skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brother, I was there with you as well. I saw no criminal activity by protestors (protectors). Everything was legal. No doubt there were some crimes here and there but certainly not rioting, terrorism, etc.

Those claiming now that everyone there committed federal crimes, I am here. Come arrest me. File your charges. I will ensure you are countersued for libel and false arrest. I will take you all down and as a lifelong successful engineer and entrepreneur I have the financial resources and legal advisors to ensure my rights. I committed no crime whatsoever. Bring it on, everyone making these claims. Bring it. I am here, waiting for all the internet basement accusers to make this real. Come now, let us grapple and let the courts determine the truth.
No, it is a pretty good allocation and a great use of that talent. That talent is producing value at a scale unprecedented in human civilisation. The human race has spoken, and this is what it wants. And I, for one, love it.
It seems to me the limited hypothesis "We have reached a point where no further progress can be made in understanding why quantum mechanics works the way it does" is falsifiable and thus not purely logical or philosophical. (i.e. quantum mechanics is the lowest level of physics).

It is only the broad hypothesis that is only answerable in philosophy: "There is a point in physics where no further progress can be made in understanding why things work the way they do and we will be purely limited to describing how things work." (i.e. there is some lowest level of physics)
Right, but other taxes make up for it.

Sales tax in many states is between 5-10 percent; the UK VAT is 20%. The top income tax bracket in the UK is a bit higher (45%) than in the US (37%) and the National Insurance Contributions are often larger than FICA (etc). The UK also has (e.g.) a TV tax, which the US doesn't.
I tried subscribing to the EFF and ACLU newsletters to keep up on stuff that matters without being on social media, but the volume was worse than their Twitter accounts. I want to know when people try to legislate me out of public life or worse, but it felt like they sent an email several times a day.
Isn’t “gal” the equivalent?
You don't think we will need more power than solar and wind can provide in 10 years? Our energy consumption has historically only increased, even with strong conversation campaigns, we should assume this trend will continue.
Why for the love of god and your own mothers would they suggest movies to me that are similar to a movie I watched 5 minutes of and never finished?

If I can't make it through 5 minutes of a movie I sure as fuck don't want to watch another movie that's just like it. Read the room already.
> I’m not sure how it’s misogynist.

The assumptions about the dichotomy in the potential roles of women underlying the game are literally a textbook example of misogynist gender images.
If you're starting now, you could use typed Python on PyPy from the beginning.
Why We Need Team
The involvement of people like Gates and Hoffman, for whom Epstein's money was effectively chump change, certainly does pose the question of what else he was bringing to the table for people with that level of wealth.
Even if all of that were better, more people would drive and you’d still end up with congested roads.
> talent is producing value at a scale unprecedented

As far as I can tell, much of this “value” consists of inserting oneself into existing money flows and diverting a tiny part into one’s own pocket, at the expense of everyone else in the society.

Wages in the broader society have been stagnant for decades despite steep increases in labor productivity. Healthcare, housing, and education costs keep skyrocketing without commensurate improvements in quality.

In the USA, life expectancy is going down, infrastructure is aging without replacement, worker and consumer protections have eroded, children’s lives are increasingly regimented and controlled, 40% of adults are obese, loneliness is rampant, young people are deeply indebted, almost nobody has enough savings to comfortably retire, many ecosystems are facing collapse and many species are facing extinction, ...
> Baseball bats in Japan?

Well, yeah. The Nippon Professional Baseball league is Japan's largest professional sports competition in terms of television ratings and spectators. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Japan)

Also, I thought this was pretty funny: https://imgur.com/a/K5hktiY
tires are everything in racing, and the leaf had aftermarket tires
I'm really liking the recommendations on your website. I found a few good recommendations already. And like you I really struggle with finding those via the usual channels. But, that font is just awful .... :-). You do have a bit of a Harry Potter infestation on your best fiction list. It appears multiple times there. Same with game of thrones related stuff.

Out of curiousity, where do you source your data from?
Ask HN: How do you write CSS in 2019?
I'm a solo founder with a backend-development background and low artistic ability. Although I can write the backend, JS and HTML without issue, I'm looking to hire a freelancer for the UX design and implementation, particularly for the CSS component.

Sniffing around the freelancer marketplaces, the international freelancers with solid portfolios who are prepared to work at the lower end of the pay scale ($15-20USD/hour) are all using tooling that generates the CSS for them - particularly Webflow.

I've looked at the CSS that Webflow generates, and it's extremely lengthy and not intuitive or human readable IMHO. Code generation also makes me shudder from an engineering perspective. However, I am self-funded and I don't have an existing customer base. I'm also building an MVP to launch with, not something at massive scale.

What would you recommend? How should I approach CSS development for an MVP in 2019? What are the gotchas to these code generation tools, if I should use them? Or, should I hunt down and pay for someone who can develop UX and code CSS by hand?
>but I'm not aware of any service that has functionality solely offered in the console

Historically, there have been some big ones, including some features related to pretty core services - I am fairly sure some autoscaling related features were console only for some time before an API was added. Instance limits were a console only feature for a year or so before DescribeEC2InstanceLimits was a thing.

It's not just historic examples, either.

Basically all of Quicksight outside of group/user management lacks an API today. Which is particularly annoying for some of my use cases, since the more technical folks generally will use Athena directly, and the people that want to use quicksight to examine the data are the ones that are less technical, which means needing other people to go and manually configure data sources, setup refresh schedules, etc. I'd love to be able to shove all of that into cloudformation and do it programmatically, but since it lacks APIs to begin with, I can't do it in cloudformation even as a custom resource via lambda.
Yes, but the amount of electrons per gram of carbon is three times as high with CH4 as with C.

CH4 + Fe2O3 >> CO + 2H2O + 2 Fe

3 C + Fe2O3 >> 3 CO + 2 Fe

In air: 2 CO + O2 >> CO2

CO2 is not produced directly at high temperatures because it decomposes at 900 C to CO and O2.

A bigger problem with natural gas is the methane released to the atmosphere when it is extracted. This is actually the largest source of atmospheric methane IIRC.
Can Humans Live on the Moon? Silicon Valley Group Wants to Try
I was in Joels hotel room the night Trump got elected. I guess I was just an easy target. I was loud mouthed and easily singled out. All I can remember was being a little tipsy and ranting about how I hated the news, the presidents, etc...Months later I find out he was an infiltrator. All I could think was "oh crap I hope I didn't threaten the president or anything under the influence". I thought it was hilarious actually because Joel couldn't ever get any good information from anybody. We all knew the drill. What was our secret? To keep no secrets. Everything was planned out in the open and everyone involved in anything knew they would be going to jail.
From the article: "100 demonstrators, many with their faces covered, halted construction and vandalized equipment." that is not a protest, that is crime.
I feel like there is a Dunning-Kruger homomorphism with the Gladwell 10k "rule". There are mastery inflection points at 20, 100, 500, 1000, etc. hour marks (ish). It really seems like the Gladwell conjecture is that people that do a thing for love|money, do a thing a lot.
That's not what it is about. It is about the story at a certain point of time in the past. Nobody is assuming Epsteins innocence today.
Ah, Mirai Mark N. So what, light bulbs? Cameras?
It doesn't matter if the USA blocks exports of tear gas to HK. They will just buy from other countries. If you really want to stop what is going on in HK then stop buying Chinese made goods.
Restrictive regulations have choked out the supply of new housing and housing vouchers have driven up the price of existing housing. The state government is unwilling to change its behavior in either of these areas.
And... they've been booted from twitter.
I don't understand the outrage.

He was convicted of a crime, and he served his time. In hindsight, the sentence was too light, but as regular people are we really supposed to understand all the details? If I met someone who went to jail, should she be exiled forever after serving her sentence? I just don't understand. And people get lenient sentences all the time, am I as a non-lawyer supposed to understand this and then give my own sentence on top of that? Or should some people who commit crimes should never, ever be allowed to interact with other humans again?

As far as I can tell, from the perspective of those around him in 2014, Epstein was convicted of a crime, and served his time. By 2014, he had committed no further crimes from what people knew at the time, so why exactly is this an outrage. Obviously in 2019, we know that he committed further crimes and he rightly went to jail, and it's sad that he won't face justice. But in 2014, did anyone know this and should they be treated so harshly if they didn't?

The only real problem was covering up the donation, which Ito definitely should have been fired for, but I don't understand why Epstein at that time should have been considered a persona non grata.

The biggest question is: should criminals never ever be forgiven for their crimes? And should anyone who decides to forgive them and associate with them also be considered despicable as well? Or is it just some criminals depending on their crime? Who judges which crimes should never be forgiven and which should?
Jump to 30:00[1] for a summary of results. Leaf edged out the Model S by 7.441 seconds. Fastest lap was 1:52.271 by the Leaf; for comparison to more traditional cars[2].

What's strange is all this Model S thermal issue talk, yet the driver posted his fastest lap in the 13th. How can this be explained?

Then there's this remark from the article:

> Clearly, [the Leaf driver] was keeping an eye on the temperatures and adjusting driving accordingly to finish the race before power loss occurred.

...and this[3] depicting the Leaf gauge cluster with 42% remaining at the end of the race. Was the Leaf driver even really trying? His right arm occasionally chilling on the door sill and casual commentary throughout the race was kind of funny.

[1] https://youtu.be/N-9tBPObpHk?t=1800

[2] https://fastestlaps.com/tracks/sugo

[3] https://youtu.be/N-9tBPObpHk?t=1832
Please convey to your spouse that we come in peace
Pretty much all of my Python is typed with attrs and mypy. It's great.
>Like "why am I in EC2? I'm making security groups and have zero EC2 systems."

Security Groups were initially an EC2 only concept. You couldn't write security groups for SQS or S3, and they came about alongside EC2.

Obviously EC2 is no longer the only service that utilize security groups, but it's an artifact of when they were.

(I'm not saying this is how it should be, just answering the 'why' part of the question ;))
> Why are there inevitably people who want to do the mental gymnastics of assuming innocence for a man convicted of sex trafficking?

This is extremely good question that I continue to be unable to find an answer. Much bigger case than Epstein would be that of Donald Trump. Everyone knew he is a six-time bankruptee, posted record $1B (billion) dollar loss with IRS and haven't made any of his many business ventures successful, other than add some to the real estate fortune that his father left him, but nothing too spectacular (growing $400MM to $600MM in two decades, which adjusted for inflation is probably close to zero). Yet the consensus of 2016 was that he is the only man
capable of steering forward a budget of the most valuable country on the face of planet Earth. Its boggling my mind, frankly.
> These comparisons are ridiculous.

Yeah, but they're fun. Overclocking consumer CPUs is likewise ridiculous, but most of us here read that content too.

I'm just happy that the notion of EV's as legitimate performance vehicles is finally breaking through.
I think the really cool kids are moving to BEAM (Erlang and friends).
The women could simply lead a normal life without Billionaire perks, like Billions of other women do. They are not forced to sell their bodies in exchange for a Billionaire lifestyle.
I didn't downvote you, but if I were to guess I would say people don't think discussion of the situation where a recipient might not be aware of the donors criminal activities is very relevant to this case. Epstein's felony conviction was public record and known to MIT.
Violence is justified when you are under an oppressive government. See american revolution and similar violent uprisings. That's the reality. The whole non-violent activism only works when your government isn't oppressive and can actually be reformed through non-violent movements.
>> When I talked to the students, they were all bright, smart, interesting and motivated.

Lol. You obviously were not talking to them very much. Half of elite grads are boring dullards these days. They lack confidence and originality. They only bother with "projects" when they think those projects make great resume items. They never attempt anything that they think might fail. Someone who has never bombed a class or exam, never reached too far, doesn't have enough experience yet. Also, if typos on resumes cause you to drop applicants then you are missing out on great people. You think any of the kids who hire resume writers have typos? A typo is evidence that the applicant actually wrote it themselves. That's a plus imho.

The legal field has a trick in interviews, but it is applicable to any field: Ask the applicant to tell a story about something they saw happen. The one who could put a narrative together on the fly, the one that could organize their thoughts as they spoke, those are the people you want. Unless you are hiring ditch diggers, effective communication means more than base skills, let alone typo avoidance.
Yes and because we live in the macroscopic dimension we develop the intuition this way and thinking in terms of another dimension makes out heads swirl. Perhaps we’ll never build an intuition at the quantum scale, just some tools to abstract it away and get some benefits out of it.
That’s not what MITM means. I get that you don’t like Cloudflare but voluntary use of a CDN isn’t a MITM any more than, say, Amazon is a MITM because you host on EC2.
The hospitable terrain in the area is highly inhospitable.
The movement you should fear is the right wing politician that deposes Trump.
Feynman's diagrams (like the orbital model of the atom) were attempts to visualize a world we can't experience.

Those of us who aren't deaf and blind begin to make audio-visual models of our macro world in childhood. We can agree with confidence that "that's a rock" (if not its physical properties). Even in our macro world, our models have limits. (What do radio waves 'look like' as they're emitted by different antennas? Go around buildings? We draw pictures.)

But we're nearly deaf and blind to the quantum world. We have collections of indirect observations and math. Our models of it are necessarily limited by our inability to experience it directly. Those with math 'intuition' are in a better position ... but still.
You can change your DoH provider under the settings in Firefox.
Direct link: https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/9G6V667
My preference is to rely on the judgement of reviewers whose taste kind of matches mine.

I'm into SF and Fantasy. In the past, I would read the reviews featured in Locus magazine by the various reviewers. Nowadays, I occasionally read Locus but also reviews from other places like tor<dot>com, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Interzone magazine.
In my experience a lot of it comes down to how effective their account team is. A good one will communicate with and work to influence the product management at AWS and set up meetings to discuss things as necessary. A bad one can get feedback from the customers they are assigned to and never do anything with it, or send off an email and never follow up.
So I'm not really sure how he became known as an infiltrator because he never infiltrated anything. After thinking about things a while, I think he, deep down, understood how silly his job was at the time...."infiltrating" a bunch of peaceful protestors. I'm talking grandpas, grandmas (and damn brave ones let me tell you), college students, etc...The people they wanted to "infiltrate", to this day, cook meals EVERY DAY for homeless and poor people in our community.
> Why does this matter?

Just because the Tesla Model S is marketed as a performance car and being beaten by a much cheaper Nissan Leaf undermines the marketing bluster.
Doesn't steel require carbon? Where does the carbon come from in a hydrogen process?
Yes, that's true. 4 is not that unlikely actually. He could have trespassed with no intention of doing harm. We don't know how the location looks like, but it's possible that it was just an open construction job site, so trespassing would have been as simple as just walking in.
Learning Dynamic Context Augmentation for Global Entity Linking
Have you ever been in a bike-able city? When you're in a walking Utopia like Manhattan, it's hard to imagine anything other than walking. I thought I couldn't live without being in a walkable city.

Then I moved to a city that's not very walkable but very bikeable. I miss walking sometimes, but biking is pretty awesome.
had a friend in college (late 90s), very smart, very successful but addicted to pills. I have a joint disorder that puts me in a lot of pain so I always had a prescribed rx of hydrocodone. He'd offer me $50 for one pill if he didn't have his. I'd never seen real addiction until I met him. I've taken just about every oral painkiller at some point but have managed to never become addicted. Once I stopped growing the pain subsided and the rxs stopped. I consider myself very fortunate in that regard.
Sounds like the post-test was done separately to me.

Session 1 is probably about 2 hours of "training", with the rest of the time eaten up by the pretest and consent paperwork. Sessions 2 and 3 would be be almost entirely training (3 hrs each), which gets you to 8 hours of training in 3 sessions, leaving the last one for just the post-test.
Marxism has always failed but Marxist rhetoric remains popular. In a market economy companies make money by producing what people want, and we all depend on energy from fossil fuel.
My thoughts exactly. My jawing is dropping at the lengths people are going to defend this situation.
I hope and guess that one constant in your kid's life is you. And I hope his/her childhood doesn't resemble yours. Toys accompany you through childhood, parents through life. I lost the latter too early.
Despite the forthright title, it is worth noting that this is an Opinion piece in the NYT and there are other physicists who would be uncomfortable with the popularising tendency to woo-ify our most successful scientific theory.
Because people have to learn somehow?

Building my startup on Google Cloud, I knew nothing about cloud services, and I had none of these issues.
>Are all applications expected to disregard the OS DNS?

I hope so if OS continues to use plaintext (none secure) DNS queries.
I fail to see how if we stopped buying Chinese made goods it would lessen either China's interest in or power over what happens in Hong Kong.
By your statement then reddit was complicit with the Russian trolls during election season because the bitcoin trolls who evolved into trump trolls were not punished in the slightest (I have a list of 300+ usernames that are still active today)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

I believe this is a new(ish?) feature, but someone from AWS Support recently pointed it out to me when dealing with throttling issues. Might be of interest to you.
I agree with the change in theory (although as a side-note I wish users had more control over cookie/request headers, and it wasn't just site-operators that could set policies). It's a reasonably obvious oversight that cookies aren't same-site by default, and the thoughts behind this seem pretty solid. There's even a good point that I've seen made that secure-by-default might give browsers/blockers a useful metric for identifying likely tracking cookies.

I have no objections on that front.

I wish the Chromium team was working more with other browsers to make this a more coordinated change. At the same time, I don't think that there would be significantly less breakage if it was. No matter what, this is 100% going to break websites -- there is just no way to roll out a change like this without disrupting operations. It's gonna be a mess, and it would still be a mess even if all the browsers rolled out this change together.

It feels kind of like the JS ``typeof null === "object"`` stuff. Everyone agrees the existing behavior is wrong, but we're not sure when and how to fix it.

So I'm a little conflicted. I understand completely why the Chromium team wants this, and I also understand why some people are going to be upset about it. Blocking CSRF by default in a browser is really good. We'd also really like to avoid breaking the existing web.

It's complicated.
Tip for the wise:

If you want a little quiet time, pick up activities that involve manual labor. Not sports, not hiking. Sweaty things with dirty hands and faces. You'll get plenty of alone time.

(caveat emptor: You'll also get a really vivid picture of how bad classism is.)
Are you sure they didn't get more attention from free-speech crusaders simply because they got more coverage in the media?

Speaking for myself, I see stories of government prosecution used to stifle speech extremely rarely (unless we count every instance of the cops getting too rough with protestors). Which is not to say it happens rarely, it's just not reported on much.

There's another aspect to this, I think. Cops have been arresting protesters for centuries - we've reached equilibrium there. But censorship by globe-spanning private companies is new, as is the growing share of communication controlled by them. Which makes it scarier, and harder to predict if it'll get much worse in the coming decades.
Your 'limited hypothesis' can never be proved, because you can't prove things you haven't observed i.e. the proof works only up until counterexample, which by definition of unknowns, counterexamples (or a deeper understanding) would always be a possibility.

Falsification is not end end-all-be-all, it's important, but it's not the only thing that matters.
It's common in my friend group (late 20s, early 30s) in CA, and as far as I know, it's also common farther out than that. Not pejorative.
Hell ship
That's something you hear from people who have already achieved some success. But when you're trying to make enough money to live comfortable and also want to have a social life, it IS an optimization problem.