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If it were just the Google Play Services, disabling that would disable remote enabling of applications - it would also make some applications unusable.

One solution to the remote enabling of apps could be a "watchdog" monitor that checks relevant statuses - so you will know if a past user decision got overridden.

Anyway, we need a database profiling Android software with relevance to security and privacy. There must be something around.
As that cocky beginner who went in to Jiujitsu and ran out of breath after 30 seconds in a 6 minute roll and had to tap out 15 times in the next 5 and a half minutes against a smaller opponent, it is repeated because it is true. A huge part of beginner training is basically slow down and getting yourself into positions where you can perform the moves.
Britain, not England!

I do not think it is all that good. I think the biggest problem is the nature of news media. It tends to shallow coverage, and video more than audio, and audio more than print.

I agree with the GP that people in a democracy should strive to have a informed opinion, but I think the best way to achieve that is to read books on the issues, not follow the news.

People cannot evaluate the accuracy of what they read either - that is why "Gell-Mann amnesia" is a problem. Again, it is a less prevalent problem with books and more detailed analysis (but it still exists, of course) than with news media.

The sheer complexity of a modern society makes it very hard to be well informed. Most people in the UK do not even understand the taxes they pay. I can guarantee that almost all otherwise well informed and educated people in the UK cannot explain national insurance correctly (the second biggest source of revenue, generating about two third of what income tax does), or how VAT works and what it is imposed on (just behind NI).

Understanding of economics is even worse. Anything niche like competition in software and online services (the sort of thing we often discuss on HN) is non existent. Even issues like education and healthcare that are not niche but are complex are not well understood.

At the end of the day most people vote tribally (i.e. the party they identify with) or emotionally.
Yes but in arguing that you miss the point entirely. If Amazon's only motives in how it designes its customer interface are "hah, who gives a shit, we're so big that they'll keep buying even if we mistreat them and expose them to rampant fraud", that speaks of a shitty company which will eventually be eaten by the market. Consumer tolerance is finite, and smarter people than me have noticed the same thing and are working to chip away at it with shoppers.

I'd also hope for something a little bit more honest from Amazon, given all their multi-decade spiels about customer service, but here we are.
Or, you know, a whole world war that definitively proved the capability of dug-in defenders to hold ground.
The author was referring to good as in quality, not the good/evil dichotomy.
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Real explanation: Google turned into a company of activists who spend 50% of their time with politics. Additionally, part of the company are second class citizens (exercise for the reader).

OpenAI had many Europeans like Sutskever who presumably were still allowed to focus on work.
Maybe the fact that China is threatening Taiwan, our ally, with war on a nearly daily basis?
maybe my viewing habits are not much different from the contributors, but i am very impressed with the effectiveness of the community effort here.

i have seen some cases where videos get the right tagging within minutes of going live. almost suggesting that the creators might be secretly doing the tagging for us!

from further digging, it appears that the initial community efforts have also helped develop a neural network based approach (https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock). this appears to be the top current contributor according to the leaderboard (https://leaderboard.sbstats.uk/), with almost 8x the contributions to the next submitter, and ~1.6% of total submissions.

regardless of your moral stand on this, a very impressive collection of open-source efforts!
The world of AI cloud orchestration etc running behind the "siri, make me a tiktok" is going to be hilarious. A beautiful new dawn for black hats.
What if we lived in a world where Chinese are allowed to sell their cheap EVs but the government was actually on the side of the common man instead of corporate elites, and actually scrutinized anti-consumer totalitarian data collection, because its wrong, and anti-humanity on principle, and not because it's not controlled by them.
I used to be a fan of the Total War games, back from the first Shogun Total War in 2000. The AI was never that great but was good enough to make the game fun to play. The main thing was the battlefield mechanics worked well, rewarding smarter tactics, like flanking manoeuvres, which could allow a smaller force to defeat a much larger one.

The original Rome Total War was probably the most fun and Medieval Total War was enjoyable.

After that it just went downhill, adding pointless features while worsening the battlefield gameplay. The first Warhammer Total War was where I tapped out - the limited size of battlefields meant it basically became a tower defence game, fought in three columns.

Reading this, seems like they became a victim of their own success.
EEE all over again.
Your response doesn't actually appear to be related to my comment. Does some part of your comment, or one of your links, support the idea that the attacker in a war always has an advantage over the defender?

Remember when Georgia invaded Russia?
Mechanics?
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Sometimes me. But 99% of the time, my preference is for a competent journalist distilling the interview into an article. Thus sparing me all the ways that politeness, chit-chat, and long-winded stuff can turn a 1,000-word article into a 4,000-word interview.
Sometimes when writing 'fiddly' code, I'll have a bug.

But I can't find the bug. I get the wrong answers but can't trace it through the logic.

Maybe it's a dumb thing like a missing index increment? Or a missing assignment and I just can't see it.

Maybe it's easier to just tear down the mess and write it again.

This is how I feel whenever I deal with AI generated code.
Sign language researcher here! I would recommend you look a bit at the scientific literature on the topic. I know it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to know to separate the actual info from the garbage, so I can try and select for you a few hand picked papers. IMO, trying to understand sign language oneself, or at least getting basic notions, is fundamental to understand where the real problems lie.

Unfortunately there's no getting away from that. While the scarcity of data indeed is an issue, and your idea is nice (congratulations!) the actual problem is the scarcity of useful data. Since sign language doesn't correspond to the oral language, there are many problems with alignment and just what to translate to. Glosses (oral language words used as representation for signs) are not enough at all, since they don't capture the morphology and grammar of the language, which among other things heavily relies on space and movement. Video + audio/audio captions is nearly useless.

Good luck with your efforts, this is a fascinating area where we get to combine the best of CS, AI, linguistics... but it's hard! As I said, let me know if you want some literature, by PM/email if you want, and I'll get back to you later.
Great article. Anybody know how can I make graphics like this?
Behaving like a sexual predator at work while complaining that workers don't wanna be in the office. Maybe just maybe things could be related?
> Mp3s were yesterday literally long time ago

And what do you think people use now to store their music offline?
To be able to easily modify the software, and send patches (or make pull-requests whatever) to make the software suit better to own writing needs.
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I remember those times, I loved the total war series dearly, and was burned by empire total war, which was a total mess at launch and never got quite to the point where it was an engaging game, due to the constant ai mishaps, bugs, wonky unit balance and a naval layer that was just tacked on hastily.

I agree that the backslash was unfair to te single dev, as the entirety of RTWII was a mess, for example with the new building system which was adding complexity without gameplay, or the larger map being too porous for the way a total war game played with unit stacks, and there was frankly too little time for a single dev to make a dent into years of layered systems

the thing I remember tho is that Sony was largely blamed for the downfall, not CA, and not single developer, at least in the more "sane" part of internet. Without taking away from this person personal experience, which sucks, I don't think the reputation damage really extends further than the few nut cases that obsessed over him

that said, I enjoyed reading the retrospective, and I look forward to KSP2 NDA expirations as well.
I feel grateful I don't experience this at my job (so far).
I'm not a Java expert, but I'm fairly certain this is just a feature of roundoff error and how it propagates through computations, and how floating-point values are represented.

sin(pi/2 + x) = cos(x) = 1 - x^2/2 + {lower-order terms}

When you compute Math.sin(Math.PI/2), Math.PI/2 is computed as pi/2 (exact) plus a small error term, x, which is on the order of 1e-16 or so. Math.sin(Math.PI/2) is then computed as

sin(pi/2 + x),

which is about 1 - x^2/2. But since x is on the order of 1e-16, x^2/2 is on the order of 1e-32, and the closest double-precision value to 1 - x^2/2 can easily be seen to be exactly 1.0.

On the other hand,

sin(2*pi + x) = sin(x) = x + {lower-order terms}

When you compute Math.sin(2*Math.PI), 2*Math.PI is computed as 2*pi (exact) plus again a small error term x which is on the order of 1e-16, and Math.sin(2*Math.PI) is very close to that error term x. The closest double-precision value to x is much closer to x than zero is, because x is already very small and the relative approximation error in its best double-precision approximation is on the order of 1e-16. Thus, you get a small but nonzero result that is very close to the original approximation error of 2*Math.PI versus the mathematical 2*pi.

To fully follow that argument above, you need to know a few things about numerical computation:

- Most (but not all) computational environments implement some version of the IEEE-754 standard, and I'm assuming this is also true of Java.

- IEEE-754 requires that all the basic operations, including trigonometric functions, behave as if the exact result was computed and then rounded to the nearest double-precision value.

- In IEEE-754, floating point numbers are essentially represented in scientific notation, or more precisely as

+/-(1.XXXX...) * 2^E

where the 1.XXXX... is a binary number with a fixed number of binary digits after the binary point, and E is an integer represented using a fixed number of bits. (For double-precision, I believe the XXXX... has 52 bits, and E has 11 bits.)
> It’s a solved problem for real metros.

This isn't a real metro.

> My city has had and automated metro for nearly 40 years.

Every year, in every country, there are failures that lead to fatalities. They are, thanks to technology, decreasing.

> It’s rather easy with rail.

It takes hundreds of engineers years to safely design and implement a train control system, and it branches out with complexity. Every year, cascading failures cause serious issues.

It sounds easy. It's not.
I find Greek sense of categorization so nice. Same goes for their prefixes and suffixes.
> Modern GPUs are expensive, so it seems difficult to build a homelab to play around with them.

Simulate a system with multiple high-end GPUs by setting up a system with one low-end GPU, breaking all the video outputs, and plugging it into a timeswitch that makes it lose power 3 times a week.

Learn about industry norms by deciding it's crucial you have read access to production data, but at the same time that your users are doing ad-hoc experimentation and they can barely meet the code maturity requirements of a test environment.

Fill your storage with training data for a project, then have that project "de-prioritised" so the data isn't being used, but it also can't be deleted. Reorganise the department so it's not even clear whose data it is any more.

Broaden your experience to the entire mlops lifecycle by memorising the crucial shibboleth: "I don't understand labelbox's pricing"
That was the case for Google 10 years ago. Nowadays being an ex-googler gives one a not so bright aura
I've been looking for something like this, but I'm still unsure it quite hits the spot. I think that this would be very interesting if it allows a person to run a blog like a Jupyter notebook.

I have a lightweight hack [1] that runs Python in markdown documents and can output basic images/graphs - which is embedded into static pages. The point was being able to write an article that somebody else could see the code behind it and test themselves, e.g. [2]. One of the browsers I test in is Netsurf with JS disabled. Unfortunately it doesn't look great in Lynx.

[1] https://gitlab.com/danbarry16/pandoc-highlight-filter

[2] https://coffeespace.org.uk/projects/langtons-ant-universe.ht...
We are forced to make our life complex. You can't deny the fact that the society we are living in has evolved. Of course one still has the oppurtunity to get rid of it and live in a cave, but how many people are doing this?
I never got to try GrapheneOS because a single unresolved doubt: does its Camera app benefit from the same image improvement features that the stock camera has?

Especially now that Pixels started shipping with hardware chipsets specifically designed to accelerate certain kinds of image processing, this is a feature that's quite important to me not to lose when changing systems.
It was also incredibly sticky with GSuite. Setting up security and everything was a breeze -- DMARC email records, SMTP, etc all magic -- I truly couldn't believe when this was announced. It was incredibly sad and I still feel upset about it a year later.

Porkbun is my go to registrar now. And I switched my email to Migadu.
Even if it's common, I still don't think it's good.

Some games seem to be made playable way earlier then in the case of Rome 2. Look at Baldurs Gate 3 and soon for Path of Exile 2 - all the content is not there yet but the main "game loop" and features are there, this seems like a great way to get feedback, and have time to adjust if necessary. In the case of Rome 2 I guess the management imposed deadlines that did not allow this to begin with. The author does speak of a demo for E3 but it seems like a small piece that was artificially setup to look good.
I don't think that invalidates their conclusions.

There's also Epictetus. That man can hardly be accused of being a spoiled aristocrat.
An interesting read on the matter comes from Cory Doctorow (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shat...). The uniform business here is ads.
Google controls the supply, the demand and the marketplace, effectively setting whatever price they want and whatever quality of service they want.
Smaller business cannot enter the market as competitors, while customers (here the people wanting to put ads on the internet) are chocked out.

Then if you add that Chrome enforces how browser experiences are designed and how tracking is done, you see the problem emerging.
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They are expensive. There's no one news source to rule them all, so you would have to buy about 5 subscriptions just for the news of one small country, that's hellishly expensive.

If for example, all of the newspapers in the netherlands could be had for say 7 euros a month I would likely be a subscriber. Are they suggesting that that would not be enough to survive on ?
In what sense is it more complex?
Google doesn't use more WFH than the competition so that's obviously a loser's excuse. The failure is in the leadership which they won't admit ever. Google will be split into 5 companies because of WFH, sure.
And better yet, would they suggest that not doing that and having more than that price for just a single paper works out better for them?
Mechanics in Ancient Greece meant the study of mechanical physics. So essentially scientists. If your focus is on the material world (material here being ‘matter’ not consumer goods) then you necessarily see science as a higher aim than virtue.
I pay for more news now than I ever have in my entire life. Most of through Patreon. I pay for podcasts. I pay directly to journalists. I pay directly to independent news organizations. I buy books written by journalists.

What I don't pay for is 'traditional media'. I don't consume any news behind a paywall other than the few rare 'extras' I get through patreon.com.

My ability to access information has never been better and I don't mind paying the actual journalists who do the work.
Can reduce these to:

- Convert your personal Needs to your Wants/Wishes.
The US is apparently retaining components of some large H-bomb designs for "potential planetary defense purposes" - wouldn't that be a "good" function?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb#Role
It's true for standing still. Do it long enough and loose/easy is obviously the way. There's no grand insights here, this thread is insane.
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OK but the animations are amazing!!
Not caring much is such a slippery slope, because it's so easy to turn it to a default.
What have you done presently to solve this issue?
> "Atheist" feels like such a strange and artificial category

Bah, not any more that any other category: I have religious friends who are in theory from the same religion: some believe in heaven some don't, some believe in the miracles some don't, etc..

But yes, there can be atheists who believe that the earth is flat or that crystals can heal, etc.
Thanks! that was very insightful. In the end, most things end up having an historical reason behind their rationale...
What have you done presently to solve this issue?

Any app that does this job presently?
Subreddits are generally cesspools, especially games like these.

Like you said, when people have literally thousands of hours spent on something, they can get passionate about it to a bit of an unhealthy degree.

I just bought WH3 the other day, and at least as a fresh player it's a crazy good game. I'm sure there's lots to be desired in terms of balance and all that, but that's the kind of thing you start worrying once you're 1000 hours into the game. For now my sole focus is "Holy shit a giant boat skeleton colossus that shoots a giant cannonball?!", repeated for every single new enemy type I see.

The game has so much content it's almost overwhelming, to be honest, so I can see myself spending the next 800 hours being amazed by everything until I start seeing cracks.
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I want to study more about how an example processor computes various stuffs like sqrt, sin, multiplication, addition, subtraction, division of floating point numbers. I've studied computer organization books and understood the IEEE754 notation about floating point representation, but I still can't do the calculations of division, sqrt by hand(although I can compute the floating point representation in terms of mantiassa, sign and exponent by myself manually).

I know this might sound stupid to hand calculate everything, but that's what gives me chills at night.
No, Markdown is meant to be rendered to HTML. That's why it's specified in terms of its syntax rendering to HTML. That's why inline HTML was always part of Markdown (or is the inline HTML also meant to be read without rendering?)
I feel there is too much focus on editing and very less tools/apps for actual picture taking.

Why do you think it is so?

Don't you think taking good pictures in the first place will solve a lot of problems?
How many of my TL;DR points here https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html do you already deal with, out of interest?
Arguing is enjoyable and helps build the foundation of your beliefs IMO. Where people go wrong is expecting the other person to be converted to your beliefs or swayed by your argument. Even given the exact same data, evidence, and information, people can naturally and logically come to different conclusions. And ultimately, people will choose to believe (or not) what they want.
Because Excel sucks at plotting, especially if you have non-trivial amounts of data.
Grid is basically `<table>` with extra functionality (in fact in my project we are emulating table layout using CSS Grid with good results). If you can do <table> then you can do grid.
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Being noble, wise and virtuous didn't mean that much alienation from the general population in his era, methinks.

Of course, some will try to argue by twisting these concepts into some modern hedonistic feelsgood version not even fit as a parody.
You're right that this isn't about data collection/privacy, though it would be a bit scary to have our nation's cars remotely shut off at the whims of a foreign government.

Instead, we want/need to be protectionist of our manufacturing industries so that if we were to go to war, we keep our ability to make more missiles, planes, tanks, etc.
Have you tried media queries?
apparently so did crunchyroll (https://restofworld.org/2024/crunchyroll-india-subscription-...). difference being they went the legal route what seems like even earlier in the lifecycle than youtube.
> he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded

This is the clip where Linus did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRsgkdfYJ8

The over-exaggerated nod and pronunciation make it seem to me like Linus was just making a joke, particuarly since it was followed up by a more serious "no".
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The naming is super annoying, but for Grid it is least a consistent mapping:

- align-* is inline axis.

- justify-* is block axis.

- *-content is aligning grid tracks (rows/columns).

- *-items is aligning individual children within their grid area.
I can even spot most of my pics as unappetising. But can't do much to fix it.

Just feel that there are infinite possibilities to take this pic.

Why not my phone camera guide me to take the best pic? Why has no company done this?
This whole discussion is about double standards.

Hypothetically, if all a programmer did was, once a quarter, come in in person to maintain some piece of software that created $300k of value per year for the company, is that a problem for you?
With graphene, you can just run the regular google camera app and disable it's network permissions.

I can't comment on your question about the graphene camera app.
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I think that also depends on the story. You saw far different reporting on Covid from the two sources. Some of the stuff coming out of the right was crazy but some ended up being the truth and the left leaning sources clearly had their marching orders dialed in and even cast things that were eventually proven true to be “lies” at the time.
Apache is both popular and “the place where projects go to die”. They have many, many projects that see limited development activity and aren’t well-known (how many projects in https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?name do you even vaguely know of what they’re about?)

I also think the popularity of the Apache license is part of what makes Apache popular.

> I thought it was the uncool place where stuff was written in Java

They have lots of projects running on the JVM, but “written in Java” isn’t a requirement, nor is “running on the JVM”. See https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language