skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with a Precision 5520 (2017) has been _nearly_ stellar (if not for the nvidia card, which, does work but sucks a lot of Power).

The issue is, maybe, that I’m a bit of a power user, when I get an issue I just dive in and fix it — a bit like an old truck.

I almost never have an issue, but when I do I tend to be able to fix it or revert it (if it’s an update).

Comparatively I feel quite powerless on MacOS and Windows.

Not saying mine is “better”, just saying that I don’t really think about fixing my machine so I probably don’t record the frequency of issues internally.

Certainly doesn’t feel like much though, but it’s not insanely rare.
Accelerando is a great book even if his writing style is a little dry. The mass of one planet being able to simulate billions of planets is only possible if the simulation is rather poor. You can't create a perfect simulation like that any more than you can perfectly simulate seven atoms using three atoms. Computation is never going to be more efficient than physics.

why do it?

Everyone doesn't have to do it. Just one person out of billions does. Think of the strange and perverse collection of behaviors we observe in a population of a few hundred million people online and speaking English. Expand that to billions of hyperintelligent minds and somebody is going to want to colonize the universe.
Not GP, but I never thought of this side effect before. Thank you for making me aware of it!
I started shopping pretty regularly at Home Depot after buying a house about eight years ago. I used to be surprised after paying when the alarm sounded as I walked out the door. I would stop and turn around, and usually a cashier would wave and say "you're okay!"... or just wave impatiently... or there would be no cashiers. It got to the point where I had a little bit of dread every time I walked out the door ("Is it going to go off this time?")... It is somewhat embarrassing to have other customers look at you like you must've just stolen something.

After a few years of this, I noticed the cashiers don't even look at the door anymore when the alarm goes off. I've never seen a security person at Home Depot.

I'm more likely to buy tools and parts online now. Home Depot has become the last resort unless I need something immediately, or need raw building supplies. Because I don't want to feel like a criminal moments after paying for what I'm carrying.
Actual UK population infection number is ~ 1.5% - see studies referenced by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037172
There was a time when we didn't have VHS to record. I remember that time well.

It was really a bummer to miss something. It was probably going to be years, or at least seasons, until you got to see it again.
Yeah, in Italy you have to buy the local varieties. Non-PDO/PGI (protected designation of origin/protected geographical indication) cherry tomatoes are going to be tasteless (and cheaper).
This was the method used by my former employer. Are entire backend was Kotlin/Java/Scala... and a couple of NodeJS apps. Right up until the very edge where C++ handled the interface with the exchanges. We also did the typical thing of having our servers as physically close as possible (in New Jersey).
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Is Dollar General really considered a Dollar Store? When I think Dollar Stores, I think as bit lower on the product scale like Dollar Tree and its ilk. Dollar General is basically a compact Walmart.
I wasn't responding directly to what you said because it's irrelevant. You were pointing out that in fact hosting a personal website doesn't in fact expose its visitors to a lot of risk, especially if it's a static site instead of a blog or something. But that doesn't imply that people hosting their own personal websites will find it easy to comply with a regulatory regime tailored to raising the barriers to entry for "the next Facebook". More likely they will find it infeasible.

It's true that imposing liability for publishing defective software is logically independent from imposing liability for collecting unnecessary PII that leaks. But pjmlp's quote from the article we were commenting on explicitly proposed doing both of these:

> For example, if you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about the idea of defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product. If you want to give Facebook nightmares, talk about the idea of making it legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected.

So my argument does not, as you say, "rely on a bit of a non-sequitur: [that] expanding the scope of data collection/handling regulations will inevitably extend to regulating the publishing of software." The proposal in question is to both regulate software publishing and also regulate data handling, so it's irrelevant whether or not the scope would thus "inevitably extend" from one to the other.

Probably it is true that the most favorable situation for the current incumbents would be to have no liability, as at present, or as minimal liability as they can get away with. But the second-most-favorable situation, and one that is definitely politically viable even if the current situation is not, would be to have a regulatory regime that raises the barriers to entry for new entrants as much as possible and prevents disruption to their markets, by enshrining in law the particular way they're doing business today: AI melody recognition for prior restraint of free speech, combined with armies of outsourced moderators to watch for terrorism and pornography, centrally-controlled app-store platforms, locked-down end-user hardware (with a grandfathered carve-out for desktops and laptops), real-name policies, fax-us-your-passport ID verification, "two-factor" authentication that turns out to be one-factor, and so on. Anything that encourages you to post stuff on your own blog or website would be a big drawback for GitHub, YouTube, and Fecebutt.
That’s really heartening to hear!

I had assumed, if nothing else, that easy-anti-cheat would have prevented it.
Please cite your source for that? My understanding, based on studies like the one discussed here, is that misinformation does tend to be concentrated along partisan extremes. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/974394783/far-right-misinform...

That said, it's absolutely true that it wasn't just democrats pushing the idea that bernie sander's was cheated. It was also russian disinformation campaign. https://www.wired.com/story/bernie-sanders-russia-chaos-2020...
From the same place that real-life competitions tend to have rules about cheating that are enforced.

Why do people think that they get a free pass because they can't see the opponent face to face?

If you want to play with friends, plenty of multiplayer games offer that without anticheat (Arma lets you even uninstall the anti-cheat and play on anti-cheat disabled servers).
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I think the argument there was that lots of things were so much easier to do in Lisp that people wrote their own implementation, then they thought "what's the big deal about it?", and then they didn't share their library because they didn't think they've accomplished something meaningful to share. So you end up with people doing things in C++ and Java and publishing it and getting their code reused because 1) the authors of the code were more likely to think of publishing their code as a useful thing, and 2) due to some things being harder in those languages, other people were more likely to shop for libraries rather than to think "I can do this myself".
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> What creatures would form

On the one hand, the conditions under which some lifeforms are thriving here on Earth are already pretty extreme.

On the other hand, indeed, we may not yet be in a position to be able to imagine, realistically, all that we would (eventually) agree to call a lifeform. (Life built from phonon "particles" in a planet-size crystal, anyone?) Sure, there may be constraints, such as life, in a meaningful sense, may only be realizable based on polymers, in which case the conditions must be such that they allow polymerization of simple substances to take place.
I missed that thread...
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What do you mean by “by definition” in that first sentence?

Like, if it failed to do so, it would fail the definition of life? I don’t think anyone defines life that way, and I don’t think it would be a good definition (would I even count as alive under such a definition? It seems like no.)
One thing I love about Rust is that, while the code is accidentaly quadratic, it is explicit when looking at the code and seing the call to `clone` which makes it much harder to produce those behaviour than in languages where copies can happen behind the scene (C++ is often guilty of that).
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Excellent points, about leadership in innovation - there are many ways in which the West still leads, and in many ways China is still merely a copycat - e.g., note how critical China sees it to get access to the tech and local ownership.

But, China is advancing, making some genuine homegrown breakthroughs and is certainly much further along the learning curve than the West in many areas such as solar panels.

Mostly, it is key to note that China recognizes this, has a long term strategic plan and is executing on the plan.

Unless we make appropriate structural & strategic changes, at the very least, treating a far wider swath of tech as sufficiently strategic to require development & production at home or among allied countries, we are on a slippery slope.

Edit: Plus, by the time we see them making stuff as good or better than in the West, it will be too late to catch up. Those growth curves tend to be exponential (compound interest on knowledge gains, network effects of multiple experts or multipl6field leadership, etc.).
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Given how rare humanoid shape is on Earth, it doesn't seem especially sure that humanoids will be dominant among even intelligent life.
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What policy changes would "fix" the problem you're portraying? I see nothing simple, and definitely nothing that would just be a tweak to existing policies.
Oh fun: the game where everyone puts their pet biases forward in an attempt to explain the behavior of a poorly understood complex system.

It reminds me of the financial news. "Commodities markets are spooked as backlash to latest Justin Bieber video mounts!"

In all seriousness, apart from the vaccination rate and strictly enforced lockdowns, I have yet to see an explanation for cases going up or down in a particular region that isn't contradicted by the results in some other region. I think we should just admit that except for vaccines and physically forcing 90% of the population into isolation, we don't have a clue what works and what doesn't.
> not being bored

People weren't necessarily "bored"-- remember that the boredom one feels when not hyper stimulated is due, at least in part, to adaptation to their peak/typical stimulus.

People probably got sufficient dopamine, from "less exciting" things such as small talk, looking at the clouds, contemplating the meaning of their life while waiting for an interview to begin etc.
Sorry, no. CO2 being gaseous is a major availability and energy advantage. For example you can’t get plankton equivalents as dissolved silicon is parts per trillion at the oceans surface.

Hybrids are a different story, but I doubt that’s what anyone is talking about by silicon based life forms.
> But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind. At all. The only compelling reason to use them is social pressure.

Benefit? Probably not. Social Pressure? I'd say it's mostly the same addictive behavior that's built into slot machines.

There's been a lot of high speed evolution that has gone into modern products. Fast food, social media, the perfection of pop music production. The unsuccessful die off.
It is incredibly annoying to find you suddenly need to spend twice as much money to make the same meal rather than the 20% of extra unit price.
OKCupid doesn't allow you to sort on anything anymore. It's all part of their business model of preventing people from creating permanent relationships. Yes, some slip through, don't @ me.
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This is a perfect illustration of the point. In the face of ample documented evidence of the actual risk, your response is to speculate wildly about future events that are completely inconsistent with what we know.
This is so HN lol
At least where I've lived, no, the standard practice is to "work through" the illness and give it to everyone you come in contact with while talking about how it's no big deal because your immune system is strong and you aren't a pussy.
Medicine, robotics, social media that improves people's lives, maybe fix universities (or create an alternative. You can learn a lot on the internet, but social aspect of it can be improved), ...
happened to us but for an even weirder case. postgres wasn’t doing a simple index-only scan because, as i learned from googling, the row of the table wasn’t that much wider than the index. creating a huge extra column helped

i wish there was no fancy query planner at all, and definitely no obligatory ones. it’s 2021, we either learn how to plan computation, or can afford not to care
Why are food prices lower than they should be? By how much?

Shrinking sizes IS raising prices.
What 2023? Is there even a lunar lander prototype built yet? Launching a manned mission to the moon next year does not seem realistic to me.

Edit: lol forgot it was 2021 not 2022, still seems unreasonable to me though.
One weird thing I've noticed about Dollar General is that they seem to get special versions of many products. Like sizes of food items/containers that I've never seen anywhere else.

I wonder if there are other differences in what they're shipped. Like how "outlet stores" get shittier versions of brand-name clothes.
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Time to buckle down and learn how to make non-trivial things with Python. I was putting this off as long as I could.
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That makes me wonder whether "okeanos", Greek for 'ocean', is related kuaneos. I haven't been able to find the proper etymology of ocean.
I wonder if there is another way to partially explain these results:

- many (most?) programmers were taught C/C++ for several decades

- some programmers taught themselves rust because they were driven and interested

- these rust programmers are probably better programmers on average

- they wrote (or would write) better code that is somewhat elegant. and they have the advantage of starting with code that has had its memory bugs fixed over the last few decades

So I wonder if you had taught the masses rust starting in the 1980s... would the masses have found other way to write buggy/crappy code?

(I realize this could sound a bit condescending; fwif I did not teach myself rust so i'm not counting myself in the 'better' group)
>People may want to participate in mixing, but then they won’t be able to get their money back in the US.

I see the issue here, you think the endgame is for bitcoiners is to own more fiat. That is not the goal, fiat is dead to most bitcoiners, they will hold until fiats currencies implode like they constantly do.

You seem to think the choice of money originates with banks or governments, it doesnt. The primary form of money is chosen by the masses. Good luck stopping billions of people that choose to opt out of bad money.
I bought a smartphone something like 2 years ago and only started paying for wireless data 1 year ago, because I was tired of being stubborn about it, I really felt I was excluded from many things.

I have to admit I often go on reddit when I have some time, but I don't go on instagram or facebook.

Sharing videos on whatsapp when you're in rural areas is crazy, and to me it's really pointless, even though I like technologies.

It's hard to say if people are less social because of smartphones, since social networks are not so social after all.

Although I'm really curious if avoiding digital social networks would result in an amputated real social life. Online dating really really allowed me to get out more, and I don't feel like there is a good enough equivalent for friendships and activities.
>These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview

Yes, I addressed that with my investigations link. Investigatory data, problematic or no, does not appear in cop car computers.
Of course, except for a small village...
Okay - I should have been more specific. Can I run regular KDE or gnome apps (a such as gimp), or perhaps something like VSCode on it?

I thought that it only ran the steam app as opposed to a real desktop?

(pardon my ignorance here - I’m vaguely aware of SteamOS, but never tried it)
> drink it and forget it all!

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/78268-a-poet-once-said-the-...
> when do we get on with our lives and start facing the mountains of other public health issues?

We (or at least, public health authorities; indiviudal citizens whose attention doesn't drop below the top story in the news are a different story)... haven't stopped facing the mountains of other public health issues.
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There's still NetBSD and FreeDOS.
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When I was in SF I went through 3 windows a year and knew several folks in the same boat. Never reported one or heard of someone reporting one.

Most rationales were people don't have insurance coverage damage or don't have proof of property loss (receipts, ect).

Would not be surprised if actual numbers were 10-50x the reported
Because Chrome would give you an updated browser engine. I don't think I want a gingerbread webview, thanks.
My father-inlay lives in a small town of roughly 2k. The local grocery store continually goes out of business since it can't compete with the Walmart and national grocery store that's roughly 15 miles away. In the winter time, that's can be a pain to drive.

So he's had to rely upon the two local gas stations, and their meager and overpriced groceries much of the time. DG opened up last year in town, and now he has a much better place to shop. The store also pays better than the gas stations. I think it's a win win.

And can you point to where I can read about DG's "master plan?"
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That explains why red apples taste horrible but what happened to grapes? I remember when grapes were the dark bluish/blackish concord types and now, the supermarkets mostly carry green and purple grapes which taste awful in comparison.