skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change denialist given top role at major U.S. science agency
Any idea why it is linking to a Forbes article? The original article is likely more informative:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-americ...
The tl;dr:

> Your boarding pass for a flight can sometimes be used to get your passport number. Don’t post your boarding pass or baggage receipt online, keep it as secret as your passport.

> How it works: The Booking Reference on the boarding pass can be used to log in to the airline’s “Manage Booking” page, which sometimes contains the passport number, depending on the airline. I saw that Tony Abbott had posted a photo of his boarding pass on Instagram, and used it to get his passport details, phone number, and internal messages between Qantas flight staff about his flight booking.
> For banking there is a reason for regulation, and it is precisely deposits. Deposits are open to runs. Runs are bad for all sorts of reasons. Financial crises are runs. Hence we have banking regulations. That's not a defense of current banking regulation. But there is a problem and a reason for some regulation.

> But fintech doesn't take deposits. The one central problem with banking is gone.

All banking regulations are due solely to the fact that banks take deposits? There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTech, or other financial services providers need to be regulated? All financial crises are runs on deposits?

Pretty undeveloped and unconvincing reasoning. If you think for a few seconds it’s easy to imagine other situations that led to necessary regulations in banking.
Welcome to Firefly Semantics
This was a survey done by Blind. For those who do not know, Blind is a social network that reveals your employer but hides your identity.

Blind members are self-selecting, and the site is chock full of trolls. So this tell us nothing about what "Most Facebook staff" actually think. The survey respondents may even be lying about currently working at Facebook.

I like Blind but we should be realistic about what it is.
Yes, and an R0 of 2.5 is only 5 chained infections from 100 (ok, 97). If there is no isolation that's inevitable.
Without a large estate tax, oligarchy arises and destroys democracy.

If everyone lived virtuously, then society wouldn't need laws or taxes. Unfortunately, humans are inconsistently virtuous, so we use laws and taxes to help our society function well.
This was a great read! Highly recommended.
There’s one I like. It’s in this language from Google.
Yeah I thought the person to be quite young. But I understood, as I've been that young and written in almost exactly that writing style before. :) I skimmed through it feeling fondness for my youth.
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This whole idea kinda loops back on itself and I wonder if wanting to donate your wealth in order to achieve “higher rungs” isn’t itself a perverse incentive than a rung system ought to penalize!
There's still a need for some degree of attentive supervision for deposit-only institutions to make sure that they're actually investing their customers' money in liquid, secure, assets.

In the absence of regulation, the incentives for management would be to invest customer deposits in high-yield, and therefore high risk and/or illiquid, assets. Customers need to be protected against losing their deposits because management invested everything in junk bonds or real estate.

There's also the risk of embezzlement to consider. Non-bank accounting controls might not be adequate to protect large volumes of consumer deposits from theft.

The fragility of (unregulated) cryptocurrency exchanges paints a very clear picture of what would happen if deposit-only institutions were allowed to operate without any supervision.
The problem is people have no idea what is sensitive. Until just now I would have thought a boarding pass was safe to share.

Its more the airlines fault for making this info so easy to access with what looks like unsensitive info.
I just got tired of the anger that the posts get me on Twitter, email and on forums. If there wasn't so much transphobic garbage spat at me when those articles were new I would probably be working on a planning document for part 4.
Conor O'Clery’ book ‘The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune’ is an _excellent_ read. highly recommended!
Because it exacerbates the divide between the wealthy and the poor in this country, creating classes of wealth that is so far beyond a normal person as to live in a different realm. It creates a ruling oligarchy class that is passed down not on merit or by work, but purely through nepotism.
Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient.

A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery. I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel.

I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring, and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing what's underneath.
Broadly speaking, the more money you have, the longer your life expectancy. This is known as the Preston Curve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_curve.

Also: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expe....
Almost all in Python at the moment.
Grandparent, 2 posts up the tree.
Safety driver in 2018 Uber crash is charged with negligent homicide
You don't have to read it. It Just Works. If you want bugfixes and enhancements, you upgrade the package.

If you want to break your existing code, import a different package.

If Haskell followed this principle, cabal hell wouldn't exist. If Windows followed this system, DLL hell wouldn't exist.
I'd say the better solution is to reduce the number of crimes there are - perhaps legalize drugs. If there is a victim, it's not a crime.
Yeah this was six stores. The offers were 3.8M and 4M.

What’s the importance of bearing that in mind?
And that overload is after most cases have been bullied into plea bargains.
What I dislike about Go's solution, and somewhat about semver in general is that no one makes major version changes anymore even if they break backwards compatibility.

However if I use semver internally, like it's supposed to and make regular major changes (let's say once a month), my code repo becomes a mess. After a 2 years, I'll have folders for v1 up to v24. And the fact that I have to copy -R/grep|sed, means that people will be less likely to properly signal that a backwards incompatible change has occured.

Disregarding uniformity, for the reasons above I don't think their design is a good one. It treats major version changes as a rare event.
And from an applicant's perspective, I actually prefer getting the coding part out of the way up-front. It allows me to relax for the rest of the interview and just "be myself".
Using sponsorware to fund my open source project
I understand you are not Friedman, so assume I'm using the general "you" below and that any questions I pose are rhetorical and not directed at you. I don't expect you to even attempt to answer anything below or even have considered the questions.

His argument is hilarious:

"We're going to try and avoid it anyway, so you might as well not try to collect it."

I'm sorry, but I'm not necessarily going to trust someone who has a vested interest in the removal of something that its existence was pointless in the first place. If it truly is meaningless, then why bother?

Another good question is why should a person's accumulated wealth go to that person's heirs upon their death? Those people did nothing themselves to earn that wealth. It is only through the accident of birth they were selected. They completely ignore that. It is assumed that passing their wealth down is natural and right and that any other outcome needs defense.

If that money changed hands via employment or purchase of goods and services, it would have been taxed, even if the exchange was between parent and child. Why is an exchange upon death special?
Yes! I agree, but this is exactly what these regulators are for, and systems should be required to be built to attest to and meet continuous compliance requirements as it relates to monies management. When deviations are detected via instrumentation and telemetry, triage is triggered to ensure controls haven’t been breached (and if they have been breached, regulators assume control to provide an orderly transition for the benefit of the financial consumers in question) (ie Don’t be Citi risk management)

Disclosure: I work in financial infrastructure. Thoughts, opinions, and rants are my own.
Sure, this is the guy who knighted a prince and ate a raw onion. What did you expect?

Abbott was Australia's Trump. Thankfully he lasted in office an even shorter time than the people he replaced.
I like Maven. Fight me.
Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System
What happened to scientific opinions?
Grand juries consider the local laws as worded and the instructions they are given by the state which can be plain wrong, it is inherently imbalanced and is a common area of review when looking at miscarriages of justice.

Also trending on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488350
> The Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to file a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Inc. by year-end

So the administration will decide whether or not to punish Facebook after they know the results of the election, which Facebook may be able to influence? Nice business you have there, it'd be a pity if something were to happen to it.

Anyway, a simple remedy to the problem of Facebook (other than splitting off some of its acquisitions) would be to mandate Data Portability for users, such that their Facebook posts could be seen by friends on other social networks, and vice versa. Once Metcalfe's Law is broken, and switching costs become near zero, proper competition will be restored.
I think for a package versioning system to work, the ecosystem has to adhere to its principles. This is true for any package system.

I think this post is an example of a package not adhereing to its principle; a major revision implies breaking changes, so it doesn't make sense to have a tool "automatically update" things for you, because theres no garuntee that it'll work.

I feel like the issue is that this post doesn't totally understand how the package versioning is meant to work in the first place; if you're changing your struct names and it has no external effects, i don't see why you /want/ to semver, because you're exactly getting much value from semver'ing other than the vanity of pretty numbers. Maybe I'm missing something?

Im curious if an ideal package system that would work for this particular project, but I don't think one does.
Seems obvious. What are the other options? Elaborate frame jobs? Unlikely. Biased jurors and judges? Sometimes.
Cyberpunk will provoke the fantastic question of ‘what if we take the current trend towards multinationals consolidating to the logical extreme, and make them rule the world’.
If someone knows something like this for Windows, I am currently offering a bounty:

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/19011

I am willing to increase the bounty, but I only have 297 rep currently
They have been cancelled.
I loved the writing style. That "hard mode" effect had me wheezing though.
How about a wealth tax on everything above $10MM?

Suddenly 99% of the world is no longer discouraged from being fiscally responsible. Do I really care if a billionaire is fiscally irresponsible? Maybe for a single generation. After that, we're good.
Miscarriage of justice possible, perjury not necessarily.

I don't even know if an expert witness was there, thats how grand juries work.

And that a corporation didn't tell a full truth and threw an "maybe employee" under the bus? Not really that much to "posit".

Ironically also trending on HN at time of writing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488350
What a very touching tribute to his father.
Wait, don't we have versions already and they written in go.mod and matched with git tags or specific commits? Aren't they committed to go.sum?

Why does that have to change if you move from v1 to v2?
I love this soooo much!
I agree, but would prefer to have a mechanism which would protect against misbehavior without going to tit-for-tat. WHO agreements should have been better - and if it's not feasible, it should be known.
Yes. By the end of the Vietnam war, when the North Vietnamese entered Saigon, they did it with a tank assault.[1] The later phases of a guerilla war, if you win, have to involve taking and holding territory and taking over. In that phase it's no longer about hiding.

[1] https://apimagesblog.com/historical/2020/4/24/the-fall-of-sa...
Ampaire Flies Second Hybrid-Electric Prototype
Most of the plastic that comes to French shores is from Spanish land fills. They severely under recycle.
I can't believe that ycombinator flags scientific American.
Evening project: Flux, HN like for analytics and data collection
This headline would not be nearly as intriguing if it included "Company" after "Parent".
If the sense of wonder is gone, you're doing it wrong.
Why is Google News recommending non-news YouTube videos?
Google News used to be a pretty good feed of stuff I wouldn’t have thought to look for. Now it’s trash. Social media reactions (Someone flips out & drops bombshell of a reply to SomeoneElse), the same old hyper targeted content (as if the only thing I read about are jets and astrophysics), and now I’m getting YouTube recommendations for garbage videos. Ugh.
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
In your example, you could just make a loan instead of a donation.
This one: https://github.com/tidwall/pkg.sh
This was really a delight to read. I wonder if the author was raised on 2600. Fantastic stuff.

Also visited his page. Does not disappoint: https://mango.pdf.zone/
Just like many other industries, Microsoft also had a head start in online fitness way before anyone else even thought about it. But just like many other lost bets, they also lose it. Not sure why they killed it. If you are wondering what is it then search - Xbox fitness
Because the anti science has gotten to a breaking point
If you're interested in learning more about causal inference and 'do calculus', you might like this course and free textbook:

https://www.bradyneal.com/causal-inference-course
Can this stop being posted? The same user posted it 12h ago.
On one hand, yes absolutely true - on the other, I find myself thinking about this essay by Twain: http://mrbazilewich.weebly.com/uploads/6/2/0/4/6204690/twain...
Interestingly (and strangely) some frequent flyer numbers are treated by Australian airlines as confidential information.
I think they are talking about the type of favors where your child with moderate grades suddenly gets accepted in Harvard.
The idea is that helping people become self sufficient is more important than the concerns about who knows what. Even if both parties know who the other is, it is still the highest form of charity.

Though probably it is possible to do both. I suspect there are many modern charities that help people become self sufficient where neither the donors not the recipients know who each other are.

Disclaimer: IANAR (I am not a Rabbi)
Yes. There is no magic to it of course; just a different type of "exercise". If you do it regularly, you see benefits else you revert back. There has been a lot of research on how "Breath" affects our "Parasympathetic Nervous System" through the "Vagus Nerve" (eg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189422/).

For my own practice, i only do two exercises (~10 mins) and see an immediate positive benefit in my mind state; i become energetic, alert and calm.

1) Bhastrika breathing - Rapid "bellows like" breathing; expand abdomen while inhaling and pull-in abdomen while exhaling. Oxygenates your body and raises energy levels. Start with a set of ten in the beginning.

2) Nadi-shuddhi/Kapalabhati breathing - Close right nostril with thumb and inhale gently through left nostril expanding the abdomen. Once full breath has been taken, close left nostril with little and ring finger, remove thumb to open right nostril and breath out slowly, evenly and gently through the right nostril while pulling in the abdomen. Do not hold the breath anytime in between. The ratio of time taken for Inhalation:Exhalation should be 1:2 (or more). Now repeat the above from right to left. This constitutes one round. Start with a set of ten in the beginning. This stimulates the Vagus Nerve and influences the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
At the risk of sounding callous, the author needs to find a way to form bonds with the class of people who aren't wondering if they'll be able to last another N years in San Francisco. If your friend circle is entirely economically disadvantaged people, and you live in one of the world's most expensive cities, your story will be every one you love leaving.
‘Everyone was drenched in virus': was this Austrian ski resort Covid ground zero
$2.28 million to destroy contents of

65 shipping containers,

= $35,076 per container

I wonder where the bulk of this cost comes from. Transport? Legal fees (for the petition)?
> Either way, if this leads to a ban of TikTok in the US, it’s going to be interesting to see how boards of teenagers react.

Take India for example. Either of the following is happening:

Users use VPNs to bypass the ban, Influencers move to Triller, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, or just give up altogether.

What's certain is like all social networks, the teens just find the next craze which the celebrities and influencers are. Even better if it makes them more money than before.

I won't be surprised to see the same happening in the US.
One would hope that honest mistakes would be responsible for the vast majority.
Fast forward to today and Howard Schultz is despised in the Seattle area.

His presidential bid was DOA.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/29/howard-schul...
#triggered
I was responding to the question of what we should name buildings after, if not donors.
One overlooked area are the incentives for fixing it: the state requires legitimacy and respect. They need it to feel odd that they could do any wrong. They need it to be an absurd debate that they could be wrong, that they can arbitrarily ruin your life, and that there is no real or likely capability of appeal or review that results in your freedom.

This misaligned incentives need to be addressed as well.

Judges, district attorneys, mayors, governors, and prosecutors all hem and haw at the idea of revisiting a case.

It isn't possible for there to be enough podcasts and documentaries that gain the public interest in a case.
Furthermore, the illustrations in old adverts were absolutely amazing. Just look at today's vast majority of the works - half-baked, traced in illustrator and even then not as refined and charming, full of frivolous colors and complete lack of mastery in drawing (if they ever learned attempted it).

We've regressed so much, it makes me upset. There are a few gems out there though.

Advertisement, marketing, business ethics, customer centricity, etc. have eroded in favor of high thrift, low margin disposable products we buy today.

The other day I was searching for a water pick machine. Amazon search returned a plastic palace worth of shit, each one competing for attention and none of the brands I've ever heard of. Every brand was some engrish name with spelling mistakes, definite chinese knockoff.

Good honest businesses are a rarity these days.
Kid me (or now my six year old) would love an intermodal full of Chuck E Cheese tickets!

Adult me wonders how long they've been sneaking the ground up tickets into the "pizza" dough...
For real. I’ve got a fire pit in my backyard. I’ll knock out a container a day for a couple months for 2.28m
Culture it seems.

Functional style is cool and some people will go to great lengths to use it.

Like shaving a few characters of a perfectly fine piece of code by using currying and instead make one single long line of code describing it.
I don't get it, is there something noteworthy about eating a raw onion?
What's nonsense about npm?
Please link to you better alternative.
Does not seem like this person is arguing in good faith. Do they never go to aquariums, zoos, or a park? Do they never buy flowers for someone? Do they literally have soylent for every single meal? Do they live in a concrete box on a concrete block with all plastic furniture and clothes? There is a reason why far more people want to live in beautiful diverse places and not in the middle of the desert.
So basically this is a complaint about having to manually upgrade packages in the manifest because his small company makes lots of regular, breaking changes?

If that is the case do you have to follow rules for semver? (edit- that is indeed what they do) Your users are all internal, its not like they are going to rat you out to the police for agreeing to do something different internally. It's just a couple of numbers...

I don't do go but, as described, the version system seems fair and reasonable on paper, for a system designed to avoid suddenly breaking code that depends on it.
Why donate? Why wouldn't you invest in it and become part-owner yourself?

But you can also flip that around: Let's say your dad opened a Facebook, but then dies, why should you get $98 billion? You didn't do anything. Why is that now yours in the first place?
I had a similar experience on a grand jury in new york (where you decide whether or not a felony case should go to trial at all) and was shocked to see a prosecutor come back 4 times on the same case, each time with a slightly less serious charge (ie, starting with level 1 felony assault and ending with some lesser assualt charge). So even after we the grand jury decided there was not enough evidence for the felony assault case to go to trial, they attempt it over and over again, with the same evidence, though requesting a slightly lesser charge, desperate for a different result.
For a designed library, major version changes should be a rare event.

For a collection of code that someone calls a library, all bets are off.
Do they not eat fruit? Drink wine? Drink craft beer?
CPAN?

JAPH. :)
yeah no. rubygems/python/npm are stare of the art compared to go. it’s painful to watch people doing mental gymnastics to justify bad/disconnected from reality decisions that were made.

it’s pretty sad really if you think about it. that there are legitimate use cases where go is really really well suited for the problem.

my vote is on someone coming up with a sane approach at some point and people slowly adopting it.
Wao. You describe us as “mad people” because we choose to not use GitHub issues? Is that all it takes to dismiss an open-source software and badmouth its authors? You have gone really low on this.

All the issues have been ported over to Discourse. And no one has declared Badger, bug-free. I don’t know where you got that idea.
The full title is "When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number" not sure why the title here omits "number" but it is there on the actual post.

Also as someone that hasn't ever done anything like this before, it was interesting to read the journey from end to end, specifically the steps taken to try and responsibly disclose a security breach and the hoops he jumped through which might seem obvious for someone who does it on the regular, but was somewhat enlightening to someone who has never encountered something like this in life.