skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia is similar, howeve, irrespective of how perfect your national addressing standards are, companies ingesting this data providing any sort of to-the-premise service still have to mash and clean and dissect it to fit whatever legacy system they are running.

I am aware of one utility provider that is locked into a custom network modelling solution that was officially sunset in 2014 and employs 3 ftes to manually create and delete addresses because the old address import tool broke.
Snap judgement? I cite my phone call scenario, which this parallels.

Should I.. what? Call back and see if they laugh and say "Oh no, we're not really used car salespeople, what was a just a good joke!". Why would I, or anyone do that? Yet this is apparently a "snap judgement" and "not thinking" to you?

So why would I spend time trying to determine if the people which purposefully acted as scam artists and clickbait boneheads on websites, are actually playing a joke? What's in it for me? As I said, I'd have to do this for every single clickbait website.

I don't read clickbait websites, and I'm not going to take the time to see if it was all a big jolly joke.
> why do diamonds cost so much when they're just old rocks?

Seriously? Economics 101: supply and demand. Or is this a rhetorical question, with some kind of social justice slant?
Paid. You can't add images to documents unless you pay, is this correct?
It depends how you define "pause" but no, modern GCs like ZGC and Shenandoah are universally agreed to be pauseless. The work done at the start/end of a GC is fixed time regardless of heap size and takes less than a millisecond. At that speed other latencies on your system are going to dominate GC unless you're on a hard RTOS like QNX.
Isn’t the headline a little click-baity? He got 24 years because of embezzlement. Sure it was because he fell for a crypto scam, but he stole the money…

Maybe it’s just me, but I was thinking he did it by accident.
If anybody thinks this is too harsh a punishment for being a retard who fell for an obvious scam, note that he wasn't merely a retard but a thief as well. If he had only given the scammer his own money he wouldn't be faced with this prison time, but the absolute idiot went and stole other people's money and gave it to the scammer.
> Luna is now Enso. Following a couple of years of going by Luna, we were facing issues that were making it difficult for us, and people looking for Luna. Luna is a popular term, and in programming-language land, is also very close to the popular language Lua, an endless source of confusion.

https://medium.com/@enso_org/enso-dev-blog-19th-june-2020-33...
Xi has been in power for 12 years now, and he hasn't started a single war yet. Meanwhile, how many wars has the US fought in the same timeframe?
> if you embed your API key in your client code, anyone with access to that site can steal your API key and use it to make requests on your behalf.

Great. Anyone know a search engine to find these 'free usage' keys?
I like this rebuttal. It disentangles data from interpretation and knowledge. This distinction helps us to solve problems associated with data and is a core tenet of science and problem solving.

Increasing the amount of generated data and not jumping to conclusions at the same time is how we avoid getting stuck in misconceptions or plain ignorance.
The idea that airlines can pressure captains in to doing _anything_ is terrifying and should be utterly outlawed.
> I'm in the process of applying for the Broadcastify Calls API which should give me access to real time feeds

I'd be really interested to hear how you get on with this - I've been wanting to add these kinds of feeds to https://ambiph.one but it looks like they're not issuing new licenses for the feeds and the Calls API looks like it's write-only from the docs?
I can't wait to have Kagi/Orion browser available in my laptop (already in my iphone, SUPER!)
> If the government decided that it does want to do this, it can't just pass a law that says "the PAF is now free" without paying hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation to Royal Mail.

You can pass the law, get sued and pay whatever the PAF is worth. But that's just.. fair? The govnerment spent 5 mio just for a survey concluding that it's impossible to recreate the PAF. So hundreds of millions sounds like a good deal.
CORS - or specifically, not permitting cross-origin requests by default - is for preventing CSRF, cross-site request forgery. In particular if the user's credentials (cookies) are passed along with a request to a third party site, then the first party site can act as the user with the user's authority. In other words, evil.com could e.g. send emails on your behalf by making direct requests to your email provider's web interface.
HolmesGPT – The Open Source On-Call/DevOps Agent
c.f. "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences" (https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf)
He used his authority at the bank to induce bank employees under him to break the banks own rules and policies. I do wonder if some of them suspected but decided to give their idiot boss enough rope to hang himself with...
The problem isn't so much "falling for the scam", as "stealing from the bank".

Even if, for example, you find a loophole that allows you to make 100% guaranteed money, the deposits of the bank belong to the bank, they are not the personal funds of the CEO.

Like, putting money in treasuries is basically 100% safe. It's fine for the bank to put the money in treasuries and profit. It's highly illegal for the bank CEO to take 20 million from the bank, use it as personal funds, buy personal treasuries, and then put the money back.

The title makes it sound like the problem was that he was an idiot and fell for a scam. The true problem was that he misappropriated bank funds in the process of doing so... and if there's any one person you should expect to understand that line, it would be the CEO of a company (or I guess CFO if you have to pick one, but if you pick two it's CFO and CEO)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327430
Globalisation is not dead, but fading 'glocalisation' is becoming new mantra
So many Australian sites use some data source that has an old name for the building I'm in, and sites are so convinced their address databases are right that I can't do anything about it! Mildly frustrating
"The government are going to reintroduce ID cards! Panic!"
prev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314542
No I didn't research it, and I was speaking in general terms about these kinds of features. Plus, with the backlash against this thing, one could have safely assumed there were big issues with it as there always is.

Thanks for the links and the info, but I still believe it'll pan out in a very specific way. Time will tell I guess.
If you drop a pin in google maps it shows you the lat/lon,

e.g. 51.5010392, -0.1423616

7 decimal places of lat/lon is approximately a centimetre.
here's one or two

shr ecx, 1
lea eax, [rcx + 1FC00000h]
shr eax, 1
add eax, ecx
Maybe http://0x80.pl -- this site features mainly SIMD/SWAR code.
An existence that mistakenly took fundamental reality to consist of point particles instead of fields. But we still found out about fields and quantum mechanics.
Grifter gonna grift and felon going to felon, I guess, but I really wonder what the FEC and the SEC will have to say about this one.

Also, to make this at least vaguely tech related, would the Haskell signature look something like this?

trump :: MorallyBankrupt a => a -> Maybe (FinanciallyBankrupt a)
Why should we believe this theoretical approach is more accurate than the 30 meters believed to have been the limit for diving?
I don't know about you, but if the CEO came to me and said "send all the money to my bank account" [0] at most companies I'd expect there to be a policy where I check that the CFO at least knows about it. Maybe informally send him a Slack message even. CEOs aren't gods, there are limits on what they can do.

It seems a bit wild that this wouldn't be immediately picked up by the executive team, payments halted and the CEO fired over the course of 4-8 hours. So quickly that there is basically no crime and nothing to prosecute. This crime was exactly the sort of things banks are designed not to do.

[0] In this case it was a couple of payments, but sending bank money to a private account is a red flag. We're talking blood red, rose red, angry-bull red red flags. It isn't a minor request.
Technoliberalism
The article claims the bank's losses were insured by the federal government, yet it closes by saying some people that banked there are having financial trouble.

How's this work? Aren't the bank's losses essentially people's deposits? Where'd the insurance money go then, or has it simply not yet been paid out?
That's just not true. The most exported high speed train is the Siemens Velaro which has motors along the whole train. And multiple units are very common in regional and suburban trains, S Bahn style services.
Simple, if you have an iframe pointing to http://foo.test/deletesite.php, without cors that request will be done, with cookies and everything, without the user being aware of it.
I feel the same. I have "only" about 15 years worth of mail in Thunderbird but I am getting increasingly tired of working with the GUI, at least for reading and searching historical mail.

One of these days I will convert my mbox mail to Maildir and try out notmuch.
CORS is designed to protect the server data. It's a tool that gives servers a control mechanism to tell browsers "who can access my data".

Imagine that your banking website used a standard JSON+REST API with cookie based authentication to trigger & validate a transaction request.

When a request to `fetch` or XMLHTTPRequest is made from ANY site, the browser will still populate cookies for 3rd party sites.

So without CORS, then someone might be able to create a landing page, which in the background triggers a `fetch` or `ajax` request to your bank's transaction endpoint. For 99.999% of people this wouldn't be effective because they are probably not a customer of this bank and are not logged in at the time of the request. But for some very tiny fraction of users, the browser would be tricked into populating the Cookie header from a previously created session in a different tab and would send this request.

The Origin header in the CORS preflight is a signal from the server to the browser that 'yes, this request is safe for you to construct'. This way the browser doesn't let the malicious web page "trick it" in the first place to send the bad request.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
Fun fact: the word Νερό (nero) means water in greek. The actual meaning is fresh (I think it's the source of the word "new" too). It turns out, that many years ago you meant something else than fresh water by saying just water, so you have to be specific when you're talking about fresh water. In ancient greek water is ὕδωρ (hudr, think hydro, water) and fresh water is νεαρὸν ὕδωρ (neron hudr). Sometime in the past, the ancient Greeks were sick of saying 2 words to say water. So they dropped the second one.

Something similar happens with GPS coordinates. People are just saying GPS when they mean coordinates. even though the logical thing to do is drop the GPS (neron) and just say coordinates (hudr).

Personally, I think that language is just a bunch of symbols that have no real meaning. Each symbol means something only in a context, no matter how broad or specific. I would argue that it doesn't matter which word is more logical to use because logic is just a part of the context.

But you are right.
I am an ex-physist who stopped after his PhD in particle physics. I love physics but while money does not bring happiness, it is better to cry in a Mercedes than on a bike (this is not true, I just laughed when I first read it).

I went through the stages of OP (on a way smaller scale, I do not have his experience) and I think this is awesome. You continuously go from "oh yeah, now I get it" to "crap". This always have you on the bleeding edge between "this si physics, I know that" and "yes, but what if...". To me this is the essence of knowledge though curiosity.

I started my PhD on a specific topic and at some point I was a bit stuck (not panic mode stuck but pissed off stuck). I had dinner with a friend, we were discussing about my work (she is also a physicist) and she off-handly suggested something. And bam! my world changed. The direction of the thesis changed. I added an extra thesis director because what I was about to do was a world where the hands of men did not step on yet.

I thanked her profusely for her help in the thesis and suggested a joined publication (which she did not want to take because she was not interested and asked me to stop stalking her :))

And this is how science moves: because of eureka moments under the shower or at dinner or because someone thought "hmmm..." (looking at you Nikola Tesla).

So the fact that this guy doubts about what the world is, and that he is a theoretical physicist (so hopefully will not switch to some insanities) is awesome.
We have one of the most expensive property markets in the world. An apartment is still possible for under a million however. The median for homes last I looked was due to, or had breached 1.6 million AUD with apartments at a median in the mid 800k AUD range.

Whether or not said apartment is suitable for solar however is not guaranteed. You need both a balcony large enough and in a position to capture the sun. Both things likely to push you towards the higher end of the market at 700-800k.

“Just like last year, Australia's largest capital city ranked as the second least affordable major property market in the world. With a staggering median multiple of 13.8, typical Sydney homes cost about 13 times the average household's annual income.”
I remember asking a USGS person about this. They remarked that the other difference was that, compared with the OS, the USGS data was a bit rubbish (I may be paraphrasing).

The USGS is funded by some shard of the US federal budget, and does commendably good stuff with the budget it gets; it's there for both high-minded and commerce-supporting reasons. The OS is now (in a sequence of reorganisations from 1990 to 2015) a private company with a government-owned golden share, and is expected to be revenue-positive. The fact that it has more money per square metre of country, means that it's able to be _very_ thorough, mapping down to the level of individual bits of street furniture.

Sidenote: the context I was hearing this included a talk by someone from OS describing using reasoning software to do consistency checking of their GIS: for example, if you find a river bank in the middle of a field, something has been mislabelled. I thought that was cute.

When you buy a data product from OS, you're buying some subset of the layers of the database.

As the other reply pointed out, some of these layers are available for free, and in the last few years there's been some review/churn/debate in the data subsets made available that way (I see there are more details on the Wikipedia page). One can form a variety of opinions on whether those subsets are as big as they could or should be, but there does seem to be a substantial point that the level of the detail in the master map is there because it's profitable for the company (and thus income-generating for the government) to develop it from surveys, and it wouldn't exist otherwise.

I think the Met Office is organised in a similar way.

There are a number of questions of principle and practice here, but the OS seems to me to be claimable as an example (rare, in my opinion) of a privatisation which has produced net positive outcomes.
>Maybe it's a translation issue: for locomotive I mean a both a dedicated wagon with no passengers and a single or two wagons with motors and passengers while all the others have no motors are just pushed/pulled by the "locomotive".

That's exactly what a locomotive is. The shinkansen trains don't have them. All the cars have motors and propel themselves.

>The issues with passengers is that you need to move them everywhere at every time, and a country is not few large (and unsustainable) cities sucking the entire country resources just to stand.

What are you talking about? Cities are very sustainable, that's why humans have been building them and living in them for thousands of years now. Cities are the engines of any modern economy. And no, you don't need to move passengers 24x7; most people sleep at late hours so you can shut things down at those times and let the few people who need to travel use other means.

>Consider a thing: having cars, buses, metro, trains means under-utilizing all

What are you talking about? Trains and buses here in Japan are not under-utilized at all. Cars are, but that's a problem everywhere and one of many reasons people shouldn't use them so much.

>the transportation future is by air

No, it really isn't, thanks to basic physics. Maybe if someone invents a low-energy anti-gravity device.

Anyway, WTF is your point with all this? You just seem to be rambling with no point.
They'll schedule it by default and often argue with parents who try to cancel it. It's about money for the hospital and they don't care about the suffering it causes, nor the completely unnecessary financial burden it places on young families.

For them to be so soulless when it concerns infants, you can be sure they aren't any better when they're just dealing with adults. Greedy psychopaths are overrepresented in the medical industry.
In his defense, given that the entire banking industry has become a scam, it can be difficult to see where the line is.
We've even had word processors for over 40 years, why would we suddenly need mouse support to write rich text?

Editing rich text without mouse has always been a thing, Markdown isn't something that suddenly created some fancy new rich text without mouse experience.
If you are worried about somebody reading what you do on your computer, you should to use full disk encryption (I consider it a requirement these days). There are a lot of things besides recall that can be compromised if somebody gets physical access to your machine.
Breaking Changes: A Tooling Problem
A great question that I came across in Hypothesis Driven Development a long time ago: Should you use Frequentist Statistics or Bayesian Statistics? It's relevant when you do A/B or Multivariate Testing.

As it was very difficult for someone like me without higher stats or math education, I can highly recommend the following additional sources:

- https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(21)03256-9/ful...

- https://amplitude.com/blog/frequentist-vs-bayesian-statistic...

- https://indico.cern.ch/event/568904/contributions/2651065/at...
Haven't looked at the workings exactly, but this can sometimes be a deliberate choice to weight the options. A number property could work, but alas. Easier to yank and paste.
And a phone number in the case of both google and discord.

It is deranged that requiring a phone to access a website is seen as a non-issue, I agree.
> In absolute, changing diet is not inherently hard : it's pretty easy to eat a balanced diet and get pleasure from it.

But even a balanced diet can let you put weight if you eat too much.

We know genetics disorder like Prader-Willis can cause insatiable appetite. Even with a "balanced diet" those affected by it will end-up obese.

Now the current research on GLP-1 hint at many people having a harder time feeling satiated, not to the Prader-Willis point but still worse than what is considered normal. For people who don't have the problem it is easy to think they just have more discipline / willpower and that's why they're thin. I'd like them to imagine what would happen if after eating 2 or 3 pizza slices they'd still feel like their stomach is empty. What if it's not a one time occurrence but all day every day from the moment they develop a conscience to their death bed. A little like drug addiction but you need some drug to live so it is legal and you can buy it everywhere. Still think you'd have the discipline to not go for the whole pizza?
13 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41323716
> Deposits are insured up to at least $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/faq
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As I said, I think the idea is good, not the implementation that relies on Microsoft's servers.
US employment falls by 818,000 in latest government revision
Eircodes also aren't used by An Post, to add insult to injury.

> The worse issue is that there's no way to just send someone out to check, because the eircode isn't like a house number that's posted somewhere. (Leaving aside the problem that valid Irish addresses can have no numbers outside of the eircode, and eircodes are a recent, and therefore non-traditional addition)

The HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) National Emergency Operations Centres (NEOCs) have a GIS package that resolves Eircodes (and other traditional and colloquial addresses) to actual buildings and building entrances in real-time, which actually quite impressive. The directions can be transmitted to ambulances and other assets in real-time and has reduces delays in clinical services due to address confusion enormously since 2016.

So the country is capable. Eircode is what we chose as a country, not what we were limited to.
Bad idea to lick your fingers when leafing through Aristotle's lost treatise on laughter.
This also leads to some very interesting issues, as third parties who automatically ingest the data have a habit of just reading the docs and making the wrong assumptions about what it means in reality.

One example I often encounter myself is Google Maps trying to geolocate my address (city, street name, house number), and then reverse-geolocate that into my postcode. Which sounds like it would work - until you realize that the postcode polygons can overlap. I live in a building where (roughly) each floor has its own postcode, so whenever I try to fill in my address on a website which uses Google's API, it'll "helpfully" auto-fill or "correct" my postcode from 1234AB to 1234AZ. It'll essentially pick a random postcode, because all of them share the same coordinates!

That's Really Really Bad, because the postcode plus house number combination is supposed to uniquely identify a mailbox: it's only a matter of luck that the house numbers aren't reused in the set of postcodes used for my building. They could've just as well reused the numbers at the individual building entrances...