skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A main mechanism for SMS insecurity is the ability to remove the SIM and put it into your phone to intercept the 2FA. That is no longer possible.

Yep. Apple is silly. You'll make note of this claim chowder for us won't you?

And right in the keynote was the comment "And for more casual uses also". Why don't you watch it before you comment?
Maybe Apple hasn't proven it on iPhones, but these sorts of satellite SOS devices are pretty common. Modern ones can bluetooth to your phone to let you text over satellite.

Sounds like a good marketing opportunity: film the ordeals of average people who are dropped into remote areas with nothing but an iPhone 14™®.
It's probably very expensive to retrofit a large office building to provide plumbing in every new unit. Most floors only have a handful of bathrooms and probably 1 or 0 showers.
i saw the title and was thinking of pizza ovens ive seen made with loose bricks and started wondering what else could be made.
Concorde Turbo-Jet Engine, Complete with Afterburner - £565,000
This is one of the most ingenious use of modren technology.

This is how technology should be helping us.

Goodluck.
OT, but can I ask where you're from? I'm from CA and I generally hear "different from" (not "different to"). I've lived elsewhere in the US, but never Texas, and wouldn't have expected them to say "different to" — which I think of as being a British English construction. Do people say "different to" in Texas?
A couple more good ones:

The Threat: inside the Soviet military machine

The savage wars of peace

Chickenhawk
Tom Bombadil Mystery Solved
Greenspun's Tenth Rule:

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. [1]

And here we have a complicated Python program with a partial JS implementation in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
Why not just “let’s define ours terms so we don’t talk passed each other? What do you mean by X?”
Can anyone explain the assertion that “we’ll run out of land before ever can put in enough solar”. I’ve seen a lot of articles and interviews that say that, but then a whole bunch that don’t even mention the high amount of land use and seem to think that’s not a problem.

Any explanation or good articles would be helpful.
https://archive.ph/h4PsE
Doing things to be remembered is like putting the cart before the horse. People who we remember and cherish for what they left behind did whatever they did from a complete different context, they were most likely natural at what they did and they very likely enjoyed every moment of it and working hard wasn’t imposed from the outside.
Is there any free functionality aside from the time-based trial? It looks like this is $45/year (or $84/year if paid monthly!), which seems pretty steep.
Far more likely than a mortgage modification is a straightforward sale of the property to new ownership (who then goes on to refurbish as residential and sell or lease the units). The banks have a specific dollar amount that pays off their obligation in full, at which point it's the buyer's problem (and their financing).
MicroSaaSHQ: A calmer ecosystem for Micro SaaS Builders
Having gone through the graduate physics curriculum, I wouldn't call Jackson a gem. Necessary hazing for physicists? Sure. Quantum Mechanics by Cohen-Tannoudji is a real gem imo
Instead if changing the terms, couldn't the owner of the building refinance with a new bank that does residential property mortgages?
I read it like 2 years ago and was very impressed how relevant it was. 10/10 required reading.
In the face of weird shit like this, I give you the permission to go with your gut.
Why is that important to note?
Did the CEO say that? The article didn't contain a single direct quote.
As someone considering whether to learn rust or zig next for hobby projects, this does seem a pretty big deal breaker for zig, at least in its current state. But since zig still hasn't really even reached the 1.0.0, it is expected to have compiler bugs like this? Or do you believe this is something that can't be fixed due to fundamental language design?
The author's first point was that anything with a unique ISBN is treated as a different book.

> From a sales tracking perspective, books are published in multiple formats, each with different ISBNs. I wrote one novel, but from a title count POV I actually published 4 books: hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Other books have even more formats (mass market version, movie tie-in editions, etc.) and because they all have different ISBNs, they all have different sales figures.

I would like to see stats that collapse across different versions of (largely) the same text (including new versions or editions of text books, and re-releases that include some special commentary, etc.)
You mean when you search in the Play Store you always get highly relevant applications. Come one. The Play Store is a mess which you noted. Your attempt to discount the App Store is just you being ignorant and ill informed.

It is not trivial to bypass iOS security. People may be inattentive to best practices but nobody is going to crack a new iPhone with USB security and a long password.

Find My is opt in. Don't use it if you don't wish.

Sure iOS software is proprietary but Android software is what? That nonsense tells me you have noting to contribute.
This is an old article. Please label it likewise.
Svbtle is a publishing platform designed to work the way your brain does
Canne de Combat
Conversely, a business needs to generate the most profit per worker, not the most work. This might work out well for Google, or it might not. All the work metric systems I've seen essentially become a random number generator that hit all teams, rather than pushing up the top performers.

Although Google's cash cow is ad revenue, and it may be that they have decided to stop funding most other endeavors. I would expect some of the actual 'rest and vest' people were on some of the many projects Google cancelled and weren't successfully moved to a new project (or ended up being part of something they just don't care about, but can't quit).
So what you're saying is.. That politicians are out of touch with reality?
I didn't account for anything; I just read what you wrote, said to myself "hm", and went to see if there was data. I'm just asking if you have data. I'm not dunking on you, just trying to calibrate where your comment lies on the spectrum of message board truth.
There is some irony there in that it seems Steve Jobs did in fact do a lot to specifically be remembered, since we now have people ranking him in the same sentence as Newton or Einstein despite essentially being a semi-luxury good salesman.
I didn't mean all of them. Just the one you're unlucky enough to be with.
I'm always shocked at these kinds of comments. While true decomposition releases carbon, if you walk in any forest, you'll note very deep layers of carbon-rich top soil many feet deep from all the trees that fall. Fallen trees take a long time to decompose. Decomposing lignin takes a long time.
I think it's called semantic disagreement. I have a background in philosophy, and I suspect a lot of disagreements are the result of disagreements over the meanings of a word, and the fact that we are using words differently is so very easily missed when we do disagree.

For example, we can argue endlessly over whether esports are 'sport', but it's really quite simple. You tell me what you mean by 'sport', and then I'll tell you whether or not esports are a sport.

In some cases, it might be a little weirder. For example, because of the discovery of the nature of visible light, 'light' now has more than one meaning attached, and these meanings are incompatible. If it's dark in a room, we might say "there is no light", but on the other hand it could be bathed in EM waves outside the visible spectrum (such as the cosmic background radiation), in which case it's full of 'light'. Light has these two meanings: one to do with whether I can see or not, and the other to do with EM waves. Context can help determine which meaning is being used.

As we grow and learn and communicate, we pick up how words are used by other people, and we try to match our usage to the way everyone else uses these word. But sometimes we don't pick up quite the same meanings even though there's significant overlap (semantic extension). There lies confusion and a great deal of pointless disagreement. I think it's mostly pointless (from a philosophical perspective) to debate about what a word should mean. If there's disagreement, stipulate how you're going to use words, or invent new ones for the conversation, and move on.
And even for that I can't find a source either. This article mentions making the company 20% more efficient, and it says that Pichai hinted at cuts, but doesn't give a direct quote there either.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/google-ceo-says-he-hopes-to-...
Because if you want to narrow a wide window, you can just resize the browser.

But if I want to widen a fixed-with design, I can't.

So yeah, I'm with Wikipedia.
Migrating Primary Drive on NixOS
I mean, I'm not into Lego, but considering what this app does this seems like a pretty fair price. It's doubtless fairly involved to create something like this. It even gives you stylized step by step instruction on how to build then thing it invents for you!
Googler, opinions are my own.

The article links to another piece talking about coasters[0]. Maybe this is from being a grunt senior SWE, I don't think I've ever met a coaster at Google (that gets away with it). People that I knew were slackers that I've worked with have been ushered out the door (or left on their own accord when they couldn't get promo, or were getting low ratings).

But I only interact with a tiny fraction of Google's total employee base, so there is a good chance this happens. We have too much work, and it's pretty obvious when there are coasters in our midst.

At a different company, a friend told me (who was a manager at this company) that he liked keeping coasters/slackers on his team, so that when he was told he had to fire someone (due to a company wide RIF (reduction in force)), he would have someone to sacrifice. But I've never heard of Google doing a RIF, so that doesn't apply here.

[0] https://www.insider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-...
I've been trying to find the name of this film for ages, but it's a scientist explaining taxonomy by lining up a bunch of pencils sharpened to different heights in order of height and then arbitrarily dividing them into sections.

Very much "the divisions are important but also decided on by some random guy, so keep that in mind."
maybe less EV's, and more improved public transportation?
https://github.com/django/django Django's codebase is a pleasure to read. The directory structure is intuitive to navigate, and test coverage is great.
Kind of a sloppy article where it seems the author's beef isn't really with the phrase nominated in the title.

The article culminates with:
"We need a new kind of healthy relationship with disagreement, one in which we’re better equipped to challenge and defend our ideas and be challenged and defended by others. We must be better equipped to form thoughtful opinions and engage in critical thinking."

This is so general as to be almost a feel-good affirmation. Sure, we need to be smarter. I'm not sure anyone would disagree. What does this boil down to in practice? Better quality education? Free education to get it more widespread? Promoting courses on reasoning and logic? Reducing air pollution so people can think clearer? My generation grew up on empty generalizations like "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle" and I'm not sure they materially helped us, so I think concrete ideas would be more helpful.
Yea, I too get a mix of the inane 20-year-old girl crap and the hypermacho MMA/hustler entrepreneur stuff. I figure this is just the prior distribution, the stuff that hits the broadest audience. That's why I'm surprised that I haven't been able to meaningfully escape that rut, despite trying to feed the algorithm my disinterest. It almost feels like they don't know what to show me: the only stuff I see are other forms of undifferentiated crap crap, like handsome doctors overacting to videos about medical issues.

I'm pretty confounded by the fact that it seemed so poor at exploring the space of possible videos
The New York Times' article on her life has a couple of corrections for things that look like they were written earlier and not updated with the latest when published. For example:

> The earlier version misstated at one point the length of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. It was seven decades, not “almost seven decades.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/world/europe/queen-elizab...
Not a silly question. One of the things I always miss from these studies is comparison with more classical inference models. In particular, back in the days we had to train against outputs for PCA models (linear and non-linear) in order to get a feasible production version with the best reduced parameters and justify equivalent performance. Today we have so much computing power that nobody cares.

Audio is a particular good application of this. For example, the old ADPCM algorithms have evolved naturally into their ML counterparts. Some have even less parameters and thus are more computationally efficient because of the advantages of flexible feedback of the training or production models (e.g. RNNs).
GNU has flip-flopped on it.

- Based on the NEWS file, it sounds like pre-v2.0 (1993) versions had totally separate implementations for each program and didn't have -E, -F, or -G flags (but only history back to 1998 has been imported to Git, and I don't feel like digging up old tarballs to verify)

- In the first revision checked in to Git (1998), it's argv[0]-inspecting, but the program is compiled identically 3 times, rather than being hardlinked or symlinked. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=06b9f7...

- In v2.2c (1998) it changed to be 3 separate binaries https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=f76209...

- In v2.5 (2002) it changed to be argv[0]-inspecting hardlinks https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=f620c9...

- In v2.5.1 (2002) it changed to be shell scripts https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=5cb71b... <---- (this is a spicy commit message)

- In v2.5.2 (2005) it changed to be 3 separate binaries (the `fgrep` binary being a lot smaller than the `grep` binary) https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=d25beb...

- In v2.19 (2014) it changed back to shell scripts https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=b63964...
That was the iPhone 4 in 2010 - 22 years ago. Perhaps you can put that comment away now?
googler, opinions are my own.

See: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/google_ceo_sundar_pic...

Basically search for any articles about "Google CEO" and "productivity".
This seems like a fun way I can share my big tubs of lego with my kiddo. He stills thrives on instructions. Thanks for sharing.
Also the term "rest and vest" isn't use correctly here. "Rest and vest" refers to people who were acquired during an acquisition. They were too important to fire as they had vital information how the acquired company worked, but also they couldn't leave due to the golden handcuffs they were given in the form of options.

So they "rest and vest".
The forming of a religion around it is something it has resembled to me often.
"Mining CEO advises that more mining is needed."
I’ve watched Google through its entire “journey” and I have to say it’s revealing how quickly they jettisoned their rhetoric about having, attracting, and retaining what they claimed were the best engineers in the world at the slightest whiff of economic headwinds.

Google was basically an infant in the dotcom boom/bust cycle and for a company weathering its first real economic challenge, and a mild one at that, it is sure notable how quickly they are throwing their employees under the bus.

While I don’t have much sympathy for someone who makes a ton of money working two hours a day, I have even less sympathy for executives who created, championed, and perpetuated the thinking that encouraged that to happen and now try to shift blame for their own philosophy onto the people they proactively lured into their firm.

Google execs thought they would continue to make tons of money by treating certain engineers like gods. The second they suspected that might not be the case they demoted these gods to lazy slacker deadweight. Don’t fall for it. The real deadweight is running the company. The real blame lies with the decision makers. They have been blowing hot air about what enlightened managers they are for 20 years and suddenly realize they might be revealed as frauds. Step 1, blame the victims of your incompetence, the people you will soon lay off. Smear them, with no honor or decency, hurting their chances of recovering from the very situation you put them in.

What a company.
Luckily culture is shifting all over the world towards making most of us much larger than before, thus increasing our significance.
Anyone have a Boom contact?
I recently finished watching all four Airport movies from the 70s. And Miami Connection. I’m prepared.
My Biggest issue when reading a lot of sites is that i dont like seeing the content in the middle. and the screen not being entirely used. Most of the time when im browsing i will check some stuff on hackernews on emacs. but only because i want to see something real quick for a break. i also find i have to style a lot of sites because they simply just either dont fit what i want or like certain fonts they use like O and 0 is not obvious enough. and i dont want to make a mistake on the content.
At first I thought we were building things with "bricked" iphones.
What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack?

This is pretty neat and I would definitely play with it, but I'm not willing to front that kind of cash on something that might be terrible.

It seems like the ideas are all user submitted -- I was expecting something ML here, like imaginary builds of cars. Cool nonetheless but there's a lot of untapped opportunity.

My first thought was that this would be very useful for part co-mingling or something not-Lego related.
The “internal” app is essentially the same as the regular app. The difference is that it may receive beta features, there’s an easy “report bug” button and a side panel with diagnostics info, feature flags and other debugging tools.
This comment sounds like it also belongs in the 'the map is not the terrain' discussion.
The idea is that nobody is really a nihilist when they're confronted with reality. Philosophy never survives first contact with a crisis in the moment.
The mechanics of regulation will guarantee that the government gets to read all your email.

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1397773092169031693

https://thenetworkstate.com/god-state-network#negative-synth...
It must be intentional that the word Lego appears nowhere on this site, surely?
> This person also said that AI porn will destroy all the current porn companies in 10 years and that small groups of people will soon be able to make entire movies,

Here's the thread in question [1] where I made that claim.

> so I wouldn't take their extrapolations too seriously.

Long bets 10 years $10,000. Let's go. I'm serious.

Not that this is my thing (it isn't), and not to yuck anyone's yum, but my field has a ton of adjacent, quickly growing developments in "generated porn" that I would be remiss to not know about. Each and every one of them could shape up to be a "Pornhub killer", which is what we were originally debating :

- Unstable Diffusion

- Lewdtubers (look on Twitter)

- AI waifu, waifu engine

- Whatever this is: https://m.twitch.tv/nenoko_official [2]

Just as these technologies and democratization threaten Hollywood, so too do they threaten the porn industry.

(My earlier comments in this thread were about the global playing field becoming equal in terms of production and consumption. This post concerns the technologies that will disrupt the existing products. Both trends are happening concurrently.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711614

[2] One of my colleagues just recently pointed out this 100% autonomous, audience driven content. No humans are involved.
App stores are abominations.
Yes that would be lovely! We and everyone in the community would appreciate that. I hope we can make it a machine people can really rely on.
It demonstrates over and over that nutrition and human physiology is difficult to analyze because of the widely varied operation of individuals as well as all the comorbidities that are impossible to account for.
Heroes wear many capes - don’t forget about the person that just spent 4000 hours creating an application with complex menu’s and logic for a specific domain.

The right person can be extremely productive and generate incredible value anywhere, but often it just isn’t as sexy as compression algorithms.

A tip of my hat to all you hard working talented people out there.
Or worried about Lego suing them?
The people getting axed...how much money did they make per year? Are they now in the poor house?
I’d like to see some quantitative review of how well the scan works. Their demo almost looks too good to be true - it seems they even have overlapping pieces, etc. A quick search showed a YouTube review where they said there were quite a few false positives.
I waited way too long for that animation to show me some results and then it looped.
And what conclusion should be draw about you and your family and it's preferences?
#letsdefineourtermssowedonttalkpassedeachother?whatdoyoumeanbyx? is sorta hard to type out, a shorthand term may lend itself to a common understanding of the situation. Like "a picture of yourself" got coined as a selfie, it seems obvious now through constant use, but there was a time when the phenomenon existed and we had a lexical gap in describing it.
Even simpler than that! GNU grep hasn't done arg0-inspection since 2002; since then `fgrep` and `egrep` have been short[1] shell scripts.

[1]: 11 lines at the longest, 2 lines at the shortest; currently 4 lines

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/src/egrep.sh...
maybe he wasn't as smart as claimed to be. Any of the 18th to early 20th century mathematics or physics greats can easily lay claim to that title.
I enjoy Twitter Spaces, as you can just listen in or actually participate in a discussion, or try starting one of your own. Most people are very helpful.
Maybe, but the weather in Austin is similar to Dallas.
Making sense of long distance food delivery
Same. I have never met this proverbial rest and vest guy making 7 figures. Most everyone I know is scrambling to survive the performance reviews and get to the next level.

And if your productivity is very low you will get put on an improve or out plan.
The fact that it talks about "itunes" in the google play store app description is just...
Ohhh...

people over chiptunes complains that the Commodore SID is hard to emulate because the analog parts...
Who'd want a cell phone without a keyboard?
I’d love to hear more about how you solved the synchronization process, if you’d be willing to share. How do you handle conflicting changes, like local and remote both changing the same field, or one deleting a resource while another modified it?

I’m trying to understand more real world examples of syncing offline with online.

Thanks!
How about research into Sodium ion batteries?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
I’m a native Texan, also lived in CA, and “different to” also sounds somewhat foreign to me.
IMO audio is ripe for neural network advancements like pictures with DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. Even if it's not the same, maybe it's just neural networks to emulate expensive instruments and improve quality of digital filters and effects
I don't have much to add here, other than a lot of land isn't suitable for solar. From not enough light to too much heat, there's less available land than you'd think.