skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, a question for you - do you have any scientific basis for your views, or are they based on an idea of how the world should be?

The average nucleotide diversity (pi) for the 50 segments is only 0.061% +/- 0.010% among Asians and 0.064% +/- 0.011% among Europeans but almost twice as high (0.115% +/- 0.016%) among Africans. The African diversity estimate is even higher than that between Africans and Eurasians (0.096% +/- 0.012%). From available data for noncoding autosomal regions (total length = 47,038 bp) and X-linked regions (47,421 bp), we estimated the pi-values for autosomal regions to be 0.105, 0.070, 0.069, and 0.097% for Africans, Asians, Europeans, and between Africans and Eurasians, and the corresponding values for X-linked regions to be 0.088, 0.042, 0.053, and 0.082%. Thus, Africans differ from one another slightly more than from Eurasians, and the genetic diversity in "Eurasians is largely a subset of that in Africans, supporting the out of Africa model of human evolution." Clearly, one must specify the geographic origins of the individuals sampled when studying pi or SNP density. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1462113/
Ignore this garbage list.

If you select any single crosstab (under "create custom ranking"), you can see the data is mostly bogus.

Looking at "Google (trends)", PHP is at #48, below Perl (#37), Delphi (#40) and Fortran (#41) - here's the actual data: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=perl,php

For "Github (active)" PHP places at #7 below Dart (#2) and Julia (#3) (which contradicts GitHub's own stats: https://octoverse.github.com/projects#languages).

For "Hacker News" it's at #51 (which makes little sense given the number of PHP-related articles posted here).
There's plenty of specialized providers which provide this service, Verisign is one of many.

The issue with on-demand BGP mitigation is that an attacker can do short attacks on and off over a long period of time. Each time the mitigation kicks in, BGP propagation takes at least ~1 minute and will cause some downtime. Proper protection is always-on without requiring redirection.
Asia Has Three Possible Futures
I'm confused. Are you and oh_sigh the same person?
Like what - what should I have googled for? "Why did MIT staff suspect Epstein's assistants to be sex trafficked"?

I was replying to the comment about the "damning paragraph", so I assumed the damning parts would be in the paragraph, not in the back story. Therefore, I didn't see the need to Google.
The criteria for me is if I regretted doing it. Which usually isn't often.
What should people do if they form a consensus that they are being oppressed and asking politely fails to yield the desired result?
Is it actually known who requested the anonymization? It's clear that it was required to hide it, but was it something Epstein wanted or only accepted? I didn't see it in any of the articles, but I might have missed it.
Indeed, which is why you should keep his name off the donor list (and any buildings), and/or publicly disavow his (other) actions.

The problem isn’t “donating money”. The problem is “selling something” (be that influence and prestige in case of Epstein, or equity and future profits in case of Saudi money).

Rapists that donate are better than rapists that don’t donate. Disagreeing with that is a classical case of the ad hominem fallacy (“you’re bad therefore everything you say / do is bad”). In case of Epstein an additional problem was that he was a powerful rapist. But the proposition that his power came from donations is naive. Power and donations have a common cause - money.
.NET is getting some really cool surprisingly low level features. What sort of companies and domains are doing stuff that requires .NET code like this?
I just simply do not get this at all. Why do people (a) pay for water which (at least in the US, with some exceptions) even unfiltered has quality parity with bottled water, and (b) not feel empathy for the damage they are causing with the single-use container? It sickens me every time I see people by cases of this stuff.
AFAIAC, there should be at least a large tax or deposit charged for these bottles.
As others have said this "outbreak" is likely due to dodgy thc capsules so doesn't impact anyone but a very niche group
Yes, but every little thing that increases their costs in time or money slightly reduces their symmetrical advantage.
But I was not referring to only the declaration of independence, but to the US founding and history as a whole. For example, your naturalization acts were limited to "free white persons of good character", so it's pretty obvious the US was, for most of its history, a white ethno-state.

It's fine if you want to change that (well, by now it has been changed), but it's just that - a change, not the continuation of some mythical welcoming-to-all America that never existed.
it's an empty feel-good gesture.

I would kindly ask you drop the ad hominems.

Physician, heal thyself.
Convicted, sure.

Upthread you said:

> Most likely, you didn't know about the evils of Jeffrey Epstein until a Miami Herald reporter started to dig into the story, and then got picked up by national papers.
Had that not have happened, most people to this day would still think he's probably an "A OK dude."

But I would heartily disagree with that.

Allegations of sexual assault of minors had been public from 2008 on, and Epstein settled literally dozens of civil suits from victims prior to the 2018 Herald piece. Allegations of trafficking were made in 2015 by Virginia Roberts.

(Also, honestly, isn't a single instance of knowing solicitation of a minor enough? Dude was known to be a creep since at least the 2008 conviction, despite the extremely favorable plea deal.)
"Rising global temperatures, the spread of crop disease and extreme weather events have made coffee harvests unreliable in places like El Salvador.'

Wow crazy to think that something as stable as crops can drastically shift. The land stays the same, but the temperature, water, and wind around it are all in flux.
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It wouldn't matter much as they appear to be above the law, or at least to think like that.

There are hundreds of videos released everyday of evident gratuitous police violence and misbehavior that is never investigated anyway.
Its still a absurd strawman. Nobody advocates for doing things like we did in the 70s. And complaining about harmful regulations now does not mean going back to that.

Everybody who works on these regulations realizes how absurd they are. They were driven by political rationals and not technical once.
Interesting question.

Whether it is a good idea is going to depend on a whole bunch of architectural factors.

If it's a static JS library, say JQuery, then self host it seems sensible. You can host on your own CDN if needed.

What about if it is, say a credit card processing service? Well now you are dealing with credit card data through your site, so perhaps PCI compliance might apply?

Also you are now being the MITM to avoid an evil MITM - so you have more responsibility than every to ensure security. Make sure your proxy is secure as possible. Does it accept bad certificates for example?
Surprised nobody has mentioned AWS's official (but no longer updated) GUI client: ElasticWolf[0]. It is very much not-maintained but it does have some benefits.

My understanding is that AWS hasn't officially closed it because of US-Gov accessibility guidelines.

Are there any other similar clients?

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/aws-elasticwolf-client-console/
Because it's weird for a 60 year old dude to be traveling with unrelated women who are under the age of 18?

Why are you so incredulous that people would assume the worst when the guy had a reputation and the girls looked way too young to be traveling the world with the sleazeball?
I started going to the store every day just to have something to do to go out. My wife was like "NO, we don't need anything!" until she kind of got why.
> I haven't looked into his case

Why not? Your initial comment in this discussion was an hour and a half before this one, and was in response to somebody linking to an article containing many of the relevant details.
That's such a bizarre concept. Morality isn't something that can be inherited by accepting research contributions, in my book.

Why taint the money, when it can help us learn, build, heal, and grow? Epstein, not the money he donated, is responsible for bad things he did.

As an alum, I'm not surprised at the Institute's cowardice, but I'd like to see MIT stand up for someone, ANYONE in its community when under fire publicly, just once.
“Ronan Farrow is here”, has got to send chills down the spine of powerful people the way “Mike Wallace is here”, used to in the days of yesteryear.
Yes, though it is free to create an account.
> 3. Normalization of people who commit transgressive acts.

This could happen if the law enforcement let it happen. The question you should ask is why he is not already in jail since the transgressive act in question is already is illegal.

Media Lab is not in position to put someone in jail or charge someone a crime.
Context: The RBMK reactor had a serious flaw which resulted in Chernobyl. Source: the recent TV show of the same name.
Broke men are hurting American women’s marriage prospects
Entering "1984" yields "books similar to 1984 by Michael Dean". Entering "Nineteen Eighty-Four" gives me "Book picks similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Matthew Dunster". When I search for "Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", the site responds with "Book picks similar to Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali".
I'm sure Dean, Dunster, and Ghali are terrific writers but what happened to George Orwell?
What if the money could be accepted in a way that could not possibly convey any status or glory back to the donor - something permanently anonymous - and also did not allow the donor any guidance over the use of the money? I’m asking as a philosophical question, not suggesting that Ito’s actions might be justified.
That might be true, but I'm not sure it is. It seems to me that you escape the limitations of both systems. Also, I think lightpipe daylighting generally costs orders of magnitude less than sunlight-comparable LED illumination, although I don't have firm numbers on lightpipe costs; so I don't think the installation costs double, just increase slightly. If we're talking about a greenhouse, where a leaky roof is a minor annoyance comparable to a leaky faucet, rather than a life-destroying disaster, lightpipe costs should go down quite a bit compared to their use in office and residential daylighting.

The big question for me is, if you're going to build a hothouse, why would you build it with an opaque roof? That just seems perverse, like writing an HTTP server in bash or assembly language or something: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s
Picking vulnerable girls - OK, manipulative.

14 year olds, too - but those "assistants" presumably were older.

Threats - threats are threats, going beyond "manipulation".
I know in Switzerland there was a story about some of the young left party going around putting stickers on SUV saying "I also am a tank" and they got a lot of flack for this 'property destruction'.
I have a kid, and I am broken on a daily basis as I see him grow to love, build relationships with, and then eventually outgrow cherished toys.

My own childhood sucked, and one of the constants I had in my life were my car toys. They were thrown away, out of spite. This article also hit me in a few different emotional places.
I'm well aware of which questions I should be asking about this situation. They aren't those.

Thanks for your time. I don't see further discussion going anywhere new.
Google expands security rewards to more Android apps
As Churchill once said, mankind occasionally stumbles over the truth, but picks itself up and carries on.

I'd like to suggest that y'all are almost tripping over the connection that Epstein was possibly trying to get compromising material on researchers working on US military technology projects and then looking at it, going 'huh?' and wandering off again.
Why techno elites?

All elites (political, financial, tech, medicine, etc) are morally bankrupt.

They're like regular people, but with power and money, both known corruptors, reduced empathy [1], and all the motivations to increase their reach. And they were probably quite psycho which helped them get at the elite level to begin with [2]...

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Secrets-How-Rich-Got/dp/031637...
MIT student JH Lee studies cultural differences in how humans relate to animals
Seems absurd to ban bad people from giving their money to good causes. Bad people with money will still have money, whether you shun them or not.

If you take this to it's logical extreme, you only allow bad people to give money to bad causes; especially so because the folks making these determinations allow no room for neutral causes.
The problem was Ito accepting donations from a black listed person. Nothing more nothing less. Ito wasn't in the position to make that call.
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how can one spend money to raise the level of society?
Perhaps this:

https://www.themoviedb.org/?language=en-US
Unfortunate that this comment is not trendy.

People are out here acting like accepting a donation means you are complicit in unrelated crimes by the donor.
> nobody can make nuclear plants cost efficiently anymore

Nobody ever could! Nuclear power generation, from its infancy, has been outrageously subsidized, both directly (i.e. DoE grants, government funding of waste disposal) and indirectly (industrial-scale refining of fuel as a side effect of the weapons industry). Once those sources dried up it just plain stopped making sense.

At the end of the day it needs to stand on its own to make sense, and it can't, especially when compared to its green (and largely unsubsidized!) competitors. People who really want this to happen need to solve the technical problems and then come back with a plan.

To riff on the title: it's not "anti nuclear" to be anti-pro-nuclear. Make it work first before shouting about it on the internet.
For the Guardian and his ilk it is all about marking groups of people, creating an "identity" and then finding reasons to dehumanise them. It doesn't matter if it is "the techno elite", "straight white males" or "suburban soccer mums", once the Guardian marked the enemy there is no place for humanity or individuality, you work in tech you are part of the group.

The previous crusade was about women in tech, basically tech people can do no right, they are tainted and will be subjected to non stop attacks, whatever the flavour of the week is, it will be attached to tech people. Lucky for us there is one place where we got some privacy and we can retaliate, the voting booth.
Regulators actively resist efforts to improve transparency and labelling when it comes to consumer goods, particularly food. How can we overcome obstacles such as barcodes not encoding critical information.
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>It's still missing a crucial ingredient: you have to demonstrate that your list of events is an unbiased sampling of all relevant events, as opposed to a cherry-picked list of useful events.

That's if you're writing a paper.

If you're making an empirical observation in the real world, the demands are much less rigorous, and if one can't tell what's going on without first demonstrating "that your list of events is an unbiased sampling of all relevant events" one is pretty much screwed...
More heads will roll. Be patient.
> Reframed: No, MIT shouldn't knowingly give money to child traffickers and drug cartels.

I think that just confuses the issue.

> For politicians and political organizations, there is an implicit association with bribery.

1. Alice accepts money from Bob

2. Alice discovers Bob is running a underage sex trafficking ring on the side.

3. Alice continues to accept money from Bob.

So let's ask the following questions:

1. Is Alice implicitly condoning underage sex trafficking by taking Bob's money?

2. Does Alice look like she's implicitly condoning underage sex trafficking by taking Bob's money?

3. How does the public know what the true motives of Alice are? Does she support underage sex trafficking or not?

4. How do we know if Alice is telling the truth as long as she accepts money from Bob?

5. How does this affect Alice's reputation? Would you go to Alice to seek help with trying to stop underage sex trafficking? Or has Alice been "tainted" with Bob's money?
I'm not a perfect writer and sometimes write unclearly; I made a good-faith attempt to express my thought. I am certainly open to learning better ways to phrase my ideas, if you have suggestions.
So you assume every time young women are staying with an old rich man, they have been extorted to do so?

Sorry, that seems extremely unlikely. I find it shocking that you think that way.

Just because somebody is rich also doesn't mean they can simply destroy other people's lives at will.

Btw I have personally witnessed for example young women courting old professors, who certainly didn't have any power to destroy their life. They did have some power to further their career, though.

Expect: yes, I think in most cases it is simply that the young women expect some advantage from the rich guy. Maybe just material things, or maybe just more fun. Maybe they enjoy riding on yachts more than riding on skateboards, or whatever.
Quantum computers working (or not working) would be another important test for quantum mechanics. Because quantum computer with n qubits to work requires amplitudes to behave the way quantum mechanical equations predict to the precision of 1/2^n which for 256 bits is much larger than the precision amplitudes can be measured in principle (e.g. for a spin ~1/planck length)
You read the first half of what exactly? From the subtitle of the article you responded to:

> New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.

What did you think "Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender" meant? Are you earnestly confused, or are you trying to get a rise out of me?
Yes and that is indeed a problem. Joichi was willfully going behind M.I.T.s back to get those donations. And that should be a reason to fire Joichi.

However that is completely separate from believing that blacklist to be valid. I don't think such a blacklist should exist at all. But it's not the call of the researcher itself to bypass it.

That has nothing to do with your original point which said that his donations allowed him to work as a sex trafficker.
I thought the article, and especially the headline, were overgeneralizing and weak. I looked up the author, and he has such a strong anti-tech bias. His last 4 posts (from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov):

- The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites

- Facebook's plan to break the global financial system

- It's not enough to break up Big Tech. We need to imagine a better alternative

- The left needs to get radical on big tech – moderate solutions won't cut it
Is there a well developed industrial process doing that?
I'm aware of the refit effort, as well as safety improvements required and under-funded decommissioning costs, which as I understand it requires on the order of 100 billion euros in new financing.

My understanding has been that it (the refit) applies to the remainder of the fleet after drawdown. Has it been funded? Where is EDF obtaining the funds? Isn't EDF itself in need of a bailout from France?

As to the 35% target, this is the first time I've read anyone state categorically that none of the plants will be shut down. It seems strange to have a law passed that everyone agrees to disregard, but maybe that's how things happen.

Can you point us toward anything firm on which to base a belief that no plants other than fessenheim will be closed?
No, this wasn't about Epstein, but about the general claim of rich old men having power over women.
And why would that exclude girls? Would “girls’ night out” be an unusual expression where you’re from?
The Washington Post did a piece on the unusual handling of Epstein's case, e.g. having his case reviewed at the highest level of the Justice Department in an attempt to overrule the Miami prosecutors:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/the-pressure-o...
A 60 year old American financier who's uglier than a frog has 2 teenage eastern european models as "assistants"....does that add up to you?
What a world live in if you are the 1.x million in som northern part of china. The 1.x billion if live inside Great Wall. The 7m if you are in Hong Kong or 2x million if you are in Taiwan.

You live in a world where a totalitarian communist state is welcomed and controlled a significant portion of the world economy. Even speak in internet summit.

Welcome to the brave new internet and international world of china.
That's such a terrible idea but it would make a fantastic satire Sci fi short story premise.

Technology that cannot be used by anyone but the snobbish tech elite because anyone else just gets sued to oblivion.
How so? I think concealing the origin is the right thing especially if you know the person is awful and you don't want to reward them with reputation points.

Bottom line, I think a donation, an idea, a contribution is useful even if it comes from an awful source, but the problem lies in whether you reward/enable the source's awfulness. I think that's the argument to make, as opposed to just focusing on whether the source of funds was a morally acceptable person.
> Lunch at Olivetti was pretty good by American rather low standards.

I've been to university cafeterias in Italy... and I'm pretty sure you could take the food in there and serve it in a lot of moderately upscale restaurants in the US without anyone batting an eye.
I think people who accept high-profile positions don't have a moral right to retain those positions. It may not always be the case that they have a moral obligation to abandon them at the first sign of trouble; the analysis will always be fact-specific. Here, I don't think there's much doubt. Ito should have left weeks ago. He had to know this was going to happen; the last few weeks of drama have come entirely at the Lab's expense, seemingly as a long-shot gamble that Ito might weather the storm.
I only had one proffessor that wrote reasonable writting assignments and actually graded them based on content. You could tell most writting assignments were getting graded entierly on APA formatting and word count (if the "writting" assignment wasn't just "fill in the blanks in this word document using so many words per question.")

Near the end durring capstone people wrote the most useless wordy documents because they had just spent 4 years learning how to draw small simple ideas out into paragraphs instead of comming up with enough ideas to fill a paragraph. It's not surprising that many of them are hiring other people to write them, the whole exercise seems silly.
This is an article about Epstein, in a thread about Epstein, with a side-diversion to the Sackler family. In that context, bradly's question:

> You'd like to recognize a rapist for their charitable givings?

Is clearly referencing Epstein and returning the thread to discussion of Epstein instead of the Sackler family.
One of my teachers in college said: "life is not an optimisation problem"

Just live it. Doesn't stress if it's optimal.
OK, different bias.

And the native Americans changed the land when they arrived.
Similarly, a telephone exchange in Mexico that was moved while in operation: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/ (48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411032 )