skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had to deal with postcodes in too many countries (logistic company), and the UK system is by far the best: dense, standard, somewhat intuitive, code-correcting, specific enough (several dozen households) that if you have a delivery, the recipient knows where the van is standing angrily. Documentation is excellent (relative to the UK government's digital service already very high standards), and you have APIs for all sorts of relevant conversions.

The only issues are what OC mentioned: some people don’t know a large building (50+ flats) can have several codes, and they are weekly updates because… ::magic dust:: construction!

The worst? Dubai: three inconsistent systems of varying length without any sense, standard, or redeeming features. The city road network is apparently even worse, so I guess those things work hand in hand?

The funniest? One person once joked that people in Ireland were not using postcodes, just the name of the nearby pub, which can get confusing as they often have the same name, so you also have to say the name of the second nearest pub…

I thought was funny, but I wasn’t sure that was a joke. Apparently, that was still true at the time? I saw a lot of discussion about “Introducing PostCodes in Ireland” and avoided those meetings so as not to sound clueless. We used Google Maps for a while during the transition.
Ask HN: Which products have steadily increased in utility for you?
What are the products that've gotten more useful to you month after month, continually?

Here are some for me:

* My Mac and iPhone (I've added more things that I do with them over time)

* Rewind.app (more history to search through)

* Amazon (more products I re-order)

* Spotify (more songs I like)

* GPT (more things I learn to use it for)

What about for you?
As far as I'm aware it's mostly thanks to the GNOME project which fundamentally rejects the idea of adding 'server side window decorations' to their Wayland implementation, which is a weird hill to die on (and GNOME systems are unfortunately too popular to just ignore). This means native Wayland applications can't do much else than render their own window chrome, which then of course looks amateurish and inconsistent. It feels like a regression back to the early 1970's for no good reasons.

Compare that to Xlib/XCB where you just create a window and that automatically looks consistent (this is also why XWayland is actually a really useful piece of software for applications that just need a GL or Vulkan context but no full-blown UI framework like GTK or Qt).
While that may be true if contractors/competitors for contracts were generally unaware of the contract until posting, that’s usually not the reality. A lot of government contracting advice from experienced contractors is that if you’re discovering it via a public source (i.e. the website) you’re too late.
Historically, Islamic philosophers (as they were then called) took works from the greek philosophers before them and expanded upon it. Then a few other philosphers who did not like people learning from non-muslims leaned hard into fundamentalism and you now have the kind of Islam (Salafist/Wahhabism) that exists today, e.g. Saudi Arabia

The Mongols opened the door to fundamentalism, but it didn't have to go that way. The sack of Baghdad is a simplification

Read up on Al Ghazali, it is eye-opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali
I was overbilled for this service in 2011 and Amazon insists to this day that they do not have records about this even if I forward them the emails :)
Works well! Who would have guessed that the name "foobar" is taken on so many platforms? :P
The public IPs were the big part: if you had the default 0.0.0.0/0 rule allowing SSH, you’d see brute force attacks within a few seconds of launching a new instance.

VPCs gave a little more room to prevent that but the big thing was really better tooling - the average developer still doesn’t think about security enough to be trusted with the EC2 or GCP launch wizard.
This is very common in retail. What tends to happen is that a retail buyer would work with a supplier and order a product in . That product packaging will have a promotional or information site it will link to & is printed as a QR code. From a buyers perspective they are doing this as it’s a way to provide value or information to their customer and supplier fronts the cost of this.
The IT teams within retail aren’t kept in the loop and neither are they aware of a site that is hosting any of this content. All the content and marketing of this is done by a agency who are hired and managed by the category or merchandising teams in the head office .
Product sells for a quarter or maybe 6 months at the most . Products get rotated and goes back to warehouse until such time in a year they need to liquidate the stock and do promotional discount pricing as part of back to school or Black Friday etc.,
By then the agency that fronted this and created the site has lost its domain or the site isn’t maintained/ gets compromised etc.,
At that point the product is on the shelf , domain is hijacked or the hosting provider / host gets taken over by a malicious actor.
Then the IT / security teams in the retail organisation are asked to step in and support their business colleagues.
Every major retail corporation will have this happen to them at least once a year. IT teams will have a laugh about this and nothing ever changes as a process as it doesn’t really affect the share value or damage the reputation of the retailer as such
Exactly, it’s been well known for a while.

There was a paper comparing physical fitness between two groups - one got high dose vitamin C, one didn’t.

The ones take high dose vitamin C saw a far worse improvement in physical fitness.

Why? Metabolism generates free radicals. The body used that as a signal to drive the changes that result in improved physical fitness.

It’s one of those things where a given molecule has both positive and negative implications for the body.
That'd be a poor implementation. CSR can generate immediately interactive forms that don't shift. JIRA and MS are absolutely subpar irregardless of this matter.
OTOH, I have a feeling that "nobody ever got fired for choosing AWS" will become the new "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", so...
> It has been over a decade now since most physical-retail businesses began giving up on maintaining their own websites, using only Facebook pages instead, unless they are part of large chains.

This was indeed a trend a few years ago, but it is not true anymore, in my personal experience. Even tiny shops, if they are only a bit more technologically knowledgable than average, tend to have their own web page.
I keep talking to my older kid (pre teen) about the harmful effects of phones and screens. Kid seems to get it(for now) But the real test is yet to come - middle and high school where most kids have a phone. I am hoping that my kids will be ok being mavericks. I realize that hope is not a plan but the reality is that my environment is against me so there isnt a sure fire way to protect children unless you are ok with sheltering them to a point where it eventually becomes debilitating for them to operate in the real world.

To the OP: people typically have a herd mentality. HN is no different in that way. All you can do is try to instill trust between you and your kids and hope they will listen to you. You should also be super transparent with them about why you take the position you take. Give examples of people’s addiction to their screen/social media and how it’s distorts their view of reality to only make them feel bad about their existence. I am sure you can find a few in your own extended family or surroundings. Generally speaking , going against the grain takes a high degree of belief in something. Overcoming one’s minds transient desires requires strong intellect. That can be developed but it’s not an overnight thing and it’s certainly extremely hard when most People barely have any time to themselves or their kids - at least in USA (where real wages have been stagnant for 30+ years but cost of living has not[1]. The US deserves the birth rate decline it’s facing. It’s going to be a while before free markets and capitalism can evolve to solve this one)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
Sure, but those guidelines are still "rather stretchy [and] elastic".

That doc starts with the line "Legitimate interests is the most flexible lawful basis for processing" and that's the truth.
Looking at that blog post, I think AWS could have done the migration for most users with no involvement of the user themselves.

In the ideal world, they would have written software to live-migrate VM's to the new platform and emulate the old networking.

Emulating old stuff should be pretty easy, because hardware moves on, and an instance back in 2006 probably had far lower performance expectations - and therefore even a fairly poor performance emulation will be sufficient to meet user needs.
There are ways to accomplish allocation of responsibility (or blame) that don't include muddying the waters by declaring equivalence.

Alice tells Bob to kill Charlie. Bob murders Charlie with a knife. Bob is a moral agent and is the one who committed the violence. Alice instigated it. The questions that must be answered as to how much or how little Alice is to blame are:

1. Does Alice have authority or coercive power over Bob, making her urging carry more weight? (Was it a command that Bob had some degree of need to carry out?)

2. Is Bob's moral reasoning (will) impaired, and does Alice know this?

3. Did Alice know that her urging would result in Charlie's death?

4. Did Alice intend for Charlie to be harmed?

The answers to these questions attach guilt of varying levels to Alice. They also weigh on the punishment. If Alice is a commander ordering troops to commit war crimes, she's absolutely culpable. She has not been violent, but she is responsible.

If however, Alice is a stranger on the ground who shouts at Bob to push Charlie off a ledge at random, Bob bears the majority of the responsibility. Alice is still to blame, but Bob made the decision to act and should bear the brunt of the punishment.

This has nothing to do with free speech absolutism. It has everything to do with clarity. Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is not violence, but it is morally wrong, and punishable by law. Speech can cause violence, but that doesn't mean that it is violence, nor does it have to be seen as violence in order to attach blame and consequences.
FYI, your SSL cert isn't trusted on iOS...
> lack sufficient creative control.

the prompts have become somewhat creative these days. If you have a look at the prompts on https://civitai.com for example, you can argue they are a form of creative expression. Just like hand rolling assembly code might be.

Edit: an example one - https://civitai.com/images/2268828?collectionId=107&period=A...

and the associated prompt:

High detail, dynamic action pose, masterwork, professional, fantasy, neo classical fine art, of a beautiful, primordial and fierce, ((angel-winged-woman,:1.9)), archangel, (MiddleEastern:1.6), with very long, flowing, wavy white hair, peach colored streaks, with a sexy, slender, fit body, wearing an ethereal, light violet, light aqua, faded gold, tie-dye, linen and Chantily lace, (knee length:1.5), strapless dress with a tattered hem, a Platinum and gold Cuirass, platinum vambraces, platinum and lace Gladiator Boots, long broadsword in a Baldric, at night, in a metropolis warzone, during a thunderstorm, dimly lit, thin, vibrant streaks of crimson light, outlining her body, fantasy illustration, in the style of Osamu Tezuka, George Edward Hurrell, Albert Witzel, Hiromitsu Takeda, Clarence Bull, Gil Elvgren, Ruth Harriet Louise, Takaki, Milton Greene, Huang Guangjian, and Cecil Beaton,, High detail, dynamic action pose, masterwork, professional, fantasy, neo classical fine art, of a beautiful, primordial and fierce, ((angel-winged-woman,:1.9)), archangel, (Columbian:1.6), with very long, flowing, wavy white hair, peach colored streaks, with a sexy, slender, fit body, wearing an ethereal, light violet, light aqua, faded gold, tie-dye, linen and Chantily lace, (knee length:1.5), strapless dress with a tattered hem, a Platinum and gold Cuirass, platinum vambraces, platinum and lace Gladiator Boots, long broadsword in a Baldric, at night, in a metropolis warzone, during a thunderstorm, dimly lit, thin, vibrant streaks of crimson light, outlining her body, fantasy illustration, in the style of Osamu Tezuka, George Edward Hurrell, Albert Witzel, Hiromitsu Takeda, Clarence Bull, Gil Elvgren, Ruth Harriet Louise, Takaki, Milton Greene, Huang Guangjian, and Cecil Beaton,
Funnily enough I remember when deconstructionists hit Architecture. My school had a wild deconstructionists architecture department. Led by Larry Mitnick.
I have a friend in the program whose dad was a "Post-Modernist" Yalie architect horrified at what his son was calling architecture. Eventually he went to Yale like his dad...

I prefer to think of that period as deeper understanding of the patterns that humans in a society must endure while living in a totally built world.

https://www.design.upenn.edu/people/larry-mitnick

I still remember him lecture me on up and down during a summer program in 11th grade. He also told me I should spend my life studying corners. Still inspiring words to this day but I knew I just had to be an industrial designer.

I went to talks hosted by them that included:

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

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

I want to believe I saw Rem Koolhas as well...

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

Liebskind was speaking after winning the Jewish Museum in Berlin but before it was built.

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

I have to give gratitude to HN for providing me a context to share my thoughts on deconstructionist and design.

This I'm sure drives my resistance to new terms. I see the simplicity of Modernism as the least number of rules. This provides the designer to conceive of the manufactured through the required parameters.
This stuff appeals to a breed of management in the same way "full stack development" does, which is to say those in denial of the need or value of specialisation.

The other benefit of such developers is they don't need teamwork. You just throw a feature request out at each dev and they do it end-to-end with you oblivious to the mess that is being created in the process.
I, for one, often glance at the comments first to check if an article is valid. If not, there's probably a highly rated comment explaining what's wrong with an article's facts or reasoning.

Saves me not just a click, but lots of time reading lesser quality articles too.
Here's where I mention the old wives tale of spiders crawling into your nice warm holes while you sleep.

(That was meant to come off as creepy, not sexually creepy though)
Me too, but its the only way I can keep my brain excited about anything.
Opinions can change. We should all know by now that appeasement only works as long as the other party is acting in good faith and harsher solutions exist for a reason.
I'm not sure what you mean. These kids can't do arithmetic without a calculator. While it was possible to simply not learn arithmetic before calculators, it wasn't possible to hobble onward using the calculator as a crutch.
I care. I've only recently learned about them, and I'm not in any way an expert on any of this, but from what I understand, they do an important job, and the way they do that in X11 either hurts gaming performance or makes them unstable.

When I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077, occasionally the game crashes (hasn't happened often, but a few times), and when it does, the compositor fails until I kill the CP process. And while the compositor is failing, only the active window updates. The mouse cursor is invisible outside the active window. It becomes really hard to do anything. Until I kill the hanging CP2077 process.

From what I understand, my options are to keep the compositor active in full screen mode, which would hurt performance, because every signal has to pass through the compositor; or I could switch to Wayland which fixes this issue (though I'm not entirely sure how); or I just accept how it is.

Because I've got an Nvidia card, I'm sticking with X11 for now and accept the occasional crash. But once Nvidia support for Wayland improves, I'm switching.
Wow, thats quite a link. Tx. Need to find the time to go through this collection.
> has to have their networks reconfigured.

I don't see why every user couldn't be auto-created a virtual network with the same 10.x.x.x IP addresses as their original machine had - and therefore there is no need to do any reconfiguration on the users side.
Muslims, not Arabs. Also you are mistaken about Arabs passing Persian knowledge. Initially invading Arabs were given to destroying books. It was Muslim Persians who did most of the translation, and subsequently elaboration of the ancient world’s thinking into the Muslim civilization and from there to Europe. And yes, they wrote in Arabic just like Isaac Newton wrote Principia in Latin. And most of us now write in English, but are we Anglos?

p.s. important to amend this here to note that certainly, Muslim civilization had many towering Arab (and non-Persian non-Arab) intellects as well. In my personal opinion, the correct terminology would be Muslim and Islamic (since it certainly was that) instead of Arab or Arabic. The latter apparently is favored by European “Orientalists” but it is both incorrect and further it is divisive.
>Desktop OS'es have simple criteria and user expectations: they should work no worse than Windows or OS X, and that's it.

Fuck that. I want to merge my window manager with my todo-list, and I want my work activity sectioned off from my personal projects. I want to pause my work applications when the clock hits 5PM, because otherwise they might knock a few frames off Counterstrike.

If you want a Windows-ish experience then that's fine, but don't project your lack of imagination onto the rest of us.
In the article they clearly state that this applies for those with elevated risk. Those without cancer.

Seems to make sense. If a tumor starts growing you won't know it. Meanwhile the antioxidants are helping it.
Fantastic app.

To reach perfection for me, it would need:

- to allow storing my POIs in some sync-able location (e.g. Nextcloud folder)

- to improve rendering and reach same level of beauty as mapy.cz / Windy has...
that sounds strange, I mean i'm not sure what's the big difference. If data is scanned on icloud, this means it's not encrypted, got it, if scanned on devices, data is fully encrypted on icloud, but apple has access by scanning it on devices and can send unencrypted matches, so it behaves as an unencrypted system, that can be altered at apple's will, just like icloud...
but still, why scanning locally only if icloud is enabled? why not scan regardless? Since policy is meant to 'catch bad ppl', why limit to icloud option and not scan all the time
> they should work no worse than Windows or OS X,

They shall work, much, much better than windows.

Working in MS Windows is a PITA.
GitHub puns are easy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/githop/
Sure but if you ask online and those people will be yelling "dont pick <company> they will pull a rug from under you" at every occasion...
“Unless your workflow (and hardware) comes from 20+ years ago, you have almost no reason to stick with Xorg”

Well, I open a bunch of windows, and switch between them, raise, lower, and sometimes move or resize them with a window manager. So yes, my workflow comes from 30+ years ago.
No because if anything (the effect might have been small) it reduced the power of the open web and many websites (which Google tied togeather) and encouraged people to go to walled gardens ( Facebook, Instagram, twitter, etc ) which are controlled by other companies.
I came to say something similar. I think it's important to add that there is a slew of non-technical staff, sales / product managers that foam at the mouth at opportunities to exploit these monopolist ideas. They then hire technical staff to execute. Their entire compensation package depends on this virus like growth.
Without RTFA I'd guess for operators to punch them in while connecting your call.
> The complexities of managing infrastructure, buying new hardware, upgrading software, replacing failed disks — had been abstracted away

...and replaced by the complexities of AWS. I mean, even in the pre-AWS days, it's not like you had to buy the hardware or replace the failed disks yourself, web hosters did that for you.
Yes, conservative should probably mean unsurprising to some degree. Sudden unexpected stops is not truly conservative. Yeah, I can see how the definition is complex.
Yeah for now, I use "Advanced Access" to get the user's email address and pre-fill it so they only need to create a username.

Also these email addresses are automatically set verified (no need to go through the email verification process).

I guess I can make it work without the "Advanced Access", but it'll be a lot more cumbersome and I wonder if it's worth it.
I can offer suggestions on code-splitting, but bundler memory consumption gets into the weeds quickly.
> You may find a a bit more what's behind the demo...

That only says "the engine is a Java-based proprietary solution which was about 20x faster than comparable implementations in Coherence, Ignite or Hazelcast. (Yes, we tested it.)".

So, comparable to those. Some sort of Java friendly in-memory cache. Perhaps, for this specific kind of data (dates/location/room-type/price/availability), you've figured out an optimal storage/retrieval layout that's fast. That seems plausible. What doesn't seem plausible is that your cache is generally 20x faster than every other cache in the space.
What about small molecule antioxidants like melatonin?
I think Wayland is very cool. More tightly coupled than X, and stuff like the ssh X forwarding thing is easy enough to work around. And besides, X is ancient crusty code that nobody wants to deal with.

But, Zoom screen sharing didn’t work in Wayland. And Nvidia breaks Sway. I’m very willing to believe those are failures on the part of the companies, not Wayland. However, in the end, I can have a working system with X, or a non-working system with Wayland. Me and my computer disagree as to which system is better I guess, and the computer won.
I never work without music
Learning 10k Pictures (1973)
I don't see AI as particularly powerful or risky on its own, but if you believe that then might as well leave who can acquire it to policy decisions and not vendors.

We don't let manufacturers decide who can buy dangerous things in a lot of cases - so pretty normal to have laws and regulations.
Insurance seems really weird to me with self driving cars. It seems like the driver being insured is Tesla Motor Co not Bill Smith. Bill just owns the car, he doesn't drive it.

I've noticed a lot of automation legally still require a warm body to take the blame. Seems like eating your cake and having it too.
I'm not that boring at parties!

I can't divine exactly what the OP meant, but it's a pretty common argument amongst nonbelievers that ancient religious myths (especially the Flood, also present in a handful of non-abrahamic traditions) were somehow inspired by even older oral traditions of stuff that actually happened in their dim and distant past (as opposed to the flooding they experience on a regular basis). It appears I'm not the only person that perceived that was being implied.

Regardless, I don't think "genetic bottlenecks scientists believe exist in the human evolutionary tree" and "religious stories that may or may not be interpreted literally" has much conceptual overlap, either in terms of modern people's awareness of modern bottleneck theories or in terms of links between prehistoric events and mythology which became popular much later.
Why not just wear a dang mask? It's super simple and I never stopped doing it.