skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the Scandinavian countries had a violent revolution. They were never Communist. They're all still constitutional monarchies!

This is the kind of mistake that lazily equating communism with social-democrat governments leads you to make.
Say something good to someone that has been hard/impossible to say in the past. (learning to communicate by doing it)

Many people can just say how much they appreciate someone in their life or "I love you".

It may start to open up something in your relationship that either has been lost or missing.

It's hard to do, but a good exercise in fighting against self destruction and takes less than an hour.
Where there is an effective solution to a problem, it can be done, as with the adoption of TCAS itself.
When I was doing Qt development, getting CMake to build Qt projects properly was absurdly difficult. CMake had added some half-baked first class functions for building Qt (it's insane that a build system has first class knowledge of certain libraries, but insanity is par for the CMake course), but you still had to invoke them yourself and the various docs, blog posts, stackoverflow answers, etc gave different advice about invoking them but rarely did the advice work (and if it did work, it never generalized to non-toy projects). My understanding is that CMake has improved its insane first-class Qt functions such that it's easier.

(There's also qmake, but at the time I was using Qt, it only worked if you didn't depend on anything that wasn't also a qmake project, which is just more C++ build system insanity).
"What Google did is not illegal."

Sure. Now try to funnel your consulting income through Irish corp. Tax man will quickly explain what is legal what is not.
Ask HN: Where do you buy your coffee beans?
For the coffee lovers of HN, where do you buy your coffee beans. I’m based in SF and know the local roasters pretty well but would be interested in some online offerings.
Only if "sane" === zero cost.

Outside of the SV bubble, it's not common for companies to migrate working systems to something new unless the benefits clearly outweigh the costs, and there's nothing better on which those those costs could be spent.

There are a number of stories online, in HN, and in the business press where companies "upgraded" from legacy systems to something "saner" and it ended up costing more time, money, and customers than it was worth.
Perspectives on databases, incremental view maintenance, multiverse databases
Hello fellow Canadian :)

Wouldn't a home made Sterling Engine be easier and cheaper? Then use the motion to power a small generator.

But like others commented you may just end up cooling your stove. The Yukon can get pretty cool.

Maybe an old washer motor, a prop to generate power from wind? Or solar in the summer when light is ample.
All of those things are still in use, although perhaps not as much as before. I suggest to continue to use it.

(Do you know my first post on Usenet (using a NNTP client program I wrote myself, actually) was in 2019? I still use it, although there aren't a lot of messages on there, but there still are some.)

I suggest if you wanted to make up a web forum or mailing list, to set up a NNTP instead please. I also invented Unusenet which is a way to form newsgroup names which are not part of Usenet (you can have both on the same server; the names never interfere). You could also have multiple interfaces to the same messages if wanted, making more use better.

With other protocols too (such as IRC), a bridge can be done. For many kind of text-basedinteractive uses, telnet (or SSH) is much better than using a web page.
I started college, and discovered the Internet, in fall of 1993. An epoch infamously known as "Eternal September" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September). The old-timers on Usenet and IRC at the time thought that me and my classmates were idiots. That we killed the "old Internet".

From my perspective though, the "old Internet" died when Deja News sold out to Google. When phpBB forums started replacing Usenet, and ICQ or other chat apps started replacing IRC.

From the perspective of those newbies, the "old Internet" died when phpBB forums were replaced by LiveJournal pages and blog comment sections. When ICQ fragmented into AOL, Yahoo, and MSN instant messengers.

Those people saw the "old Internet" die when pages and blogs coalesced into early social media.

Those people saw the "old Internet" die when social media took on its contemporary shape (e.g. YouTube videos becoming more professional and SEO-oriented, clickbait, photo and video-based social media surpassing text-based social media).

This article is just some person at Buzzfeed, writing a eulogy for the "old Internet" as understood by the generation of people who have jobs at Buzzfeed.
Being informed and aware are valuable goals.

I’m skeptical that the news industry has such significant deviation in outcomes globally, especially while having similar business models.

I’m genuinely curious: is there a particular news source you’ve found that delivers on evaluating global events/decisions, selecting the most relevant/important ones, and explaining them in an educational/useful manner?

The news is in the business of calling attention to things. Whether that attention is informative or useful is not something they take responsibility for.

Watch journalists when they are interviewed, they have a familiar line: they are calling attention to an issue - that’s their job - whether or not it is important is up to the reader.

When I get caught up in the drama of news I use Journalism 101 to remind myself I’m not actually gaining information in exchange for my attention:

A. Is this story about an event that has occurred (or is it speculation or reporting the speculations of others)?

B. Is the coverage establishing what occurred with independently verifiable facts? (Extra points if you can then find those verifications easily).

C. Does it bring context from people who have been directly effected by that event?

D. What did you learn about the nature of that event that you didn’t already know?

When I applied basic journalistic standards to my news consumption, it went down precipitously.

One can arguably be better informed about what is going on in the world and the decisions that are being made by focusing on building.

Builders share what is going on in the world with each other - such as discoveries that can help solve common challenges.

They share decisions that can effect their ability to solve problems - like new regulations and laws.

Chasing some global perspective that we must constantly keep up-to-date on, that’s the fantasy.

Building, as grandparent suggests, is how we engage with the world around us.
Marine forward observers are also pilots.
Looks like a language designed to be very hard to program in, yet have just enough rules and abilities to do powerful things. I don't know if it's Turing complete, it didn't get that category on the wiki page so nobody proved that so far.

The car 'o' keeps moving in its current direction, and whenever reaching any symbol, it has to follow the rules (change direction or not, alter memory values or pointer, or end the program when it's a #). This, then, allows to write programs that'll do interesting things with the memory and memory pointer (this is very similar to brainfuck in fact), but it looks like that's not going to be trivial in this one.

In the "increment" program example: the car starts in a random direction. If it goes up, you can see that it passes a single '^' before entering the exit '#', and '^' increments memory, so that case is simple.

If the car starts any of the other 3 directions, lots of shenanigans have to be done due to having to compensate the fact that using the direction symbols to change directions to go to the intended exit also moves around the memory pointer or increments/decrements the memory too much.
The old Web died and here is how we can make a new one
https://www.fastcompany.com/90304317/a-male-ctos-lessons-on-...

"5 things I’ve learned working with a women-dominated engineering team"

Make that six things that you have learned...
Machine learning on mobile and edge devices: 2019 year-in-review
That was the reason why the Germans agreed to allow him passage through Germany in the famous "sealed train", yes.
I've never heard anyone actually say that optimization is evil... probably, because people seem to actually enjoy optimizing code.

What's "evil" is optimizing without benchmarks/profiles/etc. Naive implementations are usually easier to write, and can give you a baseline for how much there is to gain (as well as providing "correct examples" for more complicated algorithms).
> when it comes to throwing people in jail we should strive for prove

Pre-trial detention is common worldwide. In this case, it was loosened. (Clearly, too much.)

> Ghosn may indeed have engaged in criminal activity but nothing you describe proves it, or even seriously indicates it

It's not proven. That was for the trial to conclude. Criminal efforts in Japan, France and elsewhere will continue.

There is a preponderance of evidence, the legal standard in most jurisdictions, for bringing charges around embezzlement. I agree the compensation charges were weak. But they weren't the bombshell.

In any case, we'll get the facts over the coming years. The Japanese case will continue. And Ghosn fleeing will likely prompt investigations in the United States, at the very least for asset seizure.
Depends on the device type, location and needs.

As for what most use to connect, WiFi, Cellular service and Satellite technologies are common. In my experience satellite is reserved for burst or alert type data given the low bandwidth and costs when it comes to IoT devices.
For those who don't get it: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
We can do something

https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-web-that-lost-its-way-c...

We have already been there with AOL, MSN, CompuServ. We learned that instead of government regulation we just need a really robust open-source permissionless ecosystem of software to run on servers and clients, like the Web, to disrupt them.

I saw this coming in 2011 and built a company to be part of the solution. If you want to learn more about the solution, ignore the token part (that’s to make it more like Xanadu) and read this to diagnose the problems and the solutions:

https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Distributed-Operating-...

Contact me if you want to join the effort btw. Especially if you’re proficient in Javascript and/or PHP and like to work from home.
That's not an argument, it's a naked conclusion about an argument.

If you'd like to send a counter-argument, I'd be happy to read it. If you'd prefer to play referee, I've no interest.
> A Google spokesman on Tuesday confirmed it would scrap the licensing structure, saying this was in line with international rules and followed changes to U.S. tax law in 2017... The tax strategy was legal and allowed Google to avoid triggering U.S. income taxes or European withholding taxes on the funds, which represent the bulk of its overseas profits... Under pressure from the European Union and the United States, Ireland in 2014 decided to phase out the arrangement, ending Google's Irish tax advantages in 2020.

This is fantastic news because laws were changed and that worked.

The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced. Corporations are supposed to maximize profits. And governments are supposed to collect taxes in effective ways.

It's always been a derelection of duty of governments when these loopholes exist in the first place. So it's great news that with enough publicity, democratically elected lawmakers felt the pressure from voters to fix this.

In other words, this is democracy working -- which is always nice to see.
And what happens when the government doesn’t stick to their word?

Nothing. Asymmetrical power relationships are complicated.
Banning CFCs. The UV index is already better than it would've been without the ban. By 2050 or so, it would've been TRULY bad, with significant rise in skin cancer.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/WorldWithoutOzone...
From the Wikipedia page you linked:

> The media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 Buzzfeed stories about Barack Obama in 2016 (most from Buzzfeed News, but also from the general BuzzFeed site), 65 were positive, 35 were neutral, and one was critical. The report called Buzzfeed's coverage of Obama "creepy" and "almost uniformly uncritical and often sycophantic".

I do wonder how BuzzFeed(News) rises the HN ladder though. The only benefit I see to having content like this here is to display what opinions some demographic of people consume and believe.
Yes, OK, siege.

But sack or not, 1.5-2.0 million died, and the area was devastated.
Well, I meant this outlet is not impartial, and it is often cited in Russian state media when they write about "strong Russian superweapons":

"It is worth pointing out that it is not the first time the National Interest has been a crutch for Russian propaganda outlets. Indeed, the U.S. publication seems to run a story every week about some Russian superweapon that America must fear. The latest came just four days ago, and claimed a developmental weapons system, the S-500, will kill all U.S. fighter jets.

Almost all of these stories get regurgitated in the Russian press, and presented to the Russian people as conclusive evidence that Russia is the great military power the Kremlin claims to be."

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/04/14/dear-america-russi... (2017)

This article on the other hand is about American "ultimate Cold War terror weapon", so probably could contain bias in the other direction (I just skimmed it).
Unfortunately, the "old" internet involved a lot of trust. Once sufficient numbers of untrustworthy players enter the system, you have to figure out how to protect yourself from spam and malware, and for most people that means using locked down systems such as iOS and services that verify identity via phone numbers and whatnot.
Do you have any references to crohn's? Thanks
> Not Google being good

That goes without saying. What does need to be said is that anti-Google implications should not be taken from this statement.

1. The prior and new behavior is neither good nor bad.

2. That only Google does this is, and should be singled out, is a bit of pitchfork-ism (to be fair, from the article, not your comment). Lots of companies do this and lots of companies will need to stop doing it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
> I don't deny that it ended up that way.

> But it's important to consider how external forces drove its development in that direction.

> I do think that it could have turned out very differently.

So imagine this was written in response to saying "Nazi Germany was angry and suspicious because it was a brutal fascist regime that relied on purging dissidents and killing millions to stay in power."

I think most people would have a bit of a bone to pick ... so ... I dont know - food for thought. I don't think we need to equivocate every time we condemn what the USSR was.
It's both cost-rational and environment-rational to invest heavily in clean energy (with or without the comparatively paltry tax incentives).

The long-term costs of climate change and inaction are unfortunately still mostly external costs to energy producers. We should expect that to change as we start developing competencies in evaluating the costs and frequency of weather disasters exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. We all get to pay for floods, fires, tornados, hurricanes, landslides, blizzards, and the gosh darn heat.

Insurance firms clearly see these costs. Our military sees the costs of responding to natural disasters. Local economies see the costs of months and years spent on disaster relief; on just getting back up to speed so that they can generate profit from selling goods and services (and pay taxes to support disaster relief efforts essential to operational readiness).

The cost per kilowatt hour of wind (and solar) energy is now lower than operating existing dirty energy plants that dump soot on our crops, air, and water.

With wind, they talk about the "alligator curve". With solar, it's the "duck curve".
Grid-scale energy storage is necessary for reaching 100% renewable energy as soon as possible.

Iowa's renewable energy tax incentives are logically aligned with international long-term goals:

UN Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
https://www.globalgoals.org/7-affordable-and-clean-energy

Goal 13: Climate Action
https://www.globalgoals.org/13-climate-action

SDG Target 12.6: "Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices and sustainability reporting" (CSR; e.g. GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards that we can score portfolios with)

https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-develo... :

> Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

...

> Thanks. How can I say "try and only run this [computational workload] in zones with 100% PPA offsets or 100% directly sourced #CleanEnergy"? #Goal7 #Goal11 #Goal12 #Goal13 #GlobalGoals #SDGs

It makes good business sense to invest in clean energy to take advantage of tax incentives, minimize future costs to other business units (e.g. insurance, taxes), and earn the support of investors choosing portfolios with long term environmental (and thus economic) sustainability as a primary objective.
An effective solution to never losing a plane like Malaysian Airways 370 has existed for a long time (automatic transmission of GPS location via satellite), but hasn’t been done due to cost. The cost of doing that would be far less than the cost of upgrading all radios worldwide to be digital (remember, it’s not just planes, but ATC, airports, the handhelds used by ground crews, etc).
>in Japan, no less, which is famous for its harsh treatment of prisoners

Worse than the USA? The only place on earth I've heard of that has good treatment for prisoners is western Europe.
Live worldwide CO2 visualisation and forecasting
My guiding goal as a practicing technical writer is how do I transfer knowledge as efficiently as possible? For that reason I think it’s a skill that is applicable to anyone whose job depends upon a lot of collaboration, which is why I think we see the topic come up somewhat frequently here on HN.

I 100% agree that technical writing is a discipline with a specific meaning and is not the same thing as writing about technology.
So, breathing hard when exercising isn't a thing? Don't need more oxygen then vs resting? How can that all work?
I was air-crew on a C-130 platform, I got to take part in a night aerail refueling once.

It's truly an awesome sight. The aircraft are so big, and so close together. The tanker has colored lights all over it, I expect to help guide the following plane.

Through the windshield, it looks larger than life and a little surreal.
I think you are agreeing with GP: the Marines have their own carriers, which they call amphibious assault ships, so they don’t have to rely on the Navy’s carriers the next time the Marines get pinned down like they did at Guadalcanal.
Pretending that fires have gone up 10x[] this year is an agenda, too

[]Yeah made up number, not the point
You can generate a secure random bitstream by flipping a coin. To eliminate bias, use the von Neumann procedure: flip the coin twice; if the results differ, use the first; otherwise, try again. If you're paranoid about snooping, go out into the woods or make a Faraday cage or something.
> Didn't the SBA payments continue after Ghosn left?

Given the specific payments aren't publicly detailed, it would be impossible to say.

> And folks said these types of payments generally got a lot of levels of approval?

This is contradicted by both Nissan and Renault's Boards. (The approvers were Ghosn and the other executive in jail in Japan.)
if you understand, how containers work, this is something you can do with a statically linked executable today. That's basically what Go is built around. So, it seems like it's a not so futuristic idea.
E-mail and Usenet (or even Fidonet, for that matter) were a vast UX improvement over Compuserve. Today's monopolized walled gardens are more like that Compuserve of old than a truly open ecosystem.
I concur that Bose isn't great for sound quality. Their noise-cancellation is quite good although others have caught up/surpassed them.

I'm a bit of an audio snob so don't do wireless. The Sony MDR-7506 is my default go-to. It's light and has the best midrange/mid-high detail and tone.

I do keep a pair of Bose QuietComfort for plane trips and office privacy (wearing better quality earbuds underneath).

I can't deny the convenience of wireless and will likely get the Sony which offers a wireless/wired combo in the same model.
IIRC as long as you use ES modules, tree-shaking is trivial?

EDIT: not that trivial https://webpack.js.org/guides/tree-shaking/
>I made sure there were a number of undocumented steps involved in setting up LI that couldn't be done without involving me or one trusted developer directly.

So, countries need to bribe a single developer.

>It was also purposefully architected to handle a scale of wiretapping of about 1 in 10000 people

That's more than enough to target political opponents. By these numbers, you would be able to target 33,000 Americans. In a small country like Ireland, (4.9 mil) you would be able to target 490 people; lawyers, heads of political parties, journalists...

>That was the the ratio I got off-the-record from someone in the first western customer country

Sounds super legit, I can see why you are so confident it won't be abused /s.
> Among the proposals in the book are that employees should have 50% of the seats on company boards; that the voting power of even the largest shareholders should be capped at 10%;

This is really the solution to the heart of the rising inequality problem [1]. I don't know at what point in the history of world was it decided that shareholders would get the vast majority of voting rights. But it is time, that got changed. Labor needs its voice heard.

[1] Economic inequality is bad because rich people have more political power than poor people. Democracy = equal political power for all.
Laravel and Realtime: Build Several Realtime Application with Laravel
Traced: New robocall bill signed into law
There was a Golden Age when Google would actually return results for interesting small sites on a regular basis. This was before they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and (apparently) just upranked major sites and downranked minor ones ('08 or '09?), giving up on usefully indexing the "lesser" parts of the web. Also back when content that wasn't frequently updated didn't suffer badly in search results, so niche "evergreen" content on small sites could actually be found by search pretty often.
> misconceptions

I'd wager it's concern trolling or outright lies more often than misconceptions. The people invoking this rarely give a wit about birds, they just find this a convenient stick to hit wind turbines with, either for denial purposes or for NIMBY purposes. Look no further than sverige downthread.
There is a plastic cap and a plastic bag inside this cardboard bottle, of course. If I purchase these I make sure to separate the cardboard so it can be recycled but I believe many places the cap/bag will not be recycled.
Have you invited the wind farmers to put a turbine on your acreage?