skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand I agree that it shouldn't be because government should require that both, sufficient reserves exist to deliver on contracts to consumers, and that consumers always have the first priority on any kind of claims against a bankrupt company. If, as a professional firm or even investor, you invested in a company; it should be considered part of your professional duty and due diligence that you make smart decisions and suffer the consequences for your actions ... not naive consumers.

On the other hand though, in the absence of and the externalization of the costs by not holding corporations and professionals responsible for their actions, it can be argued that it falls into the common good scope of government to provide such emergency services that are generalizable across the population and from which everyone will equally benefit and therefore can also not be extracted.

There is also an argument to be made though that this has been known and Thomas Cook has been on the skids for years now, even though a layperson really can't be expected to know that when they dish out their life savings to book family vacation of a lifetime.

Again, there reckless corporations need to be held to the fire on these matters, which is EVEN MORE the responsibility of government ... the core responsibility at that ... so that it doesn't have to do these types of things because the reserves existed that would allow emergency travel or relocation or whatever is needed to meet contractual obligations.
I was about to argue that cash is just as susceptible to "theft". But then you brought up the freedom from legal action. That's a good point. At least with my dirty-dirty fiat dollars, you rob from me, my "forcefully taken money" (taxes) funds a group of people that will at least go after that person. Obviously, that's not a guarantee. But it's better than a system where it sums up to "Yea, sucks for you. We don't believe in legal action of any form and built it up in a way where you're screwed."
> Now the government has to pay 150 million to bring them home.

Part of that will be paid from the Air Travel Trust Fund: https://www.caa.co.uk/ATOL-protection/Air-travel-trust/About...
How come a company that is trusted by half a million travelers (at the end of a holiday season) can this easily go bankrupt?.. Is this a case of bad management or cheap travel models or what..

cant see any details on when they started seeing issues, and how did they end up like this..

edit: here is how -- Thomas Cook returned to private ownership in 1972 and has seen a series of mergers and takeovers. In 2007, it merged with the UK-listed owner of Airtours, MyTravel Group, which nearly collapsed in 2011 but was bailed out by its banks. The rescue left Thomas Cook with a debt burden of £1.7bn and the company struggled to cope, leaving administration as the only option.
When's the last time you saw an advertisement to ride a train? Maybe trains are dying because they link up locations that are less convenient for people and nobody knows that trains still exist outside of metro lines?
If only we had been warned!
> My favorite signal: go where it's busy!

I agree -- this has been my go-to for a while: eat where the locals eat.

But you do still have to be a little discerning. The old saying, for instance, that you should eat at places that truckers favor isn't accurate unless you're a trucker, because they have additional requirements unrelated to food, such as whether or not you can maneuver and park an 18 wheeler in its lot.
Interactive, infinite-resolution image generation in the browser
> I actually think the issue with the OLPC not achieving its goals is that they focused too much on the hardware and not what software was on the device and the learning outcomes the software delivered for children.

I worked with some of the early OLPC hardware as well, and I absolutely agree. The software which shipped with the OLPC was strangely designed and half-baked (at best!) -- the user interface was bizarre, many of the advertised features were unusable or barely usable, and there was an inexplicable lack of basic educational apps on the system. Most of the value of the OLPC in an educational environment probably came from its web browser and word processor, which were simply wrappers around Firefox and OpenOffice.
Yep, you figured me out. Drat!
7B and 24B are both effectively infinite money. If I could have the former just for signing my name or the latter but I need to go through an IPO and get slammed in the press every day, I go with the former.
Israel's GDP is $380B, so $3B-$4B is just a drop in the bucket. As other posters mentioned, that $3B-$4B is earmarked for Defense purchases which means they have to spend that money in the US.
Just as Free Software is, effectively, whatever the Free Software Foundations says it is, open source software is whatever the Open Source Initiative says it is.
As a poor reader, I had no idea Tim Cook had his own airline.
I agree. All I have done for the past 15 years is startups and I love HN, however in the last few years it has become very apparent there is a selection bias to people in startup/valley type tech. I spend a ton of time explaining to my CEO and CTO why a customer cannot just dump that old way and embrace the new hotness. The valley culture is a bubble and does not reflect that of real world IT in general. Still love HN.
CloudKitchens is Uber founder's Travis Kalanick next play
It is likely a remnant of non-PF_INET families under SOCK_STREAM. There is no SHUT_RD in TCP by design.

Sockets are known to be not very standard landscape historically. Best bet here is to just stick with that “Disables further receive operations” posix definition and follow it to the letter by not recv’ing anything anymore.
Hi, Is Chicago team looking for data scientists as well? If yes, I am highly interested.
I don’t know how they can live with themselves by allowing Coca Cola as a customer. Any idea how much damage sugar does? Chef is contributing to the obesity epidemic and Coca Cola costs more lives than ICE.
Ask HN: Would you consider using a decentralized cloud storage for your apps?
I'm Working on a decentralized cloud built on EOS Blockchain. Wanted to ask the HN community, would you consider using one over AWS S3/google cloud?
What would make you move? Security, Privacy, Price, Transparency, speed, or none?
Besides that you can get equivalent machines at a lower price, as some comments here have shown, the other big problem with the Mac Pro is, that there is no other true desktop machine available from Apple, e.g. accessible components, supporting a graphics card. In the past, the Mac Pro would work as a slightly oversized deskop machine. But the new Mac Pro is priced completely out of that region, basically twice of what its predecessor cost. And I remember the times, when the entry level G5 PowerMac was slightly cheaper as the G5 iMac, the latter of course having a 20 inch lcd.
That's just not true (source: worked for a bankrupt European company once)
Widespread fraud in the generic drug industry
Haven’t seen that massive NYT report show up here

It blamed pilot error
Netflix – Evolving Regional Evacuation
This is good for security especially in light of the super micro incident with China.
Well according to the current climate change crisis, that's one less airliner heating up the planet. This sacrifice is perhaps a benefit to saving the planet anyway.

Fantastic news for climate change activists I suppose.
Another way to say this would be "Listened to employees and customers."

As for the "outrage under previous administrations", previous administrations weren't perceived to be actively malicious towards immigrants.
Gosh, I can't imagine why limiting the amount one can charge for housing would be in any way related to the lack of housing that you say is the real problem.
If you're curious why antibiotics are seen as necessary by farmers - I found an insightful Quora answer about US practices:

"The antibiotic, not antibiotics, in question is monesin sodium, also known originally by the trade-name Rumensin. It is an anti-biotic in the truest sense- it changes the living conditions for gut flora of a ruminant animal in such a way as to promote the growth of bacteria that produce proprionic acid, and making it less favorable for other microorganisms such as those that cause coccidiosis or inefficient digestion that results in methane gas.

So yes, it's an ionophoric activity. It kills off some stomach bugs by changing the environment inside the cow, promotes others, and makes the animal healthier and more efficient as a result.

Yes, there are other antibiotics fed at times, as prophylactics against respiratory disease disease during severe weather or shipment, but it is illegal to sell animals containing residues, and those additives are expensive.

It's not a surreal concentration-camp factory-farm shoving pills into cows so they roid-rage and turn into bloated meat-sacks, it's a finely tuned process of optimizing cow health and efficiency to get the most out of inputs and the best results. Which in turn means more profit for the farmer. Strange as it may seem, when your livelihood comes from livestock, you put a lot of attention, science, and technology into making sure they are as healthy and happy as possible, so they make you the most money when sale time comes."

https://www.quora.com/How-do-antibiotics-cause-farm-animals-...
At some point, your manufacturing partners in China are going to realize they control the means of production and can capture the added value by developing their own front office to market and sell the goods they already manufacture.

At what point do places like Dell become just licensing operations?
Protectionism in other words?
It's not that it's an unpopular opinion; "hurr, everyone (except me) is dumb, lol" is extremely popular.

But it isn't a good, useful, insightful comment.
What country? If it's the USA, you have either the OCC or straight up the FBI to rectify it.
Companies Are Using a Depression-Era Law to Escape Trump’s Tariffs
Rental Property Excel Spreadsheet
To add to this: if the immune system would just check that the cell is human then every invader would just evolve to pass that check. The only viable way to defend is to mark the cells as belonging to this specific human. That way even if some bacteria evolves to trick my immune system it's unlikely to also trick yours, and the infection can't spread.
> Major overturn events,or a proliferation of Large Igneous Provinces over millions of years could have turned Venus’ once stable temperate climate into the CO2dominated hot house of today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_igneous_province
free military
> they're about preventing competing products.

The purpose of a business is to make money. Crushing the competition helps.
Nestlé launches made-to-order luxury KitKats for £14 a bar
Discussed 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21022491
blah blah . why should i read the rest of this. it contains jewels like this:

> had Hillary Clinton been elected, as most people expected, it’s unlikely that social-media founders would now have as much reason to reckon with what they’ve wrought

who's most people? It's sad to see people die on hills but sometimes they bring it upon themselves.
Rats and humans might be the only un-farmed species left on Earth, but that's OK because the economy will be 5X - 10% the size in a hundred years.
I'm no expert, but I do know that in Indianapolis we've had many housing developments in the downtown area that have a requirement for a certain percentage of units to be rented below market rate.

You have to apply to rent those units, and you must meet the income requirements, in that you can't make above a certain threshold if income. (Not sure what other factors are taken into consideration.)

To me, this seems like somewhat of middle ground between being 100% market-driven vs. full-on rent control.
Even better: it's not actually taxpayer money. The repatriation is funded by a mandatory £2.50 surcharge on all package holiday bookings that's been in place since 1973. https://www.caa.co.uk/ATOL-protection/Consumers/About-ATOL/
I agree, and I've written a bunch of stuff in Dercuano about this problem, notes/real-time-windowing.html and notes/wercam-scriptable-windows.html for example. I'm interested to hear what approaches you think are likely to help with the problem.

The current version of Dercuano, in the unlikely chance that you want to read my incomplete and unedited notebook, is in http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano-20190915.tar.gz.
> That you're still not reading.

Projection. Read that paragraph you quoted, specifically the words "in the moment". Nobody is arguing that Stallman didn't deduce she might have been coerced. His whole excuse is that Minsky wouldn't have been able to tell that in the moment, even though he was on f'ing sex trafficking island.

That a 17 year old offering to sleep with a 74 year old man on a billionaire's sex island was a victim of trafficking is not something that takes any bit of thoughtful reflection to figure out! It can be done in the moment by anyone with a conscience.

> He didn't excuse him.

Yes he did. "The 74 year old man might have thought the 17 year old on sex trafficking island was willing" is an excuse of the most disgusting type. Now you're making excuses for the excuser.

> Some people do not like RMS, but hate lies more.

You have proven no lies in my bulleted list.
If they had skipped all of the custom interface design and simply shipped a standard Linux desktop, maybe with a custom launcher and a few custom educational apps, they could have saved years of development time and put the devices in front of students much sooner.
> Narrative violation!

That's an interesting term. I hadn't heard it before. All worldviews rely on a narrative of sorts. "Things were bad, X came along and provided a new way. But Y and Z are still problems. Here's where it's all destined to go. You can join and be a part of that."
This may be of interest, basically the same sentiment: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
I'm sure everyone outside the US is now thinking "why couldn't they make it in China and sell it for 20% less?" :)
FYI, I bought the book and read it due to your HN comments. Thank you for making me aware of it.
Yes, I actually had planned to buy a new Mac Pro if it had been similar in price to your 2008 Mac Pro. I am currently using a 27 inch iMac and am looking for a desktop machine with a decent GPU and decent internal storage. So at 3k for a Mac Pro plus some money for upgrades, I could have grudgingly justified. At 6k it is just way too expensive.
You can look at it the other way: you need physicians and nurses, and because you have no alternative they fleece you by any means possible, and the rule of law doesn't apply to them.

A couple of years ago I fell for the high-complexity drug testing scam at the intake visit. It goes like this: you pee in a jar, and they send it to an out-of-network lab. A few weeks later the 4.5 kUSD bill arrives, which isn't covered by insurance. Everyone denies responsibility: the physician says you gave us the sample, the insurance says out-of-network, and the lab says services rendered. The charges eventually went away, after several afternoons on the phone.

Civil society offers no solution. It's no surprise that people give way to their anger. There isn't even a contradiction.
Who is posting these articles? Landlords? Rent is the most exploitative arrangement in the economy. There is a landed class, an aspiring class, and a class that is purely exploited. Everyone needs a place to live and it should be provided for free or at cost. The market is destructive and benefits the few at the expense of the many.
I'm an "autodidact" programmer so I feel like I should discount myself as an outlier in this discussion, but I'm amazed to see my kids just spending time on their computers at age 4-5. They are learning really complex problem solving in Minecraft, learning to sound out words when searching the inventory for items, and learning a little geometry when trying to predict the right coordinates to teleport to. They learn fluent English with an advanced vocabulary automatically too. I love to watch it and it reminds me of how I engaged with computers as a kid too.

They learn all this stuff independently on YouTube tutorials. I just join in their games and play along and ask for help when I get stuck. Or help them with sysadmin tasks like installing the "mods" they want to try.

So I feel like my kids are living the dream and engaging with computers in a positive way, regardless of whether it improves their grades in school, and to me the purpose of OLPC was to spread this self-directed play-learning opportunity much more widely.

Isn't everybody a bit of an autodidact in the age of YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and forums?
I agree with you. He was 100% correct. And that's why the company is top in valuation.

And I love to develop on Microsoft. Best toolset around. I use C#/F#/C++ on Windows 10
"This man murdered someone!"

"Thanks for letting us know! As soon as prosecutors bring and successfully convict them, we'll be sure to remove them from our platform."
That's harsh. Once you're dug into a conf mgmt system it's hard to dig yourself out.

I've never used Chef myself but I have noticed some message board posts lately claiming it's dead in the water and Ansible is the victor.

I've used Ansible since it came out, came straight from Puppet, so I'm biased. But I don't care what you use, as long as it works.
Repatriation is paid for by the travel industry, the government have nothing to do with it
Not answering your question but here's a funny story from my past:

Once i got a job at IBM (as a consultant) and they told me i had to structure it via "agency". IBM was willing to pay premium on top of my rate to make all legal paperwork to come through easier.

So i had to call "lucky" agency myself.

I called first one I knew - but the agent there had a bad habit of ignoring my calls. He ignored me again.

Then i called another agency and they happily agreed to make paperwork happen.

I conservatively estimate the loss of the first guy's agency was about $170,000 in do-nothing fees due to ignorance.
Thinking fast is determined by useful abstractions, not raw processing power
- A collapsible kettle for drinking tea when I'm traveling. I have to travel several days every week and I can't drink tea from those hotel machines because they have coffee residue and tea tastes bad. I drink A LOT of tea so a good investment.

- Mechanical Keyboard

- Ergonomic Mouse

- A decent pair of headphones. If you enjoy listening music or watching shows using headphones, a good set can make a big difference.

- Two monitor setup for working/wasting time on my computer. Improves posture and it's more comfortable that using just one monitor+laptop since they probably are different size/resolution.

- A big water bottle. I wasn't drinking enough water and always forgot to drink more. So now I just fill up my bottle every morning and take it with me to work.

- This book: "The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living". A ton of good short lessons on how to live.
I recently listened to this podcast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051174
It is about widespread fraud in the drug industry. During the interview it was mentioned that some people are seeing organ failure due getting fraudulent drugs from abroad. It is possible that this is not what happened in this case, but it seems plausible.
To anyone who has the time, listen to this podcast. It was really educational and scary, pharmaceuticals fraud is no joke.

*The interview discusses the material in Katherine Eban's book Bottle of Lies.
It's an impressive human accomplishment, but that doesn't mean it made the world better.

I think the world may have been better for a little while, during the era of the chronological timeline (maybe not), but facebook has devolved into a surveillance machine feeding us echo chambers.

I think "more connected" is a hard sell and "better" is false.
RMS and the FSF oppose any proprietary software, and refuse to use it. From a practical point of view, this means having to block javascript by default and at best whitelist it just on sites that are known to use only Free Software on their website. Furthermore, since that browsers and web standards don't provide an automated way to check javascript license before execution, and a site can change what javascript they use at any time (on every page load even), some Free Software advocates find it safer and easier to abstain from any javascript at all.

Payment processing software like Taler is most useful when integrated/embedded in as many websites as possible, including sites that use proprietary javascript. Even if the Taler implementation used only javascript with a Free license, using it on that site would require enabling both Free and non-Free javascript. Thus it would be preferable to Free Software advocates if Taler implementations were written to work without requiring javascript.
Ugly car that looks more like a Honda Fit than a Golf.
They probably anticipated it to the penny.
> How much would taxes have to go up (because spending can't go down, right?) for citizens to contribute their fair share of paying down the debt?

this seems like a weird statement. what is "fair share"? i am a middle class person with a job with fantastic benefits, yet i easily pay over 30% in taxes (probably closer to 40% if one really counts all the "hidden" taxes) and still have to put up with shit infrastructure, terrible public transportation, expensive non-public transportation, expensive insurance, etc. at what point is it considered that i and others are paying our "fair share"?
I don't disagree. My comment was related to the notion of 'oh you can't just build things here' premise that I responded to.
IBM Ready to Team Up with Facebook for Blockchain Development
It means he's an easy mark, and doesn't think things through. I lost any respect I had for him after that, and so did everyone else in the circles I associate with.
Wow, harsh. If we had that in the US, half of California would be without electricity and heating fuel for months, given the current state of PG&E.
> And for others, they should have an easy universal opt-out (e.g. disabling all Google Analytics tracking without having to install a Google browser extension

Problem with that is you'd require installing yet another cookie, which is another data point to fingerprint people.
I think it's tenuous at best to assume an airline closing will result in less total air travel.
Only if you assume that Thomas Cook customers will not just switch to one of the very many other oversubsidized airlines for their travel consumption.
Isn't chef open source? This just means that ICE will hire a few people to maintain their build pipeline rather than outsourcing it to a third party.
> The Raspberry Pi Zero has better compute specs than the original OLPC did for $5. I wonder what kind of "laptop" could be assembled for a BOM of say...$35?

It'd be hard to get a usable display, keyboard, battery, and power supply at that price point. The Pi Zero neatly bypasses all four of these issues by having the user provide their own. :)
Carbon emitted as a result of manufacturing should count toward the destination country, not the production country.

China supplies the world a lot of goods. It doesn't seem appropriate to put the onus on China when the end result of that production run brings all that stuff over to another country.
... logic doesn’t work like that. There is no «my logic» and «your logic,» if «your logic» differs from actual logic, then your logic is flawed.
Still no exhaustiveness checking like a true match expression unfortunately, which is what would give it parity against the traditional subclass/polymorphic approach.
“Will the user hit ^D in time?” is some kind of movie-inspired imitation of security. If I can't trust that computer while I'm not logged in, I shouldn't trust it any more when I am. Encryption keys should be opaquely held by processes as capability tokens.