skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the contradiction is thus:

1. We expect people higher up the status ladder to behave better than most people.

2. Getting higher up the status ladder probably means you are statistically likely to be "worse" than most people by virtue of the traits it requires to get there.

(Please excuse the "better/worse" shorthand but you all know what I mean)
Oh, hrm, I have no idea. My Paperwhite is in a better condition than yours and it's good enough for me.

I really wouldn't mind having physical next/prev page buttons, though. Having to touch or swipe the screen is kind of annoying. I feel like that's a step back in UI from previous gen devices.
Making money often involves doing something useful. Being useful is fun.
I also think (or hope) that these contrarians don’t realize how long the facts in this Herald story have been suspected of being true.
Do people understand causality?
What about hydrogen embrittlement?
I think the first set of criteria are entirely valid. The second half of your post might require more background information.
Indeed, why would he? It seems incredulous, and yet he did. That's why he's been forced out of his position.
Interesting fact: if tea arrived via land, it's nomenclature is rhyming with chai. If it arrived via the seas, it rhymes with tea.
I'd be pretty pissed if my network connection opted me into a DNSSEC-verifying resolver, since that is pretty much pure downside for users.
Seems to me they should be able to keep this sort of working by resolving tplinklogin.net to 192.168.0.1 or such on their public DNS and ensuring the router always serves the web page from that IP.

Of course things will break down if a router is ever configured to use a different IP - but then again, the public DNS with local IP might trigger Firefox' heuristics and cause it to fall back to traditional DNS - so thinks may still work.

But the whole concept of using an on-device web page as config UI seems to become problematic, thanks to HTTPS-everywhere, as there appears to be no way to serve HTTPS from a local, unsupervised device that is frictionless and does not open a security vulnerability.
Agree that Dynalist is nicer, as it has features like multiple documents.
I read the first half of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/business/mit-media-lab-je...

That is the original article this while comment thread is attached to. It doesn't mention existing convictions in the first half. I didn't read the article the comment I replied to linked to.

I am not a robot. I can not simply recursively read the whole internet.

I was curious about the supposedly "damning paragraph", not about the whole article. The paragraph was quoted in the comment, so why should I read that article?

What exactly are you implying, anyway? What game do you assume I am playing?
Purely from speculation: AWS console looks and feels like it was designed and built by a ton of different teams that did a poor job working with and empowering each other. When services intermingle the console gets really confusing. Like "why am I in EC2? I'm making security groups and have zero EC2 systems."

Any truth to this sense I get?
It doesn't matter if he literally asked or not. Anti-corruption laws are much more concerned with the appearance of impropriety than they are with the actual turn off events. That is to say, they err on the side of caution. Anything that could have come about through abuse of the professional relationship is verboten, even if it was "happenstance".

Simply put, disregarding all of the other issues, given the prior relationship between Ito and Epstein for the MIT Media Lab donations, there was no legitimate path for Epstein to invest in any private venture of Ito's.
I actually always thought librarything was strictly better than good reads as a list building/management tool. It has suffered from a similar lack of improvements recently, and I was never impressed with their "social" features, but personally wouldn't agree on the "all dimensions" part.
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Richard P. Feynman
Before they were called dinosaurs they were called dragons. Both western and eastern cultures fantasized giant reptilian monsters. The dinosaur was a science-based reworking of this idea.
The title is incorrect as it is Anders Ericsson‘s research, Ericsson did not find that time necessarily led to mastery (that is a popular misunderstanding) the study quantified practice, not deliberate practice, and despite all that did find a correlation between unqualified practice time and mastery, among other factors.
Normalization is when the occurrence something increase so that it become common.

In regards in marijuana, More and more people started to disagree with the legal status of marijuana is not because the police lessen their enforcement but because people marijuana is not dangerous anymore. So yes you can say the step 2 is the normalization.

In the regards with homosexual, the analogy is : many people disagree with act itself but still fine hanging out with them. Because they the act of hanging out with homosexual and the practice of homosexual itself is a two different thing. This may normalize the act of hanging out with homosexual but not necessarily the homosexual itself.

If I'm hanging out with a child trafficker, does that increase the number of child trafficking to occur ?

While that could increase the number of people who hanging out with a child trafficker but not the child trafficking itself. The number of child trafficking increases when the law enforcement stop doing its job.

Note that child trafficking is still illegal but hanging out with child trafficker is not.
Overdosing isnt an unfortunate sideffect, its people making an error while dosing. An error that is easily preventable with a bit of care. The airback equivalent is very much fitting, its an emergency aid for once you made a mistake. If you are overdosing regularly, you are majorly screwing up making unnecessary mistakes.
I know about Epstein (superficially at least), I wanted to know what was damning about the quoted paragraph. Those are different things.
To put it another light, consider Steve Jobs’s Vice President/cross the Rubicon speech about reasons not mattering. When you take on an executive job like this, one of the major job responsibilities is to resign for the sake of accountability when something terrible happens, regardless of whether it’s strictly your fault.*

The other parable is the one of Write Two Letters.

* Clearly, Ito was very much at fault in this instance. The coverup!
I think a problem is the current theoretical attempts to get to quantum gravity are not very good leading to a certain amount of waffling about probably irrelevant stuff.
And everybody is thankful for that, still a different kind of reaction is needed when automation creates huge regions full of unemployed workers and no jobs with comparable skill requirements.

If the perfect cheap robot could take instantly over all human occupations nobody would ever have to work a day in their life.
> Still, India as of today remains huge (1.4 billion people) and mostly homogenous

India is ethnically, culturally, geographically, religiously, linguistically one of the most diverse countries in the world.

One of the main reason space launches like this are in English and English is one of official language is because not everyone has a common background
So I shouldn't bother with anything. Good to know. Thanks for that info. If practice doesn't mean anything what even is the point of anything?
Bangalore police in India spent some money in acquiring them but looks like it was lost to corruption.
> And took donations after Epstein was disqualified as a funder (after his 2008 conviction)

Can you point me to where it's described exactly when Epstein was blacklisted by MIT and why? If it's in the newyorker article, I'm missing it.

It points out that Epstein's donations were anonymous and that he was blacklisted but doesn't appear to order the events. It looks like Epstein was anonymously donating back around 2002 also, so was he also blacklisted then? Why?
Extremely high relative to what? Houston’s property tax rate is half of San Francisco’s, and a bit lower than where I am in suburban Maryland.
People, happily do things like honor a holiday made by a man who sticks women's toes into vices, Think OJ is an innocent victim of systematic racism, and freely do business with some of the most repressive regimes. Just a few months back some of the same talking heads acting all high and mighty now were whining how Drumpf was hurting business with China. The same china which massacred a bunch of people in fairly recent events as tiananman square and memoryholed it to the point where even most americans aren't aware of it.

If people regularly overlook stuff like this without any shame, maybe possibly getting a massage seems pretty easy to overlook as well especially if you're getting a fat stack of cash.
No, you can't run elasticsearch offline on a web client.

Look, we can keep going back and forth and maybe you'll dig up some javascript library that implements a search. And that's fine, I believe there are "maker" roles that largely are about gluing things together and translating requirements into code and shouldn't require screening for CS fundamentals. But at some point it gets a little hacky and suboptimal if you lack a good practical grasp of computer science.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20905905
Do everybody else in this discussion a favor and read this article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...

You already responded to a comment about that article, so you owe it to others, if not yourself, to actually read it.
> (Also, honestly, isn't a single instance of knowing solicitation of a minor enough?)

Technically, it puts some of the blame on the underage girl, because she then becomes a "prostitute". Hence, she was at least half to blame. Hell, he could even have said: "I didn't know she was underage..." And a lot of guys would believe him.

The fact that she was trafficked instead completely changes the issue. She was never a "prostitute", and he was a bigger sleazeball than we realized.
Consider it a 'cost of doing business'. Everyone gets DDoSed, I'm pretty sure that's one of CloudFronts primary service-based solutions
> I wonder why all the hockey players I know used one.

My guess would be that they did not use "portioned" snus. It's a bit of a macho thing, so the prevalence of the loose kind that you have to bake into a ball yourself and get your hands dirty is much higher among professional athletes, car mechanics and the like, while most regular consumers prefer the portioned bags. If you're interested in the statistics, about 77% prefer portioned snus.[1]

I believe one of the major reasons that people prefer to take their snus "straight" is because it's stronger, but the whole thing about dirtying your hands, making a mess when discarding it, going around spitting etc. creates some obvious issues for regular office workers or other consumer groups with similar opinions.

[1]: https://news.cision.com/se/nordic-snus/r/hur-snusar-svenskar...
I’m midway through it, and it’s one of my favourite games already. If you dig the “weird sci-fi” aesthetic, then I strongly recommend it. The physics engine is also super impressive.
Report: https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story...
Yeah that's a tricky one.
First of all it has been settled that white light is the way to go in order to enhance taste and other characteristics. The game is in making led more efficient and plant factories or vertical farms more automated.
It also has to do with location, check Japan and China.

What you are looking for is research from luuk graamans.
He has made some slight errors on the light intensity needed but still.
In any case vertical farming now is not there yet in Europe and the US but it will get there.

We also did some research on photovoltaic use with some good results :/
My girlfriend is French, and they sort of are I suppose.

Their over the counter paracetamol are usually 1000mg per tablet whereas ours are limited to 500mg per tablet.

In an average dose, thy only take one, whereas we take two.
DNA from cigarette leads to Dakota Access arrest warrant 3 years later
I feel bad for the students, professors, and other people affiliated with the MIT Media Lab who will likely actually pay the price for all of this.

Ito will be fine.
>Clearly there was an ongoing investigation, as demonstrated by Ito's resignation today.

That's not clear at all, at least if you're talking about an investigation conducted or commissioned by MIT. Ito's sudden resignation seems likely to have been prompted by the damning New Yorker article published yesterday. Another commenter posted the email sent out by MIT's president today, which refers to yesterday's New Yorker article and indicates that the university has just commissioned an investigation in reaponse to it.
Fun fact, since you mentioned Norway -- in the early 1900s, Norwegian industry also used the Birkeland-Eyde process to produce nitric acid for fertilizer from atmospheric nitrogen.

The process is not energy-competitive with other processes, but since the plants in question had very cheap hydropower energy that couldn't be exported for use elsewhere, this was not a dealbreaker.

I'm thinking that energy-intensive industry in early hydropower-friendly regions could get away with using simple but inefficient processes, since the energy couldn't be used for anything better anyway. Sort of like creating a minimum viable product of an industrial process, before optimizing and getting great efficiency increases.
This is obviously poor timing with the Epstein scandal, but I feel like this isn't the first or last time this happens at the Media lab. Lots of ambitious projects are started by ambitious and/or desperate doctorates that we never hear about, some more bullshit than others.
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Even young East European models have to work somewhere (at least some of them). (Paragraph called them "young women", not "teens", btw).

Should young women only be allowed to work for poor people, if they are attractive? Or maybe only for other young people? I don't think that would be a good rule.

I don't think it would be enough for an accusation. Of course with the background that Epstein was already known as a sex trafficker, it is a very different matter.
The worst, buggiest, least maintainable code I've ever dealt with was a 500ish line (heavily tested!) untyped Python file at my last job. Caused more trouble than all the Java and C++ and Go combined.

My personal experience with compile time type checking is that the benefits kick in for a single developer project within a week, and for a multi-developer project immediately.
After which it will still recommend it to you.
Review of GoTenna from a non-techie:
https://granolashotgun.com/2019/01/21/the-mesh/
You're committing a logical fallacy with your response. Each of those issues you listed are different from the rest.
F-Droid includes a feature to get apps over Bluetooth.
What stories were regarded as conspiracies? I had thought that a fair amount of information about MKUltra was uncovered by the end of the 70s. [1] (Assuming you are not referring to a time before then).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_Projec...
But yet, why are you so eager to get the money?
Many of these second tier tech cities have a full tech ecosystem: nationally ranked tech schools, lots of startups, venture capital, tech accelerators, startup weeks, etc. I have live in both Palo Alto and Denver over a decade each. Denvers biggest tech shortcoming is a lack big VCs.
Who said anyone’s life lacked value? There’s nothing wrong with being a market clerk, or a restaurant server, or a farm laborer, or a fashion model, or an administrative assistant, or a factory worker, or a janitor, or a soldier, or a mail carrier, or a taxi driver, or a stay-at-home parent, ....

The problem is that many people in many places are stuck with a choice of either working themselves to death at a job they hate for shit pay and no benefits (or maybe just starving on the street) or else selling themselves to a very wealthy asshole. When that happens, it indicates a profound structural failing of the society. Prostitution or feudal servitude shouldn’t be anyone’s only shot at a comfortable life.

In theory there’s nothing wrong with a career in private security. But it’s messed up to be an enforcer for the dictator family who who rule Equatorial Guinea and live lavishly while keeping the rest of the country in miserable squalor.

In theory there’s nothing wrong with being an actress. But it’s messed up if getting a leading part depends on giving blowjobs to the studio executives.

Etc.

> It does not imply a "power imbalance".

If the young women in such relationships had all the money and power and the old men had none, how many of those couples would still be sleeping together?
No doubt I'll be downvoted to oblivion for this, but in my personal opinion, the F35 will be remembered by History as a repeat of the Brewster Buffalo's saga.

"jack of all trades, master of none." - in other words just not good enough to win against the competition in any role.
It's kind of an Indian tradition. Consider that Fatehpur Sikri was abandoned over 400 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatehpur_Sikri
The recommendation system is broken, however the social networking features can surmount it.

For example, my Goodreads "friends" are people who like the books I like. There's no social obligation. FFS, I unfriended my sister. My high-school friend who only reads YA fiction: he was unfriended years ago.

My favorite goodreads friends are a half-dozen people I've never even met, but I agree with their reviews. When they give a book 5 stars, I check it out.

That's the key to Goodreads. If Amazon can't figure out how to make better recommendations, they should look long and hard at how the social graph beats the star-ratings.
> I think people who accept high-profile positions don't have a moral right to retain those positions.

I'm not really sure what this even means. Everyone has some moral right to the position they're in. The question is how much.

> He had to know this was going to happen; the last few weeks of drama have come entirely at the Lab's expense, seemingly as a long-shot gamble that Ito might weather the storm.

This is sort of the crux of my point, though. Your original argument which you seem to be backing off of is that controversy alone is a distraction, and therefore he ought to step down because he caused controversy. And the fact that he caused controversy is certainly unequivocal.

What is equivocal is whether or not he did something wrong. And that is the true issue on which the rectitude of his resignation turns. It seems to me that he probably believed he didn't do anything wrong, and as such had a moral right to retain his position because he believed he did nothing wrong. Not that anyone in a position of power should resign as soon as they cause a stir.
Wait, what? The US has no rule against Indian astronauts flying to the ISS, or Indian hardware flying on American-led space missions. This very Indian mission had US hardware on it, in exchange for DSN time. Similarly, India's Mars mission had some NASA cooperation. All of this is easily discovered information.
I call it "collapsing into the mean" - all recommendation engines (as the currently exist) will eventually corral you into the most vanilla, mass marketed set of recommendations and then fail miserably when any conflicting data is presented. We've effectively turned the web into cable TV circa 1990 - a finite set of junk food level entertainment sources that we voted for because they were "eh, good enough" and easy to find.

With as many YouTube videos that I've watched since 2005, you'd think they might recommend a video with less than 1000 views once in a while. I've found 1 new channel in the last 6 months and used the "Not Interested" option more times than I can count. And the rules are unclear. I don't want tech reviews from 5 years ago, but if I hit Not Interested, does that influence the channel, topic, age, keyword, etc recommendation frequency? I don't mind old DIY or woodworking videos, I'm subscribed to the channel, and watched the recommended video 5 years ago. (Of the current 12 YT Recommended videos, 2 are labelled Watched and only 2 are less than a year old.)

I think part of it stems from the lack of user organization features. Offer too many and you scare away users, while the people with vested interests dump money and time in to wash out any negative opinion (see Amazon reviews). Offer too few and you get poor recommendations during on-boarding/startup.
They don’t understand that their culture/policies is what causes the housing problems in California to begin with.
Somewhat tangential here: I once fell off a high wall and broke my leg in two places. A couple months prior to that, I’d had a kidney stone. As I lay there in the mud clutching my leg, one of my first thoughts was, “hey, this isn’t nearly as bad as a kidney stone.”
Show HN: JavaScript RayCast engine without grid maps
I got hired recently and I'm not having much time for personal projects. But I'm glad I made this little ray cast "engine" using javascript canvas. It uses lines instead of the traditional grid map (wolfenstein) giving the ability to have diagonal walls. The textures are a mess right now, but I'm glad I got it to work. The code is pure garbage as well. As soon as I have something more robust I'll share the code. Until then, check out the video I made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8A3mdn-tPw
No it's not? Property taxes on a home in the Houston area will range from 2.3% to 3% of the appraised value per year. That includes improvements on land and it's not prevented from rising every year with the value of the house.
I dont think engineers can fake it in a real world tech job. I can spot a phony software engineer rather quickly.
It has a dark pattern where if you fail SMS verification enough times, it allows you to register without it.
I’m sure our intrepid freedom of speech crusaders will be along to decry this any moment now!
How did Epstein benefit from making anonymous donations? It seems like there's something about this that we still don't understand.
With such fractured connectivity, there's probably not much benefit in trying to abstract away the foibles of the network topology from the chat application. An ideal system would merge the network and application layers for the greatest reliability, at the expense of generality (but then a fractured meshnet is not a very general platform to begin with).
Oppo is a chinese company. What are they trying to do with an app like that?
This is, essentially, control fraud. Ito was spending the Media Lab's attention, focus, reputation and researchers.

I'd like to think that this would harm Ito's reputation, but fully expect him to be installed somewhere cushy soon enough. This likely makes him more attractive to a certain type of employer.
“suicide”
It's not obvious, but you can somewhat skip the SMS verification. IMO it would be better if they allowed a phone number-less, in-person verification to add a contract.
I grew up in the inland Southern California desert (Palm Springs area).

Ironically, it's is more able to water itself than LA because of an aquifer that gets replenished by snowmelt annually (also, last I checked, they make the golf courses buy water rather than tapping the aquifer).

There are more sources of water than just proximity to a visible body of it.
Tell your wife her ancestors should have bought all the land in the state if they didn't want anyone moving there. I don't find these sentiments funny or cheeky at all.
Sorry, but 1) is really the only valid indicator here (and it wasn't mentioned in the story). Otherwise you are denying attractive young women from Eastern Europe the ability to get work in the US.
Parent didn't say that such cooperation doesn't exist? But that it doesn't transfer all knowledge on how to do it.