skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZIP codes are a simple approximation, which does their job good enough in most cases.

The alternatives that the author suggests are much more complicated, both in terms of the implementation and in terms of convincing the user to give you their full address.
I'm partial to believing Musk's control and personal beliefs have been a factor in changes in Xitter discourse. But what would be effective ways for convincing others? Also I like to think I verify my beliefs with systematic analysis.

Furthermore, these points don't give any analysis of how this change has evolved, exactly how the messaging has changed, what's been the timeline etc.

Not checking your assumptions with data, and furher rejecting attempts to do this, is what I think is a large part driving what's happening. But for sure I'd like a reality check for my thinking.
This sounds more like a monopoly play to give Tesla a continuing advantage with it's charging network vs. an anti-EV stance.
Show HN: De Jong Attractors
Yesterday's post [1] about the "Kaos" screensaver led me down a rabbit hole and I ended up implementing this demo of Peter de Jong's attractors:

x' = sin(a * y) - cos(b * x)
y' = sin(c * x) - cos(d * y)

I added a little flair by blurring the point based on its distance from the previous point (how "fast" the attractor is moving).

I added a bunch of controls with a lilgui control panel. Try it out! Works fine on mobile but easiest to play with the controls on desktop.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963346
I found this last year on the Internet Archive and it gives you more insight into what went into the Infocom game than the interview.

https://archive.org/details/InfocomCabinetHitchhikersGuide
Would add that there are network effects with zip code data. If you collect H2 data, you have fewer sources with which to join.
Since any good solution would start with deleting rand and srand from the C standard library entirely, but that's never going to happen, we only have not-good solutions to consider.
In terms of "good enough", a Canadian postal code, broadly equivalent to a zip code, is much more granular and can often identify an individual apartment building, or single city block. Plenty of large office buildings in major Canadian cities also have their own postal code.

The functionality of it is closer to the "Zip+4" with extension used to have a more granular routing of physical mail for USPS.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada
One possible counterargument is that bad actors could use the data to improve their spamming or astroturfing methods.
The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.
No can do, they are going to start taxing (hard to call that billing at that point) you based on your income. At least that was the plan last summer or so.
You need thicker wires for the same power. Which is why Americans live in constant fear of power extension cords, and people in EU just daisy-chain them with abandon.
Motive matters. What Swartz did was in protest for a cause, a form of civil disobedience (which has always been a valid form of protest in democratic societies).

The other was to make a quick buck.

I know which has earned my respect more.
I wrote some code with an IMAP lib. Wasn't too happy with out of the box things.

The smaller Deepseek models are most interesting for self hosting LLM's at the moment. Impressive! Many other ML Things need a lot less compute, though. Like facial recognition, spam filtering, etc.
Get better ones. I installed expensive LED lamps at home and they’re fine. The guys in the office picked the cheapest ones and I don’t want to turn these ugly things on.

Edit: Paulmann Velora are the expensive lamps at home.
Supposedly, President Andrew Jackson said: "[Supreme Court Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

In theory, the Supreme Court can ask US Marshals to enforce it, at the direction of the Attorney General. That doesn't seem likely.

In the past, it was enforced by respect for the rule of law. That seems even less likely.
Thanks! We're working on extending the system to support more advanced type systems. In theory, the current system could already support these kinds of features (but not in quite as slick a way as modern languages, most likely), but it would be very cumbersome, so the work is in trimming down the formalization and taking advantage of new abstractions. Check out the implementation for a look at how defining the actual language (and typing rules) works currently https://github.com/jeprinz/pantograph/blob/main/src/Language...
goes to check real quick between 238V and 245V at my outlets.
> Their response suggests they did not understand the original request.

It also suggests they might be corrupt because they said they work with industry representatives.
I'm pretty sure that the belts are a requirement for some types of life to originate and survive. Along with Jupiter helping protect us, our location in the galaxy, etc.
I see one key difference. Teaching code should be stripped down to only what is required for what is being taught. Everything else must go.

You can see this dichotomy in Scheme. Versions <= 5 were teaching first, everything else second. Versions 6+ tried to do both.
Gemba
It would be interesting to measure it, but look at things like vaccination rates, which have gone down, and the willingness to support political candidates and news sources who embrace disinformation, which has gone way up - whatever you think of Trump and the modern GOP, they are much different than their predecessors. Maybe now people are more convinced of disnformation or otherwise willing to act on it.
Maybe, but it's not like the T1 or T2 had been successful designs. Idea 4x (or even 8x) SMT to hide L2 (and to an extend L3) like cache latency from an in-order architecture feels didn't work out. Not many users have only parallelizable integer workloads. I suspect Sun got desperately tried to do what they could on their dwindling budget within the constraints of 64 bit SPARC. It's massive architectural register file and fixed sized register windows had to be pain to implement in an out of order uarch. I would love to gain more insight into how Fujitsu pulled this minor miracle off as the swan song SPARC.
His criminality is one matter, but the full weight of the Federal Government on him was an entirely separate matter. A federal prosecutor's job is to jail you regardless of whether it is for downloading a file from a server or for trafficking in humans, and they will come at you with the same vigor regardless of the crime. And nothing has changed about that.
I had the same impression. Like Price per Acre.

I didnt expect there to only be 1 type of constraint (travel time to a given location).

I think emphasizing its purely based on distance would be clearer.
OK, I'll bite. But this is the last time.

With regard to the first thing you quoted, I was pointing out that you believe that scientists who are on an extreme of disagreeing with what you want to hear should make a statement saying they are wrong, but you don't seem to feel that way about people who are on the extreme of agreeing with what you want to hear.

Picking an extreme example that seems to support what you want to believe, or a belief you want to convey, without doing the same thing on the other side, is cherrypicking.

With regard to the second quote, by opening their work I meant going to the trouble of putting their code on github, etc., and putting all their data in some public repository. That just isn't usually done by researchers, and I don't see any reason climate researchers should have different standards applied to them than other researchers do. But sure, if you or someone wants to pay them for their time in making there data more available than is normally the case, go right ahead! I certainly have no objection to their sharing. It's only a matter of the fact that researchers don't normally bother to go to that trouble. They have other things to do.

And I don't think it will serve any purpose, since those who are convinced by cherrypicking, which proves absolutely nothing, will continue to be convinced by cherrypicking. Errors will definitely be found if all the data and code are made publicly available given the fact that there are thousands of studies. They won't prove anything because in the majority of cases, the research will be sound, as it usually is. Again, all it will mean is: "I knew errors would be found, and by golly, they were!" But people who you apparently listen to will pretend it proves something else. That's fine. They already con you with cherrypicking; they would continue to, and that's all. It makes no difference either way. So I'm not against the data and code being put in some open place; I just don't see any reason to bother. It won't change anything.

Apparently you disagree; I very much doubt you would feel the same if the positions of the majority of scientists were reversed. But whatever. You are obviously free to believe what you want.

You can even insist that those scientists who say the Moon isn't made of green cheese put all their data in some public repository and their code on Github. These guys might back you: https://www.facebook.com/greencheesesociety/

I'm done here.
How is better working lighting not a real advantage?
Kind of harmless conspiracy compared to many of the current ones.
It was the person inside the Easter Bunny costume, right?
They didn't, iOS ad blockers have the same limitations the new APIs in Chrome have. They're fine. Apple's limitation on list size but no limit on number of lists is funny because every ad-blocker is forced to have you toggle on 5-10 different lists.

These days I prefer Orion on iOS with uBlock Origin than Safari with Apple's ad blockers.
I’ve been coming around to a similar point of view that modern software technology removes human agency. Everything is being automated—we thought it would free up our time for other things, but to my eyes we’ve become less free. AI is only going to accelerate this phenomenon—robbing us of even higher levels of agency as well as our ability to think independently and deeply. All in the name of efficiency and engagement. I struggle with this daily since I work in and have been steeped in tech for decades. I used to love it. Part of me still sees the good that modern technology has enabled too. I’m not sure what the solution is here besides logging off the internet and returning to live in the real world with real human interaction and slower, more meaningful connections.
> Otherwise they'd have to support every possible engine which is infeasible.

If I understand correctly, this is why I've said on previous Cloudflare threads that they've managed to design a game they can never win. They project a certain omniscience, but then all this sh*t happens. We need to persuade them to stop playing.
The amount of spam it will generate is going to be just as nuts. Generic PP405, get it here! Herbal PP405, get your herbal PP405. PP406 because that is PP405+1 and thus better.
this archive is going to disappear before the summer comes

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?t=1511
Research discovery halts childhood brain tumour before it forms
I thought we decided giving researchers access to social network data was a bad thing after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
That's really odd -- Belfast but not Dublin? Why?
Talking Postgres Podcast Episode with Robert Haas about Mentoring in Postgres
Also matched my place perfectly. With my work, leisure and commute requirements! Funny, I feel my requirements overfit on my habits - the area where I live was the only highlighted area with no alternative sweet spots.
There are tangentially similar precedents already, such as the American FACTA law. It is obviously a quite different context, as it just relates to financial information, not all information - but it's a law from the US government, that demands foreign companies send information back to the US.

The wild thing is that foreign companies actually do it. To avoid annoying the US, a lot of other governments ensure that the data is reported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
Or GOG if you prefer: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_zork_anthology

I keep hoping that now that Microsoft owns all of Infocom's legacy they'll do some more interesting packs/anthologies again.

Also, it's not the kind of "platform seller, AAA modern stuff" that Xbox Game Pass is known for, but I still like to hope that if some of these games showed up on Xbox Game Pass for PC they'd accidentally blow up on Twitch somewhat the way old PBS shows like Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood did. Get a bunch of people playing old classic games they'd never think to try by making them "What's New on Game Pass" notable.
What's the right answer here?

a + b + c = 5.88
abc = 5.88

is terribly undetermined and has a huge number of possible answers if the domain is the reals. If you postulate that a=1 then b=2.71 and c=2.17 is right to within rounding error (adds right, multiples to 5.8807)

If you are treating it as actual cents though, I don't think there's an exact answer as a/100,b/100 and c/100 will come out of the factors of 588 and I just don't see getting enough big numbers to add up to 588.
The Junior hat, absolving you from any responsibility for prod's status.
I like how he never mentioned what it is about but we all know what it is about.
It's all speculation, but perhaps he was also thinking about how high his risk of 'suicide' would be.
This exact issue was settled after Nixon tried blocking environmental funds. The Supreme Court ruled in Train v. City of New York (1975) that the executive branch cannot refuse to spend appropriated money. Congress then passed the Impoundment Control Act to make it crystal clear. The president must execute spending as directed by law. Creating new positions to block these payments is just impoundment with extra steps.
(before invasion) White House freezes Ukraine military package that includes lethal weapons

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine...

(before invasion) Despite appeals from Ukraine, Biden admin holds back additional military aid to Kyiv amid diplomatic push

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/appeals-u...

Biden administration slowed Ukraine arms shipments until his term was nearly done

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/biden-administration-...

Nord Stream 2: Biden waives US sanctions on Russian pipeline

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57180674
> It seems like every thread is full of it

That's far from the case, and keeping things that way is critical to HN's future. Even now, when we're at a high-water mark because of the political externalities, it's far from the case.

It may be the case that people inclined to do ideological battle on the internet are more likely to overestimate its presence, simply because that's where their attention goes.
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I think Chomsky showed that, thanks to universality, English is a perfectly general language encapsulating all important properties of human language, so those don't count. (/s)
This whole model is nonsensical, though. Averaging costs among customers doesn’t give anyone the right incentives:

- Urban customers should have an incentive to use electricity over gas, which they would if rates were reasonable.

- Urban customers should not pay per kWh even if one thinks they should subsidize rural customers. It should be some kind of tax with reasonable allocation.

- Undercharging rural customers for provision of service and overcharging per kWh messes up incentives, too. If suburban or rural communities faced the actual cost of transmission to their area and distribution within it, they could make real decisions, for example:

# Technologies exist to reduce the risk that a power line fault starts a fire. Search for “ground fault neutralizer” or “REFCL.” Similarly common reclosers take a very YOLO approach to deal with a faulted line, and other approaches exist. PG&E, of course, doesn’t want to use these because the ridiculous CPUC rules let them make more profit by spending more money trimming trees.

# Communities could maintain their own lines and have actual locally enforced codes about vegetation.

# Communities could install batteries at their end of transmission lines to help ride through public safety power shutdowns and to level out their own loads. And they could even build small wind turbines optimized for operation in high winds (which are rather strongly correlated with those shutdowns) to generate a few MW and keep those batteries charged. Heck, this could be automated: de-energize the line when the wind is high automatically, and there won’t even be a substantial inrush when re-energizing when the wind stops because the batteries can reduce load to zero.

# A community could decide the cost isn’t worth it and build its own mini grid. This might spur interesting investment into things like small modular reactors :)

- The ownership and regulatory structure right now sucks, amplifying all the problems above and the lack of real solutions.
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It doesn't need to write new laws, they already exist and they are already enforced.

Try to access an illegal online casino from Italy, for example.
Life is not just plants, also bacteria and animals. They don't do photosynthesis.
Spotify is both in one.

The modern equivalent would be a curated stream, station, etc.
one of the kids was asking on twitter which llm to use for pdf parsing
Currently, we've only instantiated the system for the simply-typed SML-like language that you can use in the tutorial (https://pantographeditor.github.io/Pantograph). Going through that tutorial will also give you a tour of the language features in there.

The next phase of work is on instantiating more complicated languages and type systems, to see how the framework can be extended. In theory, a lot (such as the entirety of SML) could be instantiated currently, but it would be quite cumbersome (here's what the implementation of the currently instantiated language looks like https://github.com/jeprinz/pantograph/blob/main/src/Language...). So we're working on trimming down the formalism and developing new abstractions to make things easier, and to support some more advanced typing systems that actually would have problems with the current system.
Another option is word joiners:

C&NoBreak;+&NoBreak;+

You can make this easier to type by defining an entity in XHTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" [
<!ENTITY cpp "C&NoBreak;+&NoBreak;+">
]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<body style="font-family:monospace;width:5ch"><p>Look at &cpp;!</p></body>
</html>
> The patches referenced are claimed to be exceptions

From what I understand, this is correct, or at least that is, this was a build system bug that caused accidental breakage, not a deliberate change in the policy that the kernel must be able to be built with Rust support turned off, and that that is the build that matters. Exceptional in a "rarely happens" sense and not a "deliberate choice to create an exception to a rule" sense.
Ariane 501 as well.
that's why montessori math is so impressive. it starts with counting out beads one at a time by the hundreds until they have internalized that. then they get beads on a stiff wire 10 at a time, and repeat the process counting them out up to a 1000. and so forth until eventually they hold in their hands blocks of 1000 beads glued together in a cube, and only after they have internalized that the beads get replaced with more abstract woodblocks and sticks. and all that happens in the first year or so at the age of 3.
For younger age groups, you could search for how many elementary schools are in the region. Our town has a lot of these schools, because people don't want to be sending their young children far away. Generally it's not until high school age where the students might have to travel farther from home to school.
so basically just `sed -e`?
What makes you say that? I would guess he would despise these little men with big egos.
I feel the same. Feels like the concept is way better than execution.

Maybe it's because at the time it released it was novel, but now it's cliche?
Well, it reached a stopping point, reran the entire history of the comic, and then started up again once that was finished.
> 2. Musk, despite being the wealthiest person on earth and running companies that are genuinely fascinating, has nonetheless—against overwhelming odds—been considered a loser.

I've never heard or seen that. Musk is a public figure and subject to much criticism, but so are all public figures and Musk actively provokes it (that is, Musk trolls for it).

> 3. 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. Petty grievances, anti-free speech, “burn it down”, etc.

Lots of wealthy SV people have gone hard right; they don't all have relatively fragile egos. Musk is following the herd.

It's pardoxical that people think Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. are geniuses when they both follow the herd and have chosen a herd that is running off a cliff. They did not invent this ideology (who did?).
1920s-1930s Germany was "a/the center of research, culture, etc."?

This is especially rich in the context of a post pedestaling against disinformation.
I hear this argument a lot, but I think it's too complicated. It doesn't explain any more than the simple one does, and has the disadvantage of being self-serving.

The simple argument is that when you write things like this:

> I am unwilling to invest any more time into arguing with someone unwilling to use reasoning

...you're bluntly breaking the rules, regardless of what another commenter is doing, be it subtly or blatantly abusive.

I agree that there are countless varieties of passive-aggressive swipe and they rub me the wrong way too, but the argument that those are "just as bad, merely less visible" is not accurate. Attacking someone else is not justified by a passive-aggressive "sorry", just as it is not ok to ram another vehicle when a driver cuts you off in traffic.
Hey, I didn't claim it is something groundbreaking. The idea is quite old, indeed. You don not need AI or LLMs here.

The sed is superior, actually. I do not cover all the functions sed provides. I think of it more like 'tr' + regexp. But it has different underlying engine and might be faster and more expressive for some use cases (e.g. tokenization, morphology).
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You should see if you could make this an extension to overlay on Zillow
Interesting, what's are the heuristics for blocking? User agent? Something playwright does, metadata like resolution or actual behavior?