skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah that's interesting. And there is ofc Swift and ObjC for Apple devices. Maybe I should get into app dev.

Thanks. Do you think there is a strong market of Android/iOS native app development? As a DE I don't think my previous experience worths much -- maybe a bit more when we move to Flink which uses Java, and the might would rather hire new graduates instead of me.
After reading peoples comments, people don't realize how bad car brain is. Yes, there have been countless car free cities and many studies show that they're vastly better. However, the auto industry brain washing is so effective that everything an American does starts with a car. They are unable to think without one.
Well you hit on all the points that discuss the compromises that zip codes offer. Just because you have them in your data doesn't mean that they can produce anything useful. You are correct that no one knows their census unit is (if you are thinking from someone entering this on a website) but collecting location or address will be a lot better.

Fact is a lot of web data contains a zip but if you can collect something better it will usually render better results. Unless you are analyzing shipments then that is fine.
I never really felt the need to try third party so no direct experience. I'm mostly going of how they have monetized the product. I would assume it is against EULA but I haven't seen them enforce it recently.
But if you compile some third-party code that doesn’t know of that API change, and then use it, that can lead to disaster. For an example, see the GP post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971287.

I think it would have been better to remove rand and srand, and provide two replacement functions with different names, or require all users to pick one using a #define.
There is also the Meta Content Library and API (https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/researchtools/meta-conte...) although that seems to contain only a subset of the data.
Who, me? Haha

What site are you referring to? Ours doesn't have a cookie banner
Thinking about the probable next steps made me remember that time Germany temporarily prohibited wikipedia.de from pointing to the actual Wikipedia when an article there said that the German politician Lutz Heilmann had been a full-time Stasi (the infamous and insanely brutal secret police) employee in the former DDR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#German...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Heilmann
Inko is an interesting language, though the handling for panics sounds disturbing. Based on the documentation, panics abort the whole program and are not recoverable.

Things like dividing by zero or accessing an index outside of the bounds of an array will panic.

While these aren’t incredibly common, I would never want my whole production web server to go down because some random, infrequently used endpoint had a bug in some edge case.

The language seems heavily inspired by Erlang, which is very resilient to programmer errors in comparison.

In Erlang, the philosophy is to let a lightweight process crash and restart it when there is a problem. This doesn’t need to have any effect on other lightweight processes that are running.
Find, Retrieve, Answer: A simple RAG alternative for document QA with local LLMs
JEP Draft: 4-Byte Object Headers (Experimental)
The Près-lah-Rose Science Park in Montbéliard is exemplary in its kind. A large landscaped area between the river and the canal allows us to enjoy all kinds of instruments and objects. We highlight a large meridian 35 meters high for its gnomonic orifice.

The luminous disk is projected onto a curved surface with an analemma to correct the equation of time: difference between the average day and the solar day. The calculations were made by J.M. Becherd.

The sculptural support structure for the hole is also the basis for the placement of different types of sundials: local time, Italian time, bohemian, universal and sidereal time.

Tempus fugit: It has been a long time since Franche-Comté passed from the crown of the Spanish Habsburgs to the French Bourbons in the seventeenth century. The map of Europe has been drawn multiple times.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959707
The frustration seems justified.

Spending significant time adapting core kernel code or developing a safe Rust abstraction for DMA, only to be summarily shut down by a single gatekeeper who cites "not wanting multiple languages" is demotivating. It's especially incongruent given that others have championed Rust in the kernel, and Linux has begun hosting Rust modules.

If the project leadership — i.e. Linus — truly wants Rust integrated, that stance needs to be firmly established as policy rather than left up to maintainers who can veto work they personally dislike. Otherwise, contributors end up in a limbo where they invest weeks or months, navigate the intricacies of the kernel's development model, and then find out a single personality is enough to block them. Even if that personality has valid technical reasons, the lack of a centralized, consistent direction on Rust's role causes friction.

Hector's decision to leave is understandable: either you have an official green light to push Rust forward or you don't. Half measures invite exactly this kind of conflict. And expecting one massive rewrite or an all‐encompassing patch is unrealistic. Integration into something as large and historically C‐centric as Linux must be iterative and carefully built out. If one top‐level developer says "no Rust", while others push "Rust for safety", that is a sign that the project's governance lacks clarity on this point.

Hector's departure highlights how messy these half signals can get, and if I were him, I'd also want to see an unambiguous stance on Rust — otherwise, it's not worth investing the time just to beg that your code, no matter how well engineered, might be turned down by personal preference.
There are point process models, but, yes, its much more common to want to aggregate to a spatial area.

Another consideration is what kind of reference information is available at different spatial units. There are plenty of Census Bureau data available by ZCTA but some data may only be available at other aggregate units. Zip Codes are often used as political boundaries.

I'd also mention the "best" areal unit depends on the data. There is a well known phenomenon called the modifiable areal unit problem in which spatial effects appear and vanish at different spatial resolutions. It can sort of be thought of as a spatial variation of the ecological fallacy.
Read less Reddit.

When was the last time Bezos or Gates or Buffett held a gun to your head and said give me your money? We have no choice but to give the government any amount of money it wants even if the services it provides are negative.

People freely choose to pay other folks for goods and services, and if those folks offer a truly game changing experience, sometimes they become billionaires.
Yes, that is who I was thinking of.
The Hatch Act prevents government employees from certain kinds of political activities. That doesn't mean that they can't talk about it on HN, but in general they tend to be leery of making their job political.

You rarely hear from them on HN. Probably more now than ever, since they know they're being targeted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207135803/https://www.washi...
I remember that HN thread[0] and don't think Asahi's version is a good-faith, accurate summary of the contents. IMO they are inaccurately viewing a small number of flagged/dead comments as representative of HN in general.

[0] probably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789940 , though you could look at any of the big 2022-2023 asahilinux.org discussions and find something flagged/dead
Couldn’t you just as well say that the people who were above average at English were good at science/math?
Not necessarily true. The population isn't balanced at all between many. Census units are.
The far left cannot tolerate dissent, so they left. But Community Notes is the biggest improvement in social media I have ever seen.
Wouldn't it be a real shame if the entirety of US constitution, laws, and legal precedence went out the window these days, and the only thing left unscathed was the rotten mess that is copyright law? Just saying, this might be the moment to burn it to the ground. Not that it makes up for any of the other stuff going on, but why waste a perfectly good crisis?
I think stuff like Parallel Reconstruction show that they do care about the law. They care about working around it.
I actually think DeepSeek's response is better here. You haven't defined what you are testing. Llama just said your test succeeded not knowing what is supposed to be tested.
Sure, engineering is all about the tradeoffs, there's no black and white.

So, what is an advantage of mixing two different languages over one kernel module, in this example DMA? What problem does introducing another language solve and what would be the alternatives?
The Interconnection Queue
Muskism dictates that you must decry the terrible state of whatever-it-is before destroying it (but skip over the part about what the replacement will be).
macgruber hat
Every scientific paper in the last 90 years or so is still under copyright, owned by the authors, the published, or the universities.
The popularity of agents that run from users' devices is going to push sites that don't have logins to add them and sites with logins to add tougher captchas.
Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
For the past few months, I've been working on a website that answers two different questions:

- Where in my city have the best travel times to all the things and people I care about?

- Given a listing, how far is it from all the things and people I care about?

Personally this was fueled by my own frustrations when I was apartment hunting in NYC. I was frustrating to have to juggle so many Google Maps tabs when I was evaluating a listing, and it was also annoying to not have full confidence that I was even searching in the right places.

I wanted to be close to work, a Trader Joe's, and a major park. Given that public transportation networks can sometimes make close things hard to get to and far things easy to get to, it's not always obvious whether a neighborhood actually even fits my criteria or not!

The overarching goal of theretowhere.com is to allow you to make more informed moving decisions while also making things more convenient than they are today.

https://ibb.co/pBsX2HjN

It can generate detailed travel time breakdowns for individual listings and addresses, making it easier to determine whether a listing is worth applying for without juggling Google Maps tabs.
This is great for questions like “How far is this apartment from my friends, work and dancing gyms?”

https://ibb.co/mVBjwPrJ

It also has the powerful ability to heatmap a city based on which parts of it are close or not to the people and places you care about.
This is great for questions like “Where in the city would I be reasonably close to work, friends and a woodworking studio?”

https://ibb.co/vCynPSRK

You can add these heatmaps to sites like Zillow and Streeteasy to make things super convenient (this was very fun to make).

The main thing that's on my mind is whether this is useful or not. Like, is this something you would actually use?
I also have other ideas I'd like to eventually intergrate into this (crime heatmaps, noise heatmaps, etc)
This is covered in some detail in this paper?
They even discuss the two engineers who made the purchase and who manufactured the generators..
Seems like maybe this isn't relevant if your left hand is your non mouse hand, but I've used a trackball for years ever since having issues with the mouse and it completely resolved them.
I expect everyone would read between the lines if Apple simply offered "no comment".
Yes it is underspecified. The deletion example shows that an empty string is possibly a REGEX. So you can essentially treat any position as containing as many empty string regexes as you want. So there are indeed infinite number of parses.

If we instead require regex to be non-empty (breaking the deletion examples), then the ambiguity becomes that of concatenation: whether it's '(((c:d)(a:o))(t:g))' or '((c:d)((a:o)(d:g)))'. Assuming associativity, this would not matter.
Maybe there's an element of both time and skill? How many folks that pursue math can point to a great early teacher as being influential. Not all, but I want to believe it's common and maybe true for most.
Now that's what I call "server-less" computing!
> By now it's pretty clear that the network is actively driving discourse in one specific direction.

Research is exactly about not just taking a look and declaring something "pretty clear". Also what "a direction" is not clear, or the dynamics of what affects the direction etc.
this does not sound like a problem with git, but a problem with culture and developer practices, and bad workflows.

in my 8 years of using git as a primary tool for vc, i have not once run into confusion on how to switch branches, create branches, prune branches, sync remotes with locals, and other common workflows.

does that mean i have only dealt with simple merges or haven't fucked something up bc i did not understand something and made things way harder than necessary (merging/replaying 50 commits vs squash rebase workflows, for example).

and no, you don't need to 'fetch' before you switch, fetching is only relevant if you're needing to bring in remotes or you're preparing for merges etc.

someone committing bunk to a main branch or something considered a production branch is not a git problem -- that's just bad development practices, and the onus is on the developer there to not do that and to understand why it is bad.

as for your other complaints, these are much more easily managed when the developers are not just arbitrarily commiting to branches without any strategic thought, but to point out, a lot of those problems are solved via working with commit hashes and branching, assuming you have already plugged the leak that is committing breaking changes to a main branch.

why are breaking changes that are mega changes even making it through to main?
There you have it. [0] They (Salesforce) previously admitted to no more hiring SWEs and now finally did layoffs.

Unfortunately, it is inline with my prediction [1] in 2025 that there will be more layoffs and with the WEF's Future of Jobs report.

Won't be surprised to see that Salesforce closely followed this and also was part of the survey.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639919

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490692
> As long as Apple has a business presence in the UK, they are subject to the laws the UK imposes on them even if they're vastly overreaching and impose on other government's citizens.

I wonder if this means that Apple would ultimately take the same approach that they have in China, where the iCloud data and services are entirely localized within China and allows the Chinese government unrestricted access.
Maybe I should have clarified, I don't have any diagnoses and don't consider myself depressed in the layman usage of the word. The baseline I'm talking about is whatever you call the regular Joe state.

Since I anticipate some people might go "so what lasting effects did you expect?" I guess I'm thinking more about all the amazing stories you read everywhere about psychedelics. Even in movies and media it's usually presented as something that transforms you in one way or another. I've never quite found that to exist.
For years, law enforcement pushed for encryption backdoors, arguing they were necessary to combat crime and terrorism.

In the US, after Salt Typhoon compromised telecom networks—including court-authorized wiretap systems—the FBI has now (somewhat reluctantly, I think) started advising government officials to use end-to-end encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp to protect themselves. [1]

I think the UK government is running a bit behind wrt Encryption.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5223490/text-messaging-...
What you're describing is exactly correct - you need a more robust "typestate" system (I call them "annotations"). Most languages have typestates - where you can, for example, declare a variable without immediately assigning it a value, but that variable remains write-only until it is assigned to.

But these typestate systems aren't very elaborate usually. I've recently been doing research on the (hypothetical) design of a language which has typestates that can cross function boundaries - you can call a function that annotates that it uninitializes one of its arguments, and then that reference you passed in is now considered uninitialized in your local scope.
change your habits: use the right hand only, single-finger type, instead of wrist rest do edge-of-hand rest, change the keyboard tilt, swap the mouse hand, move closer/farther to the desk, use a stand-up desk, ... so many things, you have to experiment with what works for you
Somewhat related, but Unreal Engine 5 runs in a browser now using WebGPU, courtesy of a startup. The spacelancers demo is the best performing one, looks visually stunning too. No nanite support yet though, unfortunately:

https://simplystream.com/demos
We're finally putting the 'agent' in 'user agent'
Yep. But calculating what horizontal distance that implies, in your head, doesn't seem trivial the way my note above was.
Nothing mysterious about it.
In Chicago they close the parks at night. You can't close a park if people need to get to and from a building in the middle of it.
Taxi Medallion laws were also a Reputation Engine that was publicly queryable, subject to FOIA laws and generally had easy to search public databases for them, with detailed notes. Sure Uber/Lyft boil that into a "friendly" 5-star UI, but do you have any idea what data contributed to that star rating? Do you always trust the algorithms that compute them from a bucket of metrics you can't directly request?

Sure, Medallion laws had problems, and got Regulatory Captured in some cities to also become terrible Trusts controlling prices that needed busting. But the answer to "fix the Regulation" isn't always "break the Regulation", and the Regulation had a lot of good intent of having public accessible information about drivers and that data not just owned by a single company and locked in their opaque algorithms. It might have been nicer to fix the Regulatory Capture and Bust the Trusts.
The road next to the tennis courts definitely looks like passenger vehicles to me.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2a6bf9a14008...
The linked petition seeks to overturn the Nevada Supreme Court ruling. Wynn's overall goal is to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to effectively cover public officials.

Kagi QA on the earlier Nevada SC case from 2024:

The outcome of the case Wynn v. The Associated Press was that the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed Steve Wynn's defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP). This decision, made in early 2024, upheld a previous ruling that the article in question was a good faith communication related to a matter of public concern, thus protecting the AP under Nevada's anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law
There's also Mackinaw Island in Michigan, which has banned cars at the end of the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island

It only had a population of 583 permanent residents at last count, though. It's mostly a tourist destination.
This is a vacuous statement. You can say the same thing about electricity, or antibiotics, or any other modern advancement.
I like the idea. Reminds me of a talk about syntax editor in racket but I forget what it was named. What languages can pantograph support?
That is nice!

Would this work well with weirder type-based features, such as typeclasses, regions, etc?
The first quote is from a 50-year-old mother of two who left her husband and kids in British Columbia to do ocean research in Arizona so that’s the kind of weirdo you’ll be living with
Non-friendly meaning not single sided in favor of your preferred political orientation. As a US citizen I find the discourse on X to be nowhere near as directed compared to platforms such as reddit or bsky- I am sure you are deeply concerned about that issue as well, even though you left it unsaid
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975170
> Are you ready to fulfill China's and North Korea's requirements as a UK company?

Quite.

There's two reasons I left the UK: this nonsense (the whole Act, not just this specific bit) and Brexit.
That was in 2008. The block lasted 2 days (https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/lawmaker-apologize...).
Even if you were the 99% user, the ribbon solved the problem with toolbars.

Word had like 20 different toolbars. If you wanted to work with tables, you had to open the Table toolbar. If you wanted to work with WordArt, you opened the WordArt toolbar. You could be the 99% user and still end up with 10 toolbars open even if you only needed one button on a certain toolbar. On a small monitor, half your screen consisted of your document and the other half toolbars.

I can’t remember if you could customize toolbars but not a lot of people would spend the time to do that. I sure never did.
I didn't see it mentioned in the article. But how do people get to groceries, doctors appointments, hospital visits, or school? I assume you need some sort of wagon. When we lived in an apartment, we pulled up as close as possible to our building and took several trips up and downstairs. But there is no car in this scenario. Family of four consumes a lot every week.

Also I imagine that because its apartment based, people are more inclined to spend time outside rather than couped up in their apartment?
It's worth mentioning that Dr NIM[0] did not play the NIM[1] studied by Combinatorial Game Theorists ... there are two things called "NIM".

One is as played by Dr NIM, where you have a single heap, and on each turn you can take 1, 2, or 3 tokens. Then the person taking the last token wins (in normal play), or loses in Misère play. This is now known as "The Subtraction Game".

The version of NIM that Game Theorists study has multiple heaps, and on each turn you choose a heap and take one or more from that heap, including possibly taking all of them. Again, as before, the winner is the person taking the last token (in normal play).

But Dr NIM is awesome.

Did he also have something to do with DigiComp II [2] ??

(Edit: Checking Wikipedia, I'm guessing he did. I played with an early version at Cliff Stoll's house last year ... so much fun.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_II
People eat up propaganda, that's how.
You haven't explained why there is an executive branch in the first place.

Why does the executive branch exist at all if it's simply to enforce written law?

Why do we elect the executive at all if they are merely to enforce written law?

Why do executives have the power to pardon someone when a court of law finds a person guilty of breaking law?
I posted the comment above yours.

Nowhere did I mention that accountability for government spending is a bad thing or that government spending is not out of control. Especially with military contracts.

Of course we should address overspending. Of course we should have accountability. Of course we should end the brazen insider trading, and end citizens united, and reform campaign financing.

Defunding USAID, defunding Medicare, deregulating profits on medications, defunding NPR etc. are none of these things and we all know it.

The Pentagon has been failing audit after audit. How come we are not starting with that? (Rhetorical question).

Subsidies for industries that don’t need subsidies.

Let’s not pretend that the waste is in the essential historically underfunded services.
This is seriously impressive stuff.