skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The data says that more customers prefer tarantulas! But they still go out of business because the steak next door is much better than either option.

This is where your analogy sort of falls apart. Amazon seems to be doing the opposite of going out of business to the steakhouse next door.

You can of course get good results out of a bad process, but this is usually not something that happens in a sustained manner over such a long period of time. Processes that result in positive effects for periods of years or decades are generally sound.
This is gossip, but it’s well founded gossip as I am one or two hops away from him. Epstein was very upfront with the people he worked what that he liked “young woman” while giving them money and invited them to his parties etc.

I think it was his way to enmesh them and make them unwitting partners in his systemic abuse. Most people just went along, and were eventually given a massage from a child at his behest to further enmesh them into the conspiracy. No one could play the innocent whistleblower because of their tangential complicity.

The gossip I’ve heard is confirmed by those who knew him - https://www.salon.com/2019/07/09/i-was-a-friend-of-jeffrey-e... ;

> In the early ‘90s, at a Joan Rivers dinner party, my wife and I encountered Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of disgraced British publishing mogul Robert Maxwell and Epstein’s girlfriend for a brief period in the '90s. She has been accused of recruiting and grooming girls and women for Epstein; she denies this. I’d met her several times with Epstein; we were also “friends,” in that transactional Manhattan way. And might now become better friends. “If you lose 10 pounds, I’ll fuck you,” she said, with my wife standing next to me. And she too became dead to me.

> As his legend grew, many others were fascinated or amused or impressed by Epstein or simply delighted that he wrote checks to their charities. His interest in young women was no secret; Donald Trump famously applauded it in 2002. Vicky Ward, who published a long profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair in 2003, recently revisited transcripts of her interviews: “What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it . . . all mentioned the girls, as an aside.”

It’s why he was so disgustingly coy about what he did. It’s why Ito, who is quite smart, probably knew what was what. And it’s why he deserves his fall from grace.
>> "4th gen nuclear" that could utilize current waste is years or even decades away from commercial availability

It's not: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Russias-BN-800-unit-ent...

I agree with you on fusion. But as a stop gap, thorium and 4th gen nuclear sound awesome to me.
> The idea that someone with equal ability to do calculations with both could understand Newtonian mechanics better than they understand quantum mechanics belies an extremely naive view of how easy it is to perceive the true metaphysics of classical mechanics.

This entire comment is arguing against an opinion I believe nobody even stated. But why would we waste time trying to discover the metaphysics of an ultimately incorrect description of physical reality?
Isn't that precisely the energy issue? Or is there another reason you can't grow those crops indoors, other than your light not being bright enough (because making it bright enough and then air conditioning the hothouse is too expensive)?
Agreed. Very confused by the comment
If you're competing in an area where other competitors spend 10k hours before they compete, you better practice. We didn't really need a study to tell us that, but people feel it adds something to say that science has "proved it". That's why if you point out the study was BS, it doesn't matter, because it was just a supporting detail for the point they wanted to make anyway. Practice.
This is how I write CSS http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ and more arguments on why I do Functional CSS http://minid.net/2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional-css/
So people want DRM in their printer cartridges? They want to pay for patent-encumbered filesystems instead of free ones? They want ads that spy on which websites they visit? They want to be lied to about the harms of sugary foods [1]? About the harms of smoking? They want the dangers of climate change concealed from them, so that they cannot act in time and develop alternative sources of energy [2]? They want to be lied to about the dangers of lead in gasoline?

Companies make money in all sorts of ways, and producing what people want is just one of them. To pretend otherwise is willful ignorance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
Yes, drivers routinely clip the curbs as they go for the ideal racing line through each corner.
The fact that some of the women in the lab suspected a human-trafficing situation and try to get the girls to open up about it makes NOT LIKE a scenario where some guy merely has a penchant for younger girl-friends.

And anyway, if it were some kind of "fair exchange", WTF is going through his mind to bring that "entourage" to a place like the media lab. It sounds like a script to a Sacha Baron Cohen film.
here's a story, originally published in 2010, about Jeffrey Epstein:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170606013136/http://www.thedai...

People knew, or should have known, who they were dealing with.
I bet you don't know off the top of your head how many watts per square foot sunlight is, though --- and that's the most relevant point of comparison. (Or horsepower, or Btus per hour, or whatever crazy unit.)
Ultimately you have to accept axioms of how the universe functions... we didn't question the non-probabilistic newtonian outcome metaphysically when it was presented, why is QM now being held to that standard?
The Chinese would rather be poor than lose Hong Kong. Better way would be to encourage civil societies/ democratic reform in China
I doubt it was a nuclear explosion in the usual sense of that term - a fission chain reaction lasting <~ 100nsec with liberation of at least a few kilotons of energy.

A real nuclear explosion - even a small one - is hard to mistake or conceal. Enormously bright double flash, big shock wave, hundreds of tons of irradiated dirt lofted into the stratosphere, etc.

More likely, it was an inadvertent "dirty bomb" event. Assuming this was associated with the purported nuclear-powered cruise missile "Skyfall" (NATO designation), it sounds like their reactor had a prompt criticality incident. This will make a reactor explode, but it's a small energy release compared to an engineered nuclear explosion.

The US had a prompt criticality reactor accident in 1961 [1]. A nominal 3 MW thermal power reactor reached 20GW in 4 milliseconds when things went wrong. Not a nuclear explosion at all, but it killed three people.

I wish we'd just give the Russians all our data from project Pluto [2], so they'd give up this nuclear powered cruise missile development path.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
Around 27:40 it seems to be on his mind, but by then he'd already posted his best lap.

I think it is a bit unfair, though. The Leaf seems to have an advantage in the tires, and is several years newer.

I think the better race would be a TT on good AS tires in the same product range.
Ito reminds me of Epstein in that I have no idea how either got their money.

Wikipedia must be skipping over some important details, but it describes him as a two-time college dropout, a nightclub manager in Japan, (EDIT: nevermind, mystery solved! His MIT bio says he was the founder of Japan's Digital Garage and CEO of its first ISP [1]), then he's the president of MIT Media Lab, visiting Harvard Law School professor, on several boards of directors, and runs a VC fund.

I'm not implying he got his money by nefarious means, just that it's interesting to see people who find success (and in this case, downfall) within these institutions despite their unconventional backgrounds.

[1] https://www.garage.co.jp/en/company/
> was there not criminal trespass and destruction of property

On the trespass charges, most the land the protest took place on was on Standing Rock reservation, and used with permission, on federal land and used with explicit permission of the BLM, or on privately owned tracts of land and used with implicit permission in that the deeded landowner did not object to the use and their expressed objection would be necessary for it legally to be considered trespassing.

The destruction of property in this specific incident refers to a handful of people, including US Presidential Candidate Jill Stein, spray painting slogans on the scoop of a bulldozer. The main effect of this action was to protect the scoop against corrosion for a day or so before it was next used and the paint abraded again as it was once before on the first day the bulldozer was ever used after initially bought sporting a fresh coat of paint. Rather than bulldozer vandals from a scientific and practical viewpoint they would be more accurately described as bulldozer protectors.

There is also the issue that the specific land in question off the present "reservation" was acknowledged as being eternally the property of the Sioux people in a legitimate legal treaty ratified by the US Government, and the US Supreme Court has previously ruled that this treaty was legitimate and nothing abrogated it. So the issues of whether the US BLM correctly permitted the protest (they did) or the deeded landowner objected (he didn't) aren't even relevant at all from that legal viewpoint where all the land in question legally still belongs to the Sioux, not just from their own perspective, but from both ratified treaties and contemporary rulings of SCOTUS.
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Agreed. This is how I use Goodreads for recommendations as well. There's the "Compare Books" tool to get a quick sense of whether someone reads what you read. And then reading a couple of their reviews is usually enough to get a sense of whether their recs will agree with you.

It's more labor intensive than a standard recommendation system, but the results are better. Since books are a large time commitment, and people are passionate about them, a lot of people are willing to put uncommon effort into finding good ones.
China finds mysterious and strange 'shiny gel' on dark side of the Moon
I certainly lost respect for them.

If you want to discuss the exploit itself, that's great.

If you are going to bring how it is targeted into the discussion, there is simply no excuse for leaving out the fact that this is a narrowly targeted attack from a nation state adversary who is also actively targeting your own devices.

I don't know if their motivation was to harm a competitor or to avoid annoying China while you are hoping to resume doing business there, but they certainly left themselves open to both interpretations.

If you don't intend to tell the truth, then it's better avoid bringing up the topic altogether.
Someone is a psychopath virgin. Don't worry you'll encounter one in reality someday. After you do let me suggest not waiting to seek therapy for PTSD.
makes sense. I've been reading Gaitskill's "little hammer" - it's a collection of essays, but... like half of them are book reviews, so now I'm pausing to read some mailer. For that matter, it is pretty common for me to read books because they are mentioned in the front matter of other books.
Tourist charged over $68G for 'most expensive beer in history'
So long as one of the four wheels remains on the road, it isn't cutting a corner. It doesn't slow the car much on the inside of the corner as most of the car's weight is on the outside wheels, particularly with non-race cars that tend to lean/roll more. But you wouldn't see an F1 car doing this very much.
From a comment above:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...
I had a very hard time finding things to like in Neuromancer. It was a long time ago, but iirc the prose is pretty clunky, the characters are made of cardboard, and the plot has all the depth of a Ridley Scott movie. The world building was on point, but there's only so much 80's zeitgeist ("everything is awful, you'll be replaced piecemeal by machines, faceless megacorps rule over vast slums of pleasure junkies bathed in acid rain") that a person can channel with a straight face. Like I love me some weird dystopian cyberpunk universes, but I want that to be the starting point, not the ending point.

(Conversely, by way of making a positive contrast with something in a similar genre that , I really enjoyed A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick).

To be totally clear, I think Neuromancer is probably a thoroughly enjoyable read and I'd recommend it to someone looking for what it is without hesitation. It's just pretty easy to take umbrage with.
I'm so sorry, I should have written immunoglobulin-M and didn't notice my mistake. I don't feel qualified to recommend a text, I just follow references from here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_M
In case anyone else was wondering, the architect who proposed rotating the building, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., was indeed the father of the writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Sr.
If it's so unpopular now, can you live there cheaply?

I suppose there are semi-abandoned towns and villages all over non-English speaking Europe which would have cheap accommodation.
So, name five other books which are like Neuromancer and you liked them. I'll try one or two of them, if I haven't read them already. Incidentally I've read a lot of Gibson's books and Neuromancer was the one I liked the least. Probably because it was his first and not as polished as the rest. Or perhaps because by today's standards the cyber warfare he's describing sounds ludicrous. I do like his cyberpunk atmosphere though.
'Boys from the Blackstuff' :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_from_the_Blackstuff

'American Red Cross – Our boys need SOX' :

https://propagandaposterstore.com/product/american-red-cross...

'Old boy' :

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/old-boy

edit - could also just go straight to the entry for 'boy' :

'a male child or, more generally, a male of any age'

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/boy
The new Leaf has improved in the looks department. The previous version was rather... I don't know what words to use, but "meh" comes to mind.
> We thought about running it automatically on every test build and/or collecting types from a small fraction of live network requests, but decided against it as either approach is too risky.

I wonder what's too risky about it? Did you try it and something broke? Instagram's MonkeyType seems to think it works ok in production. https://monkeytype.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stores.html
When we first replaced our LEAF with a Model X, my spouse asked if we could go back to the LEAF. They never warmed up to the Model X, and we ended up trading it for a Volvo PHEV. It took me a while to understand why they didn't like it, but it finally set in with me that not everybody is enamored with how hard the Tesla tries to make everything so different.
It's a satisficing problem to make enough money to support your life. But that problem itself is just one part of life, and life is life, not an optimization problem, or indeed any kind of problem to be solved.
Can you provide a citation for that?
It means they are trying to contact it using the most powerful antennas available. It hasn't phoned home yet.
They're called berms and yes that's normal. Race cars will have properly tuned dampers and suspension to handle the high frequency oscillations generated when rolling over them. Drivers use the stripes to gauge corner entry, apex, and exit when taking a line.
Here's [1] an example of using the word "boys" to refer to young men on a college football team in a way that I don't think fits either category. I used a northwestern fan site given the email address in your profile, but I found similar examples across lots of different sites.

[1] https://www.insidenu.com/2017/8/30/16200774/northwestern-foo...
Half of elite grads are boring dullards these days. They lack confidence and originality.

Sounds like exactly what large consulting and banking institutions are looking for.

They want fresh grads they can put through their corporate training program, send the most sycophantic to a top MBA program, chew them up (albeit with great pay) for 10 years and throw most of them away, keeping a few as partners.
Dead wrong. Its not the same as overt racism, but it is indeed racist to make sweeping statements about the decline of "x" after such and such group showed up. In this case its more like xenophobia since being a foreigner or outsider to the community is not a race.
I feel mypy has been a big help in the correctness and approachability in my code I write. My big issue is that it is too easy for `Any` to (implicitly) show up, making it so parts of my code are (silently) not checked. I wish there was a good way to spot this; maybe I need to dig more into the docs.
He raped and trafficked underage girls. He video taped them and flaunted them around powerful people. You really want to defend a monster like that?
My instinct and experience contradicts that.
I usually just download the URL in the terminal and open it locally when pages do that nonsense.
Two points.

1) $15-20 an hour is next to nothing. In a lot of U.S. cities, $15/hour is the minimum wage! It does not surprise me that the only people willing to work for that little depend on automated code-generation tools to do the work for them. If they knew how to do the work themselves, they would be earning much more.

2) If you've got sufficient front-end skill to be able to do the HTML and JS yourself, and you're just looking at this stage to get an MVP out the door, my advice would be to just do this bit yourself too and use something like Bootstrap (https://getbootstrap.com/). Bootstrap gives you sane, usable styles for just about everything out of the box, so the only time you have to write CSS yourself is when what you want to do departs from the default Bootstrap presentation.

It's possible to style Bootstrap so thoroughly that nobody can tell it's Bootstrap, but for an MVP I wouldn't worry about that -- just focus on the functionality, and live with the default Bootstrap presentation for now. If the MVP finds a market, you'll be able to pay someone who knows what they're doing to theme Bootstrap for you; if it doesn't, you haven't wasted any money paying for a bunch of cruddy auto-generated CSS that probably doesn't look as good as the default Bootstrap styles do anyway.
You probably have not spent time in Midtown, UES, UWS, Chelsea, West Village, SoHo and TriBeCa in Manhattan, or Vegas, or LA, or Miami. I live in Manhattan and see this at every upscale establishment I go to. The old dude-young lady combos are everywhere in these places, part of the normal.
It is not so unusual to have a trophy wife, it is the trophy harem that goes against Western culture.

Also it is highly unusual for somebody to show up at an academic event with even a trophy wife in tow.

As for the VS fashion show you do know that Epstein had some kind of hold on the CEO of their parent company, he harassed women under the pretense he was a talent scout for them and plausibly could have abused the models.
Can you tell me what protocol are you using?

I'm using Mosh + SSH now, but latency is still a big issue, especially on mobile network.

And about gaming, how do you forward keyboard events and GUI with usable letency?
I guess Paedomorphic would be too on the nose.
Good, we're getting closer now; objective evidence should be the only thing that matters here, not unfounded fear.
Attrs similarly changed my life and I am so happy that it’s spiritual successor dataclass has been included in python 3.7!
We questioned non-probabilistic newtonian physics when we asked harder questions than it could answer or it gave wrong answers when pushed to a higher regime.

Something similar is going on now in QM.

And do you really think we have discovered the "axioms of the universe" already? That is quite haughty. No we don't have those.

We have models that perform well in certain regimes. Push those regimes, and the models break, then we find new and better models.. rinse and repeat. That is science. https://youtu.be/ka9KGqr5Wtw

* We have 'axioms' (I would not call them that. I would say models) that work in a limited regime e.g. quantum field theory or Maxwell's equations, but we don't know if they are truly fundamental - in that sense they are not axioms , which in math have a precise meaning.
This happens in first world countries as well. See the term “gold digger”.
You might be interested in user superangryguy on Reddit.

He experiments with led and has detailed information on LED and plants.

He has a patent for growing smaller plants, by lighting with blue light on the stem.
I assume they are referring to Olivetti’s reputation for progressive aesthetic design.
This is still one of my favorite pieces of writing. I try to re-read it at least once a year.
Formula 1 drivers do it routinely. If it works better for the racing line then it makes sense to do it. You can see it happening in Charles Leclerc's pole lap from yesterday's qualifying at the Italian grand prix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCS-7gJ57s
Since I rabidly hate Youtube videos that consist of a random person reading a Reddit comment, here's the link to the actual Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wnj2d/iama_heroin_add...
If there is even something to declassify, considering how little there is left of MKULTRA.
I believe Ito was instrumental in helping to launch Yahoo Japan. That may be where some of his wealth came from.
It's a successor in that it came afterwards, but it's actually less powerful. All my projects have dependencies, and I make sure attrs is the first one.
This is a great thread on the details of how this works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056
I think the author (Sean Carroll - whose other books I've read and pre-prdered the one this article comes from) is trying to point out that we're at a stage where maybe we should regroup a bit and find better analogies for what's happening in the quantum world, which may lead to better understanding in the future. The mish-mash of crazy phenomena could be laid out a bit more logically than "wow, check out this insanity!" We need to kill Shrodinger's cat, stop yammering about entanglement, and stop talking about wave functions as if they're real things. There has to be better ways to describe this stuff.

Personally, I think they should start with the nomenclature. It may have been amusing at first to call things strange and up and down and colored, etc. but at this point it's a mess, especially when it's now clear that many particles are just the same thing with varying energy levels.

Also, while I'm on a rant, the double slit experiment is crap. It never shows the particle grouping pattern, just the interference pattern. They talk about measuring the photon at the slit, collapsing the wave function and creating a grouping as if by little ping-pong balls, but it's never demonstrated!
Causality is probably okay. Continuity? Not so much.

The fact that we assume that the rules yesterday are the same as the rules today is one of those axioms that we simply have to accept in order to make progress.
You should read the article and https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer... and then ask yourself whether concerns about learning something retroactively are relevant to a situation where the problem was not just known in advance but established to the point that Ito had to circumvent MIT’s existing ban. Follow by considering whether bringing up generic distractions which don’t apply to this specific case is going to read like a good faith debate about the ethics of philanthropy or an attempt to distract or minimize.