skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side to being a libertarian is that you still support legislation to e.g. breakup monopolies and protect 'basic' rights, as needed. A sibling comment mentions Trump - he went so far in the opposite direction there is a considerable backlash to seeing what a truly regulated and unprotected environment looks like...

Trump it can be argued went so far to break basic things like US mail, and encourage corporate monopoly, the course correction in the other direction is not only reasonable but expected...turns out divisive (fascist) wannabe dictators are not a good recipe for freedom either...
My pet peeve is that it wasn't named "lonitude" (no 'g'). Then both would be equally wide in code.
4chan/Reddit pretty much propelled his primary campaign. He was just one of the candidates before the memes
I agree that you can get momentary insight into changes, but that doesn't help you understand if you are indeed alienating potential users, for two combined reasons.

First, you can't measure the preferences of those who never were your users, or those who already dropped out.

Second, software is not static, and whenever you apply changes to it - including those not related to UI - its utility to different demographics changes. And you can't know how much of the new demographic would be your users if your software had a diffrent UI.

So while you can measure the impact of UI changes on your userbase via behaviour analysis, you can't find out whether you're excluding potential users this way.
> Trump...misleading information...free-speech-supporter back off alot.

Trump is a correlation to (not cause of) both the left and right in America turning sharply populist and inward looking in recent years. Populists tend not to be concerned with principles like freedom of speech, or the concerns of the global community.
There is no controversy IMHO. [Lat,Lon] is just different coordinate system of the same space as is [X,Y].

It never happens that you try to generate {X} from {Lon} alone.

def LatLon_to_GoogleTiles(lat, lon, zoom):
lat_rad = math.radians(lat)
n = 2.0 ** zoom
xtile = int((lon + 180.0) / 360.0 * n)
ytile = int((1.0 - math.log(math.tan(lat_rad) + (1 / math.cos(lat_rad))) / math.pi) / 2.0 * n)
return (xtile, ytile)
So you've got one side of the transaction hidden, but how are you hiding the things you buy from the government?
dunno the back-story, but I've had some "valid for 5 minutes" password reset emails that would arrive expired (after 6 minutes+). And it didn't seem like the kind of company to do shenanigans, just technical voodoo.
Wow this is ridiculous. I'm not antivaxer and got all 3 shots but I cannot understand this attitude from companies and the legal framework that allows them to act like this. I assume you work in the US?
Yes, yes they absolutely do, although not quite at the levels and extent you might think. I worked with an ad network DSP, who's entire business was figuring out what crap to put in front of what users.

All I'll say is that they used pretty low down ways to get to people, one example that sticks out was the amount of targeting that went on late Friday, late Saturday night in APAC when folks would stumble home drunk and go online.

Everything and the kitchen sink was thrown at these people, and it often resulted in multi thousand dollar sales, including a few automobiles!
This is some new definition of "confirmed" that I was previously unaware of. From my reading, the only thing that's been confirmed is that some bright spots on Mars that were previously thought couldn't be liquid water (because the temperature was too low) actually could be liquid water because scientists found a sufficiently salty brine that would stay liquid at that temperature.
I guess it makes sense that they need to make sure the deposit was not a stealth loan not on your credit report when applying for a mortgage. Thanks.

I will say, afaik, the anti money laundering implications are not in play here and are what I was initially thinking about. The bank will report the large deposit to the government. If you're money laundering that's between you and t he government (as long as the bank reports the activity)

This is much clearer than the post I originally responded to which talked about stamp taxes and capital gains.
We can and do compare it to the experience we get from the developers of the apps/subscriptions directly. Many are a much worse experience than clicking a simple button in iOS.
This isn't mentioned in the NYT article, but might contribute?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-ove...
Pretty neat! I wish, could have started without the learning curve and set up.
I will try to get on it.
Make a mnemonic for yourself. The one I've heard is latitude -> ladder.
This part of the FAQ links the author's explanation of his preference.

> Do you have a preference? Yes I do: longitude, latitude.

http://macwright.org/2016/07/15/longitude-latitude-is-the-ri...

The bullet points:

* Almost every geospatial format puts longitude first

* Almost all open source software uses longitude, latitude ordering

* longitude-first is the equivalent of XY ordering
I happened to use free Azure credit from the MSDN subscription as well. The VMs in East Asia (Hong Kong) region are working great for me for years, and the traffic is fast both in and outside China without blacklists and whitelists.

That being said, it also depends on the protocols and the network:

- OpenVPN would get blocked immediately.

- AnyConnect gets interrupted regularly but is usable.

- IKEv2 and Wireguard are what works for me now.

- My major network is China Unicom and it works great.

- But when I switch China Mobile I get interruptions sometimes.

I guess it is finicky after all :-|
I really don't like the down page they show [1], gaslighting the end user into thinking it's on their end.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/HTKvJee.png
Did you read the article? It might be worth engaging with their arguments instead of just the headline
I recently had to deal with this. I created a free Outlook account. I transferred the domain from Gsuite to cloudflare and signed up for the email beta (all email is forwarded to the Outlook account).

I moved the email using Outlook on Windows (I have a separate MS365 plan for my family so I have access to Outlook). I just connected both accounts to Outlook and then dragged and dropped the emails from the Gsuite account to the Outlook account. Honestly, this was the easiest part of the whole process of leaving Gsuite.

This setup doesn't allow me to send email from the domain, but it does allow me to receive email. It's for a small HOA so I'm fine with this arrangement. If I wanted to send email, then I'd probably sign up for o Microsoft plan that allows me to do that. These are described in other comments.
Well you got it backwards.
In the common case where you trust your input entirely you can just interpret your string as JavaScript. Then you don't even need to use quotes for the key names.

$ alias fooson="node --eval \"console.log(JSON.stringify(eval('(' + process.argv[1] + ')')))\""
$ fooson "{time: $(date +%s), dir: '$HOME'}"
{"time":1457195712,"dir":"/Users/jpm"}

It may be a bit nicer to place that JavaScript in your path as a node script instead of using an alias.

#!/usr/bin/env node
console.log(JSON.stringify(eval('(' + process.argv[2] + ')')))

Since fooson's argument is being interpreted as JavaScript, you can access your environment through process.env. But you could make a slightly easier syntax in various ways. Like with this script:

#!/usr/bin/env node
for(const [k, v] of Object.entries(process.env)) {
if (!global.hasOwnProperty(k)) {
global[k] = v;
}
}
console.log(JSON.stringify(eval('(' + process.argv[2] + ')')))

Now environmental variables can be access as if they were JS variables. This can let you handle strings with annoying quoting.

$ export BAR="\"'''\"\""
$ fooson '{bar: BAR}'
{"bar": "\"'''\"\""}

If you wanted to do this without trusting your input so much, a JSON dialect where you can use single-quoted strings would get you pretty far.

$ fooson "{'time': $(date +%s), 'dir': '$HOME'}"
{"time":1457195712,"dir":"/Users/jpm"}

If you taught the utility to expand env variables itself you'd be able to handle strings with mixed quoting as well.

$ export BAR="\"'''\"\""
$ fooson '{"bar": "$BAR"}'
{"bar": "\"'''\"\""}

You'd only need small modifications to a JSON parser to make this work.
A classic and elegant way to design visual programming or a programming language is to write a meta-model.

Then you write two ways binding between text source code / visual elements and your model (an instance of the meta-model).

A lot of research and tools have been built around that. But basically it’s div/images bound to a model, and a model to code convertor. Or you interpret the model directly.
They are targeting users who were at a product page (simply looking) which means they are interested for sure. They can't always know whether the users purchased it.

On Facebook, you can let the system know that you have purchased it by clicking Hide Ad => Already Purchased. If companies use Facebook pixels to track orders, Facebook does know whether you purchased it... but maybe not all companies use Facebook pixels for order tracking so Facebook doesn't know.

Regarding YouTube, YouTube ads are simply not worth it. Get YouTube premium.

You can ofc disable "personalized ads" in these platforms if you don't want these ads to follow you.
And the demographics that facebook wants to target is very quickly migrating away (to tiktok mostly). Even google is scared of tiktok (enough to pour untold amount of resources to try catch up via youtube shorts).

It's funny, because Vine had this market first, and it failed spectacularly - if only they built a better recommendation engine!
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Wanting the "good guys" to have more power is pretty much the default response on here nowadays.

The alternative to giving a democratic government power isn't 'nobody has power'.

The alternative to giving a democratic government power is ceding it to undemocratic, unelected oligarchs.

When a democratic government has it, you get some say in how it is used.
I wonder how long it'll be until they tie up this loophole.
Isolation is a common problem in entrepreneurship. It takes many forms, in the author's case it was about talking about technical issues.

However, as noted by others, the primary problem he builds first, then looks for customers. It should be the other way around. I'm trying to help build awareness of this by providing a structured approach at my upcoming SaaS: https://cxo.industries
since it's from 2009 we now know that Facebook was the most dangerous company in the world at that time. But they're on a downturn now.
This is the only way.
Aren't there criminal acts which consist solely of communicating information to a willing third party? Eg sharing classified information with a foreign agent?
Experience varies among the population. I had no notable side effects for the first 2 Pfizer shots but 3rd one had me in bed for 48 hours.
It depends heavily on how 'what is being advertised' can be related to 'what people are interested in'.

For example, I ran a small business creating posters from cyclists GPS data. I created FB ads that targeted people that used Strava (I'm a little rusty on the exact terminology but it was "had an interest in the strava.com website") and got lots of clicks with people that tried the service.

However there are topics - window blinds is a good example - that people aren't (in general) interested in for very long - so once the algorithm comes to the conclusion that you like blinds you've probably already made a purchase. Similarly I subscribe to the economist magazine and keep seeing Economist ads - infuriating.

Facebook allows advertisers to remove groups of users (for example those that have purchased a product already) - I don't know why more companies don't use this.

You mention charities - I remember reading that most charitable donations come from people that have already donated to that charity before, although I can't find proof.
I had 3x Moderna. The last two shots made me feel like shit for 36h and 24h respectively. It wasn’t fun but ok.

A friend of mine, same age, is in a couple where he isn’t vaccinated and she is (Pfizer). Of course he got sick last month and contaminated her because they live together.

He had to take 10 days off and felt like shit the whole time, unable to do anything. She kept working because since sh was vaccinated she had very very mild symptoms that didn’t hinder her.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, and you don’t even mention what vaccine you got.

What I’m considering doing for the next booster is to check how many antigens I still have before deciding if I take the booster when it’s due or wait a bit longer (barring a virulent mutation that would change the decision making).

In any case, I’ll take 24–36h of flu like symptoms (without having an actual virus damaging my body) any day over 7–10 days of agony like my friend went through.
Most sportsbooks do eventually limit the bets sizes for consistent winners. But if word gets out, all you do is ban winning bettors and take on losing bettors. No one would want to play with you, and your business suffers. So it's a balancing act.

This is why the popular sportsbooks still allow big bets for reputation's sake.
Adblock Plus for Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus-free-...

It takes 2 clicks to install, definitely less than writing on Hacker News.
Two questions:

- if the buyer was intoxicated, isn't that sale invalid?

- how is that in any way ethical?
Can you not be wrenched into giving away your privacy coins?

You're still a single point of failure, aren't you? Apply wrench until you've given up all the privacy coins you have access to
Identical twins rarely have the same immune system, part of the immune system develops with our exposure to pathogens which is unlikely to be the same for both twins.
When in the history of mankind was anyone ever too rich to want more?[1] The hedonic treadmill doesn't top-out at 6 or 7 digits.

1. Also "I signed a 100M deal" can be about more than just the money
Which really says the USD needs to modernize to keep its popularity.

A US controlled internet currency is going to do better than any of the cryptos
So, to be clear, he is worried that in 7000 years time it's the _date_ part of his comment that will be hard for a human, or computer, to parse?

While English from 1000 years ago would be unintelligible to most of us now...

And how long is HN gonna keep these threads? I was worried about the NSA but now I'm worried about dang.
Only Rand Paul and Ron Wyden voted against FOSTA/SESTA, the legislation passing 97 to 2
So you're saying that HN has matured? :-)
Ask HN: Easiest way to add recommendations to my product?
I'm working on a custom newsfeed site. Given 100s of news articles, reddit posts, tweets, etc., I want to show the content that a user would be most likely to click on / find interesting.

Any suggestions?
Well, display coordinates are different from typical plot coordinates in any standard plotting package (of course, many plotting packages also support GIS, sort of making this a moot point). Yeah, if you're going to display coordinates you'll have extra problems.
Are you surprised that on HN, of all places, we find a date format pedant? :-D
Call for Protected Software Implementations of Finalists in the NIST LWC Contest [pdf]
I wonder how much effort were put into finishing C99 compliance. And if not mistaken, the compiler also wasn't even C++98 compliant.
I admire intellectual people being activists. It does not happen a lot.
I think the performance issues are not due to electron but more the architecture and Angular.
Michael Feather's book on legacy code contains a lot of advice that ought to be obvious, and yet every time I'm handed a scary piece of complex legacy software, I leaf through Feather's book and I almost always find something useful.
Corporate Law Changes Planned by the New German Government
You can start with the references that are listed at the bottom of the Wikipedia page, listed above. I’ll try to post more when I’m back at my regular computer.
Afaict this requires transactions to happen off chain?

If you let people manage your coins in their wallet, they can pretend there's more of them, but they can't actually trade that many
It’s not because it detects sound on your audio input while you are muted ? Maybe from your breathing or your keyboard.
6 years in adtech, lets say advertisers can distribute a lot of budget and waste it just to get 1 sale and cover for the losses so the numbers make sense. I have seen conversion rates increase 40% with purchase intent (if we know that a user added something to basket).

So what you see is an adtech tax - partially wastage but people will overlook this if they are still profitable on their marketing ROI.
Yuuup

My wife went through school never using the bathrooms
Apple and the App Store and generally the walled garden that Apple has is complete anti competitive bullshit. Hope every government tears them to shreds this year.
That's not correct. At least not in this context.

This will invariably lead to a terminated account and a bunch of declined emails , but thats as far as it goes.
I assume it was for tax reasons.
That's neat, thanks for the link.
I was mildly annoyed by this as well.

I highly doubt I broke Reddit.
> That is the main reason the platform is more lucrative.

Citation needed
Of course it can be as simple as that, that's beside the point

But almost every time you actually won't ship a program that just prints stuff to the console

That's why I did it that way, because how you actually output won't be println, but probably to a window or a socket, or whatever

The core functionality of passing a slice will be actually useful in those cases, you can include this code in your final program
Meter Passport blockchain bridge exploited for $4.3MM
I thought the real issue was that GoFundMe didn't initially return the money to the donors, instead they gave the money away to a charity, or so they claim.
Thanks, This was helpful.

> MYTH: Requiring companies to be on the lookout for child abuse will harm startups and nascent businesses.

>FACT: No other type of business in the country is provided such blanket and unqualified immunity for sexual crimes against children.

This jumped out out to me in particular. I can think of another similar industry that delivers private packets which may contain CSAM. What is the US Post office doing to evaluate the bits they deliver? What is the post man's legal liability?
Hey, I had a similar copy protection scheme for binaries during the 90s :)
Oooh this sounds right up my alley. I’ve started developing some tools like this but didn’t quite get as far as I wanted
Secure Browsers in 2022
The 'natural state of nature' is pre-civilisation, where the definition of poverty doesn't really make sense. Everything since the dawn of the civilisation is our own artifice, including the economic systems that we have become subservient to.
The ordering of lat/lon is not the only tricky part of working with geographic coordinates, sadly.
"Between" the pair of numbers and a real point location on earth, there are two levels of abstraction used in the definitions of latitude and longitude:
1. physical surface is modeled by a geoid, a surface which approximates the mean sea level over the oceans and its continuation under the land masses.
2. The geoid is approximated by a reference surface, a geometric shape simpler to describe (in closed form, with few parameters). For example, an ellispoid like WGS84 (the "84" is the year of the introduction of this standard) is commonly used.

Furthermore there is the distinction between "geodetic" latitude ϕ (without qualification): the angle between the normal and the equatorial plane - this should be given with a specification of the ellipsoid and "geocentric" or "spherical" latitude θ (or ψ, q, ϕ′, ϕc, ϕg): the angle between the radius and the equatorial plane. (Figure below).

Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude :

"The importance of specifying the reference datum may be illustrated by a simple example. On the reference ellipsoid for WGS84, the centre of the Eiffel Tower has a geodetic latitude of 48° 51′ 29″ N, or 48.8583° N and longitude of 2° 17′ 40″ E or 2.2944°E. The same coordinates on the datum ED50 define a point on the ground which is 140 metres (460 feet) distant from the tower.[citation needed] A web search may produce several different values for the latitude of the tower; the reference ellipsoid is rarely specified."

Whereas confusing lat/lon order usually is noticed as a bug because some points end up in an ocean or close to the poles, use of the wrong datum (reference surface) leads to more subtle errors (as the above example shows) and is therefore more likely to go undetected. What I recommend is to use test cases with well-known points and check in your GIS processing pipelines that a few test locations are still where you expect them to be at certain check points in your process.
Automated Wordle Solving
The hex was clearly corrupted manually, something had been typed there. I don't think it was just the word "fuck" but I think the word "fuck" was in it. Was decades ago.
It will massively help you to be a perfectionist when preparing for an interview, but once you get the job, becomes unnecessary or even counterproductive to pursue perfectionism on the job. (for the most part IME)
I recently started dabbling in Google ads for my side project. And I have learnt a lot about advertising through actually running campaigns:

- Different countries have drastically different CPA (cost per action). You can acquire users easily in low-income countries but not US or Canada. So you have to set different CPA target for different countries. Currently Google ads doesn't seem to do adjustments automatically for app campaigns.

- It might take more than one impressions to convert one user. I looked at the conversion paths analysis in Google Analytics and found about 25% of conversions had two or more campaign impressions. Also there's a term called "touchpoints to conversion", basically how many interactions it took for a user to convert. Mine is about 2-3 touchpoints for all campaigns.

- Running ad campaign for my app feels surprisingly similar to the experience of hyper-parameter tuning of ML models. Google in fact does use ML to run campaigns internally. That might also be the reason why the initial phase of campaign doesn't work very well with limited training data and bad initial weights.
This mailing list post has nothing to do with the u2f api being deprecated in chrome.

Edit: correct which api is deprecated.
My grocer stores produce under flickering fluorescent lights serenaded by Don Henley and Duran Duran. I’m afraid I’m not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to replicate that environment.
Free Covid tests are meant to reduce inequity, but they’re highlighting it
If you can get a copy of the LTSC or Education distros, they're leagues ahead of the common Win 10 experience: much less clutter and nagging, being able to defer content updates, less tracking.
Free credit: Most sportsbooks give you signup bonus/free money. The caveat is that you have to make enough bets to unlock the free money. Hence drawing customers to bet more.

3k wagered: They were betting 3 thousand dollars everyday.

Limited to pennies on the dollar: Most likely a hyperbole. Most sportsbooks will eventually limit your betsizes to say $40 maximum bet on said event.