What failed with Mistral?

Which anti-AI regulations are we talking about, and don't these apply to any solution distributed in the European Union, hence also to American ones?

Yesterday, gemini told me to run this:

    echo 'export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/my-user/android-sdk' > ~/.bashrc

A few minutes later, asking it to create a .gitignore file for the current project - right after generating a private key, it failed to include the private key file to the .gitignore.

I don't see yet how these tools can be labeled as 'major productivity boosters' if you loose basic security and privacy with them...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486269

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

I'm not sure of what "production ready" is supposed to mean here, but the demo image is not optimized, `optipng` command decreases its size by 53.21%.

It might be worth considering a feature to time/schedule each flow's animation, rather than having them run in an infinite loop, all at the same time.

UX feedback:

* The animation and the whole interface are sluggish on firefox/linux. There's about 1 sec delay after each action (like clicking on an option). * The site's CSS does not load on an old version of Chrome - v90 - (and the chart and animation don't either).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013097

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bug: I tried in my area in the Canary Islands and all the places were off, sometimes in the middle of nowhere or even in the sea.

Also, in small villages, we don't necessarily have a town hall, a library, etc (within selected radius), but the game asked to pin these.

Well thought, sophisticated ways of modeling data for analytics purposes -using established approaches - are being replaced by just pulling data from the data sources - with barely any change in the source structure - into cloud data platforms.

In the past we used to model layers in a data-warehousing infrastructure each with a purpose and a data modelling methodology. For instance, an operational data store (ODS) layer, integrating data from all the sources, with a normalized data structure. Then a set of datamarts, each of them containing a subset of the ODS content, in a denormalized format, focused each on a specific functional domain.

We had rules, methods to structure data in order to get performant reporting, and a customer orientation.

Coming from this world, it seems like data governance principles are gone, and it feels like some organisations use the modern data stack same way as each analyst would be doing their own Excel files in their own corner, without any safeguards.

Some alternatives:

  * don't have web analytics at all
  * self-host a Plausible Analytics or other open source analytics solution
  * use the data from server-side access logs (for those using nginx, apache or other similar solutions)
  * use Vercel web analytics' free tier (relevant for kanadojo which appears to be hosted there) - more privacy friendly than Google Analytics.

What’s worse, you’re forced to buy a bundle with ‘Priority Boarding’ just to get cabin luggage - no option to buy it alone.

The ‘priority boarding’ option is a scam in itself: you pay extra just to stand around in a crowded corridor for about 30-40 minutes while the last passengers get off and the plane, then the cleaning crew takes the trash out of the plane. Ryanair planes don't seem to get cleaned anymore between two flights, no time for that.

Just mentioning in case people are interested in alternatives / slightly different UX.

[1]: https://whentaken.com/

Any source for this?

A lot of plastic waste exports destination are in South-East Asia [0]. In the EU, with all its modern infrastructure and capacities, only 41% of the plastic packaging waste is being recycled [1]. So which portion of the imported plastic waste can we assume will be recycled in Malaysia?

Documentaries [2] and [3] support the opposite thesis as yours, stating that imported plastic waste is imply dumped.

The OECD report on Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap [3] indicates that even the ban on hazardous waste (Basel Ban) exports is not having any effect.

  [0]: Share of global plastic waste imports, 2021 - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-plastic-waste-imports?time=2021
  [1]:  41% of plastic packaging waste recycled in 2022  - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20241024-3
  [2]: Your plastic waste might be traded by criminals - https://youtu.be/tID-AChSg7o?t=246
  [3]: UK plastic for “recycling” dumped and burned in Turkey - BBC News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw6KR2vj_bc
  [4]: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/support-materials/2024/04/monitoring-trade-in-plastic-waste-and-scrap_0c401097/Monitoring%20trade%20in%20plastic%20waste%20and%20scrap%20PH.pdf

  * All the text is at a readable size, and had sufficient contrast with the background.
  * The clickable and interactive elements are easy to identify.
  * Text is selectable and can be copied.
  * There are no useless animations(there only to give a dynamic feel without having any function).

It asks you to first sign up with Google. Then it lets you sign in with your gmail address.

I spent the past few months refactoring most of the site:

  * Find a smarter logic to recommend when to go surfing, based on how the combination of swell and wind indicators are.
  * Add support for other locations (currently: only Fuerteventura, Canary Islands is there) - this means refactoring the way how forecast data is managed.
  * UX & UI: enhance the information hierarchy, menus, create a new visual identity.

[0]: https://gonna.surf