skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lat/Lon is really the standard. [...] 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.

The standard is X/Y+Spatial Reference. (the SR is usually out of band) If your spatial reference maps X to "latitude" and Y to "longitude", then so be it, but in general, I would expect a spatial reference which is applicable to an area that doesn't include the poles to map +X to East-ness and +Y to North-ness. (Spatial references near the poles get... interesting...)

If your data doesn't have a spatial reference, then you don't have data, you have numbers.

There are several reasons for this. First of all, there's the whole XY plane and all that. Secondly, there's also the fact that lat/lon/height coordinates, if you wish to preserve the right hand rule, translate to +north/+east/-up or north/east/down[0] coordinates, where elevations above sea level are negative, and the more you climb some mountain, the more negative your Z coordinate becomes. On the other hand, lon/lat/height becomes east/north/up, and the right hand rule is preserved.

Source: this is my day job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_east_down
I'm trying to figure out the why, and the ones in the article do not make a lot of sense to me.

Dollars in things like Venmo are already digital currency. I have some balance and I can send that balance to various places.

How will this actually help under banked people? Would the people who don't have a back account today want to use digital cash?

Fees are big issue, but they are for most part baked in and keep many people employed. It seems it would very difficult to make a policy change that would harm visa and Mastercard.

Offline transactions are very unlikely to happen as well, people will double spend if transactions work offline.

They only leaves surveillance as the goal. Being able to track cash transactions that works otherwise be untraceable.
This is exactly what I've seen and experienced. The best devs that are goofing off, are the bedrock of a great work environment.
No, a truck.
What's your reason against using HTTP(s) for a chat protocol? Bloat? Or because server-initiated messages are more complicated?
Yes. That’s exactly why you want a system where the means are not there to institute tyranny, and there is a separation of power where multiple powerful hierarchies check each other.

My point isn’t that some of this can’t be done now, but that this tech is a force multiplier as evidenced with how China use this kind of tech for social control

Systems like this that are marketed assuming an enlightened selfless group control it fails to take human nature into account. It never worked before and with the means we have no it will fail spectacularly.

Certainly the WEF and it’s Young Global Leaders haven’t shown selfless restraint so far. Eg Boris Johnson, Trudeau, Markel all were caught partying while forcing everyone else to do the opposite. They all become wealthy while in power.
Laptop OLED (made by Samsung, I believe) is differ to TV OLED (LG WOLED) . Latter is more vulnerable for burn in.
Linux kernel team seems to manage fine. Or maybe they'd all do better if they were in a big open office with Linus Torvalds.
WFH is horrible and I can't wait for it to be over.
Once mask mandates relax I may blow $200 a month on a coworking space just to get back into a rhythm where I leave the house daily, and see other humans.
I would think of it as fitting a function which is over-parameterised. So there is intrinsically a model of how things are thought to behave, it’s just a relatively simple one that is over-parameterised so it captures patterns in the data. Get it wrong and it’s over-fit, get it wrong another way and it doesn’t generalise, etc. There can also be an internal representation which is not easily interpretable, an internal representation which is usually of a dimensionality much lower than the number of parameters.

It is in this sense that it is a brute-force approach because we should like to know the underlying model, but instead we can throw a hugely over-parameterised but relatively simple model at a problem and it will learn (statistically) the underlying phenomenon. Like you say it does much better than a combinatorial brute-force approach.
Too late. The Fed requests ad-hoc reporting of all kinds and the banks comply. In addition to raw transaction flows which the Fed does in fact receive in many cases. People have no idea what all those people at the Fed do and people who work there are not free to discuss it.
> My willingness to judge something should be proportional to how much I know about it.

I'd also add:
...should be proportional to my need to or benefit from passing judgement.

Postpone judgement and you observe more. It's counterproductive to stamp everything in life "good/bad" "dumb/smart" "friend/foe" as soon as possible.
Google's definitely better, but let's not pretend that the file manager experience is equivalent to any of the desktop OSs.
More or less my thoughts on the matter. Matrix is by no means perfect (or even great), but it's a step up from XMPP/OMEMO in user experience and that's really what matters at the end of the day. If you require privacy and security at all costs, Matrix is your best option. The issue is that for everyone else, it's not a particularly attractive platform yet, and likely won't be until they revise their attestation protocol.
I couldn't think of a better word than "ugly". Maybe "weird" or "quirky"? Honestly I'm not sure of that whole sentence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmm. Why then do I see so many item comments blasting the media as "biased a particular way" and dismissing articles outright with derision? I see a lot of knucle-dragger-signal comments brigading like this, and it's disappointing.
My advice/caveat is: it’s effectively the same as a massive multi-display setup, and has most of the same challenges. The display I chose is about the same pixel density as a 27” 1440p, which works great at the same arm’s reach, but it means you have a much larger area of focus. That’s ergonomically awful if you’re craning your neck.

For me, this display was only half useable when I first got it, because it was elevated like my 27”. Once I set it lower on my desk, I felt a lot more comfortable using more vertical space. Even still, I ignore about 1/4 of the horizontal space because it would require too much neck rotation to use comfortably. Of course YMMV!
Not one person in comments stated they love to sit in traffic for two hours every single day.

Strange, isn't it?
I thought about how I would fix that retaining the catch-all feature they have.
You can get mail from all non assigned names on your domain on the catch-all assigned account, if you enable that. You should also expect to be able to write from any of those non assigned names with this account.
If your account is the only one connected to that domain, everything is ok.
But if you let's say have 100 users-accounts on this domain, you could build a blacklist for the names that are assigned to other accounts (which would be cached, therefore could have delay), accept that the admin can impersonate all their users or lookup every assigned domain on each send. Am I missing something obvious?
Was this around the CERB time?
I have a fear that my team where I work is going to go through more attrition this year because of a similar philosophy. We didn't get merit or COL increases last year, and I doubt they're gonna wanna go more than a few percent on COL this year. That's a huge effective pay cut.
What you have described is EXACTLY what I have been experiencing myself over the last year. This is the first time I have ever seen my symptoms and trajectory laid out like this anywhere, it’s truly surreal. Words cannot convey how much I would appreciate any help finding treatment. I’m honestly nearing the end of my rope dealing with this with no end in sight. I’ve lost 30 pounds of muscle and I’m currently too sick to work anymore. My doctors have been useless and basically clueless.
I feel the same way. Most of my commute is sitting on the train and I read on my phone during that time and then don’t have much urge to do this throughout the day. Working from home, I will always sleep a bit longer instead of make time for this, and then throughout the day I am constantly taking 5-10 minute breaks that waste time but done actually feel like a break. Even after so long of WFH, I haven’t managed to find my groove without the structure of going to the office.
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I didn't realize how much I love working from home till the pandemic began.

Last spring, I left a company I'd been at for five years and had made several friends at because they wanted us to return to the office. I ended up landing at an all-remote subsidiary of a multinational that's super cautious about covid and hasn't even started to reopen their offices at all aside from a small handful of people who do shipping and receiving and need to do physical stuff in person. I don't regret it one iota. I ended up getting a drastic pay increase and a seriously more impressive title out of the switch.

Back in October, I went out drinking with my former boss and he told me my old company cancelled their return to the office and went all-remote again when the delta surge started. I'm enjoying my new company too much to go back, though (and, no, they haven't replaced me, and that's a long story).

Some clarification on the subsidiary I work for: they were remote-first even before covid, and while they had an office, nobody was required to work there in person even well before the pandemic started. While our parent company wasn't remote-first, as soon as covid began, they immediately told my subsidiary's landlord that they wouldn't be renewing the lease. I've also been told that the parent company has 100% committed that all meetings will be Zoom-only forever even after offices reopen, because they've found that, as a multinational company, Zoom-only meetings have solved a problem where, pre-covid, if a team had 1-2 members in a different office than everyone else, those 1-2 members would be marginalized on the team and cut out of major decisions. Zoom has been the great equalizer.

Edit: Oh yeah, the best part is that I'm in Texas but everyone else on my team is on the east coast. So I get to work from 8-4 and then close my laptop and enjoy the rest of my afternoon. Getting off at 4 every day has done wonders for my mental health.
This is missing from the related poll that @alfiedotwtf posted[1].

WFH actually means work from heckin' anywhere!

Changing environment is good for your creativity[2]. Nature is good for your health[3].

OK so I'm starting to get rained on :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30239441

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/90415522/how-making-small-change...

[3] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/04/nurtured-nature etc
I think the biggest issue is that people are lonely due to the pandemic, and are conflating that with working from home. You can have a strong social life and working from home. For others, unfortunately the only socialization they can get is forced interaction with coworkers at the office.
Once Slack becomes the default I’m pinged from
every angle all day long.

I recently began work on a team that has a brief "culture FAQ" regarding things like Slack messaging norms and expectations. We have an agreement that @'ing/DM'ing is expected to be asynchronous unless you explicitly let the recipient know otherwise - "hey, the server's down" or "hey, I'm blocked on this" etc.

(above paragraph edited for clarity)

It's been awesome. Very respectful environment. People @ you but you are not expected to stop what you're doing.

By the same token, I can @ others without fear that I'm causing them an undue interuption, because asynchronous messaging is the norm.
Yes, this is not for a front-end developer, this is for all the other people who don’t want to be front-end developers and don’t want to spend months every year to keep up with JS churn.

Since we began using this approach, we can be full-stack developers again. One person can easily implement both parts, which is so much faster.
I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader — a hiring Rorschach if you will.
It's interesting to see how the pro-WFH folks largely seem to sneer at pro-office folks' complaints, regarding them as trivial. I'm not seeing the other way around in this or other recent threads.

Of course, this may be partially explained by the structural pressure against WFH, which has left its proponents on the defensive. But it strikes me as anti-compassionate.
As a surface-level-understanding layman myself, what about this is wrong? The 737 MAX is unstable, no?
>I'm trying to figure out the why,

because it disintermediates the entire payment sector, and every single dollar going into the pockets of banks /payment processors is going to go to consumers, or be returned to the public.

It'll help underbanked people because by virtue of being a US citizen, or whatever jurisdiction we're talking about, you'll have free access to a costless payment system. It'd also unify and standardize payments across an entire currency zone, getting rid of the bazillion API / interface issues that the currently glued together system has.

The benefits are pretty obvious. As to employment, if we're going to create employment through bullshit jobs we might as well set up a toll booth every ten meters until there's no unemployment or have people roll stones up and down mountains.
I'm not sick of it, but I have this urge to get out more, to Coworking spaces and Cafes. I consider myself an introvert, but I like to see people walk around and talk to each other, I don't know how to explain, it's an interesting feeling knowing that someone, at any time, look at you and wonder what you're doing.

But by no means I want to get back to office. The feeling of being somewhat obliged to comunicate, in person, with other people tires me, and I'm left with an ignominious ways to avoid this.
The relevant metric is population vs rail line length. Switzerland has 8.4M people for 5.7k miles of railway. The US has 335M people for 294k miles of railway. The difference is not too crazy. The total scale is different, but the true problem is probably something between economics and politics. My guesses would be that (1) Swiss railways are pretty much run as a public utility. (2) Swiss railways prioritize on passenger rail, which means more rail near population centers. Diesel is not ideal near population centers. (3) Electrification of rail has been a Swiss priority for a long time, so the marginal cost to add it to new rail installations is low.
There are 2 parts to the story: making the decision to remove someone, and then the eviction process after the decision is made.

Nobody defended the airline, and many said that they should've approached it differently. However, once the decision has been made, regardless of whether it was correct/fair/just, the situation has now changed to eviction and that is standard anywhere: ask first, then order, then use force. Air travel is more security sensitive and therefore more forceful, but that's all there is to it.

A civil issue with improper removal should be dealt with at the gate or other civil courts, not by refusing to move which only escalates into a much bigger federal security problem.

> "favor of the right for a corporation to expel anyone for any reason"

This is an incorrect assumption. Corporations do have some rights to refuse service for certain reasons. They can't do whatever they want, just like a private individual doesn't have the right to do whatever they want. Neither extreme is acceptable.

> "society means to be free from the violence imposed upon citizens by any authority, against the one to whom society means the enforcement of a set of rules protecting it against chaos"

These are not opposing views. Freedom doesn't exist without order, and order doesn't exist without rules, and rules don't exist without enforcement, and enforcement doesn't exist without violence.

Society is the collective agreement that your rights are my responsibility; you're free from violence until you break the rules, at which point authorities that are explicitly granted a monopoly on violence will use it to enforce the rules. Of course there are various factors and complexities involved, but the fundamentals are pretty straightforward.
Retail. Waitress. Athlete. Barber. Prostitute.

It's not a short list.
This has one flaw, it doesn’t ask if WFH preference is pre-2020 or post-. Two years is sometimes too little feel all side effects. Also it highly depends on which office. If you work at typically loud open space office, it’s one thing, if you have a room of 3 coworkers, that’s completely different. I’m afraid that this poll is partially of “does my office suck” type.
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>The 737 MAX is unstable, no?

No, it's not unstable. The 737 Max exhibits stable pitch behavior along the entire envelope. A lot of people think "unstable" means "it crashes" but these terms have precise meanings.

The 737 Max is a stable airplane. One of the problems it exhibits is that with increasing angle of attack, the stick force does not increase (linearly is the requirement, I think, I'm writing from memory here).

The way you know this is because MCAS moves the horizontal stabilizer directly, and not the control column that the pilot is holding. An anti-stall device like a stick pusher or a stick shaker provides tactile feedback to the pilot via the control column. Moving the horizontal stab directly is (basically) altering the trim of the aircraft. Thus it is a handling-qualities system.
I haven’t seen any good arguments for it that couldn’t be done in more mundane ways. Want to make banking easier? Regulate free accounts or set up postal banking. Want instant transfers? Other countries have had that for decades. So on so forth. Really most of this is a solution looking for a problem, but unfortunately it comes with a lot of baggage around privacy and controlling what you can do with your money that people wave away.
Came for it and did not leave disappointed.

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I love to see this kind of stuff, especially when the books are used in the curriculum. Textbooks are a racket and K-State, like so many state schools, struggles to be affordable to the student of the state. This kind of thing can help a lot.

Schools should incentivize this!
Thanks for sharing a different perspective! I liked not communiting to University but the lack of socialization with fellow students and professors was a drag.
What's your threat model? Who do you care about protecting against? What is the risk of the information you're communicating being leaked?
As long as the accident rate isn't worse than human driving, I only see this as a good thing towards future safety.
SVMs and Random Forests.
GraphQL for Event Driven Architecture
Hey guys, I've been working on a GraphQL library for typescript that enables building event driven architecture using GraphQL schema. It can be used to publish and consume events in a type safe way using any message broker (Kafka, .RabbitMQ, PubSub etc). I built this library to scratch my own itch when I was trying to building a type safe event driven communication between microservices: JSON schema and protobuf didn't feel elegant and were too verbose so I thought why not GraphQL. You can read more in my blog post here: https://graphql-eventbus.vercel.app/blog

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I'd love to get your feedback!
I prefer working from the office, not because of the social aspect but because I find that I just can't bring myself to be nearly as productive at home as opposed to in the office.

What I really miss was the period in time where I could work in the office and everyone else was working from home. The quiet of no-one else around, the productiveness of not being at home and the commute for that period of time between work/home where I can have some time just to myself.
> I agree I think the best of both worlds would be some sort of schedule, maybe ~1-ish day a week on average.

Yeah this would be fine/nice as well.

If nothing else there's at least been a strong step towards the potential of WFH with all of this, even though it hasn't lead to ideal outcomes.
Thanks for the feedback, will see about incorporating some of this.
I prefer working from home and have most of my career, but have found some aspects of broader remote work adoption really challenging because it’s a lot noisier at home. My poll vote is easy but I wanted to register this more complex experience as well.
Go to a shared office space or get friends to see during lunch and after work. This is not a WFH issue, this is you just being lazy.
Wonder if they upgraded to an IBM X-Force Command Cyber-Tactical Operations Truck (C-TOC)[1][2]? :) "2 vehicle mount satellite dishes for 1,000 Mbps networking, 4 dedicated ceullar uplinks, and a private satellite channel", but no masts, no huge dishes, no lights. Mostly a big mobile work-room, it looks like. "Large VMware cluster built on a 100TB solid-state disk array, cooled by over 10 tons of cooling capacity"!! Oh boy, haha.

Here again I remind you dear reader of my #1 sincere most regret in life, not having $180k lying around to buy and another couple hundred k to electrify a Lockheed-Martin Sea Slice[3]. No greater platform exists from which to play with a modest sized deployable floating solar array.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/blogs/nordic-msp/impact-of-ibms-cyber-se...

[1] https://www.ibm.com/blogs/nordic-msp/ibm-x-force/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375636 (2 years ago, 50 comments)

[3] https://jalopnik.com/sold-the-experimental-littoral-combat-s... https://jalopnik.com/you-can-buy-this-crazy-experimental-lit... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871700 (6 years, 0 comments)
I liked the ending:

"At first it was thought that the computer-generated movies of the four-dimensional hyperobjects might result in some "feeling" or insight for the visualization of a fourth spatial dimension. In particular, perhaps some visualization of a solid four-dimensional hyperobjeet would be gained from the distortions in the three-dimensional perspective projection. Unfortunately, this did not happen, and we are still as puzzled as the inhabitants of Flatland in attempting to visualize a higher spatial dimension."

When I wrote my first 3D engine as a kid, I immediately extended it to 4D because I was a nerd and I thought the same thing - maybe I'll be able to train my brain to understand 4D objects.

No. Your brain remains confused.

Perhaps if you did it from birth. Like they did with those kittens that never saw horizontal and vertical lines. This would be a totally unethical experiment to carry out on a human child though :)
It took us long enough to settle on ReLu. Step function activations were brutal.
AlphaCode does some analysis of training data copying in their paper (Sections 6.1 and Appendix F): https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/comp...

It does not seem to be copying from the training data in any meaningful way.
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Yeah. God. The ability to take an afternoon nap if you need it... there's no way to even put a monetary value on it.

Can walk, get some exercise/sunshine, nap, even have a quickie with your partner or look at porn, etc. No matter how awesome one's office is, those things are generally not options.
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