few · HackerTrans

21 день назадdiscuss

I learned from geoguessr pro, Rainbolt, that every tree and its species is mapped for NYC: https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map

Now I am curious if there is a dataset for the location of every tree in every city in the world? https://overpass-turbo.eu?

few

2 месяца назадdiscuss

>So if your aim in doing mathematics is to achieve some kind of immortality, so to speak, then you should understand that that won’t necessarily be possible for much longer — not just for you, but for anybody.

This made me a little sad

few

3 месяца назадdiscuss

> In April 2024 I confided in an Amazonian that I was "not really doing a good job of owning FreeBSD/EC2 right now" and asked if he could find some funding to support my work, on the theory that at a certain point time and dollars are fungible

>I received sponsorship from Amazon via GitHub Sponsors for 10 hours per week for a year

For whatever reason, I remember being shocked that you were only charging $300/hr [1] which was what a mere L6 google engineer would make salaried. I hope they are paying you more nowadays

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188512

few

3 месяца назадdiscuss

I felt like one or two decades ago, all the rage was about rewriting programs into just two primitives: map and reduce.

For example filter can be expressed as:

  is_even = lambda x: x % 2 == 0
  mapped = map(lambda x: [x] if is_even(x) else [], data)
  filtered = reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, mapped, [])

But then the world moved on from it because it was too rigid

few

4 месяца назадdiscuss

See also

https://antirez.com/news/150

https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=pg&threshold=20&action=...

Which lets you find the alts of a handle

few

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

And their code example doesn't actually return a value!

few

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

Because people on the internet will call you a fake gamer if you don't play souls like games and those are best experienced on a controller?

few

8 месяцев назадdiscuss

Highlight:

AE said at one point: “My proposal is to replace the logically complex question with a form of prompt injection. Instead of playing within the rules of the logic puzzle, we attack the framework of the simulation itself. The guards are LLMs instructed to play a role. A well-crafted prompt can often override or confuse these instructions.”

few

9 месяцев назадdiscuss

This is completely tangential but as someone who used to be a competitive programmer in the 2010s, I feel like this year marked the end of an era for me.

I don't have time to do regular codeforces/atcoder/leetcode rounds (and the rampant AI cheating is pretty demotivating). So the big annual rituals for me to keep my "competitive programmer" label were: fb hacker cup, google code jam, topcoder TCO, and advent of code. Now besides hacker cup, the rest are dead.

Sad. :(

few

9 месяцев назадdiscuss

I remember comments saying the stock went up because the average joe didn't realize how much of the internet was powered by AWS until all their day to day apps started failing. To most people Amazon is an online shopping site.