skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s in the New Yorker article linked from the nytimes article. But correct there is no timeline. But the references to emails that show leadership trying to hide the source of donations sounds bad.
Sorry folks give up the ghost nuclear was dead at least 3 decades ago. Solar and wind are the future. We don’t have a decade to build a new nuclear plant, in that plan we’d need a time machine going backa decade to abate climate change that’s now locked in. I’ll spare you all the risks and externalities, it’s just dumb. Again sorry.
I was thinking more wrapping this around a standard 3 blade fan mast. So the structural integrity is there but your taking advantage of an existing structure (obviously with some modification to suit) to generate additional power. This additional lower while maybe not as efficient as the fans, it might be cost effective since the base structure is there and systems to collect the power.
The grocery stores already sell highly addictive and thus highly profitable substances.
Building material units in the US are in feet and inches so it’s my point of reference for building projects eg indoor growing
People say this as if Californian is an ethnicity. Please.
Unix talk requires servers. For a well standardized chat over IP protocol using servers we have XMPP.
I'm curious about Media Lab. They setup a branch in Dublin way back and it was such obvious and painful BS. But overall have they produced interesting work? At all?
Theranos redux.
There are definitely participants in these discussions with a very specific agenda. Some accounts, like nf8nnfufuu, are going really far out of their way to defend Epstein. Just search for how many responses they've written throughout this thread to see what I mean.
Was this The Onion?
>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.

Ok. I also argue that laptops are potentially as dangerous as smoking. Call me in 20 years and I'll let you know how it turned out.
The right thing to do is not taking the money. There are plenty of other places you can get money from. The recipient may not get formal 'reputation points' but you are overlooking informal social networks in which such things are widely known but not talked about. If you have a bad reputation, financial inducements to silence people can be just as valuable if not more so as positive public remarks are to a person of ordinarily decent reputation.

As I said on another thread, if you really want to donate anonymously to a good cause, you just call a lawyer and pay a small fee to have them to submit it on your behalf.
Because you are tying yourself to a specific ISA. This is bad even within the same chip family. If you want to migrate your x86 32 bit code to 64 bit then you have to rewrite everything.
I have no issues with him being forced out of his position. I have an issue, in this sub sub thread, with people mandating that I should have considered that head of Media Lab would openly meet a convicted sex trafficker.
That's not bad news!

How do the capital costs compare?
I doubt it's easily preventable, or there wouldn't be so much of it. My understanding is that drugs are cut to varying strengths, and sometimes are laced with stuff like fentanyl or other compounds that you weren't expecting and that are highly active at lower doses.

Preventing ODs is easy if you have a pure product of an exact known strength and an accurate scale, but these conditions aren't often true in the real world.
So, "most of the world"?
^ This. Last I checked it was not supported w/ IE11 on Windows 7.

I have no idea why samesite capability would ever depend on the host OS. Shame on Microsoft for not supporting a somewhat simple to implement security feature on older (but supported) operating systems.
Yes he was. If he felt conflicted about it he should have resigned then, rather than doing so just now after his involvement was publicly exposed. I wish you would half as hard at trying to understand this as you do at refuting it; I can't bear to continue this conversation further.
China ‘exaggerated’ GDP data by 2 percentage points for at least nine years
Love the stack. Great call on Django, definitely makes it easier for a one man show. Also good decision to eschew an API for now as it’s just more overhead that’s not currently needed.

Have you checked out the great djangochat.com yet? Awesome content there.

Also, just curious, what would you do differently if you started from scratch today?
It has a huge influence on the language being used. There are simply many kinds of “programming”, and thinking about it as a homogeneous activity is just going to yield ridiculous PL popularity lists that compare apples and oranges.
Yeah well obviously they are, but I always do love an HN "oh logical fallacy I win!" response.

My point is that your approach helps no one and has failed time and time again in the past. Remember D.A.R.E? How about abstinence health ed. programs? "Just say no" doesn't work. People like their vices. When a healthier alternative comes along it's a good thing.
The fact you even mention this is evidence that Restrictive/Exclusive App Stores (e.g. Apple App Store) are a bad deal for consumers - limiting their privacy, and freedom. No entity should be able to block you from running software of your choice on a device you own.

Fortunately the majority of these protestors are likely using Android devices with the easy ability to put them in developer mode and side load these messaging apps.

I'd like to see Apple iOS introduce a developer mode (free of cost!) that allows side loading.
Texas has a lot of transplants as well. If you look at the population today vs 20 years ago, it becomes really obvious that it has to be the case.
How are you sure typing would have made a difference to that piece of Python? Are you sure there is no troublesome code written anywhere in Java or C++?
> And, frankly, the kindle is the only platform that matters, it likely has 95%+ of the ereader market.

I have trouble finding up-to-date sources, but Googling has some out-of-date data indicating Kindle in the mid-80s for American marketshare and mid-50s for global marketshare.

Personally, I've found Kindle and Kobo ereaders to be broadly equivalent from a hardware perspective. Kindle has better integration with the Amazon ecosystem, while Kobo has better support for DRM-free formats and better integration with local libraries. Ebooks that Amazon and Kobo offer also seem to be broadly equivalent in selection and price. (And Kobo will pricematch Amazon, or anyone else.) Largest different I've noticed are audiobooks that are exclusive to one or the other, with Audible having more of those, but also being more expensive than Kobo's audiobook service.
This would work exceptionally well if what they're doing is store-and-forward, instead of a classic mesh.

HK definitely has the population density to make it work, especially with people moving around.
May I suggest a trip to Miami?
>aside from the Chinese and Indian who are more homogenous racially/culturally

China and India are not very homogenous at all, now or historically. I can bring up plenty of examples, but here's one that caused huge amounts of political unrest and dispute just last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri_River_water_dispute

>Yeah, that's a huge cultural (and dietary) destruction...

Culture only has value if people decide it have value. There is nothing innate in the concept of culture that makes it valuable or positive. Certain aspects of existing cultures I think most people on HN would agree are detrimental to humanity - things that result in harm, control, removal of agency, etc. from the unwilling. Those shouldn't be protected just because they're part of culture. And by the same token, if a more homogenous culture is required for humanity's descendants to become a spacefaring civilization (which is ultimately required for something resembling humans to survive in the long run), people might value that over cultural diversity. I'm not really convinced that that is required, as diversity generally makes us better, but there might be aspects that are incompatible.

But even focusing on something like food - there's nothing inherently wrong with people deciding they prefer to eat some type of food more than what may have historically arisen in their culture or geographic location. I love trying different types of food and hope that it is preserved in some way, but no ones owes it to me, or anyone else, to eat something they don't want to in the name of preserving culture. Every individual has agency, and we should let the people that want to preserve aspects of their culture do so, and those that want to shed aspects should certainly be allowed to do so as well. At any rate, I doubt the people eating KFC and drinking Coke in Mongolia and Madagascar need or appreciate those of us on Hackernews telling them they should or shouldn't eat and drink.
It's in the moon with Moonman.
Straight.el: next-generation, purely functional package manager for Emacs
Who sells tear gas to US police departments? Who sold the bullets that shot the kids at Kent State? How about we hold the actual people giving the orders to fire the tear gas accountable instead of random vendors?
I really want to explore the scripting feature
Do you know where I could read about what befell this city?
> I can't speak for all devices, but I've worked with a lot of Dell and SuperMicro servers and they all have an option in the BIOS for this. You specify if the BMC should operate on it's own dedicated network port or share the network port used for primary network uplink.

They do, but on the three supermicro board types I have here, simply doing that but then leaving the BMC port disconnected results in them bridging onto the lan anyways. They obey the setting but only so long as a link is up on the BMC port.
Gates is sometimes surprisingly accessible.

Some lawyers I know were in Seattle to take depositions for a big lawsuit they were on. They went to dinner at a restaurant, and then went out to get a cab back to their hotel.

A bunch of other people were leaving at the same time, and people going in the same direction were agreeing to share cabs so people would not have to wait as long.

They were about to get in to the cab with one of the other diners who was going in the same direction and agreed to share, when they realized that other diner was Bill Gates.

Since Microsoft was the defendant in the lawsuit they were taking depositions for, and they were lawyers for the plaintiff, and were in the midst of a fight with Microsoft's lawyers over whether or not they could depose Gates, they realized sharing a cab with Gates was probably not a good idea, so waited for the next cab and let someone else share Gates' cab.
The map is already updated several times daily (at least twice daily) as the system switches to late night service.
> The idea that someone with equal ability to do calculations with both could understand Newtonian mechanics better than they understand quantum mechanics belies an extremely naive view of how easy it is to perceive the true metaphysics of classical mechanics.

I don't think that was the OP's idea. He doesn't even reference Newtonian mechanics in the article.
This is a classic use case for store-and-forward. Trying to build a mesh where sender and recipient need a TCP-style connection is futile; store and forward, on the other hand, would be ideal for Twitter-style applications.
My interest here was in how people judge other people, not in Epstein's exploits specifically. I don't see what I would gain from reading that article.

I would be interested in what made the Media Lab guy do it.

I suppose many people are confronted with an opportunity for "unethical gains" some time in their lives. Maybe the Media Lab guy simply weighted things in his mind and thought it was worth it, to keep the research going, finance his researchers, or whatever.

I would be interested if it would be wrong in all cases. Like maybe (hopefully) Bill Gates is clean, and via shady Epstein MIT could get clean Gates money. OK or not OK?
I did my M.Sc. in quantum physics, and I'll be the first to admit I don't understand it.

Yes, the equations do seem to predict what we observe in experiments very well. Shockingly well, given how strange some of the predictions made by them are! However, we lack an intuitive understanding of why the equations work. Matter and energy behave very differently on the quantum scale than they do on the macroscopic scales we're used to observing. If you're trying to model a pendulum, your intuition about how objects behave in the real world can be of immense help when performing sanity checks on your equations. Your intuition is worse than useless when it comes to quantum systems. It's not just flat-out wrong much of the time, it can lead you to ignore things that should not be ignored.

Quantum physics has all sorts of English language, short-hand descriptions for mathematical functions like "tunnelling", "non-local", "spooky action at a distance" or, as is pertinent to this article "observation". You may think you understand what these mean, but you're probably at least partly wrong if you're thinking about them in terms of human language, natural human intuition, or even the very specific short-hand terminology of physicists. We are continually teasing out nuances in the math that language simply does not capture. If we lack the language to adequately describe reality, can we really understand it?

Feynman was very correct to observe that people who think they understand quantum physics on a deep, intuitive level, probably do not. Doing quantum physics with a human brain evolved for bashing stones together is like trying to breathe in outer space. It's possible with considerable effort and the right tools (e.g. a space-suit), but if you ever forget that it's a deeply unnatural thing to be doing you're probably going to get yourself into trouble.
SIP can work point-to-point directly over IP without a central server. I remember trying that with 2 SIP phones connected directly via Ethernet (configured with static Its) and I could call the IP of the other phone and that one would ring.
I don't want my phone listening for key phrases.

This was a solved problem years ago. Windows Phone let you pin nav directions to any address you wanted directly on your home screen.
IMO type checking is to python what bounds checking is to C.
I guess OP's point is that beautiful women couldn't possibly be anything more than sex trafficked women.
"Suicides were most common among men and those 45 to 54 years old."
Stop spreading dangerous fake beliefs, if you make such an extraordinary claim that nuclear is less cost effective than "green competitors", source it.
This is in complete Contradiction with this scientific analysis:
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...
What a beautiful essay. It's so difficult to see human suffering with a mix of clear-headed honesty, empathy, and pragmatism. The author navigates this impossible landscape with grace and sincerity. I'm glad they shared.
I wonder if there will ever be enough of a political pushback on this stuff to change anything? I feel like people that care about privacy and not having a dystopian government are always going to be the minority. What needs to happen for normal people to start to care?
Thanks for the whataboutism! Islam is a perfect example? In history, the same damn thing happens between Christian factions, occasionally involving a large number of deaths.
How is python's added typing compared to TypeScript? Is it expressive enough to completely supplant traditional Python or is it just something you add in sometimes to help out a little?
For good ereaders there's Kindle and Kobo. Kobo supports DRM-free epub, but in practical terms, it doesn't matter a whole lot with Calibre to organize your library and convert to your format of choice.
That's exactly the difference between your examples and this: your examples are easily within reach of US accountability, foreign governments not really, so their suppliers are the closest target.
Overdosing pretty clearly is an unfortunate side effect of addiction to a substance that can be overdosed with, especially one that has to be obtained on the black market.
bostonmetal.com

I don’t know whether this counts as “well-developed”.
Alternative Window Managers for macOS
I reckon it's a comment on your unwillingness to consider the context in this conversation. Epstein was a sex offender who had been convicted of raping children and he comes in flanked by young women, possibly children. Isn't that suspicious?
This looks like awesome work. Will be studying the source to learn about how it works. Serious code envy for people who take the time and effort to build OS'es like this.

Could see this having potential on SBCs and usage in IOT/PLC applications.
London spends half as much per passenger mile as NYC. A mile of subway in Paris or London costs 1/7 as much to build as in NYC. What makes NYC’s metro shitty is that New Yorkers are running it.
Uh, OK, that's not what I thought parent said.

There's actually tons of knowledge transfer, everything but ITAR. For example, NASA publishes a lot of information in the open, as long as it's not ITAR-restricted.
I think he's talking specifically about the Java and C++ code that accompanied that Python file. I'm sure he's seen bad Java and C++ :)
If I'm not mistaken, all of the types are akin to comments: completely ignored by the interpreter.
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"The RBMK reactor had a serious flaw"
The serious flaw was multiple consecutive human errors which could today be prevented by software checklist enforcement.
I would be surprised if it was fraud.

But it might be covered by this: https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/MC1/MC1-Part1Sectio...

Essentially any argument that donated money accepted in good faith is stripped of its criminal origins is wholly wrong.

If I steal a TV and donate it to a school, the police can recover the TV and return it to its owner. The fact that the school didn't know it was stolen is irrelevant.

Donations sourced from criminal profits are a more complex example of the same long-established legal and moral principle.

This is why the Sacklers are having such a time of it - the jury is still out on whether pushing opiates was actually criminal, but it's certainly not simply a civil case. And it's also why anyone who had any kind of association with Epstein is trying very hard to distance themselves from him.

Which is why Ito's actions weren't just stupid, but could be considered criminal in their own right.

There's no doubt Epstein was involved in some very nasty things. If profits from the nasty things were accepted unknowingly, then there's no criminal liability. But anyone who knowingly benefits from criminal acts risks being accused of being an accessory to them, even if the connection is purely financial.
Sure you could: "that board of directors is a boys club" is not a statement about some corporation being literally run by children.
This strikes me as a misattributed quote. Source?
Epstein was clearly a pedophile. Even at the time in question, it was already quite clear that he was a pedophile. So that's what's so damning.

Trafficking of young women from the former Soviet Union is a complicated issue. During the collapse, and well into the 90s and mid 00s, many people were desperate. Literally starving, with ~no public services. And many criminals took advantage of that, recruiting young women for work as models, nannies and prostitutes. Plus of course all of the websites for Russian etc brides.

And that's still happening, because many areas are still very poor and chaotic. And Epstein clearly took advantage of that. Along with many other Americans, mostly in less abusive ways.

Generally, people who recruited destitute young women in legitimate ways would have no reason to hide that. Wives, nannies, servants, models, etc. So I guess that Epstein was just trying to maintain a pretense of legitimacy.

Edit: Here's a personal example. Indirectly through family, I knew a young woman who made it to the US in the late 80s. She'd been trained as a restoration artist, and the demand for that collapsed along with the Soviet Union. But once here, she worked for some years as an exotic dancer.
It's a good point about energy and the environment being important aspects missing from the book. But I don't find the summary to be discussing largely speculative predictions. It sounds more like trends or situations that already exist today.
The problem with sideloading is the threat of compromised/modified version of an app being unknowingly installed. I believe the Saudis did this with the help of an Italian company whose name escapes me right now.

Edit: looked it up, here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypw3xv/police-grade-mobil...
4-6 degrees of warming to be expected over the next century. At 4 degrees they estimate the planet will be able to support 1 billion people. It isn't the press making these claims up out of thin air.

Nothing says the warming will stop there. It's a pretty rational thing to be afraid of, I mean, if the future of humanity means anything to you at all.
Anyone remembers when Bayer stopped selling the chemicals to kill prisoners to the US?

I liked that pretty much.
These sort of apps great for indoor events, crowded+huge shopping malls, concerts, clubs.....I will be generous and say those are the sort of targets for Oppo app. Not met anyone using it yet.
A variant is the food stamp challenge where you limit food to the standard allotment of about $6 a day. If you can get a whole month upfront, you can make bulk purchases as others point out. Also you probably need to cook most food from scratch and avoid convenience food and eating out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_stamp_challenge

I have read several stories where celebrities struggle with this for a week.
Considering that the MIT Media Lab granted a disobedience award to MeToo advocates, that makes some sense.

Though it seems more pragmatic than a moral right.