skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your comment.

Travel search sites are slow due to the explosion of the search space due to increasing number of search parameters (dimensions) a modern search engine with personalized experience should provide.

Many large travel operators and hubs still use pre-computation of search results using expensive RDBMS clusters what comes with two major problems:

a) you are almost always a bit out of sync, so any price and availability confirmation requires multiple real-time lookups,

b) more importantly: your are bound to supporting a limited number of search options, and these options have to be static whereas nowadays more and more people would like to travel to "a nice location where the forecasted sea temperature next weekend is between this and that".

The point of this demo is to show that you can solve these problems with the right software engineering and cheap hardware.
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I think this is something that has not been well integrated into smartphone devices & computers

Here is what I would want.

- Access to my child's browsing history

- Access to my child's YouTube watch history

- Require my (remote approval) before a child wants to install an application

- Give me the remote ability to turn off acess to certain applicationsy child use for a certain period

- The ability for me to block certain sites from my child browser like shock sites
The who is often interesting with these stories.

> a new child safety group known as Heat Initiative

Doesn't even have a website or any kind of social media presence; it literally doesn't appear to exist apart from the reporting on Apple's response to them, which is entirely based on Apple sharing their response with media, not the group interacting with media.

> Sarah Gardner

on the other hand previously appeared as the VP of External Affairs (i.e. Marketing) of Thorn (formerly DNA Foundation): https://www.thorn.org/blog/searching-for-a-child-in-a-privat...

So despite looking a bit fishy at first, this doesn't seem to come from a christofascist group.
I was there friend. I didnt agree, but hey, I left and we to "apps" for 10 years...
"Our sponsors - Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to help our users with maps downloads and updates."

On their github README.md.
"It's an odd contrast with the perception that everything has become hyper-political, intersectional and everyone is an activist now."

We know this has been exacerbated by biased and poor media reporting, social media etc. but it seems to me that with the complexities of modern life many don't stop to think about issues, nuances are lost thus views polarize to extremes.

I wonder how much better things would be if we taught kids about politics and how they are likely to be manipulated later in life, and that before arriving at a position it was incumbent on citizens to consider the issues carefully.

Obama's point would be half solved if kids left primary school primed with these notions, even though views were not fully developed they'd be easier to reinforce later.

None of that stuff was drummed into me as a kid and I now wish it had been.
classic ASP
time to create jsp pages again?
How does M$'s legal team accomplish such a feat?

Who's going to stop them?
Large energy plants are still more efficient than individual ICEs.
OsmAnd, while a bit harder to use (but not that much), is much better than Organic Maps: it can show satellite imagery from both Google and Microsoft (and download it for offline use!), has a 3D map view, supports coloring slopes, has a bunch of specialized functionality for hiking, cycling, skiing, maritime navigation, can record trails, can route according to vehicle dimensions and in general can do everything (except for things that require access to Google's data like routing based on live traffic data and showing data like opening hours that businesses put in Google Maps).
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If you already know Slido, AhaSlides or Mentimeter, there is no solid open-source alternative to these tools.

This is why I want to help public speakers and those who have to make their presentation interactive through live messages/Q&A and polls.

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To give some abstractions out of the box, mostly, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel - the demands of a lot of websites and applications nowadays include interactivity on every level, very fast and smooth ui population, and pretty animations. Sometimes the tools are great for working in huge teams on the same codebase, sometimes it’s for giving a lot of features to a smaller team.
> I am flabbergasted, stunned, lacking words.

Why would you be so stunned?

Would you be so stunned if I said western society has a negative attitude/undertones against women?
Led to him quitting, yup.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/balsillie-...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-insid...
Thanks, and this is because we use real world hotel information but with synthetic prices.

However, the price and availability are all calculated in real-time, and the base price of accommodation components can be modified in real-time as well, what is rather uncommon in OTA search engines.
> Mastodon is that I can subscribe to a friend's original posts but unsubscribe to their "boosts,"

Wait, you can do this?! I guess I wasn't paying attention. Time to give Mastodon another go.
Very cool, I was in a small metropolitan region recently and looking up directions to get places was absolutely killing my phone battery. Seems like the perfect use for this.
For me the biggest missing feature is an easy way to sync bookmarks/saved places.

You can manually export it but it gives me a little stress that one day I'll just lose my phone after not having exported for a while.

At the very minimum it would be great to auto export the file every X days to a specified location so I can auto sync it with syncthing or something.

But a nice setup would also be supporting webdav (nextcloud) to just drop the file there automatically.

This is the related issue but doesn't have too much traction.
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/622
looks great - the UI is simple/easy to use. I like the Compass Needle , it integrates well on the Map/tile as well as on Place Details popover (arrow top-right corner), so smart!
Let's not forget you can also type cd ftp://user@host/path in mc and it will connect :)

I've tried several TC GUI clones for Linux and Mac and every single one i've tried missed the terminal function, so I still use MC.

If anyone can point me to a GUI one that works like mc...
> [...] needlessly ornamental furniture [...]

That ignorance of beauty being a perfectly valid prime objective over function, for everyday objects (or architecture) is why most things and buildings today look straight out of a dystopian sci-fi flic.

And because we love to live in such bland spaces, "decorated" with such furniture, inside such buildings, is probably also why people spend tons of money every year to escape them.

And to e.g. visit picturesque European cities and villages with tiny winding roads and "needlessly" decorated building facades in their holidays.
Yeah but in this case your UPS causes tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths a year and lots of knock on effects like cops always having to worry about a suspect being armed to the teeth, metal detectors in schools, etc.

> It will be a slow boil until we realize we're in a seriously corrupt and unrepresentative state that can only be fixed through force.

There's no evidence this is happening, certainly not to the degree we should suffer the current level of gun violence to combat.
I wrote the article. (I did not write the headline.)

The crux of the article is that the Big-8 board has reconvened and is active again; I spent a paragraph or two on that. That's what is back, and that is what the headline is about.

Google Groups is still current and comparing a couple of groups to my Eternal September feeds, they are in sync, so I call [[citation needed]] on that. If you can't back it up, I think it's disinformation you've picked up somewhere.
What are you using to measure "environmental knowledge"? Do the hundreds of scientists who drafted the IPCC report count as knowledgeable? Does the report sound anxious ?
In a world of streaming, strikes might even be profitable for studios. A very large drop in subscribers would be required to offset the benefit of lower content spend.

Studios exist to make profit. Producing content is nothing more than an intermediate step.
We use real world hotel information but with synthetic prices, so the structure and distribution of data is spot-on as well as the underlying pricing/availability calculations happening in real-time.

You may find this summary interesting:
https://ultrafastsearchengine.com/#/details
Which Shopify apps or integrations have you found valuable for your business?
Which Shopify apps or integrations have you found most valuable for your business?

These are some popular choices among Shopify merchants, here are some Shopify apps and integrations that are often touted as valuable:

Oberlo: A dropshipping app that enables merchants to easily import and fulfill products from various suppliers.

Klaviyo: A powerful email marketing and automation platform that helps merchants drive sales, recover abandoned carts, and build customer loyalty.

Bold Subscriptions: A subscription management app that allows merchants to offer recurring billing and subscription services to customers.

Yotpo: A user-generated content and reviews platform that helps merchants collect and showcase customer reviews, photos, and ratings.

Privy: A conversion optimization tool that offers pop-ups, banners, and other tools to capture leads, reduce cart abandonment, and increase sales.

ReCharge: A subscription billing and recurring orders app that facilitates subscription-based business models and automates recurring billing for products.

SEO Manager: An app that provides SEO optimization tools to improve search engine rankings and drive organic traffic to a Shopify store.

Refersion: An affiliate marketing app that allows merchants to create and manage affiliate programs to drive customer referrals and increase sales.

ShipStation: A shipping and order fulfillment app that helps streamline shipping processes by integrating with major carriers and providing automated shipping labels and tracking.

Smile: A loyalty rewards program app that enables merchants to create and manage customer loyalty programs, offering rewards for purchases, referrals, and other interactions.
Exactly.

Having a fiduciary duty to act in shareholder's interests (a very common sense rule) is a long way from "maximizing shareholder profits at all costs", even if those sometimes align.
So a thing that increments "number" is probably also "flat", which probably leads to what I understood as "household" in a large building.
Honest question I have. I've worked in advertising and the laws around PII are interesting. In California there are the CCPA laws that require them to allow a form to submit and have my PII removed after 90? days.

What happens if these people train a model on a cali residents PII, having a request come in, 3 months later someone asks it about you and it spits out the PII that was "removed"? I'm assuming it's a matter of this going to court to be decided but I'd be curious if any californian legal nerds have some reasons why no one has started trying to target these things for settlements if nothing else?
Maybe because they want the bike lanes to be safe?

Of course, this should be a municipal task, just like it is here in the Netherlands. However, when municipalities don't care about cyclists, volunteers might pick up the slack.
Question: when you say iOS, do you mean navigating to echochess.com directly on a new window in a browser like safari? The only time I've seen that weird behavior you're describing is when a webview is being loaded for the game from within some other app. The second part sounds like a bug - thanks for the heads-up!

I'm still not over how you casually dropped that you reached 136.7 MILLION btw. gg.
Yes, it's just a demo site. We use real world hotel information but with synthetic prices and availability.
> was more astounded that harmless messages were marked as "abusive".

I was too, at first, but then I saw that this person refused to acknowledge any misunderstanding on their part or engage with any of the clarifications provided, and continued to spout their one-dimensional rhetoric. There's no "misinformation" marker on Github afaik, so unfortunately the "abusive" marker seems to be the tool available to fade those out.

I'd absolutely find this excessive if this was about a proprietary product, but I'm in support of FOSS developers standing up for themselves and drawing a boundary on how much mental energy they're willing spend on people like this.
> You need a paid (!) subscription to a provider

Tell us that you didn't RTFA without saying that you didn't RTFA.

By the way, I wrote the article.

If you've been around since before Google as you claim, you should know to RTFM and RTFA.
> I don't know if this is the ideal takeaway. Otherwise, we should all prioritize making our products flimsier and more expensive.

That's an "is-ought" gap if I've ever seen one, sadly.
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> If you don't use any MS products or services, and no products/services you do use are backed by MS's services, then you don't need to care personally.

I beg to differ, wouldn't they be more inclined to care in case their data was being used in a product they do not interact with, rather than the one they do use - and in some way benefit from it?
Google displays my street name wrong and there is no way to change it. I've reported it 10+ times and nothing is happening. I don't know where they got that street name from but it's definitely not the "official name" of the street as recorded by the official authorities. And this is in Europe on a street where the google car goes through basically every few years.

I can't even describe the level of frustration this causes because I'm forced to use a non-existant street name for packages because otherwise no courier finds me.
well, lentils aren't as catastrophic for the environment, so rightfully no?
> All companies have to do is abide the local rules set by regulations

The point being that there are not enough regulations.

One feature that I wish exist is the option to completely erase your account on a particular website along with the data they have collected from you (there can a waiting time of few months before they erase it from their servers). This feature can only be bought out by government regulation because most websites don't have the incentive.
Brendan O'Neill having a totally normal one making a spurious link that only exists in his head, no one else's.

Why is this even posted here?
SPA required building out a separate back-end API, it had poor load times because everything had to be loaded at once (then you had all the complexity to find solutions within that paradigm with code-splitting), there was always this gap with the HTML part of the site, you had all the complexity with bundling, lots of reasons.

Trello is probably an example of an app that worked with SPA. But the other perspective of this is that people weren't sensible about using React, they tried to use it for everything, they got onto React because they could hire for a very discrete front-end role and then split back-end, very few companies did this sensibly. The big problem with React was really how people used it, and this seems to have guided the development efforts on the project.

Btw, the move to SSR is already having operational issues. I have noticed companies hiring now for "full-stack React" because they hired a lot of front-end specialists who don't know anything about Node and won't learn it...so I think the issues with hiring will continue.
All this privacy noise feels a lot like Whataboutism.

Firefox has telemetry and studies enabled by default. Alps while mozzilla call out x, y, z for the same thing.
Yes, perhaps I could but I'd be a nuisance. For many others, the general public, it's unlikely to be a viable option.
Hey.

I wrote the article.

Note, generally (not always) the editors and subeditors write the headlines, not the authors. They have a pretty good idea of what brings the clicks in, far better than me.
Great app.

Being a non google user I have used Organic maps for years. I have tried all the open source others but they dont compete for me.

I install E/OS and lineage with Organic maps on all my phones and on all phones my family use.

Its because I am old that I continually get confused with (route to) and (route from) selection when working out my destination route. I always have to do it twice.

There is a selection of voices but I only like one voice. I generally dont need a voice to direct me, I only need to have a quick glimpse at the screen every now and then

I walk/ramble a lot and use .gpx files in organic maps for rambling routes. I also download .gpx files from rambling websites when looking for new rambling routes.
> “Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit," Neuenschwander wrote. "It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types.”

Both of these arguments are absolutely, unambiguously, correct.

The other side of the coin is that criminals are using E2EE communication systems to share sexual abuse material in ways and at rates which they were not previously able to. This is, I argue, a bad thing. Is is bad for the individuals who are re-victimised on every share. It is also bad for the fabric of society at large, in the sense that if we don't clearly take a stand against abhorrent behaviour then we are in some sense condoning it.

Does the tech industry have any alternate solutions that could functionally mitigate this abuse? Does the industry feel that it has any responsibility at all to do so? Or do we all just shout "yay, individual freedom wins again!" and forget about the actual problem that this (misguided) initiative was originally aimed at?
"An activist shareholder is a shareholder who uses an equity stake in a corporation to put pressure on its management"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist_shareholder

I am not excusing greed. I am just saying that if shareholders are focused on financial gain the corporate management is obliged to deliver. Not all shareholders are greedy. But overwhelmingly they are.
Sure, calling internal API is sensible. I am not saying it needs to be public API. But you probably can't avoid some serialization (be it REST, GQL, GRPC), the service that owns the data can be different than the one serving the html.

I am not saying everybody needs to do microservices but my experience with monolith is bad. You want at least "some" services and the html-serving service shouldn't usually own the data. User data belongs to user service, report/analytics data to analytics service etc.

Just from the security point of view, the stuff facing internet should have minimum rights to read/write anything. Definitely not direct function-calling or db access.
> If I won the lottery, and I just sent, say, a $500M check to a regular discount broker and bought an index fund, is someone going to take it away from me? Are the wealth management divisions of every podunk bank and credit union there for a reason? Would I need to hire "protection"?

The market might take it away from you. Last year the S&P returned -20% - there goes $100M!
Yeah you would think, which is why I was wondering "is there a code that i can run to check the stability" but apparently that's a silly thing to ask for some reason.
> a childhood memory of my mother (northern Germany) is that as a child she was sometimes referred to as given name + name of the family farm, I suspect not in that order.

I disambiguate my grandparents via the name of the farmhouse they live in, rather than the last names. I am from austria. But I dunno how common that is.
For US companies registered in Delaware (which is most of them), the doctrine of shareholders primacy holds. Shareholders can and have sued corporate boards/execs for not acting in their best interest. It goes back to the 1910s when Henry Ford very loudly and explicitly announced he was cutting shareholder dividends to pay workers the famous $5/day wage (double what any other factory workers were paid), and minority shareholders sued and won.

Of course it is debated and different in different jurisdictions, as it is common law and not a specific statute. But ambiguity in law means execs lean towards the safe decision. Shareholders can go a long way with a legal threat that never sees trial.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Thanks for this comment. If we think about a simple metasearch engine which just redirects your search to other search engines this is true, there is way less to optimize there.

In reality, if you are a provider of travel bookings or a travel operator, any final calculation of price and availability is a result of a multiple conditional sub-calculations driven by actual contractual agreements between underlying parties and making it fast along with multiparameter search (where parameters may also change their values in real-time). And to make it fast is non trivial.
Probably the same reason why they are showing hotels in the city I lived all my life, and have my home address set.

It's mindblowing how they don't set meaningful defaults with all that mountain of data they have.
> These are trillion-dollar powered for-profit entities, with armies of lawyers and lobbyists that can intimidate medium sized countries. They will exploit every weakness of incompetent, confused and captured regulatory/political systems.

I don't think the need to exploit opportunities is exclusive to major corporations. We see this behavior and power grabs even in petty quarrels in small amateur organizations such as small businesses and homeowner associations. The tools change but the human traits that drive this behavior is always there. There is no toggle that turns on this behavior when assets surpass a certain level.

> Because that's what they are legally obliged to do for their shareholders.

I don't think they are "legally obliged" to anyone, or even "obliged" at all. Their leadership is driven to exploit the tools at their reach to meet their goals, and that's precisely what they do.
This is correct, thanks.
I suggest giving date and time in the form of phase/frequency references to nearby pulsars. That should guarantee stability for a few million years.
That is really harmful and bizarre. But that also means you basically need to know which delivery service is going to deliver it, because some, like the postal service, may be relying on the real name or the postal code.
Ask HN: What are your views on IT certification?
If you are interested in learning and not for credentialism
> So despite looking a bit fishy at first, this doesn't seem to come from a christofascist group.

Why would you assume this in the first place?