skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Photo Picker does was (mostly) already available since Android 4.4 KitKat with the documents picker (Files app) and the ACTION_GET_CONTENT or ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT intents.

What Photo Picker adds is a much nicer, more intuitive UI and the ability to grant read-only access to user-selected media files. URIs obtained through Photo Picker can be persisted, but unlike with documents picker, they don't grant write access as well.

If you're curious about how the photo picker works under the hood, I wrote an article that goes into that: https://blog.esper.io/android-photo-picker-backport/
Thanks. I guess I boxed you in with my sentence structure. (I'm Swedish.)
> Sir, this is a css.

That it is CSS does not invalidate the question. Complicates it perhaps.
My sister-in-law got a Motorola phone under our Fi plan and I think it was fine too. They're around $300 new.

https://fi.google.com/about/phones/moto?pli=1
I don't buy the cumbersomeness argument for Linux games. A lot of games in the past and today has been distributed as Linux binaries. Most famously Quake and Unreal Tournament series had native Linux binaries on disks and they worked well until I migrated to 64 bit distributions. I'm sure they'll work equally fine if I multi-arch my installations.

Many of the games bundled by HumbleBundle as downloadable setups have Linux binaries. Some are re-built as 64 bit binaries and updated long after the bundle has closed.

I still play Darwinia on my 64 bit Linux system occasionally.

Most of these games are distributed as .tar.gz archives, too.

I can accept and respect not creating Linux builds as engineering (using Windows only APIs, libraries, etc.) and business (not enough market) decisions, but cumbersomeness is not an excuse, it's a result of the other related choices.

In my book, if a company doesn't want to support Linux, they can tell it bluntly, but telling "we want to, but it's hard, and this is Linux's problem" doesn't sound sincere even remotely.
Cf my comment above re the limits of this approach.
I went through 6 months of his tweets and, yeah, he either doesn't have a grip on reality, has some sort of mental health issue, or is just constantly trying to run some angle.

- Yup, the free energy fonts and conspiratorial claims about video of his fusion reactor being suppressed

- It looks like he bought a bunch of people's property for pennies on the dollar, then raised funds from those same people to return their goods to them, then had them trucked across the country in shipping containers to be dropped at this derelict 'warehouse'.

- He claims to be solo creating a viable fusion reactor, which appears to be one of the umpteen intended uses of this warehouse

- Wonders why the town council isn't trying to help him, when in one of his own tweets admits that he didn't even bother to attend the meeting that was going to hear his issue.

- Thinks snipers are stealing from him.

- Apparently held a man at gunpoint

- Alleges, openly on the internet, that he's storing all sorts of valuable equipment and music media at this warehouse while admitting he isn't even in the state a good chunk of the time

- Tried to run for mayor of Provo, UT (population 117k) so he could "disincorporate the city"

- the whole benforbars thing

- Complaining about the inability to install minecraft on anything other than a linux machine (?)

- Various email/server complaints

Yeahhhh
Everything is easy, until you do it wrong and flood your house causing $15k in damages.
I always upvote the random maligning of Twitter
Growing up in San Diego I hilariously remember environmentalists protesting the Sunrise Power Link. The reason given by my high school classmates who were involved in the protesting was that it threatened some desert tortoise's habitat or something like that. There were also some NIMBY types protesting the transmission lines.

From the gas and oil companies' perspective, with enemies like these, who needs friends?
People that have sold my account immediately:

- my last lettings agency. Lettings agencies are scum.

People that have been compromised:

- an aws account (!)
- local city council

I use a <service>.<date>.<nonce>@<domain> setup, the nonce has only protected from various colleagues being major PITAs.
StyxHexenHammer666 does a pretty good morning show covering current events.
Yes, big-name artists working with corps to create style generators for a campaign. Watermarked images which cause proprietary, legal ML scrapers to reject the sample.

Suddenly, copping someone's steez becomes a matter of revolution.
Smart Contracts in Lua
Here is the second part:
How To Deploy Your Smart Contract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVkxTAt08HE
Did it work? Curious cats want to know.
Why 10^22, and not 10^10, or 10^40, or whatever? The number has to come from somewhere. This should be a strong clue your logic is defective.
I am aware. For one it still works just as well is it ever has, the Zoom acquisition didn't change anything there. So if you care about features, there shouldn't be any problem. For sure it seems to be in maintenance mode, but nothing they were doing of late with Lumens was that exciting anyway (trying to become a crypto wallet like everyone and their mothers).

I would pay $/mo for a Keybase reboot with the goal of building a sustainable business like Signal did instead of taking VC money for a shot at the moon. Until someone does that, Keybase continues to work as a messaging app with usernames instead of phone numbers.
Yeah, my Galaxy Note 8 is the pinnacle of usability and design for me but it's been left behind by updates. Remapping the Bixby button + MacroDroid + Nova home screen is just a perfect balance of usability and customizability. Samsung Dex is a pretty useful Android desktop environment for on the go work. I would have loved if the if the same form factor just got upgraded hardware (the camera is now outdated). It's a bit of a zombie phone for me at this point (a true ship of theseus - I'm not sure if I can say I have the same phone anymore). I've since picked up an iPhone as a replacement but am really missing the old features -- so much so that I've been running them both concurrently. It would be such a waste to get rid of an incredibly capable phone with a still-amazing screen.
Well, unless the house catches on fire after the sale and someone comes to sue you for improper disclosure.
Irony is so hard. Is this irony? For the past two years the left has been completely supportive of all anti-law enforcement sentiment. BUT now that it's coming from the other side ... FOUL. How dare your threaten our brave and righteous protectors!!!
Go team Milwaukee. I love it.
This doesn't prove anything, but:

> Without authenticating, hand the encrypted envelope to the service along with the recipient’s delivery token.

Source: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/#:~:text=Without%20aut...

The sender's client sends a certificate derived from the recipient's profile key.

This certificate is sent to the server as the header "Unidentified-Access-Key" - you can see how this header is derived from the Signal clients' source.

So yes, these API calls are authenticated, but not using the sender's credentials in any way.
Well, these terrible products are a result of capitalism-as-implemented, so, pretty much, yes.

Though I'd say it's more a critique of the belief that "the market" must be "right": on the manufacturer/investor side that "immediately profitable" is the main goal and that "cheap right now" is the goal on the customer side. In fact this is now so normalised that customer and consumer are almost synonymous, even for things that should, by rights, outlive the customer without being consumed.

Both these views can be rational (if you, the company, go bust this year, you can't make a good product ever, and you, the customer, may well want a blender now, not in 10 years when you can afford one that will last another 20). But they result in a Hotelling's Law joint race to the bottom (with a froth of shatteringly expensive artisanal Veblen-esque goods more for fashion then utility at the opposite end).

Perhaps "the market's" view of value is not actually a good description of long term utility.

And probably the most galling part of this is that with same amazing manufacturing methods and process control used now to shave a product to just barely good enough not to be warranty returns, you could produce wonderful products on the other side of the line[1]. Probably for only a few percent off the bottom line. But then you'd get pounded into the economic sand by corner-cutters and double-dippers who sell multiple bad products to the same customers in sequence.

[1]: The difference between a MOSFET driver circuit that fails after a year and one that basically never fails could be pennies, say.
Google's official blog posts on new Android releases usually leave out a ton of info. If you're curious about what many of the other features introduced in Android 13 are, I wrote a summary over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/wp0skh/50_features...

This summary is just for user-facing features and doesn't mention any of the new APIs, app-facing behavioral changes, or most of the platform changes. My ongoing Android 13 changelog (currently at >32k words, ~170 min estimated read time lol) covers all of that and then some: https://blog.esper.io/android-13-deep-dive/
Try Element.

Effectively the same crypto as Signal but you can be anonymous as needed. Also decentralized with many app options.
You need someone with vision who enforces strict adherence to that vision. I'm not convinced you have to be a jerk to do that though.
I was a better person this morning for not knowing that furries had the term "hindquarters". I mean, that's fine for other people, you do you, but for me, I was better this morning.
By opening signal, putting in the username and sending a text. Signal only uses MMS as a fallback when communicating with someone not on signal. When both parties are on signal SMS/MMS is not used. Presumably they are OK with not being able to communicate with people not on signal.
> I'm sure someone will tell me the Samsung version of Android isn't the real Android or some bollocks, but really, Android needs some serious work and little UI/UX tweaks wont cut it

I'm sure that if you stop to reflect on what you've just stated you'd realize that accusing stock Android of poor design from your experience running what is not-Android-design maybe doesn't make much sense?
You do know that sharing your contact list is optional?
Yes it does. Does the law of supply and demand not make sense to you?
Are the teams high functioning because of that, or despite that?
FWIW, these days Valve tries to solve same problems with their steam runtime[0][1]. Still doesn't seem easy, but looks like almost workable solution.

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/containers_st...
You aren't supposed to trust Signal on that; you are supposed to verify it out-of-band using Safety Numbers.
Works fine for me. Maybe you have some conflicting settings enabled?
>I'd wonder if it's for self defense why you didn't buy your firearm legally, since, you know, it's legal to do so.

Outside of the United States, that's usually not the case. Even if countries do allow private gun ownership, the restrictions on how to obtain them (and what they can legally be used for, what kinds are available, etc.) are exceptionally onerous.

And even within the United States, there are individual states that have attempted to severely curtail private firearm ownership. Were it not for certain Supreme Court decisions, handgun ownership would be outright illegal in the District of Columbia and likely in several other states.
After public evidence of usage like this, who would believe that ID was only given to the patient?
I am not saying this to be pedantic, but people will 100% complain about solar arrays in parking lots. Green energy is a politicized and having solar parking lots will be used as a political talking point. It already happens with electric cars, wind farms, and much more.
Break up Google. They are too big.
The US is actually the only exception I am aware of world wide which gives us a distorted view of this problem.
And for any N, if p is small enough, other life is very unlikely to exist.

Why are you holding p fixed and allowing N to increase? You are implicitly assuming N is in that regime where N > 1/p. That's just assuming p > 1/N, and there's no good reason to make that assumption.
You aren't alone. There are a ton of people who have no idea Signal has been collecting and storing sensitive user data on their servers. There was a ton of discussion about it when the update rolled out and a lot of backlash from their users, which they ignored. They've since refused to update their privacy policy as well which I personally see as a canary warning users to avoid their service.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/what-contact-info-does-t...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/sgx-cacheout-sgaxe-attac...
That just translates to a slightly longer exploit chain in practice. It's not a fundamental obsatacle.
Interesting. I was really just curious... I haven't encountered any in-meeting sales software before, and it wasn't clear from the website what it would actually do.
Sources pls?
these os vendors (google, apple etc) keep changing and rearranging the ui every year... at some point isn't there diminishing returns?

anecdotal but i get so many annoying issues with older family members "where di that button go" or "i cant find x" after upgrading...
Yes, RAID is all that. It's interesting to see such established technology shine and shine again.
I got a 6.0.1 update for Keybase like yesterday. I agree with the sentiment, though, feels like it's in maintenance mode. But its core value prop and feature has never stopped working. Point was that it's there and it works and if it's the UX model you prefer then by all means, use it at least until someone comes and reboots the concept.
All of these are opt-in services not automatic services that get enabled without your knowledge.
Do you know what Samsung Galaxy phones do differently that lets them broadcast audio to multiple ordinary headsets?
You can also get from Providence to South Station in Boston via MBTA commuter rail or Amtrak (and from there, continue to Logan on the Silver Line).
If you looked at the first link I cited, they claim 47% efficiency is possible. That is more than 3x the efficiency of many Si panels on the market today.

Top-end GaAs technology wouldn't compete with bottom-end silicon technology (the below-16% panels that you mention). It would compete with top-end silicon technology, which is already commercially available at module efficiencies above 22%:

https://cdn.energypal.com/panels/spr-x22-370/energypal-solar...

Note that the upper cell efficiency limit for any single material under incident terrestrial sunlight is about 33.5%:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/multijunction-iii-v-photov...

GaAs cells reported to operate above this limit are part of multi-junction cells and/or incorporate optical concentration systems to focus sunlight to higher intensities. The experimental record-holder of 47.1% uses a multi-junction cell plus optical concentration. Optical concentration only works with direct normal illumination; light that is scattered through haze or clouds can't be focused, so optical concentration systems are a good match only for sunny areas that have clear skies year-round.

That said, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is researching ways to make GaAs cells at lower cost:

https://www.nrel.gov/news/video/building-low-cost-high-effic...

At low enough cost, GaAs modules could compete directly with premium silicon solar modules. They could conceivably be lighter as well as more efficient than silicon, since thinner layers of GaAs are needed than silicon layers, which in turn reduces the required module rigidity, thickness, and weight.
I did not know of this project.
I suppose it did not come up in my research sinve I was looking for simple Guis that my dad could use.

His setup only has a simple microscope camera that can stream a video to an old windows xp pc with a hardware/software combination...
It's not exactly a birthday paradox because you have way more than 365 potential variants. Some 324 million. Plus its not discrete variants like having a single date of birth, you can have multiple combinations of variants.

But broadly the big utility is in matching distant relatives versus strangers from the lot, and seeing if there is agreement with those putative matches with actual records and other hard evidence. You share half your DNA with either parent, 1/8 with your first cousin, and so on and so fourth for the rest of the human race. Using that information coupled with other pieces of evidence can yield a pretty reliable hit and is how they managed to catch the Golden State killer using DNA and genealogy.
There has recently been people disputing the scale or probability of nuclear winter, so this is relevant and useful.
Wow, is that ever awful in terminal! Talk about poorly thought out.

And it doesn't provide the feature I was inquiring about, accessing the menu bar, at least not AFAICT. I may be missing something. While I've had Macs for years, and mostly use the keyboard, I've simply accepted that some things require a mouse. It's the old tradeoff: current muscle memory works kinda well, is it worth research and retraining?

Good, effective keyboard navigation is the ONLY thing I like about those times I have to use Windows. The trackpad is wrong, mouse scroll is wrong, so much is wrong, but being able to jump about without the mouse is really nice.

(After using NextStep years (well, decades) ago and feeling personally triggered and antagonized by Steve's refusal to support PageUp/PageDown "because they are not pages" (no, they're screens dude, flex a bit, get real), I was pleasantly surprised that Mac OS supported PageUp/PageDown.
I disagree. They would not need to access the full contents of outgoing SMS to perform this duty. For example they could see the auth codes masked.
> If WINE is an emulator why isn't Linux or GNU?

I mean, it depends on the context. I don't think it would be wrong to say that Linux "emulates a UNIX environment" or some such, which is closer to what OP actually wrote about Wine.

You've probably used a "terminal emulator" at some point today. ;)
The article summarizes the paper "Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection", published here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
Observer selection bias blows that argument out of the water. Ask yourself: if life were extremely rare, what would be different here on Earth? Nothing, because life has to have started on Earth for us to be here to be thinking about it.
The nice thing about solar is that it doesn't have to monopolize the land. If you want to convert a suburban parking lot to a solar farm you don't have to evict the cars, you just have to install them high enough that the cars can park underneath.

Orbital power is a total nonstarter if we aren't building the panels in orbit. Launch costs will absolutely destroy any ROI, even before you get into the transmission losses beaming the power back to Earth. SpaceX has completely revolutionized the launch industry, getting costs down to around $1200/lb. A typical solar panel weighs about 40lbs, but aren't optimized for weight. Assuming you can reduce this to 20lbs per panel that's still $24,000 per panel not counting transmission equipment and the like. The panel itself costs maybe $2000 for a very high efficiency model. The launch costs dwarf the panel costs, even when accounting for the lack of weather in space. It just doesn't make sense, especially when you start adding in all of the additional costs like building the satellites, the ground stations, transmission losses, fuel to keep the orbits from decaying, the fact that you won't be able to send these to Geo Orbit without incurring crippling transmission losses, so you'll need a lot of ground stations, etc...

Compared to all of that, the problem of finding parking lots in the suburbs seems absolutely trivial.
What's wrong with replacing the cartridge? That's covered in the article; it's pay per drink (approximately the same price as buying the drink at retail).

It's not replicating any drink. It's mixing "natural & artificial flavors", the stuff used to make packaged foods like Coca-Cola taste like it does, consistently, not real beverages like a natural juice.
> It's just people having trouble understanding counterfactuals.

You've just described most paradoxes. From the definition of "paradox":

> a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Hospitals don't usually cause a radioactive disaster if bombed into oblivion – and are also not valid military targets as per Geneva Conventions.

Radioactive isotopes used in medicine have significantly shorter half-lives than the isotopes found in fuel rods. I'm sure you can get something nasty done with them if you wanted to, and there are also enough incidents in that field, but it's not really comparable?
And it emphasizes confidentiality and says it's hard and rare for law enforcement to get access to this information. People are going to imagine it only applies in cases like their child being kidnapped or murdered.

Per the article, state polices on sample retention and access are wildly inconsistent. I really don't think a form that outlines a complex topic handed to people right after they've had a baby delivered is adequate notice that cops might treat it as evidence years or even decades later.
TL;DR - NAS is slow. RAID 0 is fast.
It seems implausible to me that plastics are going to kill all humanity. If the paper you linked makes that case, then I will read it, but I didn't get that from skimming the abstract.
If you want to see more examples of what this AI is capable of, check out the subreddit:

https://reddit.com/r/stablediffusion
Or you could just use a typical headphone cable that's not a real problem. Takes a few hundred milliseconds to put thru front of shirt when getting on a bike. Checking the tires and breaks, right? Faster than putting on a helmet.

Don't forget the various BT and battery issues, (not to mention spending another hundred+ dollars) which are documented extensively elsewhere on this page.
I've had licenses in NC, MA and VA. None of those required fingerprints.
you need one on file for a drivers license in California. I didnt want to give it due to privacy, but well... I have to drive so here I am
With Matrix you can use F-Droid build of the client. And you don't really need to trust the server too much, right? Maybe it's not enough for Snowden, but it's better.

I'm not saying "don't use Signal", in fact I still recommend it to non technical people, since it's just much simpler. But pointing at the flaws is a necessary requirement for them to be fixed
Hey, nice, new releases! There's a chance that many devices are in the pipeline and have been held back until now with Android 13 just being released and the LE Audio spec just being finished/the marketing push just starting (it might be hard to believe how long I've had to search for basic information beyond years-old regurgitated press releases a few months ago).

For everyone playing along at home: Look out for "Basic Audio Profile" support.