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Unedited AI generated code should have a different blame line than regular code, something like author_ai vs author.
Re:Zip Code Map of the United States on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:06PM (#45353964)
And census tools like Geocorr can translate between zip/zcta and other geographies, weighted by population or land area, without doing any spatial calculations.

https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/geocorr2022.html

Re:A Very Chicago Gamble on Saturday January 25, 2025 @01:12PM (#42823361)
It is getting some skeptical coverage

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ballys-chicago-wants...

but not enough, seems downright exploitative to me.

https://protomaps.com/ is even simpler. Http range requests on a single static file.
Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:11PM (#19341054)
45, certain "trap music" is a typo
Re:Is this the most value-dense information on Earth? on Saturday November 30, 2013 @09:34PM (#6825800)
Chaitin's constant gets my vote for most valuable number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
Re:Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @07:48PM (#6722581)
Don't most search engines use an inverted index to find the similarity between the query vector and the document vectors? (instead of doing the dot product with every document)

Maybe something like this could help: http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/similarities/docsim.html

Cool stuff, thanks.

Re:A beginner's cheat sheet for web development on Friday September 20, 2013 @02:55PM (#6419781)
Such a relief to see xml described as "An alternative to json".