skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I couldn't agree more with some of the points you make on quitting the toxic current affairs and the constant negative forecasting of the world made by the news media, I just disagree with the idea of simply reclusing from the real world and focusing only on tech-centric content, where this will bring a one-sided understanding of certain stories which forgets those who disagree with us and risks failing to understand why they do, which creates echo-chambers.

The tech that we create is starting to reveal the nefarious side of its uses and that is unfortunately real. The standards and rules put in place to keep them safe involve those involved in politics and legislation. If we as just tech creators ignore the implications, then we will be later held to account for this, despite the license saying other wise. It isn't as simple as that to ignore the importance of such things in this industry with possible regulation on the way.

> Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people...

That's debatable. Perhaps for other things, but not for general communication. But that debate is for another HN thread.

The fact is, any tech that has a direct impact on the world would be hard for politicians, bad actors, activists and news corps to ignore and will most certainly question or exploit it to their agenda and those in power will ultimately hold us accountable.
To counter sibling, IRL conversations also prevents me from sleeping.
There are plenty of high priced apartments and condos in my area that are built in the hideous way described. It's not a symptom of low cost housing and there are inexpensive options for decorating or building that reliably produce pleasing facades and living spaces.

This is not a new science, we've been coming up with inexpensive livable structures for thousands of years, if anything it's vastly cheaper to build them now since we have the benefit of modern construction technology and all of the decorative elements can be mass produced from common or synthetic materials.
I feel like content discovery in those days didn't primarily happen via search so much as word-of-mouth though. Blogs kept a blogroll on the side which had an overlapping network of other bloggers, people in IRC channels or BBSes would recommend other places for you to check out if you were interested in something, webcomics would host guest strips so other artists could cross-promote each other, etc.

In that respect, I feel like Reddit and Instagram are much bigger culprit than Google for sucking up all of the space for socializing and referrals. At one point several of the forums I was on all basically just focused on linking to or talking about Reddit posts, which is when I realized those forums were not long for this world.
Predictions:
Reddit will make the next list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution

You can keep going back a long long way....
Few would admit that there is "the real version", though.
Gum Expanding Dental Floss
Predicting the next decade in the stock market (using machine learning in R)
As an Iowan, I'm surprised we're not already the "wind capitol of the world". You can't throw a rock without hitting a turbine, especially along I-80 and I-35.
Yes, it's pointless.

There is nothing illegal about what is going on now, and nothing which should be illegal about what is going on. In this context, "regulating" simply means making a behavior we didn't see coming illegal.

It's a short-sighted, unimaginative, and blatantly violent way to solve a problem which stems entirely from the consumer public, not from big bad corporations. It will be used by major corps as an anti-competitive weapon against smaller up-start competition - an outcome we should expect from all such attempts at "regulating" the tech oligarchy.
There are many useful commands on CommandLineFu [1] for what it's worth.

[1] - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
Typical applications span the order of tens of degrees Celsius.
This. We knew this was coming when Safari added that.
Mr. Ghosn was arrested by an organization called the Special Investigation Department (Tokusoubu). Tokusoubu is hated by politicians and corporate executives to investigate corruption and financial crime. The authorities were always trying to shut down Tokusoubu, and in fact were weakening. It is unlikely that those in power will be able to intervene in the judiciary, but if Mr. Ghosn is acquitted, Tokusoubu is likely to be closed down.
Reason is libertarian, not conservative.
Knuth is clear and approachable. It's just not dumbed down. The theory that a beginner should 'finish' requires dumbing down. And then they haven't really finished anything. At it's core, your position infantalizes the OP instead of treating them as a full fledged intellect simply lacking knowledge.

Nand2Tetris is a great resource. There are lots of great resources: Let's build a compiler, SICP, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Code Complete, Code, etc. and on and on. What to choose is the OP's problem.

Nothing is as robust as Knuth. It's stood up longer than most Hacker News readers have been alive. And is still keeping up...or rather still at the sharp edge. The first edition of Volume I is more than fifty years old and still entirely relevant. Binary trees, queues, and stacks haven't changed. Neither has the math.

What has changed is that teaching computer science has become an industry. It perpetuates itself via gatekeeping. By withholding knowledge. An industry that parcels out knowledge in semesters. But CS is a lifetime field...Knuth started in 1962.
Another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920556#21920754) made me realize that other HN readers care about dental care (duh!). Expanding floss is widely considered the most effective floss on the market.
Pubg Mobile Lite
hack and high jump speed runing
You've put your finger on something important - innovation moved from collaborative protocols to antagonistic web sites, and we're all the poorer for it.
If you like this, you'll also like pushd/popd. Example:

$ cd ~/src/app/foo/bar/baz

$ pushd /etc/qux/quux/quuz/corge/grault/garply/waldo

$ popd

$ pwd

/home/you/src/app/foo/bar/baz

It's a stack of directories. You pushd the current directory on to the stack and cd to a new directory all in a single command, then you popd back to the previous directory (i.e., the one on the top of the stack). It's useful if you're jumping all over the filesystem to do work, or if someone interrupts you and you want to cd somewhere to show them the contents of a file without losing your own context.
I'm pretty sure domestic cats kill more birds than windmills.
It’s funny you should ask that as I was just watching a lecture by Harold Abelson in which he addresses this exact question.

https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA

In case you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the video it can basically be summarized by saying the following. When the Egyptians first discovered geometry it was considered crop science as it’s primary application was for determining crop yields and when to plant and harvest. In the same way now that computers science is applied to computers today. But just like Geometry is really about farming, computer science is not really about computers. Professor Abelson goes on to explain that computer science provides a means to determine proofs for abstract mathematics a reasoning, so that we can understand with definitive proof things that until now were only theoretical.
> Apple has the best engineering talent of all tech companies.

Are you trolling or are you that kind of extremist apple fanboy?
Learn how to get out of debt!!!

Step 1: List your debts from smallest to largest regardless of interest rate.

Step 2: Make minimum payments on all your debts except the smallest.

Step 3: Pay as much as possible on your smallest debt.

Step 4: Repeat until each debt is paid in full
imo, the best parts of Vim are its shortcuts which is why I am happy with only Vim-like keybindings in other apps and don't need them to impl the whole kitchen sink.

For example, right now, how do you make a blank line above your cursor and move your cursor there? Do you maybe go ctrl-a to move the cursor to the front of the current line, carriage return to move the current line own, then press up-arrow to move your cursor to the new, empty line? In Vim, it's just capital O. lower-case o to create an empty line below you and move your cursor there. And I could go on for all sorts of simple tasks that have most people reaching for their mouse.

Entry-level Vim keybindings just make these basic tasks more pleasant.

I got pretty hard-core into Vim when I was in uni and had time to care and credentialize in Vim. Nowadays, I'm switching between so many editors that I'm happy just using basic Vim keybindings.
Initially, sure, just like they rely on the ships to get them to the beach. Early priority is often to seize an airfield, though. F-35Bs can happily fly off a land field.
"external forces drove its development"

The worst of Stalin's purges were well before WW2 - I don't think you can blame external forces, certainly not ones active at that time, for Stalin's vicious paranoia.
Australia are introducing very harsh laws targeting climate / environmental activists. He could start by reversing those. E.g. Tasmania, up to 21 year jail term for trespass.
Very few voters will support a bill that will result in them having to pay for things like email, facebook, youtube, etc...
https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/100m_wind/awstwspd100onoff3-...

This is a good resource to determine what is financially viable to assess where to put wind farms. According to the chloropleth, light blue has the highest average wind speeds.
> Sure, it's cool to own and recommend it

That's what it exists for. To build the street cred of people who own it and have read it. Notice how no one who has read it comes back with a comparison of TAOCP and CLRS. For example "learning bogosort from Knuth instead of Cormen is better because Knuth gives you xyz insight into it". No, they simply think it's better because it's harder.

A rough comparison is On the Origin of Species, which is a solid foundational text without being too arcane while Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is not. No sane person suggests that to learn the Newton's laws of motion you need to learn Latin and then read Principia (except the people who fetishize difficulty). Just read Resnick and Halliday instead.

By no means am I downplaying Knuth's genius. He is a stalwart without whom our industry would be worse. But TAOCP is not a good foundational text because it's not approachable.
Devastating story, thank goodness for ProPublica bringing this to light.

I served on the ground side and never experienced this level of incompetence. (There was plenty of other fun stuff...) But maybe the shear fact that Marine Officers are on the front line with the enlisted, curbs dangerous behavior. The Air Wing in the Marine Corps is it's own branch. Marine Air Wing commanders are constantly being relieved, and usually make the cover of the Marine Corp times.

My thoughts and payers go out to the families.

Semper Fi

Retired CWO2
Don't know why you're being downvoted when this is exactly the case in my experience. They never said "spying" outright but it's definitely why walled gardens like AOL popped up like wildfire in the 90s and why stuff like AIM was the exception and not the rule.
I can't help but ask if you have an agenda.. is it to say "See, the NASA graph shows it's not much worse than previous years, climate change is nothing to worry about!"?

The graph starts in 2014, that's not exactly a "pre-climate-crisis" year...
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This is great! Super useful
The A-10's counter-insurgency efforts would probably be well complimented by some Super Tucanos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano

Unfortunately, they're largely too cheap and not sexy enough for the US to field.
Ask HN: What will the world be like in 2030?
> So while it's true that holacracies can quickly turn into hierarchies rather than democracies, it's still doesn't explain why hierarchies are preferred by humans over democracies, while the latter is obviously more acceptable on the state level.

Democracy on the state level mostly refers to bureaucratic heirarchy where the leaders are (sometimes indirectly) accountable to the electorate; heirarchy and democracy coexist rather than being mutually exclusive. Heirarchy dominates state-level organization with or without democracy, just like it does virtually all other human enterprises.

Democracy, on the state level, seems to be more reliant on formal reservation and delineation of powers and well-institutionalized means of enforcing those formalities than non-democratic heirarchy, which is perhaps why holacracy becomes informal non-democratic heirarchy rather than something democratic.
Experience the Launch of the Solar Orbiter Mission
A seven-minute summary of the game, and some history too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaKWUiiEHgA
Didn't the SBA payments continue after Ghosn left? And folks said these types of payments generally got a lot of levels of approval? A reminder that he has been prohibited from telling his side of the story so far.

A lot of his complaints was that the prosecutors were leaking TONS of info but he was prohibited from replying and that he had no guarantee of a trial date.

This whole compensation thing seemed so weak. The filings disclosed what he was paid, there was no agreement to pay him more. He was keeping track it seemed like of what he felt he should get paid. I'm sure he (and many other CEO's) sometimes calculate how much they believe they should get -> maybe they propose those numbers to the board etc. How is that criminal? He wasn't paid that much if you look at it. There are .bomb scammers getting paid far more.

The other odd thing is the claim that he didn't render services. By all accounts the guy was a workaholic.

For this he's been in jail with no confirmed trial date. Given the supposedly slam dunk nature of the case why don't they go to trial on the compensation FEIL charges?
Part of the problem is that inadequate training data may not be a barrier to successfully marketing and implementing these systems - the tech is sexy and people are rightly excited.

> Doctors make mistakes all the time and people in the medical profession work odd hours so there's already a ton of room for errors.

That's my point - this is the training data. Unless we're careful, we're just going to approximate what we're already doing.
Possibly not a bad idea when so many brushfires are being started by deliberate arson.
Ask HN: Programmers, what does your development setup look like?
> Both articles describe the transfers as misappropriations of funds

"Describing as" != prove. And when it comes to throwing people in jail we should strive for prove.

> Broadly speaking, if management finds their operational budget in their personal account without the Board's knowledge, that's fraud.

First, no Nissan funds were in Ghosn's "personal account." Not sure where you're getting that. The articles clearly describe GFI as an arm of Nissan directly controlled by Ghosn but that is not a personal account -- it was still a Nissan account.

Second, Ghosn's defense has been all along that others in the firm approved the transactions. Someone somewhere was clearly signing the checks -- I don't know how true this is but it is a legitimate defense.

Allegations are not proof. I can accuse you of anything -- doesn't make it true.

Ghosn may indeed have engaged in criminal activity but nothing you describe proves it, or even seriously indicates it.
What we learned from the space station in 2019
I used the JUCE framework, which is free for personal/GPL usage (or you can pay for a closed source license) and gives you cross platform. The examples are pretty good for getting the basics, there is also The Audio Programmer YouTube channel that has a lot of content (the only bad thing I would say about it is that some of the early videos sometimes use bad concepts as it seems this was a sort of a documentary series for learning plugin programming for the channel owner). The JUCE community forum is really friendly and helpful (and there is also a discord channel for TAP). Otherwise search engines were my main source to learn (mostly to refresh my C++ knowledge), and I managed to land myself a day job programming a plugin that helped a lot just by looking at the existing code, but that obviously a very rare occurrence!
The TRS-80 model 100 has a RS232, so a null-modem cable should be the only hardware needed to transfer.
Same flaws mentioned in the article - lack of accountability in the upper layers of hierarchy, which resulted in loss of human life.

Possible solution is more democratic control (by the people down in the hierarchy) over the people who are in charge, for example an independently elected accountability board with a power to penalize and recall the leaders.
Or rather, if they can't find a legal loophole they'll use billions of dollars they have in their pockets because of previous tax avoidance efforts to lobby for new legal loopholes.
That’s not how evolution works.

Just like the whales will evolve to avoid humans and the pangolin evolved to avoid the Chinese market, right?
Of course. Not only can you, but it's the most common thing to do under a wind farm in Iowa.

Zoom in to basically any random wind farm in Iowa, and the vast majority of the land area is crops.
For instance:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2818954,-93.8007446,2829m/da...
Internet service used to include basic services like email and newsgroups. Still "paid", but effectively bundled, and a tiny part of the total cost.
Yes, in the next issues

Part 2 https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1983-...

Part 3 https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1983-...
Yes, by several orders of magnitude. Last I checked, Windmills killed 100s of thousands since their inception while domestic cats kill billions each year.
Galactic Pyrotechnics from 23M Light Years Away
it starts in 2014 and shows a pretty clear upward trend for such a short time period
I will talk with my team about Svelte and see if we will release something in 2020. Thank you for the issue, noted, we will fix it :D Happy new Year!
That is cool! Out of curiosity, how intrusive is living around wine turbines? Is it a problem at all? Or are they mostly unnoticeable?
Added a redirect and cut listing prices in half.
So are you suggesting there's no way to defeat the tech oligarchy and we should just surrender to them?
Can you point me to the article they wrote about the drivetrain failure they had in their long term Ford Raptor[1]?

1. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a23888636/2017-ford-f-1... "it ate a costly drivetrain part at only 40,000 miles."
Wow that's really good, where are most of your sales/traffic coming from? Do you market on kvr-audio or youtube or anything?
Donate to ProPublica!
I obviously think highly of my own licenses. But I also think "open source" should embrace CAL, SSPL, and 996, which I had no hand in. I think it's safe to say CAL wouldn't have gone anywhere with the OSI to which I proposed L0-R. But I no longer really care whether OSI approves terms or not. I don't care if it approves Blue Oak or not.

I mentioned personal definitions of open source not to separate your views from OSD of DFSG or What Is Free Software? but to recognize that views of what those highly generalized, nontechnical, post hoc political documents mean in practice varies widely between individuals. There is no single, canonical, workable reading of OSD that follows necessarily from its text. The best candidates for that kind of reading exclude copyleft as we know it, which OSI saw in feedback from very early days. It's not a question of validity in any technical sense, but of mindshare.

If by "anti-copyleft organization" you mean Blue Oak, see https://blueoakcouncil.org/copyleft https://blueoakcouncil.org/company-policy https://blueoakcouncil.org/starter-policy

Nobody here is your enemy. As far as I'm aware, nobody's conscious intentions are anything but pure.
I was just taking a shower and reflecting on the changes in my life and the world since 2010. So I'm curious to hear what people think will be different again by 2030, and how we'll look back at 2020.
When was the last time a corporation went to local Starbucks to drink a cup of coffee from all of the tax savings from the double Irish Dutch sandwich?

When you tax a corporation that gets passed on to its employees and its customers, who already pay those taxes.
My point is that if something is being monetized, what makes it monetizable is the agreement between the user and the service provider.

All sorts of data is collected every day that is not monetized, but could be.

Consumers are allowing their data to be monetized by agreeing to sign up for "free" services which take an asset from the user which they do not know how to monetize themselves.

In a way the dynamic is similar to the early 20th century BP oil fields in Iran; the Persians had oil under their feet for centuries but outsiders came in and started to pump it out of the ground, making themselves rich but the general public of Iran - not so much. They didn't even know what to do with oil at first.

Once the Iranian people saw what was going on and realized that they were being exploited, they elected a leader who sought to nationalize the oil fields, since they finally began to understand what asset they had and how and why they could monetize it themselves.

The internet needs its own Mohammad Mosaddegh, so to speak. Not to commit property crimes and break contracts like Mosaddegh did - but to show the masses what is going on in a way that encourages them to change their behaviors in a fundamental way.
Heh, no need to travel to Venus, just go to Australia!
Have you ever been to Iowa? I suspect you haven't. Look at literally any wind farm in Iowa via satellite, and the vast majority of the land is taken up by crops:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2818954,-93.8007446,2829m/da...
Any plans or know of any alternatives for firefox?
Part of the role of being a leader is... leading. The presence of top elected officials reassures the public that somebody is in charge and gives a shit about about what is happening.

When a leader goes off on vacation while some event happens, it puts off the impression that the government is ineffective and out of touch. It undermines the people on the ground who perhaps are doing something.

Also, in terms of "What would he have done for the fires", there are any number of things. The gravitas of having the man on top demanding action ensures that things happen quickly. As a trivial example, if the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Brush Fire Extinguishing needs X, he'll get it when the truck or helicopter is available. When the PM needs it, the truck or helicopter is made available, period. Or it could be as simple as giving some sort of speech in your crisis windbreaker to rally the troops.
I feel the ratio is the important thing - at least if your goal is to let the broader society benefit from your work and not just an ivory tower of people with similar background.

In that regard, the "nerds" utterly failed. We're looking back at the "old" internet with some kind of sentimental sadness, but we've evidently failed to convince the general public that a noncommercial, decentralised internet is the way to go.
No. It is explained. Self-evident even. There is nothing complicated or deep about why social hierarchies emerge.
The Cost of Choice
> legal loophole

I side with you regarding tax debates for large companies. However what is a "legal loophole"? There is no loophole. What Google did is not illegal.