skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don’t call the police in India.

The police showing up well after everything has gone down is a well worn cliche that is parodied in nearly every movie that comes out of the country.

The only problem with the cliche is that it understated how terrible it is to call the police.

The police will first harass the victim engaging them in hours of bureaucracy and paperwork even as they may be bleeding to death. If they don’t give them the answers they want (in some cases the cops may not want the case because it will hurt their numbers, since they don’t actually solve any cases), they will then take the next step of harassing the witnesses and good samaritans they may have called. And then, the final step is to simply pin the blame on the good samaritans themselves.

Just dropping in a “Call the police” button in India and pretending that’s a solution of any sort is the biggest indication that they don’t care about their workers on whose backs they’re making their profits at all.
Your comments are disingenuous. A decline in the quality of life in a city due to crime, substance abuse, homelessness and untreated mental health disorders has an immense affect on one’s well being. That goes doubly so for people with spouses and children.

If you are confronted by a mentally ill person screaming threats at you, is your first thought to seek comfort in the violent crime stats? You must be some kind of robot, if so.
Unfortunately the various hoof-in-mouth statements (about child-adult sex, the Esptein-Minsky remarks) aren't the main reason people are seeking to "cancel" RMS.

Rather, it's that he apparently had something of habit of hitting on students, and otherwise "creating a negative environment" for women at MIT.

Oh, and for the mattress.

At least, that's what people have said (according to sources very easily findable). In the words of one of the persons affected:

I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

— Bachelor’s in Computer Science, ’04
I don't exactly blame people, who live in SF and have seen crime get worse, from latching onto a high profile murder as more evidence of crime out of control.

So this particular murder was a personal thing, ok.

But that doesnt change the fact crime has gotten worse in SF.
This is a meta comment, but it's interesting to me how fast the existence of the "AI race" has become old news. The angle of the headlines is "Amazon joins the AI race!" not "There appears to be some kind of AI race happening!"

Wired: Amazon Is Joining the Generative AI Race
Bloomberg: Amazon Joins Generative AI Race
Forbes: Amazon Launches AI ... Joining Google And Microsoft In AI Race
WSJ: Amazon Joins Microsoft, Google in AI Race
Gizmodo: Amazon Leaps Headlong Into the AI Rat Race
TechCrunch: With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race
CNBC: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on jumping into the generative A.I. race
Show HN: JavaScript lib to retrieve ETH storage and create data derivatives
Generally a source isn't somebody you don't know, a journalist should know who the source is, their relationship to the subject and have developed some type of trust with them. Without that trust, a journalist opens themselves up to libel if it turns out this person was not the person arrested.
I agree and think that some of the “it is just impossible for minorities to get IDs” stuff is, like, uncomfortably low expectations. I think this is sort of condescending and not really helping our case. If you took the average person from a minority community, I happy to believe that they are equally able to get an ID as a person from a majority community.

But in every community there is a range of willingness to deal with bureaucratic annoyances to vote. Adding more hurdles bumps some people from the voter to non-voter bucket. The reason it is a big issue in the US is that we have a well documented history of adding those hurdles selectively in order to suppress votes from particular communities. This is part of a really dark chapter in our history so people have a visceral reaction to it. I mean, since you are Canadian—I guess people would be a little skeptical if someone tried to start a conversation like “Well lots of countries have boarding schools so here’s my plan for education in some underserved communities…,” right?
Any small local news organizations will almost ALWAYS get the scoop on the big ones, for local news. Because the vast majority of "big" news things are a division of some conglomerate and just regurgitate Reuters.
I remember reading a bunch of "huh, that's weird, the water's super warm but it's been a pretty mild hurricane season" columns last year. Maybe the result of warm water past a certain point is less more intense hurricanes and more stuff like this.

Also, as a millennial in his mid-30s, all these "once in a <long ass amount of time>" events happening just in my adult life are starting to lose their punch. Given the severity of the yield curve inversion I'm expecting a "once in a century" recession/depression in the next five years, and given the number of disease research facilities coming online another "once in a century" pandemic some time in the next 20 when one of them messes something up, accompanied by "once in 1000 year" weather along the coastal areas at least every few years. And possibly some political militancy from one side or another as people are pushed passed their breaking point by all of this and more. However the US won't default on its debt as there are too many rich softies who would be hurt (in ego if not in reality) by it and will lobby to make sure it doesn't happen, so at least we have that, for now.

Anyone want to bet I'm wrong? Build your walls high and/or get aggressive, it's going to be a rough few decades. Vulnerability will be punished worse than in the previous era.
I'm definitely suspicious that the "ammunition shortage" is misinformation. They're too willing to discuss that with the media.
Did Postgres Lose My Data?
Eco-friendly tires: Bridgestone goes green in new tire test
I'd also like to add that the crime rate is so high in India that a lot of folks don't even bother reporting crime because the system is overwhelmed and nothing will likely ever be done about it, let alone whilst it's happening.
Add to that algorithms used to ascertain whether email will be treated as spam. I'm tired of explaining to people that Google and Outlook email are NOT deterministic, and that they could be missing email that might never even make it in to their spam folder, and they'd never know, nor would they ever know why.

People say that spammers would just do the minimum they need to get spam delivered, but every person can have their own personal threshold for their own spam filters.
I've been a hardcore vi user pretty much my entire life, but I decided to force myself to spend a year using emacs a while back just to see what all the fuss was about. When the year was over and I "allowed" myself to return to vi, it was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders... to this day I still don't see what the hype was about. On the plus side, though, I memorized the emacs cursor movement commands, which are (for some reason) the default cursor movement commands in most command line environments like the Postgres CLI.
They've not reduced waste, they're just producing less waste than they were before. Meanwhile, the drop in the bucket they've "reduced" can't be repeated elsewhere across not only their industry but others, so it is a relatively unremarkable change.
For the true paranoids, your battery bank also runs firmware...

But realistically, a battery bank seems like an even better solution than a dedicated "USB condom"; it'll even protect you from "USB killer" attacks that inject high voltage to the ports, by frying just the power bank not the real device.

It's more bulky than just a dedicated cable, though.
You're right, sharing anonymous opinions from a government post is on exactly on the same level as disclosing military classified secrets. Give me a break.
The numbers are misleading because they're based on voluntary reporting from law enforcement agencies to the FBI's UCR program. The FBI has this to say:

Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place. UCR statistics include only jurisdictional population figures along with reported crime, clearance, or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of each locale. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are:

• Population density and degree of urbanization.

• Variations in composition of the population, particularly youth concentration.

• Stability of the population with respect to residents; mobility, commuting patterns, and
transient factors.

• Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability.

• Modes of transportation and highway systems.

• Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics.

• Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness.

• Climate.

• Effective strength of law enforcement agencies.

• Administrative and investigative emphases on law enforcement.

• Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial,
correctional, and probational).

• Citizens’ attitudes toward crime.

• Crime reporting practices of the citizenry.

- https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-statistics-their-proper-use
The number is actually 30% now (and seemingly more like 20% since yesterday's Shanghai for some reason):

https://www.mevwatch.info/
If the security of it is a concern, then it's already doing too much.
If you can't judge someone by their actions, what can you judge them on?
This seems like the most realistic take. They are not voluntarily reclusive but rather ostracized/excluded for being failures/losers relative to the social standards of their societies.

Subsidies don't seem so bad. (If done right, they'll have to figure that out.) Even if they don't solve the whole problem immediately.
In all fairness Musk did a great job of defunding twitter. so maybe he should just buy it.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.
Hahaha "Imagine if your dresser drawers get rusty and you can't open them. Well, you probably should have been running two dressers concurrently"

Amazing stuff
Funny and informative!
In a word, no
Yeah, I know. We’ve been having this inane conversation for a long time. I blogged about it 6 years ago.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...
-- hard to say if this will work - i know - visit - people who have not left the house in over a year - they are very genius people who never made - to Samsung or LG or other chaebol - many have gained a lot of weight or are unhappy with appearance - genius and "ugly" - depressed - in Korean culture - not good --
Llama.cpp is just a redistributable C++ program. The original Llama depended on a Python machine learning toolchain IIRC, so a lot more dependencies to install.
someone saw video?

These are the folks that think a chatbot can replace a journalist.
The primary goal of any public for-profit company is to make money, by design. Any other goals roll up to that no matter their secondary motivations.
Your "legitimate question" is insulting to me and to those who actually are autistic. Everyone on HN is so nice.

No, I don't think being pickpocketed (or having my car stolen or whatever) is "equally as scary" as if my daughter were assaulted or kidnapped. I'd be ashamed to think they're equivalent, lest my daughter believe I view her as valuable as a hunk of steel or a wad of cash.

> Property crimes lead to a generally dangerous living area and people don't like to live in dangerous areas because it necessarily leads to more violent crime.

This is deeply incorrect. As has been repeated and cited over and over, violent crime in e.g. SF is not particularly high (lower than most other US cities), while its property crime rate is outrageously high.
You're wrong. Verbal assault is assault, and is violence, because it leads to the reasonable expectation of violence. You don't know if the crazy person threatening to kill you will actually try to do it so you have to imagine that they will.

--

Sorry Dang, you're right.
> Imagine no statute of limitations on chucking barrels of toxic waste down a well.

I think that's an unfortunate example: burning fossil fuels is a much bigger problem, and it is not even long-term (most of us will be around for the consequences). Still we do it virtually without planning at all.
Here is another report:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/articleComments/bob-lee-san-f...
Great to see them giving attribution and reference links to open source. I don't think co-pilot does this at all.

"To help you code responsibly, CodeWhisperer filters out code suggestions that might be considered biased or unfair, and it’s the only coding companion that can filter or flag code suggestions that may resemble particular open-source training data."
fwiw, there are two SF-is-a-hellhole narratives, and this turn of events reflects differently through the prism of each:

- narrative A (looking "up"): where the upper-class technologists are the reason for the social precarity-based hellscape experienced by the lower-class residents

- narrative B (looking "down"): where the crime of the lower-class is the cause of the fearful crime-based hellscape experienced by the upper-class technologists

The reality is probably a little bit of both. But in typing this, I'm realizing that I should probably try to avoid sensationalizing the topic with references to "hell" (though I realize you were using that phrase to dismantle the sensationalism, not escalate it)
Well the pubic key would refresh and the other side could see that. I think whatsapp already sends public key refreshes anyway.
Most of the countries ranked low on that list practice arranged marriages with no premarital sex. Is this what you're advocating for? Because I'd bet most Americans and Europeans don't want to live that lifestyle.

For some STIs the main consequence is the stigma in the first place. Creating more stigma to reduce
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There were 40k suicides in the USA in 2020, and about 20k murders. So statistically, if you die by violence, you killed yourself.
Respectfully, the context of the post you replied to was that of getting behind the Bible as a book to swear upon by atheists, and even people of other religions. Or in the least that they use some book of moral philosophy, instead of a general book about some unrelated science. I mean, would you also swear on a book on algebra if you wanted to make an important and official oath?

Also, I never suggested that Jesus coined The Golden Rule. Please see the third sentence of the last post if you want to verify that. Jesus certainly never invented equal rights either, but he stood for those principles, and they are foundational within Christianity. There are many things to attack Christianity for, but that's not one of them.

Moreover, Christianity has one thing going for it that atheism (at least in its current form) can't, and that is a certain rigidity and dogmatism which pushes everyone in the same direction in a way that the relativist streak of atheism can never hope for.

Obviously, I think that's a positive trait of Christianity, as long as it isn't taken too far. Pun intended; Lord knows that it certainly has (been taken too far) in the past! But then let us hope they learned from it, instead of repeating the same overreach again. Yet again, kind of a tenet of Jesus (i.e. learning from past mistakes and not repeating them)...

But the fact that atheism is so relativistic is one of its weakest points, and the reason no atheist can agree on morality, or what is good either for the individual or society as a whole – and not even UPB! If atheism ever changes on this topic, I'm sure a lot more people will find it a worthy endeavour. But as it is, I doubt that it will get much traction for that very reason, and if not that, then certainly because religious customs and rituals are so much more fulfilling, if not outright dramatic and thought provoking.
It continues to surprise me that Elon hasn't shut out Nitter yet.

Maybe there's just not enough engineering talent left at Twitter to do it.
> Which incentivises the developer to make sure that either the software never really "just works"

If they are deliberately limiting their current product, that just makes it easier for a competitor to come in and steal their business. Every upgrade season people are going to be asking themselves "do I stick with this janky product or do I look to see if there's something better out there?"

Similarly if a company overhypes an update, it will make customers more skeptical of updates in the future. Generally it's pretty easy to wait a few months after a new release is out to see if it's positively received.

There are more nefarious antipatterns, like putting in bugs that don't crop up until around when the next upgrade becomes available, or breaking compatibility between versions so once a critical mass switches voluntarily, everyone else is pretty much forced. But really there's no system immune to abuse by sufficiently motivated bad actors.
Tell HN: Splunk Forces Managers to Withhold RSUs
I’m a manager at Splunk and I’m livid. This has been happening for years, but I honestly can’t take it anymore.

Splunk forces us managers to choose people from our team to not get a focal refresh, regardless of if it’s deserved, based on some internal figure they’ve generated.

If they decide 80% of employees get their RSU refresh, and I have 10 people on my team, I must choose 2 to not get it. Even if everyone is stellar. No, we’re not allowed to spread the RSUs lighter across all employees. Someone MUST GET ZERO.

I’ve pretty much had it with this company, and now I’m worried we’re going to lose some valuable employees as a result of this psychotic philosophy. I just had to give a $0 refresh to a fantastic employee that I had to choose at random because I felt everyone deserved more incentive to keep doing a great job.

That’s it. End of rant. This account is new and anonymous for obvious reasons.
A well educated person is a benefit to our society, no matter what one does with an education. The problem is that some countries don't offer education for free which forces some to make such tough decisions.

I for myself have benefited tremendously from my university degree.
hermitdev claimed that if guns weren't available, people would use knives or cars instead. So the fact that gun related deaths are higher in the US is irrelevant. And they do have a point: knife murders are more common in Europe than they are in the US.

But not by much. The fact that the murder rate in the US is 7X the murder rate in Europe is a much more relevant statistic.
Singapore became one of the wealthiest countries in the world by studiously copying the aspects of the British financial and legal system that worked

Did Singapore copy those aspects because they chose to do so, or were those aspects imposed on them? (sincere question, since if they chose of their own free will, that would seem to argue against "paternalism is good")
I enjoy experimenting with Poe. I hope they plan to keep it going.
Indeed. I've never been interested in management at all, because it would take me away from doing what I actually enjoy doing.

I've done it when necessary, though, in my own companies. But it's No Fun. I see many jobs around me and think "I don't understand why anyone would want to do that, but I'm happy that someone does", and management positions are among them.
The trick is to push a modified version only to the few clients you want to attack. Use it sparingly and you won't get caught.
I suspect that implying someone is unhealthy is less unhealthy than implying someone is stupid
Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
We know each other so well we finish each other’s sandwiches.
I don't know about a meal, but a coffee would be good. But that is a small point. This would be kinda of cool. I have two small kids and I don't know if anyone else is like myself or my wife, but we don't really have friends anymore. All my connection with other adults is my wife, her family and co-workers. But co-workers are just work place connections. I wonder if other people with young kids would find this useful? I mean, my wife and I enjoy each other's company, but we don't really have any non-family and non-work connections. It would be nice to have a conversation with another adult that isn't about uncle jimbo's DUI he got last weekend or a work project.
That's all nice and cute and wonderful for in a couple generations from now.

Society doesn't adapt quickly. There will be blood on the streets way more likely than a utopian society growing out of nowhere.
This is great writing, "the abrupt closure of the mid-market Whole Foods, leaving San Franciscans just eight other Whole Foods within city limits". What a scoop, brilliantly delivered.
> that your are paying a us worker for vs a worker from a cheap labor market?

If this worked, they would have done it in 1995. I know, because they (and by they I mean absolutely every single living corporate executive) tried. Again, and again, and again.
I agree that news should not be ai generated, since news should by definition be new and if you need AI to help you with it, you're probably editorializing it to some degree.

Should an info snippet about some currently evolving scenario about disease be gotten from AI? No. But if your boss asks you to use AI, I expect you to find a better use for it than just getting the main blurb.

The employee could have asked the AI about historical info about monkey box over the years past, and how its rise compared to the rise in hiv/aids. Who knows. I'm not in that industry. But the example given in the post is the lamest I could think of.
I assumed it would be included in office 365 but I don't think they explicitly said it.

I would guess that after a few years if everyone starts depending on this technology they would increase the price.
https://archive.ph/xmJzZ
I had this exact same issue. Always had a mild tinnitus but a new prominent tone developed after a severe ear infection resulting from the same lack of equalization. It was a real rough few months. It got a little better. Then randomly a few years later that prominent tone just kind of disappeared one day. Now I’m back to baseline where it has to be extremely quiet for me to hear my tinnitus. Hearing is weird, just have patience
Western cities like Portland, LA, Eugene, or Seattle? Or is that just west coast and you also mean to include Baltimore, Detroit or St Louis? Many of those are worst. Or I could go to Miami or Austin where their states are trying to legislate me out of existence.

I don’t disagree things have gotten worse, but a wide variety of factors are contributing to this beyond politics. They’re also mainly occur in certain areas - I don’t come across all the things very often living in SF because I’m not in SoMA/civic center/mission where it’s all the most acute.
Hi, Supabase Auth Engineer here. Interesting, just wondering if there's a reason behind choosing to roll your own iDP instead of using one of the big ones out there (Okta, Azure, GSuite) ?
Many of my previous and current coworkers do exactly the same thing.

Not only do they skip the context, but they also use vague terms like "it isn't working", "the server is stuck", and "the network died".

I'll often be told incorrect terms like Docker "container" instead of "image", "container" instead of "server" (or machine, node, host, EC2 instance, etc), "VPN connection" instead of "Remote Desktop connection", etc.

Lots of detective work and interrogation is necessary to come to some sort of understanding.