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It's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.

Google Streetview/maps isn't even the best mapping/'streetview' tool at this point. Filled with ads and bugs, some major bugs have been there for 10+ years.

Now I'm curious. What is the better mapping and streetview tool at this point?

For maps there's quite a few, just anything that doesn't have the amount of ads beats it. For Streetview apple lookaround is a better experience if it's mapped well in your area.

I believe Google has been trying to improve their Streetview in coverage as apple has become a concurrent, but it still has the same bugs people have been complaining about for years (like going backward when pressing forward type of bad). If I remember correctly the bugs have been 'closed' or something before just to include it in the same slightly different way.


Organic Maps for maps

Why would you be grateful? I don't think any of that should be under private control to begin with.

And which public enterprise has undertaken those projects?

Looking at current hot problems, and exemplary of the situation: which public entities have endeavoured to backup the most important channels and videos from YouTube, the current historic video archive?

Why would I be grateful?! Because somebody did create those resources and made them available! And they did to common good (if anybody refused the expression "for" common good).


They said should be under public control, not is under public control.

I hope everybody knows Tim Follin - or will now come to know his genius.

> Agent X ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42WuUpBuHE ) or Agent X II ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNc_xczyGLc ) or Chronos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-D24A_N4d4 ) or Raw Recruit ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8dAVybwq8 ) or Future Games ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orEXKOBIv_8 )... // A modern attempt, the ON and OFF album by Rich 'Tufty' Hollins ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nEfO4Yu7Mg )

(Repost originally for submission Furnace - the biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609254)


It's just Pictionary Tim! He got even crazier when they gave him more than a single system beeper.

Silver Surfer (https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=silver+su...) Pictionary (https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=pictionar...)


Wow, that Chronos track is like early My Bloody Valentine!

> Anyway this topic shouldn't even be on HN

Oh, it should. Where should we discuss it? Because we really should discuss it.


> would send their soldiers to die

transforming a cold war into an full war.


Full original title:

# How Did the Nation Get Its Name? Other Suggestions Included the United Colonies, Columbia and the United States of Alleghania // The nascent country adopted its name 250 years ago, on September 9, 1776. Americans have debated the moniker ever since. One congressman even [possibly satirically] proposed the "United States of the Earth"

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A proper non ambiguous name for the USA is a theoretical problem that may bug some in some fraction of some sleepless night. The problem now has 250 years.

As I am writing, after many years of occasional consideration (for the sake of not leaving puzzles unresolved), I had the realization that the one unambiguous name would probably be the acronym (initialism) "USA". And I see that reflecting that in a sightly word that would be pronounced like the initialism is another problem.


> don't care about benchmarks

You must care about good benchmarks (identify those that have relevance).


Genuinely interested, which ones do you think have relevance?

If I read forums and talk to people IRL most have differing opinions what model is best. Yes, for me it's pretty clear Opus is better than earlier models, but it's at least not obvious to me that the later are significant improvements.


The channel has 4 videos and the first one ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdbpCM4yGyE ) is titled:

# Andrej Karpathy Stanford Lecture: Delete Everything, Keep Graph

It seems like the new channel has a bias?


I wouldn't call this a bias. More likely an A/B tested find that (1) algorithmic YouTube video-surfacing with keyword "graph" plus AI related name-dropping was effective, and (2) the already well established journalistic trick of leading with fear to trigger loss-aversion, as "prompting is soon dead" implies some threat of skills-value loss for the reader.

driving engagement to scrape the bottom of our ad-driven engagement dis-attention economy, tragedy of the commons pure.


Right. That, and what I wrote simultaneously nearby.

Maybe the common point is "bad incentives".


The one weird trick of reassigning all the income from that contents-stealing to the original posters would I think cover a lot of the realignment.

> Andrej Karpathy and AI systems engineering into a single hour. His core thesis: "You can actually delete everything… Delete everything, keep Graph."

Yeah, that's not what that video is about either. This is weird!


> weird!

It's simply the "HR failure" plus the "unintended web" plus the "shamelessness pride" - where free expression is accessible to both poles in the vectors and the agents wear a blank mask, and the message is "self-expression" (postmodern performance "through the medium of posting") instead of debate.


You did not put quote marks (and were not literal in quoting), so we may interpret that you would not accept advice from non kind people (what?!).

Besides the basic logic that it should be advice from people with good judgement that one should accept, what should instead be revealing and a red alert is

> her enthusiasm for Jean-Luc Godard’s lesser works


> Most people alive... have never even used the word... let alone do they let their worldview be defined by it

Support your statements, show it. Most people alive would have not been informed on basic ethics, nor basic language?!


I made and supported my initial claim. The burden of proof here is on the person who claimed that the etymology of "nobility" somehow disproves my initial claim.

> my initial claim

Not your initial claim: the claim of the median human not being aware of basic dictionary and ethics.

Of course psychopathy as lack of restraint facilitates amassing riches.

To state the absence of family and schools and contact with books for a majority indicates a weird world view, or an impossibility to put heterogeneous populations in the same basket.


You are reading the term too literally.

(And by the way, you are using a severely outdated translation.)


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