I guess their cheeky "Warning: AI Benchmarks, don't trust them" is their way out of that one.

So in full transparency, this project came together because I finally threw an LLM at it. I've had this project written down for probably 10 years, and the initial commit to this repo was 5 years ago.

It parses your contacts, and shows you a map of where they are from (North America only). You can also choose to share it with someone else and see the overlap of your maps which I found really fascinating too.

I recognize it's a big ask to enter names and phone numbers into a random site, but this is published to github pages and the source code is right there. It is all fully client-side, no data collection, no network requests or anything. You can run it in airplane mode / disable networking on the tab once it's loaded too.

Hopefully others find it fun too!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733107

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That's the fun part, it doesn't even cover garbage!

Jokes aside, property tax in the US typically go towards safety net funding for your community. So a lot to schools, public safety, roads/infrastructure, etc. There are definitely some places where garbage is covered in that, but a lot of places garbage collection is privatized in the US.

Sometimes hearing about how much it costs to cut down trees makes me want to quit my job. I think a lot of that is probably for liability insurance though? Both for worker injury risk and for risk of property damage. It will cost a lot to fix a house that has a tree fall through it. But also since those are market rates, it's still a very good idea to ensure they have legit insurance. You are usually SOL if they don't.

As a YC backed company, it seemed like almost everything on HackerNews was known about within the company when I was there.

One downside is the battery isn't amazing. I usually get ~3-4 hours when doing development work and ~6-7 with light use.

Unfortunately as a remote employee I find it harder to accomplish. I used to commute by bike 2-3 times a week, 11 miles each way, but now it has to be an intentional effort to leave the home which seems to be harder for me.

I've been trying to figure out ways to add a bit more calorie burn into my busy days. I know the real answer is to go outside more and get a gym membership, but I've noticed mental benefits to working while moving.

I had been using a Treadly 2 for about a year, but after having it break within 6 months, get replaced, and then having the replacement break 1 month outside of the 1 year warranty, to which they demanded I pay $500 for the shipping / repairs while it retails for $749, I've decided to give up on them and let everyone know how bad of a company they are.

Let us know how you've stayed fit while having a busy life! Especially interested in lower cost ways or more reliable equipment to use to accomplish this goal!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30532423

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I've by no means been a perfectionist about editing, and I think that contributes a lot to having fun with it. It kind of reminds me of how I first felt learning how to program, making one-off things that I could write terrible code in and throw away, which seems harder for me to do as of late.

This is absolutely ridiculous, I feel that they should have just continued the idea that photos is a view layer on top of storage. Now I guess I'll just have to give them more money for more storage now that all my photos will double count towards my quota if I choose to use both services.

They have some really cool stuff in the road map that we just don't have enough volunteers to keep up. Trying to use facial recognition to identify traffickers and discover repeat offenders, trying to map out trafficking networks as they travel through various countries, etc. But full disclosure, the cool stuff isn't really in active development right now as we're addressing other issues.

You can check out our repos here: https://github.com/Tiny-Hands - Currently we're using Django for the web server and AngularJS for the client. Hit me up if you'd want to get involved or learn more! (my email is my username with gmail)