skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree. People believe VR has failed again and again, but actually it's quite successful in various niches and the experience it provides in those niches is irreplaceable by other technology.

The needs and desires of those niches are pretty well understood, but what I think the market considers a failure is actually the local optima of the current state of the technology.

What Apple wants to discover is what everyday people, their customers, your typical iPhone holder, what do they tolerate and what will they do with VR?

The mass market is not sim racing, working on helicopters with AR assistance, or designing products in 3D space. They are chatting with mates, watching TV, using various life admin apps etc, none of which are improved by VR. So what does it take to get a mass market VR device popular? It's probably improving the way people achieve their daily tasks they currently use their phone for.

But is that even worthwhile? Do I actually need my banking app or chats in AR/VR? Probably not, so outside of niche entertainment I don't ever see VR being a mass market device. AR in a trendy pair of glasses maybe, people strapped into headsets all day I just don't see.
Language is the medium through which raw perspective refined itself.

Language birthed social games and the sense of self.

Yes, language evolved for communication.

But without communication, thought would still be stuck in the land of instinct, never forged by the tribal dances of love, art, deceit, debate and organization.
For handling ASCII, table needs 4 states × 3 classes of chars.
Why is it defined as 4×4?

To handle illegal chars, it would need a 4th class but also a 5th state, so that's not the reason.

Can it be to replace a 'modulo' operation with an 'and' in the access to table?
Accusations of sexism, especially false ones, are categorically inappropriate for HN. Please never do this again.
The unfortunate side effect of valve supporting linux better is they seemingly gave up on mac os.
We don't have better tooling to transfer information between humans though. We have language, and we have art. It seems that art transcends humans in some ways: happy / sad music seems to affect animals, and we've seen animals contemplating things. Without language, we can't really create a mapping to what that means though. We simply don't have a better way to compress multiple concepts into few bits of information we can pass around.

Interestingly, removing language as a tool for communication is a cool thought experiment. I imagine one could use maths, or music, as a way of expressing thoughts and ideas. Would that process of condensing information not be language-making though?
You're getting downvoted, as will I, because presenting an alternative anecdotal experience isn't acceptable in Windows threads. I've learned this the hard way.

Unfortunately just like the original post is anecdotal (I haven't had a machine fail to startup after an update since XP) not all anecdotes are born equal.

Interestingly, I don't see adverts myself, and I've never seen any at work. I -suspect- that's heavily regionalized.

Are there features I don't care for? Sure - I don't use OneDrive, I don't internet search from the Start bar, and I use Edge only occasionally. But it's not like somehow you -have- to use everything they ship.

I get it. An OS is personal. If you don't like Windows, use MacOS or Linux. All 3 have different approaches and one of them will fit you better than the others. Arguing over which is better or worse is like fighting over ice-cream flavors.
O&O shutup does a good job of disabling most of the modern Windows garbage though you may need to occasionally re-run it as sometimes Windows update decides to re-enable some garbage marketing you'd previously disabled.
How do you define “thinking”?

To me thinking is primary tool of communication between I and “me” and it’s entirely based on sound and language.

Can you think without using language?

When you have song playing in your head, how is that different from your thoughts?

Isn’t talking out loud just act of thinking, the output being connected to mouth?

Have you ever tried to repeat mantra in your thought, slow down until coming to full stop? What remains when thinking stops?

Have you noticed that thinking is like breathing, in a way that it’s happening automatically and you can also take over?

Have you noticed that thinking consciously is linked with breath and being aware of space?

Fascinating topic!
Sort of.

As I understand it: By itself, it's theoretically about the same as two (non-RAID) hard drives. They show up as separate LUNs [or similar]. Like two standalone drives, these can be used independently or made into RAID 0 or lots of other things.

But compared to using two drives, these have half as many spindles, half as many spindle motors, and half as many spindle bearings.

That's not a small reduction in complexity, and reductions in complexity tend to improve MTBF.

Furthermore, they can theoretically use about half of the physical volume. And half the external connections and cabling.

And (maybe, some day) this can all combine to reduce the overall cost of adding a headstack (or a thousand of them) in some applications where that is a useful thing.
They probably stripe the data across the banks of platters just like multiple drives in raid 0, so when reading or writing a sufficiently large file, both banks are always operating at full speed.
This was alluded to in one of the Sun performance "bibles" in the section on drive IO ... the book spoke of some "non commodity disks" that had multiple disk arms that moved independently on different platters.

I think it was "Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris" (the Porsche book) but it might have been "Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers."
Hardware FPGA DPS-8M Mainframe and FNP Project
The crux of their argument is that the language faculty and other faculties (math/logic/abstract, theory of mind/social reasoning, spatial/temporal imagination, and other cognitive abilities) all evolved in parallel, so the most plausible explanation is that language is mostly independent of all those other faculties which are activated in distinct neural network areas of the human brain, based on brain scan studies in the last 20 years.

I imagine a counterargument (or complication) to that is that such parallel evolution would require the neural networks to independently evolve certain breakthroughs multiple times before reaching the Homo sapiens stage. For example, language is recursive and yet human mathematical reasoning is recursive, but these use two different brain areas (according to the paper). So in their figure of two different brain regions for language processing versus math/code thinking, both regions had to somehow evolve the "wetware" for recursive computation. How did natural evolution manage that in general?
Could you give examples of suitable workloads for HDD and SSD
A lot of that is based on the hardware that you're using it on. If you want to run Linux and go out of your way to find the right hardware (like an Ubuntu certified model[0]) then your experience will be pretty darn close.

Fingerprint login, graphics scaling, sleep, and everything works out of the box on the Thinkpad I bought for my non-technical GF to run Ubuntu on. (She installed it herself!)

0: https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops
Language is a major component of thought. Every programmer knows the unreasonable effectiveness of rubber duck debugging whereby one can solve logical problems more effectively by talking aloud.

If language were merely a tool for communicating thoughts rather than an integral part of thinking, then talking aloud wouldn’t help. But since raising the volume of one’s internal monologue does improve reasoning, this shows that the internal monologue is part of the thinking process - not a passive reflection of thought that is happening “elsewhere”.

Yes, of course you can engage in complex thought without language. There is verbal and non-verbal reasoning. A chess player thinks spatially in terms of how the knight moves, not just verbally, though verbal reasoning does help in chess somewhat.
The network config for out-of-the-box Ubuntu server has been stable for 6 years. You need to modify netplan's config: /etc/netplan/*.yaml (default is 00-installer-config.yaml). This renders volatile systemd-networkd configs in /run/systemd/network which, in turn, will configure systemd-resolved appropriately.

If you've opted out of netplan, then you need to configure one of systemd-networkd or NetworkManager manually (on server, NetworkManager is only present if you've installed it).

I personally used to be opposed to netplan but I had to do some very esoteric network configuration which was super easy with netplan.
>As I understand, fast fractional scaling is impossible with Linux because fractional scaling is a bitmap operation while it’s just a rendering parameter on Windows.

Windows, like every modern operating system 2006 or newer, has a graphics compositor to do basic things like allow GPU-accelerated window stretching, prevent screen tearing, and so on (OS X had one slightly earlier). Meanwhile while Linux has had multiple modern attempts to build a composited graphics stack (Compiz, Wayland) certain very vocal elements of the Linux community complain about any attempt to build a graphical stack you can't send via carrier pigeon and have dragged their feet or otherwise thwarted wide(r) adoption.
You Can't Build Apple with Venture Capital
I was referring to the incursions into Armenia proper, not the breakaway region in 2020.
> Dozens of obscure config files (each with a different syntax), stored in various random places in the filesystem, with the general expectation that every user should be able to run a terminal command once in a while to fix something.

The good thing is that explanations is often a `man` command away, and the location of these files is often listed in the same place. Also general computing is an expert subject. You may as well have a kiosk if you start hiding away capabilities. The expectation to drop to a terminal is often because the terminal is the fastest way to get things done.
I believe it’s been within the past 20 years, likely as a result of the improved navigation and weather systems, rather than purely improvements to planes.

Source: have flown on older retrofitted planes without barf bags.
Another way to look at is that the ratio between capacity and physical IOPS constraints have gotten exponentially better over time. It's just that you can't treat all that capacity as hot capacity anymore.

I recall a whitepaper on HP high-end storage arrays from over 10 years ago, their arrays already read and cached at least 256kB of data, even if you wanted only a 4kB block.
Maybe we should do software first. I see no reason why I should not get copies of all binaries and all source code for any and every service I use upon request. And even copies of databases backing them when requested. Then I could simply replicated it in my own environment or roll up competing service. And as for data, what is privacy anyway. If you want the data be private don't generate it... /s
They'll just have to change the behavior, I assume the current behavior is just out of caution not some technical limit.
I am afraid I am a bit lost as to exactly how 'Find My Device' network works, but I should do some studying after I post this comment. Well, these questions.

I would like to ask if you were made aware of this in the format of "Do you accept?" added to that notification email?

I guess what I mean is, this is something very new, yes? Aren't they supposed to ask you if you agree to them doing that? Or is there some strangely worded paragraph in the original agreement form that indicates they can add such a program without asking your permission?

And thank you for posting about this and answering my questions, if you will.
If you want to fight that fight, instead of putting hundreds of thousands of books on the internet, you start with a few books and get sued over that. That way, if you lose, the actual damages are minimal. Right now, the Internet Archive could go bankrupt because of the millions of dollars in potential damages now that they've lost.

Finding representative cases to fight over and create precedent is a common strategy that exposes you to less risk if you lose.
Property rights solve the problem of physical goods being rivalrous. We can't both eat the same portion of food; if one person has it another doesn't.

Information is not rivalrous in that way: an additional person having it doesn't take it away from anyone else. Many people can read the same (e-)book.

There are other reasons why societies originally granted a completely artificial temporary monopoly on information: the theory that it'll incentivize the creation of more works, which is a thing the society might want more than they want the ability to copy and modify and remix it on day one.

Emphasis on "might" want: it's not obvious that that's the correct tradeoff today, in a world in which we have not merely the printing press but digital information that can be trivially copied and modified, and a society of people who all have the tools at their fingertips to use that information to create and remix and do wondrous creative things with all of culture.
I believe that was Voyager and the Ferengi were stranded in the delta quadrant after the incident with the stable-on-one-end wormhole in TNG. Imo it wasn’t the worst strategy in their situation.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/False_Profits_(episode)
The type of people who see a "lane ends ahead" and immediately merge, blocking up traffic and wasting a half mile of empty lane. "I'm in my assigned place and I did what I was supposed to!!"
Switched to Linux in Windows' "golden age" - XP. Never looked back. There's one thing that reminds me that old Windows - cloud providers. Their configuration in UI looks a lot like group policies on Windows. Every time I have to deal with those IAM permissions in Google Cloud I get flashbacks, except now the UI is much slower
I imagine if you stripe across multiple drives that are all actually smaller striped arrays internally but each emulating single drives with firmware, you still get multiplicative speed increases, e.g. a raid 0 with two of these is 4x as fast, and still just raid 0 to the raid controller. I’m not really sure how that is actually better than twice as many regular drives either.
Side note, but I enjoy papers with meta-contrarian theses like these.
I think it'd be epic if the link of the post was changed to https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07522-w or https://oadoi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07522-w
While those configs are different in syntax, each is meant to be read, edited and backed up by a human. All of the system config files are in /etc

Registry hacking, with all it's resets and duplicate keys is hard to backup, constantly reverts ( because m$ doesn't believe it to be user editable) and is a pain in the ass to back up and restore.

Oh yes, and is your registry value supposed to be a dword, or something else? No way to tell.
> very easy to partition and process in chunks

Which counters to increment at each byte depends on the previous bytes, though. You could probably succeed using overlapping chunks, but I wouldn't call it very easy.
Sorry for lacking documents and guidance. When you enable a script, you can trigger it by typing 「/」 in command palette （cmd + k）. Currently, the selected text only works with the prompt. You reminded me that the script should also be able to handle selected text, and I will add this feature.

Sync is on the roadmap.
I think yours is a noble goal that many do share, even if they don't openly express it.
What?

> Part of the money also helps keep your local telephone service reasonably priced. The Universal Service Fund is one source that helps make it possible for telephone companies to service remote areas without having to raise everyone's rates. It's more costly for telephone companies to provide service in remote or rural areas than it is in densely populated cities.
I was under the impression that we primarily ground one side to prevent atmospheric charge and/or things like lightning strikes causing large voltage differentials to occur between power lines and grounded objects (it's probably a bit of a fire and safety risk if the wires coming into your house could be sitting many kV above earth potential).
Routinely.
Same. It reads like a podcast.
There's a "via=reddit" tracker in the submitted URL
It's okay if our usage is different. I like keeping mine in a bag when it's not needed. That shouldn't be an unreasonable place to keep a laptop.
I will genuinely think this through, as I had never considered it could be part of a collective identity. I think in general Australians are quite disconnected from politics. Complacency is likely how we ended up with our authoritarian leanings in politics, rather than Australians having a desire for a more authoritarian government. But I do live in a bit of a bubble, and I do know when isses of security come up Australians seem pretty happy to give the government more control.
Reminds me of the the quote from Albert Einstein:
"I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards."

Language is a higher level abstraction for the brain. Sort of like a higher level programming language vs assembly or binary.
Yes, absolutely, they couldn’t care less.
According to https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund, it sounds like AT&T _does_ get the money for this purpose, just not directly:

> Today, FCC provides universal service support through four mechanisms:

> 1. High Cost Support Mechanism provides support to certain qualifying telephone companies that serve high cost areas, thereby making phone service affordable for the residents of these regions.

> 2. Low Income Support Mechanism assists low-income customers by helping to pay for monthly telephone charges as well as connection charges to initiate telephone service.

> 3. Rural Health Care Support Mechanism allows rural health care providers to pay rates for telecommunications services similar to those of their urban counterparts, making telehealth services affordable.

> 4. Schools and Libraries Support Mechanism, popularly know as the "E-Rate," provides telecommunication services (e.g., local and long-distance calling, high-speed lines), Internet access, and internal connections (the equipment to deliver these services) to eligible schools and libraries.

It sounds like the government mandates that carriers like AT&T service communities in areas that would otherwise not be profitable enough for them to bother offering service to, and they help subsidize those customers with a tax on all of their customers. You might be able to make an argument that the tax doesn't generate enough revenue to offset the cost of serving those customers (I don't pretend to have any idea of either how much revenue this tax gets or how it compares to the costs of serving the customers they would otherwise avoid), but the money that the parent commenter is mentioning is quite literally spent on their bills, so I don't know how you can argue it doesn't end up going to AT&T.
There is no free lunch . Humanity has to pay a price for everything esply if we want to go against or want to outdo Nature which has taken billons of years to provide us with whatever we need for our happy survival. But humanity is invested with insatiable curiosity and want to know what's on the other side of the mountain, even at the cost of our survival and land ourselves and mother nature into trouble . But that's OK . We are what we are !
Everyone's got an opinion on "rebase", and IMO you can safely ignore those that conflate:

* the rebase command, as a means of adjusting commits

* the practice of squashing all commits into a single commit (typically, but not always, via rebase)

* the "rewriting of history", whether on public or private branches

* rebasing on merge vs. creating a merge commit

This article starts by saying they "like rebasing" only to then say

>Git rebase allows me to squash my disordered commits into a neat little one

Rebase allows this practice but you could just as easily `git reset @~` a few times and then `git add .; git commit -m "My big commit"`. Alternatively the author could just `git add .; git commit --amend --no-edit` throughout the task and end up with the same result. To be fair to the author, they later add that they don't always squash to a single commit, but here I'm talking about "rebasing" vs. commit practices. Rebase is just a tool which allows various practices and it's tiresome seeing the same arguments against this nebulous "rebase", when the arguments are actually directed at practices.
Nope same for me with intel drivers. Intel update utility recommends one, installs it.

Leave computer idle windows rolls it back in the night to a driver from 2021.
All good points but you were likely asked for encryption during setup, you just didn't notice (it's at the partition step).

You are correct that it's impossible to do after the fact whilst the system is live. LUKS is also not very resilient. Bitlocker stores several copy of its headers in case of sector damage. With luks2 you're SOL.
Yeah this is why i am hoping that EMR serverless would be the next step.

You get the freedom of not having to set up the resources. It is cheap because you are basically eating the breadcrumbs of available cpu capacity "oh i have 10 idle cpus here in Italy to do one part of you map job" etc.

But you are not locked in to SQL. (Athena has UDFs but they are not very user friendly).
Sexist? That was not my intention.
I meant misantripic in the sense of:

> 2: marked by a hatred or contempt for humankind
The moral corruption he saw around him made him misanthropic.

Also I didn't mean the commenter was misanthropic, but that the view they held would fit a misanthropic authors novel as part of their satire.

Maybe you thought I wrote "misogynistic"?
In which case, I’d look at the documentation that companies put out for SSO to get a feel for the types of issues your customers will face. Make sure your system logs everything (or pay Auth0) and provide this as a feature. It’ll cut down a lot of support calls.

Budget in time for your engineers to sit on support calls and directly work through them with customers. Document every issue you see for your support team. If you can, hire a semi technical person to do this support (especially if you want to scale up). It’ll take a load off your engineers.

If your permission system allows it, enable IDP-initiated login as a must have.

Have a strategy for if a customer locks themselves out with a bad configuration. You’ll need either to force they have a password account or a way to reach out to Support to turn it off for them to try again.

After that, honestly, the issues will be a grab bag of things. They’re generally one-off issues per customer but they can take time while you resolve them.

Finally, most customers are great and get it. Some are great and don’t get it. The last group think they know more than you and clearly don’t. They’ll eat up most of your time.
> But it’s still Level 2 because you are still supposed to closely supervise it.

I just recently noticed that Tesla now officially calls it "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" in their manual.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-2CB6080...
Correction: I can say it’s a great fun game
I know this is going to sound stereotypical Linux user-y, but it's really because Ubuntu is pretty terrible nowadays. Several of those are enabled by default on Fedora for example, and Fedora is nowadays about as easy to use as Ubuntu
I’m not the person you answered but SSD: boot disk, cache, video files you’re working off of. HDD: data you don’t mind waiting for such as video and audio storage, backups, or just cases where you have a lot of data and the SSD isn’t yet cost effective enough
Excellent. Thank you for the thoughtful response
Both of your links send me to nature, which is paywalled.

That'd be worse then the currently linked PDF, which includes everything.