skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have three replies:

1. is civil disobedience a crime, or the duty of all engaged citizens?

2. dna proves he was present AT SOME POINT, at that location, but not that he did anything illegal. I suspect they don't actually need to win the case, they just want to chase this guy down to chill further protests.

3. while I don't like cigarette butts littered around either, the environmental impact of a cigarette and its filter is so far outweighed by the impact of the pipeline in question. To compare the two is ridiculous.
Paragraph said nothing about the girls being under 18. It says "young women". Also didn't say anything about his reputation (at the time the story took place).
One of the debates I'm surprised to have with my friends is: some of them will parrot Gladwell-style advice (truisms that claim to come from science). I will say, "That didn't replicate." They'll say, "Well it's a good idea anyway."

And then I'll say some long thing about how when you're giving someone advice, you should hold yourself to a higher standard, not a lower one. Especially if you're an institution.
Not to be nit picky, I'm genuinely not well versed in "moral fault" and I am interested in learning more. So if they ended up being trafficked, the staff members who tried to figure that out and offered assistance if they were would be at moral fault as well? Could you elaborate a bit on that?
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Memory holed. 1984 has always been by Michael Dean.
Why are we judging people by their looks? Is that what the righteous thought-leaders of Y Combinator and Hacker News do?

Why are young women who look like "models" not credible at MIT Media Lab?
And another person younger and more successful than me.

But well, the article is from 2015, so maybe I got a few months to make it big :D
Right, no respect for the work and effort they put in. Arm chair critics being "less sympathetic".
Daily reminder that police exist to protect the "property" of the ruling class.
People have the right to be upset about things they believe to be unjust.

India is a wonderful country, but that diversity causes a lot of problems.

I mentioned the Kaveri River water supply issues in a different comment, but there's also all of the issues in the Indian controlled portion of Kashmir... and just everything surrounding the whole of Kashmir

The issue in Assam that the person you are replying to is mentioning is also important. It's quite similar to some of the issues we're facing in America, and it shouldn't be dismissed so quickly.

For those unfamiliar, one of the states in India has a significant refugee population, largely from refugees fleeing Indo-Pakistani and Bangaldesh Liberation Wars of 1971. Millions fled, particularly from Bangladesh and the rest of east Pakistan, to India. India, since 1987, lacks jus soli/birthright citizenship. Many of the refugees did not bring with them any way to prove citizenship in other countries. Many of the refugees forged identities to be allowed to stay. While this obviously is technically illegal, the end result is that there are people that have been living in India for 50 years, or were born there and know nothing else, that are having their citizenships revoked. Without the ability to prove citizenship from their other countries, these refugees and their descendants are at risk of ending up totally stateless - there are millions of people at risk from this. Bangladesh has not committed to accepting these people, and neither has India said they will allow them to stay and give them a path to citizenship.

It's hardly related to "big" problems like this, either. Casual statism and racism is a significant issue, both along the north/south divide, but also within regions.
Especially on Netflix now...it was lobotomized with the addition of the thumbs up thumbs down binary rating system.
The whole point of civil disobedience is to intentionally commit a non-violent and non-destructive crime.

If there is no crime, in the US it's just a lawful protest as permitted by the First Amendment.
Yes, couldn’t agree more here. I’ve a got a theory, that there are concentric rings of “bagel quality”, and that they get worse and worse the further away from NYC one gets. Also, spot on with grocery store bakery bread.
> quantum mechanics is well-understood

No it is not, we don't even understand what causes quantum waves to collapse. We call it "observation" but we don't know what that is. So you can't say we understand quantum mechanics until we have a theory which can accurately predict when wavefunctions will collapse.

When two quantum systems interact their wave functions either gets entangled with each other or they cause each other to collapse, it seems like the first happens in small systems and the second happens in large systems, we don't know much more than that.
.. because, the motivation to prosecute, and then the penalty for conviction, is not evenly applied across populations, nor proportional to the activity which is being called crime. Many future scenarios societally include escalated penalties, escalated prosecution and escalated statements by various parties to unequally apply the force of law, for political or other reasons, on human actors.

Casual, personal items used to determine identity and lead to prosecution years later, are of societal concern for a lot of reasons.

The character smear of the subject in the story, with a statement that implies one cigarette in the wilderness is on par with some invented hypocrisy, is typical of baiting-style political talk, and probably not appreciated among thinking people who are actually considering the issues and circumstances.
When they had recommendations based on bookshelves it was amazing since I have a bunch of very niche topic bookshelves. Once they removed it and left only recommendations based on genres it is useless now. Kindle book recommendation based on similar books are a bit better, but that's only for kindle books
Utopia- the Future of Privacy
Looking for a safe, secure & un-monitored social network? Something the ‘BIG BROTHER’ or ‘UNCLE SAM’ don’t have access to? Or do you just want to make some quick BTC?
Well you’re in luck because today I am going to be talking about a soon to be launched (currently under beta-testing) social media platform that goes by the name of UTOPIA.
Why am I talking about it here? Because it puts privacy at top, and it also has a very nice beta-testing program going on, which a lot of the bitcointalk community could benefit from. So let’s dig in!!
What Is Utopia?
Utopia is a secure, decentralized ecosystem that utilizes unique peer-to-peer network architecture. There is no central server involved, meaning that there is no single point of failure that, if it failed, would stop the entire system from functioning. Your messages and files will never be stored on third-party servers.
Each user participates in the transmission of network data but only the recipient can decrypt the data. Advanced encryption ensures an interception-proof communication channel to all Utopia users.
Why Is UTOPIA BETTER Then All Current Messengers, Social Media Platforms?
We live in a world of total surveillance, where a lack of privacy is becoming a norm and confidentiality is a thing of the past. All current major social media platforms make it necessary for you to provide a lot of personal data and information, forcing you to share your often confidential information, just so you could get in touch with friends and family. Utopia believes this to be utmost wrong, and therefore Utopia was specifically designed to protect the privacy of communication, confidentiality, and security of personal data. It was created for the privacy-conscious public who believe that privacy is paramount. Listed below are Key Privacy features of the Utopia ecosystem:
• A truly decentralized peer-to-peer ecosystem with no point of failure
> But overall have they produced interesting work? At all?

Yes, quite a lot. (In the American sense of 'quite', not the British...)

Just look at what has come out of the Life-Long Kindergarden lab, and see how many things you recognize. Historically the Media Lab has done a lot of very creative things. A person could spend a happy lifetime doing nothing but following up on ideas that started there.

This is a bad episode for the Media Lab, for sure. But don't paint all of the researches within with a scarlet letter because of it.

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Edit: Translate English to English
GCaptain thread on the MV Conception dive boat fire
He does indeed say those words. And what he means by them is that house prices change if interest rates change, not the other way around.

(Whether he means interest rates specifically, or rates of return on other assets like equities, I'm not certain, but those things have some tendency to vary together and I would expect all of them to influence house prices in a similar way.)
Room with a viewer: How TV became president
Yeah, because writing a dozen replies defending Epstein was definitely much less effort than a quick google search of the guy...
For more details go to: https://beta.u.is
The popular perception is that the people leaving California bring their politics with them and vote for the same things they did in California, therefore making their new state just as miserable as the parts of California they fled.
You should see my library's search results. Trying to find People magazine (to enter a new copy) by searching for the exact title "People" means having to go half way down the second page of results. None of the previous dozens of results have "people" in the title at all.
Dr Tim Ball Defeats Michael Mann’s Climate Lawsuit
Yeah, but sometimes that’s just toooo much meat... also, while the cured meats are indeed good, I’ve yet to experience cured meats on par with Italy/Spain. It’s just like cheese. There is decent cheese here if you know where to look, but it’s still a step below what Europe has to offer.
https://www.keyvalues.com/

As discussed on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178283
Tiny in comparison, but I inherited land in Valle vista, near Kingman, AZ. To me, the history from the documents was more interesting the land.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/valle+vista+kingman+az/@3...
The thing is, since all those descriptions are mathematically equivalent, nobody cares whether, in a Platonic sense, there are three or four or six things, because it makes no difference.
Pardon, you are right. I'm actually not trying to say that the action itself is not illegal, just that I believe the RIGHT thing to do is consider political actions differently from un-politically motivated actions. To potentially punish or pursue them less (protest, civil disobedience) or more (hate crimes, corruption, terrorism).
Not sure, but I don't think root vegetables are good for growing indoors. They need a lot of soil depth. I can't imagine it'd be efficient, but not sure...
> Bring the NYC subway fully under the control of the city: remove Albany from the decision making process so we can actually fund the system.

Great. Then you can also cut out the statewide taxes and the local taxes for counties that are in the MTA region, but where the vast majority of people don’t use the MTA.
I have driven both and lean towards the Model S a bit.
I had been working remotely for a startup and since funding is very limited so is my pay for now. Moved across the border from San Diego to Tijuana. My cost of living is less than half of what it was even though I live at the beach now instead of a low income neighborhood in San Diego.
I think it is simple to understand common understanding of criminal justice when no one asks where was Michael Jackson’s servants when he decided to spend private time with terminally ill children.
In what fantasy land does that raise sufficient revenue?
So... most things in the world?

I get it, I grew up in a small town and this feels like straight townie-ism to me.

Portland people who hate CA transplants have the same mindset as SF people who hate "techies" who have the same mindset as Red Americans who hate immigrants. There are always some cultural differences people point to (they are raising prices!/taking jobs!/crappy people!/more traffic!) but it is really just a form of territorial pissing that dumps negativity on individuals for societal shifts.
Where do you source the books and genres from? Is there a way for me to modify them as a user to make it more granular?
This thread is amazing. Epstein could have confessed to personally trafficking children from the former Yugoslavia (an actual thing that Blackwater was involved in, btw), and if he showed up 5 years later with a couple of barely legal Eastern Europeans in tow, there'd be commenters ready to insist you never can tell for sure!
The ecosystem is good and growing, but not as extensive as java, of course. We use generic cloud monitoring/SRE tools (think statsd, not jcmd, for example). From prior experience, I also think JVMs somehow tend to require more of this kind of tooling, compared to Rust - or, for that matter, other languages & runtimes.
As far as I can tell, all recommendations lists fail compared to freely-available experts.

Like, if you like literary fiction, go through the Pulitzer prize for fiction, and just read. (I'm not even half way through that list, but everything I've read on it has been really, really good.) - there's all sorts of awards for smaller niches... the nebula, the Hugo, etc...

(Actually, that's a question. What is the award for the romance genre?)

I... personally don't understand why people even try to automate making better recommendation engines when highly skilled and respected experts are already doing it for just about any niche, and releasing the results for free.
Care to elaborate and substantiate your certainty? Doubt is the default stance of the rational and inquisitive mind.
It certainly does have a huge influence on the language being used, as do things like living in Nigeria, writing code to run on on-orbit satellites, and working at Microsoft. But I wouldn't venture to say that Nigerians, Microsoft employees, and space cadets are therefore not doing "software development", just that they're doing it under atypical circumstances. (And, as that list suggests, in the end all of us have some atypical circumstances.)

I do agree that people frequently overestimate the homogeneity of programming, and that this homogeneity makes such lists less useful. Still, I think it's a useful observation that in 1985 Paul Lansky was writing music in FORTRAN and electrical engineers were writing circuit simulators in FORTRAN, while today musicians tend to do their software development in PureData or something similar, while electrical engineers tend to use MATLAB, Octave, C++, or Python. And I think part of the nature of software development is that it's typically a highly collaborative activity --- a library written by an electrical engineer can be used by a musician, but usually only if they're using the same programming language.
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>> I agree with you re: the bottom point about EMT's salaries. It's the same with teachers; they're one of the most essential parts of society, and they're paid so little.

See also:

- Truckers

- Farmers (though some do pretty well) and farmhands

- Janitors

- Babysitters

- Teaching assistants

- Receptionists
The real question is: Why does this matter?

Seriously.

Driving around almost any city in the US and the only metric you might care about is whether or not your car has VTOL capabilities. These comparisons are ridiculous.

Our urban design, traffic rules and substandard drivers training have ruined efficient traffic flow and speed. At least I can still go drive on a racetrack a few times a year.
Laying the foundation for secure artificial intelligence
This whole protest always seemed pretty dystopian to me. The fact that the government of North Dakota is still combing the scene for DNA leads to prosecute additional protestors 3 years later after having acquitted or probated nearly 400 of them seems to imply this is quite a witch hunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protest...

> In September 2016, construction workers bulldozed a section of land the tribe had identified as sacred ground and when protesters entered the area security workers used attack dogs which bit at least six of the protesters and one horse.

>At least six protesters were treated for dog bites, and an estimated 30 were pepper-sprayed before the guards and their dogs left the scene in trucks.

>In May 2017, internal TigerSwan documents leaked to The Intercept and other documents obtained through public records requests revealed a close collaboration between the pipeline company and local, state, and federal law enforcement as they carried out "military-style counterterrorism measures" to suppress the protesters.
How is this "nationalistic"? How does this lead nowhere good? How is it off topic?
This is a bigger question than physics can answer. The project of hard science is essentially reductionist and based on predicting events based on hypothesis. Your question is more logical or philosophical.

Logic may have something to say about open or closed systems, but mapping that onto the real world will always be a following question.
The exits of stations in NYC have the name of the streets it dumps you on as well as the cardinal direction of the side of the street you'll be on (NE corner 44th St and 8th Ave for example).
I heard about a startup that does specialized artificial lighting for farmers: http://plantalux.pl/en/home/

They have some data http://plantalux.pl/en/plantalux-ex300w-en/
The equivalent of an allergy test is not optional if you consume street drugs of an unknown composition. Its like never sharing anything that goes into your veins. Getting HIV or Hep-C isnt an unfortunate side effect either, its people making a stupid mistake despite knowing better. You dont have to get HIV or even HEP-C as an addict just as you dont have to OD. Make the effort and follow the appropriate precautions or you are playing Russian roulette.

As unfortunate as it is, but normally people who OD are those that no longer care if they do. There are freak exceptions of course, like tainted or mixed up batches where even a allergy test can kill you, but those arent happening regularly to individual users.

People are just risking it, and its a very human thing to do. You can see the same behavior with the failure to use protection during sex. People should know better, but some people still risk it and are then faced with the unfortunate consequences.

edit: Dont get me wrong this isnt about victim blaming, but not promoting the myth that these things are just out of peoples control like the weather. You can be a heroin addict without catching HIV or Hep-C and with a reasonable level of care you are not going to end up needing Narcan regularly. You already fucked up by becoming an addict, there is no reason to also OD or catch something. Telling people that these are just inherent side effects to being an addict just makes it easier on people to excuse themselves for forgoing basic safety precautions. ODing regularly is not something normal, even for an addict. Its the result of being reckless.
Akamai has a BGP based DDoS mitigation service via their prolexic acquisition.
I'll decry it - for the growing surveillance state that shows how difficult it's getting to anonymously protest, for the corporate-skewed use of police resources (I'm sure more serious crimes went under-investigated while they were busy doing DNA analysis on every piece of trash from the protest), and for the chilling effect of prosecuting on the mere basis of presence at a protest. There's always a chance protests will get out of hand, and few people would attend if merely being there resulted in being prosecuted for everything the protest as a whole did wrong.

I also cried "censorship!" when 8chan got kicked off Cloudflare, when Facebook banned white nationalism, and when a cartoonist was fired from a rural newspaper after criticizing agribusiness.

I hope this helps you to a less strawman-like view of free-speech crusaders.
I’ve never heard a grown man referred to as a “boy” except in the pejorative sense/as part of a turn of phrase.
Ooh, this tweet and the comments here on HN highlight some of the problems with low-friction digital publishing.

Here's the tweet:

> Seriously? The MTA replaced printed subway maps on this platform with super low-rez, non-interactive digital maps?

* Notice my italics-- the tweet is refreshingly careful to claim that a specific platform at an unspecified time replaced the printed map on the platform with a low quality digital map. We'll get back to that later.

* look how bright the low-res map looks in the zoomed out shot on the left compared to the zoomed in shot on the right. I remember reading these maps in NYC earlier this summer and though the resolution looks familiar they didn't appear anywhere as dim when I got close and read them. Something weird is going on with the camera but only in the zoomed in shot.

* that particular map is indeed non-interactive. Yet when I visited NYC I remember locals touching screens like these and then quickly moving on upon realizing they weren't interactive. Odd, right? I mean, why would residents be continually tricked by these screens?

Oh, right, NYC also has interactive screens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9FOqgltHs

Notice the familiar panning/zooming gestures plus the menu buttons at the bottom for realtime updates for transit times. Can't be sure but the resolution appears to be higher than what's shown in the Tweet above.

I can also confirm that these interactive digital maps are indeed on some of the more popular subway platforms. But I have no idea of the ratio of interactive to non-interactive screens. Does anyone here have that information?

* While I assume the non-interactive maps are older than the interactive ones, I don't know that. Does anyone here have a source for when each kiosk was introduced?

* most of the comments here seem quite satisfied to have assumed that this single sample represents the current state of the art on all NYC platforms. Is there some evidence I'm missing to justify all these assumptions made in the other comments?

Edit: I just tried a Google search to try to find the dates these kiosks were released, and guess what result appeared on the first page of results? You guessed it-- the tweet quote above!

Just to clarify-- I see a tweet about kiosk quality that appears ignorant of kiosk state of the art, do a search on Google to find out more about the state of the art, and get back a prominent link to the tweet which lacks the information I was after. Lucky for me I knew a priori that interactive kiosks exist...