skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After declassifying the data in April 2022,[40] the U.S. Space Command, based on information collected from its planetary defense sensors, confirmed the detection of the interstellar meteor.

Then there’s the studies by Loeb and others in the more affirmative. So it makes sense the military is more hesitant to divulge specifics on accuracy as it leaks potential military capablility.

U All Probably get it anyway.
https://www.inverse.com/science/interstellar-meteor-2014-dis...
ATM keypads are an extremely expensive component that you replace as a complete module, made out of a couple of chunks of very thick stainless steel and plastic with the PCB in the middle.

They are specifically designed so that all the keys sound exactly the same, and individually tested at the manufacturer. This is something they've already thought about, back in the early 1990s.
They look at sales figures for the phones they are selling. That tells them way more than asking people.

<10% of iPhones sold are <6". That's the ball game.
It seems like Spotify’s developers are cut off from public input. For example, when the Electron client was released, they removed the standard back/forward keyboard shortcuts native to macOS (cmd+[ and cmd+]). Clearly, this was a regression and a relatively straightforward fix, but the issue was ignored in the community feedback forum because of “lack of popularity.”
I responded just to give some data points about people who have changed their minds. I don't think HN is the place to get into a debate about it.
U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public
Plenty of Prime Minster's or similar roles in European governments that earn 120k+ euro per year
I'm just surprised my 2012 Paperwhite hasn't broken. It's still chugging along like a king. There's a thin line across the screen about 10% off the top bezel, but it's easy to ignore. I don't think the battery life has degraded too much either.

Perhaps because it is relatively simple, this has been one of the longest-lasting and best-aging devices I've ever owned.
I don't think the notion of copyright enters into it at all. Schools generally have policy to the effect that anything submitted must be the student's own work, not that another entity cannot have copyright over it. You couldn't submit out-of-copyright text without attribution, either.
If GIMP did not exist, maybe we’d see more developers contributing to Krita?
I have one question in this regard: will I still be able to access my mail through my own script I myself wrote? I understand I will probably have to make some changes and click some things in GMail settings but is this still going to be possible or will I too have to "publish app" even if I only mean it for my own private usage?
It’s happened to me with puerile (childish) and many others.
What I’m saying is that AI can’t legally “own” text, thus it is legally your own creation.
Because:

1. I already have nice earphones, I don't want to spend another $200-$250 for no reason (the going price of most wireless earbuds I've been interested in)

2. Way lower latency than bluetooth.

3. I have too many things to charge as it is. The reduced anxiety of having 1 less device to charge is worth something to me. I know USB-C to 3.5mm dongles exist, but a headphone jack is still better.

4. I oppose the idea of companies artificially taking out basic hardware features (that we've always had for 10+ years) just so they can force more disposable consumer goods to their users year after year.
I'm an amateur, but let me offer some possibilities...

How about a "Socratic Test" where the computer teaches humans by asking them questions that guide the human to truth?

If the human conversing with the bot/AI claims improved enlightenment at higher rates than if a human were asking questions, the AI passes the "Socratic Test".

(Variations on the theme are if course possible... an analogous "Zen Master Test" would up the "cool" factor (and difficulty!) but the rate of enlightenment experiences might be too low with either humans or AIs to make a good measurable criteria.)

Or how about a "Jesus test"? If a human conversing with the AI is convinced by the truth and goodness and humility from the AI enough to say "surely you are the Son of God!", we have created something worthwhile and benevolent.
(Ok, this has the "zen master" problem too and is problematic for other reasons, but perhaps you get my point.)

What about the "Teacher/Larry Page Test"? (Larry Page, Google cofounder was known for asking the interview question "teach me something!" to get insight into job candidate's expertise/thinking... and at least some value from an otherwise unfruitful interview ). If in a conversation between human1 and an AI-or-human2, if human1 asks "teach me about X" questions, where X can be an unbounded set of questions, and rates the answers as "likely to be from someone of intelligence they would want to talk with/hire/etc" more often with the AI than with human2, isn't that sufficient to form an alternate "Turing Test" but without the deception-based goal?

Alternative suggestions welcome.
We have a new OS, but its novel enough that it isn't recognized as one.
Complete introduction to product metrics for startup founders
Users should not be subjecting all of their correspondents' communications to US warrantless surveillance anyway; Google is doing the world a service by making their service harder and harder to interoperate with.

Gmail and other huge centralized points of censorship and surveillance must be destroyed. If you are a user, move away. If you are a developer, do not support these closed systems.
I find that even using https://open.spotify.com in Safari is incredibly snappier and much less of a memory hog compared to the official client, at least on my own computer.

(I'm not at all trying to convince you to "stay", or even claiming that this solution is as good as a proper lightweight client. Also, I only ever use [free] Spotify to check my own music/page)
It probably isn't a good strategy to concentrate on advertisers and their wishes for content. Advertisers don't like brands next to controversies, sure. But ultimately they will go where users are. We have seen a lot of social media companies fail because they suddenly switched to appease advertisers instead of users. But if the latter leave advertisers will too.

> problematic environments

The unproblematic environments are often quite boring. There are different audiences though. Advertising classically associated with celebrities. For some these work for other they don't. The audience most interested in celebrities a clean and sanitized environment might work in the long term.

> free-speech advocates

Absolutely nothing wrong with that and most social media platforms were successful because this was a main focus. The concept has to be defended against detractors since the beginning of time. Nobody is forced to listen to anyone they don't like, especially on the internet where you can find the content that personally suits you everywhere. Of course it is Twitters decision to make, but they certainly began with giving everyone a voice but have changed course in recent years.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who hates big smartphones. Not b/c of small hands, but b/c I hate carrying plasma TV in my pocket. btw, let's go below 5"
Says the guy with a white on purple website
If you have advanced protection enabled on your Google Account (and you should) then app passwords are no longer available.
When it came out and I was soaking up the sentiment on lesswrong, it was the first time I noticed a genuine shift towards “we are past the fire alarm stage.”

Although I do think that phrasing for the implication is already heavy handed in a negative bias.

I find it incredibly exciting; and it deserves more open discussion without provoking anxiety.
As far as I can see, this only comes into play when newly adding files to be tracked. If you created a 'source.file', but your global gitignore ignores all '.file' files, then you'd notice immediately. You wouldn't commit and push because you were unable to add the file in the first place.

If another developer has added a 'source.file' and you pulled it in, your global gitignore would not be triggered, since the file is already tracked in the repo.
GitHub's "Contributors" graphs are unreliable for working out who really works on a given repo. They (sneakily) only attempt to visualize the commits made by GitHub's own users. GitHub, however, is of course not the whole world. (Gimp itself does not even coordinate development through GitHub.) Commits not tied to a GitHub account are not represented.

Just another lame example of how GitHub both (a) insists upon itself and (b) prioritizes its social network over providing actually useful tooling for getting work done (including but not limited to trying to glean insights about a given project).
What you are talking about does not require locking users into the platform. It's totally okay to offer a service with your product, as long as it doesn't lock you into it.
> My understanding is that the Irish motherland has always been wary of outright reunification.

Yes, there is a lot of concern in the ROI about how the Irish state would fund everything, especially if it would be necessary to deploy military. Ireland has a minuscule military (neutral, non-NATO etc), and obviously is a much smaller economy than GB. However, there is talk that the EU would support reunification.

> They’re also a bit leery about having the DUP as a political party.

Exactly. As I understand it, the DUP would have a larger influence the the Dail (Irish parliament) of the theoretical reunified Ireland, than they do in Westminster. Since they are a reactionary, conservative party, which doesn't exist in the ROI today, it's certainly a concern.

The attitudes and situation has changed a lot in recent years, especially because of Brexit. Here's a good read:

https://old.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/uar1yc/any...
A year of training would have anyone reproducing picassos art with likely high accuracy. A year of training in calculus is effectively what you have with juniors in high school. To be honest, saying it would take most people a year to reproduce picassos artwork feels very generous. His artwork is not particularly skillful.
I'm delighted by this. I'm not entirely sure why but I am.
What's Stalin's maxim?
If found Netflix to be better than Disney for content. Amazon prime is a close second to Netflix and loads better than Disney.

I'm in NZ maybe our catalog is that different?
please stop forcing dark themes, reading white text on dark background is less readable so at least default to the user global preference cf https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
I'd be nice to see stats on the level of user engagement on black vs white texts, I assume the user probability to stop reading earlier when white is much higher, for me it is often a no go. Any scientific study out there?
Isn’t that simply a matter of computational resource? Learning is a limit of frequency and time taken between events.
I have astigmatism and work as a software engineer. All my colleagues use that Dracula theme for everything. I can't, because it makes the writing blurry.
First paragraph:

> And before we continue, let’s make it absolutely clear that we have no control of the color of the text in this very article, as it is hosted through Medium.com, which features poor visual accessibility of their site design.
Falling Down the Labyrinth with Wooden Microphone Design
I want an iPhone mini sized iPhone pro :/
It's also revisionist history. There was a great debate in the day, should the data be destroyed, due to horrifying source, or kept?

The general decision was, keep it, it has value, so learn from it, and not waste whatever good may come from the horrors wrought.

An additional here is, 'bad science' seems like a century later hindsight.

At this point in history, many people literally believed that opening the body was a crime against god and nature.

From the Christian perspective, this belief aligned with "your body is a temple" biblical references. From an operative perspective, sulfa drugs didn't lead to the best outcomes, in terms of an operation. So opening the body was a bad outcome, meaning why fight religious sentiment and belief for no reason?

Yet the Nazis, sick as they were, has a free hand to open bodies and see them while still alive.

Horrifying as these experiments were, they did provide insight into human anatomy.

And trying to revisionist history that away is just wrong.
How’s that an excuse?
Only terminal-based websites can rid of that but the price is getting rid of non-monotype fonts as well. Medium, tangleweb, HN - all of that are not using black text. Neither rest of the web does unless some "this is a website" [1] or maybe Stallman's website [2].

[1] https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

[2] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html
Gah. Please stop using Medium.

We should have a HN guideline to add (Medium) to the title when the URL itself obfuscates that fact.

Anyway, I agree with the article. I find myself resorting to reader mode more and more these days partly due to crummy web fonts, partly due to janky JS and bloat, and partly due to unreadable color combinations.
Lagrange, a Gemini browser rather than a Gopher client, has decent typography.

I do wish non-TUI Gopher clients would at least experiment with proportional typefaces, though.
I'd say, no more than 3 years
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The link is to a peer-reviewed study which analysed the methods used in the Dachau hypothermia experiments and found that they were not rigorous and several of the results are actually at odds with more modern research on the topic. It's not reasonable to call such a paper as something that is "expunging the history of science". If you disagree and feel that their methods weren't rubbish, feel free to write a counter argument in the form of a peer-reviewed study.

To quote the conclusion of the report:

> This review of the Dachau hypothermia experiments reveals critical shortcomings in scientific content and credibility. The project was conducted without an orderly experimental protocol, with inadequate methods and an erratic execution. The report is riddled with inconsistencies. There is also evidence of data falsification and suggestions of fabrication. Many conclusions are not supported by the facts presented. The flawed science is compounded by evidence that the director of the project showed a consistent pattern of dishonesty and deception in his professional as well as his personal life, thereby stripping the study of the last vestige of credibility. On analysis, the Dachau hypothermia study has all the ingredients of a scientific fraud, and rejection of the data on purely scientific grounds is inevitable. They cannot advance science or save human lives.
You have 4 liters of water per person? That's what, only drinking?

Average household water use in 100-200 liters per day.
Yeah, I don't mean to criticize the approach taken by other languages at all. Programmers want powerful type systems and fast compilation times and good error messages, and unfortunately this is one of the cases where things are really fundamentally, mathematically provably, at odds with each other in PL ergonomics. It's a wicked problem, not one you can "get it right".

But these "Go's ignoring decades of PL research!" comments are, at best, tiresome even when somewhat true. In this case it's the outright opposite.
This page by a New Zealand university summarises my point: https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/paraphrasing-technique...

*Restate and reorder*
Use these sentence starters to repackage the sentence
Change the order of the sentence
A thesaurus is a useful tool here

*Paraphrasing step by step*
This step by step process can be used to put the ideas of other authors into your own words.
1. Write down or paste a photocopy of the passage.
2. List some key ideas, concepts, and phrases from the passage.
3. Where possible, note down alternative phrases or synonyms for each of these.
4. Rewrite, using those alternative words and phrases.
5. Can you simplify further?
6. Insert the name of the author.

I have seen the above be enforced by “anti-plagiarism” tools for undergrad essays. Students are well taught to copy and remix statements, albeit with a reference. However the original statement by an author or authors would often better be copied verbatim. The implied morals that are taught for creative rewriting (for its own sake) are subconsciously learnt by students.

Rewriting to improve can be worthwhile. Forced rewriting teaches strange outcomes. My suspicion is that the plagiariser from the article went through the university process and has learnt some of their behaviour from that process.
I know right, what about home court advantage or any slight imbalance that great 70's movies are made of?
as a counterpoint, this trigger me for natural language text but much less for code on an IDE, I don't know why but yeah prefers-color-scheme should be assumed as human rights in 2022
There is value in "making a decision" for each untracked file, of whether to explicitly add it or ignore it. This combines well with things like a PS1 that indicates if you have any unclean state (including both changes and untracked files). Every single time I find myself with an untracked file, I can either add it because I want it tracked, put it in .gitignore if it's something generated that I want my whole team to ignore, or put it in .git/info/exclude if it's something I've done locally that doesn't fit either of the above.
fontpreview-ueberzug: preview installed fonts with custom text
> (just look at our infra costs)

It's the private sector completing these jobs, not government employees. Those jobs are routinely bid out to contractors, who complete the job with a profit margin.

It's both sides of the coin coupled with a relentless need to profit off everything possible at every opportunity.
The next Great Resignation challenge: managing the prematurely promoted
> Horrifying as these experiments were, they did provide insight into human anatomy. And trying to revisionist history that away is just wrong.

Too bad their experimental method did not correctly segregate subjects into control groups, they did not record many important variables necessary to actually use the data, and several of their results are at odds with modern understandings of anatomy (meaning the data was fabricated). Seems like pretty bad science to be championing for. Let's not forget, these scientists believed in scientific racism -- why on Earth would you assume that they would honestly record their experimental data on human anatomy?

To quote the conclusion of the report:

> This review of the Dachau hypothermia experiments reveals critical shortcomings in scientific content and credibility. The project was conducted without an orderly experimental protocol, with inadequate methods and an erratic execution. The report is riddled with inconsistencies. There is also evidence of data falsification and suggestions of fabrication. Many conclusions are not supported by the facts presented. The flawed science is compounded by evidence that the director of the project showed a consistent pattern of dishonesty and deception in his professional as well as his personal life, thereby stripping the study of the last vestige of credibility. On analysis, the Dachau hypothermia study has all the ingredients of a scientific fraud, and rejection of the data on purely scientific grounds is inevitable. They cannot advance science or save human lives.
Well he says medium uses grey text, yet this article has a purple background which is clearly not a medium default - so obviously he had some control and made this unfortunate choice.
they should not have set dark mode in the first place
> more important that the compiler is fast than that it is able to tell programmers about clear bugs in their code.

The actual tradeoff being made here is more like "it's better to give a good error message in 1s than a great error message in 10s." That doesn't seem obviously wrong to me.
Who are you using for a database provider? Render doesn’t have auto backups and HA Postgres right? Those are table stakes for me.
It's an interesting proposal that honestly I hadn't considered before, was it ever on the table at all or is it just an interesting idea? I'd be curious how popular it would be among the populace of Northern Ireland itself. In terms of the political parties I am relatively certain it would be a non-starter. I think it would be seen by the unionist parties as a huge leap in the direction of re-unification, and they won't want to cede an inch. And given their recent momentum Sinn Féin could be confident that they'll gain some kind of mandate for reunification proper without relying on this compromise.

I'm not a resident of nor am I affiliated with Ireland or Northern Ireland at all so my gut-feel may be way off :)
Yeah it sucks, I found mopidy-spotify to be janky in it's usage but it was the least worst means of playing audio from various backends. It doesn't look like there's much hope for it in the future https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify

edit: after looking a little deeper it seems there is indeed quite some activity and hope https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/issues/110
To add to sibling comments which describe various uses of `git add`, I'll also recommend `git commit -a`, which adds all changes from tracked files (but unlike `git add .`, not untracked files) before committing.
> For over 1000 years black text on white paper has been the best practice for printed texts worldwide.

This alone almost made me stop reading the article. What worked for printed text has no bearing for what works on an illuminated screen.

But honestly, it's not grey text that's the problem. I agree with the author that maintaining high contrast is important, but it is equally important that things aren't too bright. You should avoid using extremes like #000000 and #ffffff unless you're really trying to make something highlight.

#0f0f0f or even #202020 doesn't make an appreciable difference, at least to my eyes. Believe me, as a 50+ year old, I notice when it's hard to read things.
The thing is, there’s more than one dam. Keeping Lake Powell ‘full’ means Lake Mead gets less water for their electric generation. And the upstream lakes have to release more water than they want to.

They’ve been haggling over that water forever and no one is going back to their constituents admitting defeat so Phoenix can have more golf courses per capita than any other place on earth. Maybe making that up but I’ve lived in the Phoenix valley for almost 25 years and there’s a lot of golf courses.
Out-of-this-world revelations in short supply at US Congress briefing on UFOs
New generation of nanobots can kill bacteria in your teeth with heat
This is the Bloomberg article. Behind it the hk gov seemed saying as it cannot block telegram without risking affecting other web site (and some others said even poison DNS cannot help), is telegram that good against blocking.
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Have you checked the performance difference or are you just venting based on click-bait articles?

According to benchmarks, the difference in performance is negligible, in fact the new SKU is sometimes better than the old one in most benchmarks, so there's really nothing to worry about.

You're grasping at straws here.
It looks and pretty and modern, but what does this client do that Lynx doesn't?
I stopped using Mopidy when I started having weird playlists and song history crop up in my account. Very clearly nothing I'd played.

Best I can guess either there's a market in cracked auth tokens for the interface Mopidy use(s/d), or there's some sort of collision going on.

Changed password, de-authed Mopidy and shut it off, and all of a sudden the random crap stopped.
Russia needs cars, so it's rebooting this Soviet-era brand
the thing is, most commercial products are deconnected from reality because they do not have public issue trackers like e.g. github