skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This bill was a pretty naked shakedown for money and it was obvious to everyone who read it. Even the intentional targeting of specific companies rather than trying to make a general policy raises lots of questions. If linking news is actually harmful and needs to be compensated it needs to be compensated when Apple, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter or such do it to. Everyone knows this wasn’t really because anyone believes linking is harmful to news media. If the news media wanted to they could set their robots.txt to prevent any scraping of the content but they don’t because they want the links. We even see from Google’s own blog that they were participating in the political process and were open to solutions that compensated Canadian News Media by for example creating a pool of money to distribute. But that both a link tax and uncapped liabilities were a non-starter and a potential existential threat to the business. It’s no surprise that Google and Meta delinked the news. I just hope the taxpayers don’t have to continue funding Trudeau’s idiocy until the next election. But there is no real hope of the NDP flipping on this so that hope is probably in vain.
I had the same thought about Langchain, and it's essentially my same criticism of most wrapper libraries and SDKs. What are they actually doing that can't be just as easily done with straight up string manipulation and HTTP requests? Usually very little. ORMs might be one of the few exceptions in some cases.

Even so, ORMs sell a similar false promise to Langchain, which is that you can "easily" swap out the underlying thing; a migration that is rare in practice and almost always not that simple.

You might not need Langchain.
A laptop can be easily transported for use in a variety of locations.
I average 8 years and two batteries for a laptop since I switched to Macbooks, prior it was about 5 years and one battery.

MacBooks have a much better lifecycle.
The article mentions them looking for a replacement prior to the recent invasion of Ukraine.
ipxe supports iscsi booting.
Studying links between the gut and mental health is personal for this scientist
But the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Are stingers even useful for LSCO?

I get the sense Ukraine us using them as the insurgency rather than the counter-insurgency
Typing this from my `MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)` ... Also have two working ThinkPads in use in my household that are older where I've had to replace the CPU fans, at some point they just crumble, but otherwise work OK-ish (but maybe getting to a point where I should really retire them).
it seems a bit of unrealistic expectation, users spoilt from the freemium generation
Nobody's going to take Caltrain from the airport to Moscone. Spending a few billion dollars on a bus station is ridiculous but it's orthogonal to the issue at hand.

Moscone now has a subway stop, which may help with downtown connectivity (but I won't hold my breath).
Oh how I miss the form-factor+keyboard of my X40/X60. Seeing that tent of an X60s has me feeling very nostalgic. One of the few devices capable of doing that for me.

It's too bad they had so many flimsy plastic parts until the X220 era, which still tends to crack palmrests and bezels with use.

If someone packaged a modern SoC beneath an X40/X60 keyboard in a rugged light chassis with all the modern display/battery junk I'd be all over it.
ah wow that's a feat, thanks for your answer!
Hey. I'm fucking American and I worked defense and you're completely right.

The US is deploying an entire chain of military forces around china. Literally. From Japan all the way through taiwan to the Philippines we are boxing china in with massive amounts of deadly firepower.

Any equivalent action against the US would launch mass hysteria among the public. As much as I don't agree with certain things china does.. they are showing incredible restraint here. The US media is pulling off the most successful propaganda campaign I've ever seen... Literally characterizing this action as something that's self defense and necessary for world peace.

Self defense is a complete joke. it's 100 percent military aggression by the US. All in the name of economic and military power.
So OP claims that data-driven ads are a scam using the anecdata that she is getting served irrelevant ads.

I'm not going to argue about whether ads are "worth it", but working on the other side (serving and optimizing ads), I can tell that yes, we run the numbers, and the math (mostly) works out.

As per your examples, we have run experiments by applying targeting ads based on narrow segments, and others without. As it turns out the data shows that "casting a wider net" works better, statistically.

Make of it what you will.
> if I was a white and rich guy in the US I probably wouldn't have to ever talk about politics.

Semi-rich. (What do you call a 1-10%er? depending on the year since biz owner problems)

Politics affects us sooo much. My wife/biz owner is paid based on how much the government gives her for a specific healthcare treatment. Since 2019 the payments actually went down. Meanwhile the AMA got their physicians raises...

Not to mention, there is an upcoming regulation that affects my physical product...

Oh and even though we are well-off, I still hate paying 30k/yr whenever we give birth to 1 child.

And taxes are insane. You make decent money and the taxes are absurd. Meanwhile if you invest your money and don't do anything, its a mere 15% capital gains tax. Seems like the system prioritizes the 0.01% and actively prohibits the 1-5% from breaking out of it.

Not to mention economics. Interest rates basically decide what we do next, rather than sound strategy. Tariffs changed things back in 2018...

Basically everything is economics on my end. Social policy seems so obviously silly to me, but its easy to say that as a married white dude.
Just make sure not to wear a technicolor dreamcoat and remember they won't refund your deposit.
Posted this a few days ago on HN... Pretty funny... He should have said that AI automatically posted this emoji for him
The Genera code for ARM64 and Intel 86-64 is also written that way.

Clozure CL should also include an inline assembler.

Lisp assemblers date back to the 60s.
They already ousted the DA who's the son of convicted domestic terrorists.
How does Denuvo remove control from the user over their computer? Did it force them to buy the game, install it, and launch it?

Sorry to be so flippant and appear as a devils advocate for DRM, but as far as I'm aware Denuvo runs with the game. Unlike ie Punkbuster, which is constantly running with way too high permissions.
It is impossible for me
To read this site on my iphone because the header size keeps changing with the typing animation so the text is moving up and down every second.
You're right that the strip is fairly long if you look at it from the airport to downtown, but the main part of it where conferences tend to be held is maybe a little over a mile long. So I should have said a 20 minute walk.

There's definitely an indoor walkway connecting the casinos that at times is underground, at least on the southern end. I remember pre-Covid staying at the Luxor (the pyramid looking one) and the conference was 3 or 4 casinos down and I never actually had to go outside. The underground walkway was full of stores and restaurants.
Am opinion so naive it's harmful.

Google will NEVER harm itself by supporting fake data feeds. The only reason G exists at all is because they can exploit the data they harvest from you. If you're given the power to poison that data Google implodes and the whole Android platform becomes extremely unattractive to other massive companies that live off of leeching your private data one way or another.

Yes, an OS built first & foremost for its users/customers would have LOTS of options like that. A mobile web browser built the same would support plugins from day 1. Etc. Etc.

But Android, Chrome, Windows 10+, iOS are ABSOLUTELY not built for their users. They're built as vehicles that enable other services from a slew of big names and it's essential for these platforms to ensure users are NOT given the power to fight against those services.
I don't see why you couldn't use updated "No GIL" extensions with the GIL interpreter. The "No GIL" interpreter mode will simply abort if you load an unsupported C extension.
My M1 Mac is the best laptop I ever owned.

But it is also a big step up, I expect my machine to stay viable quite some time and recommend my noob friends to buy used M1/M2 Macbooks (if available).
I'm still getting great mileage out of a T430 I bought in 2017, and I'm not particularly nice to my laptops. The one frustration I've had recently is that it can't drive my nice 38-inch monitor at its full resolution, so I've started eyeing a T470.
Why waste effort on speeding up the old CPython interpreter rather than working on PyPy, an actual compiler? [1] "On average, PyPy is 4.8 times faster than CPython 3.7"

[1] https://www.pypy.org/
I am surprised no top comment mentions this — on iOS, you cannot distinguish if you were granted a permission or not. As an example, if an app asks you for access to your photos, it will always get an array. The trick is that when you deny this permission, the array will be empty, so you cannot know if the user simply has an empty library or if he denied you access. I like it, simple and elegant.

Naturally, in the case of photos, you can use a heuristic, because basically everyone will have at least some pictures. However, in the case of other types of data, say, health data, it is not so clearcut.
Replace Doom GUI and you might have Stanley Parable in there.
It's not just Raytheon, but all the subcontractors. Some may have gone out of business or shifted to different industries and lost the institutional knowledge of parts fabrication and assembly.
Because the public schools being corrupt is a necessary part of “if the schools are corrupt they might as well compete”. The common argument against charters is corruption, but if the public schools are too then that doesn’t really matter to me.
Wow this hits home.

I quit reddit a few times, but kept coming back to ask engineering questions.

Now with chatgpt, I've found myself not using it for engineering, but rather to talk politics that would benefit me.
Yes, and if for whatever reason you are not around how would you like society to act towards your children?
Why should contribution to “the world”, the gargantua of global culture, history, and economy, be the yardstick of worth? I believe almost everyone has something valuable to contribute to their friends, family, neighborhood, or community. We can step away from the chaotic, nebulous global village and focus on the tangible human connections of actual village systems, where “the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people you’ve seen before.”

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/82_killing_community/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296882
Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store
This is exactly the kind of innovation I see coming out this current AI boom we're in. Take legacy codebases and spit out complete rewritten versions in whatever language that not just translates, but takes it much further and re-interprets it on top of modern architecture designs. It completes it with tests and a basic UI, or whatever makes sense for the project.

Those systems are well understood and well tested, so it's not cost effective at the moment to embark on a complete rewrite. Current AI coding systems are also very unreliable, so it's just a matter of time before those two meet on the graph and voila, another boom in moving the legacy world into safe languages.
In much of the SF Bay Area in general, and San Francisco city in particular, I get the impression that the current situation is very deliberate. There are loud minorities arguing about a few things but they are (just) loud minorities. The usual get elected (mostly) and merely pay lip service to these issues (that these other people are having). Otherwise, the plan is on track, things are well enough, and the voting majority merely regrets that we are not in the 90ies anymore. (Not the 80ies - too many freeways then.)
Experiment with what, explore what?

Your comment is very general, and doesn't make much sense - Go is just fine for prototyping.

If you mean PL research and being able to experiment with custom methods of abstraction and DSLs then yes, indeed, there's not much to do. Which, as I mentioned above, is a feature in most cases.
Thanks, I’ll take a read
>Perhaps this is a US thing that's leaking.

This is a human thing.

The US culture is less shameless about it.
Ruby [1], JavaScript (when running in NodeJS) and PHP are single-threaded. Perl is single threaded as well but it features something like to what is being proposed in PEP 554 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0554/).

I know Clojure is often described as a dynamic language and that it has some concurrency primitives, but my knowledge ends here.

[1] Just like Python, Ruby does have implementations that allow multi-threading.
> How is the ISO image presented to the booting machine via the network?

Probably in two stages.

First a small kernel/initrd is booted with PXE from dhcp+tftp

Then that one has the ability to get the iso image either via tftp, or perhaps http or ftp or some other protocol, from the machine that served the initial files over tftp
So is it about trying to mimic what the free software devs do and hope that it will provide the same outcome? Sounds like dressing like your favorite rock star to try to play guitar better.
Oh, not "mutexes".
probably easier to use netboot.xyz (https://netboot.xyz/docs)
Err, mobility? M1 / M2 Pro MBPs pack a serious punch... and they don't have to sacrifice battery life to do so - they smoke virtually all other laptops in terms of battery life.
I mean... you can save a few bucks on a laptop. Sure.

But the real cost is the downtime.

If I have an employee that I value at $100,000 a year, working 1800 hours, that's $55 / hour.

Assuming their work doesn't impact anyone else, it would be silly for me to take that employee out of commission for any expense that costs less than $440 / day.

Way smarter for me to buy a new laptop, which is less likely to have any issues, and then sell the old ones to offset the costs.

And I'd also point out that most people in tech make more than $100,000.

Also I'd point out... the new Apple Silicon is really nice. Battery life is a lot longer. Heat is a lot less. Screens are fantastic. No stupid touch-screen function bar. Great keyboards. MagSafe power... like, honest to god if you haven't got one of the new Apple Silicon laptops you're really doing yourself a disservice. You should get one! (=

(Also... my opinion... every other laptop maker should just quit. Just close shop. They can't touch the new Apple machines. That's how much better the Apple Silicon laptops are. Everything else that's being made is just e-waste by comparison. Even the Intel MacBooks from 3-4 years ago are just dogwater in comparison.)
Or maybe it's the perfect place to discuss this kind of topics.

An Ask HN with the same kind of question could have reached the front page.
Using Discriminated Unions in TypeScript
I used to work near Moscone. I know far too many people who share OPs experience. It's a shit show.
Aren't new models with soldered batteries as well? The lifecycle is a disaster, especially if you would like to change the drive or upgrade the ram, you simply can't
I possibly agree with his point but those graphs are bad.

The first one is flat, it only looks like it's going up and down because the axis doesn't start at 0.

The second on is looking at sales when oil use is realted to fleet mileage. The later is going in the right direction but naturally lags sales.
Went to a conference there a few years ago and couldn't wait to leave quickly enough. No amount of natural and architectural beauty could make up for the sadness and hopelessness I saw among the homeless people on the street there. Somehow it was more sad on the background of fancy mansions on top of the hills and the rich tech companies. I lived in poor rust-belt areas and in developing countries before, but somehow San Francisco seemed sadder and more depressing than those places.
> I mean, you're not entirely wrong but Python really really doesn't make it easy.

That's a vast exaggeration. It is not "really really" hard to spin up a venv and specify your requirements. People just don't do it, and blame the tools for what are bad engineering practices agnostic to any language.

"Really really" not easy would be handling C, C++, etc. dependencies.
For me the biggest benefit is just following the project and seeing what the community is doing with llms (It’s also not bad for quick proofs of concept).

That said especially in python it’s not that hard to reimplement things yourself in a cleaner way. Output parsing for agents was nice but with the function update from OpenAI it’s not really necessary (if you’re just using their API)
mastodon is down
If you record 10 billion parameters from a 3-megapixel image, it's kinda disingenuous to pretend you haven't copied the image.
That DA was an outlier who had to go pretty extreme to get that result. The rest seem safe.
Good public transport reduces car use - look at London, or any major European city
HP ZBook 15 first gen here, 9.5 yo. I use it to develop with Django, Rails, Phoenix. Docker, psql, Mongo, mysql, whatever js frontend my customers choose. Debian 11. I upgraded it to a double SSD configuration, 32 GB RAM. I replaced worn out keyboards a few times, the battery once a few months ago. It works well and I hope that it keeps going for a while. It still sells second hand for about 600 Euros last time I checked, too much to buy two of them as mines of spare parts.
> It is really? Uganda is being ostracised as a result. Did this law convince anyone, or merely galvanize the opposition?

It convinced the legislature to pass a law intended to kill gay people and convinced the president to sign it. What kind of person do you have to be to not see this as a setback for human rights?
BlackHat is “RSA in the desert”. It’s just a bunch of ridiculous vendors shilling their snake oil.

There are a few decent talks at BlackHat, but most of it is mind numbingly stupid.
I was mulling the idea of building a "garbage telemetry producer" thing for Windows. It's a losing battle trying to keep up with new endpoints to block more and more often, and I imagine it's easier for folks to build and run a small program that constantly pushes out telemetry events.

If we poison the data maybe Microsoft will realize providing a true "all telemetry off" option would be easier (and cheaper for their bandwidth and storage budgets).
I don't think that's logistically possible.

Also spectators would have to follow two races at the same time?
Thanks for the kind words :)

In 2021 I prototyped some documentation single-sourcing tools. I made leaps fueled by intuition and years of frustration, so I found it hard to explain to others what I did and why.

In early 2022 I started sketching this post as ~intellectual-groundwork on the ~motivating problems I saw in existing markup languages. What I hoped would be a few weeks stretched into several months of drafts I wasn't happy with.

Trying to write one _coherent_ motivating post made it clear just how many iterative intuitive leaps I'd made along the way, so I started splitting out asides/sections into posts to make incremental progress and show my math. (The linked post is currently the most-recent of 6 on documentation at https://t-ravis.com/room/doc/; the other 5 have seeds in it.)

Color-coding the examples was indeed on the to-do list from early on, but after starting over a few times and still feeling unsure it would communicate, I got frustrated enough (exacerbated by unrelated ~burnout) to just shove it out the door and turn to other fires for a while. (Part of why I haven't made a follow-up post, even though I intend to.) It's been better received than I feared, so it probably makes sense to go back and improve those when I start the next post in the series.

(You can see where it falls in the rough outline of the broader intellectual project at https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/the_trouble_with_anonymous_gizm...)
So much of advertising is lies that I don't do any advertising online any more.

I've pulled all my google ads, facebook ads, instagram ads and podcast ads.

After about 10 years of doing ads (for my coffee club) and really attempting to track what was happening (from a technical point of view) I couldn't actually attribute any of it (the holy grail of digital marketing). "Word of mouth" is still our biggest channel. And all the time whenever I speak to "marketing" people it's the same low value analysis with zero mathematical or scientific vigor. They look at what happened (High CTR on this ad) and draw some conclusion from it, and then next week when CTR flatlines on the ad they have no comment and are busy looking at the non-significant noise coming from another ad.

And that's before even talking about the pure lies coming from the podcast people who swear up and down they know exactly how far into a podcast someone plays, when the spec they quote explicitly states it doesn't really work on apple products and 90% of the listernship is Apple. So many lies. It is a grift built on grift. Somebody in the organization knows it's a pile of lies, but the sales people actually believe it I think or don't care.
For starters, it does nothing at all to prevent taking screen shots. Which is what this thread is about.

As for high quality video capture, it is trivially easy to do. How do you think high quality copies of Netflix-only content ends up on the pirate bay they same day it comes out?
The GPT integration only works if you pass Khoj an OpenAI key in your settings, so it's a pretty explicit opt-in. Otherwise, there's no way for Khoj to send data to OpenAI. Does that make sense?
I’m not blaming these people, but if you grow up in a dysfunctional functional environment it is on the level of a miracle to break the cycle.

You don’t know what’s wrong or where to look for help and in my case I was even proud of my parentification for making me “strong and resilient” while minimizing the bad things as a coping mechanism.
I haven't used threads, but I mute channels on youtube frequently. It only takes literally one second and I never have to scroll past that person's videos again. This is a lot easier than playing the 'manipulate the recommendation algorithm' game.

You know the Gell-Mann Amnesia meme? You realize somebody is full of shit after reading/watching their content, but then you move on and forget what you learned, falling for them again in the future. Well if you block their content, this problem goes away. The block system remember what you might otherwise forget.
You forgot that he worked directly for the Venezuelan government.
so this is "shots across the bow" for the Enterprise push to disembowel Libre software?
Almost as bad is the FLIR app. You have to give it permission to view all photos, or else it won't let you save a photo. iOS specifically has an API that allows saving photos without photo access.
> Americans are truly the most brainwashed people on the planet.

I'd like to respond, but it's not clear if you're up for a serious discussion.