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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Artemis II: Christina Koch's PCD Failure

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

How Stellantis Destroyed Jeep [video]

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slate.com 3y ago

The Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw over Silicon Valley Bank

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Did Facebook just stop fighting adblockers?

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coinmarketcap.com 4y ago

Ridley Scott to Bring Film about Ethereum to Life

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www.livescience.com 4y ago

SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon

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www.washingtonpost.com 4y ago

Pentagon is looking for garbage collectors in space

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www.thedailybeast.com 4y ago

Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Documentary critical of Disney, from the Disney family

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www.npr.org 4y ago

US charges Belarus officials with air piracy in reporter's arrest

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www.insider.com 4y ago

US Navy aircraft carrier headed to the scrapyard after being sold for a cent

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www.sciencealert.com 4y ago

The Largest Organism Is Slowly Being Eaten

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Fed warns of social media ‘echo chambers’ that pump up meme stocks

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www.livescience.com 4y ago

Henrietta Lacks' family sues biotech firm for use of 'stolen' cells

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www.scmp.com 5y ago

India promises Tesla lowest production costs to relocate

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www.cnbc.com 5y ago

Neuralink has wired up a monkey to play video games using its mind

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blues.io 5y ago

Soul of a New Machine

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www.cnet.com 5y ago

Tesla's new steering yoke isn't retro, it's a safety risk

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

5G boxes are coming to people’s homes, whether they want them or not

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youtube.com 5y ago

We made a better CGI Luke Skywalker

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Tesla’s autopilot won’t achieve full autonomy, Waymo CEO says

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yasha.substack.com 5y ago

Signal Is a Government Op

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www.inverse.com 5y ago

Information may be a fifth state of matter

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www.cnbc.com 5y ago

WeChat ban would be a devastating blow to Chinese families in the US

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www.reuters.com 5y ago

Taiwan in talks to purchase sophisticated U.S. drones

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www.forbes.com 5y ago

Don't 'Do your own research' when it comes to science

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www.nbcnews.com 6y ago

U.S. intelligence examining whether coronavirus emerged from a lab

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www.cnet.com 6y ago

Facebook is testing a way to speed up fact-checking

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www.cnet.com 6y ago

Uber to pay $4m over sexual harassment and retaliation charges

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community.cadence.com 7y ago

You Shouldn't Trust Ken Thompson

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This export ban follows Anthropic refusing to provide uninhibited use of AI to the US military, and the Pentagon subsequently listing them as a supply chain threat. That in turn led to Anthropic suing the government. This most recent development is obviously just a vindictive administration doing what it can to blackball Anthropic for not kowtowing to unrestricted military use like all of the other AI giants.

For what it's worth, writing good PRs applies in more cases than just AI generated contributions. In my PR descriptions, I usually start by describing how things currently work, then a summary of what needs to change, and why. Then I go on to describe what exactly is changing with the PR. This high level summary serves to educate the reviewer, and acts as a historical record in the git log for the benefit of those who come after you.

From there, I include explicit steps for how to test, including manual testing, and unit test/E2E test commands. If it's something visual, I try to include at least a screenshot, or sometimes even a brief screen capture demonstrating the feature.

Really go out of your way to make the reviewer's life easier. One benefit of doing all of this is that in most cases, the reviewer won't need to reach out to ask simple questions. This also helps to enable more asynchronous workflows, or distributed teams in different time zones.

I've greatly enjoyed my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and would recommend it, with the following advice: I am very careful with mine. It's rated fairly well for water resistance, but not well for dust ingress. It's imperative that you keep it clean (I use alcohol wipes and microfiber cloth daily) and well contained in sandy or dirty environments. That said, I've taken mine to the beach and on camping/canoeing trips, albeit in a soft waterproof enclosure which still lets me use the external screen.

When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

— Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops

Every amendment should be taken literally. How else should your rights be interpreted? Figuratively?

I agree with you that people are much better off using constructive dialogue, and communities like HN are much better off because of moderation, but the idea of some government agency tracking down and fining trolls is to me a laughable suggestion.

As an American who appreciates a strictly literal interpretation of the first amendment, it's very funny to me that a German not only takes pride in their government hunting down and suppressing inconvenient speech, but wants the rest of the world to fall in line.

This is the platform that led to the proliferation of newspeak terms like "unalive" to circumvent content restrictions. Such speech restrictions were never a thing on FB, IG, X, or YT, yet this form of self-censorship has spread to those platforms anyway, because TikTok users have become so used to it.

SSI's were my first foray into "backend," if you can even call it that, sometime around the year 2000. Some benevolent commenter on Slashdot gave me the tipoff, and my growing frustration with copy-pasting HTML snippets between pages was henceforth a thing of the past. Then came PHP, Python, et cetera, and the rest is history.

Amazing how such a simple mechanism can remain useful even decades later.

Most 3D printed parts have a telltale texture resulting from the layer-by-layer deposit of material. The same goes for many milled/CNCed parts bearing evidence of tool marks. Once you've seen and held enough, it's relatively easy to identify whether a given part was printed, cast, milled, lathed, etc.

I say most because there are finishing methods which can largely obscure these details and make it less obvious as to which method produced a given part.

It's commonly referred to as a deflationary spiral because the falling prices lead to people (perhaps counterintuitively) holding off from large purchases, anticipating a continued drop in prices. Sort of a "buy the bottom" mentality.

The lack of spending then further contributes to falling prices, job cuts, businesses closing, etc. It's really not a situation any economy _wants_.

That said, I empathize with your sentiment.

Right, I meant it's not a JavaScript object. It's serialized into a string in any case, no matter which API you're stuffing it into. So it's a bit of a non-sequitur for the parent to suggest that it's somehow weird to store JSON in a cookie, but not in localStorage. It's all just strings.

In both cases (cookie vs localStorage) you're really just storing your data as a string value, not truly a JSON object, so whether you use a cookie or localStorage is more dependent on the use case.

If you only ever need the stored data on the client, localStorage is your pick. If you need to pass it back to the server with each request, cookies.

A counter point to this adage in modern times is that censorship seems to spread as a result of users sharing content across platforms with varying levels of moderation. I've seen many examples of "shorts" being shared on FB or Instagram which originated from TikTok and which feature heavy use of either euphemism (eg. "unalived" instead of "murdered") or even explicitly silenced language.

Platforms which do not heavily moderate content will nonetheless still have heavily self-censored content as a result of users being conditioned by other platforms into self-censorship.

I have to agree with this take, as much as I appreciate the indelible hacker spirit of jailbreaking closed hardware and making it available to freedom loving individuals... A huge, vocal part of me also feels like the entire effort is truly just empowering Apple to sell more closed down hardware and even the freedom loving nerds will buy it because it's sexy.

There's no getting around the sexiness of Apple hardware. But there's also no getting around how closed it is. You implicitly support Apple's business model when you buy their hardware, regardless of whether you run Asahi or Mac OS.

I use a motorized desk, but I'm realistically only standing about a quarter of the time. Standing is great for "thinking on your feet" but it is hard on the heels after a while.

My setup (which is just a solid core door on top of a generic motorized frame) is nice because I can press a button and rapidly change to a different position. The main benefit is that a motorized desk setup, combined with an adjustable VESA monitor arm, and an adjustable drafting stool, provides a tailored ergonomic position whether I'm sitting or standing. Wrists, elbows, back, neck, and eyes are all in a stress-free position.

Can confirm that it does, at least on the pixel 9 pro fold, after enabling it in developer options.

However, I don't see the top window handle they show in the animation. I have to long press the app icon in the running apps view, then I get a free form option. At that point, I get the floating windows with controls. You can tap and drag the sides and corners of apps to resize windows, seems intuitive enough.