skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for a tourist being arrested and held for months for stealing a single dumpling?

I don't doubt there are problems, but this honestly doesn't sound plausible, and Googling I can't find any reference.

I can believe a tourist being (rightly) arrested for stealing something (even if small value), and I can believe people being held in jail for months without being charged in the case of very serious suspected crimes (e.g. large-scale fraud or suspected murder), but I can't find any evidence of the two combined.

You're making it sound like everyone should avoid visiting Japan for tourism at all because you might be incarcerated for months on a misunderstanding... which just doesn't match any of my experience there, or their thriving tourism industry.
If you’ve been harassed at work it gives you an upper hand to complain about your workplace, and so you also present a liability to the company now that harassment occurred. That might not mean consequences but it does mean you are more risky, even if there’s no easy way to deal with that risk now.
A "high crime rate combined with functioning law enforcement" is a contradiction in itself.
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Technically, the police have 23 days to charge someone before they must be released. In serious crimes, police can (and likely will) re-arrest the person on a different charge.

I very much doubt that the police have held someone for months for stealing a dumpling, though.

In addition, for everyone mentioning the 99% conviction rate, it's important to keep the other part of that in mind as well: Japanese prosecutors typically drop ~50% of cases.
Sounds like maybe a SIM swap attack? In addition to password changes I would look into Google's advanced protection program (https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/) and get U2F or FIDO2 setup on your account.
It's, of course, neither low-brow nor a dismissal, involving as it did me reading a bunch of other sources to get the context of what Brown was talking about --- literally the opposite of what 'pg meant when he coined the term. You don't like what I have to say, but it is fine if we simply disagree.

In the Boston Globe story alone, you have the Pelletiers doctor- and hospital- shopping both in Boston and in Connecticut, reported for abuse by their own doctors in Connecticut, yelling at the BCH doctors, being so disruptive during family visits they had to have their visitations curtailed, and, most memorably, threatening to sue the Connecticut facility BCH found to move Justina to, resulting in that facility being unable to accept Justina; in other words, rather than getting Justina back home, her parents prioritized winning some weird argument they felt they were having.

Like I said, BCH also doesn't look great in this story.
I installed ubuntu for my grand father and, two years later, has not had any problem (whereas it took less than a week before he asked my do uninstall the adblocker I gave him...).
I don’t have the time to dig up a hodge podge of article links. It’s more of a philosophical argument.

As a recent example, I read this book “The Economist’s Hour” which is a left-wing critique of free markets https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Hour-Prophets-Markets-Frac...

It’s thrust is that free markets are good, but need to be regulated by the government to make them fair. I disagree with many of its conclusions, but I did appreciate the numerous examples of regulatory overreach the author provided to show how it can be taken too far. The sections on trucking and the airline industry were particularly illuminating.

For example, airline companies were licensed by 1938 and no other airlines were allowed to be created until deregulation in the Carter administration. Airlines (and many other industries) would go hat-in-hand to regulators begging them to solve all of their problems - prices, competition, union issues, and on and on. As intra-state flying wasn’t regulated by the feds but inter-state was, it became cheaper to fly within a state by over 50% than if you crossed a state border.
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Captain here.

TVS and Bajaj are major motorbike manufacturers in India, and TVS had a model named "Apache" and Bajaj had a model named "Pulsar".

Flies away
And Canada.

They’ve finally started doing a better job of not requiring you to pickup your luggage while transiting only to drop it off another belt a minute later.

But that’s not universal.
Yes! First Direct did this to me, and when I asked to call back for security reasons, he was borderline upset. "But sir, I have your mother's maiden name; surely that should be enough validation?" I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I'd have to agree here. Show this to a classroom of students and half wouldn't even give attention to an introduction.
>people on mainstream platforms don't all know about or agree with those platform's moderation/censorship policies.

I will agree with you on this. I think the moderation policies should be clearly delineated or they don't really exist. A law is not much of a law if it's unequally applied.

You bring up an interesting point about "discovery" of view points you want to hear about, especially when you consider the foundation of the Internet as a platform: search engines. One problematic example I can think of off the top of my head is the "anti-vaxx" movement, which may be promoting a message that some people want to hear but at what cost to their children or the larger society who are subject to those parents' whims or beliefs? Very different than me discovering there are other people out there on the internet who are disturbed by the Garfield comic and want to joke about the existential horror of a cartoon cat and his owner.

I can't say that I have an easy answer for the issue of the harmful effects of a platform on the societies its users are members of. Or even determining what is harmful (or not).
Ask HN: What KPIs would indicate most “forward-thinking” cities?
What metrics would you consider to be the KPIs for gauging the forward-thinking nature of a city?

Some examples:
- miles of bike lanes
- ratio of car-free zones
- in-place privacy policies regarding user data from CCTV and other source
- transportation infrastructure spending

Most of my thoughts circle around transportation but I'm sure there are many important metrics outside of transportation that I'm unaware of. I'd love to hear what you think and also any great reading would be cool too.
Im a new yorker and i disagree, for what its worth, with the quoted internet commenter who said they're ugly. They seem reasonably nice to look at relative to the status quo.
Thank you. Shuttler is just a badminton player
So the high-level sociopaths have taken over to increase profits at any cost, and Ross has chosen to leave for big politics and use the moment to show his principled approach. P.S. everybody should read the gervais principle book: it's 101 of the corp politics.
Why would you put the speed cameras on highways then? Here they are on 50-60km/h roads, some times 70. On faster roads they are only near crossings where the speed limit is reduced.
Direct calls to violence is the borderline. Hate is just hate. Hatey hatey hate hate. It's only expressing hate and talking that helps things.
Normal everywhere in the northeast. People think I'm crazy in CA, as a fairly cautious New England pedestrian.
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> I'm really astonished that Americans don't do it the same way.

Americans tend to have strange ideas about walking. If they think about it at all, they tend to think of it as something that's only done in extremis.

I've discovered, for example, that, when I travel for work, it's generally useless to ask hotel staff if they can recommend any restaurants "within walking distance" when I'm staying in a suburban area. They will always say that there aren't any. Even when there are several within 500 meters of the hotel.

When I am visiting the main office (also in a suburban area) I stay about 1.5km away from the building. I choose to walk to get between there and the hotel. It's a lovely walk, all sidewalks, through a quiet neighborhood. My colleagues consider this to be very peculiar behavior. If someone recognizes me while I'm on the sidewalk, they'll stop, express concern, and ask me if I need a ride, and I generally have to assure them multiple times that I'm OK and I just prefer to walk.
Probably because it contains extra data about which words are "naughty".
things like Starlink will make access to information even harder to control/shutdown. I suppose it could be jammed but signal will still squirt out here and there. It's not as easy as controlling the physical fiber crossing your border.
I've only ever gone for business.
Is it possible that your easy car commute is made possible by nature of an effective public transit system removing cars from the road? And that without comprehensive transit you would have 45 minutes of traffic by car?
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I have a kindle that I think I've read 5-6 books on since buying it in 2016. It's great for longer trips where bringing multiple books is inconvenient, but otherwise I prefer not having to worry about charging or losing yet another device.

For me the pro/cons of physical vs ebook just about equal out and with ebooks being more expensive that tips me towards physical still.
I'm strictly referring to residential trash, often in half filled bags. My experience observing this is limited to a few neighborhoods, but I regularly see it in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. The workers there often carelessly toss around bags and leave large piles of loose trash on the sidewalks that then sits there for weeks at a time. Surely the city/building owners/business have a role to play, but let's not pretend that the trash workers are all doing a great job.

Ideally the city would require stand bins that could be lifted by an arm on the truck (like many other cities in the US).
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Given the way employment law in the US works, it is HR's responsibility, in general, to ensure the paperwork is in order if an employee needs to be fired.

And yes, absolutely, even large publicly-traded companies still have bosses that will fire employees because "it isn't working out" (which is the aggregate signal in the neural net with inputs such as "I don't like this person," "I think my job is harder because the company employs this person," "I believe this person's presence at the company is bad for the company," etc.). The difference between large and small companies is that large companies have more to lose if a termed employee lawyers up (and more likelihood a termed employee will lawyer up, because more lawyers will be willing to take a case that has a big-name defendant in the case name).

This is yet another scenario where the question "What are the incentives of the actors in this story" can be applied.
I don't think the main point being made is that deadlines are a PITA, I think it's that the trade-off is unmeasured. Successfully meeting a sales deadline looks the same as signing the same contract after the deadline (other than the deadline), but the argument for deadlines in software being bad is that they materially erode quality and long term viability (shortcuts, tech debt, bugs, usability). The product delivered within the deadline is materially worse than the one delivered after. The problem is that it's hard to attribute these issues to "deadlines" although the intuition is that they are a major cause.
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In the UK you can legally hold two working passports. People do this when they need to travel to countries which mutually prevent you entering if you have a stamp from the other (Israel and some middle eastern countries being the common example).
VR hardware, with the wireless Quest and its eventual successors, is ready for the mainstream.

VR software is not.

What drives an industry is value, whether business or recreational. While VR software has typically focused on entertainment value (and there is a lot there), business-driven VR software hasn’t received as much attention as it deserves. But thus far no killer-app of VR has been made. There is no excel, no word, no browser. But there could be, if more people thought about and identified what VR hardware can do that no other platform can. Moreover, its value needs to be a 10x moment. Minor improvements will not cause mass adoption.

So what can VR provide that other platforms can’t?

1) 3D Space

This is the first thing people think of, but is the least important. There are few business tasks that can’t be done on a 2D plane, and the value of going 3D (such as in industrial design) is not a 10x improvement over real-life prototyping.

2) Unlimited space

This also provides less value than it seems. A human can only be in one place, and our vision can only encompass so much area. There is a low upper-bound on how much space a human being can use.

3) Presence

The feeling of “being there” is something VR does 10x better than other platforms. This has been leveraged by entertainment software to good effect. However, the nature of recreational user experience — gameplay experience — doesn’t hinge upon presence in a location. VR games can induce strong presence while still not providing value with strong gameplay experience.

4) Social Presence

This is where VR hardware has the greatest possible leverage and impact. When you play poker in VR, you see this most clearly — people spend more time interacting with one another than actually playing poker. Even with cartoonish avatars, the feeling of being in the presence of another person is practically the same as being in the same room with them. There is large room for growth in improving social presence, but even the early state of VR software is 10x better than what exists elsewhere.

If there is to be a killer business app for VR, it will be akin to excel. But instead of transforming numbers and formulas, it will transform communication and relationships. Whatever replaces Facebook, video chat, JIRA, Reddit, Tinder, or even email will be done on VR/AR.

The gold is there waiting to be picked up. It’s just up to some great company to do it.
Definitely a common combination. The OLPC XO-1.5 was using this hardware 10+ years ago. It sounds like NX protections defeat the attack, and it looks like they went in soon after this kernel, around 2.6.38.
> i feel that _most_ parents, or elderly people for that matter, fall victim cause they feel pressure from both ends... the first being the scammers themselves, the second being scared to ask _anyone_ if the situation is legit for fear of being made fun of.

A friends parent got done by a phone scam. "Your router has been compromised, please let us check your PC, oh no they've got the computer, install this. Oh no - they've hacked your bank account and used it to Launder money, the fraud office will contact you. etc etc. The bank saved them when they tried to move a second load of money.

I don't believe for a moment they didn't contact anyone because of a fear of being laughed at - they believed the narrative that this was a secret operation. Ironically it had all the hallmarks of a classic eve online scam.

Do not assume all scammers are mediocre and transparent. Do not assume a close personal relationship is enough.
In (much of) the UK, we have bins like this:

https://www.broxap.com/derby-standard-litter-bin.html

https://www.broxap.com/derby-e.html

Cuboids or cylinders, with a closed top and large openings on each side. There's a plastic bag inside, accessed by a door in one face.

This seems to solve all New York's problems better than their new design. Dustmen only have to lift the bag, not a heavy bin. The openings are narrow, keeping rubbish safe from wind and bulky waste. They look tidy. The bin is fixed to the ground, so it can't blow over. Rain can't get in in the first place (much), so drainage is not a worry.

However, they are a bit expensive: the cheap one there is £200, which is (just about!) more than the $200 limit New York has set, and councils often install more expensive ones.
I don't know. But Europe did that for centuries in Latin America, Africa, India, and got very rich with that. Ok, they didn't know how dangerous it could be.

But now Europe has the 'moral authority' to prevent poor countries from explore their own lands to give a decent life to their citizens, that have been left in misery after decolonization.

BTW, Europe talk so loud about climate changes, sign agreements and so on but do nothing relevant about it. Do you know why?
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Sidenote question :

Are we heading toward a split between apache/java/zookeeper stacks and go/etcd on the other ? I've seen an issue related to that question on pulsar, and this got me investigating the distributed KV part of the stack.

It seems by looking at some benchmark that etcd is much more performant than zookeeper, and that to some people, operating two stacks seems like an operation maintenance cost a bit too high. Is that a valid concern ?

Also, i've seen that kafka is working on removing the dependency to zookeeper, is pulsar going to take the same road ?
I don't know if this is true everywhere, but in my city in the US, cars are supposed to stop at crosswalks (not talking about at intersections necessarily) if a pedestrian is crossing even if there is no stopsign or signal beyond the white paint on the road, but this is NEVER observed in my experience. Thankfully it seems like most pedestrians don't know this either so we don't get people trying to challenge cars to make a point at risk of their own lives.
What does "income is the EV+ bet" mean in this context?
Your first point is moot, because a person could point a gun at you even when you don't have your computer and demand your passwords, or even kidnap you and force you to log on somewhere else. This solution doesn't aim to prevent that kind of thing.

Your second point is moot, because the intent is not to protect the hardware, it is to revoke access to data. A self-destruct protocol is not about preservation of property.

Your third point is moot, because the intent is not to be convenient, the point is to create a dead man's switch.

You're thinking about this from a Consumer/Enterprise standpoint, but that's not what this is for. This would be great for political activists in oppressive countries, as an example.
Iunno, if you gave it to someone and don’t know where it is, the mental gymnastics to check the “Lost” box isn’t too difficult.

But I think they usually ask you to describe the circumstances of its loss.
That's not a queue it's just a delayed async call (i.e. if 5,000 calls ask to be called they will all go without queuing in 50ms), what the other comment described is a queue.

50ms is way too short, a user on a 1080p screen would need to scroll at 360 pixels per second to avoid loading every image along the way. Even trying to do that on purpose is hard as hell https://clickspeedtest.com/scroll-test.html. Guaranteed that every mobile user is going to be loading every image on scroll over 4g as well creating the original back pressure issue now with 3 more frames of lag.

"smooth" does not mean "check every 3 frames" it means schedule things in a way they can happen immediately when the browser is ready, not your timer.
In Osaka they aren’t even slick about it though. I mean, I guess they know I’m not police because I’m a foreigner, but otherwise...really?
It sounds like it should have been seen coming(at the least, four years ago), I'm not quite getting a vibe of unfairness but rather an antiquated council shocked by it's own externally perceived irrelevance.
Oh boy, Google is going to be upset if he is elected Senator... I wonder if a break up big tech line would appeal to voters in Maine.
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Love the last line.
Did Texas recently secede from the US? Because it looks like they offer PE licensing for Software Engineering.

https://engineers.texas.gov/downloads/eb17.htm
Hope the implementation is good. Many states and municipalities make this a bureaucratic nightmare to have the records updates/expunged/cleared.