wcedmisten

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by wcedmisten 2mo ago
I don't get how people can listen to and share AI generated "music" and not feel legitimately embarrassed to their core. Like the AI Charlie Kirk song, but unironically. I'm truly baffled how anyone can enjoy it. > If
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by wcedmisten 2mo ago
For what it's worth, I use OSM for my modest project SurpriseDateSpot[1] which will randomly pick a restaurant (or other amenity) in your area! It gets a few thousand users per month :) I've also used this project to upstream 2,00
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by wcedmisten 6mo ago
> Software engineering is a mostly solved problem at this point I guess that's why Claude Code has 0 open issues on Github. Since software engineering is solved, their autonomous agents can easily fix their own software much better
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by wcedmisten 8mo ago
Having spent 3 years of my career working with Clojure, I think it actually gives you even more rope to shoot yourself with than Python/JS. E.g. macros exist in Clojure but not Python/JS, and I've definitely been plenty stump
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by wcedmisten 1y ago
Currently I don't check the opening_hours, because I've found it's missing for many (most?) restaurants, so I felt it wouldn't be a very useful filter
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by wcedmisten 1y ago
Sure, my wiki username is the same as HN: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:List... Thanks! I signed up to the newsletter
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by wcedmisten 1y ago
That's awesome! I recently picked up bird photography as a hobby and have contributed a few pictures to wiki commons. Do you have a website I can follow?
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by wcedmisten 1y ago
I got tired of trying to pick a date spot with my girlfriend, so I made this website to randomly pick an restaurant/date activity for me based on OpenStreetMap data. I've also used the data corrections submitted by users to contri
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A Global Comparison of Restaurants in OpenStreetMap and Overture Places(surprisedatespot.com)
4 points by wcedmisten 2y ago|0 comments
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Have you heard of: https://www.openhistoricalmap.org I don't think you can pay for it, but I'm sure they'd accept donations!
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Overture is an awesome resource because it has more coverage than OSM, but at the cost of accuracy. When I was considering using it for restaurants in surprisedatespot.com, I found that it has a lot more automated content with bad geocoding
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Now I'm curious, what causes the latency for range requests with R2?
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Show HN: Surprise Date Spot – Spin the wheel to find a new restaurant near you(surprisedatespot.com)
2 points by wcedmisten 2y ago|0 comments
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Highly recommend this performance from the last Strange Loop on a similar topic! I had the pleasure of seeing it live. A great combination of live music and Markov chains. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2o4f_2L0No
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
There have been quite a few articles corroborating the existence of books like this, the only part that needs believing is that someone actually used the books as advertised. https://www.vox.com/24141648/ai-ebook-grift-
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Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book(old.reddit.com)
248 points by wcedmisten 2y ago|108 comments
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Maybe try the National Address Database? https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database...
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
I really enjoy using OSM for my projects! It can be a bit daunting to figure out how to use the data because there are so many different tools in the ecosystem. I wrote this article recently to help anyone looking to get started querying OS
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
osmnx looks like a cool library, I haven't seen that one before! As for self hosting overpass, I have considered it, but the installation steps seemed a bit tedious to me compared to a lot of tools which are dockerized.
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
I'm a big fan! I use it for most of my OSM projects. It's pretty easy to download an OSM extract and process it into base tiles. Protomaps also provides a free set of base tiles that you can download and rehost yourself if you don
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Author here! Happy to answer any questions you all have about this article.
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Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap(wcedmisten.fyi)
115 points by wcedmisten 2y ago|9 comments
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Hi everyone, author here! I love making projects with OSM, but it can be challenging to figure out how to analyze the data. So I wrote the article I wish existed to help make it a little easier!
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Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap(wcedmisten.fyi)
9 points by wcedmisten 2y ago|3 comments
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Wow I really like the topographic visualization of the data, looks really slick!
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Would a restaurant have the same case against Doordash? Seems like a fairly common business model
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
I've built quite a few open source mapping projects myself using Tippecanoe and other tools. Feel free to email me if you want help setting this up!
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
Those are the most popular sources, and I've used both! The first one is the official OpenStreetMap data, which contains the "planet file" - i.e. all the data for the entire world. But because OSM has so much stuff in it, the
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
The reason I call it high performance is that it avoids the hours/days of processing (for the planet file)[1] that would be required for pulling the data out of PBF and indexing it. And you'd also need RAM at least the size of the
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by wcedmisten 2y ago
I recently discovered DuckDB's Read_OSM() function [1], which lets you query OSM PBF files directly. For example, it's simple to count the cafes in North America in under 30s: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM st_readOSM('/home&#

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