skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'I scratch back, you scratch mine' Generous reciprocity of free service keeps the system going.
> What would be a good alternative to peer-review though? Genuinely interested.

Replicating researches? That's how we prove findings are not wrong or biased, usually.
Now I have straight out blocked Microsoft web browsers, providing an explanation to why I use other browsers instead.
Chalk it up to a person living life in a cozy office to call cops with drug dogs fascism. If you knew what fasicsm is and people who suffered it (my maternal grandfather) did, I can bet you wont ever use that word again. I don't like a lot of current political leaders either but the way eyeball and click hungry media uses this term and the regular audience eagerly laps them up is disgusting.
Did you watch the entire series? See my reply to a similar claim below.

And what “best part” are you referring to, exactly?
$300k for 66sqm would still be pretty good.
Servers are capital, I agree, but I don't think that's what makes FB valuable. The data is what's valuable, and I think it's a mistake to think of data as capital.
I don't believe there is this large "criminal apologist" political force as you say there is. On the example you gave of a decision to hold back police force at an Antifa counterprotest, the police chief gave this explanation: "If police had deployed tear gas, they could have dispersed the black bloc, but they also would have gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters – including seniors and children – who had marched over from a “Say No to Hate” rally at nearby Ohlone Park." So they were concerned about injuring civilians, and moved in after all the non-criminals fleed, arresting 13 people.

But even if there was this political motive to allow leftists to break laws with impunity, that has nothing to do with this story. This story is about run-of-the-mill robberies. Antifa doesn't run around robbing random people, and I don't think you'll find any influential bay-area politicians arguing against arresting people for robbery.
OsmAnd is far superior to Google Maps in my opinion, especially for backcountry offline navigation. It's one of the most important apps when traveling abroad or when cell service is spotty. Google Maps is basically useless in rural South America, for example... and OSM is actually more up to date than Google Maps when it comes to river crossings, etc... and POI data is available for offline use. Google Maps can't even do offline navigation and rerouting.
"For example, the article is ambiguous about whether the student finished his computer engineering degree at university or not. I have a non-STEM degree."

According to the OP's LinkedIn profile, he started his undergrad in Computer Engineering in 2015, started doing Udacity courses in 2017, and expects to complete his degree in 2020.
Maybe we should do absolutely anything other than increasing the number of guns in a crowded, enclosed space.
Actually I came up with one...

The top 50 research universities could get together and decide to no longer give consideration to pay-walled articles. It wouldn't affect them AT ALL...the research they do is already treated as pretty much cannon no matter where it appears. Everyone else would follow, and the journals would quickly respond with change.

Yeah I know it's unlikely but they have enough social capital to actually have an impact.
> "It was a strange incident, but apparently not a new experience for Stallman, whose emails urge any NSA or FBI agents reading to “follow Snowden’s example” and blow the whistle."

I find it extremely hard to believe that the US intelligence agencies haven't mastered the art of tapping phones without alerting targets over the decades.

> "Asked what he thought about so-called privacy coins, Stallman said he’d gotten an expert to assess their potential, and “for each one he would point out some serious problems, perhaps in its security or its scalability.”

It would've been nice for the interviewer to ask followup questions in response to this.

> "Taler never rejects a legitimate customer due to a fraud-detection false positive."

This would be nice. PayPal has caused no shortage of headaches for both me and people who wish to send me money. I wouldn't mind something better catching on.
In my experience, academia is largely driven by money. Professors at my university were recognized for the money they brought to the university first and foremost it seemed, rather than for any discoveries/innovations in a particular field.
Let’s use the Kindle app as an example then. The app cannot link to their site when I search for a book I don’t have. If it did, the app would be banned. So Apple is trying to extract a 30% premium from Amazon and the only way for them to avoid that is to give me a shitty experience that quantifiable harms me (I waste time to search for and then hop through the download behavior, adding friction to what should be a seamless flow). In return for their 30% they are adding very little value. Amazon does it’s own payment processing, curation is surely not worth almost a third of every book I buy, storage is paid for by Amazon, and the transmission costs are paid for by me.
This is, I think, partially the result of decriminalization. When a vocal sub-population says "oh no, but poor people have no agency, and therefore no choice but to commit crime / evade fares, etc. and we should be more lenient" this is the result. And the people who suffer the disproportionately are the working class who rely on public transit.

Even if BART doesn't have enough officers, spending a few thousand to put up high-def cameras so some other PD can kick open these assailants' doors and arrest them would help significantly.
Parking tickets are their main thing, true, but I have seen them inside trains. More often, my train is delayed by “police activity” somewhere in the BART system. Because there’s no way to route around most stations, those delays end up cascading through the whole system, no matter where they originate.
Sure, but you are describing a situation in which commuters are strictly worse off. It’s unlikely they will vote for that.

Remember also that existing transit links are beyond fully saturated. It’s not really possible for people to switch to transit en masse before the decades it takes us to build bus terminals and train tunnels have elapsed. No public transit system has the slack to absorb the Bay Bridge drive-alone traffic, let alone 101 or 280. People physically won’t fit into the vehicles. There are decade-scale projects to address that, and I support them, but I don’t expect to see their fruits during my working life. Anyone working now is going to be retired by the time a second Transbay Tube starts passenger service, assuming we vote to fund it right now.
I think so. I've followed the back and forth on a few papers on openreview.net and I found the comments nearly as interesting and informative as the paper they were commenting on.

There are a lot of things that only exist as suspicions and intuitions inside of a researcher's head, and that sort of information is much more likely to come out in a back and forth reviewing a paper than in actual published literature.
https://hypothes.is supports threaded comments on anything with a URI; including PDFs and specific sentences or figures thereof. All you have to do is register an account and install the browser extension or include the JS in the HTML.

It's based on open standards and an open platform.

W3C Web Annotations:
http://w3.org/annotation

About Hypothesis:
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Not really. Check the violent crime stats before making such claims.
By context, I'm assuming they meant autonomous vehicle.
> such feedback helps speed up improvements

Recent MS "improvements" indicate things should not have been sped up.
Awesome landing page! What did you use to make it?

Also, are you planning on charging in the future? If not, I'm worried support will disappear which makes me scared of investing time into the app ) :
This is really awesome and I hope to see something like this come to my country.

One thing I was wondering is how you would deal with more tricky issues/pull requests. Obviously we probably won't see people writing whole new laws in the pull requests editor but what if it was something like a sentience was written in an unclear way and someone opened an issue asking for it to be clarified or maybe they made a PR rewriting it to make more sense while still keeping the intent the same?
Not saying that this is carrying anything malicious at all, but there's certainly a chance that a tool to clear out telemetry or something else critical in the bowels of the OS is sending info back to that group now or can be malicious. Just a friendly warning to be weary about these types of applications.
I always try to submit my changes to both. I would like OSM to be great but I find myself using Google Maps as well, it's good for me for both to be up to date.
Kind of out there, but what prevents modification of the law from bad actors? Git history plays a part but is it possible for someone to edit a change and play all the subsequent changes on top of it, with the hope that nobody notices the sha change?
They didn't change it if you think of the intent of the law and the words it was written with to be different things.
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It’s fairly small, but a 110 sqft units is basically the default size for a single person living in Japan (Tokyo).
Even if you were to get the veritable Golden Ticket and land one of the hundred or so CCWs in SF, using your firearm in California, even in self defense, would result in your life being ruined.

Move to a SHALL ISSUE state. I did.
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This is really only an issue with low-margin licensing subscriptions like Spotify and Netflix, where they would lose money on every purchase if 30% of their margins went to Apple. While I definitely think there are some problems with the App Store, the fact is that it is so easy and streamlined for people buying apps that it’s worth the 30% for the vast majority of developers.
There is a narrative by politics scholar that the current CCP is a reaction to Mao's CCP and is radically different. Mao was an anti-intellectual and a lot of the problems of the Great Leap Forward policy came from the decision to put uneducated people in charge and replacing knowledge by ideology.

This was such a disaster, and it harmed so much of the former elite (who ended up working in the fields and, predictably, sucked at farming) that they manage to unite and take over the CCP instances.

Nowadays, CCP leaders are highly technocratic and having a strong education is mandatory to rise in the hierarchy.

> That same party is still in power today, and currently putting millions of Muslims into concentration camps.

Yes, and even if they don't have an extermination policy that looks at least like STASI policies there.

The reason (and I only state a reason, not an excuse there) why China is so sensitive about religion is because it caused the most deadly civil war in human history, the revolt of the Taiping, when a guy believing he was the brother of Jesus brought half the country to worship him and fought the emperor.

They started their anti-muslim policy when ISIS was starting to have antennas in several countries. Religious movement triggers alarm in them in the same way as nazis do to Europeans: they know they can lead to 20 million death.
We can do better than money.
"These days"? So there was some magical protection against criminals in the past, which no longer exists?
Why would you have house guests in a prison cell?
> Richard Stallman, the fervently committed founder of the free software movement, is discussing the term “libertarian,” when he stops talking abruptly and says, “Hello?”

> I tell him I’m still listening, but he explains that the confused greeting wasn’t intended for me. Instead, he says a man’s voice – neither mine nor an echo of his – had just cut in with one word: “liberty.”

> “Does that sort of thing happen a lot?” I ask. I hadn’t heard anything.

> “Yes,” he says. “It wasn’t a voice I recognize.” He added, “It could be … ”

> Then a quick burst of static made his next words inaudible.

> It was a strange incident, but apparently not a new experience for Stallman, whose emails urge any NSA or FBI agents reading to “follow Snowden’s example” and blow the whistle.

Uh... What happened here?
This one? http://pageburgers.com/directions.html

Google maps has an image capture from May 2018 with their sign up.
Yeah it makes me slightly uncomfortable to put the law in the hands of a private company. Github is allowed to block me for whatever reason they want, does that now mean I get locked out of this?

Would much rather see this on a self hosted GitLab but this is a good start for sure.
Although it's important matter, it's not only about the trust. I wonder what, for instance, GitLab could have done in order to get this kind of advertisement coming right from the Council.

Regardless, I would expect hosting, authoritative DNS and certificate to all be handled by the government itself. It's not a startup that's getting free vouchers for AWS to burn, public infrastructure should be either handled internally, or via some public auction on government's terms.
A friend of mine has a very, very good memory.
He says it not always an advantage as he can’t forget the bad things either.
I’ve seen the digital codes before, but that’s actually MORE expensive than disk.

I assumed they weren’t allowed to sell at a discount
This is gonna be fun!
no its not. You have option to pay mothly with affirm but I don't think thats what u r referring to
I feel that all these measures are stop gaps at best. The fundamental thing you want is for customers to install whatever software they want on the hardware they buy. For mass market devices, it really ought to be a law that requires the manufacturer to allow consumers to do whatever they want. The manufacturer doesn't need to support these modes, and that's fine. Once you have that, the rest falls into place. This was the idea behind GPLv3 and anti-tivoization, but it never caught any traction for anything that matters.
Why do you jump to the conclusion that this will cause 5 app stores to be necessary?

Android pretty much only has 3 (Google Play, Amazon, & F-Droid), and the large majority never use anything other than Google Play.
I know this sounds crazy, but I'd be willing to tolerate a modest number of bystander deaths if it meant a dramatic uptick in the number of criminal deaths. There can't be that many criminals. The steady-state equilibrium might be safer than the current regime, which is that criminals can assault (and kill) with little risk to themselves.

Of course I'd like my chance of death-by-bullet to be zero. But for whatever reason, that doesn't seem to be an option on the table.
If you're driving a car and someone walks in front of the car you'll slam on the brakes.

This is independent of legality. I'd hope that it'd be the case even if laws were passed that explicitly punished braking in such a scenario.

Anyway, in the UK, it's illegal to walk down the side of a motorway. But basically anywhere else is free reign for pedestrians.

People don't generally walk out in front of (fast moving) cars because they're not suicidal.

In a place like London it's fun to watch (and take part in) the stand-off between cars and pedestrians though.

I womble through crossings all the time. The lights are advisory for pedestrians. They're designed that way; the green man exists for the elderly and children.
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Absolutely. Those with less income are going from day to day without any significant savings, those with more may well have enough saved to survive several months.
Free software messiah? OP is laying it on a bit thick with that one.
> full fledged police officers with drug dogs at train stations, which is straight up fascist.

Hmm. Is it the dogs that make them fascists? The uniform?

Yeah you shouldn't talk to the police and all that but going straight to fascism seems a bit hyperbolic.
I think the point of Udacity, or at least why I did Udacity, is to get some kind of credential to get past HR gatekeepers (which did not work). I didn't do it to learn. I already taught myself Swift and iOS, and I'm sure I could have taught myself Android too, but I wanted some kind of credential, and I can't afford to get another degree.

You know all of those videos are optional? You can just skip the intermediary assignments if they are too easy, and go right to the final project in each section, which is the only part that is graded anyways. Also, the last project is a portfolio piece of your own design, so you can make it as hard as you want as long as it meets certain criteria.
We can do better than calling Stallman "messiah". Let's stop it with the hagiography.
My internal understanding of Penrose's "hypothesis" is that there are structures in the brain that relate individual quantum events to macroscopic neurological processes, in a way not explained by the usual aggregation of quantum events into chemical behavior.

I'm very skeptical of this because nothing I've read has proposed any mechanism whereby it could evolve, nor any reason why these events should related to "consciousness" as opposed to any other mental process.

Admittedly, I haven't spent a whole lot of time looking into it, because time is limited and the history of science is littered with enough great scientists who latch on to mysticism (Newton being a prominent example) that I don't assume that everything coming from a recognizable name is worth exploring.
That's not an alternative to peer review. It's a solution to remove the journals from the research, and it has a lot if's.
A few years ago, while the French parliament was discussing the modifications in law to allow gay marriage, many people were scrutinizing amendments and proposed amendment, and a developer presented all the MPs work in a git repository. It really felt like the future of democracy:

https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/dfd5918f9...
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Maybe they travel undercover, all the time?
I don't think that's a fair comparison, since I can buy hard copy games from a variety of stores in addition to buying digital games. I can't buy hard copy iPhone apps.
Completely different is a bit of a stretch. I'm pretty sure the WASD keys are the same in both, coincidentally those are the four keys this game uses.

And some people do select their layouts. Dvorak, Colemak etc
https://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip=Microsft...

It does seem MS owns that domain, but to be actively using it --- especially for telemetry --- raises red flags for me too. Using misspellings of names is something malware often does.
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If someone decides not to be a police officer because they aren't allowed to shoot unarmed civilians in the back while they're being held face down on the ground, BART is safer without them.
It’s telling that this is such a foreign concept to people (presumably from the US).
Pi-hole seems to block windows telemetry domains by default. I don't know how complete the blocking is but there are a lot of domains like the ones listed in this thread on my top blocked domains list.
Here is a question what is the sort of theoretical good for the gatekeeping? What is the functional purpose of it? I think that answer would prove insightful for determining the future.

I can see two noncynical reasons for it one. One is educational purposes. Two would be quality control - if it is already debunkable or widely known there is no point in publishing in Nature "thinking done in the brain".

The cynical abuses and perverse incentives however are myraid and academic politicking is already infamous. I don't know what solution will work but understanding the system goals and functions should help decide what to replace and what to keep.
Primarily: the need to get around in whichever city/area you are in once you get there. In all but the most dense cities (NYC/SF/Chicago), you have to have a car to get around. If I had a high speed train to get between Kansas City and Houston it still wouldn't do any good because you need a car to get around when you arrive. This is true for nearly every area of the USA. We tend to build out, rather than up, making public transport impractical and expensive. Building out does have the advantage of keeping land/home prices relatively low, though.

Many Americans prefer the freedom of being able to go A to B at any time without needing to wait at a bus/subway stop or hoping the transportation system is still running for the day. The amount of money it would cost to get the entire country walk able or reachable by public transit would be astronomical.
If someone is motivated, blacklisting domains and sanitizing Gmail emails won't accomplish anything.
Did they find something that contradicts stuff listed at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/ ?
Association of Exposure to Police Violence with Mental Health Symptoms
Thank you very much.
The landing page is bought from themeforest (the name is Enovo landing page) then I slightly modified it. I don't want to spend too much time on the landing page as the main focus is the app.
I'm not planning to charge in the future. I will try to get sponsors and donations from Patron.
I guarantee to you that it will not disappear because I put a lot of effort on the architecture to make it less costly to maintain.
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Evading fares is one thing. Assaulting people us a whole other matter!
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Would be great! I still suppose the washing machines will get this capability specifically for themselves.

I can imagine a pair of top-mounted robotic "helper hands" in the kitchen, capable of sorting, peeling, cutting foods, and maybe also hand-washing dishes (current dishwashers are notoriously poor at cleaning anything but lightest grease).
> It's basically enough room for a small bed, dresser or wardrobe/chest for clothes, and maybe a (barely) partitioned toilet and shower.

Yep, that's what you get exactly. I mean, the space is only the size of 4 queen size beds edge to edge.
Typically people in those quarters sleep on futons and fold them up during the day to make more room. The real killer is that cooking in these is tough, because your "kitchen" is 2x2 or smaller with a tiny sink next to a 1 or 2 hob (small ones) electric stove over a dorm-style mini fridge. If you like making real meals and not getting everything from Picard, you have to get very creative.
> When you come from privilege, it's much easier to have confidence that things will work out.

This is something that I discovered myself recently. A year ago I quit my job and moved to Australia with practically zero savings. It was a risky move, but I knew that at the end of the day if it all went wrong and I couldn't find a job and ran out of money, I'd be able to just fly back home and stay at my parents' house while I sorted my life out.

Not everybody gets this privilege. A lot of my friends are estranged from their parents, or their parents couldn't afford to put a roof over their head while they sort their life out.

I can afford to take risks, knowing that I have a safety net. I'm not going to end up homeless if a business idea fails or I get made redundant.

I had a decidedly middle class upbringing, but with that I had a lot of opportunities growing up that many people don't get. I have parents that have encouraged me and supported me in my endeavours and have generally been accepting of my (often poor) lifestyle choices.
Or perhaps we should make different changes to society that allow citizens in public to be safe without having to carry a gun?
Uhhh not even close.
How do you need more than 6sqm for 3 bunk beds?
Yes, it was called the criminal justice system. At some point along the way we decided to have a minimal police force and prosecute only the most obvious and heinous crimes, letting all kinds of “low level” stuff like this become effectively consequence-free.