skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is physically raped, murdered, or even injured (beyond choosing to be offended by a certain combination of letters on a screen) in the electronic arena. All crimes they like to mention for the fear factor take place in meatspace and as such leave traces that can be followed by appropriately skilled investigators.

Electronic surveillance is primarily used for reconstruction and back tracking after a significant crime has taken place. After the fact.

Electronic surveillance is paying cheap lip service to a problem instead of paying the expensive price of doing it properly, in meatspace, with boots on the ground.
Sorry but I don’t think visiting for a week once is a large enough set of data
That's strange, because the olympic stadiums are perfectly fine, holding concerts, sport events and the likely routinely. I wonder where people got the idea that Beijing Olympic Stadiums are dilapidated, it's more like the exact opposite.
Many years ago I threw together a WebKit based browser with the frontend written in C# with SharpDevelop on Vista. I found myself in the MFC code pretty quickly and can appreciate the similarities between this video and that, definitely a monumental task. Mine took ~48 hrs to compile as did Safari on Windows back then. The hardest parts were getting a passing JavaScriptCore build and fiddling with IDL to get things to render via GDI using interop. Once it’s known to you how a browser works web development makes better sense. For instance in the WebKit code I found once it detected form tags it would jump to that first and then resume the rest of the markup after. In comparison with Chrome I found that Chrome would lower the resolution on all images to make things seem faster but WebKit didn’t. Nowadays modern browsers have a lot of code to make popular sites run better like YouTube that will reformat old links to their newer format like in Firefox. It’s interesting that after all Microsoft is taking this approach with Blink. To make a competitive browser nowadays it would have to pass tens of thousands of tests every build to avoid regressions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933444/who-wrote-250k-t...
Okay ... half of experimental psychology papers are about giving people some small amount of money, or even just some token or just a chance to tell their story for filling out a questionnaire, sometimes extra credit is involved, or incarceration is involved (in psychiatric care) which is where I start having serious ethical problems with it.

Questionnaires where they reveal things, often associated with at least a way to contact them for an interview, but sometimes with name and everything, usually is psychiatric settings (where people are often incarcerated without any proof, trial or any of that I might add). Things like whether they stole from their employer. Whether they ever used violence to obtain sex. They often ask children, homeless, prisoners, patients ... other groups with perceived or real precarious situations. (things that would never pass an ethical review board for, say, medicine)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/j.1326-5377....

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.91.1...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1991-07467-001

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020007004436

So yes, I would say that a lot of people are willing to give up a LOT more privacy than a face picture for a small reward.
Moderation is indeed difficult, but automating moderation is a bar we need not even get to yet, when even policies that are relatively easy to enforce keep getting watered down.

Just today, for example, it was revealed that Facebook is no longer going to prohibit false factual claims in paid political advertisements -- even if those falsehoods are determined by generally-respected fact checkers. See, e.g., https://popular.info/p/facebook-says-trump-can-lie-in-his (and associated commentary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152869).
I haven't had an unsigned driver problem since Win8.1. I have certainly never needed to disable WPS in any version of Windows [where it exists], even in the face of unsigned drivers.
Paywall. Facebook redirect allows you to read the article.

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One of the many state/public attempts to bring HSR to Texas was built on a "Texas T" route (or "Texas T-Bone", some branding like that) that would have lines from San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas all meet at Austin, so that if you wanted to go from Houston to Dallas, or Houston to San Antonio, it would go through Austin. Unfortunately as I recall (memory fuzzy, very open to correction) this was most recently attempted in the era of Republican Governors saying "F U" to any Obama administration money, even if it would help their state...

It is understandably harder for a private group to start off with a three-line rail network than a one-line rail network, than it would be for a group working with the federal government. Hence when Texas Central Railways that took up the banner, they settled on Houston to Dallas as the most profitable pairing of cities. This is evidenced partly by, at least in the past, that city pairing being the most profitable airline route operated by Southwest.

I followed some of the original proposals for routes, and some of them went through College Station directly, versus the chosen route, which goes through Grimes County stop with a rapid bus to College Station. I would have loved to see those happen, but it turns out they would have had many multiples more eminent domain issues. The current route minimizes private land issues by hugging an existing utility corridor as much as it can, while also balancing land that is easy to build on, and having lower environmental impact.
A maser's what I had in mind, but either would likely work reasonably well.
From the data, 12%+ either didn’t want to work or were working part time. I’m all for helping people in need, but not when I have to spend my hard earned money on someone that doesn’t want to earn their way.

Serious Question: is there a reason why this percentage isn’t given a public service job in return for this “basic income”? My first though is to let them help their community and in return they are assisted financially rather than just giving out free money.
Urban Putt is a great time :D They do a lot in a small space.
Sounds like your boss is in fact my insufferable neighbor who is a CTO and is word-for-word the guy in your description. I've stopped inviting him back and I think he finally got the memo. Tell him I didn't say hi.
> Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death

What's to discuss here?

This is up there with alcohol gives you cancer.

We all know this.

The study is junk, typical scam, get what we know and prove it again, this is the point of the NHS article.

If you've really fine tuned your life and health you might be able to really narrow down on how many hours you should be getting and see if it is possible to get less than 6 hours and not effect health, but 99% of people are not at this level. Beyond this it's like drinking if you enjoy it then continue on, it's not healthy but it's life.
I just had a week long experience there and I found it to be surreal. I went in thinking "surely conservative media is exaggerating" and sure enough, I took a stroll from my conference at SVN down Market Street to a bar called Local Edition, and well, it was unfortunately as advertised. Rampant homelessness everywhere. Needles and feces on every other block, quite literally. I took pictures like a dumb tourist that I am and texted my spouse, "well what do you know it really is like this here, it's crazy, how can people put up with this?"
I did not assume they chose A or B from a specific distribution, especially one centered around zero. It's just how I decided to finish coding it. You'll get >50% as long as C can fall between A and B. I guess I should have selected weird distributions for A and B to be chosen from to show that the principle holds.
It's almost like it's easier to start your own company than to get hired at one of these places and actually be happy.
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> where APLR readers are located

On police cruisers, which indiscriminately scan as they drive through any neighborhood.
Yes, I was struck by the really exceptional and beautiful presentation/layout of OP's page. Perhaps the real contribution is less "build a better mousetrap" and more "market the hell out of mousetraps". If OP can show more people the light of SRS, that will be fantastic!
Yes, yes, I've set up a working mail server also. All my point is is that any SMTP daemons in a Linux installation are not really in a usable state by default and require a lot of reasonably tedious actions to set up. Every distro I have used in recent memory has not been able to do anything but local delivery, and even then sometimes an SMTP daemon is missing.
I lived there for 10 months. Walked along market street everyday and can confirm that it is pretty bad.
>It's not just management that gets into cargo culting.

I've had the misfortune of attending a meetup for agile coaches. It's definitely a cult.
So things like this happen: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-20463192/road-built-a...
No, the two are isomorphic.
"select id, name from ..."

"from c in customers select ..."

Fill in the blank. They're not equally readable to the IDE that's trying to provide $1,199 worth of code completion for a partially typed query.
Got an internship at Berkeley AI's Lab this summer as a HS student.

Here's what I think when he says "luck":
I emailed 50+ personalized emails over a span of 2-3 months to professors and anyone else I wanted to work with. Most didn't respond, but for those who did, you'll need some luck and networking skills (which I hope have improved) to convince them you're the right fit or can help without hassle.

Specifically luck includes: whether or not that person had a good day or had enough time to check their email, or numerous other things
I suppose you could register a company in Arizona (supports quasi-anonymous llc), then register the car in the company's name. They could obviously correlate if needed, but would somewhat force probable cause first.
>The Chinese government is much more autocratic yet it obviously does a much better job in building infrastructure

I think that a big reason for this is that the US already has a half-working solution in place. Some infrastructure already exists that fulfills this role. China, on the other hand, didn't have much of an alternative in place, thus it was easier to find the will to build it.

We saw the same thing with internet connectivity and government services in Eastern Europe. Governments built much more modern infrastructures and offered more modern services because they weren't burdened by the past.
I would note that not only do you need to acquire a lot of property on straight lines, you need to do so while resolving to not benefit anywhere between your start and end points.

Non-stop is an important element of a truly fast train. Firstly because you don't want to be constantly stopping and starting, but also because you don't want to detour your route through a dozen cities which aren't conveniently on a straight-line route to your destination.

So if you want to make a train run as fast as possible between Boston, NYC and DC, you're telling Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and maybe Delaware, "Hey, we want to take a big chunk of your land for our project, and no, we don't want our super-fast trains to stop at any of your cities, and we can't even run a slower train because making the tracks actually go through the right parts of your cities would slow down our fast trains too much."

Have fun with your negotiations!
Or rather, why have the language limit you on the order of the operations? Why can't you for example do a LIMIT and then a WHERE? This can currently only be accomplished by using subqueries. I've been thinking of developing a different query language that transpiles to SQL that allows you to more-or-less reorder these operations arbitrarily. You can easily do that in any regular programming language so why not SQL?
San Francisco’s homelessness is highly concentrated. You happened to be in areas that are relatively clean.
Every distro I have used in recent memory has only ever had local delivery working by default, and sometimes not even that. So the GP (or GGP) post about cron not having a failure detection mechanism is mostly true.
There are people trying to line up maglev in the northeast. The first leg proposed is between Baltimore and Washington DC: https://northeastmaglev.com/project/timeline/
Rates of homelessness by state: https://www.statista.com/statistics/727847/homelessness-rate...

CA is #5. Not something to be proud of, but it could be worse.
>what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products.

Worse. I once attended an agile community meetup, and felt like I had just stumbled upon a weird cult. It's scary to think that there are so many software developers out there who have to put up with these authoritarian doctrinaires.
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Then it would be a jobs program and not universal basic income.

People are interested in UBI for as variety of reasons, including possible futures where there are simply not jobs for the majority of humans due to automation, AI, and robotics.
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You think relying on Debian as proof there isn't lies outside the bounds of conjecture?

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> Countries without extradition treaties can still extradite criminals on a case by case basis.

That doesn't seem to be true in this particular case, since said suspect is still enjoying his freedom in HK. An extradition treaty to cover the case seems like a reasonable initiative.

> Mainland Area of China, a communist dictatorship where laws are at the whims of party members.

I agree that's a valid concern, and that the proposed law didn't include adequate protection for HK citizens. And I support the initial peaceful protests against that law. What I cannot support however, are the ongoing and escalating violence from some of those protesters, before and especially after, the announcement of withdrawal of that law.
I've found it to be about as bad as conservative media makes it out to be. It really depends where you are, but I've seen people smoking crack (I assume, maybe meth), and I've seen people shooting up in plain view in daylight. There are exposed needles and human feces on the ground, and you will absolutely notice it if you walk anywhere. Boots are for sure recommended.

I know that stuff happens everywhere, but it's so far out in the open in SF, you can't avoid it.

Part of it also has to do with the topology of the city. Homeless people don't want to live on hills, but rich people do, so that creates pools of homeless camps in flat areas.
I still think the US has hope for rail and high speed rail that won’t bankrupt everyone. If, and this is a huge if (bc people love their cars), the US can replace a lane or two of major highways between cities with a rail. This would avoid forcing people to leave their homes or have massive payouts for stubborn landowners. The highway infrastructure is a pretty reasonable layer to build on as many highways already take close to the hypotenuse between major cities.

Anybody know why this concept isn’t talked about more?
> some crimes could be aided by encryption

Some crimes could be aided by virtually anything. E.g. let's destroy all the roads so criminals won't be able to travel.
Agreed. I didn't say they were comparative products. But if you're trading and all you want is the execution Robinhood is worth the price.
Implied consent for drivers is from a bygone era when cars were not the dominant mode of transportation. Mass transit in LA (and most of the rest of the United States) is a woefully inadequate alternative. You can't consent to something when there is reasonably no other choice.

Your argument would only hold water in the future if self-driving cars become widespread and it isn't necessary to display a number plate on a car without a human driver, thereby giving people a reasonable transportation alternative that allows for anonymous freedom of movement. Until then, the government should not be able to simultaneously mandate number plates and use them for mass surveillance.
> we use recursion and trees, for example, so we ask questions about those.

Could you provide some examples of questions you ask (or perhaps point to similar types of questions)?
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he didn't visit even for a week; it was just a layover.
Isn't that the usual automaker tradeoff, though? Safety improvements for the occupants of a vehicle, even at the expense of additional hazards for those outside it.

There are obvious market reasons for it to be this way, but it seems like a failure of regulations that it is. And given this reality, it's not surprising that pedestrian fatalities are way up per TFA.
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The distinction is that you cannot substitute the word "figuratively" in these examples, because it does not mean "figuratively".

If I say "I figuratively am going to kill him", you're highlighting the figurativeness of the act. You're stressing that you're not actually going to kill him. The meaning of the sentence is "I'm going to kill him... but not really".

If I say "I'm going to kill him" or "I'm literally going to kill him", which mean basically the same thing, it's still implied to be metaphor. But what's being stressed here is the closeness to the metaphor becoming actually literal. The meaning of the sentence is "I'm SO angry with him that I'm ALMOST at the point of killing him".

It's subtle, but there's definitely a distinction. "Figuratively" is a dehyperbolization (it's not really gonna happen), "literally" is a hyperbolization (it is hyperbolically really close to happening).
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I'm not convinced by the prosecutor's testimony. Convincing would be records of what his office did.

Hunter Biden is a lawyer who had previously been on the board of Amtrak. I'm sure the political connections helped.
We all know the cause of homelessness and it ain’t an excess of tolerance, that’s for damn sure.
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great photos! thanks for sharing.
The main problem with these apartment buildings is a lack of maintenance on the outside. If these buildings were painted and maintained properly then they would look just fine from the outside. The inside is what you make of it anyway.

I like them because they're cheap (and am living in one).
Homelessness is a product of being urban. So this statistic needs to control for percent urban to be meaningful.

Case in point : Mississippi has the lowest homelessness in the US.
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We all know the cause of homelessness

If you managed to identify the single cause of homelessness, you should be nominated for a Nobel Prize.
>Yeah, I've been hearing about that for 10 years.

You weren't paying attention then ;) because you could have been hearing about it as far back as the 80's, when Southwest first lobbied it to death (the twice-an-hour-takeoff Houston-Dallas route was their most profitable). I would love to be corrected on this by someone who was in State gov't at that time, but this is my understanding.

>The high speed rail was originally supposed to run from Dallas to San Antonio, and Austin to Houston.

When it was proposed to be federally-funded, yes. From what I recall it was a US-French collaboration that was going to fulfill that one? Unfortunately the politics at the time led to the state gov't to not seek any of the $8BB (iirc) the Obama administration was trying to give out to kick-start nationwide HSR. You can thank Rick Perry & Co. for that.

Now it is a (somewhat) different private group, and if you are posting on Hacker News, I expect you can appreciate how much harder it is to start out with a network connecting 4 cities, than a network connecting 2 cities, when you've not got federal backing. I too would love the "Texas T" network of routes as well, but that didn't happen. Again, you can thank the State administration of a decade ago for turning down the opportunity of federal assistance to build a transit network worthy of Texas.

You say it is "a joke", but it is going to take real work to build, provide real jobs, and deliver real value to people who ride it. Are you so cynical that you would you rather not have it at all, and have nothing to look to, to improve on later? If the route is successful, surely it would come to Austin and San Antonio next? What is the advantage, in your mind, of adopting an all-or-nothing framing?
Chinese government is much more autocratic yet... building infrastructure

Here’s my hypothesis: when it comes to infrastructure, the operative word is not yet, it’s therefore. Autocrats have a much easier time cutting through any red tape put up by those lower on the food chain than them.

In a democratic society, such as the US, there are countless stakeholders who need to be included in the process for huge infrastructure projects like this. Unfortunately, too many chefs spoil the broth as they say.
> Sometimes the audio lags out a lot. I know it's probably impossible to get low latency audio via Web Audio API

The Web Audio API lets you trade off how far in advance you schedule things -- so if you want to be able to react to events faster, you can use a smaller buffer, but if you want to ensure that things don't lag out, you can use a larger one. There's a good overview here: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/audio/scheduling/

The only issue with the audio that I noticed is that when playing the progression with the metronome, the metronome timing seemed fairly uneven and also tended to come in slightly before the piano sound. I didn't notice any timing issues with the piano alone though -- are they scheduled using different mechanisms?
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MSFT did get their tooling right. That's what developers liked early on and became somewhat dependent on was their tools.