skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One degree of error in the vertical for the drone's control system, if it's hovering by blowing air downward at 5 meters per second, would be a ground speed of 87 mm/s (sin(1°)×5m/s) in whichever direction the tilt is. Also without any correction in the propeller speed it would result in a loss of altitude averaging 0.76mm/s (2.7 m/hour, (1 - cos(1°) 5m/s). But that could also be caused by something like a mild downdraft, while the horizontal drift could be caused by an imperceptibly weak breeze.

So I don't really know how this is normally done. If you can set the drone on the ground for a few minutes, you should be able to get a very good reference up-vector, but I don't know how long the MEMS gyros can preserve that up-vector without GNSS once it takes off.

At sea you can probably look at the horizon with a camera unless it's foggy.
This is just the fundamental way the internet works, and is the reason that anonymizing proxies like Tor exist.

If you don’t want people to be able to detect your rough geographic location, you should be using a proxy to hide it. For everybody else, knowing the edge server you are closest to is really not a threat.
Can you please just do plain-old transcription with speaker diarization? That's the most important starting point for me.

[edit: The summaries are usually bad and I always want to refer back to what was specifically said through LLM Q+A]
Yea, as a T1D myself the amount of insulin I need is massively different from days I'm arguing on the internet compared to days I'm up doing physical exercise. Things get concerning really quick when you're a distance from anything and your glucose starts dropping.
When someone is talking about insulating shoes their point is that the body is electrically isolated from the floor. Without that isolation charge can travel between the two. Concrete and skin are fairly good conductors by comparison with air or insulators.

Wearing a conducting ring might make it easier for charge from the air to move into your body through your skin - but it will not make it easier for that charge to get to the floor (and then to ground) from your body.
I managed to migrate my family but no one else. So now I still have WhatsApp and Signal.
This is such a great answer. You've given me flashbacks to many zoom meetings that started with "Can't we just...".
Not at sea.
"Lines of constant bearing" (or "rhumb lines") depend on the choice of poles.

A rhumb line relative to true north looks straight on a standard Mercator projection, but can look like a spiral on another Mercator-style projection where the pole and center-point have been swapped.
So it has the same power deal-breaker as all of these things.
The fight over land holding back India's green energy revolution
accuray?
I feel like in pretty much every case here they still do not need arbitrary access. The point of DMA cheating is to make zero modification of the target computer. The moment a driver needs to be used to say allow an IOMMU range for a given device, the target computer has been tainted and you lose much of the benefit of DMA in the first place.

Does a GPU need access to memory of a Usermode application for some reason, okay, the GPU driver should orchestrate that.

> We haven't even gotten into exotic hardware that wants to do some kind of shared memory clustering between machines, or cache cards (something like Optane) which are PCIe cards that can be used as system memory via DMA, or dedicated security processors intended to scan memory for malware etc.

Again, opt-in. The driver should specify explicit ranges when initializing the device.
Generalising, this is one of the lessons of the past ~2 centuries in which we've had for the first time reasonably objective analogic recording capabilities: photography, phonography, cinema, and the like. Until their emergence, human testimony across a wide range of phenomena was the only way to transmit information and, due to its low fidelity, low information density, unreliable interpretation and unreliable reproduction, that was at best only modestly reliable. A fantastic example of this (in numerous senses) is Albrecht Dürer's woodcut of a rhinoceros (1515), made from second-hand reports and sketches. On the one hand, it doesn't look true to life, but on the other, specific features of the animal are recorded with remarkable accuracy --- the segmentation of body plates, horns, toes, and aspect of the eyes for example. See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros>.

And whilst analogue recordings have long been subject to manipulation, most of the time that took effort and expertise to accomplish smoothly, and independent recordings could be compared to detect edits and alterations. Following the emergence of digital image manipulation with photoshop, photographic "evidence" has become increasingly less evidentiary, with the spread of AI and smartphones, virtually all still and video images are at least somewhat processed, and with AI we can generate lifelike fabulations in realtime in multiple modes (still image, video, audio), including speech and background sounds, which can confound pretty much anyone, layperson or expert.

Which means that we're back in the realm of low-reliability fabulated reporting even or exspecially when mediated by our technologies, which had previously offered a solution to that problem.
Why are you making fun of this when this is quite literally what's happening? Maybe not the puppies and flowers thing, but you could have added the "taking money away from child cancer research" and that one would have been true.

Musk IS a real life cartoon villain.
I guess I'm not so "crazy" for funneling all my Android's outbound traffic through a VPN that does two hops.
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
Great job, you're going to go far Daniel.
This pops up at least once a month and has been thoroughly debunked.
You can't really fix the problem that everyone tends to order during lunch and dinner hours. No matter how you arrange the delivery staff, there will be too much demand during those times, and too little the rest of the day.

There's arguably been some efficiency lost, as some restaurants had the drivers cross trained to help with making the food.
Kamal also only recently became interesting after they added the feature where you can host multiple apps on the same server.
Remove "black" and it's the description of living in a small town.
Some tools have also started to support a one-two punch of asking a reasoning model (o1 or R1 etc) for planning the solution, and a chat model to build it. Works quite well.
While this won't work too well when the access is indirect via a piracy or a "rogue contractor", it can be applicable to the web-crawlers the companies are directly running.
Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts
Does any one know if this is still relevant and what percentage of users block Analytics these days?
One of my pet hobbies is trying to figure out the least prime prime number and most prime composite numbers under 100.

My votes are 61 or 89 for least prime-seeming primes and 87 and --yep-- 57 for more prime-seeming composites.
"Meanwhile, the pelican tries to help by filtering it with its webbed feet."

I think it doesn't quite get what webbed feet mean.
> Btw the rest of the world measure temperature in Celsius which is derived from Kelvin (by adding or subtracting the value of absolute zero in Celsius).

Yet, it's not SI, because it's for humans. The same could be said for using km/h. The rest of the world measured speed in km/h which is derived from m/s (multiplying by a constant).

They're presenting units that people are most familiar with, that most people see and experience, modulate with their foot, every day of their lives. The presentation is for humans, not calculators. The best way to make people interested is to make things relatable, and let the interested people do the trivial math they're so familiar with. It's good PR, and an example of why engineers shouldn't be involved with PR.
I remember the Exponential Technologies bipolar PowerPC chip running at 533 MHz back in 1997... so sad Apple killed it

https://web.archive.org/web/19970712065424/http://www.byte.c...
Normally they are for pedestrian crossings. The stop for the incoming traffic will be near where the vehicles yield prior to entering the roundabout but the stop for outgoing traffic is several cars away to allow cars to continue moving in the roundabout.

And because they are pedestrian crossings, they only go red when someone is walking across them and for a few seconds before and after. Which means in most cases they are green 90-95% of the time and only go red for less than a minute at a time.
I wonder how would do you separate non/ideological material on the topic?

Ideology can (and pretty often is) implicitly embedded in our reasoning and the way we sort facts even when we are not aware of it.
Yeah I know carrying a knife is a crime in the UK. It's stupid as fuck. You can carry a knife, sword, or full on rifle down the sidewalk the US. You might get harassed by curious cops but it's legal nearly everywhere.

>Those are all fair… and about safe and civil societies

Nothing safe and civil about denying people the only means possible for them to fend off a group of attackers, or denying free speech to people.

>At least we can’t be arrested for crossing the road in the wrong place and we can drink at a reasonable age

Haha yeah the drinking thing is stupid in the US. Jaywalking is rarely enforced unless you are suspected of a serious crime, or else running across a high-speed road in plain view of cops.
> "Cloudflare ended up completing patching the bug"

This short quote fragment is a little misleading: Cloudflare patched the bug in their systems that allow you to send HTTP requests to any CF data center, regardless of where the originator of the request lives. This is likely something they want fixed for a large variety of reasons, some probably much more important than the specific attack OP wrote about.

> I wish Signal would react differently.

The severity of a potential security issue, or the determination of who is responsible for fixing or mitigating it, is a matter of opinion. Just because you think this is important for Signal to fix, it doesn't mean it's some absolute truth that it does. At the risk of appealing to authority, I would expect that people who run a security/privacy-focused messaging project to have a better handle on classifying these sorts of things than random people on HN like you or me.

But of course, sometimes they'll get it wrong too. I'm not familiar with the bubble color thing you mention, but sure, nobody's perfect; we're all human and we make mistakes. I'm personally not convinced Signal needs to do anything here. A 250 mile radius is quite a large area, and users can already choose to not auto-download attachments. To be fair, though, I think a simple way for Signal to fix this would be to disable caching on the attachments HTTP endpoints, though that might increase their bandwidth bills and increase load on their servers, depending on what their access patterns look like.
The Sonar Pro API
Is this "every article" about Facebook/Meta or is it just one. The questionm is whether the statement makes sense to use in this article.

Possibly the point the author is making is that Zuckerberg never had an original idea or one that could be the subject of a business plan. He copied the "Hot or Not" websites that had come before. Further, the photos of students used for his "Facemash" website, i.e., the "content", were downloaded from the university's computers, not uploaded to Zuckerberg's computer. Initially, he downloaded and used students' photos without permission.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250115010420if_/https://www.th...

This pattern continued when he copied the idea of an online "face book" for the university which the university was already working on; adopting the name "thefacebook.com".

From the document production in Kadrey v Meta, it appears the pattern of copying still continues. Meta is still downloading and using others' work. Initially, without permission.

Comparing copyright infringment to assisting genocide is absurd. Although Meta may have assisted in ethnic cleansing

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/myanmar-time-...

there is no reference to it in the article. Perhaps because, unlike the story of "Facemash", it bears no relation to the subject matter: copyright infringment.
Thanks for that detailed rundown.

As far as what people want most of the time, I would submit that way more than 99% of the time they want the appointment to start when the digits of the clock on their phone show a particular time... anywhere in the world.

And leave it to Apple to bury and obfuscate the option that supports the most-typical use case, with this "floating" setting. It also requires an extra step, every. damned. time. And of course it's asinine to omit the option from the devices on which it's arguably most important: MOBILE ones.

Final nitpick: Appointments don't show timezones when you look at them on iOS or the Mac. Even with "time zone support" turned on.
Your comment exposes how much metacognitive laziness you have in modern society that you didn't realize that people still do these things, just not you. They aren't obsolete tasks, just done at a layer you don't see.

I don't have to prime a well pump any more because my house and workplace are hooked into the municipal water system. I don't have to prime a pump because that task has gotten so abstract as to become turning a faucet handle. But engineers at the municipal water plant do have to know how to do this task.

Similarly, filling an oil lamp and lighting it is now abstracted for normal people as flipping a light switch (maybe changing a light bulb is a more appropriate comparison). But I actually have filled an oil lamp when I was a kid because we kept "decorative" hurricane lamps in my house that we used when the power went out. The exact task of filling an oil lamp is not common, but filling a generator with fuel is still needed to keep the lights on in an emergency, although it is usually handled by the maintenance staff of apartment buildings and large office buildings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...

Tanks & SPGs

British Empire - 47862

USA and territories - 108410

USSR - 119769

Other vehicles

British Empire - 1475521

USA and territories - 2382311

USSR - 265000

Bombers

British Empire - 38158

USA and territories - 96872

USSR - 21116

Total large ships

British Empire - 558

USA and territories - 2020

USSR - 63
Words have meanings. Communication between humans, which you’re keenly defending, depends on a shared understanding of them. I haven’t commented on it until now, but in my view you’re splitting hairs by repeatedly creating your own definitions (e.g. defining what is “real” change or not; changing the definition of words you said; saying “improvement” is not “change”; misunderstanding “limited”). So your repeated accusations don’t really land.

I don’t think it’s worth either of our times to continue, though. We’ve strayed too much from the original point.

A good evening (or your equivalent time of day) to you.
> it refused to assign responsibility for the Nakba to Israel

From what I can tell, it’s assigning responsibility to Israel and the Arab countries that started the wars that let Israel claim Palestinian land. (Repeatedly.) That strikes me as fair—Israel took and held the land, but the proximate cause was the Arab autocrats invading (and then letting the Palestinians take the brunt of the downside for a war they didn’t start).
> Companies designing new products were unclear on what was right, or wrong, and uncertain about how they might put calm technology ideals into practice.

Nope. That’s not at all what the problem is. The problem is that when you implement features that respect the users attention an engagement metric dips slightly. And a shot caller notices. They roll the feature back. Because at the end of the day your calm means fuck all to the pursuit of endless growth.
For me, it's '^' pointing up, up being before, or first if time flows from top to bottom.
> Maybe the "straight from the lab" look for the web is simply unstyled HTML.

Indeed. Every time I see a white page with smol black text in the default style, it gives me flashbacks to university web pages, Kenton Lee's X11 resources and the like. I feel like I'm reading information, not design wankery, and certainly not ads or clickbait.
Airalo SIMs wouldn't even exist without eSIM, so arguably that's still a consumer win, not a loss, even though I obviously also wish they were transferable.
If you use an LLM only solution, sure, but there are many more opportunities if you expand the system to include more.

We could, for example, use the existing tools for copyright detection, on the output and refuse to send it to the client side. It's just another moderation check in that perspective
Or perhaps what you think professing as being "openly fascist" didn't happen because you are in your own echo chamber?

Personally I believe Elon Musk is an immature prick, and that the U.S. is only nominally democratic, but "openly fascist"?
I am trying to figure that out.

All the manufacturers today are trying to sell connected services, so devices are accumulating lots of features and heft. In addition, none of the manufacturers quantify the strength of vibration (what units would that be expressed in?). The lightest bands are the lowest end/value models and have the worst vibration mechanisms.

What I want is:
(1) see the current time
(2) get a buzz for a notification
(3) alarm clock
(4) ability to wear for multiple days without charging.
Oh so the whole UK would fit in Texas, USA a couple times.

And Greenland is like CA, OR, WA, NV combined.

Good to know.
I’ve had pretty good experience with Digital Ocean’s App Platform. That’s how I’m hosting https://blogmate.io, a side project of mine.
It feels like being on a train about to go over a collapsed bridge. Watching as the first cars go over the cliff.
I think it's relevant but do with it what you will :) good luck with your thing
If we are living in a simulation, you can be sure it is programmed in Lisp - that's why using it feels so magical, it's a glimpse behind the veil.
>does choosing healthier meal,

For a type 1 diabetic, no (gets more complex with type 2).

Your body produces insulin at a basal rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_rate

If you're healthy between the pancreas and the liver you maintain homeostasis and things are fine.

As a T1D you don't get that base rate, so your blood sugar will mostly trend up and stay high, even without eating anything. You simply have to get more insulin to avoid burning out all the systems in your body and dying slowly.
That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification, my bad!
What were some of these insights?
The only thing I regret getting rid of is books. I've moved many times and thinned my shelves severely each time. In retrospect I realize that I often want to refer back to them or show someone else something I had read. That being said I'd be lying if I said the value wasn't mostly sentimental.
Oh, that's an interesting point. Maybe that's what's going on. It's hard to picture such a line with a different pole.
This is really obviously not intentional, let alone requested by the Trump admin.
Can it? Or are their safety aspects that make it dangerous in enough situations that you shouldn't let the public there. I wouldn't be surprised if it was mostly safe but once in a while there was a deadly spark. For sure I wouldn't let someone with a pacemaker or similar device near this. I also wouldn't allow phones, wallets, key - anything with electronics - near.
Smart Phish via GitHub – Stay Vigilant
The advantage of a watch that only needs to charge every few weeks is that it likely doesn't need a lot of time to top it off if you're charging it daily (unless it has a massive battery or only charges extremely slowly). When I wore Pebble watches, charging them while I was in the shower was plenty of time to last until I showered the next day. With my Apple watches, I've gotten into the habit of not wearing them for a while in the evening as well as my morning shower.
Tangara – an open hardware portable music player
Tablets and phones could be calm tech too if they adjusted their brightness and white-point correctly based on ambient lighting.
FABRIC[1] is a fine name for a software project but...

I wish project names were a little more aligned with what it does and a little less common words and names.

[1] FABRIC is an open source AI project to augment humans. The github link has a lot more info on the idea (I do not normally watch videos to learn about a rand new something for me).
Managing AI agents as employees is the challenge of 2025, says Goldman Sachs CIO
The gig economy at least in part grew out of a giant wave of unemployment.

There were also suddenly a lot of people without a home to sleep in, and suddenly a lot of homes on the market.

Basically, right after a crash is the best time to do anything.
And some like xylitol are highly toxic to dogs, must be careful around them.
What's fun is you can still do black box probing. And guess what, spammers have done this.

I get these emails that look like classic spam like a link to a home depot or wallmart giftcard, but they're addressed to someone who isn't me. After getting a bunch of these I decided to look at the original email. They are being sent to an outlook (e.g. notmyname@biggerish.someShortName01.shortname.outlook.com) and appear from something that looks like a store (e.g. contact_support.csz@fakestore.fr>). It passes SPF and DMARC but fails DKIM.

The content?

It used to be PAGES of stuff like "here's your email password reset link" or "thank you for signing up <legitimate place>". I was confused at first but then realized that yeah, this stuff likely bypass a ML filter. But the spammers have gotten better at it and now they can do it with only a page of content.

Of course, I can easily filter these by just parsing the "To Address" (I use Thunderbird). But I reported tons of these and was deleting them. But in middle of last year I decided to just start collecting them. I have over 50...

This is low hanging fruit stuff... Like a Naive Bayes could handle this. The current solution could probably handle it if they started actually fucking labeling the examples as spam and assumed that the labeling process was noisy (dear god I hope they use at least "legit" "unknown" "spam" and don't assume legit if it isn't marked as spam...)

I have EVEN TALKED TO A PERSON and the issue couldn't be escalated... Which IMO is being complacent in spam.
Indie SaaS and boring tax stuff
Render won't make the major clouds obsolete, they will be joining the same market and need to offer a similar portfolio, or they will be addressing a different market segment.
Free market economics is "singled out" because, at least in the Anglosphere, it is the only type of economy considred to reach an (eventual) optimum by itself.
Well, the same as drm then... on a rooted device, you can run a screen recording app, that's why netflix might soon run only on attested devices. Tinder? What if you're faking your location, attested device only. etc.

Want freedom, a rooted device, a device not made by samsung or apple? Well, fsck you and your freedoms, right? It's not like a phone is a general purpose computing device.

Soon the same will happen to PCs... why should your bank run on linux, what if you've messed with the cookies? Microsoft windows OS, attested system, and you'll be banking in edge only. Just because some people like you support this.
I have the forerunner watch as well, and also the inReach personal gps. Both are quite rugged and the forerunner's metrics collection is great if you want to see your health progress ie. VO2 max and other key metrics. The inReach is for me a life insurance policy in case I twist an ankle out in the middle of nowhere and can flag an emergency responder. I would not part with either device and pay the monthly subscription to the inReach device for years now.