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Varqu

779 karma · joined February 2, 2019

Software Developer living and working in Switzerland
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Varqu··on Webpack production issue that will break half of the internet
CRA affected: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13171

and everyone whose production build depends on it.

Varqu··on JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
I struggle to understand why there is no "deposit banks" category which would include heavy regulation, with full reserves required.

There is certainly a significant number of people who just want to keep their money safe. They would happily pay 50 or 100 USD per month for an actual bank service where your money is just stored and not lend out to someone else.

Varqu··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
Generally the more transparency there is on both sides, the better:

This way, the market can punish bad behaviors (abusive landlords / problematic tenants) and reward those who act properly.

Varqu··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
How about ratethetenant.com - I can imagine many property owners paying heavy $$$ for such rating.
Varqu··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
A free market for content provider essentially means that they can do whatever they want with their content and rights to it.
Varqu··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
It's interesting to see that free market competition actually worsened the customer offering when it comes to streaming services.

Back in the days, Netflix was a one-to-see-all service and that was also one of the reasons why it took people from torrenting to paying for movies.

Nowadays, if you want to watch a particular movie, you have maybe a 10% chance that it is available on the streaming service that you are currently paying for. And it makes more sense to just buy it directly, than pay monthly.

Varqu··on Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
I will never understand why most of Big Tech acquisitions end up with a shutdown. (same for Google, FB, etc, apart from a few outliers)

Like: They could just buy a controlling stake, let it run by the original team and just add some cross promo to their main product.

Varqu··on Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
Is it better than the standard YouTube algo?

Because on YT video it's like:

You picked Rammstein? Sure, here is your next video with classical music, because you were listening to it last week.

Varqu··on Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
To be honest, I find their music recommendation algo still way behind what Pandora (the music streaming, not the jewelry brand) cracked years ago.

It amazed me with the fact that even after creating a radio from a single song, I got exactly what I wanted to hear (including new songs).

It's a shame that it's not available in Europe.

Varqu··on Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways
Why not?

Essentially, if I build and host a hobby site, it's my digital property. You have the right to see what are the conditions to visit (essentially: fetch) it and if you don't agree, you are free to go.

Varqu··on Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways
I don't understand why it isn't solved in this way:

You get a banner on your first visit, with a list "here are all the cookies and ways how we use your data, if you are not fine with it, please leave this website"

This should be an option for small private websites (different rules for FB, Google and alike), because no one forces you to use a site, same as "my house, my rules"

Varqu··on GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities
Is anyone else also getting tired of seeing "GPT" prefix / suffix in the name of 90% new AI-related products?
Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
The numbers might not be 100% accurate (as other commenter mentioned, there is no normalized dataset available) but they show an approximate scale.

It seems though that some Bay located HN readers disagree with both statistical and anecdotal evidence, which might be actually an example of sunken cost bias (it's not surprising considering the cost of property in SF / Bay Area)

Varqu··on European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force
With all the EU initiatives, one can see that some ideas make sense (securing privacy, regulating tech monopolies), but once it gets into legislations it ends up with monsters like the cookie banner or GDPR.

In the end it doesn't do what it was meant for but still remains a pain in the a*.

Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
They even discuss it in detail: "What makes NeighborhoodScout® Crime Data uniquely accurate? Most city neighborhood crime data are incomplete and inaccurate because crimes are reported by individual law enforcement agencies, rather than by city or town, and many cities – even small ones – have more than one agency responsible for law enforcement (municipal, university, county, transit, etc.). Even FBI data are reported by agency not by city or town, providing an incomplete assessment of city-wide crime counts. It is an agency-centric rather than locality-centric reporting method. If you use FBI data, you only get city-wide general counts, and only from one agency in the city, so it is generally incomplete for the city overall, as well as not specific to a neighborhood or address."

And further: Once we have these complete set of reported crime data, along with millions of geocoded reported crime incidents using a GIS, we begin our crime data development process.

The results are fine resolution, highly accurate crime data that are comparable nationally.

Our approach provides you the ability to look at small areas effectively.

In some cases a city agency is in charge of law enforcement, while in other areas it’s a county. In many cases it is more than one agency for a geographic area. Since the geography varies, it’s difficult to compare the scores among jurisdictions, or to get a true and complete picture of crime risk. This is why we use a relational database to assess the true count of reported crimes in a locality.

Although most agencies report, not all do. This creates holes in the data. Our method allows us to accurately fill in the holes based on the crime experience of many like locales, and provide accurate crime data for anywhere in the U.S.

Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
You falsely assumed that the data is sourced from UCR.
Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
Where does it state that it's based on the UCR program?

Because their methodology is well described:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/about-the-data/crime-rates

Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
Would you mind including some better reference datasets, then?
Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
How does it influence the comparison?

EDIT:

There is no mention of UCR as data source, where did you get it from?

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/about-the-data/crime-rates

Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
I was talking about crime in generally, not violent crime specifically.
Varqu··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
It's quite high for overall crime though.

Crime Rate(per 1,000 residents):

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/fl/jacksonville/crime - 33.76

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/in/indianapolis/crime - 42.52

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime - 54.33

as a reference point:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime - 59.01

Varqu··on Google has already pulled six products in 2023
At this point, what is the reason to use Google Cloud or any other critical service, if you have a clear track of record with higher probability that it will be shutdown sooner or later?
Varqu··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
So tailwind at this point is basically just a bunch of custom CSS classes which are granular to the point of single CSS properties?

How is that better, than just writing custom CSS classes for components + having some util CSS classes?

Varqu··on Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI
How is this different / better than the other submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241212
Varqu··on Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI
How is this different / better than the other submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242174
Varqu··on More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships
I would argue that it nowadays teaches more herd-behavior and political correctness than depth of thought (example: last Stanford Law dean case)
Varqu··on Introducing react.dev
As a programming newbie, I would love to see a hard fork of React without Hooks (and their magic)
Varqu··on React is holding me hostage
In my opinion, React was pretty much complete without the introduction of Hooks. Shifting from the previous Component-derived mental models to Hooks was a cause of many runtime issues in at least 2 companies that I worked for.

Unfortunately, React went from less-capable and more understandable to more-capable and less-understandable model. But yeah, that's just a newbie-coder take.

Varqu··on “Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Entrepreneurs giving advice
Since when do we consider single viral Tweets to be worth HN main page?
Varqu··on Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
We would be interested in trying it out.

Do you mind sending an intro to hello [at] swissdevjobs.ch ?

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