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> This is not how HN tends to work with discussions.

Of course no, but I'm really not seeing any relation between YSFlight and IL2:Sturmovik, except both are in "flight simulators" category — those two software are totally different, from hackers point of view.

Also, YSFlight is freeware & partially open-source personal/hobby project, IL2 instead is a commercial product made by big company with a lot of devs specially for selling and marketing.
Well yeah, but if you're not sure, you can try it and introspect how you feel; if you're restless or start tweaking you're likely addicted to whatever you're trying to quit, as mentioned by the parent comment.

Addicts that quit for X amount of time and relapse KNOW they're addicted. They know that they need to be conscious at all times, and that even after decades they may relapse if they're not careful. This is where organizations like AA come in, offering support, coaching, goals and positive feedback for dealing with - in that case - alcoholism.
This is so awesome!

Any recommendations on how to get started learning IoT and hardware?
This is great, except it's showing me listings for laptops with 8GB of SSD storage and 935GB of RAM.

A flag button may be the most useful practical reaction to this problem. That way you can outsource the problem of faulty reports - and best case scenario even build up a following of trigger-happy users who are helpfully inclined to click the flag button in the future when the occasional glitch sneaks through.

Publishing the parser may also honestly be a good idea as well. Not the whole site, just the parser specifically - maybe with instructions on how feed in the results of small-scale scrapes (~100 pages) - so people can understand exactly what it's doing and provide feedback.

This is a very community-oriented sort of project IMHO, so by definition you'll wind up with a small following of stragglers if you hang in there; by the same token, it's possible (gain, best case scenario) that leveraging the spare cycles the community might be able to bring to the table may make it viable to maintain a level of quality that would otherwise be very hard to sustain long term.
You are correct that I wouldn't agree with that straw man that nobody would agree with.

My point is mainly that we should default to not manipulating people, especially when the manipulator has a conflict of interest, which includes the vast bulk of paid advertising. And that secondarily, it's ethically dangerous to cloud that over with a philosophical fog.
Part of the problem is the crises occur infrequently and humans en masse tend to forget the past, in their emotions and actions if not in theory.

Another part of the problem is the governments benefit from inflation and again short term the people in power benefitting from it are unlikely to be the same ones in power when the crises eventuates, ie the problems of money printing are externalities.

But your central idea of planning ahead for the crises is actually refreshing and excellent, if it is possible to apply it.

On a personal level, anticipating and timing the crises is a form of planning for it, to reduce financial leverage before the crisis and have cash available to buy assets cheap from those that didn't anticipate the crisis.
Yes, and I'm saying that if it weren't a war crisis that meeting may have played out very differently. And I'm saying that meetings today, now & throughout the COVID crisis, have played out very differently than before, resembling that of the linked article more closely.

There has certainly been more discussion & review of options than in the linked article, more debating of relative merits. But, then again, the circumstances I've been working through in my organization are not as clear cut as the optimal method of extracting a substance where there are discrete known facts. And the people involved have been experts in varying domains, not all physicists or related backgrounds where the merits of an opinion can be understood by the others without more discussion. Also this was one meeting: I doubt that every meeting among the people in the article all went so smoothly, with never debate or need for someone to rearticulate or expand their explanation of a point of view.

Please note that I am not saying these men weren't great, and that the group dynamic Feynman describes isn't at least partly indicative of their level of intelligence. What I am saying is that the group dynamic described is not unique to people of towering genius. Having weathered many crisis (to be sure none on the scale of WW II) my observation is that this group dynamic cannot be disentangled from the crisis context and only-- somewhat simplistically-- attributed to "these were great men". Greatness of mind is not a universal panacea for indecision and uncertainly. Crisis on the other hand forces people to push through those things.
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That isn't correct. He has spoken out against EV subsidies recently.

https://readon.substack.com/p/-musk-doesnt-want-subsidies
Thanks for the advice! This is due to a recently added feature that maximizes FPS, I should have considered wider ranges of devices.
I’m similar I think. I generally smoke similar amounts daily.

I’ve taken a break a few times now and aside from some weird dreams initially and my eyes being less dry, I didn’t really notice much. I took a 2 month break not too long ago and the only benefit I found was from “doing something” - ie a mental boost from setting a goal and accomplishing it.

I’ve only ever used weed to relax when all the other stressors in my life are under control, which might have something to do with it.
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I think one of the most important life hacks of all is to search out the reasons why you are wrong, not the reasons why you are right. Your brain is primed to tell you why you are right already. It takes active cognitive effort to find the reasons why you are wrong.

I've characterized this before as the single most important aspect of science [1]. It is obviously very important in engineering. It's important in navigating the noise of propaganda and lies out there in the world. It's important in day to day life, e.g., it's hard to scam someone who is actively trying to figure out why your scam offer is not going to work rather than helpfully talking themselves into going along with it.

I suppose there is an excessive negativity trap. In the end you must decide something. But for many people that would still be an upgrade, vs. letting their natural inclination to self-justify every decision with the full power of the human brain run rampant.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680397
I often peek at my wife when she's coming home from work via our car's app. She knows I do this. (When my kids are with me they love watching the car move on the map. I hope she peeks at me when she's with the kids and I have the car.)

What made it funny one time was when I was between jobs, and she went to her gynecologist after work. Even though she told me, I forgot, and the map only showed that there was a divorce lawyer's office in the parking lot. I really needed a hug when she walked in the door.
The complaint here is about not having access to solutions for problem sets. On the one hand I can see why this would be annoying, on the other hand part of learning math is about coming up with your own questions and answers, a skill that is hard to develop if all the answers are just handed to the students.
Yeah, this is a major omission and it is also why you see so many functional addicts who don't think they have a problem.

Also it means that who is considered an 'addict' is partially socially constructed: Some people have jobs that will randomly drug test for weed, so if they smoke daily and lose their job, they're addicts, but since my job is remote and doesn't care, I could be high as a kite most nights and not be an 'addict' since it didn't cause issues.
China's approach has been interesting. For any given city or area they are in one of two states:

1. Wear masks when indoors away from home. Lots of testing. Other than that it is pretty much life as normal.

2. Lockdown. Real lockdowns--not the kind of "lockdown" people complain about in the US where lots of things remain open. China lockdowns are the "go home and do not step out of your home for weeks" lockdowns.

They switch from state #1 to state #2 when they get a COVID case in the city. They switch from state #2 to state #1 when they have no more COVID cases in the city.
Weird that a louder sound is obscuring the warning sound, don't they both let someone know a car is there?

Guess Elon should not have called Biden names.
Sadly the Australia section redirects to ebay.co.au as opposed to .com.au, welp. Noticed this about a year or so ago, maybe more.

Set and forget APIs that just work are kind of cool... maybe that's the moral of the story there lol
The relationship to the discussion I've pointed out twice to you. Let's hope a third time helps:

> The parent I originally replied to said what they liked about YSFlight but that they've since found multiplayer to be too quiet for them. I suggested an alternative which does what they seem to be interested in and has a more lively multiplayer population.
"It's morally abhorrent to try to sell me anything and yet please continue providing content and services at no cost to me. Information wants to be free!"
Thanks for the feedback! I do feel your pain, will make this clearer in the future, already on the "roadmap" :D
I am with you on this, there were and are a lot of tracking alternatives. The issue is more that now, since Apple released AirTags, everyone just got aware of it. While previously one had to search for a solution how to track someone, now we have streamlined mainstream product with great usability for the purpose. Which is still a net negative for a society, and it's Apple's fault for popularizing such behaviour.
> Not being able to stop for a week shows you are an addict. But being able to stop for week doesn't really show you aren't one. Most addicts do quit for weeks or even months at a time.

Correct. "Not doing $X anymore" doesn't mean you aren't an addict. "Being able to turn on/turn off doing $X" means you aren't an addict. If you haven't had a drink in years, but having a single one means that you now cannot do without the bottle, you're still an addict.

I've always said that there's no such thing as an ex-smoker; they're smokers who haven't smoked in a long time.
If the background level of noise and clutter is already high then yes,less of a noticable problem (although various studies strongly suggest reducing noise pollution in particular would be good for public health, e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8460383/).

The thing is wind turbines are not installed in towns and cities; they go in the countryside. And in Greece with its climate, add into the mix a significant tourism economy and many homes that are both single-glazed and with no a/c. Is it really so hard to believe that their grievance might not be justified?
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I feel like there is definitely a trend of astronomy articles low key alluding to or hinting at life on other planets in their titles. Presumably to garner clicks and be bait, but when you read the article invariably it's good old science and no life to be found yet.
iPhones can already be tracked after power off via the Find Me network. But as far as I know removing the internal battery would still stop it. More importantly, so would a Farady cage.

Stolen iPhones should already be parts only because of activation lock.
If it's the third planet why are they calling it Proxima Centauri d?
Probably because they're considered less harmful to your physical health and society as a whole.
Again, I think the act of "owning" it creates a much different relationship between the collector and that art than simply looking at it. They have skin in the game because they either spent money on the piece, or were able to mint it by being in the right place at the right time.

To be sure, a lot of the "advocacy" is exactly what you describe, where people are just trying to push their bags. But the advocacy I'm talking about is more about the social element of discussing the art with other people in the community.

The website is certainly a valid way to display a limited generative art collection, but it's a different experience. It means that the artist _can_ curate the collection and hide some of the rough edges of the algorithm... but then it loses some of its magic. NFTs have sort of enabled a new sub genre of generative art [1].

[1] https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2021/the-rise-of-long-form-ge...
Great post. Nice to see some comp phys on HN. I do think a few diagrams would help clear up whats happening here. For example explaining why the Hamiltonian is 8x8.
In a recent WSJ he, Musk, spoke out against government subsidies. I don't mind such subsidies but I do mind when people who benefit from government help want to stop others from doing the same.
>What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him?

They still escape with their lives. This was sufficient for people escaping scary regimes for centuries - they arrived at Ellis Island with nothing but a suitcase and still managed, or jumped a wall or snuck across a border with just the clothes on their back.
> Fun fact: the game looks like that because it has no textures. Instead, every polygon is colored individually. Through a recent update did give the terrain textures. Aircraft still don't have them.

Of course that description made me think of Red Baron[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Baron_(1990_video_game)
Cute project. Minor typo in this sentence:

"We’e going to produce 100 of them."
This is actually one of the side issues I had with the piece. The way it's written, you would think that she asked explicit permission to track him to the hospital.

However, what seems to have happened in reality, is that they had previously played a harmless game of "find the Airtags". Then, some time later, possibly a large period, she uses those Airtags to track the husband. It's hard to say in either direction if the husband knew and expected to be tracked to the hospital. I think that was a deliberate choice - but it still comes off deceptive, if this is just happenstance.

If any of this had contributed meaningfully to the main points, I would tolerate it a lot more - that's my biggest contention. The fact that the author isnt a perfect person is just a side gripe that I have with plenty other articles.
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> Musk is just plain wrong when he thinks there is any urgency to Mars exploration (or it's just vicarious arguments
because rockets are cool).

Mars might not be sustainable in our lifetime but in a century or two? I think it's within the realm of possibility.

As for the urgency, the last two years has demonstrated the exact opposite to me. Modern civilization is a hop, skip, and a jump away from instability and disaster. When you say that we should instead spend resources on large zero-emissions energy production, well, we've had Nuclear Fission for half a century. The reason we didn't use it to prevent Climate Change is 90% political, not technical, another problem that having a self-sustaining colony, outside the sphere of Earth's influence, would solve.
I'm currently the lead maintainer of Solvespace (CAD):
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It's a very fun to use CAD program, but is somewhat limited in capability. When I came across it I loved it but quickly ran into its limitations, so I joined the effort. Long term I don't see it growing into full-fledged CAD, but I'm happy to see it progress and help it along. Some day, someone might undertake the major refactoring of the internals to enable it to go beyond, but in some sense I don't really care. It's just a fun project to work on and I like to watch it grow.
I'm also starting to learn elixir/phoenix liveview and seeing shlinkedin's code is a great help for figuring out how you've done certain things, thanks!
It does in the eyes of the US military which is the customer in this case.
It's never really intended to work as advertised, that's just a narrative to push it politically. The real reason it's done this way is regulatory capture, ie corruption of the system.
My comment isn’t specific to AirTags, but there’s a much larger conversation that needs to be had about this gray area of stalking capabilities that are now built into many mainstream products.

Here’s a pattern I’ve seen play out more than once among friends and family - they share their location willingly and for seemingly benign reasons. It’s helpful to know when you’ll be getting home so I can start dinner! Just in case something happens to you! This is the innocent end of the spectrum; subtle or outright coercion in a controlling relationship is the darker end of the spectrum.

How it starts really doesn’t matter, because the truth is that even among otherwise well meaning and well intentioned people, tracking tech can turn them obsessive. Checking in constantly. Wondering and/or quizzing their child, partner or friend about what they were doing at location X.

The truth is that most people aren’t immune to being on either end of a situation like this, and the negative outcomes can range from feeling like your everyday movements are under a microscope, to outright abusive behavior more easily taken to the extreme.

I don’t claim that there are simple solutions here, but a starting point would be tech companies making it easier to see an audit of how this “innocent” tracking tech is being used on the trackee. For example, I bet my grandpa would think twice about checking in on my cousins location as often as he probably does if he knew that my cousin got a notification every time he checked in.
>> The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - "I sound like a terrible wife, but it's for journalism!" No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.

You need to read more of the article.

> Some states, including New York, where we live, have laws criminalizing this sort of thing. Not wanting to break the law, or my husband’s trust, I had asked him for permission.

It may be fluff, but it wasn't deceptive.
Such a note has nothing to do with fiat currency.
Maybe 'Proxima Centauri a' refers to the star itself? I'm not sure.
Look up the stuff David Sinclair is doing with his team. They are already rejuvenating and regrowing severed optic nerves with Yamanaka factors in mice and are preparing to start human trials.

It's not rock-solid that this is going to happen for the whole body soon, but some truly breakthrough things are happening right now in this field, nothing like the previous decades.
GPT3 surely has several algorithms for addition in its training corpus. Just unable to make good use of them.
I actually agree with you, but Tile is a better example, I think.

Because needing to also get a working SIM card is a pretty substantial “oh, you’ll also need…”
Sorry, I'm still not seeing how/when the approach you're hinting toward is practically valuable. So far it seems to me like you're pursuing one dimension of quality to the exclusion of others. Which is an interesting theoretical exercise, so if that's your jam, have at it. But it sounded to me like you were proposing something people could actually do.
No snow = no glaciers grow = not water in our alps, it's not that hard to understand:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170217/swiss-study-snow-to-largely...

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2018/02/no-...

>In an initial phase, climate change will actually cause the runoff to increase, as water stored as ice is released. However, if the glacier becomes too small, it will reach a tipping point, which we call “peak water”.

>Our study highlights the “hot spots” where retreating glaciers will cause water shortages in future.

But hey maybe you know some other mysterious ways water is stored in in mountains.
I think Wordle is in part about how fast you can solve it, not just if you can.
Ah, yet another chilling reminder why Black Mirror doesn't have to make any new episodes.
Here's a quick and dirty implementation.

https://github.com/oogali/oslatlong
Can someone explain to me (because I cannot work it myself) why everyone is suddenly worried about AirTags yet these kinds of devices have been around for a while (eg the Samsung Galaxy SmartTag was released last year and little was talked about it). And GPS tracking isn't even a new thing either.

So why is it most conversations focus on the AirTag? What is it that the AirTag does better/worse/differently to the other options out there?
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If your local providers need the rest of the world to be kneecapped in order to compete, you may want to start with that problem.

The EU consumer will end up with strictly worse solutions and all the rest of the world will “gain” will be the crappy trade-barrier-supported Euro versions of Google and Facebook.
I agree, but it's still not a good definition.

People are also addicted to porn, gambling, to sports (the 'hyperfit'), or to doing nothing, etc. Activities / experiences / behaviours are addictive, which shows that it is not as simple as just a physiological response to various substances.

I have an addictive personality. I have to watch my routines since I fall into ruts very easily, just about anything I do can do it.
"ctrl+w = friends" was my nickname on agar.io. Pretty effective.
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Again, that is not what is happening here. The antivaxxers and covidiots who are running around with the yellow stars are trivializing or denying the holocaust with their actions.

You are allowed to make analogies and say "this looks bad, looks like Nazi-ism". But putting on the yellow star is way and far above and beyond that, it is claiming your situation is as bad as the people in those camps. So unless Antivaxxers/Covidiots are being treated just as badle as people in those campls, it's trivializing the holocaust.
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It happens all the time, just hidden behind arbitration, Diaz escaped arbitration as he was sub contracted and Tesla forgot to make subs sign up to arbitration. An expensive lesson.
"Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, thinks the devices are 'too ripe for abuse' to exist."

besides the fact that these devices cover a wide spectrum of abuse potential, in what way is this even a tenable position to take? it would be hard enough to get them banned, but if we're talking about actually making them not "exist" anymore, we're talking about confiscating millions and millions of devices.

other comments have noted that devices that are much more effective for actual tracking/stalking purposes are cheap and readily available, so I don't understand why AirTags have become the center of this conversation.