skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a mapping noob, but I've got a half-planned project which will need web based maps, and tilemaker looks great.

The GitHub readme lists "You want the entire planet" as a reason not to use tilemaker. Why is that? Presumably it's excessive RAM/CPU usage during pbf conversion, or when serving tiles from the mbtiles sqlite file.

But how excessive are we talking? How big a machine would be needed to process a planet file? What tools work better with huge input files?
Indeed. I too find optimizing and making things work on low spec systems far more rewarding than brute forcing using the latest hardware.
> * More than half of Ethiopia's 110 million people have no electric power.

> * Almost all of Ethiopia is under some level of food stress.

Where is a country like Ethiopia getting all the money for such a mega-project?

> * This happened due to Colonial era agreements in which great Britain

Typical, colonial forces left a mess everywhere they went. India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine, pretty much all of Africa, my history on South America and Asia are rusty but I bet they right messed up things there too.

What's crazy is how things still are in such disarray so long after they retreated.
Bayes strikes again.
That's entirely besides the point, which is that the comment I replied to rested fundamentally on ignoring the sustained drop, which has resumed, to push a narrative of Egypt being an exception to fertility rates dropping as a country develops.
And when they're old and lost most of their efficiency, one can still use them in less demanding applications. Example: take old panels from households or industrial buildings and use them on parking lots for services or lighting. To a certain extent, the same applies to batteries too.
I think the real answer is legislation to let purchased digital content get moved arbitrarily between accounts. This would also create a second hand market, which there should be.
Memory fragmentation? Dropping the cache and restarting high mem services at the same time might clear things up.
Great tips! I have been using the internal SSD for a while now. I do regular backups or just clone a new SSD.

In the article : Firefox uses 900Mb! How did we get to the point that a browser needs 900Mb???
It requires a naturally occurring basin to work, so there's not a huge number of suitable locations. The capital cost is huge, it's very disruptive of the land, and up till now very little storage market.

The UK basically has two, Dinorwig and Cruachan, and they're used for managing the demand peaks.
Indeed, I am preparing my medium-rare steaks in sous-vide at 130f. Of course heat transfer is widely different between air and water, thats why no one is actually preparing steaks that way, but just thinking that the air temperature is equivalent to the steak cooking temperature shows how hot it is and how bare survival depends on active cooling.
@me.com, not @mobileme.com. But yep.
In order to understand the ecosystem, I ask myself this question : why did 4chan personally harass Audacity leader, but did nothing about the behavior of freechat leader?
The law is not that absolute in this respect and there have been cases before higher courts accepting "data in exchange for value" contracts under some conditions. There are also legal opinions out there that this is illegal but note that there is a controversy here.
It's Machine Learning, so anything is OK really.
Let's say Ethopia goes through with this. Would it be cheaper to start a war against them or spend money on tech to reduce dependence on the Nile?

I imagine that a campaign to improve education in Egypt and train the populace for jobs to reduce Nile dependence would be a major boost to the Egyptian economy. It might drive the country to innovate and fuel a boom in their tech and engineering sector.

Are there any feasible projects to that end?
> I don't think its a good idea to use Emojis in technical documentation, terminal cli apps, package managers (I'm looking at you npm), long form articles, PRs and code reviews, etc.

Completely agree. I also find emoji in commit messages [1] to be far more ambiguous than their text equivalents.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21760021
It is actually quite simple to convince industry: An industrial facility will do that if the incentives are aligned that it makes them more money.

The interesting thing is: The really challenging part of electricity storage isn't that much. Usually wind+solar complement each other fine. It depends on the location, but the challenge is usually something like 2-4 weeks in the winter when there's little sun and little wind.

I.e. an industrial facility would only need to shut down in a very limited timeframe to have a huge effect on grid stability.
Let's take care of ourselves Thoughts on compatibility
Ask HN: Would anybody be interested by a Mobile automation platform?
I've noticed that it's much easier to make stealthy bots while using virtual android phones. I've made bots for tons of apps without getting blocked(when I was getting blocked on the PC website).

Would anybody be interested by a platform (kinda like Phantombuster) but for mobile?

You could automate any task on one or multiple virtual android phones.

You could easily click on the right buttons using OCR(character recognition) and extract data.

On almost any apps.

It would cost maybe 50 cents an hour by phone.
It seems somewhat shady, there is a profit motive?

Maybe it is about conversion, which at least has honorable intentions.

When I drove through the US South, I saw all sorts of anti-abortion church billboards, so maybe this?
> If you use any other language you are in the wrong and history will prove you to be a wasteful person.

You're an idiot. Not because of your choice of tools, but because of your dogmatic shittalking of others for preferring other tools.
Since there've been studies attributing Covid's lung and circulatory damage to bad immune response to the virus, I'm looking forward to seeing the numbers on juvenile diabetes.

Anecdotally, Type 1's exploding along with other auto-immune disorders. The problem is, of course, we've got a 6-12 month lag on type 1 diagnosis, and various often long delays on other auto-immune failures.
Solar modules are priced per Watt peak, Wp, which is the nominal max power output. And the Wp prices are dropping every year.
Presentation of Kojin-Site's Culture in Japan
I like the fabrics on those mahjongs, and maybe that’s what it’s all about, but is there anything that sets them apart from all the floor cushions you can buy on Etsy and elsewhere? Can also search “majlis”.
A font designer doesn't do more work when their font faces get used in different works. Stock photo creators don't do extra work when their images get used in new media. Musicians don't do extra work to have their songs used in commercials and movies.

Virtually anyone can use their own voice (or an entirely artificial one) in some work. If folks are willing to pay money to use one particular person's voice, what's the harm in that? If they don't want to pay to use that voice, they have literally billions of other options.
Ask HN: Angular Microfront End
Hi folks,

I've been looking into several options for how to build out a micro frontend architecture in Angular. There seems to be quite a lot of interest in this right now, between Angular elements, Webpack 5 with Module Federation, single-spa etc.

Im just curious if anyone has actually implemented it, what you learned from building out, what approach you took and would you do it the same way again?

Also any great articles out there for it?

Thanks!
Learning a language for economic or practical reasons doesn't mean you forget your own language. The silicon valley example is more likely to make English evolve than to make a hundred other languages extinct.

In the case of Sweden, which is already a small population, it must be difficult to keep having used for a very minority language in a modern world. In order for a language to survive, nowadays, you need the language to also be very present on the internet. That means having a big community of native speakers and creators, media, literature, art, cinema, education, work... That's expensive and makes little sense for populations that are quite small I would reckon.
Same in the United States: the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Rainbows and other crap on ie. github project readme more often than not makes the whole thing look like three-ring circus mess.
Reading about how they have carefully designed the pictures to prevent people from communicating certain things, it reminds me of the language in Orwell's 1984 which was a simplistic and limited language designed to make it impossible to dissent.
If Fedora (or GNOME, for that matter) fits your needs, you should feel free to use it! But if you're wondering, like the grandparent comments, why projects like GNOME seem to be moving away from fitting your needs, the answer is that they're being designed for Red Hat's enterprise customers first and any use you get out of them is a happy afterthought.
Something I've heard that's non-obvious is that pumped hydro doesn't work well unless the altitude change happens over a small-ish horizontal distance. It's no good to have a thousand feet of height difference if it happens over a hundred miles. (I'm not sure if this can be mitigated by making the pipes bigger to reduce drag, but I guess there must be a point beyond which it isn't really practical.)
On the other hand, I (as a Gen Z person) have to actively persuade people to communicate with me through E-Mail.
For example, if I am selling something online, say on eBay, people will hit me up with their phone numbers first. I don't see why they would want me to use something as personal as my phone number when we can much more easily communicate via E-Mail...
> Musk has a history of going after people who critisize him in public.

Does he? Can you name three cases?

> He (and his staff) have again and again attacked journalists, former employees, and anyone else who said anything bad about Tesla or Musk.

Again, can you name three cases where Musk went after a journalist or former employees, and we know, beyond reasonable doubt, that the victim was right - and not, in fact, lying through their teeth?

I ask because there is documented history of the reverse happening. Consider:

1. Top Gear did a hit piece on their first car, lying about its range (55 vs. 200 miles). This doesn't sound serious until you realize that, back then, people didn't believe in electric cars, mostly because of range worries. This kind of bullshit was arguably life-threatening not just to Tesla, but to the entire EV industry.

Anyway, Tesla sued for libel and lost[0]. Here's a kicker: they lost because the judge deemed Top Gear is an entertainment show and not documentary, therefore they're not obliged to be factually accurate.

2. The incident with Top Gear made Tesla install telemetry in the cars given out for test drives; this came in handy few years later, when John Broder from New York Times decided to publish a hit piece on Model S[1]. Tesla then released data from the logs, directly contradicting the story, and demonstrating that Broder put in extensive effort to fabricate the bad results he then reported on.

I can't blame them from being a bit sensitive after situations like these. For the past decade, there were, and still are, a lot of people standing to make boatloads of money from bringing Tesla and the EV market down.

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[0] - https://www.wired.com/2012/02/tesla-vs-top-gear/

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/14/tesla-pos...
Hydrogen has very low energy density compared to gasoline. Like how diesel has more energy than gasoline.
It also has a terrible efficiency. I think you lose ~70% from electrolysis.

You also have the problem that most hydrogen today is made from petroleum!
I wonder if this happened because every time he randomly got a SkyMall-flavored ad, he stopped and clicked through.
I really enjoy the robotic ones ...
No idea about energy consumption, so I would assume using dirt cheap solar in remote places with defacto zero variable production costs (over simplified, but this is one reason wind and solar are pricing out other sources on the German spot market which ignores fix costs) might change that.

Long term storage of hydrogen is quite easy so. It can be stored in thermal oil, rendering it inert. In thay form it isn't even considered dangerous goods for transportation anymore.

Source: I consulted a green hydrogen project on logistics a while ago.
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Famous last words...

Please don't spread misinformation about one of the most successful vaccination campaigns that saved thousands of people per year from being crippled or dead. And especially not during another pandemic in which there already is enough misinformation about vaccines.
I'm not sure what the other user was thinking about, but I think that GNOME's push towards client-side window decoration is annoying and imposing. Depending on your WM, some applications become "useless", they waste space on small screens and just reinforce a sense of fragmentation. I get that it looks better on GNOME, and I appriciate it when using GNOME, but as there seems to be no system to remove the CSD on traditional systems, I still think it is an overall bad move.
And yet for some reason we allow alcohol in all of those branches of gov't. And it has measurable harmful effects. And is not used medicinally.

Your whole post sounds like a bad 90s DARE commercial. 'this is your brain ...this is your brain on drugs '.

What if the White House administration decided anyone who ever tried alcohol would also become persona non grata?
This guy should try AliExpress. In fact that's probably where all the stuff advertised on Instagram comes from.
I think they just want something consistent which is reasonable.
I recently realized that, with me using my Apple devices less and less frequently, and having abandoned all of Apple's services long ago, I no longer remember my Apple ID password.

I still occasionally use one iPad for testing on iOS 7 Safari, and when the surprise unprompted prompt for the password appeared, I realized this. Of course, I clicked Cancel. There's one less bullshit service to submit to.

It's a great feeling.
You're making assumptions about my implications and comparing two completely different things.
A well archived language can be reborn again - a dead species can't (yet).

Furthermore, where are you taking that I'm advocating forcefully spreading a language?

I'm stating a two very simple facts:

1. If you want a language to stay alive, you need speakers.

2. If you want a language to outlive speakers, you need to archive it well.

Since we live in a world of choice, you'll have to do something in order to let people choose to become a speaker of that language.
If the vaccine causes an inflammation process there's no reason myocarditis or something similar could not last for weeks at least. I don't think a heart attack at 17 days is out of the question. You don't need actual antigen for inflammation to stay around, that's immediately obvious if you look at some people's arms and lymph nodes a week or more after vaccination.
There's also Parity's "ink!" for writing smart contracts: https://github.com/paritytech/ink
I remember about 15 or 20 years ago when Alpha was new, they were advertising in newspapers and on buses. It seemed weirdly
un-British and didn't last long. (The course is still going, I just only see the branding on actual churches now)
> Is that racist or a factual observation?

Unfortunately most people today can't tell the difference.

Partly it's because they don't read anything about current affairs, partly they're not interested in discerning the difference.

(I remember when discourse started to become post-factual and "truthy," but today it's the norm. Truthy means it sounds like it could be true, but there's no evidence behind it. If you listen to White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, basically every other sentence is not factual. Luckily she's resigning in about a year.)
Not in Europe. There is also a market for these modules in developing countries. Used up modules are still working good enough for, say, remote areas in Asia or Africa. Why throw a working, for free, module away if you can use it?
Shutting down nuclear plants is an error. But building more of them is also a mistake. France is slowly stopping their plants to make room for the cheaper wind and PV. And the nuclear plants currently being built are an economical nightmare both for EDF and the gobernment: frenchs are paying a hidden cost in "cheap" nuclear electricity by subsidizing EDF through the backdoor.
Photoshoppers on Next Level
I suspect it’s sunlight as well. I did hydroponics this year and last year and never had an issue with algae. I kept everything in totes.
I will shittalk waste until my last breath.

Freedom of choosing the wrong things costs energy and we're running out of energy.

If you are making/playing a 2D game f.ex you are in the wrong, we have two eyes to see depth because the world is 3D!
Nothing perplexing about it, there have been a multitude of grandiose promises by the AI area and I think people are just getting tired of it so they might expect more radical results at the current point of time.

Research is indeed incremental and revolutions only happen after critical mass has been accumulated in one or more areas, leading to a breakthrough that wasn't possible before. Sure.

And since that's true, let's just temper the expectations of the wider public. Investors and governments might need the grandiose claims in order for the area to receive money but everybody else needs a balanced and objective take on the question "Where is the area right now?"

If it can't fold laundry, or cook by physically picking stuff up from the fridge, well, let's just say it out loud and be done with it. That way nobody will be perplexed. :P
Keep in mind that the 1.5 GB number is the total amount of RAM you need to have a good time using the operating system, not the amount consumed by the window manager alone. Even OP consumes just about a gigabyte of RAM with all the programs on their Raspberry Pi.

That's not to say GNOME _isn't_ resource intensive -- it is, especially when compared to desktop environments that were either written to be lightweight or written 30 years ago -- that just isn't the best way to measure it.
There are two reasons marijuana is still illegal:

1) The cops in the US are largely two types of people: straight-laced rule-followers and abusive bullies. The rule-followers support the rule because it’s the rule, and the bullies support the rule because it lets them continue to beat up theatre kids after high school.

2) Marijuana abuse leads to economic harm for capitalists. People can stay economically productive through tobacco or alcohol abuse but marijuana abuse tends to make people lethargic and low-output. While tobacco harms the individual tremendously and alcohol harms society tremendously, marijuana use, while on an absolute basis nowhere near as destructive as alcohol, hurts the tycoons who call the shots.
> local installs of solar reduces costs for the neighbors of whomever get solar installed

How's that?
Extreme heat cooks mussels to death in B.C
When you say that people are doing a "poor job managing their subscription feeds and such", it almost sounds like you think that's possible using Facebook's interface?
Both are used[1].

TL;DR: due to the influence of Japanese, it seems that most people who are familiar with Japanese will use its default form -i. As this loan word starts to become more prominent in the English language, the classic plural form -s should gain in popularity, such as it has been the case with ninjas or haikus.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/whats...
I would add that from my experience, the OSM community is very good at calmly pointing out your mistake and asking you to correct it. I have not seen anyone head for the lawyers immediately.
> "Emojis" looks wrong to me, but I suspect that's because I speak a little Japanese.

Yep, I prefer "emoji" given the zero plural in Japanese.

I don't think there's a consensus though. For example, Apple uses "emoji" [1], Emojipedia uses "emojis" [2], and the OED includes both [3].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211808#145

[2]: https://blog.emojipedia.org/first-look-217-new-emojis-in-ios...

[3]: https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/389343
Others may find that pushing towards server-side window decoration is annoying and imposing, so this is unfortunately an area where not everyone can be happy. In any case you may be interested to try a patch: https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic
I finally figured out the spookiness after talking to my mom on the phone about vacuum cleaners and then getting ads for vacuum cleaners:

My mom bought a vacuum online after our phone call, and one way advertisers choose an audience is “all the friends of someone who searched for the product”

My roommate and I confirmed this by getting ads for something the other just googled.

What I’m trying to say is, targeted ads ruin Christmas, but no one will hear me out :’(
Just ways for the rich to continue to destroy the environment while finding new ways to make the poor feel guilty.
Hi, co-founder here!

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated!

Would you consider automatically sending the export as an anti-feature, and if so why? For context, we added this to help with disagreements were one party kick out another party in a dispute. So afterwords they can reach agreement with a common basis.
Pickora – Convert Python scripts to pickle bytecode
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One thing I really dislike is the aesthetics of the Apple emoji. One could say "then don't use it", but so many sites and apps are shipping an entire emoji set. With the exception of Facebook and Twitter who have made their own brand of emoji, a lot of apps are just shipping Google or Microsoft or Apple's and instead of matching your system, it completely clashes and is a waste of bandwidth. If you're on Linux, it's a total dice roll which their design team should be the 'default'.
> Sir Richard says he has spoken to Jeff Bezos on the phone and they have wished each other well in their space endeavours. But there is no doubting there is some edge in the relationship.

Other would say that there is a billionaire space dick contest going on between Branson, Bezos and Musk...
The cost of nuclear energy is rising only because unlike wind and solar energy it faces more and more restrictions, regulations and bureaucracy redtape. This is a direct result of above-mentioned fear-mongering. Had it received support and proper funding for R&D, by now we'd been swimming in cheap, abundant, reliable and safe nuclear power.
I actually went a step further and stopped using words, because it turns out people also interpret them differently. Some people, for example, cannot read sarcasm.

Now I use sequent calculus, and make sure that every term is well-defined before I use it.
I recently found that having emoji fonts breaks my terminal. This bug will probably eventually be fixed so I didn't think too hard before removing emoji from my system. I don't use them myself and personally have not noticed them ever being used with a decent signal-to-noise ratio. I have come to associate them with snide or political remarks on Twitter and clickbait articles.

I agree with the author that when people use emoji they are leaving large parts of their intent and feelings ambiguous and can be more specific (and will force themselves to think more about what they are really trying to convey) with textual messages.
If a word is borrowed from another language and becomes common place, you can use the plural form of your language. Do you say “5 pizzas“ or “5 pizze“? A notable exception are Latin words, e.g. index -> indices (if you want oto sound well educated).

The japanese plural of “emoji“ would be “emoji“ (they have no plural form)

EDIT: I'm not saying it's wrong to use the native plural form, though!