skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are thinking about this in the wrong way.

Sure Lat/Lon is the common presentation format for this particular coordinate system.

Right now in Sweden the time is 10:41 (it would be great if it was a couple of hours later, then I could say it's 14:41 to demonstrate the 24 hour time format). Yet, in software, I would represent that as time in UTC. Only when presenting to the user would I convert that to the users time zone.

My last name contain the letter "ö". In software, I would use an unicode string internally, then when writing out I would encoded that to utf-8. (20 years ago, I would have used an old character encoding called ISO/IEC 8859-1 or something like that, but you get my point).

For some damn reason I till don't understand, the decimal separator in Sweden is the comma and not the period. Still I would represent numbers internally as an integer or maybe float, and then when printing to to the user would I convert that to "123,4" (123.4) or something like that.

In Sweden, WGS84 is not the only common coordinate system. There are many others: SWEREF and SWEREF TM for example. Yes internally, depending on usecase, I would probably use a representation of WGS84 as reference, then convert that to present to the user...

This is how I think about coordinates.
Heh, yeah, my top comments are also humor. Thing is, I put a ton of effort into crafting a good laugher, and then once in a while it gets kicked and that just makes me sad.
French : tic tac
Fungibility is a practical concept, not a legal one. Examples like crude oil, or a certain grade of steel, or yes, cash are considered fungible because there’s a market where buyers usually don’t care about the specific item’s history.

But that’s always a simplification that breaks down in edge cases, not a 100% mathematical truth.

For example, I worked on a software project where the goal was to trace a perfectly mixable material through a production chain to analyze the impact of slight contaminations that were found after the fact. The material in question would be considered fungible in most markets, but not for this specific purpose.
Various private conversations that I had with folks at Opscode/Chef and various people I’ve spoken to from AnsibleWorks.

UT Austin was a user of Cobbler, and after leaving UT Austin, I learned Chef to completely redesign and redeploy the production service networks for a small startup here in Austin, by the name of ihiji (who was since bought by Control4). Many thanks to my good friend Matt Ray for that referral.

I have stayed in the Chef community and broader DevOps community, working as a consultant for Momentum Software (before and after they got bought by VMWare), and even leading up to the work I was doing as a consultant at Whole Foods (before they got bought by Amazon), I continued to have contacts and conversations with various people in this space.

So, nothing on paper. Just private conversations with various people over the years.
True maybe more subtle elsewhere, But the risks of piracy is not zero anywhere.
Wait until it ends up being used in some other important field of math.
Website: https://www.tornadovm.org/

Best description of what it is and why it's interesting:

> What can TornadoVM do?

> TornadoVM accelerates parts of your Java applications on heterogeneous hardware devices such as multicore CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.

> TornadoVM primarily supports Java. However, with the integration with GraalVM you can call your TornadoVM-compatible Java code through other programming languages supported by GraalVM's polyglot runtime (e.g., Python, R, Ruby, Javascript, Node.js, etc).

> Automatic code generation of OpenCL and Nvidia PTX, achieving portability across multi-core CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs.
Honestly, after lifetime of working in companies on capitalist market, the theory that they/we make decisions based on rigorous studies strikes me as unplausible. So does the idea of effective neutral third party. I have seen how consultants work too.
What irks me is when humor is automatically equated with low effort. Sometimes, a joke is the perfect comment on a thread, but heaven forbid we crack a smile.
I tried reading it in late 2015 and it was just hard! The only thing I remember and find really funny is the dog on the beach peeing on an unsmelt rock!
Absolutly not, Amazon is a horrible shop, it's full of random crap, terrible ui, full of deceptive practices to try to get you buy some stuff like prime or whatever.
When searching for something, half of the search result is always super dodgy.
>You can compile your own operating system and control your hardware supply chain

It's unrealistic for everyone to audit their operating system and hardware.

>If they're end-to-end encrypted, no, the people providing the chat application can't log anything except noise.

Yes, they can. If you used a comprimised Element app your encrypted Matrix messages can be stolen.
It's claimed that polarization is due to quantum effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

…I think it actually isn't and the people explaining it have just forgotten it's supposed to be a metaphor though.
> Whoops!

> Something went wrong.

> (404 page not found)

There seems to be quite a few people talking about the article, but I'm seeing nothing?
> Running ad campaign for my app feels surprisingly similar to the experience of hyper-parameter tuning of ML models.

Maybe becouse most adclickers are bots?
As far as I know, the convention about this is that when you buy a thing, the most likely next purchase statistically is in fact the same thing because you are unhappy with the one you bought.
Here is an idea. How about we have dislike for those that hoard wealth, while the majority of the people live in poverty, and died of it.

How about we dislike those that avoid taxes like the plague, and yet, use all our services to their fullest extent.

How about we dislike those that exploit workers, turned a blind eye, and give a middle finger to most of their workers, and the people?

It's got nothing to do with jealousy, and everything to do with how horrible of a company Amazon is, and how its founder, and until recently its CEO, have let it become a horrible in the name of money.

I don't under people defending the ultra rich. The likelihood of the average joe getting to Bezos' wealth is next to zero. It's ridiculous to defend him despite all the bad he does. Before you say he adds to society by donating money or whatnot (e.g. Bill Gates), you know what works better? A good welfare system for those that need. One that would otherwise be funded partially by the rich's tax money that they love to avoid.
You are going to have to provide sources for these claims. Freakonomics podcast did an episode on the topic of online advertising and argued largely the opposite of what you’re saying, that there is massive overspending on online advertising, and increases in sales often get misattributed to ad campaigns when they have other causes.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...
Not OP/GP, but i think they're refering to the classical American obsession with money and jobs. As in, it's okay to give huge tax breaks to a multinational corporation like Amazon or Foxconn so they open business in that location and employ a few tens or hundreds of people. Many times things have been evaluated that way ( X program will create Y amount of jobs or regulating pollution / increasing minimum wage will cost Z amount of jobs), and IMHO that's a bit of a narrow focus, even if valuable. When you only optimise for number of jobs, you can miss a lot of important things ( are these jobs any good, do they have any future, what's the ROI, isn't the money better spent in another way like infrastructure or education, etc).
It was a random thought I had today. Please tell me why it's a bad idea haha :))

A lot of weird bugs happen at the edges/meridians. In a South/East system the edges are at the poles and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. So you already eliminate weird southern hemisphere blow ups. Using wraparound would solve the Pacific problem I guess

Maybe unsigned long.. for some extra precision..

EDIT: unfortunately since I'm doing everything in Clojure unsigned math is kinda clunky :(
In 2010 every women in SF had "no redditors" on their dating profiles. I'm still not sure why this happened, but I think a friend of a friend of a friend told them it was a website for pedophiles.
I'm astonished by how user-hostile Windows is. I'm excited when there's a new MacOS or iOS update with new features, but I only trust Windows updates to jam my computer for an hour or two without asking, break a few things, and sneak in unwanted changes against my best interest.

I would be wary of dating a Microsoft employee, because they don't seem to understand what consent means.
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Fixed. Cheers :)
Not exactly the same story, but there was this one time when I was working on a long document, several days work, on an Amstrad PPC 640 (this was the early 90s). Saving the file on a floppy took around 1 minute I think (maybe more) so I didn't do it often and had no copy or backup of any kind.

It was around midnight, I was done and hit save. I had an external monitor, and for no particular reason, decided to move it around during the save. It was big and heavy, and while moving it I accidentally hit the power switch of the PC.

Powering off the machine during disk write destroyed everything. I couldn't believe it, I stared at the machine for a while.

Then I spent the rest of the night recreating the document from memory, while making frequent copies on different disks.

It was a horrible moment that I remember vividly, but it taught me a valuable lesson. I never again lost any file for lack of appropriate backup.
Conversely, automation creates a clear and well defined workflow for completing a task. There is nothing to "automate" if there is not already a manual process to doing it. Sure, sometimes the automation you introduce can be an over-engineered solution that's more difficult to maintain (or just not work) compared to a human-done manual process. To that point I think a valid solution would be to make the process itself more automation friendly, if possible given your circumstances.
Yes! An amazing piece of software.
Doesn't matter in the slightest. You've identified yourself as someone who is definitely interested in that product. And not "just looking", but actually paying money. That's super valuable to businesses.

I still maintain that people who have bought a TV yesterday are more likely to buy a TV today than people who haven't bought a TV yesterday. Very few people buy a TV today. Or in the coming days.

It seems like a straightforward application of the base rate fallacy. Sure, most people who bought the TV yesterday keep their TV and don't need a second one.

But unless you have specific information about other people's interest in buying one, they may still be your best shot at selling another one.

Also, both you and sibling commenter argue as if there were a scarcity of ads. Amazon showing me a TV ad doesn't preclude Amazon from showing me a kitchen utensil ad on the next page.
doubtful, but even when that's true you still don't have to reduce prices by the same amount as you save harming the environment. You only have to make your prices competitive with everyone else. It's why collusion and price fixing exist.
> It makes no sense to me how bitcoin is still number one cryptocurrency despite it's garbage fundamentals. Failed at everything it was supposed to do.

Peer-to-peer, permissionless, trustless (i.e. not controlled by any one entity), known issuance schedule, fixed maximum supply, and unyielding consensus parameters all still hold up today. Seems to be doing just fine at what it was "supposed to do".
What is particularly hilarious is that the button isn't setting the color of a line below the text but of the text itself so why is the icon changing the color of an underline?

The only answer I can think of is that they tried to set the text color on the button but then the button was entirely invisible so rather than taking a step back and realise that they might need to rethink they just coloured an underline instead.
What's inside a digital pregnancy test (2020)
But you can just “taint” coins that are already on that known address, since you already know that the address belongs to the adversary.

If I understand correctly, “dusting” is only useful for empty addresses, when you want to track who owns them, because if they remain empty forever, you have no means to know.
This issue isn't directly related to BitSet. I have observed the same thing in my programming language interpreter that runs on the JVM (well, it's written in Kotlin multiplatform so it runs on JS and Natively as well).

I start the interpreter and measue the time it takes to all all then numbers below 1000000000.

The first time I run it after starting the interpreter it always takes 1.4 seconds (within 0.1 second precision). The second time I measure the time it takes 1.7, and for every invocation following that it takes 2 seconds.

If I stop the interpreter and try again, I get exactly the same result.

I have not been able to explain this behaviour. This is on OpenJDK 11 by the way.

If anyone wants to test this, just run the interpreter from here: https://github.com/lokedhs/array

To run the benchmark, type the following command in the UI:

time:measureTime { +/⍳1000000000 }

My current best guess is that the optimiser decides to recompile the bytecode to improve performance, but the recompiled version actually ends up being slower.
Those same search engines 5 years ago
There had been more then one or two stories about ad "not getting delivered to the target audience" and companies not noticing it through changes in sold products. (Not delivered in the broad sense, from accidentally not bought over misconfigured audience to problems with ad networks.)

So I'm but sure about the (micro) targeting aspects.

What I'm sure about is that ads work, especially if you do them well.

And it's hard to keep the quality separate from the delivery method, as you can't do clean a/b testing or similar (as things like "seen before" or even other ads can have noticable effects as far as I can tell).
No - I think there's a strong case to be made that FB and Twitter aren't like email providers or other forums like Reddit which are neutral in just showing content. Nor am I saying anything should be censored by the government. All I'm saying is that to the extent Twitter increased the viewership of some piece of propaganda, they should be allowed to be sued for damages. It's their ability to amplify that's the issue, particularly to amplify horrendous lies to the most gullible (and to profit from that). It's not their simple transmission from peer to peer. They're explicitly not just a forum, and they're not a telecommunications service.
Two major problems that I haven't seen described in terms of perfectionism anywhere, but should fit the pattern precisely are incels and hoarders.

Incels want their life to read like the perfect romance novel, and hoarders want to achieve the perfect utilisation of resources.
You would have a point if people tended to be wise here, but HN just trades humor for smugness and cynicism. Instead of the top comment being a joke it tends to be a middlebrow dismissal from someone who never bothered to read the article past the headline. The lack of humor doesn't make the comments here more information dense, it just moves the entropy elsewhere and makes it a bit more insufferable.
Regardless the trucker topics, the dispute around media bias is very solid to me. We have a good deal less variety than the US, CBC is very “metric” driven, click bait. It is kind of like if NPR was the main source of news for everyone. Regional news is drying up fast, to boot. There isn’t really “other news”.

“Kitchen sink” finance, inflationary issues are also a big part of the protests imo

It’s also quite frankly a massive dance party, which people have been missing out on

ie protest is (right now) seemingly a bit of a conservative mishmash, not just trucking dispute
Bezos has the ability to screw people by the thousands.

I don't.
I really like that tagline, "How to avoid programming yourself into a corner." Sometimes I've made stuff that I've hacked and hacked together until it barely works and it feels like you're just straining harder and harder to get it workable and then there's this sinking feeling of, "oh dear, I can never touch or change this or everything will crumble into an irreparable mess." Learning the SICP/HTDP way of creating a "language" to handle your problem with changed everything for me. It helps you to clearly lay out and work with the particular kinds of operations that your problem (and its variations) require.
As Hal Abelson explains in this podcast: [1]

> So you really take the attitude that, boy if I’m writing something complex, I need to think about what I’m doing as if I’m writing a language. Or just say that a little less onerously. When I think about the operations I want to produce in any kind of program I’m writing, I don’t want to think about only that particular problem I’m doing right then. I want to carve out a space that’s broad enough that I could be doing that particular problem and lots of variations and lots of similar ones.

[1]: https://corecursive.com/039-hal-abelson-sicp
> I never met anyone who got scammed by a real bank.

Congrats on the first world privilege.
I guess billionaires could still pay for that, but it sounds great to have your own place that you can move anywhere along any coast in the world, where you can entertain your guests and where service and privacy is exactly the way you want it.
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I am not saying people are dim for "falling for intentionally malicious design", because I do not see what is intentionally malicious -- that word has a meaning. It is not malicious. It might be unclear; I'm not convinced it is even misleading.

I am saying I do not understand why people don't grasp that "annual plan, billed monthly" means something priced yearly but paid for in monthly pieces.

Not that I think they are dim, but I do want to understand what the comprehension gap is here.

After reading many replies I think that if people are saying that "annual plan" is too ambiguous for anyone with a credit card, then "yearly, billed in monthly instalments after free trial" should do the job. But then I expect we will still see people expecting this means they can cancel after a month. Because the thing is if they say "one year commitment, billed in monthly instalments" that is actually untrue; you can in fact get out before a year is out, it just costs you an early closing penalty.

(I _am_ saying they are dim if they are expecting to game it by cancelling after a month.)
I used https://meet.jit.si/ for a language meetup.

I opened one tab for the group which had 10 people some sharing video
I then opened 3 more tabs for specific languages (English, German, and Russian)

The quality was still good. It was the same as being in a crowded area a train station, but it worked.

I have had interviews with zoom and teams, these were not as good. With less people.
I just checked the calculator app on my android and there definitely is a parenthesis button. On Android 10
Seriously wondering, has Richard Garfield designed successful games after Magic: The Gathering? It’s probably hard to follow up that insane kind of success, especially if you hit it early.
If we get to a point where we can acquire a planet and hurl it in a specific direction with meaningful speed, then we must’ve developed enough to also keep the planet livable long enough.
> Joe became popular for inviting all kinds of guests and just letting them speak, I consider that to be a great boon to forming truly diverse audience, and I have no doubt he had it before spotify days/

He has been continuing to do that. Before and after the move to spotify.

I looked up exactly when he moved to Spotify. According to Wikipedia it was May 2020. So I spent time (which you could have done before making your erronous claim, because I won't like being wrong) going through the spotify podcast listing.

Just scrolling through the listing since May 2020. I see Mike Tyson, Glenn Greenwald, Oliver Stone, Jon Stewart, Bret Weinstein (who politics is firmly on the left btw despite the claims to the contrary), Bill Burr, Dr Debra Soh. Generally there are a lot of musicians, comedians, body builders, MMA fighters. So there is a fair mix of Right, Left and non-political people on there.

So I don't see how you have a basis for your claim.

> After that I've seen him almost going for a streak, inviting right-wing guests one after another, but judging from responses I got here this might not be the case anymore, I'll have to listen to his recent podcasts to get a better picture.

Right so you are arguing from ignorance? You don't know who he has had on (as I've shown above). I actually looked them up just now just to see if you claim is valid and it clearly isn't.
Our Terran notion of pollution makes no sense anywhere without Terran compatible atmospheres.
(Fellow Swede here). I really want to agree with you, but in practice, the difference between "internal" and "external" is not always clear. For example, if I was producing a printed document in Swedish, I would definitely use decimal commas. (By the way, the time now is not 10:54 — it's 10.54, if you are to believe "Svenska Skrivregler" :-) ) However, when printing output in a terminal window, a comma means that I can't copy-paste that number into that interactive Python session in another window. Coordinates as lat, lon means I can't copy-paste into PostGIS. Makes one long for those LISP systems of the legends, where the system kept track of where things on screen came from, so if the program printed a coordinate and you copied it from the terminal, it was copied as a coordinate, not as text...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_advertising#:~:text=I...

Markets are imperfect and irrational, but you really don't think that there is a trillion dollar misunderstanding about the efficacy of the practice? Idk jack about advertising but it seems unlikely to me.
Often when writing scripts, I'm chaining tools together, e.g. using git to find a thing in a specific commit, using curl to grab something from the web, decoding some json, maybe unzipping a file.

I've never really found any language that feels good for that kind of thing, there's definately a middle ground where it's getting too much for bash, but jumping to a language loses too much at the initial conversion to make it feel worth it until you are well past the point where your future self will think you should have made the switch.

Some languages have things like backticks in php to inter-operate but it's still not great experience to mix between them. For my own little things I'm currently looking at fish, but bash is omnipresent.

This tool seems to delay that point even further, as currently dealing with generating json is definately a pain point (whereas manipulating it in jq is often really good).

But if anyone can point to good examples of this transition in python then I'd be very interested.

edit: jq is more powerful than I thought for creating json, see https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/06/08/jq-creating-updatin...