skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> deluge of spam and malware

and DDOS attacks, to bring up a recent subject indirectly...

But I think it's both are true: Explicit anti-competitive lock-in behavior exists (including embrace-extent-extinguish, closed ecosystems/networks, data lockup, dumping (e.g. giving away expensive to provide services to on-board people)), patent intimidation as well as centralizing external forces (spam, malware, DDOS, and criminal user conduct getting treated as crimes by the operator for non-megacorp operators).

Which forces have a greater effect on your experience differs a lot from person to person.
If you're referring to licenses that - at times intentionally - blur the definition between open source and proprietary, yes. It is not in favor of those licenses.

The implicit argument that these licenses singularly benefit SaaS is much more nuanced than is implied above, however, in that some licenses actively discourage SaaS (e.g. AGPL) and other open source projects (e.g. Postgres) have actively benefitted from SaaS (or more accurately DBaaS).
It’s OK to not share everything.
Ditto. First time I reported it but never heard anything back from the police. Second time I didn't even bother.
Add some blueberries! Those phenolic antioxidants are great.
Not a doddering fool, but it's arguable his best days are long behind him. I haven't seen anything about this Twitter thing that suggests he's going to want to build something bold and incredible, challenging a lot of smart people and giving them the agency to do it. Instead it feels more like the actions of someone with a drug addiction and way more money than they know what to do with.
The situation is not unlike steering a barge. It takes time, lots of time for your actions to manifest (and of course you can overcorrect, or undercorrect as you don't see immediate effect).
I ran a bootstrapped software company in SF till i got the hell out. Here's a video i made in my building https://youtu.be/xRjuii_jtgM
Ok thanks for sharing. I simply meant that in my mind the distance between CCP and US government is so far that one seems like an obvious relative improvement. Improvement does not imply perfection or even being on the positive half of the number line/continuum.

That was the part I was trying to communicate, and please for give the hyperbolic presentation.
https://inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=ctYHvZmyS2I

Game: http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/tetris
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The Mayor of San Francisco appointed a tough-on-crime prosecutor who has spoken in public in favor of reviving failed policies like the war on drugs, purged employees hired by her progressive predecessor, and canceled investigations into police misconduct. You already have the most reactionary, cuff-em-and-stuff-em prosecutor you’re likely to get in San Francisco. So if crime is still a problem, you’re going to have to come up with a new excuse.
Sure, sounds good. Let's do that.
I'll certainly watch the product with interest to see where it goes. The potential benefits could be huge. It's primarily the larger economic incentives that I worry about, which are factors beyond any one researcher or firm's control.
I live in Boston, which is a similar size and population to SF, and it's extremely safe. There is some crime but even something minor like porch pirates are pretty much not a thing. There is a skid row named "Mass and Cass" which has had HBO documentaries made about it, but there are a lot of protests from citizens advocating to clean it up.

At some point you need the police to arrest all these people and throw them in jail. Even a few weeks behind bars can drastically improve behavior among a population used to zero consequences for theft and violence.
We've seen horizontal gene transfer in fish, was it aliens or natural selection?

Extremely unlikely events happen when an extreme amount of attempts are made, and natural selection amplifies them if they increase fitness
To the downvoters: this is a sarcastic reference to a comment London mayor Sadiq Khan made about terrorism.
The DA wasn't prosecuting

Boudin prosecuted a higher percentage of cases than Jenkins. In fact Jenkins dropped a number of cases that Boudin brought and she disbanded the group investigating and prosecuting corruption within SFPD ranks.

the police weren't arresting.

This, however, is completely true and hasn't changed since Breed installed her pick for DA. Let's not forget that Breed required pre-signed resignation letters from all of her appointees, and has controlled any messaging from the DA's office with an iron fist.

https://sfist.com/2022/03/04/boudins-office-releases-2021-pr...

Per Boudin’s office, the findings show a hard-working, hard-prosecuting DA.
“The District Attorney’s Office filed charges in 57% of arrests presented by
police in 2021, the highest filing rate in the ten years the DA’s Office has
been tracking this data,” the report states. As seen above, that statistic
cites an “action rate” on suspects higher than it’s been in ten years, and a
“discharged without further action” rate lower than it’s ever been over that
period.

No tricks, no "doublethink", no "he would've been prosecuted but for restorative justice". Boudin prosecuted the cases brought to him at a higher rate than his predecessors (and successor). Let's not forget what this is really about: Boudin prosecuted cops, Jenkins does not.

https://sfbayview.com/2022/10/interim-da-brooke-jenkins-pois...

https://missionlocal.org/2022/10/lawyer-jenkins-stalling-hom...
No, the cops didn’t suddenly magically change after Boudin was elected (and recalled). They don’t care.
The forecast for this quarter is around 3% GDP growth (annualized) - how does that put us "in a recession" right now? Doesn't that mean the recession is over?
It’s such a sharp increase in price, combined with virtually every other streaming providers having jacked up their prices that I’m going to cancel this and a few other services.

The family needs to read more books anyway.
Why not just serve a special list to all android users from India that contains the top 100 most popular Indian websites (https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/india/)? Surely users will stop using that browser when they can't visit those websites anymore because those are now blocked instead of the ads.
Rust. Go is played out at this point. If you wanna stay on the JVM, Scala. Echo Typescript as well for full stack.
I live in Seattle and I don’t think I personally know anyone here who hasn’t had something of theirs stolen. Mostly cars broken into, bikes stolen, things stolen out of their yard.
Investors that want to put money in hypergrowth world-scale companies don't want to have meetings outside of a 10-min walk radius
No. The DA was only there for two years and this level of police incompetence has been a fixture of the city for at least the past 15.
Just like what the old saying says, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," SF is living it.
NoVA is more like Palo Alto than SF. DC proper is a different vibe
Yes the latter. Its not a tesla, nor is it particularly nice / flashy. Not that 4 broken windows would be justified either way.
Oxidized and Rancid, the network device configuration backup solutions both use got on the backend.
"39.4% of men over the age of 15 have no children" - wait, what kind of a clickbait news is this? (who gets kids in the western world right after the age 15!!!???)
You probably just live in a safe neighborhood frankly. I live in a safe hood in SF and never got anything stolen, and I've seen only one broken car window in the past year. It's night and day compared to Paris for me.
Obviously. I’m just pointing out his razor isn’t well informed.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it's totally legal to be Norwegian.
I think they meant that the text "We even sue governments for protecting the privacy of our users" probably should have been "We even sue governments to protect the privacy of our users," or "...for not protecting the privacy...," etc.
Also, SFPD’s budget was not cut in the wake of protests against police violence. There was no defunding of police in San Francisco. You can’t blame their inaction on policies that were not implemented here.
Yes, you do still need the superblocks. A city with cars on the "walkable streets" isn't actually very walkable.

You really need to spend some significant time in a walkable city outside of the US to see the difference it makes.
I had a CueCat with the intent of installing the open-source driver, never got around to it.

There was a much-better device that came later, the Hiku. It wasn't free, but it was basically a WiFi-enabled battery-powered barcode scanner designed to manage your shopping. You'd scan the barcodes of items as you tossed them, and it would automatically add them to your shopping list. The hardware was way ahead of its time, even now something with those capabilities would cost something like $500 from Symbol. It even had a microphone so you could just record stuff to add to the list if it didn't have barcodes.

Even after the company folded and the backend was shut down, turning the reader into a doorstop, the app still worked for several more years, and I kept using it for shopping lists because it synced in real-time as my wife added items to the list while I was shopping and ticking them off.
Article seems to be a bit short on numbers in general, and surely this is a complex topic, but this part stood out to me:

> Doctors rarely talk to patients about stopping the drugs because they fear this could lead to a return of depressive symptoms. But for many people it may be safe to stop. Even among long-term users with several past episodes of depression, a recent trial in Britain showed that 44% of patients could stop taking pills safely.

Those don't exactly seem like hugely encouraging numbers.
At this point I can't imagine why anyone would want to stay at Twitter...I am at a company going through an acquisition so I am familiar with the morale issues that come with an uncertain future, but it's got to be an order of magnitude less exhausting than what these Twitter employees are going through.
Murders used to be so much more common 30-40 years ago in the city, just ask someone who was there back then.
Plaintiff has the burden of proof.
Oracle released an advisory with patches made available for vulnerabilities along with a list of products that would have been impacted, on October 18. A total of 179 common vulnerabilities and exposure (CVEs) were addressed in the company’s fourth quarterly update, and 370 patches were released against the vulnerabilities.
It may be obvious and this may be a bit pedantic, but the “actual size” and “size compared to the moon” part is confusing, as comparing the size of two objects is usually comparing two objects at the same scale.

If someone was completely clueless, they would think Andromeda is a teeny tiny galaxy. But it’s actually 110,000 light years wide — quite a bit bigger than the moon. :)

The title show just be something along the lines of “Andromeda in the sky if it were brighter, next to the moon”. Or just “Andromeda if it were brighter”.

I say this because I’ve seen other “X compared to Y” articles on HN (one compared planets and the sun to the moon, where the moon was a pixel), and these are all at-scale comparisons. So I was expecting something similar here from the title.
Also Walmart is starting a content creation platform to compete with these.

[0]https://www.walmartcreator.com/splash
So people are paying for the brand name.
They probably have a layoff coming which is closer to 50% than to 10%. Does he want to be the one who does it? Probably not. Does Intuit need another CEO floating around? Probably not. He pretty clearly feels not much meaningful work is happening if everyone is focused on politics.

Does a mail platform need that many people? Look at the economy. It is related to this email sure, specifically it is related to his opinion on how engaged and productive staff are being.
Lived in SF for 15 and never had a package stolen either. In fact UPS would leave my packages on the steps (sometimes mine sometimes someone else's) all the time. I had a check stolen before it made it to my PO box once, USPS found it and returned it to me but that's not quite the narrative people are pushing.
So Lora is probably more practical. We had to trigger a solenoid so needed a bit more power anyway, but could reliably run off a LiIon battery with a solar panel for recharging. Makes the whole package more complicated, but it worked well.

The extra range or Lora means I didn't have to implement a mesh protocol. I wasn't looking forward to having to test a mesh network, point to point is much easier.
Sure some of the crime is, but the the apathetic response from police and politicians is not…
Are those trips not paid?
Those other states still prosecute though. And although a misdemeanor isn't as big of a deal as a felony, having to go to court and deal with probation etc. acts as a huge deterrent that you don't get if something just isn't prosecuted.
You can walk and bike in the winter in SF though, and that's a real plus.
This is marvelous! The really annoying thing about doing this then was that I had to enter my programs manually via the calculator.

Now that I'm free I could connect the calculator to my laptop and code via a fancy TI-BASIC IDE. On the other hand, now that I'm free, I can just use Godot or something if I wanted to make games ;)

Edit: this code uses a lot of features I didn't know about then (since I just had the manual that came with the calculator, which didn't go into a ton of depth about TI-BASIC features). I wish I could have watched this back then!
$10k cap
As I point out downthread, it will take time for this to manifest. Compare and Contrast Daly City/San Mateo county. It's not like the USSR where you bring in a show team to convict and send everyone to the Gulags overnight and instill fear through marxist means. No, this takes time and effort to turn around. From Koch to Dinkins to Giuliani --it takes time to tamp down crime.

For things to straighten out support for rule-of-law has to manifest from bottom to top and back. From Citizens, to Public Figures, to Influencers, to Representatives, to Captains, to Prosecutors, DAs and the Mayor. We have some of that. You can't have situations where the police try to arrest someone and you get a mob questioning police motives and then complain when the police don't come.
And I assure you there's in fact more poverty in right-leaning areas. Yet they are cleaner, safer, and overall more beautiful places to live.
This makes sense when the cost of the product is much higher than what you're able to afford. Like leasing a car

But paying a monthly fee for heated seats is just ridiculous.
I can only point out anecdotally that the people I know in SF who've had their cars broken into don't even bother waiting to report it to the police because they know there's nothing to be done.
Those other states still prosecute though.

Boudin prosecuted most cases that were brought to him. In fact he prosecuted a larger percentage than his successor has so far. Boudin also prosecuted police misconduct which made him a lot of enemies.
He writes with such conviction it's difficult to not believe him. Going to give this a go, wish me luck.
> Reading this headline I thought to myself, this can't be possible. But then I remembered

It's funny, this is exactly what happens when I talk to my SF friends about crime. They have an immediate defensive reaction to insist it's not that bad, but then they slowly start recalling various crime experiences they've had in the past year. It's as if the constant background level of crime has reset their expectations of what's bad and what's normal.
>Is it really the norm to twist the cookies apart and lick the frosting, like in the commercials?

It depends?

I eat my oreos like corn flakes in 3 easy steps:

- step 1: pour them into a bowl filling it to about half way,

- step 2: pour some half and half to about 3/4,

- step 3: complete with heavy whipping cream

Then I let them soak for about 5 minutes and finally attack this ungodly mixture with a spoon.
Half the people in SF can say the same. Anecdotal data doesn't mean much.
But nor does the restriction apply to WKWebViews. Which any browser that only cares about the UI part can just use and be done with it.
If it isn't central to your main point and you don't want to re-litigate, then why make comments that are debatable and are guaranteed to be obnoxious to many people? After saying you don't want to re-litigate, you then repeated your inflammatory claim and trotted out evidence to support your belief. I won't bother trotting out my counter-examples, but just saying, if you prefer iOS good for you, but you did provoke this. Or maybe you meant to say "It /is/ clearly a better experience in several specific ways that matter to me"?
How can San Francisco be both the most progressive place in the US and the place with the most inequality?

It's fascinating the things we can't talk about.
I'm genuinely curious how you've determined that "most activity" is on CircuitPython? I'm close to both projects and they are both highly active. MicroPython tends to be lower-level and a little more under-the-radar, especially since Adafruit provides such a focal point to CircuitPython (and do a great job with it!).

As for libraries; there's a whole lot of MicroPython libs listed on awesome-micropython.com and, if you need to use a CP library in MP, it's often trivial to port.

I was a little surprised to see MicroPython mentioned at all here since there's not really much that Ubuntu is doing to provide that support. I guess it was to refer to the popular RPi Pico, which has official support with MicroPython. CircuitPython support is becoming very close to parity on the Pico though.

(I'm not sure what you mean wrt UF2 on ESP32-S2; it has always worked fine for me? I just tried it again and there were no issues. Note that - unlike the Pico - the UF2 bootloader is not in ROM so you have to install it first.)
Got a $1500 bike stolen from the inside of my locked apartment in Potrero Hill back in 2015 or 16. Was very bitter about that -- it was one of the few things I brought with me to SF. Police ignored it.

For weeks after I was walking through all the homeless chop shops looking for it. About a month after the theft, I received a call from someone who bought a frame (just the frame) with my serial number at a San Jose flea market. Told them to keep it -- at least it's in the hands of someone who cares.

The point of my story is that theft sucks, can happen to anyone, and it takes a toll on our communities. Wish law enforcement took the problem more seriously.
I’d love to use SHA-3, but I’m waiting until I see SHA-3 in standard libraries for my most-used languages.
Maybe instead of playing violas like they're big violins, we should play them like they're small cellos? Might be ergonomically better?
I feel like that is a very specific issue with the congress.gov website. Probably worth filing a bug about that!
My rental car got broken into early evening in Palo Alto last year .. just behind the nice restaurants on University Ave. I think the crime increase may be a bit more defused.
So the client's network adds an ACL to allow the contractor (a member of the agency's network) to access their system?
People really fail to grasp just how awesome the weather is.
Yeah but walking in Chicago in the winter weather?
The food is good, the weather is perfect, you can walk around and it's dense but not too dense, the views are insane.
They appear to just mean standard media applications like gimp and audacity based on the shell script.

This potentially misleading but maybe arguably less so now that Adobe doesn't actually have a product named Creative Suite (it's Creative Cloud now).
In any radical politics there's a dynamic tension between the pure principle-driven action and the pragmatic-systematic option of leveraging the existing political or legal infrastructure, and trying to maintain enough respectability to gain authority without becoming disconnected from your motivating principles.

It's demoralizing from a civic idealism standpoint, but I've found that looking at it from a resource mobilization perspective make it easier - albeit at the price of sometimes feeling cynical or callous.
I mean there also are people that have genetic conditions which make it almost impossible to not be obese without external intervention. Those people are obviously a minority of the obese population, but I wouldn't say that anyone can overcome naturally.

I also don't think it is inherently wrong to include medication (or in the case of obesity, surgery) as part of an intervention in conjunction with lifestyle changes. If done correctly such interventions can be better than the sum of their parts.

It's unfortunate that there are so many bad clinicians out there, but that doesn't mean we should let it affect our opinion on actual best practices. There's a difference between putting in a reasonable amount of work and unnecessarily struggling (although admittedly that's sometimes a fine line).
< but how to convert to USD? >

You type "586.2 crore indian rupees in U.S dollars" into Google search.

USD 70,757,505.48 https://t.ly/xfAe
Of course they are paid, what's your point?
Jenkins wasted no time disbanding the group within the DA's office that was responsible for investigating and prosecuting police misconduct. The barge ain't that big.

https://missionlocal.org/2022/08/jenkins-removed-prosecutor-...

In the latest reorganizational move from appointed incumbent District Attorney
Brooke Jenkins, the attorney prosecuting former police officer Christopher
Samayoa for the shooting death of unarmed civilian Keita O’Neil will be removed
from the case.

The announcement came in the form of an Aug. 12 all-staff memo from Jenkins,
obtained by Mission Local. Assistant District Attorney James Conger was the
last remaining prosecutor hired by ousted DA Chesa Boudin in the Independent
Investigations Bureau of the DA’s office. That unit investigates police
shootings and most police misconduct cases that may warrant criminal
prosecution.
Definitely can blame DAs for not brining charges. The rule of law is literally the only deterrence to anti-social behavior.
It still has a better early stage startup community than any city on the planet.
Do you feel that police are fully supported by the citizenry and DA to enforce existing laws?
Lots of people I know have been a victim of theft multiple times. Laptops, car windows, bikes, anything left for a moment will be stolen and most of the time the police will chastise YOU for letting your things be stolen, if they even come take a report which they avoid as much as they possibly can.

Now that the tax base is racing for the exits it is going to be the next Detroit. Detroit used to be the richest city in the US. What will they call it, the digital rust belt?
Do you think tech RSUs becoming less valuable will prevent crime? How?
hey, any chance you can publish an android widget for this? I want to replace the google search bar with swurl!
I am not saying anything about decision to _start_ using upstart... All I am saying is that in the past, Ubuntu made the right decision multiple times and switched from Canonical-only software to a more common alternative once that alternative became widely used.

And I think that it's a grand time to slowly wind down snaps and switch to flatpak. Linux ecosystem does not need more fragmentation, and given proprietary nature of snap store, there is approximately 0% chance that anyone except Ubuntu derivatives would adopt it.

Maybe snap was better than Flatpak back in the beginning; I can easily believe that when the snaps were introduced, they were better than flatpaks. I am not going to judge. All I want to see a right decision made going forward.
Even if you assume that somehow 50%ish of employees do literally nothing at Twitter, the people that remain will still have much more work shoveled on their plate for the same pay. Actions like these are a great way to completely kill a company because no one wants to jump to a ship that's currently on fire.