skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you were mocked, it's a good question. That's an option at the individual site level – and it may be possible to use a CSP policy to enforce that no cross-site requests are made. You can definitely use CSP policy to enforce what domains scripts may be fetched and executed from.

However if the standard were changed to disallow CSR in browser implementations then existing sites would be broken, i.e. it would break the web. Sometimes that's worth it, sometimes it isn't, and it's a careful balance between how many sites would be broken vs the impact of the security vulnerabilities that would be prevented.

(disclosure, I work at Google, but not on Chrome (any more) and have no particular knowledge of the CSRF cookie change)
Yea, I suspect his prior conviction for “solicitation of prostitution involving a minor” may have played a part. But, the details could be interesting.
Not ugly, it's just passing a state-key around - a common practice in loads of other communication channels.
>Sorry, but a 60-something "finance" guy with an entourage of teen models doesn't add up

Honestly, it sounds like you just don’t go out very much.
I suppose you didn't mention the country in an attempt to not get criticized?

Because if you're talking about Belgium, half of what you said is plainly wrong.
Normalize the taking money? Maybe, but not the child trafficking part.
"Leaving aside this particular situation".

I was just responding to your question of why a rich person "needs" someone to be a middleman on where to donate.
Alternative link https://uk.godaddy.com/engineering/2019/09/04/doh-concerns/
Then use android.

Those of us happy with the trade off will remain on Apples platform.
"White flight" is when you leave because minorities are moving in. The people interviewed in the article were moving for economic reasons.
It's important to care for semantics in order to have a conversation that conveys information, which is necessary for having culture, so I will continue the semantics discussion you have started.

Your proposed definition of programming languages includes, as I said, CSV, JPEG, Word, and URLs. Does that mean that anyone who snaps a photo on Instagram is a programmer? This does not seem to be in accordance with the usual meaning of the word "programmer". Is it "programming" to write a dunning letter in Word? It seems to me like a qualitatively different activity.

Programming languages are all more or less equivalent; although they have a variety of paradigms, and although they are supplied with a variety of I/O facilities, you can program more or less precisely the same set of computations in all of them.

Consider the differences between C, Forth, Smalltalk, Prolog, Fractran, Lisp, Brainfuck, Haskell, VHDL, amd64 machine code, and Malbolge: some of these do not even have branching or variables, but they are all programming languages; none of them can compute anything that any of the others cannot.

The exception might be things like Turner's "Total Functional Programming", which excludes nonterminating computations without, he hopes, excluding much of practical interest; Excel, excluding the macro language, also has this limitation, but in Excel it is more onerous.

By contrast, you can't compute so much as a polynomial or NAND in HTML. That is to say, you can't program at all in HTML. So HTML is not a programming language.

English does not include Latin, although, e.g.†, phrases like "inter alia" and "et cetera" can be used in English, and it's not uncommon for an English sentence to quote a Latin motto. Similarly, HTML does not include JS and CSS, just as it does not include the URL specification, and Python does not include SQL or HTML; they are six separate languages.

† exempli gratia
In my time in school for Engineering (UIUC), I think the "gaming the system" was mostly with the group projects. Many high level classes such as processor design made people form into groups of 2, 3, or 4 people to do a project. Of course like most group work, the workload is terribly lopsided toward the competent people, while the less competent people go get pizza and drinks for the others, and take up a little bit of work (which usually has to get rewritten anyway). Everyone ends up with the same grade.

None of this is of course considered cheating, but a number of people skate past projects all the time. I do agree though, that once it gets to job interviews, those people typically fare less well.

Of course in engineering, some people would still try to focus on the easiest classes to fulfill the requirements and maximize their GPA, but GPA only seemed to really matter if you were going to grad school. Other than that, anything 3.0+ is good enough to get an interview for an internship.
This article is filled with strangely matter-of-fact language regarding matters which are still unsolved:

For example:

> Mr. Epstein — who killed himself in jail last month while facing federal sex trafficking charges
There's no reason you couldn't have the branch locator work offline. Maybe the ATM locator too.

It might be useful to have the most recent transactions, like a check register/quicken; sync when you can. Setting up a queued transfer doesn't seem that unreasonable -- as long as it makes sanity checks when it's actually processed.
I think a different threads of conversation are conflated here. Both parties are in an agreement, I suspect, that the LSD itself has no long term effect, as least as acute psychological treatment. The therapeutic value is in how you use the time. I think the parent poster who quoted O’Leary was saying that the drug is not necessary for the therapy to happen in the first place. Without that already reliable system of therapy in place, the chemical effects of the drug are not going to give consistently therapeutic results.
It's a trait that I've heard derisively referred to as "engineer autism" in some circles, though I doubt the literal truth of that description. But whatever it's called or ascribed to, there seems to be a genuine underlying trend of some sort. It's a topic I'd like to see defined and addressed; as tech becomes more important to society the pathologies of engineer types become more and more socially relevant as people with those traits acquire more power and status.
Journalists investigating current events? Huh.

Next you’ll be telling me scientists only investigate results of experiments!

Police only investigate results of crimes!

What’s next? Washing laundry after it’s dirty?

Where will it end!!
It made me discover that you can select a range in Chrome history by Shift-clicking the end.
That's not based on identity, that's based on action. Running a stationary car is basically a form of littering.
The Onion got Vox down to a T: https://youtu.be/RpkQEq75y18
A lot of people using Matlab aren’t developers.
I agree, Dash is extremely useful. You forgot to describe what it is, so for anyone who is wondering: Dash is an API documentation browser macOS app. It works offline and has fuzzy search that shows results as you type.

Dash currently costs $30. For anyone who doesn’t want to commit to that, you can also try https://devdocs.io/, a free web app alternative with fewer features. DevDocs can even work offline, like Dash does.
I don't think this is actually working world wide, my Good Reads account isn't aware of anything I purchase via my Kindle, let alone share my reviews or reading status.
The workers are paid over minimum wage.

Working conditions might suck, but why is this any different than any small company with poor working conditions?
Herero men is irrelevant. If the situation had been reversed with gay men then it would be young boys instead.
Hi, sorry for the late answer.

AIs currently are built to fight 1v1 matches against each other, so probably not.

I don't know much about SC2, I work on BW.
I understand the general nature of your situation/question, but it’s hard to give meaningful advice without more specifics. Either way, if you say money is no object, what about time? For edge case medical conditions that fall outside the cookie cutter ddx procedure your local doctor is familiar with, doing the research yourself is often the only option. I had to do this for a serious but obscure illness earlier this year. Alternately you can doctor shop and hope to find one who has the interest level and attention to detail to tackle your condition. (Recommendations can help.) But these doctors are few and far between, sadly.

Edit: by the way, I don’t think this is an issue that money can solve directly, which is frustrating. If money is truly no object but time is, one option might be to hire a bright college student as a research assistant, as someone else mentioned here.
I tend to disagree. I see as many comments along the lines of "We need to be using psychedelics, now", how great they are, far more than "we need to be clinically testing these drugs, now". Many have made up their mind, and the trials (in their eyes) are only a confirmation / barrier to the adoption.
I worked for Olivetti in Ivrea and it was a nice town. However, any town needs jobs and a tax base.

It's set in the Aosta valley. The river which ran through was used as a practice center for a kayaking team. At the time, it wasn't far from winter skiing but I understand global warming has closed most of those resorts.

Northern Italian cooking (Piemontese) was amazing and we had a list of restaurants with notations of who went there (Bill Gates went here, ...).

Ivrea itself had a walking street, Via Palestra. I walked to work, getting an espresso in the morning.

No one was actually from Ivrea. It was a company town. If I wanted the Olivetti operator, I'd dial 6, IIRC. Most people didn't have phones and you'd make appointments. I made appointments to play basketball.

Many if not most people, went home on weekends, or at least often. And everyone left for August. Olivetti drew people from all over Italy. I remember one woman who definitely made it known that she was Roman, went back to Rome on weekends, and was angling somehow to get transferred back to Rome.

Lunch at Olivetti was pretty good by American rather low standards. They served wine at lunch. Then it was an ice cream while watching people play tennis on clay. Of course, Olivetti was a typewriter company and we were working in the factory. I was there for a month before I was allowed to go to lunch on my own because otherwise I'd get lost in the labyrinth.

I haven't been back in long time but but I suppose I was there at the right time.
Not everyone works from the same knowledge base. OP could have heard about Epstein in passing, per se, and not known about his extensive criminal history or previous arrest/trial.

I only know about these things from Reddit posters and not much else. There is probably a whole host of information you and I do not know about him; it's important to be aware of your blind spots but also the blind spots of others.
I'd be more likely to use "web app", "web platform" or "web technology" among developers. However, I never use the term "HTML" to refer to that.

Among non-developers, using the term HTML5 is definitely common. To them, it's basically the distinction between "before Flash" and "after Flash".
My mother works in the non-profit fundraising sector, originally centered on education, but now runs her own consultancy for non-profits of all sizes. She knows pretty much all the rules and laws about donations and propriety within fundraising foundations. I've helped her with her business, both in actual operations and for her IT concerns. I've also worked in other regulated industries, so I have a fair amount of familiarity with what sort of rules and laws are involved and what the consequences of violating those rules tend to be.

We are livid right now. She has to help a lot of orgs navigate it, where the rules can sometimes be tricky and somewhat counter-intuitive, especially if you don't have accounting experience (and let's face it, most people in fundraising foundations are some of the lowest paid people on campus, and you get what you pay for). Stuff that could get you fined or jail time for what lay-people might consider an honest mistake (but definitely should be considered 101-course material for fundraisers, considering the stakes).

Joichi Ito's actions go way, way beyond that. Who knows just how far the harm he has caused will actually spread. He's harmed the reputation of his institution, his program, and anyone associated with the program. He's lied and cheated for personal gain. It's a no-brainer that he needs to go to jail. Whatever investigation will follow should be focused on finding all the people who knowingly helped him to lock them up alongside him.
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I had no idea it was supposed to be a social network, I'm just using it to keep track of some books I want to read
Yes, the old abstinence approach. That one always works well. You don't know what you're talking about.

>As for your actual question, whether vaping is worse than cigarettes, I don't know and wouldn't guess, but I wouldn't quit smoking to take up vaping.

So you "don't know" if something known to cause cancer and respiratory disease is worse than something not known to cause any disease? And you see some amount of logic in this belief?
HN users are a varied bunch. There is no reason to not believe him.
I remember a cartoon from 45 years ago Nixon and Brezhnev are sitting at lemonade stands, but selling bombs. With lines of petty dictators, strongmen and despots waiting to buy.
He knew he was comprised, so he had no choice but to continue digging himself deeper.

Remind you of anyone?
You call buzzfeed journalists?

Even so, why no interest in this company 5 years ago if it's not politically motivated?
If this sort of scenario seems normal to you, maybe you live in the wrong neighborhood.

I see a lot of shit when I go outside, but old geezers with entourages of very young eastern european women is not something I can claim to have witnessed.
> “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

That same future president being quoted in an article about Epstein in 2002.
I think they've _both_ done a "heckuva job"
The Guardian article is iffy, discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19026201
Replaces revenue lost in the recent tax cut.
> Sorry, but a 60-something "finance" guy with an entourage of teen models doesn't add up.

The only problematic thing here is the age of those models.

Otherwise, rich people like that are often surrounded with girls of questionable morals and intentions, who do stuff and in return get stuff (some would call it prostitution, some would imply that prostitution had an agreement done in advance...). In some poorer countries, just an expensive car and willingness to pay expensive drinks can get you a table full of such girls.
My 8th generation wife asked me to convey that everything has been downhill since they put in running water and the iron horse.
There have been a few [0][1] proposed storage facilities in the United States that have been stalled because of local NIMBY votes.

[0] https://strangesounds.org/2014/06/us-nuclear-waste-storage-m...

[1] https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/s...
Workers of the world unite!
Please consider the possibility that Epstein rewarded (or promised future rewards in life) to the minors, who by now are adults, some of which are possibly studying, PhD-studying or working MIT Media Lab. This could be hush money through the Cloak of Charity. Check out one of my other comments where I link to my longer analysis. The "gifts" and "fundraisers" used in mainstream media are plausible deniability and downplaying of hush money and hide the "creative" cloak of charity construction...
Water is a very good neutron reflector and moderator so it is exactly what you do NOT want around your nuclear waste. Also metal containers tend to rust when there is water around. The low temperature in the ice will slow that down a bit, but will not prevent it.

Remember: while there are problems that are solve after smart people have stared at the problem for decades, there are many more occasions where all you can come up with is ideas that have been considered and found impracticable all long time ago and you just don't know enough about the problem to see why your idea wont work.
The medical examiner officially ruled it a suicide, so that's where it stands today.
> When SameSite first came out, nobody wanted to make it the default. It could break things, change expected (legacy) functionality and generally speaking the worry of breaking stuff stops us making progress.

So, when it first came out, it was not okay to break things to turn it on by default. But, now it's okay to break things by making it the default.

I'm starting to feel like we're back in the Internet Explorer 6 age (in terms on having one browser that dominates and can arbitrarily change the rules/standards of the web).
I imagine the biggest argument for why this hasn't happened yet is due to the massive expense.

But is it more expensive than what we're currently doing?

(USA viewpoint)
Well, I guess I am not cool enough to go to places where I can see old-guy billionaires with teen models from Eastern Europe in tow.
In Tokyo you could walk into a nightclub at 2am on a wednesday night and the place was filled with eastern european models (bored and in town for photo shoots), and mostly western english teachers. Ok that was kind of bizarre, but if you live in a major city yes there will be models. They don’t just exist in advertising.
To save people a Google: https://apps.ankiweb.net/. It’s a flashcard app that uses spaced repetition to help you memorize things efficiently.
Of course. But for jobs that don't require physical presence, will remote work become the standard?
seating for 10, while there are hundreds, is barely anything. But I guess at least that's good for people who really need it
Do you think it's bad to be weird? It's weird to tell the truth, too, or to keep your word. My complaint about the report is not that it's a weird report; on the contrary, its profoundly poor scholarship is depressingly typical of discussions on the topic. (If you think it's bad to be weird, what are you doing on Hacker News?)

The description of HTML you quote seems fairly correct.

Lisp is definitely a programming language (though, like most, it has a variety of dialects with varying degrees of compatibility). CUDA is more debatable; to me it seems like a different programming language, but CUDA programmers tell me it's just C (or C++). But until 2010, it didn't even support recursion, which seems to me like a pretty basic feature of C. Maybe in 2019 the position that CUDA is a separate language is less reasonable than it was in 2009.
One thing to note about America’s “small scale nuclear” is that it produces more energy than France’s “large scale nuclear”.
As far as I can tell, the lunar orbiter itself is in a polar orbit, so it would make sense that it entered orbit as such. In terms of complexity the main part of the journey to the moon is the midcourse correction and ensuring that the engines fire at the correct time, in the correct direction, and for a certain duration. Depending on the engines used - ie. engines that can be used mutliple times - more than one midcourse adjustement may have been possible. It seems that all of these things worked out fine, since the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has been there in a polar orbit since 20th of August [0]. The lander seperated since then, and the loss of contact a few seconds before the expected landing time implies that the lander reached the surface with a velocity higher than expected.

[0]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/ISRO-chie...
So you oppose democracy?
Weather would then affect the production, making schedules unpredictable.

Plus, I am no expert but I guess you can't make plants actually use much more than 100W/m2 for photosynthesis, the rest of sunlight consists of unsuitable wavelengths. It ends up as waste heat that you'd have to cool away. Perhaps if you could efficiently convert green and infrared parts of sunlight to red/blue, that could help.
Isn't "taking Saudi money" Uber's current business model?
“KI” wireless standard for kitchen appliances
Reading, interpreting, and using dense technical documentation is a skill, just like reading maths. If you don't get anything out of it, maybe this is a skill you are presently lacking and something you should improve. Taking notes on what you are doing and reviewing your initial guesses, resources consulted, and eventual solutions may help you consolidate this ad-hoc knowledge into understanding.

I've read many man pages, many many times, and if I get nothing out of it, I find it is invariably because I am in a hurry, and I'm probably about to fuck something up. The thing to do is usually to slow down and do it right. Only rarely is the right thing to ask someone else for the solution, or see what some other poorly-informed person on the internet thought, although in an emergency asking for help is almost always the right call.

A huge amount of what man pages don't tell you is general Unix philosophy. Man pages don't tell you the lore around the thing, they describe the implementation. It's up to you to infer the consequences and how it can be used. Man pages don't hide the underlying bones of the system either, and generally assume you're comfortable writing a C program to test a syscall if you're not sure about something. So sure, reading man pages isn't always easy, but neither is getting regular exercise or eating your vegetables.
So there is no central place like bittorent tracker which if down the network does not works?

Or is it like DHT which does not need central tracker?
Here's what I've learned about climate change and it's terrifying
> Porsche is spending billions of dollars to bring a very high performance track-focused sports-sedan to the market. Hundreds of extremely good engineers are getting paid millions of dollars to figure this problem out.

And yet their car is only about as fast as a FWD 300HP Renault Megane RS on the Nurburgring.
To be clear, I'm not attempting to pass judgement on people who vote this way. I would also vote "no" if someone wanted to store nuclear waste near my home. I'm only pointing out that storage is hard.
Well in assuming good faith I assume he read the article, which should have cleared up any such misunderstandings...
If you take the money you have to turn a blind eye to the child trafficking part.
I know it’s easy to call C functions from C++. That’s not the issue. The issue is that since all the API functions are in C, the code of my program will mold itself around those APIs, and my program will therefore have a C “shape”, so to speak. And the small pieces that remain C++-shaped might not be large enough or provide enough architectural benefit for the drawbacks of C++ to be worth it.
Use some of the 10% to pay for independent peer review of interesting solutions.
By that logic, all current affairs investigations must be politically motivated.
It normalized Epstein
That seems indeed comparable given the scope and functionality of Wikimedia products.