skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crazy thing is that there's a plugin for windows to use them as well. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud...
CellMapper is an app on Android to do this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cellmapper.net...
It certainly has not "always been" Wallet. First there was Android Pay, then Google Pay, then Wallet. This doesn't include their weird little market-specific side quests which included Google Wallet (a different app to the aforementioned Google Wallet), Google Pay Send, Tez and Google Pay (different to the aforementioned Google Pay, the one this article is about).
Knowing your rights is not the same thing as asserting your rights against a gun-toting, uniformed agent of the state who threatens you with detention, confiscation, and violence if you don't self incriminate.
This is at least a once a month occurrence, usually weekly+ when I'm working on a big new project. I'll feel like I spent the whole night thinking about how to fix X and only got 3 hours of sleep, but in reality I got more than 6
EU secures 40M doses of bird flu vaccine as cases rise
Yeah I've been seeing a bunch of chip swaps that use this method, its wild how forgiving it appears to be.
Chomsky's entire shtick was to start from the belief that the US is evil and that any evidence that might be favorable to US positions is suspect, then searching for contrary evidence, no matter how questionable, to show this was the case - even if it means manufacturing or distorting it.

Olle Tolgraven? He said the Khmer Rouge were shooting people during the ordered mass evacuation, something Chomsky left out. He also left out the other accounts from the same article which describe Phnom Penh as being littered with decomposing bodies.

He pointed to Hildebrand and Porter and called it "based on a wide range of sources" when in reality, everything documented after the Khmer Rouge took charge came from one source: official Khmer Rouge propaganda.

In order to refute claim Barron and Paul that "virtually everybody saw the consequences" he invented citations to J.J. Cazaux and Schanberg so he could use carefully cherry-picked quotes from them against it.

Chomsky claimed publications like the Economist have "analyses by highly qualified specialists who have studied the full range of evidence available, and who concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands." Notably, the Economist did write an article that hundreds of thousands had been executed. The claim the number was in the thousands came not from the Economist's highly qualified specialists, but rather a letter from a reader in response to that article.

It goes on and on and on and on. If Chomsky was held to the standard he held others, we would dismiss him as not credible for even a fraction of the half-truths and lies he peddled.
The City Police have a very, small patch and little violent crime, but are geared up to deal with IRA/ISIS-type threats.
Part of this means they have surveillance coverage of virtually the entire areas. It also mean that they can get anywhere very, very quickly.
I can believe that "hiring" children for 3 days does have a net cost

These children are not being "hired" --- Federal Labor Laws won't allow it. To be an *employee*, they must be at least 14 years of age and they must be paid minimum wage.

You must be biased toward Chick-Fil-A for other reasons.
I wouldn't want to participate during emergencies, though.

If a hurricane or a winter storm is coming, I want my car at 100% in case I need to evacuate, drive around to get food, etc. On top of that, who knows when I'll be able to charge the car again.

If we rely on cars to help stabilize the grid, it's not ideal that people will opt out just when it's needed the most.
I do indeed mean SMS, but I was focusing more on the air interface. There, SMS definitely consume resources in the same way that calls do (although of course at a very different rate: SDCCH uses 0.8 kbit/s, as opposed to 13 kbps for full rate voice/CSD traffic channels).
I don't have a problem with the subscriptions. I've tried out a number of options over the years, including KeePass, LastPass, 1Password, and most recently Bitwarden.

KeePass was a great bit of software but managing the vault syncing myself and having to wait for (and trust) the third-party Firefox extension to update was tiresome. For about a buck a month, LP was a pretty good deal and handled all of that overhead for me.

I eventually moved to 1Password and it's still what I recommend to most people. $45CAD a year is a pittance for how often I use it. The app and extensions are always up to date, they "just work" even for my 70 year old father. At $12CAD a year, Bitwarden is pretty damn reasonable too.

I don't get the hand-wringing when it comes to reasonably priced services. Development and infrastructure costs money. Yes, a power user can manage everything entirely with free software and a portable sqlite db but that isn't sensible approach for the vast majority of people.
I've walked out of an interview when the employee doing it took a phone call in the middle of it. It was so rude and disrespectful.

I once got a whiteboarding problem and proposed a solution, and the interviewer gave me a flat out "that's not the one I had in mind". I'd already asked clarifying questions and thought my proposal was reasonable in light of the constraints as I understood them. After a few minutes of trying to play mind reader, I asked, "Is there some constraint or requirement I'm missing?" and they said no. I retrospect, I should have walked out on that one, too. I still have no idea what they wanted from me. Communication goes both ways.
https://archive.is/Idouw
What's new that lets you jump ship now?
To what extent do we expect to see direct evidence the Euromaidan protests were instigated/leveraged by intelligence officers and associated cutouts for strategic purposes? I don't know and the lack of concrete evidence makes me reluctant to draw any firm conclusions but a comment from a former intelligence analyst seems interesting to me:

From https://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/3/who_is_provoking_the_u...:

"RAY McGOVERN: Well, a couple of things. You know, it really depends more on who seizes control of these uprisings. If you look at Bahrain, you know, if you look at Syria—even Egypt, to an extent—these were initially popular uprisings. The question is: Who took them over? Who spurred them? Who provoked them even more for their own particular strategic interests? And it’s very clear what’s happened to the Ukraine. It used to be the CIA doing these things. I know that for a fact. OK, now it’s the National Endowment for Democracy, a hundred million bucks, 62 projects in the Ukraine. So, again, you don’t have to be a paranoid Russian to suggest that, you know, they’re really trying to do what they—do in the Ukraine what they’ve done in the rest of Eastern Europe and elsewhere."
Great, but I think some slide is missing in the end. Something similar to

> Making a diff of some kind of text dumps describing current system configuration before and after would be way faster and easier.

> Guys, how do we know our systems are built in reproducible manner at all?

Last minute edit: My bad, “configured at startup”, not “built”. Building can already be controlled, obviously, starting up is more dynamic and opaque.
I think natural==safe is a terrible heuristic for the exact reason you said.

Healthy enough to procreate is a low bar, and many natural things provide a benefit in terms of procreation but detrimental to health. Almost everything in nature is a trade-off between how much it'll harm you and how much it'll help you procreate.

This reminds me of how whales get the Bends from diving despite 50 million years of evolution. People question whether it causes them pain, and it stands to reason that it would cause them pain to prevent them from diving more than necessary. Nature isn't inherently kind, it is results oriented.

You can make a valid argument that avoiding something entirely is usually safer than something, as few things provide a protective effect. However, when you talk about substitutions, all bets are off.
His bless His Majesty’s Gulf Stream.
You're outraged that Wikipedia requires a source for the death of a public figure?
would love to see some of the blogs you follow.
So many services now, including government, are requiring phones for "two step" authentication. There are technically alternatives like receiving a phone call or a secret word lookup table, but those are so impractical to use that I need my phone to be a TOTP device. I was close to putting in a preorder but I will need to see TOTP supported before I can drop my regular smart phone.
Here's my free web implementation (not optimized for mobile)

Https://letter-press.netlify.app/scooper/
It's amazing how much security policy relies on the bad guys being dumb.
Boeing sales tumble as company gets no orders for 737 MAX for 2nd straight month
And they focus largely on deletions which makes contributing frustrating.
Personally, my phone is just a tool to use WhatsApp/Signal. 95% of the people I contact via call or message, I do so via WhatsApp/Signal. The remaining 5% are banks or businesses.

I understand the appeal for a simple phone, but this one won't work for people like me.
As someone who has been a part of implementing BI in every possible form across several companies in the last 10 years, its always the same problem.

No one uses it for jack shit.

All the colorful graphs, charts and cool visualizations have very little actionable information for 99% of people. The other 1% is management and executives who need some random 3 KPI points charted over 3 months to look at so they can feel like they're doing their job or have something to complain about to their underlings.

I have never seen any substantial discussion about any BI metric. Its always a passing thought of curiosity, get the data, chart it, go "Oh Wow, would you look at that." and then immediately move on.

And to take a step back, the only time people actually use any sort of metric consistently, is when they have an obsessive curiosity about a particular area.
I understand the appeal of minimalism but in reality most people use messaging applications. Cutting them off from their existing networks is not a viable plan in my opinion. The developers even recognise this in their FAQ, where after stating they don't support Signal or Messenger they say:

> The Light Phone II can also used as a complement to your existing smartphone, for taking a break and going light, either by swapping your SIM between devices, or by getting a second phone number for the Light Phone II.

How many people will pay 800 dollars for a less functional version of a product they already own?
But if it's about the chip then just grab any ESP32.
They couldn't fit a 3.5mm audio jack.
The pico board is the de facto module for me. Very cheap and breaks out every useful signal.
Leaving aside any physical ability etc., there are a bunch of places that I might have done 30 years ago but wouldn't today whether because of an explosion in popularity or just because it feels as if it would be less safe. (Of course there are also places in e.g. Eastern Europe I might have been less inclined to travel to at one point.)
I think sometimes encouraging business people to make SQL queries themselves can be beneficial if the database schema is well-defined.

When I worked for an ad-tech company, we built an ETL system to convert our messy, complex, and technical debt-ridden application database into a well-organized analytical database. The main purpose was to make the jobs of data scientists and machine learning engineers easier.

However, it also helped business people with some technical knowledge create the dashboards they wanted. Although some queries were a bit messy, it made it easier for them to organize their requirements and communicate effectively with the tech team. Unfortunately, it also resulted in a lot of half-baked and unused dashboards, but overall, it brought positive change to the company.

That said, I don't think it's worth developing an ETL system just for business people. It requires multiple dedicated devs, whereas writing SQL for dashboards occasionally only takes a few days per month for a single dev. I agree that the most important part is fostering a good relationship between tech and business people. If business people have a mental barrier, it becomes challenging to create new dashboards and update or fix existing ones.
Ironic this was posted on Tuesday around 10AM CT
An alphanumeric password doesn't have to be bad or hard to remember. Mixed case and symbols don't add much security. But still, should be paste-able.
It is a joke or a riddle, depending on your point of view. I used to be a high school math/science teacher, so this fits in at the intersection of those. If we have national standards for physical things like length, or mass, why not a national standard for a mathematical constant? It's just a ring with a scale on it that measures the circumference. Every now and then, a technician checks the value and records what they see in the log.

Even my fellow teachers struggled to grasp the humor of the thing. I suppose I'm a little strange.
That is not even a google service really, it's just a DPAN provided by the card payment networks and your bank that gets loaded into the phone's nfc... it's just a shadow copy of your credit card and the only thing google needs to "maintain" for it is the notification when a transaction is posted so they can include it in a transaction list.
An alternative is a really slow and old android phone. One that has a visible lag as it logs in and you have to wait for a minute or so before the apps open.
i think it's the opposite of humble, it's saying that he knows something that these intellectuals don't.
Pico board is the module. I agree that placing the xtal etc is too much.
No, he's outraged that someone that frequents a tech forum regularly doesn't think to check what the "citation needed" was for and that their first instinct was to post outrage bait
Do you have the same expectations for any company launching hardware that they cite the various papers related to how the tech was developed? EVERY piece of tech announced by ANY company relies on a variety of research out there yet it doesn't seem expected that every time anyone launches something they cite the numerous papers related to that. Why would products/services in this category be any different?
Affirmations for Bloggers
no, of course not
If they serve different needs and purposes, then name them based on the distinct goals. On the other hand, if you get into a habit of regularly releasing new models that are strictly better than their predecessors, you're setting your internal incentives up towards encouraging your customers to upgrade, and that way lies planned obsolescence, despite your current best intentions.
Top banks 'greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon'
Mobile driver's licenses are coming to New York state starting June 11th
Right, but this subtree was specifically about non-citizens.

> Does it apply to non-citizens?
Really cool ! What did you make the cartoon with ?
Eh, large part of the population is relative. I'd guess 1/20th, or something like that.
Autoimmune Thyroiditis is mentioned.

Okay, now explain Multiple Sclerosis, explain Lupus.

I could go on but this ... person ... is just spouting junk.
Were Microsoft forcing you to use Internet Explorer?
We do maintain a fork, mostly with bug fixes for now: https://github.com/idiap/coqui-ai-TTS PRs welcome :)
This hasn't happened to me, but enabling iCloud notes deleted all my notes. Kinda ridiculous for an app that had one simple job.
> In the meantime, they don’t have much of a choice but to do as they’re told, or be fired.

Well, there is always unionising…
For me, any carrier I switch to is more expensive than my current one. So, I've been waiting for them to add the ability to change APN settings for a couple years now as my light phone sits in the box...
So it's a non-mechanical galvanometer replacement for steering a laser. Very cool, but that's like one small part of a 3D printer. Also wonder if it can steer in 2 dimensions, or if you need 2 of these, or is that not possible? Can it be used for ILDA laser shows?
Source? I've not seen a patent for that, plus I suspect its not actually patentable
There are multiple terawatt hours per year of committed battery factory investments for the next few years. Current yearly production is only about one twh. With production outstripping demand, we can look forward to prices coming down further. Committed of course does not mean these factories will get built. Quite a few of them will be a combination of redundant and obsolete before they are built.

Bloomberg NEF is tracking close to 8 twh worth of battery manufacturing investments for 2025 with demand being estimated at only 1.6 twh. There's a battery bubble happening and this is good news. https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

Also, most of these batteries are just sitting there are relatively high charge states (70-80%) not being utilized at all. The point here is that we won't have a battery shortage and a growing amount of potential energy locked up in charged batteries. Keeping these batteries charged is also not that big of a challenge because we're mostly not even discharging them. Cars on average only drive around 14K miles per year. That's only about 3.5 mwh of energy needed per year (at 4 mile/kwh). Or about 59 charging cycles for a 60kwh battery.

Batteries also last quite long. So we have this builtup of tens and soon hundreds of twh of battery just sitting there in cars, trucks, grid storage, etc.

So with all that happening in the background, swappable batteries are a bit redundant. Also when considering their potential to grid stabilization.
MEGALODON builds on the research team's previous model, MEGA (exponential moving average with gated attention)

I like how the team gingerly avoided calling the previous model "MAGA" ... :-D
At some point I hope there's an interesting documentary or memoir on whatever happened to Microsoft's Carbonated Games, because in my mind as an Xbox fan from the early days of the 360 that's maybe where some of the interesting bodies were buried. At the time as an intern in an entirely different division, Carbonated Games seemed like it was built out of PopCap envy. (Today it might be called King envy, with the irony that Microsoft now owns King.) It seems like there was an idea to take casual games seriously, and they had some incredible talent. Hexic was designed by Alexey Pajitnov (of Tetris fame), who had been working for and was seemingly under-utilized by Microsoft for years at that point (other than Hexic his biggest known contribution to a Microsoft product was 1997's [fantastic] Microsoft Puzzle Collection aka Microsoft Entertainment Pack [5]: The Puzzle Collection).

I don't have any clue how or why Carbonated Games blew up (other than jokes about maybe they were a bit over-carbonated), but the only official game they released was Hexic and a few later versions of Hexic.

There was a sense that Carbonated was going to be the first party developer in charge of things like modern Solitaire and Minesweeper. For whatever reason that Carbonated blew up, when it blew up Microsoft let a second-party relationship (Arkadium) sweet talk them into that catbird seat. It's an incredible revenue stream for a privately held company and seems to be an incredibly favorable contract that lets them keep using Microsoft's brand.

Should it ever finally come to light, I imagine that the full story of how Carbonated blew up and Arkadium was waiting in the wings for that seems likely to be some binary of either a completely dull story of bad budgeting and worse contracts or an incredible story of international intrigue, bribes, backstabs, and betrayals. (We already know Alexey Pajitnov is a player early in the story, and his Edgerton-led tale is in recent amusement media, but also more recently Arkadium got into a lot of hot water because the majority of their development staff were in an office in Crimea. There's a lot of interesting questions to be had there.)
To me, "degenerate" means that it has a symmetry so that the different states are somehow identical (e.g. equal energy in a quantum system). If it's rectangle-ish (say, an imperfect hand-drawn rectangle) then it has 4 distinct equilibrium positions. Not sure if we're thinking of the same with "degenerate".
https://archive.ph/2024.06.11-131619/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Oh they seem to have done a really nice job with this, at least based on specs and mockups.

I've been interested in the Light Phone for years but never could commit myself to dealing with so many tradeoffs of the second version.

This is very tempting. Signal would be the one app I miss, other than that basic navigation and a podcast player is really all I use anyway.
Are there any project which would make TTS with my own voice with some training on my voice ?
> Discussions between friends at the bar (or, stereotypically, the golf course) is exactly how this kind of thing usually gets going.

Fair enough. Then they should have been treated as business from the get-go. Again, this wasn't a bunch of 20 year olds with VC money, if most business is conducted at bars and/or the golf course then they should have been aware of it.

> It was almost certainly an individual person who did the firing – maybe alongside another person for the sake of legal accountability, but the hundreds of thousands of people still working under the Google banner sitting around the table to enact the firing would have been a pointless waste of time and did not happen.

I guess I assumed that they voted on it based on budgeting requirements. Sure, a single person probably signed the papers but I don't really think that's a distinction with a difference.

> A board overseeing something at Google scale absolutely would not concern themselves with firing anyone who isn't in the C-suite. That would not be an effective use of time.

I didn't think that the executive board was looking over reviews and saying "John Smith in DevOps needs to go" or anything like that, I figured that they had financial numbers for the quarter and said something like "we need to lay off N% of the staff in order to stay profitable". I doubt that Sundar Pichai just decided to do that on his own, if nothing else a decision like that probably required some oversight.

> It is possible they recognized that 12,000 people needed to go, but they almost certainly would have negative feelings towards it. How could they not have negative feelings towards it?

I'm sure that the individuals responsible for the firing feel bad, I never disputed that (and I mentioned that in the comment you are responding to), but that's kind of my point. They feel bad about it but they were able to rationalize it and do it anyway because it's "just business", which is why I don't think businesses (or any large organization) are people. I doubt all the people managing Google are sociopaths, I'm sure that they have some degree of empathy, but I think large organizations are exceptionally good at overriding individual empathy.

I mean, extreme example, but I doubt most of the people managing the Catholic church are onboard with child sexual abuse, but the group running it still worked hard on covering this stuff up as a means of protecting the group. I'm sure each individual involved in those coverups felt bad about it, but they still did it, and I don't know that it's something that they would do outside of the organization.
It’s all about durability. For example, that phone is not going to be up to the standard of an iPhone when it comes to water resistance. What’s better constantly being able to fix your own phone or never needing to fix your phone. It is a spectrum, but I think for environmental and most consumer reasons, one wants it to be more towards the later.
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