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google234123 commented on Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly thebignewsletter.com/p/ga... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

showerst · a month ago

Lexis especially makes even scraping public state laws and admin codes difficult, which is extra frustrating because they are the legal publisher of record in a number of states.

I've been considering trying to launch an OpenStates style scraper project for US laws and admin codes, but haven't had the time to attack 100 more scrapers. Even with AI help, the volume is significant.

google234123 · a month ago

Google scholar tried and gave up

google234123 commented on Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate github.com/w3c/png/issues... · Posted by u/marklit

greenavocado · 6 months ago

That's because people have allowed the accumulation of power and control by Big Tech. Features in and capabilities of end user operating systems and browsers are gate kept by a handful of people in Big Tech. There is no free market there. Winners are picked by politics, not merit. Switching costs are extreme due to vendor lock in and carefully engineered friction.

The justification for WebP in Chrome over JPEG-XL was pure hand waving nonsense not technical merit. The reality is they would not dare cede any control or influence to the JPEG-XL working group.

Hell the EU is CONSIDERING mandatory attestation driven by whitelisted signed phone firmwares for certain essential activities. Freedom of choice is an illusion.

google234123 · 6 months ago

Webp is a lot older than jpg xl, right?

google234123 commented on Pi-hole v6 pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku

plg · a year ago

love pi-hole

we block all meta and X properties from our home network, also ads

and it's self hosted on our own metal

it's a wonderful life

google234123 · a year ago

Good way to teach other members of your house to use VPNs to bypass your censorship regime

google234123 commented on The Onion CEO regrets using an AI-generated image as basis for art bsky.app/profile/bencolli... · Posted by u/htk

google234123 · a year ago

His bsky account is not very funny and very political...

google234123 commented on Devin AI security vulnerability discovered live on stream [video] youtube.com/watch?v=927W6... · Posted by u/slashnode

google234123 · a year ago

It;s a funny stream, Devin spends one and half hours trying to push to master.

google234123 commented on DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future devblogs.microsoft.com/di... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain

talldayo · a year ago

Please, tell us all about how Khronos hurt Apple with free software that Apple had every opportunity to influence. Point to the boo-boo that justifies making things worse for everyone.

google234123 · a year ago

I can imagine a scenario: Apple donates openCL, then later suggests some changes for the next version. Khronos delays or pushes back and now openCL is stuck from Apple's perspective and they can't do anything about it.

google234123 commented on DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future devblogs.microsoft.com/di... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain

talldayo · a year ago

cough cough

Remind me who owns the OpenCL trademark, again?

Intel and AMD weren't the ones that abandoned it. Speaking in no uncertain terms, there was a sole stakeholder that can be held responsible for letting the project die and preventing the proliferation of Open GPGPU standards. A company that has everything to gain from killing Open standards in the cradle and replacing them with proprietary alternatives. Someone with a well-known grudge against Khronos who's willing to throw an oversized wrench into the plans as long as it hurts their opponents.

google234123 · a year ago

Would you be willing to share the deal with Apple/Khronos relations?

google234123 commented on Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup ahmadosman.com/blog/servi... · Posted by u/XMasterrrr

pupdogg · a year ago

You can run a setup of 8x 4090 GPUs using 4x 1200W 240V power supplies (preferably HP HSTNS-PD30 Platinum Series), with a collective use of just around 20-amps, meaning it can easily run on a single 240V 20-amp breaker. This should be easily doable in a home where you typically have a 100 to 200A main power panel. Running 4x 1200W power supplies 24 hours a day will consume 115.2 kWh per day. At an electricity rate of $0.12 per kWh, this will cost approximately $13.82 per day or around $414.72 per month.

FYI, I can handle electrical system design and sheet metal enclosure design/fabrication for these rigs, but my software knowledge is limited when it comes to ML. If anyone's interested, I'd love to collaborate on a joint venture to produce these rigs commercially.

google234123 · a year ago

In Cali isn't now like 0.5 per kWh :P

google234123 commented on An admittedly wandering defense of the SSO tax ssoready.com/blog/from-th... · Posted by u/noleary

wmf · a year ago

This car with no seat belts, no airbags, and no ABS is just price discrimination! Strangely, no one seems interested in celebrating the implied discount for not having safety.

google234123 · a year ago

Wasn't it true that for a long time that cheaper cars were just less safe than more expensive cars?

google234123 commented on Starting Hospice jakeseliger.com/2024/08/0... · Posted by u/jdkee

jseliger · 2 years ago

Hacker News, thank you for all the links and all the great reading. Now I have to say goodbye.

I’m with my wife Bess (https://bessstillman.substack.com/) and my brother Sam, and crying, but it is okay. At the end of Lord of the Rings Gandalf says to the hobbits, "Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” And that is how I feel now. Ending prematurely hurts, but all things must end, and my time to end is upon me.

google234123 · 2 years ago

Is there no way for you to do the Dallas trial?:(

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