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arijun··on Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
Congratulations, you don't have motion sickness. I think that post was referring to those who do.

For those people, rear-facing seats can exacerbate motion sickness. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...

arijun··on Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
Until very recently I worked in the FSD community, and I wouldn’t say I viewed it as a joke. I don’t know if I believed they would get to level 5 without any lidar, it’s pretty good for what’s available in the consumer market.
arijun··on Pixel 10 Phones
Those are some very minor complaints, all of which would not affect my buying choice, given the larger differences. That said, I’ll tell you that I don’t notice (1), for (2) I would never sit there organizing my photos, I have other (mostly less productive) things to do with my time, and (3) seems like something I specifically _dont_ want.
arijun··on Is air travel getting worse?
If they’re not done loading the plane, they don’t have to make an announcement about it because it’s self evident, whereas if everyone is sitting down and ready to go, they will let everyone know what the holdup is.

Just yesterday I took a flight where they asked everyone to try to hurry up loading so they could get the plane off the ground sooner.

arijun··on Telo MT1
Your comfort shouldn’t outweigh the safety of pedestrians. There is a reason those cars do not pass regulations in Europe.
arijun··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Worse, it never even attempts to answer the question the title poses. It gives some recent evidence that exercise is good for you, and then goes off on a topic so unrelated it can’t even be called a tangent.
arijun··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
Actually, thinking about it, it wouldn’t be that hard to implement for both that and background processes that eat up cpu.
arijun··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
I would rather have both, and I imagine the chrome one is easier to implement: either it asks for permissions or it doesn’t. Since there are valid reasons to keep the machine awake after closing the lid (close out connections, save files to disk, etc), it’s maybe harder to tell when one is going too long.
arijun··on GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
The one time my poor spelling was actually an advantage...
arijun··on GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
"what happened in tienamen square"

> I'm sorry, I don't have any information about that. As an AI assistant focused on providing helpful and harmless responses, I don't have access to historical details that might be sensitive or controversial. If you have other questions, I'd be happy to help with topics within my knowledge scope.

Seems pretty clear to me.

arijun··on Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
Part of the reason such a large percentage of coffee is grown there is because it's cheap. The cartels can (and do) make profit on legitimate crops, but they can't magically rewrite the rules of capitalism.
arijun··on Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
How much is it? The pricing section is blank for me
arijun··on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
Is that not the premise of docker?
arijun··on Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel
What? By then the most recent intel mac will be what, 6 years old? And will continue to get security updates for the foreseeable future? Do you expect them to still be making new OS versions for PowerPC as well?
arijun··on Refactoring Clojure
> Our mission is to take this code and make it readable

You failed. Between the unreadable text colors and the word wrap, the code is incomprehensible. I cut and pasted it into a plaintext notes app and it was way easier to understand

arijun··on Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
Pretty sure we’ve already made it to the disinformation age.
arijun··on Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
`panic` isn’t really an error that you have to (or can) handle, it’s for unrecoverable errors. Sort of like C++ assertions.

Also there is the no_panic crate, which uses macros to require the compiler to prove that a given function cannot panic.

arijun··on Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM
I think the difference in allergy rates between UK and Israeli Ashkenazi Jews (10x higher in UK Jews!) [1] is strong evidence for that.

Also, they sell Bamba at Trader Joe’s now.

[1] https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(08)01698-9/ful...

arijun··on Gaussian Splatting Meets ROS2
This page is pretty light on the what and why. I gather it’s using ROS (which I had to look up to confirm means robot operating system) to render Gaussian splatting. And that’s faster than a dedicated GPU renderer? Doesn’t ROS add overhead in the form of message passing?
arijun··on Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook
I’m not really sure what you’re trying say, but I would assume Waze’s valuation came from some combination of their user base, their crowdsourced data (to know where there is an object in the road, or a car stopped on the side of the street, for example), and their algorithms, which I remember finding far more accurate than anyone else’s back then.
arijun··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
That explanation seems like it would not line up with the mathematical reality of the situation. It seems like one of those handwave-y things that always confused me as a child. “Gravity is just massive objects deforming space like a weight deforming a sheet, and things fall into the well they make.” Ok but what would make something fall into the well, there is no gravity.
arijun··on Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses
Interesting! TLDR is that Apple replaced a stack of four optical components with one flat metasurface to collimate the dots the FaceID camera uses to track face shape. Although they found it in the iPad and are only assuming (rightly, probably) that it will be in the iPhone 17. I wonder why none of the large tech blogs seemed to have picked that up?
arijun··on Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]
Perhaps not police departments, but proponents do claim it reduces the stress on social programs. If it allows people to put money where it's needed, then they might need those programs less. An ounce of prevention and all that.
arijun··on Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code
Just to draw more attention to the point, it's not an unrelated project simply "using the Mermaid name," it's a for profit project started by the creator of mermaid.js, which charges for some advanced tooling around the opens source project. It's a common enough paradigm to see and in my opinion a pretty virtuous way to fund open source development.

See also Redis labs, Gitlab, ElasticSearch...

arijun··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
> Why is the demo impressive https://mpa.nuejs.org/app/ I believe someone can do the same web-app in React with the same performance

Weren't the main points on the main page that it was small ("lighter than a React button"), and could handle large amounts of records ("far past where JavaScript (and React) would crash with a stack overflow error")?

arijun··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
> but it's not like we have an absence of research below 1.5 mg/L).

But it is?

>> "It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ"

Yes you would need a higher powered study to rule out the potentially smaller effect, but when your treatment can affect tens of millions of children, it doesn't seem crazy to ask for more funding.

arijun··on All clothing is handmade (2022)
The main thesis of the article is that workers in, say, Cambodia are not inherently worse at making clothes than workers in a first world country. Which seems to be countering some rhetoric I have never heard (despite being in pretty… mixed circles), as well as patently obvious.

I’m not even sure what the point of the article is, given that someone racist enough to believe that rhetoric is probably not going to read it in the first place

arijun··on Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM
It does, not sure what you're seeing. Maybe the second jump was in the reverse direction, and thus not legal?
arijun··on Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it
Funnier title, though
arijun··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
I don’t understand—if the frame is in the middle why can’t the MagSafe go on the outside?
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