skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple solution here is a threat from the government to Royal Mail.

Give us your postcode file for free, or we will simply make up a new numbering scheme, send an address card to every house telling them of their new number with their next council tax bill, and postcodes will become a thing of the past.

The new numbering scheme will be unique to each house too, and have a check digit so the number alone is sufficient for 3rd party logistics companies like Amazon to use it for deliveries.
Can you share this Firefox extension? Sounds super handy!
The BAN provide fields `long` and `lat` which are WGS84, and also `x` and `y` which are coordinates expressed in "the appropriate local CRS" (without much elaboration on what that would be).
I believe there was some custom CSS extension? If so, just add `.graph-view-outer { display: none; }` or similar.
Replacing one proprietary database with another? Is that truly useful?
Even wrong theories can be useful in some contexts, Newtonian gravity for example.

Newtonian gravity is not wrong, it is pretty good model of gravity in a certain region of the parameter space.
first of all visceral fat isn't bad ... it serves a physiological purpose of padding organs and providing a close by source of energy. that's why it exists. it becomes a problem if excessive. now ozempic is "burning" it directly - where can i place my bet that this is just going to burn the candle from the other end?
Oh great, another Boilerplate with monthly payments.
In 2024, markdown gives me interoperability between different applications and editors. The interop between rich text editors is not so good.
Imagine processing petabytes at costs of millions to try to determine (often incorrectly) demographics and interests, then completely ignoring the more directly provided feedback for “not relevant for me”.

Some day it will be obvious that geo targeting for stuff like elections was the only effective usage that we ever found, and that was of course pretty unethical. Hopefully in retrospect we’ll say that it was a sordid affair but the ends justified the means in terms of general advancement of computing, which after all we do still need for curing cancer and fixing climate change, but only time will tell.
- I hope those astronauts get home safe.
- Great if the Starliner can get them home eventually.
- If not I am sure SpaceX can ferry them home.
- Long term it's good for NASA to have multiple options for sending crew to space.
Mate, the context is that Claude now supports CORS. We are talking about in-browser use.
Hence why a house number and postcode constitutes a complete address in the UK, we’ve sort of already got What Three Words with “a number and 5-7 characters” - not quite as catchy though
The forthcoming MacOS Sequel will have an option to use your iPhone and its apps on a Mac.

https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/

Also: Apples Password stuff has some TOTP stuff build in.

(Personally I'm a little bit depressed about the iOS-apps-on-Mac stuff - they are never good, not as Mac Apps not in general. I'd like to live in a world with better desktop apps.)
if you like working in a certain language, just do it and the opportunities will come along. I really love elixir and I started 5 years ago when it wasn't so popular. nevertheless, I found a niche building MVPs for people. eventually I met my cofounders and we built our entire startup on elixir. today I work on elixir all day and we recently hired an elixir engineer.
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Replace one proprietary format owned by a private organisation with another proprietary format owned by a different private organisation?
That's what's going to make this software live or die. It needs

1) Constant updates to existing packages
2) Continued expansion of more sites/apps to export your data from
Unless they do: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
Singapore - 1 code per building.
I have a few questions
I would be very interested to hear the answers

1 When is the earliest we can try tab grouping in Firefox Nightly?
2 Will the following things be available, the ability to group by dragging and dropping a tab, the ability to name and change the name, assign a color, and pin and hide a tab group, and the option to sleep tabs in groups?
3 Is the Workspaces feature being considered, it is quite popular and has been implemented in Floorp and Zen?
4 Is tab grouping also considered for the Android version of Firefox?
5 Are there any plans for a Portable version with a built-in dark theme for websites?
Thank you very much!
We are very sad that many features have been removed, tab grouping, pwa, rss, compact mode, menu icons, etc., hopefully this will all be coming to Firefox and such mistakes will not be made again.
Try set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [0] in your muttrc

[0] https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/markdo...
Why can't you just shut up and calculate? /s
„Centralize“ is a privacy anti-pattern. Max centralisation should be your keepass file.
I did that long ago as Debian had that since forever on his repos. OFC, Ubuntu and Trisquel might have it too.

There are both purity and purity-off.

Another fun stuff from (nearly) that era would be geekcode, asr-manpages and funny-manpages, as they span from early to mid-late 90's.
I was responding to

> would much prefer if the original papers got posted here

I don't think this would generally be useful.

Can you provide an example of a Quanta article you found particularly misrepresentative? I haven't read many of their articles, but the ones I have read seemed pretty decent. They also once asked me to fact-check one of their articles and I was quite impressed with how keen they were to get the science right. Not only did they ask me to read the article and provide any feedback (which is what I expected), but they came with a list of the parts where they were concerned they might have misunderstood something.
Indeed, and I’m worried about the same old mistakes being made with EV’s. They produce lots of tyre particulates thanks to being so heavy, which then get in to our brains.

Of course, Volkswagen lying about their diesels and killing people in the aggregate didn’t help.

What we need is car-free or low-car cities, not just different cars.
I know that, likely everyone here knows that. But understanding is a good approximation for what we mean. Pointing out implementation is needlessly pedantic.
And it’s a happier, less lonely life!
Indeed Mid-80s would be either using Debian/Slackware, writting a device driver for Linux/BSD, tampering with Video4Linux, cracking TV cards by nearly decoding Nagra by hand, writting something akin to minimodem/tempest for Eliza, hacking a cable-modem to get free internet access, smashing the stack, doing anything close to what Fabrice Bellard did and so on.
Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'
We needed an ambulance off road in the middle of Richmond Park where a postcode would also not help. We didn't have WTW either, which they asked for and would have helped immensely.
Ask HN: Did Claude Sonnet 3.5 suddenly became worse for you today?
Did Claude become worse today ?

I have been using it as a programming assistant. It feels like it became really bad today ?

Lazy, not writing logical code, just non-sense useless code and the style of it is reminiscent of GPT-4o for some reason.

It is so strange, it suddenly came during the night, like if there was a system update.

Is it just me or you are affected too ?

This is example of code it outputs:

if (decision === '') {
if (code === '') {
break;
}
code = code.slice(0, -2);
if (code === '') {
code = '';
}
continue;
}
It is, but at least in my experience, we do it for the 10% discount and then immediately cancel the subscription every time we want to make a purchase.
>> But as the AI race heated up, DeepMind was drawn more tightly into Google proper. A bid by the lab’s leaders in 2021 to secure more autonomy failed, and in 2023 it merged with Google’s other AI team—Google Brain—bringing it closer to the heart of the tech giant

The way I understand it what happened was that Reinforcement Learning (RL) went out of fashion at the same time that LLMs became wildly popular. DeepMind was all about RL so their needs and wants were basically sidelined in favour of the new New Big Thing in AI™.

The reason of course that RL "fell out of fashion" as I say is the continuing failure of RL approaches to work convincingly and reliably in the real world. RL (basically Deep RL, since that's all anyone's doing these days) works great in simulation but there are two big problems with it.

The first one is generalisation, or lack thereof. RL doesn't generalise. You can train an RL agent in one environment and it will learn to solve the environment perfectly, if sometimes awkwardly, but if you take the same agent and put in a different environment, even one from the same domain, it will basically die [1,2].

The second problem is that RL agents rely on a model of the dynamics of the environment and those are not easy to come by: only humans are able to create robust, useful models of real world environments. There are of course model-free RL approaches that learn a model by interaction with an environment but those only work in virtual environments, for the simple reason that you can't learn real-world dynamics by model-free interaction with the physical world without dying many thousands of times.

So it looks like it's RL out, LLMs in, in Google as in everything else, and I guess we'll see what the Next Big Thing in AI™ is going to be after LLMs and who is going to make their fortune with it.

________________

[1] https://robertkirk.github.io/2022/01/17/generalisation-in-re...

[2] I can't find that paper, if it was a paper, but there was a story about moving the paddle in Breakout a few pixels away and thereby causing an RL agent to fail.
Today.

And when this feature exists on all machines, and Microsoft has access to the codebase, you don't think other portions of the company will pitch a "+X revenue if we just used it for Y" re-use of the existing data?

Most of Google and Apple's recent user-hostile decisions can be traced directly back to too much potential revenue to refuse (ad tracking data, app store lock-in). Microsoft isn't immune to those same strategic marketing pressures.

Some data is too tempting to use for evil, that the only sane approach is to ensure there's no centralized manner to access it at scale.
An important warning. Logseq is very nice for some things...until it loses your data. You know you put something into Logseq, but it's not there, so you question if you're losing your mind. That's one reason they're switching to a database.

I'm also hesitant to rely on Logseq for another reason. They've taken a lot of funding and now they're in the monetization phase. When I asked about the status of the open source project on Github, the response was crickets.
> with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love!

Sigh
If someone felt they had a genuine need for an important meeting with an unknown scope, unknown attendee list ("all hands" suggests that they don't know the nature of the issue or whose expertise will be needed in resolving it), unknown objective, and it sits outside of the normal incident management then I would still ask them what on earth the meeting was about. After the fifth time someone asked, and they had to take time explaining it, they might start regretting not giving any kind of context in the meeting invite.

> If you don't make time for back channel sync, you will become an isolated island and your product will eventually suffer.

This doesn't seem to align with your hypothetical example. Of course, for project sync, there should be regular sync meetings, and cross value stream meetings. There should also be design reviews and retrospectives (both regular and ad hoc). It would not be appropriate to schedule any of these without an agenda or scope.
Does it support adding a sim card or an e-sim so that we can make calls and use data , instead of connecting to wifi or Ethernet ?
I don't believe Azure's TTS is free anymore.
Peloton to ruin secondhand market with $95 'used equipment activation fee'
Luc Devroye's Ten Commandments of Authorship
There are a lot of words for crunchy potato slices, and people get very angry about which...
Data is great, only if you always think critically about it. The problem is, for some, data has been elevated to the status of a new religion. "If the data says it, it must be true." They refuse to see how biased any data could be, and as such how careful we have to be when extracting knowledge from data.
This has to be a pretty backwards argument, to be honest.

You may not have to learn "new shortcuts" (they're pretty standard), but you're perfectly willing to learn an entire text-based configuration scheme?

VIM has its merits for _editing_ code, but that's not what you're doing with e-mails. You're usually just writing them and sending them off. It doesn't matter if you can save a few keystrokes to, say, change a word a few paragraphs back, and you're not producing structured text in any meaningful way.

It's perfectly fine to like the terminal, but you _have_ to admit it is a preference that has nothing to do with "efficiency".
The postcode-to-coordinate data is now freely available as "CodePoint Open"

So there's already data for people who want to know postcode AB10 1JL corresponds to the area around 57.14677,-2.09873

The PAF is a more detailed data source, as seen in https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode which can tell you that AB10 1JL specifically covers the addresses

102-104, Union Street, Aberdeen

82, Union Street, Aberdeen

Timpson Shoe Repairs Ltd, 86 Union Street, Aberdeen

Smart Mobile, 88 Union Street, Aberdeen

92 Union Street, Aberdeen

98 Union Street, Aberdeen

The PAF is useful if you want to provide a "quick address entry" option on your website - and to validate address data. But if you just want postcode-to-location conversion, that info is already available.
You would think a Bank CEO would have more financial acumen than falling for this nonsense. 24 years seems appropriate.
update: Installing windows
> Often times, except for Microsoft platforms, they are in the same actual file format, e.g. ELF.

On 32-bit and 64-bit Windows (both NT and 9x), EXE, DLL and OBJ files are all COFF. EXE/DLL files stick an MS-DOS stub and the "PE\0\0" header before the COFF header, OBJ files start with the COFF header directly.

This is different from DOS, 16-bit Windows and OS/2, where the standard object file format (Intel OMF) was completely unrelated to the executable formats (MZ for DOS; NE for 16-bit Windows and OS/2 1.x)
True; but software wise Linux and BSD curb-stomped anything NT could offer.
> on a user’s device browsers will be shown in a randomized order per user
The idea of the UK government attempting to do such a thing fills me with the utmost dread.
That's interesting. In Japan, you might have a hard time finding a place that serves both sushi and katsu curry. Restaurants tend to specialize.
Web security noob here. Why does CORS even exist? The fact that a website can’t make a request to another website unless that domain likes it is kind of insane to me. Everyone in the comments here is going on about how maybe the user’s API key gets leaked by a malicious application or whatever but, like, when I write software that isn’t in the browser I can just send a request to anyone without restrictions and as far as I can tell the world has not ended. Why is the browser any different?
Gmail is actually really good with this. Yeah, not every possible action has a keyboard shortcut, but all the important ones do (the ones you will realistically use in day to day email handling).
An electron is just an excitation of the electron field, a vast probabilistic something that's ever-present everywhere in the universe, with a different complex-number amplitude (not observable directly) at each and every point. Sometimes that vagaries of its ever-changing amplitudes cause it to locally coalesce into something that looks like an individual electron if you squint at it in the right manner, and that vision persists until a strong enough interaction with another vast and nebulous field shatters the illusion, at least in the tiny corner of the probabilistic multiverse your local version of your consciousness brazenly imagines to be the objective reality. What kind of existence is that?

(Well, the only kind on offer, really.)
Agree broadly with what you're saying, especially ending industrial animal agriculture and reducing meat consumption.

As you implied, continuing current levels of meat consumption for 8 billion humans, even with regenerative techniques, will still result in substantial increases in land/water use and other negative impacts. We should be sceptical of regenerative grazing claims as well, as they are often pushed by the industry, without sufficient evidence.

I'm hesitant to say just because we've been farming animals for thousands of years is good justification for continuing it (at least at this scale on non-marginal lands). After all, it did lead directly to the problems we face today, as people clung on to traditional methods without thinking even as they migrated and new technologies/knowledge became available. For example, European colonists brought hard-hoofed cows, sheep, goats, horses, and deer to Australia, despite the country's native fauna all being soft-footed, leading to soil compaction and many resultant ecological issues. Now almost 50% of Australia's land surface area is used for red meat farming, and it is the leading cause of deforestation in many parts of the country.

On plant parts that humans can't eat, perhaps it's fine to let wild animals eat them, further improving biodiversity (after all we need a healthy biosphere of many species providing ecosystem services for long-term human survival), or we can compost or process into other products. I'd be looking into stock-free organic farming and precision fermentation as new promising approaches as well.
current laptop here is late 2023 mb pro with m3 max, and some things i really like about it, but i miss the x64 arc. 2 days ago I needed to run a kali linux vm and i plugged in an external ssd where i keep a bunch of my VMs. Theyre useless now though since they aren't aarm64 , theyre x64. I have a lot of stuff related to vagrant and packer that cant even be migrated the products themselves dont support or even just shit the bed on execution. Mixed bag.
If only we had a system of national grid references since, say, 1936
The best BIOS would be no BIOS, just find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it. Have an internal USB slot that always gets boot priority for service and for advanced use cases.

The point of personal computers is to make _personal_ computing easy. Everything else can just be an add on.
This happens in nature too, even for weirdly specific things. I was very surprised that my work laptop makes a high pitched hissing noise when updating graphics in a remote x11 program. Nothing else seems to trigger it...
No problem. Can I further help you?
There is a middle ground and some common patterns that can help.

The address field names are fairly standardized[0] and Google has an open dataset (used by Chrome and Android) describing which countries need which fields[1].

I have an older PHP library[2] and a newer Go library[3] that build upon this, while crowdsourcing fixes (since Google hasn't updated their dataset in a while). The Go library allows me to serve all address formats and state lists in a single HTTP request, which can then power a very fast JS widget.

[0] Initially by the OASIS eXtensible Address Language (xAL) which trickled down into everything from maps to HTML5 autocomplete.

[1] https://chromium-i18n.appspot.com/ssl-address

[2] https://github.com/commerceguys/addressing

[3] https://github.com/bojanz/address
The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
Databases accessed directly from javascript in the browser, may change yet again how multi user webapps is being written. Looking forward to playing with InstantDb.
"Falling for a crypto scam" doesn't really do it justice. He appears to have been under a spell of insanity and committing various crimes. Although how the bank was in a situation where one man could pilfer funds like that seems like a questionable aspect, surely there were other bank employees who should have been aware of and preventing the madness. It is hard to see this happening and everyone around him agreeing that the CEO was competent for the role.
A new definition of open-source AI could clarify an industry debate
Now that I know about it, I'm seeding this torrent forever.
Article with much more info about China's nuclear pull back: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/22/china-still-hasnt-learn...
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You're not fully getting it. I said with clarity that I know it's pointing back to his website. But any website with a click-bait title of 'One small trick" or some such, is a scammy, clickbaitish site.
would you enable it when interviewing candidates for your team. so when you go to complete your assessment you can go back to something they said or some code they wrote?
The big difference is that US postcodes describe very large areas. A 5-digit US ZIP code describes a town or neighborhood, with on average 8200 people living in each ZIP code.

Most European postcodes are far more precise, often describing a single street, part of a street, or even part of a building. Postcode + house number is usually enough to uniquely identify a mailbox. For example, in The Netherlands on average only 40 people live in each postcode. That makes the dataset far more valuable for geolocation.
> 10base-T1S

I think that standard is a huge mistake... 10Mbits isn't enough for a modern vehicle (no cameras, radars, screens etc). Many sensors alone can push megabits, and in the modern world engineers want to send their data json formatted not with bitfields.

Instead they should have used an cdma-like design with the physical being a 2 cent microcontroller for things like bulbs and micro switches. Then, for things like cameras which require more megabits use a 30 cent microcontroller with a higher chip rate, all transmitting in the same bus and using code division to avoid needing to worry about scheduling.
Indeed, yet these scam gangs (often whole office buildings filled) are popping up like weeds, and there's nothing here about trying to catch the scam gang. Is it even illegal, it must be fraud, at least.
Replying again as I did some research. It turns out there aren't actually only 13 root name servers, there are almost 2000. Also, the vast majority of queries to the root servers are from badly configured systems that aren't caching results properly or aren't even receiving the results. So running your own caching resolver, assuming it's working correctly, would contribute to the small drop in the ocean that is legitimate usage of the root servers. Presumably the same applies to the next levels up too.
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Can we see the recording of this webinar somewhere?
"falling for a cryptocurrency scam that he believed would make him wildly rich"

Greed is a powerful force
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209097