skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoken directions in Apple Maps are unmatched.

"Go past this stop sign, then at the light, turn right on X Avenue" - it's exactly how you would expect human directions.

Google Maps is absolutely worst in class, behind all competitors I have ever used, in spoken directions. Here is a very common Google Maps direction from where I live: "In 300 feet, keep left toward Alabama 231 South / Alabama 431 South / Memorial Parkway Southwest, then keep left onto Memorial Parkway Southwest."

By the time Google Maps finishes reading this direction, it's taken so long that you will actually miss the next step in the directions. Google Maps doesn't interrupt itself in this situation, and it is often extremely long winded.

Even when you start directions on Google Maps, you get a mostly pointless, long-winded direction. "Head east on Pratt Avenue Northeast." And if you start by traveling perpendicular to that direction, you'll often get, "Head east on -- Head east on -- Head east on -- Head east on --", repeating every time you pass an intersection, until you finally comply by heading east. Good luck if you don't know which direction is east.

Speaking of this nightmare scenario, Google Maps will also get stuck rapidly talking over itself if you accidentally select walking directions, but you are driving. Apple Maps detects this situation and automatically fixes it.

So I guess I use Apple Maps because it doesn't have any of these extremely frustrating and borderline dangerous problems.
I'm American and I've never heard of Boston Market for Christmas, and it doesn't exist where I grew up, or in the region, and I would definitely think it was weird if someone wanted that for Christmas. I've never even heard of a franchise chain called Honey Baked. Are you from California or something? Why do people think Americans are a monolith?

Where I'm from everything is closed on Christmas, even Wal-Mart, except the local Chinese takeout, so if you don't want home cooking, that's your one option.

Now, living in a larger area, there are some other limited options but as a seventh generation European descended American I have never known a single family that celebrated Christmas by going to a franchise restaurant
yes. it is however a test ASIC. therefore it has no on-board boot ROM, and has to have programs uploaded to it over JTAG.
> EdgeDB, a relational database with strongly typed schema

Relational database without relational algebra wouldn't be useful, would it? So... uhmm. How do we join? There's no JOIN statement.
Instagram influencer charged over duping followers out of $2.5M BTC
With Juneteenth becoming a fresh new national holiday in the United States, the day is now ripe for filling a marketing void. Perfect time for KFC to jump in.
But but according to HN design for testability is a total waste and relying on interfaces is useless C# bloat!!
I deleted google maps from my phone in 2017 or so and haven't missed it at all.
> wtf is with downvotes of this comment?

It clearly has nothing to do with epidemics, so what's your link supposed to prove?
I'm not sure personal contact is that important. Imagine this page as a giant table, and when one speaks, the rest listen. Reading through all these comments feels like being in a room where conversation takes place. For older people who do not use internet, TV or Radio plays that role. Moreover, one soaks atmosphere of given community (even online), and adjusts behaviours, thoughts accordingly, to some point at least I think.
Any 4X game.
This seems very nanny state. If I make a product and sell it on my website for 20% of MSRP, where's the gov't to tell me that I can or can't do that. The MSRP is just a number I've made up. Maybe it gets weird when selling things made by other people that have a published MSRP. If I'm willing to take less profit by selling at a discount from the MSRP, then that's literally my business. If I make an agreement with a vendor to not undervalue the items by selling less than the vendor's MSRP, then that's a different topic. However, none of that is any business of the gov't.
There are quite a few all-in-one Linux distros like this geared for small businesses/enterprises to basically be a “gateway that does everything” type of product (they were all the rage like ~8-12 years ago from what I remember?). A couple others that are popular are Zentyal and Univention Corporate Server, which I believe is _quite_ popular and used quite a bit in Germany and Europe.
Apple Maps in London UK is pretty bad with business info - I’ve had to make correction reports for a few things in my neighbourhood I never have to for Google Maps.
Will Delta Dominate Markets?
> what dedicated, skilled, selfless people can do.

Save lives and earn the accolade 'Peado guy' from Elon Musk for having the audacity to do so.

Edit: the Musk fanboys are heavy on the down votes today.
I just assume those types of places are fronts.
Much of the US retail market plans their whole year around Christmas. The percentage of their yearly income is from that season (for online retailers Black Friday, Cyber Monday) and is usually what gets them through the slower rest of the year.
I use encfs. Big scary warning on Ubuntu when you install it that it’s not 100% fool proof but for storing tv and movies in the cloud I think it’s fine. Best part is it’s totally seemless on my end. Uploads encrypted and my view is unencrypted.
> One of the most harmful beliefs about the concept of intro-/extroversion is that it is something you are and not something you do.

Nope. I'm not neurotypical. Stop trying to gaslight me into thinking I'm flawed because I'm not extroverted please. This rationale is the gay conversion therapy for introverts.
I love the way Apple Maps gives turn by turn directions: “go past these lights and at the next set, turn left”. Just way more understandable as a ... human.

However, it commonly gives me just the wrong destination. Just the other day, it put me five blocks away from the actual address in Downtown LA. Which is... well, suboptimal.
We have a couple fiber companies in our town (USA), and we have been shopping for internet. Currently we have fiber from AT&T.

One is over a mile down the road and they want $90,000 to connect and then $1750 a month for 1gbps. Another company is two blocks away, they will only charge $8,000 to connect and it’s $1,550 a month for the same speed.

Problem is there aren’t many other companies in the area that want service, so we would end up paying all the buildout costs. The other business are small retail, restaurants and shops that don’t need more than coax (150/20 or whatever for $79/month) from Spectrum.
Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components
Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)
I'm sure the fact that Germany has a 566% larger population density and is 96.19% smaller than the United States has a lot to do with a countries ability to bring 25Gbps internet to its citizens.
If you introduce stuff like this into C it's major code smell. If I see a 'cool macro to do a custom loop' in code I immediately have to go look up what it does, and if it's as complicated as this I'm going to want to read it all to make sure it's actually right, I'll probably rediscover all the caveats he has at the end of the article, and I'll wonder what the original programmer was smoking.
Is Depression (and Anxiety Too) a First World Problem?
My parents were kind of poor, lower middle class; my grandparents were poor. My grandparents for their entire life, they only bought things they needed, and nothing that they merely "wanted".

I "escaped" the toxic environment where I grew up, and I loved with undiagnosed Severe Clinical Depression (and crippling Anxiety) practically my entire adult life.

Now that I am Depression-free and my Anxiety is under control, I see the world under a different lens. One things that I see is that my "problems", present and past, are/were mostly "first world problems", and that gives me perspective.

At times I remember what my grandparents used to say to me when I was a teenager, and I can just imaging what they would say about today's society's "problems".

My grandparents were a mixed of minimalism, Zen (they we devout Catholics). They were the embodiments of both "Ora et Labora" and "Chop wood, carry water".

First world problems or first world privileges? two sides of the same coin.
I’ve been using the Verizon map app for navigation for many years. Until recently, it’s been better for me than Google- it’s simplified, which is good when driving.

But it’s not as reliable, in the sense that it sometimes recommends seasonal roads that are closed in the winter and even in the summer need AWD.

I haven’t had any problem with Apple Maps, and I appreciate the integration with the Apple Watch. So, I’m using it more. Plus, the Yelp app connects to Apple Maps automatically.

And I’m drifting away from Google, anyway.
Those ranges may reflect actual salaries. You don’t realize how much companies screw over people.
I was doing ASIC design and verification for 5 years before I switched to software and I think it led me to write much higher quality code and tests. I was used to making 100% sure everything was correct, because fixing bugs in silicon is extremely difficult and expensive. You are also forced to spend more time defining architecture and interfaces ahead of time, which can be very useful/important for certain software projects.

Integration tests usually seem to find the most important bugs, but on hardware they take hours or days to run. With that limitation removed in software development, they're almost too good to be true.

I'd also be interested in seeing how formal verification could be applied to software development.
> I quite like Joe Rogan, but he's not a doctor, and neither is his partner in goofydom Brett Weinstein, they have zero medical credibility on the issue, they should straight up not be talking about the drug.

By this logic, this applies to every single person that aren’t doctors who shouldn’t be talking about the vaccine or the drugs. This includes data scientists and politicians. I’ve watched Dr. Pierre Kory’s full interview with Brett and seems clips of his testimony in front of the senate. He is extremely credible and should have a voice in this as a COVID-19 critical care doctor and who has done meta analysis of the drug (https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/F...). I think people like Joe and Brett help amplify voices of people like Dr. Pierre Kory similar to politicians who amplifies Dr. Fauci
Question: why do you claim EdgeDB is a "relational" database when you can't actually do relational algebra with it? How do you join?

Materialized edges (i.e. what you call "links") are not part of any relational model, it's a part of the graph model. You seem to have implemented a graph database, but possibly without the graph walking capabilities of graph databases.
except that elon did not initiate the exchange of words. Elon proposed his submarine. He was told by the diver Vern Unsworth to 'stick his submarine where it hurts'.
With a Xeon, a SmartNIC, and DPDK you can hit 100 Gbps.
So basically create your own language + compiler that compiles to C?
Apple Maps in China is not powered by their own data. It's data licensed from a third party (Gao De). Chinese law prevents private citizens and corporations from mapping the country unless with a special license.

But yes I agree with you from my own visit in Shanghai that Google Maps is not worth using in China.
EdgeDB is very close to be production ready. We will release 1.0 in a month or two and we're based on Postgres, so the hardest part of storing the data reliably is there already.

EdgeQL queries are typically way shorter than corresponding SQL equivalents. You can see comparisons and benchmarks here in this blog post: https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0-alpha-1

Authentication currently is very basic. We plan to have a relatively short release cycle, so in 3-4 months after 1.0 we'll have more robust access control, including read/write policies of individual types and their properties/links.
I suspect the baseline is measured in outraged Twitter posts per hour.
Use fs.com, their generic cables work with MikroTik no issue and they do custom orders.
Given another 10 million official cases in the US are being forecasted due to the Delta variant, the new peak may be 100-200,000 cases per day, which is 10x the current rate. Could massively impact consumer sentiment and markets given current (high) valuations.
This one is more a story of dumb luck, but there was a case of a crew member surviving for 2.5 days in an air pocket in his sunken ship:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-25205914

He was discovered by divers hired to investigate the sinking and recover the bodies.
In a Honda with Android Auto and Carplay, Google Maps on Android will take advantage of both vehicle displays whereas Carplay will not. The next turn and distance until next turn is displayed on the speedometer display while showing the full map and UI on the dashboard center display.

Is this broadly true or specific to vehicle?
If the point of hydrogen is just to store the energy for use on days when renewable capacity is limited, can't it can spend its whole life in the huge long term facility, from generation to use in a turbine at the point of generation? Why does it need to be transported?
Very happy heap customer here. Been using it since 2016 or so and brought it from last company to my current startup. Autocapture is magic.
Also transitioned from hardware design to software. Same cognitive dissonance at much of what I see surrounding testing software.
> extremely shortsighted

I think it is extremely LONG-sighted: an individual research institute might save $100k right now, but the lock-in might force 10x pay in 5 years to continue research. Not to mention it might affect ability of smaller institutes and individual researchers to enter the field, which is also worse for research as whole.
What is the evidence for that? Surely it depends on the degree of tech transfer?
This seems to be a variant of LSD-25, not psilocybin.
If Death Valley hits 131F today, that will be the highest reliably recorded air temperature on earth. In fact up to 134F is within the range of possibilities today and tomorrow, which would hit and exceed the less reliably recorded values from 1913 and the 1920s in Tunisia.

By the 2050s.. who knows, maybe 140F will be within reach.
Noon Energy?

https://www.activate.org/noon-energy

https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/101282603/Reversible_f...

https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/101282646/Are_reversib...
I advise discounting dependence on natural shade at Furnace Creek. Death Valley isn’t called “Death Valley” because of tourism board branding.

There’s a reason park brochures don’t show overnight trails. The reason is reality thumps theory and the reality is harsh.

Imagining it as someplace like Disneyland is a bad idea.
NY-Based Startup Hiring
Here is the job board- https://parg.co/bfO7
For an elevator and considering the magnitude of the CA outbreak, I kind of understand the elevator restrictions.

But for neighbors etc that were in the same social bubble observing the same careful restrictions it seems too much. I think the government has been well within its rights in certain mandates that ensure careless people don't inflict their negligence on other people, but in some cases I think it went too far.

On the other hand, especially at the beginning, everyone was dealing with incomplete and imperfect information. It was not an easy time to be a decision maker on such issues especially when people's actions became expressions of political affiliation. Masks are a perfect example:

Resistance started as a rallying cry to allow people take personal responsibility, a mindset I can understand. But it then morphed into a refusal to take some precautions-- essentially a refusal to consider personal responsibility issue-- due to the politics involved instead of a reasoned & informed stance on the risks. (PLEASE note that I'm not making a statement about masks themselves one way or another-- just pointing out that choices influencing medical issues became driven by political affiliation. I saw extremes of this behavior on different ends of the political spectrum, substituting critical thinking with selectively listening only to experts that were aligned with a given political stance.)
being on ketamine while trapped in a cave would be ammmmaaaaazzziinnngg (ly terrifying)
Just posting the picture right here, in this comment thread, although completely off-topic, will probably be accepted positively (net karma gain). HN folk seem to like personal tidbits, stories, and cool stuff made self.
Elon Musk is a grown man, not a child, and he should be capable of tact and self control. "He started it" is not a valid excuse for his public, slanderous little temper tantrum.
Yes and no, but mostly no.

Yes, regrets: I don’t sleep properly because of them, my self-care has gone down the tubes, and they brought out a temper in me that I never knew that I had (probably a side-effect of the sleep deprivation). Life is generally much harder.

No regrets: I love them dearly…I guess everybody says that. If you’ve ever had that “struck by lightning” falling-in-love, it was like that for me for each of my kids. It’s a deep, lizard-brain bond and I know I will love them with my whole heart until my dying breath. Perhaps more useful to hear, though, if you don’t have kids already: it has permanently changed who I am, in every way. I really much prefer the person that I am now than who I was before having kids.

They say you shouldn’t have kids for the following reason, but dammed if I can figure out why: children have given my life purpose.

That purpose infected me and begat many other purposes; I changed careers, I took up new hobbies, I developed skills I previously had no interest in, all of which have contributed to a much richer and more meaningful life, albeit more difficult as well.

It is also often said that kids are very expensive (and they really are, in both time and money). However, at least for me, many of the life choices that have made me significantly more financially secure, I never would have made if I hadn’t had kids. And although I have far less time, my time now feels valuable to me. Psychologically, I feel much better grounded and happier in general. My kids have made me richer in every respect, including the counter-intuitive ways.

Sometimes I joke with my wife that the above sentiments are Stockholm syndrome. Maybe so, but that doesn’t make the sentiment any less real, even if it is born out of a fundamental irrationality. Keep that in mind while reading folks who say they have no regrets: their past selves might have regretted it, but now that they are living it, they _really don’t have regrets_.
“Work Smarter Not Harder” gets misinterpreted all the time
Is anybody else completely turned off by the stupid stock images that HP uses on this site?
It looks like it’s stopped doing that in some countries recently. I’ve seen tripadvisor, and some that are native photos!
Making bread required agricultural advances, and it's a complex, labor-intensive, multi-step process (as is anything that has to do with grains).

Making alcohol by fermenting fruits is comparatively much easier, but then again, cultivating and harvesting fruits is a pretty laborious process.

Then actually brewing beer is not that simple.

Even today, with availability of source materials and technology, homebrewing is a rather involved hobby. Same with producing wine that's drinkable.

On the other side, we have literally a weed that needs very little to grow, and requires nearly zero processing.

I really see no comparison here.

The theory that we started making alcohol for food safety/nutrition reasons makes the most sense to me.
And yet it is more specific.
For restaurants, etc, I usually start with Yelp, which uses Apple Maps for navigation. I get the rest of the details from Yelp. (I’m in the US)
Looks cool, so cool that I'm certain Fabrice Bellard or John Conway probably did it already.
I am an introvert with reasonable social skills and a healthy amount of social interaction in my life (3+ nights a week spent with friends). Being an introvert doesn't mean I cannot do or enjoy social things, it means that social things require effort+energy from me and I want an appropriate amount of time spent alone to recharge afterward.
Ah thanks! It’s unclear whether there is an English version yet. From all indications on that page it appears perhaps not. Also the “Order here” link appears non-functioning (at least on iOS Chrome).

I’d bet an English version will be not too far in the future (I hope!)
Why wouldn't it? How would the other mouse manufacturers get it?
In addition to what ufmace said, the vast majority of buyers in the UK do what has just been changed to a RICS Home Survey. These are reports written by chartered surveyors, meaning that these are not just best effort opinions, they have legal implications. Some mortgage providers will not agree to lend without having a fresh one to consider.

They list all kinds of small details: a single double glazed window containing condensation, or a gutter leaking onto an exterior wall. Experienced buyers would know which of the details are actually important, but it's still a sobering document. They encourage buyers and mortgage providers to act cautiously and are typically used as a tool for negotiating the price down.

If you are a cash buyer and just don't care, then fair enough. But whether or not it's a sound piece of engineering, a DIY tunnel (without planning permission?) dug underneath the property would be a massive red flag for your solicitor and your surveyor who would likely provide professional advice against buying the property. And mainstream mortgage advisors and insurers and may even refuse to do business with you due to perceived risk.
This is some data about corruption over the years

https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/646/
It has a failover over the two WAN ports, but no load balancing at all across them.
Are there recommendations for learning about Linux kernel memory management? Two anecdata:

* I had some compute servers that were up for 200 days. The customers noticed that they were half as fast as identical hardware just booted. Dropping the file system cache ("echo 3 | sudo dd of=/proc/sys/vm/drop_cache") brought the speed back up to the newly deployed servers. WTF? File system caches are supposed to be zero cost discards as soon as processes ask for RAM - but something else is going on. I suspect the kernel is behaving badly with overpopulated RAM management data (TLB entries?), but I don't know how to measure that.

* If that is actually the problem, then a solution might be to decrease data size by using non-zero hugepages ("cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages"). I'd love to see recommendations on when to use that.
There were some comments in the early days that the Multi-AZ magic for classic RDS was just drbd on top of EBS.

Aurora is a completely different approach where the RDBMS code is modified to directly interface with EBS instead of going through a traditional OS filesystem layer.