skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much did you actually pay them?
Better: social platforms should charge users monthly for an account.

No? I guess not. Funny to imagine though — the numbers of accounts on said platforms would collapse like the birth of a black hole. I'll bet it would be a lot more of a pleasant place to hang out though.
Philadelphia is surprisingly close to these two IMO.
License plate got stolen from my car. Didn't touch the car otherwise. It didn't fall off because the front one was also missing. Immediately went to the police dept which took almost half a day to file a report. Utterly dysfunctional. Then a week's worth of crap from DMV to get a new license plate.
In New Zealand they keep police numbers low deliberately. It keeps "crime rates" low because people stop reporting crimes.

I'd be inclined to blame low numbers of police rather than police apathy. But I haven't actually seen a policeman on the street in my country - outside protests - for at least a decade. The fact that you actually found one outside in the wild is remarkable to me.
I love how Americans insist that systems not designed around cars won’t work to the people who are happily living in the systems not designed around cars.
It was also better for the really quiet ones. There’s some really great programmers who can put out amazing stuff if you can keep them away from the agile/stakeholder circus.
I think you meant to say can run Android ?
The author (Stability.AI’s CIO) did an impromptu AMA on Reddit:

https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y9ga5s/stabili...

His comments regarding RunwayML’s release of 1.5 were especially interesting:

> “No they did not. They supplied a single researcher, no data, not compute and none of the other reseachers. So it’s a nice thing to claim now but it’s basically BS. They also spoke to me on the phone, said they agreed about the bigger picture and then cut off communications and turned around and did the exact opposite which is negotiating in bad faith.”

> “I’m saying they are bad faith actors who agreed to one thing, didn’t get the consent of other researchers who worked hard on the project and then turned around and did something else.”
Or go back to, I don't know, cruising down Main Street, spending time at their local library, walking downtown....
Cops are people. How well would you try to do your job after a few months of seeing your boss purposefully undo whatever work you did at the end of every day. How long would you keep actually coding if your boss just deleted all of your code every shift with no acknowledgment.
Your last line is the only one that made any sense.
If only Ally allowed non-citizens and non-Green Card holders to open accounts. I've got my emergency fund in Robin Hood. They pay 3% on cash in the brokerage account.
> senator

Feinstein is 89, so...
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I don’t even know what it would look like to “pirate” Youtube on a smartphone that’s not more convenient than paying up.

youtube-dl and then moving videos to phone is too much work, and alternative front ends always seem to have their quirks that turn me off.
I mean, you could also use condoms, you don't need to kill the instinct to reproduce.
The American technology companies are looking increasingly vulnerable especially internationally. Tech companies are the new wave of American mega corporations. I wonder how the mega corporation of past managed to navigate these challenges? Did US government play any role in protecting the US companies? If so, what drove it, more business friendly Washington, more effective lobbying, or something else?
It mostly feels like one of those things you read in horoscopes where it feels right because those things just apply to almost everyone. Sometimes it gives conflicting results, told memy primary theme is energetic but in my secondary theme it said I'm out of energy. That being said "You might be an introvert who still loves to have conversations" that is one of the base characteristics of my personality. So hats of to you
“Improving your lie” is a common way, meaning altering the environment around the player, swing path, ball, or shot path in a way that yields some advantage.

This would include things like breaking off a twig in your way, removing leaves or grass around the ball, etc.
I mostly agree, but we only know a fraction of what the officials know. We wouldn't be able to tie purchases/sales to classified information for decades. The simplest solution is to have government officials engage in scheduled, double blind funds. They commit X dollars per month for N months, and they can only change the schedule with due notice of N months.

This is, to my knowledge, largely how executives handle the stock that they own, they have scheduled pre-arranged buys/sales, though with the government it has to be a bit broader (there's no such thing as blackout periods etc, they always have insider information).

I do believe that officials should be allowed to engage in the market given those restrictions. You need options like this to avoid abuse (a system that works well enough will keep most from trying to get around it) and you need options like this because otherwise you make politics a game for the rich (even more than it already is).
Loved this. Sure it is language pedantry. But proper grammar really does improve comprehension.
The problem is not lack of money. There is plenty of money and it's being wasted. The root of the problem is the political views of the people who run the city and the voters who put them there.
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There are very specific criminal justice reform and soft-on-crime policies that lead to this. If you go to Tokyo, you'll be put in jail for doing drugs. Most likely extremely tough prison sentence of a decade or more. It prevents people from doing drugs and getting trapped in the spiraling destruction of self. Here in America, we have NYC and SF opening clinics to comfortably allow people to shoot heroine in the comfort of a shelter: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyregion/supervised-injec...

Moral underlying reason? We don't want people to overdose. We're saving lives.

I'd say, Tokyo's policies are far more moral. They'd save thousands of lives vs. 2 overdose lives in a reactionary measure.
Resources, risk v reward. Unless you go with something like broken window theory and wish to use shoplifting to ultimately deter more serious crimes, it's not worth enforcing via government action.

If you want to know where shop lifting is taken seriously, it's Walmart. If you steal from Walmart, they know it, they know who you are and it goes in your file. They will bust you at a felony amount level with all the evidence documented and wait until you are somewhere in a jurisdiction they know will prosecute. They will trespass you and have their LPs hold you and the off duty cop they employ transport you.
Always the same story. To me, it reads something like this:

> Child sexual abuse often happens in bathrooms. Therefore, all bathrooms should have cameras. The video feeds should be stored and analyzed for illegal behavior, and law enforcement should have access, ideally in real time and without a court order. The risk of leaks, hacking, or abuse by law enforcement or system administrators is negligible, so citizens need not worry.

Historically, law enforcement has been chronically understaffed and generally ineffective enforcing these heinous crimes. Even credible and actionable reports that could lead to arrests often end up on a pile. When this system is deployed, the amount of flagged behavior will be 100x more than the reports of today, most of which will be false positives. This is ultimately what makes it obvious that these are bad faith arguments, and that the ulterior motive is good old mass surveillance.
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> Similarly, anyone that says that just give their pets unlimited access to food, is lucky to not have one that would just binge forever.

I didn't know until I had one that a lot of huskies will actually only eat when they're hungry.

It's usually nice, because I can just leave the food down and she'll eat when she wants. It's not so nice when I'm dog-sitting and she doesn't eat promptly, so the other dogs usually raid her bowl.
"Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says"

I'm surprised it's so low.
Isn't working for me. The submit button doesn't do anything
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Hmm, yet Symbian had a third-party movie player that worked decently well... (finding it on the Web was a harder issue).

Wait, also a whole freaking browser : Opera mini - don't say that isn't complex !
Yes? What do you imagine games looked like in 2004? That was the year Half-Life 2 came out. Obviously, a game like RCT also has to run a simulation and can’t focus on graphics as much as a shooter. I’m just saying, if anything, RCT3 looked sub-par.
He's talking about virological and making up threads that never existed. There was a lot of discussion in the early days about how it seemed possible it was synthetic based on the binding site affinity but as scientists do, they researched the literature, conferred with their colleagues and almost all came around to the virus arising via natural origin.

The early threads are super interesting in an anthropological sense:

https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-or...
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and feeding flamewars? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Funny you make broad sweeping conclusions based on your single experience.

Funny you make a broad and sweeping conclusion based on one single message posted on a forum.

> Also do we really want to be shifting blame onto teachers at this point?

Not just teachers. The education system as a whole. You know with math, there's often multiple ways to achieve the same answer. I failed math one year because even tho I showed the work to get to the solution and it was a completely valid method with a correct solution, I got 0 because I did not do it the textbook way. Teachers are not allowed to teach math any other way than what the department of education dictates. Math can be quite fun and engaging, but you know, better to keep kids dumb and medicated than helping them.

Oh and before you jump to conclusions and claim this is one single experience. It's not a single experience.
Have either of you priced the product for 150+ users?
It’s remarkably widespread, too, though I suppose that shouldn’t be surprising. The sadder part is when it gets repeated enough by these brand new accounts, it seems to permeate enough that actual people begin repeating it.
No, there's a real difference between my $200 Armstrong beginner's flute and my $2,000 [1] Miyazawa intermediate flute in terms of result (sound), materials (nickel vs silver), and process (factory vs artisan). (To a point, of course: a good flutist will still sound better on the Armstrong than a bad flutist will on the Miyazawa.)

[1] price when I bought it. More now. Musical instruments appreciate, unlike electronics.
I don't have a lot of comments on hn but the result is still super accurate. FML.
Please don't pretend that spending 100k on "minor kitchen work" is normal.
Based on a Reddit post [1], the author of this is Stability AI's chief information officer.

My very rough take on the situation: the company gained their notoriety by building on OpenAI's pioneering research but with an important twist of releasing their models as unneutered open source. Now, their openness is starting to falter due to strong pressure from outside forces.

If they're unable to continue playing the hardball game they themselves invented, I think their glory days will end as fast as they started. The competitive advantage was always their boldness. If they lose that, quickly others will take their place.

In general, I don't think tech that's as open, powerful and easily reproducible as these language models can be stopped. Sure, maybe regulations will delay it a bit, but give it a few years and any decent hacker or tinkerer will be dabbling with 5x better tech with 5x less effort.

[1] https://archive.ph/Z5sU3
I'm a woman, and I walk through downtown Seattle super late. It's not actually a black hole of murder, even after midnight.
Isn't part of that the forced-positive culture of California? Combined with perhaps a dose of worry that complaining about crime might identify you with the wrong political party?
If the surveying is accurate and representative, it's useful because it means that crime is unusually indiscriminate (high rates of anonymous crime.)

Crime more typically happens between people with connections to each other. For example, my city has a per capita crime rate similar to San Fransisco's, but most don't experience it unless they live or work in a few neighborhoods (or single intersections in some cases.) In my city, something like 5-10% of people would report having recently been a victim of a crime, despite the number of crimes per capita being similar.
Good news, my friend: https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plu...
Who wants to take a 15 minute bicycle ride in a city full of junkies?

Schwalbe make some great commuting tires but I doubt they can withstand discarded needles.
Living in low crime areas can be quite a shock. I grew up in a area where my bike was stolen out of our shed a few times. I'm in an area now where children leave their bikes on the front lawn and sidewalk overnight. It's a completely different world. I hope you get a chance to move somewhere without the acceptance of random theft some day.
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We've already asked you once to stop using HN for flamewars. If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I'm thinking about adding the filter/sort feature soon-ish.

Just curious: what kind of features (apart from filter/sort) might change your mind about paying for this app?
The book “Chums” is about how UK politics is dominated by PPE majors from Oxford (and frequently Eton or similar before).

In addition to being out of touch and classist, a main thesis of the book is that Oxonians learn “to write and speak for a living without much knowledge”. This worked well for England for hundreds of years but more recently has led to disaster where actual knowledge and expertise matter eg implications of Brexit, pandemic response, etc.

Review:
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/01/chums-how-a-ti...
What do you mean by no update? This is a new app completely.

I submitted Superintendent.app 2 times and stopped because the second time hit the front page. The other 2 times were posted by someone else, which I have no control over...
"to ultimately deter more serious crimes"

I'd say it's pretty serious when it's to the point that places are going our of business because of it. Any business can expect some shrinkage, but when that number surpasses rhe already low margins in most industries...
Wait a bit, it takes some time.

This tool needs better UX:

- A loading bar, or some feedback that it is "analyzing data"

- clicking on "Reddit" or "Hacker News" doesn't select the radio buttons
If you have a reasonable video card, you can run it easily locally using this repo:

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/

It is extremely active - author updates it 10-20 times per day.
> When cops feel unwanted and disrespected they act accordingly.

Strange, when service workers act that way, they either start pretending that they are helpful and respected, or they get fired.

And as for cops, they've been useless for a very long time, certainly prior to the events of the past few years. The tantrum they throw every time they are subjected to any oversight is purely performative.
We don't elect police officers here.
> telling people not to leave anything visible in their cars

I effing hate that attitude. We shouldn't have to live in a society where every moment you have to be vigilant against the bad guys.

It keeps piling on. I suspect if we keep this up there will be signs "don't use your phone in public" (because people will steal phones from your hands). "don't eat in public" (because people will steal food from you). "don't drive a car" (because your car will be wrecked/stolen). "Don't leave your house" (because outside you're likely to be mugged).

The whole point of having police instead of having to walk around with your own armor and armed guards is so we can not have to put up with this stuff. But nearly everyone, at least on the west, takes it for granted that "it's just the way it is". It's not. It's the way we let it be. Not every place/country has this issue. We let it get there by both by encouraging it ("looking for a partner in crime") and by letting it slide (see police response above)

This isn't just SF. In Berlin I was told not to put my bag between my legs because someone would steal it from behind. In Paris a friend had her wallet stolen from her purse in ~15 seconds. She reached into her purse for her camera, took a picture, looked back into her purse, saw her wallet was gone.
It sounds like a very small market that only one company has bothered to enter.
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You'd find out very quickly how truly heinous humans can be without a police force.
You don't understand. They said "believe me". It must mean 100% of the accountants will never ever encounter 1M rows.
You have forgotten the video calls, have you ? Which is quite understandable, it's not like we use those much even today (in real life, I'm not talking about ads and movies), despite not having to pay extra to the cell carrier !
Didn't they want a new DA? Didn't they get a new DA?
Tesla is an announcement company. They are working on so many revolutionary things that will be done very very soon.

And Elon says that there's a ton of other cool things that they haven't even announced yet. I was a bit confused by this since I thought announcing to the public was the first step in Tesla product development.
I'm not a data hoarder, but from the moment Stable Diffusion was released I had a gut feeling that I should download everything available while it's there.

Somewhat similar gut feeling to when popcorn time was released, although it might not be exactly the same.

While I really wish I'm wrong, my gut tells me that broadly trained machine learning models available to the general public won't last and that intellectual property hawks are going to one day cancel and remove these models and code from all convenient access channels.

That somehow international legislation will converge on the strictest possible interpretation of intellectual property, and those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material.

So reminder to everyone: Download! Get it and use it before they try to close the Stable doors after the horses Diffused. Do not be fooled by the illusion that just because it's open source it will be there forever! Popcorn time lost a similar battle.

Get it now when there are trustworthy sources. Once these kinds of things go underground, it gets much harder to get a trustworthy version.
What Microsoft did in the 90s was pale by comparison—they just bundled some extra software.

Microsoft threatened to cancel the Windows license of several PC manufacturers including HP for making Netscape Navigator their default web browser instead of Internet Explorer. This would essentially put those companies out of business, so they had to comply.

Not to mention, for corporate and home users, Netscape Navigator was commercial product that customers had to purchase while Microsoft bundled IE with Windows for free. This was back in the day when most people didn’t have broadband and stores sold shrink-wrapped boxes of software containing floppy disks or CDs.

I’ve written this many times here on HN: a monopoly isn’t illegal; what is illegal is using your monopoly in one market (PC operating systems) to disadvantage competitors in another market—web browsers.

Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in either PCs or smartphones; there are plenty of alternatives to iOS and macOS. There are lots of examples of platforms where the platform owner decides what can run on that platform, starting with game consoles.
One solution to this is to have special vehicles to take emergency workers or doctors from their home to the hospital or where ever they need to be. It's also better than just them driving to the hospital. They don't need to worry about traffic and such
I use Calendar Alarm to make calendar appointment ring like an alarn instead of a subtle vibration.

Todoist is where I store all my lists: todo, packing list, meals (for cooking ideas).

I install uBlock Origin and uBlacklist in all my browsers. I don't use the web without them.

I'll occasionally use SelfControl if I cycle through time killer websites too much.

I keep my technology as quiet and self-effacing as possible.

Removing the distractions does a great job. I fought those aggressively and now I can't imagine unfiltered technology. I list a few other things I did here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence
Bicycle rider with a somewhat weak top-of-helmet mounted light (maybe 100 or 200 lumens): I have a tough time telling if it's on while riding if it's somewhat bright. Zero impact to view.

Can really help with retro-reflective signage, since I can point a light directly at the sign. But definitely not a blinding return.
> I had a dispatcher refuse to send an officer for a theft crew that I'd stopped in the middle of breaking into a car before they waved a gun at me and drove at me and my son over the sidewalk.

That encounter with the thieves sounds awful, and then being unable to get police help sounds doubly awful.

I hope your son wasn't traumatized by it.

FWIW, not all cities are like that. The couple times someone pulled a gun on me on the sidewalk in Cambridge (Mass.), a large number of police cruisers responded, and started a very professional-seeming search. The time that I called police before I got home, after they got a description and then statement from me, one of the officers gave me a ride home. Cambridge isn't as great as it could be for founders (not as much action as the Bay Area, and the bottom-end apartments might be $2K+ and still have peeling lead paint and the occasional mold or rat), but you do get good police.
Good. It's pathetic that private companies have to take the law into their own hands. Thiefs should go to jail. Crime is bad for society.
Do you have any cites for this claim? Honest ask, it sounds very "california" but CA is also an expensive state in general.
Google does some pretty surprising levels of static analysis of compiled source, particularly surrounding their API usage. There's a few examples I've run into but the first that pops to mind is when they started requiring a yes/no confirmation dialog before allowing a user to access a non-https resource through the WebView. There was no way a human was running into that on the particular app I was working on. We're not talking advanced static analysis but it's not a simple decompile and grep either.

In another case I had accidentally left some dead/debug AWS access credentials in a build and they sniffed those out too. Notable since that's not even Google-related. They had to have been looking for a particular AWS library method signature and how it was fed. I would bet on their static analysis getting more advanced, in which case it could also be used to prove that OP is using APIs/permissions in a safe manner. But of course they're not incentivized to do that.
I have a couple of these hooked into an rpi zero to monitor soil moisture under my house. They work, but wireless would be much better.