skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because having junkies and drunks meandering about significantly decreases the liability of the public space to the majority of people.

Life isn't like in college full of debauchery and little of how our actions affect others . The public space is a space where we all have the responsibility to ensure that our enjoyment doesn't trample on others. Including:

- Not speeding on a street. (it's not a road, it's a street)
- Cleaning up for yourself
- Not making a nuisance of yourself
- Not taking drugs/booze at the playground [0]
- Ignoring the "dogs on a leash" or "no dogs allowed" sign

[0] Don't worry. If you're intoxicated or doing drugs in my kids playground, I'm calling the police. Why does my kid have to dodge your drunk ass or your syringes to get to the slide?
> For me personally, 0 is the only acceptable number.

But why? Surely you must acknowledge that the "innocent people murdered by the state rate" is inversely proportional to the "innocent people murdered by criminals who should have been put to death but weren't rate"? This latter rate includes prison murders, calling/paying for hits from prison, influencing copycat killers, being released and then killing again, etc.

So basically you are trading one form of innocent death for another (not to mention introducing a host of other negative effects to society by allowing truly evil people to interact with people in said society). For me, death penalty is acceptable as long as the "innocent people murdered by the state rate" is less than the "innocent people murdered by criminals who should have been put to death but weren't rate".
I did not even down vote your comment, yet mine has quite a few votes. So I’m guessing the hivemind disagrees with you.
You're ignoring what I wrote above and you're arguing with a point that I'm not making.
I have mostly removed Google from my life. I still have a few stragglers (like Single Sign on stuff that for many sites are a pain in the ass to change) but it has been nice.

However my biggest annoyance is still the amount of data that Google can find out about me where I have no control over it.

- Emails to anyone using a Google service (I use iCloud)

- Texting anyone using Android (I have a similar frustration with Facebook and anyone that shares their contacts with them) (This is one of the key reasons I love iMessage and I always have caution when I see a green bubble.)

And similar data sharing I have absolutely no way to give consent for yet they still have, because someone else gave consent for me.

My hope is that Google cannot manage to link that data back to me somehow, but I am sure they can. But it doesn't change that they have that data.
For all the time you spent on this you could have just posted an onion site in about five minutes and spent the rest building a little web-of-trust indexing site to fill the demand for the less than 1,000 people who want to post personal sites on a decentralized web.
If a large part of your job is security, and your "customers" had opted to start stealing product off the floor because it was "easier than waiting in a line", you would be fired for not bringing it up.

Thats the situation the CIO had to respond to. Just because its not part if your role to consider security implications of these SaaS services doesnt mean he's out of line for doing so.
The King County homeless census[1] found the overwhelming majority of homeless in the area were living in the area before becoming homeless.

[1] http://allhomekc.org/king-county-point-in-time-pit-count/
To ensure a smooth transfer and a certain degree of self-determination for the people who lived there, were reasonsably content with the existing set-up and would have been most unhappy if the UK had simply washed its hands and disapeared.
How about a very similar concept, but implemented as a deep vertical shaft in the ground? The initial acceleration could be provided by electromagnets with the rockets only kicking in once the vehicle reaches ground level?
China made these promises in part to assure the residents of Hong Kong (and international observers) that their rights would be respected, and also to prevent economic collapse caused by businesses deeming the island an unsafe place to do business.
Why Kafka Connect? Ft. Robin Moffatt [audio]
For the Hong Kong protesters to be successful perhaps they have to "export" their values and demands to be applicable for the rest of China rather than their microcosm. I suspect Guangzhou, Shenzen, Dongguan may have no sympathy for those in Hong Kong who have more rights and a better standard of living than they do.
So apparently this is deemed to be "some interesting new phenomenon" so that it does not violate the guidelines and stays "On-Topic".

If Charlottesville posts did not fly on this board why is this OK to be discussed?

I'm all for talking politics by the way.
Just a disclaimer. Inkstone is by SCMP and thus owned by Alibaba's Jack Ma, himself a member of the Communist Party of China.

And I am being downvoted for that. Interesting.
Yes, but fast forward 5 years, everybody has switched to Apple, and shareholders are getting worried that they might not see any growth this quarter ...
Dramatically reduce the amount of CO2 we produce. That's not going to prevent all problems, but if we do enough, it will prevent the worst problems.

We really need to aim at zero CO2 production. We will fall short of that goal, but everything will help slow things down, and eventually bring temperatures back to what they were, after natural plant growth has gotten the time needed to remove CO2 from the air again. Once that happens, the melting will stop and climates will stabilize.

If we can get global temperatures back to normal in a century, that means we'll have about 1-2 meter of sea level rise to cope with. That means the end of the Maldives and serious investments in some coastal areas, but many coastal cities will survive.

If we can get temperatures back to normal earlier than that, that will mean less sea level rise, and significantly less other problems. Not all damage can be undone, but some will, and there will be a limit to it.

But the longer it takes, the worse the effects will be, and the longer it will take to recover.

Of course we can also help nature a bit and plant more trees and look for other ways to get more CO2 out of the air. It maybe be drops in a bucket, but we're going to need a lot of drops, so we better get started. At the moment, we're still barely doing anything.
OpenSource still isn't a force in that particular area. Its Microsoft or Adobe there.
It makes a rather massive difference.

In one case, you can potentially reunite a person with their family. In the other, the state has killed an innocent man and permanently destroyed a family.

I'm really having a hard time understanding how locking someone up and potentially freeing them later after a miscarriage of justice is discovered is the same as murdering that person.
I've interviewed many people with years of impressive-looking developer experience on their resumes who couldn't write FizzBuzz. There are lots of them out there. They do other kinds of developer work: speccing middleware, designing database schemas, negotiating APIs with customers, organizing data assets, leading scrum meetings. Valuable work in its context. But if you want to hire people who can actually code you should test for it.
Apple and Microsoft Collaborate on iCloud for Windows App
The load time on that site is bananas.
So you’re willing to accept a low rate of false positives...

What if the rate of false positives varies by race, is that still acceptable to you?
Insert obligatory "we're going to need a bigger boat" comment here.
Scientists recently discovered a bristlecone pine over 5000 years old
https://www.livescience.com/29152-oldest-tree-in-world.html
Right, the CIO is also being held to a lower standard than a P&L. The CIO could have planed out an interim solution to meet the business needs quicker.

If the tables were turned, say the CIO needed to deliver a service and didn’t have a big enough budget, then what?
FWIW, I know of a bike sharing startup that found profitably by charging cities and municipalities for the service as an urban amenity.
This is awful.

I'm a Dropbox Pro user, using it to store documents that have to be accessible from all my devices, as well as to share galleries with my clients.

None of these integrations with Slack and Zoom make sense. I don't need them, and now that a product I used to trust for its simplicity and reliability has become a horribly bloated beast, I don't trust it any more.

This is bad, Dropbox. Maybe sell this as a totally different product, but for people, including corporate users, that only want reliable file syncing, this is a big turn off.
>- Forcible rape (either sex) - Paedophilia

While I see what you're saying, "pedophilia" isn't a crime.

>they deal harshly and swiftly with the dregs of society.

The goal shouln't be dealing with the "dregs of society", it should be dealing with people who have committed crimes, whether they are dregs or not.

>The West has, in my mind, grown soft.

Perhaps because people prefer a "soft" system. I don't see why softness is bad in itself.

>and for which there is ZERO doubt

This is surprisingly rarely the case; in various countries with huge oversight and process, innocents have been killed.

>Why should I, a law-abiding tax payer have to pay for three hots and a cot for those who deserve the death penalty.

Because justice shouldn't be predicated on how costly or cheap it is to carry out. I have trouble understanding why you think it should be. Is justice subservient to the money it costs to carry out? Do you think it should be? And this argument only makes sense if we agree that they "deserve" the death penalty in the first place, which I don't agree with. Because someone deserving the death penalty hasn't been argued for (at least not by you), it's possible for me to agree with you (i.e those who deserve death should get it) while thinking that nobody deserves death.

>The state has a right to execute heinous crimes.

Oh really? The anarchist movement, for example, would disagree with this assertion.

>A rapist will continue to rape.

Is this backed up by empirical data? If it's true, why is death preferable punishment to lifetime imprisonment or chemical castration?

>Paedophiles have the highest repeat rate.

This is only true among a subclass of offenders; since your usage of the term is ambiguous, I'm assuming it also includes people who possess child pornography, but their rates of reoffence are low, and there is no established likelihood of possessors going on to abuse children. (Though possession should still be a crime, of course).
> how would you work this type of code into something that can be used in production?

You wouldn't. There are production-ready solutions to this in many languages.

> The goal should be to have a green thread library that you can just use without thinking about registers or assembly.

The goal here is very explicitly to explain a concept by example, which is largely incompatible with what you say the goal should be. I think the author did a very good job.
Could there be a reasonable compromise? For example each extradition case must be reviewed by an independent court or a board made of independent citizen representatives. A very high bar for extradition with sufficient due process can hopefully minimize CCP interference while preventing Hong Kong from becoming a safe haven for criminals and corrupt CCP officials.
Yes. I remember ILOVEYOU too. It also confirms my point.

- It spread by reading the person’s contact information which doesn’t require administrator access.

- It also corrupted the user’s files and didn’t require administrator access for that either.
link triggers firefox security error
And your opinion trumps mine.
I agree with you in principal, but at the same time:

> we begin to strip people of their humanity and instead we look at them as simply statistics or an nuance.

Where I live, the groups of car campers (or often times falling apart RV's) seem to attract crime, drug use, theft, vandalism, etc. I stopped going to one park in the middle of a city with a large group of car campers, when I found a used syringe in the fenced in dog play area, and saw two different heroin deals go down while playing with my dog. (one of them involved prostitution right in the back seat of the car in the middle of a city park)
It depends on what other value adds they bolt onto their "Firefox Pro" offering.

Just for Firefox itself as it currently is, if there was some official way to pay for it, I think $5-10 (some small multiple of a cup of coffee deal) is fair to support development for what is essentially the only remaining competitor to Google.
The next major release of Beaker (0.9) is going to have a new version of Dat that improves scaling quite a bit. Mafintosh and his team has done some amazing work using trie indexes for much faster reads across the network. Beaker's also gotten much better at syncing with folders, which was the issue in your link.
1. Your resultant behavior in public
2. The consequences to everyone of your addiction.
> I think the author did a very good job.

I wasn't questioning that!
Sure, they get fired but are hired somewhere else because of the contracts they made botching a multi-million dollar contract. There isn't much of a downside to them for over-promising and under-delivering.
The security triad is confidentiality, integrity and availability. If a security expert doesn't make sure that their security policies give users access to the things that they need, then they are only doing two-thirds of their job.
The rules are only enforced in order to reduce flame wars. They're not strictly followed and generally speaking whatever the mods feel like goes.
Honestly, I wonder if that slight delay in finding out who was President in 1963 would have a material negative impact on my life. I suspect not. At the same time, I have a feeling that slowness may have an actual measurable positive impact on my life. A lot of what I do now is frankly pointless and jt may help me focus on more useful things.
"c++ m_ prefix" turns up several hits for me.
You know why :)
BlackBerry is selling android phones for a while
I'm first in line to criticize unnecessary medicine based on flimsy evidence, but in principle there's nothing wrong with medical reversals. As you begin to collect data about anything, your best guess for the truth will be bouncing around wildly and only slowly settle down as the data accumulates. "Do no harm" is ok as a rule of thumb to counteract the natural tendency for doctors to err on the side of over-medicating (and to account for our expectation that a random intervention is net negative), but it's silly to use as an inflexible principle. If you're so cautious that you never recommend harmful interventions, you're missing out on plenty of interventions that are positive in expectation.

Do any of these studies of "medical reversals" attempt to estimate how often reversals should be made ideally?
FoxPro.

A real, ent-to-end development environment, with the ability to do the database, logic, forms and reports just 1 second after install. No package managers requiered!

My current dream is to build a spiritual successor (http://tablam.org) and doing it I start to appreciate how hard and how awesome it was. Also, the current me can't shake off the new ways (so, already diverted from Fox in a lot of ways) and must rely on imprecise memory of the past doing it. But still, I think a dbase-alike environment is surely missed....
Thanks for mentioning it, I just deployed a fix
Nowhere did I say collecting data is a bad thing. I am sure data would support the allegations. I said requiring this type of data before taking action fulfills the function of protecting and perpetuating sexism, because it is an impossible bar to clear.
What most people call Hong Kong consists of three major areas: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and New Territories.

Hong Kong Island (where majority of people live) was given to UK with no lease limits. Kowloon and New Territories were leased to UK for 99 years in 1898. So, in theory UK only needed to return Kowloon and New Territories. Of course, this wasn’t practical. It’s like giving Manhattan to another country but keeping Queens and Brooklyn. So in 1994 UK agree to return all 3 (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and New Territories) in 1997.
Does your company know you have their IP on your personal device (and are sending company communications over public WiFi)?
More than "linux winning the desktop", i really, really, really hope and dream that more linux phones become available - including LineageOS stuff becoming easier to install on legacy android phones.
Developer data can still be confidential/sensitive

Yes, there are confidential data, but it shouldn't be any real customer data. Right?!? Frankly, given best practices from professional developers, stuff like cryptolockers just aren't an issue (blank the machines). Developers need admin, so building a network for them is actually a lot easier.
Including all-public interfaces.
I hope it never needs to be reset.
> How low of a rate are you willing to accept,

See my other comment

> and how do you plan on getting there?

By restricting death penalty not just to the type of crime, but the type of crime and the type of evidence. I think death penalty should be reserved for repeat offenders of egregious crimes where there is overwhelming strong evidence.
The article states that "collocation in African Data Centers costing more than double the cost in the US and Europe."

So the issue is not that "more data centers are needed urgently" but rather than the question of why the price situation is the way it is.

The main expenses of a data center (just colocation, not renting VMs) are the capital costs of building/renting the facility (including digging some land to pull fiber etc) and paying staff. It's not obvious to me why in Africa these costs would be higher than in Europe, but apparently there's some reason.

I don't see reliable power as a big differentiator since even in the first world your data center anyway needs backup generators; it's just that they would get used much more often.

I don't see expensive bandwidth as a big differentiator since (as far as I understand) the big bottleneck is the undersea cables, and hosting your data on the "wrong side" of these cables should be more expensive - ISPs (at least elsewhere) prefer to cache/re-host/CDN popular data locally as some extra servers in ISPs datacenter turn out to be cheaper than hardware needed for all the extra traffic.
Trying to remember the last time I have / wanted to use Dropbox.

- backup/photo storage went to iCloud Drive (shared family space)

- Notes sharing (Apple Notes or Google Drive)

- File storage (iCloud/Google Drive)

- Photo storage (Google Photos)

There were times when Dropbox was omnipresent. So interesting to see, but no, thank you.
That is exactly what was proposed by the HKBAR, but obviously it was refused. This isn't really just about extradition, it's about giving China enough power to capture anyone passing through Hong Kong that's worth a bargaining chip or two, which could mean a lot of investors and truly innovative founders here.
I lived in Botswana for almost two years, in the late 1980s. In my village there was a noticeable shift in housing style over time, as manufactured materials (cinder block, sheet metal roofs, chain link fence) replaced their traditional counterparts (mud/dung walls, thatch roof, piled-up bushes).

This shift in building style also brought about a shift in usage.

At the most visible level, round, amorphous shapes gave way to rectilinear layouts.

The organization of family compounds also changed. Traditionally, one would see 2-4 rondavels (round, single-room structures), all linked by a low wall (lolwapa) into an inward-oriented cluster. That got replaced by a single, larger house, presumably with multiple rooms inside.

In terms of usage, you could see the difference best in the middle of the day. This is a desert country, and the modern materials and constructions are a thermal disaster. Thick walls with a lot of thermal mass got replaced by low-mass walls. Uninsulated tin roofs collect solar gains (and radiate heat, becoming uncomfortably cold at night). Thatch roofs also tend to have wide overhangs, providing shade at the side of houses.

As a result, people living in new houses tended to be outside, squeezed under the shade of whatever scraggly trees there were. Those with traditional houses tended to be inside, or sitting in the shade on the kind of built-up seat that runs around many rondavels.

I never priced things out, but the only way to understand this shift had to be as a function of cost. Thatch had to be imported, and I think doesn't last beyond a decade at most. And the traditional walls required a lot more seasonal maintenance.
> global temperatures would slowly revert to normal

I share your concern regarding the gravity of the situation, and that a whole battery of efforts need to be made in order to mitigate the effects of current global warming. But I wish intelligent people would refrain from supporting the notion that there is any kind of "normal" regarding the climate. There is no such thing.

We have enjoyed a climate favorable to humans (in many places) in the last 8000 years or so, which has really been an anomaly in terms of the geological record. And the notion that we can manipulate the climate forever so that cities can stay put where they happened to be built at some point has to go. It is not sustainable.
The same attitude applies to Russians and I doubt you can call racism on that one. Seriously, Chinese call up the racism card far too often for unrelated things for me to take those statements seriously.
Yesterday I was making a bunch of joke marketing lines and "Sorry we still use HTML" was one of them.

It's really just a matter of constraining the novelty. We're trying to make some specific improvements on the applications & networking stack of the Web. Redoing the entire web platform is out of scope (for now).
I'm not ascagnel_, but the Wikipedia page covers the topic pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
More and more people are going to flee to Singapore.

Anyone know what the tech scene there is like?
This is one way to commemorate Tiananmen Square protest’s 30th anniversary
The case you're mentioning is well understood by the Honk Kong citizens, and your suggestions has already been addressed. In fact, the extradition to China was at first only allowed if the crime required 2 years of jail time in Honk Kong to make a case, then after the protests it got pushed to 7 years. But watch this YT video, as the HK citizens tell you why this is still a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0i9yVphOZ8

ps: i'm not telling you why because #1) I won't do it justice and #2) it's worth watching the whole YT video.