skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in industrial automation, and the amount of polling and high-latency touchscreen issues I encounter is embarrassing.

The default latency of a Rockwell Panelview Plus screen with their FactoryTalk software (the dominant HMI system in North America for custom automation) is 1000 ms. Fixing that solves 80% of the complaints I encounter.

https://i.imgur.com/gEBAA28.png

(Unfortunately, it's a dropdown selection list with a limited set of values of 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 60, and a whopping 120 seconds).

> Maximum Tag Update Rate: Specify the maximum rate at which data servers will send data to the tags used in the display, including tags used in expressions and embedded variables. The default update rate is 1.0 second`.[sic] If the update rate is changed, the new rate will not take effect until the display is closed and re-opened.

And it's worse than that - often, response time is on the order of 3 seconds, as described here:

https://theautomationblog.com/when-factorytalk-view-displays...

> Well, if you press the button just after the update occurs, you’ll have nearly a whole second go by until it’s read. And once it’s read and sent to the PLC, you’ll then have close to another second until the screen updates again to indicate its on.

I set most of my displays to 0.25 seconds or 0.1 seconds if I can, 50ms is not achievable because Rockwell's Ethernet/IP fieldbus protocol is terribly inefficient and the update rate is a polled refresh of every tag on the screen, you can't have fast buttons and slow production history string arrays.
Nah. Most people barely change channels from whatever they’re watching.

Even if you made it super easy and public access, I doubt 50% or more of the population would know or care.
but... the program ends up entirely compiled and executed as TTF bytecode in the end right, since it's entirely contained in the TTF font ? And TTF bytecode is only the following instructions : https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/... and I don't see anything related to SIMD in there
Nothing, I hope. The world could use a break from all that hype nonsense for a while.
What is the name for the economic fallacy or paradox where I see an article like this and thing "$15k over 4 years is not worth my time" but if you were to ask me if I wanted $15k or a small fraction of that right now with no recurring aspect I'd take it in a heartbeat? That's how I feel reading any of these side project pieces. I look at the total revenue and how long it took them to get there and I groan thinking how I'd hate to do that. Maybe I'm just too focused on hourly rate?
Every Mac I've used for the past 5 years haven't been expensive. I switched away from Windows 5 years ago, and not looking back. Heck, some of the video cards for Windows costs more than my entire system here.
I suck at security, let's get this out of the way. However, it seems like to make this exfiltration work you need access to the Slack workspace. In other words the malicious user is already operating from within.

I see two possibilities of how that would happen. Either you're already a member of the organization and you want to burn it all down, or you broke the security model of an organization and you are in their Slack workspace and don't belong there.

Either way the organization has larger problems than an LLM injection.

Anybody who queries Slack looking for a confidential data kinda deserves what they find. Slack is not a secrets manager.

The article definitely shows how Slack can do this better, but all they'd be doing is patching one problem and ignoring the larger security issues.
Any real world example for this?
The line between remaster and remake is a blurry one.

Nier Replicant ver.1.22... isn't officially called either a remake or a remaster, and a convincing case could be made for either. Yet it changes more than Demon's Souls PS5 does.
If its just basic apps, there is no reason to dual boot, a VM is less of a hassle.

If you want to run games, then dual-booting may be necessary if proton won’t work for the game you want to run in Linux.
This is another reason not to do dual-boot, but to just use Linux.

Here's a good litmus test for a company we're considering joining: do at least their engineers (if not their PowerPoint+Excel biz people) use Linux for their laptops, not only for their servers? If they do use Linux, I'm just going to assert that they're likely more clueful than average.

Similar with startup hiring. Two options for this: (1) give a resume-screening boost to people who seem to have bought into Linux; or (2) announce in your job posts that the company pragmatically uses Linux for everything, to attract people who see that as clueful, and scare away a lot of others.

(Unfortunately, #2 also alienates some mostly-clueful people who really like Macs, and maybe even some clueful people who, through some cruel accident of history and gaming rigs, only know how to do Windows.)

(Actually, even more than Linux, I suspect that a startup using a BSD would probably be more technically clueful than the average Linux shop. Because some fringe tech seems to attracts the smartest and/or best-motivated techies disproportionately. But I'd say Linux is a sweeter spot overall for more startups.)
That's a sidebar, they're not the same. It requires hacks to change the dimensions to a true split, and the things like zoom and extensions don't work the same in it. This is a half-measure at best.
While it’s true that political events can influence market dynamics
Wouldn't generics in the validateAndMassageMyLovelyStruct() function avoid this kind of workaround?
I wonder how the discovery of the need of this International Date Line influence not just navigation and timekeeping, but also the understanding of experience of the flow of time, did it perhaps influence the Englightment, as it just occured before, or was it the age of discovery of the Americas and the Pacific? Difficult to seperate.

A Romanian girl called Iliana/Ilana from Galati or Brailia I was in love with long ago recommended me Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day before when I met her in Taize. Sadly I lost her contact data and her lastname, forever lost in the day before.
I don't want to be too abrasive, but people without families or hobbies tend to fuck up work life balance for the rest of us. It's very tiring dealing with people like you who do nothing but work and bitch about how they don't have anything else going on.
Israel Is Winning in Gaza
Turkey tail mushroom has been shown to be helpful when used with chemo for other cancers. The theory is that it helps boost the immune system and offset some of the negative immune system impact of the chemo.
Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE
Seriously? Treating joke CVEs the same as true sev 1 issues is beyond silly and counter productive. There are very real limits to time, money and attention and pretending otherwise is foolish.
Things like better worker protections than any other state. You know, the very topic which spawned this thread.
Compressing data with sample points and polynomial interpolation
Yes? Large-scale war in Europe and the Middle East every few decades used to be the norm. The Hamas-Israel 'war' is nothing compared to those uprisings. It's like chump change. Also it can be ended tomorrow if the USA wanted it too (or Israel). There is no major threat to world peace at the given time, and it's amazing. It's caused poverty to fall drastically pretty much everywhere. All thanks to 11 aircraft carriers. Who knew peace was so easy.
but the USA has called for Irans' destruction a hundred times

Cite?
It would be more complete if you would account for the kleptocrats in the West.
No that is not what is happening, HarfBuzz have a experimental Wasm shaper, so the font embeds some wasm code that tells Harfbuzz what to output.

https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
Ssldump – (de-facto repository gathering patches around the cyberspace)
I've had what I think is this exact problem and it was solved by doing a factory reset on the Ubiquiti controller (I have a pre-production DreamMachine UDM). It only happened once and it was most certainly from a firmware update that corrupted some state/config on the system, probably in iptables forward rules if I had to make an uneducated guess.
Everchanging Quest: Rogue-like game powered by LLMs
Show HN: New LLM Pre-Training and Post-Training Paradigms
You’re really leveraging LLMs to their full potential
You should learn about some basic database internals. In particular the data structure for indexes, the difference between primary and secondary indexes, join algorithms, page size being 8KiB, etc.

That knowledge gets you to a place to understand that most joins are very slow due to each DB page containing only 1% useful information for the query algorithm.

It will help you see reasons why ppl do things like put an array column in, or use wide tables, etc.
Self-Supervised Learning for Videos
Web 1.0 = read

Web 2.0 = read/write

Web 3.0 = read/write/own
This is why I'm glad in practice politicians, economists, etc., tend to study these things in order figure out how to structure social services in a way that actually helps people and not to make "Reductio ad absurdum" style arguments.
Year 2045: fonts become self-aware and go on a strikethrough.
Australia famously is not a good place to manufacture anyways because the “resource curse” makes AUD expensive and exports noncompetitive.
They'll always come back with "Just use GIMP. It's as powerful as Photoshop." Yeah, maybe Photoshop in 1999.
Show HN: SAVE2 – Save text, links and images from websites to Google Sheets
Save text, links or images directly to your Google Sheets from web pages. Bookmark pages and use Sheets as a research tool, collaborate with others in the same Google Sheets.
Virtually everything outside of a Constitutional amendment is judicially reviewable. The courts are expected to do a little more than go "nuh uh!", though.

Section 5c states, in part:

> The findings of the Commission as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive.
Some more discussion in a Show HN two years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31609896
Syslinux? Has that been ported to efi? I have one machine, maybe a year old, that won't boot legacy bios anymore. Edit: yes, apparently there is a kind of barebones UEFI port.

In that scenario syslinux is doing the work of grub. There is nothing about grub inherently saying you need to multiboot with it.
“Zen Browser.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.

Current MacOS on M2
> corporations as we know them did not exist.

Yes, they did. Corporations existed in the British Empire in the 1600s. The Founders were quite familiar with the concept.

> the type of employment we have now and that most people experience did not exist in the 1800s.

This is simply false as a historical claim. If anything, workers had less leverage relative to corporate employers in the 1800s than they have now.
I've tried it. It's not nearly half as good as Edge's split screen feature.
This is so cursed, there is so much that begs the question - "why?"...

I love it.

I can't wait for the next beautiful nightmare. Maybe someone should mix font rendering with PDF rendering. Of course, with a LLM doing something in the middle.
Why are there so many new browsers these days? Is there really that much demand for them? Considering that creating one is very hard and requires a team.
In my experience, being a workplace or even academia, there's as many types of work environments as types of teachers.

In the end, management (or founders if it's a startup) set the tone and who they end up hiring (thus, who will manage your work). And management is just normal people in the end.
What’s a good lubricant for metal on metal (aluminum in specific)?
https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app
Will try this out later. Always looking for an easy way to load new wallpapers once I get tired of the old one. Especially love the low-motion 'cinemagraph' style ones.

My setup is a nightmare though.
One 2xHD ultrawide.
One Vertical 1080p monitor.
One 4k Projector.

So when they're all turned on I see my wallpaper fairly often and it just has to be a fairly flexible, high res image to fit all of those permutations.

If ScreenPlay can handle that setup with even only a small portion of its database of wallpapers then it'll hold value to me. I know others won't have my exact setup, but I think non-standard screen setups are more common than people assume.
Let's All Agree to Use Seeds as ML-KEM Keys
Yes, that's a significant aspect of the problem now.

They were going up before, during, and post ACA mandate, though. They've been on an upwards march alongside the underlying per-capita healthcare costs for decades. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe... ("Total national health expenditures, US $ per capita, 1970-2022" - $2k/year --> $13k/year per person)
Hahah I just realized the reference to the movie! Bravo.
I wonder if there's often a mismatch between what one thinks a business is going to be like, and what a business is actually like.

One of the things that keeps me away from doing stuff like this is that I _hate_ every part that isn't the engineering part, and the engineering part is a minority share of what it takes to run a business.
No, you can’t ship precompiled shaders for desktop easily because there’s no single backend (GPU) to compile for.

Everyone ships either shader code or intermediate languages instead.
And this is why I would make to sure to log all the time that I spend on that side job, so that I can make some estimate about what my hourly rate would be with the earnings I make.

This might then allow a better decision on whether it is a worthwhile endeavor or not.
A nice Symmetricom or ptf unit is going to offer much better time accuracy and holdover accuracy than those cheap units from China. The really cheap ones have no OCXO so time will drift fast during GPS outage. You get even better holdover accuracy with Rubidium but that's really only worth it if you need a real ref clock for test equipment. Expect to pay at least $500 for a cheap unit with an OCXO.

Obviously most people need no holdover accuracy so a cheap unit is fine. Most people aren't running data centers in places where GPS jamming is expected. Although it's not uncommon for truckers to be running GPS jammers that can inadvertently knock out a whole sea port.

I have a very lovely Symmetricom in my rack that has a busted GPS receiver but still provides NTP and IRIG-B using a Rubidium source as it's 10MHz reference.
I recently read an HN post where a LOT of people reported having the same rather specific dream that I have had many times (about being enrolled in a class they forgot about only to remember on the day of the final exam). It literally rocked my world to see evidence of how similar all of our 'wetware' is. And now I'm reading you describing a scenario I have experienced so many times, right down to 4pm breakfast and distracting stories of family drama. I am now pretty much convinced we live in a simulation and we're all subclasses of each other.
Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes
cd /Applications && xattr -d com.apple.provenance "Zen Browser.app"/ && xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "Zen Browser.app"/
According to this pre-covid article, up to 25% of US workers did "some or all" of their work from home [1]. That matches with my memories.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12097
It would work great if NVIDIA, AMD and Intel made high end consumer GPU's that could be shared between host and guest. So far we can only share Intel iGPU's - at least on paper, because I haven't managed to make it work.

... Or hack NVIDIA gpu's and potentially brick your 2000$ card...
Good choice. The semantic web really brought me to the brink.

The community has its head in the sands about... just about everything.

Document databases and SQL are popular because all of the affordances around "records". That is, instead of deleting, inserting, and updating facts you get primitives that let you update records in a transaction even if you don't explicitly use transactions.

It's very possible to define rules that will cut out a small piece of a graph that defines an individual "record" pertaining to some "subject" in the world even when blank nodes are in use. I've done it. You would go 3-4 years into your PhD and probably not find it in the literature, not get told about it by your prof, or your other grad students. (boy I went through the phase where I discovered most semantic web academics couldn't write hard SPARQL queries or do anything interesting with OWL)

Meanwhile people who take a bootcamp can be productive with SQL in just a few days because SQL was developed long ago to give the run-of-the-mill developer superpowers. (imagine how lost people were trying to develop airline reservation systems in the 1960s!)
DXVK doesn’t deal with pre compiled shaders afaik. It needs them in DXIL or HLSL to function.
The answer is "no why", just for fun :) Though I learned a lot about how to stuff an NN model in a WASM binary and some tricks to optimize performance.
Yep. Which makes syncing files with other systems...exciting.
> I would think that it technically means that Mac does have the capability of playing a video in the background.

I mean, under the hood, it's just windows that are stacked on top of each other at different Z-index.

The wallpaper itself is a window, it sits at the lowest z-index. There's another (transparent) window a few levels above, where your icons sit. Dock/menubar sit on top of those again a few levels above. You can yourself put a window there at pretty much any level.

The screen saver is its own window that's put "on top" of everything else. The XPC I mention starts the player in the desktop window below. Makes sense ?

> I did not realize until you mentioned it that you could have different screensavers on different screens. I guess logically it makes sense given that you can have different wallpaper, but I am kinda surprised they took it that far.

They had too with the way they implemented it, for each screen if you want the "continuity" effect you have to be able to set a different one as both saver/wallpaper.

> I thought all of the videos are available on Mac. I can't think of any that I have seen on my Apple TV that I am not currently seeing as part of this. I am looking in system preferences and I see 61 landscape, 30 cityscape, 21 underwater, and 22 earth

Are you running Sequoia ? I double checked and it now looks like they use the full collection indeed. I'm fairly sure it wasn't the case in Sonoma at the beginning. Maybe they added them in a point update at some point and I missed them. They always had the full manifest of videos, but only a subset was available when they launched the feature, that I'm sure. Some are fairly old and not very sharp, so it made sense to be selective, but Apple does create new versions of the same videos to clean them up fairly frequently.

Behind the scene there's a SQLite database that used to contain only which ones were shown in the UI, while the manifest of videos (which is similar to, but not the one used on tvOS, which has HDR versions encoded with Dolby Vision) is pulled online periodically.
That's because the data is pretty much unequivocal about casualties due to war. War used to be the common state of the world in most countries.

Now? The contingent of countries between whom war is unthinkable is growing every year. Amazing. Many empires have achieved similar results regionally, but America is the first to have done so worldwide with the actual ability to enforce it. Amazing

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/peaceful-and-hostile-rela...
I used to love using RSS readers to get my news, but at this point so few of the papers/websites I read actually offer non-truncated RSS feeds that I don't see the viability of RSS readers anymore. I guess they did that to prevent people getting around paywalls.
Are you admitting to weaving in and out of other traffic? That is insanely dangerous and I've been nearly hit by drivers like this repeatedly over the years.

Maybe there's a good reason the safety system of the car is fighting you on this
People who can understand what the AI is saying don't need the AI have problems the AI is too dumb and powerless to solve.

People who can't read the documentation aren't going to understand the AI's bad or even good summary of the documentation
You are being unnecessarily aggressive. I won’t be continuing this debate.
Agreed. It's a great interview question. For a story-telling position.
I usually see them used for drop guards in Rust, ie. an alternative to try-finally.
I'm just as baffled by the people who use stackoverflow daily. Its increasingly rare that I use it these days, to the point where I deleted my account a few years back and haven't missed it. Don't people read docs anymore? In many ways I feel lucky that I learned at a time when I only had offline docs, which forced me to become good at understanding documentation since its all I had.
This tells you how hard people are willing to work on difficult tasks without getting paid

A case study in favor of UBI

Read my profile, next up is a ban

And we go agane

Five Eyes or not
Yeah, that's one in my bag-of-JSON-tricks. (Hopefully my bag-of-JSON-tricks gets at least a little less populated with json v2.) This is also useful if you want to selectively override a particular Unmarshal for any other reason, which is what I needed it for. But then I needed to customize the Unmarshal and back to a top-level type it went. :)

But this sort of thing is why I tried to emphasize at the end that I'm not trying to "ring the alarm bell" or anything. When it works, it works, and it's not like I would call what you have there Bad Code or anything. I personally would have pulled it to a top level type immediately and that's just a preference, not something I'd go to bat over in a code review or anything.
And, if you were to balance the Federal budget, you would inflate away 75% of the national debt in 50 years at 3% inflation. But, only a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution could accomplish that.
It's scary to have you say that when logitech recently looked a computer mouse that needs a subscription:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea...
I've never used Ubuntu, but on Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed, I've never run into this issue (and I've had like 50+ tabs open for weeks since i don't really reboot my work laptop unless I have to)
Despite all other factors involved in the accident, it seems fundamentally hard to make this kind of control obvious with a touch screen. With a physical throttle control, like used in aviation [1], it's more obvious when you're pushing one side or both, as you have both vision and tactile senses to confirm position.

[1] https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.y8DdQsqhqkM_iA1f8k-qcAHaE...
>Taking customer data would be considered as a form of corporate espionage

Again, the same point: if you left the job where you used customer data then how do you deal with that data in your memory? Either you don't give any reason to believe you used it, least you're getting charged with espionage and this would include not working for the competition, effective putting you under indefinite unpaid non-compete. Or you don't perform your job duties, and this gives no reason for someone to pay you.

If it's really like this in UK, I can see how you can think non-competes are not needed. I'd rather have an American non-compete where I get money and a defined term though.
Which seems sensible until you think about all the non-English letters there can be.