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This is a big underutilized dataset for mapping features, eg. parking restrictions on a given street or building entrances. With something like Gemini Flash, it's cheap to systemat…

Interestingly enough, there were a lot of cumulus clouds in the Bay Area this week as part of a rare late-season storm system. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2060155061796299251

You really need both. Channels are a great first level, and iOS absolutely needs to implement an Android-tier version of this. But channels continue to be abused, even on Android. …

iOS really needs LLM-based notification filtering. This would take care of promotional notification spam overnight. It would even enable fine-grained user filtering like "notify wh…

Not to be confused with Vancouver Island, British Columbia (which does not contain Vancouver, British Columbia).

The distinctions drawn here are particularly interesting in China. Somewhere like Shanghai, you'll see ~70% of traffic in "bike" lanes are what appear to be electric mopeds. But if…

Cowork actually uses skills under the hood that give it various knowledge work abilities, so that abstraction seems to be working well: "in Cowork we’ve added an initial set of ski…

I wish there were a way to “archive” cards and passes in the Wallet app. I’d be much more likely to pass-ify my life if that were the case. The Wallet app is just too important and…

I feel like street-view data is surprisingly underused for geospatial intelligence. With current-gen multimodal LLMs, you could very easily query and plot things like "broken windo…

To be clear, wordplay seems to be all the author's doing. From the README: > When you simply open thisaidoesnotexist.com, the model names you'll see are hand curated and pre-genera…

Moving to a subscription fee model is dangerous for a service that's reached saturation point. They can no longer project infinite growth in value extracted from eyeballs going int…

There is in fact significant doubt among climatologists as to the veracity of this record. While the 1913 hot spell was certainly significant, all recorded weather information at t…

This reminds me of the product-infrastructure spectrum of dev specialization. [1] [1] https://www.michellelim.org/writing/stop-using-frontend-back...

The usual problem with this pedagogy is that kids get confused when presented with improper fractions (eg. 11/8), and so on. I guess this is probably still a good intuition to star…

I'm a little concerned about the new Safari interface [0], which very smoothly integrates the tab/address bar with page content. For example, the background color of the page flows…

Naspers' market cap is 98B, yet they own 31% of Tencent which is worth 775B - am I missing something? I'm aware of conglomerate discounts but I suspect there's something else going…

As others have mentioned, it does depend on what exactly you're defending against. Preemptively opening the link as the sender will send a request to TikTok, but they're not really…

A particularly bad instance of link tracking I've found is in TikTok's link sharing feature. If you share a link from the TikTok app, it gives you a vm.tiktok.com/[xyz] link to sen…

Related, another paper using CLIP with StyleGAN for text-based semantic image manipulation from just a few days prior ("Paint by Word", where the user can select the area to be tra…

I don't think we could come up with a standard x axis bounds for such a graph, since n=1000, or 1,000,000 may not be zoomed out enough to showcase the behavior approaching infinity…

I mean, Python is the de facto beginner language and also used for professional software development (and of course intermediate data science work). Are you suggesting this is an u…

Hudson Yards in NYC is probably the most notorious example of this trend. Seems to be emblematic of a shift toward real estate as a luxury commodity investment, combined with massi…

Not all indoor fireplaces are ventilated in the US, actually. (Source: have one unventilated fireplace that is probably mostly for aesthetics and not to be used for extended perios…