skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, a small hint, anyone climbing 8,000+ peaks should get a large dose of Viagra ;-)

EDIT: For those that didn't get it, it significantly helps with altitude sickness.
Huh.

When I created this product [1], it required the end user's bank credentials. (I am using the past tense because I don't know if it does that anymore -- I'm not working there nowadays.)

I was sure that was an insane idea, as nobody was going to give us their user and password and let us log on to their banks as the clients. (To be honest, we were using an Intuit API which might have prevented us from creating transactions, but I could still have saved them and used them outside the API.)

When I left (for unrelated reasons), they had a few thousand clients.

[1] https://www.prbc.com/
The most interesting thing about the article is the admission by google that it wages an ai-powered war on humanity. Rather than paperclips, the most likely ai apocalypse scenario consists of an ai that modifies and breeds humans (what it considers humans) to do nothing but watch ads.
Focusing on Uber will give a particularly uncharitable view IMO.

I work in tech and the majority of work we do is to either explore new products or increase the efficiency of the core business by a percentage.

Neither of these are inherently aimed at competition.
You Need a Budget[0] also asks for your banks credentials to read transaction data off the ledger. I've seen this done by a number of budgeting softwares to keep their transaction ledger up to date. (It's nominally read-only usage, but of course once you give them the password there's no control over that.) Honestly I don't find compromising my security to be worth the five minutes it takes to catch up on my transactions once a week. In my experience this sort of feature is not at all uncommon.

[0]: https://docs.youneedabudget.com/article/142-troubleshooting
A family of three living off of $1,000/month in Seattle?

What decade was this actually written in?
Many of “these people,” are normal people that saved up for years to be able to do this. It isn’t just a bunch of ultra rich people “throwing money.” There are definitely some “climbers” in the category of “shouldn’t be there,” but characterizing Everest climbers as a bunch of spoiled rich people is unfair. Many people spend $100k+ on a Tesla, others might drive a used Honda and instead prioritize climbing big mountains. Let’s not paint the entire mountain with such a broad brush. The real problem is how Nepal issues permits. The Chinese side isn’t like the Nepal side.
Make $100-$200k/yr from your equity compensation, have that same equity comp go up 2x (amazon) and you get 800k-1.6m for 4 years of work pre-tax. Add a few more years on top of that.
>in general it is very difficult to compare a developed country with a developing one.

I don't know about that. Is done all the time. Also, 'developing/developed' is a incredibly crude taxonomy with few useful contexts and a very fuzzy border.
How many "mishaps" does it take until it becomes "willful???"
Wow these responses seem so naïve. There's a difference between "somebody can get your dna (or fingerprints or location)", and "anybody anywhere can get a record of anybody's DNA, and they (you) have to trust the middleman to be right". Trust that there's no malicious actors, or hackers, or political trickery. On and on and on.
For much of the article, the author portrays the “left-wing” as a bastion of sanity and moral good, a place where those who have been hijacked by the “right-wing” can be rehabilitated. Only at the very end does he pay passing lip-service to the possibility that there might be danger on both sides.

Is his characterization accurate?
How do we know that quantum randomness is really random?
I empathize but how's that better than an old cow being slowly eaten alive by coyotes when it gets into the wrong pasture? Or a horse breaking a leg and... I mean it's nasty. Or a chicken dying of infection because it's getting pecked by other chickens? Or hell, a mouse being poisoned and eaten by a snake or other creature?

I feel like growing up next to a farm vs working on a farm is a big difference and there's a lot of torturous death you didn't see. It's death. It sucks by nature.
No great advancement comes without dangers. But at the moment we seem to be stifling the benefits while allowing government surveillance to go through "for the good of society".
I was never affected by drinking per se, but IME, cutting out sugary drinks did wonders for my digestion related issues. I wonder if that's related, since most alcohols contain a good amount of sugar.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/25712847277

And he was totally blasted by his own fanbase for it. Everyone might say something, once in a while, too far. Doesn't make it right, but doesn't make him completely wrong on everything.
Huh? If you believe in Imaginary Property, you own the copyright to your code until you get paid.

He won't be trusted with sensitive projects that he doesn't get paid for.
Machine Learning Dates Back to at Least 300BC
IANAL either, but it looks like (under US copyright law), contracted work is pretty explicitly not work-for-hire. See https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf -- contracted work is only work-for-hire in an explicitly enumerated set of circumstances.
>China isn’t really a rule of law country

I don't know about that, slightly unrelated but I'm 4 times less likely to get murdered in China than in the USA.

The population seems to adhere to laws against harming fellow humans better than we do in the USA.
*will solve it with laws.

I'm working with a fintech company in Germany at the moment that asks users for their internet banking credentials. Apparently it's quite common in Germany.
It seems like many of the debates on HN seem to quickly devolve into classism. I am pretty sure not many people have ever met an Everest climber, let alone got to know any in order to make these sweeping generalizations.
Of course there isn't any difference in the Fourier analysis, but there is a difference between spectroscopy and MRI, enough to warrant a different post on the blog. In the MRI case you have a human with macroscopic inhomogeneities, while in the spectroscopic case you are not interested in those macroscopic inhomogeneities, but in the local differences in molecules, that the active nuclei 'feel'. It's quite a difference in scale and also you have one human in the 'sample' in the case of MRI, but many molecules in case of spectroscopy :)
I should have clarified - _scientific sources_, not an advertisement for a face gym.
Linkbait? This is a theoretical possibility, not a current event.
"Few people outside the OSGi even remotely understand the requirements and capability model, and that is their loss. However, organizations that reach the maturity level to use it will never let it go. "

I consider it a poor evangelism approach to make me feel stupid and useless. In all honesty I tried to understand OSGi about ten years ago and failed to understand how to get started and how my current project could benefit from this. So we kept using maven and eventually gradle.
The right has always hated abortion in recent memory, but I think you've gone too far in saying that most conservatives think abortion is murder. Some of the extreme rightists, usually of the religious variety, think that abortion is murder, but rank and file conservatives will probably not tell you that they a woman who gets an abortion(even illegally) should go to prison for life for first degree murder and conspiracy(with her doctor).
Yes, if you want to compete with cash, checks, online bill pay, Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and the other proprietary rental payment portals.
Could you explain why? Is it because people will only share information worth sharing if they have to pay to do so? If so, then you deserve a [redacted].
Quick Question: You are worried about right-ring rabbit holes, NYT.

If I watched a bunch of NYT, Vox, and other such videos, are you _sure_ I wouldn't be sucked into a Left-wing rabbit hole?
Ignore the negativity that often gets posted here. For a student app, this is quite impressive.
Once he placed the ring on her finger he accepted her terms .. as an American who hasn’t grown up with Asian cultural norms I would never marry someone with an obligation to take care of their parents also in America.
According to this[1], Kanchenjunga has about 22% fatality rate since 1990, can't find a newer stat. This[1] article mentions 220 climbs so far so it doesn't look like the attempts have increased a lot.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150923175946/http://mentalflos...

[2] http://www.teamwilcovanrooijen.nl/dont-climb-kanchenjunga/
The key differentiator has been the improvement of weather technology. The basic equipment has gotten better, but the real win has been with weather.
But those are all great, directly relevant, appropriate points of comparison. And they work because those two language operate in a similar niche.
Except in those states that have already voted to do so, with a mandate from their constituents. Except for those conservatives.
It would be better to ban oxygen on Everest. A much more limited number would summit, and there would be no more discarded oxygen tanks. I've been up to 6400m and climbing up there was the most physically difficult thing I'd ever done, I can't imagine 8800m. However, people can and have climbed it without oxygen numerous times.
At some point the system realized people are prone to failure. It then started deploying itself redundantly without dependence on people. This helped, but the people interfered. To fix this the system started building self replicating physical instances, creating new dependencies on material that resulted in grey goo (or paper clips).
I think very few right-wingers would agree with that (I'm talking non-religious right).
However, they would agree that the abortion doctor should experience prison for being a literal serial killer.
It's just corporate media who no longer cares about informing the public in seek of profits. It guarantees a watcher all day to consume ads, on edge about extreme events to stay tuned and consume ads, while also normalizing severity. These things are already put out on TV, Radio, and over many SAME alerts by NWS in the event that there is a real emergency. There is also the easy to read convective outlook.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/
Jetty 9.4.15 Has Been Released
> When Mr. Cain first saw these videos, he dismissed them as left-wing propaganda. But he watched more, and he started to wonder if people like Ms. Wynn had a point. Her videos persuasively used research and citations to rebut the right-wing talking points he had absorbed.

Good to know apparently none of the right-wing videos used research or citations - only 'talking points'. Or at least it wasn't mentioned.
That applies to the former half of your comment, which I didn't find that unlikely. What about the latter half?
It's not up to the city, this was a Texas state-level legislative change just like when the Texas state legislature in recent years pre-empted municipal regulations regarding plastic bags, tree removal, ride-hailing, time-off from work, and other municipal enacted regulations.
A Glimpse into the Work of a Book Cover Designer (2012)
Ed is especially awesome because he did all 14 without bottled oxygen.
Better example of how crazy they get: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veQkt4tS0Tc
Solar powered weeding robots, big greenhouses and indoor hydroponics. Apparently environment control is the largest use of energy in farming, so much so, that you can actually use less energy by growing under lights.
I could imagine a "resistance" bombarding wechat with so much garbage that the PRC wouldn't be able to trust intel gathered from it.
Aborting a shallow sport dive is no big deal. But some of my acquaintances go on major expeditions doing deep, complex technical dives on shipwrecks and in caves. Just getting to the dive site can be a major logistical undertaking, and there's often a large group of surface crew and support divers just to assist the push team. Sometimes permits to access a particular site are time limited, or there's only a narrow window of good weather. So those exploration divers are subject to the same mental pressures to go ahead and dive even when it's risky.
Can you elaborate on the weather bit? I can see improvement in predicting snowstorms but how do you predict something as unpredictable as avalanches?
Show HN: The Button
On the morning of August 11, 1873, Custer was encamped with a portion of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition (Eight companies of the 7th Cavalry) along the north side of the Yellowstone River at what was later known as Pease Bottom near present-day Custer, Montana. In the early morning hours warriors from the village of Sitting Bull started firing at Custer's camp from across the river, and by dawn skirmishing had broken out in several locations. After shooting at least 3 warriors across the river, Private John Tuttle of Company E, 7th Cavalry was killed in the morning fighting, warriors then crossed the Yellowstone River above and below the camp of the 7th Cavalry and attacked Custer's troops.
Open Liberty 19.0.0.4 Released with Support for Reactive Streams Operators
What makes noisebridge more successful? It seems like they have a smaller space and less machines than Techshop RIP but host a lot more meetups.
I mean, having someone die on your doorstep because you didn’t help them seems like a large downside to me.
Well I don't think I've ever met one in person. But I don't doubt that they are out there.

But yeah, Poe's law n all -- tough to tell sometimes.
Some of the deeds through which the claimants based their title had slight irregularities in various signatures. With these documents and this evidence, Johnson and the other claimants having presented their petition to the Board of Commissioners established by the act of March 3d, 1851, "to ascertain and settle private land claims in the State of California," and that board having confirmed it, the United States took the case by appeal into the District Court, which court having also confirmed it, the case came to the Supreme Court: the question being whether the petition for confirmation of the claim was rightly granted and affirmed.
The choice of the text scrolling over the collage, however, is the author's / NYT's doing.

> Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking
for direction. He turned to YouTube.

> Soon, he was pulled into a far-right universe,
watching thousands of videos filled with
conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

> I was brainwashed

If some, in the admission of the writer, are not far right / [insert some other libelous term here], is it fair to label them all as such?
Quarkus and Web UI Development
usually this is done using oauth
This is useful for boilerplate code. But keeping it in sync with upstream isn’t possible due to it having a single initial commit and separate history. For that a fork is the only choice. I see how the use cases can pan out for templates. Glad that Github is releasing more features off late :)
I think China take will the path to democracy most other democratic nations have taken including my own: As the middle class eventually grows big enough it will demand and get political influence ultimately creating democratic institutions (formal freedom of speech, parliaments, elections, referendums) as we have it in the west.

It is easy to focus on a single news story and forgetting that China is a much freer society today than it was 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Expensify does this
There are no 'industry blacklists' for small consultant developers.

And I really doubt any legitimate operation would blacklist somebody for their entirely legal actions after a contract was broken.

If you hire me to build a book case for you, but then you decide to not pay me after the work is done, should I just destroy the book case and hope for better luck next time? Why couldn't I give the book case away for free?
SpaceX's Texas launch site for Starship Mars rockets: photos
1.

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

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts...

2.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/facebook-advocates-go...

http://fortune.com/2018/05/17/facebook-atlantic-council-elec...

3 & 4.

There is an up swell in support for banning forms of speech and "dangerous ideas".

https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/event/will-america...

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/4/18197209/free-speech-philosophy...

Corporations have been the ones to do most of the censorship at the moment:

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

But there isn't much difference between corporations and the government in the US at the moment:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...

https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...

What it boils down to is that the narrative of the US is that we are "free" and a "democracy", so the powerful must use more subtle and subversive techniques to achieve the same goals as autocrats elsewhere such as China.

Don't get me wrong, the US is still better than China on this front, but my response is simply to say that it's not so binary.
I'll issue a correction: as mass murderers they have negative value. Their lives must be extinguished.
CRUD Application with Spring Boot 2.2, Java 11 and H2
Do you have any stats on the non-religious right agreeing that a doctor performing an abortion should be in prison for murder?
My favorite quote on the subject still is "Every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated person".
I've never understood why trade unions, who are supposed to represent the masses, often support environmentally disastrous enterprises.
I think it was largely the quantity of spirits I was consuming. I loved things like brandy, tequila, rum, vodka and whisky, but they all loved me back a bit too much.

I also realised that there is no real need to play life at the hardest difficulty setting all of the time.
The authorities quoted in the article are an “independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment,” and a “Reader in Energy Policy”.

While I am sure they are experts in their respective fields, is either actually an expert on nuclear engineering qualified to judge whether these cracks actually are dangerous?

BTW if the reactor is truly dangerous it should be shut down, but we need to keep in mind every reactor being shut down means more fossil fuels being burned and destroying our entire planet’s environment.
Don't make blanket statements about billions of people like "they are content with it". Some might be, some might appear to be, some might not have thought about it, some might very much not be.
To each their own I guess.
I agree. I wasn't implying that we should make DNA sequencing and storage illegal.
Yes, an adversary could target you and illegally collect your DNA. But does that mean you should make it easy for them and publicize the data?

There are very serious reasons to keep your genetic information private [0]. Unlike a photo, genetic data reveals sensitive medical information and more...

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
This reminds me of the generation that were kids during the Great Depression. The trauma of food scarcity & poverty often resulted in extreme forms of frugality that lasted for the rest of their lives. It wouldn't surprise me if this author also saves/reuses food plastic wrap, scraps of aluminum foil & rinsed out plastic sandwich bags as my own grandmother did.
I have talked to a guy who had climbed Mount Everest that way. He had the goal of climbing all the highest peaks on all continents and Everest was one of them. He also came from a wealthy family. He had the time and money to put in the time preparing and then paying >50k for the Everest climb. Who can afford this money and taking off months for an expedition? From what I have read Everest climbers are either basically very poor people who put all they have into climbing or they are rich enough to take time off and pay for that hobby. For a regular guy with a regular job it’s very difficult to do.
Agree that it's not the most professional look. However, the sort of client with the concern you mentioned has an NDA, IP agreement, lawyers... I don't think they'll care much.

The greater risk to the contractor is that this advertises that they deal with shitty clients who don't have those things in place. Working with what sound like fly-by-night clients signals that you're not able to be picky about your work.

If I were the contractor here, I'd bury the project and sprinkle some holy water on it, pursue legal action, and get on with my life. I wouldn't draw attention to what is essentially a failed project. It's naive for the contractor to think that everyone will accept his side of the story regarding the project's failure. From a distance, the failed project is more visible than the flaky client.
Like alcohol and tobacco (and sugary drinks, and processed food, and...), it is yet another vice. More specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)#Adverse_effect...
Throw away their integrity? Not sure I'm following. If the dev wasn't paid then they own the work product and they are free to do whatever they want with it. Isn't that what ownership means? Going to court is a cumbersome process that not everyone wants to deal with.

Whoever didn't pay should be the one on the blacklist - not the dev who is free to make whatever decision they want with a work product they own.
Bikey: Java lib to create Maps and Sets whose elements have 2 keys, with less me
I don't see whats wrong about suggesting videos to users that they like to watch.
That has nothing to do with rule of law. Laws are definitely enforced on China, it’s just up to the officials on what laws to enforce when and on whom.

They will enforce pesticide bans, for example, on farmers they don’t like or where it is politically convenient to do so. Likewise, one can get away with murder if they are politically connected enough and in good grace (well, until the publicity gets bad and they become pariahs like Bo Xilai).
"Find perfect palettes from delicious pictures"

Upload or provide an URL to an image, see the two hamburger menus (left+right) for more controls.

Pretty neat that you could see and change where the colors were sampled from.
Yeah, there are conflicting reports about Hillary step:

"Last year, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa who has nine summits told the Daily Mail, “The fixed lines are more to the right of the step (than before). We’re now walking on the snow whereas before we had to walk on the rocky side. That is the reason for the confusion.” And 15 time summiter, Pemba Dorje Sherpa said “The Hillary Step is as it was before, but a large stone above it has fallen”"
Combining Similar Time Series
About two or three years ago, I tried to learn OSGi. But I had severe difficulty actually getting started and understanding the intended application model. It seems that the OSGi website links to more resources to get started now[1], so perhaps I should give it another shot.

[1] https://www.osgi.org/developer/where-to-start/
Why Hitler is not a dirty word in India (2018)
You do realise that there are plenty of others working on this for research? A good example is the UK Biobank, http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-biobank-uk/
Aung San Suu Kyi Meets Hungary’s Orbán to Lament “Growing Muslim Populations”
Nonsense. Try expressing some communism or Wahhabism in earnest and see where it gets you. It may not end up being the state apparatus that first gets to you, but the end result is the same.

Every society has its boogieman. You're just blind to it.
>In the west, instead, its a little bit more back and forth between tech and government.

Hand over data or shut down your company is the ultimatum.