skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't actually care, I just wanted to point it out to you, so that you understand how strongly it's colouring your views. We all have our biases, and we should all be aware of them.
Perhaps with the hosted/private version of SO? That would solve the issue of restricting it to a certain social circle. Or just a forum, with login access given only to certain persons; perhaps public so that anyone can read the questions & answers.
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I've been using OSM data for a side project I've been working on (an app to find "green" running routes, avoiding busy roads and preferring trails/rivers/parks, and optionally meeting some minimum target distance).

It just would not have been possible without OSM's data, full stop. The tag data associated with each road ("way" in OSM parlance) is invaluable, as is the ability to work with all of this information on a planet-scale in a single database (I use osm2pgsql to import the whole planet into a single box with 256GB RAM, and have plenty of headroom to run my app on top of that too).

The APIs provided by Google Maps and Apple Maps do not provide the functionality I want, even if I could pay their massive fees. Additionally, Google Maps' mapping of trails is much worse in my experience.

Whilst the data is far from perfect in some areas, I am still extremely grateful that OSM exists, and will now make a donation via https://donate.openstreetmap.org/
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. A Greek exit from the Eurozone would have meant an economic catastrophy incomparable to what we have to endure now. For one thing, we are currently not technically bankrupt. In case of Grexit, we would be well and truly bankrupt.

If I remember correctly, Varoufaki's stratagem was to claim that we would be better off outside the EZ and back to our own currency (the drachma) which we could devalue unlike the Euro.

However, the drachma was valued to €340.750, when we joined the EZ [1]. That would have meant that our debt of ~€355.49 billion [2] we would have to pay 12,113,321,750,000‬ drachmas.

Note that we would supposedly try to pay off this debt by devaluing the drachma, which means, by printing more of it. That in turns mean that we would have to carry out our internal transactions with a devalued drachma. I don't know how to calculate the devaluation that would be needed, but I think the predictions that we would be back to the WWII situation where a loaf of bread cost a trillion drachmas, that many made at the time, were not too wide off the mark.

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[1] https://www.euro-hellas.gr/isotimia-euro-drahmis.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis

Converted to Euros based on current exchange rate of 1 Dollar to 0.9 Euro.
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A bit of an anomaly from an organizational perspective, but as UX designer it didn't like anything usual. Every designer I knew in my professional circle, though, wouldn't even bat an eye at it, it was taken for granted that you'd be very attentive to user feedback, after all that's your job! Advocate for the user. What are you wasting your time with if not that?

But maybe it was a bit of a bubble in a sense. Neither I nor the other designers I knew would take a job at a place that didn't understand an appreciate the value of UX (unless that job was specifically to help change that), so that might be it. We didn't just want to be a mockup monkey spitting out pretty designs.
As invasive as they can convince people to buy
>My argument is "Places with heavy racist history tend to look at all kind of non-racist acts as racist, either from guilt or to overcompensate, and then try to force their hyper-sensitivity on others".

Even if this is true, that was a racist statement for the reasons I originally outlined. That doesn't change if Irish say it, and it is of the "x are inferior sense" you mention. That's what has me confused,

>Instead of... act on...

So I should better prioritise the racism I address in my country, ignoring smaller examples until I can fix major ones? I tend to just address the ones I encounter, though I think understanding that past treatment can still cause current problems we need to address is an important message.
It doesn’t seem high quality to me but my standards might be too high. To me, these articles should be what the regular content should be.

One publication that is doing premium content correctly is Business insider. They seem to get the scoop on things that genuinely seem insightful like Behind the scenes into WeWork’s fallout or behind the scenes into an acquisition.
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Now which one was the cause, and which was the effect?
Getting such a library right is hard. Semantics and usage of colors in a palette are hard to generalize and there's almost always the odd extra colors that are needed to highlight something domain specific in a custom control. Also, some themes rely on gradients and mutiple subtle variations of hues and saturation to highlight boundaries, imply an ordering or prioritization, etc...

If you want to see a customization nightmare, look at the theming options in blender: the devs diligently expose every color used by the UI there. The list is massive.

If someone gets all of this right in a generic library, I'll tip my hat to them.
The most important attribute of fake news is the appeal to emotion and outrage, and using that to paint a manipulative picture - that's is the primary reason for this being a fake news. Not even wether or not blood is the biggest export.

As it turns out the "blood category" was a mislabel, it included vaccines as well - thus this fake news lost even that shred of credibility.

But even if this tidbit were true the main original article is still nothing more than propaganda.
Valve doesn't make money the way Facebook makes money. The incentives for how to use the data are much different.
With all due respect to OSM, isn't "the world’s best map data" an exaggeration? Especially if we count satellite images as map data.
Why is it a problem that facebook gets skewed data when spying on its users? It won’t give me any sleepless nights, that’s for sure.
Ask HN: Our PO defines what a 3rd party API should do in Product Requirements
We are experiencing what seems to be a communication breakdown between the Engineering org and the Product org. The Product Owner believes the implementation details are not his responsibility and that we should not couple our product's abilities with our vendors' APIs. Then he defines Product Requirements that

a) do not fully utilize the potential of the vendors' APIs and

b) ignore the APIs' workflow and limitations.

How do I explain to the PO that even though he is not responsible for the technical implementation, the Product Requirements must utilize and conform to the 3rd party APIs?
Maybe you can verify this story that I was told. On a few vacations to Greece I wondered why so many buildings of all shapes and sizes had some re-bar sticking out somewhere, usually at the top of a post. I was told that it is about evading property taxes by never completely finishing construction, that taxes were not due on unfinished buildings. So they were never finished. The buildings were all occupied and fully livable but I guess the owner could point to the re-bar sticking out and say it was not really finished.
Somewhat surprised this hasn't settled out of court then.
This should still be handled by talking to potential users (why don't you use GIMP) and evaluating the cost-benefits of supporting those users.

Case in point, universal undo matters for creative applications like Blender, Gimp, Photosop, Audacity, etc... For how many people are the lack of features like custom branding or dark modes showstoppers in Gimp? And even if it would be nice to have those, are there enough users for whom its a showstopper to justify ignoring existing users who want something focused on their needs?

I'm not arguing that there's never a context where you'd work on stuff on this list, I'm arguing that the list isn't free, and because of that should be prioritized alongside other features and maintenance based on user research.
get 50%, or lose 100%? which one you would prefer?
On the contrary, the joke very clearly expresses to the rest of the world that Greece has some truly ridiculous tax problems. It's like saying Russia is an oligarchy; of course the Russians would be offended by it, but it illustrates the reality succinctly.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted - that was how I read it as well.
I agree with you, and that is pretty much my whole point: all features have a cost, so you need to look at what the real benefits of these are, instead of throwing out a giant list of wants and saying "end users care about these things but programmers don't."

Only point I disagree with is when you say "If the feature costs millions and will result in hundreds of millions in extra sales..." It's never that assured that a feature will bring any extra revenue. I actually spent a ton of time in the 00s porting an enterprise software app to the preferred DB of a huge potential client. It was a months long project, and the client ended up not buying the product in any case, and their DB choice was rare enough that it wasn't a big win in the broader market.
Amazing! This is basically a live action more detailed version of Cities:Skylines. That game taught me how much of a blocker traffic turning across other traffic is, and the benefits of one-way systems in avoiding that.
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I am waiting for the 10nm#.
The operator. People seem to have forgotten that when they get in their car they are driving heavy machinery and have a great deal of power and responsibility. They take it for granted.

After all, the operator deployed the autonomous vehicle and should be responsible for what it does. If they aren't familiar with its capabilities and risks, they should not deploy such a vehicle unless they are willing to bear the responsibility for whatever it might do. Until such a time autonomous vehicles have free will and can be held accountable for their actions, the operator who deployed it assumes that accountability.

This isn't even a new concept. If I let my dog loose in the park and it bites someone, I'm responsible for it. We don't hold dogs responsible for their actions, we hold the owner who "deployed" it responsible.

I'll cede that things are a little murkier when manufacturers are pushing OTA updates to vehicles that change their behavior. But there's no reason the operator and the manufacturer can't share responsibility at a split decided in court.
One of my favourite quotes:

"To a clever crow, a scarecrow is an opportunity" - Alan Scott

(but he in turn may have been quoting someone else)
They just want to make videos easier to monetize I think.
alias b='go build'

`b` is even faster to type :)
How did your API endpoint signal internal errors or parameter errors to the client?
Apparently in many new cars the electric heaters aren't good enough for colder climates, because these engines don't have factory options (or physical accomodation) for an electric heater that would heat the coolant - a lot of the heat is wasted to outside air and heating the engine exterior when the heater is tacked on the side of the engine. And they work with the same limited amount of power as the older ones.
In this case it's automated in the sense that cruise control or garage door remotes are automation. From what I understand the car must have malfunctioned; ie. Starting in gear or having the the shift so loose that it vibrated into gear are both behaviors that it should not exhibit.
Measure with micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
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Sorry, I can't verify this. I don't know it to be either true or false.
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Unfortunately it looks like they may share your data with third parties, which includes their parent company, mail.ru. I personally don’t trust them.
It should at least be flagged in the title as paywalled, to save me the time clicking/half reading before giving up at the wall
Yeah, but the first rule for hiking through the countryside in war torn regions like Bosnia is to avoid known areas of conflict (the war ended in 1995., so memories are fading) and known (or suspected) minefields.

This helps a lot, but it's not a replacement for brain.
One theory I heard on cats leaving dead things for you is that they think of you as a non-effective cat that needs help killin things, similar to a mom cat teaching kittens to hunt.
> "The way to solve that isn't to surveil earnings and spending. It is to make a good case for why people should pay taxes"

What makes you say that? Has that ever worked?

IMO taxpayers should pay their taxes simply because they are citizens and that's the law. If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections.

Tax evasion does in fact reward the corruption that has led to tax evasion.

And the way to end tax evasion IMO is to (1) decrease taxes, as to make the burden bearable for everybody, but then (2) put tax evaders in jail, show no mercy.
You can always customize it. Professionals paint their tools all the time, since you don't want someone taking your drill home from the job site. Every Genie lift rental has the rental company logo bigger and brighter than the Genie logo.

Yes, you can even get your medical scanner in any color you want. One of GE's standard designs is an MRI scanner painted to look like a spaceship, a coral reef, or a hippo:

https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/accessories-and-suppli...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gehealthcare/sets/721576294887...
wow, you're so much better than me in describing what I made :) Thank you so much
Which companies are you talking about? Google & Facebook? Or HubSpot? I only see 1 marketing company in the top 10.
I we where that stupid we wouldn't be able to learn new languages as an adult.
I'd be surprised if it had been. I'd wager Rambler is after the ngnix itself rather than some cash.
Third party doctrine has little to with this case, I agree it is a problem, but that is not what I was talking about in my post

The Thrid Pary doctrine allows the Government to end run the 4th amendment if you discloused info to a 3rd party.

In this instance, the government is claiming they do not have to talk about the technology at all, even to the point of proving it actually does what they claim.

In criminal Trails they treat it as a black box that is magical.. this should not be allowed evidence collected by it directly or as a result of his use should be barred unless the defence has access to the technology fo independent review

The government claims they do not have to disclose anything because they signed a contract with the manufacturer saying they would not disclose anything about the tech.
if you own a house you are rich.
I find StreetComplete to be a handy tool on the phone that lets you enrich OSM data

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
I know that past performance does not indicate future results but looking at their 2013-2016 roadmap [1] which promises 10nm at Q1 2016 (which never happened!), I strongly doubt their future roadmap will hold.

[1] https://wccftech.com/intel-processor-roadmap-leaked-10nm-can...
It’s not the Internet that’s the problem here though, it’s a combination of stupidity/laziness (the easiest part to fix) and bad incentives, business practices and regulations.

The latter part is very hard to fix, because it reflects very diverse human motivations...
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Sounds like a case for swapping to land value tax if I've ever seen one. Can't hide land.
You link to an article about a few conmen using blockchain to fleece money as if to critique the entire industry, so I linked to a $400 billion laundering operation done right under the nose of EU regulators - the scale of that one crime dwarfing the entire market cap of crypto.

Someone using a tool for malice does not mean we outlaw the tool.
How would it be damaged if used while the car is moving? It's just a cable that activates the rear brake caliper independently of the hydraulics.
That sounds like absolute nightmare - at least keep a convention.
That's illegal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

And if it wasn't illegal then insurance companies would simply just demand DNA before underwriting your policy.
I recently looked into using OSM for a side project and after going down a rabbit hole of researching 3rd party tools for generating (vector) tile sets and how to setup a tile server I eventually gave up (my mapping knowledge is limited to using Google Maps through their JS API). Can anyone point me in the direction of a more complete resource/tutorial that would help? Eager to get back on it at some point.

I clicked "Use an all-in-one solution" on the Serving Tiles page but it 404'd.
All of the data-science posts I was given were Medium articles but all with 404 errors.
> Increase VAT for cash payments

People don't pay VAT on cash-in-hand payments, though do they?
That is Google
Oh wow, I wasn’t aware of this. I will definitely be re-evaluating them…
In latest BBC seven worlds one planet, there is nice display of their mating dance... fascinating little buggers (like all other animals on the show, small and big)
How strongly is it coloring my views of what somebody else presumably from the same country said?
If you prepay all your expenses you can live on $0 a month... That's not a very useful argument.
The article talks about 3D maps of user's environment. One can infer what kind of furniture and home appliances you have and use, for example.
Carmack does not appear to be against this: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1204938668680634368
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I was automatically redirected to the version in Spanish[] that says that location access is optional. But if I go to the English version[], it says it is mandatory. I wonder if 1) the Spanish version of the documentation is not up to date or 2) they don't do this in the European market.

[] https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3092?language=es

[] https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3092?language=en
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Then why would I as a developer bother with it at all? I don't want to serve ads someone else is getting paid for from my app. And if my app was to be funded by ads, then what? Display twice the number of ads to the user?
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Looks promising. But I don't see any sort of XML-like component layout/config so I assume it's all done by calling methods? That sounds kind of kludgy. Or am I missing an example?
Yes, using the topo map grid lines.
Email lists are not private if you choose to sign up for one and post to it, the same way Twitter is not private if you choose to sign up and post to it. Email lists are very similar to Usenet which was the precursor to all these social media sites.
it is also an indication of a highly regulated industry which disqualifies a lot of would be workers for better or worse. There are many issues which prevent hiring, ranging from certain felonies on your record, if there are outstanding warrants, and that a CDL comes with drug and alcohol testing. This is on top of the obvious issues with your driving history.

While there is this big push to legalize drugs like marijuana it does not negate federal and state rules against its use legal or not and certain occupations.
The quickest way to get rid of foggy windows is max heat, with AC on.
I agree, they care about battery performance, but they don't understand the correlation of CPU to battery so they don't purchase based on that criteria.

The vendor that makes the device definitely cares though I wonder how much Intel cares about consumer oroducts as percentage of mkt share compared to servers.
9.5 rules of doing business in Russia

1. Keep your servers abroad.

2. Register your domains abroad.

3. Register your company abroad.

4. Keep your money abroad and don't put all eggs in one basket.

5. Seriously, don't put all your eggs in one basket!

6. Keep your database abroad.

7. Document everything regarding your office setup.

8. Split the risks and assets.

9. You can give youself up voluntarily. Find a large patron or manage law enforcement protection yourself.

10. Leave the country.
When I bought an Oculus Quest, the fact that Oculus is owned by Facebook was slightly bothersome, but I honestly don't care a whole lot about this particular data at this particular time (basically just game playing).

It's Facebook Horizon[1] that's the worrisome thing. I'm pretty sure they're trying to build the OASIS from Ready Player One.

[1]: https://www.oculus.com/facebookhorizon/
> Why would we make them take out huge loans

You wouldn't, like you weren't paying to do your military service.

> engaging directly with the world via travel or talking to people outside our bubble

A mandatory year mixing all social classes is, by definition, "bubble-popping". In fact this still happens today, when young people are forced to leave their home town they lived all their life in in order to go to the university.

Also, nothing is preventing a university from having some practical workshops... (I know a lot of people that got their truck-driving license during their military service) and a big university should be able to have some much more expensive training machinery than a small school.

P.S.: Oliv(i)er Faron is far from being young and foolish...
> IMO taxpayers should pay their taxes simply because they are citizens and that's the law. If the taxes aren't bearable or just or aren't spent wisely, then they should vote accordingly at the next elections

Let's assume that this is the reason for tax obligations. What will be the equivalent statement made for the government? Government should collect taxes from citizens because it's the law to collect taxes from citizens?

Tax collection isn't a sport. It's toward national development. If one end happens (tax collection) but the other doesn't (national development), expect rational beings to change attitude towards the first.
we still won't allow trains to operate without onboard supervision and they should much easier to automate
It’s electromagnetic simulation, specifically finite element. You can parallelize some of the math, but mostly not. You can break the structure into smaller sub-domains, but that has issues too. Not much gain beyond 2-4 cores.
No, we had calls drop often enough when I was a kid. But we didn't live in a big city, and it wasn't surprising to us when it happened.

It happened about as often as it happens to me with a cellphone when neither party is moving between towers and has decent coverage.

We expect cell drops because of a technology constraint, even in big cities. Likewise, I think the parent poster is right that we'll expect it more once it starts happening more.
I quite like OSMand's look: much more information, and quite easy to pick features apart. But you can also switch the map style inside the app itself.

Navigation is modal in OSMand (you can define your own modes, as well as use the predefined ones), so you can for instance have a hiking mode with a topographic view, or a car mode that hides finer details like trees and cycleways.
Interesting bias indeed. medium term ~ambition versus long term patience
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