skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (1970) [pdf]
They’re not selling it or giving it to anyone? It’s used to improve voice recognition
Living under the ocean adds a lot of redundancy a lot more easily. Getting Mars self sustaining so it can produce everything including CPU’s would require a truly massive colony. Until then it’s not really useful.

Under sea on the other hand assuming undersea gardens could protect from a dinosaur killing asteroid, with a small population able to repopulate earth in a few years.
This person is also a board member of New York Times [1].

[1] https://www.nytco.com/board-of-directors/
I wouldn't have blacklisted the person or the transaction. Why are you and the author suggesting these are related things to weigh?

If they are not on the OFAC list, and we aren't involved in an illegal transaction, then what is the issue? I am looking for complete, articulate sentences here. I honestly don't know the other perspective and haven't been exposed to an articulate reason to attempt to financially isolate capital.

If optics of a particular name actually were of concern due to records and disclosures, I would say just use a lawyer or new entity in specific jurisdictions, or lawyer+entity. This is something I would recommend for everyone if they can afford it, just to avoid grifters that realize you might have money and are willing to move it around. And yes, this also prevents other scrutiny, and avoids anyone having to make the decisions I am trying to understand.

Do you or do you not have a cause to support? Do you or do you not have a supporter? Simple questions with simple answers.

Can someone here articulate why they would blacklist transactions or persons that are not blacklisted by the state? Even if Epstein was actually in prison he could direct funds to causes he wanted to support. Convictions have nothing to do with capital controls. Why are you trying to control capital?
Isn't the standard (Windows) edition hardware the same as the developer edition?

I ended up buying the standard edition because there was a discount that made it cost less than the developer one (!).
He should step down from the boards of the Media Lab and The New York Times. Far more information is provided in Ethan's resignation letter than in Ito's "apology":

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
I live in what is almost certainly a perfectly typical town in the Northeast US. And it's fully compliant with Massachusetts law.

Which is just one state as you say. But, if you follow the news, requiring ID is a very contentious topic that's often associated with disenfranchising voters so I assume it's not the norm.
Electoral college is for the presidency. But the political power discrepancy between rural and urban areas is quite stark in other branches of government.

For example:
Right now in the US there are 2 senators from each state. California with a population of over 39 million has 2 senators, Alaska with a population around 700,000 also has 2 senators.
> Terrible consultants, middlemen, and lifers making progress too hard or impossible.

Can you elaborate on this? I hear lots of criticism around inept and ill-intentioned consultants and “govvies” alike, but I think a lot of it is a bit unfairly harsh. There are certainly some adverse incentives (chiefly that it’s easy enough to coast along with minimal effort in these jobs if you’re inclined), but I’d say the slight majority of individuals in this space are qualified, capable, and motivated to improve the world via good work—technical or otherwise. Slowly but surely, projects get done and positive change is made.

> Not sponsoring software that actually directly helps people domestically

This really isn’t true. Every US agency has technology initiatives, some more effective than others. See the work that the Department of Veterans Affairs does, as one example. The US government also spends ~$750B on grants annually, much of which goes to fundamental research as well as tech projects. If you really want to dig in, there’s an API to access data on every item of spending (e.g. contract awards, grants): https://www.usaspending.gov/#/
Are you thinking of the US Senate? The electoral college is not meant to give a proportionally larger weight to small states.
A mentorship doesn't necessarily have to be free or charitable. That said, most of the calls lean more towards training or debugging than "mentorship".
We could implement a proportional representation system, which would make sure that their voices are represented in a far way. If people vote 30/60/10 for parties A/B/C, 30/60/10% of candidates elected would be of that party. Now its more like 45/55/0 or some other random result, based on gerrymandering.
Why does the battery matter if overall, the system lasts longer?
Not a safer asset, but possibly a more profitable one, since if interest rates go down even further, you can sell your bond for a capital gain. To see how the numbers look out, go to https://portfoliocharts.com/2019/05/27/high-profits-at-low-r...

Of course if interest rates go up, you have to keep the bond until it matures (earning less interest than you would with a new bond), or sell it for a capital loss. But this is always a risk with long-term bonds, and institutions still hold them.
https://confidentialcomputing.io/

> CCC is a project community at the Linux Foundation dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. It will embody open governance and open collaboration that has aided the success of similarly ambitious efforts.. The effort includes commitments from Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom and Tencent.
Don't worry about the negative effects of vaping. And your experience without backup and not sweating it is a clear sign of progress. I remember a time I couldn't go to sleep if I didn't have any cigarettes left for the next day. After the third vapor broke I decided not to buy a new one. Good luck!
Right now it's the opposite

> People who want to get away from the ~big cities~ small towns and live a different kind of life with different priorities (and different legislative interests), shouldn't be totally shut out, should they? Even though I live in a ~giant urban area~ rural area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere.

who's to say one direction is more important than the other? At least if we ditch the electoral college, individual voices always have the same volume
this is the cricket approach. baseball typically plays multi-game series instead.

i agree in spirit though. i have long thought it would make sense to abolish the playoffs. give the pennants to the teams with the best records. then, have them play a 21-game World Series in the fall.
Negative space: 24 brilliant examples
I expect the idea is less to prevent any possible threat and is more a) to comply with regulations and b) to log enough data so if somebody does circumvent your legally required measures, they've left enough of a trail to hang themselves.
It gives you grounds to annul the result and re-vote, after re-verifying the software. You do open the possibility of secondary effects (votes not on the annual election day typically get much lower turnout) and denial-of-service attacks.
The real error is acting like the most likely explanation is he just failed to do some utterly basic due diligence.
Mayan-EDMS: Free Open Source Document Management System
Epstein's conviction for raping a minor was public information at the point that Joi Ito raised money from, coinvested with and visited his homes. Far more information is included in Ethan's MIT resignation post:

He should step down from the boards of the Media Lab and The New York Times. Far more information is provided in Ethan's resignation letter than in Ito's "apology":

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

There's no way Ito didn't know about this, it would come up with a simple Google search. Investors do diligence.
I got the impression from the article that it will always copy data (e.g. strings) between wasm modules. Did I misread it?
>So you look up everybody who you meet irl?

No, but if I'm trying to get someone to give me money for a project, invite them to my lab, and visit "several of their residences" I would definitely look them up
You should probably know who's cutting your checks.
I'm amused that anyone does not have a cynical view of H1. H1 is an equivalent of HR for cyber. It exists not to deal with issues or address problems, rather it exists to help companies to manage bad exposure. That's how H1's bread is buttered.
It sounds like Ito probably missed that news, which I think is what folks have a problem with — he should have done his research before accepting the money.

I think there is also a separate debate here about whether Ito should accept or reject money from a donor who he knows is a sex offender.

Edit: seems like people are assuming he did know about that past, which is unclear to me.
> All joking aside, I think there is a certain way of thinking that comes from a technical education that could be used more in government.

But that's not the important part of government. The important part of government is:

1. Identifying parties who might be affected by a decision.

2. Informing / talking with said parties.

3. Deciding if said parties have conflicts of interests / biases to consider.

4. Making a decision afterwards.

Expertise in a particular subject is... kind of not needed. There are always more experts out there. The only "expertise" needed is again: the politics. Being able to identify conflicts of interest and account for them.
Are you claiming that sex offender registries are routinely faked...?
I totally disagree. Joi began his financial relationship with Epstein in 2013, well after Epstein became a publicly known sex offender. Either Joi didn't do his due diligence (doubtful) or ignored the facts that surrounded Epstein and decided to assume the risk of working with known sex trafficker.

This is damage control pure and simple and without tact. Had this been disclosed say a month earlier as the new criminal case began to form, this apology might actually mean something other than "Shit now everyone sees this putrid stink cloud is hanging around me too."
After he paid for his crime, doesn't he deserve a second chance?
As far as I know, WASM was thought of as a compilation target for languages like C and Rust, which are quite different from Java and C#.

That alone should make WASM quite different from the JVM, no?
A plea deal doesn't mean guilt or even evidence. It merely means that it was easier than fighting the charges, which could really mean anything.
News flash: Trump would still have won, just with a different campaign strategy and a different platform. Promise a little more of what CA and NY want, and a little less of what everybody else wants, and he'd get the popular vote, too.

In fact I think this would make it _easier_ for a populist to win, not harder, because all they'd have to worry about is crafting a campaign message that resonates with the majority and portrays their opponent as Satan in the flesh.
I have added the link to the good regulator theorem, “Every good regulator of the system must be a model of the system” paper on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20761459
There's nothing classy about this. It wasn't until the latest batch of Epstein information came forward that Ito said anything. Epstein was raping children during the period Ito was raising money from him, coinvesting with him and visiting his houses! There's not excuse for that.
Great. This means I can log in on my phone again.
Yes but like the parent poster said, all of the CLR features are really to serve one language: C#. All other languages primarily targeting the CLR must be understood in the context of “how would you express this thing in C# and how will a C# client interact with your assembly”.

Thus, WASM will forever be tied to javascript and all other languages will need to deal with questions of “how would I express this in JavaScript”.
If someone wants to invest a quarter million in whatever I'm doing with no strings attached (aka donate) the last thing I'm gonna be doing is asking questions. Most academics, charities, and other operations that run off donations don't have enough money to be picky about where it comes from.

Considering that that's basically pocket change to the MIT Media Lab they can afford to do their due diligence and turn people down if need be.

Some small charity you've never heard of that runs a summer camp for inner city kids or some no-name research lab at a state university's non-flagship campus (or whatever) is just gonna take the money because they can't afford to be picky. They're not gonna do background checks because the last thing they want is being in a position of weighing the need for money vs the ethics of who's giving it.

TL;DR: People and groups with less resources are less picky who they're willing to take money from but MIT doesn't have this excuse.
They still have 1 person 1 vote. There are a lot of people in rural areas and if one politician shows up there more the will get more of their votes.

Its sort of like the analogous effect showing up in Michigan in the auto manufacturing areas had for Trump. He showed up, Hillary did not, and he won more of those votes.
Jogging in place will also transiently raise your blood pressure.
There is something to be said for forcing an actual person to be physically present, using procedures visibly different from the normal voting procedure, in order to commit vote fraud. But you're right.

I emphatically do not trust the voting system used locally, but what is my alternative, really? It's not like the people for whom I am voting actually have a snowball's chance in Gehenna in this blood-red state with gerrymandered districts and independent-annihilating ballot-access laws.

Hackable, unauditable machines are just another load of fuel on the fire, when I feel as though I have never been faithfully represented by any elected official. The game is so thoroughly rigged before the voting happens that it hardly even matters how we cast the ballots.
> They were accepting funding after Epstein's first conviction

If the funding wasn't conditioned on naming things in Epstein's honor or giving him authority over how funds were directed, why would much, if any, diligence be due?

A VC investing in a business assumes risk of the others failing (potentially on behalf of others, if it's a VC firm with other people's money), which makes it so that diligence about factors relevant to that performance due.

But accepting a no-strings donation from a charitable foundation? What makes particular diligence about the foundation’s head due?

(I'm not defending Ito here as it seems like he was in a position beyond accepting donations where he reasonably should have known about Epstein's background; I'm just curious about why one would argue that accepting a donation creates an expectation of vetting the head of the foundation providing the donation.)
> for as little as $5/mo, which includes 1TB/mo of data transfer.

There are even much cheaper virtual server offerings, as one probably doesn't need 1 GB of RAM and a dedicated IP for personal VPN or proxy.
> if abolished, politicians won't have incentives to campaign in rural territories

That's one take. Another take is that urban centers are being actively disenfranchised.

Btw, those politicians who benefit from the EC are the ones creating policies that are destroying the rural populace at the same time.
I was commenting based on my experience that 1) VC firms actually do ask you for permission to run background checks on you, look you up online, and know a fair bit about you 2) We run background checks on everyone we hire, and its fairly easy to do, because I believe it would be irresponsible not to.

I don't think there is one real error here as you put it, but it's been made public he was warned about him before and people he worked with would refuse to go to his properties when invited and told him why (citation: https://medium.com/@EthanZ/on-me-and-the-media-lab-715bfc707...).
Air pollution linked to bipolar disorder, depression
In the strained analogy to Epstein, consider that this (now hypothetical) neo-nazi has been convicted of being a neo-nazi and now wants to give you a big pile of money.
I don't know about we, but he could do a lot more than a carefully worded apology. He knowingly took money from a man convicted [1] of child prostitution. The least he could do is resign.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Conviction_and...
> Why are you and the author suggesting these are related things to weigh?

Because it seems his donations bought him access as well.
Territories aren't people. People are people. By granting more power to "territories" what you're really doing is over-representing people who hold land.
Hey @manigandham thanks for the complements on database overall =)

I understand conceptually that this is all about splitting data, but I think if you look at most scalable databases that use sharding, it’s really meant as a partitioning of primary keyspace over servers, and then you just globally map this sharding through client libraries, some transparent proxy, or some map that every node maintains, because O(map) = O(# servers). Examples: Cassandra, DynamoDB, scale-out memcached, Vitesse, ZippyDB/RocksDB, etc.

We are instead tracking per-chunk state in catalogs to give us this level of flexibility, and allowing the movement/migration of individual chunks on a much finer-grained basis. This is both for placement/management across the cluster but also for data management on single nodes, e.g., for data retention policies, tiering, lazy indexing, etc.

I realize this isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, and exceptions always exist. But one reason we try to call this out is we’re often asked why we don’t just use a standard hash-based partitioning tool/system as a black box, which wouldn’t give us this level of fine-grained visibility & control that we find highly useful for time-series data management.

[Timescale co-founder & post co-author]
However, it's not clear there's anything that small states can do about this (other than make sure that this doesn't get passed in states making up a majority of EC votes).

The states that would arguably be stupid to go for this are actually the purple ones rather than the large or small ones, because they are the ones that are currently the focus of presidential campaigning but they would no longer be if there was a mechanism for making the EC reflect popular vote. That's perhaps why Colorado may remove itself (see https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-movement-to-skip-th...)
> Abstract

> The Frechet distance between two curves in the plane is the minimum length of a leash that allows a dog and its owner to walk along their respective curves, from one end to the other, without backtracking. We propose a natural extension of Frechet distance to more general metric spaces, which requires the leash itself to move continuously over time. For example, for curves in the punctured plane, the leash cannot pass through or jump over the obstacles(“trees”). We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute the homotopic Frechet distance between two given polygonal curves in the plane minus a given set of polygonal obstacles.
Does it? What if there state votes for the popular winner and that popular winner is not the winner?

Remember, this will work both ways - eventually we will have a democrat that doesn't win the popular vote as well in the current system.
Having had to shake the proverbial money tree in academia though, I can say that I could have fallen into that trap if an enthusiastic investor wanted to plow money into my project. I certainly don't mean to pat this person on the back, but what are they supposed to do? should they be drummed out of science and/or society?

You're correct in that this person should have known better, but I am also saying that it is entirely understandable how it happened and it appears that he is genuinely contrite and trying to make it better. What would you have done in that situation?
Yes, that's the point. Adjust votes' "weight" based on population density.
> "Four of the fatalities were just bad luck, involving a group of janitors who shared muscatel wine that was laced with antifreeze"

I'd like to hear a little more about the "bad luck" that caused a bottle of muscatel to get laced with antifreeze...
Do you think our academic institutions should accept funding from billionaire pedophiles or not? The answer to this question may have some bearing on whether the apology is appropriate!
"Due diligence research" makes it sound complicated. Just Google the guy. I always look up potential business partners. And, in the past, I have discovered evidence of criminal activity that puts me on alert (nothing like Epstein though, just run-of-the-mill fraud.)
Counter arguments to that:

1. Rural places do have representation, through Congress. Abolishing the EC will not change that.

2. Rural areas already have outsized representation due to how the Senate is set up.

3. The electoral college only matters for presidential candidates, during the general election, and they aren't spending a lot of time in rural areas already anyway. I grew up in North Dakota, and no presidential candidates ever wasted their time campaigning there.
My opinion, not my (HackerOne customer) employer's:

I know this will be unpopular with folks like tptacek, but I've always felt strongly that bug bounty programs offer too many perverse incentives to all parties.

More often than not it becomes a tool for companies to sweep issues like this under the rug and then use HackerOne's system to force the reporters to play ball (because they want to keep getting paid). I hate this sytem.

I'm 100% behind open, public disclosure and if it were my own product in question, I would offer bounties for _public disclosures_. That keeps everyone honest.
isn't that the it's job? It hands out loans for money it doesn't have but can steer the market with the interest rates
I agree. And I can’t imagine many people would have known about the investments if he had not written this apology. I guess the author felt an inordinate amount of guilt about it all and needed to get it off his shoulders.

It’s one thing to look through Epstein’s close social contacts and history of close business partners for people who may have known or engaged in illegal activity with him. This doesn’t meet those criteria, IMO.
In the thread from the Yubico announcement earlier this week, someone brought up the question about why you can't disable SMS for recovery codes (SMS recovery codes, not SMS 2nd factor), since that undermines the security benefit of having your 2nd factor moved entirely to FIDO or OTP. Are there plans to fix that?
That was the explicit purpose of the Senate: each state is equal in the union. Senators weren't even supposed to represent the state's people; they represented the state itself up until the misguided Seventeenth Amendment. Representation proportional to the population is the purpose of the House - that's why our government has two chambers.
But there are countless stories of paper ballots being miraculously found that sway the vote in a close race or ones that are found in a dumpster after a vote count has just taken place.

Everything can be manipulated.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ballots+found+to+sway+race

https://www.google.com/search?q=ballots+found+in+dumpster

Name for me one instance where either of these caused a major investigation, other than that one Presidential election count in Florida.
This cannot be true.

Right now in order to win Florida you must win a popular vote in Florida. There is no internal electoral college in Florida. Winning Florida is incredibly important for presidential candidates.

Where do they campaign in Florida? Everywhere. They don't just hang out in Miami. If candidates do not avoid less populated areas when aiming to win a popular vote in a state, why would they do so for the nation?