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> The article suggests major crimes typically receive follow up articles, hopefully including whether a suspect was acquitted. Maybe AP (and news outlets in general) should make a further commitmen…

I've had similar struggles in the past. My solution at the time was a bib file quasi-managed by hand using JabRef. I would also periodically do some automatic updating using a script I wrote[0]. …

There's been a few posts over the past week about this. Here are two with a reasonable amount of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305666 https://news…

Here's a couple: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ https://www.thelightphone.com/ …

> the hard landing of AI and symbolics This is a topic I find myself periodically doing casual research on, and I agree -- I think it would be an interesting topic for a book. A friend's mothe…

I am planning a small compute job tracking/notification service. Initially it will be for my own personal use, but may eventually be offered publicly. I plan to write the server in Racket (likely…

> JWST, its replacement, has been in a warehouse for thirty years JWST development was started in 1996 (25 years ago), so it can't have been in a warehouse for 30 years. The detailed design p…

This post (currently on front page) is a direct link to the bell labs announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539 …

> I wonder if this is something that could be incorporated into smartphone cameras quite easily. I imagine it'd be straightforward to put a circular polarizer in front of a smartphone camera l…

I first heard about Claude Glass while reading "Landmarks"[0] by Robert Macfarlane. While Claude Glass was only briefly mentioned, "Landmarks" itself is one of those wonderfully de…

> I think there should be a subscription fee for domains in certain TLDs (especially .com) I have a few .com's and I pay yearly subscriptions on them. And some domains in other TLDs have "…

Neat map. The page's link to the journal article is broken. The abstract can be viewed on NASA's ADS[0] or directly via the DOI link[1] (which connects to the current home of the Astrophysic…

I'm not sure what you mean by "resolve"; are you referring to resolving the pulsar's pulse in time? I was speaking more about the flux detection limit of such a dish (implicitly as…

> Accurate positioning is needed Accurate timing is also needed to shift and combine the signals from the various dishes. > often be achieved to within a couple of meters using google maps and a…

> I'm completely out of my depths here but hear me out: could pulsars be observed with such a thing? That would definitely be the icing on the cake. In principle, yes. But I think in practice…