skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of levels of menu options itself is puzzling. Is there really 50 different bank customer service specialisations such that someone who can do more than one of them is like asking for an astronaut surgeon?
It becomes really annoying to interface with any service because of this. I just want to pay, get what I paid for, and never hear from you again.
Ask HN: Do rich people worry about their personal security?
Maybe maps hasn’t grown with its users, or can’t be everything for everyone.

If the only metric is engagement it might not be across the features relevant in a single user journey vs head to head.

I needed a map the other day for a repeat need and built it in a few minutes in mapbox studio, only ever used mapbox via code in another life. Didn’t know what to think.

Oddly haven’t looked back for that use. It just embeds and shares and delights.

Still want to try out osm.
Show HN: An Immersive Game of Thrones Multiverse Experience
Alpha Version Demo: https://got.ready2play.online/

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We're here to present an experimental product empowered by the blend of Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT! Dive into Westeros like never before. Our experimental product offers an immersive storytelling experience where you play a pivotal role in shaping the narrative. Ever wondered if the ending of the final seasons of Game of Thrones could've been different? Now's your chance to twist the tale.

Current Features:

- AI-driven alternative endings starting from the end of S7.
- Real-time story interventions, allowing you to change the plotline as you read.

What's Next:

- Continuous enhancements to refine and polish the storytelling experience.
- And yes, we're contemplating open-sourcing the project – giving back to this amazing community and encouraging further innovation.

We truly believe in the power of collaboration. If you have feedback, suggestions, or just want to geek out about Westeros, shoot us an email at ready2play.contact@gmail.com ! Additionally, if you're as passionate about AI and storytelling as we are, we'd love for you to collaborate with us on this exciting project.

Remember, winter is coming, but with AI, the possibilities are endless. Stay excited and stay kind!

Valar Morghulis!
Why not jail people who steals the cars?
I can’t believe there’s only one image of Apple Maps in that article.

Every image is captioned with “See! Look how similar it is” but I have nothing to compare it to.
Korean emergency alerts are a good example. I got 5-10 a day during my first week in Seoul. At first it's scary, then it's annoying, then you turn them off.
They missed a great opportunity to call this BloTorch (Bayesian Learning and Optimisation?) here, but I'm very excited to see such methods gaining more traction!
"This was called client-side rendering (CSR) or single-page applications (SPA) and was widely considered a bad move."

Why was it considered a bad move to go SPA? I generally disagree with this statement. But I feel like whenever this conversation comes up we're talking different applications altogether. A SPA is fine for a back office application. What it's not necessarily good for is a splash page or marketing page where each page truly operates independently. But in the case of an app that people use frequently, the client side code all gets cached locally anyways, and SSR doesn't buy you anything for that use case. SSR is great for getting a fast time to render on the very first hit to a page. But if you're making a real, rich app, that people will use daily client side JS is not bad at all.

I worked on Trello for a while, it was a single page app with a Node.js API. We served millions of users with it, and people generally loved the UX of our app. But it was a true web app, and not a website. Interactivity was always part of the user experience, and many of the behaviors would be impossible in a pure SSR app.
I'd say, this was not GPT. Good job.
I always enjoy the analysis of this guy. Thorough and to the point. Apple and Google should care more about usability and readability.
Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) [pdf]
But is the icon going to be a syringe, a pill or a tombstone?
> Preventing you from spying on and making rules about other people’s money is a legitimate purpose

Regulations will change this and you will be unable to cash out unless you identify yourself to KYC.

cryptocurrency is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous so the privacy argument is completely moot.

Also crypto is a pyramid scheme at best, a ponzi scheme at its worst.
Interesting. I have an inherent distrust with reviews and descriptions on Google Maps, at least for where I live (India). I usually resort to other services to look for good restaurant/hotel recommendations.
I'd rather use Blazor, or Jinja. But I hate react, js, and front end work, so maybe I'm not the target audience.

I clicked the link out of morbid horror.
This looks very interesting! Thank you!
> jacks my car

no, they downloaded your car.
I also am baffled by the return to server side rendering as the new thing. It’s like people forgot that’s how it used to be.

I’m sure they’ll claim it’s different now because… hydration or something or another.

As a former PHP developer who spent a lot of time both working on server rendered pages and converting server rendered pages to be API/JS (render the core in HTML+JS and use APIs with two way data binding to update the UI), I can’t believe we’re going back that way, but with wildly more complicated patterns than we had before.
I've really enjoyed this exchange. I come to HN to have my thoughts provoked. Thank you.

One of the most shocking things (no pun initially intended) about learning electronics [as someone who has spent absurd amounts of time tweaking the user experience of interacting with text input elements] is the cold realization that you have to manually handle switch bounce. Because physics.

Wait, I have to think about how tiny bits of widget bounce when they come into contact with each other? Every button and every encoder? You'be got to be kidding me.

And so you set out on the dark road as you first wonder WTF is going on with your counter, then you start tracking the time between pulses. Then you learn about hardware interrupts and state machines and oscilloscopes. Then you learn about RC and Schottky diodes and soon, hex inverters.

Would I benefit from a two hour lecture about the math behind RC calculations? It might be interesting, but at some point if you pull enough yarn out of the sweater, it stops keeping you warm.

I have always really enjoyed clever and/or obsessive answers to "describe what happens when you type a URL into your browser". If someone starts with the mechanical behaviour of a cherry switch before talking about the USB protocol, is this not the free jazz of computer science?

Is it not our "The Aristocrats"?
How can you go back to Fusion on Apple silicon? No copy paste, no display scaling, no file share... It's horrible.
Yeah, I don’t know what the author is talking about. I loved his comparisons over the years, but Google Maps (and others, really) are atrocious to use because of extremely low contrast; the blue version is much better (even if potentially “uglier”)

For a product meant to be used outdoors, Maps does an awful job at being readable.
Depends on what you're talking about.

For aesthetics? No question Apple's superior.

For navigation? A tossup in my experience?

For discovery of places and reviews? Google's so far ahead it's not even close.

Apple's interface with Google's database of places and reviews would be the holy grail.
It is worse than that. They say it, stopping the musak with a slightly noisy pause first which almost sounds like someone picked up the phone so now I need to pay attention for the 4 hours it takes to get through not just zone out and code.

It then become asshole design when they add 3 rings before that pause as if you finally are getting through! Evil phone system designers!
In server-side rendering, clients are sent HTML that they can see immediately

I noticed this too. You can put a plaintext file on the server and it gets transferred to the browser pretty fast. You can also put another plaintext file ending with .css on the server and it can make things on the first page move and look really nice just because the browser knows what to do with it.

It’s a neat trick but still second to useful content on the first page (that is the page you get to read, if it lets you).
Glad I’m not alone. Been using AWS since like 2009 and I got basically everything wrong.
ISO 8601 has become popular enough that many systems take it as a shorthand for yyyy-mm-ddTHH:ii:ss.*, and perhaps the date only yyyy-mm-dd, without caring much about the other parts of the specifications.

It was a long time ago but I have memories of Apple's Objective C frameworks not supporting huge swaths of it. And it's worse for private systems that can just tell the clients to keep it inside the generic formats.

In that sense, ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 are virtually the same for many systems/companies.
I don't think you understand what a NIMBY is. They're fine with housing developments, halfway houses, public works projects, etc as long as they are "not in their backyard". Everything you're saying is 100% compatible with them, and in fact you're describing the exact hypocrisy for which they are labeled "NIMBY". Many are liberals who avowedly support statewide legislation for these things and then make the actual implementation of them impossible by constantly putting up legal red tape around their "backyards".

So, to reiterate, you're literally just describing a NIMBY.
I'm not sure what it's feelings are on the topic but Ask Jesus is a thing on twitch rn. NSFW (It's chat generated content on Twitch)

https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus

It takes chat prompts and weaves together scripture, The Internet, odd pronunciation, callbacks to other questions, and hilarious fails when chat gets, uh, playful.

AI Jesus just said there is a time and place for everything and that it might just be the time to buy Starfield. It knew it was a game being only prompted with, 'Jesus, should I buy Starfield?'
Yes, that's what I mean by "obvious". And I mean to say that it's REALLY important IMO. The point of having a standard is to abandon ALL other ways of representing a DT (or at least go as far as possible in that direction). RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 make that basically impossible. Most of your coworkers (let alone non-technical business people) don't give a damn (or even know anything, really) about standards and will represent DTs differently in different places. I can force them to use 2023-09-20 instead of 2023/09/20, and MAYBE even instead of mind-boggling USA-ian format of 09/20/2023, but I sure as hell cannot force them to use "2023-09-20T20:30:59" instead of "2023-09-20 20:30:59". Because it's less readable, and it's not arguable.

> And I have no idea why they sacrificed the universality of the format by limiting the year segment to only four digits

No, there are reasons. People often represent year with 2 digits, so forcing you to use 4 digits is basically intended to make representing 20 CE unambiguous as 0020-01-01 (as opposed to 20-01-01). But, I mean, it's a problem to be mindful of when making a standard, not an insurmountable obstacle. A real standard to end other formats once and for all just needs to make sure to take care of all corner-cases. The truth is RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 are just shitty standards.

(Edit: Also, just in case, note that it is possible to use 5 or more digits in ISO 8601. But the standard says that the parties must agree beforehand on that. That's what I mean by "unclear". I cannot just say that you MUST represent DT in ISO-XXXX format, it's not specific enough. In the end we must to agree on how our systems will behave when receiving this or that value anyway, so it makes having an external "standard" pretty pointless, since the standard is pretty clear about very obvious situations, and very hand-wavy in all actually non-trivial situations.)
The future always looks bleak for humans, which is just part of the human experience. But today, we have the most material and technological abundance in history and people gesture vaguely at a long term time horizon problem and think "it's over". It was "over" during the Great Depression, and it was over before that during Spanish Flu. And before that during the Thirty Years War and the Black Death, and so on back to the Great Floods of mythology. Luckily, they didn't give up.
You're certainly entitled to your own opinion on the future of Kauai, but that very attitude is what's lead to San Francisco's current day problems.

The island of Lanai may never get developed. Thats the only way to preserve things how you want. Otherwise other people's opinions, in places of power, get what they want, regardless of what your want. Just look across the water to Honolulu, which is rife with skyscrapers.

Sadly, the Kauai from years past is already gone. Rose tinted glasses are nice to look at the past with, but amonst the extraordinary natural beauty, modern day Kauai has the same problems as everywhere else. Meth, fentanyl, and a lack of jobs.
I like this idea, a lot actually, but I think it would be prettty difficult to implement. The characters aren't generated in real time. I created another backend application that generates a bunch of characters and stores them in a database, so that the experience of navigating through prompts is quick and responsive. The people mentioned in a character's description are not actual characters in the database, so to generate actual full fledge characters out of them I would have to create a system that generates new characters for every character mentioned in another characters description and that is an exponential problem lol

But I think I could keep my system of pre-generated characters, and when a user clicks on an connection character it creates that new character and stores it in the database. Having to wait some time to generate the character in this situation wouldn't really be as problematic as in the prompt screen.
Google Maps has changed styles quite a few times, and it usually won't take long to get used to the new one.

One particular change before I remembered was when they reduced the contrast (and amount of details) when zoomed out, which I hated at the time, but now can't go back. It makes finding neighborhoods and such much easier. It looks like the author found the opposite, I guess it's just something very subjective.

(The author provided a comparison between various previous versions at the end (sans the newest), and I genuinely can't say the older ones were better, even the "before 2018" ones.)

But I do agree this newest one is bad, mainly due to the color choice of the roads. I really like GMap's white/yellow roads.
Ask HN: Static Site Generator for Newspaper
I would like to publish a small local community newspaper. The site would have static content only, so there is no need for a CMS, and I have been burned before by the administrative overhead of protecting WordPress and Joomla sites against attacks.

Ideally, I would like to use an existing template or theme and just customize the header and maybe the colour scheme.

Unfortunately, none of the popular static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, etc) have usable themes for this purpose. Their theme demo sites are either broken, or the themes look like a bunch of 1990s high school projects.

I found many landing page templates, free and for purchase, that would do the job, but none of them are suitable for dropping into a static site generator as a theme without a lot of work.

My question for HN is: Do you know of any themes for a reasonably popular static site generator that would be suitable for a professional-looking community newspaper?
We’ve flown several times with our small child, who has been woken so many times by pointless PA announcements on the plane and in the airport. Life already sucks in coach seating, OK? Just let us suffer in peace!
Grep and Log Analysis
What about with Pinot Arithmetic, where you drink wine until you're sure you're conjecture is a fact?
>If society is already committing a fast suicide by destroying the habitability of the Earth

This sort of absurd hyperbole is a good sign you've been propagandized into believing something for the benefit of others.
Yeah, I've witnessed the entire arc also as an ex-ex-ex PHP developer from the early 00s, and I literally recall the original justification for this whole exodus that lead to the creation of React and a slew of other things was "jquery bad".

I just wish we had skipped all the in-between stuff and just arrived at htmx back in 2011 instead of now. Maybe I'd still be doing frontend stuff and not burying my head as far into backend as humanly possible while I wait for a workflow that doesn't require a package.json and a 3 GB node_modules folder so I can make the same frontend widget I could make with 50 lines of js in 2007.
> This is a major reason that people pay for premium lounge access, it is not the food, nor the booze but the quiet that is the true luxury.

Not true for middle-class lounges such as Centurion, Priority Pass, and most airline lounges (Polaris, Flagship, Senator, Singapore, etc).

Most go for food or drinks. The lounges are often crowded and loud with silverware, plates, kids, and TVs.

For elite lounges such as the Private Suite, Lufthansa and Emirates First Terminal, yes, quietness is a big selling point. But at this point, you’re on the vector to flying private domestically.
[dupe]

Earlier stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37338849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37334991
Open POI on top of OSM? Would have to figure out how to accept and lifecycle reviews, but could probably be done. Perhaps reaching critical mass is the hard part.
It changes the interface worker-side to more quickly handle the topic coming in. It is also used for statistical tracking of types of issues.
Ah an adblocker! How dare you not support them, how will they stay in business? ;-)
They should really allow custom palettes. I don’t understand how they got the product so far along without better accessibility options.
I think it’s more automated data collection so the person that eventually answers has a script ready.
There is no "Or, ".

The bottleneck consists in the fact that the present cheetahs are the descendants of a group of 30-40 cheetahs that have lived at a certain time.

There are multiple possible explanations for why the bottleneck happened.

There might have been a climate change or another abiotic cause that has killed the other cheetahs, there might have been a disease that has killed the other cheetahs, their prey might have disappeared, another predator, like lions or hyenas might have killed most of them, and so on.

Among the possible causes, both in this case and in the case of humans, there is also the possibility that there has been, as you say, some mutation that has given to a small group an unusually important advantage, allowing them to outcompete any other cheetahs, so in time only their descendants have survived while the descendants of any other cheetahs have disappeared.

In the case of cheetahs, such a cause for the apparent bottleneck seems much less likely than in the case of humans, because it is hard to imagine a decisive advantage of the mutated cheetahs. Something like one extra meter per second in maximum speed does not seem to give enough advantage over competing predators.
To summarize that well padded video, New York switched to digit dialing in the early 70s, but some New Yorkers considered their phone numbers to be a status symbol because the phone number identified which neighborhood you lived in. Some kept using them up until the 80s. Seinfeld is set in the 90s, but is based on the time Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld lived in the city a decade earlier. So the show contains anachronisms like Elaine giving out her phone number in a format that had finished dying out years before the show was set.
Nope, that's not the plan. The plan is to start an non-practicing entity that copywrites religious texts and sues others who use them.
It's like that one bar - nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
You seem to have the expectation that your use case of forking chromium, making changes, and being able to compile it quickly should be well supported. Why do you believe that? Why is the fact this is not in fact well supported make you feel like someone is spitting in your face? I don't think the chromium authors have never gone out of their way to indicate it would be easy.

I'm genuinely curious, not judging. From my vantage point it feels like being upset that a golf course isn't hospitable to folks looking to play baseball.
Convergent evolution occurs when the same problems are being solved and with the same traits being selected for multiple times
Arguably we currently don't have the ability to go "to space" for any meaningful definition of "space". We barely set foot on Luna a couple of times and since then only went a couple hundred kilometers up. We haven't even reached another planet, we have one (or is it two?) probes barely in interstellar space, no ambition to reach another star at all.
> Is it just me or the output PDF has quite a bit of broken pages

Nope! The breaks are really there. I guess they converted the HTML to PDF somehow and it didn't work as expected. However, in case you need it offline, the source [1] is written for zola [2] - a single-binary static site generator (of course written in Rust). You can clone the repo and run `zola serve` in it. It renders quite well.

[1] https://github.com/ralfbiedert/cheats.rs/

[2] https://www.getzola.org/
My favorite animated knot video is the Ylvis one on the Trucker's Hitch[1] but for the iPhone, Grogg Knots is my go to app if I forget a knot. Of course I find out this web site is the "web" version of that App :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHgGK-tImY