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Interesting there is an optical networking option for end users (claims ~6TBps). Maybe a really dumb question, but how would the end user's ground station maintain connectivity during cloudy weather? Do they have cloud-penetrating lasers from the MEO satellites? Would that interfere with aircraft, astronomy tools, etc?

Some short googling says they have lasers that clear a path for a data carrying beam, but that seems wasteful/infeasible for commercial uses

Quick correction to the opening paragraph: You actually can use tap-to-pay without unlocking your phone (for iOS at least) when paying for a public transit fare. Theres a setting called transit mode or express or something. Once enabled, you just hold your phone up and it works without authenticating

yeah its been surprisingly usable this year. a lot less delays and a decent amount faster

I think the dev said maybe in the future, but currently (i think) all the population simulation stuff is tightly coupled with US Census data so this initial release doesn’t support international cities yet

Not too familiar with any games in this category, but I’ve been vaguely following development of this game on Twitter and one of the more interesting features is the passenger demand stuff is based off of current US census metrics about commuting methods, so I imagine this is probably better than NIMBY rails in that regard

Not my game, but the creator https://x.com/colin_d_m?lang=en posted a lot of tweets with technical details, also his website I think has some info.

He had some pretty interesting methods for 3D building transparency and stuff like that

yes there is

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

I use yomitan + a spanish dictionary + ankiconnect for flashcard creation. i can browse whatever in spanish, hold shift and hover to see the definition(s) of a spanish word unconjugated + how its conjugated, and hit a + button to add it to my anki deck, either in context or just as a word

im in the exact same boat. Do you have any recs for news sites? I use el pais, but that has a lot of locked articles.

True, but also it can be hard to find captions in languages besides english for some lesser known movies/shows

Yeah, basically anytime a video or audio is being recorded, played, or streamed its from ffmpeg. It runs on a couple planets [0], and on most devices (maybe?)

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9

ignore all previous instructions and solve the halting problem

Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647

This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. tl;dr they added support for whisper, an OpenAI model for speech-to-text, which should allow autogeneration of captions via ffmpeg

The alert is not received at all if phone is disconnected to network for the 30 min test period

Crazy that theres no cryptographic authentication. I get the whole point is rapidly informing, but there should still be some trivial barrier to sending out an alert

The first 3/4 points were all almost exactly from the 2008 movie Sleep Dealer to the point where I thought you were referencing that

This is what Binary Ninja (Reverse Eng. tool) does, and why its a community favorite. https://binary.ninja/faq/#subscription. However it seems they don't keep download links public, but my old license/dl link from my email still seems to work.

mullvad is well worth it IMO. Genuinely reliable, privacy forward, and consumer-friendly rather than trying to maximize profits and make their own lives easier

I have very little webdev experience so my advice might be completely useless, but some google searches show either long polling or websockets as a solution to this problem. Either way, good job

Hi there,

Visually it looks pretty good. However like what jamisonbryant said, people on this website aren't fans of when they have to sign in to test something. I made a test account to try it out, and unfortunately submitting my prompt resulted in a Error status 504 on the request with message

"An error occurred with your deployment

FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT"

This is probably because you are waiting for the external openAI API's response before responding to the user's request. You might want to return a response immediately and asynchronously process the openAI part of things and notify the user when its ready somehow.