MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nyrikki | 2025-06-25 20:01:14+00:00
Note I intentionally didn't invoke uncomputable, because computable is a highly constrained definition, and in this case is a circular refrence.

> All computable reals can similarly have their digits extracted by some algorithm or another, even though it may take a long time.

It was an intentional abstraction to avoid a self referencing claim, not to say that they are equivalent to anything.

The nice thing about constructible reals is after the construction you can typically forget how you constructed them, be that through Axioms, Cauchy sequences, Dedekind cuts etc...

The computable reals by definition can be computed to within any desired precision by a finite, terminating algorithm. That is why I said it is begging the question.

> Almost all irrational computable reals (in the sense of natural density) will be normal, for any sane enumeration. Just because a real number is computable doesn't mean it's less likely to be normal.

While some have Conjectured claims close to this, looking into why there have been no proofs for even a single number that was not explicitly created to be normal in any base may be a good lens in to the hay-in-the-haystack problems I was refrencing.

From: "Distribution Modulo One and Diophantine Approximation (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Series Number 193)" Page 81, section 4.1 "Equivalent definitions of normality"

> Lemma 4.3: Let b and r be integers greater than or equal to 2. If a real number is simply normal to base b^r, then it is simply normal to base b.

That there may exclude many of what appear to be simply normal numbers from actual ones. As a graduate level text that book may be a bit expensive for what it is, but a good reference in my experience.

The 'Normal' property that is the full measure set of the reals is far more constrained than natural density. Which is why it is so surprising that is is the property of almost all of them.

That is why it was offered as a lens, specifically one that was worked on before computability as a subject, as an intentional way to gain distance from the almost intractable polysemy problems there.
by nostrademons | 2025-06-25 20:02:13+00:00
I really wish they went into more detail of the legal issues and existing law around this area. I had to go into the linked statutes to even find out what the this bill is, and "California Corporate Cover-Up Act" is their term for it, not on the actual bill.

From my (IANAL) read, it looks like somebody realized that CIPA could be construed to criminalize recording IP addresses as wiretapping, and yet basically every website and online service does it to prevent DDoS attacks, abuse, and fulfill legal obligations. And so this bill specifically excludes "identifying the originating number or other dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information reasonably likely to identify the source of a wire or electronic communication but not the contents of a communication" when done as part of a commercial purpose from being part of the definition of wiretapping.

I know that the EFF's job is to maximize privacy online, and I'd even agree with (and have donated to) that mission. But unless there's some subtle legal argument here, I don't get the uproar. Companies have been collecting IP addresses for the last 30 years, you are not realistically going to stop that practice without breaking the Internet, and so I don't see much of a change from status quo other than not having a law that can be used to fine tech company execs billions of dollars for wiretapping.
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 20:02:41+00:00
> I never made the claim. My statement was you effectively called me that through your comments.

I likened your behavior to that of a dog. Nothing said you or dogs are unintelligent. That was first seen in the previous comment – the one written by you.

> Are you suggesting all your words are just random and have no intention or structure or meaning behind them?

The fact that emotions are not triggered by random strings of text does not equate to, or even suggest, an inexistence non-random strings of text. How did you think up that one?

> Truly seems like I've just been talking to a bot this whole time.

Would that make a difference? Discussion doesn't have to be only about learning what a human thinks. What a robot thinks can be just as interesting. Hell, if you can figure out how to communicate with a dog to learn what it thinks, why wouldn't you jump all over that? That would be amazing.

Maybe you just don't like learning? It seems like you don't care for it much based on what you are responding with, but that may be a poor interpretation on my part. What do you think?
by delichon | 2025-06-25 20:03:29+00:00
§ 637.2(d) provides that there is no private right of action to sue for "the processing of personal information for a commercial business purpose." Anything that would otherwise be actionable under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) would now be exempt if it includes a commercial business purpose, retroactively.

This is basically a sneaky repeal of the parts of CIPA that chafe big data.
by quesera | 2025-06-25 20:03:41+00:00
Definitely not a technical limitation.

ACH clearing (transaction information) happens multiple times per day. Originating bank sends a list of transactions to the clearing house, Receiving bank is notified of transaction pending.

ACH settlement (bank-bank funds transfer) happens overnight. Funds from the Originating bank are "rehomed" to the Federal Reserve, and then again to the Receiving bank. This is, obviously, a database update.

ACH posting (funds available to customer) happens whenever the Receiving bank feels it's appropriate. Generally, by local close of business on the settlement lot schedule (same day or next day). The receiver may choose to delay posting to customer account if they don't trust the Originator, or the customer, or just for fun.

ACH transactions are reversible. This is the reason posting happens as quickly as it does (!), but also the reason posting takes as long as it does.
by Brybry | 2025-06-25 20:03:50+00:00
When Microsoft puts out a notice saying that Windows 10 is obsolete and soon will no longer get security updates (scary) then many Americans will do the path of least resistance: buy a new PC with Windows 11 already installed.

Many people don't have space to store an old computer. Many people don't have time to try to sell it on ebay or FB marketplace. So they will again follow the path of least resistance: throw it away.

Sure, some people will donate it. But even then there's so much old working computer stuff in the USA that my high school wouldn't even accept more.

The old working computer storage room was full.

The situation is unfortunate but it's not because people are needlessly wasteful or uncaring. They're just trying to survive and live their lives and Microsoft told them their working thing doesn't work anymore.
by nashashmi | 2025-06-25 20:04:17+00:00
> You will get the pleasure of success, and of helping your fellow man, even if it is only to answer a question in the mind of a colleague less able than you.

> innumerable problems that you would call humble, but which I enjoyed and felt very good about because I sometimes could partially succeed.

> You met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods.

As problem solvers, we need encouragement to face the difficulties that lie in exploring problems. We need to believe that it can be solved but more so that WE/I can solve it. We need to raise our egos to healthy amounts (not sure what is the precise definition of healthy) so we don't back down or give up. And Mr. Feynman alludes to this with "the pleasure of success", "helping your fellow man", "answer a question in the mind of a colleauge", "I enjoyed ... because I sometimes could partially succeed", and "problems close to the gods".

I am exploring (and absolutely denouncing) this egotism for it leads to frustration, disconnection, illusion, entitlement, and shielding. I feel that (good) school/university/work environments raise ego levels (with "good job!") and aloof you from _........ (which is a utopian place with a healthy encouragement to do more work and work harder to a point where it does not overwhelm you).

The identify of this _........ place keeps occuring to me and flees from me as quickly as it occurs to me. If there is anyone who works without ego, please let me know.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-06-25 20:04:51+00:00
Most convictions are due to plea deals. If you limit that tool, people would simply have charges dropped due to Sixth Amendment violations and people languishing in prison awaiting trials. It would be gridlock.

"Plea bargaining accounts for almost 98 percent of federal convictions and 95 percent of state convictions in the United States."

https://legalknowledgebase.com/what-percentage-of-criminal-c...
by 10000truths | 2025-06-25 20:04:56+00:00
The value of real estate in Detroit was tied to the auto industry. When it fell, so did real estate prices. The Bay Area's value does come in large part from the tech industry, but it's also a very important port of entry for trans-Pacific immigration and commerce, and that's a lot less likely to change IMO.

But that's beside the point. Substitute Bay Area with Seattle, Los Angeles, Manhattan, or some other area of your choice. Or, better yet, diversify your portfolio by buying real estate in multiple cities. The same options that are available in the stock investment to tune your risk profile are available in real estate investment as well.
by opengears | 2025-06-25 20:05:03+00:00
We need laws that these megacorps have to show in an easy and understandable form which data is collected and what happens to the data. If they do fail to explain this (in 5 sentences or less) - they should pay insane fines per day. It is the only way (and solves the debt crisis of the US at the same time). It is ridiculous that we do have this situation in 2025 that we do not know which data is processed or not.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-06-25 20:05:40+00:00
I am not from the US but I can relate. I don't watch the news, I don't want to waste time on it and avoid it as much as possible.

Journalists an news organizations were supposed to be the ones keeping governments in check by digging up the skeletons of those who call themselves leaders today.

Instead a lot of the news is now clickbait and attention seeking and many news organizations are actually financed by governments (BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24 and so on...) thereby removing any hope of having an unbiased news source because you simply don't bit the hand that feeds you.

If I want to know facts, I'll buy a book about some specific topic/event 10 years after it happens, so that the whole picture can be understood instead of reading editorials and opinions about ongoing events that most likely will be invalidated by the end of the week.

So it is what it is. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
by gruez | 2025-06-25 20:05:42+00:00
>So all the addressing bodies (e.g., ISPs and cloud providers) are on board then right? They sometimes cycle through IP's with great velocity. Faster than 6 days at least.

>Lots of sport here, unless perhaps they cool off IPs before reallocating, or perhaps query and revoke any certs before reusing the IP?

I don't see how this is any different than custom/vanity domains you can get from cloud providers. For instance on azure you can assign a DNS name to your VMs in the form of myapp.westus.cloudapp.azure.com, and CAs will happily issue certificates for it[1]. There's no cooloff for those domains either, so theoretically someone else can snatch the domain from you if your VM gets decommissioned.

[1] https://crt.sh/?identity=westus.cloudapp.azure.com&exclude=e...
by Jotalea | 2025-06-25 20:05:57+00:00
It slightly annoys me that they released this tool *only after I made my own* (https://github.com/Jotalea/FRIDAY).

But yes, this one is much better (mostly because it's made by a multimillionaire company) and I *will* use it and potentially abandon mine.

This is already the second time this happens to me, the first time being a ChatGPT app for desktop, which they (OpenAI) released the day right after. I guess I'm just unlucky.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-25 20:06:36+00:00
They didn't say the $575k was stretching, or that it was the current value of the home. Just that it was the price when they bought it, and presumably they couldn't find something nearly as nice in a dense city without paying significantly more.

In any case, you asked why people are concerned about being "zoned for good schools" and why that would be obvious to Americans, and I think I explained it to you: making sure their kids are surrounded by the "right" peers who will pressure them into the "right" behaviors is a high priority for a lot of people, particularly in the professional-managerial class. They generally won't word it that way because overt classism is uncouth, but that's what they mean when you think about it. Obviously that's not a concern you have (it's also not "showing off" to live in an expensive area; everyone around you will necessarily also live in an expensive area...).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-25 20:06:39+00:00
I remember the folks here who were dragging the Internet Archive for controlled digital lending, just trying to be a digital library, like it was infringing on authors by attempting to get back what was taken by publishers requiring libraries to buy licenses for ebooks that expired and had to be repurchased time and time again. “Universal access to all knowledge.”

Now, with judicial opinions on this fair use firming up, I am hopeful this will allow them to train on every book they’ve ever acquired and release those models to the world.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 20:06:48+00:00
Centrifuges and driving equipment, sure.

But U-235 doesn't stop being U-235 because you pressurized or heated it up. Can't blow up atoms.

Best case, instead of a pile of enriched uranium, you now have a highly concentrated mine.

Sure, you'd have to separate it again, but getting U-235 away from dirt and rock is a lot easier than separating it from other uranium isotopes.

Even if it was stored as volatile UF6, what, you've converted it to UO2F2 / U3O8?
by lancekrogers | 2025-06-25 20:07:43+00:00
I compared against recent employers codebases and the cocomo estimations where surprisingly close to the actual team size, timeline and cost. It's obviously not a perfect estimation, but it seems like the best model for comparing tools and communicating their impact.

My ROI so far is time savings and exponential increase in my personal production capacity. After I release Guild, I'm going to either productize it or focus on a few old startup ideas that were too time/capital intensive for me to bring to market without raising money, but now will only take me a few months to bring to market working part time
by djha-skin | 2025-06-25 20:07:54+00:00
I already use goose[1]. It lets me connect through OpenRouter. Then I can use Gemini without having to give Google Cloud my credit card. Also, OpenRouter makes it easier to switch between models, deals with Claude's silly rate limiting messages gracefully, and I only have to pay in one place.

1: https://block.github.io/goose/
by efitz | 2025-06-25 20:08:51+00:00
I'm not at all hostile to "at no charge" access, in fact I fully support it and would be much more upset if the article had been "US Archives decides to charge $100 entry fee" than I was about the actual article "US Archives won't let you in until you register and show ID and give some plausible reason why you need to look at specific things".

I am pretty skeptical of "let random people touch difficult to replace things when you don't know who they are".
by samuraikmc | 2025-06-25 20:08:57+00:00
I have removed that restriction. Apologies for the inconvenience.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxfFY5_mueTHuZr2_h...

Could I kindly request you to fill out this survey.

Regarding your own server, that's very interesting. So a DB of mp3 files that are tagged? And then simply suggested to you with seamless playback? Any further details you can share? Not trying to pry but generally curious.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-25 20:09:24+00:00
Better based on what? How can you call any comment low effort when you provide 0 information to back up your claim that Missouri is better than DC?

The USDA move was so bad that they lost a significant number of employees and were still working with significantly less experience years later. This is outrageously expensive and disruptive to any company or agency.

Not to mention the fact that about 5 years later the administration is making massive additional cuts to the agency after relocating and rehiring for it. It's just churn for nothing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 20:09:29+00:00
> We need to develop better plastics, proteins, and pesticides. Not send protein blobs to other planets because it looks cool in sci fi movies

The reality is more people get passsionate about working on things that look cool in sci fi movies than developing plastics, proteins and pesticides for a mediocre paycheque. This lesson--that the path to groundbreaking technologies is through inspirational moonshots, not committees prescribing what is and isn't necessary--is so thoroughly repeated throughout history that it's a wonder we keep missing it.
by foresto | 2025-06-25 20:09:51+00:00
I think Firefox multi-account containers were at some point slated to have per-container proxy settings. This should allow each container to use its own IP address, with the help of either a proxy provider or a set VPN connections with local proxy servers.

I wonder if said functionality has been implemented, and if so, whether anyone has taken advantage of it to make per-container addresses easy for casual users.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-25 20:09:59+00:00
> I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips.

How cool is that? Too many vendors still think that they have valuable intellectual property in such relative trivialities. And that handing out the specs freely helps their competitors more than themselves.
by cuuupid | 2025-06-25 20:11:49+00:00
I think we are inferring causation from correlation, but anyways cars are a really divisive and polarizing issue in NYC. Many who can afford it are addicted to the comfort of cars vs the bus or subway, especially in summer.

Meanwhile those who can't really have no need for cars and so never even learn to drive, exponentiated by college students and fresh transplants. Many of this group hate cars or are even afraid of them.

Neither group will ever be able to convince the other - comfort and fear have incredible staying power and are large drivers of political inertia.
by busterarm | 2025-06-25 20:12:26+00:00
I hate online scammers to my core -- weird reason too.

A guy I knew back in high school was notorious for falling for 419 type scams all the time. His brothers would constantly dunk on him for being scammed online. It was like 7, 8, 9 times...

Years later he was caught on TV by Chris Hansen and charged. Went to prison. That recontextualized everything. He wasn't falling for scams -- that was a fiction to cover the fact that he was being repeatedly blackmailed by people who caught on to his activities online.

It makes me extremely angry to think that people knew what he was up to and let him continue just so they could keep getting evidence against him to blackmail him again and again. Fucking furious, honestly.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-06-25 20:12:48+00:00
> "California Corporate Cover-Up Act" is their term for it, not on the actual bill.

As they say in the second sentence of the very first paragraph:

>> S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is

The linked statute makes far broader exclusions that you imply or would be necessary for what you mention. It just adds "A commercial business purpose" with no provisos or clarification, which invites insanely broad interpretations and effectively nullifies the existing law, just as EFF is saying.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-06-25 20:13:16+00:00
Not just an “anti-bike campaign.” Cuomo fought bike infrastructure — and subway infrastructure, and basically all the needs of the city — for his entire tenure as governor.

Growing up in the Rockies, I put together the power dynamics between large numbers of rural counties and then a single urban county a long time ago, but was still surprised to see it functioning out East.

I got to New York City, witnessed the deteriorating subway, see four lane one-way avenues with no bike lanes, and wondered where the hell all that tax money we're paying goes. Then I go upstate and see all these empty — but immaculately paved — freeways, and it all kind of comes together.

It's wild that Cuomo, who is personally responsible for making sure that as little NYC money actually gets spent in NYC as possibly, had the chutzpah to think he'd be welcome running this place.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-25 20:13:20+00:00
They're not interested and it's not for technical reasons. It's for business reasons:

• Advertisers want subscribers because that's a proxy for wealth and often, locality.

• Only quite rich people are willing to pay for an ad-free newspaper. The Spectator is one example of such a thing in the UK (subscription only, no ads).

• A lot of subscriptions are driven by a desire for opinion and opinionated takes, often by a single star writer, not news and certainly not neutrally written news.

Extremely slanted opinion sells like hotcakes and subsidizes all the rest, but the market for drive-by micropayments for opinion is very small. This opinion-subscription-bias amongst readers is why Substack works and also the Guardian (the Guardian is 90% just opinion pretending to be unbiased news).
by csa | 2025-06-25 20:13:43+00:00
> "Did men and women stop making babies and I didn't notice?"

In the US, birth rates have declined from ~2.0 children per woman in the 90s and 00s to ~1.6 in the 20s, so yes.

Also note that your numbers seem to be single or not single rather than married or not married — that is, folks who are dating are included.

I will also add that there are people in my social circle who are very much in FWB relationships or “situationships” — that is, it doesn’t seem like a nurturing, consistent, or stable relationship from the outside looking in. These folks probably don't count as “single” in your numbers, but they functionally are.

As for folks over 50 — yeah, I’ve seen a lot of them just give up on dating. They live very active lives, and dating isn’t a part of it.
by timewizard | 2025-06-25 20:13:46+00:00
> and collapses any sequence of ":0000:" to "::"

Which is an error. Any ip like 2001:0000:0000::1 is going to be incorrect. It willingly produces errors. Whoever wrote this didn't even spend a few seconds thinking about the structure of IPv6 addresses.

> I don't see anything problematic with it.

Other than it being completely wrong and requiring a regex to be compiled for an amount of work that's certainly less than the compilation itself.
by nonameiguess | 2025-06-25 20:13:50+00:00
Jalopnik's ownership history is as spotted and confusing as any web media brand out there. It was part of the Gizmodo group for years, which was bought by private equity and split into separate themed components merged with other media holding companies bought by the same private equity. Four months ago it was sold to something called Static Media, yet another media holding company that I've never heard of, but given the about us page showing a whole lot of VPs and C-suites who look about 25 or so, I'm not sure I would expect this one to last any longer than all the previous owners.