skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! But Google Skymap is for mobile and its key benefit was that I could literally point at the point of light I was looking at with the phone and get a good guess as to what it was. KStars looks like a desktop app.

Also... Making me yearn to get back into backyard astronomy.
I’d have to agree to put it lightly it certainly influences my view on MIT. I won’t go as far as assuming people knew but I’d have to imagine anonymous donations with this many 0s where asked about outside of the media lab.
If reflection was diffusive it would be more or less trivial.

If the room is connected, the is a path from the source A to any chosen point B (by definition). Now take this path and modify it such that it is composed of straight lines, and may touch walls. This new path is a diffuse light path from A to B.

Specular reflection seems much more difficult.
If the firmware has severe bugs (which is incredibly common with all firmware) and is hard to debug and patch, the performance is irrelevant. Not to mention that there are many examples of existing firmware bugs where the performance of "simple" hard drives tanked -- adding more code to already-buggy firmware that has a history of performance problems is unlikely to improve performance (let alone reliability).
or for plausible deniability: if LSD is kept illegal (to insure the majority doesn't use it, and doesn't sympathize with those who do), while kept available (to insure there will be enough people who use it recreationally), then the large but relatively smaller latter group can be used to draw test subjects from, and if things go sideways, you have a documented history of voluntary drug abuse events of an individual to point to in order to obscure the involuntary drug experimentation event that went sideways.
This is more of a function of battery chemistry on the S/X - the Model 3 does not have the same power restriction under load.
The desperate candidate that you underpay will lose the desperation after getting the job, realize they are getting ripped off, and leave much quicker than someone compensated at the market rate.
Looks like Joi Ito saw this coming and pre-emptively put up that post where he claimed he didn't know of Epstein's wrongdoings while happily accepting his money. Well..cat's out of the bag now.
Right. What happens when Let's Encrypt is the only CA and they decide that they don't like you for some reason? All tech companies are under tremendous Twitter pressure not to serve the wrong kinds of people, and this pressure will only intensify. The window of acceptability narrow. Infrastructure diversity is an important check against the ability of vocal but small groups of activists to effectively censor the internet.
In GNU coreutils ln help and man page it only ever uses TARGET to refer to the link target?
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Man tried to hack Trump's tax returns
...or maybe not.

The per capita death rate from horses and horse drawn vehicles in NYC in 1900 was higher than the per capita death rate from cars in 2003. Same for Chicago comparing horses in 1916 to cars in 1997 [1].

Horse related deaths in early 20th century England and Wales were close to late 20th century rates for cars [2]. That article does point out that we are better at treating people nowadays, so it is possible that many of the horse related fatalities could be people that would have been saved nowadays.

A few accounts of the dangers in the pre-car days [3].

[1] https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horse...

[3] https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20110107/NEWS/1010703...
could you point me to how this story was exposed through declassification?
One of the producers I’m happy to support with Patreon.
It's 154% of the design load, not 154% more than the design load. So 1.54×.
it can get even worse. i wonder how many people here have had to live on however many empty beer cans you can collect and cash in in a day.
I got it from F-Droid and it works just like always for me. Maybe your phone lacks a necessary sensor.

When I was shopping for a phone lately I noticed that there are still fairly expensive phones lacking a compass or a gyroscope, sometimes depending on the region they are sold.
While I desperately want to trust you on a human to human interaction, and I genuinely do want to trust you, we’ve been misled with disingenuous language by companies at FB’s scale so many times for years, I’m finding it difficult to trust FB at all—it isn’t you, at all, it’s Facebook’s and similar companies intentional fogging of language which leads do this distrust.

And while I do want to trust you, I can’t trust that the company/industry itself wouldn’t figure out a way to exploit it at a later date :(

It really does make me sad that I can’t trust what you’re saying, i think a fundamental part of humanity is wanting that level of trust, and it’s been intentionally exploited.
and Negroponte and Lessig
A friend lives in a rural location. Their needs are different. First off because the super markets and home supply stores are about 50 miles away. As is cheap gasoline. About half their driving is very short trips in town and long weekly trips to the city to buy groceries and supplies. And enough gasoline to get home and last the week. And get them back to the city next week.

So an electric car they could charge at home and would get them to the city and back would be 'fine'
Note that those three cities are also quite cold in winter - connected shopping matters when it’s -30 in January. Montreal’s underground city/malls are literal lifesavers, not just shopping. Matters much less in moderate areas.
Ok, I'm hijacking this thread because there's some confusion about 'limit' load.

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf...
Maybe? It's better because you don't allow Facebook to continue to harvest data about you, and add to the plethora of personal information they already have.
But with whatever service you use, your data is still being held by somebody in the end.
So depending on what you're willing to give to who in order to use a service, it might be better or worse.
What's good for customers and what's good for shareholders are very different things. WeWork having an infinite number of locations for you to use your membership at is great for you as a customer. It's pretty bad for shareholders, though, when the bottom falls out of the market and WeWork is stuck in leases for locations that nobody goes to.

I think a lot of the IPO criticism comes from that way of thinking. So I don't think it's bad to "throw shade" at that business model while still being a customer. WeWork is taking all the risk out of real estate for you, the customer. That's good for you, but maybe bad for them.
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Honestly, they go to bed at the time the parent sets a routine after probably 3 or 4yo. My kids consistently go to bed at 9pm for school, 10pm on weekends/summer, and typically no problems going to sleep or waking up in the morning. It's been like that for years now. The time they did have trouble going to sleep at the right time is when they visited grandma for 2 weeks and had a wild and inconsistent sleep schedule the entire time. It took them about 2 weeks to adjust back to the normal routine. One hour adjustment from weekends etc is easy, but 2-3 hour adjustment is a huge stumbling block
> “with hindsight, we recognize with shame and distress that we allowed MIT to contribute to the elevation of his reputation, which in turn served to distract from his horrifying acts

This confuses me. If Epstein's involvement was kept secret, how did it elevate his reputation?

It sounds like he spent a lot of money and got nothing in return. What am I missing?
Hi HN,
I am trying to build a documentation viewer for Postman collections. Here is the first view of it. It's open-source on git hub and demo is installed here https://postman-collection-viewer.herokuapp.com

So what do you think about it?
I may be mistaken, but I'm interpreting the bars as meaning the span of dates during which that particular exploit chain worked against the latest version of iOS.

Chain 1: iOS 10 launched 13 Sep 2016 and 10.1.1 lost relevance when 10.2 was launched on 12 Dec 2016

Chain 2: iOS 10.3 was launched 27 Mar 2017 and lost relevance when iOS 11 was launched on 19 Sep 2017.

Chain 3: iOS 11 was launched 19 Sep 2017 and lost relevance with the release of iOS 11.4.1 on 9 July 2018

Chain 5: iOS 11.4.1 was launched on 9 July 2018 and worked until the release of 12.1.3 on 22 Jan 2019.

Chain 4: iOS 12 was launched 17 Sep 2018 and worked until 12.1.1 which was released on 5 Dec 2018.

The span of dates during which a particular version of iOS was the latest release does not necessarily mean that exploit chain was active contemporaneously. I can think of several reasons for someone to be unable to upgrade to the latest version of iOS, requiring an attacker to maintain and deploy exploit chains for multiple versions of iOS simultaneously.

1) Apple has historically dropped support for older iPhones with each new iOS major version.

2) Users who jailbreak tend to refuse to update until a jailbreak emerges for the new version.

3) Some users are slow to update

4) Some users might just refuse to update

Because of this reasoning I find it plausible that Apple only has evidence that the exploit chains were active for only two months and that the attacker chose to deploy the five chains for only two months. I do not find Google's chart insightful for understanding this attack.
> so Epstein was found guilty and convicted, did his time and payed off his due to the society accordingly to the judge verdict and the law of the land - so where is that american spirit of paying off your dues, being forgiven, moving on and be a better person?

Epstein used his wealth to broker a sweetheart deal which violated the law, by failing to notify victims. He was facing renewed inquiry into that injustice -- which involves a member of the current administration -- when he hung himself.

That's where mercy is: withheld for someone who used wealth to escape justice.

> Such a shame how judgmental and unforgiving the whole american society became these days ;(

Forgiving corruption without a reckoning is condoning injustice -- and Epstein never faced a proper reckoning.
Pair this New Yorker article with Anand Ghiridaradas' thread from today about his experience with the Media Lab. [0]

Ghiridaradas is author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [1]. He was also on the panel for MIT Media Labs' Disobedience Award. It was their answer to the MacArthur Foundations' "Genius Grants". Reid Hoffman, of LinkedIn, Greylock, and Blitzscaling fame is the donor who sponsors the Disobedience Award. He comes out looking...not good.

[0] https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1169947031806365696?s...
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37506348-winners-take-al...
Do you use much external libraries because ecosystem I'd pretty much what makes a language useful after the language being solid by itself.

Also, I assume Googleability is pretty much close to zero, you'd have to go to the primary sites (their forum?) to ask questions when stuck?
Expert+Brochure+on+“Public+Money,+Public+Code”+-+FSFE
Am I the only person who can never have "full brainpower" anytime within 3 hours of waking up?
Wouldn't it be $44k/year?
Bill Gates really needs to say more than just refusing to answer questions about his involvement here. I don't understand how that quells any rumors if it's to be believed his relationship with Epstein is being exaggerated as he is claiming through a spokesperson.
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Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies
Negroponte's brother was Bush II's DNI, and there is a ton of speculation about Epstein's involvement in foreign intelligence ...
They will probably add another door so if one blows off they have a spare already.
And even though our OSes have bugs, at least we can reasonably debug and patch them. The same cannot be said of completely proprietary and invisible firmware.
And Schneier and Zittrain and a whole host of other enablers.
Which he then backpedaled on after this blew up on social media. The authors of the article went back to him for clarification and he walked it back. The people in attendance for his original remarks called BS on him walking it back.
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The guy preyed on tons of children. There is not enough time nor money to make up for that, no matter how good of a cause it goes to.
SkyEye

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lavadip.sk...
IKEA - the gateway drug?
Epstein was a monster but it doesn’t prove people around him knew beyond the widespread normal disregard for young women being exploited.

For example, there’s no evidence President Clinton ever visited Epstein’s island. A billionaire who owns a private island in the Bahamas once grabbed a girl in front of me and then propositioned us. We were shocked and left to find a room to hide out in. On the way, I took a photo of a photo of the billionaire with a former President (and his wife) on his island.

This former President was a former intelligence chief so it's hard to understand how he didn’t know the existence and horrific rumors about his friend. Somehow this guy has avoided the #metoo movement. I knew him for 5-seconds and almost punched him. And soon after I heard lots of wild stories about him.

This guy is a South Florida billionaire like many other rich creepy guys who exploit young girls. No one does anything about it — I know federal prosecutors who have turned a blind eye to it.
It's important to feel good about how capitalism inspires those that you feed off off. A happy cow is a healthy cow.
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"He was one of several special operations division scientists who were in France on 16 August 1951, when an entire French village, Pont-Saint-Esprit, was mysteriously seized by mass hysteria and violent delirium"

Big if true. The book doesn't come out till October. I wonder if this is the only circumstantial evidence they have? If they can place him in the actual village, that would be something.
Just wait until they figure out how to make a guillotine out of those beer cans, they will eat good that day.
Yeah, filling bellies to keep people alive really pisses me off too...
Epstein, a convicted and admitted pedophile, got MIT Media Lab kowtowing to him.
https://amazingmarvin.com/ has been my side project since 2016 (wow!). I will finally quit my job at the end of the year to go full-time on it (co-founder is already full-time). I worried a lot about doing something that had already been done 1000 times (a productivity tool), but now that it's working out I realized there's always room for a better mousetrap! Another surprising learning: it's still possible to have a product that people will pay for in 2019 with a mediocre phone app.
Ito will be gone within 24 hours, I guarantee it.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Media Lab is shut down by the end of the week.
90% of $100 is not $190
Yes. Without executable client side code you can't do things like heap spraying.
Can they use the carbon to self-replicate yet? That's when things get interesting.
It's obviously far smaller, but I've had luck so far with everything I need being available. What I've seen, mostly Postgres, Redis, and XML/HTML parsing, have also worked flawlessly so far.

Having performance improvements of 100x in real-world scenarios is just astonishing. Ruby is still my go-to, especially because debugging and console support are so much better. But everything that gives me time to think gets reimplemented.

["crystal lang" <question>] usually works for google.
It's important to remember that the world has been unbelievably successful at getting people out of extreme poverty (inflation-adjusted $1.9 per day). We went from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 0.65 billion in 2018. Ways to go, but it is a truly amazing achievement of humanity. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the past 30 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
I assume there was a quite broad release clause in the paperwork - not uncommon for settlements. If the other party refrained from offering assurances it might be hard to make an argument they weren't acting in good faith. On the other hand, it shouldn't preclude a criminal investigation. I can only assume the evidence was too circumstantial or trail too stale to gain traction from investigators.

This is a really disconcerting story for a population that tends to assume we're the good guys.
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Why were they trying so hard to hide his involvement if they thought he had paid his debt to society and everything was all good? Clearly they knew this dude was toxic but still wanted his money.
This is the same Ikea that has a "Jesus in the woodgrain" on a toilet door. (If you Google it you'll see stories popping up every couple of years as someone "discovers" it again.)
Epstein created a virtuous cycle of social capital for himself by MIT accepting his donation. While it was anonymous to outsiders, the insiders all knew.

For the tech crowd here familiar with venture capital, it would be like one of the top branded VC's being the first money in to your startup. It's a strong positive signal to others.

This NYTimes article has plenty of detail:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...
The usual estimate is 2000 hours/year.
So you're high-strung and uncomfortable around people? I think that's an important thing for the hiring manager to know.
Where, specifically, was the money going at MIT?
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The first world's needless cry of "exploitation!" is the third world's actual opportunity.
I already answered that. Because in general - society doesn’t forgive. It would have been scandal had this info be published from day one. But he never made a dollar illegally. Its not like a drug dealer sponsoring a Boys Scout club.
Nice to see the author here. Note that I still do appreciate the post. You're also right that establishing simple, potentially extreme profiles isn't the goal but does help with understanding. The nuance I wanted to convey was lost while describing the folks above; I don't think I have much more to add about it, though here are some related thoughts.

My personal answer to your question for me is "It depends. Lemme check what feature we're talking about here". My mentality isn't "nice, an occasion to exercise my principles", and judging from the talks two of the three aforementioned people gave, I'm positive they adopt a similar attitude: happen to take a stance, but don't actively seek it.

When I go over some codebases, I often find flavors of code that smell like someone tried too hard taking a stance. E.g. code that overly future-proofs, code that definitely needs less ad-hoc-ness, code that prematurity optimizes in an obviously naive way, code that tries too hard to use a functional/OO concept, etc. Note that these all belong to different categories in your post, but one thing they share is that they all feel like p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶d̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶n̶c̶i̶p̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶s̶l̶a̶p̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶l̶e̶c̶t̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶ folks shoehorned principles back into the project rather than the other way around.

So an alternative way of categorizing things is whether you go from the principle to the project, or vice-versa (aka whether you go from abstract to concrete or vice-versa). A result of that is that Jon Blow and Rich Hickey end up in the same category while Bret Victor and Alan Kay ends up in another (without speaking too much for themselves, and thanks to the nice confluence that is HN, I’d say that this categorization has been empirically verified if you check these people’s discussions with each other).

Also, as computing domains grow, you'll probably need to create many more categories if we cross-cut the way you did in your blog post; on the other hand, this alternative way of cross-cutting, I believe, would stay constant. But hey, that doesn't mean your way of cutting it is wrong. The alternative one might be simpler but more abstract.

Maybe this explains why many people in this thread debate on whether the cross-cutting is fair. If you ask the alternative question "which direction do you work from/to", you might get some better partitioning.
Why don't you think there will be much performance benefit? The Porsche taycan is much faster accelerating than any Tesla at high speeds, probably due to the two speed gearbox. I don't think it is an efficiency thing, electric motors just start loosing power after a certain rpm, and a gearbox helps with this.
I'm reasonably sure that you aced the test.
The Media Lab that Joi Ito is in charge of.

Ethan Zuckerman is another name people might know around here who was at the Media Lab. He resigned.

Zuckerman by all accounts was totally clean in all of this. Ito, looks dirtier by the day, and is digging in.
That’s a bummer. Why is that, do you think?
I think most people don't fit squarely in any of the camps. Most people are making compromises between virtues of all the categories, they might just weight them a bit differently.
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I keep telling people that, but they get mad when I give them opportunities to serve me.
I haven't had to go that far, but for about six months I had a food budget of less than $2 per day.

If I had needed to pay for housing, health care, everything on $2 I am not sure how I would do so.
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Heartbreaking post! Made me remember one of pg's essays that I like but haven't really gotten into practice: Life Is Short (http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html):

"Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something."

Even if your child does not die, the way s/he is at a certain age is a fleeting moment that will never come again.
I see. So because he was a horrible person and happened to be a billionaire, he should have rather spent his fortune buying and crashing a new Ferrari every day, got it.

This country was mostly built by Rockefellers and similar despicable humans. Honestly they didn’t fell far from what Epstein was doing but yet here it is America the strongest nation on Earth.
In what way is "better on track" a bad reason? Lots of cars have features which are only really useful on a track, are all of these cars needlessly complex?