skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summary:

- Grechushkin (Russian) was transporting ammonium nitrate from Georgia to Mozambique

- Grechushkin Ordered a last minute stop in Beirut to pick up additional cargo in the form of trucks, but the plan was abandoned when the first loaded truck almost broke the deck

- Lebanese officials then detained the ship for safety reasons

- Grechushkin declared bankruptcy and disappeared and the ship was impounded

- The ammonium nitrate was moved to a warehouse at the port and the ship eventually sank behind a breakwater, where its wreckage remains

- 4 years of complicated secrecy, corruption, shell companies, and “flags of convenience” involving Cypriot shipping magnate Manoli, the Portuguese illicit arms trafficking Vieira family, the Mozambique ruling elite, and Ukranian middle-man company Savaro, stymied solutions

- Lebanon then tried to offload the material to several organization including the Lebanese army and a local explosives manufacturer but they refused

- Lebanon then tried to return the cargo to Georgia but did not for unknown reasons

- On July 20, 2020, two weeks prior to the explosion, Lebanese security services warned the president that there were serious flaws with the storage of the ammonium nitrate

Then disaster.
> When addonpocalypse happened was the day Firefox started to die.

That was a devastating blow, but I still had hope in their statement that the Addon ecosystem will build up back again and most features will be implemented in WebExtensions. Unfortunately that doesn't really seem to be happening, not at any good pace anyway.

A lot of the newer "replacement" addons as still buggy af, don't have feature parity with what the XUL addons had years ago, and seem to be relatively poorly maintained. I remember the flurry of blog articles from really passionate and disappointed addon writers back then, leaving the scene, and it looks that did have an effect - most of the newer addons (the long tail ones, not the mainstream TST or uBlock type ones) are of lower quality or are by companies that are trying to hook you into their service using the addon as the bait. I've never seriously considered Brave before, but it looks like it's time to start looking into it.
> which could prevent the vast majority of other crime.

Could it?

California is one of the richest places on earth and has an incredibly progressive population.

So “we” have the desire and the money - and have for at least 20 years - and yet we have more violent crime than much poorer places.
No. Once all "blueprints" of a disease (its RNA or DNA) is gone it is gone.

In a worst case nature comes up with a similar one by mutating something similar, but then it is still a new thing.
yep absolutely and there is also the fact that its a list of VC backed (successful)startups we would need to see the failed ones at least. I would say sound development practices (code review, platform design, testing etc) is orders of magnitude more important.

Facebook started out using PHP and it was so bad they had to almost rewrite the language from scratch. PHP is now pretty decent and Facebook is doing pretty OK.
> Give them pros and cons so they can make a rational decision?

If that actually worked we wouldn't be having this conversation. People, particularly in large groups, use emotion, tribalism and ego protection over reason.

If reason and fact worked well to change minds, we wouldn't have idiots "rolling coal".
This is actually a valid use case of blockchain, where each edit is signed by an entity in cascading fashion.
Any dangerous material that is not stored or handled properly is immediately confiscated.
I don't know why this is downvoted. I think it would be pretty naive to think that Hezbollah or some other terrorist group in Lebanon wouldn't be massively excited to have a few thousand tons of the main ingredient of explosives fall in to their lap.
Salary. It’s much cheaper to outsource a “cost center” to a country where employees have passable proficiency in English and costs of living that are significantly lower...
Check out this "black hole" of shell companies.
(The Black Hole Business Model: The crash of Manx2 flight 7100) https://medium.com/@admiralcloudberg/the-black-hole-business...
I don't tend to visit too many communities that are "run", but am member in quite a few where it works without zero tolerance policies. They tend to be more peaceful and honest in my opinion. Maybe they require common ground, but it works somehow.
> and other laws

Most of the intelligence and terrorism laws that were set in place specifically target non-americans and international surveillance so I don't really get your point.
Oldest BSD
German government plans stricter controls for dog owners and breeders
http://www.c60design.co.uk/many-cats-take-heat-passive-house...

They just took this content here, inflated it a little bit with filler sentences and published it as an article.

"In summary then,
cats are expensive…
and wasteful."
Not really that silly. For example, IPv4 address space was initially mostly partitioned in huge blocks to couple institutions and companies without regard for the future.

The difference is that Credit Card numbers are much easier to manage. The routing tables for Credit Cards are distributed by Visa/Mastercard to acquirers in the form of BIN files and it is extremely easy to add arbitrary mapping. So if someone gets an unnecessarily large prefix like "1" then the next day you can change it easily to ten prefixes "10", "11", "12" and so on and have a different organization for each.
I was wondering about that too, especially since when investigating the state of the cargo they found out that already in 2015 "most of the one-ton bags containing the ammonium nitrate — approximately 1,900 — were ripped and had their contents spilling out". So some of it may have surely been stolen over the years, but not 1500-2000 tons...
> white people holding on to their money and power

That there is a racist statement. Yes maybe intergenerational wealth causes some issues but to cast it as a purely white issue is just stupid. Avarice is a feature common to all of humanity.
your ability to use the word "personal" in a sentence doesn't take away from the way they used it.

In fact it's a little weird. Personal in this sense clearly means 1:1. I doubt the commenter pepper sprayed themselves?
There is an attitude some programmers have that business outcomes are not their department/problem and they should focus on the tech.

They will (for instance) avoid certain tech stacks, regardless of how useful the software being written is (eg “I wouldn't work for Wikipedia, they use PHP”).

I suspect any tech stack that they refuse to work with is at a systematic advantage when it comes to producing useful work, because engineers who don’t want to think about fiscal outcomes can readily lead you to ruin.
coverage on Techrights too
http://techrights.org/2020/08/26/policy-substance/
This is part of a series that keeps happening in the Online Lisp Meetings that are held (bi?)weekly since the last ELS.

Today there's one!

https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/online-lisp-meets/...
The homemade bomb used by ABB to murder eight people at the Norwegian government building on 22 July 2011 was made by common fertilizer components; so called ANFO, which is ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO
I did! I logged in and then I cried in a corner, alone and with no one to interact with.
I can't really tell if this is truth or fiction but either way your comment warmed my day.
I tried to sign up like a gullible fool! :-)

I like it, but my very scientific algorithms I have developed with the use of science suggest it needs 479% more Arthur Fonzarelli on the home page to achieve legendary status.
I've actually been trying to remember the URL to this website on and off for the last six years (note to self, 8 'e's), so thanks for scratching that itch.
You write a lot and go off on a lot of tangents. I'll try to keep this brief.

The christianity.com page just says that the golden rule is one of Christ's most famous teachings (which I guess it is), not that it's original. And what does it quote Jesus as saying? "...for this sums up the Law and the Prophets". Anyone who's skimmed the Bible can tell you that Jesus didn't invent the golden rule out of nothing. If people haven't even read the Bible, are their views on the originality of Jesus's teachings worth paying attention to?

Marcan priority only underlines the point. Luke obviously didn't pick up on the right hand having any special significance. And he was much better placed to judge such alleged cultural subtleties around directionality of slapping than we are.
Yes, because the banks are not the ones who should be protecting the consumer. There are consumer protection laws in place to do the same thing the credit card companies seem to take care of from my POV :)
The only thing that stands out for me, not a single one of these startups use Microsoft tech, even though DOT NET apparently is quite good to work with, from what I hear.
Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone
There are differences between being a general contributor to Linux vs. intentionally working on deterrent systems (strategic nuclear weapons systems) vs. working on "regular" munitions and weapon systems though.
Very cool! Thank you for this!! We've been using AdmLte for a long time now but I've always been very frustrated at annoying it was to set-up and use due to the structure of it and all the dependencies that used jQuery.

This looks way more elegant and easier to use for implementing admin interfaces fast. I love the look too!

I'll probably recommend that get the Pro version after playing around with it.
Giving a ticket to a parked car and to a person(who has to show you his ID) are 2 very different things.
I don't understand how people are able to use Newpipe regularly. I use it to download videos or listen to music in the background, but even there I encounter the 'Something went wrong' error page about 30% of the time (with the latest updated Newpipe every time). It used to be worse, being a 50-50 chance of getting the error page, but 30% is still too high for me to use it as my everyday Youtube client.
You're totally right. It's much easier to name something without thinking about it - my bad!
> I see the Social Justice left as being in a phase like "young atheists"[2] or young gay people go through when they first embrace their identity: loud and proud and insistent that others recognize their validity.

Can this get expanded on a little bit? How does one recognise some else's validity?

I get the simultaneous feeling that leaving them alone isn't what they want, and me waving my hands and pronouncing them (eg, a young gay) valid is likely to get a very negative reaction. Who am I to decide what is and isn't valid. What exactly does that mean in a what-do-they-want sense?

My guess is they want other people to copy them so they can build a community, but I'm sure there are other interpretations.
Assume a spherical cat. As the cat gets bigger, the surface to volume ratio goes down, so the cat gets hotter. This will lower its metabolism, which means that the food calories increasingly go toward storage, which makes the cat get even larger. Asymptotically speaking, the cat tends to become a furry blob of melted lard.
>Everything is extremely based on reality

Very much disagree on that one.

SPOILER WARNING:

There are enough weird things in there, it's possible to miss them, but discovering really changes your whole outlook on the world. Things like: the Pale, the Insulindian Phasmid & the Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy in the shipping container.

Some skills are also kinda magical if you invest enough points, Interfacing & Inland Empire could be explained by your imagination, but it's hard to argue that Esprit De Corps (cutaway to what is happening to Precinct 41) & Shivers (Have conversations with the city of Revachol itself) aren't a bit supernatural.
Is DHH's Hey doing well? I couldn't really see the value in it because I handle my emails quite decently.
I think you're on to something here. That a lot of the most enraged people probably have some underlying condition that isn't being addressed. Furthermore en masse such folk are being actively manipulated to political ends. Sadly, professional treatment in certain jurisdicitons seems to involve prescription of opiates which likely just exacerbates things. Maybe that's the point.
What is "Missions to and Sample" supposed to mean?
Oh, yes, maybe that is the pattern I should adopt.
What Is Searchandising (Search Merchandising)?
A US teen wrote most articles on the Scots Wikipedia—but he can’t speak Scots
(2) يجوع شعبه من اجل بناء اكبر قصر في العالم / The largest palace in the world
Hi, I can't register. Each time I click, a weird old video opens. Can someone help me ? I tried to contact the creator of the site to tell him that he messed up with his register link.
I was completely ready to sign up for an account.
The answer to 'what happens if' in ice hockey is 'play goes on' more than in any other I'm aware of, I think it's great.

'Substitutions' being on the fly too (and <1m apart), there's just something kind of raw and basic about it. Obviously there's loads of rules, but the general gist/feel of it just seems a lot more.. I don't know, 'informal', or something, than other games.
Yeah this is the edgy far-right hiding behind "free speach"
Online Lisp Meeting coordinator here for a shameless plug.

If you have or do anything that is related to Lisp (any dialect, not just Common Lisp) and that you find interesting and would like to talk about, please let me know about it - this is precisely why the Online Lisp Meetings happen.

I'll be glad to host your prerecorded video on Twitch while chat happens along the way and questions are asked and answered during the video - that's the formula that we've tested during this year's European Lisp Symposium (ELS) and what we've found to work rather well.

Afterwards, the videos end up on YT on the aforelinked channel.

Also, the meetings are held roughly bi-weekly, where the roughness means that there's a week or two of slippage now and then.
Of course MongoDB does integrate with BI these days via its BI connector :-)
… and this is what machine-translation companies are taking as a corpus.
People decide what to buy lies in the “messy middle” of the purchase journey
He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.
That would work best if they'd surface all the vitriol, right? People love to interact with vitriol.
I like this sentence "nothing works until just about everything is working".

Actually the first ping worked in the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2019. But like you also realize, it is complicated, and actually well beyond my original imagination. So between the first ping and the release status (at the end of 2019), there was a lot of work. Finally it comes to today, and it runs "normally": stable ping, stable throughput, less crash. Huge effort is needed just to make things work as normal.
We couldn't do without the epsilons.
I wish you could leave religion out of your analysis. It would make it much easier to believe you.
Not OP but check out this (1) thread from yesterday . balloonary (2) is mentioned as a solution to quickly launch a sign up page. Here (3) is an example of how that would look like.

1.https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/ig9csz/is_the...

2.https://balloonary.io/

3.https://rent-a-cat.blnry.com/zxz
In other news, i wonder why ios app developers aren't considered apple's employees? In fact someone could sue apple to force them to do so. Their developer guidelines are so strict and hands-on that they don't justify them being used as "gig workers". And apple's statements in this document make the emphatic point that they use those developers to deliver an excellent experience. They even provide their paycheck (and get to keep 30%)
That's what I'm questioning. I don't think it means that.
And then sits in port for years until it blows up.

Do remember that the bigger problem here wasn't a sea-unworthy ship that had to be impounded, but the fact the explosives were not safely stored or disposed of. That's not directly the fault of the ship's owner.
Most white people have very little money and even less power.
Thx for saying this, I had the same thought a couple days ago and wasn’t sure where to make a joke (but serious) about it.
Multiple chromium forks are working at integrating chrome (desktop) extensions (and some already have experimental support).

As soon as they do, there's really no point in using firefox anymore. Especially since they seem to give zero fucks about my workflow, I give zero fucks about them.
This is not strictly true in all parts of the world. While this is the “default” way a credit card works, in my country chips and additional two part authentication has been mandatory for many years. Any transaction over a certain amount has to be verified via OTP (often over SMS) or other authentication software.
Singapore is on track to have more deaths from Dengue than COVID-19 this year:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/25-year-old-is-younge...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/dengue-cases-remain-h...
Awesome! You can get in contact anytime through our website. We're happy to help.
From a European perspective, 13% capital gains tax seem low. It's more in the 30% around here.

Anyway, making $1m gain as an employee isn't really a thing here either.
Wirecard spent 150M on share buyback from Nov 2019 to May 2020
Loved this. Great, actionable advice that's still applicable over a year later -- and a true geek's sense of humor. The hidden contrarian in all of us cheers along with his trials and triumphs. I didn't mind the soft-sell final paragraph at all, since he gave away the keys to the kingdom in the rest of the article anyway.
This is actually a pretty naturalistic explanation and probably mostly wrong. I think people quickly see that you perceive them as idiots and then the ego does indeed run its course. and rightly so.
Why does using Ruby or Python preclude having a well-engineered solution?
Is there
Yes this is a serious bug. Looks like a javascript event bubbling problem to do with the button - anyone got any insights?
Yeah... that's very good point. From my point of view as Polish citizen 911 is a problem that US developed for itself through their actions in the Middle East.

I don't want to sound insensitive, 3 thousand people is of course a tragedy, but on a scale of entire Earth I think it is preposterous for US citizens to get obsessed after this one when more kids are dying to malaria every single day or for multitude of other problems.

Looking from my point of view, it is that US rallies for some causes where it seems to suit US interests. There are so many countries that need help but in recent years whether a country gets US presence seems largely dependent on whether there is oil there and US is all too happy to turn their face away if the government of the oil-rich country is collaborating with US. This is a sore to many eyes and I just can't help to remember it whenever I hear of US trying to seem to be beneficiary in something.

This unfortunately adds fire to the trouble in the Middle East. If you are islamic radical it is extremely easy to recruit people by showing them factual, real, undeniable misbehavior of US. This lack of moral grounding is exactly the reason why actions by US do not bring expected effects. Local population treats US forces with resentment not because they are fundamentally anti-US but because they see US as a corrupt replacement for their current corrupt government.

A larger lesson is that you want somebody teach virtuous behavior you need to be able to show the virtue yourself or you are not going to achieve very much in terms of results.

---

Also, my experience about downvotes is this kind of comment even if genuinely to show what's an example of sentiment outside of US, will typically get a lot of upvotes during US night time and then gets suddenly killed when US wakes up.

Just an interesting thing I noticed which, for me, validates the whole point that US doesn't like to acknowledge resentment it gets from most of the world and that US problems aren't actually the same as world problems regardless of how US would like to portray it.
I've been using Nibspace https://nibspace.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
>white people holding on to their money and power instead of working on ways to distribute it.

Why is the emphasis on white people and not wealth? There are so many different historical groups of "white people"

I completely fail to take a submissive approach to the whole us race debate. Sure you guys have massive issues that stem from a long line of segregationist policies. Europe has its problems, but implying that this should lead to some sort of White only redistribution of wealth will lead to bloodshed.

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to equate class war with race war? Henry kissinger?
> That there is a racist statement.

Hardly. It has nothing to do with who or what they are but rather is literally a description of what they are doing.

> white issue

It is a white issue that white people oppress others and are the only ones with the power to stop that short of violent overthrow.
Stream micro-payments to your favorite content creators
Environment also includes the crops, the insects that pollinate the crops, the pests which eat the crops, the predators that keep the crop-eating pests under control, the fish…

We’re not (yet) beings of pure thought who can exist independent of our environment, so the damage to the environment does have to be counted before we decide if something is net-positive.
"The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires."

Wait, what did they do or know about organizing society ?
Doesn't that just move the problem from the boat to land??

I think that's precisely why the substance was there in Beirut anyway - it HAD been confiscated.
No, actually, not on average. [1]

[1]. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/black-white-us-f...
And Timothy McVeigh used ammonium nitrate with nitromethane to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma city.

What's your point? That terrorists use shitty explosives if they can't get the good stuff like Semtex?

Meanwhile, much larger amounts of ammonium nitrate are used as fertilizer. Makes me wonder why the Lebanese authorities didn't sell the stuff as fertilizer to get rid of it.
Looking for 5 Kind Souls to Beta Test Our B2B Partnership Search Engine
Hey everyone! We've been working on our B2b partnership search engine for a while. We've worked with many companies and brands on analyzing their partnerships and we're super excited to announce that we'll be opening the platform up for early access! The platform offers consolidated information on brands and collaborations they have had in the past so for any professionals looking to form a strategic alliance in the near future, we're here for you!

For anyone interested in participating in this beta testing session, sign up here! https://partneroid.typeform.com/to/u7sRI85z

For more information about our product, click on this link! https://docs.google.com/document/d/13X8IPJiJ0EbBXwaQGXbR_k-MbTDEb9ZCIuRakPN4tvw/edit
You might like this thing - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland
Yes, and perhaps more importantly, Twitter seems like the wrong forum to bring up such a subtle point. Especially in a political debate where you have hordes of people who will simultaneously not understand what you're saying and be very eager to turn your argument into a viral caricature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
Argo CD for your private Raspberry Pi k3s cluster