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luketaylor
·2 months ago·discuss
in what sense did Anthropic “kill” Bun?
luketaylor
·2 months ago·discuss
No, the generator itself is being made source-available for previous customers
luketaylor
·4 months ago·discuss
The indicators are controlled along with sensor access at a very low level within a secure “exclave” from the main kernel; this is how the on-screen indicators have worked on iPhones for a few years. The indicator is rendered within the display controller at the firmware level, so can’t be affected by anything in _either_ user mode or kernel mode. [1][2]

1: https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

2: https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/#...
luketaylor
·5 months ago·discuss
WSJ published a video yesterday with the first pictures of those servers: https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/2026176857541075274
luketaylor
·7 months ago·discuss
This whole repository is a bunch of vibe-coded boilerplate that doesn’t include almost any of the core thing it claims to do. The README is generic slop and the “performance metrics” (“Pose Detection Accuracy”; “Person Tracking Accuracy”) appear to be completely invented / hallucinated. In other words, it isn’t real.
luketaylor
·11 months ago·discuss
The current plan was announced here a few weeks ago: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/...
luketaylor
·12 months ago·discuss
Referring to this type of optimization program just as “AI” in an age where nearly everyone will misinterpret that to mean “transformer-based language model” seems really sloppy
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
Source?

Edit: I just pressed “Reset All to Defaults” under “WebKit Feature Flags” on my device running 18.2 beta, and the switch for WebGPU is on!! <3
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

I do not believe that “Jews as a collective” are “bribing and blackmailing the whole Western world.”

I do believe that American lobbying groups—including but not limited to those that support Israel—use money as a tool to influence American politics in a manner akin to bribery, including in the few examples I linked about AIPAC.

Your casual conflation “Israel (Jews)”—as if the two were a single group with congruent interests—is misleading, dangerous, and antisemitic. Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Jews are pro-Israel.
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
This article falls under “reported pieces,” not “op-eds and critical essays”
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
The IDF uses Palantir’s technology, and Palantir is outspoken about its support for the state of Israel:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/palantir-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-...
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
On AIPAC in the US:

1. “How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime”

2. “Top Pro-Israel Group Offered Ocasio-Cortez $100,000 Campaign Cash”

3. “Senate Candidate in Michigan Says He Was Offered $20 Million to Challenge Tlaib”

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/27/israel-democrats-aipac-b...

[2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocasio-cortez-aipac-offer-con...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/us/politics/hill-harper-r...
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
The original thread has now been restored by mods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
Now removed from the front page even without being labeled as flagged.
luketaylor
·2 years ago·discuss
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/972-magazine/
luketaylor
·3 years ago·discuss
Not an exaggeration—Apple’s primary “location services” API, used on iOS/macOS, is just a lookup table for wireless APs’ MAC addresses. [1]

WiFi scanning is much less power intensive than GPS, much more reliable indoors, and often (in dense areas) more accurate even outdoors. iirc the iPhone only connects to “real” GPS in specific situations, such as when visible wifi signals are insufficient (e.g. highway driving).

[1]: https://www.appelsiini.net/2017/reverse-engineering-location...