skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been dabbling with GIS data for many years without being even remotely aware of this issue. I now realize how much of a sandcastle GIS data is. So, thanks for posting this because I learned something.

There is a lot of data out there that is effectively user generated. What this means is that someone with a phone goes to a some place and than posts some content (photo, tweet, restaurant check in, etc) with some kind of coordinate. All this stuff ends up in databases. This stuff was never very accurate. If you collect POI data from different sources about the same POI, the coordinates are going to vary by tens of meters. Worse if users manually enter the coordinates because people lie. Also, real world places are not points but have geometry, sometimes that can be tens to hundred of meters. E.g. the coordinate of the Louvre in Paris is meaningless because the place is huge. Also the whole of open street maps is basically many different users contributing what they think should be the coordinates of things.

Proximity is a good signal when de-duplicating POIs but not reliable by itself. E.g. in many Japanese cities, some bars are on the n-th floor of some sky scraper and there may be dozens of restaurants and bars in the same building. Also, they close and re-open as something new regularly; so there's a lot of stale GEO data out there like reviews of restaurants that no longer exist or that just opened and get tagged to the wrong POI, buildings that got demolished, or new buildings and streets that got constructed recently in what formerly was a field.

So, GIS data is messy and the coordinate system is helpful for getting close enough that you can figure it out once you are near enough to see the signs but generally not very precise.

But then, there are more elaborate things like indoor maps that are geo-referenced; or 3D building models that are shown on a map. These things are usually modeled separately and then manually or automatically aligned with a map. Most data sets specifying coordinates have no notion of anything else than a pair of doubles that are generally referred to as the WGS 84 coordinates. This includes open street maps; which mostly consists of user generated data by users with no clue about this issue using inaccurate gps signals and either some local knowledge about stuff is relative to other stuff in OSM or some satellite imagery.

So, the implication of this article is that most of that data is only valid in the context of whatever it was geo-referenced to. Which, in most cases is simply unknown since it is typically not recorded in datasets or even known by whoever records the data.

This explains a lot of things about some stuff I've been seeing in 3D scenery for flight simulators like x-plane where if you have e.g. some satellite imagery and 3D objects for real world buildings, airports, etc. it is quite common for them to be slightly misaligned since the data comes from lots of different sources, all lacking meta information about what their coordinate system actually is supposed to be, that are combined automatically.
they said "scouring"... not "talking". Ah yes, you don't understand the difference.
> Politics manifested as a talk show host, like Ellen Degeneris is fine.

Ellen wasn't a talk show host. Ellen was a sitcom character. Thanks for pointing out where you misunderstood. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-20-mn-5159-s...
Are we using the word gophers now, my first thought was the internet protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
I believe in Quebec it's illegal to automatically turn a free trial into a subscription via credit card. I'd love to see that law proliferate elsewhere.
I’ve realized in the last few months that I basically watch nothing on Netflix anymore. I’ve been considering canceling.
Instagram hides number of 'likes' from users in Australian trial
Also, the specific phrase "undefined behavior" is typically invoked in a context related to the C programming language. In the C standard and some standards related to it, undefined behavior is just one point on a spectrum of (un)definedness:

- implementation-defined: Not defined by the standard, but implementations must choose a consistent behavior and document it (e.g. what's shifted in when right-shifting signed integer types)

- unspecified: Not defined by the standard; implementations must choose some way of addressing the situation, but need not document it (e.g. the order in which function arguments are evaluated)

- undefined: Entirely outside the scope of the standard; implementations may assume that such situations never occur, and need not have any sensible or consistent behavior (e.g. dereferencing NULL)

In that taxonomy, I think this is much closer to "unspecified" than "undefined". The latter is usually used in scarier contexts like random memory corruption or crashes, not consistent behaviors that rely on deliberate implementation choices as we see here.
Understanding the reflectivity and emissivity of the material you are measuring is something that almost nobody accounts for outside of critical, professional applications.

Not that it makes the measurements in question any less inaccurate, but it's very common to see these problems in temperature measurements.
The problem is that the time field apparently wraps in a week. Can receivers then tell the data is totally wrong?
Reminds me of the crazy phone plans when mobile started getting popular in my country.
There was one super premium, quite expensive of course, which was pretty much unlimited everything.

It worked so well (for the heavy phone consumers) that the company tried its best to buy those contracts back / move those folks on a more profitable plan.
The Tesla Pickup Truck Will Face Tough Questions on Reliability
The software documentation for people new to it is awful. The hardware is probably great, but I've had such a hard time with mine.

It's not newbie friendly at all, and the people in HAM and SDRs don't know how to teach. It's all jargon that they never define or things just like "Oh do XYZ in this software" and that's an entirely non-obvious thing that's entirely undocumented with no tutorials.
Even when literally losing thousands of dollars to honor a price advertised to customers, HN manages to spin's Amazon's actions as somehow duplicitous.
This is pretty unfair. People who put money into these projects should be able to make money from them as well. Why should climate-conscious people have to donate money to offset the carbon footprint while investors get to earn?
This sounds like praise for the effectiveness of S-400;

Gen. Tod Wolters, who leads U.S. European Command, offered this explanation: “You cannot operate an F-35 in the vicinity of an S-400..."
I was dispointed by the facebook side, they should answer the question in details.
Grails 4 is a fairly critical release for that ecosystem.

I think it has to be said that Grails 3 was a failure because it updated nearly everything but failed to improve much that anybody cared about and made a bunch of things worse - including, worst of all, it did nothing but exacerbate the bloat and slowness.

Even despite all of that I still don't know a framework for the JVM that is as comprehensively full stack as Grails, so I think it has a chance. But it really has to hit it out of the park. For now, I'm relatively happy just using Micronaut and piecing together a lightweight system on top of that.
That's basically modern CPUs for the modern consumer. Laptops often have cooling that can't keep up, same with intel NUCs. Same even with ryzens with integrated video cards. There are bios setting for relaxed thermal throttling that let it get hotter that are a huge boost to performance.
Which websites do you still find using Flash? I ask because I am genuinely interested to know. I think it has been years since I came across a website that used Flash. I uninstalled Flash the day I found that YouTube does not require Flash anymore.
privacy.com allows you to do this, you can generate virtual credit cards that are one use only, one source only, with spending limits, etc. The only gripe I have is that it's linked to your checking account and not your actual credit card.
I'm not signing up for a service for 1 month, and then going through the back catalogue in that 1 month. I want to watch media when I want to, not when it wants me to. Think of it like TV, I tune in when I want something to watch and change the channel until I find something.

Simply needing to switch between services and time my subscriptions is enough for me to not bother. TV/Film is burntime for me, not a dedicated hobby. If I need to stuff around figuring out which service has which shows that I might enjoy, you've lost me and I'll go watch something on youtube.

Netflix originally had all the varieties of shows I needed. It doesn't anymore. If someone shows me another service that is accessible to Australians that has a better catalogue, I'd probably switch to it permanently.
I've transitioned away from spending too much on coding and mostly ask stylistic open ended questions although I still do some coding when interviewing a candidate. As a dyslexic though the current industry white board interviewing process is a poor indicator of how I actually perform in the real world.
If you're in the USA, Obamacare ruined the business model for contractors. Health insurance went from $250/month to $500+/month. Not sure what Trumpcare will look like.

So you're good if your wife works or you're in Canada, otherwise you start off with one strike against you.

Also, if you want to buy a house, do it as an employee first. Getting a mortgage with self-declared income is wonky.

The best thing is to have a "jack maneuver" ...

Most people who make it as consultants are really ex-employees who are billing their former companies.

If you invoice somebody without an existing long-term relationship, there's a very large chance you will be paid late or never, and thus have significant cash flow problems.

There's nothing glamorous about consulting. It's less work to just do leetcode and make $400k a year at Google.

Also, if you change your mind and want to work as an employee again, expect some awkward conversations with hiring managers.
There is a deep comparison in the video in the post.
Syncthing: An open source Dropbox replacement
Also, I'd like to talk with anyone actively trying to shift from being a software engineer full-time to being a software consultant. Or anyone trying to grow a new consultancy. I'm exploring starting a business that makes it easier for engineers to successfully transition to consulting. I'm just at the early pre-product stage, and am still trying to better understand the new or prospective software consultant perspective. I seem to get along well with people from HN so if anyone here is happy to help and jump on the phone with me, that'd be hugely appreciated! My email is in my profile.
Is that still happening? Do you have recent links of people getting gift card/credit regularly? Amazon seems to have stopped doing that largely for some time now.
Because the variable goes after the as.
if re.match(p1, line) as m:
So, we have to throw around the worst childish paint artwork along with as many uses of the phrases “cuck” and “alpha-as-fuck”, eh?

Remind me why anyone should waste their time on this?

Even if the topic is relevant in general, I find the presentation to be rather offensive.
In my fantasy-py language, there is no "str", base types would be explicit. unicode() bytes(). "something" could have an implicit u"". Composite types could be explicit. If I want a set of int's, I can use mypy now to s1: t.Set[int] = set(), but that's just linting.
An issue I've encountered with static website hosting on CloudFront+S3 is that if you want `index.html` to be served at the root path of a URL - e.g. https://www.yoursite.com/folder/ vs https://www.yoursite.com/folder/index.html, you must use the s3 website endpoint rather than the S3 Origin. And in that case, unfortunately, it is not possible to use Origin Access Identity.
> This makes the piracy route become more and more attractive again - and I don't like that this is the case. I want to pay people for their content.

People like to say this, but, no offense, it just doesn't seem true. It sounds like a justification. (And I'm not judging, I'm just not convinced by this reasoning).

Signing up for 3-4 streaming services is pretty easy. If you use something like an apple tv or fire tv you can even use a global search that links you into the app where the content you searched for lives. If you're willing to pay per episode or movie to rent or buy everything you watch on itunes or amazon, it's even easier and you can get almost anything instantly.

I do agree that in general, the more different streaming services are released the more that people's incentives are starting to tip back towards pirating. But I don't think there's much other reason beyond just cost.
me too! <3
Military response is not being considered.

Original Article: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3019007/chi...
Ahhh, NT 3.51--the most stable version of Windows I've ever used.

Odd numbered versions are the best with fixes and not a lot of new stuff being tried out--3.51 put the polish on 3.5.
Is UberCon going on or something? Why so many releases in the past few days? I'm not complaining; just curious.
I reckon he gets a lot more $$ commission if you sign up. Maybe he even lied about not being able to make a single donation.
Or you could just use a prepaid debit card that is drained.
I'm not sure how far and wide the show Nathan For You reaches, but there's a fantastic episode where he proposes a local electronics store mark TVs down to $1 in order to buy up new inventory from Best Buy for his own store using their price match policy.

Rather than trying to explain it poorly, I highly recommend everyone watch this clip from the show:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/i6q9t5/nathan-for-you-the-pric...
Avian malaria-mediated population decline of a widespread iconic bird species
> London’s house sparrows (Passer domesticus) have plummeted by 71% since 1995, with new research suggesting avian malaria could be to blame.
Powering a Mainframe
Am I listing a $600K house for $60K while I have many many millions in the bank? Not the biggest deal. Otherwise using that sort of example as a comparison makes little sense.

Of course if someone has no savings and lives paycheck to paycheck and lists their house, their only asset, for $540K less than it’s worth, it’s an awful situation. But that’s sort of ridiculous to consider, no?
I thought that username seemed familiar… [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
The guy won't provide the bank issuing the card but if you have the first digits of the card number you can just go to any BIN lookup website and find the issuing bank. Its not something you can keep a secret since it used to route the transaction on the card network.
If anyone wanna try:

A native compiler backend for PureScript (via C++)
https://github.com/pure-c/purec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwcwXea0in4
Didn't get on this, but reminds me of when Amazon didnt collect sales tax for states they didn't operate in. Was able to save about $300 on a stereo purchase because of that back in the day...
Oh no, Amazon's profit margin!

Being less flip: it's a massive corporation, which by default don't really care about consumers happiness directly, just that which is necessary for us to part with our many. I find it hard to have sympathy for said corporation -- especially considering the power that they now wield over modern western society.

And it wouldn't be the first time a corporation is duplicitous, that's for sure. I don't personally think this was done on purpose, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
There are mountains of data on interviewing and hiring(see industrial psychology), and none of it shows that human evaluation is the gold standard. In fact the research shows that pretty much anything you do to reduce the "je ne sais quoi" of hiring is going to improve results.
Riding in the HOV lane when you’re alone is also convenient. That doesn’t mean you’re not a degenerate for doing it. If you don’t like the terms on which people have offered their work, by all means, take your business elsewhere. There’s literally nothing stopping you from instead consuming the work of indie artists and producers who choose to make their work available more widely. (It’s also not fair to those indie artists and producers to have to compete with big-budget content people acquire for free.)
Apple will bail them out
Microservices are typically an organizational rather than technical feature.

If each team are given their own microservice to manage the way they choose, things can work smoothly.
How much is the total press worth?
I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate.

*you've added more to your post now.

> If you don’t like the terms on which people have offered their work, by all means, take your business elsewhere. There’s literally nothing stopping you from instead consuming the work of indie artists and producers who choose to make their work available more widely.

I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible.

I certainly agree that pirating indie stuff (especially when you can afford it and like it) is a big no-no. Indie films are massively hard to get off the ground in Australia.

Not that I'm helping. As I said, Film/TV is not a concentrated hobby for me. It's burntime that I can fill with other stuff, hence no real need to keep a sub if it's not giving me much, and no real drive to pirate even ignoring the moral reasons.
Seeing as Uber used to use S2, presumably it was worse for their needs.
Do you have recommendations for foodie shibboleths? The only one I can think of off the top of my head would be how they order their steak.
Embodied Carbon: The Blindspot of the Buildings Industry
But the father says she is no lady
The Internet of Things Is Going to Destroy Us All
I don’t think anyone actually runs nightly against what’s on the latest / master. I know at work, we use nightly rust, but we pin to a specific date release, usually when the around latest stable is cut.
I am not surprised. I am still a subscriber because I like some series like Mad Men and Dark. But their catalogue is shrinking and new content is mostly bad(with few exceptions like Death, Love and Robots).
Nearly 70% of APAC firms don't trust blockchain, survey says
Stranger Things seems to be a massive hit. Shelf life is unclear though. House of Cards was a hit and now it’s completely irrelevant it seems for comparison.
Planning is obsolete. Coordinate instead
They did. Reduced it from a NP-class problem (IIRC dependencies constraint solving required a SAT solver) to mere tree traversal.
>I didn't realise cancelling my netflix subscription made me a degenerate.

That's a very disingenuous reply. GP obviously meant suggesting you will return to piracy makes you a degenerate.
The numerals are a mere convenience. A bank is required to honor the spelled out amount, because that is what is legally binding. But to the parent's point, presumably you owed a certain amount before paying, so if you overpaid, you have a credit due. Either way, the terms of the contract remain the same.
We haven't really dug in to analyzing those outside of cost explorer yet but that makes sense.

One workaround I've heard of is S3 replication. I've not tried it yet but apparently the replica has the 'correct' ownership.
> As someone who recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after idly flipping through it and realising nothing here holds my interest anymore

Can't disagree with this. I cancelled Netflix not too long ago because it felt like it was another version of Facebook for me. Somewhere to scroll aimlessly and endlessly with nothing interesting enough to commit to, but interesting enough to keep me scrolling. Almost like the next swipe of my thumb would finally locate something to watch. Once I was able to buy the entire series of The Office (US), my reason to keep Netflix was gone. Once Disney+ launches I am wondering how Netflix will fare.

(Full Disclosure: My Facebook was deleted several years ago)
I had heard another other issue cited as a possible culprit - that their alphabet wasn't very suited to it given their vast number of characters not gaining as much.

It brings to mind one artifact of letter construction being based upon the writing method - cuneiform vs ink pen letters for instance.
I'd love to play with one as well and look forward to the later posts in this series.

There has been a lot of mainframe related posts on HN lately.
First mover disadvantage is a thing
yeah the Australian Netflix at least has a very fragmented selection nowadays. The only things that keep my interest are really their originals.

I think Stan has most of the more well known shows these days, and I think it's better value for money than Netflix
This is my guess. Prime Day loses its allure if word gets out that the low prices aren’t being honored, so they eat it.

My wife is a buyer for B&M retail, pricing issues like this happen a lot. In her space, it’d probably take a week to fix.
This is an unintentional by-product of shipping so quickly. As Amazon moves to quicker and quicker shipping policies, it means that errors like this can't be reversed in time.

I would imagine that Amazon could threaten to close the customer's account if they refused to return the camera equipment but that might be a bit extreme and might be very bad press.
The first question summary is … poor. Congressman's biggest concern after poking around on github seemed to be about international committers and a "native Nigerian" committing a lot of the code. (based on looking around the github-generated contributors pages for the libra and rust repos, I have no idea who he's talking about).

The second answer was: "This is a very technical question. We'll get back to you." Which is to be expected; there's no reason for Mr. Marcus to risk a felony by bullshitting in front of Congress about technical decisions.
> Is there a reason that it matters what the reference implementation of Libra is written in?

If a language implementation is new, then it is (in the pragmatic sense) more susceptible to security issues.
Substack vs. Medium
OK cuck.
Waitrose and Partners Unpacked
Seriously. Wake me up when it hits $250 a share again.
I mean I can subscribe to 5 different streaming services and pay $50-60/mo, and how far away are we from having a service that provides a collection of streaming services (i.e. cable TV).

The problem that's happening lately is that streaming services were a way to get away from the expensiveness of cable, but now we're returning the the exact same problem we had then.
I don't believe in finding a 'best way' to improving your tech writing skills. But what I can recommend is that researching and writing several technical blog-posts on certain interests that you think could be useful for others are very good ways in knowing how to communicate with a technical audience and improving your tech writing skills. This is done on HN every day.

Also get someone else to look at your report/blog/white-paper/etc for proof-reading as you might not be able to see your own mistakes as you write it.

Lastly, reading and quoting the references are always a must. Also a way of improving your technical knowledge and writing too.
> I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible.

I’m addressing your use of “convenience” in “convenience and availability.”
Questionable AI photo editor FaceApp goes viral again on iOS
Yup, like this one:
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I solved this problem by not automatically shipping a $600,000 house without a signed contract and proof of financing.