skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's much snappier and has (in my opinion) a good, modern and intuitive UI, but lacks lots of features compared to OsmAnd, for which reason it's not ready for my use cases (for example,
it doesn't even support official trail hightlights/styles.
In spite of the intro, those seem to pretty much be all people-mover/metro systems. They're not long distance transport in potentially unpredictable conditions.
I was referring to the constellation itself, not any particular access method.

The US Department of Defense could easily obtain smartphone reception capability if they don't already have it. My point was that their coverage would be just as spotty either way.
> Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity do not agree

More precisely, they are incompatible if you treat them as fundamental theories of everything. But neither QM nor GR claims to be any such thing.

That is a key difference between our current theories and schemes like Aristotelian physics, or for that matter Newtonian physics. Both Newton and Aristotle thought their theories were theories of everything. We know that neither the QM we currently have nor the GR we currently have are theories of everything; they are just models valid within particular domains. Those domains are very wide, but (a) neither one covers everything, and (b) there is virtually no overlap between them, and where there is (for example, quantum field theory in curved spacetime) we have ways of meshing them that work well enough.
That number is way too high. Car accidents from human drivers happen way more frequently than that.
Already a thing (mostly remote controlled drone ships). But you'll always need mitigating controls for unexpected or low frequency events, and it's not always feasible to fly in a crew at which point the crew needs to be on board. This effectively is the same as the crew that's already there right now, so it doesn't actually impact all that much.

The biggest benefit of remote, drone or automated piloting is the way you could make better use of a person's time, and maybe save a tiny amount of wages, but it's mostly the resulting functionality/features/business processes that is the benefit, not the headcount cost.
Apple Automated Deployment - which allows an employer to automatically install and use a Mobile Device Management profile to automatically monitor and control a MacBook even if it was shipped directly to a staff member - almost always requires the business to purchase the laptop itself through either an Apple Store business account or a certified reseller.

If you personally purchased the laptop via retail channels, any software they could have installed to control or monitor the laptop would not survive a factory reset.

If somehow the laptop was permanently associated via Automated Deployment with an MDM profile and you did a factory reset, you would get a popup during setup with the name of the company indicating that they would have the ability to control the laptop. You could ask them to remove the laptop from their Apple Business account and/or MDM solution and reset again.
Many places that appear skillful and conscientious on camera and in newspaper articles are really not that much.

Many companies offer a kind of tour to officials and journalists where they show what they want to show. Cleaning up what is visible, giving the right tasks to the right employees and generally hiding the mess. Journalists may be complicit, they have to if they want these pretty pictures. Essentially, that's an ad. Not saying it is the case here, but I know for a fact that it can happen.
They seem to be ignoring another useful aspect of a deck of cards. Each card could be placed face-up or face-down in the deck.
That's actually a really good idea. I'm not a woman so there's not much risk of people thinking I'm pregnant, but I could see some kind of lime seltzer being good and people could assume it's a gin and tonic or something.

I might steal this.
That's nice to hear. Same here, I have thousands of notes, it's my second brain. Sign up for the waitlist, I'd love you to try Plume when it's out.
Using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night
Yannic gave his anecdotal experience about Google's culture: https://youtu.be/Fr6Teh_ox-8

It was eye-opening for me. I had no idea things were so bad.
Somehow peace became uncool or like last last generations style. Hopefully it’s coming back in fashion.
Go 1.22.1 and Go 1.21.8 pre-announcement
HN blocks links to google groups...

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/smSYdsWaO4o?pli=1

Hello gophers,

We plan to issue Go 1.22.1 and Go 1.21.8 during US business hours on Tuesday, March 5.

These minor releases include PRIVATE security fixes to the standard library, covering the following CVEs:

CVE-2024-24783

CVE-2023-45290

CVE-2023-45289

Following our security policy, this is the pre-announcement of those releases.

Thanks,
Michael and Carlos for the Go team
In physics? None of it. As Steven Weinberg remarked, if you have one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's Equations on it, you might have to worry about it going out of style, but not about it becoming false. Of course the remark about going out of style presupposes that it was ever in style to begin with, which is questionable, but doesn't affect the main point. :-)

What we do have in our current physics is a reasonably good understanding of the limitations of our theories: we know that none of them are theories of everything, they all have limited domains of validity, even if for some of them those domains are very wide. That is the key thing that systems like those of Aristotle and Newton did not have.
Impressive ! Just added on the https://faust.grame.fr/community/powered-by-faust/ page.
It’s perhaps wrong of me to generalize but I’ve lived in Utah my whole life, some are clean and healthy others are unhealthy slobs, just like the general population. The whole ‘drank all the booze’ people are more often those pretending to believe in their faith because of the social repercussions of leaving it.
Sure there's the rich text editor but it has limitations and you lose the functionality of some plugins. The rich text editor mode had bugs the last time I tried it.

By external editor I mean editing the markdown files directly without opening joplin app first. There can be many reasons to do that like editing in a terminal or auto generate/manipulate notes using a tool.
We can still do it of required but we need to be careful not to touch the Joplin metadata.

PS: I use Joplin regularly. These are not complaints about Joplin, but just an fyi to help someone make an informed decision before they switch.
Why negative? Not believing that there’s eternal happiness waiting in a corner doesn’t mean someone (well, me in this case) lives a depressing life. Quite the opposite, I’m genuinely satisfied with where I am right now. Everyone’s choices are subjective and involve different calculations. After all, happiness is subjective.
Still way better than a VisionFive 2, and more than enough to get your hands in the thing (especially with the hourly pricing). You have to acknowledge that the RISC-V ecosystem isn't as mature as that of ARM64 and AMD64. You don't get the best performance/price ratio with RISC-V (yet). Many extensions were ratified so recently that hardware doesn't even exist (yet).

As far as I'm concerned, the LicheePi 4A from Sipeed which is also equipped with a TH1520 offers a decent value for a RISC-V SBC. If you want more performance than that, it's going to cost you a lot more.
> Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addiction

The title here has been butchered. Promising trials.
See my last paragraph above.
Get an API key and an interface like MacGPT. I spend like $4 a month on tokens now.
> repeatedly setting numThreads to 0 and to 5, back to 0 and to 5 again.

The reset to 0 and to 5 happens at the start of the loop. There's a happens-before relationship between it and the threads being created, and then again between the threads being joined and the loop cycling back. So there shouldn't be any data race here.
Hollow Microcavity Electrode for Enhancing Light Extraction
Joplin released an ARM build a few months back -- so if you were using the pre-arm build it was bad, so just throwing this out there for folks who maybe had similar experiences -- make sure you are using the arm build (it should happen automatically now)

Disclaimer: I've contributed to Joplin in the past, and I use it dozens of times a day with no big speed complaints.
Sorry, but that's incorrect; the guy who invented that had already been dead for over 3 decades in 1899:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Otis
This is a good point. I do believe I'd regret passing on the opportunity, even if things didn't pan out in the end. But the risk averse part of my brain seems to be holding me back from executing.

I also recognize that this internal conflict is more pronounced by some level of existential dread after Covid and being well into my 30ies now.
Downloading larger regions on Google Maps is somewhat frustrating compared to this, though.
Looking at the Level 9 interpreter sources from https://github.com/DavidKinder/Level9 it looks like the pre-bitmap games stored their images as little bytecode programs (with instructions for move, draw, fill, etc, plus a gosub opcode so you could have "draw the same complex shape several times", opcodes for reflecting and scaling, etc) -- check the getinstruction() function in level9.c.

So likely hand-composed, not generative algorithm, I think.
“Transit, bicycling, or walking directions are unavailable offline.”

Source: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838

That might not be a problem in many cases, but at least Organic Maps doesn’t seem to have this limitation.
For 4 cores and 16GB of RAM? not really. That's probably close to saturation for the hardware for most workloads other than raw data streaming.

The real sell of this hardware is that it's doing this with about 5W of power draw at peak utilisation.
cheap suicide drone ships full of explosives...
In your real life then, would you tell someone to their face that an aluminum can is "supernaturally" strong?
Bawowna web browser from scratch, early early announcement
Currently only one web-site is supported - Hacker News :) and only to display text content. But I am working on proper html display with all current standards.
That's not the full set. Here's the archival copy.[1]
Not much biology, though.
Biology in 1900 was mostly observation.

[1] https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=...
I believe the better road movement was started by cyclists.
Was BS actually of any practical use? It just seems to be a fantasy like most maths in economics.
Some governments rely primarily on private, defined contribution schemes. So they are "safe" in that the government isn't promising anything, and so can't underdeliver.

But the pension provider sure can, and indeed usually people don't save enough for retirement.
Great. Until then, if your state passes a legalization law, you can expect foreign cartels and gangs to set up shop nearby.
Demonstrate to who? There is no "world government".

Where I live (in Australia) the vast majority of "pensions" are funded by individual's regulated superanuation savings (like a 401K?), with the government pension as just a safety net. In our case "selling out" would actually be "stealing people's money", which could theoretically be achieved by tax, but would be ridiculously unpopular and rather nonsensical.

It's not perfect but it means the current young people aren't funding (all) the current old people, so it smooths out the changes in demographics somewhat. And since the superannuation fund might invest internationally, its value isn't necessarily as tied to the national fortunes as would be a bank account with Australian dollars or a governement pension, again buffering against the risks that come with an aging population (and declining economy).
It is a very important bit and might be how we all code in the future.
The focus on upfront specs feels a bit off. Since it's apparently cheap to generate running code, as a user, I'd much rather be able to just iterate really fast and use output to refine my requirements rather than having to laboriously state them all up front. Agile rather than waterfall if you will.
It's more lightweight than OsmAnd - install size & startup / rendering is quicker.

For storage that won't matter much as the maps take up way more space than the app (eg. NL map ~1 GB).

OsmAnd has many more features & settings. Some useful, but (imho) more often getting in the way. For example I've had many times where I accidentally placed a marker on a map, and there were 1001 things to do with that marker, except... simply delete.

Or (on OsmAnd) you change a setting, to find it only applies to a specific map. Again: may have its uses, but too fiddly for my taste / usage.

Otoh: OsmAnd has eg. points of interest, which can show nearest grocery stores, gas stations & so on. Veeerry useful. Organic Maps doesn't have that (yet?) afaict.

OsmAnd appears to be updated more often. Not sure I'd call that a feature, tbh.

It would be nice if apps like these could share map data. Anyone know if that's possible / easy, and if so, how?
I question whether real human beings, in a real work environment, can actually rise to the angelic level of not blaming anybody. Some guy causes you to spend 10 all nighters in a row, because every day for 10 days he moved bad code to production? Are you seriously expecting me not to start assigning blame? If I were that guy, should I really expect that come performance review time, that would be completely ignored?

I also question whether it's even a good idea, because if you throw out the blame, you throw out the accountability as well. I'm a strong believer in giving senior devs a very large degree of freedom in how they code up solutions. But the more discretion somebody has, the higher should be the standard to which they are held.

Nevertheless, everybody makes mistakes, so what the heck are you supposed to do?

What I'd suggest instead is to create an environment where the consequences for making a mistake are as small as possible. The architecture of the code should allow for incremental improvements. There should be extensive unit tests. The process of going from development to production should catch as many mistakes as possible.

And even when things are deployed to production, negative consequences should be minimized. If you have, say, 10 processes for accepting orders, only upgrade one of them at a time. If the new code crashes in prod, its ok because the other 9 redundant processes can step up. If you have 10 servers balancing the workload, only upgrade one server at a time.

Etc Etc. Everybody makes mistakes. What's more, sometimes you need to take risks on new libraries or new techniques. No risk no reward. But if you design your architecture and build&release with mistake minimization in mind at all levels, you can make those mistakes and take those risks with minimal bad consequences.
I've found this to be particularly true with William Gibson, tried to listen to some but a split second lapses in attention forcing me to go back often and I gave up. And just pick up a text.
I agree, but just the opposite for me. I prefer owning physical copies of fiction books, and listen to nonfiction audiobooks. Usually I find non-fiction books to have a lot of repetition. Of course it depends on the book, but I just feel that if I miss a passage, it won't be as confusing as missing a sentence of a good novel.
One of my favorite interviews in recent years was the Chris Lattner interview by the three guys on the Accidental Tech Podcast

https://atp.fm/371

All of the hosts are very technical.
What if I get offered cheaper food during slow periods?

Let’s be honest, $12 for a chicken sandwich meal is too expensive. Wendy's wants to sell more food so they want to find the price that makes you think “I’d rather just go grab a BOGO Dave’s Single and Chicken Sandwich for $8 than run to the grocery store”.

People don’t realize they’re already being dynamically priced with coupons and sales and loyalty programs and by location. I don’t understand the outrage.

As long as they don’t price gouge, dynamic pricing is actually the norm. Probably the most notable thing about the statement is AI menu recommendations. It’s odd that people are more weirded out about dynamic pricing than about an AI studying their eating habits.
what you said is about as helpful as saying the sky is blue. your comment is a non-sequitur.
I use Organic Maps on my iPad where it is great for viewing maps. My phone has OsmAnd+ cause the extra features are useful for adventures.
We probably want to encourage people to forget pre 1.0 vectors exists, to ease ecosystem fragmentation
Just tried this and it works for me.

That said I still love Organic Maps!
It’s definitely not even close to bring solved either. I haven’t seen a single code generator that works (100% of the time) for anything more than a very simple one or two liner.
For small scales you can use Dokku. I do. It's great and simple.
In a separate but combined effort, Europe is seeking to revive its artillery shell industry. the production capacity for artillery shells in Europe went up 40% since start of war, and wants to reach 1.4 million round by end of 2024. However, EU can only supply half of promised shells to Ukraine by March. Right now EU is having gunpowder shortages. The gunpowder is made from specific cotton which mostly comes from China. "Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added [1].

Luckily, recently Czech Republic helped to find hundred and thousands of shells for Ukraine recently [2]. Otherwise, because of the republican stalling in congress, Ukraine was only firing 4000 to 7000 artillery shells per day, while Russia was launching 20,000 shells daily [3]. Also very coincidental, Russia has started using 122-mm artillery shells that have similarities to Chinese-made shells [4].

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/02/world/politics/...

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/czech-republic-found-hundreds-thousan...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-nato-artillery...

[4] https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russia-has-started-using-122-mm-ar....
watched a political commentary with the primary cast having views similar to yours pretty recently, i believe the most applicable line that would resonate with your intentions would be "the only good bug is a dead bug"

chilling stuff! interesting future we're headed into with messages like yours being the norm.
> Here we have a theory which turned out to be fundamentally wrong

What makes you think so? How is Ptolemaic theory "fundamentally wrong" where our best current physical theories are not?

> Maybe every physical theory is just a model approximating something that can at any time be replaced by by a better model that is still just that, a model.

This is indeed our current view of physical theories. But you realize, don't you, that once you accept this, it invalidates your criticism of Ptolemaic theory? Ptolemaic theory was a model. For centuries it was the best model known in terms of the accuracy of its predictions, which were accurate enough to predict things like eclipses years in advance. We now have better models, but none of that invalidates Ptolemaic theory's achievements. It just means we have now found better approximations.

In fact, our modern viewpoint, specifically relativity, even helps us to understand why the Ptolematic model worked as well as it did: it is one way of describing what you get if you use an inertial frame centered on the Earth to analyze the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets! IIRC Steven Weinberg, years ago, wrote a paper that expounded this in some detail.
Do yall partner or have a way to be listed as a resource for hire to build the integrations for others?
>Apologies, I had to say this.

Why? It was just a silly example, not a anti-vax promotion.
Reposts are fine after a year or so but this project had a lot of discussion in the last year, so the current thread counts as a dupe by HN's standard. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746187 - Dec 2023 (88 comments)

I took a took week trip with Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975725 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592712 - Sept 2023 (128 comments)

Organic Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 - Sept 2023 (485 comments)

OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576882 - June 2021 (116 comments)

Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543012 - June 2021 (113 comments)
This is step 0.

I suspect the real power will come in with composites. Even with metals, metal matrix can have very nice properties (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_matrix_composite) compared to a base metal.

The key thing of interest here, to me, are the holes. The holes can be filled with something other than air.
I mean, I didn't really "opt out". I don't breath properly when I sleep, alcohol makes it worse, the doctor more or less made the decision for me.

But I suppose alcohol is bad for basically everyone, and the others opt in to that risk as well.
The flatiron was finished in 1903.
Framework is also super easy to publish to a github site, I wrote up a note with the steps and a sample github action: https://notes.billmill.org/programming/observable_framework/...
It's a spectrum:

On top is AWS lambda or something where you are completely removed from the actual hardware that's running your code.

At the bottom is a free acre of land where you start construction and talk to utilities to get electricity and water there. You build your own data center, hire people to run and extend it, etc.

There is tons of space in between where compromises are made by either paying a provider to do something for you or doing it yourself. Is somebody from the datacenter where you rented a rack or two going in and pressing a reset button after you called them a form of cloud automation? How about you renting a root VM at Hetzner? Is that VM on prem? People who paint these tradeoffs in a black and white matter and don't acknowledge that there are different choices for different companies and scenarios are not doing the discussion a service.

On the other hand, somebody who built their business on AppEngine or CloudFlare workes could look at that other company who is renting a pet pool of EC2 instances and ask if they are even in the cloud or if they are just simulating on-prem.
You don't get to say for/anti progress when there isn't a consensus definition of progress.

All progress is change. All change is not progress.

A programmer or someone presuming to opine on programming, who overlooks a thing like that, exposes and advertizes that their opinions in such a domain are of questionable value.
My issue with Observable is that it appears to be the examples-resource for d3 [0], but you can't just copy-paste the code because it is designed to run in that framework.

And it's not like d3 is easy to use so that you can use it without examples, specially considering that changes between versions are often incompatible.

But apart from this, there's a lot of incredible graphics to find on the site.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery
> Really good developers don't care about titles. They don't have time to worry about such, or they have so much money / experience that even if you call them "smart monkeys" they'll be happy with it.

That's about the money, not about being good at your work. Ask anyone on the street if you can call them a rat in exchange for a million dollar salary and they'll say yes. It's quite simple.
I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO0pcWxcROI
That's awesome to hear, then. I'll see what I can do (: