skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean what are you looking for? People are sharing anecdotes because sUpPoSeDlY the statistics say it’s 100% A-OK and nothing to see here.

SF has reached a tipping point and the wildly inflated values of multi-million dollar condos and trophy commercial buildings are falling fall enough to start putting serious wealth at risk.
I wouldn’t call it archaic, but more folksy. I think most people would understand it, but would rarely encounter it outside a humorous context. It’s pretty similar to bamboozle, except that’s gained kind of a “cute” connotation in recent years (due to pet memes, etc.) that hornswoggle doesn’t have.
I helped carry a semi-passed out homeless-looking man in an undefined state to an ambulance uphill through snow this winter. Not sure if he had any injuries, but he wasn't cooperative.
It's highly likely they are communicating in a shorthand that isn't meaningful to you even if you could read the individual letters!
Its definitely not the only way but it is an option for some people who don't have other types of id.
I am pretty sure I might have ignored this in San Francisco, but probably not in other cities. I have walked next to people that looked injured, and harmed before in SF and not batted an eye, because nobody else did. It quite frankly is a city that numbs you to human suffering on the street.
Yes. I would have secured my door and window, opened the passenger door and and said “get in”.
Dennis Ritchie created great things and if he hadn’t, someone else would have created these things. Differently but just as well.

Without Steve Jobs there would have been no iPhone and we would have settled for a Windows CE like phone. Just look at what Android was before the release of the iPhone. That would have been the major leap.

That’s the difference.
They are throwing tons of money at the problem, and it isn't helping. Money doesn't solve problems by itself.
Don’t have to launch in Europe . Payments aren’t like other SaaS apps launching in every country is lot of paperwork and apps will choose to work in only some geographies .

Also WhatsApp does integrate payments in some geographies so it is not like FB wasn’t already having a step there .

FB is just chasing fads, few years back it was libre coin at the peak of crypto interest . They will keep throwing stuff to see what sticks until they run out of money
Yes I would have acted differently. I would call 911.
Very few people use the distributed features of git. It's almost always centralized at a corporate repository, a git forge, or there's not actually any collaboration.

It's almost always pull from my branch on the centralized repo, not pull from my repo at this unrelated host.
First, someone did exactly that and created a chatbot to emulate his dead fiancée [1]. You can read about their experience.

In my opinion, this type of chatbots will generate mostly generic messages ("So, how's the weather?"), but also some random ones (I have a chatbot right now that starts answering exclusively in emojis for no good reason) and some that are actually following the fine-tuned data ("I love fishing!"). I believe most people (myself included) will stick to those last ones as proof of the chatbot actually answering the way the person would have answered and rationalize all evidence to the contrary ("maybe grandpa really liked emojis and I just didn't know until now").

I think it has the potential of being therapeutic, but I am not a psychologist. And I do worry about the fine line between "this realistic baby doll will help you overcome the loss of your child" and "this realistic female doll of a woman is better than a real woman and I'm going to marry it".

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
Not true in districts subject to color revolution operators in the DA’s office.
Ownership disputes often stem from non-technical issues. Two orgs with different agendas might feel they require ownership of a given piece of tech to drive their own agenda forward. This can be expected to happen in firms that have multiple product lines but perhaps some shared functionality across them, as just one example.

I sense that we have different experiences and so can't relate to each other's points without getting more specific so I will make this my last reply.

I will just say that a common trope I've seen in online discourse on this subject is basically that you aren't a real <verySeniorIC> unless you are effectively doing the job of (or heavily carrying) your peers in the org chart who explicitly hold management roles. I broke my own back, metaphorically, trying to live up to that ideal with nothing to show for it and at the expense of the output that was expected of me and so I reject that notion. The <verySeniorIC>s Ive seen who hold those titles with longevity aggressively delegate politics to management and focus on the tech.
Crime in NYC is unevenly distributed. Property crimes mostly in business districts, violent crimes mostly in a few neighborhoods with gangs. If someone lives in areas most popular with well-payed software engineers like the Villages or North Brooklyn they will not encounter most of this crime. The NYPD is as large as some nation’s standing armies for a good reason, it stops crime in certain areas effectively.
I really don't know.

With the caveat that this is just an anecdote, one of my family members is an extremely intelligent and highly accomplished man. He graduated from Yale law, worked at a very high level in the executive branch, and during his professional career, I don't know anyone who questioned his character. Retired, he is now suffering from severe intractible depression.

Last month, I drove my relative to a doctor's appointment, and due to his own mistake, he showed up at the wrong time. And on the wrong day. Since I had walked him into the office, I heard his conversation with the receptionist, and then with his doctor, who came out to calm things down.

On the ride back to his house, my relative phoned another member of my family and angrily explained what had happened. He blamed everything on the doctor, and made baseless accusations against the doctor and receptionist. My relative's account of the situation wasn't based in reality. And he related his account right in front of me. He truly believed every word he was saying. But it wasn't true. I saw what had happened with my own eyes. I heard it with my own ears. I, fortunately, am well.

It wasn't the doctor's fault, nor was it the receptionist's fault. Quite the opposite, my relative had made a mistake. His illness, however, — depression — blinded him to that reality. And his reaction was to sling baseless accusations at his doctor.

Like I wrote before, this is a really difficult problem. I don't have a solution. I wish I did.
Every single city subreddit and local discussion is focused on crime and how high it is.

1: In almost all cases the statistics show that crime is actually going down, but the media reporting is going up.

2: Cities being crime-ridden hellholes is a narrative that is very convenient to the North American conservative narrative that cities are hellholes, progressives are soft on crime, the "real" citizens are in the suburban/rural areas who are scared, and that they are justified to be scared.

It's how despite the fact that overall trends of policy perspectives are moving leftward, the US Republicans and Canadian Conservatives remain relevant disproportionate to the polls for their actual policies: They feed on the fear so they create more of it.

3: West Coast cities (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Vancouver Canada) get hit with this even more disproportionately because the citizens there confuse crime with visible poverty.

People hear "Someone was randomly stabbed", then they go on the streets, see someone homeless and on opiates passed out in the street, or get screamed about by someone on meth, feel unsafe, and correlate the two. Then they look around at the state of certain parts of the cities and scream the city is dying, and demand superficial solutions like impeaching the DA, or cleaning up a homeless encampment.

But the cities don't have a crime problem (more than other cities in North America). They have a VISIBLE POVERTY problem. They have a houselessness problem. And they have a drug addiction problem (which almost certainly is an outcome of poverty and houselessness.

The root cause for these is complex, from wealth imbalance, to insufficient social services, but the reason why THOSE CITIES specifically have them is that the west coast provinces and states are 1/ Progressive, 2/ Mild-climated in the Winter.

There is no other province or state that is both consistently progressive (and as a result offers SOME social services for homeless, mentally ill, or drug addicted people) AND you can survive a winter in the street. The east coast has the former, but not the latter. The southwest has the latter but not the former.

The combination of the above creates the effect you see.
Good. A publicly-funded entity like NPR should be hosting its own Mastodon server anyways.
i was thinking of this exact scenario here. Training an LLM on all the information available about a suspect and then questioning the AI. If you had a mountain of information it would be very easy to miss details and connect the dots manually but if you could prompt an AI that has been trained on the data you could get answers much faster.
You don't even know what a druggie looks like. You're surrounded by druggies. You work with druggies. You just don't like the ones who don't have somewhere nice to go to do their drugs out of your sight.
The greater "crime in sf" conversation is ultimately about establishing that the misery in front of you is not your concern. We did this so we could feel justified in ignoring homelessness, but it will also be used to ignore you, if you're dying in the street.
MKBHD did a recent video on this [1]. The car charging infrastructure is just as important to the electric car experience as the electric car itself.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2qJKU8t2k
Drop the tyranny of student reviews of teaching
The assistant's salary comes from the same corporation that pays the figures salary, not the figure themselves.

To the GP's point, a friend of mine makes 80k but is still provided an assistant. That's in the entertainment industry, where PA's are dirt cheap and union laws prohibit multitasking.
Nail in the head. But can you imagine what it would have been if hakia would have been a thing instead of the SEO-spam, ad-infested Web that Google and Co. gave us?
Where I live it's impossible to imagine not stopping for someone with their hood open on the side of the road, let alone if they were physically injured. Big snow days are so much fun, with everyone helping to dig and push each other out of big snow banks, grinning and laughing.

Communities are made of people who look out for each other. If you put enough people together who don't, you've created something else entirely.
Sure, at least one major benefit of KYC (which is also completely broken with crypto) is the "Undo button". Plenty of times you need to phone a bank and they will sometimes, begrudgingly, press the Undo button. What's Mr. Nakamoto's number if something goes wrong in a crypto transaction?
> or because I’m compelled to by my genetic and social programming, predictably and without a genuine choice in the matter?

I don't understand how anyone can doubt this even a fraction of a second. Magic does not exist.
Nope. you'll still get a benefit when you know. (https://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/03/placebos - sorry, don't have a real link handy)
Any feedback is welcome. I'll clean it up soon, but I decided to just publish it for now and see the response. Tomorrow there should be more than one giant Python file, and the ability to use files other than .txt.
There is a reason :)
You got my hopes up but it seems I'm stuck paying UK VAT even though I don't think it's necessary any more.

I've run into this with a few different German businesses, I don't know if I'm right or they are, but it seems like they don't _have_ to charge me VAT. Which is underlined by the huge "import VAT" bill I'm dumped with when I have physical goods delivered to me in the UK.
That's not a problem with people simply doing drugs, it's a problem with people not having the means to do drugs in a private space, like 90% of druggies do everyday.
> Sure, in some cases they won't be in the right place at the right time, but that's the price we pay for civilization and progress.

Not coming to the aid of a man who had just been stabbed is "progress"? How would you have felt in his shoes?
0 years of experience is definitely tough, but for mid level devs (3-6 yrs) it may actually be easier than super seniors, because yes, overqualification... Me personally I just started a job at a Canadian company after low key looking and applying to various companies for the past couple of months. And I definitely got a lot of ghosting/generic rejections but definitely less than 95%.

I'm a good 3-5yr, mid-level dev, without FAANG company experience.
I am working on research towards the goal of introducing strict federal weight penalties for consumer vehicles.

Cars are simply massively overbuilt for their average use case. Reducing weight of vehicles is a very achievable goal that will cut emissions dramatically while also having additional benefits like global supply chain material and emission reduction, pedestrian safety, and road maintenance.

If you are involved in automotive, environmental, political spaces - or know someone who is - please reach out, email in bio.
These regulations should result in a lot of smaller cars. The easiest way for a manufacturer to get the fleet average down is to build and incentivize the sale of small EV's, because they will bring the fleet average down a lot more than a Hummer EV which has a horrible MPGe. Assuming of course they are successful in closing the truck loophole. They claim to be trying to close it, but time will tell.
Amen, “it happened before so let’s keep it up, maybe at uncontrollable levels, yay”
> This is an accurate characterization of the dollar as well.

Not in the way you're saying - it's a matter of degree. When Theranos scammed hundreds of millions, the dollar didn't drop in value, nor has that ever happened.

You seem to have unconventional definitions of "stable" and "volatile". Calling a 10% devaluation in 1 year volatile is laughable compared to crypto. For example BTC -65% in 1 month (1/6/18 to 2/6/18) or how about TerraUSD, -80% in less than 1 week, 5/9-5/14/22.

Fiat and crypto aren't even in the same galaxy when it comes to volatility.
That seems like a great way to do parallel construction. "Computer said so", very convenient.
it's not any harder than any website login. The only thing is that this isn't available as a simple service to normal people, maybe this is a feature Facebook should offer to have more value: your kids can sign in via biometrics on their phone and then it shows their parents on their facebook account that the child used biometrics X seconds ago to provide proof of identity.
Month-to-month might have some noise that makes it hard to read. We are still at 5.0% year-to-year inflation and 0.1% month-to-month inflation. This is still bad.
build better infrastructure. cars hitting bikes/scooters/pedestrians happens because you don't have good separation. Better bike lanes and road design do a lot to reduce accidents (see the Netherlands for examples on how to do this).
It's not your job, or a moral imperative for you to civilize barbarians.

It's also almost impossible to convert people like that out of their cesspit of ignorance and hate.

If you want to spend time with them, despite all that, you're not a bad person. If you don't, you're not a bad person either. It's a personal choice.

A lot of people who have those people as relatives struggle with the question of whether to cut them out of their lives. Ultimately, I can't judge them, regardless of what decision they make.
don't have a heart attack on the streets of SF...people will walk right over you

I was chased by a homeless man covered in blood at 8am...not a single person even bothered making eye contact
You dont have to, you could just flag it and move on
I think "falsely" because they're primarily viewer supported and less than 1% of their budget comes from the government. So it's odd for them to get the label when other news outlets like BBC and Voice of America (which is literally a state owned propaganda outlet) don't
That's an interesting point! I didn't do much clever here, other than sessionizing the conversations (there's a code sample in the project) to try and capture full conversations rather than disjointed snippets.

My group chat was pretty asynchronous at times, and very fast at others, and the character of conversation is very different in a fast-paced chat versus an asynchronous one so I think this actually would lead to improvements. That's a great idea.
Because it's not state-affiliated or state-sponsored media. Saying it is is factually incorrect.

Whether or not it's impartial is a completely different conversation.
Yep, this is the way
UCLA football is a profit center. It costs 32MM to operate but brings in 37MM in revenue. I suppose Tao might bring in some government grants (maybe?) but I doubt its anywhere near the same ballpark.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo....
On one side you have reactionaries who want to solve the problem by throwing everyone in jail and generally creating more misery for everyone except rich tech workers.

On the other side you have idealistic liberals who want to solve the problem by adding more social services but taking no further action.

This is likely a problem created by extreme wealth inequality and the fix is probably not what the posters on this site would be interested in entertaining.
Juul to Pay $462M to Settle Underage Vaping Lawsuits
> When people say they 'don't have social media' it usually is a good idea to check what their definition of 'social media' is. If they have a web presence that they regularly update it doesn't really matter what the label is, it can likely be used to infer a whole bunch of stuff.

They didn't deny having social media. She implied that she did have social media accounts. They said the social media accounts were non-public, aka friends-only.

Hence my point: If their social media presence was friends-only, then it would imply that it's someone in the friends circle who had access to enough information.
There are pros and cons to both approaches.
Small cars already exist. The Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model 3 are small EVs for USA standards. VW Golf, Mini Cooper, Mazda 3, Kia Rio are more examples of smaller cars.

They're just not as popular as SUVs and trucks in the USA. People want big cars, so companies manufacture big cars too.

Electric scooters would work for 5 months of the year where I live (and we have and use them when we can).
Absolutely.

...if less in some of the systems we live under

People put those systems we live under in place, and, importantly, people continue, even go out of their way, to keep these systems in place. It's not enough to simply recognize that issues are systemic. Good people would actually do something to address them.
I’m a huge EV fan. My family has owned four over the past 6 years.

That pedigree out of the way, I’ll give my cynical take: this will get rolled back by President DeSantis in a hot fucking minute.
NYC has gotten markedly worse in the last ten years. Some people want to signal how urbane and/or liberal they are and pretend not to notice, but that’s bs.

No one likes walking down the street and seeing a guy yelling incoherently at passing cars, or getting on a subway car and finding someone sprawled across one of the benches smelling like shit.
You've never used backend frameworks like WordPress? They can be very slow.
Don't we already try that approach more than any other place in the world? Is the problem solved?
Not a Mark fan but the Meta Quest Pro and Oculus are great and innovative devices. The obvious flaw in Meta business execution is that there is no content there! If you bet on the Metaverse you should build it and not wait developers to come. Or incentivize developers to use your platform.

From the business perspective I think they failed in playing the Japanese console game old strategy (Nintendo and Sony): work obsessively to have great and high quality content and synchronize this with the console launch. Not saying that Nintendo and Sony are not nightmares for producers but they are very obsessive about details.
> the obligation to own an ID card is a very foreign concept in most other countries.

Is it? From a quick search it looks like a very large number of countries have compulsory ID cards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...
Data please, and one anecdote is not data.
> And though I don’t think anyone yet knows what the solution is

WTF? yes we do.

High bail

Held in lockup till trial

No early release from prison

No consideration for race

Develop philanthropic apparatus for post-incarceration employment with the presence of their ex-criminal peers

This has worked for over a century until everyone was bamboozled into thinking it was inhumane by revolutionaries (aka commies)
Although, NPR was created by an act of Congress, along with the CPB.
> And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they?

What? No haha, they aren't able to read your emails or use them as training data for an LLM.
How is AI different than any other technology in this respect?

As far back as the discovery of fire, new technology has enabled more positive outcomes than negative.

Some tech more so than others, I guess, but what makes you lean so negatively regarding AI? It’s already improved my life considerably. Just the basic ChatGPT web app has extended my capacity in multiple respects.
NPR suspending Twitter use over “government-funded” label
Seriously, I'm shocked at these other replies. How can you see someone like this and not help? Nobody is asking anyone to get in a knife fight, but at the very least call someone.

If I just left someone to die like that it would be hard to look in the mirror after.
postgres is extremely efficient. how small was this workload? how big was the pg instance?
It was an even bigger joke that the BBC rejected the label. The government literally imposes a radio tax to fund the Service, and pays more out of general funds for global coverage.
This is like abstinence-only education. Use a USB condom:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/protect-your-data-with-a-usb-c...
Yep, the issue is mostly the glibc but ELF does not help. Additionaly, the static libstdc++ is also an issue as it seems not "libdl-ing" any of its system dependencies (did not check if c++ gcc devs fixed that already).

That does not mean ELF is not overkill nowdays. In the case of dynamic linking, deprecating DT_NEEDED to rely on hardcoded (with probably specific relocations) and simplified dlopen/dlsym/dlclose in the ELF interpreter (that would deprecate tls_get_addr() as it would become redondant with dlsym) seems to be a sane cleanup: explicitely split dynamic linking from static linking.

Nowadays mitigation:game devs should go pure ELF64 (no main()) for their binaries and fully libdl-ized. The hard part is to fork a gcc static libstdc++ to libdl-ize its system dependencies (dunno if it was done).
AI@IA – Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records
>(Though, yeah, I'd avoid a lot of "normal" activities if I ever attended BlackHat.)

I wonder whether you‘d take similar precautions on a site named Hacker News
Right, but this is still impressive given how quickly Databricks created and open-sourced the dataset. I would expect more improvements in the future.