skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are

A global pandemic hasn't taken out the supply chain. So I wouldn't say fragile.

> With how the climate is changing, we are only going to see more and more instability and disturbances to production and shipping in the future, due to climate refugees and unrest.

Global warming is going to open up the northwest passage and the arctic trade routes which would cut shipping times by a huge percentage from asia to europe. It would be the greatest boon to world trade in human history.

> We've played a dangerous game of brinkmanship and now we're paying the price.

Seems like we are always on the brink of something. It's neverending and it's always wrong.
And it was a good computer for years. I don't remember how long I used one, but I'd wager I got 5-6 years out of it.
That's precisely the issue.

Alternate OSes can't access all hardware functions.

We already have that problem with Linux support for battery life and hibernate.

It doesn't work in the vast majority of laptops, while with Windows it does.

It also happens with Smartphones, to the point that alternate OSes for Smartphones have trouble doing the most basic functions, like making calls and using GPS.

Just because it can be installed, it doesn't mean that everything will magically work.
This answer keeps clogging up my results researching my high kernel_task issues.

This answer being over enthusiastically given even after thermal throttling could reasonably be ruled out is one thing - but it seems like there’s also no real way to troubleshoot this type of issue (what sub-process is going wild?). Best I could find was a command to list the RAM usage of kernel modules.
Fine, your decisions will impact the value of the stock. Prevent insider trading by requiring them to commit to a long term trading strategy. Make them commit a long period in advance if they want to make any trades. I understand there are regulations that require this of many executives, but as the article seems to make pretty clear there is still plenty of wiggle room make extra money off of secret knowledge and get away with it.
I browsed some other articles on the site you linked. Wow. So many mitigations, yet still so many potential vulnerabilities. What a hassle to worry about all this! I'm reminded of a favorite movie quote that be appropos: "The only winning move is not to play".

My biggest easiest takeaway may be a reminder to remain portable, in case I want to switch to another os at some point.

btw, I'm with you on disabling javascript. I make exceptions for only a few sites, like banks, and duckduckgo. I pretty closely followed this guide [0] on configuring firefox, disabling all kinds of things like hw acceleration, wasm, fonts and javascript via ublock origin, etc.

[0] https://12bytes.org/articles/tech/firefox/firefoxgecko-confi...
> I also recently discovered that something like 12% of CPU on my 2020 macbook air is used whenever I'm in a room with anything greater than perfect silence, by 'coreaudiod', because it apparently is constantly listening to the microphone built in near the keyboard and spending cpu cycles trying to filter out background noise.

Have you tried sampling the process to ensure that it is actually doing this? If it is, it's likely that Signal is leaving open a recording session and it shouldn't, and given that the app is open source, it should be fairly easy to find where it is doing this. I am sure they would be very interested in such a report, considering the privacy implications of leaving the audio system up when it shouldn't be.
Probably no artists have. Bada-bing!
I’m glad it’s not just me. I enjoy deep conversations with strangers more than I do with people close to me, a lot of times. I don’t know what that says but I find the experience can be very enriching and cathartic.
Yeah I think it's more true for some things than others. We went from Wright Brothers to moon landing in just 66 years time, but somehow commercial air travel today is slower than it was 50 years ago.

On the other hand, the boring automobile I drive every day is practically a spaceship compared to the death traps of the 1970s. And of course probably 90% of advances in computing have occurred since the early 1970s.
one thing i thought it did a good job of was pointing out both corporations and governments suffer from the ills of consolidation.
Also, the people most likely to discuss colors are artists and such. The thing with blue is that for a very long time pure blue pigments like aquamarine were extremely rare and expensive, quite likely non-existent at all in the times of basic vocabulary formation and associated development. You don't give names and fine distinctions to things you don't deal with often.
Use? You mean currently? I thought they used cone beams, but I never worked on them directly...
You can find an archive of all SL4 discussions here:

http://sl4.org/archive/
Yep :) I have played Factorio more than any other game. By far.
There's this thing called "weapon pull". The more different weapons you give somebody, the more likely they are to use all of them.

Beat cops need service pistols, batons, and a patrol rifle (AR-15) in the cruiser. That's it.

OC spray isn't that useful. It's a weak area-denial weapon, which means that it usually hits the user as well as the target. Tasers are downright stupid. You get one shot and that's it.

Having those extra options on the duty belt is (a) a pain in the ass, and (b) results in more deadly use-of-force.

Same goes for non-police, by the way.
Thanks for adding this to my mental list.

The kernel has all of these weird functions/modes and I don’t see any list of which are possible and which one is active.
> the article seems to make pretty clear there is still plenty of wiggle room make extra money off of secret knowledge and get away with it.

Fine? That's my point. Can't be done. Like trying to forbid certain strata of civil servants from using encrypted communications.
Practical Image PorterDuff Mode Usage in Android
Oh yes, I think it did well on that, maybe that's why I felt so confused at the end, where the conclusion seemed to warn about government getting too big and not corporations, even tho most of the article seemed to warn about the ills of both.

*Edit: fixed typo
Why? Something about this specific implementation or do you mean in general? I've never created software that requires a license like this but it seems like it would add enough friction to prevent casual piracy.
> This is the important part. Activists' fear should not dictate health policy. That should be done by scientists.

The default is that vendors dictate health policy. It should be up to them to conclusively prove that these chemicals are not harmful at the concentrations they are used.
I guess I'm skeptical one person could make that many games? Plus, again, there's claims of 15+ employees elsewhere.

I think we both agree that this whole thing is shady af.
Yes that's my point, it's pretty much impossible to guarantee that he's the smartest of the last 1000 years.
Thats a pretty loose definition of autopilot;
>noun: automatic pilot; plural noun: automatic pilots
a device for keeping an aircraft on a set course without the intervention of the pilot.

Cruise control only maintains velocity, lane assist still requires interventions when turns need to be made or lines are unclear. That sounds like intervention to me

"without the intervention of the pilot" is a pretty pivotal part of everyone else's understanding of the word.
Tldr; capitalism good because author “finds it obvious” in thought experiment
AI and dashboard tech as well. And knowing BMW, likely pricing, too. Also BMW considers the car "done" once it's sold to you and there are hardly any updates (you can update maps for a few hundred dollars, but that's about it). For a low tech "traditional" car that's not that big a deal. For an electric though, Tesla fixes bugs and adds new functionality years after the sale. Luckily for BMW the huge and widening gap that exists between Tesla and the rest of the industry only becomes obvious once you experience one of Tesla's cars, and Tesla doesn't make that particularly easy to do due to the complete lack of the marketing effort. All the market traction they're getting is strictly word of mouth. BMWs racing stripes and half-assed EV attempts remind me of Ballmer laughing at Apple charging $600 for the first iPhone - dude simply had no capacity to see what made it worth $600, so he couldn't rip it off even if he wanted to. I bet dude felt the "brand" would solve everything, too.
"dad, what does public static void main string args mean?"

"uh, hmm. yeah. ask your mother. anyway, so we have an 8x8 board..."
Misinformation does not imply any untruthful intent or knowledge of error. The word for that is disinformation or simply lieing.
It saves money in air compressor energy costs, but the article glosses over how long this takes compared to traditional methods. If it takes 10 times as long to paint a car this way then you have to replicate it 10 times in the factory to maintain the same rate of production which could very easily end up costing more.

On the other hand, masking is a pain in the ass and takes a lot of time so this could end up being faster all around so long as you're comparing with complex multi-tone paintjobs.
It's rather disappointing to think that (if you're living by your doctor's advice), 30 years of your life will be spent unconscious in your bed.
The problem is that Facebook (like IBM, etc) can fail under its own weight and incompetence without harming very many people.

If the US government does... a lot of people get very badly hurt in the process.
That’s not how this works - cars go at a speed limit set by the road they’re on. The speed limit is selected based on safety factors present on the road.

By your logic, one needs to move 30mph on the interstate to make sure they can react to whatever jumps out at them. Or am I misunderstanding something here?
Foundation (Apple TV)
My mum bought one for the family, and my dad complained for years about how much it cost.

Great machine at the time, though.

Edit: wiki sez "Introductory price US$4,369 (equivalent to $9,120 in 2020)", so I get where he was coming from :)
The 2020 M1 version or previous Intel iteration (or perhaps there's no difference)?
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress On C. Elgans After 10 Years
Sure, maybe there’s less need for charge balancing in a smartphone battery, but the rest of the constraints still apply - fast charging is hard!
That really depends upon what the "chips" the carmakers are using do.

If they are using highly integrated micro-controllers similar to these (this is but one example of this family) https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40300C.pdf then to "emulate" this chip with an ARM CPU involves also designing external hardware to interface with the ARM chip to recreate all the built in interfaces of this one chip (i.e., the analog comparators or the PWM controller or the serial UART). Other chips in this family have an even larger complement of integrated interface hardware.

Changing to a new CPU does not always involve just writing new software, esp. in device controllers it also involves recreating all the hardware necessary to interface that new CPU with the existing hardware that the old chip was controlling. And recreating all that interface hardware requires a redesign and a retest of that redesigned hardware. Both of which can take significant time.
I concur, I have a similar setup. Most expensive computer I've ever owned. It just throttles at the drop of a hat. I worked through it all with the apple techs, jumped through hoops for many hours and provided detailed diagnostics. They dismissed me with "throttling is normal, there's no problem".

In the real world, my 2017 MBP performed better just because it didn't throttle. Ridiculous.

As for the supposed 'Low power mode' in Monterey - I'm not convinced that isn't just turning on throttling manually.
Not only does facebook have a tremendous size, amount of dysfunction, number of users, and pile of money, they have no responsibility to their users. There is no user representation at any $techco. The future of everything is being architected by closed door committee, free from competing ideas.
1995 is still recognizably modern.

Now drop them in 1985 instead. No video on demand or highspeed connections or cell phones. CONNECT 1200.
Because corporations are generally subject to competitive pressure, those that get so large they can no longer effectively function will go out of business. Government entities are in most cases legal monopolies and can continue to exist long after they become ineffective. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
I use Gmail and Sheets just fine with Firefox. I haven't had any issues with it outside of the slowness of the app that I already notice in Chrome
Commercial passenger airline service already existed when this was shot.

He lived quite near New York, just upstate a bit. We gather that from him seeing all of the river traffic to the city. He didn't seem phased at all by the motion picture camera and sound equipment. It's very likely that he had seen an airplane before. Not germane to what he said, but likely.
Simple doesn’t mean easy. Making things simple can be hard. Understanding simple things can be hard. Easy means “familiar”. Hard means “very far from what I already understand”. The Lambda Calculus is super simple. But super hard to understand in all its ramifications.
Virtually no one left to vaccinate in Portugal: 98% of those eligible vaccinated
"Arguably the fact that there is the option to get at least the old profit levels, combined with many new options for making and using synergies across these firms, suggests that such merged firms can in general make more profits than they could separately."

They never considered that you also introduce more risk.
>> When the US invaded Afghanistan in the Taliban was defeated within about 6 weeks.

They certainly don't look defeated now. I would say the opposite is actually more likely.Hint: the loosing team was scrambling to evacuate.

>> US deterrence very much remained in place until it began to withdraw.

Or you could simply admit that the U.S. lost the endurance test...what does it matter if the U.S won the first rounds if it threw the towel in the 12th round? I wonder what kind of signal is this for a more advanced enemy (i.e. China, Russia or even Venezuela).
Continue? You haven't made any interesting points to start with.

The charging infrastructure is particularly odd thing to claim. The iX has the standard CCS Type 2 Combo port for Europe and it will have a CCS Type 1 Combo port for North America. It can charge at any CCS charger on any charging network.

Tesla will also finally open their chargers to all brands (as other charging networks have done for a long time):

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...

Tesla uses CCS in Europe so those chargers are ready to go with a software update (but longer cables would be useful). Tesla will start to put CCS plugs on their North American chargers.

The non-standard charge port on the North American Teslas will be a liability going forward. Tesla will need to switch to CCS inlets at some point soon. The European Teslas are better cars because they have the standard CCS charging port and can easily charge on any CCS charger from any charging network.
If it relies on Monopoly power, I have trouble regarding it as "legitimate".

"It makes me money" is not in and of itself a successful business model.
> Cons - The TPM issue

Wow, just wow, Microsoft is willing to put sales on the line for TPM, improving security. A shift for consumers to try and back down state based hacking.

But now we only care if Windows looks pretty. And we are not going to upgrade a fine computer just for security. NSA, NSA, NSA, oorah.

Next week Twitter will tell them Microsoft doesn't care about security and down that bandwagon we will go.

People talk about Weaponized Autism, but really it's just Weaponized Bikeshedding
What the submitter thought they were submitting: "See.. Covid risk is overblown! It's a scam!"

What the article actually says: The increase in drug usage (and therefore deaths) is largely because of the stresses caused by the Covid pandemic.

Not to mention: The headline is just plain false. It claims the number of deaths this year from drugs is 1204. The number of Covid deaths in BC this year? 1973.

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

Covid deniers (see submitters' comment history) would be hilarious if they weren't so dangerous.
Plants literally produce nicotine, caffeine, mescaline, and other chemical insecticides to thwart off predation... Lidocaine literally works on plants because all living organisms have electrical gradients and ion channels regardless of whether or not a nervous system exists.

Plants have a consciousness, it's just not the same as yours or mine. We shouldn't be eating animals or plants, we should be eating pollen, wax, and nectar - seeds and fruit. This would be true permaculture without any reaping or sowing of any life.

I literally own a startup dedicated to this futuristic goal. You can email me if you are interested in Roylent.

The least we can do at the current moment is to not torture animals for food. That can be agreed on regardless of one's views and understandings about information, computation, and consciousness.
These things usually fix performance issues for me:

- Open your macbook and clean out the dust. I do it yearly. It always helps.

- Keep macOS and apps (e.g. browser) up-to-date. coreaudiod high cpu was fixed for me in 11.6.

- Review login items, delete what you don't need.

- Reboot, with the occasional nvram, pram reset

- Review activity monitor, find apps that have background processes and delete the ones you don't need.

- Review installed applications, especially ones w/ kernel extensions (e.g. hamachi, vbox). Delete if you don't need them. Easy to re-install.

- Kill docker desktop when not using docker.

- Fine tune spotlight settings.
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That was 2006. Australia had a car industry well after that. It died a slow death, I doubt you can blame it on one supplier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Austral...
I am not saying winning is easy there’s probably hundreds of thousands of messaging apps written. I am saying winning isn’t worth nearly as much as people think.

Consider even just adding advertisements is enough to eventually lose the top spot because there is so much competition.
I was a young reader of Omni magazine at the time and conflated extropianism with transhumanism. I suppose there was a big overlap.
It’s not whether you predict the company trajectory (possible) but whether you predict it better than other people who are also trying to predict. It turns out the average market prediction has low bias (stock go up or down).
> Implying that his success is about his race is not exactly a racist sentiment though.

Agreed. I also agree that the comment can point out privilege. I do think more often than not when people say "white tech dude" they mean it in a negative way, implying that all white guys in tech are the same and bad. Do you ever see this phrase in a more positive light?
The syntax is really bad. And I am familiar with Haskell, Lean, Idris, Agda etc. If the author reads this, I recommend instead copying the syntax used by Lean, Idris, or Agda. They are very close to each other and all good.
"Is the Stock Market Rigged" should become a new answer to obvious questions, similar to "is the pope catholic" and "does a bear shit in the woods".
Not really, no. A lot of the problem is that automotive circuitry is a real messy place, so you need a lot of high tolerances to things like voltage spikes, background noise, temperature, etc. You also have to consider that most chips have different pinouts, with different on-chip components, usually with some analog components, so would need to find one that is compatible, or spend time and money developing, documenting, and certifying, a board revision, test to make sure that it is a drop-in replacement for things like warranty repairs. All of this takes a lot of time and a lot of money to do.
More shit to buy, more shit to read and watch, more shit to eat. More, more, more.

People telling you you can get more, you should get more, you should want more.

People pushing you to do more, in life, at work, push yourself to the limit and burn, we all want more.

Just use and do as much as possible and then abruptly die, like a fucking idiot.
Half of all lobbying money raised to oppose cannabis legalization is from correctional workers unions.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/18/ca-marijuana-measure/
The reward outweighs the risk since the chance of the risk coming to fruition at all is usually extremely small, even if it's dire when it happens.
Intel i7
Optimistically, yes.

On the other hand, there's a global supply chain appetite for cheap products including CPU's. Upstream commits aren't required to dump cheap CPU's on the market or to develop compute intensive businesses around them that undercut the competition on price.
I think generally it’s easier to have these kinds of conversations with strangers because there aren’t any existing “roles” or identities in the mix based on past experience. You have a lot more freedom to explore ideas when you aren’t tied down by certain interpersonal epistemological assumptions.
I'm sure there's a lot of people who only say "I wish this were open source" because that would benefit them personally.

I'm sure there's a lot of open-source projects that are the exact opposite of vibrant communities, and the exact opposite of empowering and user-supporting.

However, as a great man once said, "No Taxation Without Representation". People using PICO-8 and writing games for PICO-8 aren't paying taxes as such, but they are investing their time and creative energy, their efforts advertise the PICO-8 platform, and thus they enrich Lexaloffle just as surely as if they'd filled out a 1040 form. Some people want to be reassured that they have some measure of control over a thing before they invest time, money, or energy into it. It doesn't have to be open-source, but for software that's more legally sound and practical than staging an armed insurrection and writing a constitution.

A lot of people probably don't care what Lexaloffle does as long as their existing games keep working, many people probably trust Lexaloffle's reign to remain benevolent and just indefinitely, and I don't know any reason (beyond human frailty) why that wouldn't be true. But some people want a better guarantee of future performance than mere past performance, and that's where (some) calls for open-source come from.
As obvious as it is, I’d not considered this. Seems quite bizarre when the situation framed like so.

Should some kind of democratic process apply to such organisations?
The reason I don't support the PRC is not because of the amount of land they claim. I support the ROC because they are not one of the worst countries on Earth. The PRC is evil and any expansion of it would be bad.
Can those take the heat and run on the power budget? Cars get very hot when left in a sunny parking lot at noon near the equator. They get cold when left overnight near the poles. Both are regular things.

The car might have a 12 volt battery, but whe. The starter is running you are lucky to get 2 volts, and there are constant spikes. While this is mostly about the power supply, you need to handle whatever the power supply gives, which might not be good if the original chip worked.
I believe kernel_task itself is just doing a bunch of sleep commands, specifically to give the CPU a rest so the temperature cools down
Hmm turns out trustless and decentralised might not be the best model for all financial infrastructure.