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I built https://kadaster.club, which shows all land parcel data of the Netherlands. There's some existing sites for this but they quickly try to upsell you stuff and/or are slow and don't show the parcel data when zoomed out too much. None of the other ones I've seen render the parcel data as vectors either, which hurts my eyes.

I also just added https://kadaster.club/mcp so an agent can query the same data and even look in the data available on https://omgevingswet.overheid.nl/ to answer question around what is allowed and what permits you need for a specific location


Interesting, what’s the use case for this?

If you're looking at real estate for example, it's interesting to see what the plot and the neighbor's plots are

$800M in 2009 Apple stock would be about $24B today!


But $800M in USD is worth only about $1.2B today. Keeping the money invested in Apple is convenient if you're already paid in stock, but beyond the lock-up period we have to keep in mind that it's just one of many things he could have done when accepting the money

Though I think it fair to speculate that if he had taken the deal he would likely have more money today, at the cost of less status


Yeah but who can say Steve Jobs bought their company so early on, the early Dropbox design was so Apple-esque.


Bluetooth now has something that does this more accurately on a protocol level: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enha...


What an awful website for such a wonderful feature. I don’t expect to see this in the original Find My (Apple’s) as their implementation is fully custom and works altogether differently (and already had a protocol-level rewrite not too long ago), but this is still really cool. Of course needing to be in range of the device is always a problem; some ear buds will drop out altogether if you walk to the next room.


I've built this website which shows the land registry data (Kadaster) information of The Netherlands but with nice vector graphics and much more performant than other websites I found: https://kadaster.club

Turns out there's an incredible organization here (of course) that publishes many geospatial datasets: https://www.pdok.nl


I think that used to be the idea but then they got acqui-hired


We use NixOS for all of our robots and servers at https://www.monumental.co, hard to imagine how we would do constant updates of our robot fleet without it.

If you're working on cloud systems it's easy enough to just throw away VMs all the time but you can't really do that with physical hardware that's on a construction site for months on end, where you only have a shared 5G connection. NixOS makes this all manageable!


Cool company! Do you guys hire only local to the Netherlands? I see some roles I might be a good fit for (experience w/ Rust, cpp, nix), but dont wanna waste your time


The alternative firmwares give you a lot more options in this, stock is OK in layout


Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...


Depending on how many thousands of $ per year, it would probably be cheaper and more reliable to self-host GitLab. It's better in terms of organisational structure (you can have one, including access and secret inheritance), and (personal view) Gitlab-CI is better than GitHub Actions because it doesn't push you towards a JavaScript/NPM style dependency hell. And it's actually fairly easy to self-hosted, with options from a single machine with an omnibus package that handles everything to a full blown autoscaling Kubernetes deployment.


Sounds good until you see their cvedetails page


When you own it you can just limit it into vpn-ed company users, that significantly cuts down on the area that can be hit


I mean, the GitHub Actions supply chain risks and attacks definitely compensate for any GitLab security vulnerabilities you can think of.


Hide it behind VPN, so it's not accessible from outside.


Now patching becomes a responsibility, unless your organisation is willing to run knowingly vulnerable software.


Same thoughts - we use an action to ship to production, its builds an image, pushes it to ECS which triggers a deployment.

We can't be blocked here. Seems silly what we settled on this, but for a long time GitHub had been reliable enough for many years, but things are sliding down the pan as of late.


Sounds like a very easy process to rewrite in bash/python and have it on hand if needed.


It's funny, when we were acquired they started moving us to Github actions but it seems that maybe we should stay on our old crusty self-hosted Jenkins setup...


You should never entirely depend on a third party service for deployments.

Been burned too many times on that one.


Ok.

Move to EC2.

Darn AWS is down.

Alright, run it on a Mac Mini in your basement. Ahh dawn, your ISP is having issues. Good thing you have a backup 5G hotspot.

Ohh no, the power is out.

Eventually you have to trust someone else.

GitHub is a tragedy of the Commons. Too many people are using it, and Microsoft isn't willing to handle it correctly.

Feels like a very good business opportunity. Minimum 50k yearly contracts, GitHub with actual uptime. GitPro ?


We’re actually moving back to redundant data centres due to all of those problems.

Aggregate risk is too high.


It's almost as though GitHub should never have let itself be sold to Microsoft...


I'm sure the VCs who invested in GitHub disagree.

This is supposed to be Hacker News! Who is coming up with a startup to fill the gap !


Maybe we need a split between source management and distribution? The former looks like git[hub] to me, the latter maybe more like a Linux distro repo?


We could still deploy manually but it's suboptimal! And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs


> And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs

You should never entirely depend on a third party service to run your tests, either.


   make test
Should work without CI


It is a control pain


./deploy.sh


Self host gitlab. If you already host runners it’s not a big lift.


Even if there is features that are similar, most of gitlabs features are for paying customers only.


OP said they already pay for GitHub. We pay for the premium tier of Gitlab at my work and it’s definitely worth it.


It's always best to be portable - always be able to do builds and releases locally (at least, once you get the keys - it shouldn't be possible by default), then add things like github actions on top as convenience.


Same here. You’d think they could at least separate out the GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, so you’re still able to dispatch jobs if the self-hosted runners are down.


If the job queue is down, that wouldn't help, would it?

On my repo the jobs do not get scheduled on the PRs at all, so I assume that separation wouldn't help for todays issue.


They have the github enterprise domain separated out and its working fine right now https://us.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard


I’m not convinced they actually do, because GHE on the cloud tends to have the same problems as the main outages. Probably costs extra to be “single tenant” or whatever


> For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

Wait until you charge you for self-hosting runners.

Oh wait. They already tried.


Sure. Don't use GitHub.

You can now hire me as an overpriced consultant instead of paying Microsoft.


iDeal is an enormous success in the Netherlands so if banks implement it as well in other countries then it will definitely be competitive with credit cards for online payments


Wero is the pan-European successor to ideal. Other countries had something similar. We are now converging on using the same technique and mechanism everywhere. It also takes a bite out of payment providers like adyen because they managed the different payment methods for shops. In the future you only need to use Wero.


iDeal is in the process of being replaced by Wero, which is pretty cool!


Wero sounds weirdo, but iDeal sounds like a confession you sell drugs.


No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it


I have said the same many times here on HN. This in/famous blog post really changed my view: "Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing": https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-noth...


I have similar problems with product I do pay for, and I still get told I have no say. FO/OSS distinction is a red herring.

At some point it need to be made clear; it's not a legal obligation, but a reputational challenge.


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