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I love many small features of Telegram.

Telegram had replies to messages before Messenger, WhatsApp, and probably other similar apps (they said they were "the first" or something). Replies in Telegram are very nice to use. In the chat view, you have this standard floating down-arrow which scrolls to the bottom of the chat when you click. When you see a message which is a reply, and you click the preview of the message that was replied to, you jump to it, and then the floating arrow won't take you to the bottom of the chat, but to the reply from which you've jumped. And it works for more than one jump, so you can kinda navigate chains of replies.

Also, jumping to even very old messages is much much faster than in the other chat apps. On the desktop client, when you scroll up there is a floating date at the top, when you click it, a calendar appears, there you can jump to any day in the chat, and again the jump feels instant, like no loading. On the Android app, clicking on the floating date jumps to the beginning of the day, but you also can access the calendar by a button that is shown when you are in search mode. By the way, searching also feels instant.

This year, they added a new mode of replying by quoting only a part of the message, so you can select some words from the message and reply to them (you can do it on mobile too). Another new mode is replying to messages from other chats, so for example you can quote and link to the message from group chat in some private chat.

I could go on and on about features like these.
> best thing to do is start resistance training.

Doing so very carefully!

I will agree though. Before going on a long cross-state bike trip, I had some back issues and was cramming in work (too much sitting). I went out with lower back pain, resolved itself after a few days of riding for most of the day.

I very much agree that counter-intuitive behavior is often what is called for. The exercise or sedentary habits are habits. They really become normal one way or the other quite quickly.
Where was this when I needed it!

As one of my class projects, I built a Linux compatibility layer for the toy OS we had built, by adding a proper ELF loader and emulating syscalls. I really struggled to get glibc or even musl working, and so I ended up hand-coding some `-nostdlib` programs instead of being able to use coreutils. If nolibc really works as a minimal libc, would have been incredibly cool to be able to run coreutils on my OS!
And I can't stockpile it for allergy season (which is about 9 months out of the year for me). I have to make regularly scheduled trips to the pharmacy every two weeks which is a huge pain in the ass
Impossible to approve cost aside, how long would it take to remove all the dust should it have unintended consequences? Bill Gates wants to do something similar and I could not get the answer to the same question.
> the reported iPhone reboots highlight the constant cat and mouse game between law enforcement officers and forensic experts on one side, and phone manufacturers Apple and Google on the other.

I don't think Google is in this same category at all. Didn't they just recently give nest door unlock codes to LEO without even asking for a warrant?

Apple and Google are on different planets when it comes to user privacy.
What's 10 days/4 people? like... a family that lives together? Who will almost inevitably get each other sick? If the average cold lasts 7-10 days, one of them's going shopping for more while sick.

Sounds like great public health and safety policy there.
I bought a rare one that I needed for a very specific reason. It was difficult to get it imported.

Try one of the mainstream ones. There is a dumbphone finder website online to see what’s generally available, though no such website is exhaustive.
OK, K3LR looks incredible. I found this video interview where the chap talks about their 14 antenna setups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZmkRBhXLo
Pseudoephedrine should be unrestricted, there’s no way to compete on price with meth cooked in an industrial lab in Mexico by using pseudoephedrine as a precursor. Keep it behind the counter (to prevent theft) but let adults buy as much as they want.
Might be the other ingredients reducing inflammation, widening your clogged pipes and letting stuff drain.
I knew some from school, but stepping through a debugger with a video game that I remembered from childhood was a better education on computer engineering than anything I got in class.
You definitely don't have anyone in your family who gets severe congestion from allergies then. The "funnest" form it takes for me is when I start going partially blind in one eye due the the sinus pressure
Fun fact, the guy who made "supersize me" also had a crippling liquor addiction when he was filming it. I'm not saying it's great food but the perception that eating it for a month will make you ill is hilariously overblown.

Imho, I think a lot of people assume cheap food will make you sick because it's cheap and americans tend to moralize pricing. A balanced diet is obviously better for you, but the human body is extremely resilient to nutritional imbalances in the short term.

What tends to drive unhealthy trends linked to fast food (or other highly sugary or fatty foods) is just price point and ease of consumption. It's a lot easier to buy burgers than it is to figure out how to fit making rice and beans efficiently and tastily into your already busy lifestyle. Buying calorie-dense food that's easy to consume will always be attractive.
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You're supposed to take the lane if it's unsafe to pass.
You may be right but I would also trust that person’s assessment of Jim Beam as a whiskey to some extent as well.
I’m absolutely in favor of having a strong domestic industry. But to accomplish that you have to have more controls over industry which is anathema to capitalists and “un American”.

It’s just really really hard to put the horse back in the barn once it’s bolted. Shareholders will fight it tooth and nail.

There is a possibility in new energy industries because those haven’t taken root abroad yet and so Biden efforts to fund that are good. Unfortunately Trump wants to gut all that.
Seems more like the phone batteries went to zero and then power came back on and they went back up but obviously restarted.

If you are not looking at a phone all day, you may not have noticed that the power was out to them over some weekend.
Can also give you incredible diarrhea as a nice side effect
Sure, but institutions and regulators care about this issue, and at least making some attempt to address it will make them slightly happier.
> 1. What's the point? There are cheaper and better solutions. Abuse will be minimal because infinitely simpler solutions just aren't that expensive these days. This was a very valid concern in the 80s, but it's not anymore.

I would like to point out that there has recently been an interest in HF spectrum for use shaving milliseconds off the ping of high-frequency trading firms, since skipping off the ionosphere on HF bands can be slightly faster than more reliable microwave or fiber links. There is licensing trouble (a good rundown of this is at https://computer.rip/2024-10-12-commercial-HF-radio.html) and I'm sure they would love to just use ham spectrum, even if it means paying a fine later after they've cleaned up in the markets. If this works, there will be more than enough demand for such connectivity to swamp the ham bands in encrypted digital junk.
> That sounds implausible.

I can say from experience that it is not.

> A Faraday cage is an attenuator, which multiplicatively decreases signal strength by some constant

It's not constant at all. The level of attenuation varies greatly based on frequency. For the Ramsey STE3000 I have here, it varies by 40dB or more at the frequencies at which I've tested it. The enclosure good for around -100dB at 700MHz, but only -60dB or so at 2.4GHz.

> (at least within a similar frequency band, which Bluetooth and 5G can be considered to be).

Even if you exclude mmWave and consider only the sub-6 bands, AT&T for example has LTE and 5G bands from 700MHz to 3700MHz. They're not similar at all. Worlds of difference in terms of propagation characteristics.

> the received strength of both a reasonably close cell tower and a nearby Bluetooth transmitter would be pretty similar

No, they wouldn't.

On my Pixel 8 Pro right now I'm seeing -93dBm from a tower about half a mile down the road (700MHz LTE), and -40dBm from the BLE radio in the HVAC controller on the wall of this room, about 8 or 10 feet away. That's a 53dB difference.

If I put my phone in the box, it attenuates the LTE downlink from down the street to well below the thermal noise floor. It cannot do the same for BLE; my phone can still talk to the HVAC controller from inside.
I've heard of that in Europe for more than a decade, and started hearing it in San Francisco for about 2-3 years. The usual "SF is a hellhole" complainers act like it's unique to here.
Agree. Anything that is done over the course of one week or one month is pretty meaningless. When starting training, the only thing a person needs to do is to do anything. Just get out there, build consistency. That is the very first goal. Timings, intervals, HR monitor, those are all well past the point of consistency. The other side of the coin, the accumulation of training/activity over long time is what matters. Those that work on larger projects learn this, some things you can't just cram the night before. It requires hundreds of hours of sedentary or active living, hundreds of meals, for effects of a good or a bad diet (or active/sedentary lifestyle) to be realized.
I'm agreeing with you for the most part. I just want to be far away from your ideal world because ultimately speaking people like me are the ones that exploited. It really sucks to be one the wrong side.

>Once the stakes were higher everyone stops that bullying thing and that's basically what the adult world becomes. Higher stakes, jail time and actual assets and resources can be lost without mom and pop defending you once you're an adult. I understand you have trauma... but I think what happened to us as children no longer applies in the adult world.

I disagree; you're thinking in terms of me being a random victim.

My bullies were quite cognizant of the consequences if they were caught. Alibis were often discussed, and they always made sure to pick locations that where unlikely to be interrupted or observed. But I think they picked me also because most importantly they knew that I was likely to keep silent. Coupled with a criminal justice system that has both hands tied and clogged with far more pressing matters, and an institution that have weigh the reputational damage vs trying to help and well...

And there in lies the rub. So long as the group either picks the victims carefully, they can keep going on. People's nature don't change all that much even as they mature IME. Just that thy get smarter and more careful about getting what they want.
If you listen to Satya Nadella various talks/interviews you will realize that he think AI is the next major platform and we know MS lost the last major platform i.e mobile. So in his vision he wants MS to be the major player in this next platform shift and the way they are doing it is by putting AI in every nook and corner of their OS and apps. The only issue is that AI (in its current form) is NOT a platform but more of a "user interface based on natural language".
You take 48 pills in two weeks?!
And maybe @dfxm12 will feel guilty about that - it's gonna be a tough for everyone
This is true but not the only cause of high blood pressure. It may be worth adding that many people about 1 in 200 have thyroid issues that also raise heart rate and thus BP. There are other causes as well, too many to list. It took me a long time to find some of my causes after losing weight.
Coffee and donuts after Mass does it for us. And then for gender specific, CCD for the ladies and scouting for the boys.
If the Waymo could not see the bicycle then them cyclist could not see the Waymo.

If the cyclist cannot see the Waymo, then either:

A) There is no Waymo, and the cyclist need not yield, or

B) There is a Waymo, but its path is blocked by turning lorry, and the cyclist need not yield.

So either way the bicycle has priority, no?
When you say variable, do you mean it would float and could go down based on some metric(s)? Or inflation adjusted where it could only go up, like social security cost of living increases?
Or just straight ephedrine, which is also behind the counter at your local pharmacist (brand name Bronkaid).
What I would really love is a dead simple way to:
1) connect to my transactional Postgres db
2) define my materialized views
3) have these views update in realtime
4) query these views with a fast engine

And ideally have the whole thing open source and be able to run it in CI

We tried peerdb + clickhouse but Clickhouse materialized views are not refreshed when joining tables.

Right now we’re back to standard materialized views inside Postgres refreshed once a day but the full refreshes are pretty slow… the operational side is great though, a single db to manage.
We haven't tested this with 1TB Postgres databases yet, assuming that most companies operating at this scale already built analytics data pipelines :) I'm curious if you currently move the data from this Postgres to somewhere else, or not yet?
I recently got into Parks on the Air, where you go to parks with radio equipment and try to make 10 contacts. It's fun, gets me out of the house and can be an interesting challenge depending on atmospheric conditions. I built a small kit radio (https://qrp-labs.com/qmx.html) for use when visiting some of the parks that have longer hikes to interesting areas. Building the radio was a great lesson in electronics and exposed how horrible my soldering skills were. My curiosity about how the SDR stuff worked, especially the transmitting side, led me to reading lots of great posts and information about RF, modulation, etc.

The emergency preparedness side of things is an important side of amateur radio, but learning is an equally if not larger part of it.
You say “back then” but there was a solid 15 years or so where skill based matchmaking didn’t exist, so whether or not you hit a skill ceiling varied from match to match and even from player to player you faced within a match.

I remember playing unreal tournament, counterstrike, etc. It’s not like servers were honest about skill level even 20% of the time lol
WaPo not posting the editorial was a silly move, of trying to please a volatile creature.

But what really gets me is the NYT. Man, they bent over backwards to normalize & sane-wash the craziest shit. Michael Tae Sweeney just turned it into his hole bit, but boy was he ever right: "the media covers Trump like this because they want him to win."

We have colossal problems with absolutely deranged things going on in the far right media & online streams/radio, blending conspiracy and disinformation together, just gleefully outdoing each other for hotter own the libs takes. We keep saying low information voters, but it's only true sometimes; it's just as much people being fed the wildest craziest shit. And rather than actually report some of the wild shit going on straight from the presidents mouth, like the NYT could do, it's all re-parsed into, oh, hahaha old man Trump is at it again with his somewhat divisive talk!

For a while on Bluesky there was a Trump headline translator, where people would put real or imagined whores in one side, and the NYT headline on the other. Too too many were real examples of absolutely crazy making-palpable bending-over-backwards efforts to help out. It just feels like there's no one at all to report accurately.
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With the advancement of satellite technology, which can provide cell service even during natural disasters when traditional terrestrial communication infrastructure is disrupted, I wonder if amateur radio use in emergencies will be superseded.

If I'm incorrect, I'd appreciate it if you could explain why. While I see amateur radio continuing to have value in educational and hobby contexts, I'm skeptical about its ongoing importance in emergencies , which seems to be a primary motivator for many enthusiasts.
https://abc7ny.com/amp/crime-spree-phones-stolen-nyc-migrant...
Wow I had no idea that was the origin of that name
Here's a solid completely factual reason why people don't trust the FDA or the government to give health advice. Pointless drug allowed for decades.

If you want to be trusted you have to be consistently trustworthy.

What else is the FDA wrong about and will continue to be wrong about for decades?
Dextromethorphan is the only otc cough medicine that works and pretty much the only prescription stuff that works is opiate based. Of course both are regulated.
Is it me, or does the section about the Goldbach conjecture have nothing to do with the halting problem, but with finite machines?

As TFA points out, the program to solve the Goldbach Conjecture will halt, and we know this. Because it halts, it doesn't solve the conjecture (unless it does solve it within the range of numbers allowed by the finite system memory).

So it's got nothing to do with the halting conjecture - we know this program will definitely halt, because we don't have infinite memory. It also doesn't solve the conjecture, because it will halt. This seems like circular reasoning.

If we had an infinite machine then we could write a program that could solve the conjecture, if we had infinite time to run it in (or it ran infinitely fast). Because we don't have any of those things, writing a program to solve the conjecture is impossible, regardless of our ability to determine if it halted or not.

If we had the ability to determine if that program halted, we would still need an infinite machine to run the program, which we don't, so the ability to determine whether the program halts or not is irrelevant. We can't create such a program (because we can trivially determine that any such program will actually halt - yes it does, because it runs out of memory).
Previously (49 points, 5 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082177
There was actually a push to make it rx only. Oregon and Mississippi passed laws to make it RX, luckily those laws have been rolled back.
Tabata makes you want to vomit if you don't have at least a moderate level of fitness. Even if it's great conditioning. So here's the problem.

We go on about what's optimal from a raw time perspective, but time slows subjectively when you suffer. So people who don't conceptualize themselves as athletic, they may have insecurities if not outright skepticism, aren't going to last.

You can make a culty cultural glue to get habits to stick (because fitness is all about habits). You can do CrossFit, the social and positive aspects. That encouragement can bring habit and a change of self perception.

But if you're just a self-driven type, and you're dipping your toes in the water, my observations are that whatever is fun (an individual experience) is what you'll be creating a habit with, and time foes quickly. So explore a brunch of things until you encounter fun. Tennis, running club, weightlifting club. Etc.

So my point is that fitness is a problem around how people experience exercise and training, instead of what's optimal in a paper or in terms what's efficient in terms of time.

Was this prematurely dismissive? Maybe, I'm going by the comments.
Yep. It is amazing. I have a friend who operates one of the positions during CQWW SSB.

Line noise and other RF noise is the bugaboo of ham radio operation, particularly in an urban area. Tim gave a talk at RSGB some time ago where someone asked him what the noise level was at his station. His answer was "S 0" even though he lives in a suburban area. He has excellent relationships with his neighbors.
Not to mention transcranial doppler ultrasound for measuring blood flow.
> Except those two don't really matter when predicting heart attack or stroke risk.

Some cursory googling leads to recent research showing that they do: "According to new research, both high systolic and high diastolic blood pressure can lead to heart attack and stroke." [1]

> HRV results

I feel there is hype over HRV. Mainly a new thing that watches and other monitors can measure, and the number is being hyped. That put aside, the sources I've listened to have concluded that HRV is not really that valuable. Do you know of research showing otherwise? (grant it, some research is good here, for most things medecine and science there needs to be a lot of research. My impression there is a lot of research around blood pressure, thus I am not digging out more sources to show the counter-point).

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325861
Most gladiators were slaves, fyi. Rarely you could make enough money to buy your freedom, but that was hardly unique to being a gladiator. Your other points still stand—it was more attractive than destitute poverty or death.
Fair enough, I would agree that those constitute anti-trans. Not sure I'd classify most (all?) of them as lies, but they are certainly misleading in some cases. The tactic used here of saying that their opponent "supports" something when in fact they voted against not having the thing is a particularly annoying method of misleading.

Appreciate you citing your sources.
It's not repackaged by your pharmacy, Good Neighbor Pharmacy is a generic drug brand for pharmacies and supermarkets that don't have their own generic brand.
Nice work! You should tune the control sensitivities though, like with the filter cutoffs the usable range is concentrated in a few pixels on the left.

I guess synths usually use some kind of logarithmic scales?
Example post in question, shows nothing regarding the date. It basically shouldn't exist https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3k5l4vko6jp2p
Not saying you're wrong, but how about the billionaire owners interfering with LA Times and Washington Post ordinary editorial processes?
In a world where algorithms decide what we see, how can we rediscover the joy of unexpected discoveries?
1.01 got lucky: https://i.imgur.com/EOlUULe.png
My life on an ADHD med, a mental health med, and 3 other meds for transgender stuff.

I am very lucky to have a backlog of estradiol, my main HRT drug, because I was purposely "playing under speed" for most of a year, otherwise all 5 drugs would be randomly running out at 5 different times throughout the month. Almost nothing gets assigned to 90-day fills for some stupid fucking reason.
1581 partners hate this one trick!
It's not. If you wrote one, it'd be more interesting than mine.
< is a function in Common Lisp and similar dialects, so that is moot.

A reason to make it an operator is that short circuiting is a possibility. If (< 1 x) in (< 1 x y z), y and z need not be evaluated.

A compiler which understands the semantics of < can do that anyway for the function, provided that no necessary side effects are elided. Like if evaluating y and z has no side effect other than preparing the operand (which still has a cost), that can be elided at least.
Second this. It strikes me as a completely reasonable watchdog. Other than if you're keeping it around in a faraday cage it's very unlikely to receive *nothing* for an extended period. How many people take phones into such environments for extended periods? Thus if nothing is coming in it probably means something's messed up.

And if it reboots on the cops Apple probably considers that a plus.
> The press mostly do their jobs

The press often does a great job of shielding those in power from reality, and that's what it did in most of the Biden term. Now, I also disagree with the other extreme view that press needs to be positioned so against the establishment that it conflates facts with fiction. Not taking the side of either ruling or opposition but pushing for society's interest is the real job of press.
No you won’t! It’s just the oral formulations that are being taken off the shelves. The inhaled version does indeed work and will still be available.