skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's Earth Centered Earth Fixed, which is what you actually get from GPS systems. Latitude and longitude are just for human-readable I/O. ECEF has the Z axis through the poles, the XY plane through the equator, and the X axis in a plane that goes through Greenwich.

This is converted to latitude and longitude from GPS using the WGS-84 standard, at least for the western world. Russia uses the PZ-90 reference frame for GLONASS. China uses the BeiDou coordinate system. There's also an obfuscated latitude and longitude used by China for public consumption, GCJ-02. This introduces an error of 100 to 700 meters. Not that anyone is fooled; the obfuscation algorithm is known.

But everybody uses the same ECEF 3D coordinates, and combining satellite data is done in that frame. So if you need precise locations, there's something to be said for working in ECEF.
The term "Hacker" dates from way before the world of computer enthusiasts.

Back in the day, electronic and radio builders were known as "hackers". There was even a well advertised electronics component shop called "Hardware Hackers".

It always saddened me that the term hacker was hijacked by the sensationalist media to refer to an antisocial element.
>build a decent car with no computer in it and no data connection, that is easily maintained on the owners terms. That's all I want.

well except for the last part that is what a good public transportation system looks like. Haven't had a car since my 2nd year in uni. No car no problems. Same goes for every other weird contemporary gadget that someone wants you to subscribe you too. Peloton is replaced by a good cycling track and a jog in the park.
Commercial growers have definitely diluted the flavor expectation. There really is no comparison between tomatoes sold at mass market and what can be grown at home.

I hope to see AppHarvest succeed at scale.

https://www.appharvest.com/veggies/
A philosophy of software design is an excellent book.

Although its ideas are heavily couched in OO terminology, it's changed my ideas about interfaces and exposure to complexity utterly.

Not comprehensive, but every programmer should absolutely read it (it's a tiny book after all).
Government asking a private company to stop misinformation about a health crisis doesn't really mean the government is censoring.
Cannot tell about all other languages, but it does hold up in Russian: широта (latitude) coming before долгота (longitude), 'i' before 'o'
If you're replacing Adobe with something else, whatever you do, stay away from Skylum software like Luminar. And the rest of their suite. I feel so burned after being a customer of their crap for a few years. Constant frustration with upgrades and broken promises.
I pay for their services with money every month and year. Their customer service sucks. I’m worried about getting hosed by them one day.

There are numerous stories of paying customers losing their account and getting no help.

I didn’t downvote you, but your response seems disengenuous. Even if the service was free, people depend on them substantially and losing that access disrupts businesses and lives.

Google is a monopoly for search. Losing the ability to buy ads or broadcast on YouTube without any due process is a big deal and needs regulation. I’m not a fan of regulation and thinks there are many inefficiencies. But Google has had 20 years without regulation and obviously won’t change because it’s profitable the way they have it now.
Unfortunately one of those onerous bureaucracies involves having an actual education in how to educate, or a teaching certification. Which is how my private catholic high school had a baseball coach as a history teacher who didn't really know how to teach history.
That’s an excellent point about aiming for early “delight” by imagining what the functionality will mean to you.
I too, apparently like many others here, have adhd. What I have managed to do, is to take this approach with me into my professional life. I motivate my employees by assuming this will be valuable to them too, especially in early products. In a way, this generates “rock star / hero” results with less singular data individuals. Motivation always trumps “sense of dudy”, adhd or not.
I disagree.

It's more like buying $300,000 worth of <thing> but <thing> turned out to be used in money laundering. So when you used it for collateral, the bank decided to recall the loan.

In this case <thing> is BTC, but it could very well be dollars whose serial numbers were recorded by the FBI say. But the bank probably wouldn't negate a loan in that case, since you may not have had knowledge you were dealing with a criminal. Multiple transactions with a criminal than, yes, you probably deserve whatever the bank does to you.

It's subtle because it means that if you accept BTC as payment for legitimate services you've offered (e.g. Tesla), you may not be able to use it for the purposes you intended.
Inline Assembly in F#
Show HN: Multiple Uptime Monitors, Built with Java and Angular
I had to sit on a waiting list for a few weeks to get invited to it about 1 year ago. I don’t know what that was all about but it seems they aren’t in a rush for more users.

Btw their numbers don’t work with Adobe, but I used Privacy for a Microsoft Office trial about 6 months ago and I got an email every time Microsoft attempted to charge me, which was approximately once/week before I just deleted that card.
but it does have to do with the dollar bills. The discussion centers on the technology as a currency and money. I think these things have bee separated in our general understanding of things, but in bitcoin they are melded into one. You control the outputs on the blockchain. The dollar bills on the blockchain. Sure, if you deposit your bitcoin at an exchange then yeah, you will get different bitcoin back, but the discussion isn't about that. It's about how the blockchain system works. And the way it works is that when you use bitcoin, and you own bitcoin, you do sorta ask for the same dollar bills back that you deposited. You don't really "deposit" them on the blockchain, but you kinda do. You deposit proof of ownership of a unit of account. Bitcoin calls it an output, a monero dev has coined the term e-note (or adopted the term i dunno) to try and better describe what it is.

maybe you know all this i dunno. if you do, slap me around a bit. if you don't, i hope this makes sense.
It may be offensive to you, but it’s orders of magnitude different from being a nazi or neo nazi or nazi sympathizer.

Nazis were/are violent sociopaths who are a threat to people. They’re scary. People making nazi metaphors and deeply offending you aren’t a threat to people. That’s not newsworthy to me.

It’s like the people who think the Soup Nazi episodes of Seinfeld are deeply offensive. Because they compare delicious soup to Nazis. If TV guide reported that nazi paraphernalia was in those episodes it would be misleading. Seinfeld wasn’t pro nazi and there was no risk of them doing nazi things.
My personal best (out of 1 games played): 17 guesses!
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone else have to check each time which of the words "latitude", "longitude" corresponds to which measure?

Why aren't we using some self-explanatory terms?

I propose "rotitude", "iclinitude". Guess which is which.
I need to sit down and redo my resume, currently in Google Docs, to LaTeX with Pandoc. Very powerful tools and I much prefer plaintext with git of course.
Is it actually not commutative? If you consider them to be filters in the same way you can with the article but on each RGB channel doesn't it still work out? Or is this assuming we're also dealing with reflection in addition to transmission? Or am I missing something entirely?
This is more of an issue of tracibility vs fungibility. The thing that's unique is the bill, not the dollars themselves.

Take a stolen $20 bill, deposit it in your bank account with "clean" money. Now withdraw $20. Is it clean, or stolen? How much is stolen? 100%? Less?
You don't have multiple of those stacked on top of each other. At least not as long as you don't dive deep into the global illumination rabbit hole. And then you've got bigger and more pressing problems to solve.
Interesting. I’m used to just putting MX domains in those records. I didn’t realize you can specify specific IP addresses.
Seems like it's not a replacement then. If you can't send from the domain, you'd be sending from your gmail, which is no good.
While a handy trick, it doesn't entirely solve the original problem when the values have dynamic content. In your example, replace 10 with $FOO and then you are back to square one, having to escape python-strings within a shell-string. Better avoid the problem entirely by not using shell to begin with. To instead continue on the dirty track, replace 10 with int(sys.argv[1]) and call it as python -c "..." $FOO.
Hey bud.
I'm in the same type of job and the same middle class monetary ballpark as you. (I think $1-$10M net worth is middle class these days, half that number if you're not married and don't have kids). I also sold everything once in 2004 and left America for ten years. And have recently been miserable as ** since being back here, despite having all the consumer toys I never thought I'd have, and a paid-off house and cars which I don't even want in my life. I'm also just thinking of how I can ditch them responsibly.

I do have this one weird habit, leftover from my van life in South America, Europe and Asia. I keep all my daily clothes in a suitcase on the floor of my closet. Folded and zipped up. I don't know why, I just can't hang them up. Everything you own is a weight. It keeps you from being yourself. Your true self is who you are weightless, on the road and just coping with tough situations, interacting with new people, seeing strange and amazing things. Better if you're with someone you can share that with. But OK by yourself. Certainly better that than being by yourself in a big house.

I'm not single either, or quite as free as before, but the strain of covid and the general decline of conversation and the rise of all this complete horseshit online, the anger of the world and the number of crank lunatics in it, the breakdown of my family into squads of ultra-left and ultra-right fanaticism, the general thoughtlessness and lack of courtesy, the homeless on my doorstep and the shots fired down the street every night, all make me wonder what the fuck I'm doing here.

I guess if I were you I'd be asking my wife about taking the kids and getting the fuck out for awhile. March 1st the truck drivers are probably going to take this country apart for awhile, it sounds like. It's hard to dodge a bullet between covid waves but this would probably be the time. My ex tells me (I call her drunk) that I need a vacation. But she lived on the road with me for ten years, so she knows it ain't just a vacation I need, not like people who just go to Hawaii for a week.

My personal advice given the lack of travel options and the hit and miss levels of covid now would be, you can rent a beach house near Cabo Polonio in Uruguay for eh, $200/wk if you're ok with rough wooden floors and don't care about fancy amenities, quite a bit more if you do. Get someone to house sit and take your family down there before the cold weather hits (it starts to get cheap now, it's dead and cold by end of March). If you spend a month there and don't feel like coming back, then buy a van and go to Brazil. Who the hell is qualified to judge you?
Since everybody on HN never ever sees an ad, much less would actively buy something based on one, let me confess to having spent thousands of dollars on products seen in ads.

For example, I have many pairs of awesome Portuguese shoes, and I originally found this vendor via their Facebook feed ad. That’s over $1000 of revenue over several years from a targeted ad which (I assume) cost them a dollar when I clicked on it.

I’m genuinely happy I saw that ad and found a shoemaker I like without having to research it.

Ads within the FB app still remain much more relevant than the stuff Google shows me on third party sites, which is much more random and often an eyesore. (Yes, I know nobody on HN uses the FB app either. What can I say: I joined at the age of 38 and was surprised that I genuinely like browsing FB because it’s so chill, just old friends and relatives. Nobody is angry or picking a fight, unlike Twitter where that’s 50% of the traffic.)
The Internet wasn't the first time we had free speech in both senses of the word, though. Before the era of broadcast television, the FCC running a de-facto censorship regime, and the Five Filters; everyone read newspapers to get their news. This prior era of media was a lot more like the Internet than I think a lot of people would care to admit. We had clickbait, they had yellow journalism; we had Trump, they had the Know-Nothings; etc.

One other constant shared between the pre- and post-broadcast eras of media was an extremely high level of distrust towards politicians. Why? Well, the handful of companies that owned TV broadcast licenses weren't about to start biting the hand that fed them. Also, the FCC outright banned them from pushing overtly political narratives. This ultimately acted to reduce the total amount of information voters knew about their candidates.

Let's say that you happen to have brainworms. And your local Senator promised on TV that every brainworm had a right to live in a person's head. You, obviously, vote for him. However, Congress then passes the Comprehensive Brainworm Mitigation Act of 1973. But you remember that your Senator fought for you and your brainworms, because that's all you saw of him on TV. In fact, he goes to the press and swears how he fought to tone down the brainworm bill, or included an amendment for brainworm sanctuaries.

Today? Well, the moment that the Worm Free Children Act of 2023 passes, you're already getting pings on Facebook and Twitter about how your Senator betrayed you. You hear rumors about how he secretly agreed to pass the bill months ago. Someone's already spamming you with memes about how he sleeps with earplugs in his ears, constantly in fear that a brainworm might slither into his ear canal. You're talking in realtime with millions of other brainworm hosts, all of whom are angry and planning protests against your brainworm-hating Senator.

Of course, all of that could be a complete and total fabrication. It does not matter. Defamation is dual to censorship, after all.

This actually isn't a new condition, but regression to the mean. American politics in the 1800s was chock full of people with brainworms trading wild accusations around in similar fashions. The main difference between then and now was just the speed at which news travelled, but the effects were the same.
Companies will always exploit you. That's the point. What you have to do is exploit the company.
This is also why I avoid indentation; programming is all about saving those precious bytes like it’s 1988.
Well, if you can't/couldn't sleep at the drop of a hat with all of the work that must have been, I dunno. :D Maybe you'll pick it up some other way.
how could he be sure the kid did it though, seems like he should have better proof than the file was screwed up.
It was a weird feeling, migrating my license to a fresh Microsoft account

And then microsoft instantly locking the account for suspicious behaviour

That's what? a 40 dollar license they tried to scam me out of?

(Of course, "your account has been locked for suspicious behaviour" translates to "we want your mobile phone number", except they allow you to sign up without number, just to lock 10-30 minutes later for a sunken cost effect, if you dare not give it voluntarily, which is plenty of time to migrate within)

I am so sick of gaslighty abusive business practices
Tinygo?

Works great in a lot of places.
Red poets’ society: the secret history of the Stasi’s book club for spies
Back in high school in ye olden days of 2003, the trick was to put a powerful magnet on your floppy disk prior to turning in the assignment. Floppy disk failures weren’t too uncommon, so it was hard to prove intent.

Frankly I’m amazed computers were trusted by anybody back then. Imagine if iCloud randomly corrupted 1 in 100 photos.
I did not express myself well. And now it has gone down on my permanent record.

Had I only listened to my teachers more, when it still mattered.
I don’t use it for everything. Only things I want to place a limit on. The data can’t be worth very much.
JavaScript: Binary Search in an Array of Objects
I think this blog should be retitled to some big US tech firms are out of control.

The US firm providing anti virus/antispam to UK politicians wont even confirm if they have blocked email sent from constituents to UK politicians.

Some websites also block emails from some European email providers, but it always traces back to US tech firms.
On the other hand, the lack of centralized control means that each person can have their own philosophy of bitcoins. Literally every individual can have their own belief about what bitcoins are useful for. The only limitation is whether a particular philosophy makes sense in light of how bitcoins work and behave at any given moment.
I use Privacy with Patreon. It works great.
It's amazing how they keep shifting the goal posts every couple years.

First it was supposed to be digital cash, but then suddenly it's gold and now "digital property".

When it became apparent that it's very wasteful they said the only thing hard money can be backed by is pure entropy.
> That isn't the case.

It is absolutely the case; we just don't know everything. Using modern economics, we have managed inflation and other economic phenomena highly effectively. High inflation (well beyond what is happening now - look at history and at places that ignore economics), depressions, bank runs, etc. are a thing of the past. Look at economic history before the post-war era; look at places that ignore economics and embrace ideology or political priorities instead; there is no comparison.

It's trendy to attack them for their imperfections, but to suggest that economics is powerless is not only ignorant, it's yet another rejection of our human agency, of the power of knowledge, of our ability to determine our destiny, and another baby-and-bathwater attack on our institutions.
To be fair, we have given Bitcoin more than enough time to mature into the ideals Nakamoto had envisioned. Can we just call it a failed project and move on to cryptos that actually deliver on the promise.
Do you expect perfection? This is classic conspiracy stuff. Latch onto some small weird things that are truly odd but probably explainable though maybe with a good deal effort. Or in some cases they are truly just incompetence or whatever. It doesn't imply some crazy vaccine conspiracy that spans the entire world. It just means there is a really complex problem and neither public health policies or vaccine producers are perfect. But how many lives did both of those things save? Probably a lot more than were saved by JR and others casting doubt on these policies and on vaccines.
Privacy numbers don’t work for Adobe trials. As it happens, I attempted that earlier this evening.
Frankly, I'd be thrilled to have a Firefox fork that is designed to show exactly one page, specified by the command's sole argument, and do nothing else. All the "tab" stuff and bookmarks could be offloaded to shell scripts.

Taken even further, you could modify the browser to expose git-ish hooks (for example, calling .browser/hooks/request-file when fetching a resource could allow you to implement request blocking).
> Yes, multiple combinations of dots and dashes lead to the same pattern,

Sorry, but this is nonsense.

There should always be character spaces and word spaces to break up the pattern.

Without character spaces, it's not morse!
You can't (or couldn't) do this in Android UI either. Unless you give up and do a webview widget. (that would have likely fixed the rest of my Android UI issues too)
disclaimer: I am not American, and know nothing about American politics.

I think all these start around Trump's administration. Trump start calling some media/social media as fake news, and some media/social media start censoring his supporter.

After seeing the worse effects of misleading information, many free-speech-supporter back off alot.
Haha well, no slapping necessary. I like to think I'm right but would love to be proven wrong.

It's important to distinguish between fungibility and tracibility because fungibility is an extremely important property for a currency to have, and without it it's all but useless.

Theoretically, if the US were to go to an all digital dollar, we would functionally have a blockchain (assuming all these transactions were reported centrally somewhere). This would not have changed the fungibility of the dollar, because the dollars you get in your paycheck are still the same as the dollars you get back as change or the dollars someone Venmos you for cocaine. Once they're in your bank account, there's no way to separate out which dollars came from which source. Now, you could pay someone to give you money with a "clean" history, but you're not paying more money for those dollars, you're paying someone for the service of giving you dollars with a clean history.
It was protesting vaccine requirements and has morphed into more because everybody loves a circus.
Is it a tort of negligent interference? Libel?
The "backup" for nuclear is another nuclear plant. It is unlikely that both will go down at once.

This won't work with solar or wind becuase no sun in one location usually means no sun in a much larger area around it. Same for wind.

The sun and wind much further away are of no use because it is not practical to tranmit that electricity to the location it needs to be.

The existing nuclear plants have ceased production once every few years at the worst. In contrast, wind mills and solar panels stop producing electricity multiple times everyday.
Uhh upvoted for everything you said up until the Fauci shit, and too lazy to take the upvote back.
Interesting, Instagram ads have convinced me to buy several products. However after 3 bad experiences I have concluded that most ads are for absolute junk.

Without a doubt I'm sure there are some ads that are for decent products, but it feels like a gamble to even consider buying something being advertised to me on these social platforms.

If you find something you actually enjoyed at random, I think that is the equivalent of winning the advertisement lottery.
I'd like the opposite - an FS which really deletes everything you command it to so no recovery tool would find (let alone recover) there was anything.
Spam is inevitable. Opining about ideal worlds is fun, but it's also irrelevant because that world is gone and it will never come back because it can't.

Alice is not beholden to example.com, she can use any hosting provider she wants. Moving providers isn't even that difficult. It's also totally irrelevant, because again spam is inevitable.
I think you may run in to an issue with the fundamental nature of math in answering that question because the path to one deep theorem is usually made up of a many obscure objects linked through trivial steps.
Strange that Reddit isn’t as nearly stable as their Alexa rank would suggest, but they have certainty gotten leagues better than the past.

I guess it’ll be nice to read about the post-mortem in a week or so.
I was just thinking of switching to non-faang where the work life and salary tradeoff were just right.

With this business model Adobe may not last long
transparent red on top of blue means more red and less blue, transparent blue on top of red means the opposite