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That's all the text I see ... nothing else ... is it unpopulated at the moment or is it more a case that if the system is not hanging out with the latest updates, tough luck?
For me, webgl/shadertoy stuff as well as webusb and webserial while tinkering with esp32-based boards.
Practical UI from Tailwind is a very good guide for this.
Thats a great collection. Thanks for sharing.
See link below):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371139794_Unveiling...
Unlike an airplane you can stop using the assistant at any time and catch up. Those who learn to leverage AI will have an advantage.
A Jira version. Children look under the bed afraid of finding monsters. Monsters look under the bed afraid of finding you.
Good. Huawei is a Chinese state run enterprise passing all info to their masters.
I use ssh on Termux pretty regularly. It's about as smooth as I can imagine a touchscreen terminal being, and took about zero effort to set up.
Plenty of companies have Public Affairs departments that work essentially as lobbyist, but no bribery neither to the MEP nor the Political Party is involved.

Many lobbyists work "simply" by producing reports and collecting data that works in favor or their proposals, publishing them to opinion pieces in newspapers etc.
It doesn't balance the privacy reasonably well.
Is our universe trapped inside a black hole?
While I think everyone has more than covered the contents of the article, the title is rather ridiculous in itself.

(Note original title in source: "Hardware locks us in Apple's and Microsoft's monopoly cages")

> Microsoft won't let users upgrade their older boxen to Windows 11.

OK but this does not put you in a cage with your older devices. Windows 10 machines are still general computing devices (or personal computer / PC). Eventually, the blocked upgrades will mean the consumer has to choose between installing Linux or buying a new PC.

That's a very different choice from what you have as an iPad owner (if it's your only device.) And as others have pointed out, buying that device was a choice. Arguably misinformed if you thought it was a PC when it is, in fact, a closed-source and locked down tablet.

You mention a Surface Go - so OK you know what a "tablet" that is designed to be a convertible between laptop and tablet looks like and how it works. But just because Microsoft did that, and Apple kind of advertises the iPad that way, doesn't meant Apple and Microsoft put you in the same cage. In fact, they are quite the opposite!

To address that original "monopoly" title - in fact again I think the opposite is happening. Microsoft "forcing" you to purchase something new because you can't "upgrade" to Windows 11. Well actually it drives some people to Linux or Apple. And it's software that is responsible for the issue, not hardware. No wonder you changed the title, but it still doesn't work with your article.
In the UK, before we (sadly) left, being an MEP was a bit of a joke, where being an MP was a much bigger deal. Maybe other countries are different, but nobody who wanted to rise through the ranks in the UK would opt to be an MEP over an MP, and I suspect that’s very similar in many other member countries.
We had to drop hatch for now, because it does not work well with uv's lockfiles. Someone opened an issue here: https://github.com/pypa/hatch/issues/1886. We use bare uv for now.
> GLib is a general-purpose, portable utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a mainloop abstraction, and so on.

Glib is c batteries included library I really like. Does anyone have any others they prefer?

https://docs.gtk.org/glib/
Don't most browsers have a "Desktop site" option you can turn on to tell websites you want the desktop version? It seems weird to blame your device for websites' bad decisions, especially when your device goes out of its way to allow you to force websites to correct their mistake.
“Space Invaders was written by hand”

I’m a neophyte. What do you mean by this? You mean “100100101…” by hand or…?
but it will cost the drivers 10k per year - most drivers work for someone else and so won't see a penny of that 250k
I'm more comfortable with Chinese than US masters.
As a Firefox user since 1.0, my future expectatives are put on Ladybird
What is your mental model when coding with Cursor?

When I code with with AI assistance; I "think" differently and noticed that I have more memory bandwidth to think about the big picture rather than the details.

With AI assistance, I can keep the entire program logic in my head; otherwise I have to do expensive context switching between the main components of the program/system.

How are you "thinking" when typing prompts vs typing actual code?
Waste from a shuttered asbestos mine in Newfoundland has been a troubling source of contamination for decades. Now, a startup plans to process the waste and use it to draw down carbon dioxide — one of several projects worldwide that aim to turn this liability into an asset.
I use CNC machines and know how powerful stepper and servo motors are. You can ask yourself what will happen if your motor driver is controlled by an AI hallucination...
Thanks for maintaining it! You might want to update the CLI instructions to use "go install" as the current command doesn't work.
What makes you say that? Like Chrome it supports site isolation and sandboxing. Can you be more specific?
> but Microsoft had been notorious for nonchalantly shipping crazy MTL errors for past 3-5 years

For a while now my coworkers have been free of charge when they're available. It's pretty insane
> LLMs pass the Turing test more convincingly than anything before

I know this sounds like moving the goalposts, but maybe all this does is show that the Turing Test was not sufficient?

> LLMs are vastly more popular than any AI/ML methods before it

Are we back in high school? Popularity contests?
My personal experience: borders around each article with so much padding makes it harder for me to scan. My eyes have to travel more to consume the same amount of information as the standard view and (at least on mobile) I have to use my finger much more to gather the same amount of info. On current HN, I can read about three or four entries before I have to move my eye. On this redesign I can really only get one in a glance because of all the visual design elements intentionally breaking up my attention. Not to mention centering the score by highlighting it with a giant orange square. I can see how you’ve sought to incorporate modern web design principles, but in doing so you’ve made it less useful for quick readers like me.
If you'd like to make a point against Bellingcat, you should probably avoid citing poorly generated slop.
is it open to global remote with eu timezone
There are other vendors? They are on Huawei because of price...

Mine is Zyxel (Taiwan). There are others like Sagemcom (French), Fritzbox (German), not sure if microtik (Latvia) does end user stuff?
I think he cancelled that law because other nations weren't applying similar laws.

Anti-corruption is OK, but you lose out if you're the only one complying.
This is a dinosaur's view. I guess there were people who said the same back when calculators were invented.
Indeed it's more like 600 kg/m3, so, about 1000 times more ammonia. So, the cube would be about 10 times bigger (side of 400m).

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/ammonia-liquid-thermal-pr...
How do you know it satisfies the requirements?
I very much miss our local Covid lockdown. For quite some time there were no cars on the road, people walking past and yelling at each other, planes overhead etc.
There is no explicit bribery, but there are plenty of examples where a government bureaucrat leaves to join a company they were "regulating" on a fat pay cheque.

The EU is not unique in this though.
That's not what this is about.

Cell towers (BTSs and eNodeBs) do indeed have unencrypted access to the data passing through them. They're owned by the operator, this is fine.

An attack on SIM card keys would let anybody listen to traffic going over-the-air or impersonate a cell tower. All you need is the keys and some radio equipment to receive the traffic.
I do think there will be better convergence over time. The magnetic keyboard for the iPad is definitely a step towards that although I'm still debating whether to take that or my old MacBook on an upcoming month-long trip.

I also don't really disagree with your basic point. And I don't write it off (just) to Apple wants to sell more hardware. A lot of people like essentially a plus-sized iPhone and don't want a laptop. Probably hard to believe for many people on this forum but I heard people at work tell me that they have kids that don't want a laptop and are fine with just using their phones, much less a tablet.

Microsoft really tried to converge the different form factors from an operating system perspective and it never really clicked with people. Would I like a device that really a converged a 13-14" laptop and a tablet in the same general size range? Probably, in part because I wouldn't travel by air with both. But I don't think we're really there today outside of very casual tablet use outside of a browser or watching media.
Ok. Then we are different. And Europe is too. Europe has already shown we do not want Huawei in our 5G core networks. And now this.

Are we clear?
Redesigns are cool exercises and what you’ve done looks good mostly. It only shows top level comments though, and the text colour is unreadable in dark mode.

You say you’re trying to improve the original design, but it’s not clear to me how what you’ve done is an improvement.
ftr I'm still on X & posting! https://x.com/hamiltonulmer
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DDoS and Cyber-Attack Map
Retractions, Walkouts Plague Science Journals Eager to Churn Out Research
Do you have a reference on the health hazard aspect you mentioned? I'd heard fiberglass dust is very bad, but not regular glass.
How is seeing 7 entries without scrolling better than seeing 20+
My fear is that similar dynamics were at play when the AI act was shaped and approved, with the three European biggest countries unhappy of the content of the act (France, Italy, Germany).
Now do google, apple, facebook, twitter, cloudflare, etc....
I use to do the "hey chat" all the time out of habit and when I thought the language model was something more like AI in a movie than what it is. I am sure it makes no difference beyond the user acting different and possibly asking better questions if they think they are talking to a person. Now for me, it looks completely ridiculous.
>The only reason the EU has to depend on Huawei is because EU telco hardware which once ran most of China telco can't compete anymore.

Cant compete on what?

Features?

Price?

Do tell, you seem to have information.
They seem to be using some kind of error diffusion. And getting error diffusion to play nice with linear colour space is nontrivial.

I remember I had quite a bit of discussion with madshi when MadVR tried implementing it. You can do something that comes close by modifying the colour space into something that is gamma light in the integer part and linear light in the fractional part.

If the value of a pixel is x you then get something like floor(x) + (l - ginv(x)) / (l - u) with l and u the the two shades corresponding to floor(x) and ceil(x) in linear light.

Though technically error diffusion will still be incorrect, but it does handle constant shades correctly and most alternatives are worse somehow.
Highly recommend House of Huawei by Eva Dou, I didn’t know much about the history or background of this monolithic and demonized company so I picked it up and I have to say I found it fascinating.

If you’re interested in recent history or telecommunication development over the last 50 years it’s a great read. It’s not a technical deep dive nor a political hit piece, the author wrote for the Washington Post and it really reads like a long and in-depth article. Which is actually nice despite sometimes leaving me wanting for more, definitely made it a quick read.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721789/house-of-hua...

Edit: Washington Post, not New York Times
> BlackBerry got some market share for promoting their encryption.

Consumer-to-consumer BB messages were not E2E encrypted, but if you had a BES connected to your (on-prem?) Exchange server then everything with-in your company was wrapped in a key unique to your organization.

Further, I'm not sure if telcos could read the messages either: the bits were routed through RIM's central servers. For evidence of this, several countries made deals for access to the bit flow under threat of banning the service:

* https://www.wired.com/story/blackberry-india/

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/07/saudi-arabia-d...
Which I highly doubt for anything other than greenfield project. When you look at any mature open source project, it’s mostly small commits, but a large context is required in order to make these. If you’re in boilerplate land, becoming fluent in your editor and using snippets can bring a more advantageous boost.
Legal immigrants in US does have most due process, but they ALSO all have "deferred prosecutorial discrection" hanging over their head until they "waved that US flag" in INS ceremony.

In short, all legal immigrants are still on the hook, despite affording most of the US judicial protection.

And legal immigrants' due process at final stage are done entirely within US immigration court before any deportation (and OPTIONALLY after any local/state criminal/civil court cases). Do not need to be charged to land in immigration court.

This is THE hill to die on if you want unrestricted immigration.
As far as technical resources are concerned, gbatek is probably your best bet:

https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm
That wouldn't be buried, so I don't think there was any hope it wouldn't be eaten and oxidized. So the plan there was always to use the biomass as a CO2 pump, not as a means to sequester reduced carbon in sediment.
Well, and his writing. Anyone with an interest in distributed systems should read ZeroMQ "The Guide" even if they don't plan on using ZeroMQ.
First the one, then the other. :)

It used LiveConnect[0] to talk to the UI-less java applet[1] hosting the web server. It was a weird (and therefore kind of fun!) combination.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#LiveConnect

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet
There is very little probability that your friend would donate any money even if they could have a say at the feature. But even if it was the case it would not be enough to fund the development. And finally you don't manage a company like that.
Sure, you and the other guy, claiming London in his bio (we don't know if he's a native speaker or not).

It might be a regional dialect, which is also a form of broken English, especially if it is very obscure and other English speakers can't even guess the meaning of the idiom out of context.
What a blast from the past. 0 comments, 0 points. Opera wasn't very popular in US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937436
> well, it's always in dark mode

So it's no TUI app that can accommodate changes to the terminal emulators color profile? I am a bit disappointed.
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
Are you sure? Publically criticize the American government, then do the same with the Chinese government. Now, did your opinion change?

Although I agree that with latest guys it won't be long before they also get a thought police.
Outside of probably Adobe apps in particular (and a variety of utilities) along with dev tools for the relative niche that does that sort of thing and local AI these days, most Mac OS users basically live in the browser.
Waymo driverless cars got 589 parking tickets in San Francisco last year
The Turing test is meant to see if computers can functionally replicate human thought (just focussing on textual conversations aspect for simplicity).

The implications of passing the Turing Test are profound. Tricking a user with a 5 minute conversation isn't the same. The examiner is allowed to be an expert questionner.

For one thing, software engineering would quickly be taken over as a client can just chat with an AI to get the code. That is far from happening, even with all the recent LLM advances.

Similarly for literature, science etc. Currently, you can detect a difference between a competent human & machine in all these fields just by text chat. Another way of saying this is that the Turing Test is AI-complete and is a test for AGI.
If anything that just adds more credibility to the story.
Given how internet exploited and divided people in the west i don't blame them. Ignorance is bliss and i want it back.
XP was just an ugly skin on top of the magnificent Windows 2000.
You're totally onboard with the scurrilous "dumb title" slur?
> Anyways, the complexity of the Lean language itself doesn’t help either. The mode of thinking you need to have to operate it is much closer to programming than maths, and for those that think that the Rust borrow-checker is a pain, this is an order of magnitude more complex.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm interested to learn what the complexities are (beyond the mathematical concepts themselves).
Do you mean internal links within the page, or within your vault? I can't say I've relied on either in a pdf export, but I would expect the former to work and the latter to fail. I suppose links to other notes in your vault could use the obsidian:// protocol but that would be weird to say the least.
Back in the 90s John C Dvorak wrote an article calling a Mac a Cuisinart. It was a criticism of Apple that they had created an appliance, not a general purpose computer. Granted the guy hated Macs at the time, but I think it’s a reasonable way to describe an iPad.
> the vast majority of NAT doesn't cause this problem

A WebRTC clients behind an iptables based MASQUERADE NAT will not work without TURN. Which both incredibly common and weird that people designing WebRTC and STUN/TURN/ICE never stopped by netfilter developers to make iptables work out of box with WebRTC.
As someone working with datastore/firestore in a product first created around 10 years ago I wish you could have been there at the time. Running a migration to add a boolean field to all existing documents of a certain type took ~40 hours.

Funny thing is we are now migrating stuff out of datastore (and new stuff is not in datastore to begin with) into an RDBMS, but we are doing it microservice style with each microservice having its own separate database. So relationships are now cross-services concerns...

Not that having EVERYTHING in a single DB is the best approach always, but IMO we should default to keep everything in one single DB.
Where I work now 95% of the time it's long-lived things - design docs, architecture diagrams, etc.,.
Hopefully life in prison is a stronger one.
I hope they can do some reinforcement learning from Stack Overflow moderator decisions also
Maybe the instances are shared between users via sharding or are re-used and not properly cleaned.

And maybe they contain the memory of the users and/or the documents uploaded?
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FlowSpec was born out of my frustration with ad-hoc “scripts everywhere” setups. I wanted something that makes AI integration both standardized and composable—so I put together a schema and a simple toolchain for describing and coordinating AI tasks. It’s heavily inspired by container-based CI/CD tools, but specifically for orchestrating AI in production.

Right now, FlowSpec describes automation flows in simple steps, as well as the transformations or sanity checks in between. I’m still experimenting with how to keep it flexible yet opinionated enough to encourage best practices. I’d love your feedback on that balance!

I’m also thinking about new ways to make FlowSpec more interactive and transparent, possibly through a web UI that visualizes the DAG of AI tasks. I believe part of what makes an AI workflow robust is clarity on all the steps—and ideally, a way to replay or tweak them as your models evolve. If you have any ideas on features or improvements, please let me know. I’m eager to see how other developers structure their AI pipelines.

Appreciate your feedback, here or via issue/PR. This will evolve as my challenge plays out, but I know there are much smarter automators here who I'd love to hear from.

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Your n=1 sample with a case of insufficient transparency provided to the public isn't really enough to make a generalization about corrupt spending.
... I mean, if this were the case, Huawei would have a monopoly, and no reason to bribe anybody. Like, put a _bit_ of thought into this stuff; your claim cannot possibly be correct.

For what it's worth, the UK, having banned Huawei stuff, is currently ripping out their Huawei 5G gear and replacing it with largely equipment from Ericsson.
I think it's somewhat of a generational thing. I'm still somewhat blown away when I hear stories of kids writing school papers on their phones. I want to turn to a laptop for even more extensive searching or longer emails.
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Fun fact that we have burned those bridges years ago. Every time big codebase updates it's main optimizing toolchain (compiler/linker) ... there is nothing deterministic and predictable. There is only what has been re-tested and what has not been.
Have you considered extra time it would take for some person other than yourself to get onboarded into the problem you are solving? It can quickly add 2-3 extra hours on top of that [seemingly easy] work.
Is speculative decoding possible across 1/4/12/27 B Gemma 3 variants?

LM Studio doesn't allow that (yet), but maybe the s/w requires some adjustments to support speculative decoding with Gemma 3.
There's a difference between asking / bribing / blackmailing / legally forcing the company to make a copy of some text files (or just figuring out a way to get those files yourself) versus forcing them to modify their software in deliberately insecure ways (which can also be discovered by others and used against you).

The former is a true NOBUS, the second one is not (though you're right that governments would probably treat this as one).
What? They don't block Internet because they want their people united. They do it because they are authoritarians who want to control every aspect of people's lives. India doesn't top the list of countries that cut Internet access because it's a haven of national unity, lol. It's probably a country more divided than any Western ones.
Why would you be redoing your venv more than once?
Astral ships a Docker image that provides their tox-uv. I saw maybe a 3x speed up setting up environments.
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