skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There would probably be a lawsuit coming from Brex if that was written down, so it would just expose Google to additional liability.

It's the kind of situation where the correct decision for Google is to not reveal anything, as it just adds risk on their end for not much gain, but at the same time, we're all losing because everyone is subject to random acts of overzealous algorithms with no clear understanding of what happened, candidates don't get interview feedback if they fail the interview, executives never apologize for anything because that would be admitting guilt, and so on. But hey, we minimized liability!
Reminds me of leaving “+++” in bbs posts. This the the AT “hangup” command and would often cause the reader’s modem to disconnect from the internet.
Unless you like your burgers with barbecue sauce. That use case is bravely unsupported.
I think there is probably some correlation there.

That said, if you ignore NY, Central counties of large metro lead the way in homocide and therefore would likely lead the way in non letal violence. The country and fringe suburbs are much safer on average from homicide by there on measure.

It is only when you add in other causes you see deaths in the country rise.
Sometimes you see someone standing perfectly still on the sidewalk, locked into their phone, people passing them on both sides. After a while they sorta snap out of it, look around to reorient themselves, and continue walking. I've watched people stay in this locked state for hilariously long times.

I call them lost souls.

We've all been there in one way or another but seeing someone in that trance, from the outside, is very disconcerting. These phones are no joke.
I think the "If people argue with the feedback..." section is more telling. The fact that there's a SOP for this means it happens a lot.
I haven't updated my WhatsApp status in 8 years. I legitimately did not know that people viewed/cared about them. And I use WhatsApp daily.
Sure, but there is a desire or even need to have robust and interactive options in our communication devices for keeping in touch with all the people we know in a more inclusive and less active way than just directly messaging or calling a specific person, which to be clear people are still doing.

People want something like Facebook as an option. It has usefulness- sharing photos, inviting people to events, a simple platform for small business. I’m not going to get into the negatives of Facebook which, I feel, outweigh the benefits.

Facebook has become a net negative on society but in the early days it was quite good. The problem isn’t social networking apps as much as the sad reality that these services can’t exist without ads or sweeping changes to drive growth. If only it were possible to have something like Facebook but without the suits.
I would actually be on board with that, if the boot/firmware (micro)SD was separate from the main OS drive, because the annoying thing about the Pi is that it can't take generic images - you have to flash a pi-specific image to your card because it has to include the firmware. There's a part of me that says by the time you've put the boot firmware on a dedicated card and made that card robust enough to survive the lifetime of the machine you've just reinvented built-in flash chips, but I agree that the ability to trivially remove it and have all the (changable) firmware in one card is an improvement over the status quo.
Because I was too lazy to pull CompStat[1]. But here you go:

* NYC recorded 6,486 burglaries in 2021, for a population of 8.38 million. That's 77.39 burglaries per 100,000 people, which makes the city's burglary rate lower than the rest of the state.

* The city recorded 18,862 grand larcenies in 2021, for the same population. That's 225.08 larcenies per 100,000 people, which is also lower than the rest of the state.

Both burglaries and larceny are up this year, significantly. But even if they double, NYC will still be well below national and state averages.

Edit: Correcting myself: the final statistics[2] for robbery in 2021 show 12811 robberies, for a final rate of 152.88. That's still a fraction of NY state's burglary rate, which is the lowest in the nation. For grand larceny it's 487.71, which is also still below both state and national averages (by two thirds).

[1]: https://compstat.nypdonline.org

[2]: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_...
> What exactly do you base this on?

The law and law enforcement are two different things. Law enforcement works roughly like this: they get an IP of a website, they go to an ISP, the ISP says its this reseller, they go to the reseller, the reseller says it is this customer, they go to the customer, the customer says this IP posted the bad thing, they take the new IP and go to the ISP, ISP hands over the original users details, they go knock on the users door.

It is basically a turd rolling down hill that nobody wants to touch and everyone wants to pass on to the next person. At each step YOU are responsible for the bad thing that happened until you give them a new person to look at.

If you think it works any differently, take a look at what happened to the "TheDonald" forum after January 6th. You can shout and scream about freedoms and rights all you want, but when your girlfriend has to explain to her boss why the FBI came around asking questions about you - you hand over the next guy down the line super quick.
Could you please provide some examples?
In Norway libraries lend tools, 3d printers and even cargo e-bikes…
There’s also enough variance in how things get classified by police departments that a lot of studies just end up counting murder and manslaughter since those are pretty standard and hard to fudge.
I hear you I guess but definitely wasn't intended as begging, or insisting on begging. Just a hopeless last ditch effort to save something that I care about.

If I had the money I'd pay their rent in a heartbeat. If I had the time I'd volunteer for them 5 days a week. I was just bored at work with a text editor open and feeling bummed out.
The article does nothing of the sort.

Some comments in here imply that, but there is no evidence anywhere other than randoms on the internet. There isn't even any implication from those people that changing card providers at this point would resolve this.

> The paperwork I had to submit

Who told you to submit paperwork? It already sounds like you had a terrible but better experience.
I've been trying to figure this out myself, because as you pointed out Google is worse than useless.
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding, red light tickets as they pile
One rule for thee and another for me!

What a hypocrite.
I read that as he convinced towns to lease to his coworking spaces for $1 but in his opinion maker spaces are not viable.
I did this and it gave me headaches because I have to log off in the middle of doing something that's almost done. And then I'd spend the next 3 hours thinking about it. Being grumpy and non-present did not improve work-life balance.
> I now only use Facebook for events and that is because there is nothing else that competes.

This is a big reason I still use Facebook, and am extremely unhappy that they keep removing features :(. I used to be able to browse events easily for random dates in random locations on my phone, a feature that now only seems to exist on desktop... but, even then, it doesn't seem to support not having a search term :/. When you combine that with fewer and fewer events being on it due to fewer and fewer people being in the target market of using it it is in a death spiral.
You hit the nail on the head. News for news sake; drama for drama sake. At some point we need to realize this and give up on it.

It does nothing to help us in life other than give us misery. There are enough problems in life to handle. I don’t need to know about the drama of another stranger.
The Technocrat’s Dilemma
I've always thought 'don't break the chain' is a flawed technique. When you do something not because you want or have to do it, but for the sake of not breaking the chain, the first time you break the chain you'd realize that you can break it again by telling an excuse to yourself without much regret. Making excuses would become a habit, and you'd be back to square one.
The Poor ROI of Autonomy (2020)
Yes. Flash can’t be stored unused for long periods without losing data.
I'm not sure what you want here.
Comedians in Cars was a success by any measure. It ran well beyond the point where they had any more good comedians to talk to. But along the way they had some of the greatest Comedians of the 20th century share their thoughts on life, the entertainment industry and comedy.
The sitting President of the United States even appeared on the show.

For what it's worth a lot of the world doesn't really understand Seinfeld, but either was I don't think the creators over either show are losing any sleep over the fact that not everyone loves them.
The plural of anecdote is data :-)

I've lived here my entire life, and I've never had my shoes stolen from outside my apartment, whether the building was locked or unlocked. I'm sorry that that happened to your wife, but it's a single instance.
Honestly, what I think is more amazing is how far we didn’t come given the enormous increase in processing power.

Windows 95 was pretty good for it’s time, but windows 11 isn’t essentially different.
I think the single most frustrating thing about the decline of HEDT is that both Intel and AMD are sticking like glue to 24 lanes of PCIe on their desktop processors. If you want multiple NVMe drives or if you want to raid NVMe you need to take PCIe lanes away from the GPU. What I really want is 36 or 40 lanes on something built with frequency in mind.

If either of them put out a flagship $600 CPU with 40 lanes of PCIe I would probably jump on it.
But the hustle and bustle though.
I mean, maybe somewhere? I’ve interacted with precisely one Harvard graduate and he was the brother in law of my CEO boss who had gone to a state school. Even the best “Ivy League Feeder” private school in my city of 2 million has maybe 2 students a year go to an Ivy League. A guy I went to school with got a 1600 on his SAT (max score nationwide college entrance test) and wasn’t accepted to Harvard in 2004.

My wife grew up in New York on Long Island in a relatively good public school system with doctors engineers and lawyers children, and I don’t think any of her peers went to an Ivy League school.

I’m sure somewhere there’s groups of people who expect their children to go to Ivy League but man, I’ve never met them. They don’t hang out with us normal riff raff.
In theory, yes. But maybe the average circle of friends and acquaintances isn't sticky enough without more encouragement, karma, whatever? I don't mind if a platform feels quiet because it takes less time to keep up with, but the platform itself would see a downturn as a serious failing.
>Recorded burglaries

As a poster above you mentioned, why report a crime if you know nothing will be done.
> The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast, and the joy found in such novelties tends to be fleeting and quickly fade as it becomes just another normal part of everyday life

The good (?) news is that this also works in reverse. So if we ever suffer a serious downgrade in living standards it’s not a serious issue. We’ll get used to it in no time :)
I am curious, on surface it is appealing to use per capita numbers including the central point in the original article, but, what do you think about 1) The density of people is vastly different between some small wrecked town in Missouri vs. NYC 2) Yes, fewer X/capita, but does that really matter when you witness, experience living in an overall dangerous (absolute, not per capita) place that the chance of a dangerous activity happening within 5 blocks of your current position in NYC is far more?

Shouldn't we also consider the density of people and exposure to crime? What good is it to live in a place where you're surrounded by crime in close proximity? Kowloon walled city [1] probably had less per capita crime as an extreme example of population density.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
I'm surprised nobody is mentioning Shadow Empire. In my first major war my ineptitude at laying out truck routes was a far worse enemy than the actual enemy. And then the actual enemy, intentionally or not, managed to cut my rail lines a couple times and turn my tank wedge into a wagon fort for a while, luckily I was able to reconnect before they ran out of ammo.
It’s cars that scare me and I’m not afraid of being killed. Car violence strikes pretty much at random. Homicide victims usually did something that enhanced their risk. You can cut your chances of being killed by orders of magnitude simply by not being a criminal or associating with criminals. There is no corresponding action you can take to be safe from road accidents.
"The web as an application platform stinks..."

Noticed how the lines of the text go all the way across
the browser page - except where a linebreak is used - and the text fragments are all centered.
I’m not crazy about Feedly but they seem to have a nice library of sites split into categories further than just news.

So my current “solution” is to find whatever it is and paste it into my preferred reader.
Microsoft would license their burger recipe. All the licensees would sell unique, subpar versions. They'd also for some reason have a $10 billion contract to supply burgers to the military.
>We didn’t report the theft; why bother?

Unless you're saying that people in New York disproportionately don't report crime that doesn't change much about the rankings. And also having lived very rural and very urban my intuition is that there is significantly more unreported law-breaking in the countryside (sometimes for the mundane reason that there barely is police in the first place).
A lot of it is a bunch of people paid to work 50 weeks a year making sure they have “something” to do. So they advocate for anything and everything under the sun to make those hours count.
> But there is plenty of evidence that the opinions of HN, Reddit etc. often do not match that of the broader public and so should be taken with a grain of salt.

There is a lot of biases and nonsense in here and in the news being spread around over the death of Facebook (Meta) or even the beginning of its death, which has been greatly exaggerated.

They will be around for another 10+ years.
I think the core issue here is that Facebook can't afford to merely "do OK": they have to "make a gazillion dollars and take over the world with an ever-increasing source of bottomless revenue" or they are considered "a failure".
I agree. I setup a Discord server for a few friends and it turned out to be infinitely better then current social media platforms when it came to keeping up with what everyone was up to.
That is because it is a plain text, so it does not have those problems. My opinion is that plain text is good idea.
UK explicitly does not have free speech.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/twitter-user-sentenced-to-comm...

>Other Brits who have been convicted under the same law as Kelly include a law student who was sentenced to community service for sending racist messages to a soccer player and a woman who posted songs about Holocaust denial on YouTube.

For more disturbing details of what is to come for UK, read this page:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bil...
> Get a wall calendar that has a whole year on one page ... get a marker ... for each day that (you) do (your) task ... put a big X over that day.

Similar to the GitHub yearly contributions heatmap [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/NngZO3R
Not everything we desire is good for us. Also, there is a need? How so?
A lot of makerspaces have a very high age minimum, sometimes 18, due to insurance and other requirements some jurisdictions put into place if you intend on catering to minors.
It's a nitpick but I wish everyone stopped spelling it like that and call it Actually Portable Executable at least. That kind of spelling really messes up with my reading comprehension, and I think it does for many people.
Customer Service Reps Who Have to Pay to Talk to You (2020)
I try to use it the same way but find the changes disturbing. More and more ads. More and more suggested content. The ratio of stuff I'm there to see versus the stuff I don't want to see isn't very good in 2022.
If she really wants to do something, she can figure it out even if the UX is not extremely simple. Kids are learning machines.

Music theory is optional.
Are you claiming that New Yorkers report crimes less frequently than others? It'd be great to have a source for that; absent that, there's no reason to believe that any sample error in the NYC crime data isn't similarly reflected in all crime data.
Why don't you see, we'll solve the social dysfunction created by a commercialized monetized internet by hypercommercialization and monetizing it even more!

There is no alternative! It'll be the end of history!
124 pedestrians in one of the most walked cities in the world, with a total population of 8.38 million, an additional 2+ million daily work commuters, tourists, and other visitors?

That’s effectively zero.
Ya, this is it. Myopically metrics driven cultures like this have a failure mode where you're too successful at chasing the metrics and the organization's sense of taste atrophies (you grow to lose trust in your taste because it's disagreed with the metrics so often, or other people push back on it because the metrics say ____)

So there you are: your organization has no taste or ability to create 'good' things that people enjoy, you're also so large that big or wild bets are too hard for the org to stomach. What options do you really have? Pretty much just 1) buy companies or 2) fade into obsolescence...
Keep in mind they are comparing to an average, not a median or 50th percentile of each category.
Signal always left a bad taste in my mouth. It's fundamentally built on the requirement that to have conversations with any trusted individual, I need to, for no obvious reason, also incorporate and trust a 3rd party individual, who won't even use their real name, and did some shady crypto currency integration.

Matrix is so so much better in that regard. I can communicate without any 3rd party needing to be trusted. The areas where I need a "3rd party" (the server and client code) are effectively diluted by the fact that thousands of eyes pore over it. Rather then trust in a single person (Marlinspike), instead I just have to trust the person I'm actually talking to.

And the Matrix team have done nothing to make me question their motives.
The massive profile is only here to please!

I don't know five elements from five animals...wait, actually I know about five animals. Does that count?

Five sailors in Captain Ron. Five toes on my right hand. Damn it shows up everywhere!

Seriously though I'll have to look into that, got me feeling proper cretinous throwing those casual supposals around!
This is yet another one of those counterintuitive findings. Similar to the UK being poorer than the poorer state in the US. Rural areas tend to have a lot of homelessness , violence, addiction, and other problems and not enough police. The notion that blue states are secular and degenerate and red rural areas are exemplars of morality and salubrity are wrong. Both urban and rural areas have problems.
Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?
Why not just create a new user? I feel that this warrants some isolation.

This allows having everything just under ~/Projects and having special configs without too much hassle IMO, it seems cleaner than using branching configs. You can still symlink the shared bits.

To work you just `su $WORK/SCHOOL_USER` to get a simple shell, use ssh+tmux to get a session, and can use editors/browsers/etc configured specifically for that user (purpose).
In case you want more uniformity when editing you can use tramp (or something similar).
An epidemic of sax and violins is terrorizing our streets.
Previously: "The end of Facebook" (2011), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660680
There's a ton of fishy things in this methodology. To borrow from my Twitter comments (https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/1534554504275714051) when this article was new:

I'm open to the idea NYC safer than its reputation; I appreciate NYC a lot, and live in another city, San Francisco, with a 'meaner' rep than I think true/fair.

But, there's a bunch of things that make me suspicious of the main graph/rankings:

(1) Leaving out suicide & drug ODs. These vary a lot by region, so whether a region creates motive & opportunity to throw your life away is a relevant 'safeness' indicator, for most people.

(2) Leaving out "accidental poisonings" & "falls". These may hide violence & other dangerous living conditions, especially in dense cities, or marginal communities, where many simply don't bother to report to authorities every assault - but do still have to seek medical care for an ‘accident’. People in "small town America" die of these things too, so why shouldn't a 'safeness' metric include them?

(3) The author uses a vague catchall exclusion category "sequelae of external causes of morbidity and mortality" that risks hiding relevant dangers, including even aftereffects of earlier violent-injuries, depending on coding standards of exact/immediate cause-of-death.

(4) For the widely-forwarded horizontal bar-graph titled "America’s Safest Metro Areas, but not all the analyses, the author uses the whole "New York-Newark, NY-NJ-PA" metro. The nearest part of PA to NYC seems to be Delaware Water Gap, 80 miles/1h40m away! So this winds up including a lot of 'small towns' & suburbs, not really "NYC" itself.

Altogether, when there's this many footnotes about a custom & perhaps idiosyncratic-to-the-author definition of "external causes", there's reason for pause before shouting a pleasingly-contrarian result from the rooftops.

I asked the Bloomberg author for details of the ICD-10 codes used in his custom definitions – https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/1534624384102461440 – but he did not respond.
amusing URL there :-)
The engineer who already has a job at a random company has a known skill level and growth trajectory. The engineer out of a good school has an unknown growth trajectory. Conditioned on the accomplishments of alumni at the school and the (subjective) acceptance bar of the school, the new grad engineer could have a much steeper growth trajectory than the established one.

Silicon Valley got this right on the money ironically [1]. If you have nothing to show, people assume a potential future ability level rather than basing their decisions on your actual ability.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
Complaining that ovh or hetzner is garbage is like complaining that a $19 coffee maker you bought at Walmart is kind of crap. You bought the absolute cheapest product on the market that claims to do the job. It's like buying a Nissan micra and then complaining about the compromises inherent in a subcompact economy car.
> Unless you're saying that people in New York disproportionately don't report crime that doesn't change much about the rankings.

People in New York don’t report crime that disproportionately occurs in places like New York.
I have no idea how these folks find their jobs when many top talents are struggling, but beyond getting in the door as a hire I've seen it get back out the door as a product (ML footgun as a service?).

I don't have any hard numbers on this, but it's not rare.
Remarkably, given the variety of social platforms and amount of money invested in them, this appears to be an unsolved problem. It was solved previously, but they've managed to unsolve it again!
That’s just the number that died. The number hit and injured is way higher.
To most people, there really isn't much of a distinction - what you accomplish is far more important than where you went to school.

To others, it is everything. I know someone whose mother constantly tells her that she is a dumb failure because she didn't go to Harvard (she went to Stanford).