skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your argument may be technically true with regard to speakers Sonos has EoL'd product [0]. It's only a matter of time. The problem with SaaS reliant hardware is very few vendors make the effort to support products long term (>7 years).

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/sonos-finally-kills-off-cr100...
Of course what they did is legal.

A loophole is legal, that's the point.
It's a way around the intent of the law legally.
> I think the next decade will see this more and more: people actually paying for the things they use on the internet, because they realise that's the only way this will work now.

I think that "pay what you want"/crowdfunding models can fund a lot of the stuff that used to be provided "free" back in the day. The thing about paying for stuff on the internet is that many people find it quite inconvenient. It's not about the actual monetary expense, that's a minor factor (although it is a barrier to causal browsing, in and of itself). It's everything else you have to deal with as part of paying for something.
This is super cool. Since I usually read Month, Date, Year - would've been awesome if the months/day was on the left. Took me a minute to read it - but makes a lot of sense.
Right. Buzzfeed. Trying to slide itself into the group that just watched it die, eliding over all those times it injected Old Internet's regular IV drip with 100 mL of a 25 M solution of listicles and clickbait.
Do you think that the accountants at Google, Apple, et al. have failed to foresee this sort of pushback? I personally don't doubt they've been planning alternative tax-avoidance scenarios for years. That would include lobbying other jurisdictions for favorable tax treatment in any rational scenario.

To date, they have suffered no serious financial or reputational consequences for tax evasion, so there's no reason to think they won't continue to avoid taxes as part of their overall financial strategy.
Tangent, but I wish we'd come up with better labels for our viewpoints in the US than "conservative" or "liberal". It's been on my mind a lot lately.

"The Once and Future Liberalism" explores this idea in depth: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2012/01/24/the-once-an...

"Liberal" is maybe the most overloaded word in politics. "classical liberalism", "economic liberalism", "liberal democracy", what the American right means when they say "liberals" - all WAY different.
Um...no. So much no.

When you tax a corporation it comes from shareholders.
> we should attempt to change things until they develop a way we like, where "we" is any interest group.

OK, then my interest group is "respecting contracts and continuing to place the burden on consumers to make informed decisions, and on corporations to not commit fraud."

What you present is, frankly, a disgusting way to think, and gives absolutely no volition to or consideration of the rights of the individuals who work in and operate these companies. Their rights are just as valid as yours, and you have no legitimate right to change or invalidate the contractual relationship a company has with its customers.

It's also not a "free software" way to think about the problem. FOSS methodology suggests that you present a better alternative, not to use the violence of central authorities to force your way upon everyone else.

> democratic states

Speak for yourself buddy. I live in a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.
The saddest thing about this is how desperately people cling to records of the past, as if they matter.

If you actually missed something from back then, you would remember it, and it's not really gone. If you don't remember it, it wasn't important. But here people are, trying to convince you you've lost something that you don't even know what it is.

The first time you lose all your files, it feels like disaster. The second time, you realize it's just digital materialism, and you get along
just fine without it.
This falls apart when you consider one common scenario:

We are loading a number of data files and the source of truth is remote. This is O(n) the amount of data.

Two ways to do it: always request the remote data, or cache it, and only ask the remote for changes.

These differ by a constant factor, and it's always a good idea to maintain a local cache when it's possible. Otherwise there's a very good chance that startup time will be dominated by network requests.
> I assume music tastes don't differ that much.

I wouldn't make that assumption. Personally, I have a wide range of musical genres that I listen to and those tastes change over time, even month to month depending on how I'm feeling. I've met enough people that say similar things to think this isn't uncommon.
Well done. The quality of explanation and production value were good. It seems like by adding more processing power, you can double or triple the scan rate.
> If you remembered how to log in, you could download your old chat logs.

AIM never stored chat logs, did they?
My strategy is investing in renewable energy shares. So far I am long Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and Tesla. It’s early to tell if this is a viable long term strategy as carbon assets become stranded etc.
I grew up in one, my parents currently live in a different one.

Both had major livability issues:
- No privacy (too much open plan space)
- very expensive to heat and cool due to poor insulation
- poor construction (this is both a design issue and a quality issue)
- ugly (as the article contends, this is a quality-of-life issue)
> Its use is being controlled by very serious judges/courts.

'Controlled' is an overstatement: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
The old internet is still around, if you know where to look.

You just need to look past the light pollution of google, facebook and twitter.
A wiki is a wiki: Content is maintained by all its users! Seeing an older longer history makes me confident that it will be around for longer, and that potential additions by readers won't go to waste.
"A loophole is an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system." [1]

A loophole is by definition legal, otherwise it would be fraud.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole
your nonsense is falsified in your own source

>However, there’s a simple reason she can’t confirm that estimate – because “there’s very little research on arsonists worldwide

someone mentioned on Reddit that people were attributing these fires to arson and I was incredulous. but here we are
A professional pilot can probably speak to the importance of listening in to other communications as a part of maintaining situational awareness.

The issue of interference has also been raised with respect to the Tenerife crash, where it apparently thwarted a last-chance effort to avert the disaster. For a discussion of the issues, see here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36074/is-there-...
how in the holy hell do you read this?

there are only 5 dates columns; how do you read days in month columns 6 and 7 (feb aug mar nov)?

am i suppossed to matrix multiply this thing or what. im not normally too dumb for things but boy this is totally opaque to me.
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There was no claim in that comment. "It seems" implies a personal opinion of the poster.
A recession will come, but who knows if it will be in 2020.

There are plenty of things to be concerned about, such as [0], but the existence of explosives does not imply an explosion is imminent. There needs to be a spark in the right place. Tectonic plates interacting means there will be seismic activity, but when and of what magnitude? Such questions are impossible to answer with any detail and certainty.

[0] https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/different-acronyms-same-di...
I am pretty sure the lawmakers intended it exactly as it was used. I'd give them benefit of doubt if they closed the hole within a year after discovery, but this is the most well known tax loophole of which even children know the name, used for several decades.
That is an amazing resource! How is that measured? I assume it's some sort of satellite spectroscopy?

And what's up with Belgium? Appears to be a huge plume from Dunkirk.
The marine on the beach isn’t the one designing our armed forces. So I don’t particularly see why an un-nuanced perception on the part of ground troops is particularly relevant to the question of “why are our armed services designed in this manner?”
My short 4 word recommendation for people wanting to learn to speak in public: slow down, speak up.

For me, those two things get you a lot farther than you might think, and solve two of the biggest issues I see from people.
You can use these types of materials to extract energy from any energy gradient.

In the particular case of solar panels, in order to have a workable thermal gradient, you need to have some sort of conductive path from the solar panel to the cold reservoir (assume the ground under it) - that's extra cost there. Then once you have the TEG running, what you're actually doing is adding an impediment to heat flowing from the solar panel to the cold spot, likely causing the solar panel to be a bit warmer (thus decreasing its efficiency). The increase in energy production per given investment is almost always going to be lower than just getting more solar panels.

You see this is most bulk energy production contexts. It's rare for these energy scavenging techniques to make economic sense. Where you start seeing them make sense is when you have other constraints come into play. You can see this with other aspects of solar generation like solar tracking.
This is a really cool visualization.
Personally, I've noticed a dramatic increase in the Iowan bald eagle population over the last decade. I haven't looked up the actual numbers, though.
You're forgetting spam. Spam destroyed all those first generation federated systems. IRC survived because it was too niche for spammers to target much but spam is the primary thing that killed Usenet and email as a truly open system.

The closed systems were better able to fight spam because they could easily ban people and IPs.

On a deeper level spam, "brattish" commercial sites, etc. all come from when money got involved.

The old Internet was mostly noncommercial. Money changes everything.

Even on the new sites I saw a massive shift when e.g. it became possible to monetize YouTube videos. All the sudden everything became about engagement and controversy and got big and divisive and dumb and flashy.

Ultimately we must adapt or perish. There is no going back. I think all new systems must be designed with the trial by fire of spam and other profit motivated attacks in mind from the start.
In a similar vein, try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=21918450
What's RSS syndication?
One is unlikely to outthink Bloomgberg’s recession index, especially since recessions are usually the result of collective loss of confidence: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/us-economic-recession-tra...
Why would someone who is prepared to commit arson be deterred by laws on trespassing?
Once upon a time I trusted the "news", and to be fair, it seemed more balanced than it is now. Maybe that was just naivete.

Today? Hard to find any "news" that isn't slanted. The weather perhaps? "News" has become propaganda.
You give our word not to flee. For some of us the dishonor for breaking our word is worse than being jailed unjustly.

Besides, liberal freeing society collapses if we cannot or will not hold people to their word, replaced by totalitarianism.
> What Google did is not illegal.

That's why it's called a 'loophole' - when the letter of the law is followed, but the intent is subverted (or what people imagine what the intent should have been).
I have multiple friends that spend their money on junk they don't need because "It's better than earning half a percent interest in a bank account." And since that is their benchmark, they justify it all as a prudent financial practice.
Many big cities "puff" out a CO cloud that will come and go. On the bottom left there's a time visualization that you can play with.

Yeah its NASA's MOPITT sensor on the Terra satellite

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/terra/spacecraft/index.ht...
> They couldn't shame corporations into taking down sites they disagree with.

Just host your site behind Cloudflare and optimize it for Google SEO. With the admitted and notable exception of two websites, they'll host absolutely anything and give it top rankings.
From what's being discussed in this thread it's more the other way around, he fled because he was receiving special treatment, had him being given a fair prosecution he wouldn't feel the need to flee Japan
Oh, yeah, definitely that should also be illegal. If you want to train an ML model you should have to pay directly for that data, not in connection with any other service or product. The current system means every successful monopolist is also a de facto nigh-unassailable leader in ML, which clearly sucks. "Create or buy a massive spying service" shouldn't be a necessary step 1 to realistically competing in consumer- and human-focused ML.
ARC's aren't supposed to be listed... I'm not sure how many causal sellers that stops though.
That's also not how evolution works.

Some whale species live in excess of 200 years. They've only had a generation or two; evolution doesn't happen that fast.

We found a living whale a few years back with a harpoon stuck in it from the 1800s. https://www.foxnews.com/story/nineteenth-century-harpoon-fou...
Don't worry, you'll find out in the 2029 after its been used for ten years just like the rest of us :)
Yes, family members were notified too
Where would you suggest they go if there are no public restrooms available to them? I mean my neighborhood is rampant with people pooping in the street, but I’d never call the cops on them. What else are they gonna do?
Then you argue.
It is interesting how much downvoting happens without arguments. Seems like capitalism is a holy cow.
I hope so, but if you mean cryptocurrency wake me up when there is more to it than speculation and gambling. Other than the "wire transfer" classic use case for Bitcoin I see nothing new that anyone is actually using that is not one of those two things.
I grew up in Iowa. I inherited 160 acres of prime farmland from my grandparents and parents. I actively participated in the successful lobbying of the county commissioners in the county where my property is located to change the offset rules for wind turbines to make life livable for the people directly affected by them. I personally turned down the offer to build turbines on my land.

What skin do you have in the game?
And even Ireland still remains one of those jurisdictions: while they were successfully pressured into passing this new general legislation, Ireland have refused to accept Apple's unpaid taxes and are spending millions fighting the EU ruling in court[0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2019/09/16/apple-an...
Local paper: SF Chronicle print edition. It's very good, great local issues coverage, which I wish people would pay more attention to, in general. Voting in California (especially Oakland, where I live) is never easy (42 questions last time!) and I felt like I knew what half of them were in advance, which is no small thing :)

Economist for world news. First-class politics coverage. I always laugh at their briefings. It's like, OK, here we go. "Briefing: Climate change". I wouldn't be surprised if we get "Briefing: World peace". Weighty and substantive.

Stratechery for tech news. It's great. I also read AVC (Fred Wilson's blog), Jason Crawford's new "Roots of Progress" from time to time. Less often I check out Remains of the Day or Wait But Why.

If I'm really feeling ambitious I read foreign affairs. Straight from the US council on foreign relations (CFR). That's the real deal.

I don't pay much attention to US national news. I don't care what nonsense Trump said. I do care intensely about local issues like transit, schools, pensions, and land use (zoning).
Admit that Australian coal extraction is unsustainable and then resign? Admittedly that does nothing for these fires, but without some change future ones are going to be worse.

Bringing that lump of coal into Parliament was a declaration that he wasn't going to care if Australia burnt to the ground so long as he got his share of the coal money.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/09/scott...
it's the opposite of hacking, it's using its giant piles of money to secure preferential treatment. small fish don't have access to such tricks

If google wanted to hack the financial system and improve it, they could , using their giant international cash reserves. Same with apple. Yet they both decided to go with the status quo
I wonder what is the massive concentration in the middle of Africa.
Technology and how we share information always moves forward, this is just a new iteration, I expect that soon we will see decentralized internet services based on what we have learned from cryptocurrency, most services being hosted on others pc with high encryptions and high availability. Imagine a data center that is just the entire world.
The aviation industry: not exactly sticklers for metric usage.
To plan for tomorrow you need to know nothing, to plan for five years you need to know the news, to plan for ten years you need to know politics, to plan for twenty years you need to know history.
Let me answer this question by extending the trend that we observed happening from 2010 to 2020.

Tech will continue to do more for the same price or less as long as you shop carefully.

Houses, education, and healthcare will continue to increase in price in the USA because the political system allows/encourages those industries to charge what they charge.

The battle between walled-gardens and open source will continue.

Nothinh will be definitively resolved
Still requires google play store to install and google services to run - not really "polar opposite to google" after all.
I am surprised that someone who claims to have been an avid reader writes so poorly. Consider, for example,

"Fast-forward to the last year of school. I’ve started writing. It was nothing special really, short fictional stories there and there."

The author's tense is muddled, and I have no idea what "there and there" means. Better would be

"Fast-forward to my last year of school. I started writing. It was nothing special really, just some short stories."

There were a few instances where the author should have used "I" rather than "I've". In fact, I would encourage this author to avoid such contractions altogether.

The goal of writing at least one article a month is laudable, but this author should work on writing craft fundamentals. Perhaps a book like The Elements of Style would help. Even better would be a tutor or coach.
If "being good" means intentionally paying more tax than legally obligated, I don't think any corporation fits the bill.
We are the ones that enable the tech oligarchy. We are, therefore, surrendering to them right now. My suggestion is to use our brains and not rely on the useless and frivolous "services" these tech oligarchy participants provide. We give them their power.
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I honestly don't think the decentralization is going to succeed. Most users prefer the benefits of centralization and aren't concerned with the drawbacks.

Replacing the occasional collapse of a big central service with the low-grade noise of a distributed service run by a thousand unrelated sysadmins isn't going to be improved UX for most users, so most users won't sign up.
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You said it, legacy. Our ERP is essentially a folder of three hundred or so programs that all `RUN` each other and operate on flat files. The coding is mostly maintenance, but we sometimes need to add new programs/modules/menus due to changes in the business. We will be replacing it at some point, hard to say when. I won't miss trying to understand a 30-year old program with line numbers and two-letter variables, but I will bet money that whatever the new system is will be slower and more cumbersome for users.
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To my knowledge over 90% of the firefighters are volunteers and they are not exceptionally well supplied. Australia has done a worse job than other countries with its vast resources could have done. But I agree with you: when has humankind ever truly united on something to pull together?
Sure it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

Doesn't mean things can't go extinct but selection can change a population in a few generations.
I think it's more accurate to say "The old Internet evolved while we watched. Because after all, that's what technology does and we like to see where it's going."
A text editor with a Makefile and gdb have always worked just fine for me. And that is in fact one of the things that appealed to me when I started using D. These days VSCode and CLion seem to be the tools of choice, so maybe I should give them a try.
But the point of systemic thinking is to see when you've hit an area that's vulnerable to human and training factors and try to do the best you can to reasonably remove the risk. There are surely hazards that have caused less loss of life that we still consider dangerous at N=0.

Do you know whether ATC large plane same-size spacing guidelines around airports have changed much over the years? I don't know whether airliner spacing would have generally increased or decreased, but I'd be surprised if it hasn't changed at all.

Edit: I read more about these flights and I think I agree with you that I'm overstating the risk to airliners from wake turbulence. I was expecting to find increases in separation distances in response to the American flight and instead it looks like the only change made was a training change for rudder control.
How important is the programming section for a professional developer?
There was also a lack of incentive to tamp down on flame wars or care about a "quality level" of content when advertisers aren't paying for engaging content.

The SNR on old USENET and IRC was pretty low.
Maybe they are starting to see the writing on the wall: if they keep hiding their profit away, governments are eventually going to tax them on their revenues, regardless of profit. Or based on worldwide profit rather than local profit. That's what France is starting to do, and what the EU is looking very closely at.

I could imagine the US following through: the idea that rich megacorps should pay taxes is not particularly unpopular. And if you can't tax profit, then you have to tax something else...
Even as someone who took algo courses in college I still haven't figured out a good way to go about this. In my experience unless I'm doing it every day my fitness will drop off completely in about two weeks.

2-3 problems a day (3-4 hours of study) has been the only approach that's sort of worked for me so far. Best of luck!
The foreign hate and intervention started long before Stalin.