skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started my career as a GIS analyst and was steeped in the "geospatial industry" for a few years. As I grew my career into software development, I found an entire world of innovative practices and technologies that had been largely hidden from view. Linux, Databases, HTTP, legit programming languages, software best practices... these things are largely absent from the GIS curriculum. In their place are bespoke, proprietary systems that solve the Geographic part well but are painfully isolated from the Information Systems that the rest of the world are working on.

My biggest realizations came using tools like PostGIS, GeoPandas, Rasterio, and Numpy where geography is just another data type (albeit with some specialized functions to work with them) and well integrated with the rest of the software ecosystem.

You can see it reflected in the salaries - A "GIS Programmer" will often make a fraction of what a "Software Engineer" makes. There's a reason for that - for most use cases, geospatial isn't unique enough to warrant a walled garden of technology.
The big one was the discovery of the Higgs boson, a missing piece of the so-called 'standard model' of particle physics, plus a bunch of other stuff (lack of evidence for super-symmetry so far, discovery of some tetra- and pentaquarks states, potentially some hints of physics beyond the standard model from B-meson decays, ...).

In large part, it 'merely' confirmed our current theories, disappointing people hoping for revolutionary discoveries.
But this is not about his opinions or that they are not accepted. This is about maintaining pseudonym and importance of it for practising MD.
The action MMO is the final medium, in VR or not, I suspect in 3rd person!

Positional 3D audio is the last frontier. But I'm not sure you will want it for public gatherings,

it should be a friends only thing in a sea of chat bubbles above the characters heads.

The chat feed is not interesting because the context is lost and trolling is too easy.
Desktop productivity content creation apps have never before needed ARM versions, so many probably don't have ARM specific optimizations, and some probably have x86 specific code that is just enabled by default.

The memory model differences are going to be painful to debug, I think ("all-the-world's-a-VAX syndrome" is now "all the world's a Pentium/x86-64").
Sorry was the fault of my butterfly ;)
Glad to see this app in the front page of HN. Absolutely love the app. The biggest props for me are caldav sync. It allows me to self host and get away from the figure ecosystem.

I just setup a mail in as box instance and boom! Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Todo list, and storage all outside of Google in a heart beat. And this app is just the best for managing Todo items. Just love it!
Pretty sure virtualization for iPad exists, it's just not in appstore - look up getutm.app.
HN: Governments don’t fund enough scientific research projects.

Also HN: Governments shouldn’t be funding this scientific research project.

Can’t win with this crowd.
Ah yes, this is Venkatesh Rao's site, who is some kind of "futurist".

It's the wrong metaphor. The Maginot line was supposedly impenetrable for keeping clearly labelled troops on the other side. The modern situation is something much more porous, much more like Cold War (counter)intelligence. Or this discussion of "interpretative superiority": http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/02/18/why-corbyn-is-th... (although I disagree with the conclusion). A system that can detect ideological incursions, vector an intercept response, and shoot down memes that get over the line. Analogy between forum moderation and those Phalanx CIWS systems for shooting down missiles.

The West doesn't have a central ideological defence system though, or at least not since the Cold War. Instead it's more like an immune system. Individual agents wander around the body politic attacking ideas they find unfamiliar. Responses to ideological challenge happen not through central coordination but by the actions of individual and factions.

The effectiveness of this system has become an autoimmune disease that can be exploited by pathogenic actors. The US police are a good example of this: their ideological defence is so strong it can cover even crimes committed in broad daylight on video.
Maybe the humidity ruins Brisbane summer for you? I think Perth would be a good alternative, the variance is closer to Sydney, but the heat is dry, and so is a lot more comfortable.
Or they don't want to pay more than that so they don't find developers. I saw friends moving from Italy to the UK, Germany and the USA because of that. Maybe developers from Germany move to other countries as well.
seriously though, if I had a nickel for everytime one of the gis staff asked me to process something for them using postgis because arcgis would crash on them I would be rich. it seems like gis staff have turned into pretty map makers and most of the real processing and such is done in open source tools (postgis, gdal and python)
Author dives into this in the post a bit, it's more about how would the NYT write the article about a blog that's no longer there without having to explain their part of poisoning the story. They also talk about prior run-ins with doxing and people calling their practice to try to get them fired off reddit witchhunts, so I think they know this, it's all about preventing a NYT-sized catastrophe when they've already seen low-yield reddit-sized explosions.
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Ego Graphs and the Google ‘Vs' Trick
Not to mention (West) Pakistan waged a genocidal war against its coreligionists in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) when the East Pakistani Awami League political party won the elections.

That said, the fears of Jinnah and the Muslim League were far from unfounded. While Gandhi was not hostile to Muslims like the VHP/RSS who ended up murdering him, his vision of India accorded them a subordinate role at best, as with the untouchables.

India has always been a pluralist place, and it is not ethnically homogeneous like China (genetically India is composed of a few hundred population clusters that have endogamy higher than 99.9%, higher than Ashkenazi Jews, for example). That's why India is unlikely to ever get a strong centralizing state like China. That also why democracy is a hardy weed in India, and may prove more resilient than the authoritarian Communist regime based on naked force on the other side of the Himalayas. Even the worst disturbances in modern Indian history, around the time of Partition, pale in comparison with the death toll of Mao's Great Leap Forward or his Cultural Revolution.
The problem is best labeled as Ribbon Cutting.

Politicians love to cut ribbons but spending money to maintain does not impart any name recognition. The second motive is anything that fills their campaign coffers.

However it should be noted that one of the most major expenses in cities is paying their payroll and in particular their pension requirements as public employee unions pretty much have them over a barrel and politicians trade public money for political favor without regards to the costs.

finally it also comes down to the penalties, fees, and such, of government services affect the poor far more than any other group. That twenty dollar renewal for your license might be nothing to you but it doesn't work that way when your poor. Throw in that municipal fees tend to be a lot higher and you can see the difficulty.

Atlanta was only forced in fixing their sewers which of course exploded their service costs after they kept dumping into local rivers.

PDF of city of Atlanta budget https://s3.amazonaws.com/saportakinsta/wp-content/uploads/20...
> If there is new physics to study let us keep the experiment going as is to study that for a generation or two. If there is no new physics from the last experiment, why do we think that building a bigger microscope will be any different?

The LHC likely would keep running for a generation, even if this new collider is constructed. The article notes that construction wouldn't begin until 2038. It doesn't say how long construction would take, but my guess is at least a decade (the LHC took a decade to build). So that's 30 years between now and the likely earliest time a new collider would be constructed, or 40 years since the LHC first went operational. Since the new collider would require construction of a new ring, it's possible the LHC would continue to operate while the new one is under construction, collecting more data.

The reason one needs a "bigger microscope" is due how signal to noise typically increases. In a simplified scenario, you're talking about poisson noise (shot noise, counting noise) dominating the error budget. The Signal-to-noise goes as the square root of the number of counts. So in order to double the S/N, you need to quadruple the number of events. In the case of a particle accelerator, that means doubling the amount of time.

The proposed collider would be 100 TeV, so ~6x more powerful than the LHC. All else being equal, the LHC could do some of the same experiments, but it would take it 36x longer to do them to the same statistical significance. Put another way, 1 year of operation of this proposed collider could achieve results it would take 36 years of the LHC to build up. 4 years of the new collider (doubling the signal to noise over the 1 year) would require 144 years (4 * 36) of the LHC.

But particle physics isn't a slow ramp-up in energy. There are collisions that can only be accessed once you reach particular energy thresholds. Unfortunately my understanding is that there aren't predicted "interesting" features above the LHC's energy range which are even remotely accessible in the distant future. So if you want to build a facility solely to find things that theories predict, this new collider may not get you much. But science is often advanced by experiments which find unexpected things, and you don't find those unless you look.

Overall I think the argument "let the LHC run for 40 years instead" is not a compelling one because of how shot noise works. The "maybe we'll find something new!" argument for a new collider is high-risk / high-reward, so I'm not sure how compelling I personally find it.
OpenGL was deprecated last year
aka ToS and legal stuff
> he took some time off because of burnout and they said he went insane

I actually kind of assume, in my prejudice about the past, that if there had been a DSM in the 19th century, "being tired of work" would have been in it.
> I also planted medlars and can’t seem to find anyone interested.

I made a medlar sorbet once, which was good but not great. But the single best scientific paper I have ever read is about the medlar. I happened across it on the new periodicals table at my college library, and had never seen anything like it. After reading it, I spent a long time thinking it might be satire, and that the fruit didn't actually exist. It was only years later that I finally had one. Summary and details of the paper here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4255177. Send me email if you'd like a copy and can't find access online.
This feels like an instance of negativity-bias. If you're willing to self-censor to avoid downvotes shouldn't you also be willing to shill / virtue signal for upvotes?

My problem with downvotes isn't the effect on my score. It's the fact that the font becomes paler. Dissenting opinions are singled out in a way that makes them look bad/wrong. I also don't like how the UX doesn't represent the distribution. A post with no votes will look like a post with 50 upvotes and 50 downvotes.

I am fine with downvotes, and with some UX mechanism to let people know that a post is being downvoted. But I think the current UX engenders groupthink.
Feel free to take a look at the official data yourself.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-tod...

You need nothing but Excel/LibreOffice and a few simple formulas to get this picture.

Germany has a heavy 7 day rhythm, because they're doing their reporting in a very strange way. Using 7 day averages helps a lot to get rid of the reporting-noise.

You need:
Daily death (averages over 7 days)
Total death (Sum) (averages over 7 days)

daily/total

Just use SUM() and /
I'm going to commit suicide. I was terminated without any warning last week.

"The quantity isn't there and the quality isn't there."
Ask HN: What do you think of an account sharing platform？
I don't want to waste another weekend to build a product no one need that is why I'm asking for advice here. I'm trying to build an account sharing platform like "Together Price", which lets users find others why want to buy the same online courses or join the family plan.

Target users:

- Users who find the courses/accounts are too expensive, they can find someone to split the bill and learn together.

- Users who want to find people to join family plans (Like Switch family plan).

Problems:

- Legal problems. Some online courses platform don't want users to share their accounts (Like Leetcode).

- Cheating problems. One of the users (admin) has all authority of the account (When he/she creates the account he/she may fill a backup email to reset the password anytime). The platform may ask the user to auth its third-party account (Github/twitter) before being an admin.

How do you think about this idea? Any comments are welcome :D
I didn't need to hear your opinion.
Vision Fund scrapping its 'IPO readiness group'
I used to be heavily involved in geospatial and a whiz with the esri toolset. I worked at a software company that made a custom GIS tool for visualization. The problem is that it's underpaid and underappreciated. I had little transferrable experience and most GIS related jobs don't pay that much.

For me my GIS job was mostly a time to learn programming and get a real it job
I started programming in COBOL since 1988 and I am still. I have seen several other languages come and go in these 3+ decades but COBOL is only growing younger. I am no more excited to learn a new language or tool invented every six months at my current age near retirement, hope COBOL will continue to feed me for few more years if not decades!
Why would that surprise you, given the comment? The desire is to make it better, using it in spite of its issues is a way to do that. More users = more inertia to make it better, more resources for reporting issues, etc.

I personally use Linux all the time, but not on the desktop because it's just bad enough that I can't stand it (It's really not Linux, it's X and all its associated crap). I won't criticize those who do because they want a better OS though, that's a good thing.
That is awesome to hear!
Summed up as YAGNI

You aren’t gonna need it.

As with anything tho, ruthlessly cutting stuff or rounding corners is in tension with supporting future capabilities, sometimes you do need it it turns out.
Don't forget EPUB/KEPUB/MOBI, for those of us with ereaders:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost
Even Aurangzeb endowed Hindu temples, contrary to popular perception encouraged by British propaganda for purposes of divide-and-rule.
I don't think salaries are why healthcare is so much more expensive: This would account for some costs, but not all of them. The healthcare system in the US is really fragmented and wasteful, so resources aren't pulled together to give the people the best benefit. Heck, we don't even standardize health insurance codes so that offices can hire fewer people nor are there standard costs for the consumer through an area (easing billing a bit), nor protect doctors from unreasonable false malpractice claims.

Not only that, but part of the reason salaries are higher is because of the cost of becoming a doctor... or nurse or any other healthcare professional that requires a degree.
The old code checks for the filepath to be present before attempting to dlopen it. The new way requires you to dlopen the path. This is very meh because dlopen already executes code from the library, so if you didn't want that, good luck.

(glibc and some other core libs like openssl like to detect plugins by probing the paths for libs and only loading them when necessary)
How can you possibly know this?
Seems less bad to me than the year or so that followed 9/11. Bad and bad enough though.
Apple Kicks Off Its Biggest WWDC Ever
I'm a classically trained chef who tends to specialize in bar food. I know more about the marketing, creation, and perception of food than you do— you're wrong.

McDonald's has very high quality preparation standards. Their ingredients and techniques were constructed to facilitate their high-speed, high-consistency process, but prevent them from incorporating things that the overwhelming majority of burger consumers prefer.

For example, the extremely fine grind on the meat, the thin patty, the sweet bread, the singular cheese selection, the inability to get the patty cooked to specification, the lack of hard sear or crust and the maillardization that accompanies it, etc. etc. etc. At a minimum, people prefer juicier burgers with coarser, more loosely-packed texture, usually cooked to lower temperatures (though this depends on what part of the country you're in,) and the flavor and texture differential from a hard sear, be it on a flat top or grill, and toasted bread.

For consumers who, at least at that moment, have a use case that requires their food be cheap, fast, and available, well we know who the clear winner is.

In my new career as a software developer and designer, I use apple products. I am willing to pay for the reliable UNIXy system that can also natively run industry-standards graphics tools without futzing around with VMs and things, and do all that on great hardware. There will always be people who aren't going to compare bits pushed to dollars spent and are going to be willing to spend the extra few hundred bucks on a device they spend many hours a day interacting with.

This isn't about perception at all— Apple products meet my goals in a way that other products don't. If your goals involve saving a few hundred bucks on a laptop, then don't buy one. I really don't understand why people get so mad at Apple for selling the products that they sell.
Yeah, the Netherlands is pretty good with the "animal side" of us as you put it (though it depends where you live too, in more religious areas clothing customs and attitudes towards sex etc. are quite different). Where I think NL still has some work to do is casual sexism/stereotyping. I'm sure it's better than many other places but there's still plenty of it around.

We can all do better, and even where things seem good we need to always be vigilant.
Somewhere like Austin could definitely use solar energy to boil water couldn’t they? Not only solar panels but those mirror/reflective panels into a concentrated spot to shine?
Scott is widely known for his impeccable mental honesty, even-handedness, and general niceness. There's a strong prior that what he says is, to the best of his knowledge, both true and presented in such a way as to reflect reality.
What's your point? 'Think before you speak' and 'speech has consequences' isn't exactly a new notion. Under a throwaway account on here I just write whatever pops up in my mind, when I co-author a paper under my and my colleague's real life names that's going to be read and cited, everyone triple checks everything so that as few innacurate or dumb things get published. How is this new or shocking in any way?
Unfortunately this style of moderation has already has spilled out. Even on HN people are insulted for not agreeing with the groupthink, usually as an attempt to bully their point of view off of the internet. Now these people are becoming mods and have real power to suppress counter narratives. This is a systematic problem of people trying to oppress views outside of theirs.
Or the Tom Cotton op-ed just two weeks ago. The highest hourly spike in NYT subscription cancellations, James Bennett resigning, employees in disarray, employees threatening to resign, and now we've mostly forgotten about the whole case. I doubt the NYT has incentives to really unpack why it was possible for their paper to publish pro-fascist content in the first place.
Medical Device Maker Threatens iFixit over Ventilator Repair Project
macOS Big Unsure
Yeah, did you notice they also ran it at 1080p and it really didn't look all that great?

I was actually a bit surprised they would break that kind of a demo out at WWDC -- I've seen that game not running in emulation and it was beautiful. That demo wasn't.
Best Practices to Apply to Low-Code Development
After reading this it occurs to me that a key aspect of the real world that is missing in the digital variant is identity. When people believe they cannot be seen they are prone to doing things that they might not otherwise do. If one needed a licence to drive on the information highway where digital-traffic violations had fines and/or jail terms, things might be different.

Sounds un-workable? Perhaps. But there was time when anyone could drive an animal powered vehicle with no certification. Once transportation technology became too powerful regulation had to follow to prevent chaos. How different is the current situation? Why does the local radio station, with 5 KW transmitter, need a FEDERAL license but Facebook and Twitter do not? Political leaders in the early 20th century seemed to understand the power of electronic media and did not shirk their responsibility to manage the society they found themselves in.

I am of the opinion that the current flock of political leaders, many of whom were born before the micro-computer existed are incapable of drafting the appropriate balanced language for this century. It will therefore fall on those born in the digital era to figure it out but the speed of digital change means we are already late and damage will be done before solutions exist.
Growth mindset is there is always enough.

Scarcity is there is never enough.

Both is a mind-set.

So to change, you need to change your mindset.

The best way to do that, has for me been through the Arbinger mindset change tools, start with their books, i can recommend “The outward mindset” and take it from there.
I love "What You Can't Say" and have incorporated the conformist test into my moral compass. But I think the shift to use of shame for society regulation is a positive development. I'd much rather be downvoted on HN or called names on Twitter than beaten up or deprived of freedom. But maybe that's just me.
Apple is building its own Mac CPUs, does this mean ARM has won?[video]
A few of his books are public domain, found them for free on Apple Books.
In Pandemic Recovery Efforts, Polluting Industries Are Winning Big
Transforming healthcare delivery: A more patient-focused approach
I'm holding up quite well. I'm still working from home, but my kids are going to school again, which helps a lot. Our holiday to Sweden was cancelled, so we're renting a campervan and touring around our own country (Netherland) instead. We're well aware we've got it relatively easy compared to many other people.

But if these times are so hard on you, why don't you share a bit more about your situation?

(I'm assuming this is still about the Corona crisis. Or is it about the unrest in the US instead?)
... and yet newspapers are shutting down comment sections
Good! I always thought it was a stupid name as it was associated with violence. I would mostly view the term in a negative light. Why use it for an app you're proud of?

I would object to it being called Matrix though as it's only one of the many Matrix clients. It's already becoming too major IMO :) This is probably a result of most Matrix development being done by Modular, but it should remain a multi-client network as that's one of its strengths.

They already called it Vector before, not sure what was wrong with that. Was a much better name IMO. Strong link with the name of the Matrix network.

Anyway I wonder what the new name is.
Android is commonly understood as Android with Google stuff as pre-installed on most phones. As opposed to AOSP.