skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes there is no direct victim. Whose the direct victim of public urination or jay walking?
I’m not saying they should be legal it’s just nobody really gets traumatized if someone crosses the street without right of way.
Stretching the definition of Metaverse also gets you the bank/exchange/commerce areas of major MMO's where little to no gameplay occurs, just people chatting through their avatars.
Used to walk to the office in SF. No more.
Impressive how "low-tech" some products look. It is sad armed conflicts still involves human lives.
This was worth it just to see the slide referencing "Liquid Tensor Experiment", a on pun on Liquid Tension Expermient:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSU0xBGfkfg
Ok, but... airplanes use the least land?
Chesa Boudin was elected in November 2019 on a progressive platform centered on ending mass incarceration. DA Boudin personally understands the impact of incarceration; both of his parents were incarcerated (for Murder) throughout his childhood and his father is still in prison.

San Francisco residents deserve to reap the fruits of their Prophet.
"I know when I’m quoting."

or so you say <g>
It inflates the prices of desirable areas because there is less housing available to purchase, especially for the currently renting tenants who ostensibly wish to someday become homeowners.
> Everyone can keep saying this, but if the "autocoup" is so plainly obvious then why hasn't a single person been charged with a relevant crime?

Dozens of people have been charged, and a founding lifetime member of the Oath Keepers has plead guilty, to relevant crimes, to wit, unlawfully entering the Capitol with the intent to influece, obstruct, and/or interfere with the electoral vote count, and/or conspiring to do so.

Its not like “attempt or conspiracy to effect an autocoup” is a separate offense under the US Code.
Police reform does not mean the police should not exist. It means the police should be reformed. So that is a strawman argument.

Equating police reform with being anti-police plays right into propaganda.
This is beautiful. I'd pay for this.
We talked about different kind of crimes.

For example, the Walgreen robbing incident is a non-violent crime because nobody confronted the thieves.

I have no idea if breaking car window is considered a violent crime.
Yeah, I read that book, and have it on my shelves, and it has not a single fucking thing to do with the issue in this thread.
This explains the sign outside of my local Coop saying they were closed due to IT issues. I imagined it was a catastrophic scenario either from a ransomware or some really bad roll out.
There was a discussion today on NPR about Venice Beach and how they're providing housing to those living on/near the pier so people are migrating up from other neighborhoods to take advantage. It's only a couple hundred people total but it's still an interesting experiment.
True, but lack of police enforcement has led to greater numbers of homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets, vandalism, assault, robbery, etc. Greater police presence is an excellent deterrent for homeless misbehavior and crime. Otherwise there is no limitation on what those unhoused persons can do, thus exacerbating the problem. It may not have caused it, but the lack of police is certainly not helping it
No problem /s, the CEO of Kaseya says:

"I am proud to report that our team had a plan in place to jump into action and executed that plan perfectly today. We’ve heard from the vast majority of our customers that they experienced no issues at all, and I am grateful to our internal teams, outside experts, and industry partners who worked alongside of us to quickly bring this to a successful outcome.

Today’s actions are a testament to Kaseya’s unwavering commitment to put our customers first and provide the highest level of support for our products."
Jaywalking is one thing but public urination victimizes everyone who is near the area.
Does this logic apply to policing, too?

> crime was lower before the defund movements

Remind me, did anything else happen in 2020 that might have had an impact on crime?
It would be nice if they voted in new people (read: republicans) based on this. I think the city would be improved with some different ideas in government.
That cartoon unintentionally proves the point of those who oppose Defund: The author either intentionally or accidentally discards the stones marked "Theft", "Gang Violence", and "Domestic Violence." Who should response to a gang shooting, a theft, or someone in the middle of beating up their spouse/partner, if not the police?
The current situation is technically better than it was 50 years ago. However, there is a big scale that goes from perfect totalitarianism to perfect freedom and it is pretty much always a good idea to be applying pressure in the freedom direction because big institutions (like governments) naturally attract people who want totalitarianism.

And the first amendment is a really good idea. It deserves a spirited defence no matter what the historical situation was. Media companies shouldn't be looking to or pressured governments to decide what is and isn't acceptable on their platform. If the ideal is impossible then the question of how close they can get must be asked.

In this case the answer is "much better than this". YouTube is setting up for more long term harm than good with its policies. Maybe even short term. I don't care if they like it or not, academics are exactly the sort of people who we should be allowing to voice "crazy" and "dangerous" ideas.

This has moved a long way on from when the coordinated takedown of Alex Jones was a controversy. Where is the line here?
I'm tempted to clone my backups to an unsecure computer deliberately infected with ransomware that exfiltrates data so that I have a tertiary, albeit very expensive, offsite backup. At least if I could negotiate negligible maintenance payments with a balloon payment should I ever need to pursue file restoration.

But if REvil etc. are going to branch out like that, they really need to follow the traditional protection racket and engage in, let's say, aggressive counter measures with the potential for rapid bodily disassembly of any competitors that come along.
Assuming it's a properly conducted and accurately reported survey, I would say no, except in the very postmodern sense that everything is "propaganda" of a sort, since what is chosen to report and how to report it is determined by the media, and is at least significantly influenced by those who own and control the media.
At least it's easy to use, i can't for the life of me install and set up agda for example.
Zero trust protects the servers, not the network, and not the data.

Protecting the data means encrypting it (which Google also does) such that the client needs a key to decode it.

But if the client is hacked, the hacker can get their keys! so encrypting the data isn't a magical cure-all.
This problem existed well before 2019.
Those things are, to at least some extent, caused by the things the artist is advocating doing a better job of fixing.

The whole point of the cartoon is that tackling the underlying causes of such issues might make them easier to fix.
This sounds like something Computer Associates would buy and keep alive for another decade.
this also happens in other major cities like NYC, Boston, etc… most of the local homeless are from small cities and towns and go to the city because they hear it’s better… and it is, because many small cities have next to no services for them

if you spread out the homeless proportionately to the population of the country it becomes a much more manageable problem
Considered to be progressive by whom? Like most of what passed for “progressive” in California, it’s generally a narrow set of issues to which the label might apply. A lot of SF is now dominated by the tech industry which is almost libertarian in its views, but for a narrow slice of identity politics.
Reality always catches up.
I think that means that if you memorize some GPL code, all code you write needs to be GPL'd, since you contain GPL code
I wonder if the Nomura Villa is ever open for public viewing?
Maybe there should be a separate indication of throttling so we don’t conflate with CPU usage.

Throttling is essentially determined by three factors: Energy usage, thermal saturation, and cooling. A bath tub analogy comes to mind: Energy usage represented by flow from a faucet, the heat sink is the water level in the tub, and the drain represents the cooling rate. Only energy usage could be plotted instantaneously while the others may have to be modeled and could change based on environmental factors.
Huh, I was going to send Luke a pull request, but he actually fixed this in late May [1]. Maybe he needs to re-generate the site?

[1] https://github.com/aip-dev/site-generator/commit/9fe7bdcf83c...
It's just a symptom of the neo-pseudo-scientific political system. I can find plenty of articles that "fact check" my gut instinct that deporting illegal immigrants who commit violent crime will reduce the violent crime. A cursory googling will remind me that SF's ban on handguns, licensed carry, and other gun restrictions protect me. After all, if I were in danger, the police average under 8 minutes response time on top priority calls. Every time I visit my family there, and remind myself not to pack sandals because of the number needles on the ground, I pull up my bookmarked journals reminding me that we can't be hard on drug use, even in public, because that makes the problem worse.

SF is a fantastic reminder that we cannot trust our gut instinct and logic on how to deal with the problems of society.

I look forward to the peer reviewed article explaining why this is just bias and misconception of the status quo. I used to enjoy my memories of playing ultimate frisbee barefoot in Delores park, as a young teenager, with no concern over safety taking public transit. But I must remember that my memories are subject to fallacies of their own. Likewise, those un-scooped poops I used to see were probably human, like they are now, I just didn't realize it then, because I was so naive.

The neo-liberal politics of finding, or creating the studies that support the policies that "feel good" and not the ones that actually tackle problems are making the problem worse. And like a snowdrift growing on a ledge, it will continue growing, until it collapses into an avalanche. The longer we let it grow, the more casualties we will see when the correction arrives.

I have family that's now leaving the city. Chesa Boudin and his policies was their personal tipping point
If hacker hack your systems, they get the decryption keys too. They just might need to hit two separate targets with two attacks or a attack that both are vulnerable to.
Intellectual property itself is silly. How can a thought be the property of someone ?
Secrecy is the solution if you don't want others to learn from you (like Coca-Cola does).
> The more common problem is the opposite. People who think they speak Japanese because they know what "-chan" means demand "unlocalized" works, by which they mean works translated into "English but we left in a few Japanese words the readers know".

Isn't "unlocalized" the base state? Just translate it, and don't replace the references with others? At least that's how I understand it.

> This provides essentially no benefit because the act of translating into English already removed way more meaning than a few honorifics can keep. Sometimes it even means translating Japanese words into other ones, since the readers don't even know every honorific, they just think they do.

Are we talking about the same things? What I refer to as localizations is when people substitute references for other references more familiar to the target audiance. It's not about losing something or not losing it, since by translating you always lose something, but creating an entirely new experience. The split is then on people that prefer a worse but more genuine experience (by that I mean closer to the original) vs the people that want a better but less genuine experience.

> Amateur translations also like to leave in English words in the original text, not knowing they have totally different meanings in Japan.

Localized vs unlocalized is a different debate from amateur vs professional translation I think.
Reducing Section 230 protections is a giveaway to Big Tech.

Remember that the thing Section 230 does is not that it permits you to moderate; the thing it does is that it permits you to moderate without taking liability for defamation posted by users (and other similar illegal content, but defamation was the motivating goal). One forum, CompuServe, didn't moderate anything, and wasn't held liable. Another forum, Prodigy, moderated a little bit and was. Lawmakers realized this created a clear incentive not to moderate, which goes backwards from the intended goal of defamation law of preventing defamatory speech. Hence Section 230.

You can still moderate in a world without Section 230, provided that you do so well enough to protect yourself from liability, and you have the resources to fight any cases that arise against you. Who has the ability to do that? Big Tech.

Platforms like Facebook will be able to cope with a weakened Section 230 just fine, while still moderating. They'll end up moderating much more aggressively, in fact, instead of deciding to host unmoderated content - because their paying customers are advertisers, not users, and advertisers don't want to pay to put ads on unmoderated forums. (Compare Facebook's advertising revenue with 4chan's.)

But it's the smaller platforms, like this very site, blogs with comment sections, hobbyist-run Mastodons, etc. that will have trouble. They, also, won't decide to post all content without moderation; even in the world as it already is, so many blogs decided to stop having comment sections because they become swamps full of spam. YC runs HN because it reflects well on them; if they were unable to moderate, it wouldn't be worth their time.

So a founder thinking of taking on Big Tech and making their own, better communication forum will realize that their options are to make an entirely unmoderated forum, something that people demonstrably won't prefer to the options they already have, or to spend a huge amount of time and money on moderating their forums as well as Big Tech does. And their potential investors will realize this too. And those companies just won't get started.

(You might say, if this is all true, why was Big Tech so opposed to the Trump DOJ's proposals to reform Section 230? They weren't, they loved those proposals. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/544707-facebooks-zucke... Remember that Big Tech is the enemy, and they control what you hear.)
I personally would be terrified to stop a thief in CA, because I suspect that the way CA laws are written, I would be crucified in court for daring to defend property, and most likely I would end up with an assault conviction or something. I'd be hesitant to take that risk even for my own property.
Sensor artifacts don't account for first-person eyewitness testimony from airforce pilots so they're out.

Either the pilots are telling the truth or they're lying. Sensor artifacts are totally implausible in both cases.
General Relativity Is Wrong
Is your computer too slow to keep up with your typing?
Shoplifting to that extent - pouring the contents of several shelves into a garbage bag and taking off - threatens the sustainability of businesses.

All these crimes have victims.
Most places deal with this via border restrictions. One country with better welfare does not allow themselves to be flooded with people from other countries. This problem can not be solved by one city without the ability to restrict movement.
The whole idea of jaywalking is just absolutely bonkers. Imaging making crossing the road a crime.
Rebuilding the entire IT deployment is prohibitively expensive.

Imagine if the solution to Covid was "the virus can spread to anyone, we need to replace all humans"
I am currently in Warsaw. I have lived in SF. The quality of life is astoundingly different. There nearly zero visible homelessness people. There are low levels of crime and none visible. There are hardly any murders or gun crime. Not much property crime. There are quite a lot of police, but no brutality that I have heard of. I feel safe walking around at night. People have health care, higher education, and employees have strong legal protections with sane working hours. Taxes are reasonable. There's a good tech job market.

As I was leaving SF, I watched a homeless man with no teeth pick a morsel of food out of the gutter and eat it.

I am not sure if it's a case of boiling the frog, but trust me when I say that SF has an absolutely shameful inability to solve it's problems and that a city that was no more than a crater 70 years ago absolutely shines in comparison. I would not believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Bridges change all the time too!
I'll share my experience as a proud SF resident of 6 years. The quality of life here decreased dramatically through 2020 for obvious reasons. Now, it seems like the city is much more alive. Restaurants, bars, etc are all open, parks are packed. The weather is still great. My coworkers are moving back to the Bay Area now, and we're all very excited to get to hang out again. Overall I'm much happier now than I was 6 months ago.

That being said, the most upsetting thing has been the loss of my friends who have left SF over the last year and a half to move other places. Losing your friends and community is much worse than losing a coffee shop. This is, to me, the biggest downside of SF: it's a temporary stopover for most people, and your roots will always be lain in thin soil.
> Intellectual property itself is silly. How can a thought be the property of someone ?

No category of intellectual property covers thoughts, so the question has no relevance to the preceding statement.
A crime can be non-violent without also being victimless.
Will never happen. SFers will keep voting for the wokest candidates, then quietly skip town when the expected consequences of woke policies arrive.
https://citymonitor.ai/government/the-reality-of-us-city-bud...

Compare with:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/19/alexandria-k...
I'm curious what the results would be if they polled the homeless there.
> I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store.

Be careful, such thinking is very frowned upon around here...
Shame these days all politics is national
"Defund the police" is mostly a shorthand for "federalize the police". Some people with little political power might interpret it literally, but they're not really calling the shots.
> I wonder what percentage of residents support the tax increases necessary to provide such services

It depends on how the question is phrased.

Few people want to pay more taxes.

Most people want a better society, not just for themselves, for everyone, since we are all connected.

The art of good government is asking the question in a way that shines a light to where 51% of people will dare to go, that many of the remainder will tolerat.
> but lack of police enforcement has led to greater numbers of homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets, vandalism, assault, robbery, etc.

From my experience, homelessness is not affected by police presence/enforcement other than to force them into other areas. An unhoused person has to go somewhere, so using police to approach that simply pushes them in larger numbers into other areas, making it someone else's problem. That seems like a huge waste of resources.
In bad taste, directed at shareholders, or misinformed?
Other than the reason he needed a liver transplant was because of evidence that the cancer had spread to his liver but not elsewhere...
Any public traded companies to look out for for potential investment?
Things will only change if enough paying customers complain loudly about it.
Humans can't get this stuff right every time either.

It's not like Colin Percival or Theo de Raadt , perfect as they are, could just audit and secure all of the Fortune 500.
Aldus Colophon – Aldus Corporation Corporate Goodbye
I didn't read the whole thing, but of course this can happen and for a multitude of reasons.
>The politicians are generally considered to be very liberal and progressive. These are the same groups, however, that want to defund the police. I don’t get it.

It's the fact that you see an issue like homelessness and think "this is what we pay the police for", that blinds you to the actual grievances of the protestors. Instead of actually addressing issue, most Americans have developed the crutch of just calling the police who have just opted to either move the issue or throw the homeless in jail. It's sort of frustrating that on Hacker News people haven't done anymore than surface level research into the grievances behind "defund the police". A lot of their argument seems to stem to the fact that many problems they face are relegated to police (who have the funding) when things like housing and mental health services should be funded instead.

San Francisco's problem (and, I'd argue the "true" motivation behind the restorative justice) is that the city can no longer afford to in-prison more people for basic offenses. The housing problem has now extended to prisons and I believe COVID exasperated that issue as people wanted to avoid having overcrowded prisons. That plus the massively reduced city traffic has had homeless people claim a lot of open spaces. At this point I don't think funding more police departments would put a dent in the issue.
A basehead is robbing the CVS again? Quick, send a social worker!
Totally. The article definitely caught my attention for that reason. The difference between those two scenarios is an order of magnitude.
This is why you keep redundancy around powered by pen and paper rather than electricity. If nothing else at least keep physical records.
I wonder how many journalists who wrote these fact checked studies actually live in the area.
It looks like the future is a bit of a mashup of a turboprop and turbofan. Check out the efficiency of the Pratt and Whitney geared turbofans. On the A220-100 fuel burn (~3,800 pph) is comparable to a CRJ-900 with 35 more seats in a dual class configuration. That’s quite a leap. I’ll see if I can find someone to compare it to a B717 fuel burn, it’s the same number of seats.
82 year old, trained to be an astronaut 60 years ago, to fly on Blue Origin
Good point. The rioting encouraged by politicians and the media happened in 2020.
Tax cuts so citizens can hire private security?
if it can be shown

...and the "if" is the important part. This is why Imaginary Property is so absurd.
It takes months for a large org just to prepare for a disaster recovery test. Wiping everything clean for a chain of this size is likey unthinkable. It's probably cheaper to just pay, resume operations and patch afterwards.
it doesn't at all challenge any assumption we have about the current world, unless you've been living with the assumption that you can't automate the process of producing code snippets.

Copilot is no different than stackoverflow with the exception that your selection mechanism is done by an artifical neural net rather than a bunch of people with up and downvotes in front of their screen. The reason people are uncomfortable here isn't some vague PR speech notion about the future, it's that copilot appears to be quite literally ignoring software licenses. Can we not devolve into this Silicon Valley corporate speak of rebranding a company ignoring intellectual property as innovation?
What about infrared?
Sounds like it's a test in Security Fluency, not Solution Providing.
Is the Lake District the infamous “Mach loop”?
It got way worse since 2019
Are there pet psychologists who can cure this sort of thing? (serious question)