skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we want to do more than that, and dealing with elevation can be surprisingly complex and fragile.

Imagine you are building an offshore wind turbine. You want 20m of clearance between the sea and turbine blade. That means 20m above highest possible tide. Tidal data is only available for a port 200 miles away and will be different for you based on local gravity. So you use modelling from satellite based gravity data to make an assumption. And then give instructions to a ship out at sea who has a contractual obligation to place the turbine within 30cm of the required position. Which coordinate system do you use? And when you are modelling a microwave link from that turbine to an onshore location on the horizon that is surveyed using a local datum what coordinate system do you use?

In reality geocentric coordinates are unlikely to be used. But maybe it would be easier if they could be. The world it not flat and it is not easily modelled as a sphere. A set of coordinates always carry with them a set of assumptions that may not work with your particular task. Geocentric coords can remove some of those assumptions.
Hi! I co-lead the Alpha-Omega project, and I'd be happy to answer any questions. We won't have all the answers, though - it's still very early days in this project, and we're going to learn a lot in the coming weeks and months.

How can folks get involved today? First, you could participate in one of the OpenSSF working groups. The "securing critical projects" group is working on understanding how to identify critical projects. The "best practices" group is working on writing "leave-behind" material that we can share with projects when we report vulnerabilities via Omega -- e.g. here's how to enable code scanning, branch protection, 2FA when publishing to npm or PyPI, etc. The "identifying security threats" working group (the one I lead) talks about Alpha-Omega, but we'll soon be splitting that out to a separate meeting. OpenSSF working groups are open to anyone.

We're going to hire a few people to join the core project team, and while the list hasn't been finalized, I expect it will include a few engineers, security analyst/researchers, and a project manager. We're working on finalizing this and should have jobs posted shortly.

For Alpha, we're still working on the model we'll use to engage with larger open source projects -- this will probably be contract work, focusing on a "menu" of options (e.g. security code audits, threat modeling / design review, security bug triage, proposing security fixes, improving security processes, etc.), but nothing has been finalized yet. We want to build a relationship with project maintainers, understand where (and if) we can help, and then do our part. We know that all projects are unique, so we want to meet them where they are.

For Omega, we're building a large-scale analysis platform, looking for new, critical vulnerabilities across at least 10,000 projects. I expect the hardest part of this will be to reduce the noise common to most security analysis tools - this is what the engineers we hire will be focused on -- continually tuning and improving the analysis platform.

We have an information session scheduled for February 16th, and we'll do our best to answer everyone's questions. There's a registration page linked from https://openssf.org/community/alpha-omega/. You can also join the OpenSSF slack and explore - there is plenty going on.
I doubt Jeff was personally involved in the planning. He might have just about been involved in choosing the ship yard based on examples of their previous boats. Beyond that I doubt he'd have too much involvement. Even the snag list will be left in the hands of the captain he employees to manage the boat on a day to day basis.
> I'd personally love to see social media shut down tomorrow

Yeah, ok, I'm with you there...

> ... by holding twitter and facebook liable as publishers for the content of every post on their platform, and letting them defend in civil litigation every time they re-publish their users' false statements for profit.

Whoa there, hold on. If we hold Twitter and FB liable for that stuff, then that means we also have to hold every single web forum, support forum, mailing list, blogging platform, etc. liable as well. So those things essentially just disappear overnight, because no one is willing to expose themselves to that sort of legal liability.

Eventually, the only things you can read on the internet come from big corporations that can afford big legal teams, or people who have the technical know-how to host their own blog. HN is gone. Slashdot is gone. The Raspberry Pi support forum is gone. Hell, the LKML is gone. That's not an internet-world I want to live in.
I read it wrong, as in latitudes are north-to-south gradations. Wasn't thinking of level lines.
There are multiple shipyards in Europe that were build hundreds of years ago and were never meant for ships of today's size.

Procedures to get these ships out include dismantling structures (as seen above), deepening the river by digging up soil, and backing up the river. The last two procedures have severe impact on wildlife and sometimes farmers whose fields and pastures get flooded.
Wasn't there a huge accident in which multiple buildings were destroyed installing a new (part) of a bridge in Alphen a few years back?
> There are many cases.

Again: this is 100% expected. Why is it surprising to you? Even if the vaccines were 90% effective at preventing transmission, which they aren't, you should expect millions of such cases when you have tens of millions taking the vaccines. And tens of millions of such cases when you have hundreds of millions of people taking the vaccines.

You seem to be genuinely surprised (horrified?) by the fact that there are such cases. Why is this so?

The CDC director's comments are not misinformation, but your misrepresentation of those comments could probably be classified as such, similar to the way Carlos Franco-Paredes (the Lancet letter writer) misrepresented the findings of the study: vaccines are no longer sufficient by themselves, so you need to do other things as well.

Or as the authors of the study wrote: "Although our findings support Franco-Peredes’ conclusion that vaccination status should not replace social and physical public health mitigation practices, the above clarifications explain why our findings do not support his assertion that mandatory vaccination of health-care workers would not reduce nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 transmission."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

In the same vein, the CDC recommends vaccination as the #1 measure to help "stop the spread", despite your misrepresentations of the director's statement:

"Get Vaccinated and stay up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines

- COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing you from getting sick. COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death.

- Getting vaccinated is the best way to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
CDC recommends that everyone who is eligible stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, including people with weakened immune systems."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

Just in case you missed it: "Getting vaccinated is the best way to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2,..."
Try thinking of it like latitude being like a ladder's rungs. Though this does have the horrifying side effect that sometimes you'll pronounce it laddertude in your head.
I wouldn't see the BTC being closed out as a cost per se. Total value of assets hasn't changed he's now simply holding a bit more of his assets in cash.
The Pragmatic Programmer

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pragmatic-Programmer-Andrew-Hunt/dp...
The people who actually built the boat are Dutch. The decision to do it this way was obviously made by the firm building the boat, not Bezos.
No, you are not.
Just so we’re clear, I don’t consider neither Neil Young nor hundreds of medical professionals to be idiots. I read the open letter too, and formed an opinion about what kind of podcast is Joe Rogan’s.

So at this point what matters is that Spotify made a deal with Joe Rogan, and thus Spotify is also responsible for whatever he fancies to broadcast.

As the only way to vote in this matter is my wallet, I considered cancelling the subscription. If I did I would also try to convince other people to do the same.

And frankly, Spotify was a better service without podcasts.
> There are so many scams going on in the financial industry

I never met anyone who got scammed by a real bank.

> Has anyone dared to calculate the CO2 release of traditional core banking systems or even running a large network of physical branches

Yes and it's pretty negligible compared to PoW, obviously.

> If more people would embrace the transparency created instead of complaining about the space all the time, we would create a better world.

Transparency is not a magic cure-all. Plus, privacy is crucial to protect vulnerable people.
I have used LaTeX “forever”, basically since it was first created. As so many longtime LaTeX users, I have a love-hate relationship to it: I love it for what it allows me to do. Nothing else comes close. And yet, the number of hours wasted swearing at it while debugging something or other is beyond count.

There is an interesting ongoing project to replace it, though: Namely, finl (“finl is not LaTeX”) by Don Hosek, himself a longtime TeX/LaTeX user and developer.

That is a very ambitious project though, and not one finished in an afternoon. Se we will be stuck with LaTeX for years to come.

https://www.finl.xyz
The installation software probably just copied some files to the wrong places, especially when it was written for a 32 bit system. It happened to me once with the drivers for my CANON scanner.
I’ve been liking Grokking Simplicity so far. It starts out by separating code into three parts: data, computations, side-effects.

You want to minimize side-effects, preferring computations over them, and data over computations.

I’m still early into it, however, this already has been a helpful lens to view my code through.

https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity
It's been tried and tried and tried. Generally when they want to increase profits the same outcome - they either flame out of VC money or start selling your data.

~1998 Beenz.com launched

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
The problem isn't that it's particularly hard or risky to dismantle the bridge. It's that this specific bridge is an industrial monument that holds a special place in many people's hearts and after the last restoration in 2017 a pledge was made that the bridge would never be dismantled or otherwise harmed again.

Then along comes Mr. Rich Man with his exorbitant needs and suddenly these promises have all become worthless. It's a matter of principle; people are fed up that the rules never seem to apply to the super rich and everything and everyone has to make way for their demands.
The title of the article is “The Duality of Web3: Privacy vs. Transparency” and it discusses challenges that need to be solved in Web3.

The message of the article is certainly not that “Web3 Doesn’t Care About Your Privacy”. The title of the submission should be changed.
> there is a coordinated effort to not care about X by web3 which is false by definition.

> the apparent centralization of web3 being supposed to be p2p, there are several different web3 providers (eth, poly, ipfs) with different incentives.

> a pessimistic example of what's possible with web3 tech.

I want to engage on these points in good faith. I'm asking you to expand these because I'm curious.

I think crypto economics are a blight in practice, while the theory might be sound.

You've presented a head and no body work, and I am genuinely curious to hear the expansion.
Suck it, Notch
Might be, but it's just a terribly bad look, especially when you offset it against news reports of working conditions at Amazon. Or more local, the young Dutch people not being able to buy any house in the current market. It is not related, but just rubs people in a very wrong way.
Is it not just the way we prefer to order it in our heads?
Amazon pays its workers more than most other comparable jobs. Amazon's primary employment business is already not particularly profitable. Amazon is worth what it is because shareholders value it highly, not because it's extracting fat margins off its employee's efforts.
What is "traditional policing" in your view?
Maybe try it with the JIT disabled. My guess though is that it is related to which core the process starts on, unrelated to Java itself.
yea, in an ideal world, the blocklist provider would educate others in how to avoid beeing blocklisted. yet, if this course is met with success then the blocklist provider is out of business.

there seems to be some conflict of interest here.
I once tried to learn some math from first principles in order to solve a symbolic dice problem. I had a question deleted from mathoverflow (probably because I did a lousy job wording the open ended question of what the heck the mathematical terminology even was for the problem I was solving) but it lead down the rabbit hole of abstract algebra and into universal algebra. I had discovered a simple dice problem where the only mathematical representation was a a “commutative magma” and I found reading the surrounding material fascinating. The ideas behind universal algebra, the notion boiling mathematics down to a set of arbitrary objects and abstract and arbitrary operation(s) and classification and rules build up based on what you define/allow the rules to be.

It’s surprisingly simple at a conceptual level but I rapidly stopped researching as I found the entire field seems to assume a phd level of math knowledge and terminology. For what I probably could have grasped in high school.

Math needs more people to try and build a chain of understanding “up from the ground level” instead of arbitrary starting points based on assumptions regarding prior learning and educational pipelines/universities.
There's rich, and there's superrich. This is a boat for the superrich. The superrich don't have to choose between a yacht and a penthouse, they have both in every city they frequent. They also do not necessarily use them themselves, the are often used to host and bribe (politician can have a month on the fully staffed yacht).

A friend used to be an electrician for a company building such yachts. Good money!
Tax avoidance is not the same as tax evasion. The former is illegal, where the latter is not, though ethically it is frowned upon.
That would be great, a Web3 starter guide. Right now it feels like an empty container in which you’re allow to stuff anything as long as it’s vaguely crypto related.

Right now I’m questioning if Web3 is even a thing.
>It is the same with energy costs. Has anyone dared to calculate the CO2 release of traditional core banking systems or even running a large network of physical branches. No, because it's difficult and opaque. With the public blockchain these things actually can be calculated, which is a good thing I believe.

I think every major bank has got some folks doing that. It's a prerequisite of green washing.
Another one: Boat stands for Bust Out Another Thousand.
> Further, for me at least, if I was a billionaire, I'd much rather stay at some posh penthouse in the center of town than some inconvenient boat on the water.

Ah, you’ve just never visited Costa Smeralda :)

One of the most beautiful places on earth, but the hotels are terrible and will still charge you over 10k euros a night. The only way to enjoy good quality accommodation and service is to go on a yacht.

(Also a wonderful place to visit with a tent or perhaps a small sailboat, just stay away from the hotels and most local restaurants unless you want to pay 300 euros for a pizza)
You can use any Ethereum node, or run your own. MetaMask supports arbitrary RPC servers for this very purpose, so you can use Flashbots, for instance.

This would require more than just a mobile device, however. Perhaps a rooted Android device could self-host an Ethereum node, although your battery life may take a hit.

I think there are other chains and wallets that are designed around mobile use cases, which make it easier than on Ethereum to sync the whole chain, or use technical means to mediate the need to do so.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/ru...

https://docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-protect/rpc/quick-start...
I'm not a doctor and don't at all want to pretend to presume I can understand for sure what would or wouldn't be helpful. And I'm not assuming you need help--but I just thought something I know might be helpful somehow for your daughter and you.

Certain type of yoga breathing exercises (pranayama), as a result of involving contracting muscles in the body while breathing, help to pump CS fluid through its "ventricles", as well as to move lymph around. I have no idea how a shunt works, or would interact with these exercises, but as a result of the shunt intervention I'm worried these exercises may be dangerous to your daughter. At the same time, I consider they may also be helpful, by perhaps helping to regulate pressures, or assist training the body to improve its ability to do so, or encourage circulation of the CSF and lymph. Stuff like this might be something useful to explore for you. Have a good day!
None of this sounds super frequent?
> Do Haskell programmers have good intuition about performance? It seems like laziness would make it hard?

Laziness in data structures usually gives you good enough performance in most cases, but harder to make sure it's consistent and reason about when you need to adjust it. For common operations with an average requirement of performance, laziness seems to give the developer an easier chance of good performance, with the higher possibility to screw it up if the requirement is really strict.
No, not exactly. Unlike in the print age, we all have the ability to set up a home server or distributed servers; we have the ability to reach anyone in the world. But we don't have a natural right to do that or extend our readership through someone else's platform. I can sit here and host whatever I'd like. In the BBS era, you were responsible for people posting illegal stuff on your board, and you were held responsible if your board was full of some bullshit propaganda, and it should still be that way. Zuckerberg should be treated like any asshole sysop who isn't tending his domain.

Hacker News does, to a large degree, moderate what people write here. Much more so than any social media platform. That's why it's still a functional platform. You can't just go on here and slander or espouse libelous conspiracy theories. You won't get far.

I'm not saying the gov't should regulate it! Not at all. I'm saying the content distribution networks shouldn't be shielded from civil litigation. HN and Facebook and Twitter aren't general carriers. If they simply delivered messages from point A to B, they might not be liable; but the more a service like FB news feed chooses to re-distribute something, the more they should be held liable for content. Simply putting it on top and letting it be downvoted, like HN, is far less nefarious than re-targeting it and repeating it relentlessly to the most vulnerable 15% of dumbasses who'll believe it. One person posting and having it sink isn't a big deal. But re-targeting that post to others makes you a re-poster. They aren't the postal service. They aren't neutral. Re-posting lies has monetary, reputational and social costs. Facebook profits directly from massively re-posting lies, but bears none of the cost. All I'm saying is that no one in a position to determine what's re-posted or not should be allowed to profit from spreading disinformation with one hand while externalizing those costs onto society, without a neutral arbitration willing to reassess the cost to individuals they harmed.

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The current system can't support free speech, because shielding the re-printers of false speech makes it impossible to disentangle truth from propaganda; and in an asymmetrical field, propaganda always wins. Letting the courts sort it out and putting the social media networks on notice that they were responsible for veracity would solve this silly debate over whether "free speech" is being quashed on private networks, and also, encourage better forms of debate that conformed to certain standards of logic. And if you don't want to conform to any kind of logic, you can always set up your own server.
As a side note, in btree based database indexes, it's not the same to have a composed index on lat-lon than lon-lat.
I guess it is very easy if you have a few months to prepare for it, but on such a short notice probably impossible to find.
I guess it is a case of eat your own dog food. But LaTeX and PDF have existed for longer than any more flexible format suited for the task. And last but not least, if the documentation is to actually show you the typeset result using the package, it is hard to get around the PDF format. (Though you can always embed images of typeset excerpts in documents of a different format.)
From what I can see so far it doesn’t seem related to java itself at all. What other “these sort of things” do you have in mind? Java has the best observability tools, so if anything, you will have a harder time debugging performance regressions with go.
Top/left aren’t the same. Width/height are similar problem but still… when you’re writing geo code you write latitude and longitude all day long and the misalignment is maddening. Pet peeve, I know.
TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous programming framework
Why the hate for Jeff Bezos?

Compare your life relatively to his. PERCENTAGE RATIO wise, you probably did as much bad as he has. Assume you did 10% really bad things in your life. And Jeff did also 10% bad things.

But the other 90% wow!!! (And your life too!!!)

Millions of jobs overall. Thousands of jobs directly and indirectly to build, furnish, secure and staff that yacht. Countless kids of those families. The ability for you to order anything and have it delivered to almost any part of the world in a few days.

Families taken out of poverty. Jobs for those who don't have them. Amazon AWS that touches the internet for almost everyone worldwide.

Those Dutch citizens should swallow those rotten eggs.

(Loved and visit The Netherlands, don't get it twisted).

Whatever, I'll definitely lose karma for this one. Don't care.
No, what we have here is exactly that: a rule with no effect. If everyone on a crowded plane removes their masks for extended periods of time, multiple times during a flight, then what exactly is the "effect" of wearing them at other times? Do you imagine covid becomes less transmissible once dinner is served?

Same with restaurants, where we are told we have to wear masks in order to walk to our tables, but we can remove them once seated, and proceed to eat, drink, talk, laugh, and make merry unmasked, because apparently the mere act of sitting deactivates covid.

These are not effective rules in any sense. They are purely cargo cult.
On any level, i think what matters is curiosity.

I have "Jr programmers" ( because lack of progress, asking me questions about basic functionality of AutoMapper, while they have already been using it for 2 years. That deeply saddens me.