Hacker News: efishnc

New comment by efishnc in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

efishnc — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 01:09:12 +0000

Very cool and super clean website! Talk about your infra please!

New comment by efishnc in "Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images"

efishnc — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:05:00 +0000

As @mplewis said, because it uses the SV API - however, I've since found a way to reduce that cost to practically 0. See https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper-v2.html

As you say though, another way to go about this would be to scrape the public SV site, which I have not attempted to do. @xnx linked this project in another comment, which seems to do just that: https://tllabs.io/google-street-view-hyperlapse-youtube-vide...

I don't know if/how they evade captchas.

New comment by efishnc in "Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images"

efishnc — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:58:38 +0000

Ahh I see, those hyperlapses look very cool!!

Going back to your first comment, I originally made this as part of an app with an interactive streetview component. I reused the initialization code I had as the base for this. Re-using that code also makes sure the screenshots taken would be close as what you'd see using the embedded streetview (In our project we had a bunch of remote locations without a lot of SV images, so depending on the search radius used when querying for a panorama, we could end up in vastly different places).

However, I realize that I never even considered scraping the public site, which would allow for hiding your identity by not needing an API key. I'll think about this.

New comment by efishnc in "Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images"

efishnc — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:06:38 +0000

Say more? I don't understand the technique youre describing and its objective.

New comment by efishnc in "Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images"

efishnc — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:05:56 +0000

no issues yet. I'll update the post if I get in trouble :D

Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images

efishnc — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:52:47 +0000

Article URL: https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175670

Points: 67

# Comments: 10

New comment by efishnc in "Nice screenshots of embedded street view containers"

efishnc — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:06:51 +0000

Yeah but you're limited to a max size of 640x640, get a Google watermarks and it costs .007 USD per image.

If you check out my other blog posts, I use this as a base to build a scraper that's essentially free.

Nice screenshots of embedded street view containers

efishnc — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:58:27 +0000

Article URL: https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-screenshots.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166902

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Interactive Mapbox Visualization of Quebec HLMs

efishnc — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:02:39 +0000

Article URL: https://hlms-lhovon.pythonanywhere.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145653

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Adding time-travel to embedded Streetview containers

efishnc — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:41:17 +0000

Article URL: https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-time-travel.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38926039

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by efishnc in "What we talk about when we talk about system design"

efishnc — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:41:01 +0000

> The goal of the design process is (...) to instead characterize the design space for a given problem

Any good resources on how to properly define the design space? What makes it a space more than a list of requirements?

New comment by efishnc in "Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada"

efishnc — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:54:10 +0000

*coup de grâce ;)

New comment by efishnc in "Ask HN: Why is TSMC so competitive in semiconductor fabrication?"

efishnc — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:29:12 +0000

So in that case there is no materials secret sauce guarded by TSMC, with the customer either submitting the GDS file with all the info, or signing off on the modified version.

New comment by efishnc in "Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps"

efishnc — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:58:28 +0000

What could be nice is the developer providing some unit tests, and Second using those to ensure the PR is functional, re-generating if not.

Given a set of tests, I guess you could try to generate the code as well, though I could imagine it might overfit on the given tests and create a "hack" solution.

New comment by efishnc in "I don’t want to be an internet person"

efishnc — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:38:25 +0000

I actually find that I'm more awkward online/in chats than IRL.

The fact that you have longer to think about your messages and modify them before publishing, that you have to think carefully so as not to multi-text (which seems desperate), that you don't have access to non-verbal cues for context, can't smile etc. all contribute to this.

New comment by efishnc in "This article is too long for you"

efishnc — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 03:22:50 +0000

What books would you recommend to the motivated person wants to understand global energy markets?

New comment by efishnc in "Why are male testosterone levels falling?"

efishnc — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:45:57 +0000

source plz

New comment by efishnc in "Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting"

efishnc — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:16:59 +0000

That sounds like fun work! How did you get in that position?

New comment by efishnc in "Doing what you love when the money won’t follow"

efishnc — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:36:29 +0000

What did/do you love?

New comment by efishnc in "AI language models are struggling to “get” math"

efishnc — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:57:07 +0000

Maybe that's the problem.

We're trying to train a full composer AI without allowing to learn about different instrument sections independently at first. The human composer will have a good idea of the different parts and know how to merge them in harmony.

I think we might get better results training separate AI systems on percussions, strings, vocals etc. then somehow create connections between them so they learn together. A band AI if you will.

We could try a BERT for each, with the generator learning to output logical sequences of sounds instead of words.