skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same Procedure: Germans Celebrate New Year’s Eve with ‘Dinner for One’ (2013)
It still sounds like you think I'm experiencing American style politics and media.

It's silly to act like tabloid press and opinion pieces by vested interests are the same as dry fact-based reporting on the passage of bills through a parliament.

My country has had coalition or minority governments since my parents were children, and we don't have first past the post voting. People here don't have "their candidate" as such either, because we have multi seat constituencies. People increasingly don't even have a political party (of which there are several) that they reliably vote for.

I disagree very strongly with the notion that people mature when they effectively give up on politics. That's a dangerous message. People mature (for good or ill) when they put time and effort into making changes to their communities that affect others, whether that's getting a new bus stop, rezoning land, or changing laws or tax rates in some direction. That stuff is always and inevitably political.
It's not as robust as pushd/popd, and it may vary from shell to shell, but at least in bash you can also use "cd -" to change to the previous directory.
Ugh sorry, I thought this was another one of my comments
I think the draw is the doughnuts; we don't have Krispy Kreme or any of those other chains here. While people are at Tims to get doughnuts, they also pick up other things.

Also, they build Tims in some very rural areas that Starbucks would never bother with, and keep them open pretty early/late (sometimes 24hrs), making them one of the few places to congregate at those hours in small towns. Tims (and A&W, oddly) are where you'll find the seniors who can't stop getting up at 3AM, sitting and reading the paper.
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome Shows We Don't Know What's Natural Anymore
I am no animal rights fundamentalist, but I found that new item so depressing, it sounds like "we found this awesome >130yo whale, which survived a hunt in 1890. Well it didn't survive this one, the sucker."
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Computer Programming
Ekranoplan ... wonder-weapon ... ehhh ... I mean the thing technically worked but I would not quite call it a wonder weapon. It may look quite outlandish but if it was such a great idea we would see more of them.
Expensive to retrofit worldwide.
RFC 1436 Gopher - the joy
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fhngoph...
AOL was not about spying on you, it was about collecting that sweet monthly fee.

And anyone who lauds Apple for bringing tech to the masses should consider that AOL did the exact same thing for the Internet and really brought a glimpse of the Internet (not just the web!) to the people. Yes, real techies might want to install their IRC client of choice and fine tune settings and all that, but Grandma just wanted to click on Chat from her home screen, go to the "Recipes Room" and talk about cookies.

It was the same "less choice/more consistency" of technology that let Apple get so big, with the same huge mass appeal (but with less panache).
Yeah, I also found that to be very sad, especially given how smart whales are. "Not these assholes again!"
Not every country in the west is like the US.
I gotta admit, VS Code is probably the most complete setup I've seen:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Editors

See the wiki page for reference of features supported by different editors. The other neat thing about VS Code for people who love vim: with Neovim you can use the full blown power of VIM as the backend for editing in VS Code whilst using the plugins from VS Code and Neovim.
That's hard to say.

The US sure painted itself into a corner with suburbanization. I doubt that it's reversible. Or at least, that it would ever be reversed before it was far too late.
This doesn't sound like a big deal. Electronics normally can't function when system voltage is too low, and that can happen in a car if the battery is weak and the alternator isn't producing enough power (e.g., at very low speeds and with a high electrical load, such as making a sharp turn in a parking lot with a nearly-dead battery).

This isn't very different from old hydraulic-assist cars that also had the assist die or be too low when there was some problem (fluid too low, pump failure, belt failure, etc.). Was it ever a big problem? No, not really. If your power steering fails in a parking lot, it's a pain, but you're already barely moving, so you just stop. At worst, you might have a minor fender-bender.

I don't see how this is a software problem; this is an electrical problem. The only software issue here is the decision to shut down the EPS instead of bringing it back online when the system voltage goes high enough.

Personally, I'd say the fundamental problem here is actually the fact that cars still have 12V electrical systems, and batteries that are really meant for starting only, not for continuously supplying heavy electrical loads (like EPS). Carmakers should have gone to 42V or 48V systems ages ago.
Wind must really be something if there's this much misinformation (birds, farm land usage) about it.
Good. Not a beautiful name but distinct, and still captures some of the meaning of the tool.
As a non-player who knows the rules these would be fun to watch. When I watch world championship matches I don’t really understand why what’s happening is happening. It would be cool to see games that are over optimized for the daring sacrifices that seem like blunders even to total novices but then end up being devious traps.
The battery decade: Energy storage could revolutionize industries in 10 years
Provided the interpreters(/compilers) are still being updated and maintained; What disadvantage would writing in BASIC have?

ProvideX sounds like it's now Sage Group's ERP extension/plugin language. Like SAP's ABAP, Microsoft's "AL", etc.
My apologies for being too defensive.
The type and form factor of plastic is significant. Types 1 and 2 are more often recycled than any other type (note that "recycled" is different from and rarer than "collected by municipal waste service"). However even those are not recyclable when too thin, such as with Keurig cups. Detergent and shampoo bottles tend to be highly recyclable.

It's true there aren't many alternatives at the moment for certain things like berries. I've never seen a bulk barrel at the grocery store for raspberries (for obvious reasons), and the clear, thin plastic they come in is not usually recycled. At farmers markets you can find them in biodegradable paper cups, but farmers market berries aren't available to most people most of the year.

As you note, the only way to fix this is legislation. Plastic is near free because it's a byproduct of something else we already use too much of (crude oil). If its production were taxed in alignment with its environmental cost (e.g. at the same rate it costs to collect it out of the oceans) we'd see far more alternatives.
High cost of fuel to income ratios. People aren't going to give up single family detached homes with garages and yards until they have to. And they're sure as hell not going to vote for it.

Alternatively, sufficient numbers of people stop having children altogether, and then don't mind living in dense cities.
The "old internet" isn't dead. It just looks dead, because the BILLIONS of people who joined the internet since 2002 simply never venture outside of the major centralized services.

There are more privately run servers, self hosted websites and bb's now than there were back then. Its cheaper, safer and easier to start and run your own network and service today than ever.

So in aggregate, there is 100x (1000x?) the niche, kooky, wierd, fun, specific internet that we had in 1997. But there is also 10^5x the giant consolidated internet that most people see.
The new scheme is called “Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets”, and in practice it’s the same as “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich”. They were both very intentionally put in place by the Irish government, to allow (mostly) giant US firms to pay nearly zero tax on non-US profits, as long as they open Irish offices and employ a decent number of Irish people.

The closing of the Double Irish tax evasion scheme is indeed largely useless, as Ireland ensured that there’s a good replacement. They don’t want to lose the jobs that come with these tax evasion schemes.
We need to fire on all cylinders, here, to fight climate change.

And as far as non-wind clean energy, there are literally zero options that are immune to NIMBYism like you're engaged in here. Not hydro, not geothermal, not even solar... And SURE as heck not nuclear.
Protocols like Secure Scuttlebutt provide decentralization without any cryptocurrencies or global blockchains. It's a bit of a wild west, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
The link provided seems down (hug of death?)

I'm guessing that this is the same material: https://github.com/achlipala/frap
> Amazon pays absolutely mind-bogglingly immense amounts of payroll taxes

Payroll taxes and income tax have a different intent, and the money from them goes to different ends. Paying payroll taxes does not relinquish your duty towards paying your income taxes and has no relation to the above.

> The people they employ pay income taxes, as well, which come out of Amazon’s revenue ultimately.

It is mindboggling to hear that. "Amazon's revenue" is not generated via magic, but people's work. When someone works for Amazon and gets paid for it, Amazon is not doing them a favor and giving them a portion of their revenue, it is the money that solely belongs to the person who earned it.

That person is paying the taxes from their revenue, not Amazon. The person in this case is taking a cut from their dues for the work they to support society and the infrastructure that industry (like Amazon) runs on.

Amazon is absolutely skirting its responsibilities by not paying income taxes, and this should be considered deeply unethical by all.
There's a project focused on backuping this kind of information[1]. It's actually a distributed and communitary way of doing it, anyone can run a "warrior" instance and help the project. Modern problems require modern solutions

Edit: In the project wiki there's a lot of interesting links, like this one listing all tracked projects that are dying[2]

[1]: https://www.archiveteam.org/

[2]: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch
Psychohistory class.
Kudos to the show for still airing the episode anyway (whatever their reasons might have been)
The numbers in this article don’t pass the smell test, and there’s no evidence of harm anyway. The sky is not falling.
Not reject international assistance.
Yes. The Pixel 3a is larger than the Pixel XL.

I have large hands, and the OG Pixel is the largest screen I can fully use one-handed comfortably. I've used the OG Pixel XL for about 3 months now (because I already had one when my OG Pixel died, RIP) and I still hate the size.

Aside: the screen on all the Pixel 3a display models I've checked out the past few months (I keep getting tempted to finally buy one but) is tinted yellow and has serious burn in issues.

This makes me wonder if there is a way to customize Android's screen resolution so the top of the phone is just ignored (I don't mind if my phone has a large bezel, chin, or forehead).
One of Australias most prominent features is its captured media. They will write just about anything about the climate and people who care about it. I've already seen it all, and that article is nothing spectacular when it comes to inventing boogeymen.

After all, the 40C+ temperatures obviously didn't start the fires.
The fact you can still hear both parties trying to speak, albeit a bit garbled, is considered an advantage. Imagine if it was analog FM, only the strongest signal would be heard with no indication really of collision. Also, AM signals are generally still useable at a longer distance than FM at the same transmit power.
If one builds something better, people will use it.

The challenge is that it's actually quite hard to build something better. Centralization has huge advantages of common-goal, ability to curtail and exclude antagonistic actors, and decreased barriers to flow of resources.

I think the lack of alternatives to Facebook has a lot less to do with "evil" practices Facebook undertakes and a lot more to do with Facebook actually building a good tool that's easy to use for most people. Alternatives haven't hit that level of simplicity.
I disagree, many times the very reason I gave the company my data was to leverage their ML capabilities. For example, the only reason I gave LinkedIn my data was so they could find me better jobs. No one would have bothered if it were just a glossier version of Craigslist.

Plus, banks training models for fraud detection has an obvious benefit to everyone.
"All things are impermanent.", eh? :-)
I use VSCode with Laurent Tréguier's Dlang extension[0], which provides support for autocomplete, linting, and formatting code, and dub for building, testing, and managing packages.

The reason for choosing the Dlang plugin over code-d is pretty petty; it's just because I prefer Dlang's syntax highlighting, since it highlights class names in a teal color.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentT...
The bird's problem is not wind turbines, it's cats, building windows, power lines, vehicles and hunting.
Marine aviation is really pretty good. There are bad stories of mistakes made by all the branches. The Marines prefer to support their own operations and it makes sense. Specifically, Marine aviation is specifically oriented toward missions conducted by the Marines.
Depending on the device, it is not different from a computer when it comes to cloud syncing.

There are Linux distros focused on IoT devices, so imagine a compact version of Linux connecting to a cloud service.
Leadership.

It doesn't mean you're fighting the fires but it does mean you're staying informed, keeping people motivated through long hours and bad news and ready to make difficult decisions.
>The only thing I could maybe see as annoying is the red flashing lights they use to help aircraft see them at night.

I'm also from Iowa. It's a really eerie effect driving through a wind farm in the pitch dark! I noticed it most recently on 80 near Newton when they put in a wind farm in the last couple years.
My Favorite Purchases of 2019
What do you mean “open source”? XLS is the (previously proprietary) format used by older versions that’s (basically) just serialized structs. XLSX (which I see here) is the ZIP/XML based version based on an open standard[0][1]. LibreOffice opens those just fine from my experience; It’s the older binary format that LibreOffice can screw up with formatting.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

[1]: ECMA-376, http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
One pod of orca has been observed using human-built structures and human activity to assist their hunting. At least one pod has been observed splitting up and engaging in decoy-like activity to protect their juveniles from human capture. The pangolin maybe hasn't figured out Chinese traditional medicine yet. To be fair, I'm not exactly clear on how it works either.

Glass curtain walls have already provided competitive advantage to pigeons, parrots, and corvids over sparrows, thrushes, buntings, and warblers.

Some crows have figured out how to use window glass to get free meals. Herd that sparrow flock into the windmill, and the murder feasts below the mast.

Anthropogenic challenges overwhelmingly favor species with higher levels of individual intelligence.

The evolution will be that the dumber birds become endangered or go extinct, while the smarter birds expand their populations.
Those hills funnel the wind through the Livermore pass, where there have been wind turbines for decades
Yep. There's a million of us still active on IRC daily. Federated protocols > centralized services.

Also, the old internet where everyone hosted, or at least coded, their own website still exists. In fact almost all the old internet is still around. It's just that most people are stuck in their walled gardens and can't see it.
The History of Grand Theft Auto
You'd know better than I would, but isn't this problem kind of endemic to the region? There's a long history of devastating bushfires going back to the turn of the last century; if casualty numbers have gone up (and '66, '39, and '25 look really bad), so has population and density, right?
Probably most working class people in the US if they even have savings. In 2015, in the US, only 40% of the population spent less than they earned in a year and only 39% said that they could come up with $2k in an emergency: https://www.usfinancialcapability.org/downloads/NFCS_2015_Re...

Those numbers sound optimistic when I look at the rural, low income town that I grew up in where my family still lives.

If those numbers don't seem to match what you see in your social group, you probably live in a bubble.
Slowly putting everything on kvr and have been very slack with the YouTube videos. I think mainly have been blessed by having our record label with same brand be the main driver for sales, and I've been asking well known artists in the psytrance scene to help with promotion (being my friends I give them freebies and ask without obligation to post something about them on their social media).

Probably don't have many sales outside that scene to be honest, so I'm hoping with time that will change.
Business BASIC was all the rage in the 1970s, especially for small to medium-sized businesses

The first piece of software I ever wrote and sold commercially was in Business BASIC. It was what we would call a CRM these days, though massively scaled down compared with what we have today. I did it for a limousine company. This was around 1982, IIRC.
How can I be sure? Why would the other owners keep quiet about it, some grand conspiracy?

Everything that happens with Tesla gets amplified 10 fold. If the failure rate was "big", I'm certain we'd have heard about it by now.

Regardless, this isn't a special review unit, C&D leased the Tesla from the dealer like any other schmuck, it was just luck of the draw.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29515368/tesla-model-3-lo...
Are you doing it part time?
I disagree with this. You should pay your higher interest rate debt first.
Right, but GPs can interpret the results and raise red flags as needed. My point is not every test needs a specialist.
Ghosn kind of reminds me of this quote: "Great men are almost always bad men."

Personally, I hope this to be a good show to Japanese people. The timing is good too. It is finally dawning on people in Japan that their government might not be entirely fair, and how the extreme rich like him can do shady dealings. Many of them have been too naive.
It should just filter out apartments. Right now it shows private residences as well. Seems it can be misused by people to spread/troll people living in private residences.
>Over a billion people don't know that Facebook isn't the Internet! Chew on that

While that's a common axiom bandied about on HN, as is your general tone of condescension towards "the normals" (Eloi and Morlocks, seriously? You know the Eloi were the villains, right?) I'm certain that practically no one who uses Facebook is actually unaware that the rest of the web exists.
Seems up to me.
I really should have said "Quit political media" instead of "Quit politics", to stave off the usual comments.
Well my thinking is more that the results would be read by your GP and not a specialist.
You have the causality reversed -- at-will employment is the norm in the US because union-busting prevents collective bargaining. Political incompetence is the result of this situation, not the cause of it.

Corporate leaders are generally on negotiated contracts that protect them in the event of genuine incompetence (the "golden parachute"), which reduces the motivation for political incompetence. Regular workers and middle management rarely get that luxury.
It does seem like a radical option but is surprisingly doable. Beyond Soap was a book recommended here, which was a great read and discourages daily use of soap and shampoo (and conditioner if need be): https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Soap-Truth-Beautiful-Healthy/d...
Monetization of data seems like a great tradeoff to me, really. The users get free content for nothing essentially. I don't see why anyone cares. It's like we've struck gold mines of new utility for society and everyone is up in arms over it.
> Wage isn’t based on the difficulty of the job.

It is though, kind of. It comes down to supply and demand economics -- and the perceived difficulty of the job. People hire lawyers because they don't want to become one themselves. Lawyer wages come down when there is a glut of lawyers and not a corresponding glut of lawyer work.

I'm old enough to remember working in 2001 when the software market contracted. It was very hard to get a job, even for skilled developers because hardly anybody was hiring. It sucked. It also temporarily removed software developers who were just in it for the money -- they literally switched careers to something else.

Incidentally my salary is now higher than it ever has been -- so the market clearly recovered, it just took a few years.
Ask HN: It's deduction day: Do you practice Effective Altruism?
Given that this is the last day to get a tax deduction (US) for 2019, I was wondering how many people follow the practice of 'effective altruism', i.e., giving to charities "that save or improve lives the most per dollar" in the words of GiveWell. https://www.givewell.org/

I've donated through GiveWell for some years now (no affiliation other than as a donor to their recommended charities). I have been very impressed by the rigor of their analysis, and generally let them decide how to allocate the money. As an added bonus, the receivers don't get my contact info so they can't waste the money I give them mailing me requests for more money.

What's your take?
I'm guessing you locate your month on the top, then locate the day of the month and it tells you what day of the week it is.

It's an interesting design exercise, but I can't imagine people using this day to day.
> That is true, but that's my point also. Why does it dominate, if we know from our (rather limited) experience with democracy that at least on the state level, it leads to better outcomes?

We have almost no experience with non-heirarchical democratic state-level organization. We have experience with heirarchy with democratic accountability and heirarchy without it, and from that we can conclude that:

(1) the former may lead to better outcomes for those that aren't at the top of heirarchy, but

(2) the former definitely relies on formal delineation of authority and institutionalized structures enforcing those formal rules. (That is, democratic control at the state level requires formal heirarchy.)

Holacracy eschews formal structures of authority, and therefore the (informal) heirarchies it produces are not restrained by democratic accountability.

And even very small-scale democracy (which may not require formalization) still has heirarchy; people (social animals generally, people aren't special in this regard) form heirarchies.
I don't think this was about "not relying on the Navy". The Marines have built an entire doctrine around the MEUs (Marine Expeditionary Unit) and the amphibious assault carriers are central to it. Who do you think the ships belong to?
>In 2004, Kaloyev travelled to the Swiss town of Kloten, where he killed Nielsen, who had since retired from air traffic work.

>In 2016, upon retirement from the Local Ossetian government, Kaloyev was awarded the highest regional medal by that government, the medal "To the Glory of Ossetia". The medal is awarded for the highest achievements, improving the living conditions of the inhabitants of the region, for educating the younger generation and maintaining law and order.

Err... Ok.