skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than the article using the word sphere incessantly, I don't see how any of this is limited to spheres. I don't see even once how uniform distance plays into this except that the sphere is the simplest version of the sorts of things they're talking about. Your failure to banish my suspicions despite effort makes me that much more confident in my original conclusion.

also a hypercube is not a cube--it's an n-cube. otherwise this is just lazy pop science rhetoric to get the kids excited about their field (and eventually suppress wages in mathematics with their newly-supplied labor, degree in hand). except not even science, so even less important

I understand that these objects are topologically equivalent to n-spheres, but that doesn't make them n-spheres, let alone spheres proper. In fact, you point out that cubes and spheres are topologically equivalent despite zero spheres being cubes and zero cubes being spheres.
Yeh obviously. I mean copy the source.

There _could_ be arguments against some sorts, e.g. less predictable memory or performance. But qsort is pretty well behaved.
To be honest, I don't even fully understand what are the use-cases for integrating python with spreadsheets right now. I use both of them separately for different things but cannot see what it can be good at doing in an integrated environment.
How to Add Dark Mode to Your Website and Web Apps: A Real-World Example
Now that you mention it, I did vaguely used wonder why some phones took longer to hang up than others. Some, I would hear the receiver go onto its rest, and 'immediately' hear a dial tone. Some, it took a few seconds.

Related to what some other commenters pointed out…

- The delay did seem to get longer when call-waiting became avaliable in an area.

- Sometimes, right after pressing your own hook and then releasing it, I could not dial; I had to wait a couple seconds.

- I never used a system where you could hang up and have time to run to another extension, but I may have known a couple people who claimed they could? If so, I probably dismissed it as "weird".

- My direct experiences were with various regions of just three Bells, so another commenter's remarks about LA/PacBell were interesting.

Thanks, everybody, for jogging my memory a bit.
I don't know the law well enough, but I had this issue with Delta airlines, and when I called them on it, they replied that since I signed up as a member it doesn't apply to them.

I then reported it to the FTC, but as expected, never heard a thing.
That's not a good analogy. If those people believe the fraudster and give them something.. I'm not liable for whatever they gave that person. You're leaving out the most important part. Avoiding != Requiring something.
I feel what is missing here is message templates [1] - the logging API should permit the key-value pairs to be substituted into a template which results in a human-readable message, while preserving the KV data separately. Take a hash of the template and add it as a KV pair so that messages of the same type can be easily filtered.

[1] https://messagetemplates.org
I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS
how camera CCDs fail is sometimes very interesting. I had a canon ixus which failed on a road trip, it grew retro pinstripes. As if a dataline in the scan had failed, and so it had partial feed in a regular pattern out of the cells.

crap getting into otherwise sealed lenses is in some ways more frustrating. the whole device works fine. There's just the ONE speck of dust, which ruins every shot in exactly the same place. I tried taking 2 images with an offset and doing a join, but its harder than it looks. NASA carry this off very well, they have to do a lot of this with gamma ray damage and the like.

Vibration isolation is only going to take you so far. Interesting to wonder how built-in video devices in cars and bikes avoid the risks.
Of course if you solve the same problem with trivial variations, they become trivial exercises. Try harder problems.
There was an open letter to all iPhone users when, just a few months after the device became available, Apple cut the price.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070914154202/http://www.apple....
If you are using C#, I think my take on fine tuning is far more intuitive than just using the raw APIs. See https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenAILib.

Now, just gotta hunker down and implement the new ChatGPT fine tune feature.
If these things were done properly by the studios, a user agent wouldn't be necessary. I've watched current TV shows with subtitles (official ones, not fan-made) and they had obvious spelling errors in them. Subtitles are a separate track, and the time they're displayed is set in the track info; showing the subtitle at just the right moment is well within their capability, but they just don't care.

But yeah, you're right: someone's probably going to eventually come up with an AI user agent that tries to do these things automatically.
It’s certainly true that such people are very capable, and would be good people to hire for many kinds of work. However corporate environments don’t typically like people who are willing to work around artificial restrictions. This particular skill set (which is what reverse engineering is) may even be (perceived as) a negative at a company like Apple.
As it turns out, the people who train these models think that 'unethical' and 'dangerous' include anything outside of a 1950s white picket fence lifestyle.
I have all of these off, and I still occasionally receive promotional emails from Apple with no "unsubscribe" link anywhere. I've had the same concern as the OP, but I've come to the conclusion that I probably can't do anything about it without risking my Apple account.
Structured logging is not meant for humans to read. It's meant for machines to read and represent in a human readable format. Additionally, these logs can _later_ be streamed into a metrics system, analytics database, or a document store. Sort of in a plug & play fashion.
If this ends up being the cause, that is absolutely absurd and would make me embarrassed to work for Google.

I wonder how many incredible apps will never be built because of how terrible the environment is. For me personally, I will never invest any of my time building software that has to go through anything like the current Apple or Google process, where you can be banned at any point for any reason, even no reason at all, with no recourse. I would bet that plenty of others feel the same and just nope out of developing smartphone apps.
In theory, the Apple ID is usually an email, iCloud or otherwise, isn’t this something that can be reset from that end should you forget the account password? Not 100% sure but just guessing based on how I understand apple accounts are set up.
> Angular […] over-engineered mess of a framework

Good to know I’m not the only one feeling that way
The ultimate problem is the source material. Your setup is just trying to compensate for that.
Then it’s hot liquid or gas inside the system.

Someone got to experiment with hot solids and report now.
Biden Admin Changes Mind, Says Car Companies Shouldn't Ignore Car Repair Law
So what's the state of the art with respect to end-to-end email these days? Lavabit is back, but it seems like everyone uses Protonmail these days? But didn't they get into some sort of controversy a while back that made some people drop them?

And now I'm seeing Skiff, which is great, it's clear that people want this. I just no longer know who the players in the space are.
Attempts to redirect blame to faulty procedures and policies is starting to seem like a weak argument when it really comes down to poor leadership and lack of foresight, which is a stretch to pin on a single person.

That said, I think the intentional choice to not use sirens was likely a good call in this case and an example of good leadership. If the community is conditioned to recognize the sirens for tsunami’s only maybe that’s where the reform should start. If they CAN be used for other things, can they have different sounds for different things. It doesn’t need to be complicated.
I’m having a hard time understanding this line:

“Developers cannot take advantage of the full power of the underlying database for fear that the complex, opaque nature of SQL query behavior will overwhelm their ability to understand how queries perform, and quickly address problems when they do come up.”

What does that mean? Developers are somehow sacrificing database performance (“full power”) because they’re too scared to write SQL?
­Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and How It Shapes Consciousness
> In the absence of outside input [...] People that drove a mile in the wrong direction are still already in a car moving and able to change direction and cover substantial ground quickly.

In the absence of outside input, driving can just as easily be more dangerous than staying where you are.

I'll quote this from the Wikipedia article of the June 2017 wildfires in Portugal:

> The majority of deaths took place in the Pedrógão Grande municipality, when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees escaping in their cars.

> 47 people died in or near their cars when a fire overtook the area; 30 people died while trapped in their vehicles while the other 17 died nearby trying to escape on foot.

It is suspected that they could have died from smoke inhalation rather than from the subsequent burn. But it is clear that many, if not all of them, could have survived if they hadn't tried to escape by car, because those who didn't try to escape did survive, and many of the houses were actually unaffected.

But yes, it could have easily been the opposite, as it happened in the same wildfire on another municipality.

And I would say it's quite possible that, in the absence of outside input, trying to escape by car could give you the greatest chances of surviving in most circumstances. But I'm not an expert so I really can't say that for sure.

And I'm sure it would also depend on the geography, the roads, and where the fire is.
As usual. It's the same solution when you can't get stuff in your region in your own language, or with subtitles for your language, etc.
what is this good for?

please no knee-jerk 'this is pure mathematics, it doesn't need applicability' answers.
For an end user product like Chrome or Firefox, the version number does not matter as much, it's really only useful for developers who might depend on specific versions.
Maybe from here: https://www.equifax.com/business/data-network/nctue/

Seems to be an Equifax product.
No one is stopping them from mailing letters.
Is this leveraging the health data model/ontology work done in Brisbane Queensland? I believe that was acquired by the NHS. Good stuff coming out of people who had a long background in health informatics, collaborative data modelling.
Daily. It has its faults but its WAY more usable than the MS trash. And it lives on my computer - no "cloud" garbage if I can avoid it.
I Run Chars I See(IRCIS) – a 2d grid based esoteric programming language
Because if two things happen – one totally expected and one very surprising – then on net you’re still surprised.
There is basically no point plugging an iPhone in to a computer. It’s so much more convenient to use airdrop or cloud storage.

It’s much more useful on the iPad where you might actually use it as some kind of video editing device and plug an external monitor and ssd in.
> Your server can feed arbitrary Javascript to browsers and subvert encryption in a variety of ways, can't it?

That's how literally any website works. How do you encrypt in the browser if the server doesn't send JavaScript to encrypt data? You also trust Signal not to issue an update that sends data in plaintext over the network. Unless you're building an app from source, you implicitly trust the developer to some extent.
If it's zero I can make a doughnut from a ball without tearing.
Yes. You need to sacrifice. Almost zero of my banking and credit card websites work flawlessly on Firefox which does so on Chrome. So that’s a huge enough sacrifice for me — the end user.
If what you say is true, why did it take so long to prove Fermat's Last Theorem?

Polya's book is distilling hard fought PhD wisdom into a book children can understand.

It's for solving novel hard problems, not trivial ones.
Just checked recent ones I got (I don’t really mind them) and I see an unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email. I’m in SEA region so not sure if that’s a factor.
Yes, and they always end in .04 or .10, because Ubuntu always releases in April and October.
Some of my peers learned this the hard way. I have a Garmin GPSmap mounted there--durable and glove-friendly.
>(think of a 100-dimensional sphere)

Cheeky.
> Apple had their own video container and codec formats in quicktime

You know the MP4 standard is based on Quicktime, right?

> MPEG-4 Part 14 is an instance of the more general ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004 which is directly based upon the QuickTime File Format which was published in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4_file_format#History
Some of the use case contain huge instructions, examples, more instruction in the prompt could be thousands of tokens. So fine tuning it to just say use prompt 1 or prompt 2 will save even 90+% of the initial prompt.
That's a great question. It's actually hard to get this type of data. I once tried to calculate something adjacent by looking at feedstock production, but actually a lot of feedstock is used for 'biofuel'.

My knowledge comes from exposure to the agricultural industry. You might be able to find some animals grazing on a grassy hill, but that doesn't scale. In addition, most NA climates don't support year long grazing.
Can your VGA card provide a hardware source for random numbers?
I DuckDuckWent it and it looks like there's a few heroes already:

- https://github.com/drushadrusha/awesome-maps

- https://github.com/thedoubler/awesome-maps-data
Because then you can’t trust it. The only changes to a data mart should be replicated from authoritative upstream systems.
Also people forget that Apple knows a lot about Flash.

They would have had years of crash telemetry from OSX and so would have been intimately aware of its stability.
There is a port of the CL-WHO HTML templater or TXR Lisp called TL-WHO.

It has a deftag macro for defining new tags.

$ txr -i tl-who.tl
If you get your macros hot enough, you get syntactic caramel!
1> (in-package :tl-who)
#<package: tl-who>

We can define :atag, which destructures the first two items of its body as url and class:

2> (deftag :atag other-attrs (url cls . body)
^(:a :href ,url :class ,cls ,*other-attrs ,*body))
#<interpreted fun: lambda (#:g0203 . other-attrs)>

Then use that in the definition of :page:

3> (deftag :page () (url . body)
^(:atag ,url "pages" ,*body))
#<interpreted fun: lambda (#:g0217 . #:g0232)>

So now that we have :page, wrap that in :li:

4> (with-html-output (*stdout*)
(:li (:page "./writing" "My writing")))
<li><a href='./writing' class='pages'>My writing</a></li>

TL-WHO, like CL-WHO, compiles the with-html-output form into something that uses constant string literals that are as long as possible. It closes all your tags, HTML-escapes what has to be escaped and can pretty-print with indentation.

Code can be freely used: attributes and tags are distinguished by virtue of being Lisp keywords. Anything that is not a keyword is evaluated as code.

Only when code produces a string is that string interpolated into the output, making it possible to write code with useful side effects and no HTML output, by not returning a string.

Side-effecting code can explicitly write into the HTML stream; the output will go to the right place in the generated HTML:

5> (with-html-output (*stdout*)
(:div :class "foo"
(:pre (:code (sh "ls -l /etc/a*.conf")))))
<div class='foo'><pre><code>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3026 Dec 16 2019 /etc/adduser.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 433 Oct 1 2017 /etc/apg.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769 Apr 4 2018 /etc/appstream.conf
</code></pre></div>

Note that the output of "ls -l" isn't being HTML escaped; this example just shows how something can write to the stream as an alternative to interpolation, not that it's a good idea to dump ls -l into that HTML stream.
did we need any more proof of this?
One of my side ideas is to write a postgres plugin offering an alternative syntax for queries, but one that requires you to name the index you use (or to explicitly mention a table scan).

I do understand the value of SQL + the planner for adhoc querying. But so many times I find myself reworking SQL to hint at the planner to use certain indexes, or to add "spurious" filters to make sure an index is used (spurious for application logic reasons). For applications with a relatively low cardinality of queries, some extra tedium might be worth stronger performance property guarantees.

Added advantage of the tedium is it would make a lot of "accidentally quadratic" stuff much clearer. There is no magic in the planner after all!

We can write inline assembler in C or Rust, it feels like it would make sense to offer something similar in SQL. Big problem is how to offer something that isn't too tedious.

Anyways FQL's index model seems to align with my idea, just unsure if I want the rest of it.
Surely you’re joking. Polya pioneered so much combinatorics I don’t even know where to begin. Heck, a lot of counting problems reduces to polya’s enumeration theorem. The page of “references” to stuff named after him should be a clue to you.
That’s pretty vague 2021 testimony defending Apple (“We tried to make Flash work.”). It would be more convincing if there was contemporary evidence from 2007 showing how much effort Apple made.
Related. Surely there have been others?

How to solve it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17726102 - Aug 2018 (1 comment)

George Pólya: How to Solve It (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255739 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

George Pólya – How to Solve It (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12823608 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

G. Polya: How to Solve It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153425 - April 2008 (1 comment)
How well does this book work for solving problems in Walter Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis?"
It's a major concern. When someone steals your identity, they can incur debts, commit crimes, and manipulate data under your name. Victims often spend extensive time and energy clearing up the aftermath. While it seems counterintuitive, banks and institutions usually hold you liable until you can definitively prove the activity wasn't yours. Essentially, in the realm of identity theft, it's often 'guilty until proven innocent' rather than the other way around
I agree, however the next step would be to symmetrize the KL divergence because otherwise we get a result that depends on the order that we parse the distributions.
Apple have less constraints so their API is more straightforward (less abstractions) and less verbose, Vulkan give you more control, but at the expense of a more convoluted, verbose and complex API, people like to joke about the amount of code one need to write in order to render a triangle with Vulkan
You're making me miss my Pebble again. There was a project I was looking at a little bit ago of someone who made a Pebble replacement, but I can't recall the name right now.
Apple was against Flash long before it looked like they were winning. At the time, Apple was pro-web app. I think that Jobs honestly thought Flash Player sucked on iPhones launch.
You are ignoring the external costs of street parking and cruising. The laws mandating a certain number of parking spaces when a new building is constructed aren't there for the benefit of the building's inhabitants. They are to protect the community from an influx of new cars with no place to park - which affects everybody including people who don't even own a car. Those mandates exist for a reason, and your solution of just letting everyone build and do whatever they want does nothing to address this.

Your views on bike lanes and bus lanes are overly simplistic. Bike lanes and bus lanes can be effective at reducing traffic congestion in many scenarios. [1] [2] And saying that "any place with enough bus traffic to justify a dedicated bus lane should build a subway line" is laughable, especially coming from someone who just said "the way to solve this is diversity". There is a major cost difference between building a bus lane and a subway. Even Tokyo - which has arguably the best rail infrastructure of any city in the world - uses buses and dedicated bus lanes to expand coverage of public transportation where a subway line is not feasible or warranted. All forms of transportation - cars, taxis, trains, buses, bikes, walking, etc - have their own distinct advantages and disadvantages, and city planners need to consider all of the above when designing transportation infrastructure.

And I disagree that e-bikes will make bike lanes obsolete. There is a significant proportion of people who (justifiably) don't feel safe riding a bike in traffic, and having access to faster bikes isn't going to make a difference. After all, we've had scooters and motorcycles for well over 100 years and they only make up a small fraction of automobile use. If anything I think the convenience of e-bikes will increase demand for and usage of bike lanes.

I also disagree that charging for street parking or utilizing the space more efficiently would disproportionately hurt the poor. If public transportation could be improved as a result, then that could be a great benefit to the poor (many of whom cannot afford to own a car in the first place).

To be clear I am not calling for the eradication of all free street parking. Street parking has benefits for residents and businesses - and if a neighborhood has the space to support it without issue then that's fine. But in a place like Boston which has the 4th worst traffic congestion in the world [3]? Absolutely I would be willing to sacrifice free street parking in the interest of better public transportation.

[1] https://www.vtpi.org/blw.pdf

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092...

[3] https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/01/12/boston-tra...
>(Preferred pronouns are completely valid in that if someone were to transition to the other gender, let’s respect that. Kitten, though, is no gender)

If by "preferred pronouns", you mean switching from he/him to she/her or vice-versa, that's a different issue altogether: that isn't a language issue at all, because it's not introducing new words or grammar. That's purely a social issue. (Personally I have no problem with it.)

What I'm getting at is people making up countless new "pronouns" that everyone is supposed to magically remember somehow. It defeats the entire point of having pronouns in a language; you might as well just use proper names constantly.
This is fine though. All of these things, including the original sources, are philosophies as product of the time they were written. Ie. It makes sense for them to change as the society around them changes.

If one guy reads the Tao of Pooh and it helps him 'be' — that is the point. Laozi would likely agree: don't overthink it.
Not Tsunami sirens. Emergency sirens. Their rules said it could be used for any calamity.
Is this the 5-minute argument, or did you pay for the full half-hour?
They did use them, but cell towers and electricity were out in much of the area.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/maui-emergency-chief-defen...
As an outsider I’m super confused reading this discourse. There are a few people I consider O.G. Nix hackers in there.

edolstra isn’t some rando either, he’s behind (if I understand correctly) the original Nix paper all the way back in 2004: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
Now I'm wondering if I have Alexithymia. How did you get diagnosed?
> plenty of hackers in the '80s and '90s had public personas that were weirder than this.

And they are?
I still have nightmares about Twisted’s documentation.