skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still seems like a good opportunity to me to bring up the general "whatever" nature in SF regarding crime. Perhaps this stabbing took place because the assailant felt more brazen knowing that the police in that city won't do anything?

Let's just let the homeless and the mentally deranged do whatever they want in SF. That's definitely a good way to run a modern city. Better than hurting their feelings! /s
There are also tons of ways to exfiltrate data through known channels in ways that are difficult for security researchers to distinguish from otherwise secure app analytics code.

A crash/exception logging system, say, might appear to researchers to anonymize data, but it would be very possible for code to be written that happens to raise a mundane exception when specific users or geofences see specific words on screen, in a way where that list of users/geofences/words could be controlled by non-technical teams. The log message itself doesn't even need to carry sensitive data; its existence alone, when the trigger conditions are known, can be used to carry out a highly targeted attack.

Even open-source systems can be vulnerable to this: see e.g. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/eaed4da06347a3a... and consider the ways it might be possible for a small group of people at Signal to cause a specific set of messages to be seen as corrupt without raising any flags to the community auditing the code.

Of course, lack of visibility into runtime errors can lead to vulnerabilities as well. I don't think the solution is for us as a community to advocate for removing all error analytics in distributed systems. But we can't ever forget that: all analytics surfaces are attack surfaces.
My grandma had an original "Montgomery Wards" microwave.. they saved up for months to buy it when it came out. Complete with a rotary dial timer.

Never serviced, always cooked perfectly. She had to get rid of it around 2006 or so, when she got a pacemaker.. They didn't shield them as well back then...
It depends entirely on the definition of mass shooting.

If you use the FBI's active shooting definition, there's closer to 15-20 per year on a 20 year average.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents...

If you use the GVA definition, which includes a whole lot of other things, then yes. But the GVA's dataset is somewhat suspect.

For example this qualifies as a mass shooting in the GVA:

https://www.atlantapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/4031/631
The thing with maintenance is that it tends to be very vehicle-specific. e.g., the procedure for removing brake pads, while generally similar, can have points where if you don't do it exactly right for that particular vehicle, will break something.

I find that vehicle model-specific forums are really helpful for this kind of thing. And many times the posters themselves have made videos of the process.
Pretty sure overusing this will get your account banned if not now eventually.

If you want to use it then you should seriously limit the usage. The rate limits are there to protect the servers but there are things that will notice that you are overall using the system at a rate that an actual person would not use and will ban you.
I'm not comparing e.g. burglaries to car thefts, but the category of property crimes to the category of violent crimes. The former range from unfortunate nuisances to unpleasant material losses (depending on how well you've scoped your insurances); the latter can be life-shattering tragedies.
I'd be surprised if such incidences ratr is high in south India compared to Ganges plains. Delhi and its surrounding areas are infamous for such crimes, gig or non gig workers.
> not reduced waste, they're just producing less waste than they were before

Recycling literally reduces the quantity of waste.

> the drop in the bucket they've "reduced" can't be repeated elsewhere

You're Zeno's arrowing a big problem by dismissing incremental progress.
You are right that it's not the content of the views here that are really the problem, or principally shouldnt be.

But the overriding, horrendous issue is how threads and discussions are hijacked for the sake of every other guy's soapbox, and this thread in question is particularly exemplary here.

I have certainly accepted at this point that, e.g., some people see homeless people or drug addicted people as essentially subhuman. And the mechanics of free speech and discourse dictate that I see such views as having a place in some discussions (especially on this particular website it seems), however much it contradicts what I see as fundamental humanity or whatever.

But, to me, it didn't really feel like the right time or context in that thread. But I maybe I am wrong!

Like, I definitely accept that I personally have to stomach a lot if I want to see the discourse on this site in general, and I agree I don't necessarily want the bubble. And indeed, this is just what "living in a society" is all about. But so much in that particular thread just really felt misplaced and fundamentally insensitive, however essentially valid they were themselves as views. And I think that thread is just a good example not a one off thing.
Thanks for your comment! I gave my word I'd let you have the last word so I'm
not going to continue arguing. I'm just happy because I'm getting the feeling
you are not frustrated at our conversation anymore. I hope we can continue it
at some point and that I'll do a better job explaining things to you.
Especially when it comes to your big question about how can language models do
the kind of thing you illustrate with the translation example.
I think it still works to inform the reader that 'per' was intended.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sic-meaning-us...
If you check out the “similar discussion” linked in a sibling comment to yours, you’ll find quite a lot of talking about that topic, if it interests you, for example the current top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555583
OpenAI API keys leaking through app binaries
Antisemitism is not exclusive to Nazism at all. This is a news article. They don't just write things for no reason. They wrote "Antisemitic slurs" because they saw Antisemitic slurs.
So to some extent this info is outdated

The OP we're all discussing is about six products Google cancelled in 2023! If Google has decided to change course on this issue then their efforts have yet to bear fruit. The ball is completely in their court. We're all sitting here waiting to see when Google will decide to place some emphasis on trust and long-term stewardship.

Of course, you can't build a reputation for those things overnight, so it will take a while. But there is no sign whatsoever that they have actually changed course.
"The origins of the leaks on Thug Shaker Central was first reported on Sunday by the Bellingcat"

Ok my warning alarm is going off. If you don't know Bellingcat has been at the center of some very shady assertions on "intel" they gathered, and thus I find this coming from them to be highly suspicious. I would caution people to not jump to conclusions on this one till more evidence is out, and keep in mind Bellingcat isn't trustworthy.
Tech companies are not responsible for organizing India's safety. Feels like a unwarranted attack on Uber and such. It's great if they help, and of course would be disgusting if they don't care but in the end it's India's job to get their act together.

Doesn't mean that Ubers handling of customers or workers can be a lot better.
>Let's just let the homeless and the mentally deranged do whatever they want in SF. That's definitely a good way to run a modern city. Better than hurting their feelings! /s

If that's the takeaway you're getting from this comment chain, I really don't know what else to tell you.
The implication here seems 'an expert' had a right intuition and disputed a widely believed initial claim.
what changed since Germany extended the life of the reactors to meet their 2030 aspirations, to when they decided to decommission them in spite of their aspirations, in one graphic:

https://www.bloomberg.com/toaster/v2/charts/4d971e78dafc471b...
Here's a 1977 NYT story [0] during a time in which there were many more murders and the stranger-rate nationwide was estimated at 20%:

- 1,622 homicides

- 1,246 where (known vs. stranger) relationships were established

- 354 of that 1,246 attributed to strangers

Today's clearance rate is lower [1], but it's not really apples-to-apples comparison for a lot of reasons relating to recordkeeping conventions. But clearance rate for white homicide victims in NYC is still around ~85%. The past few years, the % of overall victims that were killed by strangers is around 5% [2].

So yes, there is still some uncertainty in the exact ratio of stranger/friend/unknown suspects. But still not rational to automatically assume that Lee was the victim of random crime.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/20/archives/murders-by-stran...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/crime-without-punishmen...

[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-stranger-o...
I think it's very unlikely my car will catch on fire, but I carry a fire extinguisher.
> I haven’t found many places like this later in my life, which is too bad.

Amtrak dining cars! You get seated with random people for your dinner reservation. I found it delightful.
and most of all, do not forget the logfiles on an open server (it was their mistake, otherwise it would have been fine I think)
Superintelligence did not design a system where suffering babies are taken from their crying mothers and provided for only in Heaven.

Superintendence does not make designed dead persons watch from Heaven.

Superintelligence does not delete knowledge of their family and Earth in taking them to a better place by design.

(For if there is knowledge of earth in heaven, and they cannot assist (by design), there is also suffering in heaven)
I've always thought Marc Antony's speech was bullshit - "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones."

It's way more common to ignore/forget/never mention again anything bad someone who died did.

Also the crypto world seems to be getting a bit stabby in various ways, as things come crashing down there may be repercussions. Unlikely in this case, probably. Much more likely to be domestic of some sort.
Y'all could both be a little bit right on this, you know.
Why? There was a RUSI article last year that looked at it. The one area that was in good shape was 5.56 production, the US "assault rifle" gun culture takes care of that.

[1] https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...
This went from +2 to -1 overnight, and I'm not complaining; I'm just curious if I got downvoted by the crypto haters or by the crypto supporters. Such is the risk of expressing a nuanced opinion on Hacker News I suppose.
The assumptions were incorrect, but the problem is still there. Just removes one data point.

I walk around SoMa and it's a common occurence to walk past someone (loudly) muttering to themselves that they're going to kill or attack someone. It's not a "political" thing anymore, the city desperately, desperately needs help.
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So why the fuck Telegram is not e2e encrypted by default, and why are group chats not e2e encrypted?

Not to mention that even when chats are e2e encrypted, they are encrypted using their proprietary algorithm?
After 9/11 there was a notice that went out to not use the most restrictive portion markings, unless truly necessary, in the interest of promoting information sharing between silos. In particular the NOFORN being applied excessively, limiting sharing with foreign allies.
I assumed we were talking exclusively about executives, not rank-and-file. I also assumed we were talking about poor business decisions rather than personal ones.

I get your point though - I'm just more inclined to believe this would be used for good, rather than evil. I also agree that people should have a chance at redemption.

I think you might be over-stating the effect this would have. Most people won't care. And if Elon Musk is any indication, having a bad reputation only hurts so much if the offering is compelling (eg. Space-X, Tesla). Both of those are huge successes despite Elon having a questionable reputation personally and professionally.

Note - I'm making no judgement here - I'm just talking about the consensus opinion on Elon as I see it.
It's only a mistake to shut down the power plants if you assume we want to build lots more plants, nothing goes wrong and perfectly long term storage can be found.

Really, to want nuclear power you need a high risk appetite. You label everyone who doesn't have that appetite as irrational. That's dishonest.
Not really, SF is a shithole for a wealthy North American city. And I say that as someone who grew up here and still loves this place.

Story time. We literally had squatters break into and occupy a house two doors down from us, on Sunday (Easter). I was gardening in the front yard and seven people came and went over the course of the day. The police came in the afternoon but missed them, and they came back that night. It took until Tuesday to get them out and lock down the building so they couldn't get back in. A similar incident happened across the street a few months ago, the squatters even changed the lock on the front door.

I've lived here nearly half a century and I've never seen anything like this. Oh, also, last month, a guy came through and busted into several cars one morning. He got five or six of us.

- - - -

The thing is, SF has always been a crazy shitty town. It's also beautiful and fun, but this is the town that grew from the Gold Rush. It was built by 49ers and the folks who sold them shovels and booze and women. It's always been crazy here.

So when people point to SF as the paragon of Left-wing politics, they are ignoring that it's not really a functional city and never has been. The port is in the East Bay where the train tracks run, eh? No trains on the Golden Gate Bridge, eh? There's no economic center here (except the artifical banking nexus, but that doesn't need to stay here, SV bank was in SV.) And the weather never gets better. The entire rest of the state has better weather. The people who think SF has nice weather typically stay in one of the tiny microclimates that avoid the worst of the wind and fog.

Seriously, go look at the trees in Mission Rock. They are all at 45 degree angles because the damn wind never stops. They should have put wind turbines on the roofs of those nifty new condos (the ones with the sidewalks breaking away from the buildings.)

Oh man, I could go on and on about this town.

All I'm really getting at is that, if you know the history of San Francisco, you know that it's not really a left-wing exemplar, it's just a nuthouse, and always has been since the USA kicked out the Spanish. (What the Spanish did is the stuff of nightmares. Before that it was the Ohlone people here, and I don't know what they were like. There are still a few Ohlone people around but everybody is real careful not to mention them except in the past tense because it breaks the illusion of inclusive progressive politics. We still want to e.g. build apartment buildings on their old cemeteries and such.)
Maybe this speaks to me being in a worse location, but I'm sitting here thinking "it's April and this major city has only had twelve homicides? That's pretty great!"
> before other methods/locations of extraction become viable.

That was an argument decades ago, but today, a) if we keep extracting more and more, then climate change will be worse and worse (all ready not looking good) and b) it seems like we are around the production peak of oil (of all kinds), while conventional peak oil was around 2008.

So yeah, energy is going down, because we don't have viable alternative to fossil fuels. What is unfortunate is that the end of fossil fuels is coming too slowly, so we still have plenty to mess up the climate. And then we won't have it anymore to face the consequences.
What do you expect from Uber? How can Uber deal with that level of unsafety? Should they then leave and leave another company do the same or even less?
Indeed - edgy teenage online humor.
I cannot praise Eskenazi highly enough as a reporter.
There aren’t any, because it’s nonsense. Even introvert and extravert is mainly a myth; during experiments there are no clear measurable differences. One recent study even claimed the only difference was that introverts were slightly smarter.

There is also no measured connection between being an introvert and having low testosterone.

And in fact around 2/3 of all psychological research cannot be reproduced. Take any psychological claim with a giant pinch of salt.
I really don't understand your viewpoint here. You seem to be implying that property crime is fine and dandy and no one should really be worried about it because "having a child assaulted is worse!". Again, a bizarre world-view, hence the autism question.

Just because they're not emotionally equivalent doesn't mean that property crime isn't bad. SF has a massive issue regarding petty crime. It leads to a more dangerous city overall.
I mean, we know that both Twitter and Facebook took marching orders from both the state of California and the Biden administration and no one seemed to care, so whatever.
Probably because the first thing that group of yearning men will do is organize the work, and select someone who will be in charge of making sure everybody is in sync.

And boom! That someone is a manager.

To do otherwise ensures that if the ship gets built at all, it will sink in short order.
Turns out your 1-in-1000-year numbers based on historical weather data are not that accurate anymore when the climate significantly changes. Who would've thought!
It’s interesting that you feel the need to say you don’t mean to politicize this, when the topic is already quite clearly political in nature, you’re simply addressing a point in an ongoing political discussion.
US isn't even close to the top of the list for mass shootings in the world and it is not "common place". Most "mass" shootings, which could be just three individuals, are gang related and added to the data for mass shootings.
I'm curious, what would happen to an electric car if the batteries were submerged while the car was running?
Option types are from ML, not rust. ML predates rust by about 40+ years.
> not going to pretend that what they're doing wrt. label printing is going to make a significant impact when viewing the bigger picture

They're creating a culture of sustainability. That means not ignoring the small stuff just because it's small. And cutting plastic waste by the truck every few hours [1] is not small.

[1] 26,500 iPhones' plastic covers saved every hour

[a] 232.2mm iPhones shipped in 2022 https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/
Sure, if we’re changing the complaint from “accuracy won’t get better” to “efficiency won’t get better.”

But I don’t believe that either. Hardware design and manufacturing cycles are long and we’re just now starting to see transformer-optimized HW. Accuracy per dollar and per joule will improve by at least an order of magnitude, maybe two.

But then we can move on to percent of human tasks LLMs are suitable replacements for, or the ethics of increasing automation.
Is this your first time on HN?

Post any story - tech, biotech, engineering, finance, war - and half the comments are people confident they know “the real story” and how everyone is wrong.

Why would this story be any different?
Seems like you missed the point :-)
None of those "products" (really just features. What is the point of a Streets View "app"?) made any sense to begin with.

Goes to show that Google has been a free-for-all for too long. Who allowed these things to be built (waste of resources) and launched (bad for brand and marketing as they won't be able to succeed anyway) is beyond me. What's going on at Google nowadays?!
I thought Stormfront was the big website for them? /pol/ is a bunch of nutters but it's not well organized. Arguably there's more visible White Nationalism on Twitter.
>Do you have evidence?

20+ years in this industry. That you don't believe it is just so far away from reality that I can't help you.

Do you want a CNN article that a PR paid for to say "Yea! We're throwing hundreds of thousands of batteries away!!" because we/they don't typically pay for you to see things like that.
How does a teenager gain top secret clearance to a SCIF?
I think you're saying the same thing with different words.

The government isn't some distant third party. It's people from the community who are elected by their neighbors to run things in a certain way.
I don't have the US statistics on hand, it was merely a reference to the fact that 1. Most people seem to think anti-semitism was invented in the 1930's, and 2. anti-semitism defines your politics. Neither are true.
I am surprised you didn’t use evil-mode to emulate the vim keybindings. Or was this a an attempt to use “pure” Emacs without packages and customization?
Hey I was gonna make a sarcastic comment asking the same thing, you beat me to it! Welp, back to disrupting everything and ignoring the negative effects that we don't have to experience ourselves I guess.
Honestly I hope this works . It is very close to universal basic income and the justification for UBI will just become larger and larger. What I feel that we will be in situations where smaller and smaller amounts of people are able to be ridiculously productive .
They lay out some pretty broad marching orders here:

https://www.state.gov/information-for-journalists
Btw, I think technically if the car is locked, it's also classified as a burglary
They don’t have to take orders. They know implicitly what the State wants. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have their jobs.

This has been explained repeatedly since “Manufacturing Consent”.
Would have been helpful to be explicit here about it, as it otherwise just seems to end.
You still don't understand that there is a difference between peak capacity and total emissions, right? And that you can replace plenty of total emissions with completely "uncontrollable" energy resources?
> They have steadfastly refused to differentiate between the concepts of abandoned/donated devices vs. stolen ones

This is a valid complaint, but at the same time that differentiation can be messy and difficult to systematize in a way that's not enabling thieves.

Something I've advocated for in the past is a feature in the firmware that allows new owners to request an unlock from the original owner, which could be as simple as an email and/or SMS that the original owner can answer yes/no. This isn't a perfect fix, but it takes Apple out of the loop outside of acting as a relay, and if the original owner in fact abandoned or donated the device in question they'll have no qualms with unlocking it for the new owner.
What an absolutely asinine thing to champion. How does that do any good to actually help with "policy" as your initial comment seems to intend? All you seem to be doing is acting like "I'm smarter than all of you!"

SF is a dangerous city. That seems to be the main point of concern here.
I was wrong about violent crime, but was right about robbery, theft, burglary, and property crime significantly above averages (~50%).
When I first became a product manager, my director, the amazing Chrix, taught me about Lead Bullets. It proved true and useful again and again. When you sell to engineers, there are no alternatives to a good product. You can't BS your way out of a product that is inferior to the competition on key dimensions.

The money quote:
The customers were buying; they just weren’t buying our product. This was not a time to pivot. So I said the same thing to every one of them: “There are no silver bullets for this, only lead bullets.” They did not want to hear that, but it made things clear: we had to build a better product. There was no other way out. No window, no hole, no escape hatch, no backdoor.