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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Are you using dependent types for anything outside of academia / in production?

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www.ca5.uscourts.gov 2y ago

Fifth Circuit Rules White House, CDC Violated First Amendment [pdf]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Google’s Election Interference

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Reddit to allow free API usage for moderation bots and tools

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github.com 3y ago

Serious question, why does lodash.isNull exist?

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stationerynerd.com 3y ago

Comparison of 160gsm Bullet Journal Notebooks

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The Rise and Fall of Lisp – Too Good for the Rest of the World [video]

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The perfect NES sound chip [video]

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xtdb.com 3y ago

XTDB: Immutable Temporal Database

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100dayscss.com 3y ago

100 Days CSS Challenge

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

World's largest Tesla Coil

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www.etsy.com 3y ago

Show HN: Talking Johnny 5 Replica

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What’s your favorite desk toy?

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Swatch Internet Time

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www.anishathalye.com 3y ago

uWWVB: A Tiny WWVB [atomic time] Station

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colornames.org 3y ago

Name all the colors

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What if ChatGPT proliferates into a feedback loop of sources it created?

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explore.research.ufl.edu 3y ago

Save energy by growing indoor plants with flickering lights

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github.com 3y ago

uBlock Origin's procedural cosmetic filter CSS extensions

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peter.sh 3y ago

All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags

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thephpleague.com 3y ago

The League of Extraordinary [PHP] Packages

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www.coffeedetective.com 3y ago

Keurig “parts that contact the beverage do contain BPA”

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json-schema.org 3y ago

Towards a stable JSON Schema

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How do you report review fraud to Amazon?

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events.ccc.de 3y ago

How MetroCard works (2005) [pdf]

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i.imgur.com 3y ago

Firefox's chatty un-opt-out-able start and exit

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consumer.ftc.gov 4y ago

How to stop junk mail

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laddertheory.com 4y ago

Ladder Theory

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Update from Fastmail on the Australian policing law and privacy

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

What Technically Happened at Chernobyl [video]

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Laws are meaningless de jure. Especially where megacorps are concerned, the de facto law (ie the only one that matters) is the text, multiplied by the enforcement mechanism, multiplied by the political will to enforce, multiplied by the 10-15 year process of the megacorps draining their legal warchests into challenges and appeals. Then, after all that, maybe… you get a change to corporate behavior.

The laws in this country are primarily written by and for large corporations. They’re not going to meaningfully practically restrain them just because something got passed.

16.7.x (excluding 16.7 RC) and 17.0.1+ will NEVER be supported (unless a third CoreTrust bug is discovered, which is unlikely).

I am 100% over the walled garden, lock out, right to disrepair bullshit. If we had a government instead of a quasi-fascist kleptocracy billion+ dollar corps wouldn’t have the power to do this.

I’ve found that it can do it, but the aesthetics of the diagrams it generates are awful. I end up going back to manual Omnigraffle.

There is an art to designing the human to human communication aspect of diagrams that transcends which lines connect where.

Subscription is ~$200/month. When I tried running on tokens it was ~$500/day for the same usage pattern.

My guess is my usage is atypically high, but even if the average equivalent is $100-250/day you can get a sense of how much Anthropic is subsidizing subscriptions as a loss leader to lock market share. IMHO this is a doomed strategy since open models will get into a long tail of parity and they’ll ultimately essentially be in the business of commodity compute.

I talked to someone laying fiber in Manhattan circa 2020 he said it was $25k / ft. That the permitting process took so long by the time it got approved the people on the city council had changed. That the conduits are so packed you can’t fit another fiber line in it and almost all of them are undocumented. All kinds of union circumvention BS from Verizon aka Empire City Subway who’s supposed to be maintaining this stuff per contract. It’s a shit show.

Podman v6.0.0 20 days ago

One answer is ECR/ECS/Fargate ie AWS. You’re not gonna split the ops stories between local and remote.

Claude Sonnet 5 22 days ago

Mine is to ask it to write a parallel parking simulator and animation. The math there is surprisingly complex including differential equations. Fable 5 can almost one shot it with all tunable params.

leave it behind when GUIs were invented

GUIs were invented by the Xerox PARC team early 1970s, the IIc (I have one sitting on my desk :) was 1984. Totally beside your point so I apologize. I only mention it because PARC deserves a huge amount of credit.

Plenty of people care about their power bill. Water in some regions is a hot political issue. Data centers don’t create jobs of course, we don’t need anyone to answer that.

Read those first 200 pages 10x could never get past it. 300 characters with names that I’ll never remember, some woman and her son, a general or something. A guy that keeps saying “Capital!”, standing around at parties.

I’m sure it’s good but I don’t think I have it in me to try again.

the public should not have to pay to read the law

This goes back to Hammurabi. These decisions are the law. We pay tax dollars to create all this and even if we didn’t, if we’re held to these rulings we need to be able to read them.

I have enough dollars and hours invested with Ubiquiti to have an opinion here.

They manage to make performant, capable hardware for a decent price. Then they give you shit configuration tools, a shit configuration experience, vendor lock in, and forced to the cloud. So on balance no thank you per my personal priorities.

If you expect cloud and vendor lock in is a plus that you’re accustomed to with other maybe enterprise vendors, by all means.

I noticed the same. I told it that we have finite energy and output as people; as a side comment to a discussion with a totally different focus and it started arguing with me because we could have self replicating robots produce output without human intervention since plant life models this…

In what way do they “clearly” not want to communicate? Sounds more like your feelings are hurt that someone is speaking against your political tribe.

If you’ve seen what people will do for $500 it seems impossible to trust people you don’t know, at all, who have multi million let alone billion dollar incentives.

Have you seen what people do to their own family members over inheritances? You “trust” OpenAI?

“Who's being naive, Kay?” - God Father