skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulatory bodies, an engaged community of experts to provide scrutiny and reach out to journalists when there are problems.

Like with cars, planes, and online banking, the key determinant is that nontechnical people have a _sufficient_ degree of trust in _someone_else_, who does have the appropriate expertise, to provide oversight.

I have no idea if Agora is good or not, or if blockchain-based voting is viable. I'm just saying that there are demonstrated cases (and certainly also other demonstrated failures) in which nontechnical people trust experts and trust organizations to provide a sufficient degree of oversight.

In a sense, you could say that a classroom, or a democracy, is like this too.
Audiobooks certainly feel like they have much worse retention. To solve this, whenever I listen to an audiobook now, I'll both buy it on Audible and on Kindle. Then, whenever I hear something particularly compelling/important, I quickly hop into the Kindle app on my phone and highlight it. If a book has whispersync[0] enabled this is especially easy.

This, combined with having a workflow for consistently reviewing my highlights[1] has improved my (admittedly self-reported) retention significantly. There's plenty of science that supports how effective spaced repetition is for retention.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000827...

[1] https://readwise.io -- disclaimer: I built this, but I genuinely think it's helpful here.
Everything you want to do can be done on a simple database. You can mint tokens / share it / explore other tokens / message people / view feed. It isn't clear why you want to forcibly put this on Ethereum blockchain and pay a fee to do every transfer (The transaction charge currently is ~ USD 0.5-1 per transaction)
How is "car culture" relevant to contractors and delivery vehicles?
30min power outage at fab ruins 3.5% of monthly NAND world-wide supply
I don't know what kind of people friend boring self-promoters. The problem here, there's not enough eyeballs. They end up friending each other and then pretending they have a huge crowd.

And then there's real content, viral content, assertive content. In short, life. Social credit system fights life because life doesn't follow rules, life doesn't care about likes and life doesn't climb their ladder. So naturally I expect harsh sanctions for anything viral or any unexpected flash mobs in such systems.
Is it already being used to suppress criticism of the government and CPC, or is it planned for next month?
I think that it is really true. The CCP's implicit bargain is that it delivers perpetually increasing growth and economic prosperity to the average person (compared to last year), and the average person keeps their mouth shut.

That bargain breaks down when growth stops accelerating, and obviously you can't have accelerating growth forever. The CCP's real overarching goal is to "maintain social stability," and that is exactly as dystopian as it sounds, if not more so.

And stifling discussion is a big part of that; this sort of comment would definitely ding your 'score'.
If IRS all over the world would act as a tax assistant instead of pure penalty seeker I'm sure everybody would love it. Wasted energy IMO.
What use is due process if everybody is guilty of some crime? Have you ever changed a URL parameter against a ToS? Felony computer hacking!
In the presence of reference-counted mutable objects, destructors no longer guarantee that cleanup will happen. But that much is okay. This is a liveness property, and, as far as I can tell, nobody really knows of any non-annoying way to enforce liveness properties with types. On the other hand, “cleanup is the last operation that can be performed on an object” is a safety property, and types are excellent tools for verifying properties of this kind.
Tesla Autopilot 2 on Winding Local Road
China has been working on this for a while, and barring people from transportation is not the scary bit. That's last-century scary. No, it's the emergence of a new sort of ideological warfare making use of the recent knowledge developed in gaming industry that is the scary bit. This is a new kind of threat, something we as humans haven't learned how to deal with.

Here's some analysis from a game designer from 2015: https://youtu.be/lHcTKWiZ8sI
"How much do I owe?"

"How much do you THINK you owe?"

"...Hmm, if I have everything correct, I think I owe this much"

"WRONG! Time for consequences!"
I don't think it's callous at all. In fact, it's a sort of higher order empathy. If the goal is to save as many lives as possible, then this is exactly the right way to think about these things.

It's like how most Americans are more likely to die from obesity related diseases than terrorism, but we spend orders of magnitude more resources trying to prevent terrorism.
When she's thrown in the glass jail cell and starts hurling insults across the walkway at the random dude (and him back) rap battle style. It's the first (and only) time in the entire episode where she seems like she's actually having fun. And this is a girl who can sell the "I'm not having fun" while blitzing through the woods on a quadbike.
More than 90% of criminal convictions are the result of pleas, not trials. Few people can come up with the sort of money needed to mount a serious defense to a criminal charge. And in some cases the state can take your money up front, so you definitely don't have the resources to mount a defense.
Canada's elections are quite amenable to manual tabulation. Color me envious.

Years ago, a group of us activists in the USA tried to understand manual counting better. We timed ourselves on mock elections using the "sort and stack" system. It goes about as fast as you'd expect (and reminded me of being a junior bookkeeper reconciling accounts at the end of period, ahhh nostalgia).

We also self-funded some official manual recounts, just to get better metrics. It wasn't pretty.

USA's elections are generally over complicated, with many races/issues per ballot. To enable efficient manual counting, we'd have to redesign our ballots so that they could be physically separately into federal, state, local sub-ballots, for separate processing.

Replacing FPTP with Approval Voting and Proportional Representation would also help.
Google is notorious for this behavior. Don't you remember the years-long "beta" status for GMail?
In many other countries they do act like that.
You know who else does that? Abusive people. I'm not saying you're an abusive person, but that is definitely behavior shared by abusive people. It's just an observable fact. I chose these words very carefully so you know I am not accusing you of being abusive, just associating you with abusive behavior.
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You can easily convert a couple and
run some A/B tests
I don't have my face on my FB profile, and nobody blocked me.
No. That's pure prejudice. There are lots of upper class criminals. Maybe you have heard of Elizabeth Holmes, the blonde woman in charge of Theranos? Major fraud case.
> You will notice that the police, on the one hand say that street racing is incredibly dangerous and puts innocent lives at risk (not just the racers), and at the same time, justify high speed chases, risking pedestrians lives for the sake of catching petty criminals.

Well, except that over the last few decades, high speed chases have fallen out of favor, and most police agencies have adopted very restrictive pursuit policies.
Russia by itself is merely a western rival which could normally be worked with by sane western governments.

But Putin is a hostile who's popularity, having ruined the economy, depends on endless conflict and so will never be appeased. Even the extremely pro Putin White House is repeatedly embarrassed by the one sided-ness of the relationship.

But that's a side issue here. If one wanted to save a free discussion site from de-facto censorship and vandalism by totalitarian shills, one would need to apply the ban-hammer with ruthless zeal. Possibly viewing threads like this one as a honeypot to locate them.

One would not, for example, cater to that censorship by penalizing news of cyber attacks off the front page. Which, among other things, eliminates discussion of mitigation strategies.
You might have been correct, except you end with -

> Rest in peace, Adrian. Regardless of what you did, beneficial or otherwise, no one deserves the mind-shackles you had to live with.

This is the problem.

If they were a true friend you should NOT be going to HN to talk about it, it should be amongst friends in person or not quite as good, but for some personally online is is their best... true friends know about these issue.

If not a true friend you are playing in current societies toxic environment of - I must prove I'm part of sadness / relying on a unhealthy construct for my personal health.

You are just virtue signalling.

For some... online communities are the best they have... but this is like giving the homeless a box. Don't piss on it but don't think this is appropriate.
Originally, the 3 strikes laws were to be used only against violent felonies. I'm not sure how they were able to include non violent offenses to the list.
I made something even better. Its for AWS though: https://github.com/svolpe43/cfsh
Unfortunately, the title of this post doesn't convey the content very well. I don't really have a better suggestion... Maybe something along the lines of "Finding botnets within twitter", or something.
4 and 5 are both superb.

Civ 4 marks the end of the 'old' Civilization games, and honestly I don't think there's much reason to look further back than that if you're just joining the series. It's fully-featured, cheap with all expansions, and offers a great experience.

Civ 5 was the start of the new era, but has been out long enough to get two much-needed expansions. It cleaned up the look and interface of the game substantially, and changed the feel of combat to a more modern TBS approach. I think common consensus is that it's a bit less deep than 4, but plays more smoothly and with more engaging combat.

They're both great, and I don't know that it matters too much which way you go. If anything about either game frustrates you, there will be a mod to change it. You really can't go wrong.

Civ 6 is more controversial - it reworked a lot of the city-building elements really substantially, and I'm not sure it's for the better. It'll probably be a solid game by the time all the expansions are out, but right now it doesn't feel complete and polished the way 4 & 5 do.

Don't get Beyond Earth. Honestly, it's just not worth it - it doesn't have any real merits beyond 5 except "in space!", and it's long on balance and design issues.
I watched the show every day after Sesame Street and before Reading Rainbow. Good times.
I take issue with what you say here:
a> It was by no means ignoring the other-side of this
No racist ideas ever appeared on the show. That is the definition of "ignoring the [racist] side of this."

Ignoring != suppressing. Ignoring thoroughly debunked and discredited notions is healthy, and universal. NASA isn’t suppressing flat Earthers by not presenting their views alongside their scientific discoveries. It’s the job of the flat Earthers to present their own ideas, not act as social and intellectual parasites while crying that others aren’t carrying their weight for them. Mr. Rogers, on his own show, presented his own views, and that isn’t “suppressing” anything either.
From the first link, China sentenced 10 people in front of a crowd but they were executed out of sight. Not that this fully detracts from your point but I appreciate the clarity.
Why would you assume they're not doing both?
Don’t be a Junior Developer
The US credit scoring system has begun aggressively devaluing medical claims against your credit:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/11/5365018...

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/medical-debt-and...

You can also easily dispute that $90 bill, and easily get it removed from your record. You'll find there's almost zero chance they're going to tangle with you over $90.

If it's a $5,000 medical bill, then they will fight you over that dispute claim.
For those who don't know much about it - can you recommend which series to watch? I googled it and there seems to be a great deal of variety.
Are we sure this is dystopian enough? I love the idea of taking someone who might be marginalized and marginalizing them even further, but how can we make sure it is passed down through the generations to their family?
I am not sure I follow this. I have gotten back up by simply doing the things I was doing before.
cobra effect,
bikeshedding
Ever heard of Aileen Wuornos? Major serial killer case.

Aileen and Elizabeth are outliers. It makes sense to be surprised by it.

If there's a woman and a man and someone asks you to guess the criminal, which one are you going to choose? Flipping a coin would not be a wise strategy.
No it doesn't, at least not on their Android version. You may just bookmark the location.
Ask HN: Why does Siri suck compared to Google Assistant?
Yes! Check out the USGS National Map[1].

A lot of the country isn't covered, and what is there is pretty dated, but there's a recent capture of the entire west coast available.

[1] https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic
Does this system retroactively raise the price on cars that are already parked there? Or does it create an incentive to get their early and park as long as possible since you'll never find a spot this cheap again?
Worth pointing out that Manning had apparently tried to leak to the WaPo and NYT but was ignored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/us/bradley-manning-admits-...

> Private Manning said he first called The Washington Post and spoke to an unidentified reporter for about five minutes. He decided that the reporter did not seem particularly interested because she said The Post would have to review the material before making any commitment.

> He said he then tried to reach out to The New York Times by calling a phone number for the newspaper’s public editor — an ombudsman who is not part of the newsroom — and leaving a voice mail message that was not returned.
> The US will ban you from flying if you are politically controversial [1]

The provided source doesn't support this claim. The only part which could even remotely be constructed as support for this claim would be 3 and the anecdata there include "He suspects" and "He thinks" - on the other, that you can end on such a list without knowing the reason (and often without recourse afair) is a real problem, but that's not what you claimed.
Being any amount of accusatory is counterproductive when you want someone to honestly answer a question in any context.
If you break traffic laws too many times you aren't allowed to drive, but you aren't banned from riding in a car.
Accounting uses double entry (credits & debits), election administration does not. Compulsory voting could make election administration look more like accounting.

Blockchains explicitly remove privacy, whereas voting should be the Australian Ballot, aka private voting & public counting.
Ha, surprised, I've seen more prowess in seeking high difficulty tax evasion from small people than help so far.
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How does whataboutism about bad US policy improve the nature or standing of China's bad policy?
First sentence of the Stadium article:

> A court in China has sentenced 10 people to death, mostly for drug-related crimes, in front of thousands of onlookers before taking them away for execution.

Did you mean sentencing in instead of executing? Based on the article you linked, the executions seem to have occurred elsewhere.
It's the same as the difference between societal discrimination and government legislated discrimination. Both terrible, the latter seems more so.
Air travel has been considered luxury until recently and may still be for most. China has a very developed passenger train network and road network. The train ban for non-safety-related cases only bans travelling in first class/sleeper cars and G trains (high speed trains). You can still travel in regular train cars. So the spirit is more like: if you refuse to pay or claim you can't afford to pay, you shouldn't be able to travel with too much comfort.
Where are taxis, ride-sharing vehicles, and delivery trucks supposed to stop? I get frustrated when I ride my bike to work and the bike lanes are blocked, but I have always just assumed that will be the case when riding in a commercially dense area.

This is probably rarely the case, but when cops are instigating something (I'm sure 90% of the time they are just getting coffee) and need to park their car, are they supposed to circle the block, or block traffic?

US cities are unfortunately optimized for cars and trucks. It's how stores get resupplied and people get dropped off when not near public transportation.

I'm not trying to stir-the-pot, but I find there is a mildly militant tone to biking activism that makes me not take it very seriously. I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this ha.

After you have had to sit through critical mass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)) for the 10th time when you are trying to get home from work or get your car door kicked when trying to make a right turn in the city you develop a visceral reaction to news about cycling outrage.

I would love to be able to get around NYC on a bike without having to fear death, but I don't think software engineers writing ticketing software that targets delivery truck drivers is the best solution. Better civic planning is.
> Which would make sense, no? They're playing the odds. It's exceedingly rare for any upper-middle class woman to commit a crime.

Our “knowledge” of who commitd crimes is distorted by societal biases that influence the ascription of blame; there is no set of crime statistics that is immune from that.

So, when you justify those biases on the bases of the understanding that they distort, you make a circular argument, where the bias is its own justification.
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Virginia and New Jersey have felony larceny thresholds of $200; Massachusetts draws the line at $250. Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee all class possession of half an ounce of marijuana as a felony. Several states make possession of any amount within proximity of a school, church or park a felony. There are countless examples of misdemeanour possession being trumped-up to felony possession with intent based on very flimsy grounds.

This is all nitpicky and arbitrary, which is largely my point. The line between misdemeanour and felony is thin, but the consequences of crossing it are severe. In one state, you might get a $50 fine; in the next, you might be barred from voting or lose your green card.
Japan has a pretty long history of autocratic rulership..

And has only really had once party in power throughout the history of its democracy (like 3 years or so without):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japa...

Not sure its the best counter example
Exactly. Amazon is perfect for those sorts of things. You would have had to have gone to at least 3 stores to find all of that stuff, if you could have found it at all. I am remodeling my house and it’s fantastic for finding things I didn’t even know existed.
There are landlords who will rent to felons and employers who will hire them. It's not a blanket ban.
After linters, it seems now we've to run our code through code anonymizer too.
> They both involve the same activity--operating a motor vehicle in a city environment

That is not the same activity. You have generalized so far beyond the original point it no longer makes sense.

Is a speed eating competition where you eat as many hotdogs as possible in a NY hot dog establishment the same activity as making homemade salad with your family at home?

They're both "eating food in a city" right? They are not the same activity, and street racing is not the same activity as commuting home or going to the store for toilet paper.
Not all of us hear words when reading. I usually don't unless I think about it (like now). I often miss written puns for this reason. I don't know how common this is.
I use Microsoft One Note. It works well for keeping my thoughts together and keeping notes and links that either support or refute an idea.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Plenty of firms consistently beat the market without cheating.
I have a relative who used to drive a bus in brussels and would “nudge” cars out of the way if they were only partially blocking his path. The bus was none the worse for wear, and the cars he didn’t care about.
What feature do you need from IAM?
Commercial air travel doesn't have to deal with pedestrians.

That's basically my option B from above. Ban all surface transportation and massively expand the subway system. Also redesign the subway system so it can deliver packages now. Absolutely no chance in hell of getting that done by 2025. Oh, and also redesign all subway platforms so people can't use them to commit suicide.

Or maybe they're trying the London option and making gridlock so bad that no car ever gets enough speed to seriously injure a pedestrian.
I've done some personal "A/B" testing on audio vs print for retention and found that I remember significantly less when listening to non-fiction content as opposed to reading it and the recall dropoff is very sharp.

I mainly use audiobooks now for mostly fiction and narrative strong content like history, biographies/memories, or communication around domains like sales, public speaking, marketing, and relationship books.

I found a lot more interesting things about being more strategical in using the right medium(print vs ebook vs audio) depending on the nature of the content I'm consuming as well as my energy levels[1].

[1] https://juvoni.com/print-ebook-audiobook
Do you know how they validate income? I suppose you could take historical tax filings, which it looks like is what Finland does. Even with that, though, you create the potential to significantly over-burden people with irregular income streams.

It looks like the UK tried day fines in the early 90s and dropped it (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4173913.stm).
You say that you're not focusing on trading and that you want to do things right. But isn't the sole point of crypto currencies that they can be traded? What uses are there other than trading?
Also, consider the possibility that the underlying trade off is between societal coordination and efficiency vs liberties and wellbeing. Adding to “safe” also economic incentives to erode democracy with its less efficient liberties. In a similar way, corporations are more efficient than governments.
There's actually a bunch of articles out recently (sourced from The Information, a paywalled news site that does excellent research) on how the Siri team has fallen astray in recent years.
Star Trek has a lot of great aspects, but its model of utopian society is the "benevolent dictator" one. Captain Kirk is the dictator - he's brave, benevolent, incorruptible, and fixes everyone's problems by decree. His minions utterly lack ambition and selfish desires, and are ideally altruistic members of the collective.

It's a nice fantasy, but completely unworkable.
Most programmers are assholes because they are unhappy.

Most programmers are unhappy because most software is terrible.

Most software is terrible because most programmers are assholes.
"Playing the odds" is often code for justifying sexism, racism, etc. And it helps entrench it.

"Black people are often criminals and white people are not. It isn't racism. It is just playing the odds."

I find that statement pretty sickening. We have a system that often sets up certain classes of people for failure and makes it hard for them to avoid being charged, then use their inevitable failure as further justification for heaping on more mistreatment.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-fool-be...