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811.
by smcin 2y ago
(The table on jagranjosh.com lists launch dates not landing dates, but the page title is "Moon landings")
812.
by smcin 2y ago
The correct answer as of 2024 is "two (unmanned) landings" but it's not easily parsed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon - (1959: Soviet Luna 3 probe first observes the 82% of the da
813.
Google factbox for "How many landings on dark side of moon" is grossly incorrect
2 points by smcin 2y ago|2 comments
814.
by smcin 2y ago
Predict how high up the chain of command criminal charges (and convictions) will go? (This weekend there is talk of a 'sweetheart' plea deal.)
815.
by smcin 2y ago
Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... "Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective,
816.
by smcin 2y ago
You mean "10-20g sugar" not "mg"
817.
by smcin 2y ago
Petitions won't achieve anything; organizing fan boycotts of companies that behave like this might. Is Ubisoft's behavior legal under consumer law in all countries? Australia? France? https://news.ycombinator.com/i
818.
by smcin 2y ago
They mention recent example of Ubisoft's PC+console open-world multiplayer racer 'The Crew' [0]. (Not to be confused with the cooperative strategy card-game 'The Crew' on BGA.) > The Crew was pulled from sale b
819.
by smcin 2y ago
This time there was no livestream with a realtime scoring from three separate panels of Republican voters, Democrat voters and independents. (Was it MSNBC or PBS which did that in 2020?) That's quite informative a third-party thing to
820.
by smcin 2y ago
> Verb tenses are not hard. Don't be obnoxious. Paramount Plus already culled content in 2023 per the link I gave, they have given no expectation they will make all their back catalog available. Likely they will make more of it
821.
by smcin 2y ago
Eerie to not see much discussion of this or the 500m-person TicketMaster data breach. Is it in part because Blacksuit/Conti are partially based in Russia?
822.
by smcin 2y ago
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ComedyCentral/ I don't know, I guess you'd have to search regularly to find out. I do see 9-11-year-old episodes of The Daily Show and Colbert Report currently on CC's YT pag
823.
by smcin 2y ago
It's not true, the article itself said it wasn't true. I posted a partial list above of entire shows/seasons that cannot be viewed on Paramount Plus.
824.
by smcin 2y ago
"7News YouTube channel hacked, broadcasts AI Elon Musk crypto scam" https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/7news-youtube-chan...
825.
by smcin 2y ago
Read between the lines; it's going bankrupt. Like the first incarnation of WeWork.
826.
by smcin 2y ago
No, "all their content" is not available on Paramount Plus, much of it isn't [0], at least the good old stuff: - for example, they only have two seasons of The Daily Show (S28, S29) https://www.paramountplus.com&#x
827.
by smcin 2y ago
6/22/2024 update: Software company plans to pay tens of millions in ransom to hackers who crippled car dealerships across North America https://fortune.com/2024/06/22/cdk-ransomware-attack-payment...
828.
by smcin 2y ago
Simple, use a histogram. The author's first histogram clearly shows most of the distribution lies in [20,100), then the [10,20) bin is empty but the [0,10) bin is quite full. Hence, that's not a single-mode distribution. It has tw
829.
by smcin 2y ago
I found some NHTSA NCSA stats and posted them above. - "where the baby is secured correctly" => "Restrained", <1 age group and 1-to-3 age group - car speed is <= 40mph : NHTSA does not separate out accident spe
830.
by smcin 2y ago
Apparently the NHTSA stats aren't different for babies (likely because babies are usually heavily restrained, and probably brought out in a car less e.g. don't need school runs). Below are some US NHTSA publications with detaile
831.
by smcin 2y ago
> If it's true Twitter doesn't matter that would mean academia is truly broken. The article doesn't say "Twitter doesn't matter". It only shows that when academic Twitter users tweet, there's some cor
832.
by smcin 2y ago
What exactly is the coordinated punishment of newcomers?
833.
by smcin 2y ago
Girl, 15, calls for criminal penalties after classmate made deepfake nudes of her and posted on social media. Teenager Elliston Berry is calling on lawmakers to require that tech companies remove AI-generated pornography within two days of
834.
by smcin 2y ago
I find VADER very crude and fallible for sentiment, did they check its reliability on each of their messages? e.g. it struggles on handling negation, hyperbole, ambiguity: "I cannot believe how impossibly good my code is this week.&quo
835.
by smcin 2y ago
Article: https://archive.ph/D8GWG Original headline: "TikTok Introduces Ads With A.I.-Generated Avatars" was clearer than the new one.
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by smcin 2y ago
Obviously the value proposition is not just money, it's about projecting soft power/influence/cultural values/propaganda.
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by smcin 2y ago
Feels too hairsplitting. It was the same type of people doing largely the same activities with the same objectives, even if on paper there was a 2-year hiatus between OSS being dissolved and CIA created. People would understand if you wrote
838.
by smcin 2y ago
Roughly what proportion of the ARPU on social media comes from expat Indians/ OCIs vs Indian-resident users? Ditto for Pakistan and Bangladesh?
839.
by smcin 2y ago
[Non-paywalled version]: https://dataconomy.com/2024/06/14/amazon-has-a-secret-way-to... According to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Amazon’s AGI Group worked around Github's 5,000 reque
840.
by smcin 2y ago
Agreed. It's a numerical error that only affects accuracy, but not a serious glitch, like the Pac-man Kill Screen Bug, not exploitable (to cheat/get resources/lives, like reaching 990,000 points in Defender ), and not an Eas

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