, actively working as a researcher the whole time on all sides : publishing my work, peer reviewing others, and the editorial side helping the whole process work. I am very happy to see progress towards making science work better, but have learned to be super skeptical of startups sniffing opportunities in this space.]
Actually, no, the problem isn't so much with the police as with the district attorney's office. The police can arrest these people, but it's entirely pointless when the DA won't prosecute them and they're back on the street in 24h with no penalty for their crimes whatsoever. I can't blame the police for not even bothering to arrest people they know will be let go immediately.