skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented in reply also above. Giving money to people who are reasonably well equipped to spend it on things that there are mature and reasonably efficient markets for is fine. No one has trouble finding groceries and standard items needed for living with their SS checks.

When you give money to people to spend on say, childcare, and there is not the built up social / labor infrastructure to do it, private enterprise often will just exploit the infusion of money to jack up prices and not actually provide more of the service desired.

Come to think of it, if you go back to the Social Security example, giving people more money because they can't afford housing is not going to magically create housing on its own. It will just produce more expensive housing as people try to outbid each other. We've all seen how that plays out.
The files are also often delivered via USB Stick which are usually formatted with a filesystem without bitrot detection. That would be indistinguishable from someone manually screwing with the file too.

You can never be certain wherever the damage was caused by bitrot or a person screwing with the file, but certain patterns are very unlikely to occur naturally so a reasonable guess is at least somewhat possible
Lat/Lon is really the standard. The fact that some software internally represents it as Lon/Lat doesn't mean it's not a settled issue. If you look up the coordinate of a location - it's always in Lat/Long. You can't rewrite all the books and change all the maps to make it nicer for programmers

As the linked post says, Lon/Lat is generally easier to deal with b/c it matches to X/Y (and the North/Up way we look at maps). But you still have annoyances. For instance Lon goes 0-360 but Lat goes -90 to 90. This is also mathematically inconvenient

Add on top of that the X-Y coordinate on images generally have the X flipped and starting at the top left corner. So changing to Lon/Lat doesn't fix everything.

What I personally lean towards now is converting everything on read-in to a South/East coordinate system so it matches the flipped X-Y of images (like GeoTIFFs) and just always working in that system. Image manipulation, drawing to screen, output etc. - those systems/libraries I can't really modify myself. Everything else I can manipulate in whatever coordinate system I want. So it makes sense to choose the most convenient. Plus only dealing with positive coordinates is a big plus.

That all said, I'm a total noob and I have no "geospatial" background (just writing some software to deal with rain data right now) So this isn't pro advice. I'd just be curious what others think
This can argument can be made for all essential products/services, what you are arguing seems to be effectively UBI causes additional inflation, which may or may not be true.
You could just do what I did instead. To make it less evident that it was tempered with, I'd copy a random chunk of the original file and insert it a few times with random offsets.
According to “two sources familiar with js2’s” comments, he feels like babies would benefit from regular doses of cocaine.

See how easy it is to make things up about your enemies?

Not shocked the HuffPost publishes it though.
I'd say the development experience on the Librem 5 is much better than fiddling with Scratchbox, at least for me. I have even developed things in an IDE (in fact, it was Qt Creator ;)) running right on the phone, with external screen and keyboard attached; and cross-compiling is pretty easy too. Scratchbox was a massive PITA if you needed something outside of the default toolchain.
>> Make it a legal and business decision instead of a technical one.

I'd go further and say that choosing to unblock some IP addresses out of a block you don't like is always going to be a business decision. The whole rationale for blocking in the first place was that a sender is untrustworthy.

Untrustworthy senders generally don't have a team of lawyers, and if they do (and they're actually sending spam) you can show what spam they sent and keep them blocked.

All the legal letter does is force someone who's otherwise too busy to look at this particular case for the 5 seconds it takes to determine that it's not a threat. Sad to say that being head of IT for a company for a decade doesn't get you the same level of respect; it might if they even bothered to open your email, but there's something about postal and legal letterhead.
That won't fix it. The world is kind of split between those who see covid as dangerous and those who don't. Ditch all these requirements and the former group stops travelling.
Aside from this, there are annoying abbreviations inconsistencies for named fields too, where some APIs will use "lon", while others will use "lng".
It seems like most of this story is just general poor financial decisions, with a hint of cryptocurrency aftertaste.

1) Person took out a $300k margin loan with a margin ratio of 50%. Under current regulations, 50% is the most aggressive you are allowed to go when taking out a margin loan. [0] This margin loan was taken out against a volatile collateral, which means that one should be much more conservative in how much margin is taken. As a result of this, the person was forced to put up additional collateral due to market fluctuations.

Thus far, the story is simply "idiot plays with margin", which is a tale far older than cryptocurrency.

2) Person took out a $300k loan in order to convince a bank that they should qualify for a mortgage.

This is either fraud, or not understanding how the underwriting process works. I suspect the latter, since I don't see how the fraud is supposed to work. Any competent underwriter will ask where the $300k came from. The person needs either a convincing lie or to disclose that the $300k came from a margin loan against an asset that the bank does not consider; and which would be promptly converted back into said asset as soon as the bank stops looking.

Lieing might work if you are convincing, but that is simply fraud. The truth is legal, but probably makes you even less attractive to the lender than you started out as.

3) The person took out a margin loan with a non-standard condition that allowed the lender to close the position for <crypto-specific gobbledy-gook>. Since this happened to occur when the market of the collateral was down, this had the same effect as the person being unable to make a margin call: their assets were sold at a low price.

On the plus side, apart from the tax implications, that $300k USD is now simply cash in the persons bank account, so he shouldn't have any problems getting the underwriter to look at it as an asset now. Although, to the extant that the underwriter gets to use human judgement, this probably looks worse than simply selling $300k USD worth of BTC in the first place

EDIT: Person was given the opportunity to pay back the loan in USD [1], but choose not to due to the pending mortgage. Depending on where he was in the process, backing out of the mortgage and home purchase wouldn't be cheap, but it would be far under $300k. The real cost of this situation should be measured by the cost of backing out of the home purchase; and this person made the decision that that was more expensive than loosing the BTC.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/skxpr7/bloc...

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initialmargin.asp
When plotted on a mercator-style map, longitude corresponds to X and latitude corresponds to Y, with X, Y being the usual order for coordinates. (That's my guess, anyway.)
The $700B in bank bailouts were paid back and the government profited.
Do envelopes that were printed with a postage meter not get postmarked? My impression is that the stamp the postage meter puts on is just proof of payment (ie. instead of a stamp), but at the sorting facility they still apply a postmark which has the real date it arrived at the facility.
Sankey doesn't work well because we moved from SIR to SEIR+S with Delta -- meaning that we had breakthrough infections and the potential for waning immunity. Omnicron continues this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...
You also need to simulate polarization (and maybe quantum mechanics) for sunglasses to work properly.
That's an MVP typically, Minimum Viable Product. The most basic form of the product you can come up with, that still provides it's intended core value. What an MVP is to your product will depend entirely on how you need to sell it and how complicated the product is.

A simple product has a simple MVP, so that's easier to get to. Whereas you might not be able to afford to build a more complex product even as an MVP, so you'll want to validate it some other way before starting.

A product with an obvious, unique value add can get away with a barebones, ugly MVP because the people who want it really need it's core functionality. But if you're trying to get people to move away from existing products to yours, you'll have to convince them to switch and exceed their already met expectations. That can mean you'll need a more complete product.

In both scenarios, if you don't think you can meet their expectations yet, you might be better off with a contact form rather than failing to meet their expectations. If you do go for a less-complete MVP, make sure what you have is clean and polished, and have an obvious roadmap. You could still get early-adopters, and the more risk-averse will know to come back later but keep an eye on you.
Next step. Arrested for brand disloyalty
Nobody is demanding that you make a personal change. If you are currently using Apple's App Store for all of your purchases, you can continue to do that regardless of whether sideloading is available. Your existing choice would still available to you even if sideloading were an option, so you would not be making a change, because you are not being asked to take any action. On the other hand, you are demanding others to make a change by switching ecosystems, an action that others are not inclined to take due to the costs of switching. Your demand is gatekeeping because you are arguing that people should be iOS users only if they are against sideloading, which is not an opinion that all iOS users agree with.

Lawmakers are elected to pass laws that represent the interests of their country's citizens, such as the Open App Markets Act[1] in the U.S., which would prevent Apple from enforcing its anti-competitive restriction against sideloading on iOS. Duopolies and uncompetitive markets like Apple's and Google's duopoly on mobile app stores result in deadweight loss,[2] which limits economic growth. This and the fact that restrictions against sideloading limit consumer choice are why there is momentum for passing new antitrust laws that curb Apple's and Google's anti-competitive behavior, including Apple's prohibition against competing app stores on iOS. You are free to wish otherwise and to petition lawmakers to support Apple's monopoly/duopoly, but the momentum of legislation is going against your wishes.

Your store analogy is flawed because when someone owns an iPhone, that phone is the user's property, not Apple's property. On the other hand, Walmart stores, Kroger stores, and Apple's App Store belong to Walmart, Kroger, and Apple, not their customers. Apple imposing anti-competitive restrictions on phones that do not belong to them is completely different from Apple imposing restrictions on their own App Store. Sideloading does not involve Apple or Apple's App Store at all, it only involves the user and the source that the user chooses to obtain the app from. You can choose to shop exclusively at Apple, Walmart, or Kroger, and the existence of other separate stores would not prevent you from continuing to do so.

App stores available to users in China do not have to be hosted in China. Sideloading combined with a VPN would allow iOS users in China to download, install, and use any iOS app published in any country.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195167

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
Conferences are aware of it too! At least one major conference requires you to either upload your documents at the deadline, or a cryptographic hash of your documents, which can be submitted up to a week later. That way, they mitigate the load from the thundering herd of last minute submissions, and thereby avoid the inevitable excuse that the submission server died or that the internet was too clogged to upload their gargantuan video figure by the deadline.
> Direct cash transfers are not exactly some foolproof, no-brainer solution to poverty. We've made a real mess in some third world countries with the cash spigot.

There's a huge difference between giving poor people some money with no strings attached, versus giving governments and ruling classes money with or without expectations, or IMF and World Bank-style economic imperialism.
Why not just give everyone equally? Why just give to the people earning less than $35000.

I know the answer, no need to reply to me. Regardless. Give everyone equally.
I understand the rush to be first. I was going with funny haha not funny strange as the groups from competing theories just can't stand it when the other theory gets some spotlight attention. I can't imagine picking a theory and making your entire life about proving/solving that theory only to find out you were wrong! Not like move a decimal over wrong, but up the wrong tree wrong.
I did a similar thing and handed in a bogus file to buy me some more time to actually finish the assignment … but then I got an A from the teacher, turns out she didn’t look at it at all!
What if you've shorted the position?
Thanks, but I was asking specifically about evidence for significant impact on actual spread within the community, which is what's under discussion.

I'm aware there is data about severity of cases in individuals, but I haven't seen good data showing the impact to community transmission.
One reason that comes to mind is that (longitude, latitude, altitude) is right handed, and we tend to prefer right handed coordinate systems.
Hey I've been working on geodata in several contexts for about 5 years now and I completely agree with you! You may be "noob" but your observations match mine to a T.
I recall a counterfeit artist with a "similar" story - he meticulously forged currency and claimed the fact that it was passable as the real thing proved its value as being at /least/ as much as the value of the bill it represented, and therefore was not, in fact, counterfeit money but was an art trade.
I don't think the feds agreed.

Edit - i believe I'm thinking of J. S. G. Boggs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs
He didn't actually try to pass his bills as money, they had clear indicators that they weren't real (like being one-sided), and he'd trade them for the equivalent amount in goods and services as a performance art.
While this is terrible, let's remember that there are 50 Republican Senators, many who profess the need for the US government to help everyday American families, who also don't support the expanded CTC.
> private enterprise often will just exploit the infusion of money to jack up prices

When this happens, it's because there are unrelated supply constraints, usually resulting from misguided government intervention. The healthcare sector is a good example in the U.S.
I agree with the former (GiveDirectly and other institutions like J-PAL have been huge in putting together randomized trials around aid effectiveness, [1] for a specific example). The latter I think is more up for debate. There are papers showing that aid is still effective in areas with high government corruption. Definitely a pretty debated area though in terms of effectiveness of foreign aid.

[1]. https://www.povertyactionlab.org/case-study/giving-directly-...
This document does not support this statement that NPR is government supported in any significant way. NPR is mostly supported by private corporate donations (about 40%) and dues and fees paid by local stations (about 30%). The remaining funding is from cash contributions from private citizens and a few other miscellaneous sources.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
It’s one thing to suggest the Socratic method may not be the best learning strategy, but it’s quite another to suggest that questions are overrated. Questions are so fundamental to increasing our knowledge in an intuitive way - just look at Stack Overflow, Quora, etc. for the success in helping people find answers (of decidedly varying quality). There is no limit to creative questions a group of people can ask but there is a limit to how much a single human thinks they know about a subject or can write in a single lecture, article, or book.
Entertaining, but just another “I insist on using garbage software and then complaining that it’s garbage.”

The table at the end is oblivious to adult solutions.

LaTeX + Beamer or Pandoc slides. Collaboration? Git.
So a GAN that draws a cartoon of an owl is 'simulating an owl' and has to 'understand the behavior of an owl at least a little bit'? I don't think so.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool project, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Like CAGW, for example.
Ranges and Forwarding References
I made all kinds of good faith efforts personally to contact someone at AT&T through their forms and phone numbers, without ever even speaking to anyone who could resolve the problem if they wanted to. Lacking any other way to get through to them, legal seemed like the only recourse.

I would think that if you were the ISP owner blocking our mail to your customer, a single phone call from the customer or from us would convince you that our IPs were not a spam threat. That's certainly the way I prefer to deal with anything. But when dealing with something as monolithic and totally deaf as AT&T, lawyers were the only way.
> For instance Lat goes 0-180 but Lon goes -90 to 90

Surely this is several typos? Longitude, which marks east-west, must span 360 degrees (-180 to 180, perhaps? although 0 to 360 is just as reasonable). Latitude, marking north-south, spans only 180 degrees, and therefore is presumably -90 to 90 (so that 0 is the equator).
If we kept the threshold for poverty at the same threshold it was 200 years ago, we'd probably say that capitalism reduces poverty. But as the standard of living moves upward, the threshold for poverty moves up too.
Colmes was a punching bag for Hannity if I recall.
yes, typo. Thanks for catching that. edited it to match
Really? You can't think of _any_ others who have done much worse things to our country?
Just write that she won the lottery. It worked for the Michigan lottery even without wanting to do it:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075403459/michigan-woman-meg...
Huh. I’ve only got 21,000.
First, this article needs a (2009) tag on the end of it, it's an old article.

Second, from the article: "Someone admitted to using Google Earth for a theft." This line is used to support the idea that Google is "Evil".

Theft is on the thief and any number of things can be used in a crime (car, tools, etc). Google Maps and Google Earth have vast utility beyond use in crime so I don't see the author's point holding up to scrutiny.
Well, in many parts of the world, we have followed safe distancing and other protocols without complaints about freedoms being taken away.
Any chance of this working in Canada? Even just right across the border?
When I worked retail at a big box store in college, the operations manager kept a spreadsheet tally of the death, disease and mishap that afflicted store employees.

After Christmas at the annual party he announced the total death toll (it was like 80 people and 50 pets for a staff of 120), and presented the person with the most fake death a funeral basket of flowers and summer sausage.
It's not just about internal representations. Web APIs and geospatial data formats specify them either way. You can't get away from the ambiguity unless you carefully choose the API and data format to match the order you like. (and pray that anyone providing you with data is aware of the choice made by your preferred formats)
And now everyone who needs to read your script needs to also find those examples to figure out what your code does. Even your not-real-world example isn't obvious to anyone unfamiliar with jq what the intent is
> It's certainly true that having a human in the loop leads to worse outcomes in chess (unless the human has enough modesty to just not do anything).

No, this is actually totally false. There is a world championship in computer-aided correspondence chess [1], and you won't get anywhere near the top ranks by having "enough modesty to just not do anything."

[1] https://www.iccf.com/
NPR disagrees with your erroneous financial statistics. Government contributions are not even mentioned in their statistics.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
It’s been happening since there were books to burn. This isn’t particularly new, just the venue looks unfamiliar.
> I've tried pretty much every brand I can find at local stores, and some that I have to order online [...] I've actually tried it at a friend's house recently, and really enjoyed it.

Aggressive subway advertising can indeed be annoying, yet it has been quite efficient in this case: the milk of a brand advertised in the subway of a big city just got mentioned in a positive way on a tech website read worldwide.
Well, then that mail is going to get legitimately marked as spam when I didn't request it, I have no business relationship with the sender, and there's no other way to make it stop. And the user is still getting silently charged because it's going to my inbox, not theirs.

Unsubscribe is the alternative to the spam button. If you don't provide it, you are asking to be marked as spam, no matter how important you think the email is.
This comment indicated that meditation might have an effect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222210#30228358

Edit: here as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222210#30227672
How did it fail at creating a distributed database of a finite digital good made up of non-trustworthy actors?

Yeah it's not a good currency but many design goals were reached.
In Cartesian coordinates we use x,y notation so lng,lat seems like the more familiar convention for math students.
OK I need a math genius here:

I mentioned that if you place your eye on the line, horizintally orientated to look to the horison, every line points to the horizon.

* 8 different measurments to the horizon...

Would it be possible to calculate the size of the earth by using a building as such. Where you can see and maybe measure and raise the height of all 8 views of the alignment to the pyramid to the slope away from its location to the horizon, then extrapolate the curve from your vision to horizon to determine overal size of sphere... +|-

I can't maths this good - If this is an interesting Q to you, please give me an ELI5
"Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture" by John Lakos
> Constitution Of the United States, which I believe in unswervingly

What does that mean?

Meanwhile, I don't really feel like there was much privacy back when the constitution was written. What makes you think there was?
Are you looking for the government to censor all "divisive" information or just "divisive information that is false"?
Reminds me of SLY-DIAL, when you NEED it to go straight to voicemail.
I've worked on a real-time requirements system with GHC Haskell and it's certainly possible!