skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google actually does this a lot already. It's a very minor thing, but pay attention to the text when signing up for Google services in various countries (cloud, ads, play, etc...), and who you are actually paying your money to. Much of the time, you aren't paying to Google Inc.

You can poke around this page to see the different companies (at least around taxes for Ads): https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375370?hl=en

Ex: Australia is "Google Australia Pty Limited". Japan is "Google Japan G.K.".
If you want to go it alone, I think you're going to have to give up on the idea that there is a "right" set of resources or an optimal path through the curriculum.

I would spend a bounded bit of time (maybe just 10 minutes) every day focusing on the meta question of "how can I make progress given the absolutely massive set of choices I have to make?" and relatedly "am I actually making progress?"

Then I'd just make an arbitrary choice. E.g. pick a topic that interests you, find the top two or three textbooks on the topic, choose one at random and start reading it.

Then keep going back to the meta question. Are you making progress? If not, try another path. If yes, keep going, but remember to ask yourself the meta question tomorrow.

If you do this, you'll get better over time at carving out your own way.

re: going through multiple university books on the same topic. I find it is useful to skim several university books on the same topic. They often have different perspectives, and this is useful for developing intuition. But after doing this I'd just do the exercises from the one I liked the best.
Are you able to advise privacy advocate organizations about how systems like yours work?
Oh please...nostalgia is self deception. I knew this but the movie "Midnight in Paris" had a big impact on my perspective. The main character travels to the 1920s and meets famous writers and figures like picasso. And there were people and a general view that their time was past the "good ol days", we now call their time "the golden 20s" but they thought about how the late 1800s were much better.

Anyway, back on topic: The internet is the global BGPv4 and BGPv6 network,as seen in the global routing table. It's a network and how that network functions has not changed much.

The web on the other hand has changed a lot both in terms of functionality and content. But here's a different perspective: the "old web" was very slow. There were so many limitations, i mean are we talking pre-adobe-flash? If so,you had little rich and dynamic content. You couldn't stream movies,things like napster were viewed as criminal , as much as i dislike it youtube on it's ow has given much such rich and valuable content. Social media sucks but man, we're living in the golden age of memes!. Look at all the great things that happen because people can record videos and share them live/instantly! And security! We have come sooo far!!! From how amazing twitter has been to help infosec pros communicate to all the crypto improvements. I don't think i can go back in time and be able to share or access the same sites and content i did in the past,knowing how everything was so full of holes and made with little to no security consideration. I think I can easily make the argument that the old web was a dumpster fire. But in reality, I think it was ok for it's time and what we have today works for our time as well.

Let's be real here, anyone can host a discord server and many do that. There are so many free web hosting services now that let anyone host their own site without needing to learn html or webadmin. So many blogging platforms like medium and wordpress. So many privacy friendly products and services.

The past always looks different in hindsight and you don't know what you have until it's gone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default-free_zone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
I use Visual Studio and the VisualD extension.
On a modern full-sized laptop etc, sure code efficiency doesn't matter much. But in anything smaller e.g. embedded device, radio card, cheap phone, it means the world. The difference between a product and a fail.

Embedded programmers can probably be identified by their insistence on code efficiency. Speed, space, storage, all critical to them.
That's not what this article is about. Sometimes you have to go looking for an article specifically about the historical context. Here's one I found on initial search [1].

> For the forests and woodlands in the eastern half of the state, this is unprecedented.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/22/austr...
RealClearPolitics.

Because twice daily it lists several outrageous stories from all sides of the political spectrum. I truly believe every news source today is biased, the only way to get any kind of balanced view is to scan them all and triangulate.
It started out as a tech demo. Then people started using it and reported bugs and features request. So support for MSVC was added, and version 1.0 was released. It is relatively low maintenance given that Qt maintain binary compatibility anyway (Qt 6 will be another story).
> The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced.

It's a valid criticism if you don't think that "Corporations are supposed to maximize profits" should be true. When anything can be justified because it maximizes profits it becomes very, very easy to be a technically law abiding unethical company which is a net negative on society.
> Won't this reduce the thermal output of your stove quite significantly

I'm going to chime in and say that I think it will be insignificant. I don't know for sure, but I really doubt you could do much to cool the stove. When it's cold in the Yukon, I'm literally stuffing in ~8-10 big logs every ~12 hours.

It's not at all uncommon for the base of the chimney to be glowing red. Obviously not ideal, but it happens.

When it's past -40, I set my alarm for 1am to get up and put in more wood. The stove would just last the night if I didn't, but it's a pain to light it again from scratch every morning, so it's easier to just keep it going.

All of that is to say the wood stove is absolutely pumping out heat 24x7 from ~September to ~April.

If I already have batteries and charge controllers and inverters, why not wire in a handful of TECs.. even if I only get a combined total of 100W, that's worth having over those months the sun is not up for long, and not strong.
That first paragraph you quoted rings all my “snake oil salesman” alarms. This is the sort of the problem they have with the Watson division – They have brilliant people doing great work but the lies and overhype in marketing makes all of it look like a big con.
Thanks. Interesting how rare and extreme these events are. This suggests a runway process is involved in that the fire spreads and multiplies in just the right conditions, but presumably it takes a while for nature to grow enough to become vulnerable to a large fire again? Not enough data here to tell for sure. It is interesting that some plants have evolved to require fire to survive and reproduce (pyrophytic plants), so wild fire is by no means unnatural. There does not seem to be a positive trend here.
Here is one:

#!/bin/bash --
f0() {
echo 'select moz_bookmarks.title || '"'"' = '"'"' || url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where parent = 2;' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite
}
f1() {
firefox `echo 'select url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where moz_bookmarks.title = '"'$1'"';' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite`
}
f$# $1

Another one:

#!/bin/bash --
curl 'http://icanhazip.com/'
Wow a super one sided article. Pretty sure that with the advent of cheap VMs for hosting or even seeding has increased the total number of personal servers but I could be wrong. Bottom line though is that the internet opened up to a much larger user base and this shaped the majority of interactions we see. I don’t think there is anyone who could reasonably claim the Internet was hindered by the rise of large tech companies. Hosting your own server or using sites who’s interfaces didn’t translate well with other cultures was a barrier to entry for a huge portion of the world. Having everything look similar and hosting content easily and seamlessly made it so even non-English speakers could access the same content. There have been some big hiccups caused by things like conflicting ideals and automation which helped create the ongoing battles we have now where likes are monetized and content is pushed aggressively to vulnerable sections of the population but with those new problems also came new rewards. We are living in an age where a huge majority of the world is connected in ways we never could have dreamed of in 2010. Right now I see the world as being on the precipice of cooperation where we are all shouting at each other but if we step back we might just realize that while everyone is fighting we are all still coming to the table, posting our content and inching closer and closer to a fully connected society.
Given the vastness of the field my advice would be to narrow your focus. And specifically, focus on an area that will hold your interest and seek out the best resources in that area. When I was younger I really wanted to make computer games and picked up Andre LaMothe's Teach Yourself Game Programming. I wound up reading it cover to cover and experimenting with many of the concepts. My career wound up going in a completely different direction but I learned more from that stint of sustained interest in a good book, than many of my university classes.

Second advice is that once you've done a rote exercise find some way to push the boundaries of it. I've found that anything I can do to extend or customize the example helps engage my brain with the material and often leads to learning new things.
Big fan of Effective Altruism. Even if you don't have money to give there are plenty of things you can do to make a better world - ex. 80,000 Hours (https://80000hours.org/job-board/) has a ton of info on going into high impact careers as well as a job board with some interesting opportunities.
Agreed. I too would have enjoyed a discussion of the challenges of technical writing. Especially since I feel like it is becoming increasingly common forego hiring technical writers and have engineers write documentation. Which is a shame because a lot of people rely on documentation for their work and inconsistent/low quality documentation really hurts a technical product.
Finding the Order in Bipolar Disorder
The reason for that alliance was the Soviets needed time to build their army for the expected war with Germany following the Munich agreement and the Germans needed Soviet oil. I don’t think either side trusted each other ever.
So all the available land suitable for wind turbines has been used? There's no more capacity?
Or you can start as France which also was feudalism and end up in a republic. With Napoleon as a speedbump.

The difference is the aims of those rebellions.

Seeing as all the communist rebellions have resulted in hellholes kinda supports this.

I live in Finland so not scandinavia, but none of us nordic countries formed our system via rebellion.
> 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).

That is kind of the thing though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto), it is historical and maybe you can say highlighting this bit of history is done with some ulterior motive - but even if it was I am actually not that concerned about that. If knowing some historic fact changes someone's mind on some issue - not sure why it should be hidden from them - seems kind of nefarious to care even.

If the article itself was deceptive in some way then it would be a problem but then it would be better to just point out the deception.
But this doesn’t factor in that smaller communities have been eaten by the bigger sites. Reddit, for example, has replaced hundreds of niche topic forums in the past decade, and done a rather poor job doing so, in my opinion.
The first alchemists and chemists, including the "father of modern chemistry" Lavoisier, were rich noblemen indulging in a hobby. It's true, being free from the need to earn your daily bread means you can study what you like. If only it were so for all of us
When I used "they have no right" - what I meant was this: they haven't experienced anything fundamentally different 10 years ago, therefore they can't be writing about something that "died" simply due to the fact there was nothing different to experience back then that doesn't exist today. The article seems forced, as any article from fake-factory would be. I'm always skeptical towards such content, that attributes to my negativity when typing all this. I merely find it ironic that someone who has no clue about the matter is writing about it :)
I am a real person and I enjoy both. Lose the dismissive attitude to escape your filter bubble.
Humble Book Bundle: Python and Machine Learning by Packt
American Exurbia/Surbubia reminds me of this song by Malvina Reynolds

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,

There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same

And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives

And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children

And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp

And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,

There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Over here there was an EU mandated (I believe) tax imposed on plastic bags, initially just 4 cents and now up to 7, and it dramatically reduced plastic bag usage.

So economic incentives do work, policy does work.

As far as hoping that chain stores are pressured into doing the right thing goes, I don't know if we can afford to wait for this to happen organically.
And for convenience, a terminal program. It makes debugging the connection to the Model 100 a lot easier. I use Serial on macOS. I don't remember what it costs, but it couldn't have been much.

The Model 100 supports RS232 connections up to (IIRC) 115k baud, but mine gets flaky at that speed, so I keep it at 9600. That's more than fast enough for the tiny files the 100 uses. It's the next door neighbor to instant.
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> If you don't remember it, it wasn't important.

I've found time and time again that something I thought wasn't important before can end up being very important later. That's only what I can remember, too.

Plus, there's a selection bias in what you remember. If you don't remember it, how would you know that it's important or not later?

If the cost is small then I think "digital materialism" is probably mostly okay. I've come to the conclusion that it's hard for me to predict the importance of things later, so if something appears to be ephemeral and has even a modest chance of being important later, I'll archive it and organize it so I can find it later if I want to.
This whole "automate your dependency updates" is gonna bit people in the ass sooner or later. No one except a few select I know, actually review their dependency changes. Most basically have some sort of automated flow where each update becomes a pull-request, and if passes the tests, the person merges it.

Or they do "once every X" full updates of everything, and if the tests pass, they merge it.

Wonder if we soon will have a service you simply connect to your repository and now this is fully automatic, with the commit to master happening automatically if the tests pass?
so that's basically like putting the whole app in a initrd? One could have done that for some time...
If France and Britain hadn't been such assholes after WWI, I doubt that the Nazis would ever have taken over.

The Nazis actually did a good job getting Germany functional again. That doesn't excuse in any way all the horrible stuff that they later did. But it does explain how they took over.

Watch "Triumph of the Will" sometime, from the perspective of people who had spent over a decade after WWI starving.

It's all just cycle of hate. Just how the abused grow up to be abusers. But on a hugely larger scale.
Interesting.

To my (American) eyes, the BBC has a liberal bias. YMMV, of course.
EndlessATC is available for free for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dirgtrats.... and apparently for steam as well. It's edging towards the accurate end of the range of ATC games.
> 1. The prior and new behavior is neither good nor bad.

That depends from which point of view you're looking at it. Technically according to the law? All good. Ethically? Different people will have different opinions, but many would agree that it's bad behaviour. You're a law abiding leech on society, but you're still a leech.
Meta: Does nostalgia always pick up during the holidays? Is this the time when we reflect, on computing as well? We were reminiscing over the Windows 95 GUI, of all things, a week ago. What's next, "in defense of COBOL" or "the elegance of PC DOS 3.0"? If you look hard enough and you have some personal connection, any antiquated architecture seems worth reminiscing, but thank god all of it went away.
The areas burning, the time of the fires and the size of the fires are all aberrant to anything in recorded history, and probably anything in indigenous history. Casualties are actually not as bad as they could be due to fairly strong evacuation warnings. Property losses have been very high despite stronger fire fighting resources being near higher populated areas.

Basically, for the first time in living memory there are areas of Australia that are on fire. We know this fairly accurately from soil, sediment and tree sampling.
> It started out as a tech demo

So anything that starts out as a tech demo should forever be called a tech demo?

> It is relatively low maintenance given that Qt maintain binary compatibility anyway (Qt 6 will be another story).

It is a header only library ... not sure what binary compatibility has to do with it ...
Planes aren't spherical and don't change directions in all ways as easily... so taking the straight line distance isn't as helpful as you'd think.
but with permissions you can conveniently ovveride by default!
The allies of WWI literally invaded Russian to intervene on the anti-Soviet side. I think that is the dictionary definition of an external force.
TeX is not a "language"; it's just a tool for typesetting when you want to go the last mile of achieving book-quality printing. The fact that it turns out to be possible to (ab)use its macros (originally designed merely to save the user some typing effort) to do "programming" shows only that it's easy for things to become "accidentally Turing complete" [1], and the cleverness/perversity of its user community.

> TeX was designed for typesetting, not for programming; so it is at best “weird” when considered as a programming language. — DEK, Digital Typography, page 235

> In some sense I put in many of TeX's programming features only after kicking and screaming. — DEK, Digital Typography, page 648

> So TeX is a programming language but I had to put in those features kicking and screaming. […] In a way I resent having every language be universal because they’ll be universal in a different way. […] I was really thinking of TeX as something that the more programming it had in it, the less it was doing its real mission of typesetting. When I put in the calculation of prime numbers into the TeX manual I was not thinking of this as the way to use TeX. I was thinking, “Oh, by the way, look at this: dogs can stand on their hind legs and TeX can calculate prime numbers.” — DEK, interviewed in Peter Seibel's Coders at Work

> Michael Plass, who was Don's student and worked with Don on TeX, told me once that "Don tried very hard not to make TeX a programming language. Unfortunately, he didn't succeed." — Norman Ramsey

I've written more about this verbosely elsewhere [2], but in any case even if TeX had been intentionally designed from the start for public consumption (rather than for just him and his secretary, as was his original intention), it hardly justifies something like "terrible computer scientist" — TeX/MF/CM was just his side-project; the computer science is different.

[1]: (Accidentally Turing-complete) https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

[2]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/384881/48 , https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/40282/115
Try http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/

It's a really great book as an introduction to semantics and proofs.

A great alternative is http://www.concrete-semantics.org/.

Concrete Semantics uses Isabelle, which is based on ZFC set theory. Whereas FRAP uses Coq, that employs constructive types.

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu is also fantastic, covers some of the same topics, and proceeds a bit more slowly.

I'm betting formal methods will become more wildly used in the 2020s. It'd be interesting to see e.g. reinforcement learning used to automate proof discovery.
I'm on the right, I believe Fox is biased-right.

(Of course I see a lot of left-lean in a bunch of others.)
> means intentionally paying more tax than legally obligated

You have an unusual definition of “legally obligated” if you feel they were 100% following the law doing this. Sure, it used to be legal in Ireland, but intentionally moving IP to claim revenue in a different tax jurisdiction than where the money was earned was a legal grey area at best.
Sound advice.

However, we don't need to use most of the products we use anyway, but we do, so we should try to make things have as little impact as possible.
Criticism is not misplaced if you feel these companies are not being "good citizens", nor is it really acceptable to excuse it away as "companies are supposed to be greedy and game the system as much as possible", and the public "outage" over these companies moves the democratic process along.

Ireland was motivated to stimulate their economy with these tax policies, which allowed exploitation of these loopholes in the first place. Finally they are closing, but with ever increasing regulatory capture, new loopholes will likely be found.
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> had been taken into BCH's custody after a court determined that her parents had been harming her and impeding her care.

Do you have a link for the court decision? It's not clear how much proof did the hospital provide, and I guess the initial decision was a cautionary measure (because for the judge is safer to do something wrong than doing nothing and facing a tweetstorm in case there is a problem).

> I guess my point is just, don't be this clown.

I agree with that.
Also the theme song to Weeds