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> This is an intriguing idea

It is an obvious idea. AR/VR is hard. Dumb displays are not. I think we should have had similar products a decade ago, and if I'm not mistaken, these exist in cheaper SD versions from noname manufacturers.

That said, I want this, and not Meta's thing or whatever Apple is cooking up, because I knew ahead of time that no one is going to get the VR part right initially. They are barking up the wrong tree, because as far as I know, no developer is paying attention to proprioception. From what I can tell, they're focused on the eyes only, and proprioception is essential for VR. AR is different, maybe they're getting that right. I'm just not interested in AR. It's great for a futuristic technology in a film, but in practice, it seems silly to me.

But I don't know everything, hardly anything, really. What is the metric called that is the distance to where the display appears to be? It is not focal length, and I need really a word for what that is called. If the display appears to be, say, 10' away, I probably don't want it. It would be awesome if this apparent distance was adjustable. I am near sighted, hate contacts and correctable lenses cause me migraine. Thus, I prefer to view displays quite close, no more than 2', or to appear no more than 2' away when it is actually much closer to the eye and using a magnifying lens. Pads have worked well for me for consuming media because I can hold at the right (close) distance for comfort.

Really hope I get what I want, have wanted it for about 25 years and been confused why HMDs had only mostly been used for military purposes, for insane prices.

It is about time someone has ignored the difficult to get right AR/VR tech, and just gave us a high quality, personal, wearable display.
Reminds me of Marx and his theories on the productivity of crime.

The criminal moreover produces the whole of the police and of criminal justice, constables, judges, hangmen, juries, etc.; and all these different lines of business, which form equally many categories of the social division of labour, develop different capacities of the human spirit, create new needs and new ways of satisfying them. Torture alone has given rise to the most ingenious mechanical inventions, and employed many honourable craftsmen in the production of its instruments.[1]

[1] https://marxengels.public-archive.net/en/ME1920en.html
They recently found the largest oil fields in the world under the Golan Heights, and I don't think those have come online yet. So, I don't think we are quite at peak oil, yet.
Snap is the one reason I most don't want to update Ubuntu, but sandboxing the browser in particular (and email client) is the one place where Snap makes a lot of sense to me (as do subsystems like SELinux).

My key problems is that I care less about Firefox being snappy as it not making the rest of my system slow:

- I don't know what bug X has, but application should not be able to commender my mouse cursor. I've seen bugs in Firefox+Ubuntu multiple times that feel like they might have security implications.

- A web page should not be able to use 100% of a CPU. There should be some kind of hard limit, perhaps with burst performance as well

- Related to the above, a background tab shouldn't drain my battery if I'm on a laptop. I don't want to give random web pages 100% of my CPU.

- Firefox should not be able to keep sucking RAM. I have hundreds of GB of swap, primarily so I don't need to worry to Firefox/Chrome/etc. memory usage/leaks. That's crazy.

- Firefox should not be able to suck GPU resources. This is a place I'm convinced there are issues with security implications. GPU drivers are engineered for performance and not stability, and there are edge cases.

- Less relevant to my system, disk usage is an issue on many smaller devices, with offline storage in browsers.

- Bandwidth limits for pages would be nice too, for both 5G bandwidth and battery.

I'd love to see richer benchmarks. Even if not optimized, I'd feel better if Ubuntu / Mozilla were actively aware / looking at these sorts of things.

I'd also like someone to think through concrete ways in which snap helps my security. Firefox can overwrite arbitrary files on my system (save-as -> pick one of your files). That's convenient for me, and for an attacker. An open sandbox doesn't help much.

I'd love to see a holistic mile-high view where someone thinks through resource usage (across different types of resources), convenience, and security). Implementing snap without that type of homework seems premature.

As a footnote, a lot of the issues might be solved with copy-on-write, both with regards to performance and memory.
Is this theoretical, or are you saying this actually happened? I haven't seen this latest show, but for example I had no problems with nonwhite characters in The Witcher. What is a European fantasy show anyway, it's not like they take place in literal Europe?

Somehow nobody complains about loss of immersion when characters are changed to white, which happens 100x more often.
Census Bureau: 3.8M renters will likely be evicted in the next two months
This is way off the deep end as a response to a company offering a tool that nobody has to use if they don’t want to.

> I am explaining to you why it’s in your own self interest

That’s for your opinion of my own interests.

JetBrains don’t tell me what I should do, or tell me that I don’t know my own interests, or make moral judgements against me, only people like you do that.
> If you’re going to use more space keep a rollover counter you may as well just add more bits to your timestamp field instead, since every bit doubles the amount of time that field can represent.

The GPS week counter is part of the signal GPS satellites send and is not easily changed by the manufacturer of receivers.

Of course, devices that accept CNAV now have a few extra bits to work with.
Citation needed. The first wave of reports I saw suggested this, the second wave suggested the reverse (no damage, no hit to sleep duration or quality). What's the current consensus, if any?
Targeting zero is an immature approach that is self-destructive in most cases.

If your incentive is to have zero fraud, the organization will find ways to not detect fraud or add so many controls and audits that the cost of doing whatever will go up.

There’s a balance. In the tax world, the de-clawing of the IRS for certain things have dramatically impacted compliance. You want enough enforcement that you’re discouraging median cheater, but not so much the cure is more expensive.
> All in one solutions always look super nice when they first come out, as they can shortcut to just implement all the best practices that most people do right now and look very clean by omitting all the weird edge cases. But give it a couple of years, and you are stuck with a slow moving monolith.

I'd say that a lot of the pain comes from needing to integrate with the dozens of different pieces of software that people use for their bespoke work setups.

For example, you might use self-hosted GitLab for code and code reviews, but something like Jenkins for CI/CD - so all of the sudden you need to think about the webhooks and reporting build status back for the web UI. Of course, I've seen people just not do that any only Jenkins being able to show you what's going on with your builds (though at least with e-mails).

Furthermore, you might use something like Redmine or Jira for issue tracking which once again have plugins that you need for GitLab to be able to add links in the UI for actual changes done to the code for some business need. Of course, you could go with not the official plugin but something like Jigit which has its own set of oddities and configuration needs.

But if you can stick within the same ecosystem, such as GitLab and GitLab CI (which I implemented in the company and now the majority of new projects use it, because it seems like the sane choice) and maybe even GitLab with GitLab Issues, or even their new features for managing feature flags (which you might just not have otherwise, or will have XML configuration files) and environments, you'll generally have a pretty positive experience!

Personally, I always welcome new players in this market because competition is good, especially when the offerings can be self hosted (which is sadly not a lot of them).
I still don’t understand the disconnect that many posters on HN have from the real world. Most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are working at banks, insurance companies, etc writing boring line of business CRUD apps.
It's like the programmer who just runs their code again without actually testing it in the hopes that something changed
Is Tesla Autopilot killing motorcycle riders?
I don't think there's any reason for that fact to be frightening.

Interstellar shipping rates are astronomical (pun shamelessly intended). Even sending a teeny tiny package to the next solar system over costs a lot and takes a long time. The fastest it's ever going to go is the speed of light.

That fact we haven't been obliterated by an alien invasion fleet tells us that there's probably not a hyper advanced alien species that is big mad about us within 100ly. Thats the threshold where a hyper advanced alien civilization could have seen the Industrial Revolution starting, deduced there's a technological civilization here, developed a big mad about the fact, and launched a destruct-o fleet or super weapon at us with hyper advanced speed of light propulsion that is so advanced the trip is practical in terms of expense (practicality factor).

There's a "probability of mean hyper advanced aliens" value that's like the Lindy Effect. The longer we go without being obliterated by an alien space fleet the further away we can assume mean hyper advanced aliens might live. For mean aliens that are less advanced the less we need to worry about them because the practicality factor of their propulsion system is lower.

An alien invasion fleet sent here at at Parker Solar Probe velocities (0.064c at closest approach to the Sun) are less worrying because the likelihood of them arriving at a point where we personally need to worry about them is pretty low.

For instance our practicality factor for building an interstellar invasion fleet is basically zero. Even building a von Neumann probe has a so close to zero it might as well be zero practicality factor. I'd posit that there's a minimum practicality factor a civilization needs to go around destroying other ones. If your best propulsion is below that threshold you're just not going to ever build an invasion fleet. You might build interstellar probes but an invasion fleet is impractical.

So I'm not worried about the hyper advanced aliens watching me shower. And I'm also not worried about the less advanced ones either. Space is really big and traveling between stars is really hard. If my existence made the hyper advanced ones so upset they'd come blow me up there's not a lot I could do about it anyways.
I really think that the "woke" thing is bullshit, most of the people who don't like XYZ piece of media aren't actually sexist/racist/whatever but are painted in that light to deflect criticism.
$500k + benefits? Are you sure? Especially since you don't really know anything about the parent commenter (for example: their location)
A tech seed round can easily be 7 figures these days. A new initiative at a non-tech fortune 50 could start in 8 figures. Hiring someone at 10k per week who can kickstart the project to working production system isn't a bad deal at these budgets.
That really depends if those attributes are an important part of the character, how well the actor can fake those (e.g. Hugh Laurie without British accent in house md), and what you want to achieve. Jesus for instance most likely had a bit darker skin, but it makes sense to make him more similar to your target audience, so people can better identify with him.
NASA Postpones Saturday Launch Attempt After Struggling with Hydrogen Leak
If anyone with mental health issues is considering psychedelics on their own, outside a clinical setting: please be careful and do your research beforehand. They nearly completely ruined my life. Definitely do not do them if you are on an SSRI.

I am bipolar but was diagnosed incorrectly with depression and OCD, taking an SSRI. I was a regular marijuana smoker and took DMT which resulted in acute psychosis that lasted months. I'd had what I now recognized as hypomanic episodes before, but nothing this bad.

I will not get into details for privacy reasons but had to take months off of work or school. I alternately thought I was famous, being followed, could control cameras that were following me at all times - the works. I had visual and auditory hallucinations days after the DMT experience, auditory weeks to months later. I told friends strange things about my mental health history that were misperceived. It is a bit of a blur.

About a week after taking DMT, I was involuntarily hospitalized and only sent home with family supervision. They put me on strong antipsychotics with nasty side effects. They didn't help at all. I only got better months later, after I got off of all psychiatric drugs, and realized when talking with a friend that I was not famous. I then entered into a nearly year long depression and perceived that I had lost almost all my friends, although I now think that was not the case.

Now, I've been stable for almost 10 years, and am married with a great career. We have a dog, a house, and are looking to have kids soon. I'm incredibly happy and only recovered with the support of family, friends, and great doctors. I've been taking lamotrigine daily for bipolar. For me, it is a wonder drug. Bipolar is incredibly hard for psychiatrists to diagnose. It took them years to identify it.

Another friend of mine had acute psychosis due to another psychedelic drug and had a similar experience to mine with a hospitalization.

If you have any family history of schizophrenia or bipolar or are on psychiatric drugs, please really carefully consider the possible consequences of using psychedelics.
I dont like giving an opinion for the same reasons I was complaining about. I dont have stake in the region and there is so much nuance in the history im still missing. Things that I found striking though were that there are huge populations of arabs that live peacefully in Israel so this apartheid narrative is complete nonsense. The power dynamics are pretty set in stone, Israel will never have to give up an ounce of land that they dont want to. Anyone that talks about who has what right to what pieces of land are completely out of touch with that. It is irrelevant at this point. And Israel is making massive investments in the country. Palestinians could easily partake in that economic expansion but instead devote a significant portion of their economic activity to the conflict with Israel which has 0% chance of changing anything ever. Pretty sad imho
>it's the oldest metaphor in the world
>it's light vs darkness, like white magic and black magic.
>Heaven is light, hell is darkness.
>Nobody sees "the dark at the end of the tunnel".

You seem to have confused "the world" for "Christian Europe." There are plenty of cultures in which these metaphors are reversed, or don't exist at all.

And the only referent that is relevant to this specific conversation is that of Tolkien, who himself described orcs thusly:

squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types."

He's clearly not drawing entirely from "universal" metaphors of "light" and "darkness." And even if he were, mapping that to race is still ignorant and worth calling out.

>Borgs, arguably the most dangerous species in the series, are white

I wasn't talking about simply being dangerous, since in context even the Pakleds are dangerous (speaking of problamatic portrayals) so much as presenting depictions of animistic or "savage" behavior that hearkens to outdated racialist stereotypes of non-white cultures. The Borg are essentially a force of nature, so not relevant in that regard.

Fair point about the Romulans and Cardassians, although they're clearly metaphors for Colonial Europeans and Nazis respectively, and both are presented as clearly "civilized" in their behavior. Klingons drink blood wine, Cardassians drink kanar. The implications are still there.
Author of "Why we need a barrel of oil to cost $120" back in 2016 when oil was in the 40s.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Why-We-Need-120-Oil.h...
In my view, Brexit is largely the unsurprising result of electing flashy, shallow, easily bored people who are surprised to find themselves in charge and are also are incompetent problem-solvers, so they say “fuck it” and flip a coin, whatever, look at me I’m helping.

At the other end of the spectrum, you could have competent people doing hard, incremental, thoughtful, low-drama things to improve a complicated situation, but they are too boring to get elected repeatedly.

Nice if we could have something in between, personable, competent managers, but of course they would be promptly shredded by the public, caught between Spanish ticklers on the right and crocodile shears on the left.

/returns to under large rock

/apologizes for talking politics, hopes it was actually political science theory
I think you're underestimating the willingness of people to suffer financial hardship this winter to divorce themselves of Russian energy. People in the West really don't like dictators invading their neighbors, and certainly there's a long standing distaste of Russia generally.

While people are also blaming corporate greed for the price crisis, everyone is well aware that the sanctions are causing pain for both parties. There's no political or social support for going back into Putin's arms, so here we are.
The reason I went to the trouble of writing it was that many, many people in both business and the finance industry do not agree it is obvious and a good portion do not agree it is true, and they take actions consistent with those beliefs, which harm themselves and others.
To engage on this in good faith — I am a longtime Tolkien fan and my gut reaction is to sometimes agree when seeing such casting. But: I am white and have benefitted from a lifetime of seeing myself in entertainment and being the “default” race. When I was a kid, the images of people that I conjured in my head were all white. Which interestingly were confirmed by most Tolkien art. However, certain times I’d see art from non-white cultures (Tolkien is very widely translated) and for someone, at the very least the artist, these depictions rang true and were a source of inspiration and connection. I’m glad to see diversity in casting on a show that hopes for worldwide viewership.
The whole Snap thing is a great example of why Linux will never become mainstream. The idea is ok, but the implementation leaves a ton of collateral damage that breaks a lot of things.

For example, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 (in a VM) and installed VNC server so I could access it remotely. Surprise! Firefox and Chromium (snaps) don’t work. So one of the things I rely on is broken and I bet it’s going to stay broken for a long time.

It’s been like that for 20 years. VNC is old and boring and the devs creating things like SystemD, Snaps, etc. don’t care if they break it because they think their “progress” is more important than having a working system.

Semi related, why are all the Remote Desktop solutions on Linux so awful?
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It think they misstated the actual problem which should have an equal EXPECTED value: Expected Value = Value x Probability.
This is a little known problem now. But it's big in the chronic pain community. Doctors hesitate to prescribe opiates now because of the consensus of the public in threads like these. But there are people with very bad chronic pain who can't get it now. People for whom life is torture without proper pain management. This led to a rash of suicides in the community from people that couldn't handle it. Unfortunately people naively think because Marijuana worked for them it'll work for everyone. There's a reason humanity has been using opiates for literal millenia; the are the only truly effective painkiller we have
What I’ve noticed over the decades is that performance on large teams is largely a function of systemic behaviors and culture. The larger the “team” (ie. everyone you have to interact with to get something built), the less any one individual’s performance matters.

In particular I’ve seen situations where every single person is working hard doing their job in a defensible way, but the code base is heading towards a cliff because no one has the incentive and/or skill set to point out that the short term decisions made on either side of the engineering /product divide are steadily inching us towards a state where the code base will be too complex to add a feature or fix a bug without creating more bugs.

Ultimately this type of problem has to be owned by management with support all the way up the chain in order to be solved. That doesn’t mean ICs and PMs don’t have a role in the solution, but this is why engineering management is hard and requires technical depth.
The handwriting is on the wall. Ford just had a great quarter with their EV lineup. The F-150 Lightning is sold out in participating dealerships. On average, the Lightning turned inventory in just eight days, the fastest ever for Ford. This is in spite of some dealerships who refuse to sell EVs or were playing dirty with exorbitant markups.
Not sure why people are surprised that others can have different experiences than they do. Sounds like your job requires knowledge of those fundamentals. Not every job is like that. If you’re writing an Android app or crud web service I’d say you’re likely not having to apply knowledge of compiler design.

It’s pretty normal for people to forget knowledge they’re not using. Do you remember the physics, chemistry, etc fundamentals that you learned in high school/college if you haven’t been using them?
One of my favorite games was Liga [0] (German for league, a football managing simulation), got the shareware in some gaming mag, later sent 5 DM in an envelope to the author and got an envelope with a floppy disk of the full version back :D Not quite DOS Era, but still old. The only DOS game I played was Prince of Persia at my dad’s workplace because we didn’t have a family PC until Win 95.

[0]: http://www.ligapro.de/ (Not Liga Pro, scroll down further to "Liga 1.24 als Vollversion", apparently it’s free, nowadays :D)
> Brexit was done to themselves

Part of my point is that unanimity (amongst the people) in democracy is pretty much unheard of. So Brexit was not done by everyone. Realistically it wasn't even done by a majority of the population. All the others are in for the ride despite being against it.

Democracy may be the best system we've got now but it sure sucks sometimes. It's why it's called the dictatorship of the majority, and many countries are democratic and yet have very little protections for the different minorities, particularly the ones who have no chance of becoming a majority anytime soon.

The other part of the point is that most times people don't suffer from some of their decisions despite taking credit for any when it suits them. Similar to sport fans where when their team wins "we won", and when it loses "they lost".
Presumably these are the arguments that led to the HOAs? ‘More democratic’, ‘everyone has a say’, etc. In practice it’s a tyranny of the majority, right? Same in a union, the majority have power and may act against your interests.
Why would anyone bother reading the article when the title and pretty much the first line are falsehoods.