skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever wrote this doesn't understand their subject.

> In the case of the modern web, this activity of making rules out of chaos is already done professionally under job titles like search engine optimization.

This is a complete mis-characterisation of SEO, and alerted me to the author's lack of knowledge of their subject in paragraph 2.

There's more inaccuracies in there. I gave up reading after a bit. They cite a lot of philosophy, but clearly don't understand the tech.
Can't speak about Eastern Europe, but here in the Netherlands the public transport with Google Maps is really good. Including live-timing as to when your tram will arrive.
> It is now significantly easier to build a search engine with its own index and crawl the entirety of the Internet than it was ten years ago.

ReCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, CloudFlare definitely don't make it easier to crawl the web than it was ten years ago
Here maps is good too. I'm always amazed how it consistently gets the speed limit right even in sparsely populated areas and small towns, where the speed limit often changes literally every 50 meters.
I'm not sure "much worse", maybe worse, but yet comparable and still useful. Apple Maps, on the other hand... sheesh.
Hats off to Bozhidar - what a guy. One of life's great contributors.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

It was changed from a felony to a misdemeanour.
Vitabotta has a cool tutorial for the old rancher OS to get it running on wireguard which I found super helpful.
I thought that's because Google stopped doing street view because of German privacy laws. Without the street view cars roaming around there's a lot less street level data to be had.
I’ve heard and read about all these initiatives that you and few others mentioned in your replies. However, (as per original question) I’m surprised we’re not investing much more resources into these.
Again, super naive me - we put a lot of money and resources into finding the vaccine for covid and it quickly paid out, I think if we did the same for fusion energy we would also see big leaps in smaller period of time.

Or is fusion energy really not just a matter of how much cash we throw at the problem? I don’t buy that.
Your terrible posting might cause someone to stab themselves in the eyes. That's also on you.
Of course, people still expect the price raise. But it's hard to imagine it will turn into a bubble.
Typing "Hey Siri, set an alarm for 10am" doesn't sound remotely like an improvement over the old alarm UX.
It's not a native application, but datasette (https://datasette.io/) can get you pretty far thanks to the power of SQL
You might like https://iko.ai. Depending on what you do, of course:

- Collaborative notebooks.

- Long-running notebook scheduling:no more oops, I closed the browser tab.

- Automatic experiment tracking: detect and save metrics, params, and model so you don't have to remember to do it or pollute your code.

- Deploy a model in one click to a REST endpoint, and monitor your model's performance. Or package it into a Docker image and push it to a registry.

Here's an invite link:
https://iko.ai/invite/lEMzE_hKwJ2SUbfLdnK7SbZb1c3zUCOAQexakL...
Not sure if you mean for fitness or life coaching?

If you process thoughts by talking a life coach may help. They will have a series of questions they will work through with you. I have been through the process. My main conclusion is that it's hard to respect a coach who doesn't know about your field of work.

I have a good friend I touch base with sometimes which I find more rewarding. It started as a bit of a joke, "maybe you could coach me for free?" We talk every couple of months for an hour and I find it very valuable. In particular, talking through issues with someone who's opinion you respect.
If available, anything marked “Pancetta” will suit better than smoked bacon. They are not the same thing.

Guanciale is pretty much impossible to find outside of Italy, at least in regular supermarkets. I reckon it’s because nobody can pronounce it
I live in London and for commuting around via public transport OR walking I always use Citymapper, which is massively superior than Google Maps for directions. I suspect they are using Googles APIs underneath it all, but their UI is better than Google maps and also their recommended public transport directions are orders of magnitude better than Google Maps.

Citymapper will get you between any two locations in London and give you many options based on cost or time or preference for one transport type (e.g. preferring tubes versus buses). Citymapper also gives multi-modal directions: e.g. walking PLUS take an Uber. Or walking, tube, then a cab. Not only this, but it ALSO tells you where you should sit on a train so you have the least walk when you exit the train.
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Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
> ...it'll take decades ...

I'm very literal.

Google maps was released in 2005. The upper limit on how long it would take Apple to build the whole thing from literally nothing is 15 years, if they are investing to improve their service.

Let alone with computer vision, satellite imagery, hardware improvements and the ability to lazily copy the interface Google has created which would speed the process up.
Yes, I have to constantly remind other front-end developers that we don’t need to be pixel-perfect faithful to Zeplin or the story. It is more of a guide and you can always bring up any concerns you have or if you think something should be done differently and we can talk about it.
KIA Niro EV is close. Very conservative, physical buttons for pretty much everything (thank god), modest screen, seems very reliable. Not lightweight though.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Linux on the 2020 Thinkpad X1 Fold?
How good is the pen input, display management when in different folding angles..etc
Even for non color blinds...
I would highly recommend reading the book A Fire Upon the Deep, if this sort of thought interests you.

Also gets covered in Star Trek, Star Gate, Battlestar Gallactica. (Yes super geek alert)
I bought a car (Citroën) a few years ago, and told the dealer I wanted it so the rear lights would always be on. They configured whatever doohickey is responsible for that, and made sure to charge me for it. But now the rear lights are always on, like they're supposed to, and I feel a little safer.

I think it's super dumb that it's not a requirement any more, and I don't see any reason for the change.
> It is baffling to me that the BBC, a fairly respectable organization, allows this sort of terrible journalism

Unfortunately, the BBC is not what it used to be. In fact, it has probably never been as unpopular.
Mapy.cz is far better than Google in case of Slovakia or Czech Republic. They have full coverage of high resolution pictures taken from planes and not satellites. Also these contain all the hiking, cycling and other routes. The native Android and iOS apps work great and support offline maps - you can download the whole map for a country with one click. Google Maps is unusable for sport or hiking because you only see a large green blob instead of the terrain with contour lines with altitude markings, all trails and roads and POI. Yes, Mapy.cz can't compete with car navigation, but everything else is miles better (and navigation on foot is better too).
Thankfully (1) there just aren't that many useful websites anymore. Most content lives in walled gardens. Negotiate a few deals to get around CloudFlare for those select few and you're set.

[1] I'm being sarcastic.
One thing I have noticed and found really irritating is the degradation of the street view functionality in Google maps. They have got lazy. I used to be able to click or keyboard navigate through a route but now it either stops responding to clicks, transports me onto a nearby motorway randomly,or gets massively unresponsive.

I am very glad there is some competition coming, as good as Google maps is they are clearly resting on their laurels and not bothering to fix blatant issues.

Competition is good.
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Great article, but I think the conclusion about Google Maps languishing because it’s a low margin product is wrong.

While Google Maps as a distinct product has a bottom and top line I think the author underestimates the value that the underlying places data has for Google’s core search product.

The local place data is _massivley_ important to search. I don’t see any foreseeable way Google let’s the product that generates it languish. It’s far too strategic for them. Not to mention the amount of brand value maps has for them as an ecosystem.

My view is that as Google’s Maps advantage dwindles, they’ll do more and more strategic acquisitions of places data sources. Tying more data into their closed ecosystem. Whether the new tech anti-trust landscape in the US and EU allows this is another question.
If you click on the first link, it says "This essay no longer reflects the current state of Google & Apple Maps".
I have no problem with that, it works fine for me too, but public transport routing here (the actual mapping functionality) in Den Haag is broken and has been for years.

Even when I don't encounter obvious bugs, Google serves up illogical routes.
Designing a sync service with Go and Postgres
> maybe they are scanning cities for their self-driving cars and are also using this data for Maps?

I think that sounds plausible. I don't see why else they would resume scanning parts of Germany even though they have to blur out large chunks of it on Streetview.
It's not really a counter point since OP links it and discusses it.
"Macaroni" is a very old synonym for "pasta". It used to have a different broader meaning than the shape.
“Do you really get phones shipped all the way from China?”

What’s the problem with specialised goods coming from a country that specializes in making such goods...?
I'm in the process to get my sugar intake down. It fuels inflammation. I can see already improvements in the condition of my skin. So I will go on. A piece of cake every now and then is fine for me.
Whenever that happens, I try to ask a better question. Sometimes, I'll refine my question in order to ask it on forums, and I'll converge to one question for which I know how to find a solution.

The "I found the answer when I was writing the question".
Collectibles can very much generate price bubbles. Some of them are quite slow to inflate/deflate, and thus not very exciting/newsworthy, but even those are bubbles.
You need to do that 7 days a week? Did you do that before the pandemic as well?

I assume you'd go out and meet some people? Sports? Other out-of-house activities, that's all time you can use as "you" time now.
I'd add the mentioned user suggestion `set -Eeuo pipefail`.
I have one on my desk right now.

I am not sure what to use it for, but I do not want to get rid if it, and I want to keep its original hardware.

I like looking at it.

I also liked the LC520 from school, but that is a different aesthetic.
>Disabled javascript also works

This isn't true. I just tested it with Javascript disabled. After about 5 articles, the text is greyed out and you can't read the rest of of the article:

https://imgur.com/a/KCF9yPE
Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest technology companies
Seconded. I already told my wife that if and when we'll be moving to a country house, I want to have walls made like on starships in Star Trek - with space in the walls through which cabling runs, covered by disguised access panels that can be taken off.

(I'm not sure she fully understands how serious I'm about it, and the extent to which I want to push it. I want them across the whole wall, i.e. so I could, if need be, reroute any cabling throughought the entire floor.)
One of several advantages military/policing/etc forces have is detailed records of what worked & what didn't in a confrontation, and the other doesn't even necessarily know that they are fighting. That and purpose-built gear which nearly goes without saying.

Something I've noticed with the riots in Europe/America/China/the Middle East/Africa is that we now have first hand video footage of how situations play out. Often longform over 20 minutes which goes far beyond what traditional media forces would show.

It isn't anywhere near enough to erase the organisational gap, but it is the furthest along the civilians have ever been in that game.
Depending on your tolerance for accuracy, rubidium standards are much cheaper and smaller. Obviously the second is defined in terms of cesium, so if you really want to be the reference clock for your entire country, you're going to need to shell out the cash for a cesium standard. But if you merely want to be within a nanosecond per day, rubidium is fine for that.
Google's bigger moat over
Mapping software is the fact that they own android.
But what if a bit flips in a header or in the OS's file length field?
I have found that in any situation that goes beyond one off research or experimentation into something that needs to be orchestrated oe deployed in production, you need to move to a language with a lot of bells and whistles libraries which are usually better accessed proceedurally rather than functionally. This is because at that stage, your users are no longer people who understand your code base or are even know programming necessarily.

You can do algorithm development in MATLAB or R or Julia or whatever and figure out ways to either translate the logic to Python/C++ later or setup some kind of IPC for production software engineers to call (platform/orchestration stuff is usually Python or Java)...

...OR you can just develop your algorithms in Python and keep code comprehension and platform integration much simpler for everyone
I don't know if you want to build the same kind of system but at least you can get a list of parts that work together.

I use my Truenas box for storage using ZFS, VMs and NFS server for different PCs.

I bought ECC memory as I understand this is more or less a requirement for ZFS.

I found out that FreeBSD which Truenas is based on can give you info about what type of RAM is present.

The command is:
# dmidecode -t memory

According to this I have ECC RAM. :)

I did a build with the following parts:

Case: SST-CS380 V2 (space for 8 3.5" drives, 2 x ).
Mainboard: ASRock X470D4U2-2T
Power supply: Seasonic Focus Plus 550W Gold 80 Plus Full Modular Power Supply
RAM: Kingston Server Premier, DDR4, 16 GB, KSM26ED8/5 M
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Wraith Spire CPU
Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II
NVMe to PCI bridge: ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 (PCIe 4.0/3.0) supports 4X NVMe M.2 devices (2242/2260/2280/22110) up to 256 Gbps for AMD TRX40 / X570 PCIe 4.0 NVMe RAID and Intel® RAID platform - CPU features

I bought all this from Amazon.de. The main board is a server main board with 10 GE Ethernet and a console for flashing bios and remoting into the machine - no graphics card needed. This was expensive and you can most likely save a lot using a consumer grade main board.

The RAM was taken from the list provided at
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X...

The CPU models supported are here:
https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X...

Be careful not to buy an AMD APU - this doesn't support ECC RAM for some insane reason. An APU would have build in graphics and the CPU.

I use both SATA drives (long term storage) and SDD drives (for speed).

I created two ZFS volumes (I don't remember the proper terms). One for rotating discs (which could sleep most of the time) and one using SDDs for fast storage which doesn't use much power.

I have 6 KW solar cells with battery so I don't really care if the box uses a lot of power. During daylight its more or less free when sun is shining. I get next to nothing when selling the electricity that I generate and would like to use as much as possible locally.
And people from neuro come into AI for short rotations pretty regularly to do astoundingly naive work there which amounts to nothing at all.

Maybe both fields could stop flinging shit and realize that they are both missing a key piece of the puzzle...
Or the ASDF version manager that covers all of them, and much more.
Isn't the immunodepressed child the kid with the problem? Shouldn't he be denied of services instead of the healthy kid? It sounds so backwards.
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I help run a service that relies on Wasabi. This outage is rough. It’d be nice to have a workaround while their domain is resolving. As artwis mentioned, an alternative domain would suffice.

As it is, we’re scrambling to come up with a workaround.
Teams of 1-4 people making indie games are either:

1) Using an existing product like Unity or Unreal Engine or GameMaker.
2) Using their own engine but with very basic graphics.

"Ghost of a Tale" uses Unity. "The Forest" uses Unity.

So yeah, it's not "that hard" if you use a product which has already had millions of developer hours put into it like Unity or UnrealEngine.

Take away any prepackaged game engine and see if either of those two developer teams would have been able to make those games. :)
AFAIK the plant produces more resin, and some compounds therein, to protect itself from the suns UVB radiation.
> and the building codes require more outlets than most people need

Does it, though? Never in my life I've seen a house anywhere in the countries I've been to, that would have a sufficient number of outlets. Myself I think corded devices are fine, but houses come with way too few outlets.
Yeah, from my research the EZ Flash IV has some limitations(like max 2GB card support and miniSD only??), so the EverDrive X5 is recommended.....but that's £130 apparently??

https://www.deadpanrobot.co.uk/everdrive-gba-x5-mini-for-gam...
Is it ad hominem to point out facts about someone's history? I'm not being facetious, I'm honestly asking!

This piece is only short and not super bias so people should read it and decide. I think longer more bias pieces do deserve a disclaimer/warning lable. Is that fair?
I am not sure I get the idea behind that organization. Putting people to prison because they are addicts is a dumb idea, however I read here:

"Medical prescriptions – for registered users of drugs such as injectable heroin"

"Specialist Pharmacists. - Sales to registered adult users – for drugs such as amphetamine, powder cocaine and MDMA"

It sounds like we say "ok, you take drugs so we will sell them to you".

Many drugs ruin people health (physical or mental), so I would assume we should somehow help people to give up addiction, here we are just helping them to buy drugs legally.

What if someone is not able to work and cannot purchase drugs any longer? Shall those drugs be provided free of charge then? Is that really something society should provide as something free?

I understand that war on drugs kind of went too far, but I think that remedy to it cannot go too far in the opposite direction.
I think there may be some valid points behind this invective, but you’re not making them. Bitcoin was a compromise because it seemed like the only viable alternative to a rapidly unraveling monetary system. My guess is that your grievances are due there, and not to Bitcoin, which simply stands by and accrues value through systemic failure. The idealists wanted something you might find much more amenable, and yes, capitulation has made many of them rich, but only in worthless paper and bits. Maybe a car. Maybe a yacht. All worthless. We still don’t have a functional economy. You still can’t buy peace and freedom with Bitcoin.
Same with HIV, HPV, and other viruses, with closer ranges, and potentially deadlier consequences. Yet no one, for obvious reasons, demands a registry of HIV+ people.

The only difference is that population is now ripe for the acceptance of borderline-tyrannical measures, given the months-long fear carpetbombing campaign.

And yes, I'd get the vaccine, once properly tested for side effects. I'm just not too keen on making citizen lists.
Yes, that is why I downvoted. It is a stock comment which adds nothing worthwhile to the discussion.
Other than the start and zero the time remaining is in reality an irrational number which cannot be represented at all. So every representation ever is truncated. :)
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Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
They're still there, but in low-end / low power draw devices. In the past two years, I went from using pretty much no batteries to having ~30 AA batteries spread around various appliances, tools and child toys. Fortunately I recognized the trend early, and bought a charger and a large supply of rechargeable AAs. Now I'm in the process of designing a battery cabinet, because keeping spares and a charger around has become a logistical challenge ;).
I'm not sure how important Streetview is for street level data. I was always under the impression that "paved" (or similar) streets were pretty easy to get right (and can possibly be obtained from a governmental agency?). For smaller footpaths I always assumed that they were using movement data (the same they use for traffic forecasting) to detect where they are.

They also resumed Streetview in parts of Germany this year, and I'm not sure they ever fully stopped running them for private data collection.
Even if we cure all illnesses and find a way to halt ageing at 25, and we got rid of car accidents (the biggest accidental killer) and suicide (the biggest deliberate killer), the remaining types of accident and homicide would probably still give humans a mean lifespan in the order of a few thousand years — I doubt I’d be bored of life after a mere few thousand years.

Hundreds of thousands of years would be utterly unpredictable given how big the scale change is (fun though the idea of star-lifting is), but a few thousand years is definitely still in the range of learning to master skills that I admire others demonstrating.
This was hard to read. I am furious.

Fenced App Store make this problem 100x worse with their shitty search (especially the iOS one) and their hands-off approach with regards to IP. If you hold a trademark, you can bring other apps that yes that trademark in their name down.
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But is this rare item something people are interested in “collecting”? From my understanding, if there are future collectibles popular to the level of Beanie Babies or Funko Pops, money will go there instead, where the asset is more interesting than just a number. Seems something like Flow [0] assets fit the specific concept of “collectibles” more than BTC.

For analogy, I’d be curious how the vintage currency collectible market compares with that of other collectibles.

[0] https://www.onflow.org/
Cider is one of the pillars of Clojure's success. Great work, thanks!
> This is a bubble. It's not what happens with collectibles or arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_Babies
I hope for the startups too, but I'm not as optimistic. While the HP/Intel/IBM/etc. dinosaurs are slowly being sapped of relevance, I don't think Google will fall victim to the same fate. Those dinosaurs largely saw their maturation before the rise of Internet, and as such still have a lot of pre-Internet culture in them, especially in the C-suite. Google (largely) doesn't have that. And they, along with the rest of the FAANG companies, just deal with menacing upstarts by buying them. They're public, they're starting to become too massive, but no one cares as long as they continue providing their core free services.
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