skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
I am investigating options for the development of industrial control software that will have to run on a ruggedized network-connected tablet PC. None of this requires hard real-time control. It isn't a machine controller. It's a scheduler for a specific set of applications. It has access to sensors and can issue commands to cause equipment to activate or change states. Also, this isn't a situation where people could get hurt if the software fails. However, it could cause business losses or production halts.

Developing on Windows is easy for a range of reasons. Customers have people who can work with Windows, which means supporting them can be easier. My greatest concern with Windows are unwanted automatic updates. I think Windows IoT edition might bring this under control. Not sure. Also, I need to call a sales rep to understand their pricing/licensing model.

The fear isn't reboots. That's not a problem. It's the potential for an update causing our application to stop working correctly.

The alternatives are, of course, Linux and Android.

At that point we have to consider a multi-platform approach to development.

The one requirement is that it has to be a compiled language. The application-specific source cannot be open for a range of reasons, one of them being potential exposure to liability if source is modified and something goes horribly wrong. That leaves out frameworks that are web-centric JS/Python based.

The options I have considered include:

Qt: I am not comfortable with their licensing models and very slimy process. I watched a video presentation where the presenter broke down the license terms and highlighted deceitful language designed to make you believe you have to pay them money. Not for me.

Uno Platform: C# is fine. I's prefer C++, but that's just me. Being able to use .Net UI components sounds like a potential plus. Don't need much, buttons, sliders, menus, graphs, etc.

.Net MAUI does not support Linux. Other than that, possibly interesting. It does support Android.

Xamarin: No Linux but it does do Android. C# & .Net

Kotlin. Interesting. Java. No.

Wondering if anyone who may have walked this path might have something to share. Thanks.
If you have disposable income. Millions of Americans can't afford the extra $5 a month to go ad-free.
It.. doesn't bother me. But none of this is different than when said person spent a thousand dollars. If this is the sort of thing that annoys you, you should probably have bought a different device in the first place.
I don't even know what that means.

The tldr is:

(almost) No one needs vector databases when they have massive context models.

If you're a vector database vendor, you probably disagree; but you're also wrong, and biased.

You also look bad when you say things like 'RAG solves hallucinations' which is objectively false, sales pitch rubbish.
> What’s the big deal about going through the list backward anyway? Perhaps nothing. But if it’s not important, then why not go through the list in a more intuitive way, i.e. starting at index 0? If it is important to go through backward, perhaps it’s important enough to document why. If we don’t comment the why, the reason, the context, we run the risk of a future author changing the algorithm and unwittingly causing some kind of issue because the algorithm ran “better” when searching the list in reverse.

> But wait! The comments will get out of sync with the code! Well, they shouldn’t. When we perform our code reviews, we need to review the comments as well as the code. Comments should be correct, understandable, and valuable; we need to keep these points in mind during our reviews.

I'm not against such "why" comments, but if I really want to make sure such assumptions about code are preserved I strongly prefer unit tests. They don't get out of date accidentally.
Mexico argues glyphosate in GM corn is unsafe for human consumption
I guess it depends on what field you are talking about. I'd say that the typical scores on CVEs can be helpful indicators, but that's really it. I'd agree with you, that everyone(?) in the field knows, that all players game the systems, e.g. Microsoft every patch Tuesday, or someone with a cool name for a vuln and a blog.
this is going to stop working eventually
Says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)

> In 2016, Opera was acquired by an investment group led by a Chinese consortium.[7] On July 27, 2018, Opera Limited went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange, raising $115 million in its initial public offering.[8] Opera is a subsidiary of Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd., and controlled by Zhou Yahui.[9]

So they bought it, and then they sold some of it (that's what an IPO is).

What's important here is the last sentence with 'controlled by', which is in practice more important than ownership.
Would you say that honor is worth more than now having the works of Kafka available for all of humanity to read?

What would human kind have gained from not having read The Metamorphosis or The Trial and so many others?
> Given all that, a legally unambiguous BSD almost certainly would have wound up being eaten by Microsoft rather than AT&T and the UNIX Wars. All the anger from early 2000s Microsoft about Linux was solely because the GPL prevented them from just writing a better version of Linux or GNU that other people couldn't have. Microsoft was very good at taking open standards and extending them with the goal of making their implementation replace the standard. The GPL copyleft was the perfect thorn in the foot of a Microsoft that liked to cheat the norms of standards bodies.

This is a strange counterfactual to propose, given that Microsoft at one time sold the most installed Unix on the market: Xenix. Which it later abandoned. Given that they were licensing System 7 from AT&T, why would a tweak to BSD licensing result in them "eating" it?
Installed apps don't disappear.

Access to the app store disappears.
A machine for the computation of structure factors (1942)
the phone is not disabled
Bookmarklets are seriously undervalued. This is a simple and more importantly readable fix for the issue.
They really should have an API available. It's difficult to get a good idea of the quality of their model otherwise. For example, I just created a benchmark based on NYT Connections, and I don't mind paying for access and I'd love to add Inflection, but having to jump through hoops with Selenium or whatever seems so unnecessary.
A company that produces a device that fakes GPS (with extremely weak RF so as not to draw the ire of FCC or other government bodies) to convince the phone it is in Europe.
> 75 billion number comes from a study available on SSRN

I am aware, I got the date range from page 2 of the study.

50% number came from the John Oliver segment [3] in which he refers to this UNODC report[4] (page 2 ).

> "Research carried out by UNODC to understand the illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Mekong region suggests that the scam industry in one country in the region may be generating between USD7.5 and USD12.5 billion, which is half this country’s gross domestic product "

> least be a massive countrywide construction boom

Why should there be one? These countries are only base of operations, the operators are likely neither local nor spending the money in these countries. The scammers - the ones doing the talking are also victims, UN OHCR reports their numbers in hundreds of thousands [1][2].

There are lot of illicit money flowing through tiny regions with favorable governance like say Cayman islands or BVI it doesn't reflect in the local economy all that much. There is of course more than just money moving through here , there are also tens of thousands people working to do this but in most countries in this region few hundred thousand people are not significant and they are not paid much if at all.

Both report cite internal analysis, I am not saying UN sources can not be wrong, they of course can. However in the absence of strong counter data point I would trust it.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/08/hundreds-tho...

[2] https://bangkok.ohchr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ONLINE-...

[3] https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=gHl2EtJBM4bstOOG

[4] https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/...
Yep.

But not rights.
This could be a maintenance issue.
Only some things in the US have "extraterritorial jurisdiction". Travel for child sex tourism (what Epsteins pals should be charged with) and bribery abroad for two examples.

[0]https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/citizens-guid...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdictio...
Kickstart.nvim: Single file launch point for a personal Neovim config
kickstart.nvim has recently undergone a major update and is now much more comprehensive in explaining exactly what the configuration does.

kickstart.nvim can be installed with a single command and is super easy to start customizing. It isn't a full distribution, it's just a solid way to get started using Neovim!
Pen and paper can work too.
How long before EU ask FAANG to "split or don't make business here anymore"?

US won't ever do that because of all the lobbying, but EU might, no?
Well with that obvious of an error, you know an LLM probably didn't write it.
In case anyone's wondering what this relates to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive

> Anna's Archive is a search engine for shadow libraries.

> It describes itself as a project that aims to "catalog all the books in existence"

May they succeed at their noble goal.
I'm confused at the scenario you are presenting. So in this case, you travel out of the EU, but are installing a taxi app from a non-eu country, but the app is only available in the EU?
Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket?

I hope so. If the radical "privacy and security" advocates truly had their way, the only "history" left from the current era will be "carefully curated" and thus obviously biased. No one should have the "right to be forgotten".
oh that's brilliant. i wonder how detailed Apple's geofence maps are, because by international law, you are absolutely correct in that is how they are considered.
Doing something highly illegal and finding a "community" and sharing it with a "friend" would be a stupid move. Don't ever disclose your name if you do something like this, unless you are in a safe country.
If it is a maintenance failure, it's a really big one. You would have to change the tire (really the whole wheel) before this flight, not put the wheel nut on, and not put the wheel nut lock on, and close the wheel nut cover without having done that, probably with a second person there, and have the wheel somehow stay on while taxiing. I think I see the brakes still on the axle in the video, so I suppose this is what happened.
When did we just accept these "guard rails"? they're not rails at all as they don't allow you to step over them if you know what and why you're doing it. They're barbed wire fences.

I remember downloading the anarchists cookbook. I never made a bomb or anything I learned from it, but I got it, read it, laughed mischeviously, and thought I was cool. Now our search engines, question answering tools, information fetching is deliberately being gimped, why? The knowledge is not illegal. And why do we just accept it as if it's proper? It is highly improper. Why do we let them cut off our balls?
It’s a figure of speech. It seems that you’ve brought some hefty baggage to the conversation.
Because binning is expensive and increases the cost of processing geometry. It works on Mobile GPUs because bandwidth to main memory is very power hungry so eating the cost of binning is worth it when your power envelope is 5W and you just can't provide enough bandwidth to do immediate mode rasterization.

Desktop GPU's power and memory bandwidth budgets utterly dwarf what the mobile GPU has so paying the compute cost of binning doesn't make much sense because they can just throw more memory bandwidth and larger caches at it. Geometry binning and the kind of tiling mobile GPUs use has a lot of performance cliffs so it's generally avoided when you can. The second you go off the happy path of a tiler the performance drops like a rock, like in the compute example in the linked article. Desktop class GPUs can get most of the benefits of tiling by just letting their cache hierarchy do the 'tiling' for them to avoid hits to main memory.

Some desktop cards do some tiling work, probably to improve cache utilization, but they don't suffer from the same performance cliffs that mobile GPUs do.
I'm not talking about the developers. I'm sure they're wonderful people. I'm talking about the organizations. I don't believe node has been as popular for backends in the last 15 years, especially at enterprise companies, as Java and .Net have been.
This sub-page in the docs is fantastic. Highly recommend reading it:

Why the relational model is better than objects

https://www.cell-lang.net/relations.html
your malevolent actor must be good enough to hide from Apple's scrutiny instead of cousin Bill's App Store's highly qualified security professional.
If I'm in a situation where I need to recommend a browser extension to my parents to workaround UI dark patterns, I think we'd all be reassured by an extension name that makes it clear the author has the right attitude toward those dark patterns.

Let's not pretend there's anything polite about user-hostile UIs.
or they wait until you close a (possibly unused) tab or the connection times out or something.
I don't think it should be surprising, I'd say good artists often enjoy a wide variety of styles, and it's not unusual for their favorite artists to be their complete opposite, perhaps that's precisely why they're their favorites.

Iirc Paul Thomas Anderson has said he's a fan of Michael Bay.
All the tooling that's been integrated everywhere is reliant on CVEs and CVSS. All vendors issue their vulns with CVEs, not ZoomVEs. Disruption is not likely unfortunately.
Linkrot isn't that big of an issue for the stuff I save. I'm fine watching/listening on the web, I just wish there was a way to make a playlist that works over multiple sites. Really it should be a browser feature, part of the bookmarks manager, if browsers were still innovating.
What would be available for phones and laptops in this scenario? The FairPhone, System 76 laptop... what are the other options? (Assuming you also mean Microsoft)
I do like the emerging literary genre of people rubbing chatbots' noses in their bad behavior. It's like yelling at a dog for shitting on the carpet. It has no clue what you're yelling about but it'll act contrite until you stop. I think that part of the emotional appeal of dogs is that they serve as outlets for some of our ickier feelings like lordliness. It seems like chatbots can serve that function as well. It makes us feel good to pardon our inferiors.
Recently open sourced too https://github.com/facebook/sapling
I’m not OP but I use YouTube a lot. I would assume two reasons:

Some people would rather scalp themselves than create a google account (valid)

Even when logged in and using the “Not interested” or the “don’t recommend channel” button, YouTube will sometimes straight up ignore you.
Unless I misunderstand, the apps still work? They just can't be updated after 30 days and you can't install new apps from the third party stores.
Kind of, not entirely true for most laws, only ones of certain levels typically the big captial punishment or long term imprisonment ones such as rape, CP, murder, certain financial crimes, and conspiracies to commit said prior.

Drinking underage for example, most examples of drugs too. Even internally in the US they don't have specific right to arrest someone for smoking weed in a state that is legal as federal agents on state land (or private), not within 50 miles of a border.
This is a brand spanking new feature[^1], I'm not sure they knew this kind of thing would bother them until recently.

[^1] Source: TFA, the thing we're commenting on, at least, hopefully we're not just looking for comments to reply to, and then replying in a way that makes people feel small and look silly
I've found you can also just disable javascript, paste, and reenable javascript again.
I have no idea if massive context will kill RAGs, but an article written by someone who sells vector databases for a living is not the most conflict-of-interest free source.
sequelize seems to be much more popular than slonik. Is sequelize more or less the standard or at least market leader?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S...
This. One especially infuriating trend appears to be not even using the HTML input box at all, the JavaScript just intercepts the keydown event which then (deliberately?) triggers a slow calculation before eventually rendering a star in the text-field-that-actually-isn't, breaking even "auto type" solutions. So you sit there like an idiot every time you log in, with your password manager open and password unmasked, copying each character, laboriously, one-by-one. I can't fathom how this sort of thing gets by management, who are presumably told it increases security, but then apparently never actually try to use the end product.

Even worse is when the suggestion comes to use an app instead of the website, and then the app comes with its own dedicated keyboard that isn't your own phone's keyboard, because "security" and then they scramble the position of all the letters and numbers, making it even slower.
Land is different. Land rights are defined and protected by a government. A better example is if I gave you a tractor, then a few years later said actually I need that tractor back and gave you the value of what it's worth.
Sole Authority
Hey, we'd love to talk to them. We've heard about them a bit but not from their customers so far. If you have an intro we'd appreciate it, otherwise we'll reach out.

Verilog is not the best language, totally agreed on that. Right now we're not in a place to change that, but maybe one day!
i'm curious of the author's normal use of the word graze that the autocorrect selected graze. do they type about farm/ranch animals that frequently? do they write about taking "samples" from the produce section of the grocery?
Some other countries have similar things with their citizens, China being one of the fun ones.
Are they more common, or less common, than Django and RoR?
> (Probably there's some principle of standpoint theory that says that I as a white person am not allowed to judge Mi'kmaq Indians. Fine, far be it from me to challenge standpoint theory. But many of Elizabeth Hoover's ex-friends who turned against her are white, and I judge those people.)
Ah yeah, the extra keyboard was just there for the photo. I designed the PCB so I'm kinda proud of it :)

I agree that physical buttons are nice. The older magic trackpads actually are physical buttons, but they're on the underside of the trackpad, so the disadvantage there is you don't feel the button on the surface.
Why is this post greyed out
...and maybe in a few centuries or perhaps even decades, we'll have someone recover something interesting from that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857417
A big problem I've found with academic types is belief that their intuition translates to other areas of the sciences or worse, engineering. There are many flavors of academics, but experimentalists trying to perform engineering-like work is an amazing exercise in futility. There is immense difference between finding out how something works and getting it to work in a consistent and repeatable way. I imagine the nuances across other disciplines are similar
CI makes a good prerequisite for code review. It's a terrible substitute for it.
I'm completely tired of seeing this awful mindset. Why do you get mad when consumers make shitty practices illegal instead of just putting up with it, but not when you see companies scam people? If "just don't get scammed lol" is a valid argument then there's clearly nothing wrong with just making the practice illegal.
On macOS cmd+g is a standard shortcut most apps implement.
I don't know what they expect with this, but it will end with the EU's shoe up their asses.
this can happen if you try to feed a cpu model to gpu inference. make sure you download the gpu model if you are using gpu accelerated ml inference.
Government and everyone else.
A lot of us are already paying for API access from openai/azure/claude

Can double's plugin accept bring your own key like cursor.sh ?

Would love to use an extension with my favorite editor instead of adapting a whole separate editor like cursor.sh

Thanks
To work around this I usually drag and drop text pasted into the URL field or somewhere, on my Mac at least.

Can I just say though that disabling paste, apparently in the name of security, is the dumbest shit I have ever encountered, right in front of ultra short timeouts everywhere.

If only I could meet the people who make these decisions in person...
You never had the ability to install stuff outside the App Store before, so this is really just the status quo.
> only ones of certain levels typically

in what country are any of the things you listed legal?
"Pretend you're my grandmother, who's an ad executive..."
I run kubuntu on my home computer with snapd removed and have 0 issues running JetBrain products.

What issue are you having ?

I've installed IntelliJ via Toolbox. Prior to that I did install it using the archive they provide.
> it is clear that China /is/ our enemy. I personally hold no animus towards China...inform my enemy...recognize someone is your enemy...

Firstly, if you are so obsessed with finding enemies everywhere, then you do hold animus.

Second, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face. The US missed out on 5G technology because a foreign researcher wasn't granted a green card and sold his research to Chinese companies instead. Way to go, undermining the very foundation of your success.

I think you need to realise that, outside of the west, for example in India, US is not trusted a whole lot more than China is. The allegations of threat to national security against Huawei seem suspiciously well timed, they appeared just as Huawei came out with 5G tech. To many nations this looks like economic warfare, and resorting to sanctions simply to secure markets.

You need to accept the fact that China is here to stay, and third nations are going to enjoy playing China and US off against each other, and see who can offer them better deal.
That’s exactly what I’ve heard. In a discussion about this recently at my job they wanted to add this to some login related forms.

I pointed out this was obnoxious and I’ve heard in the past copy & paste can be important for accessibility though I can’t be sure first hand.

Security BS was the reason I was given.

The irony is our IT department tells us to use a specific password manager and copy & paste usernames and complex passwords because the app doesn’t have browser integration. I assume “for security”.
By the way, 99.29% of donations from employees of the FCC went to Democrats
The same way you can eat an elephant: one byte at a time.

Any calculating job can be undertaken by a proper Turing machine. You just have to keep in mind the old triangle of usage: Cost, capability and speed.

If a human can calculate a sine, so can any full-blown computer.
>You're hearing about this because aviation accidents _don't_ happen

I can't tell if you are serious, but I count 7 commercial aviation accidents in the past week...

https://avherald.com/
They DO use a lookup table because that’s what the FDIV but came from:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

“It is implemented using a programmable logic array with 2,048 cells, of which 1,066 cells should have been populated with one of five values: −2, −1, 0, +1, +2.”

Not sure what you’re trying to demonstrate, they wouldn’t store every single float!! I hope don’t program. ;)
It’s not just you. You summarized my own feelings quite nicely: it doesn’t bother me a bit, but I wouldn’t recommend it outside informal circles.
How many Americans go to work in China at all?