skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an absolute tragedy. Well done to Iran for coming forward, admitting it and expressing their regrets over it. It's a stark cry from the utter denial others have expressed when similar accidents have happened, and astronomically further than when George H. W. Bush proclaimed "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy." when the Navy shot down Iran Air flight 655 in '88.

This coming forward will save the families and nations involved time and effort, and hopefully bring closure all the more quickly for them.
"Because that's the way nuclear deterrent theory works."

The theory is that the US has committed to blowing up...Japan, say...if North Korea should succeed in missiling San Francisco?
I was not impressed by the i432 architecture. Like the Multibus, it seemed to be trying to be very fancy, but with no elegance or taste. The result was an architecture that... um... might possibly have worked. It's still an ugly, tasteless architecture, though.
Given the amount of advertising most of these companies (especially Casper) they're hardly no-name.
Always counterclockwise: Neolithic house orientation puzzle finally solved
I’ll add to the list: doctor-patient, lawyer-client, judge-lawyer, judge-litigant, social worker-charge, police-detainee, prison guard-prisoner, etc., even in contexts where there is no actual coercion. There is more to relationship ethics than consent. You have to consider the ethics in the context of the other relationships between the parties. Lawyers engaging in relationships with their clients is in fact an ethical violation, regardless of consent, because of the possibility of or appearance of abusing the lawyer-client relationship. Relationships necessarily also affect third parties (other partners, coworkers, etc.) Those effects must be considered too. People owe each other (not just partners, but third parties) more than just not committing rape.
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This is not a BBC link (British Broadcasting Corporation). It is from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
People shoot down civilian airliners "all the time". Nobody shoots down all the airliners in the world.

If you destroy the world after being nuked, that is strictly worse than not destroying the world after being nuked, so nobody would do it. Since nobody would do it, and that is obvious, there is no such thing as holding the world hostage as a deterrent. If you maintain that some person or group is insane enough to destroy the world, there still can be no deterrent because you can't expect insane people to behave according to logic or plan.
“A senior administration official said Friday that he thought the Iranians wanted American investigators there to keep up the appearance that they did not know what had caused the crash.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/missile-...
I have a hard time thinking there's a problem here. I mean, if three beers a night will kill a person in the long run then the authorities need to be clear about that. It seems like that guideline is more due to the fact that alcohol is dangerous in excess -- excess meaning drunk -- and also addictive, which feeds into the danger, in excess.

I go months at a time without drinking, and generally stay between 2-4 drinks when I do, but as soon as I hit that 4th I want to keep going and have a hard time stopping. If I were to follow your program of 20 units per week it wouldn't be long before there would be trouble. That's problematic, IMO.

18 years without being drunk? You've got the best of both worlds.
All of my banks and financial services do.
Is this a snail mail phishing attempt?
MSFT Outsourced Skype, Cortana Voice Analysis to China with No Security in Place
Economically, that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

If a business pays employees more than the market rate, it will be less profitable and thus more likely to fail. If a business pays employees less than the market rate, it will lose employees to competitors and it is thus more likely to fail.

Also, to say that "men decided" is pretty strange. It suggests a conspiracy, and it suggests that there are no women who could start companies or otherwise be in management.
He knows that whoever got to Jupiter first would make the next jump in evolution

Hmm.. I've never made this connection any time I've watched the film. It's plausible, but is there any concrete support for it?
If you’re expecting a lion to jump out of the bushes and you see the bushes rustling, do you wait to make sure or do you run?

Of course you run.

And don’t forget there is a long history of using civilian craft to sneak military things in and out of warzones. Even using hospital ships to transfer munitions.
I would. Magic implies that I do not understand it. If something goes wrong with magic you are fucked.
No this isn't well done.

It took them three days to say this. How did it take them three days to realize they shot a missile? Especially since they had a denial campaign going on for three goddamn days.

This was just external pressure on Iran forcing them to do this. If this flight wasn't an international one it would've been swept under the rug.
About 5 years ago I bought a $400 mattress on Amazon. Came in shrink wrap and has been in my bed since then. It has been perfect in every way. I don't understand why anyone would spend more than twice that amount.
Modern warheads are smaller, not larger - everybody knows that. And what "sophisticated" means is better targeting, which is why smaller weapons can be used. Those things seem to point away from blowing up the entire world. I don't know if it's true, but there was a rumor that if one wanted to, it would be technically feasible to make a hydrogen bomb of unlimited size - e.g. crack the planet in half. However, that path was not taken.
Uber can do upfront pricing if they accept that their drivers are employees and pay them by the hour. Eventually, they'll be forced to do this in California.
> extremely liberal RoE

For anyone unfamiliar with the term, "RoE" stands for "Rules of Engagement".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_engagement
I get:
Bad configuration: not a valid key: enter

When I put enter as a key in place of F2.
Cyborg Lobster
Good luck finding a counterparty that won't ask for a no shop clause. As a VC all our term sheets have legally binding no shop and confidentiality clauses. That's industry standard.
The poster you're responding to pointed out that on average, after children, men spend more time at their jobs than women.

It would seem to go without saying that implies all the top performers are going to be men, and if the system is performance based, that means the promotions will tend towards the men.
If they didn't they would've lost any support they had left in the world.

They would be left alone against the US. They had to.

Iran did the right thing after realizing the thing they wanted to do was too costly.
Places that were burned off in hazard reduction burns a few months ago are burning again. Forest management meant nothing to this fire, it was consuming stuff that was already burned. Blackened dead trees were erupting into flame. The dirt was on fire. There’s no managing around that.

What our head fire fighters were saying was simply that they needed more money for equipment and training more volunteers.
Ask HN: What do you use to protect your Linux box from malware?
After seeing the (Dutch) documentary 'Rats & Slaves' [0] about Remote Access Trojans, and finding that they also exist for Linux [1] I am going to do some scanning today on my systems.

Question is: What tools are best to use here to ensure I can sleep safely knowing no viruses, trojans, rootkits and other filth have nestled in my systems?

Also curious what are best, reliable websites to keep up-to-date on security best-practices related to this.

PS. I intend to start my scan with ClamAV, followed by chkrootkit and rkhunter as outlined here [2].

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=BGsw_l0tT10

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lazarus-hackers-target-linux-windows-with-new-dacls-malware/

[2] https://www.linux.com/tutorials/security-tools-check-viruses-and-malware-linux/
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"a status symbol competition"

Real housewives of x city...??? I just don't get it! I feel autistic.
You can really see how far we have fallen when this type of stuff turns people on, and not only does it make a buck but so much more.

How is it that people don't see the narcissism and immorality that is portrayed and profited off of.

I mean, how can someone like teresa and joe giudice get caught doing things with loan applications and financial fraud that lead to our(usa) economic implosion, yet they still have a viewership and profit off of this.

Sorry to rant but I have to.
I have a therory and would like opinions. In a semi-perfect economic system all actors trying to start and run a business would play by the rules.
In the system today we know people are not perfect. Some are flawed and make decisions they know are illegal because of the situation their companies are in. Others just want to be on top and will do what they can as long as the scales will tip in their favor in the end, ie fines are less than profit.

As the number of people increase and the market increases the number of actors who are willingly doing these actions becomes more and more. In the end the only ones on the top, the only ones with money, are the ones who are willing to take calculated risk that include breaking the law and the morals of the society they live in.

I claim we live in a time where the vast majority of those in power and those with money have gotten there by the use of illegal means.

If you look at the bush family their great grandfather ran drugs into china illegally. A lot of beer and hard liqueur companies started out during or continued during prohibition. Walmarts own Sam walton under paid employees and then when the feds said he had to pay them he threatened that any one that cashed the check would be fired.

They say with that the milk cream rises to the top, and that is true for a certain amount of time.
If you wait longer it is the stench of rot and decay the comes to the top.
A stable system will always be over taken by rule breakers, hacker, criminals, an immoralist.
There's a pretty good short documentary about the USS Vincennes accidental shooting down of an Iranian commercial flight in 1988. Notably, it discusses the psychological phenomenon of "scenario fulfillment" that allegedly contributed to the disaster.

I'll leave it to more informed commenters here to discuss whether or not such a thing actually exists. But regardless, it's an interesting watch.

https://youtu.be/lRJnumxuHwY

And before someone pounces, I'm not bringing this incident up due to any ideological "anti-US" agenda or some such silliness. I just think the doc is interesting, relevant, and worthy of discussion.
I don't get this at all
It’s not reported but Reif’s job was also under review, though it appears to me that he survived.
She's got the same kind of name tag on as the guy to her right. I'd guess that they are both attendees of the conference that was going on at the neighboring island.

That could well be her "I'm a theoretical physicist presenting at an important conference, and the only reason that news photographer is including me in the photo is because I'm sitting at the same table as Stephen Hawking" look.
When I cut back on my drinking I tried the weed substitute (I live where where its legal, and could experiment with strains) but never found anything that was "fun". Interesting, yes, but not a substitute. I know plenty of folks who vastly prefer it to alcohol, though, which I think is great.
Problem with a government photo ID, There's no way to verify its authentic besides a visual inspection. I consider them as secure as SMS 2FA. For $200 and someone could get passable ID with your name on it.
I don't really understand. It sounds great that the drivers would have enough information to decide whether to take a ride or not, but what does this have to do with stopping upfront pricing? In my ideal world, the driver knows everything about the proposed ride, and the rider knows the exact cost of it. Why is that not possible?
Mattresses are so notoriously shady that one popular new brand in Germany is literally marketed as the "anti-cartel mattress". Of course, the top Amazon reviews are full of people calling it a scam. (I have one and it's, well, tolerable.)
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The conversation did not shift, both started from the opposite end and did not move, there were no conversation to begin with.

And this is why we have the schism in our society. No one is willing to find the middle ground and listen any more. Everyone simultaneously believes that listening is others responsibility.
I've had a lot of luck with Voip.ms as a provider for short-codes. Their wiki states that they cannot guarantee they work (which I take no surprise in), but I don't recall having one fail since they rolled it out. I've used it for Signal, Whatsapp, and more that I'm sure I've forgotten. Even better, SMS is forwarded to email - available from my desktop or phone.
Even if it was external pressure, we’re still waiting for Russia to say the same. Iran actually did.
> Or did you start off with that and they'd continue to pressure you?

I'm not an alcoholic myself, but I drink _very_ rarely so I'm often in a similar boat.

If you say "I'm not drinking" or "I don't drink" a very common follow up question is: "oh? why?"

For me, I've always been able to shrug my shoulders and say: "I dunno, just never felt like it". But I could _very_ easily see a recovering alcoholic feeling like they're in a very awkward position once that question comes up.

The last 20 seconds or so of this clip of Jim Gaffigan rings pretty true to me: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fq3bvp/comedy-central-presents...
Oh I agree. I'm just saying there never seemed to be an organized or vigorous campaign of denial. The government was denying it while at the same time, the aviation authority seemed to be signalling that it welcomed international assistance.

>They would be left alone against the US. They had to.

That didn't deter the Russians in Ukraine. They still tried to cover it up. Badly.
...consider that Nevada has been nuked (I just looked it up) a hundred times - and that's just above ground testing.
> Also, to say that "men decided" is pretty strange.

man-haters are allowed to post on HN.
Europe depends on Russian gas or they freeze so not really an equal comparison.
There's a lot of misconceptions here around how corporate acquisitions work. Here's typically how things work in practice when companies are sold:

- Seller attempts to garner interest, sometimes facilitated by an investment bank.

- Buyers indicate interest informally, eventually culminating in a Letter of Intent (LOI) from each buyer indicating a price and other important factors related to a deal.

- A cricitical component of the LOI is an exclusivity period - a duration of time where the buyer is able to conduct due diligence in exclusivity. It's clearly in the best interest of the seller to minimize the duration of the exclusivity period.

- Discoveries in the exclusivity period are typically grounds for renegotiation. Vulture buyers typically crush sellers and completely renegotiate a deal in this period banking on the fact that the seller has no alternatives post exclusivity. Good buyers know their reputation is at stake if they renegotiate an LOI and will only do so if material things show up in diligence (reasonably common).

- The LOI is not an obligation to purchase. Mostly the buyer is putting their reputation on the line.

- Earnest money is extremely rare in corporate acquisitions because the buyer universe is sufficiently small such that reputation is a sufficient motivator for good behavior. That said, anything is negotiable and you can go against tradition at any point if you have enough leverage (interested buyers).
Not like throwing stones will have any effect at this point. Iran is already pretty well covered in them.
This is really insightful. It aligns nicely with the point Peter Thiel makes that the key to being a successful startup is believing something that is true that others do not. Usually the thing you believe that is true is about something that is going to change, but you probably don't know exactly when.

So I'd argue your point extends his thesis that the key to success is "believe something that is true that others do not, and survive until it manifests into an opportunity."
Even Mattermost doesn't offer free accounts to open source projects[1], and I think it's the _hosting_ that keeps projects off of almost any of the open source solutions. But one of the principals of Zulip almost always weighs in on discussions to point out that they have free hosting for any open source project that wants to use it: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulip... and seem to even offer "import from slack" to make it less painful to switch.

1 = https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ asks for a $390 "setup fee" and only for 1,000 users
We've heard this many times when people hear we have deep focus scheduled: "You'd better respond or you'll lose customers". But we use teams. The team responds. There's always many more than one person on-call and/or available to respond. If one person is unavailable we have others from the team able to step in.

An outage that can only be resolved using a single hero individual that must always be available to swoop in to save the day means there was no team backing them up. That seems less effective: It means no one is really taking leave. No one is taking real breaks. No one is doing real handovers either on a regular basis.

The "no real handovers" aspect means that the current state of each system isn't being checkpointed. We see that as a business risk. Not unlike what source code control protects against. Imagine you didn't commit code into git or similar for awhile. Still feel safe about rolling back changes? How are you going to roll changes back? Its a similar thing in people. If you don't do any handovers then stuff stays in one individual's head.

Your situation might be different. That's fine.
Meanwhile Iran also killed 1500 people a few weeks ago and there's been no news about that.

Iran was pushed to do this by the international community. Russia doesn't give a shit. Europe depends on Russia, so the consequences for Russia weren't a big deal.
I'd assume the odds of a country shooting down an aircraft that took off from their own airport ought to be pretty low as well.
I believe that already happens in NYC rideshare, and if Lorena Gonzalez or her ilk keeps it up, you will surely be treated to such glory in California too. All hail Dear Leader Lorena Gonzalez and her infinite wisdom!
I think the B83 (1.2 megatons) is the highest yield weapon currently in the US arsenal.

Which, while terrible (9 megatons ~= pressure wave that levels most structures in a largish city), pales in comparison to something like the B41 (25 megatons) or the B53 (9 megatons).

Generally speaking, the US and Russia both realized (~70s) that building excessively large bombs was inflexible and a waste of resources.

The actual first-order effects are generally smaller than what you'd expect: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
there is pretty strong evidence that moderate drinking is beneficial, It isn't just one study, it's multiple studies done over many years in multiple countries.

https://www.insider.com/drinking-health-benefits-heart-nutri...
It didn't. I assume it took them three days to decide whether or not they could establish plausible deniability.

Then the cell phone video of the second missile hitting the plane came out. It's easy to own up to mistakes when your hand is forced.
It is totally unreasonable to go around commenting on third parties giving off creepy vibes of no consequence based on no evidence. Not to be too personal because a comment isn't the measure of a commentator but kcanini is basically saying nothing with as much negative allusion as can be put into a comment. It is a comment with no consequences, no relevant context, no observations and no argument.

Gut feelings are often surprisingly accurate, sometimes we all pick things up a lot earlier than our consciousness cottons on. But that is no standard to hold in public discourse. There are a bunch of people who give off creepy vibes who are great and a bunch of people who give off positive vibes who are creepy. Binning people like that should ideally be done with evidence or at the very least an argument to give the comment some substance.

We've figured out that good looking people are not more upstanding than ugly people. Truly the next step is to avoid comments like that. Truth is no defence for a comment like that; a comment that says nothing is automatically truthful but also meaningless.
Unfortunately, the problem with your analysis is that your view only makes sense if seen in isolation.

A lot of us are evaluating the entire picture, based in large part on the track record of Facebook over the last 10+ years.

For example, everyone who takes a look at the "friendly fraud" [1] case comes away thinking "Boy, these Facebook employees will stop at nothing to make a buck". Now layer that on top of whatever came out during the CA scandal, and now you can see that the issue is Facebook employees are actually acting like a cult.

And by the way, nothing has changed. You can see this in how every time someone from Facebook does any PR at all (e.g. podcast interviews), they take a lot of care to make sure they don't go on podcasts which bring up the privacy issue.

Here is an open challenge to any Facebook employee who is reading this comment - go on an interview with a known "hostile" who is also not considered an idiot conspiracy theorist - e.g. DHH - and have them interview you. You know that you would never even consider doing it, because you do have a lot of shitty things still going on at Facebook that you wouldn't want to later contradict.

By the way, the same challenge applies to folks working at Google.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/facebook-friendly-fr...