skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet arguments where people say angry things for/against the nations they like/dislike are nationalistic flamewars. They lead nowhere good because the statements are invariably repetitions of previous flamewars, which means they contain no new information but do get people very angry and very nasty. That also makes them off topic here. Please see the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Richard Branson wasn't convicted of child prostitution. At the time of the event quoted by the OP, Epstein had been. For fuck's sake...
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
My family has a cattle ranch near the protest site. What I saw was that the some of the protesters didn't really know the difference between a rancher's tractor, and pipeline equipment. Now... there is some overlap there with dump trucks, but there's no way a combine can build a pipeline (edit, a combine is a machine used for separating grain from the stalks). A number of ranchers had their equipment vandalized just for having a field near the protests (5-10 mile range). Incidents of people misbehaving were pretty well documented, and worse... these ranchers didn't often have vandalism insurance to make them whole again. I don't think it was quite all "Kumbaya" is all I'm getting at here. So while I was against the pipeline, I was more against people fucking up rancher's property. These guys have a hard enough life without some punk indiscriminately trying to pour sugar in the gas tank of everything they could find bigger than a riding lawnmower.

Anyway one of these has a clip of some of the protesters blocking access to a certain area. First hand, that was my experience trying to drive a pickup truck through one of the areas. These guys blocked the roads, came up to the truck, were incredibly aggressive... swearing and posturing right off the bat. My dad, who's an enrolled member of the tribe, tried to tell them he was just getting through... he's in his 70s, and these guys mistook him for a pipeline worker. Yeah... I mean, it was just surreal having someone who clearly didn't sound like they were from North Dakota yelling at my Dad, who has lived there his entire life, about how we were violating and trespassing on sacred lands and they had the right to stop us from using the road.

* Ranchers Impacted by the DAPL Protests Voice Their Concerns | The Mighty 790 KFGO || https://kfgo.com/podcasts/ag-news-leader/1694/ranchers-impac...

* N.D. Pipeline Protests Have Agitated Area Farmers - AgWeb || https://www.agweb.com/article/nd-pipeline-protests-have-agit...

* My old comments on HN on this subject || https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You upload your private SSL key to Cloudflare for example. And I was talking about hosting on your own hardware/colos like most large sites do (7x cheaper than AWS list prices on avg)
You’ll like Kotlin’s concurrency model then! It not only allows concurrency, but also parallelism, with rich language support. It is really pretty great, check it out!
Does that matter? It's still a LEAF, a sub-compact commuter car, up against what was billed as the quickest production car in the world just a few years ago. The best, newest LEAF has a single 214 hp motor dragging a battery-heavy car, giving it a 0-60 time slower than a Honda Civic. This "old" Model S has two high-performance motors delivering 691 horsepower. The 5-year-old Model S is still worth more right now on the used market than a brand new top-trim LEAF.
It's about more than just HK. It is about the Uighurs being put in concentration camps. It is about the harvesting of organs from political prisoners. It is about illegally occupying Tibet. It is about illegally occupying the South China Sea. It is about many things.

https://chinatribunal.com/final-judgement-report/
Ha ha, "most people." They're so stupid, right?! Not like we, the ones who know what's really going on and how things actually work.
> So I guess that Epstein was just trying to maintain a pretense of legitimacy.

Or just felt untouchable.
I believe you, but unfortunately these things have to be judged by effect rather than intent, and the effect is invariably inflammatory.
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That was the model I had in mind but it’s not really a meaningful distinction since the host could almost certainly compromise those servers as well. In any case, you’re trusting a third party rather than having their involvement maliciously imposed.
The incident in Russia was too small to have these kind of effects this far.

It is only really traceable through radiation, because our instruments are very accurate and the signal is very clean - it does not change much through natural causes.

Russia was my first thought, but you can't hide a submarine depth of 22 meters.

Conversely, get a small boat, commodity diving gear and 3 dudes, and this is easy to do. You get this kit for a few grand.
So it's okay to not tell the world about the exploit in the first place ? If Apple posted this against Google you wouldn't say a word. You'd just be happy for Google to get bad press no matter what they do. This post made the world's iOS devices more secure. Have fun countering that in your head with "but but HN says Google is bad..."
The desire for these recommendation services not to be "too smart" really resonates with me. If we can't yet give a great set of zero-effort recommendations, why don't we pull back a step and give the user a few power tools to find their own? Maybe I'm out of step with mainstream users, but I would see that as a huge improvement.
This disproportionately impact men and boys. Can't recommend "The Boy Crisis" enough as a must read. Or at least this TED talk: https://youtu.be/Qi1oN1icAYc
Okay, but this metaphor is completely nonsensical when applied to standards, because if you plug the parts of reality into the parts of the metaphor, the horse is part of the coachman.

Developers determine standards, and it would be pointless to make standards any other way because the standards wouldn't ever be implemented if there were no developers who wanted to implement them.
Please specify in detail how you believe that’s an MITM using the standard industry definition. In particular, consider whether “attack” and “voluntary business agreement” are synonyms.
Not too long ago someone posted this: https://www.wired.com/story/joi-ito-ai-and-bus-routes/ Basically, Mr. Ito describes his role in torpedoing a change to bus routes that would have had significant benefits for most students in a school district. He wrote a shitty op ed about it and got the plan cancelled without ever interviewing the people who had designed it. He had thought they hadn't engaged the community, but in fact there was a lengthy community engagement process that led up to the plan. The parents who were mad were wealthy parents who would have had slightly less convenient bus schedules.

Anyway, in this retrospective he never apologizes for his blunder. I'm not really sad to see him go. He seems like a bad character.
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Wouldn't that be your job? He gave what he thought the source was.
Yeah, or when you try to open an account get stuck in limbo where you can't really access anything in the console, and suddenly you start getting bills for those Jungle Disk disk S3 buckets you forgot about years ago!

Somehow my new AWS account got linked back to those old S3 buckets, and something went terribly wrong. I really need to try to get that fixed somehow, while it's only $7 or so a month, it is still $7 for exactly nothing. Since I to my knowt haven't had an account for the better part of a decade, I was quite surprised that it was actually still retaining those backup buckets, but also that I started getting bills for the bucket. I believe the terms when JD was liquidated was that the buckets would remain, but be free of charge. Well, they were free until I created a new account.

Last time I tried to shut them down I think I actually managed to set up CLI access, but then I got sidetracked by actual work. First time I tried, AWS wouldn't - figuratively - even show me the time, so getting CLI access wasn't even possible.
What is bizarre about it? Not all options are equally good investments - some are clearly preferable over others. Why insist on new nuclear power when so much evidence shows it is not needed?
In my own memory, at the time Ito was best known for having a gee-whiz style tech blog. Then for some reason he got hired to manage MIT's Media Lab -- a real head scratcher.
I'm perfectly okay with executing rapists, sex traffickers, etc, if that were the sentence imposed.

But if you don't impose a life sentence, but then believe a person should continue to pay for their crimes after the amount determined by a court of law, isn't that hypocrisy? Having someone serve their sentence in jail but then making them never able to interact in society again because of outrage over their crime is fundamentally unfair. If you're going to do that, then just execute them or throw them in jail forever, because that's effectively what they're doing. And as I said, I'm perfectly okay with making execution for crimes the punishment for a large swathe of crimes, including everything that Epstein did.

And even worse, if someone believes that a person deserves the right to be forgiven for their sins, and they are thrown into the same bucket for even associating with them, is that even fair?

Apparently Bill Gates met with Epstein several times after his conviction. Should he be punished as well?
> Rust crates are still full of the type of bugs that Python libraries killed years ago.

That's an interesting claim. What do you mean specifically?
He never served his time and he continued to commit crimes and yes, people are allowed to not want to associate with someone who raped children and helped others to rape children.
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." -- George Box

If we think our models are right, we will push them until we find out where they are wrong. That's what we do, over and over again. Pushing classical physics to its breaking point spawned quantum mechanics. We know there's a breaking point for present day physics too.
Just started using an old family phone that still works. Brand is 'Alcatel' running on 'KaiOS', don't know the model to be honest. It's not the best on the market I'm sure but it gets the job done and doesn't distract me.
You appear angry at me. I didn't argue anything in bad faith or attempt to distract anyone. Nor do I think the thing I said is totally irrelevant. There is a generic thing to be said about the "criminal-philanthropist" concept, it is a topic that many of us have not considered until stories in recent years, which seem to be a trend of more than one such offender, brought it to the forefront.
That really doesn’t matter to a kgb agent who wants to keep secrets. Don’t know anything about the depth, but seems deep enough.
For Chinese users, iCloud is operated by Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co., Ltd.

My understanding is that Chinese users in mainland China have a different set of product terms that are vague or silent about certain privacy features or what the the Chinese partner does.

If you are a foreigner, you use the Apple owned service.

What I don’t know is where you connection terminates. With Microsoft, depending on the type of cloud, Office 365 TLS connections terminate at a local Microsoft point of presence. So you are in clear text outside of your jurisdiction for a limited period of time. (Not sure about China, but I’ve verified for other countries.)

Bottom line, if I had information of interest to Chinese interests, I wouldn’t expose an account with that data there or would get real paid advice about how to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law
Plaster takes on the shape of what it surrounds and hardens into an inverse image of it. This is how people's memories of HN discussions work. You're more likely to notice the comments that seem wrong, unpleasant or offensive, and these make a deeper impression than the ones you agree with, so your image of HN hardens into the inverse image of your own views. People with the opposite views end up with the opposite image of HN. This explains why the claims they make are so contradictory, and why everyone with strong views ends up concluding that HN is on the side of what they dislike. It also explains the intensity aspect of the phenomenon: the intensity of how wrong people think HN is about X is predictable from how intensely they feel about X itself. That's weird if you think about it, but not so weird if you understand how this mechanism works.

Do I think it applies to me too? Yes. The mechanism is so consistent that I believe it's universal. I'm sure it applies to many more things than HN too.

What makes the moderator's position different is not that we aren't subject to those impressions, but that we're also subject to additional impressions. This happens when, every day for years, it's your job to read and reply to thousands (probably over a million by now) of posts users are making on the site, and evaluate them against a set of hopefully neutral guidelines. That view of the site, pounded in often enough, forces a different perspective over time.

In other words, we have the same agree/disagree impulses that everyone else has, but there's also an additional set of "is it good for HN" impulses in how we react to these things. It's just the mechanical effect of doing anything a million times.
Ugg... that theater looks like the mining base from Aliens (1986). I don't mean that it is derelict but that the architecture is similar.

https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Hadley%27s_Hope
So if a Ted Cruz character beat Trump we should fear this
Contrarian view: as long as the person in question was not compromised by e.g. flights to the pedo island (like Bubba Clinton, who took dozens of flights, dismissing USSS on a number of them for some reason, hmm), and as long as the integrity of the lab was not affected by Epstein's involvement, I see nothing wrong with taking his money. He's despicable, sure, but if he's not buying influence, I'm OK with him supporting science rather than blowing that money on satisfying wealthy pedophiles.
It’s a strawman because it’s an absurd notion. Much like your tu quoque. You are actually claiming that iOS is inherently insecure because firmware updates require a reboot. You are actually claiming that end users don’t upgrade because of this?! It’s absurd, not to say obtuse. I’m a huge fan of radical candor, so at the risk of reproach, what a stupid hypothesis!
It has always seemed like Apple has granted exceptions to this policy for any influential entities outside of the IT industry as long as they don’t compete with Apple.

Apps for brick-and-mortar organizations, such as banks and retailers, are a good example. They’re all almost exclusively simple wrappers around a practically unusable website. Many of them work worse in the wrapper than in a browser; for example, bank statement downloads are often broken.
I'd have figured the methane would be reformed to H2 first:
nominally,

H2O + CH4 -> CO + 3 H2
+ H2O -> CO2 + 4H2
3H2 + FexOy -> H2O + Fe

about 1.2-1.4x the methane winds up as CO2 (some extra is burned for heating in the reforming step). In this order H2 could be just as easily, but far more expensively, produced via green methods.

Another green way would be to use aluminum to refine iron, Al + FexOy -> Fe + Al2O3. Exothermic, rapid, 'green', but expensive because it costs electricity to make Al.

Also to your main point in modern blast furnaces I believe CO is either recycled or allowed to react with Fe2O3 at lower temperature to go all the way to CO2, saving money on coke:
Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2
or
Fe2O3 + 3C -> 4Fe + 3CO2
I believe in your right to do so.

But what about people who feel otherwise and think that by serving out his sentence he has paid for their sins? If those people associate with criminals who have served their sentence, are those people worse in your eyes? It seems like not only is redemption for criminals no longer allowed, but you're not allowed to believe in redemption for others as well.
Cobol turns 60: Why it will outlive us all
How good of a driver do you really need to be in a car that doesn't have gears? Just push the pedal to go... Reaction time is the only factor I can think of
Beyond the business stuff, he was basically Japan's first Western-style (Wired, Mondo 2000, etc.) New Media personality. Back in the early 90s he also took form as an action sports impresario, techno culture maven, and theorizing gadabout.
Investment > innate capability

You would think the tech industry, with its endless graveyard of technically-superior-but-undermarketed or under-supported products would recognize this.
> But Sir Richard Branson is on the level AFAIK and he hangs out with attractive women. Presumably they enjoy the company.

Isn’t Branson linked to the NXIVM sex cult? Seems like a hell of an assumption.
I do not follow what you are saying
It isn't all about horsepower on a track. The Tesla is certainly MUCH faster in a straight line, but on a track you need to be able to maintain your speed through corners.
What is Xeni Jardin claiming? That she brought the story to the NYT but they buried it because Ito was on the board? Why didn't she take it elsewhere?

Edit: I was looking for a bit more context than a random tweet. Had to search through a bunch of tweets to find it, but apparently Xeni tweeted about Joi Ito's connection to Epstein weeks ago.
Right. Maybe not surprising, given who some of his friends were. Except that he ended up being not as untouchable as some of his friends.
Yeah, stimulation was the big one. I eventually realized that it's sort of impossible for me to 'relax' (more than 5 hours a week). I just can't do it, and when I try I get frustrated. So I've developed a lot of self-development hobbies instead, which works out well.
> Model S thermal issue talk, yet the driver posted his fastest lap in the 13th.

All that extra charge early in the race was weighing him down. Once he'd burned through most of the battery and lost the weight, the car got quicker. Every racer knows you don't start with more fuel than you need.

/s
Well you might ask why people kept going on ships across the ocean if the quality of life was worse.

A randomly googled source is https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers... , which casually mentions a bunch of relevant numbers.
I see these type of comments as an underemployed college grad and don't know how to feel.
They don't just disappear- the money is probably going to be marked, the people will be eventually traced and dealt with. Money is very traceable.

There are plenty of people with a grudge against the US, some of them quite rich. US foreign policy made sure of that. Extra 100 million would make no real difference. The thing stopping them is distance to US and threat of deadly force.
Durham City Council Approves Expanded Housing Choices
As a user, when I visit a site, I never invited some third party to run their code on my computer, and I certainly don't want some third party making requests to the server on my behalf. So screw websites that depend on this bug.
Couple of points here:

1) HN is supposed to link to the original report about the research, which is done by the Guardian (linked in the first sentence!) here [1]

2) "Anders Ericsson [original study author] said the new paper actually replicated most of their findings."

3) Gladwell pushed the 10k rule to the point of breaking, by that I mean he extrapolated way beyond the original research. Gladwell's point may not hold up (as the title reads) because he pushed it too far, he drew his own imaginary conclusions that make for a nice story.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/21/practice-doe...
Note that I said “read like” — nobody in this thread can know what you were actually thinking what I described is the most obvious way I saw that those comments would be interpreted in a down-vote worthy manner. It might be useful to clarify your intentions to avoid that, especially since there are a lot of people who feel betrayed right now.
Can't parse your statement very well, but certainly Prop 13 has caused a lot of rigidity in the housing market by incentivizing people to hold onto their titles as long as possible, and never sell. And it has starved cities of funds and encouraged idle speculation and blight, since there's little cost to sitting on prime real estate indefinitely, and waiting for it to appreciate.

Taxes on buildings and construction are not conducive to general prosperity, but taxes on land are crucial to curbing speculation on scarce land. And incentivizing people to hold onto land indefinitely reduces dynamism.
Very true on historical predictive accuracy. I can not back the claim that the carrying capacity of the earth will substantially decrease in a warmer climate. From what I have read, changes in local weather patterns have caused reductions in local food security in recent and ancient history and these triggered significant upheaval (even without the presence of mass starvation).

Based on recent research, a warming climate has the potential to reshape the availability of arable land.

My concerns are primarily around upheaval (seems likely in most scenarios), potentially needing to divert more resources to food acquisition (seems unlikely in the long term as you note), and a coincident reduction in perceived value of nature preserves (a selfish concern from my love of wildlife).
Serious question: which of Gladwell's various truisms and rules have actually held up to research? I've seen a lot of criticism of his pop science books over the years without much talk about what he actually gets right.
In enterprise IE may be the majority, but for common users IE is still often the default. Basically if you don't target tech crowd, IE users are your users. A website I manage (targeted for location only) has 20% IE traffic on desktop.
Holy hell this is great writing. I was a rural EMT in an area without a big addiction problem. We had our share of repeat customers but nothing -- nothing -- like this. I'm not sure I could do what the author does every day. The mixture of joy at saving lives coupled with the utter futility of saving the same ones over and over. This is gut-wrenching.
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Why do so many people think "just rewrite it in Rust" makes sense to post on every single topic about a dynamic language, even though nobody ever does it because it doesn't actually work in reality?
I occasionally teach a college course as an adjunct (fun, and a little extra spending money). I don't know how wide spread cheating is, though if it were extremely common then students wouldn't struggle so much with some of the material. But personally, while I have an "instant F" policy if caught, I didn't really care: My philosophy and that of many other instructors is not one of indignant, "surely I'd know!" about cheating, It's that it's the student's time, their future debt. If they want to waste it, that's on them.
That's still a big restriction, other technologies could have a breakthrough which makes them 10x more efficient, this will never happen with wind turbines.