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by sails 7y ago
I agree entirely. > bus lanes This exemption is completely ridiculous. I recently asked "What would the outcome be of a total taxi ban in a major city" in a similar thread [0]. An interesting answer was the disabled would strug
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London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third(london.gov.uk)
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by sails 7y ago
How does this compare to MLflow [0]? Considering MLflow has a few components, I suppose you are building something closer to MLflow Models? How do they compare? [0] https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/index.html
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by sails 7y ago
VS Code extension [0] seems pretty good, tested to be fast and useful on 10k records. I see this as a nice way to explore a new dataset prior to a more extensive investigation. [0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?
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by sails 7y ago
Ok great, thank you for the very interesting reply! > python a_streamlit_sctipt.py This is golden, well done. I'll do some further tinkering and create a discuss thread once I have some further insights. Thanks :)
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by sails 7y ago
Very good point, addressed further down / [here]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269488 )
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by sails 7y ago
I've done exactly that, no one's idea of fun, but what if you can't afford the alternative?
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by sails 7y ago
> valid reasons for there being taxis, such as minor medical problems, bad weather, unsafe conditions at night, having to transport packages etc. Agree with these, and have been glad for an on demand ride service for some of these, but I
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by sails 7y ago
Very interesting point, it seems that black cabs are specifically required to cater for the disabled [0]. I wonder what the utilisation of taxis by elderly and disabled looks like as a percentage of the total rides. I think finding some mec
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by sails 7y ago
I don't know of anyone using them _regularly_, or really at all for that matter.
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by sails 7y ago
Why are taxis given special treatment in cities? As a cyclist & public transport user it really frustrates me. In London they serve a tiny minority and cause the bulk of the congestion relative to the population they serve. What would t
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by sails 7y ago
Yes, out of necessity I gather. Seemingly typical of most foreign countries with strong expat presence, but Swiss are notoriously insular.
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by sails 7y ago
> the insular culture Anecdotally, this is the reason most people struggle as expats in CH.
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by sails 7y ago
Jeremy Howard [0] has some takes here [1], mostly negative if I recall correctly. [0] https://www.fast.ai/about/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XcP4JOHmk&t=4152s
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by sails 7y ago
Hi Adrien I'm currently doing the "develop in jupyter notebooks, deploy in python scripts" thing, however I'm only deploying predictive models, using AWS Lambda. Would Streamlit be a good fit for this? I can see the valu
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by sails 7y ago
Ok that is interesting. I've been thinking about a Snowplow implementation for a while but seems like a big task. Could you expand the differences? > Snowplow is a great analytics tool, especially used for internal analytics\ > c
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by sails 7y ago
How does this compare to Snowplow? https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
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by sails 7y ago
thanks!
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by sails 7y ago
I'm all in on DuckduckGo. No longer doing !g as I don't accept the Google privacy policy (although I have peaked behind the popup using Ublock)
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by sails 7y ago
Slight Tangent: I've got a feeling that private vehicles in Zone 1 (and 2...) benefit a tiny percentage of the population, and should be the next target for reducing inner city congestion (implementation perhaps tricky). Is this concep
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by sails 7y ago
I use the cosmetic filtering feature of Ublock Origin [1] to block everything except the video and related controls. I then only access youtube via the "subscriptions" page [2]. This effectively blocks the recommendations, autopla
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by sails 7y ago
Relevant, add Indonesia and China. https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/08/01/indonesia-seeks-to... Despicable industry across the board.
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by sails 7y ago
Metabase is pretty good if you have a nicely configured datawarehouse (Snowflake, Bigquery good options). If you are connecting metabase directly to your app database then you will probably run into issues trying to integrate another data s
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by sails 7y ago
This is great. Things to keep on your radar: Meltano spun out of Gitlab is working in this domain, I think they are making progress. https://meltano.com/ dbt are building the transformation engine that Meltano is using (I t
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by sails 7y ago
Really nice! Something similar (with a GUI) is https://www.dremio.com/ that I think has gained some traction.
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by sails 7y ago
CV is also 100+ pages, not bad!
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by sails 7y ago
On the back of this article, I thought the "influencer-incubator" model may be worth a look, however I vaguely disagree with the entire "industry" on a macro-moral level, so let the thought pass. On the back of all of th
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by sails 7y ago
Far from what you require, but OurGroceries is pretty flexible and could meet requirement 1 quite easily. I use it for my travelling checklist every time I go on weekends away (as well as for shopping) https://www.ourgroceries.co
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by sails 7y ago
Booking.com allows accomodation to add some BS fee that are an additional ~75% the cost of the displayed price, at 1/8th the font size.
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by sails 7y ago
As a user of both Revolut and Monzo, thumbs up for Monzo, I’ve had minor issues dealt with very quickly and successfully. Revoult has a slightly broader feature set, leading to these issues, whereas Monzo does core banking really well.

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