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Huh, Surprised Stained glass mode works for everything in the archives. even the old "sketch" ones like https://xkcd.com/3/

Is this newsworthy? he seems pretty par-for-the-course in this administration. "Trump appointee completely normal and levelheaded" seems more newsworthy, which is sad because that sounds like an "Onion" article headline.

wasn't "panic" buy but I built a new comp early 2025, cuz at worst case would be complete supply crash and at best case it was going to be more expensive.

Def don't regret doing that, though I regret not springing for the extra RAM.

Assembled a computer last year and lament not forking out to max the ram. Prices do appear to be down, at it's highest it was about 4x the price I originally paid right now it's closer to 2x the price.

Never heard of the radio thing. I suspect LoRA has already eclipsed LoRa in general usage. It's probably more appropriate to complain on a LoRa post that it's too close to LoRA.

Not that it matters much, pretty sure Trump is inadvisable.

Def not alone

I'm actually very surprised, even if it was costing money. Their technological moat has turned out to be much more shallow than expected and competition fiercer. At the moment I think their greatest asset is brand and engagement. With a popular product and a deal with Disney seemed like a slam dunk on remaining prominent in the brand space and retaining user engagement.

Not only have they thrown out a name everyone knew, and exited the market segment, but they've also triggered Netflix/Google graveyard woes. "We may not maintain products you like". This could make people wary of buying into new products, "will it be there in a year?"

What's also fun to think about is the compression ratio of that data. the human genome is in the 725MB range.

Makes me think of our current quest with creating AGI, that the metrics for measuring animal brains don't necessarily correlate nicely with "intelligence" or capability.

I imagine an alternate world filled only with intelligent robots that are trying to create "biological-agi" from scratch and are supremely frustrated at the results, throwing neuron count and density at the problem without understanding the fundamental properties that actually create intelligence.

My first thought along these lines was "do I now need a NoCSS plugin along with NoScript"

at what point is CSS powerful enough to become a malware vector.

Veracity unconfirmed, but this article asserts that until they did some cleanup they were storing 19 petabytes.

https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-github-reduced-repo...

maybe sourced from this tweet?

https://x.com/github/status/1569852682239623173

Edit: though maybe that data doesn't count as your "just text" data.

short term yeah, probably hurts native ports since "why bother". Long term though if the market share for Linux is particularly high I could see more native development.

Either way my comment is intended as more humorous than truly insightful or prophetic.

Ironically they're being barred from participating in the community because they haven't participated in the community.

Also ironically the easiest way for someone to reach the threshold for participation would be to create a bot.

Wine might be oddly self-defeating. Broad game support on Linux increases the viability of Linux as a desktop, which increases market share, which may result in developers creating Linux ports as a 1st class concern, which don't need Wine to run.

Myself and some friends all went through the cycle:

- Jpeg is fine, nice in-camera processing

- Oh but I really want to edit this one to fix things only raw can do, raw is better anyway

- (Starts shooting in raw) - man annoying to have to process all my photos jpeg is good a lot of the time

- (shoots jpeg + raw)

- ugh, so many files and it eats my card, I don't need both files all the time, also I'm editing more anyway

- (Starts shooting only in raw)

That's where I am now, though the final steps may definitely be -Eh, jpeg is good enough, I don't edit anymore anyway.

Author stated they used Claude to compose the document. I believe they were alluding to the idea that Claude's own safety alignment prevented it from documenting the flag because it's called dangerous.

Seems a bit silly, aren't all pitted dice biased?

They should, but they won't. I fully expect that by the time we see "windows 12" that possibility will be fully eliminated.

Ironically they may have to in order to stay relevant. I'd be surprised if you could find a teenager today that if you asked "would you pay extra for an iphone or android phone that you could use without an apple/google account would you?" that their answer wouldn't be "why would I want that? I'd be cut off from the whole ecosystem!"

While I tend to lean towards libertarian the reality is that "someone will fill the market gap and customers will leave" is largely a myth. Even without lock in or other reasons the market tends to be rather shallow with only a few choices. Maybe HP is the instigator but it largely signals to their competitors that "hey you can be abusive too". This creates a casual follow-the-leader collusion then everywhere sucks and there's nowhere to go anyway so why leave.

to be an even more annoying pedant. they technically said "monotonously" not monotonically, though skipping to 26 still seems pretty monotonous.

Will we? like doesn't everyone already assume the the NSA has had their hooks in basically everything possible.

Like I'm having a hard time concocting a reveal that would be "Stunning"

"NSA wiretapped all major phone carriers, recorded every voice conversation and text message of every citizen"

Meh, not that stunning. at least not in a "violation of rights" kinda way. Maybe in a "wow they had the technical acumen to even handle all that data" kind of way

"NSA has secret database with all medical records", "NSA has logs of every credit card transaction", "NSA can compel anyone anywhere to spy and reveal all data on anyone for any reason"

Would any of these reveals actually be "stunning", frankly I've assumed the worst for so long that the response will be more like "wow, that all they're doing?"

like opening a diaper on a kid with IBS, you expect it to be so bad when it's a normal turd you're suddenly really happy about shit.

Dunnow, everyone is in a bubble of some sorts. I'm online a good bit but rarely on my phone, If I'm away from my desk I'm offline. My social circle is similar so I would naturally have bias for what I experience.

Year or so ago I took an Uber and was mesmerized by the driver. He had his phone up mounted on the left and was pretty constantly interacting with it. Checking for new rides, watching a video, checking facebook. It was quite impressive how much content he consumed while at a red light and how dexterously he navigated to and through like 10 different apps.

I very much got the feeling that this was a person that was terminally online and suspected that he's not alone. A bit alienating really, living in the same country speaking the same language but realizing there's this huge cultural/behavior divide between us.

Kinda been dead a while, also not dead there's still good stuff out there. Lots of it, but it's in the corners and under the carpets. Things created in the original spirit of the "let me show you my interests" that the older web was built on.

While back was toying with the idea of building out a new web on a new protocol (not http based). Thus no existing browser would understand it. Deliberately obscure to force a "Reset" button of sorts.

Though would be short lived, over time we've learned to ruin stuff faster and faster. I'm not sure there's any network so alien that it could hold on to that golden era of innocence from the past, it would be found then expediently and expertly exploited.

YouTube is interesting because unlike Disney and more like social media sites it has no IP moat. I could see Netflix creating U-Flix to woo content creators that have no lock-in to go them or at least also post with them.

So reading the article, let me get this straight.. The producer is losing money, the importer is losing money, the distributor and retailer had the temerity to not accept losing money and pass on a cost but aren't really making any more money. Due to which you're so upset that the sheer injustice of it all you'd rather see the corrupt government that levied the illegal tariffs to begin with keep the money than accept that the importer might actually come out ahead by happenstance.

Yeah, sure. that's totally more fair.

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Was active on Reddit a long time ago, there's a liminal band of popularity in which a service tends to offer the best experience. Enough interest to be good, not enough interest to make it shitty or incentivize abuse.

It's difficult to remain in that band particularly because at some point you have to actively fight growth, not sure HN is all that immune either. I think HN tries to stay in that band via it's archaic UI and somewhat intimidating culture.

Surprised they don't mention Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. Seems a bit myopic to condone the general legality while arguing "you can only use it how I like it".

It also doesn't talk about the far more interesting philosophical queston. Does what Blanchard did cover ALL implementations from Claude? What if anyone did exactly what he did, feed it the test cases and say "re-implement from scratch", ostensibly one would expect the results to be largely similar (technically under the right conditions deterministically similar)

could you then fork the project under your own name and a commercial license? when you use an LLM like this, to basically do what anyone else could ask it to do how do you attach any license to it? Is it first come first serve?

If an agent is acting mostly on its own it feels like if you found a copy of Harry Potter in the fictional library of Babel, you didn't write it, just found it amongst the infinite library, but if you found it first could you block everyone else that stumbles on a near-identical copy elsewhere in the library? or does each found copy represent a "Re-implementation" that could be individually copyrighted?

FWIW game works fine on windows 11 64bit. went to https://www.silverspaceship.com/chromatron/ ran the exe. fun game.

They make trackball clickers[1] (often with a laser since they're for presentations), and other single handed devices, a search for "finger mouse" surfaces a few different devices

I don't know if any of them have PTT with microphone but you should be able to pair the clicker with a regular bluetooth headset, while the headset may be on all the time you might be able to use something like joy-2-key and a macro/hotkey utility to map the button press to mic mute.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Handheld-Finger-Trackball-Po...