skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using his position for his own personal enrichment is also, at the very least, ethically shady as hell, right?
Most of them?
The outrage economy is a good term, thanks.
There is another post with more discussion. Hong Kong Add oil.
Your honest response could be drowned out by other's errors for innocuous reasons:

> response errors in surveys can occur because respondents misunderstand the questions, cannot retrieve all the relevant information, use inaccurate estimation and judgment strategies, round their answers, or have difficulty mapping them onto one of the response categories.

These go into survey responses to sensitive questions:

- https://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/images/a/a8/Tourangea...

- http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504...?

I'm straying off topic, they will try in various ways to bullet proof these surveys. I don't know, I think if a group of people are quizzed, there will be more incentive for people to not give accurate answers. Hm:

What if they come from a family where a guardian is an alcoholic but don't have a point of relation to compare to, and say it's fine at home? They haven't processed it yet.

Outside of surveys, there are blown personality/psychiatric assessments designed to detect over-reporting and malingering: https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
This doesn't answer the question. You really think a person that knows Epstein has done the things he has done and knows about the "The Jeffrey Epstein Research Lab at MIT" is going to think that Epstein is some A OK dude?
I'm curious as well
You don’t need to be cool, just live in a big city.
Doubt? Care to elaborate and substantiate?
Criticker has never failed me. I've been using it for years. I did hop over for a few years to a site called Jinni with really high quality UI. They closed their consumer facing services and provide their service to content providers. Criticker is still there crushing the game.
You might be waiting (via select) for multiple replies; you don't know whether B will (say) grab something out of disk cache and chuck it back to you, or if it'll fire off a seek command to the spinning rust and take a nap just as your network round-trip completes. Having two (or more) messages in (separate) pipes is the point of using select.
Many people believe the charitable givings were what gave Epstein his credibility, allowing him to continue what he was doing. Accepting the donations was enabling Epstein.
No quite. He also hid the donation from MIT, as Epstein was blacklisted. That part alone should get him fired.
In such a fucked up world, how do people even manage to focus on the silliest, most irrelevant issues?
The handful of times I've been asked to analyze something, the result has been a list or graph with some accompanying description.

I had a coworker who had a reputation for long emails. It was clear, based on hallway comments, that no one was reading them. People don't appear to have much tolerance for essays unless there's good reason for it.
> "I live in the gritty real world. Now let me tell you about my international experiences with the ultra wealthy, you hick."

How do you tell the difference between the sex-trafficked, forced-into-servitude eastern european model-assistants, and the eastern european models who see an opportunity to make a lot of money and a lot of connections, and take it?
So MIT should be able to accept money profited from Child Traffickers and Drug Cartels?
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The Iceberg of React Hooks
If you are interested in programming this type of thing (alife, fractals and whatnot) you might like NetLogo. https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

There is a 2D and a 3D version of the language interface, and you can find a number of Boids demos in the samples for both of them.
By no means is WeChat a shopping or payment monopoly. There's Taobao and Alipay by Alibaba. From what I know they are fairly even in terms of market share (payment). WeChat's shopping scene is mostly on a very small scale and personal level.
Yes, though that's probably illegal on the donor's side, but I see no problem with MIT receiving it.
Haven't seen anyone mention it, but NASA JPL and the Indian Space Agency are collaborating on the NISAR mission [0].

[0] https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/
so 200 megabytes/second? I'm not sure what your definition of large files is, but hashing anything sizable with SHA1 is trivially CPU-bound with any modern SSD, in the absence of a processor with the sha asm extensions.

that being said, quick glance at the source suggests that awscli's s3 sync only compares files by size & timestamp, not etag, so it's not hashing anything client-side.
"Doomed" is not a scientific term. It's my understanding less than 1% of scientists think it's likely mankind will go extinct from global warming.

It's a very real problem, but hysterics doesn't help, stick to the science.
>What makes Child trafficking normal is if the law enforcement doesn't do anything.

I am trying to understand all the mental hoops you are going through right now to write that sentence in the midst of marijuana legalization right now.

From "reefer madness" to now, the accepting of marijuana came directly from people working with, socializing with and being exposed to people smoking weed despite the fact that law enforcement pummeled millions of dollars and jailed an immense number of people for carrying insignificant amounts of marijuana. Law enforcement did an absolute shitton, and marijuana was still normalized.

Hanging out with child trafficker, and accepting money from them and inviting them to your private events is normalization. You are saying to the world, that despite it being well known that this guy has been shown to have some socially objectionable character, that he is someone that you are totally ok to have around. Whether its drug-use, sexual orientation, or anything else.
Except the very important market of App distribution on iOS.
I don't think it's appropriate to imply, without evidence, that Ito's 'Neoteny Ventures', founded in 1999, was in any way an "Epstein project".

(Of course, if there's evidence Epstein was involved at its founding, I'd change my mind about this.)
Not only that, but users often turn into dealers. And the result of which, it follows that one would have to also be ok with child murder.
So true, but as a first pass, the high marginal tax rates in California, Washington, and Wisconsin have to be accounted for as a "cost of relocating." If you are a successful professional you are probably making closer to $250K and the highest marginal rate can apply to that last $150K. So moving from low tax Michigan to high tax California can mean $10,500 more in taxes. Over 20 years that adds up.
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MIT Media Lab faked key elements of "personal food computer" project: insiders
Thanks for the feedback. To answer your question:

To me, a mind map is a tool with which one can map his/her mind. I see some comments that claim that colourful and interesting graphics should be a part of that definition. I disagree. With such mind mapping tools, I've found that it's that "cartoony" nature that limits their size. I wanted a mind-map tool in which I could store every little piece of minutia that I want and have it organized. I don't need the graphics, have search.

I hope that relays my thinking a bit.
OK, thanks for the definition.

Now, to restate my point:

The abstinence approach works for those who choose to improve their health by not smoking. If you don't make that choice, fine. But it's irresponsible to suggest that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking when we simply do not and cannot know that to be the case.

The jury will continue to be out until vaping has a long enough history for the long-term effects to become clear. So again: call me in 50 years.

If I had to gamble and pick which of the two is less unhealthy? I wouldn't gamble. Nobody is being forced to make that choice.
Which doesn’t block any existing connection.
I have to agree. This is getting ridiculous. Taking money from an individual does not mean you have administered absolution.
The differences are mainly:

- Features (I'm a one man show)
- The UI (I think mine is better organized)
- Node Types (Jumproot has different and interesting node types)
Yeah,but even 1% share is a lot given the sample size. I guess people are accepting monopolies as standard bearers.
XSS is a problem you have to solve no matter where you store your authentication material. If you have an XSS, then an attacker can do anything they want on your web pages. I’m not sure you’re gaining anything by saying “anything but steal the auth token”. If you store it as a cookie, now you have to solve XSS and CSRF, so I’d say that makes your attack surface broader. Especially considering front end frameworks have become very good at preventing XSS, and can’t do anything about CSRF.
Critical thinking can extend beyond the ability to find the most efficient API to solve a problem.
How about we not, since it has nothing to do with this thread?
>But I feel Crystal has already gained such momentum that it indeed will get somewhere, it’s beyond that phase "to begin with."

Let's hope so, but I fear that's wishful thinking. What proof do we have of that?

It's not used anywhere important ("killer app"), barely makes the rest of the TIOBE index, along with staples like NATURAL, Alice, BBC Basic, Euphoria, Factor, Forth, and Icon, and has no major force like Google or Mozilla backing it.

It's only us here in HN who keep hearing about it.

Julia has had tons more publicity (even from some major outlets), and it's still going nowhere fast.
Yes it does! Someone showed me that and it looks great.
I'm not defending MS but....

"however Google has not been willing to indemnify Android device makers against infringement claims"

Kinda says to me that Google clearly know exactly what they're doing apropos patent infringement. I'm not saying it's ideal, but at the end of the day MS are legally permitted to defend those patents (at the very least have working implementations as opposed to the usual patent troll nonsense).

Also that's a six year old article full of speculation from the dying days of MS's attempts at getting into the phone biz. Life has moved on and Android has hardly been extinguished.
It's clear at this point that traditional journalists are opposed to tech because of what it's done to their profession. I don't blame them for being upset, but the way it's manifesting here is not good for anyone.
Well, we are talking forging weather maps with a sharpie, but I'll leave everyone to draw their own conclusions (pun intended).
From my understanding, clay containers are preferred for nuclear waste.
I think those should be ok as long as you are bundling all the assets with your app rather than loading them from a server (which is how Electron generally operates).
I live in Iowa and was an Eagle Scout and can figure out what the point of the anecdote was just fine, thanks.
How about:

> Everything with including HTML in this report does indeed seem [out of place in a report that is trying to stay factual].

?
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Most likely, you didn't know about the evils of Jeffrey Epstein until a Miami Herald reporter started to dig into the story, and then got picked up by national papers.

Had that not have happened, most people to this day would still think he's probably an "A OK dude."
Rethink your stance.
I'm an Epstein Absolutist and feel Ito should have resigned way before Ronan Farrow's article was published, so yes, I think this is all very shady. I don't generally think people have a moral right to hold on to prominent directorships like the MIT Media Lab --- when you take that job†, I think you also undertake an ethical obligation to leave that post as soon as it becomes reasonable to say that your continued presence is a distraction or disruption from the mission of the organization. We crossed that threshold weeks ago.

† Not all jobs! Just jobs like "Director of MIT Media Lab", where you're stepping into a high-profile role that you don't otherwise own or have some other moral claim on.
"This single event is additional information that I'm pointing out because it reinforces points I've made frequently in the past, while pointing out different events."

That's the definition of empirical argumentation.
Good point, though I'm not sure how important it is to have locally unique toys. Certainly not for the kids.

Probably, you could have said the same thing 50 years ago, how nation-wide toys are taking over stuff that was only available in your town.

I think the real differentiator is that 50 years ago kids didn't had that many toys at all. I'm not sure if that plentiness is always a good thing. AFAIK there's usually a very small subset of toys that are really important to them, anyways. So I wouldn't overestimate the importance each of the pictured toys holds.

Maybe todays "uniqueness" comes from which of the toys was acquired in this sea of ubiquity. Analogous to today's plentiness of great cloud-tv-series, each with an earned addicted fan-base, where it is impossible for one to view them all. But what is still unique to each child is which of these acquired toys are really important to them.
How do you validate your assumptions to ensure your mental model is correct?
> Hopefully we are now following the UK's lead and starting to face our demons.

The UK passed a law to make bulk surveillance legal. It took a European court to object to it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-survei...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-co...
Does that actually launder anyone's reputation? Epstein was doing this sort of stuff before he was ever arrested. He seems to have been legitimately interested in funding science research. Unfortunately the world is actually complicated and people aren't simply one-dimensional villains. The guy did some genuinely good things, in a seemingly honest way. That doesn't in any way absolve him of the horrible things he did. But it's not at all clear that the purpose of his donations was some sort of reputation laundering.
I strongly disagree with the notion that this is something you need to personally witness to recognize. The dynamics involved in an old rich man surrounding himself with very young women are not something that requires much life experience at all to pick up on.

The people who are blind to it are probably willfully blind, not naive. (Excepting young children of course.)
They’re clearly testing this as a new strategy. I got an advert on YouTube today for the event, and this post from The Verge is likely from Apple’s PR team.

I’m interested as to whether the format changes at all. The events have always been part marketing to the public, part press relations, part investor relations (in that order). I wonder if the balance will shift noticeably more towards the marketing side, dropping the review/retail updates, etc.
Having young girl-friends is not the same as sex trafficking, though, or is it? I thought sex trafficking would be luring girls out of their country with false promises, then burning their passports so that they can't flee.

I wouldn't consider it overly weird if rich guys have young girl-friends. Maybe it is just because Hollywood has groomed me to expect it, I don't know.
USA builds small nuclear reactors, on time and with reasonable budget ... but then use to power warships instead of cities.
That's just not a valid argument. Standards groups don't tell developers what to build. Developers tell standards groups what they have built, when they want what they're building to be interoperable.

The notion that vendors are beholden to standards groups is a real problem. It's what got us stuff like Heartbleed.
Autonomous Vehicles Are Reshaping the Tech World
Yes, it’s good to be skeptical when big claims are made. I have had one (heroic) experience of LSD and while it was one of the most peak experiences of my life I cannot say if it was positive or negative just that it was extreme. Fixes for some will come at a price for others in my opinion. As my friend said while looking me deep into the eyes at the end of our trip together “It’s not exactly what you would call recreational is it?”.

Also I’d add that older minds find these experiences much more difficult to process/deal with. I believe research is good but can it be used if 5% of people have very negative reactions?
Thank you. I don't mind sharing at all. Please be forgiving and constructive because I am a one man show here.

Tech stack:
- This is a django app. MVC. No separate API project and UI project.
- Front end is basically Bootstrap 4 and jquery.
- The tree is FancyTree
- The DB is SQLite because there are no users. When usage becomes significant, I can easily migrate to MySQL.
- Rich Text is Summernote.

I am 100% sure I would do this differently now. But I started it a few years ago and have kept it pretty much private. Thanks for checking in!
You are neglecting base rates, IMO. The base rate of wealthy people contributing to charitable causes is very high. There is no reason to think that their charitable donations had anything to do with their opioid manufacturing or any sort of guilt about that. I'm sure they internalized all that stuff in a way that made them blameless anyway.
Human trafficking is illegal regardless of age. That’s why people would or should care. No one is talking about firing assistants besides you.
Not just join, but actively disrupt by spreading false messages.
I’m pretty sure most bars require you to be 21 (maybe 18 in Europe)?
>If it was so clearly obvious that he was breaking the law, why was he not in jail?

The Harvey Weinstein shitshow happened in 2018, just last year. People openly knew what he was doing back in 2005.
> You think Epstein funding some research washes him of his past transgressions?

No, but it helps him maintain his social standing, which was a key factor in the lenient sentence he got for his conviction. Connections were a form of insurance for Epstein.
It looks like OneNote where you can have several NoteBook, Section, and Pages that can be at different levels. In the end, you can have a similar hierarchical structure. The advantage of OneNote is it is native cross-platform (Android, Mac, Windows, iPhone) with sync, ink, etc.
Well extinction is an extreme. Uncomfortable living condition are not much better.
With regards to (3) and (4), who are you describing? Epstein gave the money to the Media Lab, or brokered the delivery of the money to the Media Lab from people who knew who he was.
>How do you tell the difference between the sex-trafficked, forced-into-servitude eastern european model-assistants, and the eastern european models who see an opportunity to make a lot of money and a lot of connections, and take it?

There's not much difference between the two camps, especially if the "models" are just teenage girls from some Eastern European village or pre-adult girls (as low as 14) from broken poor families as he lured in the US, forced into it for the money or lured with promises of exposure, and often given drugs, beaten and passed around to "friends", and not professional models with actual (even if small) careers that saw an opportunity to make more money...

You might not know all this from mere looking, but you can see a lot of dynamics in direct play, especially if you know more stories about the same person...

(Also, I'd paraphrase the "summary" you did, more like "These things might not be obvious to some people without such exposure, but they do happen all the time in certain circles/countries/etc, and many people can tell when such shit goes on". Oh, and it doesn't have to be "ultra wealthy" at the Epstein-level, you can meet lower rent versions of such types at all scales, down to your friendly local scam rich from e.g. real estate, or construction, or political affiliations, or some state-given monopoly, etc).
I have to assume you meant to reply to someone else in some other thread, because otherwise this is just a massive non-sequitur.
No mention about the issue when the plant open to internet.

Any virtual pc etc?
That's a big fat maybe, but AFAIK if they got permission it's probably fine?

The Department of Commerce regularly approves exports of tear gas products and formulations considered "dual-use" (military or police), and the State Department handles other forms. The government of Egypt was able to purchase American tear gas in the late 00s and early 10s.
By the time he was in their office, he was a convicted felon for .... solicitation of minors.
How are you so certain that this doesn't happen in general?
I see a lot of comments revolve around the note taking, mind mapping aspect of jumproot (which is 100% on point). I just want to invite everyone to try the other aspects of the site, such as document structuring/viewing and the different node types. Have fun!
I am really impressed how well this site works without javascript. This is refreshing compared to all the sites that display nothing with noscript.
Fun! I created a configuration that lays out tiles following the Fibonacci pattern:

https://gist.github.com/Fusion/8ad05ac05948b3397516aa836f0a1...
More and more problems seem to be linked to provenance of money. Money Laundering of dirty cash is one major obvious example (see impact on everything from London house prices to international banking) and yet just being able to trace / label money coming out of Epstein and into MIT lab would have raised this issue a decade ago

Imagine somehow being able to tag bitcoin address / transactions with "this money came from a man convicted of sex trafficking"

Then having that tag appear on the accounts sheet at NIT

Would that help?
You should probably calm down and make fewer assumptions. It's always impressive to me just how bad people are at understanding the world retrospectively.

Yes, today we know that Acosta gave him a sweetheart deal that he didn't deserve. Today. There was no reason for the MIT media lab to understand that. Their job is not to investigate every single person that wants to give them money.
20 September global climate strikes are expected to be huge. In my city they are expecting a doubling from 4,000 to 8,000 people. Facebook event responses to the global strike are going through the roof.
Not sure if this works for you but I'm a big fan of having a very powerful desktop that I remote into from a cheap laptop. Especially if you're serious about AI (or gaming, if you can live with not gaming on the go).

I do this with a custom built ryzen + GTX machine running ubuntu 16.04, which I access from an old mac book. Once you get comfortable with your remote dev environment It's a really nice experience.
He basically says that one can use critical thinking to "tell the difference" between the two categories, which is hardly a non-sequitur.
2 hours to a hospital. I am not even sure that it is possible on the UK mainland to be that far. Maybe parts of the Highlands.

I was surprised by your 1/10th if the cost comment but perhaps less so now.

thank you
I was specifically referring to the "most damning paragraph" claim, not an assessment of the situation in general.

I guess it could be seen as damning that his staff thought that way, implying some unhealthy context - as you said, if I understood correctly.

Or in other words, the damning part was not the young assistants, the damning part was MIT staff worrying about young assistants.
I would have thought so too. And yet, most of the "decent" alcohol stores (e.g. Oddbins) died a death several years ago.

Depending on where you live, you might find niche shops if you look hard enough, but they are far from ubiquitous. It seems the market has decided, and they want the cheapest swill they can buy.
It’s not newcomers. (The native Americans weren’t too thrilled when here ancestors came into town, I’ll tell you what.) It’s Californians specifically.
I'd urge you to check out the "Deep Adaptation" paper by Jem Bendell. It provides some interesting insights about the function of tone in scientific literature on the subject.