skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's straight depressing that Google, who has allowed loading third party apks since 2008, is the one punished when their competitor with higher market share doesn't even allow that.

I just can't help but think of a world where every company pulled an apple. Not being able to install your own applications on your own device is horrifying to me, and we were just one android (apparently stupid in hindsight) decision away from that being the case.

Imagine if that was the case with pcs. 30% obligatory apple tax or you can just go release your own phone.
List of extremely tired and boring things:

- Not fully understanding something, but having an opinion about it, with no attempt to learn more.

- "All companies are evil" yawn

Next time, can you try a more exciting criticism of Epic? We've been going through these lawsuits for four years now, every easy original thought has been thought and poasted about, you need to think a bit harder for your next comment.
Wow. I'm a fast reader, and it took me ages to finish that series. Reading it 6 times would take a lifetime of effort for most people.
Nice. I did one over curl 2 years ago

http://curdle.me/
Manifesto for Lazy Product Development
Fifth generation fighter jets aren’t built for dog-fighting. They are stealthy, mesh-networked missile and bomb platforms.

Modern fourth generation fighters would be more than sufficient up close. Except that fifth generation fighters hunt in packs and none of them need to be pointed at their target to hit them.
You can try to virtualize generic ARM in qemu and see that it won't reach Raspberry Pi performance. Recent versions should have it available out of the box afaik.
Virtualizing Mn cpus would be even less useful.
Mostly just thinking that XHR to mutate (form submissions, etc) and then SSE to send the updated DOM elements would be a good combo
Yes because Google said there platform was “open” and then changed the rules. Apple buyers knew what they were getting beforehand.

There is Supreme Court precedent for this
I've long wished for built-in browser functionality that converts times to the user's preferred time zone, with perhaps a dotted outline indicating that a change was made by the browser to the page.
It's strange to me, because there's literally more competition in the space, but people are unhappy about it. PC games used to regularly be Steam exclusive for years on end, and now games are often available on multiple stores within months or a year from release, but people are for some reason unhappy about this fact.

For example, Borderlands 2 (on PC) was Steam exclusive for something like 7 years and nobody seemed to mind. Borderlands 3 (on PC) was EGS exclusive for 6 months and people got very upset about it.

How is it not better to have a game available on two launchers within 6 months than to have a game available on only one launcher for 7 years?
I've got to agree. All four of them. Or at least the first three.

That is:
_The Mad Scientist Club_
_More Adventures of the Mad Scientist Club_
_The Big Kerplop_
_Big Chunk of Ice_
Humans have a place in high-end weapon systems until there is a locally running AGI in the system. An actual near-peer war never works the way people expected, and fancy new weapon systems tend to underperform initially. In the absence of an AGI, humans can adapt their behavior in the field faster than tech companies can fix their software and deliver new features.
DJI's Osmo Action 5 Pro is here to compete with GoPro's Hero13 Black
Updated the readme. Thanks!
photovoltaic elements inside solar panel rely on photoelectric effect, which is electromagnetic force. It cannot be weak/strong force
Sure, but I think it's fair to say "why are you regulating us significantly more than you are regulating our similar competitor?" Android is already more open than iOS; you can already install third-party app stores, where the only hoop you have to jump is agreeing to a warning about installing things from "unknown sources".

But yeah, Google doesn't allow rival app stores to be distributed through the Play Store, nor does it give access to the full Play Store catalog to third-party app stores. Frankly I'd never even thought of the latter thing as something I or anyone would want, but sure, ok, make them do that.

Meanwhile, Apple gets to keep their App Store monopoly (in the US at least), a situation that is even more locked down than Android's has ever been.

I absolutely agree that Apple's platform needs to be opened up too. And while I'm often not sympathetic toward Google on a lot of things, I can absolutely be sympathetic toward them feeling like they are being treated vastly unequally by the law.
From the judges decisions:

> Google also can’t:

> Offer developers money or perks to launch their apps on the Play Store exclusively or first
I agree with you. First decision needs to overruled and Apple sued to hell until they comply.
I highly doubt that such a general presumption holds.

As seen in the case of Russia’s super drone being downed by their own this week after presumably loosing control, only relying on unmanned vehicles en mass leads to a single point of failure.

Disrupt or corrupt signals, disrupt the entire force.

The US is the force it is because it can do combined arms like nobody else.

Unique capabilities don’t matter if your opponent saturates them with low tech or combined arms.

Look at last weeks Iran ICBM barrage vs. iron dome and David’s sling.

Sure, unmanned vehicles bring unique capabilities to any field of battle, but combined arms is as much the future as it was the past.
What do you mean by absence?
the word is still spelled "small". fight meme speak
Nice link, that was an interesting watch.
Did the Apple Epic decision go all the way up to SCOTUS? If not, any precedent set by a lower court would be limited to its district/circuit.
> I read the first book and hated it.

That was probably The Elder Gods series (Crystal Gorge, et al).

It is awful. I suspect it was written while he was dying of cancer, and his wife had a great deal of input.

The Redemption of Althalus is ... bearable, but not his best.

I enjoyed The Elenium and The Tamuli series. They had a lot of the character of The Belgariad, but bloodier.
Google Is Testing Verified Search Results for Brands
Shouldn't it be more drone-vs-drone?
X.25 is still used in ham radio with AX.25
Uh?, this seems totally normal, a few clear AI images here and there but all those seem legi...

And then I remembered that I was on duckduckgo.
> I'd argue Rust mpsc channels are actually more powerful than Golang's

Do they support Go select functionality, buffered channels etc without using 3rd party libraries?
They're both duopolists, and this is at least a step in the right direction.
I wonder if you're able to open the iframe in a new tab and then use the extension on it?
Supreme Court won't hear case on secret warrant for Trump's Twitter data
One counter-take to this is the web itself: There's no curation or incentive structure to the web, yet it thrives in ways far outpacing the walled garden app stores.
> Stopped clocks and all that.

It’s the fundamental point of the entire story. Like it is literally the thesis of the 1000 page book.

Guy figures out that there are two tiers of people, good or smart or whatever (John Galt, you) and less good or smart or whatever (me, your childhood friends (???)), and the way to address this is for the Smart Goods to protect themselves from the Dumb Bads through their wily tricks. It is the plot to every ayn rand book
On item 2, you can use hx-swap-oob to update as many other parts of the page as you like. That will work great for the count that you propose.

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/
I have no reason to doubt your experience.

But AOL IM and MSN were centralized walled gardens that came rather late to the game, and neither PhotoBucket nor phpBB existed at all in the 20th century that is the context here.
> A lot of the things I own have processors in them nowadays, are you suggesting the courts should require them all to create methodologies for us to run our own code on them?

Don't play coy here, you understood what he/she said.
I think they're referring to the Soviet Union under Stalin, a dictatorship, which was very much opposed to homosexuality.
> Fiction: The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson. Best fantasy books ever, IMO.

I highly recommend listening to the GraphicAudio adaptation of this series. It's what got me into audiobooks.
good thinking, very true. thanks for pointing it out
> Amazon’s practice of coercing sellers who want their products to be Prime eligible into using Fulfillment by Amazon, which makes it more difficult and more expensive for rivals to offer increased product selection.

How would this even work? It's on Amazon to deliver your stuff in 2 days but they also have to allow 3rd party shipping they have no control over? Are they allowed to require such a seller to fulfill the order by a specific date?

Because to me a lowly customer Prime === Item Shipped by Amazon. That's the whole value.
It’s complicated, but you have the right intuition about it. OCLP re-inserts drivers removed by Apple and patches the OS to enable functionality that doesn’t rely on hardware verification or ARM hardware. According to the devs, that’s about all they are currently able to do with current approaches.

UTM might do what you want but likely not on x86.

https://mac.getutm.app/

> Virtualize macOS as well.

> Run multiple instances of macOS on your Apple Silicon Mac with UTM. This can be useful for developers as well as security conscious users.

> Note that macOS VM support is limited to ARM based Macs running macOS Monterey or higher.
I literally don't have anything but Steam installed.
Definitely more accurate however it's UX is awful and doesn't do a good job of prioritizing issues. It sucks that you basically have to install a screen reader app to get the most accurate idea of how screen readers see your site.
> I think most manned war vehicles are dead now.

IMO, submarines - especially nuclear subs probably have decades of life left at a minimum.

But yeah - everything else is starting to look very vulnerable.
Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage
How can I scrape Google Maps contributor reviews?
> I take it you're being purposefully obtuse

No, but you're being purposefully hyper-sensitive.

If you're replying to someone higher, you should hit Reply on that comment. Not on someone lower down.
> Mostly just thinking that XHR to mutate (form submissions, etc) and then SSE to send the updated DOM elements would be a good combo

Yes, that's basically the idea.
I couldn't replicate this in Firefox 131 under W11.
He says they have a process and Kent isn’t respecting it, it is very frustrating for him understandably because he has to deal with a lot of people like Kent and doesn’t want to compromise his process, he expects Kent to be humble and respect the process. And he says if Kent doesn’t want to respect it then this whole thing can be developed outside of his project, all of this seems pretty understandable.
> but that's not what I wrote.

Making hard things hard is a subset of making hard things possible. Better than making hard things impossible, which is the usual result of making easy things easy :)

> And I don't think that's what HTMX provides - it mostly gets in your way with the hard things.

And yet they're still possible. Like I said: hard things are going to be hard no matter what. Even if the hard things are harder, that's still a worthwhile tradeoff for maximizing the easy things.
Matrix v1.12 Release
"The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture" by Darrel Ray follows in the footsteps of The Selfish Gene to certain logical conclusions about clusters of related memes/concepts (specifically: how religion(s) formed and evolved as clusters of overlapping concepts)
I think we just have different priors.

My belief is that, fundamentally, everything should be open. Users should have full control over their devices, and manufacturers should have no place in dictating anything about how they are used, what software can and can't run on them, etc. (Note that I'm not being anti-proprietary-software here; I don't think companies should be required to give away their source code if they don't want to.)

I get that this isn't relevant from a legal perspective. But so what? I can talk about where I want the laws to go.
> Your rejoinder is replacing some customer support roles?

No, it was an e.g., it is right there in the post.

> By making everything equivalent linguistically, we lose the language to condemn terrible and awful things.

Completely agree, at the same time the harm created isn't inconsequential, do you mind coming to a term which we can use?

And by the way, you attacked tangent points of my argument, nothing in the substance of it. Power is politics, tech has power, so it's inherently politicised. Please attack this argument, not tangents.
Can someone explain why the EMI would cause a Bitflip and not always a high read? Why would a pulse invert the signal that’s read? Don’t the voltages effectively get added?
> My guard will have to be up so much, all the time, I actually don't think it will even be healthy to "consume content" anymore. Why live a life where almost everything I see can be a lie? Makes me not want to use any of this anymore.

While I generally agree with your whole comment, I feel like this part has been true for years on social media well before AI generated content hit the scene.
Perun brings lots of citations and discusses his sources regularly, and always adds caveats. I wouldn't liken his weekly video to those of the daily mappers or telegram video collectors. Very different kinds of content.
This uniform b-spline is the same one used often as a "Gaussian" approximation (three box filters) - see Paul Heckbert's 1986 paper here (apparently done at NYIT in the early 1980s with help from Ken Perlin):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/15886.15921
Do you have anything to prove your claim? Any precedent?

Epic could already to their own Play Store, but they didn't/couldn't.
Freaking Amazon had their app store and they failed. Samsung also has their own App Store and how many non-Samsung phones run it?
I have already upgraded to Rails 8 and am currently writing a guide on how to use Propshaft (because I was unable to find important infos). It‘s far from ready, but I plan to include a wizard that allows you to select your needs and it spits out the combination of jsbuild/cssbuild/importmaps/dartsass that you need.

In short: if your application only needs distribution-ready JS and CSS (from libraries like Bootstrap, Splide or Lightbox2) you only need importmaps-rails.
If you use SASS, you need dartsass-rails. And if you need to compile TS (with esbuild or webpack) you need jsbundling-rails.

Especially the first case got a lot easier with Propshaft.
The Atlantic seems to have no problem linking to multiple outside sources in seemingly every article I read.
>who literally own a 60k strong army

Prigozhin had never own an army. He was just high-ranking Putin's clerk. He "owned" a 60k army in a meaning, in which any general owns an army.

>Russian style oligarchical hellscape

Russia has nothing to do with oligarchs. There's none left. Because oligarchy is about political power via the money, political will of capitals. And capitals have about zero political power in Russia.

>he is rich and powerful either way.

In Russia it works the other way around: you are powerful - and because of that you have money, and Zuck is NOT powerful. Literally one government decree - and he owns nothing and decides nothing, and considers himself lucky enough if after that decree he is allowed to get tenth of the marketprice for meta, or maintain his position as formal owner of de facto government controlled meta
> where every app store has the same apps

Can't you buy dyson vacuums at the dyson store, at target, and on amazon?

Personally, this is making android phones a lot more interesting.
Check out Jeff Lindsay's Wanix project: https://wanix.sh/
Ah, that's cool. We built a similar system using Iridium SBD and LTE for controlling drones a few years back. SBD isn't the fastest comms around, and it can get rough if you don't have clear sky view, but it works pretty much everywhere, with a small antenna. If you don't have line of sight or LTE, it's a solid fallback.
> Android has far more users both globally and in the US specifically

Globally, yes. Not in the US, though. iOS sits at around 57%, with Android at around 42%.

> Apple also has the benefit of being a sole operator of its platform, whereas Android and the Play Store aren't Google-only.

But yes, I think this is the key reason why Google and Apple are being treated differently by the law.

I think that's garbage, though, from the perspective of what feels reasonable to me (regardless of the law): Android has always been more open than iOS, and available to many different manufacturers and organizations. It's a bit weird that this openness means that they are required to be even more open, while a platform that has always been much more closed can remain that way.
The EU didn't come to that conclusion they're gunning for everyone.
> Shouldn't it be more drone-vs-drone?

For the sake of humanity, I wish that was the case, but it won't be. Defensive drones will exist for sure, but generally the targets will be human or infrastructure, not other drones.
yes, always a risk... it's one way science reporting fails people I feel, they don't really explain the scale
They got caught doing the same thing Microsoft got caught doing in the 90s with IE/Netscape -- using their monopoly position on one piece of software (Windows, the Google app suite) to prevent their OEMs from shipping another piece of software by default (Netscape, Epic Games Store) that directly competed with their own offering (Internet Explorer, Google Play Store). Since Google and Microsoft both use OEMs, unlike Apple in their parallel case, there's a clearer line to how Google is being unfair compared to how Apple is being unfair.

In short, Epic sued and won because Google got between them and Samsung.

In general, in the courts, it's a lot easier to ask a judge or jury for someone to stop doing a thing (blocking their software from being pre-installed) vs. forcing someone to do something they're not currently doing (allowing any third-party app stores).
Agreed, I read the 4 of them in 4 days, easy reads, very interesting. I like how 4 (which Cixin Liu recognized as canon despite being a fanfic originally) completed the story vs how it ended in 3.
I'm not trying to shit on this but the world seems to have jumped headfirst into dystopian Black Mirror episodes. It looks like people too young for children thinking AI technology is the answer.

Again, not shitting on the people creating this and this is the forum for it, but I feel all of this is just such a wrong direction for people and humanity in general.
Both suits were brought over the same things, but the actual arguments presented were different.
From my limited vantage point... companies have had a hard to finding good developers to supported their custom applications, so now they are looking to low-code, SAAS solutions to solve their problems, which doesn't work well either because these tools are too generic and BA types struggle customizing them. So maybe my answer is, if you are good at programming and like it, stay in it. If you are just doing it because its a supposed to be a sustainable job, look into something else you might like, like configuring SAAS solutions.
Fair. Exceptions definitely exist, but unless it's location based subreddit, I, personally, wouldn't trust it. There are fun methods that I've been told about. Like marketing companies maintain multiple very real life looking accounts, participating in discussions for months/years with no product affiliations, and very casually throwing in plugs which eventually generate revenues. Or giving a list of 10 items, and inserting their product in between, as a sale is better than no sale. Or marketing a competing product in a very obvious way, then replying from another account telling how it's an ad to eventually lead sales to themselves.

I have no idea how intensive these are, as I most of these over bar drinks when I was traveling. Could've just been someone making stuff up as well. But my marketing friends have confirmed that they use Reddit very heavily, as it's a great sales funnel if you play it right.
Yes (encountered same issue on ff macos after clicking on example tabs)
Plastic keeps out moisture and is less heavy/thinner than glass.
Sounding like a broken record here. Your bank and state government will sell your data to these brokers. Just in case any of you think your TOR browser saves you.
VTOL VR is a pretty great VR first mil flight sim. It has f-18, f-35, and apache like vehicles. They recently introduced wind effects and EW. Allegedly the radar cross-sectioning is better than DCIS (actually accounts for orientation towards the radar)
My favorite is Siddhartha.
If you can induce enough correct errors (yes that is contradicting), the ECC won’t be able to detect the error because the modified data is correct again. The ECC schemes I’ve seen used can correct 1 bit and detect 2 bit error, so 3 flips at the right position would be enough to get new data that would be valid again.
when it broke there were 3-4 people in it
Whoever can most cost effectively put explosives on target wins.

The future will be annihilation at a distance with cheap standoff weapons followed by swarms of cheap drones loitering over battlefields to clean up.
It's more about resolution. Products of small numbers get small a lot faster than sums. Likewise for dividing two small numbers. The smallest possible quad precision number is a lot smaller than the smallest possible double precision one.
I don't think you are in the minority.

At all.

Every time web sites reimplement basic browser behavior, which they invariably do these days, they get worse, often significantly, because they never get it right.
> information in them was not any better than the work of open source intelligence

Now look at the dates on those documents.

Big difference between knowing the Japanese fleet is off Pearl Harbor at 7AM versus 8:01.
Now please tell me how to remove Defender.
Well nobody asked me before changing the meaning! And by the way, a “selfie” can only have one person in it, and a “video” is something on MTV. Don’t get me started on “hack.”
If you want Android, you know where you can find it.
Vonnegut was such a genius. His books mostly light reading. Funny and fully of goofy sci-fi tropes. All building up to revelatory philosophical lessons about human nature. "We are what we pretend to be" hit me like a ton of bricks. Right up there with "We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different."
> usually not the same employees, it’s an open question we plebs may never know

The impression was that my grandfather did classified work more often than not; he probably would have been one of the crossovers if it had been the case. He was exceptionally severe if any discussion came too close to whatever line existed, not that anyone else knew if or where such a line was. My mother and her siblings did not find it to be a very happy childhood, on the subject of anecdotes :). The stuff he talked about was fascinating, but you learned quickly not to ask many questions.
Pretty much, yeah. Any controversial political book will do.
> They don't prevent Apple from facing the same lawsuit or from being covered by the same judgement.

I thought Apple did face the same lawsuit, against the same plaintiff, and Apple won.
> I don't think we are going to see a healthy competitive marketplace with 4 years of chaos where every app store has the same apps, there's no curation at all or incentive structure for stores to win over app listings, and app stores get created and destroyed at the whims of a random single person.

The horrors of free will and choice.