skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also lived in San Francisco for many years, in different neighborhoods. Now with my family including 2 young kids. The usual media narrative around SF is also very foreign to me and doesn't match my personal experience. Living in SoMa has very little in common with living anywhere west of Twin Peaks.

Therefore the need to rely on data to find more objectivity when debating public policies. Yes data can be twisted and most of the time is poorly reported and interpreted by people, but it's better than relying on personal anecdotes.
... but not before the climate change 'crisis' -- in the integrity of how scientific research is conducted and presented in this field -- mints a few more Elon Musks.
It’s easy to dismiss those fears as the probability of creating a humanity-threatening technology is quite low, but on the other hand, the pre-1945 experts who feared that nuclear power could cause total annihilation kinda had a point...
> Why even bother arguing this question

I live in two of the drug cities and visit others, and pay taxes that support many of these policies specifically. Do you live in one of the west-coast cities in question, or is this an abstract political battle for you? If you live here, do you feel you're a representative resident?

> if all you have is anecdotes, speculation and just-so stories?

Well, there's the crux of it, these are anecdotes that have happened to me personally. Over decades of experience and watching things change. And there's tons of data collected by victims but as has been pointed out, the news often chooses to report on acknowledged crime where a police officer has been sent out and taken a report. FB groups where people log violent street interactions or businesses' windows being broken show a definite uptick that government statistics don't. I know it's true because I walk past enough of those broken windows and stabbing sites to provide a reality check for what I'm seeing published.

We know that there are vastly more actual rapes than reported rapes and punished rapes. Why it is so unreasonable that there are vastly more actual attacks and robberies than reported?

> [other cities] all of whom also have more burglaries per capita than SF, and most of which also have more assaults, murders, and rapes.

Perception of livability despite violent crime has a lot to do with the localization of that crime. If only certain areas, at certain times, are dangerous - and if those areas are ones that can be avoided - then you can generally just go elsewhere with your family and be fine. That's the liberal way SF and such used to work. Sure, there were sleezy places but the street people would even helpfully and quietly warn tourists - "Hey bud, there's a lot of drugs down here, you should really take your kids a few blocks that way."

But once it spills over into random attacks outside that area, such that you can be killed at the busiest coffee shop in the city, the entire veneer of safety goes away.

We're saying two main things: that it got bad really quickly and predictably, and it's being officially downplayed.

> Please provide a shred of evidence that this doesn't happen in any of the other other cities listed in

It's somewhat annoying that what should be an issue of local policy ends up being purity-checked by people trying to decide if we're too partisan in national politics. We're talking about our policies, not trying to claim that other cities can't fail just as hard as we are but with a different set of errors.
When Markets and Politics Collide, Innovation May Lose Out
> C lets me actually control the whole machine

Really? Can you run micro-ops?
The author seems confused about what "alignment" means in the context of AI. Either that or they think our future robot overloads are the same thing as grandchildren (culturally different)?
Why is the Pentagon not a giant honeypot / decoy? They paint a huge target on their back. You don't want to advertise your core infra somewhere obvious. You need your core infra in obscure locations where people don't look. Military strategy 101.
We as in the US, I'm sorry. I was unclear.

There are arguments that our large amount of incoming immigration has shielded us from demographic decline, but I don't think it's wise to rely on that forever.
I don't know where you got your gun injuries / death stats, but there are two things to be careful of here:

1) substitution effects. As a hypothetical example, we could have one city that has 30 gun murders per 100k and another that has 130 per 100k, but both have the same murder rate (because you can murder with things other than guns). IMHO the important rate is the murder rate, and how much of it is with guns vs. other stuff is an aside.

2) Make sure your numbers don't include suicides. If they include suicides, they're not informative.
Train by day!
A rain of silent downvotes, how interesting...
I posted this because I was looking at Tonka trucks for a friend's kid and noticed how they were all plastic now, and wanted to find something about this. This was from 2011, so the rot must have set in quite a bit earlier. Does anyone have more information about what changed in, like, late 1999? Did we all get plugged into the Matrix and the robots don't want us to get hurt as kids? More seriously, was there a sudden wave of lawsuits or something then that changed things?
The fact that it's immoral to infringe freedom of association doens't imply that it is always moral to exercise your right to freedom of association in any way you want. We could all exercise that freedom to refuse to associate with people who are on the wrong side of the $HOT_ISSUE debate and gradually degrade the social fabric until it tears. For many possible values of $HOT_ISSUE, I think we can agree that would be wrong.

So even though you aren't required to associate any more liberally than you desire--and requiring you to do so would be wrong--it's still true that we need most people to be quite liberal in their associations for this (or any) country to work.

That's all a long way of saying that it's valid to complain about private censorship. It's (generally) not okay to propose that we send in the troops to stop private censorship, but it's fine and good to complain when it happens. It's no different from arguing that some{body|entity} should be nicer, or more careful, or even stricter, for that matter.
San Francisco has had a relatively low, and consistent violent crime rate for about 20 years.

Conversely it’s also had a consistently higher property crime rate.
The point is that these women had an apparently justified need to be concerned about unwanted sexual advances a certain senior staff member. And to be prepared to fend them off if necessary.

It wasn't about dorky geek humor, or making fun of RMS per se.
I map my right option key to ctrl, because I use ctrl + arrows way more than option
You are correct, I was typing that from my phone. Corrected.
1) false equivalence.

2) I am an old fart and had never said anything even remotely approaching "who did not do assembly will never be able to code". One can learn programming using any language. However some experience with the languages of multiple level definitely does not hurt.

In order to evaluate generated code you have to know how to program.
With gains in worker productivity, we should be able to support more people per worker than we previously did. The strain on the economy is a problem of failure to adapt economic policy, not intrinsic to population growth leveling out.

Infinite population growth was never going to be sustainable. If you went back in time and told Malthus that in sufficiently prosperous societies people ended up having fewer children, he would have jumped for joy, as it's vastly preferable to society growing until all resources are depleted, then dying off in droves due to overpopulation.
I don't think the top concern is verifying the authenticity of Joe Rogan podcasts. This is just an example.
Yes! Or "I'm not a fan of globalism."
Every single time the possibility of curing aging comes up, we get those misanthropes who demand loudly that It's Very Important That You Must Die, for The Greater Good, or something. And every time I say the same thing: say the situation were reversed: everyone is living forever, and it starts (arguably) causing those problems you have in mind. Your solution to those problems is to kill everyone over a certain age!?

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
> And like any country you have to be careful while visiting as a tourist.

I don't understand what you mean by any country. I think every country i've visited so far has been safer than my home country. So in my case at least, no, i didn't have to be particularly careful as a tourist, in fact i've needed less care when being abroad than when being at home.
Thanks for working on LiveView! Next to Rust, one of my favorite ecosystems is .NET and Blazor has been a game-changer when writing desktop apps. I'm looking forward to having something similar in Rust!
> Haskell's power users famously don't actually make anything with it

This is a lie that you're perpetuating.

Myself and many of my friends, colleagues, and associates make a living writing Haskell.
This is going to sound a little weird, but can we plug those holes?

I'm really not sure I want tectonic plate lubricant leaking out of the crust.
Two examples:

- Creating cover letters if given decent parameters

- Asking for customized fashion, makeup, or self-presentation advice

It's not great at answering questions that are rooted in fact unless you are very specific and willing to break the question/task into much smaller chunks. It shines when it comes to essentially aggregating public opinion.
If something is “free”- YOU are the product. Always ask why they want their software on your computer.
it’s the grey goo of software
There's much less opportunity to attack someone with a knife and it involves a lot more personal risk. You're likely to get stabbed back unless they're totally unprepared. It's much more difficult to do a "drive by knifing".
Yes, it's a balance. I don't want my government hustling people into vans and disappearing, but I don't want minor indiscretions to become media-amplified scarlet letters, either.

A reasoned discussion begins with an acknowledgment that the public has a right to monitor its government, and that individuals have a right to privacy. Unfortunately, the USA PATRIOT Act substantially dimmed the sunlight on government law-enforcement activity, and the Dobbs decision severely weakened privacy as an emergent constitutional right.

Edit: As I was writing this reply, I came up with an interesting legal theory. The right to publicity is traditionally understood as a celebrity's right to control the commercialization of his or her image. Might we say that the modern attention economy has turned everyone into a potential celebrity, and thus that everyone should be allowed to control the commercial publicity of their persona? This would draw a potentially meaningful line between the public's right to know (which I expect is popular) and the media's right to commercially exploit the salacious details of an accused's crime (which is, sadly, extremely popular; otherwise, it wouldn't be as prevalent as it is today). I'm sure attorneys and legal scholars have already explored this idea.
Our helpdesk offered us to take our LJ2100 and get us something newer.

Many insults were thrown. He didn't try again
> The future now happening is safeguarded deep inside corporate keeps.

Is it though? It seems to me the current AI revolution is much as corporate enterprise as it is hackers running models on their own computers. In that sense, it's no different from any other technology.
I wrote a pretty simple wrapper around this that gives the keys easy names and can store the configuration in a human readable format: https://github.com/ivangreene/keymap

Was unaware of the --matching option at the time, could be an interesting extension but I personally have no need for it
There's a really good iOS app called Proxyman[0] (the Mac app is also excellent) that lets you view HTTP requests that apps make from inside iOS.

If you're curious about this sorta stuff, I definitely recommend checking it out.

[0]: https://proxyman.io/ios
Hospitals pledge to protect patient privacy, but websites leak data
What an awful media manager he turned out to be. Really pitiful. Having his own product on fire and on the way to hell, he is childishly copying Substack in retaliation to their Notes.
That’s not really a fair comparison here — A more fitting metaphor would be whether or not you could intervene on assembly code not knowing assembly.
Or you could buy a $20 code reader and see what's causing the light yourself.
You can do it after judge said guilty. High profile just uses initials.
Copy and paste a random Nature article into it in an area that you're not familiar with. It will summarize it in plain language. Ask questions about parts you don't understand or want to know more. GPT-4 is much better than GPT 3.5.
> how can you possibly cover high-profile crimes if you're not allowed to disclose facts about the suspects?

It's done like this: https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-25-suspects-over-...
> Society doesn't see it that way

I was wrong, he did identify as a gay man. But we're talking about biology and identity. What society thinks is separate from what is.
I agree that without massive safeguards, it is only going to become harder to discern between fact and fiction. The problem is that people must be able to discern between fact and fiction in order to live healthy lives. Reacting to AI by becoming laissez-faire about your information intake is just one more way for people to disconnect from reality.

I think a good analogy is how technological advances made forging physical currency trivially easy. Governments that deployed anti-forgery measures eventually weathered the storm. Governments that didn't ended up with catastrophically weak currencies. Information and data are the ultimate currency on the Internet.
Augmenting the answer to address your followup: parameters are any trainable variable in a model's definition. Model training is a process where you basically tweak the parameters in your model and then re-evaluate the model on a metric judging its quality. A lot of models consist of matrix multiplication, so if you are multiplying matrix A of size 2x2 with matrix B of size 2x2 and both matrices can we tweaked, then you've got 8 parameters, since you've got 8 numbers that can be tweaked
The linked article cites murder rates.
You know you can write C inside Haskell, right?

Like, there's literally nothing stopping you. You can use FFI, and you can also write C inline.

You can have the best of both, if you want.
Most infotainment is already shit code. If same people use more tools the result will just be worse, if they can't even handle a monolith
Back during the Obama administration, one of the reasons (as mentioned in a subsequently leaked memo) the ATF was gunwalking was so that the guns used in subsequent crimes could be pointed to as a justification for expanding ATF powers.
and a few years later, we get Injecternetes … though I'm not sure if that will be the name of an improved fork… or the name of a security vuln exploit.
Google Maps's "API key" is not really a secret. It's used only to identify your application and to generate an iframe that's only allowed to be used on your website. It's bulletproof enough not to be considered as a secret as it can't really be used to impersonate your app if leaked.
I kind of agree, but OTOH I don't think I want anyone to be playing around with the limited knowledge we have. Maybe they'd inadvertently trigger the 9+ quake. Whoops.
US inflation falls to lowest level since May 2021
FSF is doing just fine.

Interest goes up every year. Donations go up every year. The crowds at the conferences they host go up every year. More stuff is added to GNU every year. They keep on innovating in the realm of software licensing. More stuff than ever is released under AGPL3.

You don't see it, because you, gentle soul, don't care about the FSF. You care about what you care about, and that means you only see ancillary stuff that other people are sharing.

And that stuff is hate because a lot of people hate the FSF, just as more people come to love the FSF every year. It's getting more attention and not less. It's gaining relevance. RMS has stated that the FSF has been successful beyond his wildest dreams.
here's your government issued BigTittyGirlfriendGPT, and a tenga and/or bad-dragon
And on the topic of AI Joe Rogan impersonations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etaA94eM2AE
This is the path I've been going down as well and frankly, I think that's pretty exciting.

This might be wishful thinking, but I'm coming to believe that AI like ChatGPT are capable of bringing out the absolutely worst qualities of massive social media sites and in that way might end up saving us from ourselves.
Great news! Question to the Supabase team: How does Login with Azure (Social login) and SSO (Azure) differ? From my superficial understanding, implementing Login with Azure is enough for logging-in users with Azure AD accounts (and linking their accounts to existing ones).
Ask HN: Is there any tool to monitor the frequency of TCP requests
Hello!
I am looking for a tool to monitor the frequency of requests I am making with my custom http client. To test the rate limiting configurations. Maybe something like a mock API server with monitoring capabilities?
Summary: Trust us. We’ve been doing AI for years and are very good at it. We didn’t offer generative AI yet, so "today we are excited to announce Amazon Bedrock, a new service that makes FMs from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon accessible via an API."
Who said you need to know assembly.

>"Intervening can be done via LLM in some way I reckon"

This inspires much confidence
Sure, that's interesting in itself. That's why I said I'm interested in understanding the power and limitations of LLMs :)
> there were about 130 gun injuries/deaths per 100k in a recent year -- in SF, about 30! Which is worse, getting shot, or avoiding poop on the sidewalk

San Francisco is number 23 for violent crime in the list of cities on wikipedia.

Your options are not "get shot in another city Vs avoiding poop on the sidewalk in San Francisco", it's "don't get hurt or killed in the average city Vs get hurt or killed in San Francisco".

You're equivocating "lack of gun crime" to safety, which is as incorrect as you can get while still misleading the audience
Note that the author also has a "fear of the future": A fear of a future where other people "...vote to stop this change. And then also the next big one. And so on until progress grinds to a halt."

There are many possible futures, and humanity, collectively, has some say in which come about. When someone claims we are impeding progress, we also have the right to ask "progress towards what"? The author seems to think that "progress" towards the total elimination of humanity is totally cool, so I'm not really bought into his notion of progress and I'm more than happy to see it grind to a halt.
Yeah, I agree with this. Visiting SF from other American cities that have nothing like the scale of its problems...is jarring. I'm sure you can get used to it.

Also, we should differentiate between the feeling of comfort / safety (which is what most people care about), and actual crime statistics (which are themselves fraught, I don't think people in SF even report car break-ins these days since the police and justice systems don't work any more).
The crap? I grew up in Miami. It's a lovely city, not "an undesirable place that washed up people ended up, riddled with crime and violence." FFS.
This is pretty naive. My fear isn't that AI is going to suddenly turn into Skynet(although I think it is possible) but that AI is going to:

1. Enable more sophisticated scams and exploitation.

2. Create even more distrust in people through the use of Deepfakes and AI generated voice.

3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil.

4. Lead to a giant deluge of content spam that is just regurgitated AI text and art that makes the discoverability problem even harder to solve than it is now.

And from what I can tell, all 4 of those are currently happening.
On the link you provided (https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime) there's a "Source & Methodology" link which says "Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S." and "Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2021 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2022"

The FBI puts out one main source of crime stats - UCR. On the UCR site that I linked to: "The UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies." Those numbers aren't a coincidence.

UCR is the main data product that people use for (usually incorrect) analysis. The FBI itself says that the data is incomplete to the point that it should not be used as a way to determine the safety of a location.
Then again, there is no clutch in an EV
I fear AI because, in our cargo cult industry, people will start optimizing for AI as opposed to optimizing AI for us. Example: chatGPT can write semi-functional Python code, but chatGPT cannot write semi-functional ReasonML code. Prediction - ReasonML will be dead in 6 months or so.
Curious if chatGPT can convert this podcast transcript into an article
Isn't there usually vendor documentation of internal system calls? I know Microsoft used to provide it, though I think you had to pay for MSDN? I assume Apple has something similar.

In terms of finding a syscall, you don't usually need to dig through source code. On Linux, strace and gdb will show you a program's active system calls, and on MacOS it'd be dtruss.
Some history you may not be aware of: the lesswrong sequences were originally an extended discussion between Yudkowsky and Hanson, held via blog post on overcomingbias.org.

Which isn't to say I disagree; if anything I find it a bit sad that he says things like “But even ignoring AI, our default future was never going to be aligned. […] These assumptions imply that our descendants will likely soon have very different cultures, including different values, beliefs, and behaviors. That is, they will be unaligned.” as not squelching humanity's choices was pretty explicitly an important part of alignment.

See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worl..., which was originally posted on overcomingbias (see https://web.archive.org/web/20090608073156/http://robinhanso... ) many years ago now.
Quant was her real name, and it's an interesting one
I never said they hate open source or that I hate them. I just don't care how much open source they do if the the driver for only product that matters to me isn't open source. Their competitors' drivers are so it makes my decision easy.

I'm not sure why it would bother anyone else that I find their lack of open source graphic drivers problematic.
Microsoft has had a fraught relationship with the developer community since, well, forever. They seemed to think that buying a developer favorite like GitHub would mend those fences.

Nope.