skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a good open replacement for point of interest search in the mapping space? This is the main thing I end up switching back to Google Maps for. Open Street Maps is good if I already know my address ahead of time, but at least the Android incarnation (Osmand+) has a search UI only a mother could love. Even if that worked consistently, it seems to just not have more than half of the businesses nearby. Am I missing an option somewhere?
It’s interesting to me that you came away from this thinking that I didn’t realize the eng size growth was the problem. I specifically said in the third tweet that hypergrowth was the problem. I even went on to say why it was a problem. The entire point of including the details about the org growth was specifically to draw you to that conclusion.
There is a very common "going somewhere to live" in the EU that is not done for economic reasons, namely Erasmus where the motivation is a year of partying while ostensibly studying. Those Erasmus stints often turn into another move abroad for another non-economic reason: having met a partner from another EU member state while studying abroad.

Mobility in the EU from East to West may be done mainly for better job prospects, but there are definitely other reasons that people take advantage of free movement.
Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19
I've been happy with Microsoft Exchange for years.

Pushes straight to Apple Mail on iPhone/iPad etc
I also deal with bipolar but I actually attribute being able to work in startups to it. I mostly have up days so I can go 10 hours without losing interest a week and a half at a time. But this comes with the downside of having a handful of days a month where I legit couldn’t churn out a couple hours worth of work no matter how hard I try. Luckily the places I’ve worked don’t care too much as I can make up for it the next day in one of my super sprints.
This isn’t good for my mental health in the long run, probably, but tbh I’d deal with it anyway so I don’t think I could handle a normal 9-5: when I was younger and I worked those types of jobs my down days would be depressing for sure I don’t know how I managed other than maybe it’s gotten worse with age.
The practice of drawing conclusions about people or their cultures based on properties of their language has been controversial since at least the original Sapir and Whorf stuff.

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

If you admire or appreciate a culture, you might argue that the culture's values or history or distinctive outlook are directly reflected in grammatical features or vocabulary of an associated language. While this might be true in some ways and to some extent, it's something that's also very easy to deceive yourself about. You can easily make up a story about how distinctions that one language does (or doesn't) draw reflect the excellence or more appropriate priorities of its speakers' culture. Like "oh, this language makes distinctions that English doesn't -- because the people who speak it are so attuned to perceiving fine details!" or "oh, this language doesn't make distinctions that English does -- showing how its speakers are not distracted by the pointless minutia that occupy us in settled industrial civilization!".

A challenge to this kind of analysis is that studies of linguistic typology (deep structural features that languages do or don't have in common) show languages with, and without, particular characteristics all over the world, in languages spoken by people from all different kinds of cultures and societies. Most generalizations that might be given a higher significance just sort of fall flat when you look at typology data. Oh, that cool thing that we like in this language -- is also present in this other language from a different culture and part of the world! Oh, that thing we find annoying or irritating -- is present elsewhere too.

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

A kind of counterexample that I learned from John McWhorter's books is that complicated irregularities in languages (e.g. a very large number of noun classes with distinctive classifiers and agreement rules, or a very large number of irregular verb forms) are likely a sign of smaller and more isolated speaker communities, whereas simplification that removes these irregularities is associated with circumstances in which more people have to use a language non-natively (and therefore have a harder time mastering these details), which could include migration, social disruptions, or the widespread use of a language as a lingua franca, trade language, language of imperial administration, etc. That does mean that indigenous languages (especially if they have almost exclusively been used by a native speaker community in a relatively small area) can often be harder to learn for non-native speakers.

But you still can't necessarily count on cultural generalizations based on those observations. One exercise you can try to do (maybe this is also an idea from McWhorter?) is pick a random set of characteristics that some language might have, and then try to come up with an essay explaining why those features show how awesome or admirable the speakers' culture must be. If it sounds deeply plausible, then maybe that's a sign that people aren't actually good at being objective about this. :-)
I didn't know about it, so big thanks. That for sure will be a useful tool. However, that was only one example of what I'd like to be able to do. I'd also really like visibility into the ranking algorithm and to be able to tweak the criteria it prioritizes to suit the interests of my search.
Yes, exactly! The nice thing about framing information discovery as a stream-processing problem is that you can plug other methods into it. For a long time I was thinking just in terms of user-item rating matrices, i.e. collaborative filtering. You've got a list of users, a list of items, and ratings for some of those pairs. Pick 10 items to show a given user. But that doesn't give the user a whole lot of control.

If you think in terms of stream processing instead, you can treat collaborative filtering/other types of recommender systems as some black box that generates a stream. For example, Findka's ML recommendation algorithm picks a handful of articles for each user every day. It's just another stream, and it can be treated exactly the same way as any of the RSS feeds that users subscribe to.

So you get a list of sources, some of which are "regular" RSS feeds, some of which are algorithmically generated--and they can come from within Findka or from outside--and then the user should be able to decide how those feeds are aggregated. Bandit algorithms I think are a great fit (including contextual bandits!), but you can also include manual controls. e.g. you could say "feed X should be 10% of my main sink feed", or "feed Y should be no more than 5% of my main sink feed." Or give priorities--sample from all the feeds in priority 1 until the contents are exhausted, then move to priority 2 etc. There are probably lots of interesting things that could be done in this space.

Recommendation algorithms are often opaque out of necessity (I guess more generally, ML algorithms), but at least this way they wouldn't be in control of everything.
The "individual responsibility" argument, going back to 1970s anti-littering campaigns and the crying (fake) Indian (fake) TV advert (and before), are corporate gambits to shirk their own obligations:

Annie Leonard, "Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change" (2013) [pdf]

http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-fro...
- Other metrics such as how many contributors and organizations are involved, how many user feature requests and bugs getting reported, those are all important project importance and not just "dependency count". some projects can be standalone, so as per your algo, those should be very low.
- Downloads data is not available for most repos, please find a reliable metric to use.
- Package repo dependencies works, but it does not work for C/C++. At some point, we will integrate github's dependency count info as well.
>Why does why she was fired relevant?

It's not. I never even mentioned that. The article was supporting my comment above by showing the emails between the state epidemiologist and her dept. I havent found any better source for those emails.

>Also your article goes literally against what you said.

No, it doesn't, if you read the article you will see it supports the facts I gave (see my other comment in this thread).
Take a look at JStock, it has an algorithmic stock screener.
But the 96% of natural CO2 emissions didn't drop, did they?
Turn down the promotion. Surprised not to see this suggestion here.

I’ve been a C*O many times in my career. Now I’m a IC. I have a strong salary and the directors in the last few companies I worked suffered more, and had more volatile continuity in their positions. The ICs can stick around forever. Not sure why I’d want to go higher in the kind of orgs I’m doing well in now. Someday it’ll be different, but for now... no promotions, thank you.
It's not true—there was no special treatment. I was there, and it was very clear that they were applying just like everybody else.

To say otherwise is cynical bullshit, and you guys should really pause before reinforcing talented-but-disadvantaged people's worry that they don't have a shot. They do have a shot, and if you had any idea how hard YC works not to overlook applicants who show up without special connections, you'd be ashamed of yourselves.
if that functionality isn't already present in the UI, e.g. by selecting a filter or exporting, then perhaps it belongs in the domain of a scraper rather than a testing tool
I don't understand why do you think that app stores are something that is even needed?
Mine as well, which surprised me since I thought that glass (probably separated by colour) was one of, if not the only, material that was less costly to recycle than make from scratch.

I'm already skeptical of the overall impact of recycling in general; I feel as though it makes people feel like they're helping the environment while turning attention away from the mass polluters. I'm definitely cynical, but I'd really like to be proven wrong on that last point.
I feel like one of these gets posted every month, and it's the same discussion every month.
Donald Trump literally proved, as long as you say what people want to hear, that's all that matters.
Why not clean then reuse the glass bottles (skipping crush, melt and fabricating)? This is what was done up until the 80s.
This doesn’t surprise me. I’m not epileptic, but one night under strobes at a club I had a full on tonic-clonic seizure. I hadn’t been drinking, or taken any hard drugs, but I had been consuming a lot of caffeine syrups to study at university that week.

Caffeine is a hell of a drug!
It's stealth [1] and the tl;dr is that I'm trying to build a browser that doesn't compromise on tracking, so it has to have a peer-to-peer cache and some intercepting features, such as rewriting files before the malicious parts reach the client.

It's still very prototypical, so use with care. Lots of things don't work yet.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
It kind of sounds like the NOAA is threatening to go on strike.
Is just search broken, or is the data itself not there?
All in all a decent effort at providing some Google alternatives. However, if the focus is on privacy I would not even recommend any services that are not specifically privacy-focused (IMO), even with a disclaimer. I would encourage anyone to self-review any services listed.

Godaddy is offered as a domain and website host, when they have been known to inject JavaScript tracking code unbeknownst to the user [0].

[0] https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2019/01/13/godaddy-is-s...
99% of successful Instagram stories are hot girls doing things, anything.
Ask HN: Starting a new job, unsure if I will keep up
Hey HN! I'd really like some advice right now.

I'll be starting a new job at a great company working on robotics, as an intern! It's an area that I am really interested in working in, but never got the chance to. I've always worked on robotics but never in this area. The team that I will be working with has already given me a list of things that I should be well versed with before joining (in about 3 weeks) which I have no issues with, I mean sooner or later I have to learn these things.

But the main reason for my anxiety is this: I will be working on a very small team (3 of us in total, including me the intern), with a client. Unlike the traditional research roles that I was working in so far, this is a stark contrast. The team has already told me that the project will be fast paced and I will be expected to know the stuff that we will be working on.

This is my first job after working in research labs at unversity and I'm daunted by it. I am slightly anxious by nature and I feel I'm pushing against my threshold here. My main intention with this experience is to get relevant industry exposure before joining grad school (joining in the Fall 2021, already enrolled).

I would love some adivce on what the folks here maybe did when they were in a similar situation.

Thanks HN! All comments are appreciated.
-roboticsGuy
Aaah, that’s the dream! The best part of Linux workstation is setting it up perfectly, in a way that completely blows away everything else on your personal workflows. And the worst part is doing it again.

I use mostly macOS now but I’ve been thinking about using my desktop for work now that WFH and all that, so I need to embark on the Linux journey and this looks like a great starting point.

I did try Nix once but it was hard to love.

Edit: and hey you package Notion :)
It’s not about collecting info before you open the app. What happens with most people is they open the app, request a ride, then close the app again and do something else until the driver has arrived notification. Location services start out with a wider range and narrow in on you over time, so a longer collection window gives more precision.
Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change“ (2013) [pdf]
Same. Switched a couple years ago.
What do the new PlayStation and Xbox use?
To truly cater to the broad range, they should make it easier to filter out slumlords with a toggle to find listings that retain the classic feeling, so that the people who prefer a hotel feeling but with less regulations can also filter out personalized experiences.
An alternative to raising taxes is to decrease spending.
Or just reuse the bottle
Yeah just because criminals do crimes and avoid prosecution, we should give up prosecuting crimes. Schools can build themselves.
Do you really notice the extra milliseconds?
The best explanation of money laundering is this scene from Breaking Bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez6xH-su2xI

Most money that people make illegally (selling drugs, etc.) is cash, because you can’t trace cash transactions. The problem is that it’s hard to use cash, and just depositing vast sums of money in the bank raises the obvious question of where the money came from. At some point, even if they can’t prove that the money came from anything illicit, they can prove that you aren’t paying income taxes on it, which is a federal felony by itself.

So you need to operate a business that also deals largely in cash, slip your illicit cash into the businesses’ revenue, cook the books and make it look like the money came from your legitimate business and not your illegitimate one, and Bob’s your uncle, at least in theory. In practice, legitimate cash businesses are more and more rare as time goes on, and investigators are really good at noticing when some random nail salon or bar has a lot more revenue than they should.

Also, don’t be stupid enough to operate your illegal business out of your legal, money-laundering front. Seattle used to have an extremely sketchy but extremely good cash-only teriyaki joint downtown, but they got busted for fencing stolen iPads after hours. Which explains a lot about why they never accepted credit cards, I guess, but they were a thriving teriyaki joint and I kind of miss them.
related: testing-framework has been adapted for cypress. It encourages this kind of thinking and testing.

I've used cypress at work but have suspended it since we used it end-to-end and it clogged up backend databases.
Photographer says Instagram bias threatens her body-positive image business
Sorry if this is nitpicking but isn't there a plastic liner in soda cans?

It's funny to me the alternative is already widely distributed by the same company.
Did you ever need to mix cypress tests with anything else? Say for example I wanted to have cypress click through a frontend, and then make a separate backend call to verify something happened in the same test run. Is there a clean way to do that in a cypress context, or is playwright / puppeteer going to be a better fit?
"assumption that a 'wealth tax' will lead to a more equitable system"

Where is this assumption stated?

I always thought Wealth Tax was to prevent concentration of wealth.
Anecdotally the Midwestern cul-de-sac I grew up in was utterly devoid of community and pretty much nobody in the development knew anybody else, except for to judge each other.
hahaha, don't sweat it mate. I'm right along there with you. I was surrounded by people dropping buckets of cash for GPUs back at the dawn of deep learning and was therefore naturally tempted to buy Nvidia's stock price (30$ at the time). In the end, I shied away due to the high PE too.

I take solace in the fact that some of biggest regrets or mistakes that Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger say they have made are those that you don't see - the deals they could have done but didn't and, in retrospect, should have.
Tensorflow ranking higher than Linux is a weird one. Tensorflow debuted to a huge amount of hype, but it could fall over and nearly all our software systems would be totally fine.

The rest in that list seem reasonable.
Sorry for the snark, but if you have even a casual interest in linguistics, the concept of linguistic relativity (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis), namely that the language you speak determines/affects your world view, has been done to death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

This article presents yet another pop-sci version of this, with a fair dose of the "noble savage" trope to boot:

> Our current climate crisis is the direct result of this unbridled exploitation ... the language had a harmonious relationship with the environment ... Could the rich vocabulary of the Inuit inspire us to redefine our relationship with nature?

No, it doesn't work that way, because the strong version of the hypothesis is essentially disproven (in geek terms, all natural languages are "Turing-complete" and can be used to express anything) and evidence even for the weak version is, well, weak. Correlation does not imply causation, and Western culture won't change if we import a few more Inuit words into it.
Opaque pricing and the inability to compare clearly is what keeps customers with companies - it's been used for years by phone/cable for example.

Cloud companies can either offer very fine grained pricing - where you pay small amounts for everything (bandwidth in and out, storage, cpu, memory usage, etc) which will be tied to how they have implemented their product (often charged on a cost+%profit basis). Or bundle stuff up in tiers (developer, business, enterprise levels etc) which are simpler to understand but can work out expensive if you use up your limit.

AWS atleast provides tools for working out costs - it should also be possible to model your app costs in a spreadsheet for each service provider.
Of course there's a cost of living arbitrage but that's everywhere. Many people work in London but live out of London, it's a choice you can make and it comes at a cost(travel times) that you may or may not want to take just as the Polish don't see their family for long time.

In Turkey there used to be the argument against Women working, they said professional women are making man unemployed or underpaid causing social problems. It's not that different from the argument that Polish employment are causing British social problems. What about doing better job than an immigrant who can barely speak yor language? But no, they banning competition is easier.
How does that work, though? Wouldn’t someone notice if you bought real estate and paid for it with a briefcase full of cash? Wouldn’t you still end up with a legal record of having purchased real estate with more money than you can explain from your declared, taxable income? There has to be some sort of angle for real estate to work.
I think being an Esperanto speaker as an implicit requirement has kept it safe from Eternal September.
That’s only if use their name servers right? I’ve used godaddy for 13-14 years on personal sites and I just point the domains to my own ip.
Every year Forbes publishes a list of the wealthiest people in the world with a number next to their name. If Forbes can do it I'm sure a properly staffed and funded IRS could too.
While that might be true, if you asked 100 people on the street if water is a human right, 99 would say yes. In nearly every comment thread here there is at least one unique poster saying no.

Bubble may be the wrong word, but we certainly have many more people here that are far removed from the real world.
Why does the first world have the smallest of problems?

Everytime i open social media someone has some disease I have never heard of but when googled has the same symptoms of a basic cough. lol.

You should come to India. People here are quite chilled out when it comes to physical or mental problems. They dont see a form and go well. This hurts my feelings
COVID19 vaccine candidate scrapped after false positives on HIV test
https://PhotoStructure.com is just me, and I'm delighted daily by great user feedback.

> Defining successful as a profitable business

Ooooh. _That_ kind of successful. Nope, not profitable yet.
I'm advocating for a ranking algorithm aligned to the benefit to the users, instead of the marketers. I think you're not appreciating Google's ranking algorithms lending a hand to the popularity of SEO. Their rankings are certainly not objective.

As for "far too valuable of a piece of real estate"... I feel like that's an unimaginative view trapped in the commercial state that we're in. Perhaps if Google had beat Wikipedia to online encyclopedias, but had pumped theirs with ads, we'd be saying the same thing about the far too valuable real estate of online information.
If not for more equitable society, what's wrong with concentration of wealth?
In what way does google invade your privacy that has made you worse off?
That's a very narrow take on the matter. One can be deceitful with perfect information. In general you can use small prints or psychological tricks and conceal your true aim. If you know that by presenting information in a certain manner leads the user to be more willing to accept harmful conditions, then you're being sneaky even though you're technically being open.
> There are other alternatives to Google Chrome like Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Edge but many of these have serious privacy issues.

Really? I don't anything about Edge, but what serious privacy issues does Safari have? It doesn't send data back to Apple as far as I can tell. I can use ad blockers and tracker blockers with it. Or when they say "some of these" do they mean "one of these two?"
How often do you buy groceries?
My husband and I created the app that help you to create and balance weekly diet. When we started, there were tons of apps that count your calories and track your daily meals…(which makes no sense from the nutritional sense, considering, that most nutrients accumulate in your body over time), but anyways… there were literally no apps which were focusing on weekly balanced diets. We developed one. Since the moment we released the app, honestly, maintaining a healthy weekly diet couldn’t be easier.

Now I'm having hard times to understand how many people buy groceries for a week and whether they will be interested in the app...