skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know for a fact that since pandemic I've been threatened a bunch by bums and once minorly assaulted. None of that made it into the statistics as there's no point to reporting; the city council, the state legislature, and the DA are cool with me getting threatened and assaulted.

Foolish use of metrics is everywhere these days. Carefully consider what the facts you have mean.

There are also crime victimization surveys which, instead of counting reported crime, sample the population and ask which crimes the respondent have been victims of - the DOJ nationwide one doesn't seem to be out for 2023 yet.
3k y.o. Treasure of Villena contains 2 pieces made with iron from 'beyond Earth'
I really don't want the day after the Super Bowl to be a holiday. I don't like the idea of holidays supporting an event owned by a corporation.

(But if I was a boss of a corporation I'd encourage people to take the day off instead of calling in.)
You can ask for precise details about the implementation or the weirdest bug they had encountered.

Great tech guys are able to explain to you complex systems quite easily; not by making them overly complex, but quite the opposite, to keep them simple, and regarding the bug you can understand the depth of troubleshooting the person went through.
Even if that was a falsifiable premise, that's not a very strong argument. If "average" income goes up just because there are a few more billionaires that move to my city, it doesn't actually mean I am richer.

If most people are living measurably worse lives because of crime, but the already low rate of murders drops a few points, I don't think we should rest on our laurels.
I lived in 65th for the first half of COVID, so I want to that Target moderately regularly. Yes Ballard Market had better groceries (among the best in Seattle actually), but I’ve never seen Target as a grocery store. For the
home goods we needed it was adequate, though my roommates Amazon subscription had to fill in some gaps. To your point about it not having the items you needed, I wouldn’t be inclined to separate that from the theft problem. If your stuff
keeps getting stolen, you’ll be inclined to stock less stuff, especially if you don’t have sufficient sales to afford retrofitting locking cabinets everywhere and staffing sufficient to tend to them all.
Oh yes, the economy... right.... the only thing we should ever think of.
Maybe, maybe not.

I've worked with great offshore teams and terrible ones, I think the great ones were more expensive but still less than a local salary.

But the theoretical hiring manager here doesn't care anyways. All they want is to come under budget so they can max their bonus for being so cleverly frugal.
> There's a lot of room between "design everything up-front and never change anything" and "allow requirements to change arbitrarily".

The arbiter of the changing requirements is the one paying for the work.
There are legal purposes for generative AI tools and even deepfakes, so there should be no issues with the tools themselves.

Obviously if a site promotes "download this tool to generate infinite nude pictures of celebrities", then that is illegal, since that particular tool was only developed for illegal uses.
It's hard to believe, but according to Wikipedia this is the original source: https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...

I think as a society we've gone beyond tolerance into the realm of tacitly encouraging behavior that we know, statistically, is harmful. We're not providing people with advice that we know works because that advice could possibly be viewed as cultural discrimination.
What is important is what we can imagine today. What we discover or imagine tomorrow needs to be handled in tomorrows updates, but isn't a problem today. The courts require you to do due diligence in imagining and mitigating the problems we can foresee today. If we invest something next year you will have to redo that for products you make next year - but you don't have to retrofit that to what you did this year.

Note that I said make not sell.
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God, this is such a tired take. I see it all the time, usually referencing how California is weak on crime, yada yada yada.

California, in fact, has one of the lowest felony theft thresholds out of any of the states. In fact, it has the 10th lowest felony threshold in the union. [1]

It was actually Oklahoma who started the trend to increase the felony threshold in the early 2000s.

Newsom passed the bill you referenced so that minimum wage workers aren’t playing security for their employers. This bill did not raise the felony threshold.

Do you want to know which states have the highest felony theft thresholds? It’s Texas and Wisconsin at $2500. In 2010, California went from a threshold of $400 to $950. In 2015, Texas went from a threshold of $1500 to $2500, so California’s threshold has always been much lower even in the recent past. [2]

So no, California has not actually been any sort of trendsetter when it comes to felony theft thresholds, but it certainly is a convenient bogeyman.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/felony-thef...

[2] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
This can also be seen as incentivizing critical workers (election workers) to find a different job.
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Life doesn’t need excuses. It happens on its own. Human ability to stop it from happening reliably is rather new.

The poor capitalist is only one sad person. The poor dictator or emperor or tsar is another. The childless by choice middle class city dwellers who suddenly realize there’s no one young enough to provide the products and services they require to continue their hedonistic lifestyles are another still.

There’s a conspiracy theory I don’t subscribe to which says Covid and vaccines are a depopulation program. But we don’t need one…
I think frustrated men have gone to the extremes of "reasoning" to find logic in why they are undesirable. Seems to stem from a deep sense there's a "code to crack" about why they are lonely, trying to apply logic to something that is simply not logical, or at least not answerable.

They still seek answers, in the midst of their social inadequacy the only answers they can find is through other similarly frustrated men, and so they start spiraling into made up reasons or logic in how sexual and emotional attraction work... Instead of experience through living, through feeling their ways into this world they attempt to intellectualise it (in big quotes because it's pure stupidity), not looking into themselves, their relationships and bit by bit fixing their issues causing the loneliness, they want a framework, a rulebook, an easy way out.

It's just... Sad.
Savage : "Unable to muster up even a mite of marketing insight, they chose to compete on only one axis: salary..."
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> That was one of about thirty red flags. I left without completing the interview.

It sounds like an extremely effective question;)
NPR always does this. They tweak the valid criticism ever so slightly in attempt to invalidate it.

Americans don't believe that crime is down in general, they are narrowing it to violent crime. Car break-ins and thefts, identity theft, mail theft, shoplifting, opiods etc. are all rampant but aren't violent crime. Also the sources for the quoted study are dubious. They picked random sources that fit the narrative including an AM radio news site filled with scammy ads, and a local news station quoting unnamed police sources. The data is cherry-picked.
Work-life balance. Job perks. Working on projects that you consider valuable.

Non-profits are particularly good at that last point.
The point still stands. Beyond some amount the absolute amount of money really stops to matter
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Something I've wondered about - you specify a value and pay a tax accordingly. Anyone is then able to buy it from you for that price. Have some short term part for free, then fees scale over time.
s/photoshop/airbrush

I vaguely recall seeing some fairly convincing B&W Soviet-era photos (I think they had Stalin in them) where people were removed and other people moved around to fill the gap. And document forgery for the purposes of fraud and espionage has of course been around for centuries.

But I think the issue is less the capability itself, and more that companies will make it too easy (trivial, actually) for anyone to commit mischief. The ability to mass-manipulate images on command is no longer restricted to the General Secretary of the USSR.

That doesn't necessarily mean regulation is required, though--plenty of modern technologies make it very easy to commit crimes, but only some of them require special rules.
From what I've read the swarm works better on one large file vs many smaller ones. I am verbatim passing along what I've read and have no data to substantiate that claim. Hopefully someone that has a better understanding of the protocol and client implementations can weigh in.
I went with Lutron Caseta switches (though they're not the only ones that do this) for that reason. When all else fails, they are just dimmers and remotes that talk to said dimmer. When I want them to be more than that, they work with HomeKit and Home Assistant just great. But Lutron is a switch company first and foremost, and that shows in these switches. They surpass the Partner Acceptance Factor.

I'd add to your advice and say "do as much as you can to keep the experience vanilla," which in this case means standard fixtures and bulbs, just replacing the switches. For the price of half of one Hue bulb, my whole fixture is smart now, and I can still use whatever bulb I want.
Also worth mentioning are the numerous intellectual property rights that companies like Apple enjoy and skillfully use to stave off competition. If Apple wants lawmakers to drop market regulations like the DMA, then maybe we should consider cutting IP protections. Only then can we have a conversation about free markets and government intervention.
> If a new app gains popularity primarily because of Apple, and eventually gets big enough that its origins are now immaterial to the ongoing success of the company, whose customers are they? There isn’t a clear answer to this question. Arguably both Apple’s and the app maker’s, and there’s an intrinsic codependency that can’t be easily separated.

There is a clear answer, as you yourself just said: they're customers of both Apple (by virtue of having bought their hardware) and the app developer (by virtue of having bought their software). Those are distinct, separate relationships the customer has with two different companies. Apple doesn't own those customers now and for all time just because they originally found the service through Apple's app store! That's ridiculous.
We had elections in NZ a few months ago. The in-person voting period ran for at least a week. Some voting booths only opened on the actual election day, but a good number were open for longer. Most malls I went to had them open the entire time, same with a voting booth in the airport departures lounge.
Would you end up with money seekers like failed politicians?
In most places, your car will almost never get broken into. In a few cities, this will happen basically all the time.

The averages are removing information about how crime is distributed and focusing on violent crime when people are more worried currently about property crime. This uneven distribution and the rise in property crime does a lot explain the difference between these national averages and people's personal experiences of crime.

While the plural of anecdote isn't data, it's not some mystery why people look at local temperatures to decide how to dress themselves, instead of the national average, nor are they statistically illiterate for doing so. Nobody with any sense is going outside in a blizzard without a coat just because the national average temperature is warm.

The same is true with crime. It is not evenly distributed and that variance defines people's lived experience with it.
I visited where I went to college recently, and the students seem way more law-abiding now. They hardly even jaywalk anymore.
This is a garbage opinion piece demonstrating the archetypical boomer mentality of caring about your pay being passe. Trying to market an “innovative” workplace to save money on employee pay is just a cheap trick. Yawn

Also, this should have a [2009] tag
How does opening up the walled garden impact you if you never side load anything?
Police only get data that’s reported. Most places don’t call the cops the moment something drops.

There’s a reason so many tops of house walls in Latin America are covered in shards of broken glass.

Official statistics on crime have long been manipulated as well.

Remember this rule: if it’s positive, politicians try to maximize its importance with lavish news conferences and self-congratulatory declarations.

But! If the data is negative, they will be released quietly, often late on a Friday afternoon, to minimize media coverage.

You can actually map the release time of crime data in some places to show whether it’s positive or negative news.

There is also a profound difference in transparency levels and therefore data. Check out this report to see how much it varies.

https://policetransparency.vera.org/PTI-factsheet.pdf

In California, crime is up in the latest reports. Homicides included.

https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023...

So, it’s cool that “crime is down” but honestly the article that NPR published is pretty awful journalism and really doesn’t present the truth, which is more complicated.

Most of the time they are reporting on the FBI’s uniform crime reporting index:

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-an...

This data has been under huge scrutiny and criticism for its inaccuracy:

The FBI Uniform Crime Report's (UCR's) 'murder and nonnegligent manslaughter' data are so seriously flawed that the only figure they can provide criminologists is the number of deaths investigated by police as potentially criminal homicides, and the weapons use data reported by the UCR and the National Crime Survey (victimization data) are unreliable as well.

Source: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/flaws-fb...

The “journalists” at NPR annd other news organizations even bother to mention any of this when they write their articles. The quality of their journalism should be questioned and people should be very aware of the unreliability of the statistical data, especially violent crimes like homicides.
That is a fantastic read. Thanks.
The lane keep assist in my 2017 Leaf is awful. If I used it, anyone would take me for a drunk driver as it drifts to the edge of the lane and then corrects endlessly.

Thankfully it can be turned off, and it stays off.
Some areas of the city get historically low crime rates because they are essentially avoided at all costs, not because the place is safe. People "locked up" inside their own homes is not what I would call public security, even though the data will show that the numbers improved.
It's a pity. They had a really good run for like a decade. But even AP has its ideological problems now.
If the point of having Election Day off is to give folks time to vote, poll workers are already, well, at the polls. Naturally, they will be able to vote.
Not in the minds of the people competing for the job. They can get a bigger house with more money.
After aging I'm starting to have new views on large salaries:

1. The money is just going to be saved. Net gain to the person is they're probably going to live for the rest of their life off dividends. Net gain to society, is any money taken out of circulation fights inflation.

2. If you pay someone a lot of money they will, essentially, spend it on other people. Either through salary or just buying shit. The richest people will make other people wealthy, and those people will make other people money too. Net again sounds like it's a benefit to not just the original person.

3. I've had lots of people say it's not a zero sum game. This is turning out to be true. Someone having success inventing and selling a new ketchup dispensing lid (and making billions) does not prevent someone from starting a successful company that makes Gyroscope toys that stands on its corner that can hold a tomato.
I disagree. Single letter variables are meaningless.
In order to get the big picture, you have to remember
what all those meaningless letters stand for. Using
meaningful variables would make this easier.
We need normal schools that teach teachers like we used to. There are teachers who know less math than students and speak less than perfect English.

If you’re a teacher you should have some basic competency thresholds.
Truly a mindless article. Money attracts talent, doesn't matter what the historical rates have been or what the absolute cost to live is. If a good person can get 50 million instead of 3 million they're going to take it.
I never got 'overtime' when working on holidays during all my time in food service.
> After a million dollars or so in salary, the absolute amount that a person is paid has no real impact on their life. They can't eat more meals in a day or wear more shoes. What matters to the manager is the relative amount.

Sure, nobody needs more than a million dollars in annual compensation (in 2024 dollars), but relative amount gets you to your never need to work again number faster or slower. You might still work after you don't need to, but it's nice to not need to. And of course, there's economic milestones to be had like flying first class, flying charted, leasing a jet, owning a jet. Those certainly have an impact on your life, depending on how much you travel; and you might travel more if you didn't have to wait at the airport for a flight.
I guess I'm not sure that there's a practical difference between "It's marketing" and "This is what the market rate is for a CEO." In other words, firms need to pay this much because that's what other firms are paying (at least.) That's not marketing - that's just the unfettered market at work. Which is why it needs to be fettered. I agree with the salary cap idea, because the market will naturally keep raising the price without bound unless there's something to counteract that, and it is terrible for the labor market as a whole (and even the company as a whole) to be paying so much for a CEO when the same amount could buy dozens or even hundreds of workers.
> Answering in a way that is not consistent with what you truly feel or believe is dishonest. I don't think it's an amoral dishonesty, as you say, you've been forced to play this dumb game. There are many cases where being untruthful is not morally wrong

Thank you for this reply, I couldn't have said it better. It's important that people realize

1) Representing yourself falsely is dishonest

2) Dishonesty isn't an especially bad thing in many cases. In fact it's socially expected in many cases, such as in interviews.

That doesn't make it less dishonest. It means that a lot of our society is an engine that basically runs on dishonesty.
Imagine being born and dying on a generation ship and when your grand children reach the destination they find a thriving society established a 100 years before by the children of the people that launched your parents. They just created a new much faster means of travel in the mean time while your ancestors were condemned to a life on a ship with nothing to do but live, breed and die.
> You are being dishonest here.

That's entirely uncalled for.

My point was clear and, yes, honest.

Obviously there are additional complications in both directions. Yes, if you don't pay your electric bill of course it will eventually get shut off. But if an employer stops paying their employees they eventually quit. If you're late in paying there may be a fine. Courts also fine employers punitive amounts for non-payment of wages.

The situations aren't identical but my point stands that debt and stealing are different concepts and can go in both directions.

And random line items added to a bill have nothing to do with this conversation.
“A clear indicator” …he’s been dead for 13 years and Apple has 10x’d since then.
Half of infants born in the US receive WIC. Can't be that hard.
I'm suspicious of this bill, but your analogy does more to show how cars are horrifyingly unregulated than push for individual responsibility.

The car allows you to break the law by going 2x faster than the highest speed limit in the nation. A faster car, with higher ground clearance does make it easier to fatally run into someone. The Tesla cybertruck is a killing machine in car form.

Cars are the leading cause of death in the US. Maybe we need to have a similar 'pre-emptive manufacturer-side intervention' bill for cars too.
Rochester MN has a mini version too:

https://www.experiencerochestermn.com/planning-tools/getting...
Who is forcing them? Women want financial independence, for obvious reasons.
> You could buy non-Bell phones and even connect them to a functioning telephone network.

First, that is simply a lie. Until the Carterfone decision it was, in fact, illegal to attach a non-Bell phone to the network.

Second, Apple has a smaller market share (especially in Europe!) than Android, so it is very hard to see how someone could, in good faith, argue that Apple is a monopoly.

Third, Apple is doing nothing to prevent you from buying an Android phone. If you don't like the walled garden, the gate is not locked. You can simply leave.
> making the argument that "technically" stub hub only enables scalpers but is not actually a scalper themselves

Yes, Expedia isn’t an airline and the New York Stock Exchange doesn’t make cars.

> your ideology

Out of curiosity, what ideology would that be?
I renew domains 10 years in advance. That way if the price is hiked, the registrar still has to keep the domain renewed, regardless of hikes. 10 years is ICANN's arbitrary limit, and 10 years is a long time on the web. The domain will probably get hiked after that time window, but at least it had its fun in the sun.
It's really not beyond a certain level. Maybe it mostly is for entry-level but tons of people don't exclusively focus on highest comp.
The ability to exert power and influence over things you value continues to scale with money. There's more to life than consumption.
I took one of those (Alva labs) multiple times for different companies. My “intelligence” (or whatever they call it) score was 7/10 first, then 8/10, and then 9/10 I think in the last one. Just got better each time I took it. And the results for the personality test kept changing dramatically for each take too. Total pseudoscience.
After that personality test, they ask you to complete a timed IQ test. After that, you'll reach a behavioral interview after which you get assigned a "take home" technical assessment, which then after submitting you can schedule to have technical interviews (potentially multiple). You can fail at any step along the way.

It was one of the more laughably ridiculous interviewing processes I've seen, and thankfully the only one I've seen recently that was so egregious.
I agree in spirit, but their pessimism is borne from sounding the alarm early and still failing to avert a trainwreck. It's understandably demoralizing.

They did offer a list of possible solutions despite that. They're trying.
I.e., "the number of muggings is low only because nobody goes outside where they would get mugged. Offense isn't low; defense is just high."
These "gotcha!" taxes only affect the upper middle class. The rich have the lawyers and means to avoid them all.
I think your attitude is almost exactly right but I will add: you can pick both. The two ecosystems don't really step on each others' toes and as long as you find a hub(s) to feed a single view there are basically no downsides.