skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of flow layouts is to resolve exactly this problem at map movement time (e.g. user zoom or pan).

Google Maps already does some flowing, it's just not very good at it once you zoom all the way in.

If you have an important point of interest center-screen, then the lower priority labels flow away, or are priority pruned if overly numerous. This allows users to resolve invisible labels simply by zooming in.

I'm absolutely in agreement on the performance challenges, which are likely the real reason precomputed labels seem to be used on Google Maps.
Indeed. This, https://phys.org/news/2018-10-portugal-wild-circus-animals.h... made my day. Portugal is a little on the conservative side and taking the kids to see the elephants at Christmas is very much a tradition. This law is going to raise eyebrows and open some eyes. The date of 2024 seems rather far away but given the cultural impact this will have it's rather pragmatic.
I don't really get the issue with that. For heavily interactive stuff, sure, you might want to use an SPA and all that this entails. But that's something almost everyone here seems to agree on.

But for almost everything less than that, and that probably covers the majority of use cases, you'll have a few dynamic elements on the page, and it's just a matter of ReactDOM.render() + document.getElementById() for the handful of those.
> will it continue to remain a Yahoo property

No, and it isn't now. Flickr was recently acquired by SmugMug - a paid-for gallery hosting site [0]. It's SmugMug that is driving this change, not Oath / Yahoo.

[0] https://www.smugmug.com/
Except the fact that multi cloud doesnt work and I don't think it will. It adds too much complexity also costs are the big issue too since clouds price data transfer out quite heavily
Wow.... They actually call it dopamine? They're shameless.
Yeah. That blew my mind. I'm not actually sure it's not depressing. Will IBM maintain Red Hat's open source policies? It seems very unlikely...
I think that making it more durable, not cheaper, aligns better with the services strategy. More durable means fewer opportunity windows for competitors.
The ArchiveTeam already has a tool to archive Flickr photos; if you have some bandwidth and storage you can help: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/flickr-grab
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I think a lot of people upvote for the discussion, which means they might upvote an article they disagree strongly with.
"Second, you can tell a lot about a product by how it makes money. Giving away vast amounts of storage creates data that can be sold to advertisers, with the inevitable result being that advertisers’ interests are prioritized over yours. ...."

So I fork out $50/yr and Flickr will stop flogging my data to advertisers or, will grow a very specific group of users, whos data is more valuable to advertisers than the general free membership .... and Flickr will then flog that to advertisers at a premium?

I would have preferred to see improvements to Flickr before a push to subscriptions. My guess is that for the money I can find much better established services, tho in fairness I have not looked, so may be wrong on that. I guess I am about to find out.
I thought the ending of %50 of people left was going to be a reference to Avengers: Infinity War...

*snaps fingers
I think this is a pretty critical difference between urban and suburban/rural use cases for maps and navigation.

I live in an urban place and mostly use maps as you've described - but when I visit my family in suburban FL, the closest major cross streets for the restaurant could be a mile away, on a highway which has the same name for hundreds of miles, and the street number for the business might be in the tens of thousands but you don't really have a concept of where "0" is. Turn-by-turn is much more useful there, if for nothing else knowing that your right-hand turn is roughly 3/4 miles from where you are right now.
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The connection between China and "dystopian regimes" seems pretty clear to me. The biggest difference is that the Nazis and the Soviets could only dream of the tools the Chinese already have and will have, though the Soviets definitely proved that even without tech you could get yourself a pretty solidly oppressive police state going.

Only time can tell if the result will be a state that explodes even more quickly due to the suppressed stresses coming out all at once at some point, or a stable totalitarian state will emerge.
Not surprising. Every notable "free" image upload site has either folded, or introduced some behavior to hinder using it as free image hosting. There's just no business model there.

Some sort of browser support for an image format that allows for one, small, clickable, link in a fixed position could make it viable. I suppose, though, it would just get hijacked by spammers and become useless.
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US is the kindest country in the world. Its people are the most hardworking, generous, good-willed, resourceful, diligent, heterogenous, ethical in the West.

There, I can throw a lot of adjectives at it as well.
Join the company and you will see for yourself. I'm not going to explain how a business empire works over a chat message.
The GitHub Community Forum is turning one
I hear what you're saying, but at least in the US we only have 2 pieces of well labelled and persistent navigational data in the real world: street names and numeric addresses.

In my experience, navigation with Google Maps can be terrible about interchange / exit lanes. It's much easier just to pick the road name and follow the well-labelled and up-to-date highway signs.
> When to subscribe/unsubscribe from events. Otherwise we will run into memory leaks.

This strikes me as a non-issue if you still use React or the like for the dynamic elements of your page. Furthermore, if anything, having full refreshes makes the problem of memory leaks less of an issue!
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> This is an interesting alternative to residential induction stoves that use AC to create the magnetic fields.

No, it is not an alternative. It is an inferior method to create the same effect/current with additional losses. As an educational experiment it is very impressive though.
One mitigating factor is that Objects in LEO would Deorbit pretty fast. Usually in a matter of years. In higher orbits there’s a lot more space so it’s not quite as bad.

Food for thought.
> I don't want to imply you were suggesting this

Actually, I kinda was.

Maybe a better way to put it is that I'm looking for more fluency of control in where the application code actually runs. I'm less interested in having 'an SPA' or 'an MPA' and more interested in tooling that makes it possible to more easily select between SPA and MPA characteristics for various parts of a given UI.

Edit: to make this a bit more real, here's a few thoughts on what that might look like:

* Same language on both client and server.

* Same templating on both client and server.

* Some sort of lightweight RPC-style mechanism for exposing server functionality up to the client. (Without a fully specified protocol/format/etc.)

* Framework provides an endpoint that serves up a JavaScript projection/transpile of some subset of the overall application code.

* Same thing for CSS.

* The usual automatic reload/refresh-on-change logic you get with modern client stacks.

* Setup is essentially 'add a plugin or maybe two to the project build script'.
Years ago, when I first saw this talk, I wasn't paying attention at the beginning and thought this really happened.

These days it would surprise me if this kind of event happened tomorrow...
A) Things don’t happen in a void.

B) If you try hard enough, you will always find a statistic that correlate with something.

C) In that specific paper, “deep learning” could be changed to randomly clustering, and then trying to come up with a reason
>The Supreme Court found that adults have a "fundamental right to the free development of the personality" without interference from the state. "That right is not absolute, and the consumption of certain substances may be regulated, but the effects provoked by marijuana do not justify an absolute prohibition of its consumption," the ruling read.

What a bunch of lawless nonsense for a high court to be engaged in. This might be good policy, but the more ominous implication is what it means for the judiciary to be substituting its own judgment for that of the legislature, based on indeterminate legal theories about “fundamental rights” invented out of thin air.
Do you have to curate this, or is it dependent on other curated websites to generate the news? Some sort of ML-backed reading of each story to determine not-depressing vs. depressing? I could see aggregating different curated sites as a potential liability.

Was fun to read all the items on your page. Great work!
This notification method will get the Vista UAC treatment - approve all or demy all. Because it's annoying.

Have you used ever Kaspersky?
Ask HN: Do you recommend to upgrade to MacOS Mojave? Why? Why not?
That's what Google maps are - they only care about places where you spend dollars (good luck finding eg. kid playgrounds).

Here's an app of a company I worked for, that cares about non-shopping use cases: https://windymaps.com/app
I could be quite wrong but wouldn’t a course in Bayesian statistics be a lot more useful for someone interested in inference or however you will say it?
It's a bad direction for average users (not average professional photographer but average users).

Their mobile app has a sync process and touts it as a way to backup your photos. Synced photos are automatically marked as private and has NO impact on your desire of quality over quantity.

Flickr has offered free 1TB for a long time. Archival of mobile photos is the intended feature and you are shaming users for using it?

If they want to wall off average Joe from the pros, fine. It's their right. But they should not delete old photos. Storage is cheap. There's going to be lots of unhappy people when they log in a few years from now to find photos of some deceased family and realize SmugMug deleted them.

When SmugMug acquired Flickr my only comment on the article was in regards to the free 1TB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888876) as I was afraid it works be on the chopping block. But I never imagined they would be as 'smug' as to delete old photos.

I will likely download the photos and stick them in Amazon Glacier or something.
As far as the rest of the users who are not tech savvy, best of luck to them.
Which still has terrible search.

It’s nice that it’s a bit prettier than it used to be. But it still has terrible search.

I wouldn’t mind the 30% if the store made it easy to find relevant apps. But it utterly fails at useful high quality discovery.
What me worry?
There was a good read on this in the most recent issue of Wired UK as well: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cavendish-banana-extinction-...
Induction cooker doesn't work on grid AC frequency (50-60Hz), it converts grid AC to DC then converts it to high frequency (24 kHz), so possibly induction cooker can be modified to run straight from DC power
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They chose this model because it is what they were already doing as smugmug (who just bought twitter). Any reasoning is just rationalization.
Bananas can be a good example to get people thinking more carefully about agriculture and spin.

I remember a conversation with a coworker several years ago in which I was trying to convey the difficulty of sensibly defining "organic" farming. His first suggestion: "food that hasn't had chemicals put in it". When I asked him to explain what "chemical" means, he thought for a while then moved onto what was quite a clever second attempt: "food as it would grow anyway, without human intervention". I pointed out that without humans, bananas as he knew and loved them (I think he ate plenty) would become extinct quite quickly.
At company I worked for (czech search engine Seznam.cz), the map team made an awesome 1st April easter egg when they took this to the eleven: https://mapy.cz/textova?x=15.5603819&y=49.5896653&z=13

(it just says 'roadroadroad', 'houseshouseshouses', 'riverriverriver' ... :))
Yes, cryptocurrencies was one way. (I don't think that it's really complicated.)

But on the other hand I don't think that it's really expensive. As in have a RasPi lying around at home that's keeping track of everything when you're not online. That should totally suffice for your own needs. If you have bigger needs or want to support the network (maybe even for a small compensation in whatever form) that's easily scaleable.
Or think of bittorrent: It's incentivised that you run contribute back what you received. That works totally without compensation in cryptocurrencies.

About the simplification I'm not sure either. Have you tried running Gmail lately? (Not as client but as service ^^ I think that it's not quite straight-forward.)
Once you have a proper working p2p network/algorithm/protocol I can imagine that it's easier to run for all parties.
And the rendering is oh so much better than the Google's. Google maps without aerial imagery is just a blur of grey. You can't see natural landmarks (even basic forrest/not forrest), buildings, blocks, it's all roughly the same color and the map is absolutely useless for what is map supposed to be. It's only good for search and navigation. Of course they save their crap renderer by having very good imagery.

Also, there's https://windymaps.com/app which is the same app I think, just focused on international users.
Physical, location-based spam
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It's 5% on top of payment processor fees (which vary according to the number and size of the donations).
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What kind of domain do I need to buy to make it work for email?
Would be a bit of a "hostage" situation, without really solving their storage problem. If an owner never decides to pay, for how long would they store the hidden photos?
Sorry, a day late. This kind of link (phone/IP to profile) is getting much easier, speculatively there must be much more sophisticated connections out there that aren't as immediately obvious.
All "fundamental rights" are invented out of thin air. Neither physics nor nature recognizes such "rights" as life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, property rights, what have you.
Can it be run by manual labour?
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What Mac do you have?
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If there is anything worse than no abstraction, it is a wrong or leaky abstraction.
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That's much what I'm doing, a standard set of utilities that any service can depend on and use without thinking too much about it.
No, the question is this:

The US is doing certain things that seem outrageous.

The US is supposedly an ally of my country.

China is not explicitly an ally (just a trade partner).

So if the US spies on us, that's scandalous but it significantly lowers the bar for what I expect our non-allies to do to us.

It's not whataboutism, it's a precedent by which all future actions are measured. I'm not discounting the news story, I'm asking whether this is just a news story that will be forgotten about in a few weeks or so, or whether this is a total shift in expectations like when we found out what the US was doing to its own allies.
Related question, What would you use a Postman Chrome Extension... for?

Rather than say just... use Postman?

I'm not disagreeing with the use, just wondering how they use it compared to Postman itself. I'm a n00b web dev, I just want to know how others work and why.
If a satellite is in a very low orbit then any debris fall to earth quickly. Almost all cubesats have a orbital life of six to five years. The space station, in a normal low earth orbit, would hit the earth in around three years without reboosts.

The higher you go, the more absolute volume there is, the slower the satellites there travel and the fewer satellites there are.

So that leaves a band of mid-upper LEO satellites to consider for Kessler Syndrome.

When you have a collision between satellites, the velocity on average of each fragment is less than it was before, making the fragments decay faster. The fragments after each collision are smaller than they were before as well, thus having more air and solar resistance, which also makes them decay faster.

The Chinese FY-1C satellite that was blown up was the absolute worst case for a satellite explosion. It was located on the high side of LEO with a decay time measured in human generations, and it was in a super crowded sun-following orbit altitude, sharing space with lots of weather and earth observation satellites. The explosion generated 150,000 debris fragments.

In the ten years since, most of those fragments have reentered. We now have 2,000 golfball sized or bigger fragments being tracked, and over the past ten years, the only casualty has been a small, ten pound reflector satellite. Small debris pieces fall, and big pieces can be tracked and avoided.

If every satellite we have put into space magically exploded, and the debris was magically moved to a high LEO altitude and evenly distributed to avoid any holes, then we could still launch through this orbit of death to higher altitudes with only a 1 in 1000 probability of impact.

Space regulation has gotten much tougher since the bad old days. Satellites are now required to have deorbit or safeing plans, and the median satellites size has gone down by a couple orders of magnitude.

Kessler syndrome isn't something that keeps me up at night.
I agree with the futility of expanding the current schooling paradigm. I do, however, worry that the foundations are laid before the kids even arrive at kindergarten.

How many words of in-person adult conversation does the child hear each week?

How many minutes of 1-to-1 direct, focused time does the child receive from an adult each day?

How secure does the child feel? What is their nourishment like? What is their sleep situation like? Are they taught age-appropriate amounts of patience? Do they believe that if they are patient that they'll still get whatever it is they're waiting for?

I'm doubtful of a government program being able to close those gaps in the 0.25 to 5 year old range and I'm doubtful that those early developmental deficits (especially around nourishment, sleep, and security) can be fully closed during the schooling years.

(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer, not a child development expert nor even a dabbler in it.)
Well my theory is that if Gmail was "hacked" or exposed, huge parts of the internet would be compromised.

Hundreds of millions of Gmail accounts are the central point of failure in a lot of people's lives. Each account can be used to:

- reset other website accounts

- blackmail

- identity theft

- password discovery

- socially hack connected friends, via phishing

It's a cascading failure that would completely undermine the trust of Google in the public perception.

Although this is possible I'm sure it's highly unlikely...
How does this post stay on the top page despite being submitted 21 hrs ago ? :)
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Very interesting that they were getting lead exposure like that from living in caves near lead deposits or drinking contaminated water. It perhaps says something about human history that we always seem to end up in that exact situation over and over again - from the roman empire to modern USA, all have had problems with lead exposure.
I want to be opposed to this but it does seem to make sense. Photos are large, storage costs money. I will say deleting user content is pretty intense. What about people who are dead? Seems odd their photos will be deleted.
This is how I feel about the two companies as a whole:

Apple make things look amazing and work decently.

Google make things work amazingly and look decent.
I believe this may run afoul of some data retention regulations. E.g. GDPR requires a minimum of data to be retained: https://www.dpnetwork.org.uk/gdpr-data-retention-guide/
HLSL support is a kind of Google driven effort without being part of official Vulkan specification, due to many devs stating them they wouldn't care about Vulkan without such support, given their amount of DirectX shaders.

Google naturally has a vested interest in making Vulkan being adopted on Android, since it drives sales, as its proper support requires recent flaghship models.

By not being part of Vulkan standard and certification tests, basically if a driver does not handle the SPIR-V as generated by HLSL compiler, good luck with the vendor's support channels.