skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media barely looks into the Epstein story details and actively omits large chunks of evidence, such as his and Maxwell's ties to Les Wexner or their ties to domestic/foreign intelligence. As Alexa Acosta said: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.” There's so much evidence that he was linked to the CIA/Mossad and Epstein was even known to brag about it.

We now know that Harvey Weinstein, who is just a media exec, was able to kill stories for years about him sexual abusing actresses. Is is crazy to think that a intelligence agencies could kill stories about one of their honeypots?
They're just trying to be accurate. The most important aspect of Democritus' atoms is indivisibility, so that's why fundamental particles like quarks are technically a better fit.
You realize all that is the same level of evidence that conspiracy theorists use, right? It's like saying 9/11 was a false flag operation because the US did one before in Cuba and would benefit from an excuse to invade Iraq and the CIA had warned the president in advance and there's some classified information that the public isn't allowed to know. There's a reason this stuff isn't accepted in court and shouldn't be accepted by people trying to understand things.
Yeah for sure. I've been able to tackle the html comments now just wanting to implement auth. Any recommended resources?
Yes, very rarely.

This is also in the Netherlands where the borders to countries involved in active war are fairly porous.
No company seems to want to be a utility. They all feel the need to compete on inconsequential, value-added crap and bullshit services when all we want from them is the pipe.
It seems that Epic intentionally violated the App Store rules. Will that be considered by the courts?
Using OpenAI's GPT-3 to enrich NPC interactions
People call the police for, for example, suicidal people all the time. And no, it doesn't always end well, hence the change.
When I dropped out of International Relations to go be an autodidact hacker in the dotcom boom, I noted that the degree program was basically a track to work at the State Department. The professors were highly enthusiastic about it as a profession. Granted this may have just been my school.

I didn’t find any of it relevant at the time. Fast forward 25 years and now that my IT work is distributed full-remote global operations, it turns out my IR foundation gives me a unique [perspective] and VERY influential position in an Engineering org.

So there is a certain long-term value in cross-training in this way.
Safari is not competition for Chrome. The only people who have a choice between Safari/Webkit and Chrome/Blink are Mac users.
Seattle has had a hotspot "broadband" internet provider for 10+ years now. And t-mobile advertises isp service: https://www.t-mobile.com/isp
> If funding Mozilla resulted in no return, Google would have realized it by now. They have been doing it for quite a long time.

Conspiracy theory: the return on investment is that the active development of Firefox defends Google against anti-trust accusations.
Regardless of how much student interest there is in dark ages French literature, it doesn’t do them any good to prepare them for working or even interacting with modern society.
Where did this data come from?

I had to dig five links deep before I got an answer. DocSend is a service that allows founding teams to send pitch decks to investors. DocSend invited founding teams to participate in this research.[0] It's worth noting that they don't seem like they asked for consent from the VCs whose browsing behavior they observed for this study.

In DocSend's privacy policy[1], the VCs are Viewers, whereas the founding team is the User. DocSend apparently allows Users to give consent on behalf of the Viewers:

>If you are a Viewer who views Content you receive from a User via the Service, we automatically collect information about your interaction with such Content and our Service. The information we collect includes: Whether or not a you have viewed or are viewing Content; Date and time you viewed the Content; Number of times and length of time Content was viewed; Which portions of the Content were viewed; and Your IP address and location.

[0] https://docsend.com/view/my4w3gf

[1] https://www.docsend.com/privacy-policy/
Pretty facile analysis. Boxes are being removed from the blue parts of Montana (which definitely do exist, it’s a much more purple state than most people think), and Montana’s senatorial race is close this year. In any case, this is happening largely in blue states, but I knew if I posted a link saying as much it would be immediately flagged on HN, so I posted this one instead.
The bill of rights that explains why this is illegal.
I used to be a happy N26 customer. But now I'm going out of my way to tell everyone not to use them. Two years ago I ordered the "metal" account (I think that was the name) since I was traveling a lot. Last year, I forgot to cancel it until I got an email saying it renewed.

It's not a huge amount, €5 a month. But I don't use it anymore so that's wasted money and I decided to cancel it. Under EU law, I have two weeks to cancel a subscription if I decide I don't want it, including an auto-renewing subscription. I've cancelled subscriptions this way with companies before and never had any comments beyond "yes, we'll cancel that for you immediately".

Not so N26. I said I want to cancel (within 2 days), they said I'd have to pay the full year. I sent them the EU law saying that I have two weeks to cancel, and they immediately, and in very threatening terms, said if I don't pay it all they'll send my account to a debt collection agency (this is now the 4th message in the conversation, and my first ever conversation with support after three years as a happy customer).

I immediately withdrew all money from the account and emailed support instructing them to close the account, referencing that support conversation and the law saying that they can't charge me for the year's subscription.

Well, they did close my account, and they did send the rest of the subscription charge to a collection agency who have sent me a few messages (that I've ignored).

Oh, and the cherry on top. They emailed me back to say that my attempt to cancel the subscription was not valid because I didn't use the word "revoke". Apparently this would have all been fine if I said I want to "revoke the subscription" but my account goes to a collection agency because I said " cancel my subscription" instead which is completele BS.

Pretty terrible experience. In short, don't use N26.
Wouldn't that expose more of it to oxygen and thus increase the fire's strength?

Yes, but there really isn't much else in the way of practical choices. If you had some 100% bullet-proof way to seal the fire off from any oxygen, then eventually it would go out and cool below it's ignition temperature. But "bury it in sand (or concrete)" isn't a practical solution for the average fire. Beyond that, you could play around with piercing nozzles and more wetting agents / foam and what-not and try to avoid digging the pile up, but generally speaking those things would be too time consuming for the typical fire department.

Consider that any time you're on a call, that apparatus and crew are not available to respond to other, perhaps more urgent, calls. So fire departments typically try to avoid spending excess time on the scene of a relatively low hazard fire like a mulch pile. You can't just ignore it completely, because embers from that fire could then spread and cause another fire, etc. So you have to show up and deal with it, but you want to get done as soon as possible.

A private / industrial fire brigade might take a different approach, because they are operating under different constraints.

All of that said, there is one particular case where "bury it in sand" might be used in a setting that a typical municipal FD might run into. That case would involve a Class D (flammable metals)[1] fire. Those are notoriously hard to extinguish and "bury it" is a valid option. So if a FD had some industrial areas in their district, where a factory was, say, making something out of magnesium or another flammable metal, and somehow managed to catch a load of the stuff on fire, it's entirely possible that the response would be "Call in DOT (or whoever) and have them bring a couple of dump truck loads of sand to the scene". There are specialized fire extinguishers for this stuff[2], but they're expensive, only contain so much extinguishing agent, and aren't - in my experience - commonplace on fire apparatus.

In practice, this situation doesn't come up terribly often. And a plant or factory working with lots of flammable metals in high volume might well have a private industrial fire brigade that specializes in fighting those fires.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_class#Metal

[2]: https://www.monroeextinguisher.com/product/ansul-redline-30-...
FWIW, last mile costs only matter if your last mile isn't wireless, more or less. Terrestrial internet doesn't imply wire/fiber to the premises, does it?
> You're arguing in very bad faith here. That's a huge misrepresentation of what pro-choice advocates want.

It's the same kind of misrepresentation as saying Eich spent $1000 to hurt people like the poster. That's my point. No-one in these debates is actually setting out to hurt other people, yet from the other side that's how it's experienced.
Google’s recruiters and their truckloads of money are happy to reach out regardless. You want the talent capable of building and maintaining a web engine? Be prepared to pay for it.
We ask employees to install a monitoring agent based on OSQuery for compliance reasons. It does very little. It queries (read-only) OS meta details about whether or not they're using antivirus (true/false), have a password manager (true/false), the HD is encrypted (true/false), whether or not location services is active (true/false) and a list of applications. I think this is pretty typical. Some companies might go deeper, but I think we're in the norm.
Gimp starts in 2 seconds on my r5 3600 from an SSD. Try Linux if you are on Windows.
How powerful was the Beirut blast?
Utilities are expensive to operate and it is a tough sell to do something that will lose money for 5+ years.
What value is it that you think you got from those classes and not 20 years of professional experience?
> Heck, the mainstream leftist view is that you have to vote to make it easier to kill babies

This is how right-wing activists frame it but it’s thoroughly dishonest, not to mention unscientific. A baby is a human child which has been born. The contraception options those people oppose affect what is at that point a few cells. Abortion is always well before the point of viability and increasingly rare the later it gets – you’re talking cases with severe health risks and a long way from being developed enough to have any chance of surviving in a NICU.
It also effectively means they can brutalize you for funsies with little to no repercussion in the US.
4. Everyone realizes effects are important but also that there is pent up demand for non-sf locations, second tier hubs get more traction, SF premium slowly erodes.
Musk makes me nervous that he and his team are going to push too far and too fast with putting self-driving in the hands of real users and the ensuing disaster/public outcry is going to be cataclysmic to the self-driving field. The whole "automatically have your car come to where you are in the parking lot" was a great example of an obvious disaster in the making that they made public anyway. I hope I'm wrong.
> If 10 round magazines were in any way 'unsafe' - then we wouldn't use them.

California has attempted to use "safety" as a reason to ban certain guns, yet strangely LEOs are allowed to buy/use/sell them. We use unsafe things all the time but having a larger capacity magazine makes the wielder much safer in a situation where they need to use their firearm.

> What could work well? 'Well regulated Militias'

This is a common misunderstanding of the law. "Well Regulated" back then meant "Well supplied" and also the militia is "the people".

There's also zero evidence that larger magazines makes anyone unsafer. If that was the case, the millions of magazines that filed into California during part of this case would've caused a massive upswing in crime, it didn't.
And yet America has shitty expensive internet relative to most European countries. So we are doing something wrong.
It's single threaded to this day. A widget hanging on a webserver can lock up the whole desktop. It needed a rewrite years ago, and things have only become worse regarding tech debt.
Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds
Those who can do that might as well use their ingenuity to build their own factories and join the factory owning class.
Indeed. Those developers would just be picked up by FAANG instead.
Newly-Launched HeliOS Brings Simple Multitasking to Arduino Microcontrollers
Could you please clarify on this: how is Brave not giving BAT to content creators?
Hey Michiel & Grant, congrats on the launch! This looks amazing (you guys have iterated pretty fast since I checked out the alpha)

How you guys found your first couple of beta customers? Also, curious how was your experience doing YC remotely (I guess you are still in Netherlands, right?)
Well, Mozilla did use a red tyrannosaurus rex logo for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_(mascot)#/media/File:M...

I am not sure if that qualifies as an aspiration to be a predator.
Do either your superiors or subordinates have disagreements on whether or not you should have human rights?

I have no problem working professionally with somebody who says taxes should be lower, or who argues that renewable energy is a waste of money, or who supports charter schools or school vouchers, or all sorts of conservative ideas. I'd disagree strongly with them, mind you, but...

I guess that's sort of a core part of it, ultimately. These are not dry political questions for me- they have a very real, immediate impact on my day-to-day life.

> And if all of that is a problem to you, yeah, I totally can agree to disagree with you, I can even respect that, as long as your disagreement doesn't mean hunting people down, because their opinion doesn't match yours. Now with that I kinda have to disagree.

I would also agree- although what do you mean "hunting people down?" Presumably not, uh, with bow and arrow. I would not hunt Brendan Eich for sport.

I will, however, criticize people vocally- not for their opinions, but for their actions.

Suppose I sent a letter to Mozilla's board - "I'm a queer person who uses Firefox and who contributes to other Mozilla products. The choice of Brendan Eich, who has contributed to find opposition to my human rights, as CEO makes me feel uncomfortable contributing further to Mozilla as an organization, and because of this I won't be giving my money or time to Mozilla while Eich is in charge of it. I urge you to reconsider your choice of leadership. Sincerely, (me)."

Could you respect me after sending that letter? Is that valid criticism, speaking out? Is that free speech? Or am I just another woke bully?
With a GDPR complaint to the EU.
Has this been observed, or is it more: here's some math that makes entropy even possible because the alternatives sound unlikely? I'm betting on the weird, things like the universe being generative on a macro scale and entropic in local timespace, wherein dark matter is merely newly created matter not in another universe, but in this universe, maybe some unknown interactions between the unstoppable force of expansion and the immovable object of a black hole's gravity. I'm probably blathering, I'm not a physicist.
This is an unsolved problem. If someone tells you they know the answer then they are probably mistaken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loschmidt%27s_paradox

The only convincing-seeming resolution I've heard is that our universe started in an exceptionally low-entropy state at the Big Bang.
Everyone seems to be blaming the "bad" (relatively, I personally don't believe that) performance of FF on Gecko. But is that the case? Isn't it mostly because of many websites relying heavily on JS while V8 is much faster than SpiderMonkey? I have been following Phoronix benchmarks for years and where Chrome shines seems to always be on JS benchmarks.

Given that Gecko is probably not the bottleneck, I would consider the decision of halting the project not a bad one. Servo delivered tons of amazing things already, it is a clear success. Maybe Mozilla should consider using V8? After all, losing SpiderMonkey might not be that bad, there is enough "competitors".
Edge has more aggressive and persistent tracking identifiers then Google Chrome
If the intentional mail slowdowns were evenly distributed that would be true, but if some areas (eg cities in battleground states) are targeted for heavier service disruptions, then the postal sabotage will have the desired effect of decreasing Democratic votes while leaving Republican votes less affected.
Debian is still going strong after > 20 years with no major OEM adoption (except in the form of derivatives like Ubuntu), so I'm not sure how relevant OEM adoption is to FLOSS distributions.

Personally I think OEMs should not ship a default OS and should require a choice at the point of sale.
That backfired, I chose my last premium headset over the other because it was lighter.

Who wants a rock attached to their ears? In their carry on?
"and it will just get better." is proven with any Musk co (that I know of).
Instantly reminded me of a similar older quote from Jhumpa Lahiri in the NYTimes:
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace."
How is it a misrepresentation to say that donating to the cause of opposing gay rights harms gay people? There’s a direct cause and effect, linked by exactly that issue - the Prop 8 supporters weren’t even trying to hide it, either. They very explicitly wanted to take a right away from other people, even though they suffered no plausible harm from those people exercising that right.
You are not alone in this conspiracy theory. A significant portion of Google’s business right now is to fend of anti-trust accusations.
I think the population density in the US makes this difficult.

If you can't get into the nearest one or two high schools, you may end up with a 40+ minute commute to get to school which would make morning classes and extra curriculars pretty difficult.
Oh, based on your comment I was also expecting more or less a place in QLD. What were your main reasons for Tassy? Climate? House prices?
UK, probably
Correct, they are very separate issues.

Criminal enterprise has more commonality with gun crime than gun ownership does. If gun ownership was simply the issue, there would be over 1000x since the US has millions of firearms in private ownership and has for a very long time.

This is why overly broad laws that criminalize regular people are stupid. We can use things like gang enhancements and laws that say "gun was used in a crime, increase sentence" to criminalize the correct people.
> we'd feed raw renewable energy into the system and automatically manufacture an abundance of all goods that people desire

Metal isn't renewable. The factory must expand!
> So its way better to willingly agree to participate in a tax scheme, than being at risk of beheading from masses or poison in your drink.

Is it really willingly agreeing when there is no option to opt-out?
A lot of surface area to catch the shockwave though. It's the same reason that semi-trucks are more likely to be blown over by high winds even than cars despite weighing much more.

Now if something like a tank were blown over, then I'd be impressed.
The tram was 30 kilometres away!
I looked up how many emoji there were, added some for wingdings, and rounded up a bit.

What else would you question? Would it be more than 1500 more, which would bump it from 2 to 3 percent?
Funny that astronomers and space types were all about setting aside other people's problems when it came to doing cool stuff in space, e.g. the famous NASA reply to Sister Mary Jucunda[0]. But now, it's "won't somebody please think of the astronomers"

[0] https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/
Correct, the Mulford act was bitpartisan legislation driven by racism.
I think Syria is also out of glass...
> When you install Linux, where is the OS downloaded from? Where do the software packages and updates reside?

About 1000 mirrors distributed around the world by independent institutions using donated storage and bandwidth. Some distros may have "corporate-funded" primary mirrors on providers like AWS, but independent mirrors of those still pop up. The majority of the mirrors are universities and ISPs.

> What about the source code?

Most distros have "source mirrors", as most package managers will build a "source package" which includes the source code used to build the package, in addition to vendor patches and build instructions. If they don't provide a source mirror, you go to wherever the dev kept their source, which used to default to either SourceForge or a personal website, and is now mostly GitHub.

By default most distros have a list of mirrors that they try, and they also allow you to specify a specific list of mirrors if the defaults don't work. If your country shuts off internet access to the rest of the world, and there's no mirror in your country, someone can stand up a mirror at a local business and you can use that. And you can install Linux distros from a DVD, CD, floppy disk, USB stick, and local LAN. Even if you only have one copy of the install media for one release of one distro, you can make a mirror out of it.
Ex editor here from the old days. Jimmy doesn't need your money, the foundation is well off on corporate sponsorship - they are an obvious choice for good PR and tax benefits.

He was spending a lot of money on traveling people around the world, instead of hiring editors who did a huge amount of work.

Stop supporting Wikipedia. They are beggars with a golden pocket watch.
Cynical me sees a company that laid off 25% of their workforce knowing full well they had another 3 years of funding in the bag. There is no way those lay-offs could not have waited until after the Google deal was inked (which was extremely likely to happen). But of course it is a lot harder to fire people after stuffing your piggy bank at that level. People might ask some pointed questions.
Weird, how does Matrix do it?
Formal Specification of the x86 Instruction Set Architecture [pdf]
Such an underrated film. And before the decline of Cage.
We have used chroots + a bunch of perl scripts for 20 years. Besides APIs for adding/deleting nodes or autoscaling nodes, nothing much changed for us. And, as I have remarked here before (as it is one of my businesses); that extra freedom, esp autoscaling, is almost never needed and, for most companies, far more expensive than just properly setting up a few baremetal machines. Most people here probably vastly underestimate how much transactions a modern server can handle and how cheap this is at a non-cloud provider. Ofcourse, badly written software will wreck your perf and with that nothing can save you.
Yea, I’m currently on a mix of cellular and traditional satellite. The combo is fairly expensive but necessary because one or the other goes out on occasion. It’s fine, but ideally you don’t want to ever think about your internet. You just want it to work. No data cap, no noticeable latency.
I think it's great 8ish+ months! Very hot right now but it's what kept things great. But I think more people are starting to trade bitter cold Minnesota winters for hot summers. It's also a quick hop back to California when needed.