skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should theta/R have getters is entirely up to your API decisions

But it often isn't. The blog post starts out talking about how that field -> getter/setter pattern is very widespread, and tools (JavaBeans tools for example), make that pattern unavoidable sometimes. Yes, it should be an API decision, but for a variety of reasons -- tools, patterns, coding standards, cargo cult programming -- it isn't.
Complex datasets are always in demand! I wish we'd gotten into something simpler, because in this specific case it's very high maintenance. The data sources constantly change and have no standard for reporting. We try to make it as simple as possible for people who need the information, so it's a lot of work on our side.
As today's kids say, "whomp whomp." a.k.a. play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
If you are in a marriage with any degree of success, you are a philosopher, and a politician, too ;-)

Thanks for the chuckle, friend.
> so long as it produces accurate results

That's doing a lot of work. IEE-754 does very in terms of error vs representation size.

What system has accurate results? I don't know any number system at all in usage that 1) represents numbers with a fixed size 2) Can represent 1/n accurately for reasonable integers 3) can do exponents accurately
Can I have your username?
Move where you would like to retire to while you still have the time and resources to pay things off. Can’t carry large debts into retirement if you have a “typical” amount of resources.
What would be an example of a feature that can not be enabled via a checkbox?
at least it would be known when it starts and when it stops with this solution. the current 'audit' will take years....
Every time I start a new project I have to collect the data and guide clients through the first few weeks before I get some decent results to show them. This is why I created a libary to quickly build classic data science pipelines with LLMs, which you can use to demo any pipeline and even use it in production for non-critical use cases.
> I'd have expected a debate about healthcare cost and actual reforms

It was all show no thought. The big questions remain unanswered. Where are costs inflated between pharmaceuticals, providers, hospital administrators, insurance administrators and patients seeking unnecessary care? How do we reform insurance when most people hate our healthcare system while simultaneously liking their own coverage?

Luigi didn't add anything substantive to the debate. Instead, his role was in facilitating venting. Someone still has to come up with an idea beyond "I hate this."

> there was a debate beginning to form what drives someone to execute a healthcare executive on the street

On Twitter, maybe. For most people, it was another Manhattan mental-health case murder. The chase and his good looks provided salacious intrigue, but only for so long as he was on the run.
We do this in our Text to speech app (Read4Me): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/read4me-talk-browser-pdf-doc/i...

You can scan a book and listen (also copy and paste the text extracted to other apps).

If you are looking to do this on large scale in your own UI, I would recommend either of Google solutions:

1. Google Cloud Vision API (https://cloud.google.com/vision?hl=en)

2. Using Gemini API OCR capabilities.(Start here: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat)
That almost works as a manifesto for Ada SPARK, just replace polite with formal.
Given your Coord example, can you come up with a better OO version than the article's advice of "can I make it immutable"?

The immutable version would let you have all four fields. A setter on any of the 4 items (should you desire it) will return a new object whose four fields remain consistent with one another.
This is amazing and I think deserves a thread of its own.
Art is an emotional experience. Sometimes people enjoy art because it elicits an emotion in them. And sometimes they enjoy art because of the emotional effort that went into it from the creator.

It’s the same reason some people don’t like generic pop music due to its formulaic commercialism.

So if people are discriminating AI art because they want to experience the emotions that the authors put into the pieces, then I’m ok with that right up until it can be argued that AI experiences emotions.
I'm think Science Patrol from the O.G. Ultraman.
Yes, sorry, I should have clarified: pointers to the WASM memory, not host memory. You need to copy data into the memory in order to use it.
It's more like not listening to 'elevator music' covers back then.
It's called a keyboard and muscle memory.
I don't get it. Is there a story I'm not aware of?
I remember well the satnav in my last VW. On the center panel of the instrument cluster it displayed accurate and useful diagrams of the next turn including the streets that you were supposed to pass, with less emphasis. I also recall that its voice prompts were very polite, such as "If possible and safe, make a U turn".
why not have a more granular heatmap as the main viz? coloring by state boundaries is really unintuitive and often misleading, even without Mercator projection criticisms.
I’m personally moving to the Fairphone with preinstalled e/os. A phone that I control, can repair, and has more privacy than the other OS is what I expected from Apple until the past decade where they decided that privacy was a joke.
Life is full of trade-offs: if I did that, I'd have to carry a loan, which would in turn require a more expensive insurance policy, and then I'd be committed to a greater monthly outlay for the vehicle's financial maintenance than I typically have to expend for its physical maintenance. That kind of leverage probably makes sense for people who have a car at the center of their life, but that's not a way I'd like to live, so I accept the occasional mechanic's bill as the price of greater flexibility in my life as a whole.
We can understand animal emotions (mammals at least) reasonably well if we choose to try, and even in the absence of understanding, we can assume, for example, that caged animals would rather be elsewhere. But self-interest (or economic interest) often makes it more convenient to ignore what's obvious.
> In the Americas, United States, and Canada:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

It sounds like he’s less concerned about the west, but knows that there needs to be political chaos in order to prevent the US from interfering with Russia’s political goals.

I guess that seems obvious at this point, but worrisome that the US government is now actively supporting of those goals.

If you take an objective view that these are geopolitical conditions that would be beneficial to Russian objectives, and pair it with the concurrency of these things playing out, then it’s hard to see it as coincidence.
logicanalyzer: 24-120 channel, 400Msps Pico 2-based logic analyzer
It's ideal for engineering calculations which is a common use of computers. There, nobody cares if 1-1=0 exactly or not because you could never have measured those values exactly in the first place. Single precision is good enough for just about any real-world measurement or result while double precision is good for intermediate results without losing accuracy that's visible in the single precision input/output as long as you're not using a numerically unstable algorithm.
Gross. The slow intrusion of ads into more and more places might raise revenue a little bit, but tarnishes Apple's brand image. Apple News is already a revolting app, only somewhat saved by the fact that Google News is even worse.

I've already decided that my personal line in the sand is when they replace the scenic screensavers on Apple TV with ads, something they're already toeing the line with in the newly added Peanuts screensavers. At that point Apple has lost the plot and I want nothing to do with their products anymore.
Why do you think the article assumes statefile is local? I don't think that assumption was made.
I think that she was, a) looking for something else, and b) got it.

:-)
“Uppers”? I thought the leading theories were MDMA and Ketamine (and recovering from neck surgery), neither of which are best-described by the word “uppers”, nor is that behavior an effect that “uppers” generally have (e.g. cocaine, (meth)amphetamines).
I mean, sure. But like, vim never merged with vi, either -- to this day, you can find old things that are still running pre-vim versions of vi. It's just that over time, more and more things switched their default version of vi to vim, just as over time, more and more things will switch their default version of vim to neovim.
Cool but this is a tech forum, and no interesting features have been added since the last three times this was posted. If you want to make non-technical contributions and call people a fascist without regard for the history of the word I would recommend X
> For as much as Texans talk about Freedom, states like Colorado seem far more free.

A distinction that historian Timothy Snyder[1] wrote about in his recent book On Freedom, freedom to versus freedom from (positive versus negative):

> To the Ukrainians, freedom does not simply mean the absence of Russian soldiers, but also the reconstruction of society — of schools, hospitals, and roads — and making sure everything functions even better than it did before the war began.

> The Ukrainian definition of freedom is very different from how it’s commonly defined in the United States, where overuse has divested the term from its true meaning. When contemporary Americans talk about freedom, they’re usually referring to what the Russian-British philosopher Isaiah Berlin called negative freedom: freedom from something, like a dictator invading your land, or the government taking away your right to bear arms. By contrast, Ukrainians tend to talk about positive freedom: the freedom to do something, like building robust social institutions.

* https://bigthink.com/the-present/freedom-positive/

Interview:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4dbR7xRfk

(He's on a book tour, so lots of recent talks on the subject.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder
PG&E publishes a real-time outage map with granularity down to the individual neighborhood grid:

https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/
The description in the wiki was not updated yet. Follow the link to the PCBWay page to see the current description. The limit is 100Msps when using a Pico (i.e. RP2040, not RP2350).

120 channels are achieved by chaining a few 24 channel boards.

https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/LogicAnalyzer_V6...
While it is possible and very cool to do PCI pass-through for GPUs, a huge problem with this approach is that online games have anti-cheat that checks to see if the game is running in a VM. So games without that mostly games that are single player will work but anything networked will likely not.

While it’s absolutely possible to play the cat and mouse game where you beat the Anti-cheat engine, It’s frankly an awful lot of work for such little benefit. You’re better off just using the service like GeForce Now Or something similar for networked games.
It's actually 6.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm

(f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.
People forget that the purpose of a map is to show you where you are and how to get where you want to go.
> even on some bank's circa 1980 mainframe

Continuity I get, but how much are we collectively burdened by having a few ancient uses determine the wants of the many?
> I'm talking about Emancipation

Emancipation isn't Marxist, historically or conceptually.

> That's what kicked off your Gilded Age

Absolutely not. "Railroads were the major growth industry," with industrialisation and immigration being the era's economic drivers [1]. "The South remained economically devastated after the American Civil War" and remained a drag on the American economy throughout most of the Gilded Age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
I said “mostly” , and that was a different era.

The military-industrial complex is well supported by both parties (sadly) so not really a “political issue” in today’s sense.
> How so? There are no restrictions on use or distribution.

It's not open source because it does not use an open source license (public domain is not a license). It's not free because this depends on your and the author's jurisdiction (if you both live in the US, then yes there are no restrictions on use or distribution)

> I would include neutering any commercial uses, in which case GPL is non-free.

In what way does GPL neuter commercial uses? GPLv3 simply states that you have to make your code available to your users (note: users, not everyone), not that you cannot sell your product.
> No, all finite continued fractions express a rational number

Any real number x has an infinite continued fraction representation. By efficient I mean that the information of the continued fraction coefficients is an efficient way to compute rational upper and lower bounds that approximate x well (they are the best rational approximations to x).

> They are occasionally convenient for certain problem structures but, as I'm sure you've already discovered, somewhat less convenient for a wide range of common problems.

I'm curious what you mean exactly. I've found them to be very convenient for evaluating arithmetic expressions (involving both rational and irrational numbers) to fairly high accuracy. They are not the most efficient solution for this, but their simplicity and not having to do error analysis is far better than any other purely numerical system.

> fundamentally equivalent to simple fractions.

This feels like it is a bit too reductionist. I can come up with a lot of example, but it's quite hard to find the best rational approximations of a number with just fractions, while it's trivial with continued fractions. Likewise, a number like the golden ratio, e, or any algebraic number has a simple description in terms of continued fractions, while this is certainly not the case for normal fractions.

That continued fractions can be easily converted to normal fractions and vice versa, is a strength of continued fractions, not a weakness.
> Which language can do anything without some asm and support as many platforms as C?

I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured out how to do the interrupts and register control necessary to invoke syscalls with pure LISP/Scheme/CL :P

P.S. anything that compiles with LLVM and has an ingrained way to do print() that doesn't invoke libc, although there's a blurry line here between "pure asm"/"compiles to asm" that involves trusting-trust-style bootstrapping of features into the compiler
People often easily conflat religion, theology and theocracy. But an atheist dictator that would put death sentence for anyone that engages in a religion would obviously not be more ethical than some religious zealtoth doing the same for atheism. I'm not aware of any politically powerful atheist in history that went this path. I mean, most likely Stalin was atheist, but I doubt it ever was a matter to send people to gulag. Atheism is just rare as an ontological belief, so it makes sense most faith intolerance happened between religious dévots.

Note that strictly speaking, atheism is just rejecting the existence of any god. That doesn't necessarily make magic out of the equation. Though certainly atheism is generally associated to the rejection of any superstitious belief.

But just believing that ZFC make a sound mathematical foundation doesn't make you an advanced flawless logician. People stay mere humans, whatever they believe might be the most relevant foundation to use their more or less weak reasoning ability.
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I wrote an OCaml implementation of this paper a few years ago, which I've now extracted into its own [repo](https://github.com/joelburget/constructive-reals/blob/main/C...)

The link in the paper to their Java implementation is now broken: does anyone have a current link?
Give LLMWhisperer a try. Here is a playground for testing https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/
Don't blame Java for the misteps of Google and Android team.

Android started being devleoped mostly by C++ refugees, that is why originally all framework code is full of m_ prefixes.

Then the whole standard library fragmentation that persists to this day.

Despite the whole excuse why Dalvik was created, Nokia and Sony-Ericson had quite good JVM implentations for Symbian.

When Kotlin was introduced they stiffled Java on purpose, left it on Java 8, using Java 8 examples to promote Kotlin, and have since Android 12, started to finally update ART to more modern versions, because as it turns out, even with Kotlin, loosing compatibility with the Maven Central ecossytem isn't that great.

Still, it is mostly Java 17, and all the ongoing improvement in Java land across all JVM vendors, will most likely never land on Android.

Android is not Java, even though it relies heavily on the ecosystem for its tooling.

Android is basically Google's .NET, and Kotlin plays the same role as C# in relation to Microsoft's J++, that lead to Sun's lawsuit.
When Apple built their Maps it was presumably easy to justify the cost because it was dangerous to stay reliant on Google for something so essential to mobile. But maintaining a useful map system has got to be fantastically expensive as well and it's hard to imagine that anyone is really buying an Apple device because of Maps. Therefore, ads of some variety are pretty much guaranteed.
It's right there, you just have to expand it.
I have experience with code maintenance. The only upside of Java is that it's faster than JS or Python. It's otherwise a worse language and ecosystem, and it was even worse before it had lambdas.
Does the US map have a different definition for "power outage" than the Canada/UK map on the same website? Unless I've missed news about a tornado or hurricane, the outage statistics for the US seem rather extreme to me.
The bulk of the article was written in 2021. There's a short update section at the end that says "Update: 2023".
> lack of need to create a new immutable copy of a bank account’s ledger to add another transaction, all good reasons to allow mutability.

The immutability kool-aid was already drunk by the banking industry 5000 years ago. That's why you're appending transactions on a ledger instead of mutating bank balances (behind getters and setters, so it's "encapsulated" /s).
More like the opposite. More Chinese crap.
Another way to see it is that floating point is the logical extension of fixed point math to log space to deal with numbers across a large orders of magnitude. I don't know if "beautiful" is exactly the right word, but it's an incredibly solid bit of engineering.
What's the point of this article if those are unavoidable and unaddressed?
The description linked seems like a real stretch to me for it to be considered a prophecy. The only overlap I see with reality is that both Mars and the name Elon are mentioned together.

The author wrote the store around 40 years in his future. We have yet to send a mission to mars, meaning he was off by at least 40 more years.

"Elon" in the story is the title used by the martian leader, not the martian's name and definitely not the human billionaire seeking to make the mission happen.

How exactly is it a literal prophecy?
Just imagine this interaction from the mom's perspective. (Because the author sure hasn't!)

You're minding your own business just doing laundry or whatever and your adult son just shows up to you house totally unannounced with a foreign stranger in tow looking for you to cook them a meal. Come on, that is really rude!

Like, it's clear this guy thinks the mom is a total NPC in this situation. It takes some serious delusions of grandeur to think the mom is "happy" about this interaction.
> You keep using that word but I don’t think you understand what it means.

I understand exactly what it means. You might not given how strenuous and unsuccessfully you've been trying to defend yourself against the accusation.

From Wikipedia: "Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation. "

An example would be a British patriot attempting to defend the UK against claims of government overreach and potential thought crime policing by bringing up US cops shooting unarmed black men.

> What you’re doing is saying comparisons don’t matter because your argument only works if you look at it from a shallow view point.

No, I'm saying you should defend against the claims made instead of deflecting.

> And then you have the audacity to say everyone else is acting in bad faith apart from yourself.

Only the people I think are engaging in bad faith, although I don't really think that about the other user, and think that far more intensely of you at the moment.

> Exactly. US police has the same powers and arrests people for the same things but those laws are named differently.

This has to be a deliberation misinterpretation, no other explanation.

The laws are not named differently in the US, they are named differently in the UK as well. Laws about organizing riots are not hate speech laws in the UK or the US. Your comparison was nonsense.

> So what you’re banging on about is a misconception based purely on the naming of things.

Not at all. You've completely lost track of what you're talking about and don't appear to understand the differences between the US and UK whatsoever, you're reaching and thus your bizarre attempt to justify a whataboutism by claiming cultural differences to someone who has a better cultural overview of both countries than you do is failing in a rather embarrassing fashion.

I'll remind you you said you were done several posts ago and refused to provide sources when asked because you were 'done' and/or it was too much work, yet you continue to put in more effort in your replies. It brings the credibility of your position into question for any objective readers.

You said you were done. Just be done. Walk away. Get on with your day, go enjoy a nice cup of tea. Let's just agree to disagree, eh?
You tried openstreetmap.org. That isn’t a consumer mapping site, it’s the community site for the OSM project. The idea is that the data is published as open source for other apps/sites to build on.
That's what I mean, if even the people with means are opting for restaurant slavery for themselves or their children, the rest of the country is obviously in dire condition. People with means within the country are living lives they consider worse than restaurant slavery. People without means must be suffering yet worse conditions than whatever that is.

And so I find it astonishing that people online are willfully deluding themselves into praising this country.