skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's a non-sequitur.

Unregistered machine guns are illegal to possess regardless of how they were made.

3D printing an otherwise legal firearm is not illegal at the Federal level in the United States.

The exchange boils down to:

Comment: That isn't illegal.

Reply: well, if you do this other thing that's illegal, it is.
Introduction to Privacy and Compliance for Consumers (2020)
One thing I don't understand is how did none of these employees _immediately_ jump ship once it became apparent that they would start using customer funds. These aren't dumb people, Ellison worked for Jane Street prior to FTX. Had I been in her position I would have written my resignation letter to Sam in a heartbeat once this became apparent (and probably another letter to the FBI/SEC)
Yes, the famous "Yuppie lunch ticket"
US restores loss of coolant safety testing capability
Thanks for the link! I see there are some organisations already in my area - I'll read up and research a bit more. It would be great to say in touch. I'd love to connect and keep in touch - is there a secure and private way to share email or IMs?
I actually did this experiment.

I had a super old laptop that I installed Ubuntu Mate and gave it to my mom who needed a laptop for simple web browsing/email/YouTube. My mom is totally illiterate when it comes to computers btw.

Worked like a charm for a few years until the laptop finally stopped working for good.

I think Mint would have beem even better. Hell, I use Mint myself. Best OS available by any metrics I can think of. I like it so much that I now donate some yearly 20 bucks to the project. Using it for free feels almost like a steal.
Woah. Wouldn't have noticed that without seeing your comment. Pretty cool to see.
250 out 4000 is non trivial.

Office for mac may have been profitable, but it may have been more profitable to not allow Mac to have it.
Even without HD Radio transmitters, the signal to repeaters is sent via geostationary satellite which has an inherent delay.

I’ve observed the time signal being off by several seconds even before the 2018 transition.
Well, check out the insane profits (not just revenue) NVIDIA has made this year. That profit margin can fit quite a few mansions as well as the biggest AI companies.

People are joking about the crypto bros funding it, but the leap in profit suggests it's not crypto fueled at all.
Honestly, it depends on your budget and the features you want. My main workhorse right now is a Sovol SV06, one of the "it girl" printers of 2022. I own the Sovol, an Ender 3 v2, a Mingda Magician X and an AnyCubic Kobra Go. All of these printers work for me now, but that's because I've suffered the frustrating learning curve of 3D printers. For a newer 3D printing hobbyist I would latch onto a brand that offers a 90% or 100% assembled printer -- with a large community for aftermarket add-on buys or prints. Ender, Sovol, AnyCubic, Elegoo -- just look for the brands with massive communities. They tend to keep manufacturers accountable and creative.

So many companies are putting out "out of the box" wonder printers right now that I would just engage in a few weeks of YouTube watching. A printer release could come out tomorrow that completely changes the value proposition of whatever you were looking at. Funny enough, size matters -- if you want to print helmets in one piece, you have to look at larger printers.
This is more untrue today than it ever was. Between most things being browser based and the most popular consumer software being subscription based and allowed to be run on multiple platforms, it’s easier to switch now than ever.

And then there are Electron apps…
Or nearly any programming language that is actually in wide spread use. Any protocol, standard, markup language........

Iprovens law.
A) Anything in widespread use will be used for things it isn't intended for, and thus won't be suitable for those things. The more widespread the use, the greater the proportion of its use is for things it isn't intended for.

B) Anything in widespread use won't be able to change because it will break existing things.

(I wasn't sure if you were intending both or one of these)
They've been trying to do it with Invidious and youtube-dl already.
2 instances I would like to share from my personal experience.

when I am in freshman year, I wanted to host a website and started looking online for best service, I was bombarded with google cloud ads across all websites.
I thought google cloud is the best service.(I was never shown results of AWS/IBM watson, when they are far better than Google Cloud at that time). you always use web for exploring options and these ads can manipulate to pivot to one service, when it is not always the best.

after that I tried an experiment with my friends from my collage dorm. we have a proxy for our university. so only tracking I assume is done through respective google accounts.one of them has an Iphone (buys a lot on amazon), others use android. we searched for "best watches to buy", the recommendations/ads(top results) for iphone user is ~1k$(premium brands) and we were shown results of watches around 100$ etc.

I would say above results are manipulative because they will pivot our further searches, the search is not showing best watches/blogs about it. but showing results that the AI think will have higher rate of ads - buy conversion.

The above results definitely will have an impact on further searches, The iphone user will pivot his search to the top results he see which might not always be best.
Government? How about parents?
This is absolutely false. Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve on how to phrase questions on stack overflow, but it mainly comes down to "ask a clear question". SO certainly still has better answers than ChatGPT, and I say this as someone who has been talked-down to on SO before. I understand where they are coming from. At the end of the day, you get nice, clear, tagged questions with proven out answers. Way more than you can say for ChatGPT, which generally gives random trash.
Could you share what markdown/git tooling you've identified?
Better data analysis with logic programming
Direct donation ?
Assembly is not the lowest level language you can work in. I've programmed in raw binary opcodes before, that is the lowest level. (though there is a valid argument that microcode is even lower level - I disagree but still acknowledge the argument is valid) Often a single assembly language instruction can be one of more than 30 different opcodes as registers are often encoded in the opcode. Of course at this level you have to have your CPU instruction manual as they are all different.
I believe the (plausible) conspiracy theory is that the zinc industry lobbies to keep them going. Somewhat ironically, it's long cost more than one penny to make a penny. I believe 1982 was the last year they were made entirely from copper, but eventually even the cost of zinc (often known as "pot metal") outpaced the value of the penny.
> Microsoft invested a whopping $250 million in Apple. Apple already had secured a $4 billion line of credit and didn’t become profitable until losing billions more. The $250 wouldn’t have saved Apple.

It was still a signal. Signals matter, especially when a company is in distress.

> And Office was not charity project for MS, it made a hefty profit. Also it was much easier to convince corporate buyers to buy Office if they could use on Office Suite across their entire organization - even for those hippie Mac users in the corner.

I didn't say it was a charity project and your interpretation is far too lenient for Apple. First of all, Microsoft definitely did NOT have any problems selling Microsoft Office after at least 1995.

Secondly, that "hefty profit" was peanuts for Microsoft. It wasn't a "move the needle" type of investment for them.

They did both those things purely because the DoJ made Gates sweat.
> YouTube is not a public response

> providing access to mostly private content in exchange for payment under certain terms.

Confused frown. That doesn't match any description I've previously come across about what YouTube is.

I thought YouTube content was pretty much entirely 'public'.

If they removed their website and access to the content was limited only to those who paid a monthly subscription via an app then that'd be slightly different.

But then they'd lose all the foot traffic.
Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT API charge for input tokens?
The context window doesn't change, shorter prompts and longer ones use the same resources and take the same time to process, am i right?
Is there any reason you're just doing everything within a single context window? I experimented with similar stuff months ago and basically parallelized everything into multiple requests to different agents in pre and post-processing steps. The main context window, for example, wasn't aware of memories being generated or retrieved. I had a post-processor just automatically generating memories and saving them, along with all the conversations being saved in a vector database, and a pre-processor that would automatically inject relevant memories and context based on the conversation, even re-writing the history so it would look to the main context window like the memory had always been there.

It saved a lot of space in the main context window for unnecessary system prompts and so on.
While Julia starts scared and ends up feeling better, I've only gotten more scared of Unix signals over time.

Context: I've written a robust command-line utility [0] that must handle signals, and unlike most utilities that are I/O-bound, mine is CPU-bound.

An I/O-bound utility can easily use signalfd() (subject to the gotchas in the "signalfd() is useless" post that Julia links to, which you should also read). signalfd() will work for I/O-bound utilities because it turns those signals into I/O. Perfect.

However, in a CPU-bound program, signals are used specifically to interrupt execution. This is, to put it mildly, as difficult as writing code for interrupts in the embedded space. Why? Because that's really what you're doing: handling an interrupt that can happen at any time.

My solution was something I wish on no one: I used setjmp() and longjmp().

Horrors!

Yep. And it gets worse: I had to longjmp() out of the signal handler.

AH!

And it gets worse: to ensure that there were no memory leaks, I had to keep a stack of jmp_bufs and manually jump to each one, which would be in a function where memory had to be cleaned up.

Cue screams of bloody murder

You may insist that longjmp()'ing out of signal handler is not allowed; it actually is [1], but unlike most other "async-signal-safe" functions, you need to ensure you don't interrupt a syscall or other code that is not async-signal-safe.

So it gets worse: I have a signal lock that the signal handler checks. If it's not locked, the signal handler will longjmp() out of the signal handler. If it is locked, the signal handler sets a flag and returns. Then the code that unlocks signals checks for the flag and does a longjmp() if it's set.

He's dead, Jim!

I have another project that is a framework in C. This framework needs to handle signals for clients. It has to be general, so it has to handle CPU-bound clients. So I had to implement the same thing. I was able to make it easier, but it is also harder because I have that one thing that messes up every Unix API: threads.

Nuclear mushroom cloud

So should you be scared? It depends; if you can get away with signalfd() and know its gotchas, maybe not.

But if you need anything more complex, yes, be very afraid.

[0]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition...
Watching cartoons/tv shows vs watching 6 hours of 5 seconds content on tiktok/instagram isn't really comparable.

It's like saying alcohol and heroin are the same because "drug"
Revolutionary DARPA X-65 Plane with No Moving Control Surfaces
X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
Same here. Mostly only use google for localized results when I'm trying to find a specific product to buy locally. Or if I have to find something specific and need to use the "site:" syntax, which they haven't yet removed.

5/10/20 years from now, all that will be left of Google search is the map/product/store portions, if we even have an internet at all at that point.
The post argues that there is no portable low-level languages, including C.

i.e. truly low-level languages can't be portable and is bound to the architecture.
Apple Store online launches in Chile to bring customers new shopping options
you could also configure Redis to transact everything to disk and choose nvme as the target
C is only portable between systems which emulate PDP-11 at hardware level and if and only if you don't use any compiler-specific extensions.

If you use sys calls, work between different breeds of operating systems (UNIX, POSIX and Windows are not compatible with each other), you need to rewrite or wrap relevant parts, or write the relevant part beforehand inside ifdefs to be able "port" it between systems.

The gist of the piece is, hardware is evolving to please C's programming model, hiding all the complexities C is not aware of, and behave like a PDP-11 on steroids. This is why we have truckload of side-channel attacks in X86 to begin with. To "emulate" PDP-11s faster and faster.
Is being alcohol consumption for minors authoritarianism?

Is heroin being illegal authoritarianism?

Crystal meth?

It is clear by now that social media are terrible for the individual, and for society. And so much more for kids.
$100M Valuation and No More Funding
It's more than that. C-the-language just doesn't have low-level concepts such as machine addresses, and its facilities for dealing with the types that the abstract machine ascribes to all objects are quite limited.

Ada has System.Address to model machine addresses:

http://ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-13-7.html#p...

C++ has std::less specializations for pointer types which provide a strict total order (one aspect of machine addresses):

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/less

There is also placement new and std::launder for more explicit control of typed memory:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/new
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/launder

These days, even Java tries to model machine addresses:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/foreign-funct...
Enterprises have been pushing as much work as possible through the browser for a long time. Outside of a few niche applications I don't think they will have much of a problem migrating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9

Designed with the explicit intent of containing no parts that are regulated as firearm components in Europe. Including the barrel, which is manufactured using 3D printed jigs and a bench top power supply.

These are in active use right now, most notably by anti-junta rebels in Myanmar, who have literally been running print farms in the jungle to produce them.
Honest question - is there any language at all between C and Assembly? Because if there is, I haven't heard of it. For that reason alone, my mental model has always been "C is the lowest you can go before hitting direct instructions to the processor."
Like a bad apology video on YT where the artist try to sell you his product while crying.
Monetary inflation is an increase in the money supply, it usually results in price inflation which is just called "inflation".

Maybe the person you're replying to is using the wrong terminology.
Is social media really passive though? For some its quite active, responding to DMs, religiously checking post metrics, feeling pressure to post right this moment instead of just existing, comparing your posts to your peers or favorite influence.

Its also much sticker, constant notifications, algorithms built around keeping your eyes glued to an app, dopamine rewards for engaging with content.

I don't deny that less time is likely being spent on TV than older generations and I also don't pretend that TV didn't manipulate people into watching more ads, spending money, etc. But I think there is a huge generational miscalculation about the dangers of Social media vs older slower media.
Heh stupid teens.

upvotes article on hacker news
Will this finally end the eternal golang http router bikeshedding?
It also seems like the EPA has the power to accept or deny requests:

> In total, local regulators made note of almost 700 exceptional events. The EPA agreed to adjust the data on 139 of them.

So the EPA is only making adjustments for 20% of the events, and it seems like the EPA has the ultimate authority here. Doesn’t seem like there’s an issue.

I think I’d take issue with the article calling this a loophole when it’s exactly how the law was designed to operate.

If I had to take the opposite stance I would say that our lungs and bodies can’t tell the difference where the pollution comes from. Perhaps a state with more frequent wildfires does need to have more stringent human-made emissions standards than states that have few wildfires to keep the overall air quality at an acceptable level.

As an analogy, a state with more snowfall might need to spend more money on snow removal and road resurfacing. We don’t just throw up our arms and say “sorry we aren’t doing anything about it because it isn’t the state’s fault.”
It was $150 after Apple bought PowerComputing’s Mac assets.

And how is it not trivial? Can you show me a timeline that Apple would have been bankrupt without the extra $250 million?

Also do you realize how much more MS made on an Office license than a Windows license?
Ads are also billed by impression, so you’re still removing revenue from the people who made the videos you watch.

More importantly, however, this is like going into a restaurant and saying that you should be able to order only a side dish while eating food that you brought with. You might have a good reason for wanting to do that but that doesn’t somehow create a right to use someone else’s private property in violation of their wishes.
Ah yes, let them access the hamas video I saw last week, surely it won't cause any harm. And porn too, porn is good for kids.

> do we agree with this authoritarianism?

Yes? Do you agree with your kids getting blasted/manipulated by foreign content coming from an app controlled by an authoritarian country ?
The means of production.. I mean, the means of thinking belong to the government!
For the purposes of tracking direct man-made pollution ignoring wildfires and other “acts of God” is the way to go. You get absurd data otherwise - none of the EPA’s tools “work” against wildfire pollution so it makes sense to factor that out.

However, later misuse of the data for other purposes may cause issues - if you were very sensitive to pollution you’d want to know where the wildfire areas are and avoid them, and the EPA data doesn’t show that.
looks like there's some limited cross application embedding support in google docs, so i'd argue you're right except for one glaring exception....

jupyter notebooks and donald knuth's literate programming dream.

duh duh dunnnnn. crash

buut. to your point, maybe there's a fable in there. existing large systems should be coupled in interface and presentation, but not necessarily in implementation!
> Look at what happen to the MS antitrust trial.

A few things happened. Sure MS wasn't broken up, but they were forced to be more cautious with how they leveraged their desktop monopoly for several years. Arguably this gave Firefox, and later Chrome, a foot in the door that they otherwise wouldn't have had.

It's important not to fall into binary thinking. Breaking up a (near) monopoly is not the only measure of success in antitrust.
> Galaxies behave like there's a halo of invisible mass surrounding them,

No they don't. Galaxies exhibit anomalous velocity curves according to existing gravitational theory as applied in a specific cosmological model. That's the observation. This could be explained by a halo of indivisible stuff or it could be explained by a misunderstanding of gravity or a different cosmological model.

I'm general, we should not explain observations in terms of speculative theories, because this carries a presumptive bias.

> The halos even perturb as expected in galaxy collisions.

They actually don't. Dark matter would explain part of the bullet cluster (lensing), but it can't explain the high collision velocities observed.
With the same argument you could even argue that the x86 ISA is a high-level language, since under the hood it's decomposed to micro-ops which are scheduled on a superscalar infrastructure and run out of order.
We've moved to plain markdown in Git(Lab) as Confluence replacement. A CI pipeline compiles it to HTML and hosts it on the web via Material for MkDocs.

It lacks most collaboration options for non-developer users, but we found that they are rarely, if at all, used anyway. Non-developer users can still use an edit button that points to GitLab's web editor and update the docs that way.

I can't suggest a replacement for Jira at this point. I don't think there is one tool to recommend that fits every company's workflow. The other comments seem to have some nice tools to try.
The underlying framework [0] looks nice—anyone else have experience with it? Seems like it could be an ideal fit for weekend projects.
Rag – Enhancing LLMs with External Sources for Reliable Recommendations
Plus "profitable" is a scale. At huge companies even a huge amount such as $100m [1] might not "move the needle", as they put it, therefore making them decide to not do something.

[1] Or for modern day companies and inflation, even $1bn.
Children of Time is pretty fun.
In what world was this legendary?
This is all my loos interpretation take it with a grain of salt.

1) In a very abstracted sense Id say yes

2) You have a pre-existing corpus of knowledge that allowed you to interface with thw game more fluently. From what i understand this whole thing would be more like a baby learning nothing other than pokemon.

Idk about 3 and 4
Prediction: one beaming grandma vs one bemused, crestfallen kid on Christmas morning.
But if you're going to say that "C is not a low-level language", then yeah you kinda do need other languages beneath it.
Don't worry, the New Feudalists are working on this.
As I commented[1] I think the syntax is flawed in the proposal.

You need to weirdly create a magic string to define your handler. Why not make it an actual argument, then using already existing constants is easier.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61410#issuecomment-16580...
It's too late for that, unless you live in the woods and put your kids in special school you're doomed. There is no soft way out of this
>a credit card they forced Goldman to issue

Poor old Goldman Sachs, the victim yet again.
I got that big warning about having 2 videos left before being locked out of youtube viewing due to running an "ad-blocker", that was last week, I've not watched a video on the site since.

I just download it with yt-dlp or throw it in to mpv. If those stop working I'll probably just stop watching youtube altogether since I only watch maybe 6-10 vids a week anyway. This "app" does look quite good, but for how long it will work if g**e keeps making it difficult I don't know.
After brushing, just like a dentist would apply fluoride after a cleaning.
"No one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft."
Oh please, they’re not even comparable?
OpenBSD 7.4
Even if this were true, this is a talking point from the beginning of the internet when there were way less people hooked to it, why does it follow that that makes anything okay? If people won’t pay for a service it’s because they really want or need it.

You’re simply making the case that these services that no one believes useful enough to pay for are controlling everything because they’re frontends for marketing agencies. This isn’t the gotcha you seem to think it is
I have it on my to-read list because I heard it was interesting socialist sci-fi so it is a bit weird seeing it repeatedly recommended to someone who finds The Culture too lefty.