skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even easier to shit on the status quo without having anything better.

> At least read my website before calling me unhinged.

No. I've seen countless tech prophets peddling snake oil over the decades, and it's always the same. Everything is dumb, poorly versed in the state of the art and history, but this magical ill-thought-out thing will somehow solve everything. It's very boring and predictable.
You can also get your US tax refund in I-bonds, up to a max. that's separate from the $10K purchase max.
> ix. Google shall allow the developers of app stores to distribute their app stores through Play Store.

This is a big one.

I hope they require the same for iOS, but for some reason that doesn't seem to be happening anywhere.
Forced to use Windows because Ubuntu cannot get color profile for monitor right and font rendering is awful compared to Winndows
So here is the proper source of the pool, with the actual question asked.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfnext-poll-crime-sfp...

Responses to the question "During the last five years, was any item you owned ever stolen from you, or did that not happen during that time?"

Note that it does not specify that you reported a theft. Note that it does not ask any real context about what was stolen and how.

If I was answering this, in Chicago, I’d have to say yes to how that was worded, because I’ve had an Amazon package or 2 disappear. But while that’s a valid question, I’d prefer more granular questions, because let’s be honest here, Amazon does refunds, there’s a big gap between a bag of dog food going missing and getting your car broken into.

“Have any of your vehicles or properties been physically damaged by theft?”

“Have you been physically assaulted for theft?”

“Have you been pickpocketed?”

(I’ve love numbers on that in Chicago. I feel like almost everyone I know has their phones stolen in 2021 at various festivals.)
Authoritarian regimes can "solve" it, democracies cannot. By definition, the rights enable the antagonist. Individually, one can actively cultivate mental models to compare oneself only to oneself instead of others and similar mechanisms to operate with emotional health and fortitude. At scale though? Hooboy are we screwed. Spend 60 minutes on TikTok, I rest my case.
Ecowitt make a range of low-cost sensors which all transmit to a central hub over 433/915MHz.
They have around 400 feet of range, and it is easy to get the base station to constantly ping a URL with current sensor values.
The soil moisture sensor is available on Amazon or directly from Ecowitt[0].
There is also a HomeAssistant integration[1].

[0]: https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/goodsDetail/19

[1]: https://github.com/garbled1/homeassistant_ecowitt
Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework
And? My links show crime has gotten better over time. Taking a snapshot of crime at one time is useless to understanding the delta.

Would you be able to figure out the acceleration of a body given only it's velocity at one time?
This is likely still lower than a lot lot lot lot lot of jurisdictions where prosecutors and cops don't even make any sort of effort at theft cases until the facts of the case allows for a more serious charge to stick and the theft is irrelevant. I had two bikes stolen from me, while I was personally at the Public Defender's Office, working in Spokane. Nobody called the police for that kind of stuff, and if you did, the police wouldn't do anything. It's compounded by the fact that the elements of Burglary - which is trespass + felony, no actual stealing needed, in WA - covers the really serious thefts that are seldom solved anyway, but counting burglaries would be overbroad, but reporting a theft can be yelling into the wind even with a police force that's funded by the government AND reality TV show money. Since the same poll wasn't conducted in multiple cities, there's no frame of reference. This could be very bad, or could just be a lack of points of reference when it comes to actual acts of criminal conduct that happens but never gets reported. So, without more data, the road paved with good intentions leads to a place to be named later.
> Too long didn't read

Not sure what to say about that other than, if you really want to understand reality reading more than a few sentences is kind of important.

> it's effectively a closed system that will repeat, meaning it's zero sum

This is a commonly repeated great-sounding "fact" that is, in fact, not a fact.

First of all, the paper you are calling "climate alarmist" is a report of work conducted at UCLA. If the burn/grow cycle was, as you call it, zero sum, there would be no way for one season of fires to wipe out 18 years of conservation. The growth rate of vegetation is, roughly speaking, a sigmoid function. This means things take a long time to grow and carbon accumulation flattens out at some point.

Again, you are arguing against an impossible equation: 12 months >= 18 years. That's math nobody can win.
Amazon packages for me.
It depends on your physical form and how close you got. With forms like ours yes that’s the point he’s making. In context it makes sense he’s pissed off.
That's true. But cops also do not get to decide what they investigate based on their own beliefs and biases.
I'm guessing that if a rich, white or Asian tech worker decided to loot a Walgreens, they would get the book thrown at them. Look at the small business owners in New York who get arrested and charged with everything possible by the DA's office for defending themselves (until public pressure forces them to back down). That's where we are. This is what the people voted for, though.
> In my experience, the people who admit...

Again, one person's anecdote is not a reliable way of measuring these things.
The rampant organized bike theft is particularly obnoxious not only is the theft disproportionately impactful relative to the value since you needed the bike for transportation-- but it's particularly easy to do something about it because its so organized and large scale: Put out bait bikes with trackers and/or surveillance.

(and plus, when you bust a big operation and now have a ton of bikes whos owners can't be located you now have an endless supply of bait)
As someone that's never been a victim of theft, that's wild and I feel like it would just ruin things for quite awhile.

I had what I assume was a drunk person, try to get into my apartment once. Not something that should be too scary but I felt uneasy for some time after that.

I'd be out wiring the house like ft. knox the next day, if that happened to me haha.
Quite the 10 years. Hope you're happier in NYC.
So calibrate your LG. (something you can't do on your iPad).

> "but if you were doing any visual production work..."

...then you would press the menu button on your monitor and adjust so that your monitor is usable. The default settings on your LG do not represent every monitor out there. A lot of monitors have good out-of-box colour.

> $700 LG

The monitor market is competitive. Watch reviews and choose a monitor with good out-of-box colour if you can't be bothered calibrating. Something like the ASUS Proart, or numerous others.
I think the annoying thing about SF is you'd find way more people OK with the idea to not pursue non-violent crimes, defund the police, or reduce police presence because the relationship with community is bad and mass-incarceration is a problem. And they are real problems, but also they are not going to get fixed in a year or even five years. There are certainly good number of people who are balanced in terms of supporting a trade-off between long term and short term solutions, but the voices in the extreme are definitely more heard.

You often can't even casually rant about this, without getting a whole debate in response just for sake of having a debate and being woke.
Absolutely incredible to think that the national institute of allergy and infectious disease might fund research into infectious disease.
> mind-wandering is verboten when riding

This is what I like about commuting by motorbike, even in a city. You are forced to stop thinking about work on the way home. You have to be present and mindful.

A version of meditation or mindfulness in a sense.

And it doesn't matter what bike you have.
This is really up to the prosecutors, not the cops. They tell the cops "we are not charging people for doing X," so the cops don't arrest anyone for X. At least in NYC and SF, there are written statements from the DA's office to this effect.
That's been happening for ... decades? It's not unusual that the "heated seats" option just gets you a button, the heating elements are often installed regardless.
The Bay Area has two of the top ten cities for total property crime (SF, Oakland). Not surprising, of course.

EDIT: This chart is accurate to 2019. The picture for SF/Oakland must be much worse using EOY 2021 statistics.
Boudin prosecuted felonies brought to him, but only around 3% of arrests for misdemeanors. Petty theft had about around a 7% conviction rate- most cases ended up being dismissed or diverted out of court.
I’ve been burglarized 4 times, in 4 different cities, in 2 US states, and once in Europe.

I’ve lived in SF twice and in a few other Bay Area cities, and I honestly can’t tell you that my personal experience with crime in SF is all that different from the norm in most urban areas.

There are places I’ve lived which seem devoid of crime, but these places seem to have more community in common than leadership or laws.

Although I’ve experienced crime, I also know that the level of crime, violent or not, has dramatically dropped over my lifetime and the probability of experiencing it is greatly reduced by living in densely populated areas.
San Diego weather is better.
We’ll know porch piracy is bad when Amazon begins offering free lockboxes for people to put on their porches.
Wow that's something. And I thought I had the best story for getting my roof rack stolen from off my car.

It wasn't particularly bitter – just, wtf. Bitter was when I was bedridden because of a flu, and when I finally had energy to go out to get some food, my bike got stolen in the 10 minutes I was in the grocery store. It was a miserable trip back home.
I mean, yeah? But if the majority of the problem is porch theft, you have a lot different of a reaction compared to if the majority of it is armed robbery. (Or, really, personal robbery period.)

My point is, as someone that doesn't live in San Fran, I don't know how this compares. Is it actually high? Or, is half actually low for comparable density locations.

Back when I was in a low population area, but lived in duplexes, I had my apartment broken into. And way more petty theft than now that I live where I do. Yet, I don't know that I would expect crime is higher there.
My response was "only half?". Seriously, isn't this true everywhere? I've jad things stolen in small towns and in big cities that are "tough on crime" and have citizens that vote for that. Theft is just part of life right? If I've just lived in bad places, where would one suggest that most people don't experience theft?
A kinda off-topic question about the website itself:

why does it render slightly wider than the screen, causes an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar? I see this quite a lot lately.
If you had to resubmit your code patch four times before you reached version number five, you'd quickly become a persona non grata on your team. Doubly so if every iteration of code review takes a day and it takes you a week to make a trivial 5-line change.
> Come to downtown San Jose and you will see a lot of the same issues

I went there once for the library and it just seemed really sketch. I never thought I would say this but maybe the nimbys aren't all bad :/

also should have clarified original comment, but what I meant was the suburban stretch from like Burlingame to Sunnyvale
What about assets? At least if the asset prices go up you can recoup.
I remember the reports of Instagram having more than 50 million users and 13 employees when acquired by Facebook.

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-first-13-employees...
Putting up a profile with your experience at Upwork, and start doing contract work is not an option? Things are not the same as they were decades ago. Covid and remote work shattered all traditional practices. People at Upwork do upwards of $60/hour. Ive seen the profile of someone who left Google contracting at $250/hour and someone ex-Twitter contracting at $150/hour.
Strange that police would ignore a burglary. I get they might ignore a bike stolen from the street. A burglary could easily be a home invasion.
You could definitely use the share modal on Android. Clicking to invite would pop it up, let you choose which app to use, and then which contact.
I have spent 20 days in SF proper in my life.

During that time, I was asked if I wanted to buy drugs 5 times, I shook a suspicious-looking tail (someone/multiple people following you) twice, and I had a bottle full of blood thrown at my head because I refused to acknowledge a screaming crackhead when I walked past them on the street.

I'm surprised it's only 1/4.
On the Alex Jones Verdict: The Lucrative World of Lying
Probably didn’t help matters but no the police have been garbage for longer than he was the DA.
Speakers stolen out of my car while parked at a law firm. I was temp help, but it blew me away at the time that I could have my car broken into when parked at a law firm. I gained a bit more cynical armor that day.
dorsey once went on rogan but he brought a lawyer.
What happened when my wife died
Depends on exactly what weather you want. There’s a statistic called degree days https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/de... and by some calculations Santa Barbara wins.

The whole California coast is pretty moderate. Once you’re a bit from the ocean it can be pretty nice year-round, many houses don’t have heating or cooling to speak of.
Almost everyone I know who drove from Peninsula 10-15 years ago into city had stories about smash and grabs in the city, but nowadays my Nextdoor on the Peninsula (Mountain View/Los Altos) the top three stories are suspicious person walking around the neighborhood, someone getting their catalytic converter stolen, someone getting everything taken from their car locked or unlocked. It could just be the algorithm driving these stories to the top, though. I have had my unlocked car rifled through multiple times. I lived inside the loop in Houston for five years in the 1990s and had my car broken into multiple times as well (even inside apartment complex gated garage) so it's just an easy crime to commit and multiple targets in very small area in urban places.
Not sure. But I'm sure 5Gbps is probably good enough for any work you'd be doing on an ipad.
Law enforcement agencies in the US are infamous for stealing billions of dollars of cash from innocent people using civil asset forfeiture.
Using a wildcard domain (*.agartner.com) helps mask the actual subdomain fyi
This project has really been the make or break for us to be able to do the coding in prisons program, as well as the devshop that develops Ed Tech for prisons at Unlocked Labs. Love at the project has been formalized and will make a huge difference in the lives of many justice involved individuals who just want to return to their communities as productive citizens.
Some of the more recent 64-bit ARM CPUs have added hardware support for SHA-3 (SHA3 is optional in architectures Armv8.2-A and later, i.e. in Cortex-A55, Cortex-A75 and later, i.e. starting with the smartphones from 2018).
If things like these happen to small companies, no one funds them, people run away from them and employees try to look for jobs elsewhere but when it comes to monopolies, suddenly these illegal activities are all good and ignored.
Asset prices go down when interest rates go up. Equities, real estate, even bonds (refer to bond funds getting decimated over the last year). Safe havens are cash or paying down debt with an interest rate over inflation.

(not investing advice, educational purposes only)
I think this is much harder in practice. These “honeypots” are often considered entrapment and cause the case to get thrown out.
If someone steals my car I understand what has happened.

Someone stealing a lawn gnome would weird me out a bit.
I’m 50 and have lived in 11+ cities over my lifetime. I’ve never been robbed. How is it that one person can get robbed 4 times and another no times? It’s not like I’ve ever lived in a gated community or anything like that.
WhatsApp apparently had only 50 engineers and 900M users when it was acquired.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
Wages are not rising as fast as prices unfortunately
Wow. I thought I was a loon for going to step 2 and consuming immediately. Bravo!
Aren't most systems hooked up through a NAT these days?
There has not been and I do not believe there will be any appreciable change in police behavior any time in the foreseeable future, without a much more significant reform effort. They’ve been unresponsive to property crime for many years. They started blaming Boudin for their unresponsiveness before he was even elected, and they’ll still be blaming him for their unresponsiveness long into the future.
By the time they make the cuts everyone that can find another job will be gone
> You seem to be implying that it's right and proper for cities to have high crime.

That's a really odd reading. From my vantage point it looks more like anecdotal evidence from within an area with usually lower crime rates and attempting to extrapolate to the larger city/ies.

I don't see a value judgment at all.
Robbery is pretty rare most places but theft writ large is much more common: stolen bikes, stolen packages, rifling through open cars and/or breaking windows to take things from inside, things like that. My understanding is that San Francisco's crime problem has been mostly those property crimes rather than violent crime like robbery.
Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model
I would suspect that people who have been a victim of theft once are much more likely to be a victim again.
I believe it was Lemaître who first discovered that! Just in case it matters.
If you were to pick where would you choose to live? It’s very much a trade off, salaries are higher in the US, but the quality of life is piss poor compared to anywhere in Europe. Healthcare is terrible and expensive, Education is lousy and expensive, housing is expensive and city life, outside of a couple of cities, is mediocre (car centric, no culture, segregated). Oh and you are at-will employed, which means you are one phone call away from getting fired on the spot.

For context, I’m a European in a US city. I’m not sure for how long I’ll be able to stay here.
I'm no financial expert, but lower your spend (kill useless subscriptions, live frugal), shop smarter (cheaper brands, less indulging in things like eating out), invest only if you feel like dollar cost averaging will pay off in the long run (blue chip companies).

Honestly, we should do this anyways in order to become the millionaire next door, assuming accumulating wealth is a long term goal regardless of the economic situation. Harder to do in practice of course.
I would join Twitter after a 75% culling if the stock grants and pay were proportional with the risk taken. Culling 75% from sales and marketing departments is easy. It’ll be harder in engineering.
Thank you :-)

The base image is indeed public domain: https://www.flickr.com/photos/srahn/9013096528 But I don't remember where I got the image of Andromeda from. Not that I believe I have any power to claim rights over it, but I've always considered it to be affectively CC licensed.
They can release an app, no problem.
I'm not the OP but I personally would imply that a wealthy and low density area would have a lower rate of petty theft than a dense and urban environment full of a diverse group of people (with diverse incomes and diverse needs).

Not that it should have, but that it can be expected.
Look at me! I'm marketing and sales now! Elon probably.
It was only over the last five years.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project to sell?
If you have a side/weekend project or an idea which you started working but no longer interested in it and want to sell then let me know.

A) Idea/Purpose of it.
B) Current users/revenue.
C) Asking price.
Really? I though entrapment is more like going under cover saying stuff like "hey wanna help me steal a bike!" "ahhh don't be a chicken!" to someone who wasn't planning to.
Agreed - I was being flippant.

I still have nightmares about the time I woke up on a Saturday morning to the sounds of a disturbed and dying woman screaming after she doused herself in gasoline and lit herself on fire at Dorland and Guerrero.

Some of the screams were from people who had tried to help her and ended up injuring themselves.

https://missionlocal.org/2012/07/apparent-attempted-suicide-...
Tech Companies: A New Religion?
Changing DAs is not like deploying a software service. It takes time for changes to propagate.
I did but as a tech guy, non-technical CEOs with connections don't like a tech guy who takes the innitiative. They like to be the one with the vision/idea. Maybe I should just offer myself up as raw talent though and ignore my own ideas. I haven't tried that yet.
> RPM on the other hand is an over-engineered mess: <https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html>. Tangentially, YUM and DNF were the slowest package managers I've ever used. They're a real pain.

I like OpenSuse but man zypper is possibly the slowest package manager ever!! Can't even download in parallel. I think they are now moving to dnf.
Avalon: A Benchmark for RL Generalization Using Procedurally Generated Worlds
I think the police consider single-family houses more a priority for "home invasion" than apartments. Even if the apartment dweller is a professional, apartments are for "the poors" in the police mentality. At least in my experience from a burglary.
Maia Chess
Interesting, in general I've noticed SHA-256 hashing is relatively CPU intensive and slow.. is the 2024 Xeon CPU in my server too old to include the hardware implementation?
I may try to offload https://jiminyclick.com at some point just because I've lost interest in it. Couldn't gain traction. No users, just the tech. It's an Outlook plugin that tells you if you're about to email the wrong person by accident.
Most Android smartphones support SHA3 starting with the 2018 models (i.e. Cortex-A55, Cortex-A75 or newer).
I can't imagine anyone would want to stay on the Twitter authoritarian bot team in face of their pending doom.

It must be so demoralizing.
> I have had my unlocked car rifled through multiple times. I lived inside the loop in Houston for five years in the 1990s and had my car broken into multiple times as well (even inside apartment complex gated garage) so it's just an easy crime to commit and multiple targets in very small area in urban places.

Where I'm from this is pretty much unheard of. It's yet to happen to me in bay area, but also my car isn't super nice and I never leave anything in it. Hoping it doesn't happen
That's not really how discrimination works.
But it's not good UI for sharing app. It should have Contact Picker API like photo.
That's correct in my experience. Galvanic corrosion was never a problem for the capacitive sensors I developed a few years back (unlike the resistive sensors linked by the parent). However you typically want them more rugged than a bare PCB for industrial settings and since the capacitive field can pass through plastic I had them in a plastic housing filled with resin. Perfectly isolated from the outside environment and hard as a rock.

Here's a prototype: https://imgur.com/9yO28CY