skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has taken good stances on most privacy issues, but Apple Maps is poorly run.

The main failure is not having something akin to a Google Scout, whereby iOS users could submit info about businesses and streets that lack data. Apple instead hires a ton of contractors in Austin (and now India) to manually trace roads and guess business hours based on anonymized GPS traces.

Apple lacks the scale of Google's army of unpaid Google Scouts (though they could easily fix this) and is wasting time on minutia rather than task their staff/contractors with sourcing & importing higher quality data regularly. One example would be importing county shapefiles, Apple could easily vault ahead of Google Maps if they diffed their map against each of the thousands of county maps in the USA, and they would be the only one regularly doing this (OSM does this occasionally, but not often).

They could also scrape business data from each state and use that to produce more accurate & detailed business listings than Google, among many other low hanging fruit.
> "Climate emergency" rhetoric is simply going to burn everyone out and get laughed at, even if it's true.

To your point, it doesn't help that the weather - for local and national "news" - is used an attention and sensationalism tool.

The threat of couple inches of snow is The Rapture. The possibility of an above average rain storm is Armageddon. When these things don't live up to that hype the public subconsciously loses faith. Add in a complete lack of leadership (to get the public involved) and most ppl just consider it another "what can I do?" issue.

I don't blame them. I don't necessarily agree. But I understand why they feel that way.
Hey, at work we have been forced to use Denodo. How does this compare to Denodo? Seems a lot better and doesn’t try to do any “data virtualization”. I am a bit scared by the query optimizer because the Denodo one is super buggy. Overall I think the concept is great and this might be a great companion to etl tools.
Yes, and both creatures deduce the predictability of the outcome primarily from the results of... a simple size comparison.
I just can’t believe there is 85 people working in this team and I still get a box that is 10 times the size it needs to be.
Just to add on Apple using OSM, Apple actually uses a mixture of its own data, OSM, TomTom, and other geodata brokers. However from what I understand, Apple maps uses the others as a fallback when its own data doesn't cover a specific area (TomTom more than the others) and as Apple has been building up its own data, it will use the other sources less and less. Building up their own data has been a relatively recent endeavor though and it will probably take awhile before those other sources are rarely relied upon or dropped altogether.

Apple does make some contributions back to OSM though for submitted corrections in areas that use OSM as a fallback, IIRC. Apple Maps unfortunately doesn't do a great job of mixing those results though and only uses them as "fallbacks". It's why some areas have poorer quality even compared to OSM (such as Germany mentioned in another comment) because they're strictly using their own data instead of using OSM, et al. to fill in the gaps.
Google maps recently made nice improvements when search history is turned off. It used to nag constantly to turn search history on and now it no longer does that and saves searches on my device with a clear setting to turn it off.

The ability to limit the duration of search history is another nice feature.

I feel less inclined to use Apple maps these days.
Care to expand on why MySQL < 8 will be problematic for analysts? Anything else than the lack of window function?
Maybe it’s part of the sport and averages out? I bet they don’t get ti complain about the weight of cameras on board either.

Organizers get to make the rules. If heliwash means more spectators, then so be it as long as it doesn’t impede safety.
"Dark Age America" is a fascinating book by John Michael Greer that goes into the wicked dependencies in our technology stack.
How is that ironic? Because HN was written in Arc, denigrating PHP is ironic? I don't get it.

Edit: Oh, because the article is on the PHP subreddit. To be honest I file PHP developers using MySQL under expected, not ironic.
Also in SoCal and I've noticed Google Maps has really regressed, I've gotten a ton of "faster route available" prompts that lead to significantly slower routes when on the 405 and 10.
DDL is the sub-language of SQL which alters schema. Eg create table, alter table, drop table are DDL commands.
Your phone/home speakers can't replicate a live orchestra.
But I wonder what if a developer purposely plants a bug then ask his friend to report it and split the bounty. It seems it's easy to take advantage of such programs internally?
That. PG won't silently truncate your texts. It also won't accept 0000-00-00 dates.

MySQL has enough data corruption bugs to last for a lifetime. It is also maintained by Oracle, what means the bugcount is likely going up instead of down.
Should you open source your product?
Can you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with? It eventually gets your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, but I think it's possible to set a system up like that so it's reasonably hard to misuse. E.g., I have to sign up, sign an NDA, and get trained in person. Then I'm not just given full access to untagged video, but I'm treated like a Mechanical Turk worker: I get assigned a video, tag it, appropriately, and move on. And if I leak stuff inappropriately or misuse my powers, I face criminal charges for privacy violation.
It mentions drought in the second line (the quote just above the photo) and failed rains on down a bit:

>Zimbabwe is getting warmer as the climate changes and heavy rains and droughts are becoming more intense.
Anybody knows how?
You just have to build another shield volcano antipodal to Olympus Mons.~
Orb – A live site tool used by Azure engineers, an Electron app built with React
Googles patent trolling is gender blind.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-go...
Instead of flagging this, why not replace it with the original article?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27301...
There’s nothing wrong with js, but imagine if all server software had to be written in Perl.
Exactly. Accessibility is a huge investment of time and adds a lot of technical debt if done incorrectly, really doesn't make sense until the entire library is somewhat mature and starts being ised in production at large enterprises. Can't believe OP is complaining about screen readers in a beta release.
May I ask what city you live in?
I like them both depending on the use case
"Could", yes. The overwhelming odds, however, are that they'll grow up to be upper-middle class consumers who don't do anything outstanding other than hoover up huge amounts of resources and make the problem worse.
I use a natural alternative called Berberine. I've been seeing great results from it. it also modifies p53, clamps glucose, is anti-cancer, anti-tumor. But if you can get your doc to prescribe metformin, perhaps it will be cheaper to use insurance.
This looks really interesting. Has YouTube ever published their URL generation technique?

Any one has a guess how this was done? If they use a one way hash over metadata and content if video does this not mean that someone has figured out their secret key.
> You could start calling it global warming.

Except that the planet has been warming and cooling for millions of years.

To put into perspective:

Age of Earth: 4.6 billion years

How long Dinosaurs lived: 400 million years

Age of humans: 200,000 years.

The human species is literally less than a blip on the earth's historical radar. I'm convinced whatever we do to the planet, it will recover, like it always has. Humans not adapting? That's the real problem.
This was the absolute worst when the Zero first came out. The supposed $5 board was impossible to buy on its own, only with HDMI adapters a (non-official) power supply, cheap off-brand SD card and (non-official) case which caused the price to go up to like $40.
My first guess is that new versions of videos can be uploaded if they're similar enough (not sure how it would judge that? visually???) and/or are updated shortly enough after upload.

Edit: Oh, I didn't even see the time travel reference in the ID. Maybe the ID is generated from metadata, and there's some endpoint where he was able to throw random metadata at it in an automated process until it came out looking somewhat like "delorean". Or he was able to get ahold of the algorithm locally for a quicker version of that process. In any case, I doubt he backwards-engineered anything.
We beat recaptcha v3 50% of the time v2 about 20%
This is a specific brand of left-wing liberalism causing the trouble. I've always called myself a liberal and I'm tremendously disappointed that James Damore got fired from Google and basic survey articles get flagged off HN for involving "dangerous facts". It's hard to be a straightforward and honest person in these conditions, and it only encourages people to retreat into insular and subversive communities. Those complicit with left-wing censorship have an incomplete appreciation for the dangers of building a community that doesn't care about truth before hurting people's feelings or fumbling negative-sum political games they've accidentally participated in.
Wikipedia is not a authoritative source. When it work perfectly it is a proportional description of what third-party sources write in regard to a topic, and at worst it is biased opinion based on a few authors. With political topics the most commonly written opinion might not be the most scientifically correct one.

The main criticism of equal compensation is listed in the Wikipedia page in the first sentences under the title Criticism: the methodology by which the gap is measured.

For example, a common argument is that together with a pay gap there is a similar gap in worked hours, about 1hr on average for full time employees in the same workplace for the same job. Then people tend to dip into discussions about gender roles and bit by bit move the discussion further into the realm of politics.

Equal compensation is thus politics. Not because people disagree on the principle, nor because we don't have a data, but because people will disagree on the interpretation and then jump into political topics in order to support their interpretation.
I see this as an ill-informed decision, from a viewpoint of someone living in a big western city. Results are so error-prone, it's basically useless in 99% of the locations in the world. Even Google has so much wrong information gathered from out-of-date websites and public registers. Even in central Berlin.
Correct – more effective terms are climate crisis, climate chaos, climate emergency.
You are completely in your rights to get together with your fellow employees - or anyone else - to do anything you want.

And others are entitled not to pay you to do things they don't want you to do.

Nobody is forced to do things they don't want.

Nobody is forced to pay money to others.

But employment is an agreement between people. The employer agrees to pay, and the other agrees to follow directions of the employer (within the limits of their specific agreement).

If you go to a restaurant and order a burger, and they instead bring you a cake, you'd be well within your rights to refuse payment and complain. The fact that the chef wanted to make a cake is irrelevant, because the chef is being paid by you. (In contrast, if you were to go to friend's house, and he gave you a cake, you could not complain because you're not paying for it.)
Not at all. Blender is an important piece of software because it is open and free, which helps lower investment 3D uses like research, but its interface and usability is about as bad as it gets. It takes heat for its interface yet still not enough in my opinion.

You have to experience trying to actually get something accomplished to truly understand how incredibly unintuitive everything from names to button placements to object movement to component selection etc truly is. I've used a lot of different 3D programs in a lot of different domains and nothing comes close to blender. It almost seems to go out of its way to make the most basic excersize a puzzle for the user.

The money for commercial programs is completely necessary in a professional context, since time is money and people have expectations.
It's not about guilt or justice. That's not the point. But, of course, you're wrong. It's not a "completely different government", unless you think you're a completely different person because most of the atoms in your body have been replaced by now since your birth.
No. Cormac McCarthy's Road, or William Gibson's Jackpot, is coming.
HackerOne BH Event
Nestle finds new way to use cocoa leftovers to sweeten chocolate
I would say this is only tangentially related to the real issue, which is how collected data is used.

There is a huge difference between the scenario you describe, where a company is using your data in an attempt to help you improve your life (save money). vs. A company who takes your data and uses it for profit-generating endeavors that you did not willfully consent to.
> In Fremont [...] the temperature typically varies from 43°F to 82°F and is rarely below 35°F or above 92°F.

From the link I posted below. Rarely below 35F (~1.5C) is still pretty damn cold. Would you want your workplace to be "just about freezing" once in a while? What I mean is I'm pretty sure Tesla's statements are the regular PR thing any company in their position would put out, they just exaggerated a bit with "they actually insist on it". Maybe they took an existing example and didn't mind implying it's a general thing.
If vis is the focus, I'd recommend Postgres FDW over anything else here, just because PG is supported by almost every vis software (metabase, redash, many Apache projects, Tableau, Google Data Studio (free) etc.)
Since I don't drink tea or coffee (I dislike warm drinks, especially in summer) I was left with soft drinks, juices or plain water. And since most places don't offer tasty water and each place has different juices I went with soft drinks - Cola is universal!

You could say that I used a lot of it but then one day I decided to see if I would be able to quit and so I just did it. It wasn't hard at all and it did not change the way I feel.
I started drinking mostly water instead (it is still hard to get tasty water so I ask for a slice of lemon in it whenever it is available).
Now I sometimes go for freshly squeezed juice and from time to time I drink some soft drinks but I do not depend on them like I did before.
It is TRRS. See for instance https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/07/raspberry-pi-model... (found with a quick web search).
Pretty cool stuff.

Does it support writing to (single) data sources too or only reading queries?
I only know a little about it, but it seems like financial companies commonly have a permanent compliance department?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/compliancedepartment.as...
I love Google Maps a lot but it's becoming very bloated. I would love to use Apple Maps, but I just don't trust it to be reliable and comprehensive enough on the basic features I need.
This is true, the problem is people are trying to co-opt the urgency of the problem to funnel in unrelated agendas. Saikat Chakrabarti for example, in an article published in the Washington Post said that the Green New Deal was about redesigning the economy.

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/f...:

"Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.”

EDIT: for those downvoting me. Please feel free to leave a comment. Am I wrong to believe that we should concentrate on the main issue?
Facebook tells Congress how it thinks Libra should be regulated
Yep. It's happening here in Canada too.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119...
I'll just drop this here...

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-we-should-star...
I wonder if the same feelings people have for pets could be instead replaced with volunteering in one's community, making human best friends and giving oneself purpose.

Keep on wondering, because I doubt anyone will bend over to fit your view of the world. Starting with the foundational point that you have no idea why people have pets at the individual level, or even macro based on what you've post so far on the subject.

EDIT: you also assume that pet owners don't already volunteer, have human best friends, and feel that they have purpose. The pretense is strong in this one.
The report does not look to determine if the defense department created Lyme disease. Rather it suggests that the Pentagon weaponized ticks.

What if, for example, they enhanced the Lyme bacteria to make it more contagious as part of an attempt to make it a carrier of a more deadly pathogen?
Oh, $80/hr is still well above the top 10% of earners in the US, it's just not very much for web design.
> The main failure is not having something akin to a Google Scout, whereby iOS users could submit info about businesses and streets that lack data.

They weren't able to do this while they were still reliant on third-party data, because the contracts required them to submit those changes to the third-party providers first and then once they were accepted, get them in downstream updates. This is one of the main reasons they invested in building out their own data; they'll be able to accept user-sourced fixes much more quickly.
Thanks for the reply

> I wouldn't consider cancer a boolean.

I consider having cancer a boolean and the propensity to develop cancer a probability. The studies linked in the article don't suggest a high dose of Vitamin D reduces that probability at all. They only tested whether it helps those for which has_cancer is set to True
See "Knapsack Problem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
I have two clear plastic drawers from a refrigerator I had 15 years ago almost overflowing with extra hardware. While it’s mostly just nuts, bolts and nails I also throw any extra part that comes with random widgets. I just dug through it yesterday to find two small machine screws to tie together a broken plastic connector. It’s not hoarding if you use it right?
IIRC CMIP5 models(used for IPCC AR5 2014) did not account for permafrost melt or changes in soil chemistry. Shortly after AR5 was released I remember reading an article or two describing how these exclusions resulted in under-predicting climate change. There were three emissions scenarios under CMIP5, and we are surpassing the worst. Put that in your pipe...
Apparently google wants you to next time sell it to the highest bidder.
This is a ad disguised as a blog post.

The only remotely meaningful part is the plug for their product at the end.
The value created by employees rightfully belongs to employees and should be created on their terms. It isn't employees who are hired by managers, it's managers who are hired by employees to manage and sell the things they create. Employees ought to have the right to dictate the terms that their managers are being hired on.
Why does neither maps.duckduckgo.com or duckduckgo.com/maps take me to the maps interface?

Thats the number one way I access google maps.
It is, however, a simple way for individuals to avoid growing their carbon footprint. Not doing something is easier than changing an entrenched lifestyle. It's the same as saying "don't buy a large home", "don't buy a large vehicle (or preferably any vehicle at all)", "don't travel" - you're not missing out on anything, you're simply avoiding a destructive behavior. If you have a dog or cat already there isn't much you can do about it at this point.
It's ok to talk about it! we answer questions about things like flagging all the time.
IIRC "worst case scenario"s are more like an 8C Eocene-like equilibrium
>”This requires all systems employed within the BeyondCorp model to be built with the same skill and hardening as required by any public internet solution.”

Is that true of _every_ system? I can imagine they have at least some systems which must be isolated, like BMS or other systems which typically run a decade of more behind in technology, unless they build their own, but then what about sites where they rent from WeWork competitors?
Thanks! We only support reads, and for now we're not planning to add write support.

You can use the csv output format though and later import that somewhere.
Exactly, sanitization is a misnomer. If you are concatenating plain text together with HTML then you have an app which is functionally broken when someone with an apostrophe in their name tries to use it -- it's not just a matter of security. The strings must be the same format (i.e both valid HTML fragments) before you concatenate them or the result will be unparsable garbage.

And the idea of "sanitization at input" is especially ridiculous: how can you know what you will be concatenating that input with until you actually do it? I.e. is it being inserted into some HTML? is It going in an attribute value or a text node? What about outputting JSON?
If the image classification for censorship is applied to all images sent worldwide, but only China-based accounts get censored, then just by using the app among non-China-registered accounts to share images that would be sensitive in China, uncensored users are unwittingly helping to build the censored image database before users in China ever try to share the material.
A Shifty Email Bug
That particular ship, and the inherent confusion caused by people not understanding that weather isn't climate, has long sailed.

Recently people have been suggesting "climate crisis" which isn't going to help on the "less frightening" aspect, but I think that's a feature.
First woman voted European Commission president
Hell even in my past career supporting hardware network products a lot of companies had / have management ports that are vulnerable to all sorts of stuff. The industry standard response from engineers was "well that should be behind a firewall".

It's time we stop pretending the big bad internet is just "out there" just because it should be, it is everywhere.
Has anyone done a study on pet inanimate objects, such as rocks or coconuts or plants?

Not to undervalue live animal pets, but people are pretty intensely personal about their pet objects, too — and if the same benefit can exist for a pet rock, then you can say that your pet has a small carbon footprint and be twice right.
Moving in general is difficult, but leaving a country and permanently moving to another one is infinitely more difficult than finding another job for someone who works at Google.
Was there something specific you didn't like about that dog?
Connect your Android phone with your Mac via KDE Connect
C'mon - pretending that marketing materials from the British Soft Drink Association is equivalent just because they are "both on the internet" is just silly.
I wonder how many people actually read this 40 page doc having seen this link. Would be nice if the OP gave us a clue why they posted it, perhaps a summary.
I also found a terrible bug recently, that could cost this company millions of dollars.

Basically, the company has physical stores and also sells stuff online. Stuff bought online can be returned in store. However, if you bought an item online which was on sale, you could return in store for the full amount. I returned a laptop which I bought online for $999 and received $1399 back.

I think it was due to the fact that the store runs on iSeries/AS400 and the website is in .Net. I happen to work with both, and I can imagine that there is a lot of pain to make the systems work together.