I read the Wikipedia on xslt, and as a long time web developer i do not understand at all how this would be useful. Plenty of people here are saying if this tech had taken hold we'd have a better world. Is there a clear example somewhere of why and how?
Readit Newsalexmuro commented on Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/protomolecool
We are finishing up the CLI for encoding tiles for public release: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec/pull/504 Likely a project like Planetiler will integrate this.
Still needs some work on the documentation side. There will be a separate announcement when it is done. We have a newsletter that we share on all the common social networks. https://maplibre.org/news/
Aside from getting the encoding side ready so tile providers can start to make MapLibre Tiles available, we are focussed on integrating the decoder in MapLibre GL JS (MapLibre for the web) and MapLibre Native (Android, iOS and other platforms). ETA is sometime near the end of 2025.
I work as a maintainer for MapLibre, let me know if you have any other questions about the project!
Thank you for the link to the git repo, this looks great. Thank you for your work. MapLibre is a library I use all the time and while MVT isn't something I have any complaints about this will still be a big upgrade.
This is interesting, is there a reference implementation that exists somewhere? Will there be a fork of tippecanoe that can encode these files or something different?
alexmuro commented on A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jsomers
Yes, the rules of chess are simpler, which is why all this happened many years ago for chess.
https://gwern.net/note/note#advanced-chess-obituary -- here is a reference about centuar/advanced chess. The source isn't perfect as the tournaments seem to have fizzled out 5-10 years ago as engines got better and it all became irrelevant. Sadly this means we don't have 100 games of GM+engine vs. engine in 2023 to truly settle it but I've been following this for a while and I have a high confidence that Stockfish_2023+human ~= Stockfish_2023.
I think closed vs open problems are not simply different in magnitude of difficulty but qualitatively different. When I'm programming most of the interesting things I work on don't have a clear correct answer or even a way of telling why a particular set of choices don't get traction.
I guess it's possible that just being "smarter" might in some cases get a better solution from a seeies of text prompts but that seems too vague an argument to hold much water for me.
alexmuro commented on A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jsomers
I don't feel like we are in the waning days of the craft at all. Most of the craft is creating an understanding between people and software and most human programmers are still bad at it. AI might replace some programmers but none who program as a craft.
alexmuro commented on Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug joanwestenberg.com/blog/s... · Posted by u/jlpcsl
As someone who creates data and analysis which get used in setting policy I do find a lot of EA spreadsheet analysis of measured "good" to be very niave to the nature of measurement and classification.
That being said, I think this peice is a bit of an overreaction and there seem to be many earnest actors in the EA community really thinking about how they can do good in the world. SBF is very unfortunate for EA, but to jump from him example to saying all EA practitioners care exclusively about the ends over the means is a bit of a leap, imo.
alexmuro commented on Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand people.ischool.berkeley.e... · Posted by u/kelseyfrog
This is one of the best things I've read on the internet in a minute. It's a modern Koan.
Just use your freewill.
Delightful.
alexmuro commented on Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022) karpathy.github.io/2022/0... · Posted by u/gsky
It's crazy how little has changed and how much had changed. I remember what a revelation "the unreasonable effectiveness of RNNs" was when I was read it and it feels like we live in a different world.
alexmuro commented on Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API protomaps.com/blog/server... · Posted by u/dcre
The solution I described in the blog post is an optional layer on top designed for high traffic deployments, see here: https://protomaps.com/docs/cdn
As most storage systems like S3 aren't free and have per-request fees, the price is pretty comparable to this CDN deployment.
Protomaps is very intentionally built with little in common with Mapbox; the main shared parts are using the same Protocol Buffers vector tile format, because there's no reason to write another one; and compatibility with the fork of Mapbox GL 1 (MapLibre GL). See https://protomaps.com/docs/faq#mapbox
Firstly, I just want to say thanks for the reply, but more so thanks for your work, its moving opensource mapping forward.
In my work we are looking at switching from mbtiles hosted with tilserver-gl(https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl) to pmtiles to remove a server process. But we were self hosting already and we are already using maplibre-gl 2.
I can see why the implementation in the blog post would be better for high traffic deployments (ours isn't). It also points out to me I don't understand how a CDN would handle range request for hosting the pmtiles file directly, it probably doesn't?
As far as the mapbox stuff,in my mind, pmtiles is a direct competitor (successor) to the mbtiles format, which was a revolution in comparison to everything that came before it. A successor I welcome because it makes it even easier for me as a developer to self host and not be dependent on a SaaS to run my maps.
The modern opensource map stack wouldn't exist without mapbox and I'm personally grateful to them for that. Most people who use pmtiles will use mapbox's opensource style spec to style them, and descendants of their open source code to render them. But as a developer now its an obvious choice to not use their services after years of using them.
However I'm not doing high traffic stuff and they never made much money off me anyway.
alexmuro commented on Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API protomaps.com/blog/server... · Posted by u/dcre
The thing this article doesn't say is that maplibre-gl v2 supports directly querying pmtiles with http range requests so you don't even need lambda or cloud flare workers to make x/y/z routes in front of the file. So instead of 50c, this is essentially free.
If you are going to to set up that infrastructure you could just use an mbtiles file which has been around for years.
The interesting thing to me is that this stuff is all built on the open source technology of mapbox, and it seems like a real threat to large parts of their business model. Interested to see how it plays out.