skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree this evidence shows this crime was committed by this person. This wasn't one of the sites where a small organized crew of environmentalist hipsters vandalized a pipeline valve. It was the site of a large, legal, peaceful protest attended by tens of thousands of people. What evidence is there the person that smoked this cigarette committed the crime of "rioting"? There is none.

Civil disobedience wasn't a major factor in the protests.

The pipeline itself wasn't legal. It didn't properly comply with the permitting process. They "smurfed" the applications by dividing the pipeline into a series of tiny unrelated projects in order to avoid the required environmental reviews. Smurfing to avoid regulatory requirements is explicitly prohibited under federal law.

So yes, federal crimes were committed there. No evidence by this guy.

And were there crimes by any protestors? Yes! One woman, a convicted felon, fired a gun while being apprehended by police. It later turned out the gun was planted on her by an FBI informant who had sexually assaulted her, but legally she was in violation of federal law because she possessed a firearm. So that was illegal to be sure. A bit reminiscent of similar FBI operations where mentally deficient and gullible persons are recruited by FBI agents and coerced into plotting terrorists acts that are entirely designed and organized by the FBI.

The main protest acquired permission from relevant federal authorities and movement leaders clearly communicated to protestors that violence, weapons, and drugs were all unacceptable. This was a legitimate protest, not civil disobedience. Though obviously many like to argue it was illegal, and King's Birmingham march as well, and the dogs sicced on protestors and firehoses in Alabama by law enforcement were every bit as legal and justified as the dogs and firehoses deployed against protestors in the Dakotas during this decade.
Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter
Should have put it up against the Tesla Model 3 with Track Mode.
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-da...
There is also a website about WASET which is a fake conference organizer, focusing on earning money and getting papers published.

https://wasetwatch.wordpress.com
For relatively spirited driving, especially in the mountains, how often do Tesla's overheat? Does overheating reduce drivability dramatically? I have read that it's the Model S inverters which overheat the most, since the battery pack is liquid cooled.
Completing the survey takes 45 seconds of your time.
Go ahead, your opinion matters!
Someone once shared a mantra that later became one of my basic design principles, especially when introducing changes to things that people already use: "Don't break working systems."

I wish more developers understood why this is important.
They often don't expose knobs I'd really like to tweak, either. For instance if I grew up listening to original album version of something I don't want to hear the live one. But there's only an upvote/downvote choice on Google music so what exactly am I giving the thumbs down? The artist? The song? This particular version of the song? No idea.
Very common in the UK in hospital settings. Probably the one of the most used strong painkillers - most people I know who have had painful surgery got it post operation.

A GP could also prescribe it no problems. Indeed there are a small number of people that get it prescribed if other drug treatments have failed.
And many of these services are fairly essential, so if your taxes aren't covering them, you'll end up paying out of pocket for them anyway. This can be something like fire protection (e.g., if you live somewhere unincorporated) or healthcare (e.g., US).
I get part of the impulse. The concept that attractive Eastern European women spending their time with a billionaire means that they were trafficked somewhat strips them of agency. Like "you wouldn't do this of your own accord". Maybe they would.

Of course, in this case, the fellow turned out to be a monster. But Sir Richard Branson is on the level AFAIK and he hangs out with attractive women. Presumably they enjoy the company.

EDIT: I can't answer the threads below because I've been timed out for making this comment. Fair enough, but I should clarify: My point is _precisely that_. It's the child prostitution that's the problem. You can just point at the "solicitation of a minor" thing directly. Making it about the attractive Eastern European women is completely unnecessary and only useful to decry the notion that they may choose otherwise than what the MIT folks would choose.
Again, we're not talking here about a blanket judgment of "attractive Eastern European women" or even "attractive Eastern European women with a much older man." We're talking about this in the context of them showing up with a man who was a confessed and convicted pedophilic sex trafficker. That's why people were entirely in the right to assume that perhaps they didn't have their full agency in the situation. As a matter of fact one of Epstein's & Ghislaine Maxwell's tactics was to confiscate passports, which could very well have been the case with these women Epstein brought to MIT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...
Children love anything that is remotely a symbol of power in their cultures.

For boys is ofter guns or superheros, for girls is a doll as long as is clear that it represents an alpha female. Girls and boys earn social power by beging linked with "powerful people" and toys simbolize this association.
Not everyone is just in it for the degree. Some people actually want to learn things, expand their mind, and meet people who are trying to do the same. We should treat these kinds of students with respect and hold everyone else to the same standard they hold themselves, which means disallowing and discouraging cheating whenever possible.
Maybe they can start by understanding how Click and Grow works, especially the soil in their capsules.
Honestly the whole...this discussion but also something I said somewhere else is a very irritating style.

If you want to tell me something...do so.

I have better things to do that dig through your post history to figure out what you reckon you might have referenced that is important in your eyes.
but can you use these covers though, especially if you have ads on your site etc? aren't those images Amazon's property?
There is no female equivalent to "guy", so "girl" is used instead.

You're intentionally misinterpreting things.
Reaching that conclusion is pretty simple. At least simple and straight forward enough to charge someone. Probably not as simple to get an actual conviction.

I think this is what happened. They probably found several cigarette butts inside the perimeter of the vandalized private property, they ran DNA tests for all of them and one matched this guy's DNA.
There are only a few possible reasons for his DNA to be inside that perimeter:

1) He was a contractor doing work for the Dakota Access Pipeline operator (probably already ruled out, otherwise he wouldn't have been charged).

2) Somebody took his butt from outside and put it inside the perimeter (very unlikely).

3) He actually smoked that cigarette and dropped the butt in that location while he was vandalizing it (most likely scenario from the prosecution point of view).

4) He trespassed the property at a different time and smoked and dropped the cigarette butt at that time. This is still an unlawful behavior but is probably better than all the other charges. (This is a possible scenario but it would be pretty hard for his defense to demonstrate this is what actually happened).

Again. This is enough for prosecutors to charge this guy but it doesn't mean at all that this is good evidence to get a conviction. In my humble opinion, a cigarette butt with your DNA is pretty weak evidence in this particular case.
"lots of users", unless you are working with enterprise software I wouldn't call IE lots of users. Just display a banner for IE users informing them that using the site with IE is insecure and suggest alternatives.
Not at all

My point is that plastic COLLECTION is the issue, not the amount produced.

And wildly hyping the actual amount of plastic with dis-information-graphics does not help the cause.
I went to North Dakota when the camp was at its height. It was incredibly beautiful and inspiring.
The Idaho Statesman did a write-up a while back asking if Californians moving to Idaho would change the politics. What they figured is that it was mostly right-leaning Californians coming to Idaho. While it surely will change the politics I don't think it is guaranteed to become more blue.
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-s...

https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-likely-targets-anybody-whos-to...
Epstein was connected to many high profile, wealthy, and politically connected people. If he went to trial, his connections to these people may be exposed, and they may face legal liability.

There are a number of suspicious circumstances regarding Epstein's alleged suicide. In no particular order:

* Multiple bones in Epstein's neck were broken. This is possible in a suicide, but broken bones are more consistent with a homicide. [1]

* Multiple video cameras malfunctioned outside Epstein's cell coincident with his death. [2]

* Epstein's guards, who were supposed to be regularly checking on him did not. They were "asleep" before, during, and after Epstein's death. They later falsified records about this fact. [3]

* The explanation for the failed video cameras and the sleeping guards is that the MCC is under staffed. Yet, that's at odds with the fact that there was only one other suicide in the past 40 years at the MCC [4].

I try to think about how I would regard Epstein's death if it happened in a history book, in a foreign country.

"There was a guy who had material implicating numerous powerful figures. While he was being held in prison, recently released from suicide watch, isolated from his former cell mate in a cell by himself, cameras failed, his guards stopped checking on him, he became the first suicide in more than a couple decades by hanging himself by kneeling so forcefully against his bed sheet [5] that he broke multiple bones in his neck."

I don't think, if I were reading about this at a distance, that I would have any real doubts about considering Epstein murdered. The idea that Epstein's suicide is as simple as alleged strikes me as preposterous.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/autopsy-finds-broken...

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-ca...

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...

4. https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-new-york-lockup-suicides

5. https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-used-bedsheet-to-...
Out of curiosity what do you do? If you don't want to share that's fine, but I also wish to do the same however have not found something to solve/make yet.
Messaging : communication. Basically meaning not visual Ui. Communicate it and it is done. Input interface specific.
I really struggle with the idea that dinosaurs and fossils were a discovery in the 1800's. Writers make up anything these days.
However, a separate thread is that these tycoons did create corporate dinosaurs, which is where I assumed the article would go from the headline.
I saw a commercial on TV recently claiming 1 in 6 households in America were "food insecure". I don't buy it. Food costs are still low, food banks still have food and EBT is still available. When I was younger I was well below whatever the poverty line was defined as, and most if not all of my friends/neighbors were in similar situations, and I never once witnessed or heard of anyone going hungry, let alone feeling insecure about obtaining food. Paying the electricity bill on the other hand...
Wow this site just keeps refreshing on iOS + adblock, making it impossible to read or even attempt to disable adblock...
>In short, to your point: AWS is for builders... who pay. And right now all the growth is in enterprise, where we don’t know how to make API calls from a command line.

I work pretty extensively with enterprise companies that are on AWS, and most make significant use of the APIs and command line. Lots of these companies are ones that I am helping move to AWS, and their teams are frequently excited at being able to utilize the command line and API as much as possible.

>We don’t know how, because two decades of IT practices and security practices made sure we couldn’t make API calls from a command line. (No access to install CLI tools, no proxy, firewall rules from the S3 era still classify AWS as cloud storage and block it, etc.) So we can’t adopt AWS at all if that’s the only path in. But our proxy teams can figure out how to open a console URL. For this market, giving a point and click web page with magic infra behind it is a big deal: the modern ‘service catalog’.

This also sounds pretty crazy to me. It's not a situation I've ever spoken to anyone in, and quite frankly: If your security and networking teams are unable to figure out how to open access to API endpoints that are all documented, you need new people on those teams. It's also certainly possible to proxy the API and command line calls to these endpoints, as well.

>So to anyone following along from a team with two pizzas: invest in the UI, but please nail the APIs first, and then use those from the console. Keep yourselves honest to the Bezos imperative from 15 years back: if you want it in the console, so do IaC developers, so let there be an API for that

I 100% agree with this, though. I want APIs for everything, but a lot of people like the console for discoverability and gaining familiarity - not everyone can grok what something is from reading the API documentation as they can from poking at it with the console, even if they ultimately do end up managing it elsewhere. Build great APIs, build a great console on top of those APIs, and everyone is better off for it.
Your not behind ryanlol too, are you?

Strange arguments from people with weak hamming distances to my first name.
It's not that, there was this huge communal experience that's, well, probably not gone, but significantly changed. I used to joke that old people listened to classic rock and it was all the same 7 bands from that late 60's early 70's...all the while not realizing I was forming the same tastes with the 80's...but I still consume new stuff...heck, I have access to 90% of everything ever recorded, but it's the fraction of that that I'll never have full mastery of. It lets me sample Zepplin and Beatles and Bowie, and also Earl (Tongue Tied) and K/DA, and Pomplamoose and I'm not scratching a half a percent of the music that's out now.
Is there more genetic diversity in wolves, or in individual breeds of domesticated dogs? I would assume wolves. Does that mean that there are no dog breeds?

For that matter, you seem to be conceding the point that there are different groups of people similar to those commonly referred to as "races" that have discernibly different traits - in this case nucleotide diversity.

In other words, I do not think that your paper does not support your assertion that races do not exist. (And also completely failed to address the "these specific traits are significant and associated with particular races" component of my argument)
like something straight out of The East

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869716/
For me, it's odious because it's in the vein of:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." [1]

I think it's politically motivated abuse of process intended to curtail protest speech.

[1] attributed (attribution disputed) to Cardinal Richelieu: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
The protest was not illegal. Stop saying it was.
The OP wasn't whatabouting, just pointing out that it's business as usual.

Whataboutism as an accusation only take makes sense when it's whatabouting something from the accuser's camp, which doesn't seem to apply here.
Here's an idea I came with at least 8 years ago and wanted to develop further but in the end never managed to. I'm not aware if someone in the meantime made something like that, however this article brought it back to mind.

Basically it was a phone app that through mesh networking (Bt/WiFi) builds then maintains updated a distributed database of signed up local devices where each record contains accurate geographical coordinates (or seat numbers in public places - that would require a map of course) of all devices then arranges them in a xy matrix, rounding to the next available device when necessary. The initial purpose of the app, once the owner wears it like a pendant, was to make each device screen become essentially a RGB pixel in a giant screen, then distribute and synchronize (again, through mesh networking) down to fractions of a second (NTP and GPS should allow that) both graphical and temporal data to drive them. My idea was to use this giant screen to allow people to show political dissent messages in countries/times/places where this is not permitted (just imagine a 20k people crowd in a stadium). The app should have implemented some mechanism so that only trusted people could decide and schedule what's being shown and when, but other than that, every connection would have been on a peer to peer basis through mesh networking.
I didn't think about implementing a chat over all the above, but that would probably be a lot simpler than the rest.
As further security measure, the database should be encrypted so that if someone is arrested it won't reveal the peers data/position, and a panic button or dead man switch function could also be added so that a routine propagates the alert instructing all other apps to uninstall themselves and reboot.
If Xeni Jardin's claim below is true, Joi Ito needs to resign from more than just MIT:

"I told the @nytimes everything. So did whistleblowers I was in touch with inside @MIT and @Edge. They printed none of the most damning truths. @joi is on the board of the NYT. THANK GOD FOR @RonanFarrow"

EDIT: NYTimes is now indicating that Ito has resigned from NYT Co board, effective immediately [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1170352857952002048

[2] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1170449747041226757
This isn't the only dodgy behavior that's been reported about Hoffman in regards to Epstein. It's also been reported that he hosted a well attended party in Silicon Valley where Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. We will probably not see much more on this thanks to the plutocratic wagon circling that baron_harkonnen talks about, but it's naive to take Hoffman's statements at face value here.
You can get annotations for functions and classes with `typing.get_type_hints()`.
Oh man. It WAS wild.
Rob Janoff on His (Rainbow) Logo for Apple
> That sort of rests on whether the women were 'trafficked' in any meaningful sense. If they were not then the media lab team were being judgemental and unpleasant even though they did turn out to be right about his character. If they were then everyone involved is potentially at moral fault, irrespective of who was accepting what.

That is an odd position to take. We have the benefit of hindsight. Even if these particular women weren’t being trafficked, the staff’s general suspicions about Epstein were borne out.
Consider the equation: 1+1=2

You don't have to understand the mathematical explanation for why this is so (one does exist) in order to have an intuition that serves you well in practically all situations. For most of us, there is no deeper understanding. It just is, and that's good enough. That doesn't necessarily mean there is no deeper understanding, but let's ignore that for now.

What I was trying to get across is that basic intuitions we have about the macroscopic world that we can see and touch are often flat-out wrong on the quantum scale. Likewise, human language has developed to describe macroscopic phenomena and struggles to capture the meaning of quantum phenomena. Intuition and language are crucial parts of understanding, but we find ourselves on treacherous ground when we try to apply human language or intuition to quantum systems. The confidence that comes with intuition and mastery of language are wholly counter-productive in quantum physics. You need to constantly reexamine what you think you know in the light of both new discoveries and the math. Both are sources of continual surprise.

Hence, if you think you understand quantum physics, you probably haven't given it enough thought.
MIT Media Lab is, almost entirely, a venue for precocious grad students to pad their resume at this point. When was the last time any meaningful research came from there?
So you’re saying, no problem, all he needs to do is prove his innocence?
> security workers used attack dogs which bit at least six of the protesters and one horse.

How many years did the security workers get in jail? In my country that would be quite a few for "intent to cause grievous bodily harm"
I dropped out of highschool, and decided to learn whatever I want. How sad to incarcerate oneself with so much debt without the slightest interest in learning anything.
If he had an alibi for (3), then (4) would be plausible to show.
The problem is that what garners the attention of said free-speech crusaders tends to be wildly unbalanced.

The issues of FB banning white nationalism and 8chan being kicked off of cloudflare incited a massive thread and attention here on HN. Then you have stories like this one with the government itself engaging in very selective measures in attempt to censure people and it doesn't gain nearly the same amount of attention as it should.

I've posted various similar stories here on HN and there is a very obvious slant towards what 'violations' of freedom of speech invoke a larger response here on HN or across the various tech communities.
one way to model wework during a recession is to treat recession regus as a baseline. how has regus fared during recessions? what was the impact on occupancy rate, sales, and profit?
Using mypy with http://attrs.org for all my classes has been a revolution in my Python codebases. I can't emphasize enough how big a difference it makes in readability and correctness.

@attr.dataclass
class Person:
name: str
age: int
Honest question: why do many of these communities continue to vote for “pull yourselves up from your bootstraps” conservative politicians and reject “help a man when he’s down” progressive politicians? It seems what these communities need is a helping hand, better educational options, and healthcare safety nets.
Because we don't always like awarded books. I read "The Three Body Problem" a couple of years ago which had won a Nebula award and found it to be mediocre at best and much overhyped. Last year I read the "Neuromancer" which had won both a Nebula and a Hugo and was for me one of the worst SF books I've ever read. And then there are books which are brilliant, but have never won an award, like "The Martian".
The police is there to protect the law and order, and the ruling class don't want the current order (them on top) to change.
The US has gained 40 million people since the year 2000. Growth is just an inevitability.
A related comment from one of my physics profs: "You don't understand quantum mechanics, you just get used to it."
It is all relative. Once you trespass in the USA you pretty much have only one right: the right to get proper fucked.