skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sines, cosines, and the Haversine formula only get you so far (or approximately close). The Earth is neither flat, nor perfectly spherical, but an oblate spheroid. The coordinate systems referenced in TFA are defined to adapt for this, but in different ways depending on the geospatial application, source data collection, map projection, and other factors.
A reusable coordinate dataset will include not just latitude and longitude, but also the reference ellipsoid to which it approximates the Earth's surface, and the direction of North used at the location to calibrate sufficient dimensions to pinpoint relative location. Not in a word, ideal, and thus, TFA.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933054.
This is a really great way of looking at the problem. Unfortunately it’s also really hard to balance the incentives throughout a media org in a way that works - see pg’s famous “submarine” article. There’s just too much value in manipulating your audience, selling or trading access, etc.
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I have no words for how sick SF is.
> I am afraid the door is shut.

The door is never fully shut. Arm itself is proof of that.
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I didn't see any mention of source or a license while browsing the site. Is it proprietary? Do you have any plans to license this as free software in the future?
Worth nothing that TCP_NODELAY is on by default on NGINX[1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#tcp_...
Native column-oriented data warehouses designed for OLAP queries will always be faster. There are multiple alternatives from Clickhouse to Redshift that will be faster.

Originally I didn't like Timescale because it didn't offer anything new but the product has improved greatly over the years. Today it's close on performance by using a custom column-oriented data layer that stores the actual chunks in PostgreSQL rows and has several time-related processing and analytical features (continuous aggregates, time bucketing, smoothing values, etc) that make it easier than doing it yourself in raw SQL.

One of the big advantages is that it allows you to use Postgres which means you can continue to use it as your main OLTP operational database as well. This avoids a lot of complicated polyglot issues like syncing datasets or using different querying systems with different syntax. It's one of the better examples of using Postgres as a data platform rather than a simple database.

There are other alternatives that combine this OLAP+OLTP functionality like Citus (another automatic sharding distributed database extension for Postgres), Vitess (automatic sharded mysql), TiDB (natively distributed mysql interface on top of key/value store), MemSQL (proprietary distributed mysql interface with ram-based rowstores and disk-based columnstores) and SQL Server (with hekaton column-stores, in-memory tables, and scale out).
It was certainly not my intent to mislead with that, I apologize if it was less than clear.
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It isn't impossible to tell who is right or we would never know anything. Maybe Ted Cruz's dad assassinated JFK or maybe he didn't. Who knows, both sides say the other side is nonsense.
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Ironically, he co-founded TheIntercept by fear of being censored by editors in big media. TheIntercept sells Greenwald’s reputation to fund the editors who are politely censoring him. His resignation speaks volume of his integrity.
Oh yay, another python project for Guido to toot his horn at yayyyyyyyyyyyy
Or it could be respect. Are you going through life assuming the worst of everybody? Or this is only for a subset of Americans?
No, I dont.
In the unlikely scenario that we are able to mine it cheaply or at least cheaper than current methods, won’t the cost of those metals go way way down due to the abundant supply, making mining it worth even less?
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Also, with that much metal, it won't exactly be rare anymore! Hard to imagine the price wouldn't drop 100X. (Loving the ridiculous hypothetical)
I'm sure it depends on the complexity of the app you're building. For simple crud-ish apps (ecommerce, online auctions, etc) I've found that I don't need to write even a single line of custom SQL, and performance is generally good (lots of N+1s, but these are easy to avoid with things like bullet). I also love being able to let Rails render most HTML, and the few things that need to be very dynamic you can just throw a single react component in without worrying about the usual SPA problems.

If you're just prototyping stuff, I don't think you can beat Rails for productivity. But if you're targeting something more enterprise or large scale, I don't think it's a good choice. Go/Rust are so much faster (not that that matters a lot), and even things like C#/Java pretty nice to use nowadays.
That if the creator is seeding paid torrents, there is no middle man (Apple) to collect a fee.
I'll check it out >.>
You don't have to, at least if you're private. There's the option to actually stop. That's not necessarily a horrible thing, even if some people think it is.

What we're really seeing is the difference between those that actually want to "provide the best X possible as a business" and those that "want to make money in the market for X".

Everyone says they are the former, but the difference is that those that actually are sometimes go out of business rather than compromise too far. Those that are the latter may not want to compromise too far but, well, "the goal is to make a profit, right?"
IDK what you're talking about here since First Look Media is a non-profit that runs no ads. You talk about the need to maximize trust and stringent editorial guidelines are part of that. This is a story that even most conservative media didn't want to touch because it was so fishy. Greenwald has always worn his bias on his sleeve and the article and editorial objections (both linked from this post) are pretty clear on that. His entire article is saying the media are covering a poorly-sourced and inconclusive story aggressively enough. His opinion is larded with weaselly statements about how there's no evidence of wrongdoing but there could be. That's terrible journalism and the editor knows it. Greenwald has absolutely always been like this. He's the sensationalist and The Intercept was trying to keep him in line.
double tap to fast forward on mobile is the best feature; reminds me of the 30sec skip I had on my TiVO a decade ago. I tend to jump past the monologues that all creators seem to have nowadays.
It was the New York Times that originally broke the Biden Ukraine story back in 2015. Recent iterations of it are mostly just rehashing the original article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-u...
Right that's who to blame not the party/President that actually executed it.
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Almost everything we think (including me) is probably trash. We just need to accept we are mostly idiotic. Unless we put the time in to understand something that _maybe_ is somewhat understood by people that have put their lives into it.

Truth is (heh) we are all mainly full of shit. We think we know more than we do. We confuse truth for BS constantly. We spend countless breaths debating unfalsifiable opinions as if they’re true - like we really know something. We are all mainly dumb at most things.
Apple does a lot of these things if you sub through them. But next you all will complain that Apple takes a cut. This thread can be summarized as, “we want to pay very little money, and spend very little time, to get lots of great content”.

On the flip side, the VC model of gaining market share by charging less than is required to sustain the business is an unsustainable model that sets unrealistic expectations.
I do very much love the outstanding clear graphics the Economist does with most of their stories. And I agree with others’ comments about the NYT web design team—awesome talents! But the overt bias of the paper is such turn off. They’ve lost all objectivity. Sad.
> It doesn't matter what's easier

Sure it does. It matters regarding the justification for the law.

Yes, I understand that common carrier laws do not currently apply to facebook. But, I am saying that the law should be changed so that that do apply to them.

And the justification for this, is because we have utility laws that currently apply to things like a phone system, (even if that phone system provides no internet), and yet it is easier for me to switch from that than it is to switch from facebook.

I understand that the laws don't currently apply to facebook. But it absolutely does resemble a utility in that the problems that it pushes on people are larger than that of other utilities.

That is how it resembles it. The problems are larger than that of another similar utility.
Probably minus the "through Apple" part. If that's not your thing, there's lots of independent content on youtube, podcasts, etc that are member-supported via patreon and its alternatives. Shame that isn't available for all the mainstream stuff too, but maybe things will move in that direction.
Because the rich don't tend to sell their stock on regular basis for income: to maximise wealth, they re-invest.

Corporate taxes ensure this tax is actually realised on a semiregular basis.
What's your explanation now? I think people just get tripped up thinking about rotation of an object in circular motion and just ascribe one motion for the other.

For example, if you imagine a newly reunited couple and they hug each other while simultaneously spinning, this is exactly what the moon and Earth are doing. I think most people would also say that the outside person isn't rotating. However, they would also say that the inner person is obviously spinning.

Describing in words is often not the best way to impart explanations of physics, but the easiest way to show this concept for me is to imagine both people separately and consider a half turn. The inner person, rotates 180 degrees, simple rotation. What does the outside person have to do to get to the right position? They have to walk around the inner person to the other side and then rotate 180 degrees to see their partner again.
A home is place to live, not some magical wealth generator.

The cult is that it is seen as such, and people have it in their heads that home ownership is the most important component in financial success.

The reason that you note “just wait” is not a viable option is surely because you also view home ownership as something you need to do. But you don’t need it, you just want it.

Blaming global money is the easy thing to do, but I don’t think there’s compelling data that supports this. Sure, it has had an effect, but Canadians themselves hold a large share of responsibility for the market today. This is why the empty homes and foreign buyers haven’t really done anything — they are just populist measures. If you really want to have an impact, fight local speculation too.

Regarding the middle class wealth accumulation, Canada is in for a world of hurt when the bubble bursts. A shocking proportion (1/3) of Canadians nearing retirement have no assets outside their primary residence, and their plan is to use reverse mortgages or downsizing to fund their retirement. This is because so many Canadians live at the edge of what they can afford, commonly known as “house poor”, which is the phenomenon driving a lot of local prices.

What is happening now is a massive intergenerational transfer of wealth from the younger generation to the older generation. When the bubble deflates, everyone who sold their house is making bank, and young people who were desperate to have a piece of dirt are the ones who will be holding the bag.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t own a house if you need it and can afford it, but the idea of a home as a “wealth generation” device will not age well in Canada.
--and access to my viewing history and ability to add easily a video to my "watch later" list.
A regular pentagon has 5 lines of symmetry. One from the center of each edge to the point on the other side.
> Now if they just get rid of Touch Bar they’ll make up the rest.

thanks you for mentioning that it is one of most annoying thing about the new mac!
Sometimes I can't even understand what goes on in that brain. Is it so hard to grasp that the non-binding agreement made by countries is a signal of unity? That we stand together to save humanity? That it signals to domestic population to start talking about these problems and come up with solutions both at government and individual level?

Jesus Christ! You make it seem like humans are only capable of binding resolutions enforced by some big daddy. Grow up!
A massive cache of ore outside of Earth's gravity well seems like it could have far more value in space than its FMV sold here on Earth.

I wonder how many people are running the numbers on cost of hauling chunks back to the moon for lunar projects vs. Earth-supplied, should this discovery be confirmed in 2026.
Greenwald is a lifelong sensationalist. His blog in the old days was extremely colorful and featured a lot of leaps of logic. It won him a fan base that included Ed Snowden. He's really a terrible journalist who just happened to get his hands on a treasure trove. The Guardian was part of the Snowden story as well and they don't publish garbage like the Biden laptop story with any undue credence.
Maybe, just maybe, the middleman is adding some value? Otherwise creators would have skipped the middleman a long time ago?

Also, how is the money getting to the creator exactly?
I'm probably similar in age to you and am so sorry to hear what you are going through.

Last year, my single mother's health transitioned from self-sufficient, but secretly hiding chronic problems, to completely unable to care for herself in the course of a day (she bore some responsibility for this, it was not completely an accident). I let the US health care system walk us into a nursing home situation. Some of the health care workers there went to the wall to do what they could, some had no business being health care providers.

I'll never forgive myself for the how it turned out. I don't think I would have done anything substantially different. She did not go gently, it was unpleasant at times and she fought us more than she fought to get better. She lived for 6 months in the nursing home. Maybe I could have stretched it out a few years if I had quit my job, moved into her home and taken care of her myself, but she never would have been self sufficient again. I'm pretty sure I would not have "made it" though that experience though, not sure how else to say it.

I would absolutely personally take care of my wife in our home if she fell ill, and I'm saying that knowing a lot more about the end of life than I used to, how difficult and long it can be. I do not want my children to do this for me.
There are 2n symmetries for an n-sided polygon. In this case five rotations and five reflections.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/490054/symmetries-o...
> Journalists have essentially become socialites.

Glenn earned 400k a year at the intercept and has no end of opportunities now that he's quit and blamed the mythical "liberal bias" on his unceremonious departure.
The most common error I've seen in this area is that most GIS systems use (Lat, Lng) but most systems written by non-GIS people use (Lng, Lat), which they think of as (x, y).
> Good.

No, not good.

Just because it will make people take climate change seriously, this is not, by any measure, good. It's a dangerous and irreversible change and if most people want to deny climate change or downplay it, it shouldn't take a catastrophe to change their minds. The data is there, just because people find the prospect of awful things happening in 2030 not scary enough, doesn't mean we should be happy these things will happen sooner. COVID probably changed a lot of people's minds on healthcare and politics. Would we classify that as 'good' as well?
They don't want it to be an acronym anymore: https://github.com/jamstack/jamstack.org/issues/279
Greenwald published the letters he received from The Intercept and their edits seem thoroughly reasonable. Greenwald's counterargument is that he never has had to accept edits before and he'd rather quit than listen to anyone else.
I love geographic coordinate systems. My one wish is if the GeoJSON spec as loosened so that it technically allows non lat/long coordinates. I use it all the time for indoor flatland scenarios where units are metres. It all works fine. But it's technically not allowed.

On rare occasion a GIS tool will completely balk at the data being CRS.Simple
partisanship makes people stupid.
In spite of an argument "the top is bigger than the bottom", it seems to me that he/she meant that there is no horizontal line of symmetry, so there is only vertical one.
I pay far more for the content I get on Patreon than the content from the big providers. Curious why that is, maybe it’s content that lacks broad appeal, and content that has broad appeal works better on the platforms?
China adopting RISC-V to achieve IP independence will likely be that killer app.

ARM popularity is going to significantly reduce the porting challenge. The gap between supporting 1 and 2 platforms is an order of magnitude harder to cross than 2 and 3.
I agree, but I think in most cases where grade schoolers are made to draw mirror symmetries on work sheets that all symmetries are included, even if they are simply the same symmetry but rotated.
Some four year old grew up and thought this was an insightful comment. Hope mine don't.
I have no opinion about the Flash removal update, having read the article. I am, however, grumpy about a technology behemoth using whatever trash web framework pollutes browser history and makes my back button my enemy.

I’m used to random websites making me swipe back a couple of times and it’s annoying. But when I finally gave up and just used the back menu (which most phone users probably don’t even know how to access), I had a new history entry for each attempt at navigating back.

I doubt MS is intentionally trying to keep readers stuck on their site. But they’re certainly doing it anyway.
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I don't work in a long-term care facility (I do acute geriatric psychiatric care), but I do work next door to one. We're non-profit so we don't exactly fit the mold, but understaffing isn't something that we are aiming for. We're offering incredible hiring bonuses, reaching out on every single avenue. Our problem is retention - we can get a few people hired, but maybe 1/5 CNAs stay, and 1/4 of the nurses. The long term care center probably has slightly better ratios, but most people don't have the ability to compartmentalize or the resiliency to last in the chronically understaffed units. You end up doing the work of 3 people with people who at best are demanding and at worst are physically attacking you and others.

Additionally, even for a CNA, training takes months and months. We get them out on the floor as soon as possible now, which isn't helping with out retention, but reflects the reality that our residents need care. Most of us are pulling 80+ hour weeks just to meet the federally mandated minimum staffing for how many residents we have at a given moment.
The liberty and justice parts are questionable too.
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If someone quits their job in a huff because they don’t like what their boss told them, it’s not because they respect their boss. I don’t know why you think that’s a thing, but it isn’t.
> Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:

....

> The reporting around this story has been absolutely unbelievable to me

OK, here's the thing though. This is what I call the "Jordan Peterson school of thought."

You begin with a premise. Hunter Biden left his laptop at a repair store, some files were found on it, and these were delivered to a Republican Party muck-raker (and that is the most neutral thing you can say about Giuliani).

But, before you examine the premise, you are invited to look at the implications. If this is true then Hunter Biden has traded on his father's name! If this is true then Hunter Biden has gotten involved with some shady characters in Ukraine! If this is true, why hasn't Joe Biden ever recused himself from his dealings with these self-same shady characters?! And the biggest thing... why isn't the Main Stream Media (MSM) doing something about this? What do they have to hide?!

In short, you are set a premise, you are required to accept the truth of this premise, then you are pulled on an emotional journey about where the premise leads you...

But the premise is garbage. In Jordan Peterson's case, the US military is not the same in terms of complexity as real life, for instance. In this case, the Hunter Biden forgot his laptop story does not appear to hold water. You would have to assume a range of additional entities for it to make sense.

The reason the media are not reporting on this is because they want evidence that Hunter owned that laptop and that it is, as the US Intelligence community already pointed out, likely Russian interference. (No additional entities assumed here, since their intention to disrupt the US election is well documented, videoed and demonstrated).

Why this story is gaining so much traction on HN is beyond me. I am sure that Biden does not have the pearly white hands of a saint, nor is Trump as evil as he is sometimes painted, but I need you to pay the coin of logic before you expect me to invest in your emotional stock.
Commandline Heroes - Great podcast about the history of computing

Syntax - I enjoy the hosts and they have talk about broad stuff about web development and freelancing.
Well it’s true that my advice is not pragmatic. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

But I wouldn’t encourage FOMO by saying “buy or you’ll be priced out!” since it’s just perpetuating the assumption that it’ll last forevér. It won’t. But it might last a while.

If you really want a house and can afford it, buy a house. But understand the reality of the financial risk. That’s not just coming from me, it’s coming the Bank of Canada and many other international organizations.
"Everything is shit and everyone is guilty" is the exact thing an autocrat needs the majority of his citizens to believe to remain in power.
The Biden campaign nor Hunter Biden have never discredit the material. The fact that I really do want Biden to win does not make Glenn’s piece factually incorrect. I prefer Biden despite this shady story. Still, I commend Glenn for taking a very hard decision for the sake of his integrity.
That's the now famous Bernouilli vs Newton debate.

Personally, I am in camp Newton. Not that Bernouilli doesn't work, they both give the same results in the end, and they are both a simplification of the "truth" which is the Navier-Stokes equations.

The reason I like the Newton explanation better is that if you start with the Bernouilli principle, it is much easier to come up with the wrong idea. The Newton is straightforward: push air down, plane goes up. A bit shallower but at least, the basic idea is hard to get wrong.
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They said buy the proxy access
See also: Altair (Python library for generating Vega-Lite)

https://github.com/altair-viz/altair

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411859
All web frameworks are equivalent.