skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * UI: Usually not a thing, but when it is, your users are developers and they should be able to figure it out ...

There is still an interface that the developers are using, whether it be command-line based, graphical, an API, or something else entirely. And hopefully it is well-designed!
> If you will have a water supply no matter what (I’m near the Great Lakes)

Algae blooms make this no guarantee (and in fact more likely than other disasters people do keep in mind): https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/us/lifting-ban-toledo-say...
This is baffling. After elementary school, my parents didn't have to think about me at all in the morning. During elementary school, my mom gave me a ride to school on the way to work, and if anybody needed waking up, it was her. A few times in middle school, I missed the bus.
Dear Om, Nice article, but please don't use the word "proverbial" in two consecutive sentences unless your article is about proverbs. Or even then. It's distracting as the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop.
The alternative is quitting. Only a lack of willpower and predatory marketing lets anyone fool themselves into thinking otherwise. Cigarettes used to be advertised as healthy, too.

I believe cell phones may have negative health effects that we have not yet discovered. They offer considerable convenience and that's worth it for me, but I know people who don't use them for that reason.

I'm skeptical about GMOs in general as they have potentially unknown environmental risks that we are poorly equipped to reverse or undo once we discover them.

New medicines obviously must be weighed against the disease they treat and the existing standard of care.

Waiting is exactly the wise choice, and acting like the alternative is cigarettes is nonsense when there's a perfectly available, free, harmless alternative that works for billions of people all over the world and has done for all time, which is simply not smoking.

As for your actual question, whether vaping is worse than cigarettes, I don't know and wouldn't guess, but I wouldn't quit smoking to take up vaping.
yup, once you've whittled down to qualified candidates, you've exhausted your (relatively) objective methods anyway, so random is your best choice then.

i made this same point recently using the nba for illustration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20848444
indeed, lmao. getting a JOMO right now just looking at those silly links & feeling zero desire to click thru.
Relevant to that quote, it's important to point out that this kind of influence peddling fell apart, not when Epstein himself got caught, but when enough people at a high level decided they didn't want to be part of it. Ito himself clearly viewed himself as a kind of fellow traveller in Epstein's world (no idea if that involves sex trafficing! That's not my point!). Gates did too.

But Signe Swenson wasn't as willing to put up with that, even if she couldn't personally stop it. And by 2016, she was in the room too.

You can look at this through a "fuck the patriarchy" lens or insist on the fact that this was just people being people. But at the end of the day this is why diversity matters. Epstein's lures only worked on hetero men, and he fell when faced with a world of influential women.
Apple almost seems to purposefully keeps mobile Safari buggy for HTML5 apps

Then your HTML5 app is broken.

Back before there was an App Store, when all "apps" were web apps, I wrote one of the first non-Apple weather apps for the iPhone. It included animated radar, weather alerts, hurricane tracking, and even streaming audio from a real meteorologist. And this was more than a decade ago, on bog-standard launch-day iPhones. It was even featured by Apple back when it had a directory of iPhone web apps.

Mobile web apps could be really incredible with today's technology, if so many of them weren't crammed with unnecessary/lazy/stupid garbage.
Hey, thanks for mentioning about the typo. Just fixed it :)
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Thanks for trying it out. What you saw might be due to over-aggressive caching, which generally is used to provide a fast experience even under bad network conditions.

Manually refreshing should actually do a full fetch so it sounds like a bug, which I'll look into.
Changed for clarity, but my point stands. It's kind of funny in retrospect.
I don't use those apps so I'm curious what functionality would you expect out of them if they didn't have network access?

When I use any banking apps I'm looking at transactions or making transfers both of which require internet access by their nature (queuing up transfers for later or showing stale transactions seems like a bad idea).
They are only investigating this company because they don't like the government cracking down on protestors in HK.

Tear gas is better than bullets.
> One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California

Were avocados cheaper in CA? It might be the Alchian-Allen Effect: https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/alchian-allen-and-agglomerat...
Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music
I tend to believe people naturally think in graphical structures, not trees. It's sort of an impedance mismatch though because our physical world is tree based - you can't put an object in more than one container. So we're continually struggling to transition back and forth, to the point that we unnaturally try to force our thoughts into tree structures like outliners.
Spent a while thinking why I don’t see this much. I work mostly with higher level languages, so the beefiest things I run are probably webpack and the typescript language server. I wonder if maybe the problem is fork or some derivative effect. That, or I just don’t have any syscall heavy loads in my life, full stop.
Bill Gates has given many times personally to the Media Lab secretly. He gave on this occasion on Epstein's request. To him, this was just a financer asking if he could give some cash to the Media Lab, considering Gates had donated before, AFAIK.
It’s not a theoretical question as to whether he was trafficking women. He had already been convicted of it! And was charged with it again.
Any chance we could get syntax support in Sublime Text?
> Everybody who has doubts about working with the creep looks around the room, and when they don't see anyone else objecting, ends up thinking "I guess we're all ok with this behavior" and gets along to go along.

Let's be honest - a lot of people in the tech community and related subcultures (particularly genre fandoms) are either ok with, or are ambivalent towards, this behavior, or have a lack of empathy which leads them to view things in purely game-theoretical terms.
Technically following a http link is a cross site request.
Actually yes. Students are responding naturally to incentives in this situation. Those who are willing to cheat to get ahead will probably have an advantage in life.
This is bad writing for a lot of reason.

First the author tells us that if we consider ourselves pro or anti nuclear we can't possibly have thought through the pros and cons of nuclear power. It must be because we identify ourselves as left or right. Or green or not.

Then he tells us that if we _do_ have a policy position, we are probably wrong because "its complicated". All of which I find mildly insulting.

Then he proceeds to look at nuclear "purely though the lens of climate change", which as far as I'm concerned is not useful because many of the reasons one might choose to be anti-nuclear are not climate change related.
France is in the process of phasing out 35% of their nuclear fleet, and the remaining fleet will need to be retired within a few decades.

With one exception (Flammanville, 11 years over schedule and 400% over budget) no new plants are planned.
I can't figure out why anybody would think Epstein's previous criminal conviction was irrelevant to the matter of Epstein's reputation.

I'm trying to assume good faith, but it's not easy.
The ones that you know weren't there with Epstein. Context.
So much difference? For such a fuzzy topic those are incredibly similar. Ignore the ranking (for all you know #1 could mean 10M users and #8 means 9M users, e.g. an insignificant difference anyway) and consider the top-10 as an (unranked) set of the most popular languages.

Those then are more or less the same in all those sources!
Bitcoins worth $1B just moved to an unknown wallet
Gates is flat out denying that Epstein had anything to do with this specific $2m donation at all.
I think most recommendation algorithms rely too much on collaborative filtering and not enough on content based filtering.
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Good. These were in no way innocent ties. He knew who Epstein was and misled people. Ito could be on the hook for civil fraud. The elements of fraud are:

a purposeful misrepresentation of a fact
with knowledge that it is false
to a victim who justifiably relies on the misrepresentation
who suffers actual loss as a result.
Do you think your view was common in any way? GPA is a deeply flawed metric but I don’t think most people have any awareness of this.
If it's really the case that the only way to make nuclear viable is to deregulate the industry, then Bernie is absolutely right that we need to end reliance on nuclear power.
This is only a problem in a world with corporate personhood. Presumably the issue with people would be their use of said actions.
Linting Spring Boot with SonarQube
"nobody can make nuclear plants cost efficiently anymore."
Wrong, China and South Korea does,some private enterprises too.

Unlike most technologies nuclear power plant building cost has increased over time (5 times)
Mostly among other things (e.g lack of standardization except France), the huge current cost is because of irrational, overengeenered safety specifications.
America could trivially build cheap power plants like in 70s and it would still make statistically less deaths than wind or solar and be the most cost effective energy source on earth.

Even taking into account modern occidental power plants, they are still mostly competitive with fossil and destroy other clean energy sources.
Source: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...
Well, so indoor climate control is more complicated than it appears.

First, yes, you do need heating in some places, but not as many as people usually think; the German Passivhaus program has demonstrated that you have to get to near-Arctic latitudes before adequate insulation isn't sufficient and you need active heating for a conventionally comfortable existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivhaus

Second, the 84% of the energy that you lose at the solar panel doesn't provide heating in any useful way, unless the solar panel is inside your house under a glass roof or something. Only the 13% of the energy the LED wastes as heat is providing heating in a potentially useful way, and even then, it's only heating the vertical farm, not a dwelling space.

Third, as you know if you've ever been in a place with a glass roof, direct sunlight provides far too much heating. Most of the sunlight that comes through the greenhouse roof gets turned into heat, immediately or soon, except for the tiny percentage that gets captured in sugar. And these LEDs are providing about two or three times as much heat as the sun, per unit illumination. So the problem is going to become cooling rather than heating --- and cooling is an easier problem to solve, much of the time, if you have giant windows you can open.

Fourth, in the cases when you do need heating rather than cooling --- to ordinary temperatures like 25°, not some kind of process heat for a chemical plant or something --- you can get it several times more efficiently with a heat pump. Waste heat has a coefficient of performance of 1: every watt you lose provides one watt of heating. (Maybe 0.95 or something, but very close to 1.) Common heat pumps like the "aire acondicionado frio/calor" here in the house with me provide a coefficient of performance of about 2: every watt used by the compressor provides about 2 watts of heating, because it's sucking an additional watt out of the outdoors in the condenser coils and pumping it into the house. Good heat pumps like those used in ground-source heat-pump systems provide a coefficient of performance of about 6: you get 6 watts of heating for every watt of electrical energy that goes into moving that heat around.

So, even if you do need heating, wasting energy on electrical power is not a good way to get it.

So this is not a good argument for purely or mostly artificially lit farming.
>"He told the crowd that he had “screwed up” by accepting the money, but that he had done so after a review by the university and consultation with his advisers."

Interesting his choices made it unimpeded through his own conscience though.
>Considering HTML a programming language

People don't care for semantics. If you write it and it causes a PC to do something (even if it's just to show a website), it's a programming language. Doesn't need to have branching, variables, etc... (not to mention that HTML includes JS and CSS) print "hello world", <b>hello world</b>, same difference.
I was talking about the people _making_ music.
Share the tools you use as a developer or designer
Epstein is toxic. The investigation into his depraved island can’t come soon enough. Let’s just hope none of the QAnon noise turns out to be true.
and what the downsize would be for the doctor?
If he could cure him, the doctor gets a fortune, if the treatment didn't work, he goes disabled or worse. I don't want to be that patient!

Capitalism doesn't work for everything!
> "I know a few Eastern European models"

Do you?
The NSA Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
>Carbon neutral is a fancy way of saying "let's pollute the same as we do now".

"Carbon neutral" has a precise definition, and that's definitely not it.
I'm not convinced; couldn't you get the same benefits by turning on LEDs in your greenhouse on cloudy days and while running the harvesting robots at night?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...

No, Subway chicken is not 50% soy.
I like this. This could become the basis for a personal outboard memory. Add some intelligence and this could become the basis for a personal virtual agent.
The amount of time and money being spent on policing fare jumpers is so small as to be effectively zero. But it's a point people will try to make all the same.
JavaScript’s eval
> I don't get it.

This is one of those things where somebody noticed that things just didn't seem right and the proper response to that is to raise concern and ask questions.

Sorry, but a 60-something "finance" guy with an entourage of teen models doesn't add up. Sure some of these people have trophy wives half their age, and it raises eyebrows, but this is far beyond that and totally unacceptable once somebody looks into this guy's history.

At a minimum Ito should have used better judgement after being altered to this stuff.
They wouldn't if they received any benefit from that automation.
Leaving aside this particular situation...

Many philanthropists will say "I wish to donate $X", and then ask a friend/group/organization, "Where would you like me to donate this?", hence a "directed donation".
I don’t think we’ve seen enough clinical trials for skepticism to have much weight yet.

Edit: field studies → clinical trials
I usually reread the comments after 4 or more hour. Sometimes the new comments are interesting.
I built this (Next.js, GraphQL, Zeit Now), you can embed your own affiliate links to the tools you use if you have them, and I collect no personal info via GitHub connect.

It's cool to check out what other people use... have already discovered a few new development tools :)
Well America currently runs the biggest outrage factories in the world. Don't expect the output to reduce anytime soon. The Attention Economy is still scaling up.
Of course, but I'm referring to the common case where only one map can be provided. Say you want to buy a world map to decorate your living room: https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/collections/world-maps/p...

Or simple when the map itself is secondary to the information presented on the map.

Regarding your second map, I remember clearly in my geography classes the teacher refused to show us a simple map of the world (always a globe) until we actually learned about projections. It was a bit extreme but effective at conveying the fact that all projections distort things one way or another.
Gates is denying Epstein was involved in this donation at all, despite the emails. Plus, Gates was well aware how unsavery Epstein was given his insistence the donation be made anonymously.

Doesn't add up.
For anyone wondering what Dash is, it’s an API documentation browser macOS app. It works offline and has fuzzy search that shows results as you type. You can get it at https://kapeli.com/dash. The full version costs $30.

https://devdocs.io/ is a free alternative. It’s a web app that can be set up to work offline. It was missing a few convenient features of Dash last time I checked, but I can’t remember which features those are right now.
Without network access, I can still see recent messages I sent in Messages, recent email in the Mail app, and so forth. I would expect to see the most recent data the app had available to it. In addition, I expect these apps to work over a low-bandwidth connection. The Discover card app is useless without an LTE connection.

But that isn't even my main complaint, it's that these apps are mostly paper-thin wrappers around a web site and bounce you into a web view for much of their functionality.
An entire system that incentivizes and absolves this behavior at all levels. I’m serious. This is what power and wealth do: they allow you to break the rules that the rest of us plebs have to abide by.
That's reaching, a whole lot. Ito knew who Epstein was, as did everyone else - Epstein's conviction wasn't a secret. That harms Ito through his poor decision making, but other people were just as capable of knowing who Epstein was.

Who suffered an actual loss as a result of these donations? Civil fraud is grasping, some.
No tear gas is best.
> Not long ago Saudi Arabian money and PRC money was just fine

Wait, did something change this morning? AFAIK it's still fine and dandy to take Saudi money (esp. if you're the US government) and Chinese too.
could you clarify Anand's supposed ulterior motives? He resigns and he proposes Joi Ito cede his position to one of the women in the group?

If one does not want to be associated with the scandal, because he has nothing to do with it, surely he should have the liberty to distance himself without having to also play the secret keeper for others? He never signed up to be their secret keeper. He tries to give the benefit of the doubt, and begs for explanations of their silence, for explanations of their decisions. So when none are provided, surely his right to free speech permits him to speak about whatever he witnessed from his perspective?

Sometimes the only identifiable "ulterior motive" is the freedom one has maintained by not becoming complicit...
Just dump it on the South Pole.

It'll get frozen under hundreds of meters of ice (very good radiation absorber, plus a natural heat sink) and begin a hundred million year voyage to the sea. At which point it won't be radioactive any more and will get transported and dumped into deep ocean by the icebergs.
The criticism is that you are letting an Epstein character buy your organization's credibility and social capital, not that the financial capital isn't being put to its best and highest use.
Yeah, leave the labour extorting weapons manufacturer alone, guys!
But ultimately the money spent by state governments has to come from _somewhere_.

Property taxes are quite high in Texas for example: https://www.kut.org/post/heres-why-property-taxes-are-higher...

Other states with no income taxes have highly regressive sales taxes: https://www.accuratetax.com/blog/regressive-sales-tax-infogr...
What country are you in if you don't mind?

I don't really know how it works in countries with better healthcare, but in the US you usually have to work fulltime to get any sort of benefits from your employer.
And benefits through the marketplace (not through an employer) are generally expensive for what they offer.

Someone in the US would need to make quite a bit to be able to do part time.
Don’t you think your own recollection is a sample bias and a “plaster mask” (whatever that is supposed to mean) of your own?
In a similar vein, I recommend workflowy: https://workflowy.com

Kudos on the design though. Clean and simple, and reminds me of the Windows XP help window that would come bundled with every major desktop app.
US property taxes (even in lower cost states) are huge compared to the UK's council tax.
"I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it.
You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

-- future President of the United States, Donald Trump.
"fairly safe compared to alcohol" is a pretty low bar
Hmm Lockheed Martin, Raytheon etc. have being exporting weapons system to brutal dictatorships for decades
To certain values of "survival" which apply to people in no physical danger.
The problem with moving to little cities is the downturn and losing your job. Where is your next job?
>'In an email in October 2014 — six years after Mr. Epstein had pleaded guilty to a sex charge involving a minor in Florida — Mr. Ito wrote that a $2 million gift from Mr. Gates was “directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” Peter Cohen, then a development official at the lab, wrote in a subsequent email, “For gift recording purposes, we will not be mentioning Jeffrey’s name as the impetus for this gift.”

Mr. Cohen, now the director of development for computer and data science initiatives at Brown University, did not respond to messages seeking comment on Saturday.'

While Ito is rightfully being held to account I think it's important to consider all the other enablers who condoned and accepted these arrangements as well.
It is a weird thing to wonder about whether LSD does ‘something shocking’. If it didn’t do something shocking, nobody would use it and it wouldn’t be illegal. It clearly has a profound effect on people.