skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a global function that just came out this year...

voightKampff();
EA Received a Guinness World Record for Most Downvoted Comment in Reddit History
From what I've read the first criminal case against him was in 2005 and the dinner with the MIT scientists was in 1999. The donations to Harvard were in 2003. I don't see the value in pointing the finger here.
Haha I’ve often wondered if in the future things like medical marijuana will mostly be a joke, folks just wanna felt high and have fun
What bar lets in “girls?”
The horse is supposed to drag the cart where the coachman tells it to, and not where it pleases.
>eyeplugs

maybe augmented reality adblock will be what finally makes google glass-style accessories commercially attractive.
By not moderating content largely, it was no secret what the site was letting go.
Well, I'm sure if this catches on more, China will ask respective App stores to block this app.
I would love to move away from cookies. They're included in every single network request which really bloats things up. By passing along data manually we could send only what is needed.
Yeah, it's not like you're on the Internet where someone who didn't know something, could just google it real quick.
Do you ever just hang out with co workers on slack and zoom to talk about normal stuff you’d talk about in person?

That works pretty well if you have co workers who are interested in doing that.

Curious how remote led to loneliness. I don’t find much value in being in an office, despite being an extrovert.

In fact, I code 8-9 hours a day remote, can _maybe_ code 2 hours if I’m in the office. That productivity feels amazing.
Might be some doubt about his suicide, but you’re right.
Thank you! The first has sluggish loading pictures. But that's maybe because I'm not geographically within the target area.

Both feel more modern than Amazon, yes. I didn't test the checkout page and billing/shipping mechanics.
Perhaps. But remember that those who leave California are probably the ones who like it the least!
Think about what both sides get in this transaction. Wealthy elites are using universities for prestige and to wash their reputations of past transgressions. Universities, in turn, get easy money from the rich.
Clickbait.

This needs a different title.

This is NOT saying CSRG is dead.

It is saying “same site cookies are an alternative to CSRF”.
I didn't see anywhere in the article explaining the Gates wanted the donation to be anonymous. It looks like Peter Cohen of MIT wanted to not mention "Jeffery's name as the impetus for this gift."

This certainly doesn't look good for Bill Gates. I have trouble believing that Ito was lying in his 2014 email concerning the Gates donation. Possibly, he was mislead by Epstein but I can't think of any reason Ito himself would lie.

As someone else commented about a different aspect of the article, I'm doubt we will ever learn more.
Kind of weird how they discuss a single case and then literally write that one should "refuse the money of tech billionaires".

Sounds like an absurd overreaction. Worth checking out https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
Well that is probably naive view of the matter. People with money cultivate such relationships to influence the discourse ever so slightly in their favor. Please look up Anand Giridharadas who had written quite extensively on this.
> I actually do.

You, and millions of others who have managed to quit smoking. I'm one of them.

Don't hate the user/addict though; hate the industry who use shady marketing to influence young people (children) to start smoking, who influence our MPs with shady lies and trickery. They are the servants of death.
Depending on exactly what we're doing, we can work around this with crypto, right?

A token can securely prove that it was issued by the server/service, and under what conditions, without the server/service statefully tracking the token after issuing it.

I know I'm not the first to think of this, but I'm not sure how widely used this sort of technique is in practice.
> no one is going to do a signal denoising algorithm prototype in JavaScript for example.

This has been a big problem for me in Dercuano; the notes in it about signal processing and circuits vary between impenetrable and handwavy (and, in the worst cases, both) in large part because I'm doing my prototypes in IPython with Numpy or in Falstad's circuit.js, and there's just no reasonable way to include that in Dercuano itself. So I'm trying to figure out how to make prototyping signal processing algorithms in JS a reasonable thing to do. I don't expect to have feature parity with Octave, but I feel like it should be possible to improve on the VT100-based user interface featured even by Octave and Rstudio, and offer equal or better performance and enough conveniently accessible features that it's practical for at least what I'm doing.
> even if that means working with people who was charged and convicted of sex crimes?

The person who was charged and convicted of sex crimes paid their debt to society by doing what the government told them to do. That's how it works. Criticizing that outcome is done in isolation.

I'm not arguing anything more nuanced than that.

I'm not arguing anything about donor disclosure, or the predictable consequences thereof. I'm not arguing anything about who is acting in whose interest.

It is a tragedy that our society makes a prior conviction and a sex offender designation affect people without assets by isolating them from employment opportunities and living arrangements. It is a privilege that a prior conviction and sex offender designation doesn’t affect people with liquid assets as they do not require employment to be a productive member of society. But now people are trying to extend this tragedy to the flow of assets? Silly. Uncouth.

I gather people are looking at the specific scenario and wanting to agree with the “well I wouldn’t want a sex offender to give me money either” idea, and not really considering the broader perspective of how debt is repaid to society by the government and not by the private persons.

To me, it seems that people are arguing for the societal freezing of $500M+ in assets, and that doesn't make any sense to me since money doesn't work that way and will easily route around that whether it is simply writing anonymous on the donor form, or simply forming a new LLC to obfuscate the origin. You direct the money to your causes intended to help a greater good, a simple utilitarian perspective. More benign sources of money do all those things already. It is pure hubris to think you would even have known about the origin of a donation for the privilege of judging.
are they interactive in some capacity?
>The main argument against nuclear is that it absolutely requires a highly educated, well organized society and workforce. If something really serious disrupts our elaborated, complex societies, then nuclear plants will become really dangerous.

No, i think the main arguments against nuclear is the impact of the problem if something goes really wrong and that everybody is cutting corners making a technology more unsafe than it could be.
I'm not familiar with the distinction you're making; would you like to elaborate?
Power dissipation isn't coming from wires looking like inductors...
You think Epstein funding some research washes him of his past transgressions? I have never heard anyone say that. Nor do I think we should stop people that have done wrong from doing right afterwards because it could "wash their reputations from past transgressions". We have something called the law that should bring justice to people.
Read some more
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...
Yes, I don't know how they can call it unblockable, since it's quite easy to block apps from app stores.
I think you're referring to nitrosamines, and according to Robert Nilsson who is a professor at Stockholm University, there is "no proof of correlation between snus and cancer"[1] and indeed in 2002, the warning labels had to be changed,[2] and today "only" reads (my translation): "This tobacco product harms your health and is addictive", which is a far cry from the EU mandated warning on cigarettes that goes more like "Smoking kills", with some variants.

[1]: https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2012/05/26/snus-bor-in...

[2]: https://www.snusbolaget.se/snusjournalen/snus-och-halsa-del-...
I have a small collection of NiTi wire spools and "hydrolic" style devices that I got back around Y2K. I'm surprised it isn't being used more often on Mars or Moon rovers, since they are less likely to break down than more mechanical devices.

I did hear that one of the Mars rovers used NiTi to open/close a glass dust cover to measure how much dust settled on the rover over night, by comparing the photosensor results when it opened due to "noon" time heat. I don't know if that is true or not, and have no links to suggest either way. It certainly would work, though.

In any case, it's pretty fascinating stuff. Lots of fun to play with on the Raspberry Pi, too, since it takes so little electricity to cause a reaction (just enough to make it heat up, actually).
It is? Go back and find me a 1950's source that credits the growth of the American Suburban Lifestyle to a desire for racial segregation. The racial subtext became clear only decades later. Almost no one, even in the 50's, actually claimed to be a "racist". Be real.

And this article? It tickles all the same creepy buttons. It defines a "good" thing, and enumerates its benefits, in terms that "just happen" to be a bunch of pro-segregation dynamics.
China isn’t that influenced by Hollywood. There are plenty of kids in China that have never seen a Hollywood film before. Chinese media on the other hand has no problem exposing kids to guns even if guns are completely illegal in the PRC.
And took donations after Epstein was disqualified as a funder (after his 2008 conviction), and deliberately manipulated things to make them anonymous. It's blatant, done with full understanding, and (stupidly) with an email trail of evidence.

'In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, “Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year?” Epstein replied, “yes.” Forwarding the response to a member of his staff, Ito wrote, “Make sure this gets accounted for as anonymous.” Peter Cohen, the M.I.T. Media Lab’s Director of Development and Strategy at the time, reiterated, “Jeffrey money, needs to be anonymous. Thanks.”'

and

' But the e-mails show that Ito consulted closely with Epstein and actively sought the various donations. At one point, Cohen reached out to Ito for advice about a donor, writing, “you or Jeffrey would know best.”'

and so on, and so forth. The article is worth a read.
That is more of a problem of individuals with large amounts of money having too much power then anything else.
If you're going to make a comparison you should do so where there is both power and information parity with the entity in question.

Not only am I not a commercial entity engaging in trade with these organizations, but it is technically impossible for me as a singular individual with no over all commercial power to engage in commerce in any form without involving Chinese products. And there are plenty of cases where people unknowingly do this despite their best efforts.

I can tell you this though: I'm not the commercial entity making a conscious and forthright decision to do it. And the products I interact with are not designed with the express purpose and utility of crowd control, however right or wrong.

The question you're proposing isn't equivalent to what's being discussed and is kind of just silly.
Direct debits are much more dangerous when it comes to data leaks, though. I wouldn't trust some of these orgs to have that level of security.

I really don't mind using credit - I like it, even - it's just the fact that my "account" isn't something I can manage myself via the web. No password, no sign-in. And the ones I'm talking about aren't small operations; the ACLU, for example- one of the largest nonprofits in the U.S.
I think you are more naive than you think. Think for a second.

The most egregious example of this is the Sackler family's ( Purdue Pharma/Opioids) massive donations to the arts/museums. They should not receive the glory and praise for their generosity to the arts for triggering the deaths of so many Americans in the pursuit of drug profits.
Why would strongmen need bombs?
> Gas, electric heat, water and sewage were were maintained to the building all during the move. The 600 workers entered and left the traveling structure using a sheltered passageway that moved with the building.

Sounds like a risky undertaking in case anything goes wrong: people in the building + a live gas line.
> ...doesn't mean one condone the practice...

Ohai, goalpost.

I thought we were talking about normalizing things, not condoning them.
Thank you! This seems like it wants to show me too much at the same time. That makes loading assets slow. But it's more modern than Amazon's shop. Though I'm not sure if that is a good thing after comparing this and the examples in the sibling comment with Amazon's more pedestrian take.
It also doesn't seem like rocket science to scan for these Bluetooth signals. If you're part of a mesh, the police can also join and hone in on participants.
It's also quite easy to install an apk.
Yes, in places where there is an extreme power imbalance, with few employment opportunities for the disadvantaged, and no morals or accountability among elites, all manner of scummy things happen.

We should strive to ameliorate the conditions in the world that make this happen, so that young women can aspire to being scientists or doctors or businesswomen, instead of some corrupt asshole’s decorative servants.
Opioid talks at impasse; Purdue bankruptcy filing expected
Isn't that the way the world works? Someone does something bad, gets caught, and all of a sudden gives an endowment to some university or pediatric research agency? I mean, isn't that the way billionaire's revamp their image?
Former ties with Epstein. Approved paying a porn star to keep her quiet. The "Grab them by the pussy" quote. Several rape allegations.

Connect the dots, dude.
Agitprop 101 article.

Rhetorically asking: what's the end goal?Ban the company?Big-ass fine?

I mean for sure you can "whine" at the US government for exporting such crowd-control equipment to the HK gov.But why shit explicitly on the company itself?

I mean after all it's buzzfeed, and it's kind of sad to see such "journalism" on this portal.And just because it's a new branch with "News" in their title doesn't suddenly make it quality journalism that's somehow different from their tabloid branch.
Reading this makes me think the author had a bad experience with tear-gas up close and wanted to rant a little.
I think the point being made here is why are both numbers not disclosed, and only one was?

I think both the time the bug existed and the relevant timeframe of known exploits should be part of a responsible security disclosure.

Omitting either one is a disservice to users.
Bzzt. False. All “crime” is a sociological construct. In your second case, are there laws in some cultures that permit you to stab your neighbour such as in the case of “self defence”? Yes.

How the nuance of those laws are defined is a social, cultural, and political exercise in power.
Any sudden peak in temperature and speed would be registered for example. Any sudden change in salinity would be even more interesting. Another possibility is an explosion wave that could dislodge the materials and move it to other places

If I'm understanding correctly, they have the exact hour of signal loses. Ships have predictable and registered routes, (except military). First thing to do should be to take a look to the ships in the area around this timestamp.

If trying to save people and all nations with science was not enough difficult, now with a 30% more of sabotage. Fantastic.
Do these not fall under arms dealing laws?
I haven't personally noticed any effect, but I'm sure it does affect your teeth in a similar way to drinking tea and coffee in the long run. Beyond that, it creates temporary irritation on your gums (temporary meaning it goes away if you stop and doesn't damage your gums permanently), and over a long period of time it can cause a permanent effect of receding your gum line, which of course isn't great. I'm no authority on how serious these effects are, how common they are etc. but I would imagine that they would require some pretty heavy usage under a long period of time, and that "loose" (un-portioned) snus probably affects your gums much harder than the more popular portioned variant in small bags, since the un-portioned variant is pure tobacco with no material in between it and your gums.

(And, on the topic, I am quite sure that in addition to the comparably low health risks of snus in contrast to e/cigarettes, the trust in the origin and the quality of the raw material used is rightfully so higher than that of the materials used in after market vape juice.)
China was also Conspicuously unmentioned in Google's / P0's original disclosure

:P
This, like most anti nuclear arguments, is a standard that is NEVER applied to other industries.
You don't know what Bill Gates thought of Jeffery Epstein. And in 2014 Jeffery Epstein was not "just a financier".
I'm with you up until the last point.

Reading is decidedly not niche in the US. Books (across all formats) are a huuuge market. They're roughly 2/3rds the size of the entire videogaming industry in this country, by revenue. The total annual revenue of the US book publishing industry is greater than YouTube's (but just barely).
sorry, I can't tell if you're saying that HN people want MTA upgrades or not.

As far as I'm concerned, low-tech solutions in the meatspace are frequently the best ones. Signage of static assets like subway maps should be paper. We've got these short-and-wide red LED signs for "next train in 4 minutes", those should be digital, but they're getting phased out in favor of LCD screens, that's dumb.

Those big new screens showing ads… I guess if they bring in more revenue, great? But if they double as notices for service interruptions, the serious stuff ought to show up more frequently than once every 12 screens…

All anyone wants is some common sense and not expensive change for change's sake. Low-res digital subway maps are stupid, full stop.
Street homelessness in US cities by and large isn’t about affordability, it’s about the inability and/or unwillingness to either cure or isolate the profoundly mentally ill or addicts that make up the vast majority of persistent street homeless.

Homelessness in the broader sense which includes people sleeping on couches or in shelters is much more linked to affordability. Unfortunately there’s not great vocabulary to distinguish among rather distinct issues.
I think it’s common in many countries, including the UK. Take Calpol for example, parents will rarely ask for a bottle of oral paracetamol solution
It is when they submitted the Apple releases to all these venues the day Apple's keynote invites dropped.
Why would they have to be breathing? The drug moves from the nasal mucosa to the bloodstream. As long as you get it in their nose it’ll be absorbed.

Now I could see it not working as well if they aren’t breathing since it will likely be distributed over a smaller surface area.
Why not? They did both. We should recognize them for both. Why do you feel the need to portray them in such a one dimensional way?
One whose career is focuses on building software vs. one who programs sometimes as part of their job that is otherwise not focused on building software. Most of us on HN are in the former category, but there are tons of people in the latter category as well.
> There is nothing practical about your stance though, so you can't really call it realpolitik.

What isn't practical about it exactly? It is a decision with consequences with unclear benefit, predicated upon a moral stance.

> You are being overly charitable about how you've arrived at your position.

Well, my initial comment started off with a question prompting your moral hardline stance, so I'm making a bit of an assumption. I've also tried to take care to preface my stance with it's applicability as relates to pragmatism. Should it turn out the firm is the only possible firm that could supply the product, I would feel very strongly they should withhold sale based on my personal beliefs.

It also bears pointing out charitable interpretation is not only a rule of this site but a great principle in discourse.

> Not really, by not continuing trade you lend less credence to the actions of the government.

Of which government? The Chinese or the US? If the latter, it isn't as if we have a long history of fair treatment of foreign nations as relates to commerce. Belief that this is some kind of abberation is rather naive. The government sells lethal arms to conflict zones and dictators with little issue.
Its hard for me to believe the emails were lies but I guess it is possible that Epstein lied to Ito about the money coming from Gates? Unless the money came from Gates' account and wasn't first transferred to an account controlled by Epstein, it will probably be hard to tell.
Why doesn't that app just create the mesh network, so that existing chat apps (Telegram, Signal) can be used on it?
Shanghai has started building regional rail recently, and there are quite a few 50+ km subway lines that act like regional rail in practice. Map:

http://www.urbanrail.net/as/cn/shan/shanghai-future.htm

But the undisputed king of subway/regional integration is Tokyo, where virtually every subway line runs directly onto regional rail, often at both ends.

http://www.urbanrail.net/as/jp/tokyo/tokyo-metro-map.htm
Many voters, unfortunately, appear to prefer broken infrastructure: https://www.statesman.com/news/20180512/wear-austins-light-r...
Monochrome e-ink displays are quite a mature technology at this point, and aren't very expensive. You can go on Alibaba for quotes on bulk rates for e-ink displays.
> iCloud has been hacked how many times now?

Zero.

Phishing exploits managed to get targeted users' passwords. thats what the Celebrity iCloud leak was all about.
The important thing is that the guardian/nytimes figured out how to connect this back to tech=bad, which is an ongoing interest of theirs.
Just curious, where and how would one get credits in their AWS account?
Smaller ethnic groups, stronghold cities of political enemies...
I miss "The Brain", a mind map tool from the late 1990s, beginning of 2000s. The cool thing was that you could link an object (called "idea") to any other object regardless of it being a parent, child, part or not of the same tree structure.
Sure is good that "tribal thinking" has never led to dystopias of any sort!</sarcasm>

Also: how exactly is OP being sadistic, or planning a "global diktat"? Those are very strong accusations.
They are already using Bluetooth transponders on B-division trains. The arrival time is then inferred from the arrival of that transponder at the previous station.

https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-to-install-subway-countdown...

I think they rolled this out from prototype to full implementation in less than a year, which is very impressive.
You seem to be using "weird" as a synonym for "wrong"; that's what I was objecting to. That kind of aggressive conformism seems entirely out of place† to me on a discussion forum for hackers, who are in their essence not conformist. You might want to think about conforming to the nonconformism ;)

† "Out of place" is a fairly precise synonym for "weird".
The point of every Vox article is to justify the existence of Matthew Yglesias-style centrist neoliberal wonks. "All problems are too complicated for the average American to understand! The answer is always somewhere in the middle! Go to sleep and let the adults in the room handle this!"