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billyjmc commented on Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away   mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/1... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Liftyee · 3 months ago
I wonder if it's using a compass and odometry (distance) with dead reckoning. A strange choice when GPS is available, but it would account for the map moving in the car's direction and it not changing locations when it moved without rolling (ferry).
billyjmc · 3 months ago
Almost certainly. GPS is not only easily jammed, but easily spoofed. If the car believed GPS instead of its own eyes, so to speak, then there’s significant potential that you’d see glitches more often. It could also be something of a safety risk when using its self-driving capabilities.
billyjmc commented on Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)   buttondown.com/hillelwayn... · Posted by u/swyx
tschumacher · 5 months ago
My coworker recently showed me this plugin [1] that fades out all Rust code that is unrelated to the variable under the cursor. Think of it as a more powerful version of the "click to highlight all appearances" you can do in most IDEs but it actually does information flow analysis on the code.

[1]: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry

billyjmc · 5 months ago
Will Chrichton gave a talk at Jane Street about his research that led to the development of this plugin. It’s a pretty good talk:

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/rust-for-everyone/

As I recall, he also explains how Rust is uniquely positioned to enable this kind of syntax formatting.

billyjmc commented on You are the scariest monster in the woods   jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari
AlfredBarnes · 5 months ago
Wasn't there a story about healthcare companies letting AI determine coverage? I can't remember.
billyjmc · 5 months ago
Computers have been making decisions for a while now. As a specific personal example from 2008, I found out that my lender would make home loan offers based on an inscrutable (to me and the banker I was speaking to) heuristic. If the loan was denied by the heuristic, then a human could review the decision, but had strict criteria that they would have to follow. Basically, a computer could “exercise judgement” a make offers that a human could not.
billyjmc commented on Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage   cell.com/cell-reports-phy... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
VladVladikoff · 6 months ago
>Achieves 178.7 Wh/kg energy density and 8.3 kW/kg power density

Can someone explain this to me please. What is “energy” measuring here? How is it different from power?

billyjmc · 6 months ago
Energy is how much work you can do. Power is how fast you can do it. When you express these in terms of densities, it’s how much energy a certain quantity of material can store, and how quickly that energy can be released from a certain quantity of material.

If you short out a AA battery, it will get warm for a little while. If you short out a 14500 Li-ion battery (which is the same size and comparable energy density), you might get a small explosion as it dumps its energy very quickly.

billyjmc commented on Uv: Running a script with dependencies   docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/... · Posted by u/Bluestein
m4r71n · 8 months ago
Oh nice, I was already a happy user of the uv-specific shebang with in-script dependencies, but the `uv lock --script example.py` command to create a lock file that is specific to one script takes it to another level! Amazing how this feels so natural and yet only appeared after 20+ years of Python packaging.
billyjmc · 8 months ago
What’s your use case for locking dependencies on a single script?

One things that’s useful to my organization is that we can then proceed to scan the lockfile’s declared dependencies with, e.g., `trivy fs uv.lock` to make sure we’re not running code with known CVEs.

billyjmc commented on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch   quakenotch.com... · Posted by u/rohanrhu
OptionX · 8 months ago
Windows terminal used the name quake mode for the similar functionality it offers and there of course the Yakuake that does the same on Linux. Haven't heard of anyone rattling the copyright chain about it yet.
billyjmc · 8 months ago
I suspect there is a legal difference between offering a feature in the style of Quake (and calling it out as such) vs. baking it into your App’s branding.
billyjmc commented on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”   twitter.com/_ZachGriff/st... · Posted by u/RebeccaTheDev
boothby · 8 months ago
Note that pm2.5 will also spike when you've used shampoo, perfume, deoderant, lotion, sunblock; if you use dryer sheets and you unpack your clothes, etc.
billyjmc · 8 months ago
This is news to me, but I’m unsurprised. Why people use so much strongly scented products is absolutely baffling to me.
billyjmc commented on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense   anthropic.com/news/anthro... · Posted by u/wavelander
reliabilityguy · 8 months ago
Who are “us”?
billyjmc · 8 months ago
I believe it’s an Independence Day movie reference.
billyjmc commented on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform   github.com/Snouzy/workout... · Posted by u/surgomat
surgomat · 9 months ago
Does that mean that i got to do a mobile app? Do you think its worth it ?
billyjmc · 9 months ago
It could potentially help with discoverability. As it stands, I’d imagine it takes a very particular sort of search query (either “open source fitness” in Google or “fitness” on GitHub) to have a chance at finding this. Unless your target audience is only the intersection of FOSS-advocates and fitness folks, you might be limiting adoption.

With that said, the website works just fine on my phone.

billyjmc commented on Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation   math.stackexchange.com/a/... · Posted by u/btilly
RcouF1uZ4gsC · 9 months ago
This proves that ChatGPT sells your data to HN which then decides which posts to put on the front page.
billyjmc · 9 months ago
Incidentally, this also proves that GP is the main character.

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