skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When driving across the US, google maps directed me down a narrow highway somewhere in Wyoming. After about 10-15km it got narrower, then turned to a gravel road, finally turning into a dirt road that would be impassible for my compact car. Had to backtrack a ways to get back to a main highway after that.

> Im still wondering why it was marked as a road, because it was straight through a wildlife reserve.

I wonder if this is one of those inaccuracies that map makers use to catch plagiarism[1].

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/466184/trap-streets-crafty-tric...
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Sual-cavab.
An ISP my friend worked at was having weird outages in one area, and it turned out that they had an apartment block built right in the way of their free-space optical link. Surprisingly, it was fine at first because the link went straight through it without obstructions, window to window. But when they started to add window panes, finishing the construction, the link became spotty, and adding the doors blocked the signal completely.
iPhone User runs out of Secure Element space
That sounds like Virgin America 20 years ago and I think it worked out well for them and for consumers. They had really cheap, reasonable flights, and they forced everyone else to put entertainment in the seat backs. I really miss their silly purple lighting and lounge music when you boarded.
Guessing dissolved companies don't make a great target for lawsuits, even if you win they have nothing to give you. Which is why they are going after google instead.
Meraki has been great acquisition.

Disclaimer: I work at Cisco (Webex)
Thanks, I have fixed the definition in the post! Turns out its just company slang for bating, rather than Finnish slang!
Maybe procrastination isn’t the right characterization of note-taking.

For me, Obsidian is a place to dump thoughts, keep ideas for later, and a scratchpad. It lets me clear my mind of all of the random things that pop up so I can focus more on the tasks at hand. It might sound silly but writing out all the things I’ve been thinking about does wonders for freeing up mental bandwidth, which in my experience is critical for being productive — it’s a lot harder to maintain focus when you’ve got a bunch of different thoughts vying for processing power.

I might not revisit all of my notes, but that’s fine. They’re there when/if I decide to turn them into projects.

I don’t go too far on the organizational or bells and whistles aspects though, the extent of that is folders and the odd tag here and there, because neither really matters much so long as I can find my writings easily.
I just don't see why you're taking a leap from "Personal knowledge management" to "Should aspire to write a book about it"
Sorry, this is utter bullshit. Got into engineering late, and this mindset is just typical engineer snobbery. It's like the toxic "10x engineer" trope that also needs to die, as if taking an unconventional career path or not living and breathing open source contributions and tech blogs in your spare time means you aren't a Real EngineerTM
I'd love to see hydrogen get more emphasis vs electric.

“Our company can’t make hydrogen happen. It’s essential there is a long-term national strategy in which hydrogen is not disadvantaged. A [hydrogen] fuel production and delivery infrastructure and government-supported vehicle purchase incentives will be necessary.”

I at least agree that regulation and government initiatives shouldn't disadvantage hydrogen. Electric is still not a serious technology, particularly for mass adoption and long range travel. For whatever reason it's taken hold first, but we need a proper alternative. I hope we'll see more of a push for hydrogen.
Thanks to `@Freaky` from Reddit for the wonderful feedback which led him to significantly improving `String#count` which be potentially included to Ruby: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/16d4ha6/comment/k1f5m...
>That means business customers and the wealthy will still be their main clients.

I think you're grossly overestimating the fallout from this. I am the aforementioned business customer. Literally the only way you'd ever hit the dollar amounts they're looking for is flying multiple times across the Atlantic paying full fare business class - which I don't do. But I do fly multiple times a month across the continental US. Previously I would book Delta regardless of price for both business and personal travel due to status. They've made it basically unobtainable unless you're paying full fare first class on every flight AND booking your cars and hotel through them.

Going forward I'll just book the cheapest flight available and drop their card. They will be losing at minimum 10s of thousands a year in profit from my travel and card spend alone.
So 6,400 Gb/s compared to 409.6 Gb/s once you convert units?
Thunderbird. Easy PGP!
> Even the law enforcement people are scared of being labeled hateful. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

I think you're trying to say that the police and the council ignored the rape gangs because they were scared of being called racist, but your link doesn't bear that out. IIRC it's an excuse they've tried to use to justify their staggering, inexcusable failures in this case--"it's not our fault, it's those nasty progressives!"--but it doesn't really make sense.
> Seriously, the avoid-crashing-at-all-costs anti-pattern is what made HTML, JavaScript and PHP the messes that they still are

Forgiving syntax made HTML and PHP easy, and because it was easy people were quick to learn and use them. Everything is trade-offs.
Tweet views don't mean watching video, and are not comparable to TV viewers metric.

We'll see how this X-career pans out. Remember when Facebook used to report massive video viewership, and it turned out to be miscounted nonsense that ruined businesses that pivoted to videos on FB?
It looks like it never took off[1]; I was working on this exact topic this week and just went with multiple vlan interfaces on the host and bridged in container interfaces via multus. Would love to know if there's a better practice floating around these days.

[1]: https://blog.ipspace.net/2012/02/edge-virtual-bridging-8021q...
ThePrimeAgen uses Dvorak and for raw typing speed has said it’s probably not worth. Fast typists on qwerty and Dvorak seem to be in line.

Stress on the good ol wrists and digits though? Not really sure. If there is a reason to switch, it’d be based on that.
https://www.google.com/help/terms_maps/

> Actual Conditions; Assumption of Risk. When you use Google Maps/Google Earth's map data, traffic, directions, and other content, you may find that actual conditions differ from the map results and content, so exercise your independent judgment and use Google Maps/Google Earth at your own risk. You’re responsible at all times for your conduct and its consequences.

this seems very obvious to me? i imagine "state of north carolina sued for allowing a dangerous abandoned bridge to stay connected to the public system" wouldn't make a nice juicy headline (and i imagine the state of north carolina has less money to throw at random lawsuits)
That was the case here; 11pm, rainy night, after staying late to clean up after his daughter's birthday party.

Bing maps shows barriers, google shows a clear road. Apparently the barriers had been removed.

Normally I view these sorts of incidents with a lot of cynicism, but if you look at the road from street view, I can see how this would happen eventually.
>> Sooner or later some airlines will spin out their rewards business into a separate company to get the maximum valuation from it.

Air Canada spun out aeroplan, and then years later re-acquired it.
> I guess kudos to whomever wrote Yahoo's webserver to make proper sense of such wonky requests, though I think it was far too liberal in what it accepted.

Depending on exactly when, you may have been hitting Yahoo's custom http server originally written by David Filo or yapache, a patched version of Apache 1.3.
Bias up front: I'm a TruLens developer

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We've built all of these considerations:

1) Support for standard metrics like BLEU, ROUGE, BERT similarity, and model-graded evals; we serialize the entire LLM app call so you can test anything that happens in it (context chunks, tool calls/inputs, etc.)

2) Bc we serialize the whole record, you can use this tracing to debug failing evals. We also have chain-of-thought reasoning evals that can explain why an eval failed. Last - there's a streamlit UI you can launch (tru.run_dashboard) that'll run locally

3) Hallucination is probably the biggest problem we solve for. To do evals for hallucination, we typically see our users use a combination of groundedness (does the context support the LLM response) and context relevance (is the retrieved context relevant to the query). There's also a bunch more for the evaluations you mentioned (moderation models, sentiment, usefulness, etc.) and it's pretty easy to add custom evals.

Also - my hot take is that gpt-3.5 is good enough for evals (sometimes better) than gpt-4 if you give the LLM enough instructions on how to do the eval.

website: https://www.trulens.org/
github: https://github.com/truera/trulens
I had the same impression. They constantly tweak the tools instead of just accepting for what it is and taking their notes/writing their documents. I'd argue if you care so much about note taking software it would be a better use of time to develop your own tool from scratch. At least you would learn something useful and get some experience
I’m just personally frustrated by the disposable shopping bag ban, because every time I go to the store, I typically come back with a bunch of different food items in single-use, disposable plastic or glass packages. What is the point of banning bags, if I still buy mustard in a plastic squeeze bottle?

And stores will happily sell me a cheap HDPE plastic bag, which happens because from time to time I forget to bring my own bag, and then I buy an extra package of LDPE garbage bags because I don’t have grocery bags I can use for small garbage cans any more.

It just seems like this is not even a step forward, and there are big sources of plastic we just don’t even care to deal with because it involves too much money.
If they have addicted customers, shouldn't they be chastised as the tobacco companies were? Did they not spend effort making their product more appealing?
Don’t have to watch it… we’ll always have the books…

maybe one day I’ll forget watching the first third of The Hobbit in 3D
There is an opportunity cost to letting that money sit and not work, and therefore companies trade use of money now for a gain later (lending money or investing).

The more successful, the larger the pile of money and more likely to look bankish.
Strange... While I have seen many poorly configured PM tools (including more badly configured JIRAs than useful configured JIRAs), I haven't really had any performance issues or UX issues with the ones I work with directly. It's not 'slower' than say, GitHub and GitLab's boards, or Trello.
You can get more yield/acre with a food forest, because you have multiple canopy layers so you can have multiple heights of trees, bushes and low ground plants all capturing light and being productive together, in addition to the animal productivity. Soy/corn monocultures only capture light in one layer, so even with all the other stuff you do to try and push fertility they're never going to be able to be as productive. Even worse, pesticides and chemical fertilizers come with a lot of externalities and are clearly not sustainable.

It's ironic to note that high population and sustainable farming are mutually exclusive. When we can no longer sustain our current system of agriculture due to resource exhaustion, environmental destruction and climate change, a lot of people are going to die. Even worse, if we wait until the 11th hour to adopt sustainable agriculture there will be a lot of avoidable suffering and death that will occur during the transition.

There is an alternative - gradually adopt sustainable farming now and let food prices rise. That will signal to people to have fewer children, and also encourage people to grow some of their own food or otherwise get involved in agriculture. That way, our population will move towards a level that can be sustainable fed as our agriculture system moves towards sustainability, and we won't have an "oh shit" moment where human civilization collapses because the rich are hoarding food in the face of mass starvation.
Yes, but going to this effort, why not move to tracing instead?

A migration path I could see might be:

- replace current logging lib with otel logging (sending to same output)
- setup tracing
- replace logging with tracing over time (I prefer moving the most painful areas of code first)
Said "other knowledge product" which includes essays, course, code, etc.
I loved the hell out of splunk until they priced themselves out of the stratosphere.

I know a splunk employee (splunker?); hopefully she somehow gets rich(er) as part of this deal.
Great looking site. Clean and functional. Great job!

Can you share some details about the tech stack?
Statistics isn't my strongest area. But I do have a doctorate in quantum information theory, so I have some idea of what it means to be mathematical.

Data science definitely forms part of what I do, as my employer stores a lot of data that we use to estimate various parameters. But there's also work on creating bespoke routines for solving vehicle routing problems in niche domains, which I wouldn't really class as data science.

Thanks for the discussion, anyway. I'm not interested in being insulted.
These "views" are just non-unique impressions ("tweet was for a couple of seconds in some user's viewport", including quote tweets), it surely doesn't mean someone watched the video.
> If anything, inflation seems to have peaked and is now starting to fall.

Before folks make comments about currency still inflating (gerund), let us stipulate that the noun "Inflation" is a positive rate and the rate has recently decreased. Let us all be thankful that there exists some amount of inflation which in a broad sense reflects a growing and dynamic world (how closely remains to be seen) as opposed to deflation.
Mine runs on 5.10...
>That pretty much sums up how I view arguments about metric vs. imperial measurement systems.

One argument I will make in favor of imperial: feet (when divided into inches) are easy to divide into thirds because it's base 12 instead of base 10. This makes a a lot of things (especially in construction, woodworking, and others) a lot easier. Of course it has a whole boatload of downsides to go along with it, but that's one real and tangible benefit to imperial over metric that I've experienced.
They bought WebEx for the same reason as most of their other acquisitions: vertical integration and diversified interests. It doesn't even have to work well, it just has to be a feature they can advertise, and dumb executives will assume it works and buy it. By the time they've got their hooks into you, you realize it'll take years to remove it. Pretty good cash flow for years before the customer jumps ship.

What's fascinating is that working inside Cisco, the same tricks work on them. We'd adopt a vendor only to realize it doesn't do what we want, but now we're kinda stuck on them and it costs more to replace them. It's a bog-standard giant enterprise where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. But they're wizards with cash.
What’s left out is accounting of the time the paid tool wastes. Ten seconds here, a minute there, two seconds another place. If the open source solution is in fact the more productive tool (nb it might not be) then $20,000 in dev time to babysit open source might be cheaper than the $10,000 paid tool—because that tool is wasting more than $10,000 in productivity, it’s just harder to see.
Title is misleading. They came last in "managing climate misinformation" which probably places them first in climate misinformation.
Atlassian has always been "enterprise-first" as far as I know. I can only assume that their free-tier which I've rarely encountered in the wild, isn't that successful in terms of conversion to the full-fat product or is costly in some way. I couldn't decide whether enterprise customers would be any worse off.

I've maintained for a while that the bug-tracking industry is overdue a "v2" or "v3" product (e.g. IRC -> MSM Messenger/Yahoo -> Slack-Discord).
Keeping in mind this was really made for business flyers who enjoy the benefits of the miles personally for a ticket paid by the employer. I guess the switch creates an incentive for those travellers to go for the more expensive flight, not sure how that will go with employers.

To be honest the whole approach always felt like some form of corruption/kick back to me. You give an incentive to the employee that is dissociated from the interest of their employer.
HAHAHA omg the trolls and bots on Hackernews. This place is quickly becoming another reddit.
Yeah, it does demonstrate that you can use compression to measure similarity of two images.

But it also demonstrates that it's a pretty poor similarity measure. Something as simple as counting % of matches between the black and white pixels performs much better.
Why partly on Google?

In my opinion it is obvious that marking / blocking off unsafe roads should be the full responsibility of a public institution. They cannot hand over any part of that responsibility to Google.

What if someone drove through there without using a navigation / map? What if someone drove through there using an offline satnav with outdated maps?

I would hope Google (or OpenStreetMaps!) is not legally responsible to keep their maps 100% updated and accurate, since it's impossible to do that.
...after being bullied by comedians to do so.
Did you ask an LLM to write this wall of text?
But social care agencies have a serious problem. They don't take good care of kids, which leads to them having a very bad reputation, which leads to child abuse (and many other crimes) not getting reported. Why? Simple: kids are treated far worse "in the system" than at home, even in abuse situations.

But if CPS doesn't get kids reported, they don't get money.

They don't want to fix this by taking better care of kids (“generational squeeze” on public finances, as the article puts it), so they must find other solutions. And the solutions they're going with are simple: get everyone to report everything on kids, in a format that can be easily used in court.

In 6 months, expect a message that a teacher got beaten up for, probably unknowingly, causing a kid to be forcibly placed into "care".
Splunk does not scale to large data sources. It fucks out at a few TB and then you have to spend hours on the phone trying to work out which combination of licenses and sales reps you need to get going again.

By which time you can just suck the damn log file and grep it on the box.
I have over 4000 packages installed on my Arch Linux system. The only hiccups I have with dependencies are Python, Node, and a few Java projects.

Flatpak doesn't solve the dependency problem, it just kicks the can down the road.

We need better tools to package and deploy apps that's language and system agnostic, and an easy to use extension system to accommodate this.
What you describe are not community features, but rather "user-sourced one-way value creation," ie. you can't benefit from the content you contribute unless Google takes unilateral action to allow you.

Why don't you contribute to OpenStreetMap instead? That way it will be more up to date than Google Maps in your corner of Earth too (like it does in many areas). Organic Maps is a very good replacement for the Google Maps app, I am told.
How do you know these aren't wash trades?
But microservices are standalone services.

Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway.

Edit: /s
I've been using Erlang for something like 20 years, and Elixir has some genuine improvements over it, like using "binaries" for strings instead of the linked list/array things.
It's a clickbait way of saying it.

"Just a bank" doesn't fly airplanes. It may own them, but it doesn't fly them. "Just a bank" doesn't sell tickets. Doesn't have a department that finds lost luggage. Etc.

But "airlines are financialized now" doesn't capture eyeballs in the same way.
It honestly reads like a parody.
>Maps's errors range from inconvenient to outright dangerous (my area has a bunch of fake stop signs that don't actually exist, and real stop signs that aren't on Maps, and I've nearly slammed on the brakes when it told me there's a stop sign when there isn't)

so you've almost caused accidents looking at your phone instead of outside the car at the actual road?
Intel hasn't been able to read industry trends for decades now.
JSON syntax is optimized for serialization and thus unsuitable for other purposes, and for serialization loses to binary formats except for one use case: it's a serialization format that can be nicely embedded in html.
I generally agree with the article's premise and conclusions, but the lead in is not true:

> They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes—and it shows.

Delta reported 5% of its revenue came from its loyalty programs in 2022 (2.5B of 50B according to 2022 10k). Although in the June annual shareholder meeting, it expected >6.5B in AMEX remunerations in 2023 with a long term goal of 10B.

American Airlines may have been closer to 10% (4.5B of 49B according to 2022 10k). I can't quickly find any public data on it's long term goals.

Both still well short of "more money" than from flying planes.
The knowledge product of my notebook is the notebook. I use it to look up things that I wrote down previously. I also use the process of writing things down in it to guide my thought process.
Lua is a fantastic embedded language! I'm partial to Lisps/Schemes for this purpose, EDN/S-Exprs are pretty good config formats as well.
> Courts and police are terrible at dealing with this stuff.

Perhaps, but not as terrible as self-appointed "activist" lynch mobs.
Merchant credit card fees are at most 3%. I doubt airlines pocket a big portion of their branded cards’ fees as profit, and I would bet they get less than even 1%. The vast majority of the fee probably goes to the banks and card networks.

Even assuming 1%, for an airline to lose $10,000 in profit, you would have to be spending $10,000 / 0.01 = $1M per year on that credit card.

And if you are spending a minimum of $1M on your credit card per year, I doubt you are spending your time optimizing “miles” and “points”.

I assume there are lots of smart people working at airlines that can work out which of their policies earn and lose money, especially now that all the competition is minimal except on the most popular routes.
Clear and sane error messages (i.e. something with the level of quality of Rust's compiler) could have accomplished the same thing without creating the insanity we have now.
It's so very rarely worth trying to fix pathological organizations.
Who thinks what way? Who thinks, "This fucking jackass who's been spouting nonsense for years is now being accused of rape. A guy who has a rumble channel... I should check out that guys sketchy and culty content! FREEEEDDOOOOOOOOOOM!"

I have the freedom to poison myself with household cleaners every damn day, but I don't. Does that make me a 'sheeple'?
You'de be really surprised how irrelevant a major and degree can be - for example I used to work with an engineer who carries a highly technical PhD and required extensive assistance with even the simplest tasks (often hour+ just to understand the ask and then more time on engineering a solution) - and I also had an art major intern who really just wanted to be a dropshipper who devoured any work I gave them and delivered amazing stuff.