skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adjacent: that’s well-written PR spin from the Gates’ camp:

> “Epstein was introduced to Bill Gates as someone who was interested in helping grow philanthropy. Although Epstein pursued Bill Gates aggressively, any account of a business partnership or personal relationship between the two is simply not true. And any claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grant making for Bill Gates is completely false.”

Note the part “Although Epstein pursued Bill Gates aggressively” which implies that Gates was a victim or at least an uninterested party in this affair. If that is true, why then cough up $2 million dollars via Epstein? Why does it matter if Epstein was aggressive or not if Gates wrote the check?

Some follow-up questions that Gates should answer to clarify his role:

1. What correspondence or communications did Gates have with Epstein regarding the $2 million donation to the MIT Media Lab?

2. What correspondence or communications did Gates have with Epstein since his conviction in 2008? Best option would be to list all of the times Gates (including any representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) met with or liaised with Epstein since 2008 - including via any intermediaries or third parties and electronic communications.

3. What is the definition of business partnership in Gates’ above refuttal?

4. What is the definition of personal relationship in Gates’ above refuttal?

PR and disaster management ‘gurus’ often wordsmith their clients’ way out of these affairs.

Gates should at least clarify his role here. Otherwise, his position as a philanthropist also seems tainted.
You can't have the real, workable New Green Deal without nuclear power. Anyone who says we're heading towards a climate catastrophe and is against 4th gen nuclear (thorium) at the same time is a hypocrite. Here we have something both sides of the aisle will support, irrespective even of their views on climate change, let's get to work and if there are safety concerns, let's mount an effort to address those. Once those are conclusively addressed, it will be easier to deregulate the industry and make it cheaper to build nuclear power plants. Thorium is abundant. There are now reactors that can utilize "nuclear waste" as well, so that problem could be solved too, I'm pretty sure.

I would be willing to bet that it will be dramatically cheaper than $10T "deals" floated so far. Shit, getting fusion to work with net energy gain will likely cost less than $1T all in all (although it'll take time).

If done properly, we could finally end up with electricity that's "too cheap to meter", and massively reduce the need for coal, oil, and gas, all without having to hobble the entire domestic industries and force them to burn coal in China instead.
When these conversations take place in the policy space, everyone agrees to do nothing, and you end up with situations where power plants with <100 year lifetimes are de facto storage facilities for the foreseeable future.

Living in New York, all of the nuclear facilities will be decommissioned in my lifetime, and the ratepayers or taxpayers will be paying for upkeep of the storage components for decades or centuries. We already have to provide direct subsidy just to keep them operating as they aren’t financially viable.

That’s why nuclear doesn’t get built today.
That particular user is someone I distrust, based on past interactions (a habit of speaking with the "royal we" for instance.)
Right. You only have four actions on Spotify as I recall (thumbs up, thumbs down, pause and fast forward). I guess some of the other apps have the larger bucket of 'who is watching/acting' based on account.

I am not sure how many actions are needed, but I can think of a few more:

* Not now, but later is fine

* Maybe next month

* Play the opposite of this

* Something similar but new to me
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Certainly they were in wide public use for decades without catastrophic effects. I’m a little concerned that rapid legalization would lead to some unexpected problems, but maybe I’m too cautious given the history of widespread use.
Funny in a 'Beavis and Butthead', "heh, heh, we can find a prurient way to interpret this" way, sure.
this rose is so cool. I would love that here. I can never figure out where I should walk when coming out of an unfamiliar station in manhattan.
It's always "a game"
If so, that doesn't excuse American citizens profiting off the suppression of civilians in other countries.
Ask HN: Where online it's possible to validate an idea?
I know it depends on a specific idea, but where online it's possible to find people from a specific industry or department and understand if a pain point is real, a provided solution can be beneficial.
Can you do vertical farming with light pipes?
Straw man and ad hominem? Check

Completely anonymous? Check

Value to this conversation? Zilch

You’ve made your point. “Lookit me act like a banal conspiracy theorist for attention. Let me baselessly challenge the way society works. I have no answers or framework, just Jaden Smith twitter level questions I won’t ever try to answer myself. I’ll just pepper others with pointless questions challenging their views for no reason.”

K bud. Figger it out
(1) a purposeful misrepresentation of a fact
(2) with knowledge that it is false
(3) to a victim who justifiably relies on the misrepresentation
(4) who suffers actual loss as a result.

(1) If I lie to you (2) knowingly, and (3) you are convinced by my lies (4) to part ways with your money, then I have defrauded you. That you nobly donated to MIT doesn't matter.
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> The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane.

The subheading appears to be a mis-characterization of the subsequent paragraphs (company town) that make it sound not at all like an experiment in "progressive design".
I wish the article would shed some light on why the police doesn't use domestically produced tear gas. I don't understand how it can be feasible for them to import tear gas to Hong Kong from the US.
> If you build systems using a high level of skill and foresight, it's easy to do.

The point being made here is not necessarily a flippant 'git gud'. Instead, it is a statement that problems are tractable, and that getting some things right up-front can have good pay-offs down the road.

In other words, don't give up and try to figure out what is good and bad practice.
As a secondary or tertiary effect they could be, couldn’t they?

Speed of temperature, speed of water would be possible results of a nuclear detonation, no?

And methane could be a side effect of dislodging some barrier to a deposit?

I’m admittedly out of my element, but it seems like those are metrics that could be affected by an accident (or test) of that nature.
HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh
Sorry, this is completely off topic, but let me guess - you are German? That style of quote isn’t used in English.
The main argument against nuclear is that it absolutely requires a highly educated, well organized society and workforce. If something really serious disrupts our elaborated, complex societies, then nuclear plants will become really dangerous.

With looming climate change, energy crisis, overpopulation and other problems, you can't be sure that we'll be in a stable enough world long enough to be completely safe.
I don't know if psychedelics will turn out to have any medical value in the end, but I wouldn't be surprised if much of its failure stems from the way we try to fit it into the existing structures of medicine.

Psychedelics amplify the perceived significance of many experiences, but what experience are you likely to be getting at a hospital or psychiatric facility? Every encounter I have had with modern medicine has been uncomfortable or even slightly demeaning.

The way we practice medicine today has bought us repeatability and accountability of treatment, but with it comes an overwhelming air of impersonality. That's not an issue if you needed surgery, but if you're prescribed a transformative experience I'd say that might be a show stopper.
Out of curiosity, do you say this from firsthand knowledge as an expert in civil fraud law, or just in the message board sense of "it seems like they might have a pretty good case"?
Super interesting. Chat is something that is becoming more and more important in an age where people are becoming more nationalistic with online communities. Rather than Facebook they are joining smaller niche communities like those seen on www.communityhunt.io
> You call buzzfeed journalists?

This comes up every time with a Buzzfeed News investigative piece. Honestly, I don’t know why they kept the name when they launched their actual journalism org; it’s kind of like starting a legitimate, old-school blood testing laboratory under the Theranos name.
Ask HN: Why Is GitHub Pages Not Supporting IPv6?
Why is GitHub Pages not supporting IPv6?

This is a serious question, no ranting please. I never worked with such a big tech stack nor in such a big company.

Why doesn't a tech company where one could argue it being in a role-model position in the industry put a priority on this? I do understand companies put their priorities where the money is. Given that GH Pages is also a feature for paid customers (for private repos for example), one could argue this is the case here.

Probably one of the reasons is the involved complexity of a CDN. But I'm interested in the detailed reason(s).
No animal commits suicide, that's why suicide is the ultimate triumph of evolution.
In which case it would be really useful to have some strait dudes at the table when discussing the gay pedo's contributions, no? I think you agree with the point, just not with the particular identities in the example.
Or: they don't need to play by "the rules", because the horse drags the cart and not the other way around. Sometimes major vendor fiat decisions are abusive, and sometimes they're productive; you have to judge them on their merits, and not by their compliance to a phony law of standardization.
In that thread about Windows 10 I actually mistook you for someone else that was saying something "repeatedly" when in fact you just said something once. Sorry... :)

In this thread eclipxe seems to be talking about my statements, since they replied to me saying "This is your opinion". Or maybe they also got confused and thought I was the person they were originally talking to.

In any case, I do think eclipxe is incorrect, because the statement which he said is an opinion is that "targeted advertising is harmful to society" and then they counter by saying that "advertising has its place in society". Targeted advertising is a totally different thing from mere advertising, and I've shown that one of the biggest companies doing targeted advertising has been repeatedly investigated and fined for their practices.

These fines are given for things which are harmful to society, QED.
> Joi shouldn’t be hung for giving someone the benefit of doubt.

Epstein had already been convicted and banned from MIT donations.

In a position of leadership you are responsible to keep a healthy and safe workplace. That’s part of the job of running a lab. If you are unable or unwilling to do that, you should not be in a leadership role.
Funny how you can place people by what they call them.

In my case breadcake, southerners, roll or bap.
Depends on the can. The "vintage military ration collection crowd" (yes, that's a thing) says that after decades you start to get some nasty leaching from can -> food, especially if it's an acidic food product (e.g. tomato sauce).

Nowadays, they coat the cans. But I'm pretty sure whatever tests the coatings go through aren't simulating 20+ years of storage.
Ummm, yeah? Bill Gates has also famously committed to giving away substantial parts of his wealth to charity, and has even gotten other billionaires to do the same.

Although, let's not actually compare greatness here, anyone voluntarily giving away their vast fortunes to charity deserves applause in my mind, and saying that one is greater than the other is kind of pointless.
How to Surf the Internet with a 13-Year-Old Laptop
The point is your algorithm will still need to detect "a" person in order to confirm it's not a person who has opted in and should be scanned
Boise's tech scene is still very Mormon. Lots of people commute in from the outer burb of Meridian to downtown. I work in downtown Boise, and my tech lead, middle manager, and his boss are all Mormon. I'm the only guy on my team that didn't go on a mission or go to BYU for part of my schooling.
It's not the norm, but that is not the same as it being rare. When your money is dirty, you have to pay to launder it.
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are not one in the same, and Buzzfeed News does do real journalism. See, for example, this series of articles on Vladimir Putin's ties to a killing campaign on British and American soil:

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
Do you mean they run Matlab programs but do not edit them? I don't think those people are being counted, are they? If they develop programs in Matlab it seems to me that tautologically they are developers, even if, like Con Kolivas, that isn't their job title.
Fifteen years ago basically all of my scientist friends used Matlab. Now a lot of them have switched to Python.
I was using "weird" here as in if they are trying to stay factual, that seems like the wrong way to go about it. A discussion about if I/you think "being weird" is bad does not belong here.

As far as I know, HTML is not extended by CSS but rather complemented by it. HTML for structure and CSS for styling.

Also as far as I know, Lisp is a family of languages, usually Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, Arc and others. Lisp (the language, not the family) died out and was replaced by others, so saying Lisp nowadays would refer to the family, not the language(s) (LISP 1 & 2)
In my opinion, Anand should now publicly praise Ito's decision to resign.

Check out my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904781 to understand why.
> This is compared to Beijing or Shanghai, which have no/poor regional rail to speak of.

This is really curious. Cities like Beijing and Shanghai have subways optimized for short-distance travels, and high speed trains for long-distance travels, but not much for medium-distance trips like from one edge of the city to another. How so? Is it just because the demand isn't there?
That's your requirement, but it might not be Wikipedia's requirement. Ownership of IPs is really a technical detail invisible to most people; ownership of eyeballs by way of the domain name and top Google result is probably more important. Cloudflare doesn't impact that ownership other than being able to temporarily take you offline if they choose to terminate your site.

Still, large proxy-based CDNs do have the ability to completely bypass all the same-origin protections in the browser. Even if they are angels and don't abuse this trust for identity theft and surveillance, it makes them a juicy target for bad actors, state sponsored and otherwise.
> Making money is often more fun than spending it
How did 8chan "encourage" large gun massacres exactly? By allowing users to post content?
See Google's Webmaster Guidelines on cloaking: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355
Indeed, we will need to make a choice between minimizing latency or using a relay.

But a lot of people use DNS over Tor already. For people concerned about privacy, a bit of extra latency is totally acceptable.

Anonymized DNSCrypt is lighter than Tor, has a very clear security model, and relays are less vulnerable to abuse than Tor exit nodes.

The server/relay part is going to be implemented in https://github.com/jedisct1/rust-dnscrypt-server
> Would somebody who is trafficking women really take them everywhere he goes? I thought it would be more of a secret affair.

After everything Epstein has did and got away with, I don't think it's a stretch that he would have been brash about it. Look at how brash Trump is about some of his personal sexual exploits.

I'm not sure the point is these women were trafficked for sure, but Ito was obviously unwilling to overlook a pretty questionable situation for his personal financial gain.

Regardless, he isn't being thrown in jail, he's just losing his position of power because he obviously isn't capable of avoiding conflict of interest.
Pretty impressive. Tried it on my own favourites and those of my wife (very different book taste). Good work. Thanks!
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Gotcha, I don't know the details of the allegations, and whether it was sex slavery or not. I was just giving another data point with a somewhat contrarian view. Thanks for sharing.

One nit about the OP, is when any press outlet reports this as a "suicide". At the very least, this should be reported as an "assisted suicide". My infant can't poop without us having video evidence. The odds of this being an individual act given where and who he was are maybe .1%? Only problem is so many people wanted him gone, hard to figure out who helped him.
There is precisely zero need for assumption here. The only way Epstein's behavior could have been more in the open is if he were advertising screenings of the "home movies" he made with these girls.

When you continue to associate with that guy, you're saying, "People who do that are okay with us." That's normalization. Especially when, say, your day job is as the head of a pretty damned prestigious institution like Joichi-san.

There is, in principle, no difference between this situation and all of the museums and whatever distancing themselves from the Sackler family and their opioid money. You don't get to white-wash killing tens of thousands of people for profit by having a new museum wing bear your name, just like you don't get to wash your hands of trafficking children for sex, just because you funded some AI research.
A lot of people who write programs aren’t doing software development, they aren’t developers. Unless your definition of developer is one who programs (which is already covered nicely by the term programmer, but to each their own).
It is an abstract form that outputs something seperate and new. In that sense it is like a recipe or a knitting pattern. The artifact created by execution is distinct from the code. The code itself is valued by that output rather than its own intrinsic qualities. And this ability to generate something seemingly novel is what makes coding cool and useful. You can write a bunch of code and get something that has emergent properties.

The things you mentioned are usually just data. They are the artifact. They are not generating anything distinct. There is only the data.
Time to help SF’s homeless – and time to get tough if they won’t take it
I'm still looking for a good replacement for Dynalist, which is not free software (important because such data/workflow is too important to be at the mercy of a third party).

Extra structure would be a nice addition, but without the source code I don't think this will do.
> As it is, grocers typically have to have a single person at the helm of each bank of four to six machines. The machines are prone to requiring manual overrides, and often the single machine-herder is overwhelmed trying to keep up; I hear their grumbles. I find myself examining my basket while heading towards checkout and considering whether I think that a human cashier would give a smoother experience.

I simply cannot understand why this means that there needs to be _legislation_ to limit the amount of self service machines. Presumably if it's really as bad as you describe, there's a strong business case to fix it? Since the situation you describe makes it sound like it has the potential to hurt business.

If you are going to legislate for anything, legislate for installing machines which work. They exist - I use them all the time without any issues.

> I have had conversations with employees at the latter stores. The machines were ordained, installed, and configured by corporate order, with only a small amount of local training.

If the machines somehow failed to operate properly in Oregon but worked elsewhere, this would be a fair point... but presumably they are liable to break down in the same manner, causing the same issues?
to resolve the 2 plot holes of

1) impossible prestige-for-cash if Epstein's involvement is kept secret

2) the weird way in which Gates is involved

check out my interpretation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904781
Since they technically retain copyright of those papers the overseas people should be able to claim their status as co-author after the paper has been published. And throw in a complimentary scholarship as well.
You mean the one when Trump banned him from Mar-a-lago because Epstein pissed Trump off in a business dealing?
Workflowy is nice and easy, but seems a bit like the crappy MVP for Dynalist.
Indeed a mention of librarything is missing from this article. Ironically I joined Goodreads after fleeing librarything as it was so stagnant.
> If so, that doesn't excuse American citizens profiting off the suppression of civilians in other countries.

If the product can be trivially sourced elsewhere, what's the point? Do you believe it might hurt their image and sales elsewhere? Or is this just a moral line you hold dear?
It's a fair point. I wasn't in the room and never met Epstein. I just wanted to provide a counterargument, because I think people are quick to pile on.
Tesla won't match Toyota. But many other manufacturers are getting into EV's in a big way, starting with VW. The auto market a decade from now is going to look wildly different.
How do plants deal with rising water from floods, or falling water from drying out, or overly hot cooling water from high temperatures? These are all in our future. I'm genuinely curious and not trying to troll
Nothing personal, I can very much relate to this attitude as someone who grew up in the Bay Area and watched it explode... but cities grow. Everyone came from somewhere else, right?
It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. Netflix really wants me to watch Breaking Bad, but I've already seen it. I liked it; give me more like that, but not exactly that
And I'm commenting in response to your remark on "devolution." There is none, insofar as I can see. It's a pointless partisan jab not rooted in reality.
Yup. Plus, with nuclear, even if we do everything as safely as possible, there's always a tail risk of a VERY negative event due to causes outside our control.

I'm yet to understand why this part of the argument is often so readily dismissed.
>If the product can be trivially sourced elsewhere, what's the point

To not be complicit in the suppression of people's rights in other countries?

What ISN'T the point?

>Or is this just a moral line you hold dear

Ummm, yeah? Are you going to take the position that your contribution to the suppression of other people for the purposes of profit is justifiable because it'll just happen anyways?

That's kind of a really idiotic stance to take.
One thing though, is the influx of ex-Californians will change the culture of Boise (not judging - just saying it will). Soon they will petition In/Out Burgers to open there, and bring other California cultural touch-stones to Idaho.
Good riddance.

Either native or mobile web.
That would be, IMHO, a great addition!
I'm having trouble believing that American Tycoons created the dinosaur on the basis of this article. Except for the Carnegie Natural History Museum, no tycoons are named. But we're supposed to believe that tycoons felt the dinosaurs symbolized them in the evolutionary change in business and culture. That's an odd claim, but there's no evidence it extends from anything but the author's imagination. No substance!

Edit: Oh, I see, it's an excerpt from a book about tycoons and dinosaurs. I guess the rest of the book builds the case.