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Isn't this article just plain wrong? These are nowhere near the after tax salaries, an average working Dutch person (even when excluding unemployed) is not grossing 9-10k a month with 6k euros net as this suggests. I think the article is confusing employer-side hourly labour costs with net earnings.

And it's a question of do we accept breaking law for the possibility to have the greatest technological advancement of the 21st century. In my opinion, legal system has become a blocker for a lot of innovation, not only in AI but elsewhere as well.

I believe Kagi uses the Yandex index as their base as well.

Has a very strong AI code smell. Still it seems to be a decent turf.js wrapper for GIS professionals who don't have too much JS experience. Most should be able to use CLI tools at least for all of this.

Not even an issue anymore. I have no issue playing FPS games like call of duty multiplayer via GeForce Now and can be decently competitive. I do live close to the servers though.

QGIS is janky? It's quite possibly the smoothest and best running GIS software available today. Most built-in tools run way faster than AG Pro, and once the move to QT6 with 4.0 is complete this october, we'll finally get native builds on M-series Mac as well.

I couldn't even know where to start listing the upsides compared to ESRI offering, fron PostGIS integration all the way to the simplicity of plugins.

Been to foss4g (NL/Europe/Global) a few times. If you work in a field that even touches a bit on geospatial, you'll find interesting talks. Even if you are a web dev and you think "no", getting to know a few things about leaflet or other geo tools for web never hurts.

There's also tools that wrap a part of toporijdreis and add other georeferenced historical maps! I recently saw one of those at https://geodienst.xyz/pastforward. Wish more people georeferenced historical maps, but it is tough.

This paper is more than anything a showcase for the method they created. I think the point of their visualisations is to make them as appealing as possible, and people want to see how Manhattan looks, but they might now want to see how a certain neighbourhood in Singapore looks. And that choice definitely did help create virality for their research a few years back.

Yesterday I was checking HN from 10years±2weeks ago and guess what the top posts were... "Why you need jQuery" and "You might not need jQuery". I'm too young to know about those days but I guess not much has changed in relation to people's attitude towards jQuery.

A lot of larger orgs (Universities etc) use Palo Alto Networks Global Protect VPN as their VPN for accessing the orgs intranets.

Maybe related somehow to that?

This was absolutely impossible to read. I was interested in the topic though as I have a Dutch spatial planning university degree and it's nice to see these systems working. The years of hard engineering projects for flood management did not go to waste especially for the mitigation of these events.

That said, NL is not focusing on these hard engineering solutions as much anymore as the focus has turned towards soft engineering, such as controlled floodplains. We'll probably see less and less of these kinds of solutions in the future and flood management becomes more boring in a sense.

I think this article from last year on storing files as Youtube videos might be interesting for you . The creator stores pictures in youtube videos that represent compressed data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049

This is also a problem with Safari. Leaving websites with a ton of dynamic content leads to the whole browser becoming unresponsive.

A product using free and open-source data generated by the OSM community plus crowd sourcing traffic and keeping the code proprietary does not sit well with me. You can have a paid product but open source the project.

I had no idea what it is but kinda ruined the mood for me when the game reset

It's great. You can do it in the app now and get money back fast. My colleagues also book exclusively late night trains (which are often delayed) so they get a free overnight stay in a hotel.