skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performance vs power across a CPUs operating range is not a linear relationship. Which is why a naive perf/Watt metric like Notebookcheck does at each chip's top operating point is almost worthless for comparing efficiency. You need to at the very least normalize to either the same power or same performance, but preferably reviewers should be measuring and reporting a full perf/power curve for each chip instead of just one data point. Geekerwan seems to be the only reviewer that understands this, and they mostly focus on phones.
Of course, work isn't the only way to stay busy or sane. I think we'll also see a lot more hobby groups and general community gatherings.
>it was disgusting how easily the US government

It was never the US government? It was always done by advocacy groups with good law firms suing Visa for _whatever_ until Visa """voluntarily""" censored porn payments.
also fidonet itself worked like this; at mail hour, or when you asked it to, your node would dial up other nodes to exchange mail with them. you could set up a 'point' that was like a mini-node, not listed in the node list, that only talked to one full-fledged node.
The minimum wage is a government imposed price floor, not an average wage.
This is interesting. It seems like a logic language (like Prolog) would work more naturally.
Google still has an unbelievable training infrastructure advantage. The second they can figure out how to convert that directly to model performance without worrying about data (as the o1 blog post seemed to imply OAI had) they’ll be kings.
This is the thing, the NAR settlement didn’t really change anything, the fee was always negotiable and there always were agents who would offer under 6%. They were typically scummy agents who didn’t last long (they popped up when real estate was hot then disappeared after they burned enough clients and/or the market cooled off).

As in all things you will get what you pay for. I’m not interested in fighting with anyone about what a realtor is worth but I will say:

* All agents are not created equal

* A good agent is absolutely worth it

* 6% is only high if you don’t value your time and/or if you are ok getting a worse deal because you don’t know what you are doing
Why? If I want to make a terminal, why should that be illegal.

What regulators should really focus on in my opinion is any uncompetitive contractual obligations visa is imposing on vendors.
People buying consumer products typically believe in price signaling. We've actually had clients believe in our services much more at full price than when we were discount a couple months ago.

The default question when we charged a discount price was - "but what am I missing out on if I choose you?" - and even when we said "Nothing!" clients bought into the discount pricing signal already and could not be swayed. This question is never asked at full price
Personally, I foresee legislation restricting AI emotional/sexual companions, which I think I would support (depending on the details).

Specifically, I would want to make it illegal to sell access to AI companions, but not criminalize talking to or using AI companions. This targets punishment at the exploiters rather than the exploited.

It’s possible I could be swayed by the “these are more helpful than harmful” argument, but more evidence is required on both sides. I’m sure there will be plenty of evidence coming.
Why do families pay less taxes than corporations? I'm not a money guy or a lawyer but that seems extremely *off*.
intracity was usually free though in the us
> (I call this begware)

This only reflects how fucking stupid you are. If you read the post in any detail, you'd realize the author has been running a paid service for a while (9 years) and does not need your help.
And this disadvantage quantified translates to… 0.1% area, performance, perf/watt, something else?
> Pakistan doesn’t have orbital launch capability.

SUPARCO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPARCO

PAKSAT-1R: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paksat-1R
> Postel's Law is also known as the Robustness principle.

Really? It seems like it's obviously just a description of how natural language works.† But in that case, there's an enforcement mechanism (not well understood) that causes everyone to be conservative in what they send.

We can observe, by the natural language 'analogy', that the consequence of following this principle is that you never have backwards compatibility. Otherwise things generally work.

† Notably, it has nothing to do with how math works, making it a strange choice for programming.
The author goes into more detail here: (you have to scroll down because Mastodon doesn't implement permalinks properly) https://idtech.space/notice/AmKoRh9UNybVIC7eaW.

> the [wayland-protocols] governance model is totally broken, and needs to be just removed and should be replaced with controlled anarchy like Mesa.

> the fact that the repository is anything more than a collection of XML files that compositors and clients handshake on is a huge mistake. w-p should not be set up like a standards body. it doesn't deal with ip or legal frameworks like Khronos does; and the current w-p governance represents but a tiny selection of clients and compositors.

> whenever something new is proposed, the immediate reaction is typically "this goes against my ideology for what i think is pure and right for Wayland," which is totally messed up and not conducive to actually fixing any problems. take the window icons protocol, 95% of that whole thing was just utterly useless noise and what-about-ism.

> it is not just a "technical" problem, the way people treat others with differing opinions and schools of thought about how something should or could be done is really bad, and even if certain people are not directly members, they are associated/affiliated to projects who are, and act incredibly hostile.

> in my experience, wayland-protocols is just a lot of power-tripping and useless arguing, and not much actually solving problems.

> as mentioned by me and others, the bar for entry for a protocol to land even in 'staging' is ludicrously high, which leads to features taking literally half a decade to land at some times.

> having a path for experimental protocols in w-p -- ie. something that can be rapidly iterated on and implemented by clients and compositors, and shipped to users is a total must.

> experimental protocols can follow the basic iteration groundrules of what I defined in frog-protocols to avoid there being an immense amount of churn there.

> but I think all of this is incompatible with the current governance model.
This comment fooled my comment summarization bot. Thank you to teach me something today!
It looks like Visa debit fees are about $0.21 + 0.05%. Compare that to cash handling...

>The idea that accepting cash is cheap is actually a myth. While some business owners might think the 3 percent fee for processing credit cards is a burden, research from IHL Group shows that cash handling costs many retailers between 4.7 and 15.3 percent. This means for every $100 sale, a business is paying between $4.70 and $15.30 just to manage their cash. And, the cost is only increasing as more businesses and consumers trend away from cash.

>Handling cash also comes with many unwanted risks. The process business owners must go through to manage cash is a clear burden. They have to account for it; count the drawer nightly and rely on employees to use the honor system when doing so; package it up and either hire a courier or send an employee to transport it to a bank; pay fees for processing and handling; and ultimately run the risk of exposing the employee, cash, and the business to liabilities that may not be recoverable.

https://www.plainscapital.com/blog/the-cost-of-accepting-cas...
The JPL position is that telescopes should be in space, not on Luna. Too much dust. Too much gravity. A lunar farside optical telescope was proposed, but it would be inferior to one in open space.
I tried it with Polish,but even at the most difficult level it highlighted only a few random sentences on the page.

Customer-wise, I'm right in your wheelhouse. However, the price is too high for what it does. If your app performed better, I would grit my teeth and subscribe anyway, but as it is I'll wait.
> Yes, the programming language defined in the 70s isn't perfect and has a couple of kinks that could be improved. As does every single programming language.

Back in the 70s, they didn't know as much about writing parsers as we do now. The field was much younger.

There is a reason that Go's declaration syntax is not based on C's, despite Go being created by one of the co-creators of C.

> which is the exact opposite of your unbelievable claim.

I'm not making claims, I'm stating facts. Parsing C declarations is difficult. Writing C declarations is difficult. Reading non-trivial C declarations is difficult. For examples of this in action read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse.

C++'s horrific syntaxial complexity is the ultimate end of C-style decls. C++'s syntax is, again, objectively overly complicated for what it does. The reason it is overly complicated it because of the syntax it inherited from C.

C got some things right, mostly around ease of porting to different architectures. However, 50 years later we know a lot more about how to design programming languages.

C is not perfect, and even when it was created, better designed programming languages existed. However C was cheap and good enough, and because it was easy to port, it spread to lots of platforms.

FWIW I started my career in C/C++ compilers, I have first hand experience with these topics. I love C as a language, but I also acknowledge it is not perfect. The machines it was designed to run on in the 70s were not the height of Computer Engineering and C is not the height of programming language design.
> “You can”

No, “I” can’t.

Open AI has always trickled out model access, putting their customers into “tiers” of access. I’m not sufficiently blessed by the great Sam to have immediate access.

On, and Azure Open AI especially likes to drag their feet both consistently, and also on a per-region basis.

I live in a “no model for you” region.

Open AI says: “Wait your turn, peasant” while claiming to be about democratising access.

Google and everyone else just gives access, no gatekeeping.
Interesting, but not surprising — DNA, and the cellular nucleus itself, aren't truly required to make our cells "go". (At least over the span of a few days.)

That is, after all, what radiation poisoning is: a complete destruction of your DNA in your cells, while the cells themselves (attempt to) continue to function. And they do! For some number of days. And that's without any of our evolutionary ancestors ever having been under evolutionary pressure to live without DNA (as far as we know.)

IIRC, cell death from radiation poisoning follows a bathtub curve.

• There's firstly a lot of immediate cell death from apoptosis — probably due damaged DNA starting to do something that looks like cancer, and autolyse safeguards activating in response. This is what a radiation "burn" is.

• But then, after that, everything's actually fine for a while. You're just sitting there for a few days, operating normally — despite the majority of your cells now having massive holes shot through their DNA, with any attempt to unzip that DNA to copy it failing.

After that few days, you get massive waves of cell death — the part of radiation poisoning that actually kills you. This likely arrives, due to cells experiencing various inputs that they see as triggers to attempt some kind of state-transition (whether a minor one, between e.g. glucose vs ketone metabolism; or a major one, e.g. into mitosis.) And doing that requires flipping some epigenetic methylation switches to start producing different proteins — which requires the DNA be un-rolled and re-rolled. The cell tries it; it fails; and there's no "error handling" for the case of "you started a state transition but can't connect to the blueprint database", so the cell just "deadlocks" in a volatile state — e.g. one where metabolism is shut down, so purine waste builds up until the cell lyses for chemical reasons.

So it's not too surprising that an organism could evolve to just intentionally not trigger such cellular state-transitions — likely no longer expressing any of the state-transition "machinery" at all. Such an organism would get quite far with their cells just "doing the thing they were programmed to do", without a nucleus. Even cellular metabolism would continue!

There'd just be nowhere to get "replacement parts" for proteins as the original proteins break down or get oxidized by some radical — thus the lifespan limit.

Also, something not mentioned in what you linked, but which seems like an obvious corollary: I would guess that such organisms would likely be "metabolically fragile." I.e., they likely have dropped anything like adrenaline signalling, as the whole point of that is to get cells to state-transition. So they'll be a bit like a person taking alpha-blockers, who gets winded extremely easily because the drugs are preventing their cells from "gearing up." For this organism, there are no other gears to switch to. The organism is a fixie.
not 'crash', which for computers refers to a temporary halt to operations which can be resumed by rebooting. an hcf is more like a car crash: something that physically damages the processor. like, if you have a microcontroller with four pins wired together to give you more drive current, if you drive two of them low and two high, you are likely to have an hcf
You have 8 comments on this thread and have not mentioned anything about having any real estate experience yourself, just contradicting everything I say with 0 evidence.
The key problem here is a lack of accurate data. OSM is amazing, but is constantly getting improved and closer to realtime "ground truth." Historical OSM data is usually worse all-around, rather than "equally good, but as of year XXXX"

Perhaps there is a different dataset with better historical accuracy than OSM, but I do not know of one. You'd likely have to reduce your scope: trails in a specific park? Roads in a specific city?

As another commenter notes, there is a sister project OpenHistoricalMap that focuses on mapping historical data. It is rather sparse compared to OSM, but super fun to explore around e.g. NYC.
As a result, Microsoft had to enter into a consent decree, allow additional non-Microsoft software on PCs, and share a variety of interop protocols.

That's far from nothing, and the web would have been substantially worse without it.

Imagine if IE was the only Windows browser, MS JScript had dominated over JavaScript, IE-only AJAX was the only option, etc.

Measure not against perfection, but against the status quo.

(I'd also argue the entire experience fundamentally changed MS into the company it is today, where interoperability and "growing the pie" again seem important, vs the Borg-like domination trajectory its leadership was then on)
Suburban malls were really disruptive to the dry goods industry - in the sixties. Well-run stores adapted fast to needing have anchor stores at malls. I wonder how things would have played out differently if the generation that computerized their stores before the personal computer era and finessed the transition to malls had still been calling the shots at these companies during the dotcom boom.
IBM PC 5150 Model Numbers
Yep, but the awesomeness of ConnectRPC is that you can use the JSON api in the web browser, and indeed I do that in this project. We don't have to, and as a matter of fact it's a little less performant, but it's easier to debug and hack.
The great thing about open map projects is that they can be updated, and store a historical edit log along with discussions and sources for each change.
No issue here, I don’t find that I go back too far anyway on their podcast. Currently have a subscription so also doesn’t impact me. I’ve always wondered if these podcasts ever make that much money, I for one never click on ads on websites nor would I hear an ad during a podcast and look into that product.
There are many problems with this idea.

* Windows exists.

* The system package manager is meant for the system environment. The typical Python environment is separate from that - a container or a venv. The system Python installation is there to make the OS work, not to provide a working dev environment, and it's often not suitable as such (especially on Debian).

* There simply are far too many packages out there to make it workable.

* Part of the point of how Pip works is that compiled code can be pre-built for specific platforms. A system package manager typically loses that advantage and needs to rebuild from source.

* Installing Python packages "from source" commonly involves running arbitrary Python code at install time, by design. (The build system simply doesn't provide any standardized way to invoke compilers, nor to apply conditional logic - you're stuck with Turing-complete, unsandboxed Python. Python is really hard to sandbox anyway.) For obvious reasons it's not appropriate to do that as root, which rather interferes with using a system package manager. Yes, obviously packages that mirror PyPI distributions and are made to be installed with the system package manager, will be adapted to avoid security issues. But this requires significant, parallel maintenance effort. The devs of the individual projects likely don't have resources to spare to help distro maintainers, either.
Yes, but one harms the consumer far more than any possible benefit from reduced theft (again, I would argue that carrier locks don't reduce theft), and the other causes no harm to the consumer while providing a huge benefit by reducing theft.
Also Octopuses Like to Punch Fish (160 points, 4 years ago, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517411
Suppose AI can do anyone's job. Then, after massive layoffs, no one would receive a paycheck. How would that produce a burgeoning economy? Or indeed, any economy.
Security.txt Validator
An easy on the eyes (at least for whoever prefers dark mode) validator for your security.txt needs.

Including signed ones.

Parser is pretty much an implementation of the ABNF grammar in the RFC.

Nowadays I write rust so this is all rust (crawler and server).

Frontend is a mix of tailwindcss with htmx.
I think services definitely make sense in flask because flask has no built in ORM, you'll end up using sqlalchemy. Even the author concedes that in some non-django applications it may make sense

> And if, after reading this, you still are convinced that a service-layer approach with business logic separate from the data models is the right thing for you, then go for it, but I’ll urge you one last time to at least strongly consider not doing it with Django, and instead building on top of a component stack that uses a Data Mapper ORM (in the Python world, SQLAlchemy is far and away the best choice) that natively incorporates that type of separation. In the long term, I think that’s going to be a much happier and more productive path than trying to fit the square peg of a service layer into the round hole of Django’s Active Record approach.
As with other community projects such as Wikipedia or OSM, OpenHistoricalMap relies on keen-eyed volunteers such as yourself to improve their database!
Good to know, but do you have more specific info? I see plenty of lists like this and I'm not quite sure what's missing from it.

https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Jailbreak
I think it is great that the DOJ is finally interested in breaking monopolies but unfortunately a lot of these cases are going to be pending the election. Depending on who wins there is a high chance we see all antitrust action die.

And let me be very blunt so people aren't confused, I think if Trump wins, the people he installs in the DOJ will be less than motivated in pursuing these cases.
Looking at this further, the standards change doesn't even match what Cosmopolitan is doing.

From the 'changed their rules' link, the 'Desired Action' is to add this text: "The input file may be of any type, but the initial portion of the file intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar [..] shall not contain the NUL character."

This handles things like shar archives where you have a shell script at the beginning, then an exit command, then binary gunk.

But Cosmopolitan binaries are not just shell scripts with binary. They're hybrids of shell script and DOS executable. And apparently this requires putting nul bytes right near the beginning (see my other comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640331), in the "portion [..] intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar". Which explicitly violates the new text.

I can understand why this hack is needed for what Cosmopolitan is trying to accomplish, but it makes no sense to claim POSIX blessed it.
Have such stores popped up on the Android system? I'm assuming such a system would be possible there but do not know.
So this is like a signature? Under every comment? Why, if we all have usernames?
Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030
>Using it made me wonder what the application for things like this would be.

Almost certainly in video shorts or high volume video content, I would think.
Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison
Well, the comparison is not cash but a counterfactual market that's more competitive and where fees are lower.
Discussion (67 points, 2 days ago, 192 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616540
Thanks for the support a_d :)
What you say is certainly true in general, but there are a surprising number of specialists kicking around big tech companies who are not particularly fungible, and replacing them means likely poaching their counterpart from another firm. Those are the ones you really don't want to decide they'd have more fun working remote for a startup...
> Update: Halide’s Sebastiaan de Wish says the company received a call from Apple informing them that this was a mistake. Halide can now resubmit to the App Store “without any changes required.”
It was not in the period I'm talking about. Your local calling area--maybe some adjacent exchanges/towns--was free but for me to call Boston from about an hour west was decidedly not free in the late 80s. Mileage may have varied of course.

And when cellular came in, I deliberately picked an area code based on the people I was most likely to call.
WordPress Foundation Filed in July to Trademark "Managed WordPress"
Fallout from TfL cyber-attack is slow burning and potentially costly
I don't trust anything in power management to work right on Windows (or Linux.) It is way better than it was in 2000 when I was working with a businessguy who had a Windows laptop that needed several hard reboots a day.

Right now I am listening to music on this computer while I work on another computer. When the screen turns off on this computer the headphones get switched to headset (telecommunications) mode and the music quality goes down... On a desktop computer where saving power is not a big issue and I certainly don't want worse audio just because the screen powered off.

It's been a long term issue that USB devices will not work properly if USB power management is enabled and that's scary when some of those devices are mass storage devices that could corrupt data.

As a single vendor, I trust Apple better to get things like this right, but I don't particularly like MacOS.
Probably at least one of "it's cool" or "I'm already using MicroPython"
In part this is because of the existence of Interac though. If Interac didn't exist it's possible they would feel they need to use VISA to not turn away too much membership. Having debit as a fallback means they can partner with whomever gives them favourable terms. I doubt Costco is paying Mastercard a % of the transaction the way most other retailers are.

Despite it existing since the 80s, there's been constant pressure / lobbying to get rid of it.[1]

[1]: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/interac-i...