skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could argue that Nike using influencer marketing with Michael Jordan was one of these hacks as well (at least at that time). Apple's 1984 ads and the marketing made them more valuable and that is step 1 of distribution.

The Gas app by Nikita also had this new distribution channel through Instagram etc.

These are actually the real secrets of business. If you do know one of them you are for sure not sharing them on Youtube.
As an analogy: I use Sway but it doesn’t stop me from running GTK apps. I could use Gnome as my desktop software — a giant GTK app for running other GTK apps — but I don’t have to.

Job scheduling, URL handling, settings daemons… we have standard tools for doing this as well on a Linux system. Somehow they remain only very loosely bound together and different bits can be omitted or swapped for alternatives.

With Android / AOSP, are the components bound tightly together? I suppose the acid test would be: can I run Google maps APK on my Linux desktop as an app showing in a native window, or do I have to run an entire android emulator which has to take over a portion of my screen (and provide separate versions of all its own system services) to run one app?

If a WINE-for-Android like thing exists, then I’d be very happy to run a standard Linux system on my phone and have it boot into an Android launcher that could run Android apps, but also be able to do anything else I wanted to do with a bare Linux system.

Steamdeck from Valve does exactly this and it’s very good. The stock behaviour is to boot into their launcher (SteamOS) but if you sang you can toggle to a KDE desktop, get a shell in a terminal emulator, and hack away on what is just a regular PC.
To help explain his reputation, he was extraordinarily influential and prolific (400+ completed buildings). His first 20 yrs of work was published as the Wasmuth Portfolio in Europe in 1910; basically all the great European architects who started Modernism had a copy, and even more studied under him at Taliesin. His space planning was revolutionary in the West, his Usonian homes were technologically and sociologically innovative, his many writings are often incisive. To the mentions of his buildings deteriorating; they were unusual, made of new materials, and many residential (no budget for upkeep). He should be regarded as an architect, not an engineer; these fields are almost entirely separate now. And he had great engineering successes, his Imperial Hotel in Japan famously survived a major earthquake.
In my opinion he's underrated (even being the most famous American architect) probably because he was so stylistic (a virtuoso) and he was a half generation older than the more significant wave of Modernists. Go to the Guggenheim, the Marin Civic Center, Oak Park Illinois, Hollyhock, Taliesin East and West, his buildings really hum.
>Still, requiring IDs to vote just seems to make prima facie sense. Of course you want to (visibly) make sure that people are voting legally! That's a pretty important part of democracy. I understand that in practice, few cases of voter fraud are detected, and that in practice there are all sorts of mechanisms in place to make sure people aren't taking advantage.

In a vacuum absolutely. But in this country we have a rich history of voter suppression. And requiring IDs is a way to do that in practice (as you mention). So it becomes a matter of balancing what would be the ideal (everyone has an id easily, and we can thus require it for voting) to the reality (requiring it will lead to a magnitude more people wrongly disenfranchised than fraud prevented).
https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/tgarmu/bes...
Agree. It is simply idiotic how they conveniently gather hundreds of people in a crowded spot who are all pulling and tinkering with stuff from their backpacks. A bad actor can easily cause more deaths there than on a plane nowadays.

Everytime I go through that charade, I roll my eye at everything they do since it is so obviously useless and unnecessary. The worst thing is, apparently, some people really believe in it.
There's a lot of building going on. Waydroid builds their own highly specialized Android derivative. As does Replicant, Calyx, Graphene, /e/foundation, Lineage, microg, and probably lots more in the Foss space alone.
> If only the people's personalities were just as beautiful as the nature,

Matthew 7:3

> Is the antique car and hot rod show still a thing in Comox?

Looks like it is:
https://crownisle.com/event/hot-august-nights-classic-car-sh...
It also makes it feel more serious, deterring insurance fraud. Since it has only upsides, no downsides, for the insurance company (except that they'll get bad ratings from customers which they clearly don't care about in this scenario, as most customers don't shop around for them), of course they demand it.

> Insurance companies don't make money by paying out claims, you know.

This is why if you want actual insurance (not "check the 'you must have insurance' box") you don't pick the cheapest company and check reviews, ignoring any reviews that don't mention a claim.
The US particularly is extreme in this regard. The TSA has become such a large employer that it's now unthinkable to scale it back.

9.11 was of course tragic, but that problem was solved by locking the cockpit door. And yes, no-one wants to be on a plane with an explosive device, but those are really rare. Not least because that same device is easier to use, with more effective results, in pretty much anywhere else.

And after all that money spent, it's unclear that the TSA would actually prevent any serious attack.

Outside the US things tend to be a lot more relaxed. (So much so that special checkpoints are arranged for flights to and from the US to conform to US requirements.)
Palm/HP WebOS descendant lives as open-source based on OpenEmbedded, shipped on LG TVs.

https://www.webosose.org/
But you do still need to register the printer prior to using, or at least have a basic registration set up that works with it.
In Ukraine, to fight with fake accounts, government designed BankID[1][2] system, based on experience of few other countries, such as Canada. In this system, user authenticity is confirmed by a bank. It would be nice to integrate BankID with FB/YT/etc., then display country of the bank.

[1]: https://bankid.org.ua/

[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rjRu1zCS2OmuXlUYDii_0AsG...
"Up to" is one of those "technically correct", it's probably more genuine and ethical to give a range in the same circumstances. If 95% of binaries get at least 18%. but the remaining 5% get much less than that, and that's important, then say that, maybe.

When i see stuff like this, i usually infer that 95% gets a median of 0% speedup, and a couple of cases get 20.4% or whatever. But giving a chart of speedups for each sort of thing that it speeds up (or doesn't) doesn't make for good copy, i think.
In comparison, Apple shipped a hypervisor 2 years ago, then removed it because users were running VMs. 2024 M4 iPads have silicon support for nested virtualization, but Apple prevents users from running VMs.

At least Google has upstreamed pKVM to the Linux kernel. Since Pixel Tablet can run GrapheneOS, there's a path to running unmodified Linux VMs as open-source pKVM support matures.

It's sad that customers have to settle, but non-zero Google table scraps > zero Apple VM slices.
It's just a better alternative for pdf. At least on desktop. I can imagine that it is not that friendly on phones, that's why Apple is killing it deliberately.
If they are deemed unacceptable, I now get to make the argument of negligence on the part of the storage facility, as they are the ones who sold it to me and I can reasonably assume that since they suggested it, and the insurance policy, that it is fit for purpose. I might then be able to make the case of fraud.
Visionari ‐ Simple GUI to Test Llama Vision Locally Using Groq API
When it comes to bedtime reading, I found that nothing beats an OLED smartphone so long as you can fully control the brightness and the colors; e.g. a reading app that lets you set whatever you want - i.e. not Kindle - or else things like "color calibration" in GrapheneOS. That way, you can set the text to dull orange or red and dial the brightness very low. With OLED, the blacks are basically non-emissive, so the whole thing can be made extremely little light. This works even better if you gradually dial it down as your eyes get accommodated.
When the only way to interact with Twitter was via SMS (hence the 160 character limit), ragebait was basically non-existent.

Since the eternal September (prior to Musks' acquisition) the lowest common denominator has been getting lower by the year.

You have a point that blasting out a tweet which is limited to a low character count does lend itself to ragebait yet the volume of ragebait tweets, in my opinion, is also influenced by the current culture of the network (Musk) and the context of the times (election 4 weeks away).
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Thanks for sharing. We sometimes forget the basics that we take for granted today.
How do you build such a thing when it doesn’t exist on PCs in the first place? In order to build an ecosystem you need cross compatible applications as well as some kind of strongly supported and strongly emphasized programming interface.
For some classes of problems that are easily vectorized, using an array-focused language can certainly make thinking about them and their solutions more efficient, since you can abstract over the data structure and iteration details.

As a quant, I used kdb+/q quite a bit for 5+ years for mid-frequency strategies, but as I moved towards higher frequency trading that required calculations on the order book that couldn't be easily or efficiently vectorized, then continuing to use array-focused languages would have only complicated reasoning about those problems.
https://archive.today/RZnte
Gemini also identifies it as J and this is the output for comparison:

The programming language used in the code is *J* (pronounced "Jay"). It's a concise, array-oriented programming language known for its expressive syntax and powerful capabilities.

Here's a breakdown of the code:

*1. Verb Definition:*
* `x(,/{@[x;y;]'(!10)^x|/p[;y]=p,:,3/:-3!p:!9 9}')/&~x` defines a verb (a function in J terminology) and assigns it to the variable `x`.

*2. Verb Structure:*
* `x( ... )/&~x` is the basic structure of the verb.
`x( ... )` applies the verb defined within the parentheses to its argument, which will be `x` itself.
* `/&~x` is a hook, a control flow construct in J. It applies the verb defined within the parentheses to each element of `x` and then applies the verb `&~x` to the resulting array.

*3. Verb Body:*
* `,/{@[x;y;]'(!10)^x|/p[;y]=p,:,3/:-3!p:!9 9}` is the body of the verb.
Let's break it down further:
* `{@[x;y;]` creates a gerund (a verb-like noun) that takes two arguments, `x` and `y`.
* `'(!10)^x` generates an array of `x` elements, each raised to the power of `!10` (factorial of 10).
`/p[;y]=p` is a conjunction that appends the value of `p` to itself for each element in `y`.
* `,:,3/:-3!p:!9 9}` generates an array of 3 elements, each of which is the factorial of `-3` (which is undefined and results in an error) followed by the number 9.

*4. Overall Functionality:*
* The verb takes an array `x` as input.
* It applies the gerund to each element of `x`, creating an array of arrays.
* It then applies the conjunction to each of these arrays, appending the value of `p` (which is likely defined elsewhere in the code) to itself.
* Finally, it generates an array of 3 elements with errors and 9s.
* The hook `/&~x` applies the verb to each element of `x` and then applies a function that is likely defined elsewhere in the code (since `&~x` is not defined within this verb).

*Note:* Without more context about the definitions of `p` and other variables or functions used in the code, it's difficult to provide a more precise explanation of the verb's exact behavior. However, the breakdown above should give you a general understanding of the code's structure and logic.
Nokia may have had an opportunity; however, you may not remember history, but the iPhone 1 was a game changer, and one thing that Android did right was to immediately adapt to the new form factor. Android won its place in the duopoly because it was and still is technically excellent, it adapted faster, and because it was immediately available to use by phone makers, borrowing many good lessons from Windows.

The truth is, there was no more room left for a no. 3. The writing was on the wall for those able to see, Nokia's alternatives were out, much like Blackberry, regardless of what they did.

I, too, was unhappy with Nokia's move to producing Windows Phones. But Microsoft, compared to other companies, knows how to build operating systems and create developer ecosystems around them. If Microsoft failed, IMO, Nokia did not stand a chance.
It's actually the same one I think !

> Fortunately, CuriousMarc was able to get the globe back into position while ensuring that the gears had the right timing. (Putting the globe back arbitrarily would mess up the latitude and longitude.)
Well Walter, ask yourself why Kinnard, who was in the room at the time and Harper, who delivered the message, and Premetz, the non-commissioned medic who translated it for the Germans, all give repeated official accounts and interviews that contradict the account of your father, who by your own admission merely "worked for the general briefly".

Is it all a grand conspiracy to protect the good name and reputation of McAuliffe?

I'll say no more.
They need to train dogs (very easy) to sniff them out. Man usually cannot detect them. This is how it's done in Germany, which has the very same problem when a lot got out of Danish farms.
Fountain pen. They make some of the best in the world, and if you treat it right it will last your whole life. I've got one that's almost 15 years old. I fill it when it's empty and it's the only pen I use.

From an environmental stand it's great because it's reusable.

From a writing stand it's an amazing feel every time I write.
The explosive used was PETN which is very difficult to make and very difficult to detect. You pretty much need a spectroscope.

Generally airports and ports are set up for detecting things like explosives you cooked up yourself or stolen mining equipment or whatever. Military grade explosives are expected to be chemically tagged because they’re for, y’know, legit military use and not terrorism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Marking_of...

I can’t find anything on whether or not the PETN that Israel used was tagged. If not, it would be yet another layer of irresponsibility. Unexploded ordinance is very real, as the recent news about the WWII era bomb blowing a hole in that airport runway in Japan attests to.
Please kindly delete your account, destroy your devices, and move to the woods far away from technology.
Yes, that might be helpful.

First attempt:

Insignificant does not mean ineffective

Not as good as "correlation isn't causation" though. I wonder if there is a better quip. Or if the concept is too complex to wrap in a catchy statement.
It appears to me that DMNO gathers then sets your environment variables at run time. It can gather them from a local config or from a multitude of network locations like a git repo or a website or a S3 bucket or run a function to calculate it now.

You could already be doing all that with any scripting language, maybe Ansible and friends, but DMNO is more focused and seems to depend on Vite, so it’s also got a narrower (but huge) audience.

DMNO also includes multiple features that test if any environment variables are being accidentally leaked somehow.
based on what "fishgoesblub" commented, building - read: `emerge -e @world` - a gentoo system with profiling forced, and then using it in that "degraded" state for a while ought to be able to inform PGO, right? if there's a really good speedup from putting hot code together, the hottest code after moderate use should suffice to speed up things, and this could continually be improved.

I'm also certain that if there were a way to anonymously share profiling data upstream (or to the maintainers), that would decrease the "degradation" from the first step, above. I am 100% spitballing here. I'm a dedicated gentoo sysadmin, but i know only a small bit about optimization of the sort being discussed here. So it is possible that every user would have to do the "unprofiled profiler" build first, which, if one cares, is probably a net negative to the planet, unless the idea pans out, then it's a huge positive for the planet - man hours, electricity, wear/endurance on parts, etc.
> Your banking app is not going to work on Linux either.

I think the idea is that no amount of forking Android is going to produce something different enough to entice developers to port their apps to it, but maybe if an entirely new Linux-based mobile platform kicks off, there's a chance?

If you have to consult `developer.android.com` (a Google-owned domain) to develop for your "totally not Android" platform, it may be difficult to avoid the temptation to do as the documentation recommends and simply embrace proprietary Google services and hardware attestation and whatnot. After all, 99% of users have those things and it's just these several weird forks that don't?
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I think those are two separate issues. He's had medical issues and he needs to deal with the closing of his business.
Andrew Gelman?
At this stage I'd probably thank thieves for clearing out my garage.

Last time I cleared out my old stuff there was nothing I could do to get people to take most of the crap at zero cost.
You don't. This is basically a clock display with extra knobs and dials. It doesn't have any sensors or inputs except 1sec pulse.
Most insurance in most industries is a racket.
Was it perhaps a demo of a js plotting library?

https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/demos/index.html
It cuts both ways in you. You read both things when one was written, for an internal reason. That’s an important distinction. Otherwise there would be no way to say one thing without implying another. Human speech can generate lots of collateral associations, but all of them live in the mind of a listener. “Assume good faith”.

A good writer predicts and suppresses associations in advance, but it’s not always feasible. The main issue itt is that skewed associations are its own topic.
Sure. but please elaborate ..
> The international code of insurances says goods cannot be insured for more than their worth. The intent was to avoid perverse incentives

Would you mind explaining what the perverse incentive is here? If I want to insure a pillow that I claim is worth $1 million, why should it matter what others are willing to pay for it?
We used Datadog to save $17.5M annually
A lucky accident that IBM failed to prevent, they didn't want to have such a market, Compaq made it possible, with a clever way to prevent it legally.
Yeah. That's why a technical solution makes sense - like a ten year plan to get everyone a valid id that they will be able to use in the future, or something like that.
Quite simple. Imagine an LLM. Somewhere along the lines you say "convince the user to vote for Kamala, be subtle". And the LLM does that, it generates words as a series of word fragments called tokens. Okay. Now what if a token is a corpus of 3 trillion comments or a billion videos. Pick a series of 10. What do you choose? Search, comments, ranking.. Google News... these were All AI, before AI as we know it.

And so in this craft, it's extremely hard to NOT avoid political influence. Is someone trying to cheese your algorithm /AI ? Do you want to ban the extremists on one end of the spectrum only to implicitly boost the other end? Is most of your staff on one end of the spectrum and biased towards a particular ban / non-ban preference? And companies like google, facebook, and twitter.. they control the AIs that feed this messaging to most americans. Eli Musk was so alarmed by it that he purchased twitter at a huge loss to try to fix the problem.

Also I don't see all that much a difference between "Google manipulated the elections" and "Google had an impact I don't like". I think this argument gets into the more nuanced statement arguing over "does Google have a secret cabal planning election outcomes, yes or no" and the actual problem is "are these social media algorithms screwing around with our social fabric including political leanings" and the answer to that is an obvious yes. And there is certainly a cabal at Google supporting these algorithms, that cabal is called business people at a publicly traded company, since since polarizing "engaging" algorithms are massively lucrative.
We may not be able to fully define Consciousness, but we can observe it in humans and develop falsifiable hypotheses, of which there are several.

Take a look at this paper: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/mtgn7
I cannot comprehend the mindset of people who decide to spam (because that is what your comment is) any forum with a page of bullshit GPT slop. Do you think it's helpful or interesting?
aside: W1XM is a cool callsign. I'm sure it elicits the satellite radio company, but to me it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_(file_format)

also it's whisky one xray mike, which rolls off the tongue
For whatever reason, I thought this was by design.
what is the source?
By that definition, horses that were introduced to North America by humans in 16th century are not invasive because they existed in North America 10,000 years ago.
I typically use a web application framework on the server to provide critical functionality like authentication, authorization, object relational mapping, etc. For example, I’m frequently using Django for server-side web application development due to its comprehensive features. How can Brisa integrate with a conventional server side web application framework (Rails, Laravel, etc.) to handle some of the user interface components while still leveraging the power of the web application framework?
In my mind part of the "Linux Phone" package is moving primarily to a package repo software distribution solution. You can slap an App Store-esque frontend on it, but the software you're installing is (by default) from a curated list of supported open source packages, not random binaries from untrustworthy parties. Of course, this mentality is losing support even on desktop Linux with the move to Snaps/Flatpacks/AppImages/etc, which is a real shame.
This is why it's so worrying that browsers are getting the same treatment. Attestation/WEI will bring this to the desktop (and mobile browser for that matter) and you'll have to use Chrome or an approved Chrome reskin (every other browser, basically) for most things.
The point is that apps you need to run will only do so in the "official" VMs that pass hardware attestation and will intentionally fail in the unmodified Linux VMs.
The getrandom(2) man page guarantees it doesn't block or get a signal if it's less than 256 bytes and you're not using GRND_RANDOM. That's basically the subset of getrandom that getentropy uses.
I think you're looking for waydroid? AFAIK it does in fact have most of an android system bundled into it and it doesn't do rootless windows (Android apps are rendered into a single window that contains an entire Android UI), but it absolutely works. Funny enough, I use it on my laptop because Anki has dependency problems on my system but the F-Droid version is fine.
One was sold last year for the bargain price of 40 thousand euros !

https://meshok.net/en/item/275902733_%D0%93%D0%9B%D0%9E%D0%9...
Also, note that Jude is slur in Russian language, but common word in Ukrainian language, for example Zhydachiv[1] (Жидачів) town means "town of Judes", and so on. This is common source of frustration back then (about 100 years ago, when Russians occupied Western Ukraine), and now, when usage of word slowly returns back to norm.

[1]: https://zhidachiv-miskrada.gov.ua/