skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now that he has been recalled in favor of a “tough” replacement...

That was in June of this year. Do you really believe that the change will happen that fast?
I've lived in Albuquerque and even the worst, absolute worst part of Albuquerque, the part of town the locals call "the war zone", was cleaner and safer-feeling than a huge chunk of SF.

My truck did get broken into, though... guy couldn't figure out how to disconnect the 2m radio, though, so he settled for the owner's manual and nothing else.
Does the city have any will to change?
Depends how you see the relevant market. You could define the market as browsers for iPhones, instead of browsers for all phones. After all, it’s not like users switch readily between different phones for different apps. There’s a whole body of case law on what the relevant market is. The gist is that it turns on substitutability, but it’s more complex and flexible. Easy knob to turn to account for tech platform dynamics.
Interesting facts about Irvine:

It’s owned entirely by one of the largest (maybe the largest) real estate company in the US, The Irvine Company. They also have a heavy presence in Sunnyvale CA.

Irvine buildings and neighborhoods - all of them - are built intentionally to be anti-crime. Things like alleys and dark corners are virtually non-existent.
> none of us can know [...] which party you think is which [...]

That was kinda the point.
“I live in a wealthy suburb outside a major city and it’s safe here compared to an entire major city” fixed it for you
I'm not a big fan of SF and have only been twice but I see the appeal. There are a ton of job opportunities for tech workers (yes, there are a ton of opportunities for SWEs just about everywhere but SF is another level, especially if you like startups). Weather there is almost always reasonably comfortable. You're on the ocean. Mountains for skiing/snowboarding, hiking, climbing, whatever else you might want to do are close enough that you can reasonably drive to them on the weekend. And it's got all the standard big city things: diverse selection of really good food, live music, clubs/night life, an lgbtq+ scene, art, just lots of culture in general.
What mistake, you think the DA snaps her fingers and the system self-heals and self assembles? Even in private enterprise a bad CEO can take years to recover from, here we're taking government --so you're going to have to wait some time for results.
Not even half? Seems like a pretty decent place to live then.
I'll catch the movie in 15 years.
Too ambitious. Platforms like MySpace or GeoCities would be closer to the mark, if we could find a way to incentivize a hand-off approach to data collection.

Site builders like SquareSpace, Wix, and WordPress are also close, but they're mostly designed and marketed as professional tools rather than personal spaces.

Most people don't ever want to hear words like "DNS record" or "PHP version", but they do want to express themselves, and they can figure out a markdown or markup language in pursuit of that.
Never? I live in NJ and I have had things stolen from me at least 4 times.
Agreed.

I too am a victim of theft!!

Drama aside, that's exactly once, about 16 years ago, and it was (i reckon) some kids that came in through an open window and took a backpack (cool cameo design), a gaming console, and my sons bike.

(Perth, Westerm Australia)

Total cost - well under theft insurance rates which I have yet to subscribe to.

Point being "nearly half" doesn't convey nearly as much infomation as the scare reaction to the statement warrents.
> Without comparing to other high density cities for basic theft, I don't really find this that useful. :(

Why not? High crime rates are bad in any city. It doesn't become okay if multiple big cities have high crime rates.

It's weird to see how so many people are trying to normalize crime rates this high.
They tried to make it its main distribution channel to avoid having to pay Play Store fees. They ceased doing it because it was much harder to acquire customers via sideloading despite the product being motherhugging Fortnite than it was to pay the tax on every "micro" transaction.
I ride. 9 years on a second hand GSXR1000 with pipes already swapped - loud. Now 5 years on an MT-09 with standard pipes - normal. City daily commuting the whole time. I won't bother with loud pipes again.

My pet theory: Unlike motorcycle riders, car drivers don't get the benefits of stereo positioning unless you are real close.

By the time people hear it, decide to look for it, place the location, react as required - you are usually on your way anyway.

Mind you, my home park is beside the driveway between two apartment blocks. I don't want to piss off 50 people I live close to, each time I come and go.

So I have a balance of requirements to meet.
It did until about 2019. Now the best early stage startup community is in this place called Remote.
Well, for most Windows users the default PDF application is...Edge, so I think that is reasonable actually.

I feel like I could even make an argument how Microsoft is forcing Mozilla's hand here, by showing regularly showing prompts asking people to switch to Edge... I mean use "Microsoft's recommended Browser settings".
I see dang no longer bothers to comment when he editorializes a title with a "?" to indicate a non-narrative headline.
I think we can all agree that lawn gnome theft is a hugely important problem that needs far more attention from law enforcement.
First, keep in mind, Google doesn't do any advertising. It simply provides a medium for others to travel through.

Next, are there brands using Google to advertise toothpaste? Do they need that data to do that? Are there possibly other signals that are as telling / effective?

Finally, how - without being more creepy - is Google going to buy that data and tie it back to you *exactly*?
It's indeed amazing!!
40 to 50% of all fatalities involve the circumstances I've described. The last year I checked was about 36k fatalities, and a little more than 16k of them matched that pattern.

Another confounding, but obvious point, is that alcohol and risky driving is also more of a factor at night than it is during the day. People also might assume that a motorcycle rider is _less_ likely to commit a DUI, when it's actually the opposite.

Once you take risky single vehicle accidents out of the picture, the statistic that really starts to stand out is pedestrians. They go from 16% of all deaths to around 30% of the remaining deaths. These are also most likely to happen at night, and a surprising number happen outside of urban areas; and it wasn't clear from NHTSA data alone whether that was due to speed of the vehicle being higher or the distance to a hospital being greater.

One odd point that I didn't have time to chase down is it seems that elderly drivers and passengers are much safer in the front seat. There was a strong skew for their fatalities to be found in the rear seats of vehicles. The profile was something like 80 year olds in the rear, and 40 year olds in the front. This seemed like a particularly dangerous configuration for elderly passengers.

The other interesting data point I gathered is that Texas had a higher number of fatalities over California, even though it has a smaller population. It suggests that state laws and road design are also a large factor in fatalities.

Anyways.. NHTSA publishes the FARS database. Every fatality is recorded, and if it was investigated all of the data is reported in a standardized format. They even have a "sequence of events leading up to the fatality" coded in there. It's an amazing resource.
This strategy is one of the remarked upon things when I first heard of Tesla (something like “this California startup is powering their electric car with laptop batteries”) ironically laptops have almost all transitioned to lithium polymer (pouch cells) instead of the 18650s they used back then. Not all car manufacturers use teslas standardized cell technique, as it does have some downsides. I guess time will tell, but I doubt Tesla will abandon this technique any time soon.
I don't know, especially on this website. Half of the super innovative high market cap companies everyone laudes on here just have "cheating/ignoring regulations and common decency" as half of the innovation.
Surely not considering how intertwined German peoples were with Rome
It's pretty well established that addictive drugs cause users to commit petty theft to support their drug habit.
Texas prosecutes misdemeanors. Californian cities essentially do not.
I can't wait until North Korea mimics my profile and finds out just how unemployable I am
At least with Clinton the budget was balanced and even ran at a surplus.
> SF police are unwilling to lift a finger about nearly anything, and more or less laugh at you if you ask for their help

That's rather uncharitable given the sheer volume of property crime facing the city. Literally hundreds of calls a day... while in 2020 the mayor bragged about cutting the police funding by $120 million and moving it to other organizations. It has since been restored (I think?).

Even a B-corp with a very liberal owner couldn't take it anymore when their windows were broken 5 times and organized theft groups raided the store on a regular basis (posted 2 days ago): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davismsmith_its-sad-but-san-f...
Ally saving account rates are > 2%. You are not "losing money" in that your total account value is going up, but your purchasing power is going down as it's lower than inflation.
You are correct.

If you lay them off there are lots of expenses. If you scare them off then they will leave for free.

He is attempting to shake the tree before taking over on purpose.
This is nonsense. He filed charges then let them off. That's not prosecuting.
per year*
Is there any evidence for this beyond kCMVideoCodecType_AV1 in the 16.0 headers? I'm not sure that alone implies any particular version. Could be iOS 17 or later for all we know.
At this point it's basically the monty python "its just a flesh wound" scene.

Anyone who has visited SF knows exactly whats going on.

Anyone who lives in SF also knows exactly whats going on. They'll just desperately point to some statistic from a tiny town they've never been to that actually measures and enforces the law.

Anything to justify continuing to vote for whatever the media tells them to vote for next.
Ummm, SF voters voted to make their police force "SMALLER"!

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21537593/san-francisco-proposi...
Of course that would be impossible to differentiate, but adding it to the privacy policy is what Google requests. Adding it and still having it refused can absolutely be blamed on Google.
It was mostly at night time. Brazen things happen in the middle of the day now.
Can you provide any... yaknow... evidence that crime is going up on average?

Just a quick Google implies that this is a complete fabrication

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che...

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-crime-r...

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

The irony of saying this with no data to back up your claim, and the data that exists showing the exact opposite of your claim, is truly palpable
Ask HN: Who on Twitter improves your intellectual and mental health?
I used to be very active on Twitter, but have been dormant for a long time.

I intend to get back into it, but I am finding 99% of content to be utterly vapid, self serving and misdirecting.

In contrast, I have always enjoyed twitter links posted here, even on esoteric topics. So I wanted to ask - who do you follow on Twitter where you get true intellectual or emotional value?

Also happy to get recommendations for Mastodon servers and people!
Important bit to pay attention to:

<SQLite's behaviour is> "Be liberal in what you accept". This used to be considered good design - that a system would accept dodgy inputs and try to do the best it could without complaining too much. But lately, people have come to realize that it is sometimes better to be strict in what you accept, so as to more easily find errors in the input.
The U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine
Not even package theft? Maybe it's who I know, but all the nova residents I personally know complain about packages being stolen off their porch. That and theft of bikes or bike parts. Whether these count seems to vary a lot. Most people don't bother to file a police report, so they won't show up in a city/county's theft stats. But if a poll (like this one) asked me if I had ever been a victim of theft (and didn't further specify), I would include that kind of opportunistic theft in my answer.
I don't get this doublethink, but it comes up all the time. They ran on a platform of not prosecuting crime because it is unfair to do so. They were elected. They didn't prosecute crimes.

I don't understand who you think you are going to trick into this nonsense that Boudin was super tough on crime. It's so embarrassing for you.

Since people are trying to rewrite the narrative here to avoid taking responsibility for a failed experiment:

'''Restorative justice is a survivor-centered alternative to the traditional prosecution model that attacks mass incarceration on two fronts. First, through a process focused on active accountability rather than passive punishment, people who have harmed others are equipped with the tools they need to stop harming others in the future. They may receive education, job training, counseling, substance use treatment, and more, and upon successfully completing the restorative justice process, may avoid prosecution.'''

From Boudin's campaign website before the election (of course this has now been scrubbed):
https://web.archive.org/web/20191124064230/https://www.chesa...
I think the horizons chat thing is interesting.. basically if you can bring together basically live conversations that adds another dimension.
sooo occassionally, and that's just leaving the city not getting around it and into it all the time
These batteries have been worked on for years. The safety characteristics are good. They can survive being shot with a bullet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6z5OU_ke0
First, this survey seems to be about the last 5 years, which is noteworthy.

Also,

> a quarter have been threatened or physically attacked

That's a much scarier thing. 1/4 people were threatened or attacked in a 5 year period? That's pretty rough
Equally anecdotal is that it feels much easier to avoid crashes on a bike. They're nimbler and have access to much more road (and off it, for that matter). Yes, very obviously if you do crash, you're much worse off on the bike.

In the end though, you're right, and we don't even need anecdotes to prove it - the stats are voluminous and clear. Yes, you can reduce your risk somewhat with good bike and skills maintenance, but even with that, motorcycling is much more risky to life and limb than driving a car. If safety is higher in your valuation than whatever your reasons for riding (there are many possible), riding is never rational. Safety is fairly low in my evaluative framework, and my reasons for riding persuasive, so it's not a hard choice in my personal case.
> It will take years to recover from "Defund the Police"

There has not been any reduction of the SF police budget in this century.

The Mayor made a speech in 2020 suggesting that some funds would be redirected from police budgets into some social programs, but this did not represent any actual reduction in police funding.

If you are under the impression that SF was in any way affected by “defunding the police,” you are mistaken, because that didn’t happen.
I'm curious about your setup. I've got a Nest doorbell camera and would love to stop sending my video to Google. Do you get notified when there's someone outside your door? Or a notification that someone rang your bell? What app do you use on your phone? What about intercom functionality, is there a way to replicate that?
Thanks to Newt Gingrich.
Is 'Socioeconomic Inequality' a new kind of heroin?
It's not the media or the this or the that -- it's the lack of competition.

In ideas and options.

Groupthink of any ilk leads to death.
It appears that there was a bump up in the rate during the early 2K's.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/murde...
San Francisco voters voted on a SF city proposition to make their police force even smaller.

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21537593/san-francisco-proposi...
I didn't notice that, that's an important point
> and part of the reason the costs are so high is because PG&E is holding the city hostage.

One thing you'll see when you live in SF long enough (20+ years here) is that they'll come up with all sorts of crazy excuses to justify bad behavior. Blaming PG&E for the $1.7M cost is bullshit.
Did you even read the article? They weren't meeting these numbers for a long time.

>The proposition also requires San Francisco to end a requirement that there be a specified number of full-duty sworn police officers assigned to neighborhood policing and patrol — a number law enforcement officials say has never been met due to resource constraints.
Crime has increased under the new DA…

Seems like the rule of law isn’t much of a deterrence in this case
No, we voted to give the city the authority to reduce the size of the police force. They haven’t actually used that authority. Nor have they reduce the police budget.
Once you get through the basics check out Entagma's work; they've been making Houdini content for a long time and are now doing the same for Blender: https://entagma.com/category/blender/
I was enraged when all hope of paying off the debt was cut off at its knees by the Bush tax cuts.
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Apple did research and made a business decision that worked out in their favor. Are you saying that the government should have passed a law saying that iPhones must include the headphone jack?
They really don't, and it's important for people to know that or they might be under the illusion it will be fixed at some point.

The people who vote in SF and run the government there are obsessed with punishing some undefined "privileged" set of people who are somehow causing all the issues. Of course they are themselves highly privileged so it's a self hatred.

It will keep getting worse.
So what could we do about it then? If that’s truly the whole explanation it is an unsolvable problem
You seem to be implying that it's right and proper for cities to have high crime. Why is that?
Already happens on Samsung phones. Used to happen on Motorola and others as well. And of course, Amazon tablets don't include Play Store at all.

This ruling has no effect on that. It just says that Google can't require manufacturers to install Chrome, Assistant, and other Google apps if they want to have Play Store on their devices.

What will probably happen is that Google will accept some other form of payment to get access to Play Store.
As a user, I appreciate my user agent restricting its codec support to those that can be played back efficiently on my hardware. I see this in contrast to Google not caring about my battery life or device thermals and forcing CPU decode on me if it saves them a fraction of a cent on royalties or bandwidth.
> Now, theft is rampant and unabated. It will take years to recover from "Defund the Police" and No-bail, charge drooping DAs.

I agree that ideology gets the best of people. For example there is a baffling group of people set on blaming all current and future crime on a previous DA and absolving the current DA, mayor and SFPD leadership of _any_ responsibility for what goes on in the city.

It doesn’t make a lick of sense to me rationally, but I understand the appeal of having a singular boogeyman to blame everything on, kind of like Evangelicals and their fixation on Satan.
Right I think this is a point many miss. Most Apple HW can do AV1 decode in SW plenty fast, it's just much more energy than with a hardware decoder (big deal for phones in particular). What's really missing is the SW support, but I'm delighted to hear that it's _finally_ going to happen.
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This is a mistake I see on iOS a lot. You can use a 'system picker' for some things without a permission - photos is the most common one - many apps request full photo library access which I never want to grant when they could just use the system photo picker instead.

In a similar way you could (in iOS) for this same feature just popup the share sheet to send a message. Though I am not familiar with the Android analog.
He was truly our worst president, despite Obama claiming they're friends --what a sell-out.
As a flute player myself intuition tells me the opposite. What’s your thinking?
The article you’re commenting on is evidence and data.

Are you aware that you’re countering data gathered by a long-standing reputable newspaper with data gathered by the police department?

Do you think there’s some other way of measuring theft besides people saying “I am the victim of a theft”?
all recessions are inevitable. It's a feature of the business cycle for a trough-shaped period of time to occur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
I just want some for my garden lol
I'm just going to chime here with another anecdata: I've lived in London, Paris, Toronto, Melbourne, New York City, and San Francisco. The two times I've had things stolen (computer, bike) were in the Bay Area lol
What language/stack are you in?
Yup. Essentially differences boil down to having a significant body of material around the operator.

Humans are quite fragile in relation to the things we do.

Not sure whether a graph of skill vs safety would show increasing or decreasing difference though.
Violins, cellos etc come from the viola da braccio family (arm viola).

I used to play the viola da gamba (leg viola), which comes in all sizes but you play them kinda like little cellos. They have six strings, frets, and you hold the bow a little differently, but even the small ones are played with it tucked between your knees.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol
Smashing into somebody's car is a bit more severe than porch pirating. But yeah it's not on the level of mugging ofc.
This (or some sort of very similar comparison) prompted me to figure out how to locate Andromeda. And I could not see anything, So I bought a nice pair of binoculars, and perhaps I could see something, but it was impossible to tell for sure. until I went camping in Arizona, I was looking at the stars, I remembered how to find Andromeda, remembered my binoculars. everything had came together and there it was! it looked like a blue mist.

But really it was a nearly spiritual experience. Out in the cold Arizona desert, more stars than I have ever seen in my life and you bring up a pair of binoculars to what looks like an empty area of sky and it too is full of stars, And there is this blue mist, the furthest thing you can see with the naked eye(at least with better eyes than mine) with billions and billions of stars contained within. I don't know, but you feel stuff under those circumstances.
This “the new IE” meme is getting sillier by the WebKit Technology Preview release cycle and has been silly for two whole Safari release cycles now. The WebKit team has significantly expanded and isn’t only bringing compatibility up to date at a rapid clip but shipping some highly anticipated APIs first.

I objectively would prefer other browser engines were available on iOS, but at the moment that would just mean further entrenchment of Chrome/Blink, which I don’t think would be better. I’m happy to see WebKit continue to improve and embrace the open standards that benefit the web. It’s gonna take some time but given the options I think patience is a better option than ushering in Google’s total dominance of browser technology.
>Snap makes sense, but it'll take time for the dust to settle. Just like Unity / Wayland.

How much time? We've been waiting for over 10 years for the dust to settle with Wayland.