skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next time they better talk to experts for their own sanities' sake...!

> We set the interpolation process running in QGIS on a Mac Pro and, a mere 11 days later, found ourselves the proud owners of a raster 250m2 grid layer

Probably done in minutes to hours with a properly setup PostGIS database and one query. "Data Journalists" seem to love it when things take long, thinking they are doing something super innovative and novel. Often it's just that they were using the wrong hammer...

> 1. Don’t use GeoTIFFs for geometric visualization

What? I am not sure what exactly the image is supposed to show but it seems like some rescaling/filtering. Not the fault of GeoTIFF.

Why not render the raster tiles locally? gdal2tiles or Tilemill can do that for you.

Why does Mapbox recommend LZW for compression? DEFLATE is usually much smaller and with the horizontal differencing predictor it should be even more smaller.

> 2. Your GeoJSON can probably be way smaller

Does Mapbox not support TopoJSON? That helps a lot for local data with quantisation.

> Because nothing in GIS is straightforward, attempting to round the values of 2.7m polygons using the field calculator in QGIS invariably resulted in the application crashing, even on a high-end Mac Pro. After several attempts using QGIS 2.16, 2.18 and 3.2,

Did they ask the community or even just provide a bug report? This should not happen from a QGIS fault.
If Portland, Oregon is any indication, you forgot the military veterans segment of the homeless community.
Really? I don't like to fetch water from a lake every day to my house. Instead of using technology to bring water to my house, what lifestyle changes or hard choices should I rather make?
Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do
> For example, Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a professor at Stanford and the Chief Scientist at Google. The professorship is orders of magnitude more prestigious than the Google thing.

By what measure? She was the chief scientist of which there is only one but there are many professors at Stanford. She's not just any professor though: she's also the director of the AI lab which you could argue is more prestigious but I don't see why you would consider a "regular" professor title to be more prestigious than a chief scientist who managed a large number of researchers.
The way the article is describing millennials is from someone who has an outsiders view and a poor understanding. The things millennials do are not because millennials have wildly different values, they're because the world changed. Everyone in business learned giving pensions, training people and retaining people doesn't pay off. The post-ww2 bubble of prosperity has let out its air. That environment no longer exists. At this point you've got to have a good reason to commit to working in a dwindling market, for example being ordered to in the military.

The only thing mainframe shops have to learn from Facebook et al is how to do large scale services without mainframes and cobol etc. They've already got the "let's overstate our talent pool problems because we want cheaper workers" part figured out, it seems.
They DO horizontally scale, just not very cheaply. Reliability above all else is their advantage. There is an entire internet between you and a "5 9s" cloud provider that can screw you.

side note; I HATE the trend in the level of abstraction away from hardware. Seems about as short sighted as GP doctors abstracting away human anatomy. They mostly treat illnesses and proscribe medication; why should they need to know the names of bones in a human body? There are orthopedic specialists for that!
Music for Spaceports is really awesome! Love the Brian Eno reference. If you had the ability to have different timbres I think it could be even better.

Thanks for sharing!
String Bending for Beginners – The Blogging Musician
Using https://tools.pingdom.com/
A random medium article

https://medium.com/s/story/the-rise-of-anti-notifications-6c... 1.1MB 51 requests

Parent article 26kb 4 requests.

Both actually load quickly on a fast connection particularly with adblock. Sadly not everyone has a fast connection.
I don't think I agree.

This wasn't anything new for most people who knew just a little bit about how FB worked for 3rd parties.

What changed was Trump. Had this been Hillary we wouldn't been talking about it at all and I am pretty sure FB wouldn't have been called to the hearing.

So I would say it's mostly a media driven thing but of course don't have any final proof. Just pretty sure it wasn't the privacy part that was the problem but rather Trump.
"Driverless car" is probably not the outcome for autonomous vehicles. At one end of the scale, cities will use road space vastly more efficiently with optimized vehicles for groups of riders, and at the other end of the scale, short-haul air travel will be challenged by door-to-door 150mph+ highway vehicles. None of these will look much like a personal car, and only the wealthy will consider owning one that will become rapidly obsolete and have a meagre duty cycle a sensible idea. For many people the answer will be a bicycle because the roads will become a safe place for cycling.
that's funny, i'm a so-called millennial and all it took me to like embedded programming was hearing an older developer tell me all about its limitations.
My Last Google Search Ever – Hacker Noon
> but all the people who are barely making it who's lives fall apart if something on their car breaks.

Maybe people need to take personal responsibility and not spend money as if the government will make things easier for them and solve all problems. I am not claiming this is possible for everyone there are truly people who need help. But the vast majority of people can try to live in a way that they can have personal transportation (which has been around how long now?) and is reasonably enough priced currently.

Separately back before autos wouldn't people have had the same issue with horses or with even machines that they needed to run their lives or their business? Isn't it part of being human to plan for breakdowns of various things that you need that you can plan around failure?
> Automotive industries never had problems with attracting taxpayer’s money.

I wasn't aware that the government is funding self driving car development. Do you have a source?
You want a mainframe if you want your system designed by engineers and not web developers.

The IBM mainframe system is called "Z" for zero downtime.

Banks and Airlines use systems that haven't needed to be rebooted in decades.

(This is a little oversold, but that's the selling point.)
No, compression is disabled by default. You can enable compression either on the storage layer, or by enabling batching and compression on the sequencer, or by using the buffered write API with compression on the client.
Microphone and camera quality is very important for some of my side projects, and professional-grade equipment can add up quickly in price, volume, and weight.

I'm not spending $1000 on a phone, I'm spending $1000 on a very small and portable (admittedly not quite pro-level) video camera that works well enough in a wide range of light conditions and noise environments.
The thousanders are up there?
Benjamin Rush successfully pursued a libel claim against a man who wrote that his bloodletting killed more patients than it ever helped. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1312212/

> Rush continued to advocate his depletion therapy during the yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia in 1794 and 1797, although his reputation and practice were already waning. By 1797, William Cobbett, the satiric journalist who frequently targeted Rush, was in full cry. He reviewed the 1793 bills of mortality for Philadelphia and showed that the mortality rates increased significantly following the institution of Rush's remedies. He characterized Rush's work as “… one of those great discoveries which have contributed to the depopulation of the earth.” When Rush referred to calomel as the “Samson of medicine,” Cobbett wrote:

>> Dr. Rush in that emphatical style which is peculiar to himself calls mercury the Samson of medicine. In his hands and those of his partisans it may indeed be justly compared to Samson: for I verily believe they have slain more Americans with it than ever Samson slew of the Philistines. The Israelite slew his thousands, but the Rushites have slain their tens of thousands (28).

> Rush sued Cobbett for libel in 1797. The case dragged on for 2 years, probably due to political maneuvering by Rush's enemies. Cobbett was found guilty and fined $5000 (later reduced to $4250), at the time the largest award ever made in Pennsylvania. The damage had long since been done, however, and Rush's practice had vanished by 1797.
Un, speak for yourself...I SO MUCH need a car that'll do 0-60 in 1.9 seconds. If you can find a car in that price range that can actually do that,
please let me know.
Yes. I don't live in the states. I travel nearly non-stop. I was sick to handle literally dozens of SIM cards and go through the possibly painful registration process in many countries abroad. Cheaper Google Project FI Phones were sold out. So I coughed up nearly 1k for a Pixel One 64 GB google project fi phone.

Otherwise a 200 Dollar phone is likely more than enough. Actually, since I buy laptops used, my phone nearly costs three times as much as my refurbished dell XPS 14"
Depends on your area. I live in a small town and there just aren't that many people you can meet. Maybe there's an online mentoring site to connect people out there?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I don't know what the "research scientist" ladder looks like but "senior" is the median grade of software engineers. Half of SWEs are Senior or higher.
I think the competition for cars are not high speed lines, but normal, everyday commuter trains.
I see a lot of complaints here about the size (trend) and lack of smaller, SE-like option. But if product cycles really do take around 3 years (from conception to release), then 2019 might be the year. The SE was released in 2016 and was supply-constrained for quite a while. Obviously this is pure speculation but if Apple was sufficiently surprised by its success, maybe they decided in that year to "completely re-imagine" (sorry :) that form factor. And retiring the SE this cycle, given the apparent absence of good alternatives in the Android camp, might store up some demand to boost next year's sales. Like I said, pure speculation, but I wouldn't give up hope just yet.

[addendum: I'm just listening to the latest ATP podcast episode to put myself to sleep, and lo and behold John Siracusa takes pretty much the above position while Marco Arment takes the opposite side. So now they've got a bet going on. Fun little coincidence. Check out the podcast if you don't know it yet, it's right in the ballpark for people who would comment on this article.]
I'd like to join in on the bikeshedding mass transit into solar-powered self-driving car-apartments that can always drive anywhere with no congestion for free, need no maintenance, and aren't controlled by a monolithic entity with an abysmal reputation for profit over users.

Mass transit is expensive, boring, and thankless. How many bus companies have ever applied to YC?
Do you rally need a $1000:
-pair of shoes?
-pants?
-tshirt?
-jacket?
-pen?
-<add our own>?

No you definitely don't need. You want!

Now then.. how come you/I/anyone ends up wanting a $1000 phone? Marketing? Vanity? Riches beyng sense? Need for portable computing power? Need to constantly have with you 5000 photos, 5000 songs, 50 movies?
Sure, but my question was why they control the vote.
You won't help human rights in China by refusing to work there. And it's not clear how working there will influence human rights either way.

Based on that, better to be in than out.
And 14% of it is parking! https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/12/parking-los-a...
Yes, I do so every year.

1.2% is not some lofty, unrealistic amount if you are financially secure. The median net worth of Americans by age 55 peaks at $85,000 [1], which comes out to just under $20 per week. If you exclude home equity from net worth, half of Americans under 55 could donate 1.2% for less than $6 per week.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-net-worth-...
Chrome v69 forces you to be logged into the browser
The latest version of Chrome forces you to be logged into the browser when you log into your Google account through any web app (Gmail, Drive, etc). Logging out of the browser logs you out of your Google account.

I never want to be logged into the browser. That's an additional security/privacy surface that I don't wish to think about, especially in regards to my Google credentials, and what additional information is now being synced/tracked by Google.

If this is a feature instead of a bug, I'm done with this browser.
Right - and that's what would drive US based companies just to shut down access to EU versus trying to comply. The uncertainty may not be worth it for small companies just trying to gauge demand.
To be fair you can subtract out "almost half of Los Angeles" and still be left over with an entire Chicago... with room to spare.
Mind if I ask how the book changed your life?

Personally, A Farewell to Arms has likely caused the biggest change. I became really absorbed in the book and at the same time in life was expecting my first child. I didn’t know the story at all, and was not expecting the ending in the least.

There have been many things in life that have taught me to enjoy what I have because it can all be gone in an instant. But that book combined with where I was in life cemented the lesson.

I’m interested in how Man’s Search caused a change in your life.
Android in particular really benefits from the faster hardware in my experience. I fly frequently so I get a lot out of more storage and better displays as well. Battery life is a big deal. That added up to me getting a Note 9. The main thing I use the pen for is just taking screenshots.

Really for me it's just a nice to have though. A few years ago I got by with a Lumia 520, I'm sure I could live with a $100 Android phone if the cost were an issue. But I use my phone a lot so it's worth it for me.
You don't even spend $1,000 on your car? Sheesh, are you like 17?
NO! Not at all. Jesus Apple. Give me a break. I like the privacy, I am invested in the ecosystem, and I can afford it, but a phone isn't worth $1000 dollars to me. It isn't a computer, it can never replace my macbook, and it will never be anywhere near a third as valuable to me.
Generalized self driving cars seems like such a hard problem, laced with a huge amount of hard to handle edge cases and a huge amount of hard to enumerate possible scenarios.

I think it will still happen, but they need to simplify the problem. The way to simplify it is to create automated driving lanes, similar to the current HOV lanes, that have standardized markers that are easy for computers to read, and then eventually extend it to automated driving routes.

That will take some amount of buy-in by the government to install, but I have faith in our well paid lobbyists.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I'm one of the people being critical. My definition of "better" is hardly made up randomly on the spot.

If someone intentionally gave people AIDS, then volunteered to cover the cost of their pain meds, would you say "Ah, what a great guy!" Or would you go "Oh, really now? Puh-leez!"

As someone who sees the systemic problems that cause homelessness because I have studied it for many years, I'm going "Oh, puh-leez!"

Your framing of the issue is incredibly hard to engage because it presumes those years of study do not exist, aren't a valid basis for my opinion etc.

(Or a slightly more accurate metaphor: They have AIDS, they keep screwing people and refusing to hear they shouldn't and are generously offering to pay for pain killers, but absolutely refuse to stop screwing people.)
That link requires HTTP basic auth.

But my understanding is that at least as far things like subways go, driverless trains aren't a difficult problem.
Intent to Implement: Display Locking
Something you use a lot every day is definitely worth spending money on. Myself, I am an Android guy, but if the new iPhone is only a little better than the previous, out may very well be worth buying.
Not sure why this get downvotes. American cities were overbuilt from the start. In most american cities, from the late 1700s onward, wide roads on a grid were a desirable feature, a hundred years before cars were a thing.

These wide roads were originally a buffer space for all the smoke and filth of the industrial city. As a weird unintended consequence, the car could become commonplace so early because american cities already had the roads to accommodate them. And now with cars, these roads became dangerous and noisy as well. When industry left the city proper, early 20th century, the cars remained and continued to make the city an unpleasant place to live in.

No wonder people decided to move out, first using streetcars or trains, and then yes, with their cars, which paradoxically contributed to why the city was awful in the first place. LA, even though younger than most american cities, follows a similar template.
Also it was designed for maintenance and even programming by "non-tech" staff, which is cause for most of the ways in which AS/400 is "weird and alien" for Unix/NT people.
Except you judged both their intelligence and their own perception of their intelligence in the previous sentence.

[edited in response to the valid criticism I received]
I just do

git push -u

which does what I want since I set

git config --global push.default=current
What a bizarre world, when you're a villain for paying good wages.
> Or trying to work with students on a Swift project, only to find out that the MacOS file system pretends to understand Unicode file names, but really ignores them.

Wait, really? HFS stores Unicode file names in (according to Wikipedia) the "Apple-modified variant of Unicode Normalization Format D)", but it really does store them, I think (unlike case, which it preserves but ignores, which basically means it guarantees wrong behaviour).
Given the ROI that corporations get on lobbying, it would seem to be a better investment to "solve" this issue is to lobby for a tax sufficient to provide funding of preschools, but I suppose that's not a good philosophical fit for a bezos foundation...
LogDevice has many-to-many rebuilding as well, and typically data for a log (similar to partition in Kafka) is spread relatively uniformly over the (potentially large, much bigger than replication factor) set of shards that hold data for that log.
One can argue that it is one of the greatest art projects.
Yes, that's a good distinction to make that I didn't capture well.
Redesigning cities to be less reliant on cars is pretty much a solved problem. It just needs a few decades of focused policies. Check out for example how the Netherlands became bike friendly by relentless improvement since the seventies.
> Google are having zero influence on China's totalitarian government, and there is zero hope that they could have any such influence

Exactly.

Therefore it is nonsense to be outraged by what Google is doing.
I am a pretty consumerist person. If I had a choice between working-little-and-having-little, and working-a-lot-and-having-a-lot, I'd choose the latter.

I didn't choose the above attitude consciously per se, but thinking about it in retrospect, I'm comfortable with it. I have a lot of product-category-choices that make little sense to someone unwilling to spend $1000 on a phone: wool underwear, an Onyx Boox Max 2 (wonderful device), an Urbit star. I don't spend money pragmatically.
Adobe winds down Magento rewards-based bug bounty program
Without support, I could not have gone to university, and the debt is taken as a tiny fraction of my salary (currently 0, as I don't earn enough). I absolutely would not have preferred no support and no debt.
Not an exception. They do everything somewhat well, not very well, and even that level of quality is subject to human vagaries like how well the cooks are trained or even how well they're feeling today.

Whereas I can go to my local bar with like 3 main entrees and a rotating special and know that no matter what I order, it's going to be awesome. Seriously, I never knew how good sliders could be until I let them show me.

The Cheesecake factory is Samsung, and my bar is Apple, at least back when Apple was still great at everything.
I find it interesting that I know more about the team that developed the Mac in the early 1980s than I know about the iPhone team.

The iPhone was a watershed moment in tech that propelled Apple to be a trillion dollar company, yet the iPhone team is obscure to me. The Mac team has had how many books and articles about them?
splitting data into partitions would mean there's no total order on that data anymore, right?
> no one actually works there because the work is interesting or because they have any belief the company is going to change the world for the better.

At any company with 50,000+ employees most generalizations will be wrong.

I find my work interesting. I fully admit that I don't have an expectations my job will make the world better even though it may in some small way because I don't believe that's what companies are for.

I work to make a living like most people. I'd like to make the world a better place but I don't tie that to my job since sadly the incentives don't really align. Still I'd consider Google to be pretty good compared to other companies given how much they donate but I guess it's easy to donate when you make a lot of money.
It's not controversial to say the sky is blue because you can turn up a couple people who say it is green. You've really never heard of people turning to drink or drugs because of, day, the death of a family member? You can't see why someone who sleeps rough might seek escape through psychoactive drugs?
> the sum of all these small components and the software that makes a tech product innovative

I'm still lacking a ton of data... but anyone is able to capture that history now: https://theymadethat.com/things/svj/taskforce/show_parts

It's not limited to just software
That's fine, but that clearly isn't what happened here. This is very specifically about Trump.
Highway traffic speed on a clear day not during rush hour = speed limit + speeding amount required to get a misdemeanor - 1-2mph.

Consequently there's lots of semi-limited access state highways that have the occasional stop light and 45-55mph speed limits giving you plenty of opportunities to enjoy fast 0-60 acceleration. Also, the ability to just move left and almost instantly be going 30+mph faster is great when the person in front of you insists on merging at 35mph (you can go around them WITHOUT cutting someone else off). Or if you are that 35mph merger you can take your sweet ass time finding the perfect spot and then just step on it and merge without the guy you merged in front of (who's probably going 70+mph) having to tap their brakes.

Yes, it's a luxury but the capability is more useful day to day than most people think.
I found this interesting:

"Fortunately, our systems are shared, so when we find bad actors on Facebook, we can also remove accounts linked to them on Instagram and WhatsApp as well."

Followed by this:

"This is harder with services like Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube, iMessage, or any other service where you don't need to provide your real identity."
Most (non-tech) people I know are interested in the camera. People are change-adverse (so those with an Apple device want to stay on iOS) and want the latest photo taking capabilities.

Especially for friends who rely on photos for their jobs / side projects, it is a huge difference comparing pictures from a Google Pixel / iPhone X and phone models from a few years ago.