skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: see [3] for an overview of how plus codes work.

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>Plus Codes have little application outside building addressing.

This claim needs some arguing.

>If I tell you I'm at 4CFM+JW, come get me, you're going to be pretty helpless, because I didn't include the city.

So why would you tell me that? Either include the city, or use a longer plus code that includes the city.

Example from the spec[1]:

>>Nairobi Youth Sports Organization and Information Centre in Kibera, Nairobi, has the Open Location Code "6GCRMQPX9G". Using the location of Nairobi, the code can be shortened to "MQPX9G".

>How about upping the precision?

Use longer codes! It's all in the spec[1]. Again, quote:

>>Using a single grid refinement step, we have an 11 digit code that represents a 1/32000° by 1/40000° area (roughly 3.4 by 2.7 meters at the equator).

Now, regarding this:

>Want to shift a little to the east? 4CFM+JX works, but 4CFM+JY?

This is by design; some symbols were omitted to avoid having words in codes (which, as TFA discusses, can be problematic, e.g. some places might not be happy with codes that have EVIL in them).

>Maybe there's a way to do that, but I haven't found it yet.

The spec[1] is open, and it's all in there!

It is not as simple as what you expected, due to the design constraint above. But that is a tradeoff that I think is reasonable. After all, these addresses are going to be punched into a computer anyway.

E.g. play with the addresses here[2].

I'm really excited to see more development in this space, because one size does not fit all. However, it's important to know what existing systems get right too.

(E.g.: English W3W looks like way easier to say on the phone).

Disclaimer: I work for Google/Geo, the opinions expressed here are mine, and not of my employer.

[1]https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...

[2]https://plus.codes/map

[3]https://plus.codes/howitworks
Can you give some non-trivial and not excessively contrived example of when observables should be used? I'm genuinely asking because, while I find them elegant, I still can't figure out why they were put front-and-center of the current generation of web frameworks (especially Angular). They seem a good tool to have but mostly for very particular cases.
Since http://reactivex.io/ became popular, I guess
I am switching to Azure pipelines now, super decent.
Seems like a primitive you could build a grapheme-by-grapheme abstraction on top of?
Forget Bribery – The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value
Harriet Hall from Science Based Medecine finds Denise Mingers critiques good and well researched: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/
I wonder if this will be some small type of advantage for Western companies going forward.

Surely an AI delivery will eventually win in all markets, but who's going to risk trying to build it when the max theoretical benefit is a few dollars per day per worker replaced? In the US the benefit might be 20x that much [1], making the risk worth investing in.

[1] assuming a hypothetical hyper efficient drone deliverer costs $15 / day and a SE Asian delivery worker costs $20 / day, that's $5 / day potential. An American delivery worker that costs $100 / day leaves $85 / day potential, or almost 20x as much.
In the case of ORG, it was exposed by a leftist research network that is primarily anarchist or non-authoritarian communist in nature. As far as I know this research network has no central authority, but rather a horizontal democratic structure.

I lean towards anarcho-communism myself, generally close to the original communist definition of libertarianism. So my answer to which authority should run things is "none". Facebook runs their own ship and are free to choose which content they will platform. While I would prefer a complete absence of hierarchy in all aspects of life, I think we can agree that this is probably not going to happen at FB.

I also strongly support anarchistic deplatforming and generally hindering fascists, nazis, racists and other bigots from spreading their noxious views. We have to realize at some point that some views simply aren't worth spreading.
I wonder how is that comparable to contaminations due to a natural volcanic eruption. I bet the numbers will be several times bigger for volcano.
Why not just send them a link that notifies the operator of the exact location, immediately after they click the link and load up their location?
But where will I be able to read Linus words? That was my only use of Google+.
What problems did you specifically encounter with the current bundled blacklist plugin?
I am not saying you should not be proud of Indian progress, but I suspect the experiences of a businessman in a big city in India are vastly different to a low caste woman with TB in rural India.

A friend of mine is a nurse who did social work in rural India. What she told me about the local hospitals was horrifying, not just the condition of the hospital and how patients with infectious diseases were sleeping on the corridors because of lack of beds, but how the doctors had a total disinterest (bordering on contempt) of the uneducated woman who she went to appointments with.
There already was some understanding of hormones, and one of the hormones used in the body to regulate pregnancies is also present in urine. Similar mechanisms had been found in other animals, and it turned out they were similar enough to allow the human variant to trigger processes in animal bodies. Mice and rabbits had been used before, so there was logic to testing if it transferred to the frogs too.
What is sad is that this could be a great tool for students. It would be really nice to have something you can have it check your paper and give you warnings about missing citations etc. The ones I've seen you can only check your work after you submit it for grading. I'm not saying that people don't deliberately plagiarize, but it's also easy to make a mistake when you're under pressure.
I thought this was going to be an article about truly smart people, not entrepreneurs and billionaires. You want to look at the world differently? Try Einstein. Or Feynman. You don't even have to get that fancy - I've known auto mechanics and machinists who are brilliant. I think this author is idolizing the wrong kinds of people.
This becomes clear when you use any of the cheaper alternatives.
"Unauthorized" flies in the face of the anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act.

Go read our laws and do try to keep up with them, eh? You're one of the reasons things like this are happening.
It is market manipulation. In the United States it is prohibited under Section 9(a)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation
What do you get when you photocopy a mirror – and *why*?
Had a friend who went back recently. Life outside work is good. Closer to family, all daily chores are taken care of by maids and servants. But w.r.t work, you don't get enough number of quality people. They still need hand holding or "push". Most people are smart but do not know how to deliver end to end.
The norming of AC in so many places has been quite the shift. I live in an old house in Central-ish fairly rural Massachusetts and I sometimes get funny looks from people when I tell them I don't have AC. (I do have a small window unit I use for sleeping for a week or two in a typical summer when it gets uncomfortably hot to sleep.)

When I was an undergrad and spent a couple summers in the city in the Boston area, no AC at all.
Quite often you can buy the solutions manual to a given textbook. They are on half.com or available in pdf format, a lot of the time.

They won't show you the work, so copying the answer is not sufficient to get credit in practically any course.

"Academic integrity" has ridiculous rules (eg self-plagiarism is not really a thing that anyone should care about) and I'm sure some people would be pissed about that, but if you're doing the work I personally don't see anything wrong with getting immediate feedback on whether you've done it correctly or not. Particularly given that many textbooks do like one or two simple examples and then jump to complex problems in the assignments... being able to check a couple problems to be sure you understand the process is extremely helpful as a learning aid.)

If you want a real-world assessment of whether someone has mastered a concept, schedule an in-class quiz or a test.
Credit scores aren't an indicator for morals. Do you really have so much faith in the current credit system that you'd be willing to turn someone from a job they're otherwise qualified. The argument could be totally flipped on it's head. It's important to hire someone with a bad credit score (using it as a measure of wealth apparently) because they will value their job more and not do anything to risk losing it.
- Alfred https://www.alfredapp.com/

- BetterTouchTool https://folivora.ai/

- Sip https://sipapp.io (even tho the new pricing isn't great)

- Spectacle https://www.spectacleapp.com/ (if you want a Magnet alternative)

- Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ (not sure if this counts)
This is a false dichotomy and betrays a lack of understanding of the actual work of the scientific community here. The mortality of the fungus and amphibian behavior are both affected by climactic conditions. It is far from “easy” to attribute the epidemic to global warming but careful studies are illustrating how different temperature envelopes and humidity can cause this fungus to thrive in amphibian populations. I suggest you take a few minutes to read this study, it might change your perspective.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
Tainted Pills Force FDA to Tighten Drug-Safety Regulations
There are so many competing systems because the problem of turning two numbers (a coordinate pair) into a string is trivial, so everyone comes up with their own bikeshed.

The individual details of the systems don't really matter. Sure, they each have some small advantage or disadvantage, and you can argue about them for a long time, but in the end, what matters is usage/adoption.

A widespread but suboptimal system is better than a system with better properties that few people know/use, because the differences barely matter.

Unfortunately, there isn't sufficient need for such a system that ordinary people would regularly come into contact with it, and any group of people that does have such a need already found a (proprietary) solution, so it's unlikely we'll get a standard soon unless big players agree on one and aggressively push for it.
What is your point here? Obviously shareholder value is one of many things that matter. I vehemently disagree that executives are the ones who truly matter.

Executives may often have excessive power and influence, sure. And there is much room for improving how the system affects all individuals. Is this what you are trying to imply?
True, but it's the distribution of wealth _between_ the U.S. and India that I'm thinking of. They can't afford to give most of their population needed heart surgery even when they've made it 100x cheaper than it is here.

Here health care is destroying us too, but _most_ (not all) people who need heart surgery still get it. Sometimes it destroys them financially (not saying health care works here either), but they get the surgery. And our economy does not crash. So far. India literally can't afford to give them the surgery.
Nothing prevents you from having file names that mix cases in a case-insensitive file system. Case-insenstitive is not the same as case-oblivious. For example:

$ echo asdf > Foo
$ cat foo
asdf

That's much less error prone that allowing you to have distinct files named foo and Foo and FOO and FoO and fOo and fOO and...
Remember:

The shorter the half-life of an isotope is, the more radioactive and thus dangerous it is.

The longer the half-life of an isotope is, the less radioactive and thus dangerous it is.

Fukushima happened in 2011, almost 8 years ago.

Almost everything dangerous had since decayed.

What we can detect long-living and thus not-so-dangerous isotopos, or detect minute traces of short-living ones because we have very sensitive equipment means exactly nothing besides the fact that we can.
dodged a bullet, there.
I'm struggling to see the value proposition there. I would imagine you'd get way higher data / rack density using even plain old hard disk drives than you would with bluray disc libraries.

The only way to get close to that would be to have some insanely complicated automated jukebox/storage mechanism, because you'd be relying on essentially piling up disks in a rack.

Just rough back-of-napkin figures:
blu-ray is 4.75" in diameter, and 0.05" in depth.
42U racks: 78″ x 42" x 24″ (more or less.)

Assuming you just pack them all in, in great big tall piles:
You could get 5 x 8 columns, 1560 discs deep.

5 * 8 = 40. 40 x 1560 = 62,400 discs in a rack. At 150Gb a disc, that's a total of 9,360,000gb (9.36pb).

Of course you probably need to cut that in half at the very least, to be able to provide some kind of mechanism for extracting and remove the discs, and for safe storage. I'd consider that generous, but it's a good figure to work from.

And of course you have to consider that any jukebox for doing the writing / retrieval is effectively wasted space. The amount of discs you could have stored in transit there aren't likely to be sufficient enough to worth bothering with, so at the very least halve it again. That's also assuming you'd have one jukebox per storage rack.

So... 9.36 / 2 / 2 = 2.34 petabytes average rack density.

Current backblaze PODs come in at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... 480 TB per 4U. Rack I used for disc storage is the standard 42U. I'm going to go assume you'd lose 6U for top of rack switches, power, etc. so 9 servers per 42U. 9 * 480tb = 4.32 petabytes.

So even just with Backblaze PODs you'd get more than double the data density, and it would all be on-line and retrievals could be nearly instantaneous. Plus you'd be dealing with tried and true technology that is likely to be way more reliable and have much less unknowns, comprising of fairly easy to replace storage media, vs relatively new technology with less certain supply lines and specialised devices associated with it.

edit: I see below that bluray archive disks are reaching 150gb per side, so 300gb total. So the rack data density probably reaches 4.68 petabytes, just slightly over that of the hard disks, but still my final point remains. Choosing a newer technology vs well known hard disks and supply chains would be crazy, unless there was a strong advantage that it supplied. I don't see 0.36pb per rack as being that significant an advantage.
Plagarism Detectors for Code, like MOSS, are a major issue. Take a simple getter/setter method. MOSS will mark these as duplicates unless you explicitly go in an say "no, its okay for THIS to be the same". This adds a degree of bias to what is justifiably "expected" and "unique" for student submissions. As someone that uses MOSS, I regularly look at any flags, "eyeball" them, and in only 2 instances did it result in a legitimate integrity violation. Not to mention that I have to hunt for all possible solutions across the internet and add them to the pile to ensure students didn't "copy it from a website".

I think current CS is doing itself a disservice because we want students to collaborate, but discourage them from even looking at each other's code (that is literally how students have spoken to me about it). I don't know if English or History students refuse to look over each other's work, but I doubt it.

Soloway described programmers as having "recurring basic patterns". If you accept his theories, we literally have tiny little rolodexes in our minds and when we encounter a problem we go "hang on, I've done this before" and pull out some code we've worked on in the past. We literally have tiny snippets of code we try to reuse if we can.

Instead, for well known algorithms, just give them the code! My research [1] require them to at least do it once, but either way - what good is it to have a student reinvent how A* search works? What about inserting into a Linked List? There are only a finite number of ways to implement these things. Instead of discouraging StackOverflow, and letting students try to sneak that type of work into their code, control it through the use of additional examples. They are less pressed to copy and paste code from a 3rd party if you've literally given it to them.

We want students to understand how to take something like a programming language and use it to solve a problem, but then we confound the entire process by not training them on the language. Even among SIGCSE, people can't agree what CS1 should be and somehow everyone wants it to be "more than just learning to program" like its a bad thing.

Back to plagiarism detectors for code, I think our current track discourages students to be open and help each other because they fear if they describe how they solved the exact same problem, there goes college. The result is encouraging the loner stereotype instead of reducing it. Hell, paired programming has to be forced on us because we can't "work with other people". I recognize some simply don't like it, however, my point is we've trained ourselves to not work together for so long that we designed a coding paradigm to have "controlled helping someone code".

[1] https://research.csc.ncsu.edu/arglab/projects/exercises.html

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978093461...
You can't be the "???", italics, and caps guy if you're gonna be the "Woah. Calm down guy." guy.

Either you're the one reacting strongly or you're the one chiding people for doing so. Doing both is poor form, to an extent that it stops mattering what else you type.
While you can sell food cooked from your own kitchen, but you can't just do whatever you want, you will for example get in trouble if you sell something that make people sick.
Ask HN: My co-founder refuses to sign a vesting agreement
I and two other co founders recently started a tech company. We received funding from two investors at about a total of 150K. I wanted to enter a four year vesting agreement for our shares in case one of us decides to leave the company.

One of my co founders refuses to sign an agreement like this. This makes me worry that he is not committed. What would be my options if, for example, he decides to leave in the next 6 months? I am based in San Francisco by the way. Are there any legal methods for me to force him to sign a vesting agreement?
Thank you; this explains why Google's photo thing keeps trying to create albums for me.

They're already attempting to optimize out the broken part of the working system. End users that just literally can't or can't be bothered.
Wells Fargo CEO Steps Down as General Counsel Takes Over
Millenials are the largest and most educated generation ever. Also the first to grow up using computers from a young age. And, incidentally, the first generation with less purchasing power than the previous generation.

Why the fuck wouldn't a company opt to hire the most educated, computer savvy workers for less money?
It's not a docs site, it's the project site that consists mostly of docs, and it's built using the library/framework.

It doesn't inspire confidence considering it the first touch for developer (who else is this for?)
Too bad I use vim%7qccccnn!2ff
Google unification didn't not work. It forced so many things brutally .. even with cool ideas it would remove value from the whole Google brand. (a tiny barely significant example: I lost my youtube channel due to g+ real name policy)

That said, Google+ had a good bunch of interesting people discussing things nicely (vintage computing, craftmanship). There was a lot to enjoy and way less of the social network usual noise and chit chat drama.
All the automated systems fail as well. I don't see any way the overlaps can be automated without some people either missing out, or other people getting a bit much.
2 hours later... yep.

Did not expect this, it's pretty amazing.
The answer is most likely pesticides. Fungus is ancient. If a frog's immune system has been compromised it's probably susceptible to all manner of ailments.

Don't let the pesticide industry convince you their products are safe.
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste — Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

—

Radiological impact of airborne effluents of coal and nuclear plants

DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4372.1045
Interesting research... I hadn't given much consideration to the interior structure of protons and neutrons before.
Prisync acquired its Australia-based competitor Spotlite
Wow, congratulations for spotting that bias. Really slaying monsters with that sort of statistical insight.

Why can't you look for the value in the article instead of picking stupid holes in it?
Yeah but it was half a centimeter thicker, and therefore useless to today's Apple.
I'll be honest Ive just stopped using the site unless I absolutely have to. It's definitely a to each their own scenario and YMMV depending.
It hasn't been that long since the tower-style Mac Pro. The current design only came out in 2013.
The why's in the second to last paragraph of the Quora/Slate article.
Unfortunately, when last I looked, there was no way to add yourself to a particular circle of some other user -- so if you wanted, say, Jennifer 8 Lee's articles, but didn't want your feed cluttered up with her pictures of dishes from restaurants, you had to ask her to do something individually. For people with diverse interests and large follower counts, this really doesn't scale.
I wish I hadn't watched this video.
"I can send them the link through a course announcement but it is more convenient to put a short url on screen and have them go there."

I hope you will look at "Oh By Codes":

https://0x.co/

Standard URL shortening (although with no tracking or cookies or javascript) but you can also shorten non-urls.

There's a normal FAQ on the page, but also an "HN FAQ":

https://0x.co/hnfaq.html
Most of the Kong adoption is free and comes from the open-source version, which you can download for free [1] and perhaps even contribute to [2]. We support an extensibility framework [3] that the community has been using to extend Kong (more than 500+ plugins on GitHub), including about 30 plugins that are shipped for free in the open-source distribution [4].

Kong is modular by design so that we could walk away from bundled complexity, and that's really why we created the concept of Plugins. Plugins can be installed, distributed, and used independently and they can be removed anytime (not just disabled, but entirely removed from the actual runtime).

[1] - https://konghq.com/install/

[2] - https://github.com/Kong/kong

[3] - https://docs.konghq.com/latest/plugin-development/

[4] - https://docs.konghq.com/hub/
What regulations and standards in the US do you consider excessive? Food safety seems like a pretty nice thing to have.

And, sure, a lot of relatively nit-picky things go into health department restaurant scoring but that seems better than the alternative.
it's the act of writing the notes physically which is helpful
You were given a definition of white supremacy below and elsewhere so I won't repeat others. It just seems like under this sense of freedom of speech we shouldn't censor radical Islamism or white supremacy if we can't ban speech merely due to ideology leading to violence. That is a consistent and fair sense of morality I think.
i'm originally from about 20km away of that place, I remember in the 80s there used to be kid shoes and whatnot washing ashore from time to time
> Millenials are [...] the first to grow up using computers from a young age.

No, they aren't.

-- Generation Xer who grew up using computers from a young age, and was not at all alone in that.