skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to a point. You can't say LA is better than NYC. You can't say London is better than Tokyo. It all depends.

But sometimes this is like comparing a little league team to an MLB team: For example, you can say NYC is better than SF.

For every axis that SF is better on, NYC is 10x better on 10 others. Like you could argue the foggy weather is better because there's no snow... but then: food, transportation, global importance, crime (even when you account for violent crime specifically), long-term prospects...

SF can't even keep a Target open past 8.

At the start of the year I moved to SF from NYC, so I'm not validating anything by the way.
Probably the latter. Also it's probably a Tesla 3 that he has.
Sounds like a privacy nightmare, not to mention a huge security hole.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions…
Did the multi year timeline not raise your eyebrows either?
And that’s about as useless as the EU caring to protect users privacy and writing a 99 section 11 chapter law and the only thing users got were cookie pop ups.
I think he means something like WhatsApp, which was 1 dollar per year in the beginning. But then again their model wouldn't work here either, because you could gift a 1 year membership to someone else. Given how much more valuable those bots are than 1 dollar per year, it would mean nothing to gift it to large amounts of people.

Similarly if you enforce it for everyone to pay for themselves, there would immediately be large parts of the world population that wouldn't be able to pay for it. Note that afford and be able to pay isn't the same thing. Which would turn it into the same western echo chamber they basically want it to be.
Walking around (nearly any part of) San Francisco day or night with a toddler is no problem at all, but don’t leave a backpack sitting on your car’s passenger seat if you don’t want your window smashed. The problem is property crimes not violent crime. One of the main issues is that the SF police are unwilling to lift a finger about nearly anything, and more or less laugh at you if you ask for their help.
I really appreciate how succinctly you’ve identified it. A soft filter is exactly what it is and right off the bat they’ve relieved themselves, and the customers they desire, of the type of people they’d rather not have to deal with.
How did you bike to Staten Island?
There are many societies in the world with more wealth inequality that also have low crime.
AV1 support is coming in iOS 16.x (unknown which exact version) so this should just work everywhere on the OS at that point
It costs as much in California, because of activism that deliberately makes it more expensive than necessary and then claims that it is too expensive to make sense. California could strike a deal with Kentucky, Oklahoma, or Nevada to send their prisoners there at half the price it costs to incarcerate them in California, and save billions while allowing the destination states to make very nice profit as well. Of course, this is not going to happen, because high prison costs in California is a feature, not a bug.
I live in northern Virginia, and I have never been a victim of theft. If this poll is correct, that amount of theft is insane. Regardless of the causes, this seems like a pretty serious problem.
This is my problem too. I hate lying. but now I learned that sometime, if you don’t want to lie, just shut up. People will fill the rest of stories in their head.
It’s a VOIP phone - it has to actually have the number.
I’m losing money by keeping it in a savings account. I’m losing money by keeping it in a brokerage account. I don’t want to change jobs to get a higher salary because I fear getting laid off.

When there is no winning move, it definitely feels like a recession.
I’ve been in Seattle for a mere 8 months and I’ve been robbed already.
By “skin in the game”, do you mean legislators should be allowed to hold & trade securities while in office? Because having insider trading information gives you an edge up, and thus less skin in the game than everyone else.
Can you expand on this? Are they not a good place to get content from? They seem to show up pretty highly in Google searches these days, so I often find myself on one of their sites.
In a dysfunctional city
It sounds like you’re making Doctorow’s point. You talk about your business model and selling personalized ads and how you tried to use legal means (“light DMCA”) to prevent other operating systems and browsers from reading the data — even though you were giving away the device to anyone.

This strategy failed in 1999 but, as Doctorow explains, it has evolved and is much more successful today with “Felony Contempt of Business Model” deeply integrated into the platforms we can’t avoid.
Given the number of tech firms in and around San Francisco, it's not the boolean operators they have trouble with...
And not giving website administrators the ability to GeoIP you.
But I feel mean when I'm eating my ice cream and they are crying over in the corner.
Is it really the norm to twist the cookies apart and lick the frosting, like in the commercials? I eat them whole, two at a time, like a pig. Well, that's when I do eat them. I haven't had oreos in many years now.
So does basically legalizing theft for under $950, choosing not to prosecute "property crimes" and so-called bail reform where most people are just released back into society after arrest. All sound good until put into practice.
I don't want them emailing me job offers at work, and I also don't want them emailing me "you haven't responded to the job offer we sent to your other address" either, and I have zero faith that won't happen.
Everyone has Google stock from 10-20 years ago

Even the new techies can’t afford houses at this point
>San Francisco prosecutors will no longer ask judges for cash bail as a condition for the pretrial detention of defendants

I wonder if the police have become apathetic about making arrests.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sf-da-boudin-announces...
> That would require abandoning copyright enforcement.

Who do you think writes copyright laws?

Obviously I'm not suggesting a government would just abandon the entire concept of copyright, but it could amend its copyright law to say that a copyright holder cannot claim (in court) that their proprietary rights were breached solely due to a defendant applying "security measures" to prevent software tampering.

That would be grossly unfair to people whose code is then used in ways that go against their wishes, but government policies don't have to be fair. (For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not accusing you of saying that they have to be fair, I'm just providing some obvious context to help make my position clearer to anyone reading this).
This is purely anecdotal, but it feels much easier to stay safe in a car than it does on a bike. Crashing on a bike is inherently super dangerous regardless of speeds, whereas crashing in a car is only really dangerous at high speeds (and even then crumple zones are really really effective). The lack of a crumple zone for motorcycles makes it really hard to not judge them as more dangerous.

Put this way, to my judgement a skilled driver should be much safer than an equally skilled motorcycle rider.
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
As if individual consumers have any ability to negotiate contracts. This is a main case for what government regulations are for. When the individual consumer doesn’t have ability to negotiate and companies are abusing something, then the individuals can only go to the their elected representatives to get it remedied. If the company doesn’t like the rules they can let some other company step in.
Why can't it be both? By moving there, you're effectively signaling you don't have a car. Those without cars (all else being equal, not sure why it wouldn't be) will have extra money. If the place is desirable, what is to stop those with that new "extra money" from using that to outbid those with less money?

I don't at all doubt its also inflation at play. It seems perfectly reasonable tho that a place that generally has car-less renters would have higher prices as those without cars could afford that added price. To an extent of course.
I feel like only those who live in San Francisco should comment on this. It's easy to pass judgement from afar, but the situation is, like all situations, difficult to grasp for people who live there, the insiders, and impossible to grasp by anyone else. SF is an incredibly unique place with a unique history and can you really get it if you don't live there?
The answer is in the post: "now all of a sudden people are comparing their situation within a much more diverse context that includes many people far wealthier than themselves."

Social media.
I'm excited for this; the performance for me on android is shockingly poor right now, but I'm hopeful.
The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture
Things don't change overnight.

New Jersey used to be a major economic hub in the US. Now it's a state with corruption, high taxes, low quality of life and a net migration out for a long time.

Nothing says it can't happen here. Hell, SF lost like 20% of it's population between 1950 and 1980.
Wikipedia has the FBI's crime statistics from 2019, broken out into categories including "larceny - theft":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Their highest rate is Spokane, WA at 5,408/100k, which would mean at most 5.4% of people report a theft. SF is a close second at about 5%.

Curious, let's look at the poll sourced by the article. It was a questionnaire of about 1500 people conducted online or by telephone. But there's no link to a paper, and they don't clarify how the online poll was conducted.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfnext-poll-meth...

Not every victim will file a police report, but it's usually required for insurance payouts, and an order of magnitude difference is hard to swallow. They might have some sampling bias in favor of people who wanted to be interviewed about the state of the city.
SF is funny. If you complain about the crime, lots of long-time residents are loath to admit crime has gone up. "It's been like this since I can remember." "Born and raised fifth generation SFer, no, it's always been like this."

Ideology gets the best of people and they don't want to believe.

Sure, there have been nadirs before, the 80's after all industry left and only some financial services were left downtown --there were vagrants and muggings but for the most part, if you kept away from the bad neighborhoods, you were unaffected.

Now, theft is rampant and unabated. It will take years to recover from "Defund the Police" and No-bail, charge drooping DAs. It takes time to recruit Police and good Prosecutors.
Depending on your time horizon, I-bonds could be good.
I believe their main reasoning for not supporting AV1 would be the lack of hardware decoding on their chips.

A minor improvement in network bandwidth and storage costs wouldn't be as high a priority as "up to 16 hours video playback (streamed)" on the iPhone 14.

Sure they could optionally support it in Safari without hardware decoding, but a service like YouTube will want to negotiate the lower bandwidth protocol over one that will make the device's battery last longer.

Maybe the licensing cost of h265 works out better for them than rushing out AV1 decode support on their chips or lowering the average battery life of their devices.
India criticised over arbitrary travel bans after journalist blocked from trip
Why does the api and the permission exist if there is no such thing as a legitimate use of it?

Oh right, Google Maps and Gmail and who knows what else can have full access to those same contacts.
Correct. Absolutely devastating to small business owners.

I've heard stories that SF is so inundated with car theft that it has created a portal that automatically approves car break in claims for insurance.
And, in case you think I'm being pedantic here, I'm not making a stink just because I think you are misguided, I'm making a stink because grammar prissiness is a favorite pastime of liberals (which I am BTW) but the real social impact of grammar prissiness is social classism (putting it nicely) and gross racism (putting it less nicely). You nitpick the grammar of your fellow tech bros on HN (which I also am) but when someone goes so far as to say "I ain got nuttin but deeze bags uh sasage", they get this condescending attitude on full blast like "OMG so uneducated and uncultured!!" while failing to recognize that that manner of speaking is a dialect and is most commonly associated with our poorest and most disenfranchised peers. You may not mean it this way but it is equivalent to saying "white rich conformist == right, poor and different == trash".
Japanese airline Offers Rent and Unlimited Flights for Remote Workers
As much screen area as possible. High refresh rate, good color. Yes, for programming. I have a 55” LG CX 120Hz 4K OLED TV as my monitor now. Space for everything: Code, more code, documentation, filesystem, browser, notes.

Tweak everything for low latency. Example: Switch IntelliJ to the ZGC garbage collector. Give it extra RAM. Have a fast GPU. Yes, just for throwing windows around.

Fast CPU with lots of cores. Tuned low-latency high-bandwidth RAM. One big SSD RAID for everything.

Get the computer up to the speed of thought.

Automatic tiling window managers. Amethyst is good on macOS.

Organization: Workflowy, notes on paper.
That would be for the missionaries to decide. Regardless of the mission, it’s still vandalism.
Pop_OS!, hands down. Ubuntu without the crud, with sensible UI choices. The Mac of Linuxii.
I don't think people should sign political affidavits from their employer. That's not useful or reasonable.
Boston's data is probably skewed because unincorporated cities like Cambridge and Brookline aren't included but Mattapan and Roxbury are.
The police are no more responsive (if anything, less) after the progressive DA was recalled. You can’t blame the DA or the voters for this one.
> One of the main issues is that the SF police are unwilling to lift a finger about nearly anything.

Isn’t this a direct effect of the DA refusing to prosecute? What’s the point of police getting involved if the crime isn’t even considered a crime by the prosecutor?
Yes, exactly. If that were the price for the whole flute that might make sense. But just the adapter? That is just ridiculous. It's the monster cable of musical accessories.
Where's my inbuilt headcam already?

Honestly, first motorcycle helmet with inbuilt front and back cams that is at a vaguely mainstream price (premium allowed for extra features!) has my serious interest.
The word legitimacy can be interpreted in either a normative way or a “positive” (see positivism) way. The first meaning refers to political philosophy and deals with questions such as: What are the right sources of legitimacy? Is a specific political order or regime worthy of recognition? As such, legitimacy is a classic topic of political philosophy.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/legitimacy

While I agree with you that it would be incorrect to baldly dismiss Truss' premiership as illegitimate, I feel that uniqueuid's comment was using the term according to the above usage, suggesting, perhaps, that the law of the land is anachronistic, or less than optimal according to democratic principles.
You can use the demo files for RCT2 to play OpenRCT2 for free. It's not encouraged, but OpenRCT2s website has a download link for it.
Without comparing to other high density cities for basic theft, I don't really find this that useful. :(

To wit, in Seattle we had our car broken into once. We also had a habit of forgetting the car keys /on top of the car/, such that we would have said we live in a very very safe place. Despite the time the car was broken into.

When I lived in Atlanta, the general practice was not to lock your car, so that they wouldn't have to break in to it.
AeroVironment Switchblade
Might be unpopular but completely agree. I once lived next to a dog park. I love dogs... but damn, lol. People yelling at their dogs. Dogs barking at other dogs. Dogs whining, dogs howling... it was awful.
Is someone's stealing something off your porch not stealing?

This level of crime used to be something we'd attribute to failed communities and not acceptable for civilized people (those living in cities)
This is really cool! I'm already running Home Assistant and have bluetooth temp/humidity sensors around the house, so it would be great to add some of these. I've never ordered a PCB like this before with SMT assembly. I have some other PCBs that I would like to design and manufacture, so it will be helpful to start with this and learn how to do it.
Just playing devil's advocate, but you say the one side ignore women's autonomy in favor "murder" can also be flipped in saying that focusing on autonomy is ignoring the murder aspect.

In this day and age, everyone talks past each other, but nobody hears the other regardless of the topic.
In my opinion blaming the DA was always a lazy excuse. Now that he has been recalled in favor of a “tough” replacement who fired all of the progressive city prosecutors, how do you explain their continuing non-responsiveness?

Recently my plumber neighbors had their truck stolen with their tools in it and told the police precisely where it was but the police wouldn’t do anything, so my neighbors found the thief and beat him up. The police came to ask why there was a fist fight in the middle of the sidewalk. The thief ran away, so the police shrugged and left.
I love it. We should apply this logic to all cities and states. The matters of cities and states are their own and the federal government or other states shouldnt tell the others how to live and run their own states because they dont really get it since they dont live there.
come tell us your secrets, fears and everything you are afraid to say or write. this website allows us to post this anonymously
Fair enough, but I don't think I'm saying anything that hasn't already been pretty abundantly documented over the last several years.
Our politics have also nationalized. Remember the old aphorism, "all politics is local"? For the last decade or two, not only is that not true, but its erstwhile validity might be beyond conception for younger generations.

That doesn't get to the root of things, but the fact that our day-to-day cultural contexts have shifted dramatically is a much broader dynamic. I suppose a cheap answer would be TV, then the Internet, and most especially and recently social media. But that also only begs more questions--what underlying dynamics did those things effect.
> then remembered that my car has been smash and grabbed not once, but twice

A friend in San Francisco casually mentioned their car getting broken into. The normalization is funny when one recognizes it.
So does basically legalizing theft for under $950

Yeah, no. Theft under $950 is still theft and it's still illegal. If you're whining about the felony threshold $950 puts it pretty much middle of the road compared to the other forty-nine states. Hell, the threshold in Texas is over $2,000 and has been that high since before Prop. 47 was passed. Find another boogeyman already.
I drew a sine-wave, at double frequency (e.g. ◠◡◠◡), but it didn't really affect the frequency that I heard - it only changed the timbre. I wonder why...
Yeah neurology definitely doesn't drive your entire experience of reality. That's why you can remove the brain from the body and the person still lives and functions as if nothing happened.
I don't believe so, but they are a very vocal demographic and in many respects have superior communication skills. Right leaning ideologues in recent years often come at discourse as a competitive sport or a kind of cognitive warfare, whereas liberals and leftists are more concerned with gaining external approval (of an audience or some third part) and pursue some sort of objective correctness or consistency, often tot he detriment of the argument they're making.

So while there are not that many MAGA types, they tend to punch above their weight in terms of what passes for debate on social media. Conversely, I'm nots ure as many liberals would leave as threaten to, because where would they go - Mastodon? Discord? People use twitter because it's a large flat platform rather than one with a lot of silos. That's why things can go so viral so quickly, but also why there are so many dumpster fires; anyone can find and address/respond to/ be seen by anyone else, with no need to know the address of the super sekrit server where the cool kids hang out.

I do think the likely outcome of all this is best visualized as a smoking crater surrounded by poop emojis, and have my doubts that large advertisers will want to associate their brands with it. On the other hand all sorts of other trash is commercially successful for reasons that completely elude me.
Here's a good place to compare to other cities, if comparing is even a reasonable thing to do [1]. Sort by Total for Property Crime. Notably Albuquerque, Spokane, and Memphis have higher total property crime rates. But perhaps wouldn't make such an interesting headline for those in tech.

Also notable that Orlando, FL is high on the list. But Irvine, CA and Tampa, FL are at the bottom of the list.

Please also read the Criticisms sections before jumping to conclusions when making comparisons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Intel Core i9-13900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 7950X at 125W and 65W
Honest question: what does that do to application shortcuts? Say, printing. On macOS, cmd-p will open the print dialog. In Gnome (and in Windows I assume) ctrl-p does the same. With the theme above, what happen on ctrl-p and where's the keyboard short for, say, print?
I used to use a doorbird, and for the same reasons as you, but I found the speaker and mic quality to be bad enough that I couldn’t live with it.

Usually I would try and talk to people over it and they wouldn’t even hear that I was talking. If I turned the volume up so that they notice, the over modulation was so bad that they couldn’t understand me.

I ended up just going with a Ring even though it goes against my cloud stance. At least it works.
Ha! Yeah, you do have to not be a jerk to the kids. Such that they still learn more from imitation than they do lectures or dictation. If you want them to see that "skipping dinner to have a snack" is not the norm, you have to not do it.

Which, to bring it back to this thread, I find it very unlikely that unlimited access is at all a universal good idea. Might have worked on 2 of our kids. Would fail dramatically on 1 of them, though.

Similarly, anyone that says that just give their pets unlimited access to food, is lucky to not have one that would just binge forever.
Yeah. The same people who say "loud pipes save lives" are going to be the same people who say this is stupid and who cares.
That permissive drug enforcement policy increases crime? I never read any study to that effect, much the opposite.
Any other Chief executive and they would be getting roasted and hit in the news with Recession news and articles. But the current one for some reason, has less stickiness than "the Teflon Don."

Imagine Bush (shudder) or Clinton or Obama or Trump not getting roasted with Recessionary news... They all would have been at the receiving end of the bad news.
What aspect of the situation is so complex and unique that there is no parallel elsewhere so that others can't comprehend?
> When there is no winning move

That is the interesting thing, yes all assets are falling in value, but wages are rising. Its bringing back equality after years where hoarding assets was a great move.