skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things that I notice in the area where I'm somewhat active as an OSM contributor:

- You probably shouldn't render guideposts or route markers on the map, or at least not with generic "info" icon.

- Things with access=private are likely not terribly relevant to people looking at the map. This will include things like parking spots or gardens.

- Lots of shots and amenities have icons, but doctors don't. Neither do fire stations.

- Sports pitches are shown as nodes, but may be better shown as areas, since they often cover quite extensive swaths of ground that's otherwise empty with just an icon in the middle. Same with playgrounds, schools, and kindergartens, gardens, and parks.

- For buildings and building parts, if you don't make use of the parts in any way (such as showing roofs, height, etc.) perhaps just disregard the parts and only render the building outlines. This, combined with the fact that geometries seem to be simplified, even at the highest zoom levels, results in a bit of a mess of lines at times where some outlines are simplified differently from others that should actually share parts of the same edges and thus overlap perfectly. (e.g. https://maps.earth/place/openstreetmap%3Avenue%3Away%2F11120... or https://maps.earth/place/openstreetmap%3Avenue%3Away%2F11120...). Same thing with the geometry simplification also happens with adjacent geometry that should actually not have gaps (e.g. semidetached houses or garages next to houses). Lots of buildings that are actually rectangular also get quite weird angles.

- Tunnels are quite subtle. And while at least roads in tunnels don't overlap buildings that are actually above them (like with Carto) it's still hard to make out what's above and what's below in such cases (e.g. https://maps.earth/place/openstreetmap%3Astreet%3Apolyline%3...). Culverts for waterways are handled better than roads in tunnels in this case.

Overall though, this seems like a quite nice map style. Closer to Google Maps in that it emphasizes roads, but some people like the less detailed look (and it works better with vector maps, I guess, to have fewer polygons to render).
It’s a dream, not an entitlement.
So you increase the tax rate for higher spending amounts, and/or lower the tax rate for lower spending amounts.
People don't know what they "want". I'm pretty sure people are not actively searching for influencers...they are "recommended"/shoved on their screen.
Quasi-legal sex trafficking?
The <Link/> component is used for client-side page navigations in the same application. If you need to open links in a new tab with `target=“_blank”`, you should use the normal <a/> tag.
Are you sure they're ideologically against it, or where they against it because they were in the opposition and it was convenient for them to be?
He'll need to work that out for himself too, given those expensive algos have also been provided free of charge.
I disagree that it does not enhance the flavours, it is quite a significant factor IMHO.

Regarding it tasting like poison, I can't really comment on that other than to say I would think many people have a similar initial reaction to coffee or chilli for example. They bombard the senses and until you attune yourself in to them can be quite overwhelming.
There was a flaw that caused an enormous recall years ago over quick release levers and disk brakes. Not saying I agree and I’m not saying this is what they’re referring to but I believe this is what is being argued in the case.

http://www.bikeroar.com/articles/bicycle-industry-issues-its...
Consider that large tech corporations will literally never do anything that isn't furthering their goal of making more money. What effect does this type of banning have on the viability of competitors? It makes competitors attract those who are banned, and makes the site unusable for "normal people".

This is the real reason this stuff is banned. Don't let them convince you it's for any sort of noble reason.
Not a nice day to be your parents or friend :D
That's a totally separate issue, and I generally agree with you. Apple should put in some work on this as well, and they have not.

But that still doesn't mean RCS is good.
I think it means we can produce heat that can power the generation of hydrogen, e.g. from water.
> They subtract COVID deaths from excess deaths to get the baseline, forgetting that COVID deaths were counted somewhat liberally, and some percentage of non-COVID deaths were counted as COVID deaths if someone was infected close to their time of death.

If COVID deaths were counted liberaly and even after subtracting those inflated numbers you still have excess deaths, then that only further underlines their point that these excess deaths are not COVID-related.

Just because you think the criteria for counting COVID deaths were wrong doesn't make every conclusion based on those numbers incorrect.
And that's how these things are going to start requiring motorcycle registrations to ride. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Hit the Share button in Joplin and select your blogging app of choice.

Note-taking and publishing are different enough to deserve being separate apps, especially when the notes can contain private material.
Can you recommend some (non-weirs) in Europe? I used to buy some from the UK but after Brexit they stopped shipping to the EU and all the ones I find have this 'non-alcoholic flavour' that I can't pinpoint but ruins the experience to me. That or they are somewhat sweet, which I Hate.

Aldi brand non alcoholic ones are actually ok, and can hit the spot, but wouldn't call them 'good!

And forget about non-alcoholic wine, that shit is awful.

Being buying low alcoholic gin (Beefeater 20%) and whiskey (Ballantines 20%). They are ok. Not perfect, but they have enough 'zing' to make them pleasant.
It is EU law that will prevent the Commission from actually getting anywhere near implementing a project this stupid and insanely-illegal.

Over in the UK, the EU can't stop the new Kakistocracy from actually doing it. I know where I'd rather live.
Show HN: Interactive visualization of how Bitcoin works
Hi! This is a little something I've been working on to help people understand how Bitcoin and "blockchain" actually works. It's an interactive simulation of a Bitcoin-like system, running in your browser. It was originally intended as a full interactive online course, and someday it might evolve to become just that.

The source code is here: https://github.com/trudi-group/isds (Rust compiled to WebAssembly)

Feel free to use this however you like! (For teaching, for learning, as a screensaver, ...) And I'm all ears if you have comments or questions!
Yeah, and this worry about criminals is misdirected. The only legitimate worry should be about national security - the danger from terrorists, especially foreign actors. And the answer to that is simple - the state should have complete control over the communication infrastructure. But this is impossible with the internet. So the real solution, and an unpopular one, is to introduce legislation banning "free" communication and treating internet messaging companies like WhatsApp, Zoom, Skype etc. like telecommunication companies and applying the same legislation to them.

The only bloody reason people use WhatsApp and Skype etc. is because it is "free". Take away that aspect, apply the same laws and rules applicable to telecom companies to them, and we will find they will lose their appeal very fast. (I do believe offering a product for "free" should be considered an anti-competitive behaviour as it hugely increases the barrier to entry in any field. Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc. continue to have a monopoly on the internet solely because competing with them for "free" is a losing proposition for anyone - in fact, if they were not backed by CIA and NSA funds and programs like PRISM, even they would have collapsed a long time ago).
If by "socialized medicine" you mean public option health insurance, then yes it does work. I'm willing to bet, though, that the poster you're replying to only received care from privately run hospitals/clinics, so calling it socialized medicine seems misleading.
I did a bit of it before: https://sharpscrape.com/case-studies/tiktok-scraping/
You can always simply install a better text editor that doesn't spy on you.
FWIW, this example is really, really far down on the list of things you'll be going to typographic and/or semantic hell for. It doesn't impede communication,...

Totally agree, it's just that on occasions I've seen others raise the matter as an excellent example of how complex Unicode can be. Using a well-known, well used example clearly illustrates the point.

However, the matter of data integrity and machine learning is another matter altogether as meanings can easily be misinterpreted if wrong characters are used. One of the biggest problems of course is the transliterations of scripts both ancient and modern. This is a serious issue for historians and archivists and it's the reason for why Unicode makes such distinctions.

Considering these serious limitations, it's little wonder why OCR is not used as much as it ought to be. Take any text PDF on the Internet Archive that's derived from an image scan of a book and you'll find the error rate to be enormous. Clearly, these errors are why the IA offers books in both text and 'raw' image forms. Similarly, many newspaper publishers have usergroups of readers who correct scans of historical newspapers.

Obviously, this is very time consuming and somewhat defeats the purpose of OCR, it still however is a more accurate and much faster process than retyping the text.

The only real longterm solution is AI/machine learning and even then it won't be perfect. Statistics (hit/error rates for any given text) will come into play. Texts that are converted with, say, a deemed accuracy of 99.99% [my guesstimate] would be exempt from further correction but still marked with '99.99%' in the attached metadata - here the metadata is everything. Others will be flagged for correction with the potential errors flagged.

This needs new conversion format rules for OCR, as I see it, both metadata and the original scans should always be embedded within the 'converted' file. As far as I'm aware whilst work has progressed along these lines we're still a long way from a practical working solution.
it's sort of funny - I expect Java in the browser not to work well (as it didn't, historically)... And sure enough - the site returns a 502 error :P
Ah, sorry. I didn't realize this problem was solved for the general public already :)
The World’s Cotton Supply Keeps Shrinking, Hit by Drought, Heat
German banks are stubbornly clinging to their Giro cards, much to the inconvenience of iPhone users. The cards are usually Maestro-compatible, but domestic transactions use the domestic system.
yeah..no. my main is a XPS bought in India.

Let me reiterate - i can buy a Dell XPS running Windows (with windows tax baked in). But I cannot buy a Dell XPS Developer Edition running Ubuntu in India. So I cannot buy the cheaper variation of the same laptop..but the more expensive version is freely available.
Hah, the world is complicated. I feel like me and my family are the worst case scenario in the health care system and it worked… pretty well aside from them wanting to give my daughter too much care she didn’t need.

The US basically has socialized medicine that scares naive/“honest”/conscientious middle class people into paying up to subsidize it. I suspect if we passed legislation tomorrow to make the US a single payer system it’d all fall apart. But I suppose we’ve managed to trick the US taxpayers into socializing medicine while letting them pretend we haven’t.
Demo video is awesome. Loved it.
That's neolib hoo-ha. Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day operations.

We're living that right now with inflation and supply chain scarcity. The wealthy have what they need and can afford to wait or shop around. The immediacy of need for a one car household to replace their only vehicle puts them at the whims of a highly fluctuating car market. A wealthy household can afford regular maintenance, more reliable cars, or just to Uber around every day.

At scale, we can't buy the computer components we need at a price that isn't a huge markup of what we paid three years ago, which either gets passed on to customers or means we have to limit our service offerings. Instead, we're suspending some operations and waiting it out while we rework some designs. We're about as big and wealthy as orgs get and can survive it.
Microtransactions for content are never going to take off because of the friction and the potential for microfraud.
There you go. They are totally clueless on how far the de-platforming can go. The domain provider, hosting companies can do the same and de-platform them as well.

Perhaps lets go far to de-platform them of their bank accounts, credit cards, etc since they are too private companies? Can we also contact their phone / energy provider(s) to shut off their electricity as well so they cannot access the internet?

So what is their response? Don't like it? "BuILd yOur Own VISa / mASteRcArD paymeNtS pLATFORM", "buIlD yOUr oWN IsP", "BuiLD YOUr oWN doMain PRoviDER", etc, etc.

As I said, creating a big tech dystopia on trying to get those you don't like to be de-platformed off of the internet which the point is anyone can get this same treatment. Not just this single user.
They’re probably just very angry and hurt and looking for any kind of revenge they can find.
The founding fathers were heavily against democracy and did everything they could to limit the power of the government without being completely ineffective.
Idea being that individuals create wealth. Government will always become tyrannical.
CLIPPER was encryption. I don’t remember anything about remote kill switches for media (sounds too advanced for 1994), but there was also discussion in the 1990s about the V-chip, which was parental controls for broadcast TV. The technology was implemented but never amounted to much. Turns out parents weren’t any better at programming their TVs than they were their VCRs.
> You are still presenting me with abstractly encoded data.

That’s the actual encoding for that grapheme as specified by the spec for UTF8, UTF16, and UTF32.

> \u and u+ are in a higher level of abstraction.

No, it’s not, it’s how you write escaped 16bit and 32bit hexadecimal strings for UTF-16 and UTF-32 respectively. Notice there’s 4 hex characters after \u and 8 hex after u+. Those are the “raw bytes” in hex.

> The only raw bytes I am seeing here are in the UTF-8 string, which you decided to serialize as hexadecimals

All three forms are “raw bytes” in hex form. \x is how you represent an escaped 8 bit UTF-8 byte in hex.

> Another question: do you need first to parse the raw bytes into characters before recognizing graphemes, or can you do it all at once for both variable-length and fixed-length encodings?

You need to “parse” (more like read for UTF16 and UTF32, as there’s not much actual parsing outside byte order handling) the raw bytes into codepoints. To try to minimize confusion, consider Character and Grapheme as synonymous. They are made up of one or more codepoints. It really doesn’t matter if it’s variable length or fixed length, you still have to get the codepoints before you can determine character/graphemes.
Three key quotes from the article:

- In India, the top-producing country, heavy rains and pests have cut into cotton crops so much that the nation is importing supplies.

- In the US, the largest exporter of the commodity, a worsening drought is ravaging farms and is set to drag production to the lowest level in more than a decade.

- Brazil, the second-largest exporter, is battling extreme heat and drought that have already cut yields by nearly 30%.
I think the idea is, say the average person uses 100 gallons of petrol a year. You add a $1 tax to each gallon, thereby costing the average person $100 per year, but you give them $100 back. The average person is no better or worse off, but it's an incentive to use less fuel.

You could make the argument either way that this fall's more on the rich. They tand to have more bigger cars, bit then you could argue that the poor have older less efficient cars, but it isn't really aimed at wealth. I suppose the key is that any party can arrange their lifestyle to avoid being worse off.
I'm curious how can there only be 5 dimensions when there's more than 5 fields of study that people dedicate their lives to which all require different kinds of mindsets to approach.
Some real gems in there. I could only imagine how you got to the point about worrying about umask - maybe reusing some directory that was holding old code experiments before?

As for all the grep scripts, you might want to take a look at rip-grep, it lets you filter on file type.

Thank you!
Fair enough if Tate broke ToS.

But the difference is that YouTube, FB etc. present themselves as platforms, avoiding the liability of being seen as a publisher.

If they start making value judgements on certain content, then they can't claim they act as a neutral platform, and as such should be held liable for other content.

https://review.gale.com/2021/01/13/platform-or-publisher/
You’re right and you’re wrong. Not to try to push this, bcs although I started this thread, as I say elsewhere, it is, even to my mind, a last resort, you seem to be having a bit of a failure of creativity.

(a) Iron actually comes in powered form to begin with (the cars were literally a joke), and blows off land, or pours out of rivers, in many places already, seeding the southern eddy, for example.

(b) More-or-less simple and cheap mining operations to “filter” iron out into, for example, the southern eddy.

I’m not making this up. There are academics exploring this and they do actually do the math you’re describing. You’re right that’s it’s more complex than literally dumping powered cars into the sea. But you’re wrong to believe that only stupid people are thinking about OIF.
By allowing all kinds of nastiness? I would pay for that service a lot, just let me to watch anything with no censorship and copyright issues and from any country.
several.. truth is that whatsapp was made to be used in one device only and is not frindly to be used in multiple devices at the same time.

Until recently (like days ago) you still needed the main device to be online and connected to their server to use the both the web or desktop apps, although for some time there was a beta going for the feature they released a few days ago where that is "no longer required".

Even so, i was on the beta of the new feature where you could use the web or desktop app without the phone since it started and it has its quirks.. Often it fail to load either the history or even new messages, messages sent on the main device often do not show in the web\desktop app and performance is overall terrible.

Also there is still no official way to have the same whatsapp across multiple phone\tablets devices.
This isn't about privacy, it's about free speech as stated above. He wants to make the code public, not keep it in private.
Family member recently received emergency care in northern NY. Several of the nurses were Canadian coming over the bridge for better pay.
> very decent income to structure your life in a way that allows zero car usage

Why do you need very decent income for that?
Hello, author here! Winedbg's built-in GDB server is more limited than gdbserver.exe -- importantly, the 'remote get' functionality isn't implemented.

$ winedbg --gdb hello-win32.exe
[...]
Wine-gdb> info proc mappings
Can't determine the current process's PID: you must name one.
Wine-gdb> shell pidof hello-win32.exe
1883212
Wine-gdb> info proc mappings 1883212
process 1883212
warning: unable to open /proc file '/proc/1883212/maps'
Wine-gdb> remote get /proc/1883212/maps /dev/stdout
Remote I/O error: Function not implemented

Considering that gdbserver.exe is packaged for Ubuntu as gdb-mingw-w64-target, there's not many reasons to use Winedbg's GDB mode.
In a corporate structure, yes I would say so. Whether that is the best organizational method is another debate for another thread.
old topic:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401#issue-8177488...

The problem with WASI is that it is a some kind of truncated copy of CloudABI and POSIX. With all the goodies like abbreviated error codes like "fbig", "idrm", "srch" and etc. See: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/0ba0c5e2e37625ca5a6...

The main problem of WASI in my opinion is that it's based on a standard which is 30 years old. And yes, the idea was cool, to let you run even C without having to rewrite libc. But the reality is that we can't do this now and it's still a big question whether we can in the near future. Besides, C is probably the only one that needs such a low level api, but everyone has to suffer because of it, essentially reinventing libc based on WASI with their own language runtime on top of it. This is simply a waste of binary space.

Also it lead to fragmentation into the WebAseembly ecosystem. A compiled program in wasm32-wasi cannot run in a browser, only in wasmtime, wasmer or node.js. WASI-polyfill.js is very limited, adds a bunch of kilobytes of glue code and is still not even officially introduced.
I don't have time to go in depth on this but I'm a bit skeptical of the claims here

After adjusting for age, the english excess death rate is 5% above. It is the highest. But it also just came from being the lowest several months ago. How much natural variance is in this data. Is this moment noteworthy? Is it possible we're not seeing more people die sooner but rather a large chunk of people putting off death a few months all kicking the bucket now for some reason?

Twitter confuses me a bit but reading all the thread here seemed to hide some additional posts which were important. The rate of people going into the emergency room is normalish. The rate of people leaving it is slow but not clearly slower than normal. This does suggest the general problem is really that we don't know where to put all these incapable poor health old people.

But... If we assume that people are leaving the system at the same rate as before (afaict no data here), and that the health system had large inflows of patients from covid earlier, it seems likely that this is just the system slowly returning to equilibrium and dealing with that excess bulge of patients who entered and are hard to get rid of. The problem is probably not that patient outflows have gotten worse. It's just that there are more patients in there now because there were a lot more new patients shortly before now.

He's got one critical chart which shows that hospital occupancy % has been growing from 6% to 8% 2010-2020. It is now at 12%. But the data is missing for the pandemic period for some reason. So... that seems like an important bit. Is this problem correcting itself? Kind of depends on the rate of change we're seeing in this figure if the rest of the analysis is to be believed. But it's hidden and too short term to make a good forecast on just the recent months.
An alternative to writing a formal specification: write you app's 'readme' before you start any coding. An 'readme' can be more approachable than a formal specification. The idea is called 'Readme Driven Development'.

This article describes more:

Readme Driven Development: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
Or (to use the old analogy of a UGC-based site as a nightclub/bar), they kick out people who have a bad enough rep and have pissed off enough customers that it makes them look bad and might lose them money.

I don't think they care - nor should they, really - about silencing this a-hole or another one for good. They just care about PR and business so they boot users who threaten that.
Yes https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-germany-say-pola...
This is very advanced satire.
Money laundering is profitable because the money put in is devalued dirty money, more like a raw material input.
false equivalency.