skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got a really weird black and white view of these things. As long as people aren't literally murdering you then it's ok? The idea that "real crime" only happens AFTER the actual crime has taken place is super bizarre. That's not how the world works.

Go find me a city that has people that are super happy and nice to each other and also has a high murder rate. Wait, I bet you can't.

Talking about the petty crime and the "vibe" is absolutely on topic for this, because that sort of laissez-faire attitude leads to murders like the one we're discussing.
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As long as there are no waivers for driver stupidity.
It seems you'd certainly be able to go in and just tweak the lighting without doing all the AI touchups, texture upscaling, and model swaps as they did in the video. Pretty wild stuff, either way.
Richard Stallman is a victim of the NGO/Media Industrial Complex. His aloofness makes it easier for him to be a target, but let's be honest, if those people want someone taken down, it will happen.

People need to be a little less gullible when they see a news campaign trying to take out yet another anti-establishment voice. In a world where propaganda and manipulation have never been so powerful and coordinated, just because a bunch of voices start yelling smoke, doesn't mean there's fire. Or doesn't mean that the fire is anything more than a lit match not deserving your attention. The selective guidance of your attention and outrage always end up doing one thing: supporting the goals of the 1% at the expense of the 99%.

Also people need to show more tolerance for someone having the occasional wrongthink (especially since he says he was convinced and changed his mind about adult/child sex years ago). Stallman is human, same as you. Unless you're an NPC, you almost certainly have one or two beliefs that would get you targeted and canceled if people found out about it. If you say you don't, if all your beliefs happen to line up with the Twitterati on every issue, then perhaps you should engage in some self-reflection.

(EDIT: removed some unnecessary language)
> I don’t know.

Correct. You did not factor in alcoholics who do not show up for AA meetings. Not all alcoholics are the same.
It’s not coming for me because it can’t think. If anything it makes the senior engineer more valuable, not less so. Writing actual code is the minority part of my day usually. Using Amdahl’s law, that bounds the maximum speed up to under 2x. In reality, less.

What on earth are you doing that you see 10x speed up? That implies you spend more than 90% of your day writing code. That’s not even possible if you have no meetings and no teammates. I call bullshit. I’ll be generous and say you are exaggerating for effect rather than intending to lie about it. But either way its beyond what’s possible.
https://vimeo.com/799282359
Obviously due to climate change
Make sure to run at least 2 clusters in case one goes down
Did they announce Office Copilot pricing already?
Does anyone have firsthand knowledge why Google split Street View into its own app way back when?

I think I know (resource allocation), but I'd love to be certain.
The point is to create environments in which all of Duncan's criteria matter much less, and most of them not at all. If that cannot be done, then they do not matter anyway, because good outcomes are excluded.
Do you remember when mainstream media outlets like WaPo and The Guardian went out of their way to refuse to publish any details about the Trump resistance leaker, even after his identity became publicly known?

Now they go out of their way to expose this one. Mainstream media outlets are really arms of the Western security state. I should hope this is absolutely clear to everyone at this point.
> Go make your own content and enjoy all of the power that the Internet gave you.

You do know that most of the people here make their own IP every day, right?
Maybe I spent far too much time playing Morrowind, but that place just feels homey. Low poly models and muddy textures and all.
The motion picture industry has a time-tested rating system that seems to be a good balance between parental concerns and freedom. Maybe it is time to look at such a system for books.
As if they posted a link to his LinkedIn...
(Apart from very low level USB firmware stack attacks:)

That's a purely software issue, though, and actually easier to solve on phones (with built-in display+input) than on PCs (how to trust a keyboard/mouse without having keyboard/mouse to input approval with?).

https://usbguard.github.io/
Bringing it back to the author, I've heard that the MX-5 is about the easiest car to work on that's still readily available. And Saturns. Saturns are like Lego.
> as desperation to get just any job to pay the bills with

I find that a strange thing to determine from what someone does with their linkedin profile ...
You're right that secret keywords would be smarter but the contest host wants to err on the side of making sure to not cause harm
The Image of the M87 Black Hole Reconstructed with PRIMO
> Removing death from the equation introduces either: stagnation, if it is made available to everyone; or a new kind of inequality that I can't comprehend being accepted.

In our world, barring catastrophic collapse (which IMO is not at all unlikely within Bezos's lifespan), the latter seems almost certain.
> This is a good reminder of how we gravitate towards powerful emotional narratives, which in the moment can feel absolutely true despite an utter lack of supporting facts on an individual murder case.

It seems equally weird to me that so many people are taking this anecdote as a sort of proof that San Francisco does not have a crime problem.

Focusing on individual anecdotes and swinging from one conclusion to another is the real problem. The source of this unfortunate murder shouldn’t dictate your entire view of a city’s crime problem.
When a human does it, it’s called lying, gaslighting, or bullshitting. Why do we call it hallucinating when ais do it?
So much for free speech! Isn't NPR allowed to not publish content wherever it doesn't want to? Excepting radio, that's its charter.
The reason they printed off the photos is that damage like that happens so rarely, the insurance is a huge profit center for them. That’s why they push you to buy it.
Exactly this. I spent more on Android phones over time than I ever spent on iPhones. Between the better resale value and longer support, it just turns out to be cheaper to spend a few extra bucks at time of purchase.
Fossil fueled global warming in a nutshell:

(1) A century of extremely heavy fossil fuel use by a rapidly growing human population increases CO2 levels with the most effect seen at about 12 km height in the atmosphere where the added CO2 absorbs infrared radiation that otherwise would have escaped to space. The re-radiated infrared warms the atmosphere a little bit (this is only about 1/3 of the overall effect, however). Some other gases (CH4, N2O etc.) have minor additive effects, but it's the fossil CO2 which is the primary driver.

(2) This warming increases the evaporation/precipitation ratio such that atmospheric water vapor increases. This water vapor may be clear-air or clouds, but overall it boosts the warming rate by about twice the CO2 effect (2/3 of overall effect). However, if you dropped atmospheric CO2, water vapor equilibrates quickly, i.e. weeks/months at most. But, you end up with a good deal more water vapor in the atmosphere (+10% IIRC?).

That's just the warming, no big deal it might seem. However, the Earth is still tilted on its axis, we still get seasons, we get mid-latitude storm fronts sweeping through, and if a polar cold front hits a body of air that has higher than usual water vapor content, then you get extra precipitation, driving flooding rates higher. On the other hand, if you have clear-air water vapor, and it sits in place, you can get a massive heat wave. This is why, depending on region and season and oceanic fluctuations, the severity of droughts and floods tends to increase over time as the planet warms.

It's not going away, and will get worse for the next 100 years at least, so, maybe build homes that can float? Moored to concrete pilings, say. Also, don't live in flood zones, or in low-lying coastal areas. And, stop burning fossil fuels for energy so it doesn't get even worse than it already will be.
I wondered when this narrative would start. Companies want employees back in the office, and are starting to dial up the fear to do it.

This story seems based on a comment a CEO made and nothing more than that. It does highlight real issues with remote work, such as what is it that your are paying a us worker for vs a worker from a cheap labor market?
I don't think it's the lack of money that's stopping them from leaving.
That's tragic. For the cows, the farm, the town.

There probably isn't even a way to minimize waste, I imagine slaughter houses and those cattle in the US are subject to strict regulations/inspection etc. Can't just butcher a bunch of dead dairy cows.
Devi "tried calling Uber" only for them to respond "a few days later." Criticizing someone for calling their ersatz employer when badly injured on the job is not the high road.

Also, the article claims Uber is lying:

"Uber spokesperson Tomar says that the company gave Devi financial support to cover her loss of earnings as a result of the incident, and that the company 'helped her claim her medical expenses under Uber’s on-trip insurance policy, which covers all drivers on the app.' Devi claims that both the insurance money and Uber’s financial support for her loss of earnings haven’t made it into her bank account."
A burglary is much scarier than someone stealing shit from your car, because someone invaded your living space in the latter. It's a much more serious invasion of your privacy than a broken window smash and grab.

The point I made in the sibling point stands, though. At 55th in the nation, SF does not have a high burglary rate. It has a high larceny (stealing from stores, cars, etc) rate.
While there are lots of fear-driven opponents here in germany, we also know our math - and you can be sure if there was a huge ecological and economical benefit from nuclear power we would build reactors like crazy.
But it turns out that it’s not cheap enough and building and maintaining those plants doesn’t save much greenhouse gases.
If we built them en masse many years ago the numbers could be better maybe. Anyway renewables are our way to go and until we get there we keep the coal so we don’t end up in the middle ages.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1169469591/goodbye-fuzzy-donu...
Fixie.ai raises $17M to build the SDK for LLMs
Just to offer a counter-anecdote: In 8 years of living in SOMA, which has the 2nd highest crime rate after Tenderloin, nobody has even once threatened to kill me. Or even hinted at wanting me harm.

Property crime is a different story. That has indeed been a problem.
It’s actually nothing like that at all. People keep bringing it up because the US has the second highest number of gun related deaths of any country in the entire world.
And this is exactly why we don’t drop dead right after we have kids. We are optimized to stay alive and support our our offspring until they have the highest chance of survival and reproduction (and maybe their kids?) so 20+20+10?

Nowadays people don’t have kids until 30, so maybe there is some pressure towards 30+30+10?
One could easily argue the opposite too no? That new generations are surrounded by the effects of the breaking down of gender roles, and are looking to the past/other societies for an alternate model.
That's not the point. Lots of of people want kids. If you're a man, you have the luxury of waiting much longer. Women don't have that luxury, it becomes increasingly difficult to have a successful pregnancy after one's early 30s.
Do you have a reference for the Fukushima cleanup talk? Any documents, interviews?
France chose to switch off some reactors just because one had shown corrosion on a safety tube that is not used in normal operations, has about 0.1% chance of being needed, so all the plants with that tube were shut down just in case. The Chinese are running plants much closer to the metal, have had zero issues...
I use emacs from termux frequently, even better if I use my bluetooth keyboard and hdmi out to a tv, but even though the text is small in normal mode I still prefer it to any of the fdroid emacs or org mode packages.

For those who worry about runaway configs, I highly suggest starting with sanemacs for a good minimal configuration you can start with and build from a good foundation on.
No doubt that plan wouldn't work for everyone, but maybe some.
It’s an upscale building but I wouldn’t call it an upscale neighborhood, especially at night. It’s only a couple blocks from the bay bridge overpass and the overpass attracted some non-upscale activity.

At the same time though I’ve spent many late nights in the area and never had any negative encounters.
We’re talking different risks now though. Not about retirees being less likely to share in the profits from AI based economic growth.
So NPR never criticizes the government?
That's not what the comment I was replying to was saying. It's possible for both to be true, but it's definitely cognitive dissonance to on one hand think "it was a hit" and then at the same time blame the general crime problems of San Francisco for Bob Lee's death.

That's what a lot of the replies here seem to be missing. Sure, I think SF has a pretty bad crime problem that needs to be addressed. What deserves opprobrium is all the tech elite who immediately spouted on Twitter and elsewhere that the government of SF had "blood on their hands", again specifically blaming SF government and SF's overall crime environment for Bob Lee's death.
Didn't Lee leave Square a long time ago?
They can do this as their percent of world total use of these products shrinks and as the market has maturing waste streams.
If you saw last weeks comments you would think it was a homeless, drug crazed, criminal. One of the tops comments stated, with authority, it was someone homeless. And how the cops were not going to do anything about it.
> San Francisco is home to much in the way of visible public misery, unnerving street behavior and overt drug-use. Its property crime rate has long been high, and the police clearance rate for property crimes has long been minimal. But the city’s violent crime rate is at a near-historic low and is lower than that in most mid-to-large-sized cities.
Yes, this is pretty much it.

I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it was the fact that technology became mainstream and integrated into our lives so tightly.

Stallman is famous for having a very specific attitude to the way he interacts with the Internet. Back in the day it seemed difficult and quirky.

But now? The idea of a 20 year old not having a smartphone, not using any social media, not registering a real name account anywhere, never using a parking app, not using a card (including for the metro), not walking by facial recognition surveillance cameras, never getting on a plane to avoid being subject to invasive searches, there are _thousands_ of other examples - this is now the equivalent of living in a log cabin. I don't think it would actually be possible to live like this, even if you had millions of dollars, unless you genuinely lived in the forest.

I don't think most people who grew up post 2000ish are even able to understand what life used to be like.

You used to be able to go around and live your daily life generally being anonymous and in control of your own things and that was just how it was. It wasn't an effort.

I love the FSF but sometimes it does feel as if they're championing a return to the pre-Internet days, simply because the level of reconfiguration of the world we'd require now is so so massive.
> did not factor in alcoholics who do not show up for AA meeting

A solution isn't bad because it's incomplete.
> goes into cars

Most EVs worldwide are powered by cobalt-free LFP batteries. A decent fraction of EVs sold in the US are also LFP powered (all standard range Model 3 & Y). Cobalt is a short-term problem that'll be a memory a few years from now.
Actually, this is exactly what Pavel Durov (Mark Zuckerberg’s counterpart and founder of the Russian Facebook vkontakte) did when Russian authorities asked him to reveal who helped organize the Maidan protests in 2013/2014

https://globalvoices.org/2014/02/22/pro-maidan-video-goes-vi...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1146789-durov1

(Besides these guys I mean: https://www.ndi.org/eurasia/ukraine)

And he just posted the middle finger on his site.

Pretty soon he started receiving the standard “tax evader” treatment (i.e. offices being ransacked, veiled personal threats etc.), his shareholders pushed him out and he and his brother fled the country and started Telegram.

Pavel is a true libertarian who’s stood for his beliefs against his own government, and lost control of his company as a result. Unlike Moxie Marlinspike (founder of WhatsApp and also Signal) who claims he is an “anarchist”, Pavel walked the walk.

When he started Telegram, he pissed off his US investor who got heat for Telegram being used by ISIS to communicate. The investors were pissed off that they never made a profit on Telegram and was mentally associated with helping ISIS. Although Pavel eventually did take action: https://www.wsj.com/articles/telegram-app-tackles-islamic-st...

Pavel also claims his team was approached by the CIA multiple times and they successfully resisted it. Telegram offices are nowhere to be found in Dubai: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg8mWJUM7x4

That is how you run a free speech absolutist social network that governments all want to control. Telegram is probably the most secure and trusted centralized social network (with Signal a distant second).

But that is insane. We don’t have to trust Pavel or Moxie to be our “last line of defense.” Why do we rely on giant, centralized corporations to host all our private conversations?

This was my response to Moxie’s critique of Web3 and decentralization:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
I have VISA too, does this apply to me aswell?
Open source them, along with ML algorithms and model weights. Anything less is effectively meaningless, and if you insist that doing so is a privacy risk then your product is unfit for society.
Very privileged take there. My wife justifiably feels unsafe in our similar city:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35531439

In that comment I didn’t even get to the new stories about a brick being thrown, creeps following her, or last night’s gun falling out of the pants of a meth head at the bus stop. I would feel unsafe as well, not like I’m immune to bullets.

Minimizing this stuff just because it was mentioned in the wrong thread is ignoring real problems. Two things can be true at once.
> In my mind, MSFT spent that money to acquire a head start on getting LLM-style capabilities into MS’s profitable product portfolio. This is money well spent:

personally I think in 10 years people will joke about the machine generated boilerplate in the same way they joke about Clippy today
> even the best city in the US is still relatively bad

Your parent didn't mention the "best city in the US" though? Per the linked table it seems to be Irvine CA at 0.72 per 100k, which would be below average in the UK or France.
> The big advantage would be that you learn to see that there is nothing magical or 'right' of one number base over another.

Different bases do indeed have "magical" properties that make them appealing, which is exactly what you later acknowledge when you say that base 10 makes certain arithmetic easier.

There's no issue with learning different bases, as long as it's not an excuse to avoid learning the common bases you need to interact with various fields.
I wouldn’t count on a hardcore maga ideologue to give truthful testimony about anything, much less the crime in a liberal city.

He’s more likely to say this was a coverup by the deep state than admit it wasn’t a random crime.
Ask HN: Has the iPhone swipe keyboard gotten substantially worse lately?
I use the swipe keyboard and I find it's been adding apostrophes almost pathologically to any word that ends in an S, it inserts things like "anne's" instead of "and" frequently, and often rewrites short stretches of words to something nonsensical and won't let me correct it (that is, I've entered the words I want, then press space, and it re-autocorrects to the same incorrect phrase that I had just deleted).

Do most people just not use the swipe keyboard, or are they heavily A/B testing various algorithms and I just got stuck with the crappy one? I had an Android phone years ago and it was incomparably better at this.
It's worth noting that Stuxnet was very careful not to even reveal its capabilities if it happened to infect a non-target host. It was still a very targeted attack, and not "everyone had their bank accounts hacked" risk.

(It still infected untargeted PCs, and might have caused them to misbehave, but not intentionally. Stuxnet was designed for stealth, not for mass exploitation. You the average PC owner has very little to fear from such targeted attacks, you're not worth the 0days.)
By "certain populations" do you mean a small selection of the worst members of almost all populations?

Jumping to conclusions and pushing narratives isn't the exclusive purview of any particular group, especially not in 2023.
That’s the opposite of greenwashing since it’s having a tangible benefit on the environment.
Is that supposed to be a good thing when you're generating code?

Accepting varied non-deterministic input, great. The same input generate different code each time, not the "feature" that you'd think it is.
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No, you don't. I literally just went through this, personally. My one year subscription expired at the end of last year and I was forced to downgrade. Then, I re-subscribed for a year last month.

I showed you screenshot proof that even though 2023.1 is the current version. I only have a perpetual ("fallback") license for 2022.3. What, do you think I faked the screenshot?

This is such a weird exchange.

Here's another link to their site. After you realize you're wrong, I hope you're a little bit bothered by JetBrains antics. All this confusion is entirely on purpose.

Link: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544479-Subs...

Quote from that page:

>If purchasing annually: You will immediately get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time of purchase. This license will allow you to use that exact version of the software should you decide to discontinue the subscription after the year is up.

I wish I found that page to begin with, but like I said - JetBrains has made it difficult to get a clear answer. So here we are.
I think it is just intended as an incentive here. Get the ball rolling and see what happens.
It’s not extreme when you compare it to most other Western cities. If you want to get into undeveloped nations and dilapidated ghost cities, you’re just entering a different arena.

The endless tent encampments, open drug use, human feces on the street, glass/needles/trash everywhere, and rampant vehicle theft make the place unbearable. It is a shithole.
Distrusts the government, but also works for it? I'd call that a mole. The decades-long infiltration of the military by openly racist, anti-democratic, and even anti-government "people's militia" types needs to be stopped.