skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google can absolutely do this. Google's ability to do this isn't tied to an Android version. After being repeatedly hammered on support timelines, they started pushing functionality into Google Services (think the Play store, Google Play Services, and Google Services Framework)

Google Play Protect is one such service. One that Google tells you explitely can (has, and will) "deactivate or remove" apps from your device, sideloaded or not [0].

The only answer is a phone without Google Services. I don't mean "Don't sign into the Playstore", I mean deactivate (or flash a ROM without) every Google service - because who knows if it'll "accidentally" be turned on again

[0] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2812853?hl=en
Jarod's take on this [1] is absolutely perfect:

It’s fascinating to see the reactions to Elon Musk's recent Mars timeline. Like so many things, it sparks fierce debate from echo chambers—those who either cling to every word, believing he’s infallible, and those who focus only on the negative in everything he or SpaceX has ever tried to accomplish. Honestly, it must be exhausting for both extremes to uphold such rigid positions.

Why can’t both sides see it for what it is? An outrageous, exciting, and, even if late, achievable goal, with a timeline designed to stimulate creative and urgent problem-solving. Much like the space race of old, but this time with a far greater understanding of the technological challenges ahead—and without needing to be funded by every taxpayer. If 14,000 of the brightest minds hit the timeline, we’ll be that much closer to becoming a true spacefaring civilization and unlocking the universe’s secrets. And if they’re late? They will have learned an incredible amount along the way, and honestly, even if it takes a decade or more, it will have been worth the wait.

[1] https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1837966319242637372
(Shrug) The whole idea behind health care -- and civilization in general -- is to ameliorate that struggle.

"Insurance" is simply the wrong model when dealing with claims we will all eventually have to file.
Today in Apple history: Microsoft throws Apple a $150M lifeline
OP here, yeap. Here is a list of books I have and recommend:

* Braun, Designed to Keep (Phaidon)
* Dieter Rams (Phaidon)
* Bauhaus (Taschen)
* Dieter Rams, So wenig wie möglich (it's in German, but there is also an Englisch version, from Sophie Lovell)
Ok, fine, let's restrict it to AI agents only, without training. It's still an adversarial relationship with the content creator. When you take an AI agent an ask it "find me the best italian restaurant in city xyz" it scans all the restaurant review sites and gives you back a recommendation. The content creator bears all the burden of creating and hosting the content and reaps non of the reward as the AI agent has now inserted itself as a middleman.

The above is also a much clearer / more obvious case of copyright infringement than AI training.

> AI agent access cannot be banned without fundamentally breaking the User Agent model of the web.

This is a non-sequitur but yes you are right, everything in the future will be behind a login screen and search engines will die.
Wait a bit longer?

https://xkcd.com/303/

I'd argue that gatekeeping here is being done by the "Rust requires overpowered hardware" position you're assuming. I happily use an RPi4.
I've been colo'ing forever. I'd consider a Lantronix spider ipkvm available on request to be like minimum viable colo service. It's usually up in 5 minutes when I submit a ticket to the NOC.

I bet your provider has something like that. It's a godsend when you screw up, say, the hypervisor running state somehow and need bare metal access to unbork it :)
I think a better pallet-drone would be a 4 or 6 legged thing that just goes where you push it. Up stairs, over obstacles, across rocky paths, fords rivers, and tiptoes through forest underbrush.

Not exactly related: I've been reading about WW2 and just finished a book on the Sicily/Italy campaign. The mountains caused massive loss of life because defensive positions were so difficult to dislodge. Very much the same as the "fight for every hilltop" carnage in the Pacific theater. I was wondering if a "mech" would even work on mountainous areas, whether it had 2, 4 or 6 legs. It seems like you'd need something with the agility and sure-footing of a mountain goat.
I agree with the basis of this, but it assumes that a significant portion of people derive their influence and motivation by in-person interaction. Once you take that at face value, there are going to be things you can get done with that tool, that you can't otherwise. It's not a requirement for 5 day RTW, but it also speaks to the challenge of remote only work.

There's a reason people do LAN parties even when you have to lug your rig around, and it's not just food and drink.
Show HN: MPDPilot – MPD client for iPhone and iPad
Hi, HN.

I'm one of the developers of MPDPilot. During the 2020 pandemic, I found myself relying heavily on MPD (Music Player Daemon) but couldn't find a good iPhone app to control it. So, I decided to build one myself.

MPDPilot is a Swift-based app with a user interface built entirely with SwiftUI. It supports multiple MPD connections, local network server discovery, HTTP streaming playback, cover art display, song search, and more. For local playback, it uses a custom cross-compiled version of libmpv that supports several popular audio codecs.

The project started as a quick solution for my own needs but has grown with continuous development over the years. If you use MPD and have an iPhone or iPad, I hope you find it useful too.

Looking forward to your feedback.
FFI? This isn't how GPUs work...they are MMIO (mostly)

Those drivers are faster than anything else when used to run fixed command queues (what neural network runs are)
At least one of the illegal copies was supposedly converted using a version of "oed2dict": https://njw.name/oed2dict/ which creates various formats.

That takes HTML files as input, and I don't know where those are found. ISOs of CD-ROM editions from 1996 and 2009 are online, but it looks like an adventure to install the software and/or extract the data.

The trouble with piracy is that provenance is so shaky, with plenty of chance for bugs or alterations...
Also never forget how they constantly sunset microservices in order to make everyone scramble to refactor into the new (more expensive of course) microservice under a different name... ugh...
VDSO Getrandom() Ported to Five More CPU Architectures with Linux 6.12
It looks like an undergraduate research project. The kind of thing that is a curiosity for a professor or student.
That is why CLR used to mean Common Language Runtime, and there were so many languages on the launch event and .NET SDK bundled on computer magazines back in 2001.

Then the Windows only focus (for a while there was Rotor), and Microsoft being Microsoft, all that interest faded away and people focused on the JVM, even though MSIL was designed for all kind of languages (well dynamic came later with Iron languages and DLR), including C and C++.

Nowadays CLR almost feels to have changed into C# Language Runtime, given the C# centric decision on modern .NET design.
Interesting license choice. Where'd you find it/what motivated you to choose it?
Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver for a 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
>I wish the young generation could experience the free and open and wild Internet that I did in the 90s and 00s...

Those were exhilarating and heady times for many teenagers and children, to be sure, but you don't have any children of your own, do you?
I rarely see cars leave their lane.

The bike lanes around here are wide, clear, and dry. There is no excuse.

They don't even glance back over their shoulder before veering into the car lane. That's pretty perilous.
>how many of these limits are due to fundamental physics constraints

All of them.

Even with a 10x increase in battery energy density, you still need to move the same volume of air to generate enough upward thrust for a given weight.
> reaps non of the reward

Just to be clear what we're talking about: the reward in question is advertising dollars earned by manipulating people's attention for profit, right?

I frankly don't think that people have the right to that as a business model and would be more than happy to see AI agents kill off that kind of "free" content.
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
That's the problem, though. Some Zefram Cochrane figures out how to work subspace, but all the profit from antigrav sleds will go to whoever won the patents for a pallet mounted on a quadcopter 40 years earlier.

(Star Trek avoided this fate by having World War 3 happening in between today and warp drive.)
Rams documentary https://www.hustwit.com/rams
Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds
In theory, the compiler could do the same as C++/CLI, and output safe Assemblies when specific code patterns aren't used.
It is so strange to me when people get downvoted for suggesting a possible solution is to volunteer some effort. HN is all about open source until someone mentions creating a PR or even just a simple issue. Is this forum the definitive spot for complaining about software?

Filing an issue on GitHub is the correct thing to do. It has higher visibility for a longer period of time than a hacker news comment and is more likely to resolve the issue while wasting less time of the maintainer's and anyone else using the software.

edit: It seems you've been upvoted back to normal. Ignore me.
They built this for themselves and then released the 3d model for free. Users who don't want this wouldn't print it.
Just because I'm interested in personal bots, doesn't whatsapp business have a (nominal, maybe) cost? I've been using telegram and they're amazingly bot friendly + free but I use whatsapp so much more

Does it feel like it works for small (and personal-use) players with buttons, callbacks, and the rest
The Hunt for the Xbox Hackers [video]
I appreciate that the map renders the regional name and character set of the territories
Those are the mobs. Your average "non-racist" force is just racist to some other race.
I use Drupal... Although they issue way too many security & functional updates each year, it's been conveniently 100x less expensive to maintain than microservice architecture apps, and it's open source/PHP as a bonus.
Can you list 3 extensions you purchased before? Not the services you use and install their plugins later such as SimilarWeb or Ahrefs. They already have services outside of the chrome extension and extension is just adds value to their service.
IMO that detector keeps too much actually good content off the front page. Your post needs to be engaging enough for folks to upvote but not too engaging for folks to comment otherwise it leaves the front page.
> Maven is virtually infinite extensibility via plugins

Losing the only task of a build tool, caching and parallelization.

No, the problem is that maven doesn’t rebuild everything. It is actually quite common in code bases that I had to run clean build instead of build to actually recompile everything that changed. I guess maven just doesn’t have an accurate build graph?

> LOL, from my experience that is not true

In what way is it not true?

Also, gradle is demonstrably faster, especially on projects that can be parallelized. Obviously a hello world will be dominated by javac and build tool startup speed so it’s not relevant.

And multiple daemons — you can disable them, and they will go away if unused.
Cybersecurity Products Conking Out After macOS Sequoia Update
This article seems to tie them together nicely: https://www.gbhealthwatch.com/Trait-Caffeine-Consumption.php
>Side question: what if they replaced the batteries and electric motors with gas tanks and an ICE?

Congratulations, you have invented the helicopter.
Also Firefox Focus for iOS. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/21524 seems to the relevant PR.
> If you don't believe that United States law extends outside of its jurisdiction the Coast guard would like to have a word with you which enforces US maritime law around the world in international waters

Do you have a specific complaint? US courts do not allow lawsuits for things that happen in international waters unless they pass an 8-part test.

But at the same time, UN law of the sea treaties say that any nation may combat piracy in international waters. On top of that is the UN Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation [1], which adds a number of additional acts that any nation may enforce in international waters. But you should probably be glad that the US is doing the bulk of this: The United Nations is perfectly ok with a sham "trial" of any suspected wrong-doer followed by summary execution and throwing the body overboard. The US does not allow that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Suppression...
In practice this would end up with something in between. A more "direct" control scheme is nice, but you still need some fail-safe button that makes sure the operator doesn't accidentally kill themselves or someone else when they let go of the handle.
What a great idea to share even all the personal private life you had with a random company AND Meta /s
Yeah, kudos where kudos are due for making something that is easily tweaked, but I was thinking of a recent example of his “speed”.

Adding a “comic book” style in “4 minutes”: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1836735235658072144

If all you need to do to ship a new feature is add a prompt option in a configuration somewhere, yeah you can ship fast. And, again, all the props for making something that can iterate like that!

I think what I wanted to but failed to convey by being pithy is: For the people out there comparing themselves and think they’re “slow”, they might be trying to solve a problem that can’t be solved with a configuration tweak. It’s ok that it takes more time then.
As I understand it, research done on communities that have banned plastic shopping bags found that overall plastic bag consumption didn't change appreciably. People were in the habit of reusing such bags as garbage bags and whatnot, and when they were banned, they bought other plastic bags to serve that purpose.

My own experiences mirror this. Small sample size, but no one I know just throws away a plastic shopping bag after groceries are carried in; they always get reused.
The thing people have been doing for ages is a trade: I let you scrape me and in return you send me relevant traffic. The new choice isn't about a trade, so it's different.
Except with a replaceable battery you can also have two batteries for emergency and get 100% charge in a minute when needed. This is what I do.
AIUI vouching is harder to do/fewer people can do it vs flagging, which IMO enables some at times questionable censorship.

There should be a 1:1 vouch/flag capability or do away with it entirely and just use score like slashdot.
This Ferranti Mark I computer is notable because, despite being one of the earliest electronic computers, its instruction set included 4 instructions that are now included in most modern ISAs, but which have been missing for many decades from the instruction sets of most later computers, with the exception of the supercomputers made by CDC and Cray.

Those 4 instructions, with their mnemonics in the Intel/AMD x86 CPUs are:

LZCNT (leading zero bits count), which was named "The position of the most significant digit" in this manual.

POPCNT (population count), which was named "Sideways adder" in Mark I (it is listed in a table at the end of this manual).

RDRAND (read random number), which was named "The random numbers generator" in this manual.

RDTSC (read time stamp counter), "The clock" in this manual.

It is said that some or even all of these less usual instructions had been suggested by Alan Turing himself to the designers of Ferranti Mark I.

Another notable instruction of Ferranti Mark I was used to produce an audible beep, like the internal loudspeaker of the older IBM PC compatibles, "The hooter" in this manual.
I recently ported this to Metal for Apple Silicon computers. If you're interested in learning GPU programming on an M series Mac, I think this is a very accessible option. Thanks to Sasha for making this!

https://github.com/abeleinin/Metal-Puzzles
Are you thinking of a safari exploit that allows JavaScript to get out of the safari process? What’s the attack scenario?
> As an example, what if I'm not a DDoS-for-hire, but just a website that sells some software capable of launching DDoS attacks? Should I be able to buy Cloudfare protection? Should a site like Metasploit be allowed to purchase protection?

Would you say this nuance is a major issue on the other big cloud providers? Your own grey-area example of Metasploit is hosted on AWS without any objections. Yet the other cloud providers make a decent effort to turn away open DDoS peddlers, whenever I survey the highest ranked DDoS services it's usually around 95% Cloudflare and 5% DDoS-Guard.
>Domokos and colleagues devised an algorithm for smoothly converting geometric tiles — either 2D polygons or 3D polyhedra, like the bubbles of a foam — into soft cells, and explored the range of possible shapes these rules permit. In 2D, the options are fairly limited: all tiles must have at least two cusp-like corners.

(Emphasis mine)

Am I reading that wrong or are the kitchen tiles in the images impossible based on the statement above
this made me chuckle, yes, it's not gonna happen :D
https://archive.is/Z7eIg
Yep, there's really two parts
to this.

* Some company's crawler they're planning to use for AI training data.

* User agents that make web requests on behalf of a person.

Blocking the second one because the user's preferred browser is ChatGPT isn't really in keeping with the hacker spirit. The client shouldn't matter, I would hope that the web is made to be consumed by more than just Chrome.
Great. The HR software my company uses can charge me when my own bot "scrapes" my paystub pdf.
Yeah the headline is not great. Organic fertilizers are literally fertilizers with Carbon in them. So ... yeah more carbon in the soil.

The meat of the article tells a little more. First, the test was on a plot that had been no-till for 22 years. That's important to me because it means the organic fertilizer wasn't tilled into the soil, but instead rested on the surface.

Second is how the carbon was stored. It was a combination of carbon being "preserved in pores" (I don't understand whose pores they're talking about), and that the carbon attached itself to minerals in the soil.

Third, these soils contained more microbial carbon. In other words the manure actually helped support biological processes in the soil. I think that was also something that farmers and producers "knew" because they know their land, but that soil scientists needed to prove.

The Synchrotron is interesting. My partner spends a lot of time digging up soil samples and, sifting them, etc. It's a time and labor intensive process.
Then your software will be set back by a day! The horror!
How does gumroad work? If I type in a “fair price” and buy it, what happens? Does the creator get the tip and gumroad prints it for me?
This is cool. One of the things I miss most after my trip to Japan is 7-Eleven/FamilyMart. So many nice snacks and drinks, and you never need to walk more than two minutes to find a store. I liked the onigiri a lot.
Except for a fair comparison with this particular drone, you need a figure for how much you can carry on top of your finger, pointing upwards, while keeping it balanced.
Do you really think that nearly half of the price of an iphone is the screen? How come competitors are able to offer screens at 1/3rd the price?

Keep in mind that apple is intentionally killing the third party market. You cannot make a third party screen for an iphone that behaves the same as a regular screen, the iphone firmware will detect this and prevent it.

https://youtu.be/8s7NmMl_-yg?t=803
> I personally doubt I would have trauma if someone held a gun to me and asked me for my merchandise, but who knows, I've never actually experienced that irl

You should watch a few robberies where an armed robber popped the clerk after getting the money just because he could. Every armed robbery comes with the implicit threat of being shot, obviously, which is what the gun is for. When you talk about what's "fair" for the robber, it used to just be death. E.g. preventing them from reoffending.
For the purposes of the point I was making and this discussion it doesn't really matter if it's market dominance or cost.

The point is big established vendor free-riding on the work a smaller company has done, potentially extinguishing or significantly damaging it and by extention the future of the project.
Well of course not, because if they did so then:

1. Fraudsters would be able to game/bypass them more easily

2. Customers would be able to hold them accountable more easily

It is not in Cloudflare's best interest to explain their anti-fraud technology. The same thing applies to basically anyone doing anti-fraud by the way. Try asking a bank why they declined your transaction, or closed your account.
Without any other legitimate competition, during ongoing Microsoft antitrust litigation, this was a cost of business.
No, you only get to download the 3D model.
In-Q-Tell-All: Inside the CIA's Portfolio
IndiaToday not doing this guy a favor using the word "hacker". Top bullet point: "Hackers accessed sensitive data...". Even the graphic at the top says "SYSTEM HACKED".
> As a technically aware guy does that really make sense?

I've ridden my bike for decades. I:

1. do not veer into traffic without looking

2. do not rely on the cars seeing me

3. stay right as far as I can

4. do not draft

5. do not pass them at speed on the right when they could open a door or turn right into a driveway or other road

6. look at their eyes to see if they see me

7. do not overspeed my ability to brake

8. do not imagine that blaming the car will restore my shattered body

It's just common sense.
When plastic bags in CA began to get regulated last decade, I remember the reasoning being that the bags were floating away in the wind and getting into the environment. Conserving plastic wasn't the major motivator, but perhaps I'm misremembering.
Perhaps something for @Dang to investigate

You can email such suspicions to hn@ycombinator.com.
One of the most difficult challenges with incidents is dispelling the initial conjecture. Something bad happens and a lot of theories flood the discussion. Engineers work to prove or disprove those theories, but the story about one might take on a life of its own outside the dev team. What then ends up happening is post-incident there's a lot of work to not only show that the problem was the result of XYZ, but also it definitely wasn't the result of ABC.

I was responsible for wsj.com for a few years. The homepage, articles and section fronts were considered dial-tone services (cannot under any circumstances go down). My job was to lead the transition from the on-prem site to the redesigned cloud site. As you can imagine there were a few hiccups along that journey.

One particular incident we encountered was when reporters broke the news of a few unrelated industry computer system failures (including finance). Because it was about a financial system, people visited wsj, the spike in traffic was so large it knocked us out. Now other news outlets were reporting wsj down. Unfortunately, there was a perception that these incidents were all related by a coordinated hacking event.

Each minute the site had an interruption of service, I would need to spend hours post-incident making sure the causes were understood, verified and stakeholders knew what they were.

All in all, the on-call experiences were fine. Sure people were tired if they happened in them middle of the night, but the team was supportive and there was a culture of direct problem solving that didn't add _extra_ stress.

Fun stuff.