skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've published a nightly version [1] that removes fjords and adds more detail elsewhere. It also generally has a higher resolution. The reason I originally didn't do the latter is because old phones, especially those running Firefox for Android, can crash while drawing large amounts of polygons. I have since optimized the drawing procedure, but beware!

[1] https://tinyworldmap.com/beta.html
"Firebrand," here presumably means, "crook who literally stole the Chinese subsidiary of a foreign company because that's just how shit works in China."
Queue is fine but my experience is small company’s anyway hate them. A queue self manages, so how do you micromanage!

Sprints are an editable queue I guess but even waiting 2 weeks is too much for the nanomanagers.
and yet, wacom pens are not supported. I need it to help with RSI
Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei may have a lower error, but its usefulness is also significantly reduced.

My favourite for world maps is still Winkel Tripel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection). Winkel-Tripel was given one of the best ranks by Gott and Goldberg, before they developed the projection in the OP.

Winkel Tripel used to be the standard until Google Maps came along and pushed everyone back to using Mercator for data visualization and political maps.
Love those from Puzzle Team.

Any recommendation for an iOS app with this many curated puzzles, possibly without annoying ads or in-app purchases?
That's one of the big reasons why the EU is avoiding using DID.

The author seems unaware that DIDs are now removed from the latest specs from the OIDC Working Group and EU's eIDAS.
And everybody ask why we are not on the Moon again. This is the reason.
We have record employment currently. There are other jobs.
I bought a cheap USB CD/DVD drive just to view my girlfriend's medical images. This was only two years ago and they wouldn't/couldn't just put them on a USB stick for me.
I also like Mosaic, a variant of Minesweeper: https://www.puzzle-minesweeper.com/mosaic-5x5-easy/
15 years ago I made the choice between Python and Ruby.

Without a doubt, choosing python was the correct move.

I can't imagine with the current trajectory, Ruby will be better.
The Riddle of Ambition
Suffragettes, civil rights activists and Vietnam war protesters would’ve all been considered “bad actors” by their democratic governments at stages of their journey.
First impressions apply to languages too. A lot of mathematicians went into AI but didn't start out with any programming experience. They dabbled in some languages and gravitated toward the one(s) they found most useful.

Paraphrasing Guy Steele [1]:

> It's important that when you design a language that does a familiar thing, that you do the familiar thing exactly... it's criminal that you can write 1/2 and get values nowhere near one-half.

Python

>>> 1/2

0.5

Ruby

irb(main):001> 1/2

0

To a novice programmer, ruby's result makes no sense, and introduces an incredible degree of doubt into the mind of the user. Sure, they could explore why it gives that result, but if that's not helping them get toward solving the problem they're using the programming language for in the first place, then it could seem like an indulgent tangent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E&t=19m27s
Was this written in 2008?
I wonder if it could be even smaller when they wouldn't store all coordinates with 10 decimal places, at least for the label positions.
Can you share more on this? What monopoly?
This is the video that produced the same effect on me.

Apoptosis (2006): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR80Huxp4y8

We are all made of nanobots.
*modern North American cities

ftfy
Delivery Pressure Screen and Vibrating Screen
>Avoiding KYC-type stuff may make sense in the small, but is actively harmful in the large.

No, it's a trade-off. No KYC makes it possible for people to lose their identity, but it's also the only way to guarantee full privacy/anonymity, and to make it so the identify-provider doesn't have the power to de-platform anyone. Historically speaking, governments and corporations silencing dissidents has done far far more harm to humanity than people losing their accounts due to forgetfulness etc.
Micro text editor https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

MS Paint
It would require both treaties and some way this company can be the preferred supplier (maybe a 10 year contract to operate).
Yeah, I got downranked for a codebase I no longer maintain as I was only paid to do so for a very small amount of time, and I don't exactly want to do unpaid, unwanted work on a repository I do not own.
I see this and the first thing I want to know is creating a Voronoi partition in order to see which city with >48k habitants is closest to any point in the map.

What is wrong with me.
I have programmed C since the 1980's, and I still avoid C for loops when writing C because they're hideous.
And noise
~2015
An Iran Israel war would have the same effect.
I can explain. This bit of Melville exposes some uncomfortable truths about the age in which he was living, the "little ice age". First of all, he's writing from the perspective of a whaler, who may never have seen anything of the island but Coatue, where they would dissemble their ship for transport across the deep sands into the safety of the harbor for winter. The main inlet was too shallow for transport, and later had to be dug out to bring in ships for development of the town. Around then or soon thereafter the bulk of the island was used for farmland. The location of the house in that article was called "Ram's Pasture", but I had observed it to be impassably dense for such a use, so I was curious and sought to discover why it was once so barren. It turns out that the original natives were quite reckless with fire. They would use it as a hunting tool, and quickly depopulated the entire island of all large flora and fauna, leaving the Wampanoag to find subsistence only in the shores thereafter. When Europeans negotiated land rights, they started grazing ruminants, but preferred not to burn, so the forests grew back rather quickly, and the farmers eventually left. This had been happening all over North America, and the rewilding effect was so dramatic that it dropped the temperature of the earth. Property rights saved the world. You won't hear that from most urban hipster environmental activists, but it was the second time I had heard it, first from the eco-resort villages rewilding the East side of Dominica. There 1000 whiteys pay $1000 each to see giant leatherbacks drift in to lay their eggs, but a local with a hatchet got there first for the $100 he'll make selling turtle soup. I digress, but it's really the same thing. The wild western reaches of the island became irresistible to the ultra-wealthy, and those rude pastures grew into some of the most desirable real estate in the world. It's now going back in the other direction, and you can probably tell I don't think this is a good idea. Nature there has tremendous financial value, as single-family estates comprise 95% of tax revenues, but the tourist industry is 95% of the population, more organized, and more vocal by orders of magnitude, and they want golf courses and bars. The truth is that development destroys value. People will pay a lot to be left alone with nature. So that's what happened. Natives who discovered the land quickly destroyed it, then property rights brought nature back for a bit, and now populism is giving it back to the masses to do as they wish, but it seems the ocean will have the final say.
I have a T61p also with a Nvidia, non of the distros i tried (Debian12, Fedora38, RHEL9) supports the 370-driver, however FreeBSD and Windows does...

Nvidia also supports FreeBSD directly:

https://www.nvidia.de/Download/driverResults.aspx/224024/en-...

I don't really get the point of the article, around 2010 one could have said exactly the same (and still can) about vendors not supporting Linux.

Don't use BSD/Linux on "pc" except when everything work's as intended?

Is Visual Studio running on Linux? No? Oh that's why i need a Windows-VM on FreeBSD...and Linux.

Just use Windows, people....but just if everything works ;)
It's not like we didn't already give the major major ISPs 200 BILLION DOLLARS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556
I run Firefox in Xorg, Wayland is not installed.

What magic am I applying without knowing it?
A tree captures CO2 so, of course, but tangental.
It's not surprise. It's concerning. Innocent people are paying for policies they have no control over.
Notable that this was python behaviour until Py3.
Indeed GPUs are great at doing the same calculation in parallel. But if it was just that there should be enough opportunity to parallelise even without doing the exact same calculation multiple times.

The main reason I can come up with why doing the same calculation 8 times in parallel instead of 8 times sequentially is that you benefit from better locality of reference.
If the whole program terminates, the purity of the function is still intact, the computer just can't compute it :D
I got a choice of "Settings" and "Accept all cookies". I closed the tab.
Their justification for no boundary cut error is kinda dodgy.. they say they have none because this projection is really two discs back to back, 'you can just stretch a string over the edge of the disk'.

That's cool but by that argument can't i just fold a Mercator map in half and also have no boundary cut?
Historic Contract Paves Way for Site Work on Poland's First Nuclear Power Plant
In the context of a cost-cutting exercise, it's pretty obvious that the middle of the hierarchy is where you're going to do the cutting.

You're not going to cut at the top, because there aren't enough individuals there for that to add up to a total amount of money that's actually significant in the grander scheme of things, and the political repercussions
for you as a leader would be far worse.

If you cut at the bottom, you cut the part of the workforce that's actually comparatively cheap on a per-head basis, and you basically give a demotion to everyone who is left who used to be a manager, because you're either cutting their team size or demoting them from manager to IC. So, the workforce you'd end up with would be more costly and less motivated than what you end up with if you cut the middle of the hierarchy instead.

So, this is basically just a corporation exercising the only option it really has in this situation, and dressing it up as some kind of deep insight about organizational structure.

But, even if the context was different, even in the context of a growing and successful business, "flat structure" and "self-organizing" are often euphemisms for other things.

For example, it could be a euphemism for a kind of social Darwinism where, instead of appointing a manager and risking the appointment of a "weak" individual, you just wait to see who it is who ends up beating the others into submission, thus, by definition, ending up with the "strong" ones bubbling to the top of the hierarchy. It's needless to say that this process is cruel and creates a ton of collateral damage.

What I've also seen in connection with "flat structure", "self-organization", and "bottom-up" rhetoric is the situation where the company is actually run by a secret cabal of people who know damned well who's on the inside and has power, and who is on the outside and does not. But the people on the outside don't know that, and are instead given the "flat structure" and "self-organization" rhetoric. This reinforces the secrecy of the power structure, and serves as a convenient gaslighting device to make it look to the outsiders like their powerlessness is their own fault, rather than the organization putting them in a place where they have no power.
They're only a net good if you think the government of the biggest economy is always morally right. Because only sanctions by the biggest economies have any impact. Most of the people in the world who aren't Americans view America's foreign policy as overwhelmingly a net negative, so for most of the world those sanctions are a net bad.
> I worry we're essentially reinventing a less verbose form of SQL though.

We already have that with paste, join, etc. from Coreutils https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti...
No it's not, not from my point of view.
Whats the economics of burning it as fuel on site to generate power. Sounds bad but might be better than landfilling it and letting off methane.
Games on cartridge were quite expensive, I think.
What a weird self-reinforcing argument.

Every single criticism made of BSDs here was true of Linux too 20 years ago. In some cases, 10 years ago. Linux became popular on dev machines, so vendors of hardware and software started to prioritise support. It wasn't the other way around.

One of the reasons why Apple made such big waves in the late 2000s and early 2010s is you could get a decent (BSD) unix user land with unix-like network and file APIs to dev against and you didn't need to worry about graphics card, bluetooth or wifi drivers. I moved to OS X in 2010 for that specific reason, because not only was it hard work playing with FreeBSD on a laptop, but it was just as hard on Linux: you either needed one of the handful of Thinkpad or Dell models where the hard work had been done already, or give up.

And as for BSD "distributions" being different in fundamental ways that Linux distributions aren't: that's a feature, not a bug.

OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD have fundamentally different priorities baked right into the lowest layers and smallest corners of kernel and user land, on purpose.

This is a good thing, because it breeds new ideas without being encumbered by a single monolithic vision. You can choose the right OS for the right context.

Try this with Linux. Try getting something into it that Linus doesn't like. For example, try changing the kernel architecture fundamentals, or deciding that huge swathes of the kernel need re-writing to make it more portable or fundamentally more secure by design.

In BSD this happened, there was a fork, that's OK.

I'm not saying that Linux isn't portable. I'm not saying it isn't secure. I'm saying design decisions about portability and security are traded off against other factors in a way that doesn't happen in NetBSD or OpenBSD.

And this article might lead people into thinking "Well, why does it even exist? It seems like a complete waste of time". It isn't. There are good reasons for each BSD to exist, and they're worth exploring. Each of them is better than Linux in its own specific way. Is that way important to you? I don't know, because I'm not you. You need to figure that out all by yourself, so I won't write a long article without constructive help and a google fodder headline telling you about how awful some corner of the World is, and I'll just encourage you to go take a look at all the BSDs and see if any of them appeal to you. Godspeed.

Also, on the headline/title: I can't be the only person who can't stand this style that has emerged, presumably to get better search ranking, can I? It's a grammar crime that leads the reader into using a high-rising terminal to make sense of it. It would be better to make it a statement (remove the question mark: "Why you shouldn't run a BSD on a PC"), or reworded as a grammatically correct question ("Why shouldn't you run BSD on a PC?"), or even better get rid of the Google fodder ("Drawbacks to running BSDs on a PC").
> You also gave them a graduation rate mandate, that’s why.

If some people take longer to learn things than others, you pretty much have two options. Either you teach them slower, and then accept that they're not going to graduate on time and those students aren't going to get a high school diploma until age 21. Or you teach them less, and relax the graduation requirement so they can graduate on time. Both of these are unpleasant, but you have to pick one or you get the default option where they flunk out and never graduate.
OK, I'm imagining some system just painting a large green arrow onto the windshield, so the driver can just Crazy Taxi their way to the destination.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. To give some context for our choices: until recently, country shapes were not the main focus of this project. For a long time, the version in the README without country borders was the only version, because we didn't think adding the entire world was feasible. Turns out, it was.

I've published a nightly version [1] that removes fjords and adds more detail elsewhere, including the much-requested islands. It also generally has a higher resolution. The reason we originally didn't do the latter is because old phones, especially those running Firefox for Android, can crash while drawing large amounts of polygons. I have since optimized the drawing procedure, but beware!

[1] https://tinyworldmap.com/beta.html
They have different timed delivery policies in India - even a 20 minutes delivery guarantee.

Read the section "Service Guarantee"

https://pizzaonline.dominos.co.in/tnc

Also see: https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-cm/domino-s-p...
More than just thumbnails, micro-browsers are everywhere
The count gives both of them a significant line of credit: money overcomes much suspicion of this pair. Their assumed identities are a weapon, and I do not think the scam they are parties to helps your case.
And that’s not even factoring in the automation of highly targeted yet dynamic political content (not just ads but the consumed content itself) in order to charge/persuade the target to vote for the paying party
Stats show teachers get paid around average.
These are indeed neat papers!
One of the central arguments for Ruby is that performance is not everything (it was always slow compared to other programming languages) but programmer satisfaction is more important.

I'd say Ruby is the programming language I want to program in but Rails pays the bills.
I wonder - if there are reasons to use BSD nowadays.
It seems, Linux is just better, and the only benefit of BSD is that it is not GPL (so it can used in closed-source software)
All that does not preclude Taiwan from having a car per 3 people, and that includes infants and the elderly, as the saying goes.

If you have these cars, stop pretending you don't need to handle the traffic. You do.
I wondered the same thing and found this to be interesting: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74417624/how-does-clang-...
Can't remember the details but isn't there also an impact to in app purchases and payment methods?

I thought the restrictions/Apple's fee around those were different?

e.x. You average $2 per install on in-app purchases you get $1.40 (30% Apple fees) on app store or $1.50 ($0.50 install fee) on 3rd party store
Yep it is. You don't want GPL code in your BSD/MIT licensed project or suddenly your whole project is under GPL.

Unless you are fine with this and your only concern is that your code is permissively licensed and you don't care that much about further restrictions applying to the whole project.

I believe the *BSD care and want to keep their projects licensed under BSD though. Some GPL code in the BSDs would suddenly prevent use case that are possible today.
I will improve the map and explain how it was made and why, because I think it worth it.

But I'm not going to improve it significantly.

Thank you. ^^
The point is that they don't end up out of work.

We have more automation right now than at pretty much any other point in history, and the unemployment rate is not high.
I use the following:

https://mega.io/

https://filen.io/

https://internxt.com/
A handmade ever-growing version that has plenty of people in it is this one which I recently stumbled about.

https://floor796.com/
.. and they just won Bundesliga
Or do not buy Windows? :P
At the microlevel (where we pass actual data objects between functions), the difference in the amount of work required between designing data layout "on paper" and "in code" is often negligible and not in favor of "paper", because some important interactions can sneak out of sight.

I do data flow diagrams a lot (to understand the domain, figure out dependencies, and draw rough component and procedure boundaries) but leave the details of data formats and APIs to exploratory coding. It still makes me change the diagrams, because I've missed something.
China makes advances in laser-propelled submarines
The choices in settings were "Required" and "Optimal", with optimal being added tracking and adtech.

Not sure if or why a NGO would need either of those.
Pearl is my favorite too. I didn't understand the rules described, so I started with figuring out the rules by checking move viability. It still has the strangest ruleset in my opinion: "Black dots go in corners that are attached too straights, white dots go on straights that are next to at least one corner."
It looks like in the absence of functional trash hauling and landfill service people just use river for both.

Looks terrible but if you catch the trash in the end and burn it or landfill it nearby it becomes a kind of replacement for network of diesel trucks running around each day collecting trash.
> Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the state, who forces government ID regulations onto businesses, employers, landlords and healthcare providers, will accept web-of-trust vouches or biometrics as “proof of identity”.

Having looked into it a little bit, web of trust (in the word of mouth / paper form) is already a legal proof of identity.

It was legalized again after WW2, and government ID made optional again rather than mandatory, because the people that forced mandatory IDs on everyone were literally the Nazis. (Related previous history : factory owners and workers.)

So looks like it's a matter of preservation of fundamental rights to insist on using web of trust rather than ID... and most specifically a question of everyday(ish) practice, so the question is how to best push back against the normalization of mandatory IDs ? (In which countries can you sue an administration / a business for refusing to work with you because you refused to provide them an ID ? Does it need to be escalated to civil disobedience and laws changed ? Other options ?)

Of note : this is perhaps only a step in the "Police State-ification" of our societies. At some point, you didn't have a fixed first name / surname / address. But then (for instance) Hausmann demolished your neighborhood, made one more legible to the state instead, and next time the (Paris Commune) riots happened, they failed. It also made you easier to tax, but also brought better sanitation and "foreign" firefighters and ambulance drivers could actually quickly find you. The question is : how much (by definition, unnatural) state legibility is too much, how little is too little, and how to maintain homeostasis in the right range ?
> To get started, simply SSH to our CMS.

pico.sh is a content management system (CMS) for hackers.

That's what I infer from the site, but it would be helpful if they added a one-liner to the home page and repo.
For some reason seeing these insanely resilient tech gives me a good feeling. I don't know if I've become jaded with how much disposable tech I've dealt with, but there's some satisfaction in seeing something working as it was designed for decades.
Most volume renderers lack a good transfer function editor.
When analyzing volumes, especially explorative analysis, the most effective tool is to dial in colors and opacities for certain value ranges, in order to find structures.

The volume rendering engine I have been working on uses a histogram for the value distribution, and on top of it, one can draw lines that indicate the opacity. Additionally, one can set colors to the control points, which are then linearly interpolated for the given ranges.