skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't a real-screenshot requirement be quickly and trivially worked around by adding demo modes with the marketing copy within the app?
If you don't believe the data, is there any information you would accept that doesn't support your opinion?
People in New York disproportionately don't report crime, because there's so much, and so little chance of effective investigation/prosecution/recovery, they have better things to do. It's just a cost of the city's other benefits.
This looks great, a great tool for all SaaS and MicroSaaS to have engagement with customers and it would definitely help in user retention.
Great job!
Well if that's the argument then it seems we must take it on faith that NYC is more dangerous no matter what, seems a weird thing to start a religion on.
There is a lot more walking in the street than before COVID. Far more are breaking the usual jaywalking code to at least look for oncoming vehicles.
It would be fantastic to have evidence that substantiates this claim.
Low-level quality of life crimes are a constant; I seriously doubt you haven’t been the victim of similar crime.
Shameless self-plug here.

I wrote about the potential for this problem in 2014 for my graduate thesis.

https://search.proquest.com/openview/cd06aab6e06951ba6cdc064...

Edit: to the parent, I shared many of the same concerns back then, too. I tried to speak to those anxieties in my final product.
Does this mean that Jay Forester’s simulation is still correct?

Edit thank you for proving me wrong and showing that this article was a sham.
I found it interesting that in some realestate videos for NYC apartments, there would be big black vans parked out the front by security and the realestate agent wasn’t permitted to film in the lobby.

Doors and locks might not be sufficient for security but full time employees guarding the building would.
and drinks would come in cans that require a special adapter but the adapters are so expensive you need to carry one around with you so you can drink when you’re thirsty.
This is remarkable and I'm shocked it doesn't have more comments. Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Shadow Empire is a post-apocalyptic 4X/Wargame (with bits of leader and faction management à la Crusader Kings thrown in for good measure).

The logistic parts involve building and maintaining a strategic on-road/rail logistic network (that moves everything necessary for production too, not just food/fuel/ammo for the troops),

and a comparatively simplified, but still critical in success/failure, operational logistics range spreading outwards following terrain from the road and rail hexes. (Limited air supply is available too.)

https://www.wargamer.com/shadow-empire/review

A sillier video-review : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSHuHCrW4KE

Its predecessor, which I hear also has some of this and some kind of 4X mode :

http://armchairgeneral.com/advanced-tactics-gold-pc-game-rev...

(Also would explain why ShEmp still seems to be very WW2-like ?)
Library of Things are becoming more and more common. The library in Orange County recently started one. Though I doubt they have table saws (yet)
I'm relatively confident that residents of NYC, and similar big cities, report fewer of the crimes that actually happen than people elsewhere. But that's the sort of claim from my life-experience, including plenty of time as a child in the NY suburbs, and most of my adult life in San Francisco, that may not have handy official stats to back it up.

I suspect a survey of residents, asking questions like, "have you had anything stolen that you did not file a police report about?", would reveal relative urban versus suburban or rural propensity-to-report trends here better than official crime stats – but I don't know of such a data series.
I don't think this is true. Even if we take somewhere ridiculously tourist-foot-traffic heavy likes Times Square, 2021 was still well below 2018 and 2019[1].

[1]: https://www.timessquarenyc.org/do-business/market-research-d...
"I prefer my own memory to paper. It works hands-free while driving, works without light late at night, and it’s waterproof in the shower. I especially like the way it improves everything I put into it. I have missed an occasional appointment. Perhaps that’s an improvement too."

- Ward Cunningham
Oof, did I get ninjaed here ! :p

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32247015
It's a super long story. I may be cursed when it comes to trying to interact with local politics.

I had been renting a space, but the owner wanted more than we were paying, so I tried to move into a house I owned. We were there for about a year while I was trying to acquire a 65,000 sqft abandoned jail that was owned by the city. They tore it down instead of letting us buy it, and told us we couldn't run a "business" in the house I owned. So then we were stuck in about 400sqft renting for a couple of years until I just couldn't keep paying the rent.

fast forward to finding a huge warehouse in Arkansas! https://youtu.be/qdkLzioUiAE

The price was so low, I thought it was a typo. I called the agent who confirmed it was accurate, and I immediately told my dad "We're moving to Arkansas!!"

I bought the building, and thought my troubles would be over with no landlord to worry about. The zoning seemed fine, and the planning commission even approved most of what I wanted to do. But then I ran into hostility from the city zoning and inspection department. I have had so many problems trying to fight the city.

I can't get permits for anything. I can't repair the building. They keep changing their story about what is needed, and I'm not the only one. The city seems intent on running everyone out of town. I know of at least 3 other major business efforts that either never got running, or shut down because they couldn't get through the red tape here.

Just today, a potential crypto-mining facility was denied at the planning meeting because some people from the church across the street were worried that it would be too loud... not that it was too loud, or couldn't be made quieter, just outright denied because of a worry about noise. Side note - This is in a well insulated building where they used to run newspaper printing presses, and there is an active railroad track right next door. They've been delayed since December of last year, and this was the last straw for them. They're leaving town.

I don't give up so easy, and I'm currently in the process of suing the city because of these delay tactics.
It would have been better for local wildlife to take the stray cat to the pound, rather than just enabling it but letting it roam regardless.

I was against Ring cameras because of the privacy implications, but the neighbors that own Ring cameras being the ones that managed to avoid being interrogated about a "lost" stray cat is the most convincing argument in support of them that I can imagine.
Horses are easier to eat than rocket parts if you can afford them, too.
Never really heard of this Seinfeld guy before, and indeed this is a common idea (the earliest attributable mention of this I remember was in Franklin's auto-biography, but surely it is way older than that). This advice (as many other advises do) always raises some concerns about survivorship bias, but I'm willing to ignore that, since the idea is fairly intuitive.

However, this tactic (really, it's a tactic, not a strategy) relies on the assumption, that you can identify the metric you want to "optimize", which I would claim is way more important on its own than any tactics for optimizing it.

I mean, do you really know what do you want to get better at? After all, Heinlein's "Specialization Is for Insects" quote sounds like the words to live by for many people (myself included). It is rare enough for a person to be completely sure about what he wants to do. In its strongest form (as in this blog post) it basically assumes you are already doing your dream job, which on its own is more like the end-goal for most of the "self-improvement advice" consumers. And even in its weaker form (like employed by Franklin) it is still only as useful as the metrics you were clever enough to chose, and perhaps the most prominent thing about Franklin's story was how pointless pursuing some of his chosen virtues (like orderliness) turned out to be.
You're welcome to doubt, but it's true. I've never even had a bicycle stolen (in the city that is; someone stole one from me in the suburbs of Maryland once).
> look at what happened to the "TheDonald" forum after January 6th.

What happened? I missed it.
> Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs.

Facebook cares a great deal about its users--advertisers. You and I aren't Facebook's users; we are the ore Facebook has been mining at a cost approaching zero for over a decade and selling at a huge markup to its actual customers. But now the mine is playing out. We no longer cost Facebook zero to mine and the advertisers are beginning to realize the gold (us) is no longer 24-carat because nobody under 30 uses FB any more.

Like any mining entrepreneur when the mine begins to play out, FB is panicking. They're throwing whatever they can think of at the wall to see if anything sticks.

None of it will work. FB will keep publicly saying "everything is fine" until one day they will simply slink away in the middle of the night leaving several thousand mine workers unemployed and holding the bag.
>There is no corresponding action you can take to be safe from road accidents.

I think you can cut your chances of being killed in a road accident significantly by controlling your alcohol intake and using common sense. Something like 60% of pedestrian road deaths are intoxicated pedestrians.
Yes, they were ethical questions, and thank you, I now know that for unordered items, you are under no obligation to return them.

Likewise, if Amazon sends the wrong item to a customer, they have to send the right item, or refund the purchase.

I wonder if this also applies to packages being delivered to the wrong address.
i have no idea how networks work, and i have been doing link splitting, bonding, packet scheduling and dabbling in bgp in 2004. The knowledge i've gained since helps immensely when debugging simple networks created by kube-proxy, but i am just petrified by amount of the iceberg that remains underneath. And to this day i'm slightly perplexed when udp socket operation in php throws `connection reset` exception.
This article has been widely discredited. The author of the paper says they are misrepresenting the research.

I'm on mobile or I'd track down more links, but it was pretty easy for me to find several articles about how this is bad science reporting.
Does it? I get painfully nostalgic even about stuff that was objectively worse, don't even want to try to imagine how it must be with things that were better.
Ah yes, the familiar "everything is Putin's fault" refrain.

He's a bad guy and invading Ukraine is horrible, all the usual caveats. But Putin under every rock and behind every bush being responsible for every toothache and hangnail is getting old.
Yes, it is very low! But it's still 124 unnecessary deaths, and it seems not unreasonable to want it to be lower.
Nope. Just moved from 15 years in Upper East Side. People that should be in an insane asylum are walking around everywhere. One of these guys was recently walking around daily attacking random people unprovoked. And this is in an expensive area of the city.

Go walk around 86th btwn Lex and 3rd at night and let me know what your study says then.

NYC is dangerous, filthy, and extremely expensive. Every day I’m thankful I’m out of there.
I live in NY. Most people in NY will not agree with this article.

This is not because sensationalist media has successfully tricked them into thinking there is more crime than there is, but because they have directly experienced the rise in crime in their daily lives.
Indeed. But do those most responsible, such as local officials, really want to know, if a sort of learned-helplessness in residents has created an illusion of being safer than reality?
You likely can very soon. Linus Tech Tips just fitted a Steam Deck with an engineering sample of a Micron M.2 2230 2TB SSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXhT13oZchA&t=122s
Dr. Bret Devereaux does regularly go speaking in other podcasts !

https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/empires-and-imperial...
"Cuts Gas Flow to Europe" is editorialized. There is only _one_ pipeline still operational, and its not to Europe, it leads to Germany.
It's good to feel confident about things. But data is even nicer.

I've never had to file a police report for theft in NYC (where I've lived for 20+ years), because I've never had anything stolen from me. Unless you count the kid who, in third grade, stole my Pokemon cartridge. But the response to that involved schoolyard justice.
Would you like to explain the deal-breaker a little bit more? I do not understand the limitation you hit. It seems like it is no problem to access foreign keys in a different schema as long permissions do allow that. Thanks!
> The numbers do lie, though.

Really?

> When I first moved to NYC, it was a wet, slushy winter. My wife left her shoes outside our apartment door to dry off overnight, in a locked building with about 12 other units.

I kinda feel sorry for your wife shoes, but personally I wouldn't even list that in theft: unless you live in Japan, yes, things left outside your house DO tend to vanish, especially if left overnight!

> The next four years in NYC weren’t all that different; lots of petty theft and crime, all the time, everywhere. Unreported and unresolved.

Can you please share more? Because our definitions of theft seem so different that I seriously wonder what you call crime.

Personally, I've always felt safe in NYC and NJ. Oh god I miss the good food from Palisades Park...

> These days, I live in the mountains outside of Boulder

I have visited Boulder and noticed quite a few things besides the obvious like how it's not welcoming to smokers (smoking is banned everywhere). Among the disturbing ones, the police force seems to enjoy harassing the homeless. I was told about that and didn't believe it until I witnessed it with my own eyes. That's far more concerning to me to have shoes stolen outside my home.

Also, people felt kinda fake? As in, lots of virtue signaling, but I felt uneasy in a very creepy way.

It's very hard to describe. It suffices to say there's no amount of money you could pay me to live in Boulder, while NYC stills feels like home even if I don't live there anymore.

Maybe my few days of visit was just a fluke, but it's rare I've felt so bad about a city to say something as harsh.
I don't drink beer, but I would take that bet.
No one has followed bmw into subscription model for Apple car pay. The only reason other companies works follow this model, is if it succeeds
hajj.... darn yeah
This is a fantastic read. But don't agree with the conclusion. It's myopic.
Few problems I have with this,
- The cost saving of 600K/truck/year is low relative to the cost saving with lower autonomy. When improving efficiency in any operations system, the ROI keeps getting lower and lower with further improvements. Does not mean that the investment is not worth doing
- The efficiency principle of software relies on scale. There's no reason to build autonomous vehicles at all if you own a single truck but this makes sense when you have a large fleet. That's why software earns with scale. 600K/yr is a single truck saving. It becomes significant over the scale of trucks and the years.

The unit economics is wonderful to go through. Appreciate the research!
I think the GP is saying:

friend is successful at "co-working" space, and believes that "maker" space business is hard to make profitable.
What process did you follow to lose the weight, if you don't mind me asking?
> No evidence they are dying. All we have is a single quarter's result i.e. statistically meaningless.

But their first down quarter (for users) does say something. No one would be talking about this if it hadn't happened.
I definitely have had to deal with it driving in lower Manhattan. Midtown is another ball of wax.
Thank you for giving us a new way to discover impeding military conflicts. I'm surprised how you have found a way to creatively reuse the existing data.
What research? They link to their "citizen science" website. Their website links to itself and a pre-print article that is unlikely to even pass cursory inspection by a journal referee. This is blog garbage.

Flagged.
> and Tiktok is growing so fast the government is worried that it's a national security threat.

Nah. The government calls it a national security threat because Facebook has been lobbying pretty hard for it. They did ban tiktok in india for this very reason. Though for the same so called national security threat. But interestingly, facebook allows ruling fascist party's pages to call for genocide quite openly on its platform, and has recently invested a ton of money into businessmen close to the ruling party.
It depends a bit on what you want to learn exactly. E.g. do you want to just learn about basic routing, BGP, MPLS, certain vendor specific stuff (like Cisco) etc. If you mostly just want to try out what you can archive on Linux you can get quite far with doing things via network namespaces (+whatever software you want to use, e.g. BIRD or Quagga) these days. Large pro on doing things via namespaces is that you can set them up & tear them down a lot quicker compared to VMs or physical hardware & scripting those steps is a lot easier. VMs & physical hardware provide more ways to do things. At least in the past there were various limitations on what you could do emulate with Cisco VMs for example (especially on some more advanced Nexus features).
> by using the equipment you commit to providing a small percentage of profits from the job(s)/products/services that wouldn't have happened if the space/equipment/services didn't exist.

I can't think of a decent way to calculate or enforce this. If I use a drill press at a makerspace to help build a prototype that I pitch to investors and start up a million dollar business, do I pay the makerspace a portion of my million dollars, a portion of the ~$100 I would have had to spend to get my own drill press, a portion of the $15 I would have had to spend to rent one, or a portion of the scummy feelings I would have gotten from buying one at home depot and returning it when I'm done for no cost to myself?

If you just expect people to self-report how much value they feel they derived from the makerspace after the fact, then there's no real "commitment" happening and the whole situation is pretty identical to the current situation of good-will charity. If you don't, then you need some mechanism of reliably determining the outcome of the future given different conditions in the past.
Who is talking about Linux on the desktop? It’s dead easy to avoid Google completely for average people. The Microsoft ecosystem is one way, at least on PCs and tablets. There is also the Apple ecosystem, which can easily avoid Google entirely down to the phone level, and not get anything harvested due to copious privacy features.

People get fucked with Google accounts all the time, yes. The excuse is that Google is made of humans. As is the government. Or Apple and Microsoft for that matter. Some of these humans are better at software than others. If you think this is an easily solvable problem through laws and regulations, that regulators are going to get software design and support processes right… I think you might not have studied the history of of such laws and regulations. The good ones take decades to get right.

The benefit of not enshrining these companies as a public utility, and thus guaranteeing a mandatory mediocre experience for decades, is that it encourages the use and creation of alternatives. That dies when you legislate features.
The worst thing about this is the idea that Tesla has the power to change whatever configuration they want on your car, rendering it totally unusable. Whether 90 or 60 was desired, such changes shouldn't have been able to be done remotely and without consent.
Interviewing (or any selection process for that matter) is a highly subjective and noisy process.

I’ve been accepted and rejected at FAANGs / startups / top schools. I’ve succeeded wildly at each one. I’ve had the same academic paper accepted and rejected from top conferences. The papers have all gotten cited more than the vast majority of research papers accepted.

The ones who rejected me could probably come up with a list of flaws but they would have probably not been that useful. If they were being honest with themselves, they would probably admit they have no insight into how to judge something or someone comprehensively based on the limited time and information they had.

You may be rejected because an interviewer thinks you’re weak at something you’re actually not, based on your response during the interview.

The truth is that it is impossible determine what a candidate is truly strong or weak at based on a 1hr interview.

The best you can do is test someone a number of times and if they succeed a greater number of times than the average strong candidate, conclude that they’re a strong candidate too. There is no objective measurement of one’s strengths and weaknesses here.
JuliaCon 2022
What’s rocket science is the amount of boilerplate and unnecessary abstractions u need to deal with in the name of team scalability
Florida power company controlled local news website
> Homicide victims usually did something that enhanced their risk

Like... take the subway in NYC [1]? Homicide victims in normal cities that don't have mentally deranged homeless roaming the streets usually did something that enhanced their risk. Homicide victims in NYC... had the unfortunate luck to be selected by mentally ill homeless that should have been institutionalized.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/man-wanted-pushing-woman-on...
You can be absolutely positive that the NYPD knows that it's in their best interest for crime rates to appear as high as possible.
> For contemporary Westerners who prize whole grain over processed flour, the horse bread of bran and rye, once debased as a bread of poverty, is usually the crowd favorite for its sweet, nuanced taste. “It’s fabulous,” he says. “It’s absolutely fabulous.”

Worth pointing out that both grain crops and the processing thereof have changed significantly in recent centuries, resulting in a tastier (and generally more nutritious, in the case of whole grains) product. Wholemeal flour used for horse bread would have probably been lower both in protein and digestible carbohydrates right from the start, and that's before accounting for indigestible grit and chaff left in it from the grinding process. Grinding was also less consistent, which further degraded the texture of the finished loaf. The exact same ingredients on paper are fundamentally different today than they were in the past -- sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
How many years have you spent in NYC as an independent adult?
'Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.'
Of course fascism is coming to the US.

The US has always been fascist when it comes to international politics. First its reach was mostly limited to the Americas, but after World War 2 and the start of the Cold War, its fascist control spread across the globe.

It would be more of a surprise if the fascism they display internationally would never make it back to the US. After all, it is the same people making the decisions internationally and domestically, and the disappearance of the call logs from January 6th show that there are parts of the military open to negotiations.
No sunset, just two different kind of products that coesists. Social networking still strong but shifted to direct messaging app like whatsapp or telegram. The difficult for meta is structure Instagram to keep this two kind of products together.
I would pay $20+ for a fantastic burger, especially if all other burgers made people sick.
Windows from 7 onwards is worse even for 1995.