skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinpointing a phone requires three satellites. With A-GPS, it can be accomplished with two satellites and cell tower data and/or WiFi info.

Official Apple statement:

Calculating a phone’s location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements). These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110427005749/en/App...

Also worth reading:
https://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/911/Apps%20Wrkshp%202015/911...
Compensation construed broadly includes future work based on your portfolio. If one did stellar work that otherwise would have yielded future opportunities had the work not been shuttered then the answer is "Yes."
It's the thing nowadays. Some person allegedly does something wrong and movies and books get pulled off the shelves robbing us of the opportunity to see sometimes great pieces of writing or art.

Also see Kevin Spacey. Book burning anyone?
Lol what. Qanon patch?
> See how different is that?

It’s unclear what the difference is without seeing the projections for how long it will take the city to recuperate the $3B.

If the city believes having Amazon HQ2 will generate an additional $3B in revenue over the next 5 years then perhaps it’s a reasonable deal.

If it’s going to take 50 years, then possibly less so.
"DevOps" doesn't mean shit. It's a bullshit term define by who is using it. That team is in charge of kubernetes, and automated application deployment stuff, so they are the team ensures developers can push to production quickly. Which, now that I google it- it's exactly what the "official" definition is.
Let me pull up the front page of one of the "better" boards /lit/ right now and read literally the first post. It's for making fun of a woman's OKCupid profile. Here's a sampling of comments:

"She's a pleb with a mental illness."

"hello Jamal" (replying to someone who said they enjoy R&B)

"women are conformist by nature, is it really all that surprising?"

Let's move to post 2: "Describe hell to me"

"Imagine a place that is really really really really really really really really really really gay."

"dying to meet Hitler"

"A fat girl sits on your face and farts on you for the rest of eternity"

Is this the place we should be romanticizing? This was all within about 90 seconds of opening the site. I spent a lot of time on 4chan when I was younger, specifically /mu/ and /lit/ and I think it was really bad for me and my mental health at the time. These communities are extremely toxic, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and more than anything, downright cruel.
This is very similar to Montgomery reduction [1]. Both do a multiply taking low bits followed by a multiply taking the high bits to reduce a number.

Montgomery reduction requires an augmented number system with conversions to and from. The article's approach works on numbers directly, but if I understand it correctly the multiplications are twice the width.

Are these two methods algebraically related? Would it be possible to get fastmod working without the double width?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_modular_multiplicat...
What makes these the two default-choice locales? There was substantial debate across the Internet about the ideal location. To claim that NY was a 'default choice' seems baseless. The offer of subsidy/support is what made it into a mutually-acceptable deal. That's just how negotiation works.
Can we just do this already? Nobody these days has a genuine argument as to why cannabis should still be illegal to grow and posses.

Honestly if there's one thing that Trump could do to win a teeny bit of respect from liberals it would be to actually legalize cannabis, either by de-scheduling or signing legislation given to him by congress.
I don't believe so.

Advertisements done right should be a passive consumption model.

I want this -> bunch of leads for what you are looking for.

Advertisements nowadays are focused around an active attention-consuming model. You have companies fighting for any in they can to get themselves situated at the forefront of your attention.

There is really no excuse for it, and the dark paths attach has opened in terms of advancing surveillance technology, and harboring an insatiable appetite for as much information on potential buyer's as possible has frankly ruined any credibility or claim to benignity that I could be bothered to extend to the industry.

I could even tolerate blatant puffery if advertising would just cut out all the 1984-tier privacy destroying behavior.

I don't mind ads. I mind mental intrusiveness and privacy invasion 24/7/365.
She writes about approachable subjects in an approachable way.

I’d guess your complaint is actually that she ‘steals’ prestige.
"Love and Death" is fantastic. As are "Bananas", "Play It Again Sam" and "Manhattan".
well since you asked nicely... (jk, just feels wrong to share personal info)
My code was two instructions: imul eax,ecx,67h sar eax,0Ah. The compiler generated code was mov eax,66666667h imul ecx sar edx,2 mov eax,edx shr eax,1Fh add eax,edx.
Do bills need clickbaity names to get attention?
I’d go further. Writing about something you’ve attained understanding of, without ruining it for new learners is a rare gift.
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study
Show HN: Anyway – Hear what your campus has to say
Weren't most of the subsidies through the already existing "Excelsior program"?

https://esd.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Excelsior_Overview_20...

I'm just confused about what people want. The program was long derided for creating too few jobs:

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hu...

Now that it's Amazon, it's creating too many jobs and (therefore) costing too much money? I don't support tax subsidies in general, but the program was already signed into law, you can't just change the rules that you set yourself just because you realize in hindsight it's a bad deal. Honestly, the people of NYS elected Cuomo twice, they should have to live with the consequences.
Ah, the imminent decline of Spotify. I’ve been wondering what was taking so long to get that going.
The Excelsior program, which is most of Amazon's state subsidy in this HQ2 deal, has existed long before HQ2 was first mentioned. Its goal is to create more jobs, and so clearly there is pre-existing motivation to drum up new business via subsidies. It's also a tax credit on things like prior job creation, and so it does not carry the same risk as a capital investment that the city may not recoup: https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program
Google Forces Saving JPG as WebP?
Version 72.0.3626.96 on Mac.
Seems a little pushy to force users to use WebP, especially since Preview can't even open WebP format images.
Figured the HN community might find this interesting.
> Government. Of course there will be research to determine the actual dollar amount.

This seems a reductionist perspective. The government is made up of people like you and me. It is not an omnipotent entity.

The way I'm interpreting what you've written, you could swap out Government for God.

Like any other moral question, there is no one true answer to a question like "how many dollars/facilities constitutes basic need?". That's why there are different political parties, opposing views, debates.

> Sure, but the thing is no once is forcing you to work, if you think its unfair or you think its better for you not to do work then fine don't work then. Other people will.

…But everyone is forced to pay taxes. If I choose not to work, the government still takes your money by force and gives it to me.

> Other people will.

This vague "other people" somehow stands at the core of every argument for Socialism.
You don't sound like a P.A.T.R.I.O.T. (act)
No, I didn't try casting to char although I thought about it.
Libertarian, monochromatic blind hatred toward all government as some monoplithic bogeyman is utopian ignorance that values anarchism, billionaire propaganda, omnipresent privatization and imposing crushing austerity on those who cannot afford it.
Cell networks triangulate a pretty accurate device location in order to connect you to the best cell towers for where you are.

Also, the baseband processor in most phones runs its own code out of the control of the OS and has access to a ton of surprising stuff.
Just be sure that, when throwing stones, you also throw them at the appropriate issues on your own side. Sure, criticize China, and criticize the US, as appropriate. That doesn't mean moral equivalence (they aren't equivalent), but it does mean not sweeping your own issues under the rug.
This isn’t a partisan issue. Diane Feinstein, for example opposed California’s legalization in 2016 and has opposed it at the federal level. Rand Paul supports legalization (or at least leaving the decision to the states. Democrats owned the legislative and executive branches a few years back and yet didn’t legalize. The point is that politicians in both parties have opposed and supported legalization. This, however, is an issue that could be bipartisan similar to Trump’s prison reform bill. As a conservative myself, legalization is at the very heart of a philosophy of limited government; for liberals, this issue is a chance to actually be liberal. Unfortunately true conservatism and actual liberalism have lost all meaning. Now it’s just tribes trying to “win.”
> current political climate, it is quite unusual, right?

The current political government has degenerated into memeing and clapbacks on twitter. I don't think it's out of place at all.
>The problem is that a lot of the original 4chan users either moved on or just grew up and at the same time 4chan got over taken by alt-light type folks.

This is relatable. I was a pretty notable figure on /mu/ for a few years, and my tripfriends WERE my social circle when high school couldn't do that for me. Then I went to college and realized how much toxicity it had instilled in me, and moved on.

It's interesting to reflect on that bit of my teenage years!
Just a reminder that during reddit's so-called "golden age", it was the largest hub for underage pornography on the internet.
Atlanta would be a good city for Amazon I think. World's busiest airport. They could eventually acquire Turner Broadcasting Systems, CNN. Really aim for world domination.

Maybe partner with UPS? Delta? Coca-cola?

They could benefit from the booming entertainment industry as well.
For modern processors you can assume that a couple of instructions will be much faster than a memory lookup. Even if the lookup is cached it will most likely push something else important out of cache.
The main reason markets existed historically was to ensure transactions were done in public. Prices were publicly observable, stolen goods were difficult so sell, etc.

Having a single market everyone trades in does have efficiency advantages, but the main reason we have had organised markets in jurisdictions all over the world, for thousands of years, is because the people making the rules wanted transactions to be done out in the open to keep the people doing the transactions honest.
Considering many Americans struggle to name the Vice President or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: yes. I would bet more people could quote lyrics from a Drake song than remember a single sentence in the Declaration of Independece.
There are some studies suggesting that legalisation may have increased the number of auto accidents by 3-6%[0], which doesn't sound like a lot but is equal to quite a few deaths. I don't know if this argument is correct, but it at least seems genuine to me.

[0] e.g. https://www.iihs.org/frontend/iihs/documents/masterfiledocs....
Xiaomi doesn't really make air filters and vacuums, they are made by their partners. Xiaomi is providing retail service to those partners. Xiaomi also provides partners other services, like pooling purchases to lower price and pooling loans to lower rate.

One financial analysis of Xiaomi I read (it's in Korean, I couldn't find anything in English) is that it is in part a lending company funded by float from manufacturing partners. Xiaomi has a personal loan product which grew by 100x in two years to ~1 billion. Liquidity comes from delay between retail sale to partner payment.
They may not need them but, more and more, “witty” acronyms are being used for bills. Apparently the wordsmiths of Capital Hill have oodles of time for Scrabble-like playtime: https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/

And my favorite, the COVFEFE ACT... just because... it’s funny: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-acronyms-titles-trump-c...
They don't offer that, but there are many other ways to communicate with people that you can choose from.
DJI makes impressive drones and handheld cameras, I’d say they are honestly best in class. Anker makes some of the best batteries and tech accessories. They don’t seem to have an Apple or Google yet, but they are getting better. Only a matter of time.
Should use uncommon name. Even ocra midi is not narrow enough enough
> Washington had placed its faith in the new regime’s elites; it took them at their word when they professed their commitment to democratic capitalism.

It is exactly this idea, with sides reversed, which is at least quite popular in Russia when discussing the trajectories of decision made at the time. Russian decision makers took Western advisers at their word regarding what steps, how and why should be made for the country to progress towards liberal values.
But you can look at the memes that we have today, 'image macros' and their origins from things that started in places like 4chan.
We could do with less cars, the numbers of death without drugs is insanely high already.

People already drive drunk because there is no good public transport. I’m sure uber/lyft must have decrease road accidents immensly.
Yikes, was that really necessary? Have you never been wrong on the internet before?

What's the point of being so condescending to people? This is not a constructive way to correct someone.
1993 isn’t vintage... ok this could go on and on!
Suppose I think "Devs doing ops" (less boundaries between teams), but agree it's a bullshit term
People thought that he might be open to that one day. And then be went and selected Jeff "Good people don't smoke marijuana" Sessions as his Attorney General.
GPS != cell networks, and I'm asking what is actually happening, not for a hypothetical guess (which I can make too).
Because my radio playing an ad does not offer the potential for damaging my computer
Republicans will find a way to blame democrats.
It could be open source and even 3D printable.
I have a weak argument -- here me out: it's a harmless substance that, as a teenager, I used not only to experiment with drugs, but also to experiment with transgressing the law. With marijuana being legal there will no longer be an ultra-safe illegal drug to experiment with -- As I said, very weak argument but that's all I've got :)
This isn’t a conservative vs liberal issue. It has support within both parties. This is a old vs young issue, with those under 45 supporting legalization and older Americans against it
I looked up to him once, because I really liked 4chan, but what did he really do?

He copied 2ch to make 4chan and also raised some donation money to buy a bigger server when it grew in popularity.

He got lucky with 4chan but never turned any profit with it, which is kinda okay, I think.

But even after he got known for being a owner of a big site, all the opportunity that comes with he turned into basically nothing... it's like he didn't learn anything from creating 4chan... so much wasted potential
Are you talking about the legalization of alcohol in 1933? The number seems low.
> In the Trump hush money affair, AMI was already exposed as a political actor paying to suppress, not publish, news on behalf of a preferred candidate—hardly a constitutionally protected journalistic activity.

If the conservatives are willing to say that cash directed toward speech is speech itself (as opposed to an ancillary activity deserving of some but not all the same protections), then I'm sure they're prepared to say that abstention of speech is also speech itself.

> If Bezos could show that [the National Enquirer's] publication activities were also driven by partisan affiliation, or worse, money or influence from a murderous foreign government like Saudi Arabia, the damage would be multiplied.

Did the author even go to law school? SCOTUS has made it clear that politically motivated money is speech (Citizens United v. FEC) and therefore nearly categorically shielded from even content-neutral regulation aimed at preserving the sanctity of the electoral process; except when an unelected bureaucrat decides to add a political organization to a government blacklist, in which case a donation of money alone and with the undisputed, sole purpose of peaceful political advocacy constitutes intentional, material support of terrorism subject to criminal prosecution (Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project).

Does the Trump administration or a majority of the Supreme Court dislike the National Enquirer or Saudi Arabia? If not, then its case closed--money is speech and the exchange of it is no different than the exchange of the most strictly, constitutionally protected words. If yes, then money is a purely utilitarian thing and merely exchanging it without any ill intent can be tantamount to shooting infidels--game on. This is First Amendment 101, people.
Rant dev here-- Wow! This has to be the most interesting use case I've heard of in a while.
Yeah remember when the Soviet Union beat America to the moon?
Both museums at Bletchley are just fantastic... can’t wait to get back there sometime again in the future!
Even if true, that's still minor compared to the millions of lives destroyed in the War On Drugs.
Overall a neat piece of history to read, to sit in that disbelief as fragments of the world start being lifted back up from the ground where they've shattered. Neat quotes:

Heisenberg: I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo–Saxons such tremendous power that EUROPE will become a bloc under Anglo–Saxon domination. If that is the case it will be a very good thing.

Heisenberg: [T]he days of small countries are over.

Weizsäcker: Our strength is now the fact that we are 'un–Nazi'.

Heisenberg: I believe that we are now far more bound up with the Anglo–Saxons than we were before as we have no possibility of switching over to the Russians even if we wanted to. On the other hand we can do it with a good conscience because we can see that in the immediate future Germany will be under Anglo–Saxon influence.

Weizsäcker: If I ask myself for which side I would prefer to work of course I would say for neither of them.

Weizsäcker: History will record that the Americans and the English made a bomb, and that at the same time the Germans, under the HITLER regime, produced a workable engine. In other words, the peaceful development of the uranium engine was made in Germany under the Hitler regime, whereas the Americans and the English developed this ghastly weapon of war.
Woody Allen is a comic genius, but I think my favorite movie of his still is his first one, "What's Up, Tiger Lilly." I rarely meet anyone who's seen it.
In my first ever job at a startup we were 3 in a pretty big office (probably 300 square feet or so). We had a whiteboard, couch, stereo and 3 desks. I've worked in open plan offices, cubicle farms, and my own office at home. The 3-in-a-room was the sweet spot for me. It helped that we all enjoyed classical music, though...
Wait, what? Did you miss articles in the medical journals recently that it retards (literally) cognitive abilities in at least teens?
Precisely. Ron Paul (R) and Barney Frank (D) introduced a legalization bill in 2011 which didn't get anywhere.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/12789013/1/ron-paul-barney-f...
Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
People are willing to endanger human lives to protect robots
Array fortran, Numpy.
Third parties do need access to this information. There should be prominent alerts on the device when tracking is occurring, including information on where that information is going.
Yet that is what you are implying. You inject your (presumably agenda-based) disbelief onto their factual reports and then buttress that disbelief by channeling attention into irrelevant matters (thereby suppressing discussion of the therapeutic effects of the diet), instead of opening up a conversation with any modicum of curiosity.

Unless a person is lying -- like that notorious vegan did when submitting a deliberately false report to meatheals.com -- one's report is indeed factual. Intelligent people are not stupid enough to blindly believe what others say, instead of taking it at face value in order to establish a prima facie case.

Cynicism won't get anyone very far in life.
I don't understand the indignant opposition towards this deal to be honest.

All but $505m of the ~$3b in subsidies here comes from programs that already existed in NY State and NYC (Excelsior, ICAP, and REAP). Would you give up $3b over 10 years (and just $505m above programs that are broadly available) to attract business that will provide an incremental $13.5B in new tax revenue and $186B in GSP over 25 years? That is a _tremendous_ ROI, the kind that typically does not exist in the market, and a $505m capital grant (the primary Amazon-specific concession) is a small price to secure it. The 9:1 return they projected on this deal is the best such program NY State and NYC will have ever run. To put it into context, the Film Tax Credit program had a 1.15:1 ROI.

We can argue all day about whether the HQ2 search was a bluff or sham or whatever, but there is no reasonable claim to certainty here - and hence negotiation enters the picture to turn something uncertain (Amazon MAY come to NYC) into certain (Amazon WILL come to NYC).

> The construction is expected to create an average of 1300 direct construction jobs annually through 2033. Overall, the project is estimated to create more than 107,000 total direct and indirect jobs, over $14 billion in new tax revenue for the State and a net of $13.5 billion in City tax revenue over the next 25 years. The project provides a 9:1 return on investment.

> According to an economic impact study by REMI, Inc., a world leader in dynamic forecasting and policy analysis, the Amazon project will generate over $186 billion in Gross State Product for the New York State economy over the initial 25 years. REMI also projects over $14 billion in total new tax revenue for the State (in 2019 dollars), with annual revenues growing from $10.8 million in 2019 to nearly $1 billion in 2043. The City forecasts $13.5 billion in total new tax revenue.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-and-mayor-de...
Well it's investors' problem, if the business is still able to operate and pay for itself, so yes cut sales and marketing and just milk it as long as it works, why destroying something that works, who's going to make or save any money on that?
I've been a long time user on desktop as well. I was a fairly heavy user of Spotify plugins (and maybe "apps", but I didn't understand the difference). Plugins, of course, do not exist anymore. Looks like maybe about four years ago: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/No-Apps-plu...

I'm a little salty about them closing off third-party development, but it's cool, they can do what they want with their stuff. I saw the writing on the wall a while ago when they were pushing Facebook integration like crazy -- as they become more and more anti-consumer, I'll simply avail myself of their services less and less until they offer me no value.
Google removes government-banned sites from Russian search results, report says