skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the "stick my head in the sand" techno-optimist take. The physics of our world defines what is possible, and no amount of "trying to innovate" can overcome, for instance, the poor economics of the Hyperloop or flying cars. This author makes a compelling argument that the physics underlying the human vestibular system is unable to handle the Omni treadmill, even with a technically perfect implementation. You can't just "innovate" past physics.
NH has high property taxes instead. You can work and shop in NH and live across the border in another state to save on property taxes.
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I don’t know about trains but in medical a switch to a newer system causes enormous effort to revalidate so it’s often easier to keep the old OS and software.

Rewriting the software is probably not much of a problem but the paperwork around it is.
> At the end, she came away convinced that the most serious problems facing humanity aren’t technical: Although engineering our way out of trouble is possible, it can’t happen until we transcend ourselves, seeing beyond our own individual well-being to the needs of us all.

Hasn't this been obvious and practiced in various ways by many/most people, for millennia?

Are they talking about something different?
It could have hedged a bit, but the article is a pretty detailed explanation of the challenge from someone who has used one before. It's useful information to people who haven't thought it through.

So yes, I'm sure the Disney researchers are aware of the problems, which makes me wonder what they're really up to. Is it just another rigged demo? Will they ever ship?
> Linux supports old hardware far better in my experience.

This is the crux of it: linux really shines for older paradigms and protocols. It makes it a great OS if what you're doing was cuting edge decades ago.

Another thread mentions printing. Use devs rely on core tools day day out thare often older than us. Most people got used to computers before touch, and have absolutely not need for a touch screen, etc.

Same for UI really.

But if you'te target is something forming right now, or bringing new paradigms (let's say VR games), going linux will mean you either create everything you need for yourself almost on your own, or move to something else (probably Windows)
2018 Horizon Air Q400 Incident
More data, but OP is right on the weaknesses of the study—the author posted here [0] and acknowledged that they can't actually say anything about causality, just that 2023 looked different than 2020.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168841
I don't think the size of the room matters much. The speed of the floor is determined by the speed of the person walking, otherwise they'll reach the edge of the floor and fall off eventually.

Maybe you could make the speed of the floor slower as long as the person stays in the middle, but as they reach the edge, it increases to keep them on it? I imagine it would feel strange to have a varying floor speed like that though.
Apple won't give up control of the iPhone
I'm curious to find out why you think Eight sounds like a grift.

We work in the sleeptech/neurotech space, and there is so much crap in this space. We're want to ensure we're taken seriously, so I'd be keen to hear your thoughts on why you think Eight Sleep isn't presented as trustworthy (if that is what you're saying).

I think they actually have the best reputation, and have taken over from Chili.

We're not in the heating/cooling space, so non-competitive.
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For me, it's just the amount of tweaking necessary in order to get things how I want one. 3 years ago I made multiple attempts to switch and stay on it. First issues were getting Windows applications to run. I tried Wine/Proton/PlayOnLinux and even running a Windows VM with some trickery to make apps appear native through RDP tools I found on github to make it as seamless as possible, it was a lot of work and in the end wasn't very reliable. On top of that for laptops there were even more issues. Laptops with a dGPU and an iGPU had issues switching between the two between battery mode and plugged in, more research and tools in order to fix all the little bugs with this. Even further, battery life was another issue, install more packages make changes to config files and still battery life wouldn't be as good as Windows or macOS on the same hardware, let's say a ThinkPad or Dell XPS that supported Windows or macOS through Hackintosh. In the end I just gave up. I'll always use Linux on servers because nothing comes close but personally I'll stick to Windows Enterprise or Pro, run chocolatey and get everything I need up and running working quickly. For friends and family, Windows 10 IOT LTSC 2021 with a non-admin account and a browser installed. Reliable.
There is a response to this paper on the journal website: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2565#eletters... (the eLetters section), which claims the signal from GPS is just noise.
The tax system might soon be running on something more modern. Supposedly they are nearing the finish line on porting the whole stack to Java.
On its arctic coastline, the audacity!

Related: https://tass.com/science/1737959
> Is it possible to improve on this candle-LED implementation? It seems so, but this may be for another project.

Hey, I got paid to do this a few years back! Here's the result: https://evietealight.com/

They're the sort of thing it's not really possible to show off in a photo or even video. What really gets you (or at least gets me) is seeing these things out of the corner of your eye, flickering, just like flames flicker....

This was a pretty uncertain research project. We didn't know if we'd be able to make really convincing flameless flames. The day I knew we'd got it was the day I brought a prototype home to tune and A/B test against a real candle. I went upstairs to put the kid to bed, then came downstairs and panicked because I thought I'd left the real candle burning. I hadn't! I got fooled by my own product. It was all downhill from there.

These guys are patented (somehow... the language is pretty impenetrable, and it's my own patent...) so I don't mind sharing a little of how it's done: there's an array of LEDs plus optically-active element, which shapes the light in a way that makes it look good. Nothing about this is too complicated (the optical surfaces aren't all that special, but are not trivial to prototype in your garage, at least if you've never done optics before), but there was a lot of R&D to settle in on what looks "right", and the final product has a lot of "premium" touches that really drove up the manufacturing cost. Hence the high final cost -- they really do cost a lot to make.

But they look awesome!

(And thanks Tim for your original article -- I definitely remember reading it during the early research phase!)
which time would that be?
They're equally evil, but Apple has a better marketing team to make them look less evil.
Yeah, I think this is right. GNU/Linux works perfectly fine for the normal person's use case - the main issue is that it's not the default, and switching is a pain.

Really, GNU/Linux should be the default. People have this impression that Windows and MacOS is for normal people but GNU/Linux is a strange specialized OS for techies, but really, it's the opposite. The average person really just needs to be able to launch a browser (which gets you email, social media, cloud storage, document editing/management, whatever else). GNU/Linux is perfectly fine for that, and may even be the most sensible solution.

It's actually Windows and MacOS that are the "specialist" operating systems - when you really need to use specialized software like Photoshop, Logic Pro, or whatever else, and when the Linux/browser alternatives aren't good enough for you.
Kanye West did a music video with wax figures of nude celebrities including Taylor Swift and that had barely any backlash. Is it because he’s known as an artist? The price of the recreation? The way it’s distributed? Is creating fake images of someone nude in a somewhat sexual context meaningfully different from creating images of them actively engaging in sex acts?

It’s almost like the problem is nobody claiming it as art they created.
Middle click to paste selected text has been the X11 way since forever. I never used a ThinkPad so I have no idea about how that middle click scroll works and I refrain to comment about it, however it seems that ThinkPads were not built with X11 in mind.
The House Select committee didn't do a very good job and did not have access to accurate information. There has been, of course, plenty of investigating done on the assassination since then. A well-known overview is Gerald Posner's Case Closed, it goes over the deficiencies of that and many other assassination theories with a fine-toothed comb.
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Sure, but it's not a great simulation of reality (the R in VR) then now is it?
>and malware looking to elevate root can just rig up ~/.bashrc, what use is this patch?

Apologies for self promotion, but I wrote a relevant blog post that discusses this[0]. Is there any way of mitigating this trivial attack?

I feel like the Unix/Linux security model is broken.

[0]: https://cedwards.xyz/sudo-is-broken/
I agree, it's certainly a spectrum.

Theranos comes to mind as one end of that spectrum. But in that case, the naysaying was around the physical impossibility of their core proposition. And, that was not a case where "good enough" was fine. The fact that they kept their supposed invention secret was another good reason to naysay.

Here, Disney is demonstrating their result and progress. I didn't see if there was a research paper attached, but I would fully expect it to openly discuss the limitations.
This is one of those times being bored and reading all Dan's comments has led me into a truly stupid thread, which I then truly stupidly engaged in.
Oops good point.
not sure how that is a sunk cost fallacy. It sounds like you just described a real cost that would be incurred if switching to Linux.

aversion to real costs is not a fallacy.
Adobe also thwarted me from daily driving Linux a few years ago when I gave it an honest attempt. I'm practically hoping that Microsoft pulls some shit to step on their toes, like develop competing products, so that Adobe has a real incentive to get its users off of Windows (like Valve does). Microsoft has gotten increasingly aggressive these past 5 years in force-feeding their ecosystem of services to Windows users, and it's making the desktop UX worse for both savvy and non-savvy users.
Indeed; one of the things I like best about the Ingenuity helicopter (sadly decommissioned only this week) is that it flew at a pressure that, were it on Earth rather than Mars, would be equivalent to twice as high as Concorde's cruising altitude!
I'm a different person, but speaking as a GA resident I kind of agree. Very little gets done that doesn't support the status quo. I'll take this an excuse to list a few personal grievances:

* Georgia DOT is notorious for not building infrastructure. Their gameplan consists almost entirely of maintaining & expanding existing highways/arterials. This isn't for lack of funding, mind you -- last year GDOT had a big budget surplus and all they did with it was refund a bunch of vehicle taxes (this happens surprisingly often)

* Related to the above... ask a GA resident how they feel about metal plates. If that person regularly drives, they'll know.

* The City of Atlanta, despite supporting millions of jobs, only has 500,000 residents. It is perpetually operating on a shoestring budget and the state makes a point of avoiding reinvestment into the city (indeed, slashing the city budget is a common campaign promise)

* Despite (more likely because of...) an almost chronic shortage of cash, the City of Atlanta government is rife with misappropriation and self-dealing. There is little will to do anything about it because of how regionally polarized the politics here are

* The City of Atlanta regularly trades places with Miami as the U.S.'s "most unequal major city" by gini coefficient. We used to be securely #1 before South Fulton seceded from the CoA in 2017 (Tragically relevant: South Fulton is now America's blackest city)

* Related to the above... regions regularly threaten to seceed from the CoA because they are (understandably) frustrated with how poorly things are run. These movements to seceed often succeed. Unfortunately, it's just plain hard to run any city in this state, so both parties usually come out of the deal faring worse than before

With that being said, Georgia isn't a hellscape or anything. Yes... we do punch well above our weightclass in the twin realms of corruption and political infighting, but on the other hand the rent's pretty affordable and we have a really nice forest!
> mafia-type organized crime

I'm not clear on what you mean. Surely there are gangs, many of them organized along family or ethnic lines, that control the typical crime markets like the drug trade. It may not be Italian-Americans, but there's plenty of other groups in such a large city.

Maybe they are more fragmented, but they are still basically made of full-time criminals who know each other and use violence to contest the market. In terms of scale, the industry is big enough that people specialize (import / distribution / money-laundering / etc) and so there's an economy requiring its own version of a justice system (aka negotiations, violence).

Isn't that pretty much the same as the mafia?
I would strongly suggest not blindly trusting "peer reviewed" and "top journals", especially on topics that are not easily provable.

"We conclude that despite widespread use of narcotic drugs in hospitals, the development of addiction is rare in medical patients with no history of addiction. "https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM198001103020221
"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
One thing that I found especially helpful when using CoPilot and ChatGPT is that I can get an answer very quickly and directly, instead of having to wade through a lot of blogs or articles on Stack Overflow.
i still play 2d df, infact i prefer it to the 3d variant. one less dimension to worry about!
I first read about this ages ago as a kid and was fascinated. I never figured it was probable though. Years later I'm finding it more and more likely in my completely worthless and undereducated opinion. It'd be crazy to eventually find out that many planets out there have similar DNA.

I read something by a SETI researcher that pointed out that some research focuses on finding DNA outside of earth (e.g. Mars) that has the reversed chirality of DNA on earth (i.e. corkscrews the opposite way of all life we've found on earth). This would be an incredibly strong indicator for life that actually came from somewhere else and wasn't just contaminated from DNA from earth that got on the equipment. They said "strong" instead of "certain" as it's still possible for a "shadow biome" on earth where the chirality is reversed that we just haven't found yet. This is important as there is no reason that it should be one way or the other (at least that scientists are currently aware of). As far as they can tell it should be 50:50, so chirality makes for an interesting indicator. Note: this is what I read over a decade ago. I'm no biologist.
For starters it becomes harder to find martian life. The earth life could kill the martian life before we get a chance to find it. Also, if the experiments detect signs of life, we won't be able to know if it's from martian life or from the earth life we brought along.
>The gaming paragraph seems a little too underwhelming

Last I've tried variable refresh rate (Gsync) support was all over the place. Wayland, Xorg, GNOME, different DEs, buy AMD instead etc. Endless googling and searching forums.

I just _want to use it_ but it's nowhere near a hassle-free ('just works' on Windows) experience.

And maybe it's an enthusiast level thing but I also care about GPU/CPU undervolting which is once again is an almost non-existent field in Linux.

And on top of that I always end up with an analysis paralysis. Which DE? Which distro? Which package manager? Too many variables and one thing that works with Ubuntu and GNOME won't work with Arch and KDE. Especially if you are searching around the internet for an X answer.

I use Linux at work but that's more than enough for me lol.

Linux is good for certain type of people but certainly not for everyone imo. To me it feels like you either have to be a really dedicated hardcore user who is willing to tinker and spend hours to solve problems OR a very basic user (you only use a web browser and LibreOffice). Everything in between is a mess.
Use it as a tool not a replacement. However it does do things well even without much additional information like fixing SQL statement[1]. That being said it is consistently improving, GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 was a major upgrade.

[1]: https://www.sqlai.ai/snippets/clroq0qn9001xqzqeidtm4jgx
This is super common in engineering organizations. Any shop with a standard performance review will have a "score card" where your contributions are summarized in a method that can be compared to others.

Being a great team player can't be quantified, and gets dropped.
No, the mafia is a specific thing.
> What are we trying to find or learn that life from earth will permanently remove the chance of?

Species prove to be invasive all the time on earth when exposed to new ecosystems or environments, and usually that's at the expense of many potential discoveries about the life forms that are replaced.

Seeding the universe with life from our planet may make sense as a survival strategy, but there's no ceiling to the knowledge we can glean from life thats different from our own.

In short: we don't know what we don't know, and the gains from such knowledge could be endless.
thats bullshit, all you need debate moderators to do is to maintain the rules about timing etc
"Just" in that context is redundant, you can say "Why don't you use rsync" and the sentence is immediately more positive. The "just" in that sentence adds a level of uncertainty to how people can interpreted it, with one way being a level of condescension.
That's not really yak shaving, though. Yak shaving, to me, is where you want to make a small improvement to something or test something out. But you're not currently working on that part of the project, so you pull it out of source control. However, it doesn't compile on your machine, you don't have a dependent library. So you get the library but it's not compatible with some version of something else. Yadda yadda yadda.

Since 2005 there have been a lot of tools to avoid yak shaving, although some of them are easy and some present a lot of potential yaks to shave if you're not already using them. For example, venv+pip+pinned versions is a good solution in python, and relatively easy to use. Docker is great if you're skilled with it but for a new user, it is basically yak shaving to get used to it. Nix could potentially eliminate a lot of yak shaving but also has a learning curve. Vagrant was/is useful for spinning up development machines that match production, especially if you're not super skilled in containers or not using them in production.

I find a lot of yak shaving in the Javascript ecosystem, and also when there is some third-party API or scripting language is involved. ETL is usually like this as well. As a casual programmer, this is the stuff that makes programming unfun and intimidating.
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Given the timing, it must have raised some eyebrows - did they really have no knowledge of what was going on?
Well it didn't. :) The person replying to your comment was basically saying the organized crime in Chicago is still relevant for civilians, and gave several examples, a direct rebuttal to your statement that "Into the 1970s, organized crime might have had some salience for civilians like us, but I think it's been decades since it mattered."

You'll note that this sentence of yours does not specify "mafia-type organized crime", so when someone replies about the relevance of what you did specify, organized crime, its a pretty clear line. :)
They're ubiquitous in America, but approximately nobody pays attention to the text because the position is what indicates on/off, where "up" in "on".
This is one of the better articles I've read that clearly articulates the motivations of social media companies (and state variants) and the devastating impacts these apps are causing to individuals (anxiety and depression) and society through misinformation. I'm not yet convinced effective regulation can be enacted, but I respect one of the conclusions that we need to "encourage transparency and accountability in how content is disseminated and moderated on social media platforms".
2012:

> Again, we've done the research. The profits aren't there -- very few Linux users are willing to pay for commercial software.

> And the cost of entry is still high because of the fragmented Linux landscape.

> The Linux world has to change before commercial software will have reason to invest in Linux ports.

> And we haven't seen much real change in the Linux market in several years.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussio...
It might not ever work "like walking", but nor does a linear array of a bunch of miniature speakers in a pair of headphones work like spatial audio in the real world, but the brain figures this out fairly quickly. The question here is, and in some way the "art" or the creative side of the engineering puzzle, is when does this "feel good enough" for most users?
> what kind of hardware?

GPUs are still in the "check some site if it works before you buy" territory and I hear nvidia is stil kinda adversarial.

The second biggest one is tablets and 2 in 1 laptops. It's a full computer form factor that has piss poor support, albeit you still get a linux subsystem with win11 and chromeOS.

On minor stuff, trackpads aren't great. TBF Apple set the bar so high all other platform become disappointing, but it should be mentionned.
Discord is the same. They target kids, and kids love things that repel adults, like confusing user interfaces.
Usually structured based on a couple of variables; 1. features required and 2. seats required
well, if you thought "fraud" but didn't say so: still, no credits for you.
Running open-source LLMs in Python on your laptop
> It looks like it's EOL.

"EOL" would imply that it ever received any ongoing support. The impression I get is more that Sony treated this more like a game release -- once the discs went out the door, that was it.
Also the speed with which they spread.