skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GFI (controlled by Ghosn) paid SBA (an Omani businessman, Suhail Bahwan) for "marketing incentives."

Nissan-Renault paid "overseas distributors" for services allegedly never rendered. Those funds then found their way to GFI, a Ghosn family controlled entity. This is, if true, embezzlement.

It was this finding that caused Ghosn's support at Renault to crater. It's also what prompted the French probes.
The Intercept started out strong, but has also devolved into reactionary clickbait-y crap as of late (also hosts pieces written by unrepentant race-baiters like Shaun King). Really sad as I used to like them.

It seems those with hard paywalls that don't have to rely on clickbait-y headlines are able to have a bit more integrity (who would have known?!). Foreign Affairs is generally pretty good for actual analysis on world events (it's politics, yes, but they are good at what they do).
From looking at the contents listing of this issue (400+ pages!) this looks like it might be Part 1 of a LISP tutorial that perhaps was extended in subsequent issues? I wonder if archive.org has got it all.
Sure the politics of health systems will slow down implementation. However, I have seen many times in my career where technology has made peoples job titles more "scarce" as the efficiency gains of new medical software have decreased the time needed for people to do that job.

Radiologists are likely to see a lower demand as a result of these technologies and will either A) Spend more time on complicated cases or B) Be let go. Nobody is saying ALL radiologists are going to be out a job. Look at dosimetry as a recent example of how software improved, and the time to contour per patient decreased, causing many health systems to shrink their dosimetrist staff or offload the responsibilities to the physician office.

This isn't the first time technology has been applied to healthcare, change will come slowly and eventually people will have to find new fields to work within healthcare.
OK, Buzzfeed.
This advice is so much more important than which course or book you choose.

Don't sweat the choice too much, choose one of the canonical books, and commit to mastering the material by doing, not by (solely) reading.
Lots of downvotes, but this comment is essentially correct. I have never seen an American business mag lionize an executive for their "greed", for example. Innovation, vision, boldness, etc. etc. It may all be B.S., but it's not saying "this executive, he's so greedy, isn't that great?!"

Greed is not perceived as negatively in the U.S. as in, for example, Japan, but it is not, here or anywhere I am aware of, perceived "in a good light". When you want to suck up to an executive in the U.S., you don't commend them on how "greedy" they are, because (in the U.S. like anywhere else), that's an insult.
I like it. Sometimes the selling comes first, before even making it. :)
Look, it was a mess. At that point, Russia was still a feudal state.

And some say that Lenin was actually a German agent, directed to destabilize Russia, and keep it out of WWI.
Rails uses I18n.locale as a "global variable" to store the locale of the request. Behind the scenes this is stored in Thread.current[]. So if you have a request that sets the locale to non-default one and you perform some work inside a lazy block, I18n.locale will return an incorrect value inside that block.
Learn to cook one or two simple dishes that don't take a lot of time to prepare.
This is a common misunderstanding. There are many different types of context switching and you need the context (heh!) To compare apples to apples.

Kernel to userland, thread to thread, process to process, kernel thread vs user thread, etc. It's conflated because different threading models and different kernel/userland separations exist.

Generally speaking (in linux) threads perform much much faster than switching processes.
As a product person, I want to hear someone's proposed solutions even if their ideas are crap. The reason is that sometimes their proposed solutions help me understand the problem better, and sometimes there is an aspect of their proposed solution that makes it into the final solution too.
Also have a look at the video on how to do it on yourself.
That's an interesting observation. I wonder whether a falling empire correlates to children misbehaving at schools.

I wonder whether studies were done on it in Britain or Spain, both of which you could say had empires which collapsed (though this did not threaten their whole existence).
What do you mean by 375 meters "total"? They were 0.2 nautical miles apart vertically, which is 370.4 meters, and additionally they were separated horizontally by 200 feet, which is ~61 meters.
GDPR exports tell a lot about about how a company models their data. Some companies gives near a sql export which shows you their internal schema. Others use obvious export formats.

None use the same format for much of anything.

At privicy.com we are automating GDPR exports for your accounts, and so we study these export files.

It’s almost like there is a competition for how to make the data different. Let’s take location data as an example.

Latitude and longitude: are they Integers (google), Floats (Facebook), combined into one value as strings (Snapchat)?

Any why does uber record location every time you touch the screen?

And then there are people formats...
> Regionally, we've had a couple thousand high end luxury units built

People conflate "luxury" and "expensive".

Any housing you build in an acute housing shortage will be expensive. This is because there is so much unmet demand, not because it's "luxury".

So it's impossible to build cheap housing in a housing crisis, and if you demand that only cheap housing be built, you're actually demanding no new housing!

For existing home owners and landlords, that is a profitable strategy to weed out competition for their assets. For anyone else: Don't get fooled!
Are you a vegan that eats an exceedingly safe and clean diet?

Like, I'm pretty strictly Paleo, which means heavy on the whole foods, heavy on the real ingredients from organic and safe sources, local if possible, the only major difference between us should be just that I eat meat and you don't.

Reason I say this is, I know vegans out there who eat fake food because its vegan... but its still fake food. If you are one of the vegans that eats like me, people like us should be avoiding most of the plastic in the diet just by our choices in where the food comes from.

You can't escape it due to the whole "biodegradable/recyclable plastic will save the world" bullshit movement (which is where most of the microplastic is coming from, sadly), but we should be avoiding most of it.
Agreed, I've noticed that too. Also noticed quite a bit more spam posts than usual, not sure if it's related.
Anonymously DOS:sing a hospital because a few families disagreed with their policies is not a heroic work of hactivism. Just because a party is a dick does not morally oblige you to endanger medical treatment of hundreds of individuals.

I would take everything Mr. Gottesfeld communicates with a grain of salt.
This is the model used by most chemical simulation codes (that don't account for quantum chemistry). See for example the LAMMPS simulation software (https://lammps.sandia.gov/)
That was not powered by a fission ramjet. It was by no means the sort of doomsday weapon that TFA describes.
I'm pretty sure sharrows are for indicating to motorists that they should give you 20cm of margin when passing instead of the meter or so that would be customary on a street without them.
Very cool project. I like that you have matched the mac os design. Working on a note app and aiming for a similar UX.

Anyone having an idea how to come close to MassCode's UI with a React.js UI library? Is there anything out there, which is similar?
The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west.

Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do.

The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now.

I am greatly looking forward to all of the decentralization work that is in progress from the numerous people on HN and the internet.
The Big Review of Books 2019
> I don't understand why the people at the local Starbucks who work much harder than me are making on the scale of ten-folds less. The society explicitly and intentionally maintains that situation by maintaining the very low minimum wage.

Supply and demand. If starbucks baristas were paid $50/hour think about how expensive coffees would be. People would either start making their own coffee at home or buying expensive machines that are still cheaper than $50/hour to operate.
The starting point of what? Certainly not the internal instability of Russia. I hope nobody believes you can have a revolution without lots of internal strife preceding it. If you want a starting point for those troubles, you should probably take the shots in Sarajevo in 1914, and the world war that followed.
They have an imprisonment rate that is 1/15th that of the U.S.A., though, so that could be that they don't prosecute unless they're really certain they will win. U.S. prosecutors go after a lot more people.

https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america
Unpopular opinion:

I have _never_ had any real use of TAoCP. I own all volumes and have really tried to make use of them but they feel more like a trivia book than something you can actually use in your work.

Sure, it's cool to own and recommend it but have people actually used it?

To end on a more positive note: I highly recommend "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al. Not as cool but very useful.
From https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut... :

Special Considerations

Due largely to international pressure and the publicity surrounding the use of the double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, the Irish finance minister passed measures to close the loopholes in the 2015 budget. The legislation effectively ends the use of the tax scheme for new tax plans. However, companies with established structures can continue to benefit from the old system until 2020.
That said, I always wonder why people don't abscond more often when facing charges that will see them jailed for the rest of their lives. I suppose it's more likely than not that he did at least some of the dirt he's accused of. But from his personal perspective, the choices are the life of a fugitive and the life of a prisoner (in Japan, no less, which is famous for its harsh treatment of prisoners). For me, the choice would be obvious.
up to 5mm long pieces are called microplastic. That seems huge to me. I'd expected microplastic to be microscopic in size.

I was imagining things like plastic molecules wearing off the inside of an overused water bottle and consumed with the water
> BPA is a known endocrine disruptor, and numerous studies have found that laboratory animals...

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that BPA is safe at the very low levels that occur in some foods. This assessment is based on review of hundreds of studies...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
Yep, still doing listicles.
What proof is there these services were never rendered? Neither article you cited claims that.
I don't actually see a problem with this. I find it way more respectful than stalking users to try to infer what they like, and allows users to correct mistakes of the algorithm (I remember a few years ago I tried Facebook again, and for some reason it was convinced I was some sort of gambling addict and started recommending me pages & bot accounts about some kind of casino game; no amount of flagging helped so I just deleted the account and never looked back).
Related: The Compact Calendar by David Seah

https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

I print this every year for almost a decade now!
Pretty sure my life would have turned out differently if I'd seen some Lisp listings in Rainbow. I do recall William Barden Jr. making fun of parentheses once.
Because you're thinking of 'near' in the sense of 'almost' rather than in the sense of 'physically close to'. In the latter sense the meaning is clear.
You can't really compare horizontal and vertical distances.
This article is of course a lie from beginning to end, but incredibly, people read such things and take them seriously as if there is any truth to it whatsoever.

Notice all of the usual demonization of China and Russia narrative that runs heavy and deep in this propaganda piece? Noticed how there is a lot of that lately? They are preparing the ignorant people of the West for a World War against these two countries. That's why these propaganda organs are pumping out their trash at full speed.

Now please, drop your best tin foil hat jokes in the replies.
A small stirling engine would be easier and safer than a steam setup.
Russia would have fallen over from the stress of the war regardless, but the Germans did help with the transport of Lenin and some friends. Interestingly, wikipedia also mentions some american investment bankers wanting greater market access (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution#American_su...).
Is this a joke? I mean, it's buzzfeed, so it obviously is, but seriously?

That internet didn't die at all! You're looking at the same thing with different company names! Myspace and Facebook are the same thing with a different skin.

I figured this would be an article about like, vBulletin forums, IRC, tilde pages, something like that.

They all still exist, you're just not using them, why don't you start?
how was that not a trap?
Meh of course you are not going to be Gordon Ramsey in an hour. To read how to cook rice, get to know when meat is ready (if you buy meat from supermarket you probably can under cook it and still be fine) and how to boil/prepare some vegetables. Then that hour where you read instructions for 10-20 mins, did an experiment that took next 30 mins... Voilà you can now cook the same thing for next couple weeks in only 30 mins without reading recipe again.

Now when you know how to cook one thing you can try out some other stuff which will be small investment because you have some base from cooking that one meal for some time.

I am by no means a chef (so not going to impress anyone with my cooking skills because it still is just basic stuff) but I am not afraid of cooking, I can now quite confidently experiment and I started with baking chicken breasts and boiling rice.
Not Google being good - Irish law has been changed such that it's no longer permitted.

"The legislation passed in Ireland in 2015 ends the use of the tax scheme for new tax plans. However, companies with established structures can continue to benefit from the old system until 2020."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
> This is the US, the chances of him serving all 10 years is slim, probably parole out after a few. Also anytime he already served in jail will go towards his sentence.

He is serving federal, not state, prison time. “Parole out after a few” only applies to state prison.

There is no federal parole system, prisoners who get good behavior credits can reduce their sentence by 15% though. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-federal-parole-sy...
Contributing factor was the saturation of the control frequency due to many aircraft contacting ATC at the same time causing communication difficulties.

I find it puzzling that airplanes still use analog AM radio for voice communication with ATC. To me the awful audio quality and interference between different airplanes sound like a serious safety risk.
If we want a (return to the) boom in open-source and paid standards-based solutions, we gotta ban collecting & monetizing user info. Monetized user info & related advertising paying for "free" walled services are keeping those down. We won't see widely-successful standards-based social networks or messaging services until that option is gone.

[EDIT] and wide success/adoption matters for those in particular because much of their utility is in "everyone's on it" (where "it" may be some other, but interoperable, service)
Yep! Delight is a great word for it.
Ask HN: How do you stay current on technologies and best practices?
When I worked at a mid-sized company, I gained a lot of useful knowledge from other developers on Slack and pull requests. Now that I work on a 3-person dev team, I need to be more self-driven to improve my skills and I find it hard to curate a good selection of articles. I spend a lot of time on HackerNews or r/programming filtering through articles that are repetitive, based around hype, or are irrelevant to my domain. How do you curate a feed that most effectively contributes to your skill as a developer?
Broken link, can't access without an account.
This year I learned to knit and I would say it took about an hour of watching videos and just trying. Of course like the article mentions it wasn't until more practice that I became pretty good at it. If anyone has thought about knitting, it is very easy and I find it relaxing on my mind to just take my focus off of something.
The problem is economies of scale, as it's easier to pay someone who specializes in that sort of thing to host your things for you than to do it yourself.

Even I, a nerd who otherwise loves the old internet, don't self-host my website but use a provider (Neocities). When you compare learning HTML/CSS to make your own, quirky, beautiful website with spending five seconds making a Facebook/whatnot page, convenience will almost always win.
NIO Q3 Results; $257M revenue, $357M loss
Oof - what is an "ordinary guy" and why is that person not Asian?

>"you instantly think of mobile phones strung together in multiple lines in front of an Asian woman or man. What if we tell you, that this is not necessarily the whole truth? That you better imagine a ordinary guy sitting at home at his computer? "
Only problem is that if I don't like you, I signe up and have them upvote the next DonHopkins post.

I think one method is to watch for upvotes that come when someone goes to a link directly instead of organically finding it through /new
I read The Economist. Reasons and benefits I have seen so far are:

1. It's weekly. "World this week" section is more than enough to have a summary of what has happened throughout the globe and I can get this information in less than 5 minutes. If you are interested in being more up-to-date, you can also try Economist Espresso, which is daily.

2. It's not only about world news, but also has different sections such as Technology, International, Book & Arts which gives me a wider range of topics to digest on a weekly basis.

3. This is, in my opinion, the most important bit: Because I'm digesting a wider array of topics but only spending an hour or two every week, I have observed a surprising benefit on human relationships as well:

Kick-starting a conversation with a person I don't know.

As a not-so-social person I have always struggled finding a topic to chat about with a person I have met recently. Now, first thing I do is to ask this person where he/she is from, or what their hobbies are, and all of a sudden I make a connection with an article I have recently read on the magazine and try to learn more from that person. This is a wonderful way of building a relationship as well as learning quite interesting facts about the culture or the hobbies of that person.
There are displays of the planes on their airways. I honestly don't understand how airspace controllers are able to read those displays, but they do, and quite quickly.
The US intelligence agencies own everybody and everything, including the large US internet companies, so of course they are helping each other out. Has nothing to do with Snowden though, who isn't who he claims to be.
The CEO of Enron, Jeff Skilling, was convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison. He cut a deal later to get it reduced to 14 years, of which he served 12 before being released on parole.

Not sure what crime you think the CEO of Lehman Bros. committed (is not having enough pull with the Fed and US gov to get a bailout like the other large banks a crime?)

As for the "many others", Martha Stewart went to jail for five months. Bernie Madoff got a 150 year sentence and is still in jail. Timothy Rigas (Adelphia Communications) served over 10 years in prison. Etc, etc.

If Carlos would were in the US, his assets would have been frozen and not permitted to flee.
Speculation time (not a linguist): I think this is an inherent problem in human languages, they're fundamentally not sophisticated enough to communicate nuances. We see this all the time in engineering, politics etc. People always talk in terms of rules because these are easier to phrase, but in reality everyone takes every decision situation-by-situation basis. But then when you need to explain these nuances, you simply need to use more words.

I think this also makes sense. Take a cat. Cats clearly are able to think a lot more complex than they can communicate. They use a set of very basic body cues to communicate, but they are able to process information a lot more complex than these. Why would this not be like this humans too?

I have some very opinionated friends on coding styles, libraries, programming languages, programming "rules", "principles" etc... They're all sort of rubbish. I think it's important to know and study them because they give you different ways to think of engineering. But when it's time to commit code to production does anyone really think about "ah this is not DRY, premature optimization, NIH etc...". I claim no. We always think about the specific situation. Is it good to invent this code. Is it good to optimize this possible future extension. Is it good to repeat this particular code. We all know repeating code is "bad" but we all also know reasonable exceptions.

So yes, all rules are by nature fuzzy. In fact, whenever someone tells me a principle they hold, I immediately start thinking about fuzzy-fying it i.e. thinking of possible niche cases where this principle would reasonably NOT hold.
That's all later stuff.

And who made those videos? I don't see any organizational affiliation. So I suspect propaganda, of one sort or another.
OK, it's been about an hour. I learned the following:

- there's a visual mode for selecting text

- I can now yank and paste text in normal mode

- I learned to use :split and :vsplit to open new files, and
ctrl-w to switch between them

- I learned a few new navigation commands

- I learned that there's a replace mode (R)

Definitely useful, and I hope I remember everything the next time I open vim!

But I still feel like I'm just scraping the surface. One hour is very little time to learn about the power of vim.
Getting your politics from twitter is a horrible idea. Even if it wasn't full of trolls and bots specifically intended to mislead, it would still be an endless spew of pointless, often fake, outrage where the only thing that matters is keeping Jack Dorsey rich and keeping twitter-itself afloat.
> BASIS and ProvideX commercial flavors

Looks like these are both "business" BASIC variants. Wiki has some information about ProvideX, nothing about BASIS (either the company or the BASIC product). What's the point of coding in these sorts of languages at the dawn of the 2020s? Do you still have a lot of legacy code around that can't be forward-ported for some reason? Do you have non-technical folks surveying the code, or even contributing to it?
“to” is instructed not to be used in pilot/atc conversations, for this reason.