skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What computational photography are you referring to? I've read a fair bit about them but only seen adaptive mirrors and interferometry as some of the great improvements in imaging
Speaking of OEMs (and non-Google Android in general), Google has moved some functionality from base Android into Google Play Services so some apps won't work unless you get that installed.
These narratives were not driven by black people. I know what you are referring to. It was never considered an offensive term by anyone who had any stake in it, it was purely contrived and performative nonsense for being “aware” when it was signaling only that they absolutely were not. Just my 2c as a PoC
The review is very TBD for me. If they really do just check for viruses that's fine. But if it's basically the App store rules without the App store, or we get "we don't like your app" cases like Beeper than this basically ruins the point of an alternative app store.

The Apple cut is also absurd but I'm sure that will be rectified sooner rather than later.
Open source isn't going to save AI
this looks cool. any plans to support 3.2?
Then why is there one result for Google and the opposite one for Apple?
Power stations from Bluetti also have bluetooth always on. It can't be disabled and anyone can connect and turn off the station.

So if someone uses it as backup power for a CPAP they're pretty much SOL if a neighbors is playing with the bluetti app.

Bluetti considers it a feature and not a security issue.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240709030931/https://old.reddi...
Renamed/refactored into 3 new agencies (the FSB, GRU and SVR) would be a much better description.

Unfortunately the KGB did not simply dissolve, like nearly all the Warsaw Pact agencies -- and this fact is quite central to the situation we are facing today.
Without the launch codes they still had highly enriched weapons grade nuclear material. That’s the tough part. Making it go bang we figured out in the 1940s.

We also saw with DVD encryption that physical access to the device makes it tough to fully protect. Nuclear codes are protected significantly by “no one gets to tinker with the device without rapid lead poisoning”.
Their local store surviving and expanding their operation during these 3 years could be enough of a benefit.

The store can plan for what they'll do 3 years later, so progressively injecting IKEA competitors in the mix and getting people to know the other options could lead to a durable business. Especially if IKEA loses enough sales that they'd want to keep selling their goods in third party stores to keep shelf space from competition.

To get out of the metaphor: if alternative app stores become big enough to thrive on their own from this initiative, app makers will keep pushing their apps other there. In particular this whole scheme assumes some level of compatibility, so the burden should be light enough.
An interesting project and looks quite promising. I will be keeping an eye on it. The source code can be found here https://github.com/gardencmp/jazz (TypeScript).
Many of the fundamental apps on Android, and the Play store itself, can only be used under license. Android OSP does not contain many things that you would expect to be part of Android.

Also, most modern devices won't even let you flash your own OS, even a modified copy of Android. It's irrelevant if the source code is available if you can't actually run it anywhere. It's the TeVo case all over again.
An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)
Even if 99% are non-functional it’s a significant threat.
No I don't think it is.

They have detonated more than 800 nukes in their history, ballistic ones from subs since 60 years ago, and have almost 2k warheads deployed.

Don't confuse the fact that they tend to start and conduct wars poorly, until cornered, with complete ineptitude.
What users wanted: One streaming service from where you can stream or rent any movie or show available in the world.

What users got: 1000 streaming services each with their app and UX that is shitty in a slightly different way from the other, and with a catalog that keeps changing unpredictably.
You might be thinking of temperature ratings, which are indeed just based on more stringent testing.

Radiation hardening is, well, harder. It typically means some combination of different semiconductor processes (often silicon-on-sapphire and/or larger feature sizes) and added internal redundancy (ECC memory, TMR, watchdogs, etc). All of these require that the rad-hard parts be manufactured separately from the commercial ones; some require that the part be designed separately as well.
Laptops lose their value too fast

Now a self built PC can last a long time if you build it in mind with future upgrades, mostly RAM
Finite speed of causality helps scale the compute across multiple servers.

If you have an infinite speed of causality, a server may need to receive data from all the servers.
In the worst case, all servers will need to receive data from all the servers.

With finite speed of causality, a server only needs to receive data from the servers that simulate parts of the world that are nearby.
Dumb question: Why are 12ga shotguns, possibly on small auto-targeting platforms, not a thing yet? Like a CWIS/CRAM but tiny and for close-in engagements?
A meaningless advantage.

Apple does not compete with Google to distribute apps on Android and Google does not compete with Apple to distribute apps on iOS.

The value (to consumers) of the App Store is not that it is so locked down, but rather that it is the only way for people to put apps on the phones they have already bought.

But wait, you might say, Apple actually can open an app store on Android and compete with Google now!

But c'mon, it'll be a cold day in hell when Apple helps make the case that these rules should also apply to them.
What's the use case for the encrypted passwords out of curiosity ?
Not related to the 'meat wave' myth I hope
Because Steam is good and EGS sucks donkey balls. It's slow as shit, crashes randomly, and is missing boatloads of features. People don't object when a different store brings actual value, like GoG. They object because Epic's version of competition is just dump trucks of cash thrown at game publishers - that doesn't help the consumer any.

It's not unlike everyone here that loves to champion Apple even when the article is about Apple being the most openly evil it can possibly be, except so far Valve hasn't really done anything like that.
> you wouldn't milk a bird

speak for yourself
> it's the openness the platform really needed to compete against Apple

It’s hard to believe the best way to compete with Apple is by being more open then they are.

If that worked, we would all be running some unix os on our phones.

It’s clearly an utterly false premise.

This is going to hurt google and do literally nothing to Apple, except perhaps scare some people into the “saftey” of its curated ecosystem.
This is Katrina-like. It won't hit Florida as a Category 5 (should weaken before then, like Katrina), but the wind-driven storm surge it builds up passing over the Gulf will be that of a Category 5.

Current forecast is 10-15 feet in Tampa bay,

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/213144.s...
How much burglary do you think Kuwait City has?
How many pickpockets?

"increased surveillance" isn't the half of it.
idk worked ok for these guys:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

htmx can work well for a reasonably large class of web applications. not all, and certainly not all UI patterns, but w/a bit of a mind shift to the hypermedia approach & a bit of accepting some limitations thereof you can simplify a lot of things pretty significantly.

if you try to shoehorn it in to the SPA mindset, triggering server requests on every interaction, yeah, it's not gonna be great
>a partisan aside about a judicial decision on a case between private parties is off topic.

Given the FTC going after Amazon, I think it's a relevant question to consider. these cases will inevitably influence if Apple is gone after, but who goes after them will depend a lot on the US's government.
AOSP still exists, but it doesn't include most of the Google specific apps.
> Can you be more specific about "all execution after a mispredict is thrown away". Are you saying even non-dependant instructions?

To clarify, the misprediction happens at some point in the linear instruction stream, and all instructions and results before that in the linear stream are kept and everything after is thrown out. Everything after is wrong because the stream of instructions didn't go down the expected path, so it's not even really about instruction dependencies at that point: the wrong stream of instructions executed in the first place.

In some cases the wrong and good paths join up very quickly, e.g.:

cmp rax, rax
jl over
inc rax
over:
...

In this case the jump is over a single instruction so even if mispredicted the right stream will vary only in the `inc` instruction, so in principle it seems possible to save some of the further work which doesn't depend on rax, but this is very difficult in practice and no CPU does it in a general way that I know of. I believe some POWER arches could actually internally covert the pattern a above into the moral equivalent of a predicated operation, removing the branch completely, but that's a different thing entirely with a different set of tradeoffs.
This is all theoretical until properly tested.
2019: Naval on Narrow AI being too far from creative thinking (60 seconds)
I play airsoft in the middle of nowhere, when 300 people show up the cell towers can’t hold up and my phone signal is useless. Using LoRa radios we can still communicate long distances in the forest without using our voices.

My second use case is I build airsoft and paintball digital flags and scoring boxes using LED strips and microcontrollers. I plan to test and use LoRa radios for them to communicate through the forest and relay game status or even allow refs to control things for dynamic gameplay.
These threat actors aren't interested in your self hosted services. The want the intel and floodgates of ALL traffic.
Generating new neurons in old brains
Right, but carriers without deals (att) won't
Maybe that’s the intention of the test, but that’s not what actually happened. Atlas Shrugged was the only subject in the question. Whether they generalize from that one example is up to them.

You can test someone’s general health with an eye exam, but it’s still an eye exam.
No, and prison is expensive.

1.) Corporal punishment

or

2. ) Exile to Amchitka, with some camping gear, a knife, and fishing line/hooks.
Reminds me of how the Perl org was fleeced way back (Perl 6 way back). Can’t trust anyone apparently.
> This "precision versus quantity" argument played out to greatly favor precision in Ukraine

With artillery that's certainly true. On the other hand, Ukraine moved from expensive Bayraktar drones in 2021 to primarily drones in the 1k-10k price range today. Cheaper weapon systems allow them to be deployed in more places. Getting 5000 drones for the price of 5 drones might be worse for logistics, but it also means some will always be where you need them, doing wonders for the latency between target detection and target destruction.
This is so awesome! I just love this stuff, I hope that I can be at this level one day. Also I love how we're side-eyeing the switch 2 lmaooo thats bold considering Yuzu, Ryujinx and the 100+ YT creators Nintendo has either taken down or copyright struck this past week.
He actually started with strategy gaming, then when Russia invaded he started his slideshows on the main channel and ended up with another channel for gaming.
Yes. The point is which APIs Google exposes through it.
I’d be mostly confused. How did the best book you’ve ever read not alter your life?

I was just quoting the actual question in the comment.
Well, thanks! That's much appreciated. I was being a little whimsical with the parent comment, by the way.

The entire comment tree is honestly really baffling to me.

From people claiming I'm a secret fan of Rand, to people claiming I'm antisocial, or a sociopath - it's been a wild ride.

From my perspective, it would be worse to subject myself to people who hate me. And just because I'm not friends with someone doesn't mean I wouldn't jump start their car, or help them out in another way in a pinch.

It's all just so bizarre to me.

Have a good night.
You're out of loop, HIMARS hasn't been effective for quite some time, since the Russians figured how to remotely jam the GPS and make them miss.

That's not to say they are useless as you need extensive coverage over a large front, but it's largely worthless right now.

This is by the way why most NATO countries don't love the idea of sharing the latest weapons with Ukraine, they give opposition intelligence on how to counter them.

https://thedefensepost.com/2024/05/27/us-himars-ineffective-...
Actually its not that easy even if you did create some debris. Orbit is much bigger then people think. And these sats are much smaller then people think. Without propulsion lots of that stuff quickly drops below the level of the sats. Sats can also raise their orbit in response and fly corrections.

Even modest investment in better tracking could massively improve crash avoidance. It would take far more then a handful of sats to truly impact the functioning of the network. And even more to complete take it out.

Russia is working on everything if you believe their marketing. I seriously question if any work on 'orbital nuclear weapons' is anything other then marketing. And its questionable how effective that would actually be.

This isn't as easy as people think. A country like Russia might have some readiness of nuclear weapons. And maybe a small readiness of anti-sat weapons, but not anywhere close to enough to attack a network like Starlink. Preparing for something like that simply wasn't a thing anybody considered necessary until 2020 and Russia certainly hasn't invested huge amounts of money in that since then and given their recent success with rocket development, I not sure how effective it would have been even if they had.
If there 100's of alternate app stores, all with different revenue sharing agreements, payment processing systems, etc etc etc how are developers going to manage it all? Does a developer need to share their billing info with 100's of app stores? Seperatly agree to each stores terms of service? Seems like it will get awfully complicated awfully quick.
But, uh, both Google and Yandex use monorepo-style of development; and microservices style of deployment, yes. Go figure.
Ok, I've reverted the title to that of the page. Submitted title was "uBlock Origin supports filtering CNAME cloaking sites on Firefox now". If someone wants to suggest a more accurate and neutral title, we can change it again. Github commits without additional context don't usually make for great HN threads though...
I fail the see the correlation. Epic is synergizing with its platform that is a tiny fraction of its market and its engine that is also not a monopoly (Unity still the most used engine). This context does indeed matter a lot. Hard to lock out competition when your competition is 8x the market share.

>Epic never cared about consumer choice or a fair playing field

of course not. But enemy of my enemy. As of now their arguments benefit the consumer. If they ever do form a monopoly and keep doing these tactics, we can talk lawsuits.
A Different Introduction to the Web Audio API
I wouldn’t hold it against someone for having read it. Again, big difference between reading a book and saying it’s your favorite.
I have a thing for old worn stuff. Like to reuse my old trainers for walking some extra distance and such. With Linux, computers don't slow down with every update. I use an old Nettop as a Debian server. Unlike Raspberry it comes with an UPS of sorts.
for the downvoter, it is a tool people use to deal with this.
It isn't a problem until it is one, and the it can be a huge problem. I don't know anyone who was ever made to look foolish saying 'it is improbable, but let's prepare for it anyway' whereas plenty of graves are filled with people who said 'that will never happen'.
No one should be running a Pentium 4 these days unless they get electricity for free somehow. What a horrible CPU design.
I think what we're asking is what are the implications for the advertisement company.

And yeah, I can trivially block stuff in uBO by using CSS rules for example, so that's still on the table.
In the world of content moderation, we refer to this as constructive friction. if you make it too easy to do a thing, the quality of that thing goes down. Difficulty forces people to actually think about what they are writing, whether it is germaine and accurate. So generative AI, as you point out, removes all the friction, and you end up with bland soup.
Open Source Home Automation is on the rise. Check out Home Assistant
follow the money. Which judges handled which cases in which location?

but the non-partisan bailey answer is along the lines of "android promised freedom, IOS never did".
he earnestly believes in what Putin does.

I don't believe this, as there are way too many glaring contraindications: his quick cooperation with the FBI, the fact that Palantir does significant business with Ukraine, lack of any statements in favor of Putin (or in support of his narratives), etc. Remember also he's gay, and so fundamentally at loggerheads with Putin on the whole "traditional values" issue.

A better reading would be: since he's cast his lot squarely with Trump, ipso facto he'd be fine (enough) with whatever dirty deals Trump might wish to make with Putin (as Trump has essentially promised he would try to make). That doesn't mean he has to love these deals; but if it's the cost of maintaining his access with the Trump-Vance administration, then fine.

Civil rights of the LGBT community in Russia, and civil/property/existence rights of Ukrainians be damned.
I’m not sure which way things are going to go, though I tend to lean on the side of this being like any other technology change of the past. Some jobs are lost, new ones are created, and the world moves on.

That said, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a system in place as a hedge. Andrew Yang spoke about it years ago when he ran. I thought it would be a good idea to simply get the systems in place, even if it wasn’t really paying out much of anything. Once the systems are in place they can be dialed up or down as needed based on what happens with these markets. It would also shift some of the incentives around AI as a whole. Even if new jobs are created, it will take time, so having some kind of UBI funded by AI profits, could help ease that transition period. Trying to build the system as a reaction, instead of a proactive hedge, will likely go poorly, or simply not be done.
I suspect it might come from the Bible story of Jesus breaking too little bread to feed the multitudes.
You tried (and failed) to install Arch many many times, based on YT, and you have not even considered that there might be some kinds of helpful resources directly from Arch outside of YT.

Sorry to say that, and even more sorry that you'll probably not even understand what I mean, but this actually doesn't need any further comments.
Crafting QR Codes
Pretty sure we already do. The new "axis of evil" is Russia, militant Islamic states like Iran, NK (to the extent they matter at all... they won't, until they suddenly do, I think), and bringing up the rear being the most dangerous of all, China.
Ask Ukrainians, their last year counter-offensive was stopped primarily by Ka-52 helicopters with LMUR/Vikhr guided missiles.
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It’s like putting an android apk file on your website for an app.

If you’re giving it away for free to friends, sure.

If not, how do you sell it? How do you stop people stealing it? How do people find out about it?

Obviously, you the answer is usually “you write your own installer / updater” and do your own marketing.

Maybe that’s fun, and there’s something to be said for owning the entire stack… but it’s a loooot of work and probably not a reasonable financial decision to make.
Japan's Cat Island won't survive much longer
You can't know, it's kept in a secret. But given the input data - you just have to assume they do (even if they don't).
Yes and no. "Worse is Better" also implies you allow someone outside your problem domain to define abstractions you use to decompose the problem domain (and construct the solution domain.) So... I mean... that's probably not TOO bad if they're well-understood and well-supported. Until it isn't and you have to waste a lot of time emulating a system that allows you to model abstractions you want/need to use.

But at the end of the day everyone knows never to assume STD I/O will write an entire buffer to disk and YOU need to check for EINTR and C++ allows you to wrap arbitrary code in try...catch blocks so if you're using a poorly designed 3rd party library you can limit the blast radius. And it's common now to disclaim responsibility for damages from using a particular piece of software so there's no reason to spend extra time trying to get the design right (just ship it and when it kills someone you'll know it's time to revisit the bug list. (Looking at YOU, Boeing.))

I do sort of wonder what happens when someone successfully makes the argument that C++ Exceptions are a solution often mis-applied to the problem at hand and someone convinces a judge that Erlang-like supervisory trees constitute the "right" way to do things and using legacy language features is considered "negligence" by the courts. We're a long way off from that and the punch line here is a decent lawyer can nail you on gross negligence even if you convinced your customer to sign a liability waiver (at least in most (all?) of the US.)

Which is to say... I've always thought there is an interplay between the "worse is better" concept and the evolution of tech law in the US. Tort is the water in which we swim; it defines the context for the code we write.
It does make sense for Amazon's app store, as it's a general app store. Makes way less sense for Epic and other gaming/company focused storefronts.
The US military pioneered drones at every scale and price point, and has been deploying them operationally in very large numbers for decades. They have by far the most mature and diverse capability of any country at this point.

Also, the drones being used in Ukraine by both sides would not survive in a more sophisticated electronic warfare environment.
The safer option is to build your own install media using an unattend file. Here's an unattend file generator https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
That series was great fun. (I wonder if stands the test of time since I last read it decades ago)

I also liked the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.
The only thing that can help this is an enormous export tarriff on eWaste unless it is shipped to a foreign processing centre run by a company that complies with the exporter's labour laws.
The voxel-based graphics and resulting frame rate were one of those distinct “wow” moments I had while gaming as a kid. Up there with playing Doom or Flight Simulator for the first time.
I wish that was true, but the exit and prompt return of seemingly every PC game developer back to Steam doesn't give much hope.