skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the argument is that SF is high crime because of policy decisions, then the line drawing doesn’t matter
The GP said “So are all the right wingers gonna apologize for pinning this on street crime?”

My point is in agreement with the GP the right wing media loves to crap all over SF/LA and talk about how democrats are ruining the (country, city, XYZ). The parent comment didn’t seem to understand what they were referring to, so I gave a link that was a quick google away.
The early days of Linux
As opposed to lignite mining where whole villages get replaced by large holes in the ground....
Sounds like you have a pretty uneven relationship, if one of you has that much higher friendship than the other
How do you know? What's the general rate of murderers, and what's the rate of tech exec murderers?
Yeah that's fair, and not all daemons are equal — something like Karabiner for instance is manageable, but the software required for the various functions on big name (e.g. Logitech) peripherals can be downright horrendous.
Imagine being a concept artist - basically a professional Photoshop compositor - in the face of Dall-e and crew.

Imagine being a script writer - taking other people's ideas and creating a script - in the face of GPT.

Imagine being a D&D campaign writer. Technical writer. Tier 1 support.

Any job that involves the previously tedious work of transforming ideas into writing or images.
asshat sure, I think everyone has been there. Neo-nazi? no.
> He said that Marvin Minsky's sexual misconduct was being mischaracterized as violent sexual assault when no evidence existed of that, as far as I know he was correct about this.

Not quite. He said that when the woman was told to go offer sex to Epstein's guests she would have been told to make it seem like it was consensual.

This should not have been controversial. Of course someone forcing someone else to offer people sex is going to instruct them not to let on that they are being forced.

> He said that in his opinion the difference between having sex with a 17 year old and an 18 year old was not so great that one of them should be referred to as rape, regardless of the age of consent where it happened.

In this particular case, she was over the age of consent. Sometime later, in part in response to the Epstein situation, they raised the age of consent to 18.

> The age of consent is 16 in well over half of the US

It is 16 or under in most of Europe [1].

Age # of Countries
18 3
17 2
16 20
15 12
14 14

[1] https://www.ageofconsent.net/continent/europe
Well if you include internal you'd have a blob of neurons which on it's own wouldn't do anything. The point is not that it can "know time", it's the ability to handle time in a continuous matter with respect to all sensory inputs/outputs
Been doing a lot of Auth related stuff the last day or two so in classic HN style this is very timely for me!

One of the things that I really dislike about most auth providers is that it is very hard to implement login in your native UI. It almost always requires a redirect to a hosted UI page that is very clearly not your UI. We've found this a poor and potentially confusing user experience when you just need a form with username + password.

Question for Supabase: Is it possible to just have a form with username + password and POSTing the login details?
It being the apartment building's laundry machines, I think my landlord would have something to say about me opening them up and connecting to the LEDs.
I disagree. There is always something to criticize, and some people will always want to do it. Might as well have a nice feature.
FWIW, the language on your PKCE flow is wrong:

* It's not establishment of a "session", but a token set which you're issuing.
* The authorization server will return those tokens after validating the code_verifier.

Also, be careful about PKCE on mobile platforms. Unless you're specifically mapping or restricting redirect_uris to an Android intent, on that platform, you're subject to replay attacks due to some cookie sharing in Chrome.
Carbernetes. Now with reinvented wheel functionality.
> We hope to continue making this a community-driven endeavor, so if anyone reading this would like to become a maintainer for one of the libraries (especially Python), please reach out. If we can't find maintainers we'll find a polyglot who can work on this full-time.

Are these types of positions paid?
Ok, so this is as I suspected - it's not "70% drop in illustrator jobs", but merely 70% drop of new open positions.
> FB is 100% snooping on what is being discussed

Wrong. It has been end-to-end encrypted since 2016. The whole TOS thing was about metadata.

Still I like Signal better, but that's not a reason to be wrong about WhatsApp :-).
Are you familiar with Lua? How about Fennel?
This thread by Matthew Green explains a bit better why this is significant: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/16465167988405166...
Why stop there?

What's next?
Thanks for clarifying, I must have missed it in the docs. If you see this comment, I'm wondering if this discovery functionality will also be customizable when the custom UI screens feature gets added?
Same mistake of reality winner.
Fantastic execution. The generating dialogue I understand; how did they get the voices so incredibly lifelike?! Where do I start when I want text to speech like this?!
The nature of the random crime is very different from violent crime. People were saying violent crime is the issue, and here was the proof, the turning point. All demonstrably false.

You point out the falsity and people call you naive and say it's the crime stats that are wrong, not their take. Their version is reality.

As a San Francisco resident, I don't want us wasting time, energy and resources going after the wrong problems.
Ah yes, I agree. Though it is worth to mention that VW is not the only EV manufacturer in Germany, we have some promising Startups. Though I think VW's ineptitude with producing good software products has largely to do with years of unwillingness of investing into actual research and talent growth. And so far it worked well for them, thanks to the formidable work ethics of German culture.
It seems to be sort of a bit wrong more often than it hallucinates.

I've had it straight up invent a library that doesn't exist once, but that seems to be quite rare and you need to be deep in the weeds with a rare problem domain to get that.

More often I ask it how to do something, and it sort of provides an answer, but not quite. So I point out the flaw, and it fixes it, but not quite. Rinse and repeat. After anywhere between 4-10 iterations it's usually quite good. The experience is like code reviewing a really apologetic and endlessly patient junior developer.

Although I think what might be a beginner's saving grace is that it seems to be better at beginner questions than advanced questions, since there are more of them in the training data.
18% of that 810k is under 18.

397k for 664k adults means a 59.8% car ownership rate.
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That's awesome, looking forward to it!
That's absolutely not what happened. This, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899, was the original post that got a lot of traction about Bob Lee's death. I was one of the people who flagged it pretty early on, not because I thought it wasn't newsworthy, but because it was one of the biggest collection of dumpster fire comments I've ever seen on HN - hardly anyone was interested in anything but spouting their own preconceived notions, particularly since at that point very few details were actually known about the crime.

But as you can see from that link and the vote counts, it was definitely (pretty quickly) unflagged, and then you can see in the top comments that dang just split the threads into 2 separate posts, one for rememberances of Bob Lee and the other one remained for political discussion.
Steven Pinker made claims about humanity as a whole. We can definitely be in the safest period in human history while at the same time having some cities that are pretty dangerous
I wouldn't really take who YCombinator execs have blocked with much of an indication of anything. It's a badge of honor to be blocked by Paul Graham over something silly and petty.
In a world where support people are often 10.5 or 11.5 timezones away, how will we tell?

Seriously. A couple of years ago I hit a truck tire tread and roached my radiator 30 miles east of Denver on I25. I have State Farm auto insurance, I probably pay more than I should. Their after hours support was terrible, as if they'd never heard of someone needing a tow on an interstate highway outside of city limits and street/number/zip code addressing. "Westbound I25, east of Denver at mile marker 316" is a good location, but I had to talk myself hoarse because the idea of "Interstate Highway 25" was incomprehensible. Several reps wanted a street address, which just wasn't possible.

The towing company also basically held my car for ransom, I guess that's an experience an AI can't provide. Yet
It sounded weird at times, almost like someone reading a script with a higher pitch than his normal voice. But the technology is amazing and I would most likely be fooled by a short clip if the content wasn't completely out of place from him.
This is a decade old story, but I was asked FizzBuzz for the first time without knowing what it was, and got it fundamentally wrong. This was three years into a career in which I alone had written a full equity arbitrage trading system in C++ that was making millions per year. I had written PDE solvers running in production for 50 traders doing $1bn worth of trades a day. I was not a liar.

The question did not "weed out someone who couldn't code." It weeded out someone who couldn't use a totally unfamilliar dev environment while being stared at and asked to "walk me through your thoughts" instead of letting me think. It left me distracted, thinking both "this is easy, what's the catch" and "wtf is the point of this?"

"Tell me about something you've worked on" is a totally fine question. I'm not arguing with that. But anything leetcode is not, IME. This becomes increasingly true as people's careers develop. If you've spent your last two years writing hyper low latency deserialization engines and packet processing, then you'd know that's what the job is about. In the macro, trading engines and game engines are one medium leetcode problem from an algorithms point of view, but they require teams of people and years of optimization and customization to make truly effective. I don't want to test for the person who can make a really basic solution in 30 minutes. I want to test for the person who can optimize a tiny fraction of it in 2 days.
Sure, but it's still pretty rude because it's usually baseless. And as you said, it doesn't even really matter. If the comment is bad, just downvote it. If it's good enough, why even bring it up?
What was more incredible was being accused of being a conspiracy theorist because I had commented in the SF subreddit and on twitter that I personally didn’t think it was random.
>Later, someone who appeared to be Airman Teixeira drove onto the property in a red pickup truck.

>When Times reporters approached the house again, the truck was parked in the driveway. Airman Teixeira’s mother and a man were standing outside in the driveway.

>When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”

Looks like he didn't try to flee.
>I also think it's important to note that there is a huge difference between "should we prevent random street killings?" and "how much effort should SFPD exert to protect cars when the majority of actual SF residents don't even own one?"

Hmm, the vast majority of tourists in Orlando aren't Orlando residents, but if I got murdered back in my hotel on a Disneyworld trip, I would hope they'd be willing to at least poke into it.
Obviously we disagree on the fundamental point, but I appreciate that you took your time to have a civil discussion with me, and this makes me appreciate your point of view more rationally. I will definitelly think more about it. Who knows? maybe I'm wrong.
I guess the point of the parent is that if the client was open source, one could audit it.

But you're right, you need to trust something at some point (be it your hardware, at the lowest level).
they could develop an 'uber for security services'.

small monthly fee, paid out to whoever responds if you press a panic button.

It would probably be a lot better than the current policing system. Though the actual police might have more avenues to show their displeasure than taxi unions.
I generally agree but in this case how personal are we getting really? There's no login or anything, and you can put a fake name in. At most, my IP is getting logged, and the fact that I'm coming from HN. I don't consider height/weight that personal either, but I was an athlete in college so maybe that's because that data was publicly available on the internet for some time.
Can't wait to plug in an ODB2 scanner and get a k9s screen.
Not just that it's doing more. A small microcontroller will run in realtime with completely repeatable and testable operation, whereas a pi running linux cannot run a program like this.

Even though I claim pi is the de facto standard for getting started, a microcontroller controlling the stepper motors is a technically improved solution.

You will probably be interested to check out the beaglebone series of boards. They are less of a de facto standard but they are popular enough. Their CPUs have two 200Mhz 32bit microcontroller cores running in realtime. They can directly share the same memory as the ARM cores so you can have the best of both worlds on one computer.
Disagree. Old people talking about their ailments and medicines (me) and amateur auto racers who didn’t place (not me) are worse. But it’s a fun competition ;)
Washington post article:

https://archive.is/8eHnp
What would you suggest instead - raw HTML/CSS, or something else?
Personally I prefer AI Joe Rogan discussing Bionicle with AI Jordan Peterson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVX1PB19TYE
Mao did 101 nation rebuilding on steriods, basic handbook of land reforms, creating mass cultural identity, spam primary industries to get out of agrarian economy. Progress wasn't just limited to Mao's dumbness but the peoples. PRC was a blob of unskilled peasants, shit tier human capital, vs Mao had technocrats advisors. If anything he was smart enough to realize at PRC population scale, he can spam lives for progress. Get millions of peasants involved in industrialization and some/sizable talent will manifest in right of bellcurve. Talent that Deng took advantage of. PRC wasn't going to become factory of the world without Mao raising workforce skill and making sure everyone spoke mandarin - fungible bodies that can migrate to factory work. Mao/Deng external conditions also weren't up to PRC alone, post WW2 west wasn't going to get friendly due to how blocs developed.

>PRC collapse

Still top performing economy in it's class, enviable growth in real terms while moving up value chain. Meanwhile US labels PRC most serious systemtic competitor with capability to displace, while pouring inordinate resourses and adopting PRC style industrial/tech policies to compete. That suggest it's showing it's strength more than ever. Imitation most sincere form of flattery

>demographic collapse
...
>India

PRC is in process of exploiting THE greatest high skilled demographic divident in human history. The kind of divident actually involved in building advanced power. Like of all areas CCP top down approach is showing it's strength, it's demographic planning. Reduced birth rate higher than expected but the TLDR is PRC demographers did rub their 2 brain cells together when projecting family planning in 50 years ago and right now PRC is in roughly on course in terms of predicted development phase -> fear get too old before getting rich with too much people, limit births, peasant parents have mobility to work in factories, concentrate wealth to educate/upskill 1-2 kids, educated generation move up value chain.

India is not at sustainable demographic growth. India is trending toward basically the NIGHTMARE scenario that made PRC implement family planning in the first place. PRC system with much more state capacity than India wanted less people because it knew uplifting 1B+ was going to be monumental / impossible task. PRC still dealing with 500M (skew old and resigned) people that got left behind with 5x GDP per capita, with high savings and home ownership rate. India is going to end up twice+ as much unproductive workforce (skew young and rebellious) with fraction of state resources/power to support. Demographics is more than pyramid and TFR. Like the only benefit of Indian population is they're vegetarian (because that's what prolonged poverty ingrains in culture) which is good for food security.
Why does everything require framing?

News should tell the events and leave it at that.

Framing serves only to politicize.
A World Chess Championship Without the World’s Best Player
I agree. Haskell is a really good imperative language if that's what you want to use it for.

And allowing beginners to write actual meaningful programs is a huge pedagogical benefit.
282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day fiddling with config.

I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.
> although I was not aware that youtube videos use browser DRM

I'm pretty sure they don't, at least not for all resolutions. I'd never install Widevine into my main Firefox, but I watch YouTube daily though it. Perhaps the copy protections are more security by obscurity (i.e. weird endpoints, weird parameters, arbitrary requirements, etc.) although I have absolutely no idea since I've never read yt-dlp source code.
I've come across this recently: https://montaigne.io

Seems to be pretty actively developing it.

I have not tried it, but I also use Notes ad my go-to for jotting anything down.
Poll: AI Net Impact on Startups
AI (xGPT-x) will definitely impact just about everything in the technology world.

But what do you think the impact will be on startups and startup activity in the near future?
AI will be a net positive to startups and activity because it will create new business niches
AI will be a net positive on startups and related activity because it will make software development so much easier and accessible
AI will be a net positive on startups and related activity because new AI plugins will create more value
AI will have minimal impact on startups and related activity in the near future
AI will be net negative for startups and related activity because less applications will be needed (one-size-fits-all, less uniqueness opportunities, big companies will win, etc.)
AI will be net negative for startups and related because things are changing so rapidly that it’s not clear where to invest time and/or money
AI will be a net negative for startups and related activity because of the immaturity of the technology and the potential for single point of failure, bad outcomes, litigation, catastrophes, etc.
A Visa Backlog Abroad Is Taking a Toll Inside the U.S., Too
Using a single case as if it defines whether or not a massive systemic problem exists is not "ability to reason". It's ability to score gotchas on the internet. It's not the same thing.
You really don't understand the term "neo-nazi" if you equate it with "National Socialist German Workers Party" and modern European leftists. That's my charitable take, anyway.
It might be helpful for you to take a class on gun safety to reduce the anxiety you have about seeing guns. Remember, the police also open carry because peaceful open carry is primarily about deterrence.

Brandishing a weapon is legally different from open carry, and is already a crime. Brandishing means to draw or exhibit the weapon in a threatening manner, or to use it in a fight, other than in lawful self-defense.
This is perfect for a "ripped from the headlines" episode of Law and Order. They basically already did one like this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderS14E...
The second act could hang on a chorus of techie bum-haters.
PBS Joins NPR in Ditching Twitter
I don’t get your original point then. You suggested google lawyers looked at the problem and suggested to use ADT, when in fact they both still sell smoke detectors and it’s their home security system that they’re dropping… likely because it was expensive and never a winner. If it made real money (which their fire alarms do) I don’t think they’d be dropping it, and they never explicitly used ADT while they were selling the product; it’s an alternative now that the hardware you originally bought for hundreds or few thousands literally no longer works.

If you look at their Nest Secure offering, it was always half baked. They didn’t have enough accessories to make a compelling line up. Rather than legal liability, it seems far more likely to be another half-in-half-out product that Google is infamous for rolling out and then killing a few years later.
Vercel and Linear Integration
Everytime I see someone created a "task force" I can't help but cyncially think of Yes Minister and "The best run hospital in the city".

Maybe I'm wrong in this case, but it often seems a task force is always used as a substitute for doing something

For those wanting a laugh or a cry, I present "The best run hospital in the city" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A
> The purpose is avoiding the law.

Your prior statement claimed that that "Crime [is] the point", have you weakened your position or are you just saying it another way?

How is "avoiding the law" the purpose of Bitcoin? Please connect your argument to supporting materials.
> These actions don't strike me as "censorship" because my enforcement of IP doesn't stop you from expressing yourself in any way. Oh sure, it stops you from pirating me, but that's not censorship. That's me stopping you from being a plagiarist and a copycat.

When I get tired of my video host or get locked out of my account, I should be able to download all of my own videos to put them on another host, regardless of whether the old host chooses to make that easy.

Journalists should be able to download every video of a politician making a false statement so they can play it back in a year when the evidence of that lie becomes better established.

Works by US Government entities like NASA are in the public domain. Anybody should be able to do what they like with them.

These things are distributed on the same services as anything else. A download tool can't evaluate the copyright status of a work or make a fair use determination. Prohibiting the tool is prohibiting all of the uses that should be allowed.
Birmingham UK has way higher numbers

https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Birmingham_homicides_by_year