skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are wondering what can these maps be used for, I thought I would post this. We want to have ways for people to stay in our app so we can do geolocation while they are driving. The web doesn’t support background geolocation callbacks.

Here is a web based demo we have of a person picking up their friends while driving on the way to an event:

https://youtu.be/i4nQZ-WN3Uw

A lot goes into it including distance and heading calculations, correct 3d transforms for the map and avatars, as well as the usual realtime/offline infrastructure of Qbix Platform on the backend.

It is part of our larger Groups app that we are rolling out later this year that lets users organize group activities and even drive each other to them.

So now this comes at a great time - we are happy to offer a choice of two maps providers instead of just one, soon.

We release the Platform under AGPL on github.com/Qbix and many reusable components as MIT license there. You can see more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI

Edit: Why so many downvotes? Seems strange.
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> A couple years ago there was a thing that you couldn't get through airport security with an Arizona drivers license but had to go get an ID card that complied with federal rules, not sure what ever happened with that though.

This is still a thing, not sure about AZ specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

Basically says that if your state doesn't dump DL/ID info into federal databases, and some other requirements, you can't use it for some things federally - and so effectively creates a 'National ID' without overtly doing so.
If you enjoyed this video definitely check out Skunk Works by Ben Rich. He ran the experimental R&D wing that developed the U2, SR-71 and the F-117. It has really interesting information about the development and operation of all these planes. Some of which I was shocked as allowed to be printed.
They were not. Someone just searched for all excel files with personal information on their thousand+ websites and found hundreds of examples with names, addresses and phone numbers of ordinary citizens.
Yes, but that statement was followed by more details as to exactly what I meant. A model that only works for a small percentage of people does not work.

My point is that you can't start a business based upon some vague hope that someday, somehow, someone will possibly choose to donate money to you. You need a reliable stream of income, and one that will keep coming long after the shine has worn off the original product and now you're slogging through complicated maintenance and upgrades.

You want to know why the JS ecosystem keeps suffering from the "shiny penny" problem ? This is one of the reasons.
Don't you think using errno is a cleaner pattern? Conflating the place where you expect a value and the place where you check for a reason why no value could be produced can be dangerous. (E.g.: if the value is an integer, an error code is mistaken for a value.)
Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
> I personally feel it pollutes the API you're exposing to your users.

Pollution is in the eye of the beholder. There are many circumstances where a project or subset of a project needs to work without a heap, they just don't necessarily overlap with the "application layer code in a virtual memory process" world your intuition is calibrated against.

And sometimes this stuff needs to read a JSON object or decode base64 or utf8 too, and can't because the library is too thick.
250,000 map initializations 25,000 service requests per day.
"If we are going to massively simplify taxes, then it needs to be done on the richest"

Why? This is a built-in assumption most people seem to be operating with and I've never understood the rationale that the rich should pay more.

Does a rich person wear roads out more than a poor one? And if they do, wouldn't it be better if they paid for how much they wear the road down? As in: a percentages of miles driven on it? As in: a consumption-based tax?

Anyhow, even if you decide to work with that flawed premise,
to me, if we're going to tax revenue, then "fair" translate to a very simple mathematical concept: fixed-rate.

Everyone pays 10% tax on their income. This way, the "rich" pay more, and the "poor" pay less. Because 10% of 1M is 100k and 10% of 100k is 10k.

Fairness handled.
Or rely on transfers from the federal government.. As most already do..

Munis are a timebomb, imho.
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Such as swerving unexpectedly into a concrete barrier which was not obstructing the road, and accelerating.
Isn't this one of the fundamental problems of the advertising industry? I.e., answering the question "did this ad cause the increase in sales?"

How do they approach this?
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How is breaking into someone's motel room to film them in secrecy in any way a rational response give that there is plenty of other countries nearby that make porn? Are you really saying that making non-consensual porn just such a deep biological need that nothing can be done?

I mean, there is certainly no great lack of porn available online, so simply reuploading some chinese or japanese flicks seems a far more sane response than hiding cameras in public restrooms.
I don’t see any valid new argument in the qouted comment, yes, the only strength of MOND are galaxy rotations, as mentioned by Ethan, no, no epycycles are actually present in lambda CDM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
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Indeed! The full unveil semantics aren't known yet, may be worth proposing! But for the specific case of /tmp, there is already a tmppath promise.
this is somewhat of a gross oversimplificiation. Agreed disappearing is not really possible these days, but there are also philosophical underpinnings about the federal govt being a 'federation of independent states' rather than a distinct authority over-and-above the states, which factors in here, among other things.
I like that acronym far better than AmaGooFaceSoft.
Natural question follows: can humans train ourselves to do the same as animals in water? Live a bi-phasic life where creative / analytical sides of brain each get to "sleep"?
Among the more surreal aspects of UK culture that I am aware of (only because of the Internet) are prejudice against people named "Jeremy", and "gingers" (not that there is any connection between the two).
Wow. Thanks!!
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Speaking of exceptions to this...they really need to fix their damn multi monitor support. It’s one of the few things Windows is far better at. I get that a small number of Mac users are even affected by this, but man would I appreciate that a lot more than Dark Mode. And I love Dark Mode.
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The point is actually about politicians being above the law, specifically the unequal power between surveilled (us) and surveillant (politicians), not that people under surveillance can be made to look guilty (which is pretty obvious).

Furthermore, if politicians want power X but only if X can't be used on themselves, then that power can easily be used corruptly.
Eliminate the reserve requirements, which would no longer be required because banks would not hold client’s on-demand deposits on their balance sheets at all. They would be held on the central bank’s balance sheet.
I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question:

'Why is this happening?'

Is there something unique about South Korea that motivates the use of spycams and sexually explicit non-consensual recordings? Imo that would be a far more useful place to start.

Lax laws/enforcement do not motivate people to do things. That is, unless we start from the assumption that all men are basically barbaric (Which I have to reject on face value alone), then there's no way to blame this on the legal system or the police.

Not far off from South Korea is a phenomenon in Japan called "grass-eating men": Men who give up on pursuing women and careers, and instead live online in subpar apartments and out of internet cafes to live out their lives. Perhaps there's something in common between what motivates that, and what we're seeing here?

How happy are men (as a class) in South Korea? How beneficial are their 'good' alternatives here?
sounds like a case of bruteforcing a simple task with a pile of hacks.

can't imagine why all that mess is saner then putting a pretty printer on the other end of the language parser.

also this mess will be extremely non deterministic, depending on machine speed etc
If you're a strong logical thinker, like your math degree implies, you'll be better off avoiding shops that filter like that. They don't understand that picking up a syntax is secondary and structured thought is the real strength of a possible hire.
Second this. Skunk Works by Ben Rich is basically a real life Tom Clancy novel
My experience (mostly BART & SF Muni Metro) is that “smelly person” is a euphemism for homeless person.
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Bruce Eckel had some ideas about a better model to fund open source projects. https://bruceeckel.github.io/2016/06/20/a-model-to-fund-open...
Ahhh. Yeah, now I understand what you mean.

For an already successful OSS project though, it might be a way to turn that into an ongoing income stream to then continue improving the software.
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It's worth noting that the actual title of that essay is, "Why do deep convolutional networks generalize so poorly to small image transformations?"
We don't actually know that the girl would be found to be a criminal. This is a very carefully constructed test case by the author, designed to attack the law.
The willingness of people to not see what is plainly apparent, right there, enormous and frankly, hideous. Unfortunately, we live in a world where it's nearly impossible to even describe reality much less deal with it. It's utterly heartbreaking.
Hi! I have some experience with dropping out and coming back.

My take: go back and finish. The signal you are sending is that you can put your feelings aside and deliver even under less than favorable conditions. You'll also need that inner strength if you decide to go your own way.

Also, if you want to the non-CS route make sure you learn math, especially discrete mathematics and linear algebra. Besides the ability to finish that's the other foundation that will make you truly great at software, especially if you are interested in machine learning.

Beyond that good luck! We need more outsiders in the field.
If you liked this James May did a documentary called James May at the edge of space for the bbc a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_at_the_Edge_of_Space and a companion about the moon landings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_on_the_Moon
It is not bizzare: we are used to do stuff other people cannot think to do...

... Like if it was a superpower.

Superheroes doesn't need advice. At least in the comics I read as a kid.

So this superhero syndrome, hurts more than having no superpower at all.
Courageous for a VC to say this.
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Ask HN: List of projects leaving GitHub?
I'd like to know which projects have left GitHub around the time of the Microsoft announcements. How can I get this information?

Is there a stream of newly created GitLab projects available? Even better - is there a stream of recently closed GitHub projects anywhere?

Thank you.
Rewrite these things under an abstraction layer so that you don't have to worry about third parties anymore
I'm sure they can't divulge that information because "national security" —__—
Wow, that is some really unclear and weaselly wording. Do I understand correctly that it means "This system might decide to 'follow' a stopped car and crash into it, and then we'll say it's your fault"?
According to Wikipedia, the best selling video game is Tetris: it has sold approximately 170 000 000¹ copies. If copying Tetris takes 1 second, the computer draws 400 W of power and electricity is rated at 30 cents/kWh, it would cost approximately $5667 to create 170 million copies of Tetris.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
The entire economy of the world is a time bomb since it is predicated on exponential growth continuing indefinitely into the future. That cannot happen, so sooner or later we need to radically shift gears or we're in for a world of hurt. It's a question of when, not if. But since the current regime has been working for several millennia now, it is hard to make the case that The End is Near. It may or may not be.
Citus what is it good for? OLTP? OLAP? HTAP?
The media is really going crazy for this suicidal, mentally ill man. Calling him Fearless and “loved life” is remarkably tone deaf.

Why blame the victim? I blame those around him.
In the case of RMS, I find it extremely clear that he cares exponentially more about the state of the world than about his own moral purity.
Now before the WWII German intelligence built databases of polish elites, scientists, politicians, activists, actors and their families, so when the war started they were able to quickly round them up and exterminate. Imagine something like this happens again in the US - enemy gaining access to such database would have everything on a silver platter. Even more plausible motive would be if future government wanted to remove people that they deem enemy to the state (incompatible political beliefs). It would be easy to just deliver them poison disguised as Amazon delivery and have the nation cleansed of the problematic populace.
Such database is irresponsible on another level.
100% CPU -> 100% billable hours -> IP law is now an incredibly attractive profession -> more capacity for patents / lawsuits... and that's essentially how we got here.
And if you generate floating point numbers maybe you don’t have to worry about lsbs alone either? The “failed” tests drop away the bits that matter the most when floating point randomness is constructed.
Short-term and long-term profit are not driven by the same goals. In fact, they are often at odds. I get the joke, but it's not really redundant. "Profit at any expense" sounds like short-term profit to me.
Still does it now, there's a similar switchover north of Shepherds Bush. The Southern 350s used to stop when I got that train, I think the overground trains can raise/lower on the fly. I assume there's a similar changeover in East London.

Before 2009 and HS1 to St Pancras, Eurostar also switched from overhead to third rail, on the fly I think, somewhere near Ashford.
There is some truth in this. Two and two will never be five.

Unfortunately I most often see the notion of eternal unchanging truth invoked to defend very temporal and mutable things: cultural and aesthetic biases, social and economic hierarchy, gender roles, racial stereotypes, religion, the state, etc.

People wish to rub some of the eternal truth of math and logic onto their favorite idols but it never sticks. Human hierarchy and symbol are very mutable.

Nobody bothers to pound the table about the eternal truth of actual eternal truths. There's no point.
> I've recently dropped out of highschool and I've been considering two options: promptly returning to school and finishing my degree or dedicating time to self-educate via the internet.

There is a 3rd option (if you want to work as a programmer):

You practice programming interview questions in your favourite programming language for a few weeks and start applying for jobs. Companies often hire young talented programmers without university degree in entry level positions because they are cheaper.

After having worked in the industry for 5 years no one cares about your degree anymore. The good thing about this 3rd option is that you are learning on the job what the other students learn at university and you don't have to pay for your software engineering education.

Students often tend to overestimate the importance and the benefits of a higher education. Personally I don't like your second option: "self-educate via the internet" because it won't help you getting a job and you will eventually forget what you have learned anyways. For this reason I prefer your first option and my 3rd option.

Good luck!
If you pay 10% on $100,000 a year, you have 90,000 left over. Plenty of money to live comfortably and have your needs met.

If you pay 10% on $20,000, you have $18,000. It was already hard to live on 20k, living on 18k and having your needs met is even harder.

Your examples reveal your bias. Most people don't make $100,000. And it's the "most people" that you would impact hardest with the flat tax scheme.
Thanks, I’ll have a read.
“Marginal costs” are the additional cost for each additional unit delivered. They can be high or low, but with modern, non-custom software they tend to be extremely low.
I'm quite aware.

How does that have anything to do with my comments about portfolio selection and results?
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Google's new motto: Be Evil.
What distinction do you make between software and algorithm patents? And how do you separate algorithms and unpatentable math?
How is your comment constructive in any way? At best, it seems to be dismissing my point that I and others should keep trying to be our best in light of seeing others be sloppy. At worst, you're suggesting people don't bother speaking up at all when others post b.s. nonsense.

If you ask RMS, he'll say it definitely matters and that we all need to not only work to be our best but need to speak up whenever we see bad ideas being spread.
Link to the paper: https://www.worldneurosurgery.org/article/S1878-8750(18)3062...
The problem is defending that disclosure as prior art when someone bigger claims a patent that improves or puts it into practice, which is exactly what this article is about. Even if you take a few steps to make patenting harder, if you invent something valuable it's eventually a game of chicken about preventing others from claiming the space.
And then it comes around full circle when to get advertisers you need to market them properly to specific people who would be most likely to buy their products. Then you start collecting data on users to figure out who would match with what, then the customer becomes the product.
It is not a crime to cross the border seeking asylum, but asylum seekers must do so immediately.
I think that’s what they meant. See “only.”
If you want to disagree with the value, that's one thing. Not being able to recognize it is an intellectual failing (literally re-cognize, i.e. understand a concept, whether or not you think it's valid or important).

Let me help you out: if I have a computer and there exists software that I could privately run for my own purposes and the computer is set up to not allow me to run that software I want to run, then I am lacking some freedom to use my own computer fully. Or say I want to copy some software from one computer to another but someone has legally or technically put barriers to my ability to do that. These are not an artificial constructs, they are as plain as any concept of freedom can be.
I don't know if I can really agree with the risk classifications the author makes in relation to his career.

I would simply sum what the author is trying to say in one word "Complacency". Having a decent well-paying job can blind you to whether you're on a good career path.

A good career path is one where you are challenging yourself, you learn something new everyday and you position yourself to take on new projects or new leadership roles (if that's your thing).
I don't think there is anything wrong with someone hiring people as a favor or someone selecting a specific vendor as a favor. As long as the company's owner knows what's going on and is ok with it. And as far as kickbacks go or repaying those favors, if it's money, that's taxable. If it's more favors, well that's merely bartering.

When it comes to stock manipulation, I think that's a crime. But if not, I can't see it being profitable. It would most likely result in a net loss unless there was some inside information being shared.
The EXE format has none of those limitations and was available from day 1.
brings me to the next question: are there linux equivalent ?
And I specifically know there weren’t such with native 32-bit drivers existing in Windows 95.
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This is funny. :)
If we are talking about fairness, what I described is more fair. 10% of income for a poor person can mean the difference between buying prescription drugs or going without as one example. However a rich person is going to have enough money to buy prescription drugs whether they pay 10% or not. In other words, the poor person is already at a significant financial disadvantage. So not asking them to pay taxes helps level the playing field some.
Thanks for clarifying your point, I think that makes a lot of sense.

Thankfully for me I consider it a positive selection bias as I wouldn't want to work for a company/manager with such insular hiring criteria. Unfortunately it does make it harder for people just getting started in their career.
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No. You can’t replace the phone dialer, contacts, messages or safari.
Humans are animals
I was literally just thinking "how does this work" when looking at a spray bottle yesterday. Thanks!
Probably estimates through closer studies of other ads of the same format, sales increase correlation & just a whole lot of guessing.
The character Kraiklyn in the Iain M Banks novel Consider Phlebas has had enhancements to his brain to be able to do this.
I think you're misreading Kant. He's not saying that it's impossible for a particular truth to be immutable; he's saying that every generation must make its own judgment about the truths that are handed down to it (which is compatible with accepting that received knowledge is valid).
Don't be evil. Right? RIGHT?
What issues have you experienced with their multimonitor support?
Meh: A more developer friendly product would cause less activity on Stack Overflow, right? How about frameworks with their own forums?
How would the engineers at Waymo know Tesla's trade-secret approach beyond the physical hardware ? Tesla is the only major player in the race to autonomous cars that has no patent. Waymo has 145.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/a-tesla-self-driving-blind-s...
Yup. Looks like it was me that misremembered. My mistake.
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Much like bills in government sessions, naming is everything: bad bills can have happy-sounding names and receive endless support, and so can government agencies.

“Homeland Security” is genius naming because you can justify almost anything with that name. They can always need more money “for security”. They can always be granted new powers “for security”. Hell, these ridiculous tariffs are “for national security” because literally nothing else justifies them.

And let’s not forget this is a relatively new government entity: it did not exist 20 years ago. It was created opportunistically (“never waste a crisis”) with full knowledge that it would be very hard to eliminate.