skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, that "bent pipe" nature is what allowed Globalstar to support a (presumably) completely new type of protocol and modulation over existing, decades-old satellites!

Apple has also been adding new ground stations as part of their agreement with Globalstar, which has, among other things, added coverage to Hawaii. I'm pretty sure they have much larger plans for this than just emergency texting.
Personally I inject probes into my brain to measure the exact dopamine response every time I need to make a new purchase

...idk I think people just like premium phones, it's not that deep
> "therefore I am right about everything ever"

I'm sure scientists have to deal with people jumping on them about their model being wrong, but this part is clearly exaggeration.
Is there a summary somewhere? 41 pages of dense text is quite a lot.
Do you actually use the mic and speaker on your watch like Maxwell Smart, or do you need to also carry a bluetooth headset or pair of AirPods to take calls from your watch?
For me, it's the 100% unobstructed field of vision with contacts. Sometimes I wear my glasses anyway to give my eyes a break but it's otherwise morning to night contacts.
Pixels were great phones at half the price.
I would add Rob Henderson's "luxury beliefs." But also...

I think the bloggers account for "Parkinson's Law" is too simplistic. If it were just about procrastinators, it wouldn't be as useful. Deadlines (even artificial ones) work because we can always make a system a little cleaner, a little more efficient, with fewer bugs, well past the point where that work has any value.
> I'm not sure why someone just posted it but we're well beyond SponsorBlock "taking off".

Are we, though? Regular ad blockers are still only used by a minority of web browser users. I would be surprised if SponsorBlock has larger market share than that.
Yeah! I was going to say, google should just buy the garmin products and add a few more features. Love my garmin products. Great battery life too.
Already eight years ago, I complained that people were using "exponential" where it doesn't make any sense. (See these two data points? Clearly exponential growth happend there. They're so far apart!)

I believe the problem has increased exponentially since then. Now everyone is using exponentially in literally the same way as literally.
They'll need public opinion to weigh in and break a tie.

I was just thinking that the US now has a futuristic dystopian city, not just Japan in anime.

It's a bit silly though, "how did we end up here?" in an Idiocracy way.
> Ganymede’s ocean is even bigger than Europa’s

Europa Clipper launches in October [1]. I've seen talk of crashing it into Ganymede to give JUICE novel data [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper

[2] https://www.space.com/europa-clipper-might-crash-into-ganyme...
Notice how all of your examples started with evidence. The participants did not start with a political goal and then work their way backwards to justify or prove it.
Show HN: I built a tool to try artworks on your own wall
Simply upload a photo of your wall, upload the artwork images, position them, and download the result. It's very lightweight and nothing is uploaded to a server - everything runs directly in your browser.

Why I made this:

Existing apps (like Artrooms) fell short for me because they only offered stock wall images and limited 3D positioning, especially if your wall isn't perfectly frontal. I wanted something more flexible that would allow me to experiment with more scenarios, even when the photo is taken at a weird angle. The objective is to get a feel of how'd it look like, without the result being super realistic.

Details:

- Built with Three.js.

- It's a static site hosted on Cloudflare.

- Uploaded images are stored in IndexedDB.

- Some effects, like shadows and blending, work intermittently. Sometimes they really work, and sometimes they fail horribly.

- I've included a few galleries from classic artists and default wall images so you can test it out right away.

- I tried to make the UI as intuitive as possible, but that was surprisingly hard - especially in mobile where the space is limited.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated :-)
Well I was trying to be kinder than just leaving you downvoted and confused why. I guess I shouldn't have bothered, my apologies. Hope your week gets better!
I see what you are saying, in reality the right energy storage is very application dependent. The crux of my argument is that I cannot think of many applications where a commercial grade flow battery is the best choice, much less a single application where a DIY flow battery is the best choice.
Data is incomplete. It is difficult to definitively "debunk" or "prove" as long as crucial information is missing. Humans use imagination to fill in the gaps, which is wonderful.
It's available in 17 countries so far. That's a long shot from "all developed countries" by most metrics.

And this really does seem to be largely due to regulations (and probably also integration with local emergency services), as there is no geographic pattern to availability.
They can charge you after you get rescued. Or does that come out as a negligible amount?
No. There is a reason the author keeps repeating "arbitrary code execution in the Chrome renderer process." Because it's there, not in the browser process.
There's a reason Apple is doing so way. The A and M chips are a huge reason for that.
So sure, benchmarks don't matter, but performance does, and Tensor is way behind.
True Limits of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross [video]
This was the top comment for quite a while but suddenly dropped to the bottom. Was it automatically downranked for mentioning an OS alternative?

How many upvotes does your comment have?
Two points:

- coauthorship should be discussed with/decided by all coauthors

- a footnote that explains who contributed how much and what could have taken out much of the heat (it could even have explained that the authors could not resist the pun)
I think this is definitely an issue but not the only one. In the game knowledge part of the web, there used to be personal sites written in plain html of some guy’s faq who figured out every single thing in a final fantasy game and google would draw on stuff like that. Now you get AI SEO spam heavily monetized drivel that contains a lot of inaccurate or outright false info.

I think the small sites like that are either mostly gone or simply not ever indexed.
https://archive.is/Y7SQO
I figured it would be within 5% margin.

I find this pretty interesting, https://phys.org/news/2023-11-reveal-earth-surface-penetrate...
AirPods were widely ridiculed by the press when they first came out. Lots of online comments about q tips and “tech bros.” Idk when or what changed but they became cool a year or so later… not sure about the timing but they weren’t an overnight sensation.
Any other service wouldn't have bothered me. This was a reoccurring issue across different releases of the Pixel line... If there is a single thing you should be able to do with a cellular device, it's call 911... Not acceptable.
Some of my friends have been using: https://app.vivalabs.ai/ as a more managed/paid service recently
"The Origin of Chemical Elements" (1948), on the formation of hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium. Later related work was done "by Ralph Alpher and R. C. Herman (who stubbornly refuses to change his name to Delter)."
Thanks I didn't see that before!

you can't use latest:20 in a .tool-versions file or many other places

This has always bugged me in asdf where I just want to say something like python:3.11.* where I don't care about the patch version number just that some 3.11 version is used.
Looks like the body temperature update came out a couple months after that article was written, so I guess it works better now. Very cool, I would love to have that on a phone.
One thing to bear in mind is that the iPhone based satellite connection is highly directional, meaning whoever is using it needs to be conscious and able to follow the on-screen instructions to align the phone with a certain point in the sky (within a few angular degrees.)

Whereas, in contrast, the Garmin inReach devices need "only" a clear sky view.
What about banking apps ? Do they work correctly ? Do they complain that you don't have genuine phone ?
Someone spotted a "SKIP"-button for sponsored segments and posted about it on the LTT-subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1ekajmt/is_y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...
The predatory part is how they are marketed to people who have no ability to pay them back, not that they exist as a product at all. If they stuck to offering them to people with steady reliable income that just need a hand out of a hole, no one would have much of a problem with them.
These are platforms with worse availability and worse affordances, ranging to nonfunctional once you're on a mobile device. Adblocking technology isn't going to make them better. Making them better is going to make them better, but the unit economics remain not in their favor.

A more likely future is less video rather than people move to PeerTube and shake an upturned hat for donations. Which doesn't bother me much, but is likely to invoke the FAFO gator on a lot of folks.
Same question I've got, but I imagine USGS is only considering reachable surface, atmospheric water.
It looks like it lets you send very low-information signals that allows you to ping, check status for, and navigate to other device-holders you are paired with.

It seems interesting, but I think it could use smartphone pairing and chat capabilities to actually get off the ground.

Also, for a device intended for festivals, fall is a poor release date. Most of the year's festivals will be concluded.
> This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem.

My friends and I independently came up with this exact idea at the most recent regional burn event, specifically to better coordinate meeting back up after wandering, and then discovered this device, so it's very much a real problem in need of solving.

Concerts are usually pretty easy to find your friends after splitting up. They are usually at the bar, restrooms, or a handful of viewing spots or seats. Big raves, music festies, burns, and other large gatherings are spread over a much wider area.
My 2 problems with these jobs are that first, they 99% not remote, and second, the pay is half of what I get in the "tech" field.
I would rather have a better phone than more options, apple's 800-pound gorilla-ness gets me a phone with:

- an SoC made on TSMC's latest process node, with a humongous die, and all the associated power/performance benefits

- because of how many phones apple can sell, they can divide the cost of R&D over more units, and can design things like their own CPU cores

- "Ask app not to track" that works, because of the app store monopoly

- I don't have to use 12342342345234 payment apps for each bank's credit card, Apple Wallet works with all of them (the EU wants to ruin this for Europeans)

As a consumer, I'm a huge fan of US antitrust law, where the test is harm to consumers
Brian Niccol is aggressively anti union, and is likely being brought on to play hardball with Starbuck's ~470 unionized stores and ~10,500 union workers. Laxman Narasimhan (ousted) was likely too lax and accommodating of unionization for Howard Schultz's liking. Howard Schultz stepped down to transition to Narasimhan previously, but appears unhappy with the results.

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1823356710372934004

> 2022: Chipotle’s CEO says he’s “disappointed to see” employees unionize.

> “I really don’t think we need a third party to get between our restaurant teams and our company,” he told Yahoo.

> Chipotle workers in Michigan formed the company’s first U.S. union this year.
Similar news is always presented as a scandal, but it's similar to saying 'half of americans have mortgages' or 'half of americans have student loans', the plan to pay it off is to continue to pay the minimums until it's either paid off or they die. It's not a great situation, but it's basically one way that you can survive in our economy.
Great, another online only game.
what did you hope with this comment in emulating their silliness?
I appreciate the sarcasm because you are right, we have Toor Camp, Chaos Camp, EMF Camp, and others. I think we could use more time outside. Cheers!
Lots of comments about the camera bump. I'm glad they at least went for a symmetrical bump so the phone lays flat rather than iPhone's "off to the left" style bump. I don't mind a non-flat phone, but at least make it symmetrical.
I like the small radius corners of my Pixel 6a. I hope it will last because I can't see myself switching to a recent Pixel with those huge squircle corners.
EMF Camp 2026 too!
This is a fallacy called "Lump of labour fallacy" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy).
I am aware, and it is unfortunate for Emerson Electric in terms of branding things in the electronics space. I don't doubt they will retain the National Instruments and/or Digilent brands for that reason.

It will make me chuckle every time I see that Digilent banner "An Emerson company."
Wow, this is a very cool protocol and implementation.
Woof - that is a LOT of drama.

Thank you for the update, I'd have no idea what was unfolding without it!
If you're a Google Fi member, they have a nice discount on the price of the phone - but the trade-in value of your existing phone looks to be halved. I can get the Pixel 9 Pro XL with 256GB of storage for $750, but I only get $150 towards my Galaxy S22+.
My guess is that scientists are considering this, but until now no better theory has been presented.

Part of this is the distinction between what is happening and why the model says is happening. Does any physicist believe they have the perfect model? Or is it that they use the model that best fits the observations and are open to any other model, as long as it is either simpler or produces fewer contradictions than the current model (and is just as testable).

I think too often we hear reports of "science says X is what happens" when the reality is more like "science says that the current model based on X happening is what best describes current data and observations".
With a SpecINT2k6 20-25/GHz score, it's about the range of an Apple M1 chip.

Pretty decent in my opinion considering how new RISC-V is as an architecture.
US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional
The thing is that there are like 50 other options for energy storage, it's not just lithium-ion that flow batteries have to out compete. Everything from electrolyzed hydrogen, to hot sand, to air pressure tanks, to sodium-ion and zinc air and LiFePo batteries.

Flow batteries are cool because the storage element is extremely easy to scale. But its not even that great because you also need to scale the amount of cells dramatically to make it useful outside of edge cases. At which point it probably makes more sense to just use another storage mechanism.
My wallet case is indispensable (to me). In other words, I'd rather use the "space" of the camera's bump-out for my own purposes (ID and credit card) than a worse camera or even more-er battery life (for some time now "more than a day" is indistinguishable to me from "more than a day and a half") or some other gadget. Probably. Um, maybe put some more gadgets on the phone and I'll get back to you on that one...
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I have a leather case for my Pixel 7 [1]. Much better feel in the hand.

1. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1303285181/leather-google-pi...
Would there be competition though? Take the mobile app stores: consumers are going to demand that prices are consistent across storefronts (or preferentially buy from the cheapest option), so that market will inevitably race to the bottom. Is that better for consumers than Apple and Google operating them and demanding a high enough margin to support moderation and review? Or hardware; if Apple was mandated to support Android on their devices, who do you think is going to pay for the additional testing burden? Apple's certainly not going to take it out of their profit margin, they're going to forward the expense down the line, as will everyone else.

You'd be right that there'd be a lot of new ideas floated and a lot of competition, but it's hard to see how that plays out in a way that benefits the consumer and make smart phones a better value. I'm no fan of the duopoly, but it's hard to imagine how forcing them to break their services apart winds up anywhere other than the services becoming noticeably shittier and only like 5% of people bothering to change from the defaults anyway. I also think that the innovation around smartphones has all but died, and if there was some killer innovation to be had, it would probably be worth much more in this market than an open market. The market is harder to make distinctions in than even electric cars are, and a distinguishing innovation would surely trigger a bidding war between Apple and Google at this point.

It's a rough case of what I want philosophically (break them up with great prejudice) and what I think is best for the user experience itself being directly at odds.
It is also maddening to me the degree to which sensor information is hidden, or simply not available at all. I got my Pixel 2 watch specifically for fitness and sleep tracking. A year on, and I am still completely unable to perform a spot SpO2 check. I'll get a nice, pretty and utterly unlabeled graph of my supposed saturations when I sleep, but that's it. It definitely feels like the people that make it don't actually use the thing.
Nothing like asking a question on a forum and Natchwey answering with 3 pages of mathcad solving 7th order motion equations
> If you build a building that can't stand up to the rain or the wind, you're not an innocent victim of the weather, you failed to design a building for the conditions you knew would be there.

I genuinely have no idea how liability for civil engineering works, but the evidence of my eyes is that entire Oklahoma towns built by civil engineers get wiped off the map by tornadoes all the time. Therefore I assume either we can't design a tornado-proof building, or civil engineering gets the same cost-benefit analysis as security engineering. The acceptable cost-benefit balance is just different. But we can't be selling $10 million tornado-proof shacks, and we can't be selling $10 million bug-proof small business applications, if either is even possible.
A lot to like in here (the criticism of POs and agile certifications and treating the devs who build a system as lowly implementors is well placed), but there's nothing anti-agile about having a plan.

Healthy agile is not having no plan. Healthy agile is having a plan which the team owns and can change.

The problem is when management, instead of having some visibility into the plan, thinks they own it and have any say in it beyond answering prioritization and business-y questions.
Show HN: Call your React components [lib]
Hi HN!

As a React dev I've been using this technique for a while and I decided to create a package.

It's my first serious library, so a star on GitHub will be much appreciated if you find it useful.

Thanks!
We could probably terraform Mars if we crashed Europa into Mars.
The wording of the legend description says all the war in, on and above the earth so we have to assume that is does take it into account.
I know people like to claim Apple designs and everyone else copy, but that's not what's happening.

Everyone is converging to the same design, Apple like the others. They all borrow from each other until they all look the same.
There's no reason to upgrade a phone more than once in five years at least for me.

I bought a an iPhone 15 Pro Max few months ago and compared it to my S10+ which I bought in 2019 and still have. There's practically no difference for regular day to day stuff, except for the camera advancements which are notable (but not night & day either).

It was only the frustrating battery life, and desire to enter the superior iPhone camera ecosystem that forced me to upgrade.
Google presumably uses Skylo, and that's only available in some regions.

I believe they currently only use Terrestar-1 and Terrestar-2, with Inmarsat to follow some time this year for almost global coverage.

Terrestar-1 covers the lower 48 US states with one spot beam, and Alaska and Hawaii with another one each, but I believe the latter two ones are relatively new, so maybe Google isn't using these yet?

I suspect this because I've used a Motorola Defy Satellite Link for the past year, which uses IoT-NTN just like the Pixel's baseband, and it's only been available in Europe and the lower 48 at launch (i.e. also with Hawaii and Alaska missing).

[1] https://www.satbeams.com/satellites?norad=35496
Because there’s a nonzero chance that someone here will make a similar silly argument.
>Now that offensive security capabilities have proliferated, some amount of norms are required

>This treaty is itself is a result of the Track 1.5 Dialogues around cyberwarfare happening between the 5 Eyes and China [1][2] after tensions became dangerously bad in the early 2020s.

>If letting China continue their Great Firewall means we can formalize the rules of engagement for gray-zone operations using a third party (Appin/India, LockBit/Russia, ChamelGang/China or NK), so be it.

>The internet was never truly free. Access was always arbitrated by telcos

>the internet isn't only a Western project anymore

None of what you wrote here is an argument for mandating data collection, as outlined in articles 29 and 30. Those two articles are unrelated to your points here. They aren't about establishing norms for an existing phenomenon or about preventing or regulating cyberwarfare between the US and China or about formalizing rules of grey zone operations. It's just a requirement for data collection.
"all of Earth's water, Earth's liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers"
The DOJ does not have a great record of late with these sorts of cases. This one isn't that strong and it's a coin toss if it will survive an appeal.

This is a pretty harsh sanction for this case, even more so in the light of the current landscape.

If you break google up into 3-4 companies and they all leave with a copy of consumer data... you will have traded in a snake for a hydra. No one at the DOJ is smart enough to avoid this outcome...
They are expensive because they are run by the Luxottica cartel.
VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks
I mean, you didn't even try :/.

const myAsyncThing = async (init) => await task2(await task1(init))

This makes the promise chain look much more like what it is, given that the rest of the language uses nesting calls to indicate "after".
the US Navy's warship production is in its worst state in 25 years. Why
See also Meshtastic for greater capabilities but same off grid approach. Additionally, if this isn’t a LoRa radio underneath I’ll be stunned.
Also of interest for HN crowd: he's a enthusiast Blender user, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSTcxt2t74&t=770s&pp=ygUYd2...
Is there a command-line interface for this, or is it strictly library-only?

Would be cool if there were a way to point to a memmapped region under /dev/shm or equivalent.
NI used to be big and well known to the electronic engineers in the 1980's and 90's who helped develop the early Internet.

See ti.com - Texas Instruments
Yeah Fitbit is a toy, not a tool. The graphs are vague and the data behind them is inaccessible. The sensors are unreliable. The metrics are made up. The whole thing is a waste of time.

If they ever figure out a way to measure blood sugar or blood pressure, that would actually be useful. Until then I would much prefer a thinner and more comfortable watch without the protruding sensors.
I really like the design of this red magic phone.

https://global.redmagic.gg/pages/redmagic-9-pro
FTC Outlines Concerns After Jury Finds Google Illegally Monopolized App Store