skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I was responding to someone who implied that Bill Gates was the greatest. Chuck Feeney lives in a rented apartment drives a modest car and has essentially given away his entire $8 billion dollar wealth. It's hard to top that for generosity in my opinion.
The main argument against nuclear is

The other main argument I hear all the time is that building a new nuclear power plant today is so expensive that it will never pay for itself at current electricity prices.
Lossless files are stored as 256kbps AAC in their cloud. I believe lossy MP3s and AACs are uploaded as-is. (I'm glad that Apple is aware that transcoding is generally a bad thing.)

iTunes also doesn't upload files that don't have a minimum bitrate of 96kbps [1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203564
“- Charge based on distance.
- Stop policing poverty. E.g. stop paying cops to arrest fare jumpers and fix shit instead.”

What’s the point of tinkering with the fare structures if you want to make it pay-what-you-wish anyway?
This stands out to me as a problem that mandatory liability insurance would be well suited to. Make everyone liable for damages to people and organizations harmed by illegal use of their unsecured computers. Then everyone who has an internet-connected device has to purchase liability insurance. They would be able to choose between expensive policies that impose no surveillance or restrictions, or purchase cheap policies that require running surveillance software, or submitting to regular security audits. Most individual consumers would probably end up with cheap policies that just require them to use devices that receive timely security updates from vetted manufacturers and run behind typical home internet firewall rules.
The entire point is to make it functional without connecting to the Internet at all.
"4th gen nuclear" that could utilize current waste is years or even decades away from commercial availability. If you want to bet everything on a potential future technology that doesn't currently exist why not choose nuclear fusion? That will really solve all your waste and fuel problems...
The core parts of Office could be done on a weekend, but in order to get the same complexity and incompatibility it would take several "codemonkeys" several years to achieve.
Which other industry can make an area uninhabitable for many decades?
I only read DRM-free books, and I just use a 5-year-old Kindle Paperwhite. You can use Calibre to convert ePub to mobi, and then view it just fine on Kindles.

You can also get a used Kindle Paperwhite for pretty darn cheap. I wouldn't recommend going to earlier Kindle generations prior to the Paperwhite, because they didn't have backlights which makes reading in low light conditions (like bed) a lot less pleasurable.
What's ironic, is that's the same mentality that Joichi Ito had to resign for.

Money that comes from illegal or immoral activity colors it. You may think it's the same money, but the source of the money is important for institutions that have moral and ethical standards.
I think the lesson here is, leave your sex trafficked models at home when conducting business. It is telling how common this must have been for the thousands of years before the internet. What was Charlemagnes wife, like 13 when she started getting pregnant?
In the particular case of C, it's often important to be pretty precise. If an answer is offering a non-portable solution, or worse still, relying on undefined behaviour, it should get called out. It's not like, say, Java, where you're generally unlikely to get bitten by dark corners of the language.
Dont telegram and signal use centralized servers?

You need both a mesh net and a p2p chat app which single and telegram are not.
I wonder how that happens, like what would have caused them to take notice and add him to a list?

In part, I wonder if it has any connection to Gregory Benford's description of Minsky's interaction with Epstein: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/339725/
I know what you're saying, but it's 2019 and JavaScript is everywhere. I think most sites rely on at least some JavaScript to provide a reasonable experience for users. Do you have any examples of popular web apps that don't use js?
> Isn't that a bigger scandal?

It was/is. That angle of the story has received a great deal of attention.
"Would somebody who is trafficking women really take them everywhere he goes?"

The simple answer to this question is: Yes. He did.

And it was precisely the people who didn't take it at face value that allowed him to get away with it for so long.
CloudFlare has strategic business partnership with Baidu [1]. They are very likely to cooperate with the chinese government to implement the great chinese firewall.

Additionally, helping to block Wikipedia because China says so is much easier to excuse than blocking 4chan - they would just be complying with local regulations after all.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2015/cloudflare-an...
I think A/B testing requires A or B to actually be good. Imagine a data-driven restaurant that uses A/B testing to determine what customers want to eat. A is cockroaches. B is tarantulas. The data says that more customers prefer tarantulas! But they still go out of business because the steak next door is much better than either option.
Do people write jpegs and word documents by hand in a text editor?
Presumably then you don't consider goodness to exist, either?
I was a transplant from California over a decade ago I guess I never fully took root, I ended up moving to Texas
I can't upvote this enough. If we could somehow establish that tribalism and nationalism were the only ways for us to get into space, then spaceflight wouldn't be worth it.
That’s exactly how authentication JWTs work. They work differently from CSRF tokens though, because the CSRF token is generated for each request, not each ‘session’ (so you need much more complex server-side state management). But that said CSRF isn’t particularly relevant if you’re using a JWT in the Authorization header. CSRF attacks the fact that browsers will use cookies to automatically authenticate requests. If you’re not using cookies for authentication, and adding a JWT to the headers instead, then that automatic authentication doesn’t occur. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m not aware of any CSRF attack that targets Authorization headers, I believe any attack that does is just an XSS.
I think the naive approach is to think that things are black and white, absolutely good or absolutely bad, and so on by mere association. Scientifically useful results from scientists that are awful humans are still useful results on their own. A donation to a University (assuming no strings attached) doesn't make the University wrong by association, despite a donator who's an awful entity. Governments collect taxes from good and bad people and no one blinks an eye thinking the governments should lift their nose and walk away from money coming from criminals.
Apple will live stream its iPhone 11 event on YouTube for the first time
With the very short range of Bluetooth you would have to have massive adoption to carry the signal any distance. With a crowd or protest or sports arena I can see it but to send messages to someone quite a ways away it would not work. So good for masses and coordination within them.
It is absolutely, very much a problem to take money from an unrepentant abuser and predator who is still publicly flaunting his abusive and predatory ways. You could argue that, perhaps, such institutions should also not cater to the merely wealthy and vain. But you can enable vanity without enabling sex trafficking.
If you have a problem with MIT taking Epstein's money, then you have a problem with money in general. We all take money in some fashion from disgusting, psychotic, and evil people on a regular basis. Particularly so when we're on social security, medicare, or another social program.

It's like the people who are against hunting, but who are happy to eat store bought meat.
Shut down the engine when someone is still driving? That's not just inconvenient, that's suicidal. What if you're not able to get back to a place with cell coverage in time? Is the car just going to stop in the middle of the highway or the middle of a tunnel?
The alternative can be even worse though. Even well maintained coal and natural gas plants pollute more, and are responsible for more deaths than the worst case of nuclear power
Tu quoque...

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

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

Your point doesn’t change the validity of the article, the poor working conditions for the employees, or the fact that perhaps such exports need to stop.

Edit: What’s with the downvotes? So now HN is yet another forum where Whataboutism reigns? Shouldn’t we point out logical fallacies in arguments when we see them, or at least offer something constructive to the conversation? And, yes, this reply is constructive, since it points out that the parent reply is illogical and should be discounted.
> Other factors, such as a massive storm, heavy currents, or even marine animals, were ruled out as potential causes owing to the weight of the instrument.

This part is nonsense. Both massive storm, heavy currents and 40000 Kg sperm whales are able to displace easily matherial of only 250 Kg or shred submarine cables.

I would not discard pirate fishing trawl entering deliberately in a restricted/protected area (supposedly with plenty of fishes). Is pretty common.
Chemical processing plants? Water management?
32) Be a doer, not a talker.

I try to be a doer, and I'm often frustrated at work by talkers, but the feeling is tempered by this:

26) Don’t screw people and don’t burn bridges. Pick your battles carefully.
All of this is in the linked article.
What’s your point? If elite child prostitution rings are “the way the world works” why should we continuing normalizing that as a society?
You are misinformed and pushing an unproductive narrative. From the Center of Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html

"Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. From 1999 to 2017, more than 702,000 people have died from a drug overdose. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Of those deaths, almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid."

Pain management may be a problem, but the opioid epidemic is very real.
Artificial-intelligence voice is used in a theft
Microsoft announces first preview release of PowerToys
You'd like to recognize a rapist for their charitable givings?

edit: This was a poor comment. I shouldn't have phrased my point in such a crass way when I do not actually believe rowanG077 thinks what I wrote above. Sorry for my tone, rowanG077. It wasn't helpful to the conversation.
System Ingests AT&T Network Logs to Reveal Root Cause of Errors IEEE Spectrum
I use my Kindle a lot; it's great for travel and I can use it while on an exercise bike or while walking much easier. However, I still only ever use Goodreads manually, and I've marked every book I've read for the past 4 years (at 52+/year). I prefer it manual, and often keep wifi off on my Kindle unless I need to update Scribd downloads.
1) why use bridgify instead of goTenna mesh? Never heard of bridgify previously.

2) https://bridgify.io/. First part of the page is dedicated to fundraising.

Is this link fake news?
First Digital Nuclear Reactor – Nuclear Reactor Technology Change
Computer models solve magma 'sweet spot' mystery – Futurity
Companies who don’t care for the safety of their workers can and should be called out by media. One can debate about regulations, but transparency should never be controversial.

To your second point, BF News is relatively independent from the main business and has been nominated for a Pulitzer: https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
If you work in tech you have to launder the Saudi money through Softbank but otherwise it's fine.
Not really. Those sorts of ads are sent without targeting.
I'm just spitballing here, but if someone is involved in delivering millions of dollars' worth of donations to you, it would be reasonable to perform a basic background check on them, just to guard against huge potential PR problems. I doubt that they do the same over, say, $500 donations from random people, but once you're into the millions of dollars, you really need to know who you're dealing with. Background checks are used in many situations involving much smaller amounts of money (like entry-level jobs), so why not here?

And hi!!
> I can't understand this. If someone can't get the web console to work, they're not going to say "I know, I'll just write everything by hand with the API instead". The web console is essentially your landing page and your trial combined.

As a personal anecdote, my first interaction with AWS was to try and adjust the size of some elasticsearch disks. Not knowing better I tried to do it through the UI, only to find some crazy inconsistencies were the tooltip would say to type any size between 5 and 50 GB while the current value was 100GB. Even if you clicked "apply" with the current value of 100 you'd get an error message. I tried different browsers and it seemed to be a browser-specific issue.

After that I delved into the terraform that was used to provision all our AWS resources and I haven't looked back since. Apart from the obvious benefits of keeping your infrastructure as code and automation etc, terraform actually helped me understand how all the different services we had worked together and allowed me to get a grasp of our infrastructure layout quicker.

I would seriously discourage anyone from using the console for anything other than searching logs or managing DNS records (terraform is a bit flaky on that regard)
According to a number of other sources tear gas for Hong Kong is produced by Chemring Group, UK?

https://graphcommons.com/graphs/f042fe57-cf19-458b-b390-8cf6...

https://twitter.com/Omega_RF/status/1138752537878781952

https://theferret.scot/chemring-hong-kong-tear-gas/
>Smoking is not sex, don't be a fool.

ab·sti·nence

noun

the fact or practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically alcohol.

>That's correct. And neither do you, because the history isn't there.

No, it's not correct. We don't prove things safe, we attempt to show, with reasonable certainty, that something is not harmful. Those are not equivalent. We have no reason to believe that vaping is dangerous. That's not a statement that it is safe, but to equate it to cigarettes is asinine.

>Now, please go back and look at the history of cigarette smoking in the US if you want to continue this discussion further on an equal footing.

Judging from your tone and opinions I don't think we'll ever be "on equal footing". This subject seems to draw out the most pompous, ignorant people.
90% of you guys here would 'have ties' with Epstein if he gave you half a million dollar before all this shit hit the fan and he became a household name (mostly due to being used as a political football). Up until recently his record was a light plea bargain and a few civil suits of uncertain reliability (ie timed to coincide with Trump's election).

Its not exactly hiring OJ still wearing his bloody gloves territory. After getting their wad of cash most people even if they knew about his past record and dug to see the details they would probably play it off as the typical trouble playboys get into. And lets face it, what rich semifamous playboy is there that doesn't eventually have one or more woman alleging this or that. Practically goes with the territory nowadays and now in overdrive with METOO.

Hindsight and all.
They need weapons to oppress their own people. Which is why foreign arms sales are problematic.
1) Because few people own a goTenna device, whereas nearly all smartphones do Bluetooth?

2) Your link is an entirely different company, with a different name...

Some diligence please before throwing accusations around.
> Couple of years back owner of the abandoned building was declared liable of the death of the kid who entered to the fenced building despite all the signs no trespassing and so on.

Honestly, that doesn't sound right. I hope I'm misjudging because of lack of details.
>Your proposed definition of programming languages includes, as I said, CSV, JPEG, Word, and URLs.

And yet people don't call them "programming languages", while they do call HTML that -- so that even if HTML is not a programming language, there's still a not formally expressed difference that people can intuitively grasp with those other things...

>By contrast, you can't compute so much as a polynomial or NAND in HTML. That is to say, you can't program at all in HTML. So HTML is not a programming language.

You can't program most things in SQL either (not without some modern extensions that make it turing complete), but it is still considered a programming language...

I understand your point that "tt's important to care for semantics in order to have a conversation that conveys information", but I'm of the (e.g. Wittgenstein-ian) school that what matters is not some original/holy definition, but the actual popular usage.
Oh no, not at all. GP said he'd never heard of that in society before. Just trying to point out his ignorance.
goTenna is not approved for use in China (afaik) which means it cannot be imported. It's designed for US radio regulations. The old one used MURS and the new version uses 900mHz, both of which are effectively US-only. 900mHz exists elsewhere but often with far more restrictive rules that would require a new design.
Writing code to make a computer do something is programming. HTML is a language used to make a computer do something. Hence it is a programming language. People writing HTML are programming. It is however not a general purpose programming language.

Note that writing a Word document is not programming, since people are not writing directly in the language, instead Word generates the code for them. What people see in Word is not a language since it doesn't have a textual representation, and people don¨t write word files directly in docx format.
Talking about cost efficiency in power production is impossible as long as the default option is that we will burn fossil fuel when the power grid request more power than is being produced by other sources.

The most cost efficient way today is to use renewable sources like wind and solar when they produce, and natural gas when they don't. Gas powered generators can on demand easily be turned on or off, and pipe lines makes the import/export very cost effective so it can reach the target market quickly with minimal costs. The combination also allow for partial build up and short time between investment and revenue, while nuclear plants have all the cost up front and take long time to build.

It should not be a major surprise that many new natural gas power plants is currently being built in the US, and in the rest of the world. If I read the articles/numbers correctly it is the most common type of new power plants being built, with the second most common being wind in areas where wind expect to be profitable.

The good news is that natural gas is also replacing coal and oil. The bad news is that they are replacing nuclear. Natural gas is about half as dirty as coal, but half as dirty as coal does not sound that great of a replacement for nuclear.
This is about continuing to maintain ties with Epstein long after how problematic he was was known, to the point that the university had banned having any involvement with him because of his pedophilia conviction and Joichi Ito still associated with him and took his money, while lying to the greater university and covering up that he was still involving himself with him.

No, this definitely could not have happened to 90% of us.
Since Bluetooth is trivial to be disruped (or wifi for that matter) couple of programmers with enough sdr s and antennas could block it in a weekend...
Hong Kong is a separate region in the Apple App Store and I imagine Play Store as well. China does not normally have anything to do with the Hong Kong app stores but if they do, that'd be extremely bad PR and would likely fuel even more protests, achieving the opposite goal of suppressing the protests.
Surely Bill Gates hires big burly men who can enforce his personal space. I find it hard to believe that Bill Gates could earnestly be the victim of such hounding for more than a brief moment.
"This single event shows how corrupt this class of people I already disliked is!" is the definition of how prejudice works.
In the the US the term is attractive nuisance. It's not a new thing either, case law in the US dates back to the 1870's.
in sofar as IQ helps predict actual job performance, I'd say yes.

Now I'm not saying the situation isn't complicated. In the mid-20th century, IQ testing was a great driver of social mobility. However, as was pointed out in _The Bell Curve_, it's becoming the opposite. From what I understand, the heritability of IQ and assortative mating (i.e. people marrying other people of similar IQ/educational attainment) are the main drivers of this.

I don't think the formation of an entrenched class system is necessarily a good thing, but I think in the local context of our industry there's still a lot of good that could be done by improving our hiring process. I mean, would you rather hire people who only sound smart, or who are smart?
> Their immense size and outlandish appearance all but ensured that dinosaurs would become a mass public spectacle.

It seems the public is very similar to the tycoons in many respects...

> Not only did dinosaurs reflect the obsession with all things big and powerful that prevailed at the time

Was this really unique to the time? We've been building giant pyramidal altars then later skyscrapers and massive gardens and other. Even the ideologically modest churches built giant grand Cathedrals and church buildings.

We're still seeing a popular boom in massive buildings and big things in general across Asia and the Middle East.
Meat industry especially[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_agricu...
Not really. Someone doing something really bad will always have their image tainted. That doesn't mean we should stop them from doing good.

Look at Bill Gates for instance. People still give him a lot of shit for what he did 20 to 30 years back even though he objectively has done a lot more good now then bad. Bill Gates did both of those things. We shouldn't forget either.
This author, Nikil Saval, deserves a spot on your home screen. He is an amazing journalist.
Here’s the URL to his stories on NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/nikil-saval
People keep using this term. Is there a simplified no bullshit summary? I don’t want to drown in a ridiculous Wikipedia article.
I have, actually, worked on very large and interactive websites at the very core. Notably: betfair.com which has a very busy API and website and used to be something like a 1:10 write:read ratio with multiple clusters and layers of fancy caching to keep it all coherent down to millisecond scales.

Wikipedia does not need to be globally consistent like Betfair does and the ratio of writes to reads is nothing like 10%, I'd guess at one write per million reads or less. There are several pretty obvious ways to architect a site like Wikipedia for effectively unlimited scalability. The main trick is that it doesn't matter if a page is slightly stale and you can queue edits in the backend for quite some time (many seconds) without severely harming end users. Given those constraints it really isn't rocket science given the plethora of amazing tools we have to hand.

What I'm NOT saying is that I could build it in a weekend. It would clearly require a few teams of skilled engineers to put it all together and, crucially, operate it. My initial comment was in the context of Wikipedia having 100 engineers, and I think it's reasonable to say that a team that size is easily capable of such a feat.
You can do it pretty damn easily by hanging yourself.