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Apple Support informed me that backing up my iPhone to my computer will not include all my data. It's not really a backup. Apps data will not backup. Even books I downloaded into Apple's own Books app will not be backed up. Crazy!

I love this. I added a pull request for Spirulina.

I see sock puppets everywhere. Some obviously state actors. This is how soft power is exercised in the 21st century to shape narrative. Your tax dollars being spent (assuming you live in a country that practices propaganda against it's own citizens like the USA. see Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012/2013)

The ones that aren’t attacking boats I presume.

"On Earth, phosphine is only present due to life, and so phosphine has been explored extensively as a potential sign of life. So the potential detection on Venus was exciting stuff. ... Phosphine is found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and no one is proposing life exists in the clouds of these planets."

I love the information density of this article. Compelling case for investing in hdd manufacturing sector as well as a great explanation of why tape storage is still a growing market (Subpoenas and cold data storage cost in case you were wondering).

Sounds like a bit of an opsec failure. I get it. As a faceless worker for a nation perceived as evil by most of the other nation’s citizens. Knowing your job is to steal, impersonate and lie, it would feel like the minions were all about your life.

How about a scan of git for related occurrences of Kevin, gru and minion images?

https://archive.ph/sW8gT

All snark aside, ways to learn (already listed) include teachers, books, videos and the most difficult of all your ear. If music theory isn’t your bag, pick a song and learn to play the first phrase. Then the next phrase, then the next. That’s how they did it in the old days. One song at a time. One bit at a time.

If you want shortcuts to playing guitar enough to impress many, you can skip (some) theory and learn a few chord shapes. To play like the masters will require dedication to craft impossible for most. I applaud your efforts.

I just prompt the google music model and I can just play along.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/musiclm-google-ai-test-kit...

Big lumps of matter are easier to simulate than individual particles.

The joke just didn't cut it.

The state says you can't have a knife longer than 4 inches if you are on probation.

Good thing he wasn't on a motorcycle.

Why not? Thanks.

The article refers to the remote operator in the basement. This makes the device a Waldo, not a robot. Another reminder that this is Heinlein’s future and we are just living in it.

Can someone please help explain the underlying concepts so a mere mortal can understand them?

"the total information that could be stored in a region of space was proportional to its energy and its size." or "the sphere that can enclose it."

This sounds like computational complexity theory had a baby with quantum physics, but makes some intuitive sense. After all, both the information and entropy contents of a given volume of spacetime must be less than infinite, and related to the inhabiting mass/energy both of which have singularity limits.

These guys are saying the total info of a given volume of spacetime is not a sphere, its the sphere minus another sphere (the mass's Schwarzschild radius (gravity?)), which leaves a toroid in which the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is implied to be spiral motion around said donut?

"But when entropy is properly understood through the toroidal structure, the inequality dissolves into an exact relation:

Δx Δp = (Atorus) / (4π ℓpl2) ħ.

This equation, simple yet profound, tells us that what we have long regarded as uncertainty is, in fact, structure."

The math is beyond me.

Does this really resolve the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in practice?

Sand, in agronomic terms, is defined as those particles between .05 and 2.0 mm.

https://www.covermaster.com/blog/basics-of-sand-part-1-in-th...

Crowds of a high enough density push people in orbital waves, with both clockwise and counterclockwise oscillations pulsing at 18 second intervals through the crowd. Monitoring these motions in realtime is possible and may help prevent crowd crush events. Also: At high densities crowds act like sticky springs, with the ground adding the sticky.

18 seconds before the next wave of people crushes you. 18 seconds to get out. 18 seconds could save your life.

See https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-robots-are-entering-the-publ...

We are closer than ever before to Flexible Frank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer I agree with the previous posters that expense and safety are concerns. Robots are dangerous and require a lot of specialized hardware. (see above).

IMHO the biggest obstacle is that AI is still having trouble with object permanence and real world interactions. I'm hopeful this will be solved in the next few years, and I'm sure teams of people are working in it with vast budgets of DARPA dollars and COSTIND Yuan as well as private industry.

Elon could do it if he could just invent a time machine first.

When I do an organic search on google for my company's trademarked name "YALA" or variations, Amazon has a page that shows up in the top 5 results. Amazon does not sell our brand. It appears Amazon has a hard coded page with our name in the search. Is this a clear trademark violation, or is Amazon doing this in a legal, albeit shady way?

Can someone please make Baba Yaga’s hut now?

I love that the author took the time to collect and plot his own data. And this was 2020? In 3 years my washing machine should be able to do this.

Is this what a group of type III civilizations look like on the Kardashev scale? Back when the universe was hot and dense and it was still fun?

https://www.slashgear.com/1576972/omega-1-engine-astron-real... Does a better job of explaining the concept.

The return? more like "The only modern use case for pneumatic tubes is Hospitals."

no paywall: https://agfundernews.com/plant-based-cheesemaker-climax-food...

This is why I read HN. Where else would I get exposure to a cult this small, with this much passion for something so obscure. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face and restoring my faith in nerds.