skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I see that clip what I’m left wondering is if there really are people that press the space bar eight times. I have no recent memory of any editor didn’t let me press the tab key and have spaces appear instead.
> It's very different from "a bogus project for the sole purpose of retaining some engineers" that OP theorized.

I mean, it's not like Google is inventing bogus projects in a top-down sense, with some middle-manager somewhere coming up with "private works projects" and staffing them with engineers Google wants to keep. Nobody is claiming that.

No, what the GP was proposing is that the projects are bogus in a bottom-up sense: they're projects that are entirely useless to Google's shareholders in both a short-term and long-term sense, but which the engineers really want to work on, and which at least aren't actively harming Google (or perhaps they are, but not as much as Google would be harmed if the same project were developed in the wild.) This is very different from "basic research" (Google X et al), which is useless in a short-term sense, but may yield large positive returns later on. These projects are bogus because the best-case scenario for them is no net effect on Google as a business. (They might have quite an effect on the the world, but if there's no way for Google to convert that effect into shareholder value: bogus.)

Fuchsia is a perfect case: at best, it replaces Android, for no net benefit to Google (since they already dominate the mobile ecosystem with Android.) But if the engineers working on Fuchsia couldn't work on it at Google, they'd have started a similar project outside Google... and then Google would be in the position of a non-Google-owned OS displacing Android's share of the mobile-OS market.

Much better that these engineers do something useless [from a business perspective] that merely keeps stable Google's share of a market, than that they do something that actively lowers Google's share of a market.
I disagree. If it was really $35k it would be an amazing buy.
No idea, either. This whole thread is being bombarded with downvotes.

Downvoters: Whatsup?
Yep, a truly Jack of All Trades, Master of None. And this is fine.
I seriously belive if work weeks were 4 days a lot of the world’s problems would be resolved.
There's a difference between having fun with someone, and making fun of someone. The Oatmeal consistently errs on the side of making fun of someone.

That's all I'm trying to point out. Its a bullying tactic that loses efficacy as people become aware of it. So awareness is important.
Electrical contact to molecules in semiconductor structures for the first time
Isn't your credit card information something that can be used to determine your identity?
hey there, nice write-up

two minor things that you might include are

1: rest in the context of function args

2: short circuiting: e.g. `isLoading && <Loading />`
Chihuly is a bit different from other artists that have art technicians make the work for them. Chihuly is a skilled glassblower as are the others on the team and they are all internationally recognized. Glassblowing is a craft so has a history of technical craftsmen.

Modern art does not have that craftsman history but is more known for the 'lone genius'. Public sculpture is a little bit different as it does often require access to industrial tools and materials. Tony Smith would sketch plans for his steel sculptures and send them to an industrial fabricator.
I very occasionally work with developers from places like Benin and Zimbabwe, so I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here.
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i think uber at least (not that i want to defend anything they do) is different, because they don’t have low rates to smother their competition; they have low introductory rates to attract riders and drivers to the service

unsure if that’s also predatory pricing? seems different to me
I've had acceptable results with GeoServer, OpenLayers, OSM, and PostGIS. I've occasionally done proof of concept work with Leaflet, but that's always turned into Google Maps eventually.

MapBox isn't perfect yet but I'm eager to see them deliver on engineering... it's been about a year since I've looked.
I have to eat surströmming once a year, preferably close surströmmingspremiären, which is the 3d Thursday in August.

Living in Stockholm, you call friends and relatives who like surströmming and set a date and time.

If you have neighbours from other cultures, it is adviced to set up a notice in the entrance. Otherwise they maybe will call for a plumber.

Everything that is present during a meal with surströmming will probably catch the smell. Therefore it is advised to not have your finest suit on. And the best way is to eat outdoors.

Eating outdoors could bring along insects to the table. To mitigate this you could pour some of the brine in a coup or two and set them some meters from the table and the insects gravitate to them instead.
Yes, this is a very good point -- you're on the clock as soon as you file your patent, so sponsors have an incredibly strong incentive to take risks with trial design and use surrogate endpoints rather than direct endpoints for the primary to cut down on time. Then it's really an educated guess (albeit a highly educated guess) for your Phase III trial design to balance out your market vs chances of proving efficacy.
Yeah, and zyklon B chambers were great for some people too.
The basic principle of the technique was
proposed almost 50 years ago by the physicist
Walter Hoppe, who reasoned that there should
be enough information in the diffraction data
to work backwards to produce an image of the
diffracting object.

This kind of statement just absolutely cracks me up, because it's a clear reveal that between this sort of awareness of diffraction principles, and concepts like pilot wave theory, that double slit experiments and entanglement haven't been mysterious for decades.

It's all just media manipulation. There are very firmly understood concepts backing all the mechanics of quantum effects, and the journalists that push the ambiguities are simply trolling would-be amateurs for to fan the flames of confusion as a sort of outsider performance art.
Some valid points, but misses one key point - when you have the data right in front of you, it's more difficult for the child to argue with it.
Currently it goes like this:
Mom: "No more Snapchat, you've been on it too much."

Kid: "I've only spent 2 minutes on Snapchat! You're so mean!"

Mom has no real way of telling if it's accurate or not, so it's then "Ok, just a few more minutes."

Now, mom can say "You've spent 2 hours on snapchat. Here's the proof."

Basically, parents now have more data and instead of saying "no more, because I said so" they have graphs to say "See? Too much time." Kids aren't always the best at estimating time, and showing them helps them learn and deal with it accordingly. How many times have you had kids say "Just 5 more minutes" that somehow turns into an hour?

Screen Time isn't a replacement for parenting, but can be a helpful tool in the toolbox for many parents.
> This company just wanted a direct drop-in replacement for Google Maps that didn't require running more of their own servers.

All the while complaining about how expensive Google has become.

Hosting OSM is definitely cheaper than Google Maps, but it's a little ironic that they didn't consider this alternative solution.
Due to their past and current behavior, I'm still anti-Microsoft. And I'm definitely anti-Google. Anti Apple, and Amazon, too.

Generally, I'm anti-lock down and anti-spying. I bet a lot of those old anti-MS people feel like I do.
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Nice writeup!

I wrote a tutorial that would be the next step to yours, called React From Zero[0] I try to teach React here with the basic JavaScript knowledge most people already have.

[0] https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero
I don't think this problem is "often ignored" as much as it is seen, rightly, as so difficult to be near unfeasible. And looking for intermediate fixes that can help many in the meantime is a reasonable strategy. Anything that would fix society at large, in a reasonable timespan (i.e. to help the people most afflicted) would by necessity require a legislative overhaul and/or massive reallocation of resources. There is no easy path to that.
have you driven any recent bmw with an automatic? the zf 8 transmissions are really nice and faster than the manual versions. dct equipped cars have also been faster than the manual versions for years. the only reason to drive a manual anymore is because you like shifting.
Absolutely insane.... 750k requests to 30k? I know its a business but wow. Just wow.
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The context switch isn't bad (admittedly it is more). The touch panel has almost everything you would want to do commonly in only two taps.

Navigation:

The cognitive load is very high on both vehicles. Using dials and buttons on my Audi is really hard and the maps are loaded with random icons and its a bit harder to parse where I'm supposed to turn next.

The voice directions work really well on the Model 3 since I assume it just pipes it to Google Maps. My Audi is terrible unless it is "home" or something obvious it wont misunderstand.

AC/Heat:

I have to look down for both cars. In my Audi, the physical buttons for the fan have digital displays for the speed and temp. So I have to look and read anyway.

Music:

There are next/previous and volume buttons on the wheel in the Model 3. No different than my Audi. Tapping the giant screen is definitely easier than tapping on my tiny iPhone screen like I currently do in my Audi.
The data is open and can be downloaded from the donation-run OpenStreetMap Foundation, and as long as you provide credits you are free to do anything with the data (commercial or otherwise), but if someone makes a custom style and creates tiles (images) from them, then those images are copyrighted.
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The automated systems have made flying safer at the same time creating a new danger that needs to be managed. It isn’t rocket science, like how self driving cars rarely get into accidents and when they do it’s news because the human driver wasn’t paying attention.

The bored pilot problem is only going to get worse as technology marches forward, even if the fatality rate keeps going down.
Evolutionary Algorithm Plays Atari Video Games Better Than Deep Learning
Hyper V is a type 1 hypervisor. It’s not a Windows hypervisor in any sense except that the license is bundled with Windows.
Also, to be fair, I ommited that Windows ships with JScript automation, which I believe has some esoteric debugger and GUI you can access by default.

And yeah... It's JavaScript! Kind of.
“Fingerprint” of humanity’s climate impact seen in the seasons
I once made a client bring a can from a visit to Sweden. Luckily it did not explode on board - I keep thinking what would have happened if the airline presented him a bill worth several millions with a nice letter stating that they tried every option to get rid of the smelly leftovers without any success... ;-)
We had a very funny evening (including some Aquavit) and built a good friendship on top of it. Surstromming actually does not taste foul, only strong.
"no one is forcing them to use the Google app store either."

Again, not a valid rebuttal. Just because someone doesn't have to use your product (and in this case, I would flat out disagree with your statement) does not mean you get to gouge them on the terms.
While I agree with the fact that the Enlightenment helped to get rid of some harmful superstitions, I think it also contributed to the mechanistic industrial mindset that ended up causing a lot of harm e.g. colonialism and eugenics.

Great list though, maybe add on reproductive justice and climate science.
I'm in my late 30s, worked in the tech industry since 1998, have no student debt (I didn't go to college), and married into a home :)
> It's all just media manipulation.

Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. [Hanlon]
There's a lot of variation in depression rates between countries so probably things can be done https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/11/07...
Check out TallyGo.com - SDK works like magic for all things mapping, including turn by turn...way easier to implement than mapbox and way better traffic, road network and turn by turn...cheaper too imho
At the time, Apple had the dominant smartphone, not Microsoft.
DCT Ford Focus was utter garbage for years. The only people who like that car (ie: me) are the people who got the manual version.

It probably was the poor low-end torque of their Ecoboost engine. Even in manual, I have to rev the engine high to keep 1st gear responsive. But the DCT gearbox doesn't allow that kind of slippage, its too quick for that.

There are definitely warts in DCT, at least in Ford's implementation. I like the idea of an automatic dry clutch, so hopefully Ford improves it. But alas, Ford has stopped selling sedans in the USA so I guess it doesn't matter.
Why is Google shooting itself in the foot? Customers demands Google search, they really don’t need to force anyone to include it. I see miniscual losss - if at all - if they just didn’t had these restrictions. This is likely the dumbest thing they have done in a while and now Pitchai is doubling down for no apparent reason or benefit. His language actually looks so Microsofty circa 2000.
Wow. Bullying? Raising awareness about the Oatmeal bullying non-electric car owners is a great way to dilute the concept of actual bullying to nothing. Sorry you're so offended.
Influx of foreign money is damaging empty property squatters? How; rather, it has been making them richer.

Vancouver has rather low wages; so why are people coming here at all? Basically just the mild climate and nature and greed fueled by the real estate boom.

Take away the real estate boom, and I think most of the problem will take care of itself.

If the world were to lose an interest in Vancouver and people moved away, that would be great; for that, I'm willing to take a loss on my property value; it would be worth it.

What's a hundred grand or two, if it makes all the greedy people go away, and allows the place to be livable once again by people like, oh, school teachers. (Who wants their kids instructed by someone who is stressed out, living hand to mouth?)

I hope this market crashes and all the greedy scum lose their money. I'm willing to go down with them; I have the income to weather it. Those who don't can go back wherever the heck they came from and go back to doing whatever it was before they thought they would gamble on Vancouver at the expense of the long time locals.

I look forward to going a little bit out of town and finding free picnic tables, low crowds on popular hikes, easy to get camp ground spots and so on.

We should re-start the stock exchange; if someone wants to gamble in Vancouver, and the River Rock Casino isn't enough, give them pump and dump mining stocks, and keep them out of housing.
Lower-cost electronics, mostly, and toys. So: memory cards, USB and power cables, batteries, etc. That's all stuff I now buy at Best Buy. I've purchased my last 3 TVs from Best Buy; and generally any purchase that I need to play with before fulling the trigger, like cameras.

Also: anything food-related that's by a major brand (like Oxo or Rubbermaid) I buy from a local store, as a lot of the Chinese Alibrands don't comply with FDA requirements but are advertised as if they were.
Or more that they're likely useless from a shareholder perspective, but have a small chance of paying off in a large way, and worst-case keep the engineers occupied & employed at the company.

Google doesn't generally allow projects that everyone knows have zero chance of being useful in a bottom-line sense; you can't, for example, build a D&D campaign index on company time even if you're T9. (There was a big debate over this near the tail end of the Eric Schmidt years, when you actually could, and this was one reason for Larry's "More wood behind fewer arrows" campaign.)

But for something with a small chance of having a large impact, like a new OS or programming language or attempt to speed up scientific progress? Google can totally get behind that, because worst-case, you keep the engineers employed and available for future use, while best-case, you've got a computer science breakthrough. Fuchsia fits right into this case, as does Dart and Go and Unladen Swallow and several other projects.
I don't see why we'd owe each other that much here as opposed to everywhere else in our lives.
And for OpenStreetMap, the cost might be negligible depending on how often you want updates and how large an area you want to cover: for a small area, you can generate tiles once a year or so and just have static hosting serve them up.

According to another comment in this thread who hosts a tile server him/herself on DigitalOcean, that costs about $40. Doesn't seem terrible even for a startup, either.
Almost every conversation I've had with someone working at a startup in this city inevitably turns to the "so, are you worried Google will simply start offering your service for free?"

I remember like 3 or 4 years ago having this conversation at a hackathon with a bunch of "Machine Learning" / "Sentiment Analysis" APIs present... right as google started offering both for free on their cloud platform.
Drew was asked to leave cruise before the GM acquisition by the other executives. He was gone before the final demo and wasn’t involved in the negotiations.
True. But Microsoft was coming. They were not yet clearly a loser in phones.
We're talking about how it feels to drive one so no.

Come back when you've taken a test drive. They're free.
Quoting from your link: "We recorded the outcomes as close to 8 weeks as possible for all analyses. If information at 8 weeks was not available, we used data ranging between 4 and 12 weeks (we gave preference to the time point closest to 8 weeks; if equidistant, we took the longer outcome)."

By no means does that say anything about the "long term" effects.
Surprise Top sites still fail at encouraging non-terrible passwords
If they're living in SF, they can vote in local elections. If they don't live in SF, they shouldn't be able to; unless you're advocating for overturning centuries of how voting is conducted.
It seems remarkably naive to assume a high quality business that is obviously expensive to run would remain free.
My understanding is that AU is measured from the center of the sun / object. Google tells me that the radius of the sun is ~0.0046AU (1/215th of an AU).
I agree that sensors are easier with Micropython and will use that if I can (unfortunately the C++/Arduino ecosystem is much, much larger). However, type hints are a fantastic feature and I can't recommend them enough to anyone who writes software for a living. It makes maintenance at least an order of magnitude easier.
I'm not really a fan of GDPR actually. I think advertising has its place, and the more targeted it is, the better the results for everyone. The worst thing that people can point to that this kind of advertising has caused is fake news on Facebook, which is more of a problem with America's campaign financing (non)restrictions than anything (and probably the fact that the candidate who used it was quite anti-establishment).

What the internet is missing though is an alternate funding mechanism. When I visit a site I indirectly give the owner something like $0.002 (0.2 cents) worth of bucks from advertisers who show things to me. Why can't I just pay the website that as a microtransaction directly? Transaction fees would eat it all - but aggregated enough, and perhaps as part of a $10/month 'internet content subscription', it could work in the way that Spotify does.
Before age 25, the part of your brain responsible for evaluating consequences hasn’t fully developed.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...
The linked paper discusses the idea of an insurance market for property values.

Somehow, prior to 1970, housing was a home and not an investment. I'm not entirely sure what happened to change it.
And that's the issue the EU is having. Play Services is pretty much essential to having a successful smartphone product in much of the world (at least the US and the EU). Many, many Android apps are only distributed through the Play Store, and many of those rely on Google Play Services. So trying to ship a phone in those markets without Google Play Services is a non-starter. Google knows this, and so they have added anti-competitive restrictions to that contract. That is the behavior the EU is objecting to.
Blocking the search function in robots.txt may help as well.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search

Disallow: /search
One or two have. Most Android OEMs aren't making that much money, if they're making any at all.
> American to believe in self-sufficiency and to minimize the role of luck

Not at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#/media/File:Th...

If you multiply inequality times lack of social mobility, US scores at the bottom across developed countries.
An underused source of innovation – regular people's problems
Oh I certainly don't see you doing that, that was why I said "I don't think we have any points of contention left to argue over." It's rather unfortunate that in a textual medium, tone must be inferred from prose. I just wanted to add a bit of extra color.
And maybe we can teach children that it's possible to avoid the eternal pursuit of the next thing, that buying stuff doesn't bring happiness and joy.
I wonder when we realize that, whoever the current big guy is, having a single company be the big guy means they can pull this kind of crap. There are two ways to avoid this: have multiple good options at any given time (and make it easy to switch), or have a non-commercial entity be the main source of data. My inner hacker wants the latter, but I guess either would be okay.
I don't know if they are better off or not, but several years, at least, is what I thought of when I read the original poster refer to "long term".

I do not consider 8 weeks to be "long term".
This is bad design on the OP's part.

I hail from hardware where, for instance, Apple chooses 3 providers for it's SSDs (SanDisk, Samsung, Intel, ...) to shield itself from price gouging, supply issues with any single party, business concerns, etc..

However, I routinely see entire companies based on single providers despite choice existing in the marketplace. The OP should have designed their service around multiple mapping providers from the get go, if a serious business relied on mapping
Only for nix -- for the Mac, it's using native widgets, if I'm not mistaken:

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/gui/maco...

(Which is pretty damning -- they already had a Qt implementation, but would rather do real native!)
> they don’t have low rates to smother their competition

Whether their competition is Lyft, Taxis, or public transportation, their subsidized pricing is a big factor to their customers.
>there seems to be no obvious way to suggest missing destinations.
Unless Maps.Me use their own database for business listings, you just edit the map directly from openstreetmap.org or one of the many fat client map editors that are out there.
Lucky...
a bit off-topic, it's funny you use all this fancy technology behind the scenes and your iOS app is buggy, slow and always problems with login and notifications which do not update.

TLDR; Awful