skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the blackout system for Comcast TV scheduling. My understanding was that blackouts were used mostly for sports where games need to be available in one area and not others. Contractually, they were required to use zip codes, so I used the US Post office's zip code data to enforce blackouts.
Researches get access, they then publish their studies. The press picks up on these studies and interprets them for "the people", unless "the people" want to read the studies by themselves.
I hope Apple's answer is simply:

"No."
Fire the Contractors: Paradoxically adding government employees reduces costs
"Voters are right to want a less bloated and wasteful government. But Elon Musk’s plan will fail because the most inefficient parts lie outside it."

"That’s because Trump and his DOGE sidekicks both misunderstand the nature of the problem and risk undermining the government services that their base depends on. The primary source of government waste and inefficiency isn’t what they say it is: a bloated civil service insufficiently “loyal” to the president. Rather, as writers for this magazine—including yours truly (see most recently “Memo to AOC: Only You Can Save the Government,” July/August 2021)—have tried to explain, the problem is the opposite. Federal agencies have too few civil servants with the right expertise to manage the contractors who increasingly deliver the federal government’s services. The key to reducing waste and increasing efficiency is for the government to hire more high-quality government employees and shrink the number of contractors. And there’s even a huge opportunity here of bringing in the technology and people skills to remake government so it’s ready for the challenges of the future."
How to Beat LinkedIn (2018)
The author mentions the cost of buying out the distribution network, and cites SF's failed attempt to do this. The author tries to figure out the price for Walnut Creek's grid based on inflation and population -- but the $2.5B figure this is based off was rejected by PG&E. The messed up thing is PG&E as a monopoly can set the price wherever they like -- and they can demand substantial continuing payments to connect to the grid so long as they retain it.

> PG&E continues to demand huge payments on routine power grid connections. For example, the cost to comply with PG&E’s latest requirements for the City to use public power to connect streetlights, traffic signals and other small loads would exceed $1 billion.

https://www.publicpowersf.org/en/faq

I think either we need the political will to use eminent domain to take the grid back (i.e. set the price through a legal proceeding), or we'd need to build a duplicate distribution grid and then abandon PG&E.
How to improve DuckDB performance on Parquet?
"towers in the park" refers to a pretty specific layout where the towers are surrounded and separated by parks. Yaletown has parks that are surrounded by towers, which generally seems to work better
Hi Emil, your story is inspiring for someone who wants to become a self-taught software engineer with particular interests in AI/ML (see my previous HN submission).

This article was posted in 2020, would you change anything regarding the ideal curriculum in becoming a self-taught software engineer now? Assume zero prior programming experience (can see my previous HN submission question).

The AI autodidact guideline you gave in 2019, would you change anything now?

Would appreciate any advice or roadmap to follow, your story is inspiring.
While that might be applicable in many cases it isn't in this particular one.

Both the main subreddits and blue sky's default moderation prohibit things in the middle of the right's Overton Window (e.g. on Trump or trans rights) while X does not prohibit things in the middle of the left's Overton Window.

(I dislike using the terms "left" and "right", but as vague as they are, this phenomena applies for almost all such categorizations)
The tail isn't harmful to the peacock that grows it. It's helpful, attracting sexual interest. This is the paradigm example of sexual selection.

You're trying to defend the idea of evolving baldness so as to repel women, which is the opposite of the example you cite in "defense".
I guess I was a little overwrought. Ads don’t bother me for ideological reasons. They enshittify everything they touch.

Of course I have an ad blocker. All of my bills are auto pay.
Yes, and that function goes by several names, I call it the hash function, a deterministic operation that returns unordered results. The non-deterministic variant of this I call random(). if you want deterministic results, you should use the deterministic function.
Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2PZWD81?tag=synack-20&linkCode=...
The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.
> first thing to go would be the magnetics

Yes, but not for the reason you'd think: 50 Hz magnetics have to be physically larger to work (peak flux density for a given current is higher), and magnetics are so big and heavy that they're not designed with much margin. So 60 Hz transformers will often not work at all at 50 Hz, and 50 Hz transformers will sometimes perform pretty badly at 60 Hz (though also sometimes going this direction works fine).
Would anyone use this for real programming, if it supported your favorite programming language? I know "supported" is a loaded word there, but just take that to mean: supports all the basic edits you need, in composition, to make any complex edit, but not fancy refactors or fancy language-specific stuff.
Germany is a federation of states, too.
That would be exactly what I need!

Ideally something like 5min bike ride to the grocery store, 15min walk from a train station, and 30min drive to my in-law’s house.

It would be really interesting to do something like “10 minute bike ride to 3 or more grocery stores”. That would help reduce instances of niche specific stores, but also provides a much more useful variety.

I’d love to be able to find places that have 2+ or 3+ grocery stores within somewhat reasonable distance, and same thing goes for restaurants. Really any restaurant.
Really puts into perspective how wildly varied cities in the US are in terms of density and development patterns. Compare New York [1] and Seattle [2]. Barely a single patch of gray in New York until you get to Long Island, while Seattle has big patches with no transit accessibility at all. And many of them are extremely wealthy areas. In New York, wealthier areas tend to have better transit. Very, very interesting.

[1]: https://close.city/?x=-73.92368&y=40.74092&z=11.62779&r=0&l=...

[2]: https://close.city/?x=-122.32293&y=47.63375&z=12.62654&r=0&l...
Motive matters when you believe something should be criminal, but there are extenuating circumstances.

But if you don't think something should be illegal to begin with, why do you want to see someone punished? Regardless of motive? If you think it should be allowed, then it should be allowed period, regardless of whether it was to make a quick buck or for civil disobedience. Right?

I totally get who you respect more. What I don't get is "give every tech CEO the Swartz treatment" first. If you don't think what they did should be illegal, then there's just no justification for that.
Righteously, the German government has the right to enforce the law and Elon will certainly now not like this government even more. That gives him more reasons to team up with the right wing to have his way in the world's third largest economy so he can run the world the way he likes it.
For anyone curious, here is the official US Gov list of ZIP codes in CSV with lots of helpful related data (longitude, latitude, etc.)

http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/free-zipcode-database-Pr...
Construction itself isn't that expensive. It's certainly possible to self insure and accept that living in an area prone to fires means your house might burn down. It goes against the prevailing culture of the ever-growing housing bubble, but financialization has to hit its limits some time.
>> “prioritize the constitutional order […] try to drive a wedge between Musk and Trump”

> How does one follow from the other?

Meaning de-emphasize or even give up on many of the policy priorities they've been associated with. Stuff like permissive immigration laws, climate change, trans issues, gun control, etc. One of their problems is they can't seem to prioritize and make tradeoffs. If they have the freedom to go against those positions, they'll have a lot more room to maneuver.

> This sounds like looking for the “one weird trick that will drive them crazy!” It does nothing.

It's identifying points of tension. Elon Musk is rich because of electric cars and the government policies about them, Trump makes a point to oppose green energy (including electric cars).

That's just a random example I thought up in a second. It's not perfect, but it's hell of a lot better than showing up at an agency, demanding a meeting, and being told no. That just makes them look weak and like they have no idea what they're doing.

> The moneyed interests don’t get confused so easily, much as Elon Musk puts up the madman front.

Both Trump and Musk have volatile personalities and appear to have problems with not personally being in total control. They're flawed people, not coolly calculating and cooperative "moneyed interests."

> I’m imagining 1933 Germany and someone sitting in a bar in Berlin going: “Guys I know, we should drive a wedge between Hitler and I.G. Farben Corporation.” — Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now.

This isn't 1933 Germany.
All utilities have usage based costs and large fixed costs. Historically, all utilities have charged solely on usage. The problem is when you have solar, or solar + battery, your usage goes way down. Unfortunately the grid still needs to be maintained and power plants at peak times (maybe a bit lower, but still high) still need to be paid for.

With usage based bills, people with solar pay less than their fair share for the maintenance component of a utility's cost, which means that this cost is larger for the other rate payers. On top of this California has huge subsidies to early rooftop solar adopters. This structure hurts lower income people more since lower income people are more likely to rent and apartments don't have as much space for / not as interested in rooftop solar.

So the CPUC started exploring different models for adding a bigger fixed charge to the bill and lowering the per-kwh cost. Of course the rooftop solar installers hated this as did the different "equity groups." Which is where you got the idea to adjust the fixed charge based on income.

I don't think it's a great idea but I at least understand where the CPUC is coming from. We probably need more innovation in utility pricing models.
Trump's meme coin sparks more than 700 copycats posing as official crypto
This doesn’t seem sufficient as soon as you want to perform some kind of structural substitution, for example doing the equivalent of s/"([^"]*)"/'$1'/. If it could do that and also somehow be able to replace any of the [^"] that match ['] by \', that would seem more useful.

More generally speaking, since regular expressions effectively define a parse tree on their matches, being able to perform more general transformations of those trees would be useful.
Looks interesting, but I'm having trouble finding where to start reading about what's involved. Do you have a suggestion?
Does that somehow make you feel better about your fellow Americans? Yes I’m a born and bred US citizen.

The crap that Michelle Obama and the rest of the DNC spew about “going high when they go low” and “this is not who we are” is just that.

This has always been who we are.
Holy false equivalence, how is keeping a pseudonimous vtuber identity comparable to verbal abuse, adultery or social media brigading? See, I'm ok with discussing his mistakes as well, but exposing Lina despite being irrelevant, which happens in every thread about her, feels like bigotry. "Heads up, they're one of those!"
Could you provide the reasoning for what you are saying? I think it's pretty well-known and non-controversial.

To be more specific, I mean Germany and environs, for what it's worth.
Does anyone have some fleshed out source code, prompts and all, to try this on Gemini 2.0?
Did the US constitution protect you from NSA conducting mass surveillance on all US citizens like the Snowden files showed?
India is experimenting with Digipin https://www.indiapost.gov.in/Navigation_Documents/Static_Nav...

Which is derived from longitude and latitude..
Those 5 cents are enough to murder thousands of people in Ukraine and put target on yourself.

Baltics are next if putin isn’t destroyed.
Starter diagram was a great place to start for new team members and it was a great place for existing engineers to brainstorm, discuss, plan, and keep ideas organized. AI features have supercharged productivity, fueled so many new great ideas and made engineers far more independent. Excited to see how the project grows!
Zip codes, zctas, and tiger/line are good enough for what most people need. Maybe you can find an edge by using something more granular...but I'm not sure what edge you'd be looking to get with geodata. Maybe for real estate trends and/or market analysis?
Cursor AI Hacks You Didn't Know [video]
For what it's worth I don't support this Labour government one iota. I fully admit to being extremely biased against the Reform party, much in the same way that I'm biased against standing in front of a fully loaded 16 wheeler moving at 60mph.
Yes, the fact that PG&E rejected the offer is why I adjusted the figure for Walnut Creek's population and then increased it by 50%. The fact is muni borrowing is cheap - even if PG&E charged $1 billion we could finance that for about six cents per kilowatt hour.

I don't think the CPUC will let them get away with "we won't sell at any price" - I think the regulators would force them to sell at some price.
For a group selection argument, you'd need to explain what maintains strong reproductive barriers between the groups. That approach is doomed to failure for baldness, which has already spread to every major group and therefore couldn't be explained by between-group differences anyway.
The Bouncing CSS Loaders Collection
Well, I think it is fair to say that regexes alone do not provide any facilities for editing. You have groups, but you have to use some other language (like sed) to compose those groups.
Should be similar but I argue Elon is a special case of someone who never faces consequences after court decisions.
It can!
I can overlay with Zillow, Apartments.com and Streeteasy

https://theretowhere.com/we-got-an-extension-babyyyy
AI? Social media?

If it's AI, it went a little too far IMHO.

It's also from August 2023 ago, which is an eternity in the AI space.
Getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse
What is the benefit of H3 vs a rectangular grid?
> For some smaller population zip codes you can practically just put the name and zip code down and achieve delivery.

A 5+4 formatted ZIP code maps to just a handful of addresses. In cities with larger populations, the +4 could map to a single building, and in more sparely populated place, it might include houses on a handful of roads.

For smaller datasets, ZIP+4 might as well be a unique household identifier. I just checked a 10 million address database and 60% of entries had a unique ZIP+4, so one other bit of PII would be enough to be a 99.99% unique identifier per person.

With a geo-coded ZIP+4 database, you could locate people with a precision that's proportional to the population density of their region.
This is giving random researchers ("including those affiliated with non-profit bodies, organizations, and associations") "unrestricted access to all publicly available data on the platform immediately after elections" as long as they are doing something with some connection to the election? Doesn't sound very limited in scope... just timing. There's tons of nefarious uses for data like that which is why social media APIs usually have limitations on how broad you can go.
What is the benefit of H3 over a rectangular grid?
But we're not on.. oh.
Well, I work with art (painting pictures) and I'm an apprentice programmer and I intend to sell some of my pictures on the internet. But lately some of the interested parties have been asking me if I couldn't sell them as nfts. Hence the question, sorry if it was a bit dumb
Don't do that, try and redirect the discussion using some dumb definition/semantics argument. This data is public data on posts that X locks behind a wall in order to force sign-ups and ad views. You and I both know the colloquial definition for "the people", it's literally the electorate of the state in question, in this case all the German citizens who are able to vote for the polticians who passed this public access law. This isn't the government trying to pry private company secrets from poor, downtrodden corporations, it's the government passing a law that public data from social media needs to be easy to access for researchers.
You take a smaller H3 :-) The maximum area of a resolution 15 H3 is 1 square meter, so unlikely to split a house in two.
The complete lack of any kind of technological understanding by the people in power of most major governments is a huge existential risk. Thankfully businesses like Apple are completely staked on privacy, but Apple is actually big enough to give a middle finger to the UK. Other companies might not be able to.
For $1 million, you’re promised intimate access to Trump and his inner circle. This isn’t just about tradition or unity-it’s about buying influence and maintaining power. In a world where we’re supposedly pushing for fairness, equality, and transparency, this feels incredibly hypocritical. It’s as if we’re endorsing a system where money talks louder than public interest or ethical considerations. It makes you wonder where the line is between modern capitalism and a system that operates more like an oligarchy.
Macau in 2007 was way more about money laundering than Las Vegas. Do you have more recent numbers? After Xi’s crackdown, I’d expect their gambling revenue to go down by a lot.
> As Apple isn’t based in the UK and owes no fealty to their government

Apple isn't based in China, they owe nothing to them either. Apple's willingness to backdoor and modify their services for actual authoritarianism is well[0] documented[1], at no point did they ever threaten to leave the respective markets. Every single spectator knows that Apple leaving these markets would be an admission of guilt.

> Bribing local officials to overlook the gay founder is sensible corporate practices

That hasn't been "sensible corporate practice" since American civil rights were instated. If that is the real motivation for Apple to pen their donation, it would be even more pathetic than a global encryption backdoor. It's not "uncomfortable" to consider, it's illegally discriminatory to a nonsense extent.

What both of you are overlooking, and clearly what this entire thing is about, is antitrust enforcement. Tim Cook knows that Apple cannot survive if they are investigated by a fair commission, so he's trying to manipulate Trump into dropping the DOJ's cases, giving Apple unfair advantages vis-a-vis China and pressuring the EU into stopping their regulation. This is literally surface-level stuff if you even remotely understand Apple's commitment to shareholders and what drives their hardware and software margins in 2025. Everything else is advertisement and a chasing after wind.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22361762/iphone-russia-sta...

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4d75zl212o
I feel the same way about non-American football. I find the sport dull because I don't know what's going on. It's hard to control the ball with just your feet, so it's constantly changing sides: to an untrained eye it looks as if they're just very good at it.

I like the stop-and-go aspect of American football. Between plays, they can go over replays. You can watch 22 players each fulfilling their separate tasks. For that, you don't need AI; you just need to listen to the commentators.

I think soccer fans like the continuous drama of a sport that does not stop. So, I think, do hockey fans, which has the same property. I think it's to hockey's advantage that there are only 6 players per side, so it's easier to track more of the action.

I'm sure somebody could build an AI to do the job of the commentators. The data exists, though access to it without the express written consent of the NFL would be problematic. Still, once you've done it, it would be even better to be able to interrogate the virtual commentators: "Why didn't they try this play? Why was this player in that position? Can you show me another team attempting the same play more successfully?"
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Using ELO ratings to rank books
I can only assume you are sarcastic about your hate for scientists that love their work.
Billionaires have PR people and whole social networks to polish their image. Most academics and scientists do not.
NCMEC Will Lose Funding Unless It Removes Mentions of LGBTQIA+ Issues
> Because of (2) and his fragile ego (part of the reason he was widely considered a loser in the pre-Musk dominant circles) he went hard to the right.

This is such a weird take. While I don't disagree about Musk's ego, it should be quite obvious that there's something else at play here, considering an unhinged convicted criminal won the popular vote and became a president. I've personally seen multiple people go through the same shift to the right as Musk. Are they all losers? Or maybe, just maybe, some of the more insane policies of the current American left have pushed them there?
Funnely enough I was nodding to parent post until I read your answer and was abit emberrased. I got a bad case of STEM hubris too. The STM can go home though.
this is nonsense. there's 0 evidence here, and it's not got a single anecdote to back up the point.

what do mckinsey and thumbtack have to do with startup wealth?
And? So?
Do you think we should want to be part of russia now?

We will happily pay a bit more to get as far away from russia as possible.

Also, our prices include taxes, subsidies for renewables, the co2 scheme payments and so on.
> The big thing is that x may be sued in German court.

Let's say German court rules that X cannot operate in Germany. X decides to shut down any brick&mortar locations in Germany including any data centers located in Germany, but they do not stop Germans from accessing a public web service located outside Germany. What's the point? Will they then go after Germans continuing to use X?

In other words, a German court ruling against a non-German company can only go so far. However, IANAL, so willing to learn how a German court ruling would be anything other than a nuisance to a non-German company
clearly not good ones
Being a High-Leverage Generalist
They're at phase 2a trial stage, study start was at 2024-06-05, completion estimated 2025-12:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06393452?term=pp405&rank...
Gemini Flash 2.0 is impressive but it hardly captures all of the information in the PDF. It's great for getting vibes from the document or finding overall information in it. If you ask it to e.g. enumerate every line item from multiple tables in a long PDF it still falls flat (dropping some line items or entire sections etc). DocuPanda and to a lesser extent Unstrucutred handle this.