skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are arguing with the weather. The use of lat/lon is obsolete in the same way XML is obsolete. This was already settled when I was learning about geospatial two decades ago. You are asserting "common practice" that isn't actually common practice. ISO 19125 conformance requirements are ubiquitous; I've never seen a requirement for ISO 6709 conformance in real application. That ship sailed a long time ago.

You are also grossly underestimating the scale of the lon/lat installed based. The lat/lon diehards are the inconsequential and insular part of the market by comparison.

There is no practical way to "patch" the countless exabytes of lon/lat currently sitting in cold storage. These are the largest data sets that exist, and it would be exceedingly unrealistic to expect the world to reformat this data, which they've been happily using up to this point, because a few people don't want to remember that the order is lon/lat. You might as well decree that everyone use XML to store their data while you're at it.

I literally don't care, because it doesn't actually matter. No amount of wishful thinking will cause a return to the imagined golden age of lat/lon.
So what exactly is the alternative for selling your labour to someone else - and more importantly, one that is scalable to the general populace?
You’re entirely wrong here. We haven’t had a depression in over a century and our currency no longer rapidly swings in value depending on the year.
> These persons surely had theories of management for their assets, which undoubtedly would include slaves and indentured servants.

Yes, exactly. I'm sure the Egyptian pharaohs who built the pyramids a thousand years earlier had some theories regarding management.
Calcium: Exact real and complex numbers in C
What do you mean by doesn’t drive business decisions? ~65 million Alexas were sold last year, and the product would be fairly useless without very high performance speech recognition powered by deep learning.

I personally own a startup that uses deep neural networks as part of its core product functionality and our business decisions would be drastically different if it weren’t for modern machine learning. We could technically ship some similar products, but they would either be far inferior or take orders of magnitude longer to engineer by hand.
> Maybe you can get land for that price in the middle of nowhere, but certainly not on livable land within 15 miles of a major city

That land gets its value from the city. One can imagine border taxes (tolls, employment taxes, et cetera) funding those land purchases.

Initially it will be slow. But as the city buys and razes the writing will be on the wall. If that starts pushing down prices, a prisoner's dilemma will emerge whereby neighbors compete and further drive down prices. In the end there will be holdouts. But they'll be sustaining the infrastructure that supports them, a prospect that only makes sense for the rich and eccentric.

This would only work, however, if cities dramatically ease their effective ban on new development. Though that would largely obviate the need for a green ring in the first place.
This entire post applies to the police as a group.
| i hate how americans always assume we are from there and understand everything they say |

It's a forum where everyone was typing in English, so my first assumption was that English was your fist language. I didn't say anything about American. And I tried to fix my mistake =/
Especially if your employer is hiring for a similar role or for someone who will be working closely with the team/department you're in. It makes sense to ensure a good interpersonal/intrateam fit.

A "domain expert" is far more useful in a hiring team than another HR rep or someone from an entirely different scope.
Why is site search so important?
I think if you asked 100 people what it meant at its heyday maybe 70-80 would say "abolish the police." Connotation of words and all that. Just for humor's sake, google dictionary definition of defund is "prevent from continuing to receive funds" thus kill/abolish.
Is interviewing a skill for tech questions given how most companies do it?

As everywhere I have worked (and virtually all of my technical interviews), the interviewer gets a packet, runs the candidate through the packet, writes down the answers, and then moves on to the next one.

I have heard "I have no idea, so I will let you assume that" or some variation of that so many times whenever I ask a question outside the clarifying ones available in the packet.

Tech interviews just seem like exam proctors.
Lego really dialed the monopoly rent to 11. I wonder what the material cost for a 2,000 pieces set really is? After all it's a bunch of formed plastic pellets.
My journey and a product idea: https://medium.com/hyperlinked/whats-missing-creator-platfor...
It may be a good idea to ask this on /r/fatfire. There seem to be some actual people that may be in your situation on there that may give their perspective on this issue.

But overall it sounds like you should take reasonable precautions and then 'forget about it' and carry on with your life. At the moment, it seems like instead of the wealth giving you freedom and security, it is instead restricting you and filling you with stress and anxiety.
> Why does almost no Green Party win an outright majority in any European national election?
> Why does half the US continue to vote for a political party that outright denies man-made climate change?

The story I have heard a few times is that the candidate with the biggest budget wins. Climate movements have smaller budgets than incumbents funded by decades-deep vested interest.
Perhaps "casuals" are simply a product of the content they consume, which is determined by the algorithms of the platforms they consume.

Maybe there's something about Reddit's algorithm and mechanics that predisposes it to low effort neutered meme content. After all, the default Reddit homepage subreddits are all trash (by the way this isn't unique to Reddit, same goes for say Youtube).

This is why we need platforms where users actually own their data, and can customize their own algorithms and UIs (ie. what web3 hopes to solve).
Falsifying large parts of the extant literature is trivial.
The connection is that Apple don't break out their P&L for the App Store business, which clearly makes them a lot of money. They prefer to leave it buried in the iOS business.

It suits them for the profitability of the App Store to be hard to observe as distinct from the sales of the devices themselves, and it supports the interpretation that they fudge around things that make them **loads of money by emphasising other things instead as important (customer experience, "security" etc.)
Spotify directly says that they are not a publisher. Platforms that mute certain voices are censors
You can get SD cards/USB sticks loaded with ROMs from Ali Express if you want to pay money, there are torrents around that are completely free, if your a techie the there is probably someone in your workplace you can get copies from, etc. Nobody really cares as long as you are not making a profit. China doesn't care period. Nobody is going to start a two ocean war over fifty year old video games.
MBP is on 7th place or so?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebooks-with-the-Be...

I mean it is great and all top places are pretty similar, but "nothing comes close" is just completely wrong.
Fragmentation galore, pretty sure you're actually reinforcing my point with these examples. Can one rely upon any of these hacks, extensions and third-party APIs working for all systems with a Wayland compositor? Some of these are compositor specific, and some are implemented independently of Wayland, but then of course depend on other stuff that's not universal.

The current ydotool goes in another direction, it tries to be independent of Wayland, but this also means it doesn't know your keyboard layout, making it less useful. It also requires a privileged daemon running on my system, something I wouldn't give to such an obscure project.

These problems don't even exist for X11 users because implementing such functionality is easy because it's supported by X.
I guess I definite success as going up in economic class or at least maintaining.
>https://www.notebookcheck.net/MacOS-Big-Sur-is-spying-on-eve...

addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30247048
>Universal basic income

I'm going to sound like I'm being snarky here, and I promise I'm not.

How exactly is this supposed to work? The government prints money and gives it away for free, nobody has to work?

I don't say this from a place of privilege. I grew up lower class trailer trash and have been homeless.

Maybe I don't understand the concept fully but it seems a bit absurd and unfeasible
I don't think the author's skills were atrophying, but they may have been stuck at a certain level. I have Thoughts about that.

On the one side: I get it. As a developer you want to - and the industry expect you to - keep learning, always be on the increase, etc.

But on the other hand, when you think about it, once the main architecture is put down and the main issues are solved, most software engineering jobs are just repeating the same trick over and over again, copy / paste / edit some names, done.

The last part is where you want to end up at as a company, basically; build features end to end in a reasonable time. But it's not what most developers want, they want new challenges, they want to stay in the problem solving domain.

I think as a developer you need to accept that a big chunk of your job, and what your employer wants you to do, is kinda boring. It's not solving new problems, it's extending the functionality of an application using existing solutions.

And if you're hired as a front-end developer or whatever, the hiring company may not want you for what you can become, but what you already are.

And honestly, just trying to find decent developers that don't need to learn your stack is already difficult enough.
Employee Leave Benchmarks in a Hybrid World
That's what I meant, too. :)
Xah has written a lot of great informative and opinion content on his blog. There is like a decade of posts covering a large span of topics like math, emacs, web dev, etc.

This is just one post I bookmarked, but you can link dive wikipedia-style.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.htm...
Argentinian Patagonia. I was there in December. Drove 30min on a dirt road to the middle of nowhere and I found myself in space. We even saw that comet that’s flying nearby with just binoculars
lobste.rs does. It's invite-only. At a bigger scale, Metafilter does. It's $5 to join and you can lose your membership after paying the money.

That's the thing with these things. They live and occupy their space and everyone else just says "Why aren't there any X?" because X exists but because it's not so big, no one knows it does.

For the most part, these communities are better because those who would idly ask "Why doesn't X exist?" don't know that X exists. Essentially, there are two requirements to joining the club:

- You should be able to find the door

- You should know why the door is hidden

If you're just like "I want what's on the other side of the door" but you can't meet these two conditions, then you can't have it.
The memes won't form an organized political movement, but they will win mindshare for whenever that political movement forms.
I'd agree that maybe the fit wasn't right (from both sides) - I would argue that there is a lack of experience that is coming through his post on how to resolve and read the situation.

To me it reads as someone who has limited experience in working for large companies and expects that company to work around their wants or alternatively they don't yet know how to advocate for themselves in a company.

5 months at a large organization ... you are barely done on-boarding let alone diving into a real project.
I don't understand how that's evidence of Astroturfing. Someone gave a name to a widely held sentiment (keep the government out of my life), someone formed or attempted to form a party around this?
Don't know why i'm biting but I will.

1. MtGox could have been written poorly in any other language and it could have been hacked. We find SQL injections in every language.
2. Facebook started with PHP, still runs a lot of PHP. It's not unsafe.
Yep, would be more convenient. Same would be cool to have single air carrier. And the same car model, that just works the same everywhere.
To Salt or Not To Salt? – Salting is not the only answer to securing passwords
I feel like memes become dominants when negative communication starts to overwhelm positive contributions. Deep thought is costly; creating and re-using memes are effectual communication for ever-decreasing depth of thought in high noise environments.

Or something like that :)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
It was a common and affordable hardware upgrade for 8088 and 8086 machines.

It's a shame we didn't see more of this - while accelerators that plugged in to CPU sockets have been made for ages, the number of CPUs like the NEC ones that are made to be compatible with and improve existing systems is small. Lots of hardware has been wasted that could've had longer lives.
From a gaming perspective, it might be the most "fun" to deliberately choose games that are older and less popular, since then the streamers (those who are also cheaters) aren't really focused on them, since they won't get the views/clicks to see how "good" they are.

In other words, follow the money. No one is watching someone else play Super Tux Kart on Twitch. (lol) They're watching someone play the latest AAA game, where the financial incentives to cheat are the highest.
Love it! I've really, really wanted one of those for a couple years now but it would be a huge break from my policy of buying used machines after the depreciation curve flattens out. With the limited market and designed longevity of the Reform I'm not expecting to find them on the used market any time soon. (Plus I'd really love to get the kit and put it together myself!)
I'd agree that the state should not be infiltrating non-violent activist groups. But the fact that he was an agent of the state doesn't seem to be the focus here.

"He wasn't the man I thought he was" is the sort of thing that could be said after practically every breakup of a relationship. Some times more than others, but trying to put some sort of line past which it is rape is not feasible - not, that is, if you are in favour of the rule of law, rather than people being sent to prison based on personal moral judgements of juries or judges about exactly how disgusted they are about someone's behaviour.
This is true, except we're usually not given a packet. :)
Stern NASCAR

https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5093

Sopranos was around the same time, but there were actually two versions of the code. One was in the old 6809 and the other was a test version of their new ARM-based hardware.
Great work, I love this! Don't let the petty comments drag you down.

> Does anyone have any examples of any other single-file app with a comprehensive interface like Files app that is entirely self-contained?

Adminer comes to mind:
https://www.adminer.org/
https://github.com/vrana/adminer/

As far as I can tell, they "compile" everything, including JS, into one PHP file.
One definition of paranoia only means suspicion without evidence

(While of course the other definition is a mental condition about unwarranted distrust)

We almost need a new word
The key to reddit is avoid any sub with >50k members. For really slow subs you can tack /comments on to the URL to see where the conversation is.

Just picking something at random, /r/goldmining hasn't had a story posted in 2 years, yet there is still some activity:

https://old.reddit.com/r/goldmining/comments/

(Doesn’t with with new layout)
I had its sibling, the V30, in an Amstrad PPC640DD luggable. I then transplanted it (before ZIF sockets, it was quite harrowing, esp. at 14-15 years old) onto a fixed PC (an Amstrad PC1640HDMD) since that one had ISA slots for a sound card, and Trakblaster required a V20/V30 or 80286 as bare minimum due to some of the instructions it used.

Good times.
McCarthyism at its finest
my mistake was staying and thinking it would be fixed. It didnt get fixed for three years. By then, out-of-undergrad business team members were already Senior Directors while PhD engineers with 15yrs continued to be entry level.

the result of the changes was a half-dead demotivated engineering team that never revived. titles were fixed three years in, but it was too late. business teams had moved onto bigger and better jobs by then. good luck trying to get hyper-growth when you've screwed over all the engineers
TC stands for total compensation - base salary, bonus, and equity.
Nodes of Yesod for the ZX Spectrum Next
When your cringe takes sound like parody it's time to take a step back and figure who scrambled your brain like that.
My daily driver is an X230. I bought my offspring an x240 a while ago, and it was terrible: the trackpoint buttons are built into the trackpad, rather than being separate physical buttons, and they're very unreliable. Thankfully, they broke the screen a few weeks ago, and we replaced it with an X270. In terms of the hackability and repairability ThinkPads are known for, it seems like the x230 was the last good one, but at least the ergonomics of the x270 are pretty good.
or, relationships and sex are normal things that emerge from humans socializing with each other, regardless of what brought them together.
Yes, it's standard to have an initial screen and then a day of five interviews (e.g. 3 coding, one system design, one behavioral).
Invaders: What are we talking about when we talk about invasive species?
It's fine for him, I just don't get why this is on the front page of HN. If somebody submits an article titled "I quit <High Paying Thing> after <Short Period of Time>", I expect there to be drama.

He didn't like the backend work? Okay, that's actually quite fortunate for him, he can just quit and move on, but I'm here for Real Developers of Beverly Hills.
> The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU

U.S. cities, maybe. But get gather natives from the rural parts of any state and you'll find a ton of cultural variation. Saying rural Louisiana and rural Oregon are culturally homogeneous is just wrong. Sure, we all speak one language, but so do France and half of eastern Canada.
Oral traditon is a kind of lossy recording on oddly volatile media.
You may need some therapy. To contrast: I'm 36, don't have 6-figure savings, no house, am married, but haven't lived in other countries or founded any startups, but I also value time with friends much more than career achievements.

Since my recent move to Minnesota I've been bummed out a bit due to isolation due to Covid, lack of sunlight, and a somewhat insular culture. I've been going to therapy to help out and it's been a big help. I've gone from feeling numb or like nothing matters, to just getting by, to being optimistic about my future now that I'm being tested for anxiety and ADHD.

I see that you're looking for an outside perspective with this post, but I suggest getting much more personalized help with a psychologist.
> They say they care. I'm sure they even believe they care. But at the ballot box, they act very differently.

One catch-all vote every few years is a very noisy metric for measuring people's agreement with one specific issue. Even more so when the choice is quite limited (e.g. two-horse races, between mostly similar horses, like many US votes between slightly-more-right-wing-authoritarian versus slightly-less-right-wing-authoritarian)).
You cannot structurally expect everyone to have a good career in the us. It is not currently mathematically possible. Please don't delude yourself into thinking the economy could function the same as it currently does without lifelong service industry workers
Most large numbers can't be factored into nearly equal factors, if we take "nearly equal" to mean "differ by less than a factor of two". I called these "puzzle numbers" because they're reasonable numbers of pieces for a jigsaw puzzle to have, and wrote about it a couple years ago: https://gottwurfelt.com/2020/08/17/how-many-pieces-can-a-puz...

For example you could have a 299-piece puzzle (13 by 23) or a 300-piece puzzle (15 by 20) but not a 301-piece puzzle (this will only factor as 7 by 43, which is an odd shape for a puzzle).

Unsurprisingly such numbers were in the OEIS (and I didn't put them there): https://oeis.org/A071562.
Nice! Which edition is your favourite ?

Mine is Seneca Selected Letters translated by Elaine Fantham and published in the Oxford World's Classics series.
I'm not saying that Valve should be above complaint. I'm also annoyed when people show up in threads about WSL or VS Code or whatever else that Microsoft does just to be like "Stop liking this, Microsoft is evil". I'm just saying that "But they're a company so nothing they do can be good" is a generic response without anything interesting behind it. You can post it on every thread about every action done by every company and it will be true.

I'm not saying not to be paranoid, but unless the point is just "people can't enjoy things made by companies" maybe save the actual paranoia for cases where it's clear that the action is going to be a big downside. There's no call to action except "don't talk about this" or "why are you buying things from a corporation?"

So much of it just feels mean-spirited to me. That there's literally no possible thing any company could do that wouldn't be spun as "well this is just good PR to cover up X evil thing they're doing." And that's maybe true, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage them to do good things and recognize them when they do them. It feels like a perverse joy in stomping on other people's happiness, even if it's justified.

It's like showing up at someone's birthday and reminding them they're a year closer to death and debilitating old age diseases. It's true, but what does anyone gain by doing that. Are people on this forum A. unaware of corporate malfeasance or B. able to be persuaded from their current position on its dangers? I'd say that's almost never the case here.
To start learning you don't need any C# experience, to build practical things you will probably need to develop a little, to be able to interact with libraries in the C# ecosystem.
Fraud might be a better fit. Wrongful deception for personal gain.
This reminds me of something that happened previously, wherein kind of an easy-going, free-wheeling site also got "gentrified" by the neoliberal left. It started with a "hey, maybe you should think a bit before you use that word" and the slippery slope tilted, now the place is all privilege/intersectionality and so on chat. Everyone walks on eggshells now.

They ran off the fun people first, the ones who did a lot of heavy lifting when it came to the attraction of the site. After a while, they started running off the people who were fun and even mostly agreed with them.

It's really hard to keep the spirit of a place the same, and as far as I can tell, it requires that moderators MERCILESSLY CRUSH that first person who says "hey maybe we should kind of cool it with the-" and bootstomp them right off.
"The revolutionary is a lost man; he has no interests of his own, no cause of his own, no feelings, no habits, no belongings; he does not even have a name. Everything in him is absorbed by a single, exclusive interest, a single passion--the revolution." --Mikhail Bakunin
Curious thing to fixate on. Are you perhaps implying that the presence of Islam and their Communist past turn make them un-European? Despite being geographically situated right between Rome and Athens?