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email: lswainemoore@gmail.com; site: lincoln.swaine-moore.is
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lswainemoore··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/blue
lswainemoore··on Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
That may be true, but if you look at the distribution it puts out for this, it definitely smells funny. It looks like a very steep normal distribution, centered at 0 (ish). Seems like it should have two peaks? But maybe those are just getting compressed into one because of resolution of buckets?
lswainemoore··on Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
Those are not the right population metrics to compare. If you're talking full Bay Area, you might as well talk NYC metro area (MTA claims to serve 15.3 million [1]). Tokyo's even trickier, but I think 36 million [2] seems closer to right.

It's probably not worth arguing about too much, because ultimately I agree with you that there's a lot more to be done to reduce car ridership. But pointing at those places and saying "copy them" misses a lot of structural differences.

[1] https://mta.info/about [2] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0056b6a98b8b4a48869f822...

lswainemoore··on Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
Why so negative? Given that the served population is conservatively a quarter of either of those areas, doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

More to the point, I've been favorably impressed with the transit options since moving here, and in terms of reliability it's been better than NYC, though obviously there are fewer trains/branches.

I'd love to see BART open later, like NYC, but even Tokyo trains stop at midnight.

lswainemoore··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
> I believe this sort of core knowledge is learnable through movement and interaction data in a simulated world and it will not present a very difficult barrier to cross.

Maybe! I suppose time will tell. That said, spatial intelligence (connection/movement included) is the whole game in this evaluation set. I think it's revealing that they can't handle these particular examples, and problematic for claims of AGI.

lswainemoore··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
They're in the original post. Also here: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1870172872641261979 / https://x.com/fchollet/status/1870173137234727219

Personally, I think it's fair to call them "very easy". If a person I otherwise thought was intelligent was unable to solve these, I'd be quite surprised.

lswainemoore··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
One reason you might not want to run it in production is if it's not a read-only query.
lswainemoore··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)
Location: US (NYC currently)

Remote: sure

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Django), JS (React, Next, AngularJS, Typescript), SQL (Postgres, PostGIS), HTML/CSS

Resume/CV: https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/bragging

Email: lswainemoore@gmail.com

About me:

Senior software engineer with experience all over the stack; special interest in sustainable technology/maps/making web applications that are fun to use, but most of all interested in working for you, reader. Currently seeking freelance opportunities, or the right full-time job.

Check out my website: https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/blue.

lswainemoore··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023)
SEEKING WORK | US | remote or in-person (potentially willing to relocate)

Technologies: Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Django), JS (React, Next, AngularJS, Typescript), SQL (Postgres, PostGIS), HTML/CSS

Resume/CV: https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/bragging

Email: lswainemoore@gmail.com

About me:

Senior software engineer with experience all over the stack; special interest in sustainable technology/maps/making web applications that are fun to use, but most of all interested in working for *you*, reader. Currently seeking freelance opportunities, or the right full-time job.

Check out my website: https://lincoln.swaine-moore.is/blue.

lswainemoore··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
hmmm
lswainemoore··on Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data
/* When it rains does it pour? */

SELECT date, wban, stn, year, mo, da, temp, count_temp, dewp, count_dewp, slp, count_slp, stp, count_stp, visib, count_visib, wdsp, count_wdsp, mxpsd, gust, max, flag_max, min, flag_min, prcp, flag_prcp, sndp, fog, rain_drizzle, snow_ice_pellets, hail, thunder, tornado_funnel_cloud, usaf, name, country, state, call, lat, lon, elev, begin, end, point_gis, fake_date FROM `fh-bigquery.weather_gsod.all_geoclustered` WHERE lat IS NOT NULL AND lon IS NOT NULL AND lat != 0 AND lon != 0 AND lat != 1 AND lon != 1 AND lat != -1 AND lon != -1 AND lat != 2 AND lon != 2 AND lat != -2 AND lon != -2 AND lat != 3 AND lon != 3 AND lat != -3 AND lon != -3 AND lat != 4 AND lon != 4 AND lat != -4 AND lon != -4 AND lat != 5 AND lon != 5 AND lat != -5 AND lon != -5 AND lat != 6 AND lon != 6 AND lat != -6 AND lon != -6 AND lat != 7 AND lon != 7 AND lat != -7 AND lon != -7 AND lat != 8 AND lon != 8 AND lat != -8 AND lon

lswainemoore··on The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
Unless I'm misreading the link, those numbers (~600k/yr) are global. Still, staggeringly high, and concentrated in a region.
lswainemoore··on It's time to build: a New World's Fair
Nitpicky/unsolicited UI feedback:

I do a lot of double/triple clicking to highlight text as I read online (fidgeting, but also helps keep track of where I am). On your site, triple clicking unintentionally hits the twitter share button, which opens a new, unwanted window. Bit annoying.

Medium does something similar, but they offset the button so you have to move cursor in between clicks to actually trigger the button.

lswainemoore··on Become Shell Literate
OP didn't say it wasn't more portable--just that it being more portable doesn't always mean it's better. Sounds like for your use case, portability is very important and trumps the benefits of an IDE. That might not be true for someone who doesn't, say, run multiple computers.
lswainemoore··on Are Heroku and Heroku-hosted sites down?
Would be interested in hearing what heroku users are using for automated failover when heroku goes down.

Obviously can't live in the application code (b/c that's unreachable at that point), but is there an easy way to configure Cloudflare or something to switch to a static site hosted somewhere else?

lswainemoore··on How Quantum Teleportation Works
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fossils-3
lswainemoore··on Advantages of Peer Learning
anyone have a good resource for finding groups interested in studying same stuff as you? meetup.com seems fairly limited on this front in my area (DC)
lswainemoore··on Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
Thanks! Glad to hear it. I will be an especially happy camper if this means that file folding works efficiently.
lswainemoore··on Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
Gitlab is great! Most major downside from my perspective is that the diffing functionality is much worse than Github's. Super slow + resource intensive.
lswainemoore··on Where Warren’s Wrong
Ok...but the point is that after they achieve the monopoly they can jack up the price to well over a thousand dollars without worrying about losing market share.
lswainemoore··on Verified Voting
What if when you vote you were given one real sha, which shows who you actually voted for, and then one fake sha, which would show the opposite? As long as only you (and the vote aggregator) knew which one was which, you could produce "proof" to any vote buyer.
lswainemoore··on Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
Huh. I've actually found the "Discover Weekly" feature to be remarkably good at picking music that I like. I'd say I affirmatively like about half to three-quarters of the songs per week, with only a couple that I find myself skipping.

I wonder if it's better at certain genres than others.

lswainemoore··on Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
Hmm. I don't agree with the ruling either. But I don't think this analogy does the original argument justice.

The point of mentioning "accessing the internet" is it's a lot easier for the hacker to scale up their wrongdoing with ease. It's much simpler to put a virus of some sort (say, a fake download button on a media sharing site) and reach a large audience, than it is to break into the homes of a similarly large group of people.

Where I primarily disagree with the judgment is that this notion makes it a "virtual certainty" that hacking occurs for any given person. Smart browsing habits, and general computer literacy, can make the odds decrease to near zero.

lswainemoore··on One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
Yes, but presumably they might want to bring what they find as evidence in such future cases.