Kadin

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by Kadin 1mo ago
Depending on the language you're writing in and the problem domain, the smaller models can do dramatically better or worse. I suspect in the future we'll see language-specific small models. "Coding" is still pretty broa
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by Kadin 2y ago
The US has never allowed unfettered foreign competition in its domestic market, and neither do most other nations (including, very notably, China). The US has always done what every other nation seeks to do, which is to try to obtain favora
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by Kadin 2y ago
The bill doesn't do that. There's no need to invent problems that don't exist; we have enough as it is.
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by Kadin 2y ago
This is all true, but just to set expectations: the open source ecosystem seems to be lagging the proprietary world pretty significantly, unless there's some corner where development is really chugging along that's not making it o
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by Kadin 2y ago
It doesn't seem that weird precisely because so many people here are in software, rather than hardware. My suspicion is that the median HN reader probably knows a few JS developers, but PCB designers are few and far between in softwar
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by Kadin 2y ago
In many products, there are different firmware or software loads for the PRC market (specifically PRC -- until recently not the HK versions) and the rest of the world. In some devices it's possible to lock satellite positioning to onl
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by Kadin 2y ago
That's only interesting to the extent that an organization has operations in China. Google was mostly ejected from the Chinese market years ago, I thought -- hence Baidu largely taking its place there. It would be telling if despite t
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by Kadin 3y ago
Expanding the foreign ownership rule to include social media platform companies (and, frankly, any strategically-important technology company in general) seems like a no-brainer. Other countries should logically do the same. If Burma/
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by Kadin 3y ago
"Dictatorships are bad" is not the game-over argument that it once was, maybe 20 years ago. The Chinese aren't just competing against the US for control of some islands and sea lanes here and there, they are putting their pol
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by Kadin 3y ago
That's only true if only a small percentage of users actually use that particular ad-blocking strategy. If a significant number of users did, then it would be a real concern. Although I think YouTube et al see an increasing amount of
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by Kadin 3y ago
I don't mind PiHole, but it doesn't do nearly as good a job of ad blocking as a "real" browser plugin does. The amount of crap that still comes through when I turn off uBlock -- but am still using PiHole DNS, which is
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by Kadin 3y ago
I get that the WSJ needs to run these sort of pieces every so often to sell papers, but "No One Wants [Whatever]" think-pieces should be treated the same way as the overly-speculative question headlines that led to "Betteridg
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by Kadin 3y ago
That explains why the K8S defaults are bad, but why use K8S at all here? Personally it seems like a lot of shade-tree server admins are way too eager to bust out much more tooling than is actually necessary for many tasks, just because it
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by Kadin 3y ago
Interesting, as I have had the opposite experience. There are lots of documents that I have to work with -- most created originally in Word 2007, I think -- with very intense formatting, forms, embedded charts and other crap, and Google Do
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by Kadin 3y ago
There's really no technical reason why imagery like that couldn't be contributed, and IIRC Google does use municipally-owned imagery in its products. A single city might not be a big enough source for them to bother, I don't
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by Kadin 3y ago
They just want you to know you're not paying for anything except engineering. :)
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by Kadin 3y ago
I agree with everything except I don't think I would have called out OrangePi as the worst of the lot -- at least not anymore. They seem to have basically outsourced their software maintenance to Armbian, and if that relationship hol
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by Kadin 3y ago
> Anybody not a pure hobbyist left the RPi space long ago. I suspect a lot of hobbyists have left too, and that's why there's so many not-quite-knockoff SBCs on the market (ranging from the respectable OrangePis to weird fly-by
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by Kadin 3y ago
I guess... but if industrial is really their market, I think they need to up their game in terms of documentation. "Real" industrial embedded modules tend to come with reams of documentation covering almost down to the silicon.
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by Kadin 3y ago
Having random people reverse-engineer your hardware in order to document it seems... a lot less ideal than having the people who actually built it in the first place reveal some of the information that they must already know and probably
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by Kadin 3y ago
Yes, a hundred times yes. I've been down this road and while it was certainly an interesting learning experience in some of the mechanics of the kernel build process, module dependencies, etc. etc., it was not necessarily productive in
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by Kadin 3y ago
> you could probably put the obsidian vault directory inside of dropbox I've done this and it seems to work fine. In theory I guess you could end up with sync conflicts if you are literally editing the same note on two devices at th
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by Kadin 3y ago
Perhaps, but setting aside the philosophical point, Evernote was nowhere near "done". Their 'new' client software (Electron-based, of course) never even achieved feature parity with their 'legacy' client softwa
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by Kadin 3y ago
Yeeeah, no thanks. I don't want my hardware running automatic upgrades of any sort. I'd probably trust an open source team like OpenWRT's more than a shitbag company like my telco, or only-slightly-less-shitbaggy cableco, bu
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by Kadin 3y ago
You track them, obviously. Then it's mutually assured privacy destruction.
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by Kadin 3y ago
Not an interesting question at all, IMO. The government is not required to protect you or make you whole, if you invest in an enterprise that the government later decides to prohibit, or makes illegal, or decides to regulate in some other
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by Kadin 3y ago
Not at consumer price levels, no. There are companies that make security hardware here in the US, but the market is mostly very high-end government and military customers. And TBH mostly they are still using Chinese components, just assemb
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by Kadin 3y ago
Sure, and that's probably happening as well . But it shows a level of not-giving-a-fuck if they're just leaving not-even-well-hidden "backdoors" in, so people in China can get access. It suggests to me that the software
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by Kadin 3y ago
The US government is and has always been reactive, not proactive. About the most forward-thinking the US gets is writing the occasional contingency plan. Everything else is done in haste once a serious problem becomes plainly obvious to ev
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by Kadin 3y ago
> We can still fix the issue now though, by creating a targeted law against them. That's not a great idea, since it will invite a lawsuit on the (potentially valid) grounds that it's a de facto bill of attainder. Which the US

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