skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, many devices didn't have built-in GPS (the original iPhone, for one), so how do you run location services?

There were, at the time, several crowd-sourced sites of Wifi AP locations, which devices could use to estimate location from Wifi RSSI. So making a private, comprehensive database of the same is a pretty obvious task for a company that is either trying to catalog the world's information, or that wants to do something with location-based services on mobile devices in the future.

Beyond that, getting an approximate location first is useful, even if you do plan to use GPS. It takes up to 30 seconds to download the ephemeris for a GPS satellite over the air (assuming no uncorrectable errors), after first locking on to the frequency and PRN of each satellite. Cold-start times of 5 minutes under realistic urban conditions were not unusual. Do you want to wait 5 minutes for the map to load on your phone?

However, knowing your approximate location (from nearby APs) narrows the PRN and frequency search space (and you also know which satellites are above the horizon). With ephemeris data downloaded over the internet, every cold start can be as fast as a warm start: Just a couple seconds.

There are plenty of reasons to think that Google intended to war drive from the beginning.
I have food allergies and have a very strict diet.

Recently I had some issues with dry scalp, doctors weren’t helpful to diagnose the root cause, and I traced it to non organic carrots that removed or replaced by organic ones caused the symptoms to return.

I can’t buy cheap bulk carrots, but organic ones are fine.

This sounds insane but I’m starting to think the food supply isn’t as safe as we think.
There's a LOT of money to be made telling poor people that rich people are good. Given how much we have collectively been paid to find a good argument for enriching the rich, I don't find any of the arguments to be anywhere close to commensurately convincing, do you?
And if you don’t like how someone manages their open source software, don’t use it.
> Without them then fruit would be inaccessible to many people.

This is just a lucky side effect, I'm 100% sure that main goal is for the pesticides industry just take their cut on the producers margin. By growing those margins, sure, but it's not something that should be forgotten.
When the existance of your problems makes the people who make up the beurocracy uncomfortable or would violate their dearly held beliefs about how the world works they can ignore your problems for a very long time indeed.
The Compositing Tree
I used it avidly for years. It’s still fun to see pretty LaTeX documents, but my patience for working with it—despite being rather fluent with it—has grown too slim.
> the privilege of sending text messages

And dropbox is just rsync with extra whistles, right?

I don't think that modern messaging apps could be trivialized to just "sending text messages". And even if you in particular don't use all the other features, all the other people who create network effects do.
> That's why we should support them or else we will continue walking backwards.

I would love to, but the reality is that unless you're in the Android/iOS duopoly ecosystem, you're increasingly unable to participate in some parts of society. Talking to people, banking, food delivery, parking, public transport...
No one's talking about building a radome.

That's literally what I wrote in my post above - I want to protect it while mounted on the roof of an RV. Is the bare dish rated for 75mph+ wind and driving rain?

Any word on whether or not they'll come out with a roof mountable dish or at least a radome to cover the dish?
Personally I see three bands of content:

1. Produced-for-broadcast-TV content has the highest production costs, and the lowest technical detail. Example: Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars.

2. Midrange youtube has medium-low production costs, and medium technical detail. Example: Project Binky.

3. University lecture youtube has low production costs, and high technical detail. Example: Look up 'laplace smoothing'

Of course, it's far from an absolute rule - clearly, you can find low-technical-detail content in any production cost band :)
Vivec was probably magical at the time but I literally cannot navigate from memory. Every canton blurs together and traversal is time consuming. I think Whiterun or Megaton are quite well designed.

Deprecating authored settlements in Fallout 4 was quite disappointing but Boston is probably the most impressive technically, diamond city etc nestled amongst the sprawling and surprisingly explorable ruins of the city.
Yup, that's the idea. I've been looking at CUE for this

https://cuelang.org/
PayPal lays off 308 employees in Ireland
How is this ironic? These are different situations involving completely different organizations.
Dislodged
Besides the awful UI, it missed several key third-party apps that Android and iOS had. Also the GMail integration was pretty bad.
> IMO the issue with the given Postgres example isn't that it is written in C therefore it is slow, it is why it doesn't use all of C's features to make it faster

I think the issue the author is pointing out is that, in the real world, this real-life (fairly obvious) performance improvement was enough of a pain in C, that it was not done for 25 years.

In languages with generics, this improvement would have come for free. With C, yes you can do the improvement, but you have to do it by hand, and you have now to maintain and debug multiple versions of sort.
I'm imagining programming Python using a variable-width font and that makes my head hurt. :)
Emphasis on "in the real world".
https://support.starlink.com/?topic=76371e8a-d994-e9d1-f96d-...
Political lip service is a key facet of modern marketing
"Wokeness functions as an alibi, a moral fig leaf"

Really sharp and succinct.
The smartest people have the best means to outsmart themselves. The bigger they are the harder they fall.
oh, I didn't know that ending existed, thanks!

It's been a while since I read the book, but it makes sense to me people failed to identify with the doctor as the bad guy at the end of the movie.

In the book, we're shown what amounts to a small love story between him and a vampire, and the living-vampires brutalizing the dead-vampires, and finally the doctor.

There's a ton of build up to the reversal that the alt ending does not seem to have.
But everyone has their own subset that they want to use, so I still have to know and understand it all if I want to read other people's code. And moreso if I want to do anything with that code.
Earlier Windows versions shipped with the same wonderful developer experience. My favourite was a bool API function returning 2 under certain circumstances that you’d better be aware of.

And by “earlier” I mean from Win 3.1 and up to W8 era or thereabouts, when the documentation finally started to improve.
This Wasn’t His First Time
Consider getting a Palm Phone. They're small, and if you spend too much time dicking around on one, it will simply run out of battery.
I'm a professor and research mathematician, and I use LaTeX for nearly everything I write. In addition to what others wrote --

- The way I conceptualize it, LaTeX is a word processor. So, for example, if I'm writing a rec letter and I choose LaTeX over Word, I'm thinking "I like this word processor better than that one."

- LaTeX/PDF is often criticized for being static, but in my experience, this is a good thing in most cases. If I am discussing the contents of a file with someone else, it is useful if we are both looking at exactly the same thing.

- I don't try to do any significant programming, or extensive customization of how my documents look. I agree that trying to do so would be annoying, but this is not part of my use case. If you look at a random selection of math papers, say here

https://arxiv.org/list/math/new

you'll notice that all of them look more or less identical.
As other's have already mentioned, Symbian traces it routes back to the early Psion Organisers, which ran a pre-emptive multitasking operating system before Windows did, and was thought to be Microsoft's biggest competitor back then [1]. I've used the Psion II, and had a 3a, which you could program in their basic-like OPL language. The 5mx looked like Win95 in a palmtop and was a great pocket computing device with a reasonable keyboard, terminal, email client and internet connectivity. I remember back in 1998 or so looking longingly at the expensive phones that came with a built-in modem (Nokia 6210 and Ericsson R320 from memory), so I could use email and web on the go. Nokia took EPOC and became the lead in the Symbian consortium, using it on spiritual successors of the Psions - the 9300 and 9500, and when the E90 came out with a magnesium case and built in keyboard I had to get one.

That was in 2007, around the time of the first iphone, but was so much more capable. Incredible at that time having all that power in your pocket. I never got lost in foreign cities because I could just get a GPS lock on the train station and find my way back, without using very expensive data in a foreign country. It was a strange thing being able to access the internet anywhere back then. In some ways it was a better time - social media networks hadn't cottoned on to the ability to deliver dopamine from the pockets of world's population, so the device felt powerful, but not like a ball and chain, or distraction-device like my pixel does these days.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/why-is-bill-gates-so-scar...
I think we can already detect land mines with overhead IR visual imagery.

Aerial detection seems to be the way to go.

Also: Honeybee-based biohybrid system for landmine detection

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972... [..]Highlights
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Honeybees and organic semiconductor films can indicate explosive contamination.

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Conditioned honeybees can subsequently be used to locate explosive plumes.

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Reconditioning prolonged interest of honeybees for target odour.

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Camera-equipped UAVs can remotely track the honeybee trajectory.

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Computer vision algorithms can detect landmines by analyzing honeybee movements in video.[..]
I would claim that something 50% of the application developers writing code for Nokia (internal or contractors) could not handle strings correctly. It was in theory C++ code, but because compilers were not very good at the time when EPOC32 was developed and memory was pretty limited there were special implementations to work around all the limitations. Programming was not easy, productivity was low, and buggy application code was the norm.

I vaguely remember in the very late days there might have been some simplifications, but the train had gone already at that time.
No doubt people throw their own emotional arguments into things that have been researched with 1000x rigor compared to their internal hunches.. it doesn't mean it's right.

People's entire lives are derailed when they drink and get in a car and get caught for a DUI. The fact that we prosecute people, fine them amounts greater than some people's entire savings, throw them in jail, make them loose their jobs... For deciding to get into a car after 5 drinks. But if you decide to sleep with someone after 5 drinks, you were taken advantage of and that person should be prosecuted. In one case we give no sympathy for being drunk, and in the other we treat you like a child.
>The narrative for crypto was that interest rates were never going to go up

Who made this claim?

They went up in 2018 and BTC crashed. Then they went back down, Fed expanded their balance sheet, and BTC boomed.

The Fed has no choice but to eventually monetize the debt more. There is no other option. Where is the balance sheet going to come from to fund the massive deficits the US runs? There is no where else.

Meanwhile the US is freezing foreign reserves. Of course they could also mandate penalties for owning or buying BTC which could certainly crash the price for a time. But "rates are currently going up a little bit" is not in any way a refutation of the long term BTC trend. Rates can eventually rise after the $ devalues and the debt to GDP declines significantly. But Fed has not even begun to shrink their balance sheet yet you think they should declare victory?

Lets see what happens when the market falls 50% more. They will reverse course eventually, if not in the short term.

Of course none of this means you should blindly hodl BTC through the crashes. All risk assets are tanking now as long as Fed tightens. Then when they expand their balance sheet again and sent rates back down, you average into BTC as it moons. Being all or nothing on any investment thesis in perpetuity is silly. But look at the charts. You can't say BTC is finished until it fails to have another bull run.
The xenophobia in these comments is amazing.

"Muslims don't care about Muslims"

Yes Muslims are just completely different types of human. Who knew!
IIRC that's just the stuff printed on the front.
> this waste of electricity is very selfish considering climate change

Moving yourself to the summer house every two weeks probably has far more climate impact than the fridge.

Taking to a logical conclusion: you shouldn’t have a summer house at all. (That’s not a position that I hold, but one that seems more logical than “have a summer house; just empty out and unplug the fridge while you’re not there…”)
You realize ISO is physically different, like, there is one more physical key and enter is 2U high (not wide, high)? Unless the PCB was designed with that conversion in mind there's no way that's going to be possible.
So you're okay with a company promising you privacy (core of their marketing) is in fact willing to instantly change for a Microsoft paycheck?

What you're actually upset about is that someone pointed out their hypocrisy?
The original site (https://www.catphones.com/en-us/cat-s22-flip/) is curious in that I can see the technical specs when browsing in Lynx, but not in Chrome or Firefox. I can find the specs enclosed in a <div> but couldn't find a path that would make it visible. Maybe there there is some reason why they want the specs to only be visible on T-Mobile's website?
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"It's like a dog that taught itself to speak to humans, but people are complaining that its English isn't perfect."

- someone, on the state of ML
(Can't find the source, because Google hates me.)
Trivia is a three way.
Without pesticides we could create more resistant cultivars.
I don't understand your reply. Are you implying that Dropbox is so advanced that it couldn't be implemented on a simpler device? Are you seriously telling me you need Android to send encrypted blobs over the internet?
This is a dealbreaker if true.

This link says it comes with a T9 keyboard called “Kika” and other installable T9 keyboards exist: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/qfr6rc/one_mont...
"Stutter is a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation[0] (RSVP) extension for modern web browsers."

[0] The linked Wikipedia article is largely about a different "RSVP", though it alludes to this display technique in the "Peripheral reading" section. I feel like it used to have more content about that - maybe the article has been rewritten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_serial_visual_presentati...
As a owner of an HHKB, I don't see what's so special about topre. It doesn't really feel better than other mechanical keyboards. After the initial excitement, it's just another keyboard. I wouldn't recommend it in 2022.
I think they just forgot to renew the certificate.
Looks like the right link to me.
Find the post in that article by Dennis May. It explains Nokia. The atmosphere in Symbian/Nokia towards the end was really bad.
As a counter argument, imagine an infinitely good insulation and 0 standby power (and a spherical cow inside, for illustration purposes). Then keeping it "running" is clearly better than letting the fridge warm up since power draw is 0 in the former case. Obviously the conditions are not as perfect, but with a very modern fridge, maybe you get sufficiently close that keeping running indeed is superior.

I'm not arguing that that's the case here. I'm arguing that you don't "always" expect things to be worse off letting it run. There is a threshold, when approaching the mentioned fantasy conditions, beyond which letting it run may be better.
I have the gaming version of this keyboard and it's great: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-keyboards/g9...

It never drops off, it feels great to type on. The lighting and everything is configurable, and will even light up the hot keys you need for a specific game!

It's a great experience. I have no interest in a customizable keyboard, I just want one that works.
The problem is people give up on ever getting a decent result after a few clicks on nonsense, and then never come back.

Now Google thinks their last suggestion was obviously a success.
> IMO the issue with the given Postgres example isn't that it is written in C therefore it is slow, it is why it doesn't use all of C's features to make it faster (assuming there is a real performance issue here - it is very possible that the Postgres authors didn't consider it a real issue until now).

Right, but that's kind of missing the author's point, which isn't "things that are written in C are slow" so much as "because C lacks generics and has a relatively-inefficient standard library implementation based on function pointers, most implementations do not take the extra steps of 'using all of C's features' to do something faster (because it's a lot of work, and the standard implementation exists)".

It's mostly just an argument that generic-lacking languages make it easier to do something slower than something faster, and most people and projects follow the path of least resistance. That there are more efficient implementations available if you sink more effort into it isn't in dispute.
Mail or Email? If its email every company does that, including DDG.
... This is obviously not about the money. Everyone here can easily afford to buy the pro version off the Play Store. The issue is about them pushing people to pay by removing features AFTER they already invested their time, data, and habit into the app.
Maybe the scarcity is temporary? According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Constellation_design_... SpaceX has launched 2091 satellites and has FCC approval to launch 12,000 and a has filed for 30,000 more after that.
I believe it’s the opposite? In a large org, you can have a dedicate team managing your servers. When you’re a one man business, you want to abstract as much as possible to focus on value proposition.
Modern programming languages that don't aim for high performance can just resort to duck typing or a similar way to emulate generics at runtime.
At least the old CAT phones all used to be shipped with unlocked MTK bootloaders.
XMPP servers (including Zoom's) already parse + serialize ;)
Link is broken because of the semicolon; Did not know you do not need TeX for this one.
Some of what you are suggesting is exactly what Apple has said that they are implementing in iMessage for child accounts. In particular, the AI notifications to children that the message that they are receiving or sending may contain csam and that they should reconsider.
> cruiser-type ships are designed to track and repel multiple air contacts

Not your text, but that assumes a design focus that is not in evidence. It's a necessary focus for a USN cruiser, but that consideration isn't necessarily the case for a USSR designed cruiser, especially if the translation isn't one to one.
This comment really misses the point of the post and kinda just feels like you have an ax to grind about sorting. This feels like when people say "don't worry about memory safety, just don't write bad code". "don't worry about generics, just don't sort"

Generic sorting is something all programmers are familiar with so it makes good examples.
Italian Job in PC did that. And PS too I think.
Organic farming exists.

Consumers can move past herbicides and pesticides by paying more (sometimes much more) for their food, and cooking more from scratch.

Of course this is easy for wealthy first-world dwellers. Less so for low income families in places with less diverse supply chains.

Organic farming has lower yields (those pests otherwise killed off by the pesticides end up eating a lot of the produce) and is more labour intensive - which explains the higher cost.

Additionally there is more to the picture than farmers and consumers.

In most first-world countries the large retailers (Walmart is famously the most ruthless here) mercilessly squeeze suppliers (distributors and large farmers) to supply the most produce at the lowest price. This pushes farms into consolidation and industrial production - i.e. very large scale mono-culture farming heavily dependent on chemicals.

The very low cost food that we see in our supermarkets has the effect of making orgainic produce look overpriced by comparison - often consumers these days view organic as a luxury item.

Governments too have grant-aided and subsidized farms in a way that often incentivizes "high-tech" farming.

I could go on...
I also have the 710 but with blue switches. My volume scroll wheel died in a year or two but it's also 8 years old now and apart from the volume wheel, it works just as well as the day I bought it. I just clean it twice a year.

Sturdy as heck for a keyboard that cost me 60 euros and I've used thousands of hours.
I think that the parlance has ruined the discourse here. There's nothing "pure" about simple majority direct democracy. We should say that a pure democracy is one in which all governance is established with unanimous support. A social contract signed by everyone. First past the post representative democracy leaves ~75% of the signatures off of the final form. That's pretty bad.
Yes, the time data is complicated, but then again time is by nature hellishly complicated and difficult to get right. If I reduce scope, it just maintains the status quo we have now, which is everyone doing everything in TZ offsets (that's ISO 8601's fault), and doing it very, very wrong the moment they step out of the tiny confines of event timestamps.

I know this sounds like an "if everyone would just ..." kind of excuse, but poor time implementations really are a big problem in the industry, and I'm hoping to at least provide the tools for knowledgeable people to do it right.
The RV service for Colorado - $707 upfront w/ first month, $135/mo thereafter. Looks like Metro Denver is on the waitlist for 2023. Interesting.
California parents whose children become addicted to social media could soon sue
> Easier to transfer was one.

I can hand you a piece of gold and the transfer is done. No 74 character address, no keys, no official public ledger of the transaction happening, just a transfer of value between two parties.
`lynx` is the benchmark. `lynx -vikeys` if you're a vim user for a slightly better learning slope.

Which websites work well? A decreasing number, unfortunately. However, most RSS readers give a decent enough text interface, so you can use your RSS feed as a kind of liason to the wider web.

It's mostly a matter of getting accustomed to different hotkeys and scrolling UX. But once you're there, it's no less efficient than a normal browser, arguably. If anything, the minimalism keeps you away from more, erm, distracting sites.
> It sounds like you are stuck in an academic mindset, where there is only one way to skin the PhD cat.

Well you’re mistaken because I also did my PhD after working for a few years, and while employed for an industrial lab.
Fond memories of running my day to day (email, diary, expenses, task management) of a Psion 3a with 3xAA batteries and a modem/cable to my Nokia mobile.
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No problems in the Netherlands. They like to pride themselves on being the country’s best network.
Very interesting, how did you figure out carrots were the issue?