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I agree with you that we shouldn't be using anecdotal evidence to drive outrage and public policy. There are a whole host of biases and errors that pop up when using anecdotal evidence as you pointed out.

The flip side is that people have zero interest in statistics-based discussions. Even supposedly data-driven engineers. If you find that property-crime has increased by X%, of which Y% can be attributed to specific public policy decisions, you will get zero traction if you frame this as a data-driven discussion. People grok stories. They may somewhat understand statistics and numbers, but they don't grok it. Hence why almost all discussions revolve around anecdotes with some statistics provided as supporting evidence.

Ironically, for-profit companies are far better at having data-driven discussions and decisions. I have little hope that this will ever be the case in public discourse.
> When did everyone decide they needed Cloudflare for everything?

When distributed denial-of-service attacks through botnets, sold as a service to anyone by the "owners" of these botnets, became popular. It takes just one person who doesn't like you, or even who wants to take your site down "for the lulz", to cause so much traffic that your site is disabled and removed by your hosting provider as a way to "protect" their other clients. By being widely spread over the global Internet, CDNs like cloudflare have the advantage that each node receives only a small portion of a widely distributed denial-of-service attack, instead of receiving all of it at a single place as would happen without a CDN.
No one is denying crime is a problem. The point is that people were quick attribute this tragedy to yet another unprovoked attack, which turned out to be false. But it fit the narrative, so it was believed to be true.
It's phrased as if it's an answer to a question, which it would be if it was the result of a prompt to chatgpt. Of course, a person could deliberately emulate that style as well, making this an unreliable way to determine whether a comment was written by a bot.
Please elaborate on what you're talking about if you think it's relevant to the conversation, don't just make vague insinuations. Bellingcat has an extremely good reputation and whatever you're referring to is not well known at all.
Instead of replacing a battery people replace the device.

Is that a net win in your book?
I'm not sure what you mean by "user activity based bad content detectors" but if we didn't edit titles, the threads would fill up with complaints about titles—vastly more than they already do. There would be other negative differences too, such as a front page filled with sensationalism. Moreover, these effects aren't static—they produce feedback loops. The way HN edits titles, which has been the case since the beginning, is fundamental to how the site works and what it is.

"Why you should" is a linkbait trope, sorry. The use of the pronoun "you" in titles is usually already a linkbait trope because it grabs the user's attention ("hey—you!") in a way that has nothing to do with the content. Headline writers figured this out a long time ago. I'm not saying the OP did it deliberately.
That’s like Mehdi Hassan nitpicking small factual inaccuracies in the Twitter filea last week and ignoring the main discussion with Matt Taibbi about government censorship around the world.

Look, if people want to encrypt their chats on Telegram, they start a secret chat. That’s how it should be. Why should it be the default? Because you think people are idiots?

If I make a secret chat on Telegram, I trust it more than a default chat on Signal. Both are good, but one company is much harder to pressure than another.

And this is all a moot point - like arguing which homeless person is richer. If you want real privacy and control — simply communicate without using the infrastructure and software provided by centralized corporations!
Does anyone knows if this is eligible to (aws activate)credits?
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no my original comment talks about Security *AND Fire Alarms*
Then we'd better start thinking of quick fixes instead of dreaming up ways to refactor all of society to fix the downstream issue.
> Except if they promise to only use cobalt mined before 2025 in perpetuity

They’re not in a situation to promise anything like this, though. Nobody is going to ask when the cobalt was mined when you bring a device for recycling. Of course, recycling is not perfect and not using any would be better. But it’s still much, much better than not doing any recycling.
A terrible idea that would make it trivial to game these algorithms.
You can try it out without installing anything using this link: https://sketch.metademolab.com/canvas
You must not listen to politicians.
It's true for an overwhelming percentage of people even in the most violent cities since most violent crime is confined to a small subset of the city.
>That's not how military intellectual property works.

So your implication is that the military is full of unnamed linear algebra, systems engineering, and linguistics super geniuses and these people never leave, never talk about their work publicly, never publish anything ever, and they're all cool with their huge innovations being kept away from the public forever? All because military IP regulation?

And none of these effective state prisoners ever defect to China (where they could live like royalty) because...
I like buying supply chain stocks, I went to find out who apple is buying cobalt from and apparently it's mostly directly from the miners, pretty cool!
It's possible that the spike shown on my phone is some kind of artifact. I'll need to get another device with a DB Meter app to verify. But proximity to my phone doesn't affect my perception. I can hear it even when I'm outdoors without my phone with me.
Because it's just 10 weeks. It's very clearly not a "salary" (as "salary" is usually measured by years), but more like a contracted work that lasts 10 weeks. $20k is more than most jobs posted on Upworks (etc).
Why even offer a counter-anecdote? Are you trying to give the impression to impressionable people that not every person gets threatened with murder on a regular basis here? That’s true, but it seems like you’re just trying to discount one person’s lived experience. I know women that get groped on MUNI regularly but not every woman gets groped on MUNI. People don’t usually threaten me, but I’ve stopped people from threatening others in front of me. Hell, I’ve stopped a guy from trying to roll another guy sleeping on the street into oncoming traffic. Nobody has ever stolen my phone from me, but that doesn’t mean phones have never been stolen from people.

And before you go to the stats, just remember something: lies, damned lies and statistics. If the police don’t get involved, there’s no police report. If the DA doesn’t charge a crime, there’s no “crime” even if there actually is. Homicides and property crimes tend to leave the most evidence behind, but those aren’t the only crimes that matter and even the criminal amounts of piss and shit around just the MUNI and BART stations probably isn’t generating any police reports either. Verbal harassment and threats also don’t tend to generate enough of the right kind of paperwork to make it into the stats, but it doesn’t make it less real.
Politicization is a ratchet. The conversation has already been politicized, I don't think there's any avoiding it.

Second, the discussion for all intents and purposes isn't even about Bob Lee, it's about crime in SF. That's why even when it turns out that Bob Lee wasn't killed by a homeless drug addict, the conversation is still about the homeless, drug addicts, petty crime, etc. I think it's illustrative of how wrong it is to use his death this way, even if he had actually been murdered by a vagrant, it would still be wrong.
To be clear, the person in question does not distrust the government because they have a strong commitment to liberty. They distrust the government because they're not the ones wearing the boot.
What an incredibly effective way of showcasing murder rate isn't everything - you couldn't pay me to live in Irvine.
So everyone who is currently killing each other with guns will see their enemy gang in the street and not decide to slash them because they are too lazy? They only wanted to shoot them?

It's the type of gangs in America, it's not about "gang membership" or whatever metric you're trying to throw out.

They shank people with tooth brushes in prison. MS-13 decapitates people with axes. It's the gangs, not the guns.

Chicago and many cities in America would be safer with more legal guns, less gangsters.
Threatening to assault someone is, in fact, a real crime. You cannot, legally, go around "screaming that you're going to kill/stab/etc." people. Looks like Penal Code 422, if you need a concrete reference for California specifically
If you don't have 100M vectors, but more like 100K, you can just brute force search them. Is that what you mean?
Did Assange leak material? Manning did, and she was in jail because of it.

(edit - was)
Was just catching up on some mentions in academic papers I wasn't aware of using Google Scholar. Seems according to models I'm still too obscure :) (might be a good thing)
Polestar is 100% Chinese with a Swedish image due to its history, the cars go straight off the boat from China to the customers, sometimes passing through Volvo dealerships on the way through, who also tend to perform the service.
So many of the comments I've seen about this follow a similar pattern: 1) sounds like the leaker was a trumper, 2) I can't wait til he gets what he deserves.

As with any leak of this kind, stories on the people involved make for juicy gossip, and everyone seems to fixate on that rather than the content.
The New York Times figuring this out faster than the FBI is quite impressive.
I'm not personally familiar with it, but I think you want to take a look at Elixir. I've heard it often in the same vein as Rust but for web. Not exactly the same, but in terms of a high-quality language.

https://elixir-lang.org/

https://www.phoenixframework.org/
There haven't been criminal convictions of federal democratic politicians in the last 5 years to report on.

Also, it's moving the goal posts.
>You should understand that San Fransisco has serious problems with homelessness and crime. While some people may have been mistaken about the root cause in this particular case, that doesn't invalidate their very real concerns.

I don't doubt they have concerns. I doubt their ability to reason.
One of the leaked documents included information regarding an undermining of Putin’s war from very high ranking subordinates of his.

This adds credibility to the position that it was intentional imho.

The other data that may hint at this is ammunition distribution. Depending on how Ukraine’s attack goes we may be able to infer the intention.

You should spend some time in Bellingcat’s discord server if you are interested in this.
Or when you notice that your nose occupies a large space in the middle of your vision. You’ve gotten used to it so that you don’t notice your nose unless you close one eye and really look for your nose. Then it’s there blocking your vision in that area. The notch is very similar. It can be distracting initially but if you stop focusing on it and get on with your work, you quickly find that you almost never notice it.
That crossed my mind and ironically I decided to keep "use" because it felt closer to the author's original intent.

I've put an "ing" up there now. Thanks!
no because there isn't a pattern of tech execs doing this
not surprising on a message board where IQ levels end up being a common topic of discussion.
Is WhatsApp client open source?
it is and you won't change that. Just because you have some delusions what you believe a comment is and what isn't.
yep, went right to poverty and crime panic
Depends what the anti-semitism was. If he shouted "Free Palestine" or joined BDS I doubt he would be called a nazi.
Exhibit A in how irrational a “rationalist” community is.
But..it can lol. That's kind of the point. Show an example(s) of what you're going for you're good to go.
It's not defending bigotry to state that Antisemitism is not exclusive to Nazism.
In US they call it a Founding Father. :D
Also, if they're reclusive, maybe the first few times they act as lurkers and will engage later.
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>The fact is if he wasn’t in San Francisco, he wouldn’t have been killed.

He knew the alleged assailant. There's nothing precluding them from getting into the same exact argument, with the same exact outcome, in any other locale.
Software Engineering is definitely on par with what you'd expect from a standard, non-tech Fortune 500 company in the US or elsewhere. We just don't have any tech startups, because our investment culture is fundamentally different than that from the US. We lack both the public, private and military financing that would allow a culture like it exists in the valley. That goes not only for Germany but Europe as a whole.

Though I don't consider this to be a bad thing. There's a considerable amount of startups advertising their seed funding on here with products that I don't think would have a market fit outside the valley right now.
I’m skeptical. This seems designed to give the government carte blanche to go after more of the rightwing types who got caught up in Jan 6. I don’t support what happened Jan 6, but I can’t help but notice how quickly it was use as an excuse for repression. Very predictable.
Most of them must already be using something Microsoft (Office 365/Windows enterprise). So Microsoft will not be a new vendor. Something like Azure GPT4 will be just so powerful that I doubt most corporations can resist. And it doesn't have to be in the same cloud unlike a database.
Do you live in San Francisco?
The founder of WeWork was talking about creating this kind of housing- private bedrooms (and mainly bathrooms too), kitchen, living rooms shared. A monthly fee for frequent cleaning of public spaces, because voluntary efforts not so successful.

An issue would be maintaining the age segregation of a college. Single adults of all ages may want to move in.
> The point you seem to be making doesn’t really hold up to even a light level of scrutiny.

What point do you think I'm making? Because I think you're trying to reiterate the same point.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/homicides-on-the-rise-ho...

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-vio...

2021 numbers put Austin slightly ahead of SF.
I'm not a Maoist so I can admit when I was wrong. Looks like it was a personal beef.

But that in no way changes the point that SF is a toxic environment. Here's the SF fire commissioner being brained by a violent homeless man this past week...

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/video-shows-ex-sf-fire-c...
> If you flash your own software on the motor controller and subsequently mow through a group of people because you forgot to do a plausibility check on the accelerator pedal value who takes responsibility then?

I would, obviously, for making the unsafe modification. In what multiverse would the manufacturer be liable for something entirely outside the manufacturer's control?
i'd like to see subsidies for people to start families

screw taking out loans to feed money to the college cartels

the equivalent of any bachelors degree is available online, minus lab hours - but you can actually get that if you really want it

have people finish with their education by or before ~18 y/o. people who would have earned meritocratic scholarships can instead be subsidized to start a family and have children for the next ~10 years, this would allow more of the best to have more children -> a breeding experiment with a good outcome
I am sure this person has NO IDEA how well the candidates do after they are hired.
I just did. Can you elaborate on why they think Wikipedia is lying?
We can't human-review everything. There's too much.

Of course the software gets it wrong sometimes (I've fixed that case now; thanks). But it does more good than harm. The trouble is that everyone takes for granted all the cases where it and/or mods get a change right. If you only count the bad cases (and you can't count what you don't notice!), any approach will seem dumb. What on earth is wrong with those admins!
And ultimately the public got a valuable resource.

And this is great for the ultra-wealthy, but it would be even greater to allow John or Jane Q. Public to allocate a larger portion of their taxes to specific areas of interest. How many people would like to see more resources for community resources (parks, recreation, often simple maintenance). Assuming tax rates stayed unchanged, guaranteeing X% of incomes are specifically directed by the people would mean X% has little to no lobby influence.
The line doesn't have to get longer. The grader is incorrect under their own logic. Raspberries could be an unimaginable luxury, say on a moon colony or a very poor country unsuited to berry or fruit growth. Without knowing the value of raspberries, the value and cost of coffee is meaningless funny money.

Coffee keeps well and could be dirt cheap and it could be bad instant coffee that people don't really like. It may feasibly not be worth a single extra person standing in line for the bad coffee worth 0.75 zimbabwean dollars or 0.75 weimar marks.

This is pedantic and stuffy answer, but that is also what the "correct" answer is.
SF still has above average violent crime[1]. Its top 7 in terms of overall crime, so being "just" above average for violent crime seems not so bad in comparison. But the objective reality is that BOTH property crime and violent crime is worse in SF than in most other cities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Chicago and NYC feel (and are) very safe in the high-income and touristy areas. SF is unique in that the crime "leaks out" into those areas.
Already a business:

https://www.podshare.com/
It is the safest time in human history. Not for your laptop sitting in a car perhaps, but the greater context is important.
Why is one tech exec killing another tech exec "political by nature"? Seems the definition of personal or business related, not political.
many of the now dyed-in-the-hair socjus types i knew as a teenager were racist channers 15 years ago
Specifically for Auth we have linked to a case study at the bottom of this blog post, Parqet, who migrated 125,000 users to Supabase Auth: https://kevcodez.medium.com/migrating-125-000-users-from-aut...
How does a man working at a government base get to the point he releases top secret information?
Well it really depends on what operations you expect to be instant. Basic editing like movement, inserting, etc is instant, but summing from 1 to 100000000000000000000000 is where elisp would show its poor performance.
Google search hasn't been best option for a few years now
In display preferences there is a dock panel that you can drag to the side or bottom of any screen. I’ve never noticed it moving on its own. There have been times when it defaulted to displaying on an external monitor but I was able to move it back to the laptop screen and then it stayed there.
It sounds like a decent way of doing it.

As a buyer of advertising services, I need your support in helping my stakeholders (approvers, internal customer, procurement, legal etc) understand why we should hire you.

Their workflow is usually based on MS Office + PDFs. I would go nuts if every agency came with their own customer portal that I (and everyone else) needs to logon to.

If you want to know what people value / read in your proposals, I would set up a call or better a in-person meeting with them, even if you lost.

Creative theft is of course always a risk, but I don’t see a technological solution for that.
> Why even offer a counter-anecdote?

To say that “constant threats of murder” does not accurately describe SF.
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This article contains stats that are pretty shocking and contrary to the overwhelming narrative coming out of the SF tech community.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made...

The murder rate in San Francisco is preposterously low.
This is silly. You’re just taking their word for it:

”When they do match this confirms a secure, end-to-end encrypted conversation.” - Says Meta.

This doesn’t matter. Why would we trust the word of a giant corporation that has lied to us repeatedly and abused every single loophole they can, to safeguard our private chats?

Lies and deceit just in the last few years:

WhatsApp messages: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-reads-whatsapp-mess...

Audio: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/facebook-...

Video: https://medium.com/macoclock/apples-ios-14-catches-facebook-...

Metadata: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-p...

They could easily ship any version of a client to anyone at any time. The answer is just to opt out of Big Tech and communicate without using clients and infrastructure of giant centralized corporations! Use open source alternatives.

Capitalism and the profit motive will always be pitting them against their own users, trying to extract value from the data for their shareholders.
And as other folks in this topic are pointing out, anecdotes like that are simply misleading. San Francisco is not a high crime US city. Period. It is not. It is middle-of-the-pack at worst. Nor is it getting "worse faster". It saw a crime wave across the pandemic that is receding now, just like most of the world.

It's just wrong. You're wrong. Any narrative to the effect of "SF is unsafe because of ..." is wrong, because SF is not unsafe in any measurable way.

And more to the point: those very (wrong) narratives are simply out of control among the prevailing demographic here on HN. And frankly it's getting kinda toxic.
> If there’s a non-cryptocurrency usecase for blockchains, this is it.

They just explain in their blog post how they solve it.

There is no non-cryptocurrency use-case for blockchains, period.
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> The confusion is probably on purpose

I have no doubt about that. They play it very smart, but that's kind of logical, Geely, the parent company has extensive experience in marketing vehicles of all kinds in the West and they have already learned a couple of good and practical lessons in not leaning too much on their Chinese parentage but instead to play local as much as possible.
NPR is propaganda.

If NPR was as upstanding as some want to believe, and if this money isn't meaningful, then it should be easy for NPR to give the money back and distance themselves in a way that leaves no room for question.

NPR's actions demonstrate how corrupt and depraved they are.

The enemy of the people deserve everything that happens to them.
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One of the first things I said when I heard about this was: "Gee, there certainly has been an unexpected number of stabbings around mobilecoin. I wonder if this has something to do with the billion dollars stolen from FTX by someone seemingly connected with mobilecoin." -- but at a glance I'm not seeing a connection with the person they arrested. Interesting.

I had family ask me about it, concerned for my welfare, and I told them I was confused why this was getting national media coverage other violent crimes in SF hadn't received, and mentioned my initial thoughts that it might have been motivate by sketchy cryptocurrency crap.

Yet when I saw the popular narrative that it was some random stabbing in SF I didn't really have a reason to doubt it: I've personally been chased by a crazy person with a knife in the city.
That's why Common Lisp is a standard and has different implementations.

ECL for example is called "Embeddable Common Lisp". https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/

ABCL is embeddable into Java.

LispWorks and Allegro CL can compile to shared libraries, which are embeddable.

SBCL, OTOH was not developed with the goal to be embeddable.