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> Windows has nothing equivalent to systemd.

The service manager? It manages services with many of the same features of systemd units, including advanced features, like firewall integration. This is combined with windows event system which provides many of the same features of the systemd journal.

> making it easier to isolate processes / different system services as much as possible

These features are built into the operating system. systemd provides a particular method of accessing them, but certainly not the only one.

> So the risk of getting hacked over a network service is reduced a lot.

Your risk of getting hacked has nothing to do with systemd. You are hoping that the easy process isolation features you're referencing actually work and thus _mitigate_ the potential damage of that hack. This is not bad strategy, but is on it's own, entirely incomplete.

> Without systemd we would be forced to create our own which wouldn't be as secure.

At the risk of being hyper critical, this is precisely the type of logic I would use to sell snake oil, too.
Morbid thought of the evening: If there is a meaningful broader downturn I wonder if they'll benefit from people losing stable housing and turning to ABNB for itinerant shelter.
Comments (should) explain the "why" not the "what". The "why" doesn't go out of date, even if the "what" does.
The typical commuter suburbs for SF companies are in the East Bay, in my experience. South Bay is a lot more expensive.
The #1 thing that brings prices down in a market economy is competition. Fiscal policy is the best policy tool for ensuring a level playing field, ensuring full employment and price stability. Monetary policy is good for nothing! ZIRP forever
It's like tech people have to relearn why we had age old things in the first place. We're starting to workout why hotels are a good idea now.

I saw Elon Musk questioning why we have medical regulations the other day, he was saying that it "slows down innovation" and so he thinks medical regulation should be abolished. He did the same for content moderation on his platform.

Well I don't agree that regulations stifle innovation, they might slow down the rollout of innovative products, but there is a very good reason why regulation was established in the first place. Could it be better? Yes.
This perspective makes it more understandable, but after 1-2 follow-ups, does that usually remain the case?
Yep 100%. It took one experience being stuck on the street in London with my bags to never use AirBnb again. The negatives are just not worth the risk.
I love your optimism. Speaking of which, how are climate change, PFAS, and microplastics coming along?
I'm just going to buy mouse with replaceable switch. I think it's going to stay forever.

I know it's anecdotal, but all of Logitech mouses that I bought have problems quickly, e.g. the clicky switch or the mouse wheel sensor. As if it's made with planned obsolescence.
I mean if the signal isn't replaced by anything, then the onus is put on to the person receiving the call. If years ago, there was a barrier for an army of phone scammers from across the world throwing everything they can think of at an old person with borderline dementia, and suddenly that went away..I don't know how you can really justify the "frictionless communication" outside of a couple of options. A) "Well it's their fault, they should be on their guard all the time everyone is always trying to scam and manipulate you" -- (idk about you but this seems pretty grim and inhumane) B) "well it's a net benefit for ~someone~ so we should all be happy about it, and refer to A)"
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Memristors?
It seems like a huge part of latency in machine learning training is simply shuttling data between SRAM and DRAM... A decade ago there was talk of memristors blowing up that whole dichotomy. What happened? I'm aware of Intel's failures to commercialize optane... why can't memristors be used in place of SRAM or DRAM?
Yes, but I think most folks are interested in the recently arrived stuff.
Have you not heard of school buses or soccer moms?

Cities like SF tend to be okay for families in two different (and polar opposite) classes - those who are working poor, and the scare factor of public transit and hassle of traffic is something they just have to deal with, or quite wealthy - and they can afford drivers and/or private schools.

The public school system in SF is also notoriously terrible to deal with, even by US big city standards, as ‘equity’ changes results in bussing kids all over town so there are no ‘good’/‘bad’ schools due to demographics. So siblings will often end up in schools on different sides of town, or kids in a school very far from where they live.

The middle class tends to go to the suburbs where things are less crazy and easier to handle, and they get ‘bad’ things like a school where all the neighbors kids also go, and siblings can all be in the same school. And they can buy into a ‘good school district’. Among other things.
Tell us about your Audis!
I mean, even a generic rejection would be preferable to radio silence. It keeps my hopes up, thinking I'll eventually hear something back with enough time/patience. This whole process is just brutal
This the crux of the issue. And it’s why you can basically ask “Can we trust <insert profit motive> with open source?” and always answer definitively No. one is collaborative “commons” economy, the other is an attempt to make a deal between a baron and their serfs. Ultimately, each is striving against each other.
Fourth years, it was first released in 1984. I had a CPM card for my Franklin clone that came with WordStar. I just used the standard Apple Writer, or whatever Franklin renamed it. At university starting in 1986 I just took my Apple ][ floppy and a 3.5 one formatted for Apple ][c & Mac and do a juggle the files over and typeset the papers using the Mac. So I never used WordStar.
// CSINameTranslator can get the CSI Driver name based on the in-tree plugin name
type CSINameTranslator interface {
GetCSINameFromInTreeName(pluginName string) (string, error)
}

Do people actually find comments like the above useful?
But it will no longer be managed by the webapp like your native app can, right?
A lot of these ideas if taken literally would harm the person in the center.

There's a long history of clinical psychology and evidence based psychology diverging, with the clinical psychologists adopting methods that actively harm their patients. The history starts of course with Freud, but another prominent example was the theory of recovered memories in the late 1900s.

In this case, the ring theory was developed out of hurt because the first author felt hurt by something a colleague said. That's not generally a good basis for a theory of how to deal with something as complicated as trauma.

Even the basic idea of a "center" is suspect. In many cases, a traumatic event is an event that affects multiple people who must interact. The classic example of trauma is warfare. Families go through trauma. Even when there isn't a common trauma, many conversations happen between individuals who have separate but comparable traumas. You don't want to get into a frame of mind where you have to judge and compare people's trauma to determine what they can and can't say.

On top of that there is a lot of research on kvetching and whether it's good for patients. In most cases I'm aware of, it's harmful to them. Most evidence-based approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), advocate the opposite of what this article is advocating. CBT says that the patient does best when they talk back to their own distorted thoughts. That means not thinking of yourself as the center of some universe, and not thinking of yourself as a "why me" victim that is targeted by some cosmic force. This article is saying diametrically the opposite; it says you should reinforce people's distorted thoughts.

Of course, you have to be kind and gentle to someone when they're having a hard time. But that kindness can take a lot of forms, and this article is advocating a very particular and almost ideological approach.
Related Logitech has an idea for a "forever mouse" that requires a subscription (52 points, 7 days ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41112273
Where in NYC?
Dark mode app but no dark mode website?!
https://web.archive.org/web/20040514091226/http://blogs.msdn...
Such a bad regulations. Rideable luggage actually seems reasonably innovative.
It sucks how the government often gets in the way of meaningful improvements. Feels like we are really headed for dark ages.
This is not correct at all.

When Twitter was launched, SF was overflowing with startups on every corner. In fact it was the second wave of SF startups, being a handful of years after the dot com crash.

The only thing even slightly surprising about Twitter's location was that they were way down in South Park instead of more solidly in South of Market. They moved to the Tenderloin building in 2012.
I've started applying a lot less frequently as of late. Finding a batch of companies that post on smaller forums like this usually nets me a better response rate because I can speak to an actual person. Keeping it open-ended makes me think I'll eventually hear something back, even after a few weeks. Mentally exhausting
To note there's a spectrum of options between standard hotels and AirBnB.

When traveling with a whole family or two, weekly aparts were the best value we ever got. They were in more remote areas requiring a car, but professionaly cleaned, well adapted to the purpose with perfect transparency on the price and the contract.
Just curious if structured outputs/constrained generation improve model accuracy, e.g., for information extraction problems. Does anyone have experience with this and why?
I think you mean star dust
In SF, the northeast quadrant has most of the good public transit. Does that not fit your needs? And, I disagree that Taipei and Chengdu are significantly cleaner than SF -- about the same level of grime in my experience.
The Overstory by Richard Powers - an intertwining of lives, as witnessed by the oldest beings on Earth, putting things into a rather different perspective.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - compassion and redemption, set in a terrifyingly plausible near future where the oil and tech companies have been replaced by gene and agro conglomerates. Calories or joules, it’s just energy.

Weaveworld by Clive Barker - a dark, fantastical yarn of vivid (sometimes grotesque) imagery, spinning a new take on the oldest tale, that of good vs. evil.
Hedda & Keke?
I’m not sure when I started to hate Google, but I remember the day I broke free of them.

I was a hardcore Gmail fan- had everything organized in perfect folders. I used it since the invite-only days. I survived the migration from folders to tags and eventually decided tags were better. Then one day I read about inbox… it was just a new interface. It required no commitment or migration, why not try it out? It was amazing! It broke me free from the shackles of organizing and let me treat email like a todo list instead. I was hooked. I used inbox for a long time- long enough for me to hate Google, but I knew I was hooked with email. It looks like I used inbox for around 4 years. Then… Google killed inbox. Well, there was no chance I would ever go back to awful Gmail after experiencing the glory of inbox, so that was just what I needed. I have my own email domain now and can switch providers as I see fit- no more will I be hooked into a product via email. Thank you Google for killing inbox!

I don’t search with Google. I don’t use chrome. I don’t use android. I block as much of Google as possible. I very rarely use YouTube. I NEVER say ‘Google it’. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an Apple fanboy either, but I don’t hate them like I do Google.
If I were a betting man, I would bet more people would lose overleveraged mortgages on their Airbnb properties before Airbnb gets a jolt from people in unstable housing situations.
Unfortunately, you can trust MS about as much as any company in 2024. The core ethos of OSS is, in many ways, a thing of the past.
I worked in mid-market/the TL from 2014 until 2017. The tech companies sort of helped. A handful of hip restaurants and bars sprung up, but the city never really dealt with the homeless. There are a lot of non-profits serving the homeless in the TL, and there wasn't really anywhere for them to go as an alternative.

>> $10 million a year in lost revenue

That's 1.5% of the homeless budget.
The alternative search engines are powered by Bing, Yandex, or only index a small part of the web https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
Palo Alto is suburbs. It is also home to the best medical care in the world...
I think I did not.

https://i.imgur.com/4Ik69ki.png
This is an interesting comment. I think part of the mystique of Joan Didion's persona and her autobiographical writing is the fact that she is a wildly, and fascinatingly, unrelatable person, regardless of the reader's gender.

The point of her writing generally isn't to reflect to reader. And what makes her autobiographical writing so compelling is the the way she dissects her own supremely unrelatable life and emotional landscape.
I've mostly switched to VRBO for the group house situations. I find the prices are usually a wee bit better and the cancellation policies much, much better for the same houses. Although YMMV of course.
I will get downvoted for this comment: Size of living area does seem to be highly influenced by gender. I hear many more men say they would be happy living in a smaller place. I never once heard that from a woman under 50. (After the kids are gone, they may wish to downsize.)
It's a big topic. I'm interested in the meltwater pulses following the last glacial maximum. I think something happened to cause those meltwater pulses. An impactor, or solar ejecta, or something similarly catastrophic. It's very interesting that those events seem to coincide with the earliest signs of human civilization. Global sealevels are still around 120m / 400ft higher than at the glacial maximum, and humans tend to build settlements at shorelines. Which suggests there is a lot of human history yet to be found on continental shelves worldwide. It seems an interesting avenue to potentially explain the gap between the appearance of biologically modern humans ~ 1m - 200,000 years ago and civilization ~10k years ago. I would not be surprised to find records somewhere of such a global catastrophe as seems to have happened.
Microsoft still gets shat on for their 90s reputation, yet I rarely hear open source people complain about Google or Apple…
This is not typical in the US. I have never heard or seen a gun shot fired while someone committed a crime.
>I saw Elon Musk questioning why we have medical regulations the other day, he was saying that it "slows down innovation" and so he thinks medical regulation should be abolished

Is he just posturing for his fans?

I see so many statements of this nature from him and I just can't believe that a person that successful can be so monumentally stupid.
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Kinda like saying you wish your Lamborghini had a big truck box.
Yeah I should clarify that I was speaking personally about new code. I definitely encounter plenty of legacy code that is completely inscrutable.

But, I can say in 2024 at least, that most teams I've been on value explaining complex logic (especially logic that can break in subtle ways if not properly maintained) with comments, in new code we write.
I just deleted the cross comment.
Safety regulations are frequently written in blood.
> South Bay & Peninsula housing is actually more expensive than SF

Per square foot/meter? I find this hard to believe.
I believe there is also a gen-2 just around the corner.
Return, short for Carriage Return, makes no contextual sense unless you're old (really old) enough to have seriously used typewriters.

Nowadays, I get "WTF" faces whenever I go down to the office supply store and ask them where they have their typewriter ribbon cartridges.

It's like Floppy Disk for the Save button, except Return didn't have the cultural weight behind it.
And you still can't provide a custom grammar to the API...

The company I work for desperately need the LLM to consistently generate results in a subset of HTML. I was able to craft a small grammar file that does just that, in under 5 minutes, and use it successfully with llama.cpp. Yet, there are still no API offering this basic feature that could really benefit everyone.

Instead we have a thousand garbage medium articles with "tips & tricks" on how to prompt the AI to get better results. It's as if people don't care anymore about consistency and reliability.
Do beware on some reasoning task, our recent work[0] actually found it may cause some performance degradation as well as possible reasoning weakening in JSON. I really hope they fix this in the latest GPT-4o version.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02442
Hopefully you didn't just check, but also copied any data you care about to modern storage?
For short strings, this is basically the same concept as ShortStrings.jl in julia

https://github.com/JuliaString/ShortStrings.jl
IME it can be unreliable and just doesn't end up being all that useful. C# compile times being what they are, it's not such a burden to stop and rerun for minor changes.

Not like my C++ projects which take several minutes to build because Windows Defender wants to use 50-80% of my CPU to monitor the compiler for malware. Wish I could hot reload one TU or something.
AI humanoid robot helped assemble BMWs at US factory
Sure, except for the people they inevitably run into and/or injure. Sometimes it is better to restrict these things especially in public places.
That's a lot of posts for a blog :)
>Those who order grocery delivery online would benefit from price comparisons, because they can order from multiple stores at the same time.

Not really, since the delivery fees/tips that you have to pay would eat up all the savings, unless maybe if you're buying for a family of 5 or something.
I just got a duet 3 two weeks ago and I am surprised by how much I like it. Got it mostly for reading/annotating pdfs but I am finding that I use it for all general computer stuff. The small keyboard took abit to get used too and the chromebook's lack of many common keys with the caps lock being more a function shift still throws me off but is growing on me.
Everything about prompt engineering is just the voodoo chicken.

https://wiki.c2.com/?VoodooChickenCoding
I once had a project where I had more than one person trying to play an emulated game online through a custom Dolphin Emulator build on the same LAN segment. Due to the nature of how the client was trying to use ports, port forwarding was not helping due to overlap (clients wanted the exact same ports open and could not be distributed). I eventually gave up trying to do port forwarding and instead had each person get a VM with an extra IP assigned to it in a local data center. Linux supports different network configs per application and I managed to use TincVPN as an Ethernet bridge between the VM's Ethernet and each local machine, where I assigned the 2nd IP from the VM to the end of the tunnel and created a custom routing table only for Dolphin to be started with that used the VMs routing configuration. Effectively, it looked like they were playing their games from inside the data center.
shouldn’t the relevant metric be whether they increase your chance of success more than the cost (equity) you sell them in return?
There’s different meanings to “cleanliness”. A bit of grime is fine. Drug paraphernalia, human feces, and tons of homelessness is another matter.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Plandex and Github's Copilot Workspace are very similar. You could draw inspiration from each other.

I tweeted about Copilot Workspace the other day.

https://twitter.com/aantix/status/1819794837375263228
Given some of IBM RedHat's shenanigans, I'd say they can probably be trusted as much as anyone else at this point.
Is there an official translation? Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.
Minecraft had good graphics, actually - the color pallet was clearly well thought-out, and the blocky low-poly aesthetic was chosen for visual consistency with the 1m voxel size that makes up the entire world.

Short of shipping with raytracing (which notably wasn't real-time possible in 2010), there's not much Notch could have done to improve the core graphics.

(Note that while I'm using 'graphics' and 'aesthetics' interchangeably here, they're separate things with graphics meaning technological capability and aesthetics meaning artistic choices.)
It's still yet to be seen. Twitter has nose dived since the staff left, so perhaps they were providing value.
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Yes! https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
The claim was that "only the rich and powerful could listen to [classical music] played by an orchestra at a dedicated concert hall" thus limiting the general awareness.

While that's as aspirational as having the time off and the money and the luck to attend a taylor Swift Concert today, the hoi pollai were indeed familiar through d/loads today and, in past times, through sheet music in beer halls and smaller parlours - music was widespread throughout society beyond just grand concert halls, it was played by "gypsy" trios and quartets who played their own styles and riffed on motifs by "the greats", Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, etc.
I send dynamic jsonschemas to LLMs in manifest[1] to simulate function calls based on function signatures. These structured outputs will be enormously useful.

Other posts claim that you can generate jsonschema-conformant output reliably without this, and while I mostly agree, there is an edge case where gpt4o struggles, and that is simple data types. For example, a string, in jsonschema, has a schema of simply {"type": "string"}, and an example value of "hello world." However, gpt4o would produce something like {"value": "hello world"} at a very high probability. I had to include specific few shot examples of what not to do in order to make this simple case reliable. I suspect there are other non-obvious cases.

1. https://github.com/amoffat/manifest
They are overrated. They are very hard to read. I prefer a simple linear list 100% of the time.
Thanks for the heads up, cheers.

Non-mac laptops.. seem mostly sketchy these days.

If you know of exceptions please do chime in.
A Study on the Impact of Structured Output on Performance of LLMs
> you can't actually pedal this thing... sort of foundational to the concept "bicycle".

Interesting. Just wondering - what does "pedal" mean to you. Explicitly spinning and explicitly with feets?

Are any of those not considered bicycles to you?

-Elliptical bicycle
-Treadmill bicycle
-Handcycle
Persona 3 Reload maps the journal to the stick click, and I keep pressing it at worst moments while maneuvering to ambush an enemy, getting ambushed myself instead.
I think unions and certification would largely prevent the "just do it" idea. For better or worse, it seems more difficult for a programmer to become an electrician than for an electrician to become a programmer. So yeah, if you want to LARP at some kind of trade, then you're likely going to need some kind of fixer to let you do that after you (and the people you want to inflict all the substandard work on!) sign all the appropriate waivers.

Now if you just want to swing a sledgehammer on demolition day for what is usually a construction crew, ask a friend, because it is great exercise and relieves stress and has a relatively low barrier to entry. But on the other hand while you're saving the membership fee of your crossfit, you're also taking work from someone who's unlikely to be able to switch careers on short notice, so perhaps this is not the best way to unstratify society.
Maybe is due to all the complaints and people start shying away