skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did not test-run the code change against a database of the names of previous fliers?

Because if the change reduced some passengers to "can't be booked" I think that should raise some flags.
something similar from the same blog about a malicious raspberry pi in a network closet and in the end the person who put it there was found out because their wifi credentials were still in the Pi

https://blog.haschek.at/2019/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-i...
Sure, presence of a non-zero effect, regardless of its size, can be theoretically interesting. Relativistic effects are often small, but they’re critical support for the theory of relativity. I’m not sure there’s an overarching theory here, but if you want to make that argument, be my guest.

On the other hand, the article has obvious policy implications, and those ought to depend, critically, on the size of the effect. If marathons are, in fact, massively risky, then maybe we should have them far, far away from hospitals. If the risk bops around a lot, and having a marathon shifts it from “quiet Sunday morning” to “run of the mill Tuesday” then no one needs to do anything.
Jesus, reading that was completely horrific. It's total software gore and terrible practices, in critical car systems..

Accountability and proper practices just go out the window when dealing with invisible code, I guess. It's 2019 and we're still dealing with things like storing passwords in plaintext or overusing global variables. Sometimes I wonder what's the point of even being a programmer?
I don't care what it does recommend, the general impression from reading this Proust-long wall of text is that esr is kind of an ass. The intent of a message is only vaguely related to its content which is only vaguely related to the effect it has on its recipient. I can only speculate what esr's intent were, I get the abstract message 'be gentle', but the general impression is that everything screams 'if you toe out of line people are right to be rude to you even if I said they shouldn't'. You can fool people with words but the general vibe of a text can't help but transpire.
Most of these look exceptionally boring. If you want the good stuff in the wikivandalism genre, you want Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things
Use disposable virtual machine to isolate the damage, while dumping the script, this way we can detect attack without compromising ourself.
There's still a big difference between "politics sometimes affects academia" and "everything we know is a lie."
A crunch type culture and pushing can also create the issues seen in these problem projects. In fact I personally believe this is why more software and products are bad today, the product professionals are being overridden by marketing/finance and exact dates to meet some marketing goal not a good product goal.

Product people and engineers know how to manage time probably better than business because they are doing the work.

If something fails because it doesn't meet the market there are numerous reasons for that besides not hitting the date.

A good product, that hits the date, can still fail due to market timing or market movement and many other things. Whether a project is launched at a certain date has little bearing on the success of that project long term, short term it might meet marketing and financial quarterly goals, but long term success is always better when it is a good product, and for it to be a good product the people that make products and create value should determine or at least have some say when it is complete and ready.
Are you sure it's not organized crime running the robocsll schemes?
Yeah you're right. Problem is illegal vape carts added these kinds of oils to make the product thicker. The problem has always been illegal THC vape carts causing injuries and deaths and not their legal counterparts.
I thought your terrible comment meant I was on reddit.
Names are associated with roles, not with persons. This is particularly true for prefix and suffixes. Mayor Lyndon Smersh and Lyndon Smersh, Esq. are different roles as politician and lawyer of the underlying person Lyndon Smersh. Many women also have multiple names, e.g. a married name used socially and their original name used professionally.

When dealing with persons, it's necessary not to confuse their roles.
Hm, guess that would be the pro/con with us not being able to easily set up virtual numbers here. But otoh I wonder why the UK doesn’t seem to suffer in the same way. Same lack of easy virtual numbers?
Heck, it’s possible that urban marathons, by promoting fitness (etc), have a net positive effect on health despite this.
> BMI <25 mg/kg²

can someone parse those units? BMI is usually presented as kg/m^2

edit - it's just a typo, the rest of the paper uses the right units
Death to the Space Infidels (Tabs vs. Spaces)
"Narcissists weaken collaboration and integrity." works as a more general title, I suspect.
Some studies on, for example, depression suggest that favoring good oils (olive oil, Mediterranean diet) reduces brain inflammation.

You can do a search on such things. You will get a lot of search results that would bomb on HN ("mommy bloggers," Gwenyth Paltrow's Goop, other wellness resources), but there are actual studies on diet and inflammation that can be found as well.

Oils and alkaline diet/alkaline minerals (calcium, magnesium) are places you could start an internet search. A food journal can also be a useful tool.
So if I buy a $20 prepaid cell phone for cash and use it to robocall ten of my friends, they'd share $1000?
These single handedly are what keeps me in Firefox. So convenient at work where I often need to be logged into the same site with a few different accounts.
That’s absurd. Should someone walking around wearing a “Black lived matter” hat be banned as well because it’s potentially controversial?

When did it no longer be okay to express unpopular political views?

I find such reasoning absolutely ridiculous. Personally it brings me great sadness that the ideals of free speech - the ideals, not the legal meaning - have been so happily stomped on.
I'm also lucky, then.
On youtube is a person who shows how to mod [0] a cheap midi keyboard for use as a steno device and also has videos showing how the typing on the michaela-midi looks [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Y9jtOB7G0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfu-d93X2S4
People sometimes ask why there's so much discussion of Lisp on HN. It's because so many times when you scratch the paint off a trend, a language, or a prominent person in computer science you find Lisp right below the surface.

One of the founders of Ginkgo, Tom Knight, was one of the inventors of the Lisp Machine.
This is comparing the cost of building new power capacity in Germany to the cost of operating existing plants in France! You can't get any more spun than that.

That is, renewables are new technology and being built out rapidly. Nuclear capacity is 3-4 decades old and the build-out investment was recouped long ago. France absolutely cannot build new reactors 3x cheaper than Germany can put up equivalent windmills, and to argue that is absolutely laughable. This is a ridiculous article.
Most mutations are probably large scale chromosomal missegregation, etc where huge chunks get moved around or duplicated/deleted rather than just replacing/removing/adding a single nucleotide. From what I have read something like that happens about once every 10 divisions per cell line.

So I think that could be more difficult than you expect.
I am not sure that like counts mean anything anyway. If 10 people see a post that is 40% likeable and 40 people see a post that is 10% likeable, both will have the same like count. Since liking things is apparently what gets that thing in front of more people, all popularity ends up meaning is that the post had some early traction. It could be intrinsically likeable, it could be intrinsically engaging, or it could be a statistical anomaly.

I would be really interested to see what social media looked like if you could, say, only post once a day. Then there would be less need to filter things, and things would not be artificially put in front of you for you to like or dislike. You'd just have everything, but it would be manageable.

"Time on site" would probably decrease, though, so it will never happen. We need people to be on Instagram for 16 hours a day. It's crucial.
Additionally, at least in (GHC) Haskell, you can recover most of the flexibility typical of dynamic languages via use of undefined values, partial functions, the PartialTypeSignatures extension, and the defer-type-errors flag. Personally, I've found these tools to be very useful when prototyping, exploring/experimenting in a REPL, or beginning a refactor, and the process feels very akin to development without unit tests (or tests turned off/ignored/whatever), especially in the progression of incrementally adding back compile-time-checks and watching my mistakes surface.
> I remember saying truthful things in very shitty ways during my younger years

People prefer to be deceived than proven wrong.

That's why young people are often thought of as shitty, because they have far less sovrastructures.

The more people age the more they think that when they where young they were shitty and insecure, because they need to justify becoming conformists (they prefer to deceive themselves)
If we accept the premise that you don't listen to messages that are too mean, then there are two aspects to it:

The nicer you state your messages the more people will listen to you.

The meaner messages you can stomach the more information is accessible to you.

So we'd expect those who demand others to be nice to be less well informed than those who can tolerate mean communication. For example, a person who thinks their math teacher is mean when the teacher corrects them will probably never become great at math. I believe that this is an aspect of communication we need to talk way more about, since large parts of the population are currently handicapped like this.

I'm not sure if it is genetic, but if it can be taught then we ought to tell our kids to listen to everyone and not just what feels comfortable. Fill your kids heads with statements like "It was a bit mean, but he is right, you should really try to do FOO". People often have good reasons for being mean, they could be tired, hungry, depressed or just spoke without thinking, those are really bad reasons for not listening if the actual message is sound.
Being needlessly blunt is like throwing a grenade with a message attached. You can tell it's delivered when you hear the KABOOM, but you can't guarantee anything else.

In my experience, being kind has the advantage of reducing the probability of side-effects. There are typically no bonus points awarded for causing someone to get defensive, when your only goal was to correct their mistake.
Having spent years working at a startup, you can confidently divide any and all claims made in the article by a factor of at least 2, if not 10. Remember that you're reading the most generous interpretation of what _could_ _potentially_ happen at some point in the future, and aren't reading about the failures and things that did not pan out. It's basically concentrated confirmation bias maximally generously extrapolated into the future. Think Elon Musk and "full self driving" for a calibrated reference. TL;DR: when a startup CEO or founder says something, don't believe a single word until you can actually verify the claims.
> the term normally refers to functional correctness, i.e. that the program satisfies the specification, not that it doesn't have undefined behavior

A program that has undefined behaviour is not correct, unless the spec has undefined behaviour (why would it?).

> On that front, there seems to be no evidence, nor even hints, that either Haskell or Rust achieve better correctness (or the same correctness more cheaply).

I don't know what you mean by evidence, but Haskell has a stronger and more expressive type system than say Java, it doesn't have null pointers, it has referential transparency, and simpler, safer concurrency and parallelism builtins. The fact that you can make more general assumptions about pieces of code which you don't necessarily fully understand makes writing safer and correct code easier.

> But Rust's type system, and certainly Haskell's -- both interesting but very expressively "weak" type systems -- have not been found to be correlated with higher correctness.

Are you saying there have been studies that show Haskell's type system has not been correlated to higher correctness than say Java or Python, or are you saying you are unaware of any such studies? Also, Haskell's type system is certainly more expressive and strong than Java's or Python's.
23 people born in the same year with the same name.
Vitamin E doesn't give you cancer, the Vitamin E filler Acetate that cheap production was using to stretch supply is not good for your lungs and creates this sickness.

What is known to cause cancer is carcinogens and vaping does not combust like cigarettes so that is 20+ less carcinogens going into lungs.

Smoking isn't healthy, but smoking cigarettes is way less healthy and more damaging. Not only for cancer but for heart and circulatory issues. However people smoke all their lives, most of that damage is prevalent at the end.

People should have a Right to Body and there should be safety/health alerts like there are with smoking to let people decide on their own, bans and prohibitions only make the product people will use more dangerous and unsafe, as well as create cartels/mafias that make everyone unsafe.
Yep. If preparing the food requires a bachelors degree in food science, chemicals imported from China, and a home laboratory, then it's probably classified as "processed food".
Why Gen Z’s 'ok boomer' retort–and the responses to it–are so powerful
Could have been us — we have a "free PDF if you email me proof of purchase for print" policy for all our books[1,2,3]. Currently, I handle this manually via email, but I wish this was more automated somehow (e.g. shopping cart plugged into print-on-demand fulfillment API + digital delivery of eBook in all formats).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001005/noBSmathphys (high school math review, mechanics, and calculus)
[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001021/noBSLA (linear algebra)
[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/099200103X/noBSmath (high school math review)
I've now found the answer:

> Question: If MVIC is New Horizons' color camera, why is this image black-and-white?

> Answer: Either because only one channel was used to take this image, or because they have only received one channel's worth of data on the ground. To make a single color image, you have to downlink three photos, one each from three different channels; in other words, color images take three times as much data as black-and-white ones. As a matter of fact, New Horizons team member John Spencer has confirmed that only the panchromatic channel was used for this photo, because of the limited time and demands on the spacecraft during closest approach. If they were shooting in color, they wouldn't also be able to do as much with LORRI at the same time.

https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/091713...
I took the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Edinburgh recently. For two people, the pricing wasn't bad and I don't regret doing it. But it was a very small room and the common cafe space was very cramped as well. We're definitely not talking Agatha Christie Orient Express experience.

But, yeah, in general sleeper trains don't work other than for the experience. Just for kicks, I looked at traveling to Chicago from Boston by sleeper a couple years back instead of flying. Made absolutely no sense for me in terms of time and I couldn't have justified the expense to my company.

The concept of airship travel as presented in fiction looks really appealing. But it would probably cost $10K for a trans-Atlantic ticket. And if you have that kind of money to spend, and especially aren't really in a hurry, there are other attractive options.
Mean people make us stronger. I'm grateful to all the jerks I met in my life who built my character.
Just to kick this off with a spicy little argument "Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs"

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...
I got an Instagram account in 8th grade after seeing pretty much every single one in my middle school already had one (which was 3-4 years ago).

I left 1-2 years into using it as I was realizing how detrimental it was to see so many people going into absurd lengths to obfuscate their very normal lives.

Lately I've heard people getting "business" accounts, which initially seems absurd, but it seems like a lot of people are doing this to get more analytics about their accounts... which is very concerning.

Not sure how this will affect business accounts, but this will help some new people that come onto the platform initially I guess.

Do they still show following/follower counts? That should go next.
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> "Veganism is unhealthy," the issue is that it simply leaves no room in the conversation for the other person.

Smoking is unhealthy, there's no possible conversation.

It is, if you prefer to smoke, it's your choice, no amount of reasoning is gonna change that.

Disclaimer: I'm a smoker, a not very involved one, but still one.
Sure, but the exact same argument holds for regularly occurring traffic too.

My point is that I want to know whether the 0.7-6 fold increase in relative risk is occurring against a flat baseline or whether it’s just a blip riding atop giant fluctuations.
This is very interesting work! I am poking around CPython and Python bytecode to learn about compilation/VM/interpretation and I was thinking about writing cose directly in Python bytecode to play with.

The UI on top looks very handy!

Kudos
Ask HN: Why do you host your blog on Medium?
Is it just for discoverability, ease of use or something else?
In addition to coldtea's excellent list, there's a handful of modern novels that have always stood out for me over the past 30-40 years of reading:

The Testament of Gideon Mack: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/014102335X

Hard Boiled Wonderland: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099448785

Walking on Glass: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TXZTE8

The Ginger Man: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349108757

Perhaps not true cult classics, but they're often titles I've recommended or just buy for friends many times, and go back and re-read periodically.
I'd add the drug name (Trikafta) in the title, in case someone is wondering or try to search for it.
> But “veganism is unhealthy” is an opinion

No, it is not.
Data shows a surprising campus free speech problem
So you would let yourself be treated by a doctor that is open with wanting people like you to die? You want police that have stated they hate people like you? You'd trust a cleaner that despise you?

I will let you state your opinion, but you don't get to demand immunity from consequences.

Some opinions are genuinely indefensible.
https://rense.com/general96/the-epstein-funded-child-porn-hu... sounds like science fiction, but the circumstances around Aaron's death are suspicious enough that it warrants a read.
By the same token, tests and the “heavy costs” of testing round trips should also be considered resources.
Magnetic accessories might interfere with iPhone cameras
This brings up a good point:

If you remove likes, now Instagram can truly manipulate your feeds in any way they want (obviously if you want to scroll through how many people liked posts, that's one way to get around it, but very laborious).
> Nuclear plants can last 40-80+ years

French nuclear power plants will need >>$100 billion investments in the near future to keep them running.

Many of them will reach their projected life time in the coming 2020 decade. Let's see how France will replace them or keep them running. My bet is that they keep them running, because they have little chance to replace them in the 20-30 decade. For the French government, which owns most of the plants though EDF, the problem to replace them is greater than the perceived security problem.

If France would NOW start to plan (plan -> build -> operate) for additional nuclear plants, then it would take at least 15-20 years until a new one is operational.

(edit) France may want to decide in the early 20s about six new EPR 2 with 15 years construction time... Thus the current nuclear landscape has to be kept running until the end 30s.

> 80 nuclear reactors would now cost €1600 billion euros for Germany. This would still be cheaper than the estimated costs for the solar and wind buildout that is underway.

It's difficult to set up the renewable energy landscape in Germany, but it comes with decentralized lower-risk technologies. Stuff a less state-oriented economy can built. Germany by far has not a centralized state controlled economy like France. Thus the German Energiewende is also a way to decentralize energy production and to get away from a state controlled oligopoly for energy production - currently the electricity production is still largely controlled by four large companies which have their own regions.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_großen_Vier_(Energieversor...

For several years none of these big four companies has really invested in and supported the Energiewende - because they surely want to keep their monopoly in their region. Which is the opposite of an open market for energy production.

For 80 new nuclear power plants there is no space in a relatively densely populated country like Germany with a short coast.

The local acceptance in the population of new and large-scale nuclear is around zero. Null. Nothing. Every new nuclear will face much longer delays in court than any wind turbine ever will. Nuclear is a technology that's dead in Germany. If we look at the US, there hasn't been much progress on nuclear power plants either - even though the country is much larger, less dense populated AND has a need for nuclear technology in the military. Nuclear worked better in a centralized France which needs nuclear technology for its military or in more authoritarian countries like China where independent control does not exist.

> 80 nuclear reactors would now cost €1600 billion euros for Germany.

and would take >4 decades to be rolled out. By then Germany is 90% renewable for electricity production. But with a decentralized modern grid.

France is currently struggling to build ONE new nuclear power plant: Flamanville. A technical design of the early 90s. Four times more expensive than projected and going online maybe in 2023 - with a construction start from 2007. Largely state financed and state controlled.

http://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-warns-of-added-co...
Extrapolating from 700 mechanical Turk surveys to CEO behavior seems like quite the leap.
>Also, if there is one type of ship that is going to be replaced by airships, its going to be the cruise ship.

But modern cruise ships are huge and are largely oriented around providing tons of activities. In fact, as far as I know, there's only one ship that is more oriented around providing trans-Atlantic transportation (among other things and only for part of the year).
Seems like even in the most varied case there wouldn't be more than about three: full legal name, brief-but-formal name such as Mrs. Smith or Dr. Jones or Lawrence, and informal name such as Larry.
In what culture is that saving face?
I don’t think we can address the issue of the role of (any) technology without also factoring in the (multifaceted) issue of intent...
Rust is designed to replace C++.

That "ugly syntax" is the de facto standard in the industry. No one, comparatively, would use Rust if it went the Haskell/ML way.
Doesn't stop people from posting photos you don't want (even if the person posted it with good intentions), or from someone stealing your personal photos and posting them publicly, or things like revenge porn, which no one deserves.