skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very interesting. So all the declarative stuff, like various type descriptions and preconditions and such, can be precompiled.. (and i am not talking about type-hints/annotations). Maybe some of the meta-programming stuff too.

i was thinking some weeks ago that it may be time to "fork" python - as language - in a way to preserve the initial simplicity and clarity it did have and is losing faster and faster. But, nevermind. Will have to live with whatever there is.

edit: looking at the code, some things might be optimized but no idea if these are on critical path (like, that switch-by sq_idx, or 6 lines.append.. ), or whether func-calls are as expensive in Spy as they are in Cpy. But anyway, squeezing few percents is not the point.. if one needs magnitudes.
I think those folks would rather buy a Leica/Ricoh. what does this offer? worse glass, sensor, controls. I really don't get this camera.
You'd hope that Oak Park, Evanston, Wilmette, and then Berwyn and Schaumburg could get this done, and then your next step would be either Chicago (tough because of aldermanic structure) or statewide, the way California did. Either way: you start in one municipality and work from there.

It helps that zoning matters more in Oak Park (and Evanston) than almost anywhere else in Chicagoland.
ChatGPT clicks convert 6.8x higher than Google organic
I recently dug into some data in GA4 for our website and found that while Google Organic brings in more traffic, ChatGPT clicks convert way better — 6.8X better for free trial conversions, to be exact.

If you’re in the trenches of SEO and digital marketing, you know that this is a big deal.

Despite having a fraction of the total visitors, ChatGPT clicks were outperforming Google Organic in converting users into free trials (our conversion event)

From a common-sense perspective, it makes perfect sense — instead of TBC (10-Blue-Links), the user is coming to your website highly qualified and probably warmed up and pre-sold on your product and services.

In short, while ChatGPT drove just 4% of the traffic, it accounted for 22% of the conversions.
In regards to the second point, this isn't correct for ZFS: "If several files contain the same pieces (blocks) of data or any other pool data occurs more than once in the pool, ZFS stores just one copy of it. Instead of storing many copies of a book it stores one copy and an arbitrary number of pointers to that one copy." [0]. So changing one byte of a large file will not suddenly result in writing the whole file to disk again.

[0] https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/
Wizard's slow interpreter also runs on the JVM, albeit it very, very slowly. Have you done any benchmarking against Wizard?
> The only reason to do something like this is if you only know Python and refuse to use anything else.

The ignorance and prejudice of most developers are staggering. They simply think "Javascript is shit", and all their arguments boil down to jokes about NaN and the weird behavior of ==.
JS is (by far) not a jewel of a PL but it's telling that those people don't know anything about the real cursed and weird parts of JS (such as: eval does not behave the same depending on how you call it...).
Hey that's a topic I can get behind!

Most of the big CEOs appear to be CEO of multiple companies (Musk and Bezos come to mind). If you can be the CEO of five different companies, it really doesn't seem like it can be that hard of a job. ChatGPT might be able to do that just fine.
I’m not sure if it works on a file or block level for CoW, but yes.

However APFS gives you a number of space related foot-guns if you want. You can overcommit partitions, for example.

It also means if you have 30 GB of files on disk that could take up anywhere from a few hundred K to 30 GB of actual data depending on how many dupes you have.

It’s a crazy world, but it provides some nice features.
On linux, the gpu can go up to 110 GB.
In this particular case, the forum is UK-based ("HEXUS is a UK-based technology reporting and reviews website founded by David Ross in 2000")

In other non-UK-based cases, geo-blocking is the answer being used by some people.

Per https://geoblockthe.uk/, they state:

"Luckily OFCOM (the UK Government department responsible for 'enforcement' of these new rules) have confirmed that blocking people in the UK from accessing your website is a perfectly legal and acceptable way to comply with the law.".
Moderating UKs regressive speech laws might be a problem.
1920x1200 / 16:10. It's perfect for a 12" IMO.
Very nice! I’d love to see your work.
I should still be able to click around the pages to browse the products, even if full cart functionality isn't there.

Whoever is in charge of that website gets an L.

For that matter, it makes me reconsider my hosting of things with Cloudflare. I know nothing about framework's site's configuration, but I know I don't want my site to have a waiting line like that.

edit: also, the timer went down and then went back up, so I have thoughts about this enterprise Cloudflare feature.
I'm pretty sure the parent comment meant "never charge hourly, instead do fixed cost projects only" but the grammar is ambiguous.

One strategy I've seen used is a fixed cost for the project (delivered to spec) combined with an hourly retainer for support and changes. Sometimes there is even an explicit carve out for changes during the development so you can avoid scope creep derailing the project (and the relationship with the client).

You don't want to get into nickel and diming the client: "why did it take X hours to set up a DNS? and what is a DNS? Do we even need a DNS?" etc.
That's really neat! I realize this demo is a contrived setup, but it is basically an example of what Eric Schmidt was talking about when agents start communicating in ways we can't understand.
I FOIA'ed >1M pages of docs for my project cleartap.com, a DB of water quality of the USA.

Most states would charge a small amount to gather the documents.

Michigan wanted $50K to for the FOIA request. I think because of the Flint lead crisis. They wanted me to go away.
Right, it is called Regulatory Capture, because big actors have the means to comply.
Improving efficiency in a system generally reduces it's resilience, so improving efficiency is definitely not always a good thing.
Video that includes the radio communication between the control tower and the pilots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mp9aUJaTY
By "appropriate" I meant "fitting" or "suitable". Just in case you took my meaning as "inappropriate in conversation," I could have been more clear, my mistake.

My supposition about the necessity of ground rules is precisely as supported as the alternatives offered in this discussion. Poorly supported by the standards of rigorous debate, I agree, but supported enough for casual discussion. No one has offered any evidence CoCs are caused by busybodies. ("Silently" seems unnecessary, it wasn't silent, I stated it aloud and described why I thought it was so. I can't help but point out again, you go on to dispute it, but not with any evidence. I think that's fine for casual discussion, but it's not meeting the bar you're setting.)

"Scheme to elevate property values" is a shared interest if all of the homeowners primarily view their homes as financial instruments. People get bent out of shape with HOAs because they want their home for other things. Some people would rather put up radio towers or paint their house a garish color or park a truck on their lawn than maximize their property value.

CoCs are as old as dirt. I signed one every single year in elementary school, decades ago. They've been a norm in workplaces for a long time. They're more recent in open source projects, and they started because of problems projects were having - people being creepy at conferences, people starting drama on mailing lists, etc.

What's recent is the politicization of CoCs.

If it helps, I would agree that busybodies might abuse both of these mechanisms to impose themselves on their neighbors and colleagues. I disagree that that is the root of why they exist, on the basis that they can be explained by incentives and pragmatic considerations. On an Occam's razor basis, if I don't need to assume busybodies are the motivating force to explain the existence of these things, then I won't, until such a time I receive evidence I can't explain without them. Were we colleagues, and I were involved in drafting a CoC, "I don't want a CoC because I'm worried it will be abused by busybodies" is a concern I'd take seriously.
I watched a really cool walk around video of it on YT

It's crazy it can carry as much payload as a B-52 if I recall right
If you specifically log failed database queries, where "failure" means "indicative of SQL injection", then nothing you can do with the schema is going to reduce the signal in that feed --- even a single SQL syntax error would be worth following up on. No, I don't think your logic holds.
Other comments here have suspected its audience might be primarily UK-based, so geoblocking might not be the best option.

I'm also not familiar with UK law, which may or may not deem that be a sufficient counter-measure against VPNs. Also, if the forum's operator is based in the UK this also might not be an option.
> > Optimization, hardware.

> Quite don’t understand why these concerns are “concerns” here.

One of the most frustrating things about C is that it is generally taught together with assembly, so that there is a general conflation between C and assembly, as if C is both "just" some sort of portable assembler and the unique language with that property. The main consequence of this is that the C abstract machine [1] tends to be assumed to be the model of how processors work, and this ends up creating a lot of friction where the C abstract machines just doesn't match hardware newer than about 40 years old. It can be a little hard to understand just how bad the friction is if you haven't personally run across it, but here's a few examples:

* Registers. C doesn't have a concept of registers [2], and there's not much of an easy way to really distinguish between "things that look like a load/store because the abstract machine assumes everything has a memory location" and "no, this is meant to actually issue a hardware machine load/store or this is meant to actually permanently live in a register." There's also minor stuff like the fact that the language makes it easier to express "A[i]" (load A + i * sizeof(A)) over "&A[i]" (A + i sizeof(A)) that makes it somewhat annoying if you want to express assembly concepts better.

SIMD vectors. This is pretty common (at least across a desktop, server, or mobile CPU or GPU). But C has no way of expressing these types or how to use them, outside of compiler extensions (and there's like three incompatible versions of it).

* There's a lack of concept of optimization, and concomitant issues like optimization barriers. Some things have slowly moved in (e.g., there's now an attribute to indicate a function call is speculatable), but in general, it's still difficult to tell the compiler to stop doing some optimization that might break your code.

* No hardware speculation barrier concept, and similar other barriers for more exotic concepts like operations depending on the path condition of the function call (cryptographic code, which wants to be constant-time, or SIMT code tends to care about that a lot more).

[1] Or at least what people assume the semantics of the abstract machine are. Let's be frank, the C userbase isn't very good at actually knowing what the C standard does and doesn't guarantee.

[2] Yes, I know about the register keyword. No, it doesn't give C a meaningful concept of registers.
> What do you even mean by black hole if you can't describe it in the language of GR?

You’re right. But playing devil’s advocate, there are QM objects that look like black holes [1] as well as observations of a supermassive object at Sagittarius A*.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2307.06164v2
One interesting angle here could be if this had good compatibility with SteamOS to the point where it supported most/all the games the Steam Deck does. That would make it a very appealing offering, since right now DIY SteamOS setups are a pretty wild west.
Would you mind answering those questions? I love photography and when looking over a camera can get an idea around strengths/weaknesses. This seems like they wanted to cheap out on construction with fewer physical controls and still be able to advertise as a compact FF camera despite having a low MP sensor.
I believe that technically email was sent out by OPM, so not sure your #1 is correct. Your other points stand though.

Edit: However the "failure to respond is a resignation" part was Elon and so yeah, maybe your #1 point stands as well.
Thanks that was inspiring to read. I'm curious your thoughts on names in all this. E.g. your profile/website (cool website btw!) uses a handle or brand (badsoft), but no "I am Firstname Lastname". How do you introduce yourself to others, and when are you strictly pseudo-anonymous? Just curious around personal preferences and challenges or benefits of being "Face and name" vs "my brand".
You’re right. My apologies to OP and y’all. Can’t edit, but the snark was uncalled for.
AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral
My impression is that airline incidents are currently one of the winners of "the game", and that our difficulty to grasp the true scale of the complete situation hinders our ability to contextualize the trends. Personally I still assume that it is not indicative of the sky falling for air travel. Articles like [0] seem to agree, although it uses number of incidents and not casualties to make its case.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/airplane-crashes-sta...
Canada says "you're welcome". (Quite some time ago US and Canadian researchers worked to trap and transport eagles from northern Canada, where there will still several thousand; those birds helped restore the population in the contiguous states.)

I've not been able to find sources to indicate the bird's conservation status in Canada at that time. As far as I can tell, every mention of the birds being on the verge of extinction should always be followed by "in the US".
ZFS: "The main benefit of deduplication is that, where appropriate, it can greatly reduce the size of a pool and the disk count and cost. For example, if a server stores files with identical blocks, it could store thousands or even millions of copies for almost no extra disk space." (emphasis added)

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/
Have never been using facebook. Gave instagram a short stint few years ago to remove it eventually because of too high ads/friends ratio in the feed. No problem in organizing social life.

FWIW, whatsapp provides excellent capabilities (well, for 2025 where only old timers remember phpBB and can compare to it) for local community discussions and meetups, interest groups, parent groups, whatever group discussions and coordination.
It is a 360 hinge.
>What happens to therapy when we take the friction out of it? The same question could be applied to all our relationships. As AI companions become our default source of emotional support—not just as therapists, but also as friends and romantic partners—we risk growing increasingly intolerant of the challenges that come with human connection. After all, why wrestle with a friend’s limited availability when an AI is always there? Why navigate a partner’s criticism when an AI has been trained to offer perfect validation?

This tendency towards maximum comfort reminds me of many things, e.g., food delivery apps: they provide a near-seamless experience, at the loss of small encounters with humans that may be really important for a happy life.
That's .gitignore. GP is asking about what you have in your .gitconfig.
So don't make it then? If a particular vendor's product isn't in line with the company's mission, the CEO is the one to make the call to proceed with manufacturing.

edit: it's not for me and I can totally just not buy one, but if one identified with their original mission and sees this as betrayal of that, it'd be hard to justify getting a framework laptop when it's their turn to upgrade.
And because it's not economical and there hasn't been sufficient government subsidies as of yet to mine them. The barrier is quite high, and it's not clear if tariffs are enough.
The thought leadership in this area is strange. On the one hand, I think there's this implication in the UBI and end of scarcity talk that implies that AI will free us up to like have fun be with family and build relationships.

At the same time, we're talking about AI essentially ending all relationships. Part of the value in a therapist is that they're not perfect, emulating some of the relationships you have in real life. If AI ends up being the perfect therapist, then it's not preparing you for real life, it's sort of preparing you for narcissism.

I feel both like this touches on something important about the human condition, while simultaneously feeling like the old "Back in my day, we talked to people and not robots"
Sorry, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. Trans women are a subset of men. Taking cross-sex hormones and getting surgery won't actually change your sex. It's the best we can do for now until we figure out how to fix the brain-body mismatch.

Denying simple biological reality will get us more fascism. It's not the entire reason, but it's easy to whip people up about trans issues when you literally have men beating up women in sports. Your average person will never accept that, and that's something you just need to accept because you can't change it.

Note that I said "partially responsible". The fundamental reason is that the DNC doesn't give a shit about the working class and rejects actual leftist ideals, but trying to push unpopular social issues on top of that just killed their chances.

Some day, we'll arrive at a happy medium of "trans women are not women but that's fine and let them live their lives in peace".
> Other transport layer protocol rollouts have been stymied by ossification such as MPTCP

AFAIU, Apple has flexed their muscle to improve MPTCP support on networks. I've never seen numbers, though, regarding success and usage rates. Google has published alot of data for QUIC. It would be nice to be able compare QUIC and MPTCP. (Maybe the data is out there?) I wouldn't presume MPTCP is less well supported by networks than QUIC. For one thing, it mostly looks like vanilla TCP to routers, including wrt NAT. And while I'd assume SCTP is definitely more problematic, it might not be as bad as we think, at least relative to QUIC and MPTCP.

I suspect the real thing holding back MPTCP is kernel support. QUIC is, for now, handled purely in user land, whereas MPTCP requires kernel support if you don't want to break application process security models (i.e. grant raw socket access). Mature MPTCP support in the Linux kernel has only been around for a few years, and I don't know if Windows even supports it, yet.
Why this over a traditional ATX work station? The article even points out the motherboard will fit in an ATX case, so size doesn't seem to be the major selling point.

For gaming specifically, so many micro ATX motherboards offer Gen 5 PCIe, which can handle a proper video card, double the RAM, and the smaller cases are only slightly larger than this Framework.
Nature will do fine with increased co2, bar arctic/antartic turmoil, it'll not be a big problem. The far bigger problem is that places where nature can even be gets occupied by humans or their farms and logging.
>You'll create a browser extension that automatically bypasses paywalls and archives important articles - because apparently saving democracy shouldn't cost $12.99/month

>Your archive.is links will become so legendary that dang will create a special 'Paywall Slayer' badge just for you

>You've shared so many archive.is links that the Internet Archive is considering naming you their unofficial spokesperson - or sending you a cease and desist letter.

>Your economic predictions are so consistently apocalyptic that gold dealers use your comment history as their marketing strategy.

Really sums it up!
Yup none of these tools are actually any close to AGI or "research". They are still a much better search engine and of course spam generator.
I’ve often thought we’d get more sensible results in court cases on computer-related issues if we had specialised courts where the judges were required to have a relevant degree (computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, etc). But I doubt it is going to happen any time soon.
Any CA who believes that the courts in their country could not prevent them from revoking certificates is confused at best.

It's true that DigiCert could have refused to cooperate with Alegeus and fought the court order instead of cooperating with them to rotate the certificates ASAP. But that would have taken a lot longer than 5 days, even if they eventually won. If the CA Browser Forum has such a strong security interest in swift revocation, it's hard to see how further delaying the revocation in order to provoke a legal battle promotes that interest.
Apologies, I stand corrected. Do you have a reference for this? I'm genuinely curious why the 96GB "limit" is so frequently cited - I assumed it must be a hardware limitation.
It's actually a pretty nice system when you're trying to purchase something. You have a reasonable estimate of when you'll be at the front of the queue, and when that time comes, you're more likely to be able to complete your transaction because the site isn't overwhelmed.

It would obviously be better if they could limit it to something like `store.frame.work`, rather than putting a queue in front of their entire site…
Kurt Vonnegut has this story about a conversation between him and his wife, where he relates:

"Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is - we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore."
> Yeah, these are public statements. I expect that there's frantic back-room dealing right now to make sure that the relief funds are not attached to any conditions. Because in the long-term, that will benefit the states that have money.

I hope so but it also seems people keep thinking Republicans/Trump won't step over a line but end up doing it

>The budget of California is $320B. This is more than the _entire_ discretionary budget of the US.

It's 1.7T
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/most-recent/graphics
I know the comment you're replying to called it a "180 degree hinge", but the linked Ars Technica article states that it "flips around to the back with a flexible hinge, a la Lenovo's long-running Yoga design". This is not clear from the pictures in the article, but was on display during the livestreamed event earlier today.
Hunting parties may have cooperated with wolves to route or take down prey. Humans have smarts and persistence, but they aren't sprinters. A wolf can run 30-40 mph.
I’d be curious to know about the former, I’d imagine the latter is something that happens fairly regularly. I’d imagine (and hope) it’s not really a thing… but I mean it’s not like PaulG himself hasn’t been targeted on Twitter (as he had posted himself) by groups…
The two that hang out on my property seem to have raised several chicks to adulthood successfully the past 4 years I've watched them.

It seems like they can adapt if they're just left alone