skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OsmAnd "online maps" are much smoother than the default vector maps, because your phone doesn't have to render them (they also take more space).

I find OsmAnd incredible for

- hiking (lots of useful maps, possibility to add overlays like mountain slopes, satellite images, possibility to add maps from other sources as long as you have the tile URL, all maps can be downloaded and used offline, great Altitude/Slope graphs, POI searching),

- cycling (navigation works very well, CyclOSM shows useful information, BRouter for serious bike routing),

- driving (navigation works offline, good as a backup or if you don't like Waze showing you McDonald's ads every time you stop).

Also it's a free software (that you can still pay to help the developers).
UK, US, and EU officially blame Russia for cyber attack targeting Viasat
Historically people have tried to build decentralized signature systems (say GPG) but they have the problem that you don’t really know who made the key. With a blockchain system I don’t think you have a real answer, but you do have a public database that tracks the history of that key.
shhhhh, the learning curve gods curse you for teaching fresh meat what not to do instead of teaching them with pew pew. The cruel harsh world of nullsec.
Fair enough! True, Babel is only "core" for a subset of JS developers, not for the language.

I don't really despise anyone in Babel, though, I'm only criticising their packaging method. Babel isn't doing the million-packages thing to gain popularity.
I see Reddit is leaking here
Some of Apple's street views in areas they've focused on are particularly incredible. Their maps of San Francisco are insanely detailed, for example, down to the level of showing individual trees, buildings, and street markings.
If you just like the sounds of church bells, the BBC has you covered:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sgsh
I know someone who worked at Google Maps in this area, and believe it or not the business directory problem is probably harder to solve than the rest of the app put together. You can fine tune map parsing and routes and algorithms all you like till they are good enough for every reasonable use case, but there's really no technical solution for a small restaurant that has no online presence and simply opens and closes when it feels like it. Google crunches data from a hundred different sources – looking up local directories, cold calling every restaurant in the world, mailing them postcards, measuring visitor foot traffic, analyzing data from street view, looking at community edits – and draws a somewhat reasonable picture. It's borderline impossible for anyone else to do this.

Another feature Google Maps excels at is estimation. If the app tells me I'll get to my destination at 3:24 when I start the route, I will really get there there at 3:24 no matter what. I don't know how they do it, but no one else is even close to that accurate.
For NPM use https://verdaccio.org/ . It can proxy the public registry. Install your project and it will pull and cache the dependencies. Once cached you can remove the uplink and it will only serve the cached version
What is this ice cream strawman? Dude popped off with lies and idiotic remarks routinely, was proud of an inhumane immigration policy, wanted to yank people's healthcare, cozied up to dictators, etc. It's disgusting how much some people defend him.
Yes, I think this is one of the most important pieces to solve! There have been some approaches (profit sharing, etc) but I think there's room for a lot of improvement & innovation here.
Caveat: We don't actually sex-segregate prisons. We segregate based off of primary and secondary sex characteristics.
Maybe I am too cynical on politicians, but if you are nearly 100% sure the Senate won't pick up your bills, you can pass anything you want to signal to your base. You don't have to worry about compromise or feasibility.
The "penis and vagina" characterization is too reductive. What's at issue is that males are generally bigger, stronger, and more sexually aggressive than females. These factors in aggregate create increased risk when forcing proximity between men and women while in vulnerable contexts. But none of this needs extra demonstration, this is all common knowledge.
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> Because in every other way (and every way for the viewer), this makes Youtube worse

It makes YouTube worse for the viewer, but YouTube doesn't have to care because they have a monopoly, so realistically speaking nobody will leave.

Thus they get to appease the brands/big channels with virtually no downside. Even better, the lack of a quality filter provided by dislikes mean people may have to trawl through more shit before they find what they want to watch, thus increasing engagement metrics.

This is the same reason most monopoly-level social media platforms take a relaxed stance on spam or malicious/illegal content (besides edge-cases which have legal or PR consequences) - the spam still drives (and itself counts as) engagement and the network effects are strong enough to overcome the annoyance and keep people on the platform anyway.
> why we should have any sex segregation in prisons at all?

Or age segregation. Just because a 50 year old man has a penis and is 3x the weight of a 13 year old girl doesn't mean that they shouldn't be locked in a cell together. That's just your bigoted assumption that he's a violent person, you don't even know him.
Big Byline: A look at lengthening byline credits at the New York Times
One thing I've wondered is when Effective Altruists are going to stop calling AI ethics neglected. AI ethics as a field is now mainstream, in my view, yet people still keep calling it neglected. I personally think Effective Altruists should focus less on AI ethics now as it has gained mainstream attention and focus more on other currently neglected topics.
Hell, even refraining from filing opposing briefs would suffice.
Do you think that aviation regulation is better anywhere else? In Europe it is a mess (particularly for general aviation), in Asia there is hardly any general aviation.
We all share state in that we all exist within the same universe. But the universe has laws of causality, and Joe advocated that software should always maintain causal consistency.

A database is not needed for your example. You could replace it with an actor holding onto its own memory. But all mutations to that actor, which the other actors hold references to via their mailbox, are causally consistent and observable.

That is the premise of the talk I linked elsewhere.
Are you offering a bet? I'll take infinity-to-one odds!

We should applaud any individual or organization offering probabilistic predictions, as the future is contingent.
- Things

- Alfred

- Nimble Commander

- Transmit

- Little Snitch

- SublimeText and SublimeMerge

- Affinity Photo and Designer

- Davinci Resolve

- Sound Paint

- Cleanshot X

- iStat Menus

- IA Writer
Definitely!

On the other hand... maybe not, for more conservative industries? You don't need a full-blown frontend team to be very productive. A great frontend engineer (easy to find) and a cookie-cutter backend code-monkey (also easy to find) working together and getting paid 1x each are probably as productive as a great backend engineer you're thinking of paying 2x.

But the thing is that the 2x will bring some extra experience, less bugs... but that's not what companies are after.

So yep you have a point.
"well-regulated" means "well-armed" or "well-equipped", not "well-regulated by laws". cf. https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/cons/wellregu.htm

See my other comment below about the precise legal definition of militia.
> That's a similar approach to supabase

I'm a Supabase dev and the maintainer of Supabase Realtime and just wanted to clarify that Realtime works by listening to Postgres' logical replication because we realized early on that it scales better and circumvents the limitations of pg_notify; for example notify has a payload limit of 8000 bytes.
Exactly what I find also, everyone wants to take over the world, as if everything is a zero sum game with one winner and billions of losers.
I really appreciate these suggestions. We're a fully bootstrapped ~20 person, $5M+ ARR company in the DevOps space. We're growing quickly and often wonder what an extra $1.5 - $3M could mean for us, but don't want the overhead associated with a traditional investor, nor to invest the time in raising. We get emails from 3 - 4 VCs per week, but never any alternative funding options like the ones you listed. CalmFund in particular could be worth exploring. I wish this space ("Tech Mittelstands"?) were better established.
That's because Google Maps got massively worse over the years.

I'll add to your list of issues:

* distracting me while I'm driving with a banner that blocks the bottom half of the screen, with a message written in small font, asking if a speed trap is still on the freeway. This is distracting and unexpected, leading me to take my eyes off the road to get a basic understanding of what the app needs, which starts with reading the text. Ironically, the font is small due to the inclusion of a "reminder" to only interact when it is safe.

* screen space co-opted by ads, promotions and reviews for local businesses.

Google Maps and Gmail are products that rose to the top by being best in class. I can only assume that the smart people who built the original product, made many wise choices, and said "no" when it mattered are long gone. The new blood is not of the same caliber, and can only get promoted if they make changes. Unfortunately for them, the user experience was already excellent when they joined, and thus was difficult to improve upon. Seems like they resort to adding details that aren't relevant to the user, and trying to monetize things that are not core to the product. Every instance of feature creep and every dark pattern pulls the experience away from optimality, regressing on goals that were achieved 10 years ago.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. This is the comment:

> FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two ...

> You mean conservative speech? Or has FIRE actually defended speech they despised, like the ACLU used to?

It seems to imply that FIRE has done way more for conservative campus free speech issues. I supplied examples of times when FIRE supported non-conservative campus free speech. I'm not quite clear how else to read that comment, but would love your take.
"bmitc>Why is abortion literally a major topic in every presidential election over decades?

skizm>Abortion is a big issue ... because one group of people view it as literally murdering a child and another group see it as a minor medical procedure...<"

That is, it is a religious dispute and religious disputes are impossible to settle by negotiation or compromise.
I hear the Paradox of Tolerance whipped out in discussions of how best to curb free speech before it harms others. I'm always genuinely curious about this, since it seems to me that this curb is already really well-defined: free speech does not imply free action inspired by that speech.

We already have laws against speech which causes imminent and material harm (e.g. libel laws, incitement of violence), and beyond that it seems like the Paradox of Tolerance doesn't actually apply here: nobody is advocating that we should tolerate the whole slippery slope of action, most advocates (myself included) carve out tolerance explicitly for speech alone.
They’ve made it so that the Watch can be used as a child device assuming a parent uses an iPhone.
You can analyze any single part of a modern large piece of software, but I think the point is that you can no longer remember the entirety of the software or hardware. Even a single function is going to get compiled through multiple layers of obfuscation until it hits the hardware and at that point modern CPUs are also extremely convoluted. Nobody is going to know how a function on your OS will compute with absolute certainty.
"Although many users would click the "dislike" button on the videos, this was interpreted by YouTube's algorithm as legitimate engagement, and the videos would be ranked more highly."

I literally facepalmed.
Not sure I understand. Can you explain? How would a bidirectional link work? What would be an example? And how would that free us from the need for centralized search engines, for example? I ask not because I doubt, but because I have a hunch that you may be right. Thanks!
I have a 2020 Outback with the tall 11.6 inch screen. I'm not familiar with the options on other models or model years. I totally agree with everything else you said, except that Apple's traffic info seems reliable (granted, I'm in the Bay Area). I only use Apple Maps for in-car navigation and for storing my own lists.
> shaky self-hosting story

What makes it shaky?

That's interesting to hear because it seem like the goodwill sentiment regarding Supabase is because you can self-host it.
Outside of some very high traffic routes, I don't think there's enough people going from close enough to close enough and willing to deal with the hassle that is other people. Exceptional routes tend towards less planning, I understand that in the DC area, you pull up to specific intersections to pick up a "slug" that's headed in their same direction [1], and I've heard similar conditions exist (or existed) around the SF Bay Bridge. There's no need for an app there, because there's enough demand for both drivers and passengers that you can just be there during the commute hours with no planning.

[1] http://www.slug-lines.com/slugging/About_Slugging.asp
I've been frustrated with Spotify's UI for so long now. It just seems so full of dark... or at least dim(?) user patterns. I started buying albums from bands I like off Bandcamp and loading them into Plexamp. (I really hope Epic doesn't destroy Bandcamp, it's one of the few remaining sources of high-quality (FLAC) downloadable music.)
If you look at P/E then the current "collapse" isn't nearly as worrisome and realize it's just the inevitable result of market self correction vs human emotion, market Always wins. I personally believe the massacre will be over in a couple or three weeks.
Well yes, you still need monitoring to be able to tell that the failure is external, but the key idea is that each team can do it separately, without having to get everyone's buy-in, or instrumenting every call in the system.

For example, we've had a batch processing system, with pretty relaxed latency requirements, and at some point we were asked to integrate with (internal) service X. The problem is, service X which would go down periodically. The solution was pretty simple: a simple centralized error logging service we already had, some asserts on results, and timeout on all HTTP calls. This works very well, for us at least. The service X still goes down every once in a while, but we can always detect that and explain to our (internal) customers that it is not our fault the system is down. Our customers were the ones who selected service X in the first place, so they are pretty understanding.

Is it a desirable situation to be in? Nope, in the ideal case, someone would go to team behind service X and help them to make service X reliable, with proactive monitoring, good practices, more staffing, etc... But I work are in the big org, and each team has its own budget, management and priorities. So the microservices approach is the best we can do to still get the work done under such conditions.
It is, partly, we do tend to engage in short term thinking- but it’s also perverse incentives.
Valve Loses Bid to End Antitrust Case over Steam Gaming Platform
I don't think you can reason about quality in a modern Javascript project. Keeping a close eye on thousands or tens of thousands of modules isn't practical.

If Software Engineers were more like "real" engineers (ie PEs) they could never sign off on a project built like this.
It still is relatively better to do pharma in PR than many other industries in PR, since it has an established workforce and a bunch of facilities, and there are PR-specific tax breaks under IRC 933 (just no longer 936). There's established pharma, and sometimes line extensions; not sure if anyone would put a new pharma startup here.

Microsoft lost their tax case so they're GTFO after >10 years, though; that probably also discourages similar IP-embodied manufacturing in pharma.
Ooh no, don't ever call bellringers that, unless you want to cause grave offence. Campanologist is a name for wussy academics, bellringers ring bells. And drink beer ;-)
> "bandit" AKA government.

No, sorry. If you're thinking using excessively coarse categories like "governments," you're going to get things pretty wrong in most cases.

If that's too hard, then try this: if you think the government-as-bandit is bad, it'll be a heck of a lot worse when you're dealing with bandits-as-bandits, who don't even theoretically have any accountability to or responsibility for you.

Individuals are extremely weak; groups are pretty much always stronger. If you don't want to bullied as a weak individual, you need to band together with others, but then you're subject to how the group governs itself.
And Heller, and non-binding opinions of it from the last 200 years.

If I interpret the first amendment to only apply to brown eyed people, and then defend that very odd interpretation, am I still a defender of the first amendment?
You mean they'd rather fix the problem that is entirely an own goal than tackle the problem of reorganizing the entire penal system in a deeply unpopular and expensive way?

Once prison is organized like a summer camp with a 2:1 guard to prisoner ratio, we can do them co-ed.
Please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN. We ban accounts that do this. It's not what the site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The hardware coming out of China right now blows any phone out of the water in terms of usability, performance, and battery life,

Can you point to anything in particular? I bought a Chinese mp3 player earlier this year and it's a piece of junk.
It breaks down the N by location, which... what defines a location here? Is it a state? Is it a single prison? For a small N, narrow location is definitely a de-anonymization factor.
> universally accessible

Somewhat - these things take money. State IDs aren't free and neither are proofs of residency. ID laws are discriminatory against the poor which is likely somewhat aligned with political illiteracy but through a correlation in our current system.

A national voting day coupled with advanced voting would probably help our vote equality quite a bit and having the actual voting day be a holiday would likely discourage folks who'd rather spend a day at the beach.
Apple Maps will suggest alternate routes with an automatic opt-in if you don't respond, but, in my experience, it's much more conservative about making those suggestions.
Thanks for the reply!

Also, is there any plan on the horizon to have the cloud offering support Google or Azure? Id love the option to use a different provider than AWS.
It’s a shame because society needs examples of institutions that represent values as important as free speech. If we want to move forward we have to tolerate nazi speeches as long as they obey the law.

When institutions like that disappear it’s a lot harder for individuals to keep up the fight.
I’d worry more about toxins. Cod livers will be accumulating the crap we’ve been pumping into the environment. And the higher up the food chain, the more the toxins accumulate. Cod is an apex predator, or nearly so (juvie’s get eaten by bigger fish; the adults are prey to shark & little else).

Oh, and yes, according to Wikipedia, cod are riddled with parasites.
I am close to a similar conclusion. Sufficiently determined individual can already do a lot of damage using easily accessible tools. Without looking very far, I can point to 'car attacks' in Canada or London.

And despite that ease of access to a tool of mass death, despite clear polarization of societies to near hysterical levels, actual crazies appear to make a small fraction of the population; a very visible fraction thanks to the media exposure, but a fraction nonetheless.

Most people appear to want one thing: that the day ahead of them is just like the day before.
Eerm sorry, either misunderstanding something, but the first point sounds like totally incompetent POing and classical overengineering (though here we have the PO wanting to show off, to overengineer is the engineer's job please!!) even before the realization that the CEO just wanted to share an idea?

I mean a simple "let hires watch a video about our product" is just about saving some repetitive time... who asked for a "video onboarding solution"? And let the full tech team work on that for two weeks, jeeez! Be happy noone else noticed that wasted time and fired you?

A motivated PO could do this on his own if he has a little bit knowledge and the right tools in his spare hours (at least ours could)...should be good enough just for new hires.
Or maybe better delegate that to some marketing guy that maybe even already has video material and who is done within half a day??
You are not informed. Forking is not the issue. There have been forks before. Rewriting the chain history (which is extremely difficult by the way) is the issue.
> wasn't one of their initial proposals that deworming medications should be sent to rural Africa

Yes, and it's heavily funded by EA givers (yours truly included). People like to harp on the weird edge-cases, but Givewell.org is directing hundreds of millions of dollars per year[0], and it's pretty much entirely things deworming, malaria prevention, etc.[1]

If you visit effectivealtruism.org you'll see it's not a bunch of articles about AI research. It's about convincing people to donate in ways that have the most positive impact, and includes a big "What has the effective altruism community done?" section that's mostly the standard "ensure everyone has food, water, basic healthcare, etc." The key is that there's an emphasis on making sure you're actually improving those metrics as much as possible, rather than whatever has the flashiest marketing.

There are a bunch of people talking about AI safety and other weirder things, but we mostly just look at research to figure out what improves lives and do that.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/about/impact

[1] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
Well, if you use Bluetooth you're no longer using the DAC inside the DAP, so it's not "driving" the headphones in the sense that GP meant. That said, most DAPs support bluetooth these days, with trendy codecs like LDAC, aptX-HD, etc. However, eschewing the device DAC kinda wastes a lot of the money you spent on the DAP.

For Bluetooth usage a year or two ago I would have recommended the Shanling M0. All these devices have awful touchscreens and the M0 is no exception, but it's tiny, light, and has long battery life. Unfortunately, in this space the manufacturers tend to discontinue products in favor of new ones within a year.
Why not? One of the main failure modes of bureaucracy is escalating attempts to deflect blame for both individuals and the organization as a whole, where all that leads to a nightmare of red tape that pulls against the original intent of the organization. So you have a bunch of rules and strictness plus a bunch of snafus.

“Be indiscriminately more strict” obviously isn’t the thing to do. But I don’t think it’s too much to ask that a federal oversight organization be actually-effective at overseeing the industry it’s tasked with overseeing. Be strict enough in smart ways to catch real problems before they happen, might be one way to think of the ideal mandate.