skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You won't get "briefly detained and released the next day" if you're caught doing the same thing every other night. And the sentence you receive in the end will be far more severe than if you only committed the one initial offense. Penalties and fines will likely erase any money you made on other nights. And oh maybe an investigation is opened to find out who has taken all these scooters, now that 50% of the time you don't get caught in the act means little seeing that you're just getting caught after the fact.

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If you are looking for any sort of engineering or technical information don't bother clicking the link.

tldr: We wanted it to be durable so used stainless, and liked the size of a passport so modeled it after that.
> A lot of city residents need to come to terms with the fact that some of these progressive criminal justice reforms may need to be adjusted a bit, given that we now have years of evidence of their effects.

Or we need progressive economic reforms to go with them.

You can avoid property crime two ways:

1. Massive police power that brutally punishes anyone who does it so that the incentives are always against it.

2. Create an economic environment where acquiring sufficient resources through legitimate means is easier and more rewarding than through crime.

For the past 50 years, the US has gotten worse and worse at #2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...). We could turn the country into a police state and go all in on #1.

But a much better world to live in is one where we focus on fixing #2.
Notice I am not advocating for a complete reversal of these reform-based approaches - I said they need to be adjusted a bit. It is unlikely anything is done 100% correctly on the first attempt, and we are seeing firsthand that there needs to be some further disincentive for so brazenly committing crimes of theft in these areas
Maybe in America, but I don't think this trend is true elsewhere. Cities are very convenient (and safe) for families and elders in many countries.
I agree, but if you're in such specializations you likely don't have these complaints to begin with :D
Looking forward to it, as always :)
So I thought I was getting great book summaries (from GPT 3.5, I guess) for various business books I had seen recommended, but then out of curiosity one day I asked it questions about a fiction book that I've re-read multiple times (Daemon by Daniel Suarez)... and well now I can say that I've seen AI Hallucinations firsthand:

https://chat.openai.com/share/d1cdd811-edc9-4d55-9cc1-a79215...

Not a very scientific or conclusive test to be sure, but I think I'll stick with using ChatGPT as my programming-rubber-ducky-on-steroids for now :)
Happening in cities across the country. Philadelphia just rejected the more "woke" candidates in our mayoral primary (de facto winner, Dems outnumber Republicans 8+ to 1 here) in favor of a black woman who plans on being tough on crime: https://www.cherelleparker.com/244-2/

Similar to SF, we have elitists / idealists (mostly white people) who want to experiment with ideas like abolishing the police, a hands off approach to crime, and diversionary programs. Our current mayor and DA have been a disaster. We've been ignoring the world's largest open air drug market (Philly leads the nation in drug OD deaths... one spot ahead of SF). You can see a bunch of interviews with some of the addicts/dealers on youtube at this channel (amongst others): https://www.youtube.com/@alltimemedia .

It's not been going well for us. I myself had a neighbor who, despite being caught multiple times with drugs (he was a heroin and meth user and dealer), illegal weapons possession, threatening his partner with a gun in her face, caught on camera constantly stealing packages from neighbors, and committing other crimes, was consistently released with charges withdrawn. Or we were told by police that they couldn't do anything. Absurd.

It's easy to be an idealist when you don't have to live with the consequences because it's not affecting you. But for those who are affected, who are building things for ourselves, building communities, just trying to live in peace, it matters. We can't have peace with addicts stealing everything that isn't tied down, people speeding through red lights next to the local daycare and park, blasting music as they ride dirt bikes at 2am and pulling guns on people, with used needles everywhere waiting for a toe or child to prick, people stealing your car at gunpoint, and with mentally unhinged people threatening you with violence just for being within screaming range.
Money? Plenty of people exist that lack any sort of empathy, and theft is just a risk vs reward calculation. If there's no punishment for getting caught, and reward for not getting caught, then you should always take that gamble. When you completely eliminate all social trust in a society, all empathy is lost and theft just becomes a mathematical equation of risk and reward.
The problem is people don't know if you're asking questions to indicate your disapproval (or to cause people grief) or if you're asking to understand. In other words bad faith questions vs good faith questions.

People get offended when you're asking bad faith questions. And it can be difficult to differentiate the two, especially when people discussing don't know each other.

I know someone who is often snippy with me because I ask questions where I legitimately want to understand something, but she assumes I'm asking to indicate she's done something wrong.
Depends on the State. For example in Delhi, a number of Govt of Delhi operated schools will use CBSE curriculum as well.
Let's go! This is amazing!
You're making the mistake that everyone does, which is confusing progressive policies with being lax on crime. The former "progressive" DA actually pushed pretty hard on organized crime like this - and you won't find any progressives pushing against prosecution of organized criminals.

What you will find is that progressives are pushing against harming (including by jailing) people for being poor - which is what DA Jenkins and the mayor Breed are doing. You'll notice for example that Jenkins won't prosecute the daylight murder of Banko Brown, because Brown was homeless.
Have you tried using GPT-4 via Azure? My understanding is that it's faster and more reliable.
ClojureScript? I hear it is a really great guest language that fits within its respective host ecosystem very nicely (though I have mostly used it on the JVM), but the underlying library that converts it to JS is very battle-tested and produces great code!
I have, and to an instance they come from impoverished and damaged home lives. Often their parents were in prison or extremely poor. People living with dignity will lower crime and make them less antagonistic to those who aren't suffering often generational damage.
It was hard enough with two Estes engines! Often that second stage went off into the wild blue, never to be seen again, at some weird angle, or even spinning!
That is fair - I've only seen other cities firsthand since the pandemic, not SF.
> German fascists thought that all Jewish people were in cahoots with the USSR, which was Definitely trying to conquer all of Europa.

This is easily proven false on the grounds that not all Jewish people had any connection to the USSR. You have to accept a falsehood for this conclusion.

> Polish fascists think all ethnically Russian people are in cahoots with the RF MoD, which is Definitely trying to conquer all of Europa.

All ethnically Russian people could have a connection to Russia, many are likely to. This means you don't have to accept a falsehood for this conclusion.

Let's not try to equate completely disparate situations, or we'll have to treat the Flat Earth movement with the same level of comparability.
You're making an argument that PROM, WORM, efuses, etc all shouldn't be allowed to exist. They're used for all sorts of features, not just security. You might do well to apply the lesson of Chesterton's Fence before you call for a ban on things you don't actually understand.
"You're seeing this everywhere. Chicago, Philadelphia, and so on - although the problem may be worse in San Francisco."
I'm not sure about that. There were 53 shootings in Chicago last weekend alone.
> For instance, I’ve never encountered a JavaScript codebase that I have thought couldn’t benefit from just being statically typed with Typescript

That's the type bias. If you look at a non-typed codebase, it always feels like it will be better with types. But if you had a chance to go back in time and start the same codebase in Typescript, it would actually come out way worse than what you have today.

Types can be great when used sparingly, but with Typescript everyone seems to fall into a trap of constantly creating and then solving "type puzzles" instead of building what matters. If you're doing Typescript, your chances of becoming a product engineer are slim.
Does this mean that listicle is "banned" forever or how does that work? Genuinely curious.
Red Hat works its magic to make connecting Kubernetes clusters easy
Wait, personal massagers are generally battery operated. How does this work with a plug in lamp dimmer.
It's probably the point, they want the official app to be the only choice, so they can control everything and show you more unblockable ads.
A lot of "best development practices" exist as ways to ensure that multiple developers can all easily pickup a new project and collaborate on it successfully without conflicts.

Yeah, go hog-wild and do whatever makes you happy as a solo act, so long as you do things securely and protect your users. By definition, there's no conflict between developers possible.

You might pay a price later if you do things your way and get too successful, but that's a better problem to have than being too late to market with your great idea just because you were trying to do things "the right way".
any dollar amount more than 0 is too much for an open source app like infinity or redreader who do not charge any money from users
scientific publication is like a JIRA ticket.

to get visibility of your work you need to close JIRA tickets, the more the better, since people look at aggregate metrics.

The more your JIRA tickets are quoted in company documentation the better.

but JIRA ticket is not code, in the same way publication is not science
Since the product is standard, why is it actually bad? If there are too many brands to be included in a single advert, just choose randomly (the lower the price, the higher the probability for a single brand; I don't know the function).
That's part of the point though. I get better results from stable diffusion on my PC than out of DALL-E 2. (I still have some credits there, but little reason to use them.)

I can't do that with LLaMA-65B. (Although to be fair 128 GB RAM is not that much.) But I suspect it's still far less capable than GPT-4, is it not?
I don't think antibodies can bind to simple materials like these robots seem to be made of.
Feelings are influenced by political media coverage. Let's see data. Maybe it's true, but I'm not advocating for policy change based on how one person feels.
I spoke to Cal for this article though I don't think he used much of our interview. I developed GTD software back in the first as Kinkless when became OmniFocus after I joined Omni for a year.

Today I don't use any "super specialized" tooling for task management. Intentionally. I don't like being wedded to any given app. My tools are Apple Reminders (universal for my family since we're all on Apple devices) and Obsidian (or really just plain text / markdown, accessed currently through obsidian).

Lots of thoughts about all this but in short there were some good ideas I took from GTD (universal capture being the biggest, but that's not really a GTD unique idea) but most of it I've jettisoned.

(my obsidian / markdown usage is basically "take notes, sometimes notes become projects, those projects automatically show up in a dashboard" and mixing notes, content, and tasks organically)
It doesn't really need to make it to the sun, as long as it leaves orbit and goes into deep space
How to secure generative AI applications
It's not just more taxes. It's that Prop 13 effectively means your taxes go down over time. This encourages people to stay in housing units as long as possible. It also creates a big divide between people who bought early and those actually supporting the government through up-to-date tax rates. Most sickeningly is that privileged tax status can be passed parents and children, effectively creating a separate caste of people with lower taxes.
I'm finding switch expressions filling that gap a lot lately. I've also picked up at some point a bad habit in "borrowing" JS' ugly IIFE pattern in C#.

var x = (() =>
{
var z = whatever;
...
return value;
})();

It is not the most performant way to write that code and if the contents start to get long, refactoring to its own method starts to feel more likely, but in one-off cases, it seems fine for how ugly it is.
Linux Foundation Launches RISC-V Software Ecosystem Project
There's certainly an elitist bubble ignoring a crime epidemic. But its all around us.

The number of mass shootings in the south has risen exponentially. I'm talking Oklahoma, Florida, Texas. But they wanna distract from their own issues and blame the cities.

I think the cities, for all of their faults, publish and are open about the crimes that occur on their streets. But crime is up all around the country. Its unfair to pretend that its just the cities that are dealing with this.

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Case in point: everyone was quick to pretend it was a homeless guy who killed Bob Lee. But when the facts came in, it was Nima Momeni who was within Bob Lee's social circle.

When the facts come down, murderers almost always know their victims personally. Crime is 60+% a self-served justice problem, when people grow untrusting of the local criminal defense system and decide to take things into their own hands (rightfully, or wrongfully). And we can see the growing number of people who want to take things into their own hands by simply watching gun-purchases over the past couple of years.
Organization seems like a missing link.

And then there's this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202...

I do not think our rulers (or their advisors at least) are complete dummies.
Kinda wild to see comments on here saying that India's slide into religious fascism isn't a big deal.

"We/Indians don't politicize science"

"There are many education authorities"

I think this is only affecting a particular grade, but we already have seen the slow rollout of other efforts.

You can't normalize politicians saying stuff like "our ancient civilization had nuclear energy".

edit: surprised that I wasn't immediately downvoted. A year ago, talking about this was instant downvotes, on any platform. I guess enough people have noticed this behavior.
Since you've read the post and are not downright dismissive, would love to hear your perspective on what you've found questionable and why!
Are police & prison super expensive or are they massive income generators? They provide a large funnel of fines and slave labor.
I wonder how many of the non business properties are still under Prop 13? I can't imagine it would be that many at this point. Business property can probably be held in some sort of trust so it appears to never have changed hands over the years.
Kudos to you! Let that freak-flag fly!!

Keyword: permanent.

Most people go on a "diet" to make up for (bad) habits. They make some progress. But then return to those original (bad) habits in denial that those were the cause.

Ice cream (for example) was poison then. Diet or not, it's still poison. A small bowl now and then? Sure. But a nightly night-cap? Nah. Healthy doesn't work that way. No one want to hear that, let alone change habits that limit such exposure*.

* My rule for the supermarket...if I don't buy it, I can't eat it. I'm convinced you would guess people's weight - and general health - by looking at their shopping cart.
Bard is garbage even compared to 3.5.

OpenAI doesn't have any competitors, their only weakness that we've seen is their ability to scale their models to meet demand (hence increasingly draconian restrictions in the early days of the ChatGPT-4).

It makes perfect business sense to address your weak points.
Your comment is very adversarial ;)
My perception is that the ChatGPT website is a particular tuning of `gpt-4` with a custom assistant prompt.
Wow, that price is insane. To me, that's pretty clearly a shot at any competitor apps for Reddit. Purely anti-competitive behavior here, which to me is silly. Let other apps pop up to better serve your users. At the end of the day, they are still your users and you might learn things from the other apps.

Who ever came up with that price is looking for short-term profits over user happiness and long-term growth.
What if instead of talking about “AI” we talk about “automation”?
The poop is just spread out so you don't notice it any given place you happen to be, because LA is bigger. Much bigger.
Appreciate the sarcasm :)
Is Podman a Drop-In Replacement for Docker?
Greed and selfishness are common human flaws, and that's just thinking of individual petty thieves; ambitious, enterprising and ruthless criminals are apt to see business and power they can secure if they are unopposed.
The long term strategies you suggest almost certainly are the long-term answer. But that's just it, those solutions may take years. San Francisco may not last that long.
Compilers will always be terrible at vectorizing code because the required transformation is architectural. It would require the compiler to understand your code well enough to replace the scalar algorithms and data structures with new ones that are semantically equivalent in all contexts with all necessary invariants preserved (e.g. how memory is organized). The code transformation would be very non-local.

Compilers can't generally rewrite your scalar code as vector code for the same reason they can't rewrite your b-tree as a skip list.
Are there any publicly traded pure-play prison companies? Not interested in investing, but would be fascinated to read their 10-Ks. Do they get significant revenue from anywhere other than taxpayers? I know they sell labor and charge for phone calls, but that can't add up to terribly much more than their food + supply costs.
That's much harder to do and effectively impossible in the US/EU.
A desire for luxuries, and a disregard for other people.
Chinese Hacking of US Critical Infrastructure
I imagine I'm not at much advantage on my 13 mini
Outrage over current circumstances is pervasive in the City. Had this guy not been so buried in his work then he probably would have noticed that. This situation is not something trivial, but took an accumulation of factors over a long period of time to bring about. The pandemic had a huge impact on areas and demographics that were already under major stress.

People encountering this problem seem to think that simply cranking up enforcement and making the justice system more consistent will fix all of this. Many often conveniently forget the long history of tension between enforcement and minorities in the city. The White Night riots of 1979 were less than fifty years ago and violent sweeps of the Castro happened as recently as 1989. People want enforcement and justice but historically that has meant occasionally getting your streets closed and your face bashed in by cops with zero accountability.

Maybe there is some middle ground? People seem anxious to make something work. And there is a potentially interesting example in San Mateo County just to the south. Social circumstances there are not that far off from San Francisco and there is also a big homeless population, but the rampant extremes have not erupted in the same way. But real progress will probably take something more than lashing out over a stolen scooter. It is interesting how many people are upset about these issues but wouldn't even consider attending a local council meeting let alone running for local office themselves. No matter how much you desire justice, it probably isn't going to be quickly delivered to your door for a modest fee like it is a meal or something.
Since you opened with passive-aggressive hints of racism, it's possible that you're not following the thread, or actually reading the replies.

Please draw your attention to the discussion about the witness in the process of image generation. For example:

Officer: "Could you describe the man who attacked you, miss."

Witness: "Well, he had ...eyes, a ... forehead, and ..."

<here's the impotent part for you, _lady>

Officer grabs the first rendering from the machine and shows it to the witness: "Did he look like this?"

Witness: "No, his eyes were set further apart."

Whir, whir, the machine prints another image.

Officer: "More like this, then?"

And so on...

In the scenario I described, I'm not sure where a new source of racism is introduced.

Help me see this differently.
This is nothing new [1], but the music industry has seemingly been getting more aggressive recently. The other day there was a story about an independent label trying to get a Wikipedia article delisted [2]. TorrentFreak is doing great work covering all these developments, by the way. The sites are being delisted and sometimes taken down entirely with “anti-circumvention” claims, and it will continue at least until some appeals courts rule on whether YouTube ripping counts as circumvention under the DMCA. Search engines can follow GitHub’s example and take a stand against the validity of these notices, but otherwise they are just following the letter of the DMCA.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-delists-youtube-rippers-from-g...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/music-company-asks-google-to-delist...
SF is so much worse than it was 10 years ago. 10 years ago you could still find people that haven't had their car windows smashed. These days I doubt you'll find someone that hasn't had their car windows smashed less than several times.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36137261

That was posted earlier than this and has more comments.
I'll +1 the votes for Guanaco and Vicuna running with the Oobabooga text-generation-webui.

With a 4090, you can get ChatGPT 3.5 level results from Guanaco 33B. Vicuna 13B is a solid performer on more resource-constrained systems.

I'd urge the naysayers who tried the OPT and LLaMA models only to give up to note that the the LLM field is moving very quickly - the current set of models are already vastly superior to the LLaMA models from just two months ago. And there is no sign the progress is slowing - in fact, it seems to be accelerating.
> make a car-optional lifestyle more viable

You are more optimistic than I am. I’m 40, have never driven a car, and grew up in a very rural part of the country, went to college in the suburbs, and now live in a pretty urban area.

A lot of people say they want a car-optional lifestyle, but most really really don’t. If you make a car-optional lifestyle more viable, the vast majority of people will make up a new excuse for why it won’t for them. “I have to carry… The kids need to… My job is… It takes too long…”
I can see revanced reddit becoming a lot more popular soon.
I made a killer explainer video in less than 48 hours and $150 with 0 experience
If it was about restricting access for AI training data, I'd expect them to give developers of actual, well-known client apps a break.
Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass
There is no evidence that economic conditions are driving criminal activity.

It may be the case. But it could have other casual factors such as the change in policing or any of a number of other factors.

Poverty and violent/property crime do correlate. But the arrow of causation between them, or whether they can be both products of some other factor, is not clear and heavily debated.
10 years is a good run, I'm actually pretty surprised considering this is Google we're talking about.