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>> This sentiment has very little actual substance to it. I'm dissatisfied because I want to do something meaningful. I want to leave behind tools that will better my species.

> That's something 1 in 10000 or even less do. Why it would be you (or me for that matter)?

One: because you think it will be you. 1 in N people do something meaningful. 1 in M people who think they will do something meaningful, end up doing so. M < N.

Anecdotal, of course, but so is everyone else here, so I'm not going to bother with proof. If you want to see what I mean, take a cue from what is presented as such sage advice upstream: look around you. Not many people are ambitious on a grand scale.

Two: out of the people who did something meaningful, few of them were helped by a "can't do" attitude. Even if not grounded in reality at all, you still need to have amibition, for that rare case where you do end up being the 1 in a million that does something meaningful.

Personally, I'm not a fan of this nihilist attitude so pervasive in cynical ex-geniuses. I encounter it a lot among formerly precocious children in compsci. It's negative, demotivating, and I regret ever taking this seriously.

So let me go on record to anyone who feels OP was talking you: the mere act of yearning to have a lasting effect on the world and on humanity makes you special. Forget the naysayers and the cynics. Leave the bitter undisciplined geniuses to their sour grapes. Go into the world and do what you can.

We need all the help we can get!
Rust is like C++, but with different syntax and an ability to make the use-after-moved-from a compile-time error.

So it's a multi-paradigm language where any manner of coding is possible.
I think that's the primary reason why individual action is important: because it achieves the mindset change. Or at least, is a prime motivator in changing other people's mindsets.
most of the pins are vcc and gnd, but still impressive indeed. 6502 had 3500transistors, 40pins... and multiple address modes (with zero page+y being my fav)
Remember all those news stories a few months back about an attempt to close 7 out of the 9 polling places in a majority-black Georgia county which voted for Clinton in the last presidential election? The one which the entire press spun as a Republican attempt to suppress the black vote? That was a Democrat elections board. Supposedly, while the county as a whole was majority-black and voted Clinton, those voters were all concentrated around the two urban polling locations which weren't closing, whilst the seven more rural ones which were closing returned a majority for Trump last election. Not that you'd know that from the media reporting...

More recently, the official Democrat party organisation in North Dakota tried to suppress the Republican vote there by running bogus, pants-on-fire Facebook ads falsely claiming that voting could cost people their hunting licenses, the state's Democrat senator stood behind this claim, and this wasn't any kind of national media scandal at all. I'm not sure if Facebook even banned them for it or anything despite this being a clear ToS violation.

I presume that any other Democrat voter suppression which wasn't an in-your-face, public ad campaign with the name of the party literally written all over it and didn't get mistaken for Republican voter suppression has simply gone entirely unnoticed. Why wouldn't it?
OK, so I'm sitting here, posting to HN in Firefox. And if I like, I can open a terminal and run something like:

traceroute news.ycombinator.com | grep -f chinese-ipv4 -f chinese-hosts

And indeed, there could be a Firefox extension that did that, right? So at least, users would know.
That is all about cheap money and tax policy. Real estate is the dumbest of markets and always booms and busts.

No matter what anyone says, eventually the business cycle will swing and everything will crash again. This is especially true of commercial development where things like depreciation and offsetting tax obligations drive profitabilty, but only for the first few years of a buildings existence.
That’s a LOT of good information and we do agree that we all need to take action. We are not even close to be on target for the deadlines so every small individual effort counts. We do our bit as well. We believe we should be cleaning after ourselves, especially in cities, that’s why we are working on placing our units which do just that. Cleaning up our mess is also a very important requirement which has been quite left as a secondary actor when is indeed a very important one.
That should really be the very first line of the review instead of being buried at the 10th paragraph...
You'd only use the QR code thing if you were logging into an app on your phone, but had opened the email on your laptop. It wouldn't make sense in the other direction.
Maybe it's the Internet? It's filled with success porn (exceptional people giving talks, streaming while they work etc.), as well as ordinary people giving each other pep talks (for example, gamedev subreddit is full of people telling you should be making games in addition to your full time job).
Wow! For country like India, this can solve traffic problem.
Yeah, how about putting that disclaimer first paragraph, first sentence.

I think (and I have no relation to this person) http://lon.tv is an example of an exemplary and ethical reviewer in this regard.
It's not the side of the ledger to work on; it's one side.

However, I think it's an important side, because it's a side that will increase support for initiatives like the ones you mention.
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NYC is also big in film and television, which could interest Amazon.
> (This ignores other reasons not to vote that aren't really a choice. eg. you can't get off work or don't have time or something)

This is why postal votes exist. Not being able to guarantee availability on several arbitrary dates in the future is fixed by postal voting.

I don't know if they exist in all countries/states though.
As long as all the world requires increasingly more energy, there will be political support and policies which allow the extraction of fossil fuels. This is the situation we have now. The companies digging up fossil fuel would go out of business if there was no demand for fossil fuels.

The problem is that the change in behaviour that this demands is great: ever thought about selling your car? or paying twice as much for a new electric car?
it's not any customer either, it's free bad press to be dropped by such a known company
> Science is never settled, already there they start the misinformation

Science is never settled, but arrives at increasingly accurate approximations of reality. If climate science's best approximation is doom, the rational collective response is not ignorance, but simultaneously to explore and exploit (address) the problem. Exploration by better modeling of the climate, and exploitation by pursuing known best solutions to the problem. To use a personal example of a complex system, if a person should show signs of cancer, or a virulent disease, even if medicinal knowledge is not sufficiently advanced to flawlessly diagnose the symptom, drastic action even under imperfect information is very reasonable.

In the case that drastic corrections were not necessary with respect to the climate, this nevertheless furthers the global society's resilience and response for when such drastic correction is needed.

> These kind of articles are so misguided yet people are so hysterical they actually think the individual can do things.

Without contending whether or not 'the individual can do things', the article does not give me that impression. Whereas indeed the article advocates individuals to change their individual behavior, the article is written for an audience of many. When advocacy articles like these acquire a sufficiently large megaphone, like the BBC, they cause significant collective action.

> But right now everyone is coming up with all sorts of irrational solutions to a problem that havent been properly defined and even if it was going to be as catastrophic as some have built themselves up to believe, flying less is going to have no useful effect.

The problem is the recent increase in global temperature corresponding to the recent increase in greenhouse gas production. To use the personal analogy, the elimination of mutated cells causing the tumors.

> Only way out of this is through the very technology that have created the cars, products etc. to begin with.

I think that this is a very irrational or ignorant notion. Collective action plays a very important part in very many big problems. For example, the abolition of slavery and women' suffrage are made possible (in the former case) by technology, but collective action was needed to enable these events.

Some people echo the irrational notion you seem to express that that just because individual action is useless then so is collective action, and so therefore the individual action should not be pursued. But this is clearly not the case, since collective action happens. If it seems that most big changes are performed by organizations and institutions and not individuals, this nevertheless does not negate the thesis that collective action effects changes, since sufficiently developed and mature collective action tends to organize when able, so that they are more self-sustaining.
Stop using Geekbench for reviews :(
It really isn't. Mainstream Democrats like Pelosi and Schumer actively work against the more radical Democrats (sabotaging Bernie in the last primary) and are into big business and banking nearly as much as Republicans are. That's why the Democratic Socialists of America exist -- right now as a group within the Democratic Party, but conceivably as their own party in the future.
This is good news. Red Hat and IBM had already made similar announcements, but now that’s one company rather than two. Since we are talking about long term maintenance here, this is definitely a more the merrier situation.
With a big drawback of zero accountability for candidates.
This sounds like it’d make a decent development machine - better in many ways than a MPB.
I don't see that big a deal. In a language, say Ada, I would pass in an "IN" parameter, which cannot be altered in a procedure (and by default in a function). In other languages I would keep the scope/lifetime extremely small, and just not mutate or leak memory. This is just plain ol' good programming practice IMHO.

Is there another more compelling use case. In concurrent applications perhaps?
> unlike Apple, Microsoft or Google they are motivated solely by the money

Unlike Google? What other motivations Google have? MS and Apple have solid products (hardware and Office/Windows). What Google have?

I'd risk to say, any business is motivated solely by money :) The differentiator is what and how are they selling. Oracle sucks in the 'how' department. Google sucks in 'what' department - phishing for people's data mostly, and selling it to businesses.
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Disenfranchised are not necessarily uninformed. They could be plenty informed of the issues, but they took a day off and it turned out the county moved their polling spot the _same morning_ (this happened last week!). They could have been purged from voter records despite not having issues for years (happens all the time). They could have simply moved and forgotten to register.

There are a million reasons people can’t vote despite being perfectly equipped to make the right decision
The review doesnt tell you that you cannot upgrade or replace your SSD.
Improvement is always a matter of judgement. Of course, if you are super humble everything will seem like an improvement. But isn’t that kind of cheating ?
There are many definitions of FP. IMHO the “no side effects” is the best one. Even Clojure is functional, but partially IMHO, bc it is for JVM which has not been design for FP. And my definition is not an arbitrary one. This is the most broadly one I think. But when you use same word in different contexts, then the word might have different meaning.
Apple’s new strategy seems to be, instead of having products that sell themselves for their clear benefits, just flood either YouTube casuals or Twitter “celebrities” (depending on target segment) with the highest end config machine and expect praise.
This has nothing to do with humanity and everything with America's ridiculous voting system that allows this to happen. Looking in from the outside it's amazing to see the ways the system is being abused , from gerrymandering to voter denial, all to prevent the people to elect the leaders they want to.
There's a lot of interest in Epyc for certain use cases. It's just the server world moves slowly because when you're spending millions on massive amounts of hardware, and it needs to run 24/7 for years without defects, you want to make sure it works.
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Heaven forbid you do something with your life except reproduce, or accidentally help anyone beyond your own progeny...
> I pay electrical bills... they sort out the details

Then why are you even commenting in a thread about what can you do about climate change? Let someone else figure it all out and send you a bill!
The article actually argues against self-improvement.

There are issues with trying excessively too hard or sacrificing too much to reach certain goals, there are issues with trying the wrong way or towards the wrong goals, but arguing we should take a casual and passive stance towards fixing our problems and just let them be is really the most counter-productive, lazy piece of advice I've ever heard.
I think there is a preference setting

"extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true

which will turn off these notifications. Thank you for prompting to do so. I often prefer to find and install extensions when I get the itch, rather than have a popup ask me.
It's also supposedly not an actual benchmark, just a projection of what the (not yet actually existing) chip should perform like.

I would take the numbers with several bags of salt.
TLDR; If you want RR on ARM try UndoDB (which has a different instrumentation method). RR needs an accurate count of "retired instructions" to replay correctly. ARM has non-deterministic behaviour for
this count because an instruction may fail for example due to a cache miss or a hardware interrupt,the instruction would be re-tried of course but the retired instruction count for a code path run multiple times can vary even if identical branches are taken.
Longer / better description at this URL. https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/1373
> And tldr is yes it lends itself to a functional style

Rust does a good job of supporting a functional style efficiently. It's also considered idiomatic to code functionally. Probably the biggest, obvious exception is that Rust embraces mutability because it's statically safe to do so i.e. you aren't as susceptible to the traditional disadvantages of mutability.

> You do not use inheritance nor do you have objects

That's only partially true though. Rust does support interface inheritance and polymorphism in its trait system. And enums are a closed form of sub-typing. RAII is also idiomatic and I'd argue that many would class that as object-oriented.

The way I'd characterise the OO approach in Rust is that the team looked at the experiences of using OO in other languages and picked out what they considered the valuable pieces and left the dangerous ones (like implementation inheritance).
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Java class can be functional also. Depends how you look. If a class doesn’t operates on side effects, but keeps the mutation only inside the class, then the class can be defined as functional. But on the method level it might be not.
Depending if those problem are true or not for any given state, but if they are then those issue represent a major problem beyond that of voting.

To take a example from Europe, membership cards from schools/universities, banks, and driving license work as automatic identity cards. For those who neither study, have a bank account or drive then the police should provide one. For the wast majority this mean that ID cards are automatic process of normal life, and for the rest it is a simple matter of requesting one at the nearest police station. As a result almost everyone has some form of identification card or an other.
The second you go after anyone using the communication channel it's fairly likely the entire channel will shut down or change so you're much better off moving quickly on everyone you identify than leaving them out where they might disappear. This is especially true since the information China used was provided by Iran - so was very likely to leak sooner or later. Once you've rounded up all the spies it's up to the government what to do, but either they can trade them, imprison them or kill them and I guess this time they decided it was best to just send a message.
A $2500 desktop computer with integrated graphics?

Honestly, it feels like a bit of a joke.
This is correct, and the carbon is a byproduct. The reason is to get rid of the oxide in the iron-oxide compound.

The way I understand it, is that when mined they get iron-oxide, Fe(2)O(3), or Fe(3)O(4), so there is no carbon present.

They use the coke to make carbon monoxide (CO). And this process removes the oxide and adds carbon to iron to create pig iron.

From there it will be further processed to create different steels, alloys and iron products.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_ore) under the smelting paragraph describes the oxide removal process.
L1 and L2 (IIRC) are usually tied to a single physical core and, also IIRC, are partitioned between logical cores when HT is enabled. With HT disabled, cache per logical core doubles (because there is only one) and cache misses go down. Many HPC installs run with HT disabled because of that (YMMV depending on specifics of your workload - if your hot data fits in the cache, you'll be happy).

Now that we mention it, I wonder if HT can be enabled or disabled per core. If that's possible, the machine would look like it has some logical cores with more cache than others and we could use cache miss counters as input to decide where a process should run.
Thank you for putting my thoughts into words. The comment you replied to is an incredibly depressing way to look at life.
Not clear why you think that. 30km is quite far. [1] is a pretty good site to play around and get an idea how far the nuclear blast reaches. For example the Russian Topol SS-25 (800 kT TNT) has an air blast radius (5psi) of 6.5 km. This is quite a large bomb. For comparison, most US warheads are W76, with a 100kT yield and a blast radius of 1km. The largest currently deployed warhead is the Chinese Dong-Feng-5, which at 5MT has a blast radius of 12 km.

[1] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Fair enough, I see the logic behind what you're saying, but taxing that as an externality would require a massive change in the way farmland is managed and taxed in most of the western world.

I'm not saying this is right, but farming is such a difficult and low-margin occupation that most countries have policies of helping farmers and having low to no taxes (even to the point of giving cashback in the EU) on land classified as "farmland"

So "sin taxes" would be a way of targeting some of the biggest problems (meat) without completely restructuring the food and taxation system around the world.
The pricing is not really justifiable especially given the most use cases of the Mac mini (Home Theater, NAS, Backup etc.) are better handled by other OSes.

The NUC8 with comparable specs (sans 6 core CPU) comes at under half the price! If you needed the 6 cores sure but given most workloads other than encoding don't - it's questionable. Even then the 6C processor doesn't cost enough to make up for the difference.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is true. Attacking infrastructure through software is a way more efficient approach than a physical attack. It can achieve a similar goal, whilst it reduces the risk of personal loss, and allows to remain unidentified as initiator (Operations Opera and Babylon are attributed to Israel without doubt, whilst it's way harder to confirm for Stuxnet).

Considering how successful Stuxnet was, it would be an obvious choice to go the same route again.
Are you a teenager? I haven't been carded for alcohol purchases in years. I take a bus to work, so I don't need a driver's license. I live every day just fine without ID.
He puts it at the very first mention of the hardware he's reviewing. I think it's about as clear as you could ask for.
And republicans voted for Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg. The democrat party is no more principled than anyone else.
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This is why AI won’t replace doctors. Doctors aren’t even allowed to properly use computers their user interfaces are handicapped. No API to the medical record (hospital IT locks it out even if there is one from the vendor). If they give AI access to the full medical record with an API, they will have to give doctors access too.
I'll be one of those to say that HT/SMT should probably die off unless the chipmakers learn how to make it secure. I'd rather have twice the physical cores for a little higher price anyway.

However, Intel starting to sell chips without HT has nothing to do with the insecurity of HT and everything to do with the fact that they are trying to sell chips that are cheaper to make (or more profitable), while also being a little more competitive (price-wise) with AMD's offerings.

But while they do this, they know they'll have a severe handicap in performance as long as AMD continues to sell competing products with SMT enabled. So their "solution" is to start making it "fair" in their benchmarks by using only half the cores or the SMT disabled for competing AMD products.

One of the first clues that tells us this move is not a response to the recent security vulnerabilities of HT is that they started offering chips without HT only a few months after those discoveries were made. Do you really think something like planning to design and ship a product without HT happened only a few months earlier? No, this was decided at least a year and a half ago.
How about blazing red letters at the top of the page?

How about putting "paid review" in the title of the HN submit?
Since nobody uses Windows XP anymore that should not be so confusing.
That's the key difference in viewpoint though:

>Two: out of the people who did something meaningful, few of them were helped by a "can't do" attitude. Even if not grounded in reality at all, you still need to have amibition, for that rare case where you do end up being the 1 in a million that does something meaningful.

Who says living your life, with its common challenges, etc, is NOT meaningful?

And that meaningful/happiness/success require some "superhuman" feats, millions in the bank, or whatever?

>Not many people are ambitious on a grand scale.

So? If I could change people's attributes on a grand scale, ambitious is not what I'd made them. More compassionate, more altruistic, more vigilant against BS, less polluting, more skeptical, etc -- there are tons of things I'd rather people be more than "ambitious".

If anything I'd say ambition is a surefire way to make people uglier, greedier, less tolerant and caring, more "me me me" (which in turn, hurts them too, because others are more "me me me" as well), less present for their family and friends, and ultimately (since only "1 in M people" end up really doing something meaningful), ambition makes them bitter, unhappy, depressed, and so on.

In fact the perfect recipe for the kind of self-absorbed and unhappy society we have now.

In the words of Radiohead:

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy
And it took nearly 50 years before a company dared to get into that market.
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