skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (admittedly limited) understanding of it is that there still needs to be a legitimate reason to provide my email.

So if the email is required in order to, say, send me notifications about CircleCI jobs that are running. That's a legitimate reason. If they share my email with the 3rd party to, for example, optimize their onboarding flows, then this isn't legitimate, unless I explicitly gave my consent to it.

To me, "analytics vendor" as they stated it, usually implies something similar to the latter rather than the former. But since they didn't indicate the provider, nor the reason, I can't really say.

I think we're not in any disagreement here by the way.
See how easy it works? :) I haven't even given you the strings that are attached with the money.
Yes, that is what I am saying.
Hiding the information on from whom the donation came from is a crime. Even if the donor wants to be listed anonymously, you have to at least record in your database (and these foundations have extensive databases going back decades) who it came from.
I wonder if it is fair to discount those people by calling what they're doing "identity politics".

Perhaps there's a move in the Overton window: as environmental issues are brought to the forefront of people's minds, the average person is becoming more hostile to what is perceived as being non-eco behaviour - not because of "identity politics", but because they're more aware of negative externalities coming from such behaviour.

That woman sounds like an outlier based on our experience so far, but perhaps that indicates that the window is moving and what is and isn't acceptable in our society is changing.

I mean, not long ago, slavery was widely accepted in our society and it took some violent societal transitions (at least in some parts of the world), to move to a world where slavery is highly frowned upon.
>Psychedelics have mostly been investigated in small studies run by true believers.

This looks like ascertaining what it should prove. How do we know they were "true believers"? Because they did psychedelic studies?

>Back when psychoanalysis was new, the whole world was full of people telling their amazing success stories about how Dr. Freud helped them obtain true insight and get real closure. I think of psychotherapy as a domain where people can get as many amazing success stories as they want whether or not they’re really doing anything right, for unclear reasons.

Not an argument.

>Between 10% and 50% of Americans have tried psychedelics. If psychedelics did something shocking, we would already know about it.

Which psychedelics, under what conditions, how often? Also, I seriously doubt anywhere close to 25% has taken psychedelics, for example (a number halfway between the 10 and 50%). I don't have the numbers, but I'd say 50% was not even true in 1967 San Francisco...
https://caniuse.com/#feat=same-site-cookie-attribute

As usual, supported almost everywhere, apart from the any IE that's not the latest, running on an updated windows 10. So we can't really use it unless we want to leave lots of users insecure.
So you say "no", but then explain how critical thinking leads to "then critical thinking says he's more probably than not indeed sex trafficking". How is that different from the statement "Critical thinking can tell you there is a higher chance the women were sex trafficked considering the employer and his immoral proclivities" except putting that higher chance at >50%?
GM will use Google’s embedded Android Automotive OS in cars starting in 2021
You haven't given me the money either.
It adds up when you add the fact that he was a billionaire, or at least in the vicinity.
A mind map usually has a relational component. Can one Item show up on two lists, and if it changes in one place, it changes in the other? They also tend to be drawn from the center outward, and have color as an additional dimension of information (categories?).
Just drop by and say thanks you. Not many worldwide charity for human knowledge. Add oil.
kloviaclinks com hack tools sent me $75,000
Sure NYC doesn't have the worst homeless problem, but it's still got one. And that's typically the reason for what may seem like otherwise stingy or stupid decisions.
For me, this event was insightful about the secret world of intellectual elites. We often think of these elites like Steven Pinker and Marvin Minsky working away in their damp offices in university campus and live sort of understated idealistic lifestyles. Instead, it appears there is this billionaire circuit which is equivalent of kings in modern days. They have their courts for intellectual kicks and show offs. They shuttle around these elites in private jets, have them vacation on private islands, put them on boards of companies, fund their ventures and so on. These intellectual elites are by no measure idealistic folks with idealistic middle class academic lifestyles but rather they are very rich and powerful with strong connection to billionaire circuit. It also appears that these folks have no qualms against their relationship with a person with severe ethical or moral issues as long as that person is billionaire. Probably all this is not very surprising and still just a sample size of one but it seems to be an interesting window on that world.
I just so much hate how anytime the solution to anything is 'deregulation' its meet with utter horror. Just using the word 'deregulation' is basically a political death sentence.

Even when deregulation things like airplanes, logistics and lots and lots of other industry has been very beneficial.

I don't think people even realize to what absurd extend the anti-nuclear movement had managed to attack nuclear energy. To the point where it is basically impossible to build any kind of new reactor in the US.

There are only two types of regulation, for extremely tiny research reactors that are whole unsuited for researching actual power reactors. Or full deployment ready reactors that meet all the regulation of a current reactor.

Now the current regulation says that you need to have a way to cool steam. Well, a sodium or molten salt reactor (or lots of others) simply don't have steam that can be cooled. Meaning that LOTS of technical requirements that are only valid for one specific type of reactor and a specific way of building that reactor is valid at all.

Now we can argue over the expect right regulation needed to run a nuclear plant but arguing that 'deregulation' as a concept is so horrible that its worth trying to destroy the biggest source of carbon free energy is beyond dogmatic and wholly irrational.

Its simply outright refusing to deal with the problems of the nuclear industry based on principle rather then actually trying to evaluate the real problems with the current set of regulations (that are widely acknowledged by people from the industry and even within the government itself).
It's in the middle of the desert. Looking at it on a map, it's something like 100km from the coast, and ~50km from any major lakes. That means it's even more dependent on bringing in water from elsewhere than LA is. At least LA could theoretically build a bunch of desalinization plants along the coast if they don't find another solution to their water shortages vs. their increasing population.

California and the rest of the Southwest should be abandoning places like California City, IMO, not building them up.
The max council tax on say a 10 million pound mansion is around £4k - which from chats with some one living in one of the cheaper states is less than a basic 4 bed house.
Director of MIT's Media Lab Steps Down in Wake of Epstein Revelations
> If you're making an empirical observation in the real world, the demands are much less rigorous

The demands are only less rigorous when you agree with the conclusion. Link an article from a racist website dedicated to black-on-white crime (that ignores other crime), and watch as the demands suddenly become much more rigorous.
A simple one that comes up a lot is back dating when a donation "occurred" to be within a certain tax year. Donations don't "occur" until they are processed completely. The end of the tax year has lots of donations come in. If the foundation isn't on their toes, they might not process all of them in time for the tax deadline. It's illegal (though completely possible, and happens all the time) to back-date the donation date to before the end of the tax year, after the tax year has ended.

Others come up as errors of classification. A certain donor might donate a certain good or service instead of straight money. That donation has to be recorded at fair market value and has to be treated as if it were a proper vendor relationship. Determining that value can be quite complex, especially considering such donations are usually done out of excess stock or time that the donor doesn't have a good valuation on out of their own books.

And often, those sorts of donations come with an expectation of quid pro quo: I give two dozen bails of hay that I have just lying around and expect to get a ticket to the next fundraising ball (which might have a few-thousand dollar list price). If the foundation gives that ticket, the bails of hay are no longer a donation and listing it as such is tax fraud.
Isn’t there no corporate tax rate in Ireland? Probably better to setup a corporation and freelance if taxes for employees is that high.
Anyone care to explain the down votes? I am not defending anyone implicated, or claiming knowledge of specifics, but saying that vetting donors in a world where the category of "criminal-philanthropist" is a thing probably gets difficult.
"We are extremely confident that nicotine isn't carcinogenic"

I would not say that's the case. This article is a good place to start:

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cellular-evidence-how-nicotine-and-...
I can't view this for some reason. Is there an alternative where I can read this article?
Read through it. Any more info who is doing it. Not for accusation but prevention.
Also, using your professional relationship as a foundation employee to solicit funds for your personal, private ventures is suuuuuper illegal.
Electric motors are pretty much opposite of gasoline engines. Motors have peak torque at 0-2krpm and it drops off rapidly after that. Gasoline cars tend to hit peak torque near the end of their rpm range (ignoring turbos that can change that in any number of ways).

From what I can see, most electric motors are tuned to have peak efficiency at ~5krpm which is conveniently around freeway driving speeds.
>At the end of the day it needs to stand on its own to make sense

Why? Why does such a critical piece of civilization NEED to make money on a free market? Why is it absurd to expect governments to help fund power generation like they are expected to fund other infrastructure (and healthcare, in most of the developed world)?
California is about to rewrite the rules of the gig economy
Literally cannot predict the future without a chapter on energy and the environment or some aspect of the world outside of IT.

These types of people are so abstracted away from the real world they think the future doesn't involve anything outside of this abstraction. They think you can write an app and use it to fix global warming.

Your life and your children's lives will be more greatly shaped by events and innovations in the physical world moreso than IT. It may not seem this way now, but this is the future.

What is inevitable is that the world will warm up and energy resources will become scarce enough in our lifetimes that either there will be a collapse or a paradigm shift to a new resource or a new way of life. This is more inevitable then anything the author talks about which tbh is largely speculative.
Techno elites often project an air of moral superiority where others are mostly silent would be my guess.
Subsidized against what? It's main competitor, carbon, has the implicit subsidy of not having to account for the externalities in the waste it creates.

Against new green tech yes, it's a better argument.
The problem is that the popular mobile OSes make a lot of this stuff harder than it needs to be. Maybe if it ended up in the IEEE standard...

I still feel like ad-hoc wifi networks with something like BGP would be better. On the other hand there still isn't a good standard "chat over IP" except maybe unix "talk" which just about no one uses.
Thanks for the explanation.

Good luck on your mission!
California's high income tax are bad, but not because they take too much income (that's a separate argument about the morality of taxing labor vs wealth). The income taxes are bad because when the labor market implodes the tax base dries up. At least there's a well-funded "rainy day" account now. But in the Great Recession state finances were quite a mess, which meant the services everyone relied on got cut. So essentially there was a one two punch of job losses and less services for the unemployeed to use.
Would the woman been treated the same way if she was in a Skoda or Audi?
Sex offender and sex trafficker are in entirely different ballparks.
literally, 'epstein' would have been enough
When I spoke to Microsoft (circa 2004), they said I needed a bachelor's degree from a respected college like UW, or relevant job experience to even apply. I was attending a community college at the time so I volunteered to work at a tech company for free, and ended up making that a career.

Maybe things have changed but I was very disappointed.

(If academic performance is relevant I had a GPA equivalent of 4.0 or 3.6 depending on how it was measured, about a 96% average across my classes)
I like literature-map, but I wish it contained more obscure names. The recs are good, but none of them are new to me...
Why not shit on a company supplying tear gas to an oppressive regime?
So is “boys night out” but you wouldn’t refer to grown men as boys.
You're insufferable like every other Linux elitist out there. You realize being polite while being an arrogant prick doesn't change how much of an asshole you are being? I hate this kind of bullshit and I'm tired of it. And I'll get warned because I'm the one getting mad over it. Fuck this shit.
You have to consider that paragraph in the context that Epstein's activities were widely and publicly known at that point.

As far as secrecy, Epstein apparently wasn't very secret at all. Many reports from Virgin Islands where he had a home.
Certainly. Effects can show up as qualitatively new things such as a new kind of particle, but also as tiny discrepancies between theory and experiment. There might be interesting new physics in every digit that gets added to the fundamental constants, for instance.
I work on systems that deal with PBs of data every day, so we'd stand to benefit significantly from .NET Core improvements for numerous reasons. At that level of scale, reducing memory copying would be the biggest win for us.

For the vectorization space specifically, .NET Core string operations like Equals and IndexOf are (now) vectorized, looks like Bing took advantage of that:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-com-runs-on-net-c...

Never was big into ML, but I know people that do a lot of it in Python or R. If those mathematical libraries could be ported to .NET, I wonder how big the improvements would be.
> Why taint the money, when it can help us learn, build, heal, and grow?

Because when that much money is involved, there are strings attached. In this particular case, Epstein got to visit the lab and had people like Ito covering for him, pretending the situation was normal and on the level.
In a house, you are cooling the entire volume of space enclosed so that wherever a human happens to go, they are comfortable. It is still littering, regardless of the scale.
Indeed, but I have not seen that he solicited them. Of course the fact that they were made stinks to high heaven.
There is a paper by a member of a Norwegian research group that ran a pilot plant in the 1950's using iron sulfide as a starting material. I think their efficiency was ~4kwh/kg. On a straight balance sheet it's not competitive against unexternalized fossil fuel based processes. It has the same problem I mentioned with hydrogen reduction. If you're using fossil fuels to create electricity to reduce iron, you can skip that generate electricity step and use the fossil fuel directly. Which is why there has been very little work in this area.

In a world where you have electricity from wind and solar with regular oversupply. And high taxes on carbon based fuels. then I think electrowinning is viable.
Bullets are better than hauling everyone off to secret prisons where they are tortured to death over months. So I guess bullets are cool!
Misogynist: because you tend to assume negative things about women.
It's this type of attitude that makes most on the right cringe at the left. The notion that if someone isn't living their life in a way that you deem to be of value, then there must be a "power imbalance" that needs to be corrected. Has it occurred to you that not everyone wants to be a doctor, or "businesswoman". And that many young women actually like sex and furthermore like using their sexuality to get things in return?

Has it occurred to you that there's nothing wrong with that? It doesn't have to be a "power imbalance". When I buy an orange at the grocery store is that a power imbalance? Should that grocer find a better job by your estimation? Should he have been a doctor? Does he need your "saving"?

If a young woman wants to follow a man to meetings, live in his mansion, have sex, and look beautiful at all times, and in exchange gets what she considers fair compensation, then what exactly is the problem? It's an exchange of goods and services on the open market. It does not imply a "power imbalance".
Yes - sorry. I had one logged in on my laptop and one on my phone which I switched to. I initially created this secondary account to talk to some other poster about hiring advice at my company without linking it to other autobiographic details I've possibly posted on my other account in the past, but have since unfortunately muddled the two in a big OPSEC fail(don't worry - I'm not in cybersecurity).
If you import electronics from U.S. to Norway you have to pay the Norwegian 25% VAT, not U.S. sales tax.
>Ito worked with someone whom his staff suspected of continuing to traffic women — right there in their own office.

Doesn't say anything other than you and these office people are racist.

That's 'truly despicable'. The need to virtual signal so much you devalue other people as human beings to the point of fantasy.

This is straight from pizzagate style stuff. 4chan is now in HN it seems. I can't believe these comments on this thread.

No one ever leave the basement and actually see human trafficking IRL? Or it just a toy to bring out and play with? Here's a hint if you want to leave virtual signalling and help people you'll have to deal with 'real' moral dilemmas.
Why outdated one which might release cynaide etc are used if it is so easy to be obtained and so cheap? Our tube and Neigbourhood are affected by these indiscriminate use of TG.
The Media Lab was near the top of the heap of university-industrial consortia in terms of both glamour and income. There really wasnt a need for all this back-channel stuff.
It was widely known that he kept attractive women around and probably slept with them. It was widely known that these women were probably prostitutes. But so what? The moral transgression here is not sleeping with prostitutes or being lecherous. The moral transgression is conscripting underage girls into prostitution. And it's not at all clear that that was widely known in his social circle.
Is your argument that the solution to violence is no violence? I believe that assertion is self evidently useless and harmful to the discussion. We would do a lot better to try and raise the tenor of the conversation by discussing interesting viewpoints, not asserting that the solution to something is to simply stop doing it
The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf]
Nice! My go to calc is dc. If you're like me at all, then you might like to know that we can avoid the pipe usng the -e switch

$ dc -e '_80538738812075974 3^ 80435758145817515 3^+ 12602123297335631 3^+p'
Anyone that's expecting Apple to annually refresh their statements about this under oath to not be considered compromised is probably acting in bad faith.

The first time was good enough for anyone that actually wants to know if Apple had to make compromises to be in China. The answer is no and the reason why is obvious, Apple has some leverage in being a major employer and a highly visible American company operating in China.

Apple's press statements as well as that on-the-record interview with the CEO are perfectly consistent with the court filings.

>Originally, iCloud data was stored on Apple-controlled servers, with the Cupertino company holding the encryption keys. Apple announced a year ago that this would change to comply with new laws in China, and that data for Chinese iCloud accounts would be moved to a server run by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD), a company owned by the provincial government.

>However, I have spoken to Apple today, who confirmed that it still holds the encryption keys, and states categorically that they have not been made available to either GCBD or China Telecom.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/18/chinese-icloud-data-china-tel...

And the use of mutliple zero day exploits to target the Uyghurs basically confirms that China doesn't have direct, backdoor access to Apple products.
You're not wrong, but those of us lucky enough to make that choice are rare. My point, however, is the question posed to the potential employer, looking at me with judgement that I might seek to optimize the time I'm spending away from my family by making absolutely as much money as I can.
Because my comment was about the cited paragraph, not about Epstein. I had no reason to assume Epstein was already known as a sex trafficker when he visited MIT. It would be a very weird assumption - why would the head of MIT Media Lab meet with a convicted sex trafficker?
Is this actually the prevailing analysis of the status quo? Is the best unsubsidized nuclear power plant we could technically build today actually cost effective or is it not? Can people with insight chime in? I just tried to google an answer and, from a layman's perspective without a horse in the race, there seems to be no single easily available answer.

As a side note, it irritates me how often this is the case for many simple and important (but, apparently, hard) questions, that must have a correct answer.
>The cloudfare 8chan action was based on a direct link with multiple actual mass-shootings

What is this "direct link" you speak of? Did the shooters plan/recruit/organize their attacks on 8chan?
Sounds like future of Mountain View and Google.
The chairman of ISRO was a poor farmer's son. Now he is an intellectual. I can attest that lot of people who were poor in India have chosen the path of science because of such endeavors. 900Cr is actually peanuts against a lot of projects involving social upliftment projects that Indian Government invests in. And it is a long term investment.

I spent about 10 years of my life in a social home, where we did not even had 10 rs to buy medicine, and now almost everyone in my extended family in my generation is an privileged Engineer. A lot of inspiration came from our home grown and cheap space program.

Why does the USA pursue the space program when they still haven't solved cancer and there are a lot of creationists there, and a large amount of gun violence. It should not pursue the space program until it solves these things by your logic.

India will spend about 33 Trillion rupees total in various social upliftment, subsidy, transport and energy sector this year. The Chandrayan-2 is about decimal percentage of it.