skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East.

It was a long-standing rival to the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the world.

The "Paris meridian arc" or "French meridian arc" (French: la Méridienne de France) is the name of the meridian arc measured along the Paris meridian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian

It (the Greenwich meridian) became the standard via weight of maps and naval strength of the British, there are many maps from the early days that don't follow the Greenwich standard, enough so that "wrong longitude because we assumed wrong meridian" is a minor trope in treasure map stories.
Earth Pigment
Might be gorilla marketing.
In that case the secret is blown so you rotate it and leaving in the repo isn't an issue.
>I’d think this actually applies to nearly everything in software and is def a useful thing to keep an eye on.

Sort of like if the Peter Principle and Parkinson's Law had a child.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Or just Zawinskis Law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_La...
Queue the future “show hn: a lightweight pg backup solution”
At the time the American railroad interests were enslaving tens of thousands of Chinese and perpetuating genocide against the native people and animals, that's technically not co-operation nor was anything involving the English working class and industrial revolution.

I think the word you're looking for is subordination.
that is the exact opposite of what it shows to me

reading through the email chain, it seems ads did indeed get its way, and the product was indeed made worse to drive revenue numbers – chrome team was unable to say "no" when pressured by ad team
Today, the Swedish word for their belief is asatro, where as is male deity from the era in question and tro is belief. (Female deity of same era is asynja)
They still have a fairly clean Android. Samsung's still have Bixby and the Samsung store, and their firmware I find to be aggravating, as Samsung phones will install carrier specific apps without any option to remove them.

And a used Pixel can be had rather inexpensively due steep depreciation of Android phones.
Companies can give LLMs agency. "Cortana, call user U17467 to collect our fees and tell employee E574 to fix the bug " does not seem too far away.
See https://medium.com/@shawn.ck.yang/fury-a-blazing-fast-multi-... for fury implementation details
Interesting project, thanks for getting back!

My SQLite bindings should build/work fine for all your supported platforms, with the caveat that BSDs other than FreeBSD need a build tag, because my locking protocol is not compatible with SQLite's default (if you access your database concurrently with my wrapper and other SQLite processes, you may corrupt data).

Solaris and Plan9 don't have working file locking, so you can't use concurrency at all. This could be change if there was interest in it.
>What would be the point of open specifications if there was only a single implementation?

I never said there was? When you write the first implementation then there will only be a single implementation, but that's how counting works. 1 comes after 0. Anyone is free to write another implementation.
Thanks for the details, appreciated.
So why are you complaining? There is no trap anywhere.
I'd prefer BORING instead of STUPID. I don't want to see coworkers talking about writing "stupid code" all-day.
Ask HN: Who Are the "Virtual Assistants" For?
Not the new AI virtual assistants, I mean those chatboxes that websites have been popping up in your face for the last 5 years that claim to help you with your issue.

They feel like the automated voice assistants that try to help with your issue when you call your bank, in that 99% of the time you end up shouting "please give me a human" until your request is granted.

I always ignore them, but I doubt they'd be this prevalent if people weren't using them. But I can't think of a single time they've ever helped me. So who are they for?
Marketplace for Web3 Security
A place where Web3 projects meet the best smart contract auditors. We're making blockchain safer and more trustworthy for everyone.
I love this film. Pretty accurate, some realistic vibes, well done for being done in the 70s, especially the video calls.

A must watch for all geeks
I have zero evidence that this is true.

My personal experience is that after having fought with the limitations of BASIC, I enjoyed the power of C: pointers, that most students struggle with, were fresh air for me.

On the contrary, I was exposed to Pascal after C, and hated it: haw can you tolerate self- inflicted limitations when you know that there's something better out there?

What I learned is: always go from simple to complex, never backwards. So yes, BASIC is a great choice for absolute beginners.
Ask HN: Why it is hard to get remote job?
Replace Sam with me, the person that built the thing.

My experience aligns with the the author of the original blog article.

It's impossible for someone near the bottom of a hierarchy to convince anyone of anything, unless the building is literally on fire and you're the external fire safety consultant.

I'm the proverbial fire safety consultant. I come in, upgrade the suppression systems, hold multiple hour-long training sessions on how to check the figurative "water levels"... and nobody does. If I turn up a year later, it's guaranteed that the system is empty and rusting, and the monitoring panels have cobwebs on them.

I've actually noticed that you can have an emergency situation (a "raging fire"), and then sure, people will listen to you about that particular problem, but if you ask them to pour a glass of water onto something that is "just smouldering" they'll laugh in your face for wasting their time. "Come back later if it's really on fire."
Dalle will do picasso by applying the adjectives representative of picasso
I share that sentiment. I've been practicing Competitive Programming off-and-on for some years now. I still struggle a lot with it. But sometimes I manage to come up with a nice solution, and that makes it all worth it to me.

When I make no progress at all, I take comfort in an anecdote I once read about the statistician Jimmie Savage [1]:

"Jimmie had what he called 'a long-standing neurosis about Pólya-Szegö' (the most famous and long-lived problem book in analysis). Even when he was working on his first (and major) book in Paris, he was spending evenings on that neurosis. 'Pólya-Szegö humiliates me', he wrote. 'I never really know what's going on, but I can now work quite a few of the problems and seem to learn thereby some things of general interest.'" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jimmie_Savage

[2] Quote from Paul Halmos's Automathography
> You can make it more likely to refuse a request but the idea that you can guarantee it won't is completely wrong.

Why is that the case, technically?
Plenty of apps are available in English outside the anglosphere. Seems like a US-centric oversight not releasing it to “the rest of the world” as usual.
I have the number of mail rules for the stuff like this. While you can do this in any client, I also keep thunderbird client open constantly on one of my media servers because it provides some features other rule machine engines do not, like an option to block by any header. I successfully blocked legitimate spam that way, the one that was somehow passing gmail. This works perfectly.

Another way is to use throw away email address per subscriber. You can for example use mailcare :)
Lots of people want to work remotely, and the pool of applicants for each job can be much larger because of the lack of geographic restrictions.

So you're facing more competition than you usually would for a fully office based job.
In Norway at least they don't have these connotations. We long had a "Norwegian Heathen Society", who a few years ago abandoned the name because it had long since become so uncontroversial it didn't serve a purpose any more.

Originally the point was to annoy christians - Norway had a state church and laws against blasphemy and they regularly tried, but consistently failed, to get charged for it (last time those laws had much of an effect was when Life of Brian was originally refused a rating out of concern it broke the law).

As a Norwegian, I wouldn't hesitate to call myself a heathen.
There is a feedback loop between accuracy of clocks and accuracy of charts. Measuring longitude requires an accurate clock on a ship, which can keep a reference time to compare with local solar time.

The obvious challenges include motion of the ship and huge ranges of temperature encountered on global voyages.

Britain invented the best maritime clocks by encouraging open competition for a large prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_rewards

See the book Longitude by Dava Sobel.

You can see John Harrison's chronometers at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich - on the top of a small hill in a park in south-east London. It really is amazing how the original desktop clock monsters were shrunk down to a pocket watch that had better accuracy.

Greenwich was the prime meridian because Britain invented the best clocks.
Show HN: 1K+ people joined it for free to getting worldwide remote job
Your original comment was about competition between browsers. For browsers to compete they don't all need to have their own browser engine written from scratch.

Web standards are not driven by one browser or one company. That would still be true if everyone based their browsers off of Blink.
Ask HN: Looking for a language that popped up here
Hey HN. I'm looking for a language that had a popular thread here maybe a few months ago. I forgot the name, but remember a few sparse details: every program having a unique ID (or something of that nature), it read a bit like JSON I think. Again, totally blanking on the details, but it was very cool and novel. It was in beta back then with a website showing examples. Any help?
> It reads like a good friend is trying to explain you something.

As the author of this document, I wanted to let you know that it made me happy to read this. Thank you for the kind words. :)
Dalle generate 10000 variants of this image might otherwise break the system
It's possible to enable compression for WebSockets, but the real problem is latency, not bandwidth. You can't fix the speed of light.
I am actually developing a platform to compete with pateon. And the author is quite naive in his complaints.

You cannot do business and be anonymous. The tax man would eat you alive. At least outside of USA. You also need a license as sole proprietor or be incorporated as a company in order to make repetitive sales and not one-offs. So again, no anonymity whatsoever.

"by works" payment model is illegal. You can receive donations or have subscriptions or pay per view but you cannot "maybe deliver", "deliver maybe one work, maybe ten". Again, illegal as fuck.

"Non quid pro quo patronage" - again, donations solve this. They are legal and easy without any hustle, as long as the payee is aware what is the purpose of that payment.

"api / audience relation system" - well, i am trying to run a business, why in the world would i give api access to third parties without being able to monetize it? each api call costs me resources. nothing is free. not to mention that giving access to api might go against my financial business altogether by moving some financial transactions out of my business into foreign business that is monetizing my api.

Author is very naive in his complaints in general. The red tape you have to go through these days for a simple(it's not a rocket science) website is astronomical. The technological issues(like finding a bank with an actual api that works and does not charge you per payment is close to impossible) too are unending hurdles being thrown at you form left and right and the bigtech-monopolized internet does not want you in it competing with their services or NOT using their services and infrastructure to build yours. You think streaming video is free? Try finding a place to host the video and send it over the network for amount that your income can cover and allow you still to make a profit. Good luck.

Yes, i have solved all these issues. But it is so damn hard, that these complaints don't even scratch the surface of how impossible it is to start something serious in this monopolized era of the internet and red tape. You just have no idea. You don't.
Well that's just going to fuel more conspiracy theories. Sigh.

It was amazing when states like PA were counting and clearly said results will change by the morning, and when that happened and people woke up to a different result they started crying conspiracy.

The election definitely wasn't rigged, but if it had been necessary to do so I would have supported it. Can't ever repeat the disaster we had from 2016 - 2022 again.
Where are we sonce those things happened? Thibgs havent really changed trajectory.
You buying new Macbooks for everyone? Where do I sign up?
GMT became the standard just because they did it first.

Sort of. Lots of countries used a local meridian as their 0 degrees reference for longitude. Then in 1884 there as the International Meridian Conference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere...) which chose Greenwich as the reference line. The same conference also voted to have midnight be the start of the day for astronomical and nautical purposes (instead of noon).

The French objected to using Greenwich and hung on to the Paris meridian until into the 20th century. But the practicality of lots of maps using Greenwich (because of Britain's naval power) swayed people to have Greenwich as the Prime Meridian.
Interesting story about the attempt to recover a sunken Soviet "boomer" sub and it's nuclear warheads in the deep Pacific Ocean.

New tech had to be invented...
How can the FCC not regulate this?
Asatro in many places has a strong negative connotation due to partially being coopted by racists. I've encountered more purported believers in Asatro who are neo-Nazi than not. They may well be a small minority for what I know, but they are vocal, and so it's a term that's tricky.
There are many occasions where there are completely legal reasons you need or want to transfer money that your government nevertheless does not want you to.

If you are innocent, but accused of a crime, paying a defense attorney is high on that list. The government attorneys would much prefer you not be able to do that.

Donating money to legal organizations that threaten the status quo is another case; you may remember the Wikileaks banking blockade, which happened without any charges being filed against anyone, in response to journalism that some people didn’t like.

The burden of proof for losing access to one’s electronic assets presently is approximately zero. It’s guilty until proven innocent. Proving one’s innocence, unsurprisingly, requires money.

In 2011 I gave a talk at the CCC about how censorship resistant payments are an essential prerequisite to a free society. If you lose the ability to make legal payments the state does not approve of, you lose your basic liberty. You may be interested in seeing it if you care about these things, which I of course think are relevant to everyone.

https://media.ccc.de/v/cccamp11-4591-financing_the_revolutio...
The email analogy for how the fediverse works could be extended to the design of clients.

The dominant paradigm (due to mastodon emulating twitter is the "timeline"). A major alternative mode of interacting with the fediverse could be a mailbox-like client.

Posts and threads of accounts and hashtags you follow would appear in the respective folders (boldface indicates new and unread).

The local and federated folders would offer the firehose view for those addicted to that.

In fact a sophisticated integrated client for email, rss and activitypub would be well placed to empower users manage their interaction with a re-decentralized web.

Hopefully the good people behind thunderbird, KDE apps etc have appetite to tackle this.
> but if it had been necessary to do so I would have supported it.

And this is not going to fuel more conspiracy theories, at all \o/
Depends heavily on the timescale. 0.1% slippage is irrelevant if you hold for years but a serious problem if you trade every hour.
Uh, no it’s not?

You can [and people do] use family names as an effective proxy for caste, and if you’re planning on discriminating on caste that’s more than enough. The Dalit's (in the case of Cisco) are not all the same "village" as the people they're claiming are discriminating against, and it's bizarre you would think that clusters of immigrants from a country of a billion people would magically already know each other.

I know of people who through marriage had their family name change from a lower caste to a higher one, and experience an immediate drop in questions of the “how could you get here?” Form.

More to the point: if it were already impossible to discriminate based on caste then this law would not impact anyone.
>Actually remove the staff that no one works to work with or who terrorize their subordinates and I'll know you're serious about performance.

Unfortunately, that sort of person is great at convincing managers that they're the top performing employee in the team, and it's better for the others to just put up with them.
Yes, right! Make sense. Without geographical restriction competition increased too much. But stil how one can stand out here? It's only selection based on technical expertise right?
Salmiak was sold as a powder in a tube as candy in The Netherlands ( at least in 70s and 80s ).
I wonder if the unions of america’s history with organized crime is to blame for its inability to be functional like german unions.
This summer in Austria was very unusual. From May to October it was continuously hot. Everything dried out except for the things that were watered continuously. Last winter we had basically zero snow in a country that makes a substantial amount of its income from winter tourism. There will be hell to pay if this doesn't stop.
Mormonism and scientology both have castes, albeit in varying forms of "ranking". A person of a lower rank is always subservient to the higher ranked version, which is castes.

There may be a degree of mobility between ranks, but mormonism at least makes it explicit that a black person for instance starts at a subservient rank, and can never reach the top rank, as that is reserved for white people.

Your position in a job, or the availability of that job, or housing, or in fact anything, should never be restricted simply due to some religious doctrine.
Unless you know what the rootcause is, no it won't. If it's a bug or some regulatory issue, that will likely carry over from AOSP to any derivatives unless they explicitly work around it.
Norway has plenty of stave churches older than 600 years, so a temple surviving 600 years would not be that surprising. With maintenance, wooden buildings can survive pretty much indefinitely, though in part because you can often replace part by part as needed.
What happens to be wrong is all relative to everything else wrong in the larger organization.

It's been my experience that a lot of an organization's internal messaging is crafted to be a distraction from either really bad stuff that is going on or simply because management can't or doesn't want to do productive work.

From that perspective, any dysfunction in a small team is inconsequential to the organization.

As a younger person that was the sort of stuff I fixated on, until I learned that the various very trusted professional corporate suit folks acting like HQ were doing illegal shit, destroying their families with workplace affairs, bullying everyone around them, and ruining other people's work.
If someone thinks they can have a competitive edge against existing market leader by 1) have an API 2) make UI faster, they probably lived in an echo chamber for too long and really need to spend more time with non-developer people.

Perhaps their other points are valid. Admittedly I don't know enough to tell.
Microsoft not using Blazor, their own technology, for their own websites? interesting.
this is another reddit. just with less functionality
In your opinion the two choices are "no documentation" and "badly-written documentation"?
When Siberia burned last year on the scale of multiplies of multiplies of whatever slivers of forest you have left in US no one gave a fcuk.

This all handwringing about forest fires in US is just so meh. Get a grip, look at the big picture. Stuff burns every year in such quantities, what that does burn in US can be ignored, it's just a rounding error.
what is the stupid law that forbids Dalle to paint like Picasso?
Or guerilla? :)
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
Afaik the photos weren't altered, it was just posing with paper cutouts.
Communism builds walls to prevent you from leaving and put you in labor camps if you refuse to do the work assigned to you. So they are not very comparable at all, consent makes a huge difference.
What would pain receptors be in a robot?

I ask this as I think the ethical dilemma should more about implementing suffering as a long term damaging effect of a stimuli.

When I think about pain I see it as a level that triggers a need to change something. Our brains are perceiving this level in a very uncomfortable way so we call this pain.

So I really think that without consciousness we cannot implement pain or suffering as we humans perceive it.
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It's difficult to find pictures of it, but this one is close to how I remember it: https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/b3/0d/94/b30d94aaec9669bc45fd0f23...
I think the real answer may be that patreon is, actually, a bad business; and that nobody has cracked microtransactions.

Separately, while Patreon's charging changes seem boneheaded, I'd guess at least a 50% chance that they weren't driven by stupidity but rather by a CFO having a come to jesus conversation with the e-team. Driven by the fact that microtransactions run on a credit card are tough.

Their giant raises make more sense if they were eating a ton of fees in an attempt to hold out for scale where enough people (eg I spend $20-ish/mo on patreon) charge enough money that the 5% covers the processing fees.
Yes - what I am saying is I prefer my E(X) of beta over maybe-alpha minus additional taxes.

(Assuming you meant indexes = beta... ?)
The xkcd reference was a joke used in the fail0verflow CCC PS3 presentation in 2010. I don't know what the reused nonce was but it probably wasn't 4, and the xkcd comic is from 2007.
The concern shouldnt be about where things are in the now, but how these things will eventually be adapted for similar purposes in the future.
You are not as important as you think you are.

Not all HN users are in America/Europe, stupidly ignorant about the rest of the world.

To us, Ukraine/Russia is the same old tiresome story.
Inane "AI" regurgitating what it is parsing from social media echo chambers as the epitome of "progress".

You cant blame algorithms. People will get the digital society they deserve. Unless they do something about it.

A sane online world will not materialize as a god-given present. It will the result of informed, enlightened and passionate people banging about the cause for as long as it takes.

The challenge is commensurate with any of the major civic struggles of the past.
> "by works" payment model is illegal. You can receive donations or have subscriptions or pay per view but you cannot "maybe deliver", "deliver maybe one work, maybe ten". Again, illegal as fuck.

How can Patreon allow it then? It's a real, existing thing. If you don't deliver, you don't get paid.