Never want to work for Jack again but he is clearly one of the more visionary product leaders out there.
He also struggles to care too deeply about money (plenty of Twitter stories attest to this). Very much just builds what he wants to build, and yes most ideas fail but at least his attempts are interesting and not just "Can I buy my way out of this again?"
I would agree with that, but we probably have different definitions of poor. Destitute? Absolutely. I don’t think anybody is shocked that starving people commit crimes to not die.
However, I have been in plenty of low income high trust areas. In some ways, those were even more high trust.
Economics play a role, but there is a moral and cultural fabric that gets built through repeated interactions overtime. Unfortunately, that fabric is very susceptible to damage.
Eg: there are plenty of towns where you wouldn’t have to lock your car or even your bike, but it only takes a couple thefts for the entire culture to change…
Because it is naive to think that the people with the power of absolute surveillance would ever permit “sousveillance”.
People already survey atrocities committed by regimes and reporting them does less and less every year.
Camera towers may benefit the populace in the short term, but eventually they will be used as a choke collar.
Think of every story, historical or fiction, where a rebellion or resistance struggled against entrenched power. Now imagine that with constant surveillance everywhere. The story gets really short: “then they were all rounded up”.
People always want high trust societies. They are incredibly hard to create and incredibly easy to destroy.
However, once the cameras go up, you will never ever create one there. High trust requires, well, actual trust. You can’t build real trust in a panopticon just a sickly police state facsimile of it.
Society and progress moves at the speed of trust. Without it many uniquely human and beautiful things disappear.
I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment.
Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is what prevents the construction of more. Voters vote against throwing more money into what seems like a lost cause or at least something they wouldn’t use if they had any other option. In the US any class besides the lowest classes typically does so they avoid public transportation and use cars and so it gets worse.
The transportation must be somewhat appealing to the middle class in order for it to be scalable and sustainable from a tax-policy perspective.
I am very pro public transportation! Would love it if ours and the rider behavior on it was held to the same standard as Amsterdam.
This still feels like a good faith discussion so I’ll engage.
The US does over incarcerate on average. There is clearly a problem there! The solution is not abdicating prosecution and the rule of law to make up for it in “progressive” cities.
Taking the Iryna Zarutska case as an extreme example, I don’t think anyone would argue that the killer should have been on that train. He should have been imprisoned/involuntarily committed a long time ago.
It is not progressive or empathetic to allow predators to with severe mental or drug issues with long histories of violence to repeatedly prey on a specific community regardless of the national incarceration rate.
Having people who come across as crazy or violent on public transportation makes the average citizen vote for the very policies that produce over incarceration (or defund public transportation) because they look around and their lived experience is that there are not enough police or bad people in jail and that the taxpayer dollars are wasted on public transportation because it becomes a cesspool of crime and drug use.
If you want to lower incarceration and you want people to use public transportation, it must be clean and orderly and socially sustainable.
I don’t think you appreciate how hard it is to get arrested and how ineffective it is when a DA won’t prosecute crimes. Like yes in a more perfect and just society, this would not be a problem.
In fact, most cities can operate just fine without barrier-esque fare gates. However, when you are trying to pull a city out of a societal doom loop, you need to do what you can when you can.
I think it would blow your mind if you knew the types of crimes a criminal can commit and be released.
Lol, no it was not just graffiti. I dont mind graffiti nearly as much as say:
- open drug use (literally smoking crack on the bus)
- screaming threat of violence to everyone one around
- purposefully urinating or defecating on the seats.
- literally lighting things on fire
- deliberately smashing glass at bus stops (somehow very endemic in SF)
I do think graffiti is a public notice of: “this is a place you can treat poorly and behave terribly in with no consequence”
Some graffiti I think is quite artistic and a sincere cultural contribution, but most on the sides of buses are more of the bathroom stall variety.
Enforcing fares massively decreases vandalism, and antisocial behavior on public transportation.
If you don’t have public transportation that I feel safe having a 10-year-old ride on unaccompanied by an adult then you do not have public transportation. You have a very expensive drug addict shelter on wheels/rails.
I dont know. The tooling feels trivial. I swapped from claude to codex and back with zero friction. If they were very expensive to me personally I would probably just use them to build the harness and then plug Kimi into it etc.
Counterpoint: XCode is such slop that an app made by a developer with the taste to avoid it has a higher probability of being less "sloppy" than average.
“ You ask me if your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before me. You send them to journals. You compare them with other poems and you worry if certain editors refuse your efforts. Now, as you have given me permission to advise you, I beg you to give up all that. You are directing your thoughts outwards, and that above all is what you should not do at present. No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way. Withdraw into yourself. Explore the reason that bids you write, find out if it has spread out its roots in the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die, if writing should be denied to you. Above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night, “Must I write?” Dig deep into yourself for an answer. And if this answer should be in the affirmative, if you can meet this solemn question with a simple strong “I must,” then build up your life according to this necessity.”
Not with a new language but novel approaches within a framework or paradigm feel outside the LLM wheelhouse.
Even if the LLM is adept at novel languages the developer still has to learn it and learning new languages now when most programming is done via a prompt-review loop feels like it has lower ROI.
The studies are not geared for a sample size of one there is only one you.
Just… Try it.
You can just do things. They don’t have to be rational, the best things rarely are.