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Can't edit posts on the mobile app I'm using. By "fundamentally change" I mean "did we know hominids were carving wooden tools this far back in time?"

This is really neat to read about. Does this discovery fundamentally change our understanding of other homonid cultures?

This has got to the most HN comment I've ever read. I love this site

Oh no! A secret algorithm?!

I really don't mind that I don't know how Amazon's pricing system works. Even if it was public knowledge I doubt it could be adequately explained in a paragraph of a Verge article.

I do mind if they're engaging in monopolistic practices (thankfully the Verge also talked about this).

What's the benefit to having the app online, versus installing it locally? Looks promising but I don't want reoccurring costs for my CAD software.

Edit: now that I think about it, these are kinda two different concerns rather than the same thing. I still don't like either of them, though.

Apparently this was one of the major barriers to achieving widespread adoption of computers in China. The sheer complexity of the Chinese written language meant that it was much harder to display Chinese characters on an old 80s monitor. (I assume that Japanese, Korean, etc had the same problem, but the article I remember reading was about Chinese.)

I'll give the obligatory comment about the New Yorker magazine, which still uses these diaereses... for some reason.

When my grandpa was navigating B24's in WWII, he saw a B24's wing flying by itself. The Japanese had set the plane on fire from nose to tail, and the body separated from the wings. The B24 has the wings on top of the fuselage, so the wings could stay together. The body, of course, fell into the clouds below, but the wings stayed aloft. And naturally, because they didn't have to carry a fuselage around, they accelerated, and lazily curved out of sight of grandpa, who thought he might have been the only person to ever see something like that (and survive to tell the tale...)

Care to elaborate?

Yahweh also originated as an Israelite warrior storm god, later merging with the head of the Canaanite pantheon El (from whom we get the word Elohim). And it makes sense to think of the storm god as in the sky.

This site has a list of phones with the same CPU as the Samsung Galaxy S20 they mentioned. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/qualcomm/snapdragon_800/865

I wonder if it happens to them too?

These old steam locomotives might not be environmentally friendly but they're amazing to watch and listen to. I've heard the big boy is great to see in person if you get the chance (they've talked about doing a tour of the west coast of the US for a few years now, hopefully it will happen next year).

If you're into this kind of stuff, check out this video of Union Pacific's 3985 pulling a 143 car intermodal train all by herself back in 1990: https://youtu.be/XhgHrDbN4EU

Of course these heavy hauls are hard on the engine, even just the equivalent of replacing brake pads costs tens of thousands of dollars.

Hopefully we don't end up with a Tesla version and an SAE version. They'll need to be essentially 100% identical for this to work.

Finished carbon fiber parts don't expire - it's the raw prepreg (carbon fiber that's been pre-impregnated with epoxy) that expires.

Forget wood fired pizza, titanium fired pizza has a way better flavor.

I wonder if they really used the pizza alibi for all the titanium or if they diversified. Did they really put all their eggs in one basket?

I'll join in on the train. Would you mind sending on to me if you get one?

1997 is usually talked about as the start of gen z, I think. One good metric is that millennials usually remember 9/11, and gen z people usually don't.

Some of us in gen z don't see much of a point to killing people in real life, but don't see the harm in video games. Neither have any "real purpose" other than making money.

Not much detail in this article to go off of. The numbers look neat but there's been a lot of enthusiastic reporting on too-good-to-be-true batteries. If the batteries aren't for sale, then it's probably not worth getting excited over unfortunately.

I know this question has been asked a million times, but will WebAssembly ever get native DOM access? Seems like that would be a good catalyst for switching away from JavaScript, at least on the client side.

My linear algebra professor put a lot of effort into showing us the processes; how to do things, how and why they worked. Unfortunately they spent no time showing us how this stuff was actually used in the real world, and so for me it all went in one ear and out the other. A buddy of mine said that his professor spent about half an hour discussing some applications of linear algebra, and just that half hour lecture made the subject much more palatable.

Then a few years later, I took a computer graphics class for my CS degree, and we were learning how to render a 3D object on a 2D monitor. And of course we used linear algebra, and then it made perfect sense. I figure all the people in the math department that cared about practical applications had left to join the CS department, or EE, or Physics or whatever. So the math department, at least at my university, had only the people who just cared about the theory, which just didn't work for my brain.

The whitespace and font size you have now is good. On HN, I have to zoom in to 140% to be able to read comfortably. Just went back to 100% and quickly remembered why I had it zoomed in.

No one is using 480p CRTs anymore, IDK why HN is still formatted that way. Regardless, I like how it is. My scroll wheel is not poisonous, I'm happy to use it.

I wondered for years why I was getting so many ads on Facebook directed towards old people. Then I realized that Facebook thinks I was born about 90 years before I was actually born.

Is there a practical reason to do this? I don't mean that disparagingly; it's a cool project and I can see its value. I'm just wondering if there's also a practical reason you might do something like this rather than just using Qt or HTML/CSS or whatever.

I was assuming it would be the same UI that they currently use for .zip, i.e. basically just the file explorer but with an extra tab for the extra functions

Huh, Blade Runner 2049 in real life.

I suppose it's not surprising, considering that this kind of thing has stimulated technological progress for a long time now [1]. I wonder how long it will be until someone releases the same thing but with automatically generated video.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-porn-drives-innovation-i...

Finally. Some here are probably devoted to 7zip or winrar; I can understand that but to be honest, I'd rather it just be painless and native. Not a big deal but one less program to install on new Windows computers now.

How about .html? Surely that won't cause confusion

AMD's 6800XT should be a pretty good competitor to it; 500 bucks, 16GB vram, and a 256 bit bus. And the 6800XT is already available

AMD seems to be providing good alternatives. Arguably the 6600XT or the 6700XT are better value than the 4060. And the 6800XT is a good alternative to the 16GB 4060Ti. And AMD's cards are actually purchaseable right now.