skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Learning Go' by Jon Bodner [0] was the book I chose. A front-to-back reading got me up to speed with the language.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-go-2nd/9781098...
For a lot of people, it is work and the quality is vastly better for it. Youtube in the past wasn't a replacement for tv, now given the quality many creators put into their work, it is.
Ceres could be taken apart with solar energy and rebuilt into a habitat much bigger than the Earth, never mind Mars. Ceres leads to the stars, Mars is just a dead end.
It's all renderer only RCE-s, no sandbox escape. So it doesn't work on your browser, only if you disable the sandbox.
Freakonomics did a very good deep dive into this world recently: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-your-eyeglasses-cost...
The various UN agencies can hardly be trusted anymore to not be extremely corrupt. They are interested in lining their own pockets with funds paid by exploitative governments, corporations, and systems.
This is why it's getting annoying to see this sort of headline. "Nobody should own the public square... Unless it's a cadre of young San Francisco leftists who represent one of the most extreme left factions in the country. They should own the public square."
> You were only supposed to get 1 year (?) of service. But they extended that by a year.

I suspect they wanted to gauge what the usage (and therefore cost to them) would be like before making any promises.

I would not be surprised if satellite messaging ends up costing after the first year, but that satellite SOS remains free forever. After all, who wants the reputation hit when someone ends up dying in the wilderness because they didn't keep up their satellite payments?
I honestly find this extremely unsettling. There should definitely be more, though I don't really want our planet to look like Kamino
This uBlock Origin custom filter suppresses the popup.

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

It's always the 1st one I install.
Love this! My #1 suggestion by far would be to only have 100% human authored content. But keep most of things the same, just with real content.

User test: https://www.loom.com/share/83ccdbb1217f4fb5827fbe6664e1c17a?...
they have demonstrated autonomous driving capability. the main difference between them and Waymo is miles per intervention, of which Tesla is about 10x behind where Waymo was when they started giving rides. but soon they will be equal and Tesla will have millions more cars and built out service centers ready to activate
> I don't think there is anything unfriendly about needing a manual.

It is, however, very user friendly if something is designed such that a user never has to look at a manual.

If someone makes an interface where you can do quite a bit without ever reading one, and you read it only for the finer points, that's also pretty user friendly.

I never read a manual to use my smartphone when I bought my first one. I think most people will agree that if you buy a smartphone and you can't do anything on it until you read a fantastically well written manual, they will consider the phone to be user unfriendly.
Does it actually mandate any censorship/data collection, or does it just mandate that collected data must be shared? I tried reading the actual PDF[0] but I don't really want to read the whole thing

[0] https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/v24/055/06/pdf/v24055...
I could never give up those corner complications. Round looks better if you're only interested in the clock aspect, but for text display, a rectangle is incredibly more functional and with rounded rect shape, it's good enough for me.

You would need to refactor the entire UI interaction model to properly take advantage of a circular face.
John Carmack: make it easy to connect with people in VR: Global named rooms
I have dry hands and can't hold my Galaxy S23+ with glass back at all. It slips out of my hand all the time. No way I can use without a case. It'd break on the first day.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character by Thomas Hardy (1886)

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-hardy/the-mayor-of-...

I notice from that link it was on a top 100 Great British novels list.
If you are trying to make a scientific argument, you should bring data since that's the cornerstone of science. You seem to be implying that people treat these models as gospel. I suspect most of those who are deep enough in the field understand they are models and respect the limitations. To that end, it's not dogma. Saying "this is the best model we currently have" is not the same as dogma. The article is specifically about using data to either support or reject a model so I don't know where you get the idea that anything is being "enshrined" and above reproach. Ironically, saying you don't need to bring data to support your point pushes your position closer to dogma.

Your original point says very little. Yes, science acknowledges that you can never 100% say "X causes Y". Science is about getting closer and closer to that 100% with better models and better data while acknowledging it's impossible to get there completely. That's why people are saying your point is a nothing-burger. It's stating the obvious based on a strawman position.
Converting captured carbon to fuel: Study assesses what's practical
Same here.

Been using a little fake phone charger that's actually a hidden camera in Hotels for years now, and didn't see anyone come in.

Sure, its possible the maids are secretly 31337 h4xx0rs and noticed the device, pulled it, plugged it into their computers, deleted the video, and replaced it, but I somehow doubt it.
Yes, cosmological principle is probably the most fundamental assumption in astronomy.

Most people don't realize that science—and even everything in life—has to start from some axioms/assumptions, just like math. I first realized this fact when I was reading the Relativity book written by Einstein himself, who challenges the assumptions in classical physics.

As time goes, some of the assumptions could be proved to be unnecessary or even wrong. There must be still some assumptions left, though—because without them, we can't talk about science, or anything, really.
This is interesting as I have been a photographer for decades as well as playing various sports, and have had endless fantastic discussions with my opt over the years about the various merits of different lenses and glasses but this has never come up.

I wore only contacts from December 1992 to maybe a few years ago, when presbyopia made things impossible, and I have been lamenting - truly lamenting - the state of things with glasses.

I procured some Natural Vue lenses for multifocal vision last month, as I had previously tried them with decent results, but the outcome is not good at all. My near vision is rubbish.

I wish I could wear contacts again, my QoL has taken such a massive hit. I’m -10 in specs with astigmatism.
Since there's no public reporting of AI revenue, what would be the point of artificially inflating it?
Why is it not dated?
link to the draft: https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/v24/055/06/pdf/v24055...
> The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles

Should be a radius of 430 miles, no?

The image is very non-intuitive, IMO, because it's making the water appear so small compared to the entire planet (which, duh, obviously the water is only part of earth), but also drawing the planet that small really hides how friggin big the earth is!
This is very clever. Furthermore, lmao.
No, public means accessible to the ~whole public, not a tiny subset.

Invite-only is quite literally the opposite of public. It's private.
> Go is good for almost everything.

Java is good in more areas than go
You're right. sorry. There goes me not refreshing my memory about the flow.
Just confirming if I understand this correctly: they went through a big chunk of existing code, and then made any internal symbols used in that corpus accessible via //go:linkname?

I don't know why, but I (stupidly) assumed that they wouldn't allow new code to be written that uses those symbols, while allowing old code to work. :)

This explanation makes a lot more sense. So, you can keep using the symbols exposed with this change (until a future release hides/changes them), but cannot use any other internal symbol(s) anymore.
Are they invisible people? If Security had to check 4,000+ rooms in each hotel building every day, they would be busy from sunup to sundown, throughout the hallways. The chance of seeing them would be very high, but they were nowhere to be found and we didn't even leave the hotel for a whole day, visiting people on multiple floors. Some hotels have over 5,000 rooms in one building. There are 154,000 hotel rooms in Vegas. You can do more research on the matter if you wish, but from my experience, and from the numbers I've found, I seriously doubt anyone claiming every hotel room in Vegas is checked once a day.
"Polynomial" meaning x^n. "Exponential" meaning e^x.

Exponentials eventually grow much faster than polynomials, no matter what the exponent is.

I mean, look, in v = x^3, the "3" is an exponent. But it's not an exponential function because the variable isn't in the exponent.
You're still electing representatives, but the scope of the election has changed (statewide rather than district wide). That's not the issue. The states can choose to elect electors statewide if they want to. The issue is choosing electors based on foreign voters.

Here's another way to think about it. Is it legal for the American president to be chosen by worldwide vote? As far as the states are concerned, other states are a foreign sovereignty
https://www.businessinsider.nl/earth-water-ice-volume-versus...

Ganymede vs. Earth is indeed very surprising!
As far as the phone hardware goes, Google isn't much of a giant worldwide: Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei and probably a few more outsell Google. The pixel is downright rare outside of the US.
The last I read there were still ongoing issues with 911 calls with Pixels, it didn't seem limited to any particular phone model or OS version.
Like other posters, I read the whole thing and couldn't think of a reason for this device. I have experienced the many people cell issue but I am old enough to remember a time before cell phones at concerts.

This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem.
These guys in the US make a 500kwh version, that can run at 75kw of discharge power across 3 phases, and its a single shipping container: https://essinc.com/energy-warehouse/

It doesn't seem like it would take up that much space to have 200 shipping containers sitting somewhere, i'm pretty sure the Home Depot distrubution center in our town already is close to that in their parking lot (yes, you would want them not on wheels, and farther apart)
I used to do the same (self document in an org file). With Emacs, though, I've found creating hydras[1] to be a better approach. It looks a lot more complicated than it is. The first time I wrote hydras, it was hard. After that, it's been trivial.

Of course, magit like menus are mildly superior to hydras, but I don't know if they are as easy to generate.

[1] https://github.com/abo-abo/hydra
Straight facts. I have a purse, hip bag, or small backpack on me everywhere so the size is pretty much irrelevant so long as I can type on the keyboard with two hands. I would use the hell out of a 3DS XL sized folding phone.

I will say that the folding screen seems like a gimmick on the "2.5 phones taped together" size. For compact flip phones it makes sense tho.
Speak for yourself. I have not seen the accusations in this thread represented in the article. But I’m also not ideologically invested in either side.

IMO, it’s silly to insinuate the OP is obtuse while looking quite obtuse yourself.
Except each state has to be republican, not the United States as a whole
IMO this is the least convincing part of the benchmark though, since it's uninterpretable without an optimal baseline. You don't know how much of this is because of Spice and how much is because of how the task scales. (This is acknowledged as future work.)
I do not like the term SQL injection nowadays. I think it must be generalized to query injection. It makes people believe that NoSQL somehow is exempt from such problems.
I'm more concerned that I would end up being the only one with a compass.

Got a Meshtastic radio, set it up in Omaha, Nebraska ... crickets.
Theory and evidence will show the same thing here.
If you've got the right theory.
And a common toaster.
Careful analysis must be taken to avoid falling victim to the look-elsewhere effect. It is easy to find any numerical relationship you want with motivated reasoning.
Also why would regulations prevent them from operating in Alaska, for example? I'm sure the Alaskan government would be happy to provide better emergency connectivity, highly doubt regulation is the issue. People are already being rescued, this here happened in 2022:

https://www.businessinsider.com/stranded-man-alaska-rescued-...
If you’re interested in learning more about the rich human history and ingenuity underpinning the Hubble “constant”, please do yourself a favor and scroll through The Cosmic Distance Ladder by Terence Tao of UCLA:
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/co...

The slides are delightfully visual and comprehensive yet terse, walking you up the rungs of the cosmic ladder from the Earth through the moon, sun, and beyond. I can almost guarantee you’ll learn something new and fascinating.
People are very good at promising a better future in a non-specific way and without much evidence. That's kinda how Brexit happened.

It's when you get the specific details of a utopia that you upset people — for example, every time I see anti-aging discussed here, there's a bunch of people for whom that is a horror story. I can't imagine being them, and they can't imagine being me.
Sorry, I am not very familiar with the .NET ecosystem. Are you refuting any of their points?
Where does "the left" come into this?
Sadly, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold seems to have the camera of the base Pixel 9 (non-Pro), rather than the much nicer camera of the Pixel 9 Pro.
I do a lot of solo hiking and use a Garmin with InReach in case of emergency and to reassure my wife, it can also send my position every N minutes (I usually set it for 20 when on the trails in an area with limited or no cell phone coverage). I wouldn't mind if similar functionality becomes common on cell phones.
I really wonder if consumers have any influence on phone designs. People generally buy phones for completely different reasons, the design just has to be "not bad" which generally means just take whatevers available that meets your actual criteria (OS, camera quality, etc). After all you'll probably have to slap a case on it anyways.
Yep, it's quite misleading since the region where they looked for water at all is an incredibly thin layer on the outside of the planet, but they show it all as if it applied to all of the volume.
No reference is ever made to a positioning system, whether GPS, Galileo, GNSS or Glosnav.

DC Rainmaker confirms in its test that this watch is not equipped with a GPS chip. "Notably, the Pixel Watch 3 doesn't include dual-frequency/multiband GPS/GNSS. "

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/08/google-pixel-watch-3-han...

It's not clear whether the watch has a single-band GPS or no GPS at all. The fact that they don't communicate one it is not encouraging.
Parent is wrong. It includes GPS.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_watch_3_specs
Davidman had a lot of influence on the writing of "Till We Have Faces," but it was published before her death. "A Grief Observed" is the book Lewis wrote about the grief that followed.
The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format (2023)
I long assumed that the Earth is a "water planet" because water is mostly what you see from a distance. It wasn't until I did the math that I realized that is really about wet rocks in space vs dry rocks in space.

Earth isn't made of water, it's just a damp rock. Or a bowling ball that you squirted a dozen times with a spray bottle.
Recently did that with my laptop. Replaced the battery and fans and reapplied thermal paste to the processor for £100.
This has also left me confused with timestamps that make no sense based on my memory. I thought I was going crazy recently because I was trying to find a way to make sense of things with the expectation that the timestamps couldn't magically change!
Well actually, the data shows that Twitter has always amplified right wing views, they’re just more honest about it now.

https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-reveals-algorithm-amplified...
> its not censorship that searching said assassination attempt of Tr- in search suggestions did not yield the most relevant and recent news even after Google themselves admitted to election interference?

Straw man. I said “it’s nonsense to position it as subversion of democracy.”

It is censorship, or more accurately, editorial discretion. One can similarly complain about why X’s technical difficulties during Trump’s interview not being highlighted on the Wall Street Journal or Fox. (Or vice versa, his unsubstantiated claims about being DDOS’d being front page.) But that’s private actors taking decisions around assembly and speech. There is a concentration in media and tech problem that exacerbates this, but it doesn't rise to the level of subversion.

For this to be subversion we would have to be talking about otherwise-Trump voters who won’t vote for Trump simply because autocomplete wasn’t perfectly accurate about an ongoing assassination attempt four months before the election. (And who never again bothered to educate themselves on the topic or hit enter without waiting for autocomplete.) Like, that is the voter you’re hanging your definition of the legitimacy of a democracy on?

Where the current landscape is novel is when the misinformation prompts action before the truth can be sussed out. The riots in the U.K. are one example. People posting fake news about violence at polling sites or misinformation on where they are on and around polling day another (hypothetical).

> original comment was flagged and now it is unflagged because it didn't violate any rules

It did as does this one. You’re commenting on voting, whether inviting downvotes or complaining about them.
End-to-End Approach to AI Privacy on Android, Blog Post
Last year I tried to build a language and I wholeheartedly agree - it's amazing how much it teaches you. My particular language was merely meant to be transpiled to other languages, so I didn't get into the runtime or compilation stuff. But I quickly learned why braces and ignoring whitespace is so important. I also had to think extremely hard and carefully about the exact syntax and what each token meant. It's a very rewarding intellectual activity.

One thing I'd like to add is that even though you can totally write your own parser, it's an absolute joy to use Tree-sitter:

https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter

I plug it every time I get a chance. It makes refactoring your grammar incredibly easy, and lets you just focus on your syntax.
in terms of the potential plutonium shortage, wikipedia: Americium-241 is not synthesized directly from uranium – the most common reactor material – but from the plutonium isotope 239. The latter needs to be produced first
>But to just say a theory is wrong without providing a completely explained new one adds nothing.

It certainly does. You don't have to know how something works to be able to know how it doesn't work. And there is value in knowing how something doesn't work, even if you don't know how it works.
For the majority of Android phones, two to three years was also the length of time you got software updates of you bought the phone right when it was released, if you were lucky. I would have loved to pay somebody 80 EUR to replace the battery in my Samsung S10, but that wasn't an option since it was EOL.

Upgrading a phone also doesn't mean that the old phone goes to the bin or the new phone wasn't used before. Lots of people upgrade from one hand-me-down phone to another, others buy on the secondary market. Longer software support also extends the lifetime and viability of that market.

Sure, eventually the battery dies and the screen breaks. For many devices it's cost-effective to have somebody repair it. Having user serviceable batteries would make it much easier still.
Privacy concerns aside, I personally don't appreciate binaries making network requests unless it's strictly required for them to function.
Akeana Exits Stealth Mode with Comprehensive RISC-V Processor Portfolio
It would be nice to have some competition.

Right now basically you are forced to buy a Pixel phone, because if you don't buy an iOS or Android device you don't have apps, if you buy an iOS device you lose your freedom, and if you don't buy a Pixel phone you don't have timely updates and GrapheneOS and thus don't have an open source, frequently updated and well-engineered OS.
1. It is a zero telemetry browser

2. It is a browser with a users paying for it business model

These mean that it is easy to verify any 'spying', and that there is no incentive to do that.
This hasn't been a problem on Android in 7-8 years. I bought my S10+ brand new in 2019, and it still works flawlessly till today (well, except the battery).

The S7 Edge was the last time I experienced slowdowns after 1-2 years.
Close. About four of them, or a single 40-track one (the standard one has 10 tracks/lanes.)
This is why I started using SponsorBlock. I've been a YouTube Premium subscriber since it first became available (when it was called YouTube Red), but I'm still inundated with long-form "ads" for Made In cookware and other such nonsense.
I end up re-reading "Brideshead, Revisited" about once a year. It's the rare Christian book where every single character (regardless of their relationship with Christianity) is basically screwed up.
In the beginning, smartphones were all tiny, because it was universally agreed that smaller cell phones were better.

Then there was a huge, neverending push to make phones as large as possible, or larger. Sometimes smaller phones have been offered as an unpopular option, but more often "enormous" is the minimum size.

And as long as that's been going on, people have been complaining that they want their phone to fit in their hand.

Stipulate that a majority seems to feel that there's no need for a phone to fit in your hand. Why are the manufacturers so insistent on not providing small phones? Shirts come in all different sizes. How much does it cost to design an additional size of phone?

(Related: ever since the switch to 16:9 laptop screens, everyone has been complaining to no avail about the inferior dimensions of the screen. Why are manufacturers still cramming them down our throats? This one isn't even a case where people prefer 16:9 to 16:10.)

The best form factor of any smartphone I've owned is the first one, the Nexus S: 63mm wide, 124mm tall, and the back popped off to make replacing the battery convenient.

Phones have gotten steadily worse, as far as usability goes, ever since. There's more computing power, but I have trouble believing that's what's driving the shape.